Berkeley boffins build better load balancing algo with AI
One way AI can improve on human work
AI + ML25 Oct 2025 | 6
Software
Sora makes slurfect deepfakes of celebs spewing racial epithets
If you listen closely, you’ll realize Sam Altman and the others are only saying sound-alike words
AI + ML24 Oct 2025 | 15
Uncle Sam's new power plan will plug AI farms into the grid faster
Proposal would fast-track hookups for the megawatt-hungry datacenters driving US electricity demand
AI + ML24 Oct 2025 | 14
OpenAI goes after Microsoft 365 Copilot's lunch with 'company knowledge' feature
ChatGPT can now rummage through corporate files via connectors, though Redmond still has the deeper hooks
SaaS24 Oct 2025 | 6
Apple faces £1.5B payout after losing UK App Store case
iPhone maker overcharged devs and users, says competition court
Applications24 Oct 2025 | 29
AI investment is the only thing keeping the US out of recession
Datacenter infrastructure and model development spending offset high borrowing costs
AI + ML24 Oct 2025 | 31
BBC probe finds AI chatbots mangle nearly half of news summaries
Google Gemini worst offender with 76% error rate
AI + ML24 Oct 2025 | 44
Britain's Ministry of Justice just signed up to ChatGPT Enterprise
OpenAI sweetens the deal with data residency
AI + ML24 Oct 2025 | 22
Supermicro warns it will miss revenue forecast by a lazy billion bucks or more
Mystery customer wants an upgrade that will take some time
Systems24 Oct 2025 | 2
Intel says server CPUs will be hot again – in a good way, to power AI workloads – any year now
Chipzilla returns to profit and suggests customers are primed to sign for foundry services once it nails 18A process
Systems24 Oct 2025 | 6
Clippy rises from the dead in major update to Copilot and its voice interface
Hands On The new Microsoft assistant is a blob named Mico, but you can turn it into everyone’s favorite paper clip.
AI + ML24 Oct 2025 | 19
Google and Anthropic wave hands about mega TPU deal worth 'tens of billions'
But AWS is still the AI upstart's primary partner
AI + ML23 Oct 2025 | 4
Don't take AI to Thanksgiving: Bots have hidden biases
It's not a bug, it's a feature
AI + ML23 Oct 2025 | 14
Excel is three sheets to the window on iOS as update borks everything
iPhone and iPad users vexed by denial of spreadsheets
Applications23 Oct 2025 | 16
Fedora council approves policy allowing AI-assisted contributions
Intense discussion approves AI – but subject to full responsibility and disclosure
AI + ML23 Oct 2025 | 3
A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees
Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours
PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2025 | 110
SAP says some customers are dragging their feet on contract sign-offs
Share price dips as cloud sales outlook disappoints amid slow US public sector bookings
Databases23 Oct 2025 | 5
Microsoft threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem
Survey probes interest in AI assistance for locally hosted email setups
AI + ML23 Oct 2025 | 29
OpenBSD 7.8 out now, and you're not seeing double, 9front releases 'Release'
New version includes multithreaded TCP/IP and Raspberry Pi 5 support
OSes23 Oct 2025 | 25
UK.gov vows to hack through regulation to get benefit from AI
Meanwhile, civil services claims 75,000 days could be saved by the tech each year
Public Sector23 Oct 2025 | 67
Popular
Sneaky Mermaid attack in Microsoft 365 Copilot steals data
updated Redmond says it's fixed this particular indirect prompt injection vuln
MPs urge government to stop Britain's phone theft wave through tech
Committee says Apple, Google, and Samsung could render stolen handsets worthless if compelled to act
AI investment is the only thing keeping the US out of recession
Datacenter infrastructure and model development spending offset high borrowing costs
OpenAI goes after Microsoft 365 Copilot's lunch with 'company knowledge' feature
ChatGPT can now rummage through corporate files via connectors, though Redmond still has the deeper hooks
Apple faces £1.5B payout after losing UK App Store case
iPhone maker overcharged devs and users, says competition court
Berkeley boffins build better load balancing algo with AI
One way AI can improve on human work
Everybody's warning about critical Windows Server WSUS bug exploits ... but Microsoft's mum
Critical 9.8-rated vulnerability affects Windows Server 2012 - 2025
Sora makes slurfect deepfakes of celebs spewing racial epithets
If you listen closely, you’ll realize Sam Altman and the others are only saying sound-alike words
High-stakes poker scam used rigged card shufflers, X-ray tables, and special glasses
31 alleged poker schemers nabbed alongside arrest of separate sports betting ring
Uncle Sam's new power plan will plug AI farms into the grid faster
Proposal would fast-track hookups for the megawatt-hungry datacenters driving US electricity demand
STORIES
IBM is just not into the 'spend megabucks on cloudy GPUs' thing, rents them instead
Infra revenue soars and AI helps everything … except the share price
Off-Prem23 Oct 2025 | 9
Reddit to Perplexity: Get your filthy hands off our forums
Updated Social media site continues legal campaign against those who take its content without a license
Legal22 Oct 2025 | 24
AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out
Not the default file system, but in the installer if you want it
OSes22 Oct 2025 | 9
Dropping Nvidia for Amazon's custom chips helped gene therapy startup Metagenomi cut AI bill 56%
It's not the size of your accelerator, it's how you use it
AI + ML22 Oct 2025 | 8
New Linux kernel patch lets you cancel hibernation mid-process
RFC proposes power-button interrupt – and highlights wider problems with sleep states
OSes22 Oct 2025 | 42
AI bubble inflates Microsoft CEO pay to $96.5M
480:1 ratio compared to average employee? Must be all that 'leadership' juice
AI + ML22 Oct 2025 | 25
Carnegie Mellon team claims vector-based system can turbocharge PostgreSQL
Researchers say 'Proto-X' fine-tunes databases automatically, delivering multifold performance boosts
Databases22 Oct 2025 | 6
UK data regulator defends decision not to investigate MoD Afghan data breach
ICO says probe unnecessary after reviewing ministry's handling of leak
Security22 Oct 2025 | 30
Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI
YouTube and Gmail already running on both x86 and homebrew Axion silicon, 70,000 more apps in the conversion queue
PaaS + IaaS22 Oct 2025 | 28
OpenAI releases bot-tom feeding browser with ChatGPT built in
Why experience the web for yourself when there's so much privacy to surrender?
AI + ML22 Oct 2025 | 28
Fake home invasion vid lands woman in real trouble
And got arrested instead of earning a viral TikTok
AI + ML21 Oct 2025 | 35
AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds
Rise and grind, robot overlords demand
AI + ML21 Oct 2025 | 46
AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists
Amazon's hours-long cloud blackout transformed the future of sleep into a sauna and cat care into chaos
PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2025 | 143
Is PHP declining? JetBrains says yes. And no
24,500 devs polled, two blog posts, one confusion
Devops21 Oct 2025 | 36
Introducing NTFSplus – because just one NTFS driver for Linux is never enough
Dev unveils a faster, modernized take on Microsoft's file system for penguin-powered PCs
OSes21 Oct 2025 | 37
Microsoft's ancient icon library still lurks deep within Windows 11
Pixels of the past 'created just for fun'
Software21 Oct 2025 | 29
Trust the AI, says new coding manifesto by Kim and Yegge
DevOps guru and ex-Googler say vibes beat reading diffs but there are risks
AI + ML21 Oct 2025 | 47
Mobian makes Debian's latest 'Trixie' release pocket-sized
Another phone Linux? The Reg attempts to disentangle the options
OSes21 Oct 2025 | 30
Alibaba reveals 82 percent GPU resource savings – but this is no DeepSeek moment
Better scheduling and resource-sharing for inferencing workloads using multiple models, not a training breakthrough
Off-Prem21 Oct 2025 |
AI does a better job of ripping off the style of famous authors than MFA students do
Shall I refer thee to all those lawsuits about fair use? Researchers think this result makes them worth revisiting
AI + ML21 Oct 2025 | 24
Aid groups use AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ to juice fundraising efforts
Researchers accuse tech firms of profiting from exploitative AI imagery
AI + ML20 Oct 2025 | 14
Windows 11 tiptoes further into dark mode with new dialogs
Some portions of the OS are still stuck on light
OSes20 Oct 2025 | 37
Xubuntu downloads section injection threatens users with crypto infection
Attempted exploit was a feeble effort to target Windows users
Cybersecurity Month20 Oct 2025 | 2
Nvidia still needs Taiwan even as TSMC ramps Blackwell production in Arizona
AI arms dealer relies on Taiwanese advanced packaging plants for top-specced GPUs
AI + ML20 Oct 2025 |
In '90s Microsoft, you either shipped code or shipped out
Hiring and firing at the Windows giant more The Bachelor than Survivor
Offbeat20 Oct 2025 | 16
Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode
Updated October security patch leaves users unable to fix their PCs
OSes20 Oct 2025 | 75
Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day
That's 46 minutes in which more work can be done, not an extended lunch
AI + ML20 Oct 2025 | 129
The real insight behind measuring Copilot usage is Microsoft's desperation
Opinion Citizen! You are falling short in your AI usage targets! Strive harder for the revolution!
AI + ML20 Oct 2025 | 54
Tribunal wonders if Microsoft has found a legal hero after pivot to copyright gambit
ValueLicensing dispute probes whether Office counts as a creative work
Software20 Oct 2025 | 19
Huawei's ACT pathway powers scalable AI adoption across industries
Company unveils pathway for intelligent transformation
Sponsored Feature
Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'
Taps Ruby core to oversee RubyGems, Bundler
Devops18 Oct 2025 | 23
Thou shalt not let AI run amok: Vatican wants global rules
'AI is a tool', Pope tells attendees
AI + ML17 Oct 2025 | 25
Turns out the end of Windows 10 is good for something: The PC refresh cycle
Operating system's D-day resuscitates flatlining computer sector
Personal Tech17 Oct 2025 | 71
Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit
NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype
PaaS + IaaS17 Oct 2025 | 3
SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA
A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade
Databases17 Oct 2025 | 23
Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT
As OpenAI allows chatbot to spout erotic content, former British prime minister makes true feelings known
Offbeat17 Oct 2025 | 61
Britain's AI gold rush hits a wall – not enough electricity
Energy secretary Miliband promises renewable utopia for green and pleasant land... filled with datacenters
On-Prem17 Oct 2025 | 131
AI boffins teach office supplies to predict your next move
What the world's been waiting for: a stapler with wheels to help humans afflicted by RSI
Offbeat17 Oct 2025 | 36
Anthropic brings mad Skills to Claude
Teaching an old bot new tricks
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 20
Decomposed dinosaurs make Texas a top destination for AI bit barns
Datacenter hopefuls looking to cash in on AI craze are setting up shop in Lone Star State in search of cheap power
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 27
Feeling lonely? Microsoft Copilot can now listen to your every word, watch your screen
We've seen this before and it was called Cortana or Clippy
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 55
Salesforce's Benioff warns of AI 'false prophets' while promising true profits by 2030
CRM messiah preaches data discipline while rivals chase LLM miracles
SaaS16 Oct 2025 | 5
Oracle goes all-in on AI, customers still figuring out how they'll use it
It's all agents and LLMs in Vegas, and even legacy users can partake
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 5
NordVPN open sources its Linux GUI client under GPLv3
Joins its command-line client from a couple of years ago
Networks16 Oct 2025 | 11
Locked out of your Gmail account? Google says phone a friend
Recovery feature lets trusted contacts help you get back in when other methods fail
Personal Tech16 Oct 2025 | 12
US hyperscalers to guzzle 22% more grid juice by end of 2025
AI hype fuels bit barn boom – and utilities are sweating the surge
On-Prem16 Oct 2025 | 23
Microsoft kills 9.9-rated ASP.NET Core bug – 'our highest ever' score
Flaw in Kestrel web server allowed request smuggling, impact depends on hosting setup and application code
Security16 Oct 2025 | 3
Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround
Updated Microsoft's quality control department caught napping again
OSes16 Oct 2025 | 192
Tech industry grad hiring crashes 46% as bots do junior work
ai-pocalypse GenAI meets Gen Z – only one gets the job
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 65
Firefox 144 brings fixes, features, and farewells for 32-bit Linux die-hards
Mozilla hardens its browser and toys with AI search while closing the door on legacy systems
Software16 Oct 2025 | 35
The $100B memory war: Inside the battle for AI's future
Feature The AI gold rush is so large that even third place is lucrative
Storage16 Oct 2025 | 9
Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers
Comment Oracle slurps your data whether you like it or not... for the good and bad of the planet
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 36
End of support for older Office and Windows Server versions pile on the pain for admins
Windows 10 is the least of some people's problems
Applications16 Oct 2025 | 40
Librephone battles the proprietary binary blob
Free Software Foundation project aims to reverse-engineer non-freedom respecting firmware
OSes15 Oct 2025 | 35
X to combat bot problem by showing more info about users
Meet [user] from [location]
Applications15 Oct 2025 | 17
OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it
If you build it, they will come and expect the service to be free
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 84
Japan tells OpenAI to stop spiriting away its copyrighted anime
Tokyo cries foul over Sora slop abusing 'irreplaceable treasures' of anime, manga - oh, and copyright law
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 12
Microsoft, Nvidia, and others inject $40B into AI bubble with massive datacenter deal
Big Tech and big money unite to back world’s biggest bit-barn buyout
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 9
Cisco: Most companies don't know what they're doing with AI
Only 13% are AI-ready; the rest are bolting it on and hoping for ROI
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 19
Devs are writing VS Code extensions that blab secrets by the bucketload
Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix
Research15 Oct 2025 | 10
Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint
Raymond Chen says the OS used green-screen overlays to fake video playback – with curious side effects
Offbeat15 Oct 2025 | 21
Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, Peppermint OS join the Debian 13 club
Downstream Linux projects line up behind the latest release
OSes15 Oct 2025 | 21
AI startup Augment scraps 'unsustainable' pricing, users say new model is 10x worse
Second huge increase in six months sees some devs heading for the exit
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 25
£2B UK cloud licensing claim against Microsoft seeks more business backers
Updated Action alleges Redmond unfairly hikes costs for businesses running Windows Server outside Azure
Software15 Oct 2025 | 5
Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack
Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses
Applications15 Oct 2025 | 50
UK government's £45B AI savings pitch built on broad-brush guesswork, MPs told
Think tank cautions that without job cuts or capital savings, the math doesn't add up
Public Sector15 Oct 2025 | 40
AI is the flying car of the mind: An irresistible idea nobody knows how to land or manage
Column And which will crash, repeatedly, until users learn how to handle it safely
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 65
Salesforce pumps the dream of AI agents as helpers, not replacements
In the Agentic Enterprise, 'AI doesn’t replace people, it elevates them'
SaaS15 Oct 2025 | 7
Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects
Laptop maker's apolitical endorsement of politically contentious projects meets resistance
OSes14 Oct 2025 | 109
18 zettaFLOPS of new AI compute coming online from Oracle late next year
New clusters to feature 800,000 Nvidia Blackwell and 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450X GPUs
Systems14 Oct 2025 | 7
Some like it bot! ChatGPT promises AI-rotica is coming for verified adults
Maybe this will bring in some actual profit?
AI + ML14 Oct 2025 | 32
Microsoft seeding Washington schools with free AI to get kids and teachers hooked
To the slop trough, kiddos!
AI + ML14 Oct 2025 | 18
DGX Spark, Nvidia’s tiniest supercomputer, tackles large models at solid speeds
hands on This relatively affordable AI workstation isn’t about going fast; it’s about doing everything well enough
AI + ML14 Oct 2025 | 12
KuzuDB says so long and thanks for all the commits, marooning community
Users left wondering whether to fork it or forget it as another FOSS project bites the dust
Software14 Oct 2025 | 25
What do we want? Windows 10 support! When do we want it? Until 2030!
Updated Protesters slam forced obsolescence outside Microsoft's office
OSes14 Oct 2025 | 70
Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN
Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won't fully roll out for several months
Networks14 Oct 2025 | 47
Shadow AI: Staffers are bringing AI tools they use at home to work, warns Microsoft
Bring Your Copilot To Work Day, anyone?
AI + ML14 Oct 2025 | 30
Lance takes aim at Parquet in file format joust
Challenger seeks to unseat incumbent for machine learning workloads
Databases14 Oct 2025 |
Brit AI boffins making bank with £560K average pay packet at Anthropic
Google, DeepMind, Microsoft also shower UK staff with six-figure salaries
AI + ML14 Oct 2025 | 17
Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken
Canonical's Questing Quokka waddles in at 5.7 GB with AppArmor woes
OSes14 Oct 2025 | 32
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