OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT's internet browsing privileges If the chatbot doesn't know what you need, it'll 'Bing It!' for paying customers AI + ML28 Sep 2023 | 1
Unions claim win as Hollywood studios agree generative AI isn't an author The pen is (slightly) mightier than the algorithm AI + ML27 Sep 2023 | 1
Routers have been rooted by Chinese spies, US and Japan warn BlackTech crew looking to steal sensitive data traffic Software27 Sep 2023 | 2
Ubuntu and Fedora clash in beta race, but who wears GNOME better? Big two corporate-backed free distros are nearly ready for their close-ups OSes27 Sep 2023 | 1
Spotify now using AI to clone podcaster’s voice into Spanish Meanwhile Google pushes podcast listeners toward YouTube Music AI + ML27 Sep 2023 | 4
Linux interop is maturing fast… thanks to a games console Open Source Summit Valve's work on Steam OS 3 for the Steam Deck help everyone, corporate users included OSes27 Sep 2023 | 26
MongoDB's SQL-to-NoSQL converter uses AI to smash the language barrier Tell it what you want to do, and it spits out the relevant code Databases27 Sep 2023 | 4
Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more Open Source Summit Mozilla gave it the boot, but the Linux Foundation Europe gave it the kiss of life instead Software27 Sep 2023 | 9
It looks like you’re a developer. Would you like help upgrading Windows 11? Microsoft adds a PC setup option and tools just for coders in Win 11 23H2, which debuted Tuesday OSes27 Sep 2023 | 41
OpenAI could be valued up to $90 billion if deal to sell employee shares closes ChatGPT makers allegedly in talks with investors to let employees sell out AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 5
Report: CIA eyes building AI chatbot to rival China CIA, FBI and friends using AI to uncover threats? What could possibly go wrong? AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 5
Amazon accused of being a monopolist in FTC lawsuit Khan's been waiting for years to file this case - she better hope her aim is good Software26 Sep 2023 | 19
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Long-term support for Linux kernels is about to get a lot shorter Open Source Summit Despite the OS's success, maintainers are short-staffed and under-appreciated OSes26 Sep 2023 | 30
Oracle's $130M-plus payday still looms on horizon for Larry and Safra And shareholders – presumably not Ellison who still owns 42% – are still not happy about it Databases26 Sep 2023 | 10
Driving down the cost of Office applications How perpetual software licences are here to stay as firms avoid SaaS and snap up second hand bargains Sponsored Feature
Getty delivers text-to-image service it says won't get you sued, may get you paid Trained on its own image library that's clear of copyright complications AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 15
Doom developer John Carmack thinks artificial general intelligence is doable by 2030 Suggests we might not have AI at all if it weren't for Quake AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 85
No joke: Cloudflare takes aim at Google Fonts with ROFL Reckons it can deliver Comic Sans faster and keep your shame a secret Software26 Sep 2023 | 38
Alexa's future is pay-to-play, departing Amazon exec predicts This just after Amazon started charging for Alexa's free home security Guard AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 15
Teardown reveals iPhone 15 to be series of questionable design decisions Video High cost and hard to work with? Yep, that's Apple all over
Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more Open Source Summit Mozilla gave it the boot, but the Linux Foundation Europe gave it the kiss of life instead
Doom developer John Carmack thinks artificial general intelligence is doable by 2030 Suggests we might not have AI at all if it weren't for Quake
No joke: Cloudflare takes aim at Google Fonts with ROFL Reckons it can deliver Comic Sans faster and keep your shame a secret
Linux interop is maturing fast… thanks to a games console Open Source Summit Valve's work on Steam OS 3 for the Steam Deck help everyone, corporate users included
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Long-term support for Linux kernels is about to get a lot shorter Open Source Summit Despite the OS's success, maintainers are short-staffed and under-appreciated
Switch to hit the fan as BT begins prep ahead of analog phone sunset Vows it won't 'proactively' shift folks who only use a landline or have no mobile signal
AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs Oh MI word: In the AI race, any accelerator beats none at all
California governor vetoes bill requiring human drivers in robo trucks Route 404: Human driver requirement not found AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 52
ChatGPT will soon accept speech and images in its prompts, and be able to talk back to you Update Yakety Yak - AI talks back AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 5
Uncle Sam mulls spying on clouds being used to train AI Big Brother wants to watch your big data AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 7
No customer left behind, SAP's Klein tells users angered by cloud-only decision Data quality, system complexity and SAP’s future rely on cloud adoption, CEO relays to German-speaking user group Databases25 Sep 2023 | 15
Amazon to sink $4B into AI dev Anthropic, become its cloud provider One way to get preferential access to OpenAI rival's tech AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 2
OpenAI's DALL·E 3 teams up with ChatGPT to turn brainfarts into art AI in brief Plus: Microsoft GitHub release Copilot Chat to all developers on VS Code, and more AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 8
Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024 The blind think this is not a visionary decision Software25 Sep 2023 | 57
Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks Can you blame it? Applications23 Sep 2023 | 67
Colleges snub Turnitin's AI-writing detector over fears it'll wrongly accuse students By the time they graduate, employers will be making them use LLMs anyway AI + ML23 Sep 2023 | 30
Unity apologizes, tweaks runtime install fees after gaming world outrage Is this the engine maker's final continue? Software22 Sep 2023 | 15
IBM's Weather Company leaked my personal info to analytics, thunders netizen Video watching habits and other data just handed over, lawsuit claims Software22 Sep 2023 | 4
UK-US data deal could hinge on fate of legal challenges to EU arrangement So much for sovereignty then Databases22 Sep 2023 | 50
FYI: Those fancy 'Google-designed' TPU AI chips had an awful lot of Broadcom help Comment And Meta's tapping up Big B too – it's big bucks for this silicon giant AI + ML22 Sep 2023 | 1
CMA says new Microsoft-Activision deal addresses concerns Meet gaming's power couple, with Ubisoft the third wheel. Now competition watchdog must ensure Windows biz keeps promises Software22 Sep 2023 | 1
Why Chromebooks are the new immortals of tech Opinion A decade of support is a much better deal than what Microsoft or Apple will give you OSes22 Sep 2023 | 96
If you're cautious about using ML and bots at work, that's not a bad idea DataGrail Summit Alex Stamos: 'We don't really know what's gonna go wrong with AI yet' AI + ML22 Sep 2023 | 33
Mastodon makes a major move amid Musk's multiple messes Federated social network adds n00b-friendly features to the 'Fediverse' Software22 Sep 2023 | 47
Amazon 'protects' against junk AI e-books by limiting author-bots to three a day Somehow still 'committed to providing the best possible reading and publishing experience' AI + ML22 Sep 2023 | 30
Beneath Microsoft's Surface event, AI spreads everywhere Windows gets its own Copilot to help operate the operating system – Edge, Bing, Outlook, 365 not spared, either AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 41
VCs lay $52.5M golden egg for MotherDuck's serverless analytics platform Database service vendor based on open source DuckDB fattens up to $400M valuation Databases21 Sep 2023 |
Intel CTO suggests using AI to port CUDA code to – surprise! – Intel chips This is about ending Nvidia's vendor lock-in, insists Greg Lavender AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 6
Authors Guild sues OpenAI for using Game of Thrones and other novels to train ChatGPT Class action alleges pirated novels were fed into binary brainbox AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 54
Zuck uses India visit to increase Meta's transactional traction WhatsApp gets better at taking money and so does Meta with verified accounts for biz Software21 Sep 2023 |
GNU turns 40: Stallman's baby still not ready for prime time, but hey, there's cake It turned the software industry upside down regardless Applications20 Sep 2023 | 83
Chan Zuckerberg org to spin up 1,000+ H100 GPU cluster for AI medical research Plus: DeepMind trained model to predict genetically mutated DNA strings AI + ML20 Sep 2023 | 6
Google Bard can now tap into your Gmail, Docs, more Web giant promises personal info and files won't be used to train this chatbot AI + ML20 Sep 2023 | 34
Intel slaps forehead, says I got it: AI PCs. Sell them AI PCs People try to put us down, talkin' 'bout ML generation AI + ML19 Sep 2023 | 29
Venture capital firm makes 'unsolicited' bid for MariaDB buyout Database company, which went through an IPO in December last year, was still in search of credit facility as of August Databases19 Sep 2023 | 4
Tabular's Iceberg vision goes from Netflix and chill to database thrill Promise of neutral data layer between vendors' vested interests attracts $26M Databases19 Sep 2023 |
Unity talks of price cap and fees for only largest games developers That sound? It's the screeching noise of a massive U-turn as games engine biz admits mistakes Software19 Sep 2023 | 16
GitHub Copilot, Amazon Code Whisperer sometimes emit other people's API keys Final update AI dev assistants can be convinced to spill secrets learned during training AI + ML19 Sep 2023 | 9
UK courts award CGI £60M deal to keep ancient tech alive Legacy – sorry 'heritage' – support contract includes case managements systems Applications19 Sep 2023 | 4
Ubuntu's 'Mantic Minotaur' peeks out of the labyrinth As outline becomes visible, including the return of ZFS, kernel 6.4 glides across the Styx into eternity OSes19 Sep 2023 | 12
Buiding Excel-like UI for Uber's China ops exposed Microsoft calculation quirks Updated Developer recounts rideshare outfitattempts to crack the Middle Kingdom market Applications19 Sep 2023 | 28
China to set standards for the metaverse because it's not sure what one is Beijing reckons they could be handy for manufacturing, but for now they're just a mess Software19 Sep 2023 | 5
VMware staff reportedly told job cuts may start before Broadcom acquisition CVs are starting to appear on social media because staff think it's a sensible time to be in the shop window Virtualization19 Sep 2023 | 5
Sonos secures a victory in audio patent fight against Google ITC judge rules you can't sue over invalid patents, but the fight goes on Software18 Sep 2023 | 6
CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit Run 3 reboot provoked challenges for Europe's particle-smashing project Databases18 Sep 2023 | 3
Oracle at Europe's largest council didn't foresee bankruptcy Auditors unable to sign off accounts partly due to lack of IT controls amid challenging ERP deployment Databases18 Sep 2023 | 57
Having read the room, Unity goes back to drawing board on runtime fee policy But the damage has already been done Software18 Sep 2023 | 36
UK judge rates ChatGPT as 'jolly useful' after using it to help write a decision AI in brief PLUS: Coca-Cola's AI-designed drink to debut; chip startups struggle to compete with Nvidia as funding flees AI + ML18 Sep 2023 | 20
Gandalf chatbot security game counters privacy fireballs You shall not pass judgement, Lakera AI insists, because exposed player info was harmless AI + ML17 Sep 2023 |
Unity closes offices, cancels town hall after threat in wake of runtime fee restructure Backlash has spilled offline and into potential violence Software15 Sep 2023 | 99
Big Tech offers free training courses on India's new digital skills platform Mobile-first service aims to bring e-learning to the masses, covering tech and plenty more Software15 Sep 2023 | 1
Adobe's AI tools may paint a pretty picture, but they also cost a pretty penny At least artists are being paid to train its models AI + ML14 Sep 2023 | 4
Databricks shakes VC money tree and $500M falls out Who needs an IPO when you have Series I? Databases14 Sep 2023 |
Amazon unleashes Gen AI for product descriptions, curbs it for Kindle When you’re shopping from 'TBMPOY' or 'CARWORNIC' will you even notice the difference? AI + ML14 Sep 2023 | 18
GitHub alienates developers by force feeding them AI recommendations Decision to combine user-curated feed with algorithmic stuff leaves coders fuming Devops13 Sep 2023 | 40
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 hits beta with reassuringly little drama Think Debian 12 plus Mint's polish and a friendlier UX for non-techies OSes13 Sep 2023 | 13
UK government awards chunk of mega-billions tech framework Exclusive Deal for tax collector’s legacy application services goes to troupe of suppliers including Accenture, Capgemini and IBM Applications13 Sep 2023 | 10
Don't worry, folks. Big Tech pinky swears it'll build safe, trustworthy generative AI White House bags more voluntary commitments AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 6
Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon and others sue OpenAI Another would be copyright class action AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 28
Oracle disappoints market with revenue miss as Ellison hints at Azure database move Don't expect 'armies of programmers' to rewrite Cerner, says Larry, talking up low-code app dev platform APEX Databases12 Sep 2023 | 13
Friends don't let friends use AI to chat Science shocker: Real BFFs understand authenticity and sincerity can't be machine-generated AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 14
Lawyer's Microsoft email snafu goes from $1.75M lawsuit to Ctrl+Alt+Settle Accused software giant of MFA error that rendered work address useless Software12 Sep 2023 | 31
Microsoft Edge still forcing itself on users in Europe Updated Promised change to allow Windows system links open in the actual default browser not yet evident OSes12 Sep 2023 | 31
Alibaba set to unleash AI that offers financial advice – do you feel lucky? Claims it's already comparable to finance industry pros and capable of recommending insurance plans AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 8
Arm's lawyers want to check assembly expert's book for trademark missteps IPO-hungry chip biz promises to donate copies to universities – may also demand a reprint Software12 Sep 2023 | 50
Billions of 'custobots' are coming online. Marketers may need to learn SEO for AI You can't take a machine to lunch or put it to sleep with PowerPoint, but you can try to shape its worldview AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 14
OpenAI boss Sam Altman receives Indonesia's first golden visa Open AI boss to get 'red carpet' at immigration AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 1
Morgan Stanley values Tesla's super-hyped supercomputer at up to $500B Musk snaps up Nvidia GPUs even as he builds Dojo. Finance bods foresee SaaSy AI, rivers of cash AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 21
Google thinks $20M ought to be enough to figure out how or if AI can be used responsibly Mull it over, think tanks, while we roll out this tech into every corner of life AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 4
Get ready to say hello to new Windows and goodbye to an old friend The clock is ticking for Windows troubleshooters, plus Microsoft's preparing a new OS release Software11 Sep 2023 | 17
Linux 6.6's in-kernel SMB networking server graduates Samsung's KSMBD server hitting primetime has several significant implications OSes11 Sep 2023 | 18
Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows Go native or go home: End of servicing plan rolled out for legacy printer drivers in fresh update OSes11 Sep 2023 | 134
IRS using AI to catch rich people and tax-dodging corps AI in brief Plus: Google CEO says AI will be biggest tech shift in our lives, new official AI words on Dictionary.com AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 10
Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? Opinion Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed Databases11 Sep 2023 | 101
G20 sets 2027 as the year in which it hopes members can tax crypto transactions Leaders settle for modest action on issues including AI, stablecoins, cross-border payments Software11 Sep 2023 | 6
IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week Managers warn company goals can't be achieved unless coders get more face time and less FaceTime AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 156
GenAI proponents exploring its use alongside infrastructure-as-code It’s not 'Alexa: build me a K8s cluster' but could become Ansible or Chef using models trained on log files to recommend what your app needs AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 3
NixCon drops Palmer Luckey's AI combat drone maker Anduril as sponsor due to military ties NixOS event organizers say community unhappy about funding from Pentagon contractor AI + ML08 Sep 2023 | 8
GNOME 45 formalizes extensions module system As it reaches Release Candidate status, one change among many will have more visible impact OSes08 Sep 2023 | 36
TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months Boss Mark Liu says silicon ready but advanced packaging isn't AI + ML08 Sep 2023 | 4
PEBCAK problem transformed young techie into grizzled cynical sysadmin On Call Banks aren't very creative, which became an issue for one customer Software08 Sep 2023 | 143
India warns ecommerce 'basket sneaks' and 'confirm shamers' their days are numbered Amazon, Google, and Meta helped it to draft guidelines on preventing 'dark patterns' Software08 Sep 2023 | 19
Microsoft to shield paid-up Copilot customers from any AI copyright brawls it starts Tough luck, freeloaders: You're on your own AI + ML07 Sep 2023 | 8
Windows August update plays Blue Screen bingo – and MSI boards got the winning ticket BIOS update issued with tweaked Intel microcode OSes07 Sep 2023 | 18
Linux distros drop their feelgood hits of the summer A quiet period for the IT industry is a good time to rebuild and refresh, apparently OSes07 Sep 2023 | 12
Microsoft to kill off Outlook REST API v2.0 in 2024 – for real this time Learn to love Microsoft Graph or say hello to Mr 404 Software07 Sep 2023 | 10