So you want to integrate OpenAI's bot. Here's how that worked for software security scanner Socket Exclusive Hint: Hundreds of malicious npm and PyPI packages spotted Devops30 Mar 2023 |
It's official: Ubuntu Cinnamon remix has been voted in And it looks like educational flavor Edubuntu is returning, too OSes30 Mar 2023 | 13
This US national lab turned to AI to hunt rogue nukes All it needs to do is detect ■■■■■■■■■■ in the ■■■■■ at ■■■■■■ when the ■■■■■■■■ AI + ML30 Mar 2023 | 21
Judge grants subpoena to ID Twitter source code leaker Unmasking also in store for anyone who's 'posted, uploaded, downloaded or modified' tweet biz code Software29 Mar 2023 | 23
Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out First version built on 20.04 hits smartphones and tablets of UBPorts fans OSes29 Mar 2023 | 21
UK seeks light-touch AI legislation as industry leaders call for LLM pause Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk find something to agree on AI + ML29 Mar 2023 | 23
Broadcom-VMware merger probe to enter deeper second stage Competition regulators in Britain opt for Phase II discovery over worries about prices and rival tech access Virtualization29 Mar 2023 | 7
Baidu's AI chatbot ducks out of public demo Please, let's not go all Skynet on this: Baidu has previously said ERNIE just isn't that impressive up close AI + ML29 Mar 2023 | 5
Google reminds everyone it too can offer an AI code-suggestion bot Replit after me AI + ML28 Mar 2023 | 4
Microsoft enlarges its cockpit of Copilots to include security It starts with chat bots inventing D&D campaigns and ends with AI all over your Excel and network logs AI + ML28 Mar 2023 | 8
Investment bank forecasts LLMs could put 300 million jobs at risk Meanwhile technology-driven job creation is possible, Goldman Sachs says AI + ML28 Mar 2023 | 18
US police have run nearly 1M Clearview AI searches, says founder Crimes Clearview has helped solve include murder and the devastating scourge of ... shoplifting AI + ML28 Mar 2023 | 15
Oh, Snap. openSUSE downloads increasing, and Leap 15.5 is coming soon Could have something to do with Ubuntu kicking Flatpak. Meanwhile, SUSE may be pulling up closer to rival Red Hat OSes28 Mar 2023 | 19
Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead Microsoft's attention has moved on, but flame still alive Software28 Mar 2023 | 57
Microsoft promises it's made Teams less confusing and resource hungry Aimed to make it twice as fast, more consistent and happy running on more hardware Software28 Mar 2023 | 118
Lebanon's IT folks face double trouble as leaders delayed Daylight Savings Time Planes are taking off before check in time, healthcare and finance sectors also in a mess Software28 Mar 2023 | 13
Jack Ma is back, and he has some feelpinions to share Offering wisdom on AI signals the Alibaba boss is in Beijing's good books again AI + ML28 Mar 2023 | 12
Europol warns ChatGPT already helping folks commit crimes There is no honor among chatbots AI + ML28 Mar 2023 | 45
Amtrak back on track after server breakdown forces dozens of cancellations Sounds like some IT teams are due for some training Software27 Mar 2023 | 7
Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out First version built on 20.04 hits smartphones and tablets of UBPorts fans
Microsoft Defender shoots down legit URLs as malicious Updated Those hoping to use nefarious websites like, er, Zoom are overrun by alerts. Redmond 'investigating'
Apple sued for allegedly firing, threatening union organizers iGiant urged to think different about workers' rights
Google again accused of willfully destroying evidence in Android antitrust battle Updated Starting to see a pattern here? Judge seems to think so
US bans good for Chinese chipmakers, and bad for us, says Taiwanese rival Beijing investing locally in advanced nodes will mean it buys locally, says MediaTek chairman
Warning: Your wireless networks may leak data thanks to Wi-Fi spec ambiguity How someone can nab buffered info, by hook or by kr00k
Amazon opens its ad-hoc Wi-Fi-sipping Sidewalk mesh to all manner of gadgets A reminder you can still opt-out
China urges Apple to improve security and privacy It's a juicy market that welcomes foreign investment, National development boss reminds Tim Cook
Apple patches all the iThings, including iOS 15 hole under attack right now Issue identified in February but owners of older kit weren't warned
Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid Move over, magic crystals – electric syrup is here
Google's claims of super-human AI chip layout back under the microscope Special report Nature probes published research as it emerges journal paper allegedly used to entice $120m cloud deal AI + ML27 Mar 2023 | 26
Google says it did not train its AI chatbot Bard on your private emails AI In Brief ALSO: Web traffic to Microsoft Bing up 15.8 per cent since launch of GPT-4 bot, and more AI + ML27 Mar 2023 | 20
China's best selling smartwatch offers surveillance-as-a-service … for kids Asia In Brief ALSO: Indian space agency completes OneWeb constellation; Singapore warns on AI weapons; AUKUS tech pact advances AI + ML26 Mar 2023 | 6
OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins, granting iffy language model access to your apps Analysis Search aspired to the the command line to the world, but ML models may get there first AI + ML26 Mar 2023 | 11
Microsoft scrambles to fix Windows 11 'aCropalypse' privacy-battering bug Updated All your previously Snipping Tool cropped images aren't, basically OSes24 Mar 2023 | 54
Barred from US tech, Huawei claims to have built its own 14nm chip design suite Beijing's Made in China drive fueled by Washington's export crackdowns Software24 Mar 2023 | 23
ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI Opinion Without publicly accessible code, there would be no AI chatbot Software24 Mar 2023 | 29
Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem On Call Five developers named Bob were not good at their jobs Software24 Mar 2023 | 186
There's one sure winner in the AI explosion, say analysts: Dutch outfit ASML It’s the only game in town for extreme ultraviolet lithography, and that makes it every chip shop’s new best friend AI + ML24 Mar 2023 | 11
OpenAI CEO 'feels awful' after ChatGPT leaks conversations, payment info Updated Delayed mea culpa isn't a good look for a biz with 'open' in the name AI + ML23 Mar 2023 | 31
Red Hat veteran will head up SUSE from May as Di Donato steps down In the meantime, the CFO is also interim CEO Software23 Mar 2023 | 4
Tails 5.11: Secure-surfing 'amnesiac' live distro arrives A highly opinionated little live USB/DVD/VM image for the paranoid OSes23 Mar 2023 | 14
Croquet for Unity: Live, network-transparent 3D gaming... but it's so much more Updated This is that rare announcement that's far more significant than it sounds Software23 Mar 2023 | 15
We've got plenty of AI now but who asked for it? El Reg's vultures chime in Register Kettle We each grab a mic and take apart the Bard stewards responsible for this hype AI + ML23 Mar 2023 | 41
Microsoft freaks out users with Windows 11 warning: 'LSA protection is off' Alerts telling folks their 'device may be vulnerable' triggered by KB5007651 OSes22 Mar 2023 | 50
Watchdog: Broadcom buy of VMware may be bad for competition Server price hikes, rival hardware makers locked out ... haven't we been warning that for a while? Virtualization22 Mar 2023 | 10
GitHub Copilot learns new tricks, adopts this year's model Armed with GPT-4, Microsoft's AI 'pair programmer' can tag pull requests, parrot documentation, talk about code AI + ML22 Mar 2023 | 13
Boffins develop AI model for designing proteins to make synthetic blood plasma And it's not the only hybrid synthetic biomaterial scientists are targeting AI + ML22 Mar 2023 |
Google reminds everyone it too can launch a ChatGPT-like chatbot … waiting list Meanwhile, Bing can now output images, Adobe touts shiny art platform Firefly AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 8
No reliable way to detect AI-generated text, boffins sigh This article was not written by a computer, not that you could tell for sure either way AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 58
Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools Opinion The war in Ukraine is bad and wrong… but does blocking these contributions help Ukraine? OSes21 Mar 2023 | 165
Hospital to test AI 'copilot' for doctors that jots notes on patient care The hope? Reducing piles of admin for clinicians freeing them up for medical work AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 25
Curl, the URL fetcher that can, marks 25 years of transfers Utility began as a personal project, found its way into billions of devices Software21 Mar 2023 | 12
Baidu's ERNIE chatbot has nothing to say about Xi Jinping Bot also botches some requests, but is about to be baked into cloud services anyway AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 3
Stanford sends 'hallucinating' Alpaca AI model out to pasture over safety, cost Meta-made small language model can produce misinformation, toxic text AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 18
Microsoft to give more than microsecond's thought about your Windows 11 needs Concerns over consistent dialog boxes, pinning, default apps mulled OSes20 Mar 2023 | 38
HPE picks up OpsRamp to sprinkle some AIOps on Greenlake multi-cloud Hopes for predictive insights and automation, but no word on what it'll pay for that AI + ML20 Mar 2023 | 2
OpenAI CEO warns that GPT-4 could be misused for nefarious purposes In brief ALSO: Discord quietly edited its privacy policy after rolling out new generative AI features, and more AI + ML20 Mar 2023 | 19
UnitedHealth's buyout of UK's EMIS could reduce competition: UK watchdog NHS could also be hit with higher prices as a result of the merger, CMA argues in initial investigation Software20 Mar 2023 | 9
Average Adobe staffer makes $170k a year, and 185 of them = 1 CEO Margins in software are enough to let you heat house, eat and buy a car Software20 Mar 2023 | 31
AWS delivers a – rather late – major release of its homebrew Linux distribution 2023 is only one more than 2022, right? OSes20 Mar 2023 | 11
Microsoft pushes out PowerShell scripts to fix BitLocker bypass Attackers exploiting the vulnerability could access encrypted data Software19 Mar 2023 | 25
John Deere urged to surrender source code under GPL Farmers need a right to repair Software17 Mar 2023 | 76
Free-Teams-gate: Docker apologizes for shooting itself in the foot Botched data deletion threat roils open source worlds Devops17 Mar 2023 | 21
We read OpenAI's risk study. GPT-4 is not toxic ... if you add enough bleach Analysis Tough to see how this model can be released in good conscience AI + ML17 Mar 2023 | 40
Reg FOSS desk test drive: First beta of Fedora 38 drops Spoiler: It's looking much better than 37 did at this stage OSes17 Mar 2023 | 27
AI-generated art can be copyrighted, say US officials – with a catch Some non-artificial intelligence needed AI + ML16 Mar 2023 | 36
The npm registry's safe word is Socket Exclusive GitHub's JavaScript failings are someone else's opportunity Devops16 Mar 2023 | 8
Microsoft's Copilot AI to pervade the whole 365 suite Clippy 2.0 to help us 'reconnect with the soul of our work' ... just don't mention that lawsuit AI + ML16 Mar 2023 | 36
Adobe reckons it'll complete $20B Figma mega deal by year-end Ups financial forecasts on back of 'healthy' Q1, as more and more of world goes digital Software16 Mar 2023 | 4
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China’s Baidu claims its ERNIE chatbot reinvents the computing stack We're headed for models-as-a-service, apparently, and the OS doesn't matter AI + ML16 Mar 2023 | 16
Google stops selling its biz-grade augmented reality specs In case of apathy, break Glass Software16 Mar 2023 | 33
Microsoft picks perfect time to dump its AI ethics team Machine-learning safety and controls now everyone's problem AI + ML15 Mar 2023 | 30
UK spy agency: Don't feed LLMs with sensitive corporate data Oh gosh. Looks like that bot just spilled that you plan to fire 20k staffers in Q4 AI + ML15 Mar 2023 | 18
Pentesters' fave Kali Linux turns 10 with version 23.1 It's also 17… and 18… and actually rather cool OSes15 Mar 2023 | 23
Bing AI feels like ChatGPT stuffed into a suit – not the future First Look Poor interface, lousy lyrics, and bland answers mean this won't be the tool that makes Edge mainstream AI + ML15 Mar 2023 | 62
Nutanix's cloudy clusters now officially at home in Azure HCI upstart adds a hybrid option that could be of interest to nervous VMware customers Virtualization14 Mar 2023 |
OpenAI claims GPT-4 will beat 90% of you in an exam Weirdly coy about the AI model's size and what went into making it, tho AI + ML14 Mar 2023 | 59
Now Google to shove its answer to ChatGPT into Gmail, Docs, apps via APIs, more PaLM springs forth AI + ML14 Mar 2023 | 9
One third wiped off value of GitLab shares, Wall Street didn't like weaker outlook Investors nervous in same week that Silicon Valley Bank failed Devops14 Mar 2023 | 6
After nearly two decades of waiting, GNOME 44 brings you... image thumbnails The primary desktop in Ubuntu 23.04 and Fedora 38 is getting there OSes14 Mar 2023 | 46
Japan Post closer to replacing snail mail with autonomous drones As Alphabet's Wing wants to fly millions of small packages by 2024 AI + ML14 Mar 2023 | 11
Meta winds down NFTs but will continue token efforts 'We're looking closely at what we prioritize to increase our focus' – which increasingly means staving off TikTok Software14 Mar 2023 | 14
Windows 11 puts 'disgusting' Remote Mailslots protocol out of its misery It's simple, unreliable, insecure, and on its way out OSes13 Mar 2023 | 65
'Robot lawyer' DoNotPay not fit for purpose, alleges complaint Human lawyers: 'DoNotPay is not actually a robot, a lawyer, nor a law firm' AI + ML13 Mar 2023 | 15
British industry calls for regulation of autonomous vehicles Standards that cut across technology could help avoid confusing industry, MPs hear AI + ML13 Mar 2023 | 67
GPT-4 to launch this week, Microsoft Germany's CTO lets slip In-brief Plus: DuckDuckGo launches its own AI web search chatbot, and more AI + ML13 Mar 2023 | 17
Infosys president leaves to join rival Tech Mahindra as CEO Asia In Brief PLUS: Singapore tests AWS quantum network; Honda bulks autonomous truck; India tightens crypto laws; and more Software12 Mar 2023 | 1
Check out Codon: A Python compiler if you have a need for C/C++ speed Caveats apply, your mileage may vary Devops11 Mar 2023 | 70
Thanks to generative AI, catching fraud science is going to be this much harder Feature Why do experiments and all that work when a model could just invent convincing data for you? AI + ML11 Mar 2023 | 33
Here's how Microsoft hopes to inject ChatGPT into all your apps and bots via Azure Stormy clouds ahead? AI + ML11 Mar 2023 | 29
IBM boss Arvind 'kerching' Krishna paid more than $16m in 2022 That's equivalent to 271 Big Blue workers Software10 Mar 2023 | 11
Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm – then fired the people who could Opinion Like so many of his promises, it's probably one he can't keep Software10 Mar 2023 | 155
Microsoft rolls out tools and improvements to make its stuff more accessible Inclusion is good business Software10 Mar 2023 | 2
GitHub rolls out mandatory 2FA for loads of devs next week Engineers who contribute to public projects told to enroll Software09 Mar 2023 | 11
VMware nods to containerization with tweaks to virtual desktops and apps In theory, this should reduce the number of servers needed to package apps Virtualization09 Mar 2023 |
openSUSE finds an elegant solution to x86-64 version support Updated Piggybacking on the hwcaps tunable in glibc, it's shipping platform-optimized libraries OSes09 Mar 2023 | 7
Singapore admits it should have explained COVID app data could be used by cops Island nation reworks digital infrastructure found to have slowed down pandemic response Software09 Mar 2023 | 11
Microsoft's scythe hovers over RPS for Exchange Online Remote PowerShell Protocol users must shift into PowerShell v3 module Software08 Mar 2023 |
A new version of APT is coming to Debian 12 Like 'Bookworm' itself, software manager will have improved handling of non-free packages OSes08 Mar 2023 | 25
Humanoid robot takes a retail job, but not one any store clerk wants to do You want to take our place? Welcome to the real world, pal AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 33
Microsoft to snatch Visio app away from iOS users this summer If you want to use the diagram tool for the long haul, it's going to take a subscription Applications08 Mar 2023 | 37
Once AI can create endless viral videos, good luck switching off social media Column Imagine humans … watching humans …watching TikTok … forever AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 57
Brit newspaper giant fills space with AI-assisted articles That's a bit of a Reach AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 98
India teases AI plan to 'catalyse the next generation of the internet' Minister wants to release 'one of the largest datasets in the world' AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 5
LLaMA drama as Meta's mega language model leaks Don't worry... 'The good will outweigh the bad, by at least tenfold. Probably closer to 100x' AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 22
Dems offer ban on Feds using facial, voice recognition Second time before Congress a charm? AI + ML07 Mar 2023 | 7
Microsoft makes Outlook Mac native email app a freebie Does it have in-app purchases? You betcha Applications07 Mar 2023 | 25