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Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek As Huang jets to Middle Kingdom after H20 ban forces $5.5B hit AI + ML17 Apr 2025 | 4
Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 18
MX Linux 23.6 brings Debian freshness, without the systemd funk Bookworm 12.10-based release is a few steps ahead of upstream OSes17 Apr 2025 | 14
Bank of England flirts with offline digital dosh No signal? No problem. But also no solid commitment to Britcoin yet Software17 Apr 2025 | 30
Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer? Redmond talks up preview of AI agents navigating apps through the UI AI + ML16 Apr 2025 | 29
Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system OSes16 Apr 2025 | 16
Microsoft admits it's not you, Classic Outlook can be a real CPU, power hog sometimes Bug or migration strategy for New Outlook, we wonder Applications16 Apr 2025 | 14
First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales World War Fee Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible? HPC16 Apr 2025 | 5
Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades Intune policies turn out to be mere suggestions OSes16 Apr 2025 | 31
Figma bucks market trends, plunges into IPO waters after Adobe's failed buyout Timing not ideal with Wall Street fearing recession Applications16 Apr 2025 | 6
AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair Software16 Apr 2025 | 35
In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns Legal16 Apr 2025 | 48
Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing Maybe don't push to production without properly testing first? SaaS16 Apr 2025 | 26
Legacy tech is the gift that keeps billing for UK's tax collector £5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 14
TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails It's not DNS. It can't be DNS? Right? Networks16 Apr 2025 | 22
Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we'll train our AI on made-up emails It's LLMs all the way down AI + ML16 Apr 2025 | 30
Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter World War Fee So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago Systems16 Apr 2025 | 52
Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm? AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 21
Exchange Server 2019 has less than six months of support left in the tank Pricier successor due in July. Three months is plenty of time to test it, right? Software15 Apr 2025 | 9
CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home Uncertainty is the new certainty
AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair
White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo World War Fee Just make it 420.69 and be done with it, Mr President
Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find 'insurance' 'policy' in your files It involves a number close to three or six depending on the pickle you're in
Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing Maybe don't push to production without properly testing first?
Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed
Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims Give Elon an inch and he'll take thousands of miles ... allegedly
Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog Ignored infosec rules, exfiltrated data … then the mysterious login attempts from a Russian IP address began – claim
Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system
Russians lure European diplomats into malware trap with wine-tasting invite Vintage phishing varietal has improved with age
Delta Lake and Iceberg communities collide – in a good way Table format loved by Apple and Netflix gets boost after Databricks merger Databases15 Apr 2025 |
ActiveX blocked by default in Microsoft 365 because remote code execution is bad, OK? Stopping users shooting themselves in the foot with last century's tech Software15 Apr 2025 | 13
Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive You can't keep a good OS down Software15 Apr 2025 | 19
Windows Recovery Environment update fails successfully, says Microsoft See no error, hear no error, speak no error OSes15 Apr 2025 | 47
Nvidia joins made-in-America party, hopes to flog $500B in homegrown AI supers by 2029 Blackwell production already underway in Arizona with server manufacturing coming to Texas within 15 months AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 11
Don't delete that mystery empty folder. Windows put it there as a security fix Copilot vibe coding for OS development? Why not Patches14 Apr 2025 | 32
Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months Updated Users, unsurprisingly, are not pleased and feel forgotten amid Redmond's Copilot frenzy OSes14 Apr 2025 | 68
New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029 IT admins, get ready to grumble CSO14 Apr 2025 | 119
Ireland opens probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s AI data slurp Watchdog wants to know whether EU posts were used without consent under GDPR AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 33
Windows 11 stops freaking out over wallpaper customization Safeguard hold finally lifted as Microsoft realizes animated backgrounds aren't the end of the world OSes14 Apr 2025 | 12
It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter Opinion Miyazaki, copyright protection and the 'insult to life itself' of AI images AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 74
Dot com era crash on the cards for AI datacenter spending? It's a 'risk' Interview Analysts say the bubble won't burst, but it is possible, admits world's largest colo provider On-Prem14 Apr 2025 | 23
CIO and digi VP to depart UK retail giant Asda as Walmart divorce woes settle Exclusive Brit retailer says troubled breakup with tech platform of former US owner nearing conclusion On-Prem14 Apr 2025 | 15
VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way Home labs and bare bones test rigs matter so Broadcom's back in the game Virtualization14 Apr 2025 | 42
Pidgin is back, so let's talk about why a local chat client matters Multi-protocol chat client is approaching version 3 Software13 Apr 2025 | 41
AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary Comment Carbon capture, SMRs, fusion power - tech titans' climate strategies are packed with moon shots AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 18
Global datacenter electricity use to double by 2030, say policy wonks. Yup, it's AI Analysis No worries, just use neural networks to optimize systems powering neural networks AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 18
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting' AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 93
Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs Redmond hopes you’ve forgotten or got over why everyone hated it the first time OSes11 Apr 2025 | 125
IBM shareholders asked to back greater lobbying transparency Activist investor finds payments groups lobbying against climate action Software11 Apr 2025 | 8
The most important experimental distro you've never heard of gets new project lead Plus a fresh version ... nine years after its last OSes11 Apr 2025 | 72
Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy Will future techies feel the same way about Copilot? Applications11 Apr 2025 | 67
Billions pour into AI as emissions rise, returns stay pitiful, say Stanford boffins Models get bulkier, burnier, bank-breakier AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 12
Southern Water uses Capita's AI tool to flush customer complaints Hang on, wasn't Capita already handling things like billing, etc? Ah, AgentSuite comes to the rescue AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 16
VMware opens beta for an upgrade to its midrange vSphere Foundation bundle A new alternative for those pondering what to do when vSphere 7.x goes end of life in October Virtualization11 Apr 2025 | 2
Self-driving car maker Musk's DOGE rocks up at self-driving car watchdog, cuts staff Under-audit political squad also said to be drafting invoices for Uncle Sam Public Sector11 Apr 2025 | 65
Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs Cloud Next Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 18
Return of Redis creator bears fruit with vector set data type LLM query caching also lands soon Databases10 Apr 2025 | 5
OpenAI slams 'sham' takeover bid by wannabe 'AGI dictator' Musk in countersuit Billionaire 'tried every tool to harm us', says super lab, and it wants judge to end 'harassment' AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 7
Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing' AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 3
AmigaOS updated in 2025 for some reason Hyperion ships another patch, which is nice OSes10 Apr 2025 | 38
Amazon Nova Sonic AI doesn't just hear you, it takes tonal cues too The foundation model supports real-time bi-directional speech AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 7
OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that? Practical matters like being 1 of most expensive energy regions in Europe focuses minds at AI Energy Council meeting Systems10 Apr 2025 | 80
Meta's AI, built on ill-gotten content, can probably build a digital you Column Llama 4 Scout is just the right size to ingest a lifetime of Facebook and Insta posts AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 28
Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in Cloud Next Customers aren't sure, economy isn't great, tech looks cute, though AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 5
Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons Cloud Next Sure, we're doing FP8 versus a supercomputer's FP64. What of it? AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 2
Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown Updated Best after-dinner mint ever AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 56
Founder of facial-rec controversy biz Clearview AI booted from board From wanting to weed out far-Left, anti-Trump migrants to amassing a huge database of internet photos AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 6
April's Patch Tuesday leaves unlucky Windows Hello users unable to login Updated Can't Redmond ask its whizz-bang Copilot AI to fix it? Patches09 Apr 2025 | 11
UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract Even though policing department spent 2 years on 'Minority Report' evoking study predicting which criminals will become killers Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 63
FreeDOS 1.4: Still DOS, still FOSS, more modern than ever The 1990s called – they're impressed OSes09 Apr 2025 | 36
Microsoft resets 'days since last Windows 11 problem' counter to 0 SenseShield the latest company to fall foul of 24H2 OSes09 Apr 2025 | 31
Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users Strangely no eighth tip to use something else OSes09 Apr 2025 | 90
Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how to tell crawlers to go away, or come for a feast AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 35
DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale Feds claim creaky COBOL, user spike is real reason key portal now flaky Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 66
AI entrepreneur sent avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast Interview We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 29
Bad luck, Windows 10 users. No fix yet for ransomware-exploited bug Patch Tuesday A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so low Patches08 Apr 2025 | 14
Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank Did Facebook giant rizz up LLM to win over human voters? It appears so AI + ML08 Apr 2025 | 3
Boeing 787 radio software safety fix didn't work, says Qatar 'Loss of safe separation between aircraft, collision, or runway incursion' is not what we want to hear Applications08 Apr 2025 | 48
Windows Server Update Services live to patch another day Disconnected device scenarios cause headaches for Microsoft OSes08 Apr 2025 | 14
'Copilot will remember key details about you' for a 'catered to you' experience And Vision will 'read' your screen and interact with the content, says Microsoft AI + ML08 Apr 2025 | 63
Procter & Gamble study finds AI could help make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette Go on, then, knock yourself out, pal AI + ML08 Apr 2025 | 43
Microsoft’s AI masterplan: Let OpenAI burn cash, then build on their successes Analysis Redmond’s not alone: AWS, Alibaba, DeepSeek also rely on others blazing the trail AI + ML07 Apr 2025 | 9
That massive GitHub supply chain attack? It all started with a stolen SpotBugs token But this mystery isn't over yet, Unit 42 opines Devops07 Apr 2025 | 7
Trump tariffs thwart TikTok takeover as China digs in heels World War Fee Video app's future once again caught between trade war and political whiplash Applications07 Apr 2025 | 24
Legal clock ticking for Microsoft over alleged software license abuses With weeks to meet terms of settlement agreement, engineers in Redmond still don't have a product to show CISPE PaaS + IaaS07 Apr 2025 | 10
Mozilla takes pity on Firefox extension developers Plan to standardize consent dialogs aims to lighten burden on devs, users, reviewers Applications07 Apr 2025 | 4
Meta debuts its first 'mixture of experts' models from the Llama 4 herd Says they’re done right as they don’t lean so far left AI + ML07 Apr 2025 | 38
No joke: Microsoft foolishly published inaccurate price list on April 1st Exclusive Fixed it the next day but a few lucky folk may have dodged a five percent Copilot price hike Software07 Apr 2025 | 24
Asian tech players react to US tariffs with delays, doubts, deal-making Asia In Brief PLUS: Qualcomm acquires Vietnamese AI outfit; China claims US hacked winter games; India's browser challenge winner disputed; and more Public Sector07 Apr 2025 | 11
Introducing Windows on arm. And by arm, we mean wrist Pixel Watch 3 boots Microsoft's OS in latest feat of delightful pointlessness OSes05 Apr 2025 | 27
Ukraine's techies a 'pillar of support' for national economy after Russian invasion Experts in IT services held up while other sectors fell over the last 5 years, says report Networks04 Apr 2025 | 16
Windows 11 poised to beat 10, mostly because it has to Market share increase accelerating, but Microsoft's flagship OS not yet at the 50% mark OSes04 Apr 2025 | 68
Ubuntu 25.04 beta takes flight – but this Plucky Puffin is still molting 'Pudgy' might be more apt given the download size OSes04 Apr 2025 | 27
Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system 'Full benefit' of replacement will not be realized until old one is shut down, projects watchdog warns Databases04 Apr 2025 | 52
Alan Turing Institute: UK can't handle a fight against AI-enabled crims Law enforcement facing huge gap in 'AI adoption' AI + ML04 Apr 2025 | 16
Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud And it can be yours for a rather steep $349 OSes03 Apr 2025 | 126
Mediatek wants to make Chromebooks more like Copilot+ PCs Arm-based silicon to help Google hardware muscle in on territory of Microsoft's own Arm-based PCs Systems03 Apr 2025 | 15
Bill Gates unearths Microsoft's ancient code like a proud nerd dad Founder shares 4K Altair BASIC source ahead of 50th anniversary Software03 Apr 2025 | 69
Zorin OS 17.3 takes the Brave step of changing its default browser from Firefox Comment To be fair, it sounds like the team has ironed out the more controversial features Applications03 Apr 2025 | 41
UK government told to get a grip on £23B tech spend Former official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment Public Sector03 Apr 2025 | 32
On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over Cool Britannia Opinion Think tank report backs data mining for machine learning, leaving artists and rights holders behind AI + ML03 Apr 2025 | 44
OpenStack delivers ‘Epoxy’ release, which it hopes will unglue more VMware customers The BBC and Blizzard Entertainment have chipped in with contributions On-Prem03 Apr 2025 | 7
OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn’t waiting for permission GPT-4o likely trained on O’Reilly books without permission, figures appear to show AI + ML03 Apr 2025 | 31
Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune AI + ML03 Apr 2025 | 26
Data doesn't lie, but Microsoft's new Power BI prices might make you cry Hike is no joke and users are not laughing Software02 Apr 2025 | 18
Speech now streaming from brains in real-time Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak Science02 Apr 2025 | 22
Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more Software02 Apr 2025 | 69
Lightmatter says it's ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer AI accelerators to see the light, literally Networks01 Apr 2025 | 2
Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block Vision Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder CxO01 Apr 2025 | 8