This typo sparked a Microsoft Azure outage
Errant code fix deleted entire servers rather than snapshots of database
Devops03 Jun 2023 | 27
Software
Microsoft Windows latest: Cortana app out, adverts in
Get Help? Yes, we highly recommend it, Redmond
OSes02 Jun 2023 | 58
Buckle up for meetings on the road as Cisco brings Webex to Audi autos
Have you considered taking up cycling?
Applications02 Jun 2023 | 29
Software rollout failure led to Devon & Cornwall cops recording zero crime for 3 months
Updated It’s not a crime if you don’t have a record
Software02 Jun 2023 | 25
US Air Force AI drone 'killed operator, attacked comms towers in simulation'
Final update Did ML-powered fighter actually go HAL 9000 to rack up points? Who knows
AI + ML02 Jun 2023 | 124
Amazon finds something else AI can supposedly do well: Spotting damaged goods
Any chance of an ML model to identify labor law violations? No? Surprise
AI + ML02 Jun 2023 | 18
California rolls closer to requiring drivers in driverless trucks
Next: Alcohol in non-alcoholic booze, bacon in vegan salads. We kid, we kid
AI + ML01 Jun 2023 | 16
UK.gov reboots ERP refresh with £934 million procurement
Second time lucky? But departments still lack funding to complete strategy, watchdog says
Databases01 Jun 2023 | 8
Foxconn is ecstatic you're all going gaga for AI servers
Keep that hype train rolling, please
AI + ML01 Jun 2023 | 1
Eating disorder non-profit pulls chatbot for emitting 'harmful advice'
Just as helpline staff say they were laid off after forming a union
AI + ML31 May 2023 | 20
Texas judge demands lawyers declare AI-generated docs
After that New York case in which attorney cited ChatGPT-hallucinated proceedings as real
AI + ML31 May 2023 | 17
Exasol brings SaaS-flex to on-prem and public cloud systems
In-mem data warehouse unifies approach across environments, beefs up cost optimizer
Databases31 May 2023 |
AI, extinction, nuclear war, pandemics ... That's expert open letter bingo
'We need to prepare now'
AI + ML30 May 2023 | 44
Windows driver woes trip AMD GPU owners, blind Arm-powered cameras
Rollbacks and workarounds abound
OSes30 May 2023 | 12
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund regrets investment in crypto-villain FTX
No fault found, but execs responsible punished with reduced compensation
Software30 May 2023 | 9
Microsoft up in Arms over data-loss protection in Windows 11
We almost forgot Redmond had an interest in anything but x86
OSes29 May 2023 | 10
Google Photos AI still can't label gorillas after racist errors
AI in brief Plus: Anthropic raises $450m in Series C round, and Waymo cozies up to Uber to expand self-driving robotaxi fleet
AI + ML29 May 2023 | 80
Subpoenaed PyPI says bye-bye to as much IP address data as it can
Python package pile prefers protecting programmer privacy
Devops27 May 2023 | 8
Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available. Repeat, Azure Linux
Come for the Kubernetes, stay for the containers
OSes26 May 2023 | 52
Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail
New beta versions of Thunderbird (and Firefox, while we're at it) to help set you up
Applications26 May 2023 | 102
Popular
Mars helicopter went silent for six sols, imperilled Perseverance rover
Ingenuity's still setting records, but waking it up and chatting are getting harder
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it
Opinion Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you
WTF is solid state active cooling? We’ve just seen it working on a mini PC
Computex Very handy technology, literally
Amazon Ring, Alexa accused of every nightmare IoT security fail you can imagine
Staff able to watch customers in the bathroom? Tick! Obviously shabby infosec? Tick! Training AI as an excuse for data retention? Tick!
Seriously, boss? You want that stupid password? OK, you get that stupid password
Who, Me? Fed-up techie wields the magic of malicious compliance on his way out the door
Cunningly camouflaged cable routed around WAN-sized hole in project budget
On Call Leaf and spine networks aren't the only way to make a connection with nature
Google veep calls out Microsoft's cloud software licensing 'tax'
Watchdogs are 'starting to understand the situation,' exec tells El Reg
Intel says AI is overwhelming CPUs, GPUs, even clouds – so all Meteor Lakes get a VPU
Computex Movidius tech already sprinkled on some 13th-gen Core silicon goes mainstream in next generation
US Air Force AI drone 'killed operator, attacked comms towers in simulation'
Final update Did ML-powered fighter actually go HAL 9000 to rack up points? Who knows
CERN spots Higgs boson decay breaking the rules
So much for the Standard Model of particle physics?
STORIES
AI menaces superbug by identifying potent antibiotic
Take that, Acinetobacter baumannii! You may hide on hospital doorknobs but you can't outrun binary brainboxes
AI + ML26 May 2023 | 16
Red Hat promises AI trained on 'curated' and 'domain-specific' data
Opinion Says it'll keep track of what it hoovers up at post-layoff summit
Applications26 May 2023 | 17
Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen now works on Linux
The unkillable OS rises from the grave… Again
OSes26 May 2023 | 133
Microsoft rains more machine learning on Azure cloud
No surprise: Nvidia is in the picture
AI + ML25 May 2023 | 1
PyPI subpoenaed: US govt demands data on developers
Python package packhouse ponders privacy position
Devops25 May 2023 | 9
Some Windows users say these 32-bit apps have forgotten how to save
Microsoft seems to have fixed update glitch for all OS versions but latest W11
OSes25 May 2023 | 6
Microsoft would rather spend money on AI than give workers a raise
Opinion At least that's what internal comments from the CMO make it sound like
AI + ML25 May 2023 | 23
Before you sprinkle AI on all your analytics, check data quality
Gartner asks for some fundamentals in a slew of AI-in-analytics announcements
Databases25 May 2023 | 4
Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster
Doubts over Birmingham’s decision to replace SAP in plan once hailed an exemplar win by Larry Ellison
Databases25 May 2023 | 74
Google wants to target you – yes, YOU – with AI-generated ads
Next step, AI-generated advertisers with AI-generated products for AI-generated people
AI + ML25 May 2023 | 53
Amazon to shutter its Chinese Appstore – the one used by hardly anyone, anywhere
Middle Kingdom users told to acquaint themselves with the Windows Subsystem for Android
Software25 May 2023 | 7
Get ready for Team America: AI Police
Biden Admin expands plan for 'responsible' ML research and seeks to drive international talks on making binary brainboxes behave
AI + ML25 May 2023 | 5
OpenAI calls for global watchdog focused on 'existential risk' posed by superintelligence
<movie voiceover>In a world united against one threat, one AI starts to fight bac...</movievoiceover>... Hey, who's writing this flick?
AI + ML24 May 2023 | 18
Atlassian says 'Don't #@!% the Planet' so it can keep making money
Which when you think about it, is a pretty good reason to build a sustainable business
Devops24 May 2023 | 9
Your boss tells you to build some generative AI. Dell and Nvidia are already knocking
Dell World Who wouldn't want to feed their enterprise into Project Helix for training and inference? Anyone?
AI + ML24 May 2023 | 1
ChatGPT can't pass these medical exams – yet
Maybe letting AI models loose on patients ain't a great idea, prof tells us
AI + ML24 May 2023 | 33
Microsoft finally gets around to supporting rar, gz and tar files in Windows
No more downloading decompressors and dodging malware and payment demands, maybe
Software24 May 2023 | 79
Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs
Running an OS from local storage is soooo last year
Virtualization24 May 2023 | 84
Microsoft wants you to think inside the Dev Box from July
If you like the idea of building software on Windows in the cloud, this may be for you
Devops23 May 2023 | 8
Pole position
How VAST and NVIDIA can help you win the generative AI race.
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SAP's cloud drive hits speed bumps with American users
ERP giant losing points on execution and flexibility
Databases23 May 2023 | 3
Python Package Index had one person on-call to hold back weekend malware rush
We speak to infra director after project temporarily freezes new user accounts
Devops22 May 2023 | 22
G7 nations admit they're nowhere on AI regulation
Now they want to catch up, prevent crooks, protect IP ... real soon now … after more talking
AI + ML22 May 2023 | 8
VMware again extends formal deadline for Broadcom deal
Meanwhile, rivals circle and the hybrid cloud management market morphs
Virtualization22 May 2023 | 1
One of the world's most prominent blockchain apps looks like being binned
The Australian Securities Exchange became a poster child for seriously serious distributed ledgers, but now wants to walk away
Software22 May 2023 | 49
Sci-fi author 'writes' 97 AI-generated tales in nine months
In brief Plus: Official ChatGPT iPhone app debuts; Debt collectors using chatbots to chase debtors
AI + ML22 May 2023 | 67
Microsoft to let Internet Explorer 11 haunt Windows some more
Icon and UI purge plan premuted after organizations object
Applications19 May 2023 | 19
Red Hat releases RHEL 9.2 to customers, with buffet of rebuilds for the rest of us
Oracle, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and EuroLinux all put out same version
OSes19 May 2023 | 5
Apple becomes the latest company to ban ChatGPT for internal use
Didn't stop OpenAI rolling out iOS ChatGPT app, just made things a bit awkward
AI + ML19 May 2023 | 15
First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered … and a C compiler for it too
Nearly quarter of a century after it wasn't released, Windows 2000 for DEC Alpha found on a discarded disk
OSes19 May 2023 | 94
What's your Mean Time To Innocence – the time needed to prove that mess is not your problem
ServiceNow reckons it can shrink it with integrated cloudy observability
Software19 May 2023 | 25
You want AI regulation? Do it right with a dedicated agency, US senators suggest
Federal Digital Platform Commission proposed as specialists to sort out the stuff other agencies can't grok
AI + ML19 May 2023 | 11
AI is great at one thing: Driving next waves of layoffs
Register Kettle ChatGPT, how many thousands of people should I replace today?
AI + ML18 May 2023 | 41
Consistent operating costs for databases
How Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized puts predictability into I/O pricing
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How Microsoft hopes to tame large language models with Guidance
Tricked-out template language offers alternative to verbose, plaintive prompts
AI + ML18 May 2023 | 7
Baidu boss says good luck talking AI to Beijing if you don't understand censorship
Unlike AI's output, the web giant's profits are not hallucinatory
AI + ML18 May 2023 | 5
Professor freezes student grades after ChatGPT claimed AI wrote their papers
Future robots don't need to be killers, they can just turn us against ourselves
AI + ML17 May 2023 | 107
Google Go language goes with opt-in telemetry
Go go gadget data collection
Devops17 May 2023 | 8
SAP gets cloudy with a chance of AI in bid to woo on-prem brigade
HR chatbots and more as maintenance deadline looms
AI + ML17 May 2023 | 2
VA, Oracle's Cerner agree on renegotiated health records contract
Long, costly wars not the only thing US government good at getting stuck in
Databases17 May 2023 | 3
Asahi Linux developer warns the one true way is Wayland
Got an Apple Silicon Mac? Want to run Linux? Then you'll need a Wayland-based desktop
OSes17 May 2023 | 108
Top AI execs tell US Senate: Please, please pour that regulation down on us
Devs should need a license to build powerful models, OpenAI CEO adds
AI + ML17 May 2023 | 19
Tesla batteries went from fully charged to fully disabled after botched patch, lawsuit claims
Electric automaker has twice settled similar suits before they made it to trial
Software16 May 2023 | 104
Qlik's got Talend as visualization vendors merge
Private equity investor Thoma Bravo's portfolio swells
Databases16 May 2023 | 2
Large language models' surprise emergent behavior written off as 'a mirage'
Analysis Forget those huge hyped-up systems, that smaller one might be right for you. And here's why
AI + ML16 May 2023 | 27
Who loves programming robots? Who wishes it was easier? Here comes Flowstate
Google X-born upstart pushes graphical approach to industrial control
Software16 May 2023 | 11
MariaDB CEO: People who want things free also want to have very nice vacations
Former MySQL fork launches attack on hyperscaler database services with support for multiple front ends
Databases16 May 2023 | 44
Alpine Linux 3.18 fixes DNS over TCP issue, now ready for all the internet's problems
Small but mighty update will help its many users – even the unwitting ones
OSes16 May 2023 | 6
National newspaper duped into running GPT-4-written rage-click opinion piece
When Irish AIs are smiling
AI + ML16 May 2023 | 43
China cracks down on AI-generated news anchors
Aims to 'clear' the network of unauthorized misinformation. Stuff from official sources can't be wrong!
AI + ML16 May 2023 | 5
Larry Ellison cleared of forcing Oracle to overpay for NetSuite
Billionaire and his financial stake in the deal aren't to blame, says a Delaware judge
Software15 May 2023 | 3
Microsoft will upgrade Windows 10 21H2 users whether they like it or not
Also, Windows 12 might be on the way, so buckle up
OSes15 May 2023 | 119
EU and Canada on waiting list for Google's AI chatbot Bard
In brief Also: What deepfake video makers charge; and Anthropic's Claude LLM can now process 100K tokens
AI + ML15 May 2023 | 8
The perils of unsupported open-source in the enterprise
Savvy IT managers can ramp up expert support provision for open-source software installations
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An unexpectedly fresh blast from the past, Freespire 9.5 has landed
Remember Linspire, formerly known as LindowsOS? It's now Freespire and thriving
OSes15 May 2023 | 33
Will LLMs take your job? Only if you let them
Opinion If you wear black T-shirts, are you even a white-collar worker?
AI + ML15 May 2023 | 42
GitHub code search redesign can't find many fans
Poll Missing capabilities, bugs, unloved interface decisions dog engine revision – and what do you think?
Devops13 May 2023 | 17
Exhibit 3,021: Millions wasted on US govt IT due to poor oversight, audit finds
$24M was paid out incorrectly - and that's just from a close look at 5 out of 48 orders under ENCORE III
Software12 May 2023 | 10
Most of UK agriculture dept's customer interactions are paper based
Only 20% of biz apps directly supported, with 30% requiring 'hypercare' at farming org
Applications12 May 2023 | 31
Privacy Framework draft isn't 'future-proof', say MEPs
Take 3: the data must flow. Hold on, warns Euro Parliament, not so fast
Databases12 May 2023 | 8
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch flown to US for HPE fraud trial
Loses year-long battle against extradition
Software12 May 2023 | 70
AI to detect heart attacks tested in the land of the deep-fried Mars bar
Scotland's emergency rooms don't always have the resources to make good diagnoses under pressure
AI + ML12 May 2023 | 24
EU's Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill for open source developers
Opinion The road to hell is paved with good intentions
OSes12 May 2023 | 80
Tough Euro crackdown on AI use passes key vote
It's a familiar story: Legislation versus rapidly evolving technology
AI + ML12 May 2023 | 6
GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI fail to wriggle out of Copilot copyright lawsuit
Judge won't toss out two key charges, software source slurping case still on
Software12 May 2023 | 18
VA's Cerner EHR platform fails to deliver medications to veterans
Messy system is forcing VA pharmacies to work overtime to deal with poor IT, committee told
Databases11 May 2023 | 4
If you don't brush and floss, you're gonna get an abscess – same with MySQL updates
Database hygiene matters, says Percona expert
Databases11 May 2023 | 4
With AI hype driving up server GPU prices, will cloud costs rise next? We reckon so
Register Kettle And what next for cooling, datacenter placement, and more – tune in and find out direct from our vultures
AI + ML11 May 2023 | 1
Microsoft puts the freeze on employee salaries, CEO pay still as hot as ever
Despite billions of dollars in profit, Satya Nadella points to those pesky 'macroeconomic uncertainties'
Software11 May 2023 | 36
Ubuntu 23.04 welcomes three more flavors, but hamburger menus leave a bad taste
Official Cinnamon, Edubuntu reborn, and an updated Kylin
OSes11 May 2023 | 48
Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby
Column Why sign up for ChatGPT when LLaMA and a multicore beast can do as well?
AI + ML11 May 2023 | 36
Google IO: A deeper dive into the developer day's details
WebGPU, Chrome extensions, Android, Dart, Flutter, and more
Applications11 May 2023 | 7
Microsoft can't stop injecting Copilot AI into every corner of its app empire
Teams gets a bot, OneNote gets a bot, PowerPoint gets a bot, Outlook gets a bot, everybody* gets a bot!
AI + ML10 May 2023 | 70
MariaDB's Xpand offers PostgreSQL compatibility without the forking drama
Play designed to swat CockroachDB and tempt users over from hyperscaler DBaaS systems
Databases10 May 2023 | 3
Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech
Building a wall... of code
Devops10 May 2023 | 166
IBM launches Watsonx to help enterprises streamline workers out the door
Let's face it, Big Blue has plenty of experience in that area
AI + ML09 May 2023 | 8
Show us the sauce code... Wendy's and Google to test drive-thru order-taking bot
What's worse for humanity: The slow, cruel eradication of labor, or those square patties?
AI + ML09 May 2023 | 25
When you try to hire a freelancer to write SQL and all you get is incorrect AI garbage
hCaptcha researchers find that online labor platforms need work
AI + ML09 May 2023 | 39
Study: AI can predict pancreatic cancer three years ahead of human doctors
We chat to one of the Harvard Medical School researchers involved
AI + ML09 May 2023 | 8
The first real robot war is coming: Machine versus lawyer
Opinion Go, Team Robot
AI + ML09 May 2023 | 47
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