HPE says impact of AI on enterprise not 'overstated.' It must be hoping so HPE Discover EMEA Company counting on widespread business adoption to counter server declines AI + ML01 Dec 2023 |
Boehringer Ingelheim swaps lab coats for AI algorithms in search for new drugs Mixing IBM's foundation models and proprietary data to discover novel antibodies AI + ML01 Dec 2023 | 1
Health crusaders prep legal challenge over NHS mega contract with Palantir Groups claim Federated Data Platform requires new legislation to go ahead Databases01 Dec 2023 | 4
Cinnamon and KDE sync version numbers in desktop sibling rivalry Expect the former in a Linux Mint point release later this year OSes01 Dec 2023 | 3
Boffins find asking ChatGPT to repeat key words can expose its training data This one weird trick will blow the large language model's artificial mind AI + ML01 Dec 2023 | 38
Small but mighty, 9Front's 'Humanbiologics' is here for the truly curious Programmers developing what is essentially UNIX 2.0 are still busy bunnies OSes01 Dec 2023 | 28
Scribbling limits in free version of Evernote set to test users' patience Deckchairs continue to be rearranged on the jotting platform? Applications30 Nov 2023 | 22
HP printer software turns up uninvited on Windows systems No escape from bloat, even without relevant hardware attached OSes30 Nov 2023 | 51
The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more re:Invent Invisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most Databases30 Nov 2023 | 6
SAP faces more accusations of breaching on-prem customers' trust Cloud-only innovation strategy slammed as users opt for on-prem and hosted support for S/4HANA Databases30 Nov 2023 | 11
AI offers some novel crystal materials that could form future chips, batteries, more What's more, a robot managed to cook some of them up. So, y'know, it might not be entirely science fiction AI + ML30 Nov 2023 | 13
OpenAI makes it official: Sam Altman is back as CEO Microsoft joins the board in non-voting role AI + ML30 Nov 2023 | 18
Meta: If you're in our house running AI-massaged political ads, you need to 'fess up Facebook titan vows to protect two billion voters ... but US gets more protection than India, Indonesia, Mexico, EU AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 3
IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon Updated Users on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though Databases29 Nov 2023 | 7
Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org Firefox 121, freshly in beta test, will default to the protocol too OSes29 Nov 2023 | 46
Microsoft .NET MAUI devs vent over bugs backlog, response times New features are great and all, but maybe fix some of the issues too? Software29 Nov 2023 | 25
Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator Competition Markets Authority claims merger will reduce innovation for designers and other creative types Software29 Nov 2023 | 11
AI won't take your job, might shrink your wages, European Central Bank reckons In the US, however, folks are ready and willing to bin you for a bot AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 20
Experienced Copilot help is hard to find, warns Microsoft MVP Almost nobody has used it, or knows it well, so beware of consultants bearing cred AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 40
VMware president Sumit Dhawan out – scores gig as CEO of infosec vendor Proofpoint Amid accounts of wider layoffs and Broadcom doing a 'strategic review' of end-user compute and Carbon Black products Virtualization29 Nov 2023 |
HP printer software turns up uninvited on Windows systems No escape from bloat, even without relevant hardware attached
Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos Comment Hello, police? I'd like to report a murder
Bank boss hated IT, loved the beach, was clueless about ports and politeness On Call At the dawn of the dialup age, making a connection could be complicated
Watchdog claims retaliation from military after questioning cushy federal IT contracts Special report IT-AAC had a hand in scrutinizing JEDI, now faces probe for challenging $300M+ single-source deals
Admin of $19M marketplace that sold social security numbers gets 8 years in jail 24 million Americans thought to have had their personal data stolen and sold for pennies
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SAP faces more accusations of breaching on-prem customers' trust Cloud-only innovation strategy slammed as users opt for on-prem and hosted support for S/4HANA
China's Loongson debuts processor that 'matches Intel silicon circa 2020' Best not to dismiss it, as Asus looks to be onboard and advances are promised
Weak session keys let snoops take a byte out of your Bluetooth traffic BLUFFS spying flaw present in iPhones, ThinkPad, plenty of chipsets
Small but mighty, 9Front's 'Humanbiologics' is here for the truly curious Programmers developing what is essentially UNIX 2.0 are still busy bunnies
Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant Re:Invent Anthropic CEO also rocks up on stage for reasons Devops28 Nov 2023 | 5
AI agents can copy humans to get closer to artificial general intelligence, DeepMind finds Google’s AI offshoot finds copy-cat robots capable of aping living mentors AI + ML28 Nov 2023 | 34
Couchbase takes fight to MongoDB with columnar side store upgrade DBaaS update aimed at customers looking for live analytics on apps Databases28 Nov 2023 |
Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license The 'Azure RTOS' used in millions of Raspberry Pis is now FOSS OSes28 Nov 2023 | 21
AWS previews AppFabric for productivity – pitched as AI-powered glue between apps Re:Invent Park user data in Amazon's servers for ML-generated insights and actions – yea or nay for you? Devops28 Nov 2023 | 1
DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked Anna? Oh, she was just a demo persona, says organizer Devops28 Nov 2023 | 20
UK and US lead international efforts to raise AI security standards 17 countries agree to adopt vision for artificial intelligence security as fears mount over pace of development AI + ML27 Nov 2023 | 14
Tiny11 shrinks Windows 11 23H2 down to pocket size An option when sun sets on Windows 10, but Microsoft might have a problem OSes27 Nov 2023 | 52
DBaaS takes the trouble out of cloud databases How open-source databases operating in the cloud can deliver performance, flexibility, scalability and cost savings Sponsored Feature
Why an SBOM needs the X factor How an eXtended Software Bill of Materials (XBOM) protects against cyber attacks Webinar
Data-destroying defect found after OpenZFS 2.2.0 release Updated Earlier and later versions may be affected – worth your while reading the advisories OSes27 Nov 2023 | 32
Microsoft, Databricks double act tries to sew up the data platform market Analysis But the one-stop shop vision fails to take it far beyond the competition Databases27 Nov 2023 | 2
Amazon says it's ready to train future AI workforce AI in Brief Plus: Russia will soon be Putin up with lagging West, fake influencers and more AI + ML27 Nov 2023 | 5
FFmpeg 6.1 drops a Heaviside dose of codec magic You may never have heard of it, but you almost certainly use it, possibly many times a day Software24 Nov 2023 | 48
Do we really need another non-open source available license? Opinion No, but here comes the Functional Source License to further muddy the open-source licensing waters OSes24 Nov 2023 | 69
User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work On Call When is a spreadsheet not a spreadsheet? Software24 Nov 2023 | 132
India diplomatically debuts digital public infrastructure repository with international contributions Russia's Unified Digital Platform could be yours, along with many other less controversial projects Software23 Nov 2023 |
Revival of Medley/Interlisp: Elegant weapon for a more civilized age sharpened up again ANTIQUE CODE SHOW Restoration project described in BCS talk is gathering steam OSes23 Nov 2023 | 87
NTT adapts AI network analysis tool to detect faults in nuclear fusion reactors Here comes the Sun AI + ML23 Nov 2023 | 4
Broadcom re-orgs VMware into four divisions – none of which mention end-user compute products Community programs retained but CEO waves farewell Virtualization23 Nov 2023 | 26
US watchdog gives itself power to demand documents in AI probes And offers $25,000 prize to stop voice deepfakes from catching on AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 2
Author hopes to throw the book at OpenAI, Microsoft with copyright class action Stop us if you've heard this one before AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 28
OpenAI's CEO merry-go-round tosses out voice feature for ChatGPT Unsurprisingly, the app doesn't know what's going on at the company either AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 11
No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI Today's story was brought to you by the words politician and silly AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 62
Palantir bags £330M NHS data bonanza despite privacy fears Award follows £1 deal during pandemic and £60 million in non-competitive contracts Databases22 Nov 2023 | 34
Fake views for the win: Text-to-image models learn more efficiently with made-up data Future neural nets will probably use a mix of AI-generated and real info AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 1
Sam Altman set to rejoin OpenAI as CEO – seemingly with Microsoft's blessing New board includes former Salesforce boss and Treasury Secretary AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 78
China's regulator paused VMware purchase probe before desired close date Analysis Competitors predict price gouging as employees await news Virtualization22 Nov 2023 | 1
Baidu joins Tencent in downplaying impact of US chip bans on AI ambitions Stockpiled silicon, improving efficiency, and looking for alternative suppliers – while maybe taking a dig at Microsoft and OpenAI AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 1
Ex-OpenAI staff launch new chatbot – yup, it's Anthropic with Claude 2.1 Half as many hallucinations, startup claims, and it admits when it's wrong AI + ML21 Nov 2023 | 1
OpenAI meltdown: Where does this leave the upstart, Microsoft, and you? Kettle Tune in, hear or watch our vultures wrap up this fiasco, before it goes out of date AI + ML21 Nov 2023 | 5
Rocky Linux and Oracle Unbreakable Linux also hit 9.3 Other big names among the RHELatives catch up with Big Purple Hat ... but the future is unclear OSes21 Nov 2023 | 9
China relents: Broadcom-VMware merger approved at last Final boss legal level cleared as SAMR says yes ... Virtualization21 Nov 2023 | 3
Three quarters of software engineers face retaliation for whistleblowing Staff afraid to raise alarm when they see negligence, discrimination and more Software21 Nov 2023 | 16
Microsoft unleashes Copilot preview on Windows 10 insiders Teething issues show up as operating system gets a taste of the future OSes21 Nov 2023 | 9
Will anybody save Linux on Itanium? Absolutely not Analysis It's doomed to sink... but the how and why is interesting OSes21 Nov 2023 | 81
CompSci teachers panic as Replit pulls the plug on educational IDE It 'was losing a ton of money for the business,' CEO complains Devops21 Nov 2023 | 36
OpenAI meltdown: How could Microsoft have let this happen after betting so many billions? Comment A quick summary of the past three days of chaos. And Redmond has questions to answer AI + ML21 Nov 2023 | 100
With all eyes on OpenAI, Meta drags its Responsible AI team to the recycle bin Ethics staff shifted to generative ML and infrastructure units AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 10
OpenAI staff threaten to leave if ousted CEO Altman is not reinstated OpenAI is nothing without its people, say staffers who signed letter AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 18
License to thrill BSL refuseniks? Sentry introduces Functional Source License Yet another attempt to create better balance for devs and users Software20 Nov 2023 | 5
Microsoft dials back Bing after users manage to recreate Disney logo in fake AI-generated images AI In Brief Plus: Amazon lays off hundreds of employees working on Alexa, and more AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 36
Europe says Adobe's $20B buy of Figma will kill competition Updated Software duo must respond with remedies – plus: closing deal in '23 likely a Figma of their imagination Software20 Nov 2023 | 9
Fired OpenAI boss Sam Altman may join Microsoft Updated Worst season of Succession ever AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 21
Ubuntu Budgie switches its approach to Wayland Exclusive Elementary OS going full speed ahead, but Parachutist Parakeet considers a new, post-Enlightenment glide path OSes20 Nov 2023 | 50
Linux Deepin's big brother claims it's hit three million installs The other big Chinese distro, after Kylin, seems to be thriving OSes20 Nov 2023 | 5
CEO of self-driving cab outfit Cruise parks his career Updated After string of self-driving crashes, Kyle Vogt plans to 'spend time with my family and explore some new ideas' AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 22
Xen Project improves the art of virtual machine maintenance with annual hypervisor release Version 4.18 brings first ports to RISC-V and PowerPC, support for next-gen datacenter CPUs Virtualization20 Nov 2023 |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's ejection sparks theories as odd as some ChatGPT output Updated Interim CEO appointed as rumours swirl about comebacks, doing a startup, or even hardware with Jony Ive AI + ML19 Nov 2023 | 29
Control Altman delete: OpenAI fires CEO, chairman quits Final update Chief gets upgraded to customer – LLMs may be coming for your job but the board came for his AI + ML17 Nov 2023 | 73
IBM pauses advertising on X after ads show up next to antisemitic content Updated Twitter, meanwhile, tells us its brand safety controls are just as strong – or stronger – than other platforms Applications17 Nov 2023 | 170
Copilot coming to Windows 10 to help navigate the OS's twilight years Microsoft has listened, but only to people who like its AI assistant OSes17 Nov 2023 | 50
Windows users can soon ditch Bing, Edge, other bundleware – but only in the EU On the other hand, Europeans have to wait for Copilot OSes17 Nov 2023 | 86
Wish you could sing like Charli XCX or possess any musical talent? YouTube AI might make that happen Fake it (with a neural network) until you make it AI + ML17 Nov 2023 | 22
FCC probes rise of AI robocall armies 'Hello, our records indicate that you had an accident with a massively overhyped technology that wasn't your fault...' AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 6
Microsoft takes aim at on-desk, non-cloudy developers with Windows AI Studio Ignite Yes, it's true, not everyone uses Azure – shock AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 11
Canonical intros Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering As Ubuntu approaches its 20th anniversary, some more of its pieces may be Snapping together OSes16 Nov 2023 | 30
Cerebras CEO puts Nvidia on blast for 'arming' China with top-tier GPUs SC23 Calls biz rival 'un-American' for weaving around chip export ban AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 5
Use AI to accelerate adoption of central bank digital currencies, says IMF head No turning back for cash replacement tokens, especially if they make credit more accessible Software16 Nov 2023 | 15
AI copyright row deepens: Stability VP quits in protest over 'fair use' excuse Refuses to sing from the corporate songbook on the legal grounds for training neural nets on people's work AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 24
Microsoft touts mirroring over moving in data warehouse gambit Ignite Fabric update cuts against the grain, and may have more to do with Databricks partnerships Databases15 Nov 2023 |
You get a Copilot, and you get a Copilot – Microsoft now the Copilot company Ignite Bing Chat is now known as – you can guess. Plus more AI bits and pieces coming to Teams, Office, etc AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 43
OpenAI pauses ChatGPT Plus sign-ups as it 'hits capacity' If only there was an investor with a scalable cloud to hand... AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 2
RHEL and Alma Linux 9.3 arrive – one is free, one merely free of charge The Hat adds tool to facilitate migration from various free RHEL-a-like distros OSes15 Nov 2023 | 20
To pay or not to pay for AI's creative 'borrowing' – that is the question One that Microsoft and Meta dodged during House of Lords committee AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 54
Rivian bricks infotainment systems in 'fat finger' fiasco Updated Ruh-roh, where did the aircon go? Software15 Nov 2023 | 24
Google DeepMind's GraphCast AI weather predictor looks fascinating on paper but ... ... Even its creators say it ain't 'a replacement for traditional forecasting methods' AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 14
Software is listening for the options you want it to offer, and it's about time Comment Talking back to devices will end the confusion caused by long menus of functions nobody uses AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 23
UnitedHealthcare's broken AI denied seniors' medical claims, lawsuit alleges Post-acute care algorithm allegedly comes up short 90% of the time AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 37
YouTubers kindly asked to mark their deepfake vids as Fake Fakey McFake Fakes Fess up before Google's robo-cops possibly finger your synthetic drivel AI + ML14 Nov 2023 | 18
AI chemist creates catalysts to make oxygen using Martian meteorites Robotic process hunts down local extraterrestrial materials to aid supply of on-site fuel and oxygen AI + ML14 Nov 2023 | 6
SUSE CTO talks about OpenELA and keeping customer trust Interview Head in the sand about the end of CentOS? Have a few more years of support... for a fee OSes14 Nov 2023 | 8
VMware revealed Symantec SASE integration plan before Broadcom finished buying it Still no word on when the deal will happen, or what’s holding it up Virtualization14 Nov 2023 | 1
Strike over? US actors may return to work with top-tier 'progressive AI protections' Producers will need OK from performers, will pay them to create digi-personas AI + ML13 Nov 2023 | 3
Ubuntu for Arm64 laptops (plus RISC kit) Ubuntu Summit Did you know there's an Asahi flavored Ubuntu? And Debian, too OSes13 Nov 2023 | 3
Generative AI: It’s not just for the big guys Smaller organizations can enjoy the fruits of generative AI by combining small language models with retrieval augmented generation Commissioned
Google Photos' AI Magic Editor won't change pictures of IDs, receipts, faces, or bodies AI in brief Plus: Amazon is reportedly training a two-trillion-parameter LLM, and more AI + ML13 Nov 2023 | 13
Kubernetes' Tim Hockin on a decade of dominance and the future of AI in open source Interview Going back to a time before autocomplete Software13 Nov 2023 | 3
Microsoft hits Alt+F4 on internal ChatGPT access over security jitters, irony ensues Apparently the move was in error AI + ML10 Nov 2023 | 14
UK signals legal changes to self-driving vehicle liabilities But with technical and insurance industry question unanswered, a few potholes may lie ahead AI + ML10 Nov 2023 | 93