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Meta trains data2vec neural network to understand speech, images, text so it can 'understand the world'

Whatever it takes, Mark

Nvidia pushes crowd-pleasing container support into AI Enterprise suite

As long as you're running on VMware

Friday FOSS Fest

Wolfing down ebooks during lockdown? You might want to check out Calibre, the Swiss Army ebook tool

When audiobooks just take too darn long...

21 Jan 21:13 | 8

'Please download in Microsoft Excel': Meet the tech set to monitor IT performance across central UK government

Influencing billions in spending, the Cabinet Office will keep tabs on Whitehall with… a spreadsheet?!?

21 Jan 11:24 | 46

First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager

Is nothing safe from the dead hand of the Windows 11 design aesthetic?

20 Jan 12:46 | 135

The robots are coming! 12 million jobs lost to automation in Europe by 2040 – analyst

Ageing populations, competition, cost-cutting and COVID-19 driving increased adoption

20 Jan 11:51 | 68

Lots of new toys, caps lock still stuck on: ONLYOFFICE hits version 7

LibreOffice alternative unfurls latest productivity software update

20 Jan 10:15 | 13

SUSE announces something for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux

Run, run like RHEL

20 Jan 08:21 | 19

AI tool finds hundreds of genes related to human motor neuron disease

Breakthrough could lead to development of drugs to target illness

Version 7 of WINE is better than ever at running Windows apps where they shouldn't

Improved graphics card, multi-monitor, Direct3D, and 64-bit support

19 Jan 19:10 | 45

UK government backs away from proposals to remove individuals' rights to challenge AI decision making

Meanwhile, ICO says government should not be choosing its CEO in debate over its future independence

19 Jan 11:48 | 20

UK police lack framework for adopting new tech like AI and face recognition, Lords told

Governance structure is 'a bush, not a tree' – whatever that means

19 Jan 09:30 | 17

Tesla driver charged with vehicular manslaughter after deadly Autopilot crash

Prosecution seems to be first of its kind in America

19 Jan 00:58 | 231

Foxstuck: Firefox browser bug boots legions of users offline

Outfoxed? Not if you read The Reg

18 Jan 18:02 | 52

Microsoft seems intent on buying the gaming industry with $68.7bn purchase of troubled Activision Blizzard

'Creative success and autonomy go hand-in-hand with treating every person with dignity and respect'

18 Jan 16:15 | 87

Open source, closed wallets, big profits – nobody wins the OSS rock, paper, scissors game

Stop horsing around. Pony up

17 Jan 09:30 | 105

Tesla Full Self-Driving videos prompt California's DMV to rethink policy on accidents

Plus: AI systems can identify different chess players by their moves and more

15 Jan 11:01 | 104

And relax: No repeat car crash financials for SAP in 2021 as cloud services come good

Let's not mention on-premise licences....

15 Jan 01:54 | 1

Alibaba gazes into crystal ball to spy coming advances in AI and silicon photonics

Machine learning to propel us into glorious era of scientific discovery

14 Jan 23:15 | 6

Scam, pyramid scheme, environmental disaster: Vivaldi boss shares his thoughts on crypto-coins

So not keen then?

14 Jan 11:31 | 76

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First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager

Is nothing safe from the dead hand of the Windows 11 design aesthetic?

SUSE announces something for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux

Run, run like RHEL

Privacy is for paedophiles, UK government seems to be saying while spending £500k demonising online chat encryption

So far we've got a pisspoor video and... er, that's it

For those worried about Microsoft's Pluton TPM chip: Lenovo won't even switch it on by default in latest ThinkPads

Folks can enable or disable it, install Linux as normal. Just sayin'

Google sours on legacy G Suite freeloaders, demands fee or flee

Free incarnation of online app package, which became Workplace, is going away

APNIC: Big Tech's use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation

IPv4 limits apps to simple interactions, and in 2021 IPv6 adoption growth was just three per cent

'Now' would be the right time to patch Ubuntu container hosts and ditch 21.04 thanks to heap buffer overflow bug

Singapore gives banks two-week deadline to fix SMS security

Edict follows widespread bank phishing scam claiming well over $6.3 million

Web daddy Tim Berners-Lee on privacy, data sharing, and the web's future

'Ensure that code you write works with these open standards'

UK mulls making MSPs subject to mandatory security standards where they provide critical infrastructure

And to pay for the privilege. Consultation's open, though

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Google says open source software should be more secure

At the White House Open Source Summit, the Chocolate Factory floated a few ideas to make that happen

14 Jan 01:26 | 55

Games Workshop has chucked another £500k at entrenched ERP project with no end to epic battle in sight

Plans for new online shop get seal of approval despite Microsoft Dynamics delays

13 Jan 11:47 | 62

Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won't ante up

Apache PLC4X creator ends free support, asks for payment for his work

13 Jan 07:23 | 114

'IwlIj jachjaj! Incoming LibreOffice 7.3 to support Klingon and Interslavic

Don't worry, there is a point to this

12 Jan 18:47 | 157

UK competition watchdog closes the comment book on Microsoft's Nuance merger

European Commission gives an unconditional green light, but Blighty needs a bit more time

12 Jan 12:32 | 6

Linux Mint 20.3 appears – now with more Mozilla flavor: Why this distro switched Firefox defaults back to Google

12 Jan 10:14 | 82

Dev's PostgreSQL experiment probes possibility of zero-downtime schema migration

It has potential, says one expert

12 Jan 09:29 | 11

Open source isn't the security problem – misusing it is

Security is a process, not a product

12 Jan 08:30 | 43

Free AI protein software packages nearly predicted structure of the Omicron coronavirus variant correctly

Plus: IBM Watson Health reportedly up for sale over $1bn, and more

11 Jan 12:33 | 16

Another day, another ERP project behind schedule: This time it's Norfolk County Council and an Oracle system

Cost of over-run was unknown, but won't be as bad as delays at other authorities, council document claims

11 Jan 09:53 | 21

JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort

Faker.js and colors.js sabotaged by maker

10 Jan 21:38 | 89

When ERP projects go awry: Surrey County Council incurs £3.2m additional costs in delayed Unit4 project

Select committee set to examine causes of the setbacks

10 Jan 11:32 | 17

BeOS rebuild / Haiku has a new feature / that runs Windows apps

Poetry and WINE – a heady combination

10 Jan 10:47 | 33

Ubuntu-on-a-phone crowd fix Google account issues in new Touch update

OTA-21 of mobile OS arrives

07 Jan 20:04 | 6

Less than PEACH-y: UK's plant export IT system only works with Internet Explorer

You know, the browser used by 0.34% of netizens nowadays

07 Jan 16:47 | 74

Look, we did a survey that shows AIOps is ready for the primetime, says AIOps firm

Move fast and break things – with help from machine-learning algorithms

07 Jan 15:00 | 9

Technology can sometimes go from east to west: Ubuntu DDE 21.10 remix ships in 22.01

Deepin shows that good things come out of Wuhan, too

07 Jan 11:04 | 28

Time to party like it's 2002: Acura and Honda car clocks knocked back 20 years by bug

Honda probes issue, has yet to identify the cause of the problem

06 Jan 21:04 | 114

All your database are belong to us: Snowflake named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines

Homespun database trackers also see PostgreSQL and MongoDB as hotshots for 2021

06 Jan 17:28 | 5

The inevitability of the Windows 11 UI: New Notepad enters the beta channel

It avoided Aero. Missed Modern. Now the update edges ever closer to release

06 Jan 16:28 | 85

Car makers lock in long-term deals with chip giants for future autonomous vehicles

Not going to get stuck in first gear again with supply-chain crises

06 Jan 11:27 | 17

UK government stacks up to £1.8bn in vertical application framework

Specialist software providers in education, health, and policing can look forward to fireside chat

06 Jan 08:38 | 4

Google Chrome 97 relaxes privacy protection just a little to help out Microsoft

New keyboard API will let online Office apps handle shortcut keys better

06 Jan 01:44 | 18

Mozilla founder blasts browser maker for accepting 'planet incinerating' cryptocurrency donations

You're spitting fire, fox

05 Jan 21:20 | 76

Hauliers report problems with post-Brexit customs system but HMRC insists it is 'online and working as planned'

Originally launched as 'minimum viable product', GVMS has the necessary upgrades, UK taxman says

05 Jan 14:52 | 265

IntelliJ IDEA plugin catches lazy copy-pasted Java source

I see you're ctrl-V'ing some code, need help refactoring it instead?

05 Jan 07:27 | 30

Google fixes bug that stopped some Pixel phones from making 911 calls

Plus: RIP classic QWERTY BlackBerry phones – they'll no longer work properly

05 Jan 02:45 | 24

Microsoft rang in the new year with a cutesy tweet in C#. Just one problem: The code sucked

When marketing meets coding

04 Jan 13:05 | 84

Microsoft patches Y2K-like bug that borked on-prem Exchange Server

Happy New Year. Welcome back! Now apply this patch – which Microsoft warns isn't easy – if you want email to work

03 Jan 23:59 | 33

It's the day before the grand opening but we need a firmware update. It'll be fine

Modern drinks are rubbish

27 Dec 09:11 | 110

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

On Christmas night, a computer logs a call to say his user has stopped working…

Let’s take a look into the future cher-cher-cher…

24 Dec 12:30 | 88

Db2, where are you? Big Blue is oddly reluctant to discuss recent enhancements to its flagship database

Cloud-native RDBMS is coming, on AWS and Azure. Yet IBM's only preaching to the choir

23 Dec 12:02 | 54

Would you like a side of data with your chips? Silicon-slingers start bundling info with their hardware

Intel, Nvidia, and others have figured out you need help getting started with AI

23 Dec 01:59 | 2

Electric fastback fun: Now you can surf the web from the driving seat of your Polestar 2

With Vivaldi. While parked

22 Dec 12:01 | 41

It's your Loki day: The Reg takes Elementary OS Jólnir for a quick test drive

Just four months on, 6.1 is Odin with a facelift

21 Dec 16:01 | 27

How Kubernetes lowers costs and automates IT department work

75% of global companies will have started using container applications in their production environments by 2022

Developer creates ‘Quite OK Image Format’ – but it performs better than just OK

Open source, offers fast, lossless compression, and has a very charming name

21 Dec 06:15 | 232

Diagnosis confirmed: Oracle has a case of healthcare cravings, bought Cerner for $28.3bn as the cure

Deal will see Cerner's systems shifted to the Big Red Cloud and medicos given hands-free voice interface

21 Dec 05:01 | 11

Test this new Linux kernel – but don’t forget Christmas or that you have a family, says Linus Torvalds

Confirms version 5.16 will receive an eighth release candidate

20 Dec 00:29 | 22

Fans of original gangster editors, look away now: It's Tilde, a text editor that doesn't work like it's 1976

Maybe you're not too cool for intuitive

17 Dec 22:29 | 179

Cerner, a company that scooped more than £100m in NHS deals in a year, is in Oracle's crosshairs

Big Red targets health records specialist Cerner in $30bn takeover bid

17 Dec 13:58 | 8

And the winning entry for the Jumper of Windows Past is...

It looks like you're going to be isolating over Christmas. Would you like some help with that?

17 Dec 11:31 | 7

US Commerce Dept says China has brain-control weaponry

Academy of Military Medical Sciences lands on the Entity List for its role, along with 36 other orgs

17 Dec 07:02 | 61

Pop!_OS 21.10: Radical distro shows potential but does not play nicely with others

You can really tell System76 is a hardware vendor

16 Dec 19:02 | 27

What does 2022 have in store for Asahi Linux on Apple chips? Drivers aplenty, but that GPU still needs tackling

Handily, the team spotted a bug in Linux's ARM SMMU support too

16 Dec 14:07 | 8

Database company Cockroach Labs more than doubles in value to $5bn

'Cloud-native' outfit munches up $278m in new funding

16 Dec 12:33 | 3

£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit

Lack of recognition and support for quality engineering part of science's reproducibility problem, MPs hear

16 Dec 10:27 | 240

Gnu Nano releases version 6.0 of text editor, can now hide UI frippery

First five full releases took 20 years, this one arrived in 18 months

16 Dec 07:59 | 53

Windows Terminal to be the default for command line applications in Windows 11

Other terminals welcome

15 Dec 21:49 | 54

AI in the enterprise? It’s time to stop playing and start deploying

Here’s how to open up your development pipeline

Azul lays claim to massive efficiency gains with remote compilation for Java

High price and no ARM64 yet. We quiz boss on whether it makes sense

15 Dec 14:01 | 13

When product names go bad: Microsoft's Raymond Chen on the cringe behind WinCE

It isn't just the products that are embarrassing

15 Dec 13:25 | 110

Trouble getting REST APIs into GraphQL? Try our low-code approach, says Hasura

REST-to-GraphQL data hub also on offer and looking for more contributions

15 Dec 12:30 | 1

CompSci boffins claim they can recreate missing lines in log files

'Event imputation' draws on lots of other sources to fill in gaps

15 Dec 11:28 | 58

Web3: The next generation of the web is here… apparently

What is it for and how does it work? The Reg investigates

15 Dec 10:27 | 96

After deadly 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers, scarcity of expertise, more

Not to mention the FAA delegating its watchdog duties to the actual aircraft manufacturers

15 Dec 01:47 | 176

Google Chrome's upcoming crackdown on ad-blockers and other extensions still really sucks, EFF laments

Three years of pushback have produced few changes while search giant insists it's listening to netizens

14 Dec 21:30 | 97

Oracle finance application customers more likely to leave for another vendor than SAP's – analyst

Forrester research sheds new light on dynamic Larry Ellison says is going in Big Red's favour

14 Dec 15:19 | 5

Don't make an iOS of yourself – Apple's patched its OSes, you know the drill

Cupertino also added a Digital Legacy – special IDs so your loved ones can get your data once you're dead

14 Dec 08:00 | 26

Don't expect a new cut of Linux to ease your NYE hangovers

Penguinistas will get all the holiday fun of an extra release candidate instead

14 Dec 05:54 | 1

President Biden orders transformation of 'Federal Customer Experience'

Washington discovers UX psychology, A/B tests, and single sign-on

14 Dec 03:58 | 16

Log4j doesn't just blow a hole in your servers, it's reopening that can of worms: Is Big Biz exploiting open source?

Would more money have prevented this security flaw? Would the cash be useful in other ways anyway?

14 Dec 01:55 | 111

British watchdog begins probing Microsoft's acquisition of AI speech specialist Nuance

You have until 10 January to make your feelings felt

13 Dec 13:29 | 3

Linux Foundation spends 20% more in 2021, highlights new LFX platform

New tool for security, insights, and fixing "gender and racially insensitive language rampant in code"

13 Dec 11:27 | 19

Intel's mystery Linux muckabout is a dangerous ploy at a dangerous time

Open source is no place for secrets

13 Dec 09:27 | 131

Clearview's selfie-scraping AI facial recognition technology set to be patented

Plus: DeepMind's latest language model research and more

11 Dec 14:01 | 22

CentOS Stream 9: Understanding the new Red Hat OS release for non-Red-Hat-type people

El Reg maps the tributaries

10 Dec 23:04 | 58

Nvidia CEO Huang jointly files patent for software tech in the metaverse

The boss isn't too busy to be named

10 Dec 22:25 | 18

Friday FOSS Fest

What if we said you could turn any disk into a multi-boot OS installer for free without touching a single config file?

Introducing Ventoy

10 Dec 22:01 | 27

Another Debian dust-up with Firefox dependencies – but there is an annoying and awkward workaround

El Reg, as ever, helps you to get back in the game

10 Dec 17:02 | 78

Ghost of Christmas past haunts Oracle despite impressive revenue growth

Payment over Mark Hurd dispute hits figures as Ellison bigs up cloud ERP

10 Dec 13:30 | 3

In the enterprise, no code makes about as much sense as no developers

What does a modern application development platform really look like?

Pentagon wants to drive digital and AI onto the battlefield

Re-orgs bureaucracy to deliver 'stronger alignment and synchronization'

10 Dec 04:31 | 7

Google advises Android users to be careful of Microsoft Teams if they want to call 911

Woman tells El Reg she discovered the bug during a granny emergency

09 Dec 22:24 | 109

Graph databases are everywhere, and will become even more ubiquitous

TigerGraph: Unlocks value from connected data with ‘explainable AI’

Still waiting for your database to deliver? You’re not the only one

Learn how to cut through the chaos with this webinar

We've only gone and got our hands on an early preview of Fleet, the forthcoming JetBrains IDE

Rough edges, but ground-up design makes sense

09 Dec 17:00 | 5

Road to nowhere: UK plans for an 'AI assurance industry' but destination is unclear

Govt hopes for 'mature, world-class' sector, but doubts linger over regulation

09 Dec 13:00 | 4

Apple wins Epic court ruling: Devs will pay up for now as legal case churns on

Previous injunction that ordered company to allow non-Apple payments systems is suspended

09 Dec 02:30 | 54

Ex-Qualcomm Snapdragon chief turns CEO at AI chip startup MemryX

Meet the new boss

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