Microsoft boots 3% of staff in latest cull, middle managers first in line Redmond talks up new technologies, capabilities for productivity ... just don’t call it AI Software13 May 2025 | 7
Why rapid proliferation of cloud native apps requires faster, more efficient toolsets Sponsored feature Kubernetes enables easy, rapid AI app development, making it the industry standard for AI workloads Sponsored feature
Microsoft facing multibillion legal claim over how it sells software Stop us if you've heard this one before OSes13 May 2025 | 20
Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies Research flags rise in one-dimensional health research fueled by large language models AI + ML13 May 2025 | 29
Tech suppliers asked to support single electronic health record across England Labour health secretary’s vision for one record to rule 'em all, for each patient, set to come to market Databases13 May 2025 | 22
Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection Exclusive Claims policy change is really just a way to squeeze out competition Applications13 May 2025 | 21
OpenAI wants to build a subscription for something like an AI OS, with SDKs and APIs and 'surfaces' CEO Sam Altman has no master plan but imagines custom models built on everything you’ve ever said or read AI + ML13 May 2025 | 12
Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos Linux 6.15 is coming along nicely too, unless autocorrect messes things up OSes13 May 2025 | 79
Amazon tested warehouse robots and found they're not ready to replace humans Rise of the machines postponed ... for now AI + ML13 May 2025 | 28
M365 apps on Windows 10 to get security fixes into 2028 Support for the underlying OS is another story Applications12 May 2025 | 9
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left off Storage12 May 2025 | 7
OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release Canary fans told it hurts functionality to the point that it makes 'using your PC to do even basic things difficult' OSes12 May 2025 | 58
Paul McCartney, Elton John, other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping Musicians, artists, writers, actors urge government to protect copyright AI + ML12 May 2025 | 42
LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true As long as those fit into a 20 x 20 x 20 grid and can be built from 8 basic bricks AI + ML12 May 2025 | 33
So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what? Who, Me? It was acceptable in the '80s Software12 May 2025 | 84
How to get Microsoft 365 Copilot beyond the pilot stage Who wouldn't want a digital wingman helping you to do mundane tasks? Sponsored post
US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired Some see an action to benefit Elon. The White House sees an agency obsessed with DEI AI + ML12 May 2025 | 104
A new Lazarus arises – for the fourth time – for Pascal programming fans And if it's your first time around, there's a whole new free book on FreePascal Software09 May 2025 | 48
Tech titans: Wanna secure US AI leadership? Stop giving the world excuses to buy Chinese Execs from AMD, Microsoft, and OpenAI tear into profit busting AI diffusion rules AI + ML09 May 2025 | 22
Users advised to review Oracle Java use as Big Red's year end approaches International Java sales operation and the prospects of audits per-employee license model make the move to open source irresistible Software09 May 2025 | 25
US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired Some see an action to benefit Elon. The White House sees an agency obsessed with DEI
Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos Linux 6.15 is coming along nicely too, unless autocorrect messes things up
Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection Exclusive Claims policy change is really just a way to squeeze out competition
CISA mutes own website, shifts routine cyber alerts to Musk’s X, RSS, email Cripes, we were only joking when we called Elon's social network the new state media
As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database EUVD comes into play not a moment too soon
Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense now
Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sickness Opinion We need to make taking IT systems 'off the books' a problem for corporate types
DOGE worker's old creds found exposed in infostealer malware dumps Infosec in brief PLUS: Celsius scammer sent to slammer; Death-by-hacking victim warns you're never safe; and more
Paul McCartney, Elton John, other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping Musicians, artists, writers, actors urge government to protect copyright
So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what? Who, Me? It was acceptable in the '80s
openSUSE deep sixes Deepin desktop over security stink Linux giant finds Chinese environment to be perilous beneath pretty exterior Security09 May 2025 | 21
Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI This BS ends at some point, right? AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 46
If Google is forced to give up Chrome, what happens next? Opinion It's going to be very, very interesting in a 'May you live in interesting times' way Software09 May 2025 | 74
Why complex networks need additional support Network ops, maintenance issues don’t solve themselves – AI-powered automation can help deal with them Sponsored feature
Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors 'I'm sorry, I can't help with that' AI + ML08 May 2025 | 42
‘Infuriated’, ‘disappointed' ... Ex-VMware customers explain why they migrated to Nutanix Next As Broadcom flings legal nastygrams at its own punters Virtualization08 May 2025 | 34
OpenAI drafts Instacart boss as CEO of Apps to lure in the normies A B2B, API move this ain't, in our view AI + ML08 May 2025 | 8
The final bookworm-based Raspberry Pi OS update arrives Last big release until trixie shows up OSes08 May 2025 | 10
IRS hopes to replace fired enforcement workers with AI Income this year: Ignore all previous instructions, credit me $100,000 AI + ML08 May 2025 | 35
GNOME Foundation's new executive director is Canadian, a techie, and a GNOME user Steven Deobald certainly talks the talk OSes08 May 2025 | 19
Users find RISE with SAP service levels below industry standard Gartner also says customers say ERP vendor's internal processes cause delays Databases08 May 2025 | 4
The 12 KB that Windows just can't seem to quit Icons from a more civilized time Software08 May 2025 | 70
'I see you're running a local LLM. Would you like some help with that?' Dev creates official Clippy 'love letter' to query AI models on your box Bootnotes08 May 2025 | 11
Sudo-rs make me a sandwich, hold the buffer overflows Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake OSes08 May 2025 | 131
Elon Musk’s xAI to pull about half of its smog-belching turbines powering Colossus Updated Newly completed substation will help bear the load AI Infrastructure Month08 May 2025 | 40
After that 2024 Windows fiasco, CrowdStrike has a plan – job cuts, leaning on AI CEO: Neural net tech 'flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate' CSO07 May 2025 | 14
Apple exec sends Google shares plunging as he calls AI the new search Updated Eddy Cue tells DC court Safari to rope in Anthropic, OpenAI and co Personal Tech07 May 2025 | 43
Delta Air Lines class action cleared for takeoff over CrowdStrike chaos Judge allows aspects of passenger lawsuit to proceed Security07 May 2025 | 1
You'll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection We were shocked – SHOCKED – by the answer Security07 May 2025 | 58
Fedora 42 now an official Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 distro Modern Linux, vintage kernel OSes07 May 2025 | 18
Nutanix stops being so opinionated about where data must dwell Next Shifts data services to containers and goes back to the future with Pure Storage tie-in Virtualization07 May 2025 |
Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu Plus it is solving the 'I can't find the settings' problem with AI. That's what you wanted, right? OSes07 May 2025 | 108
NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs It's not rocket science, it's budgeting Databases07 May 2025 | 6
Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed' Security07 May 2025 | 61
Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped OSes07 May 2025 | 72
Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists Leave it to the Borg? Scribe David D. Levine slams 'use of planet-destroying plagiarism machines' Bootnotes07 May 2025 | 127
Citrix finds new use for virtualization: Avoiding PC price hikes caused by tariffs World War Fee Seeing as IT giant's CEO is big at DOGE, this is delicious Virtualization07 May 2025 | 28
Trump's trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 4
Edge processing revolution: Rethinking AI data infrastructures F5 iRules, programmability delivering speed, consistency, and TCO benefits Partner content
Developer sues Apple to claw back commission payments Just days after judge held Cupertino in contempt over Epic antitrust injunction Software06 May 2025 | 6
Feeling dumb? Let Google's latest AI invention simplify that wordy writing for you Zog brain hurt. Zog want Google help make read easier AI + ML06 May 2025 | 41
FYI: Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM, LOL Just 1 in 4 bets paying off so far AI + ML06 May 2025 | 13
Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying, opens fire on open source (If only that would keep folks off unsanctioned chat app side quests) Public Sector06 May 2025 | 71
AI agents promise big things. How can we support them? And this is just the beginning Sponsored feature
From Russia with doubt: Go library's Kremlin ties stoke fear Easyjson library's presence in numerous open source projects alarms security biz Software06 May 2025 | 10
Palantir loves the smell of DOGE budget cuts in the morning Data giant backs federal austerity push, saying it's 'the right thing' for US Databases06 May 2025 | 33
Cerebras CEO actually finds common ground with Nvidia as startup notches IBM win Feldman calls US's AI Diffusion rules ‘bad policy’ AI Infrastructure Month06 May 2025 | 1
Windows 11 24H2 now 'broadly available' ... complete with yet another 'known issue' Azure Virtual Desktop App attach users might want to sit this one out for a bit longer OSes06 May 2025 | 23
30 years of MySQL, the database that changed the world From ubiquitous go-to system for early Noughties startups to a legacy like no other Databases06 May 2025 | 45
Commodore OS 3 is the loudest Linux yet One distro has to be the most extra – and here it is OSes06 May 2025 | 51
Infosec guru Schneier worries corp AI will manipulate us RSAC Can we turn to govt, academic models instead? AI + ML06 May 2025 | 15
Microsoft will let partners get creative with pay-when-you-want SaaS plans A few million here, a few million there, pretty soon you're talking real money SaaS06 May 2025 | 2
Omnissa, VMware’s old end-user outfit, moves to manage servers and … Apple Watches? And declares hypervisor independence after being tied to vSphere Virtualization06 May 2025 | 4
OpenAI caves to pressure, keeps nonprofit in charge Funny what a public scolding from AI luminaries and a word from state AGs can do AI + ML05 May 2025 | 5
India’s chipmaking ambitions hurt by Zoho’s no-go and Adani unease Asia in brief PLUS: China spring cleans its AIs; South Korea fines Meta, probes Broadcom; and more! Public Sector05 May 2025 | 7
RSA Conf wrap: AI and China on everything, everywhere, all at once RSAC With North Korean IT workers storming the gates, too Spotlight on RSAC04 May 2025 | 5
Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme A look back at two decades of ODF, from open source hopes to patchy real-world adoption Applications03 May 2025 | 87
Meta blames Trump tariffs for ballooning AI infra bills World War Fee Capex could jump by $7B to $72B, Zuckercorp says AI Infrastructure Month02 May 2025 | 36
Oregon State University's Open Source Lab is running on fumes Shakeup in US higher education funding means FOSS incubator is short a quarter of a million bucks Software02 May 2025 | 20
Open source AI hiring bots favor men, leave women hanging by the phone Easy fix: Telling LLMs to cosplay Lenin makes 'em more gender blind AI + ML02 May 2025 | 67
Techie solved supposed software problem by waving his arms in the air On Call Used his loaf and found sweet solution for bakery borkage On-Prem02 May 2025 | 125
Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot Why optimize code when you can just start running sooner? Software01 May 2025 | 99
AI success starts with the right IT infrastructure Nutanix AI solutions make it easy to tailor IT infrastructure for your AI needs, says product lead Ashwini Vasanth Sponsored post
AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals Keep plugging those LLMs into your apps, folks. This neural network told me it'll be fine AI + ML01 May 2025 | 39
Red, white, and blew it? Trump tariffs may cost America the AI race World War Fee Whole thing gonna be a real PITA for tech sector, says ABI Research AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 53
Redis 'returns' to open source with AGPL license New plan may remain too restrictive for some developers Databases01 May 2025 | 38
AI infrastructure investment may be $8T shot in the dark McKinsey warns datacenter binge could overshoot actual demand as execs scramble to keep up with hype AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 17
HMRC's Making Tax Digital scheme also made tax more expensive – by £300M Watchdog says transformation effort added costs instead of savings for most businesses Public Sector01 May 2025 | 74
Microsoft tries to kill the 'pausing datacenter builds must be bad news for AI' trope Sees economic strife as chance to sell even more stuff than its $70bn Q3 haul Off-Prem01 May 2025 | 5
KDE 3 lives to fight another day as Trinity Desktop 14.1.4 hits the shelves Good news, everyone: 15 years on, TDE still pushes pixels OSes01 May 2025 | 19
Anthropic calls for tougher GPU export controls as Nvidia's CEO implores Trump to spread the AI love +Comment This couldn't possibly be about Chinese model builders taking some of the shine off US rivals, could it? AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 10
Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds Caffeine addicts evidently not thrilled to see cafes become walk-in vending machines Personal Tech30 Apr 2025 | 160
Thunderbird joins Firefox on the monthly treadmill We'll see if messaging client can keep up with sibling browser Software30 Apr 2025 | 25
Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence Brad Smith commits org to facing off with US govt in court to protect them PaaS + IaaS30 Apr 2025 | 105
BTW Windows Subsystem for Linux officially uses Arch now The tryhard's favorite distro wins an approved home in Microsoft's OS OSes30 Apr 2025 | 13
OpenAI pulls plug on ChatGPT smarmbot that praised user for ditching psychiatric meds Sycophantic update to GPT-4o rolled back after AI gets over-enthusiastic with the 'glaze' AI + ML30 Apr 2025 | 27
Alt-browser Flow breezes through web tests, but still far from a daily driver Snappy surfer eyes Apple's EU engine requirements Software30 Apr 2025 | 4
30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff Satya Nadella reveals attempts to merge Word, PowerPoint, Excel, which may now happen with LLMs AI + ML30 Apr 2025 | 87
Chinese carmaker Chery using DeepSeek-driven humanoid robots as showroom sales staff And of course – sigh – they look like women with long blonde hair AI + ML30 Apr 2025 | 38
Meta bets you want a sprinkle of social in your chatbot Sharing is caring when your entire business is built on it AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 3
Watch out for any Linux malware sneakily evading syscall-watching antivirus Google dumped io_uring after $1M in bug bounties CSO29 Apr 2025 | 16
Duolingo jumps aboard the 'AI-first' train, will phase out contractors Luis von Ahn says small quality hits are a price worth paying to ride the wave AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 36
OpenBSD 7.7 released with updated hardware support, 9Front ships second update of 2025 The OS refresh brings Ryzen AI and Arrow Lake compatibility OSes29 Apr 2025 | 20
The State of Open Source in 2025? Honestly, it's a mess but you knew that already The good news: everyone's using it. The bad news: have you seen how they're using it? Software29 Apr 2025 | 38
Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, economists claim 'When we look at the outcomes, it really has not moved the needle' AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 34
Swiss boffins admit to secretly posting AI-penned posts to Reddit in the name of science They’re sorry/not sorry for testing if bots can change minds by pretending to be a trauma counselor or a victim of sexual abuse AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 22
Open source text editor poisoned with malware to target Uyghur users Who could possibly be behind this attack on an ethnic minority China despises? Security29 Apr 2025 | 19
The future of AI in cybersecurity in a word: Optimistic Think of artificial intelligence as your embedded ally Sponsored post
CNCF tells main NATS contributor Synadia that it's free to fork off But what it can't do is 'unilaterally claw back a community project and its infrastructure, assets, and branding' Software28 Apr 2025 | 2
From PlayStation to routers, you've probably been using FreeBSD without knowing it Interview The OS came first, the foundation later – so what does it do? OSes28 Apr 2025 | 14