MariaDB sent dollar dip warning from NYSE
No immediate risk of delisting, but company intends to claw its way back
Databases05 Jul 2023 | 1
Software
Generative AI has democratized AI – what does this mean for COEs?
Commisioned The rise of generative AI calls into question whether it makes sense to silo AI into a central organization
Commisioned
China admits local semiconductor industry can't match world class reliability
Wants administrators, manufacturers, and the software they use, to be better
Software05 Jul 2023 | 11
EU antitrust team closer to full-blown Microsoft probe, say sources
Despite Redmond's best efforts to convince competition regulators that product bundles are OK
Software04 Jul 2023 | 22
Rocky Linux details the loopholes that will help its RHEL rebuild live on
When you're on the wrong side of Red Hat, these could be subject to change
OSes04 Jul 2023 | 51
Artificial General Intelligence remains a distant dream despite LLM boom
Feature Cognitive scientists question bold claims from OpenAI, Microsoft and others
AI + ML04 Jul 2023 | 72
No, GPT-4 cannot get a computer science degree at MIT
AI in brief Also: OpenAI to open a new office in London, and why the FTC has its eye on the generative AI market
AI + ML03 Jul 2023 | 8
Microsofties still digesting pay freeze upset by Nadella's 'landmark year' memo
Will someone please think of the poor shareholders? Oh, they already have
Software03 Jul 2023 | 80
Mozilla Developer Network adds AI Help that does the opposite
Firefox-maker presses pause on generative AI assistant as complaints mount
AI + ML03 Jul 2023 | 10
Microsoft and GitHub are still trying to derail Copilot code copyright legal fight
And so far, they might succeed: Where's the smoking gun?
AI + ML01 Jul 2023 | 61
UK competition watchdog threatens deeper probe of Adobe's $20B Figma deal
Vendors have days to answer cost and innovation concerns, may face potential delay to merger... or worse
Software30 Jun 2023 | 1
What it takes to keep an enterprise 'Frankenkernel' alive
devconf.cz The skillful handiwork of merging bits from different kernels into one, and keeping it secure at the same time
OSes30 Jun 2023 | 12
Experts scoff at UK Lords' suggestion that AI could one day make battlefield decisions
Conservative peer admits he can't tell between dogs and cats either
AI + ML30 Jun 2023 | 45
Meta's Oversight Board wants a prime minister banned from Facebook and Instagram
Overrules decision that Cambodian leader Hun Sen's threats of political violence were newsworthy
Software30 Jun 2023 | 12
Databricks puts cards on the table format as Snowflake looks for more players
Analysis Enterprises want a single data platform for data lakes and warehouse, but tech's not there yet, say analysts
Databases29 Jun 2023 | 2
Linux Mint cuts slice of 'Victoria' as 21.2 beta lands with dash of fresh Cinnamon
Desktop Ubuntu, but without the nonsense
OSes29 Jun 2023 | 49
Europe's largest city council runs parallel systems to cover Oracle rollout mess
Decision to adapt software now subject of an independent management investigation
Databases29 Jun 2023 | 44
Google uses India to test ‘deliver to the house near the post office’ feature
Ads and search giant also open sources offensive stereotype database, and gives Amazon a poke
Software29 Jun 2023 | 16
Oracle certifies its database for Arm architecture on-prem and in cloud
Only for Ampere – but with a licencing twist that means Intel and AMD can't relax
Databases29 Jun 2023 | 5
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT
Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register
AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 23
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California man's business is frustrating telemarketing scammers with chatbots
Will you choose Salty Sally or Whitey Whitebeard? It doesn't matter; they're both intolerable
Artificial General Intelligence remains a distant dream despite LLM boom
Feature Cognitive scientists question bold claims from OpenAI, Microsoft and others
Twitter rate-limits itself into a weekend of chaos
Hey Elon – here's an idea for your next poll: 'Should I step down as CTO of Twitter?'
Rocky Linux details the loopholes that will help its RHEL rebuild live on
When you're on the wrong side of Red Hat, these could be subject to change
China chokes exports of semiconductor secret sauces gallium and germanium
Don't panic but beware the blowback effect
You've patched right? '340K+ Fortinet firewalls' wide open to critical security bug
That's a vulnerability that's under attack, fix available ... cancel those July 4th plans, perhaps?
No, GPT-4 cannot get a computer science degree at MIT
AI in brief Also: OpenAI to open a new office in London, and why the FTC has its eye on the generative AI market
TSA wants to expand facial recognition to hundreds of airports within next decade
Digital rights folks, as you can imagine, want the tech grounded
Let's have a chat about Java licensing, says unsolicited Oracle email
Exclusive Don't tell Big Red too much, experts advise
Ariane 5 takes its final flight, leaving Europe without its own heavy-lift rocket
Today's launch will leave Europe dependent on the US for space missions
STORIES
Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website
A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk
Devops28 Jun 2023 | 46
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge
Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds
OSes28 Jun 2023 | 219
EU launches 4 testbeds to put AI tech through its paces before it goes to market
The labs will look at AI and robotics for manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and cities
AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 5
Looking for agility AND stability? You're going to need observability too
How to establish the true state of your systems in a distributed world
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Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner
Clunky, costly, literally sickening data silos just aren't better than the real world
Software28 Jun 2023 | 119
You may have heard about AI defeating voice authentication. This research kinda proves it
Proof-of-concept study shows it's possible to bypass high levels of security, sometimes, sorta
AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 15
Microsoft postpones death date for personally licensed Teams Rooms hardware
The 'upgrade' is free, yet an amnesty is needed despite months of warning
Software28 Jun 2023 | 16
Snowflake's finding NeMo to train custom AI models
Snowflake Summit Submerge an Nvidia LLM 20,000 leagues under the data lake
Databases27 Jun 2023 |
The rise and rise of the open-source RDBMS
How relational database providers like AWS offer its customers the freedom to innovate
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Databricks snaps up MosaicML to build private, custom machine models
Analysis Acquisition means for both parties get a shot at leading the roll-your-own AI market
AI + ML27 Jun 2023 | 2
Attorney sues Microsoft for $1.75M, claiming his email has been useless since May
Alleges he's still locked out and at risk of losing his licenses over missing comms
Applications26 Jun 2023 | 64
US export ban drives prices of Nvidia's latest GPUs sky high in China
AI in brief Plus: IBM builds AI commentator for Wimbledon; US regulator dithers on generative AI political ad policy
AI + ML26 Jun 2023 | 4
Linux 6.4 debuts after literally unremarkable development push
Latest cut of the kernel gets RISC-ier, moves towards Wi-Fi 7, ejects PCMCIA cards
OSes26 Jun 2023 | 9
Singapore, Amazon lead push for 'purpose bound' digital money
Asia In Brief PLUS: US joins India’s software diplomacy push; Suzuki to make flying cars; Indonesia's broadband bird
Software26 Jun 2023 | 13
If AI drives humans to extinction, it'll be our fault
+Comment Should you really believe the doomsayers? We're going to go with no
AI + ML25 Jun 2023 | 139
FYI: Tor Browser is very much still a thing and getting updates
Version 12.5 brings in Finnish language support, traffic node path visualization and more
Applications25 Jun 2023 | 20
Microsoft investigating bug in Windows 11 File Explorer that makes the CPU hangry
On the other hand, some old settings are set for a comeback
OSes23 Jun 2023 | 47
Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams
Comment From now on, only CentOS Stream's source code is available to all
OSes23 Jun 2023 | 168
Generative AI and automation: accelerating the datacenter of the future
GenAI is transforming everything, including the datacenter - find out what it could mean for your organization
Commissioned
Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI
Opinion Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does
Sysadmin Month23 Jun 2023 | 87
Lawyers who cited fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT must pay
Judge sanctions attorneys for failed reality check
AI + ML22 Jun 2023 | 98
Oh, wow. OK. Apple really is making a $3.5K VR ski-mask. Dev tools are now out for it
They weren't kidding about this facial, er, spatial computing thing
Software22 Jun 2023 | 31
Google has blocked in its in-car software rivals, claims German watchdog
Bundling everything together means others don't get a look-in, says competition body
Applications22 Jun 2023 | 21
Small custom AI models are cheap to train and can keep data private, says startup
Interview We talk to MosaicML, a startup driving down training costs with open source models
Sysadmin Month22 Jun 2023 | 12
Forester delivers bare metal remote provisioning to Fedora
Devconf.cz Golang project also works with the CentOS Linux replacements
OSes22 Jun 2023 |
Amazon Prime too easy to join, too hard to quit, says FTC lawsuit
Updated Dark patterns at Amazon worthy of a Homeric epic? Surely not!
Applications21 Jun 2023 | 69
We just don't get enough time, contractor tasked with fact-checking Google Bard tells us
There's an old saying in business: Time, money, quality – you can have any two
AI + ML21 Jun 2023 | 25
OpenAI calls for tough regulation of AI while quietly seeking less of it
Oh no, over there, look, the killer robots, OMG here they come – just pay no attention to us shaping the rules
AI + ML21 Jun 2023 | 23
Singaporean superapp Grab delivers massive job cuts with after hours email
‘We thought you'd like some terrible news in the comfort of your own home’ was the gist of it
Software21 Jun 2023 | 7
Microsoft rethinks death sentence for Windows Mail and Calendar apps
Shifting those duties to Outlook set for next year – well, maybe
OSes20 Jun 2023 | 47
Latest SUSE Linux Enterprise goes all in with confidential computing
But you'll need the right hardware to take advantage
Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 2
Where are we now, Microsoft 362.5? Europe reports outages
Redmond says problems stemmed from a datacenter in Germany, though UK spared the worst of it
OSes20 Jun 2023 | 16
Palantir's deals with NHS England top £60M – without competition
Latest £24.9M 'transition' contract an attempt to bridge gap to contract UK.gov is due to award in September
Databases20 Jun 2023 | 8
Microsoft Fabric promises to tear into the enterprise analytics patchwork
Meanwhile, users are left to figure out how to cut their cloth
Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 7
SAP admits HANA Cloud makes for multicurrency messes
Singapore dollar snafu used to illustrate workaround
Software20 Jun 2023 | 13
Whose line is it anyway, GitHub? Innovation, not litigation, should answer
Opinion If Jesus was my Copilot, what would he do?
AI + ML19 Jun 2023 | 43
Data cleanser did its job, but – oopsie! – also doubled customers' bills
Who, Me? As the customers lined up with pitchforks and burning brands, the question in the cleanup meeting was 'Who, me?'
Software19 Jun 2023 | 25
No-no cop: Illinois bans drones from using facial recognition or weapons
But police are allowed to fly them for 'public safety' missions
AI + ML17 Jun 2023 | 29
Not even Dynamics 365 ERP is safe from Microsoft's Copilot splurge
The AI tentacles grab supply chain management, projects, and finance
AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 19
Oracle Cerner bleeds jobs as Veterans Affairs project stalls
Health acquisition freezes recruitment after $10 billion contract put on hold
Databases16 Jun 2023 | 13
AI is going to eat itself: Experiment shows people training bots are using bots
We speak to brains behind study into murky world of model teaching
AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 47
False negative stretched routine software installation into four days of frustration
On Call You’d think vendors would know when their products are working – not this one
Software16 Jun 2023 | 146
Singapore to roll out (literally) more Robocops
Stop! Or I'll move very slowly towards you and stream video to HQ
AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 11
Microsoft remembers it was going to bring Windows 11 to HoloLens
While Apple has Vision Pro, Redmond's taking vision slow?
OSes15 Jun 2023 | 6
Google Lens now can spot problematic skin spots, or not
It's not a doctor, it just plays one on the internet
AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 17
Despite declines, DXC Technology boss awarded $20.3m in 2023
Revenues shrank and net profit evaporated but progress made in other areas, says board
Software15 Jun 2023 | 9
AI inferencing feels the need - the need for speed
IT leaders must pick the right servers, storage and network technologies to fuel their generative AI workloads and large language models
Commissioned
Recipient of Europe's largest ever seed round doesn't even have a product
Can you guess what it is yet? Here's a clue: It starts with 'A' and ends with 'I'
AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 36
Euro Parliament green lights its AI safety, privacy law
Shoddy predictive systems labeling gender, race, emotion would be verboten
AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 15
Open the pod bay doors, GPT, and see if you're smart enough for the real world
Column The combination of LLMs and autonomous agents will pour fuel on AI anxiety
AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 49
VMware's Arm hypervisor still creeping forward, slowly
If Virtzilla's serious about multicloud, surely this gets real soon?
Virtualization15 Jun 2023 | 3
Google's Bard barred while trying to enter Europe
We've not had any of the required paperwork yet, Irish watchdog tells El Reg
AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 3
AI promises vendors 15 minutes of fame with investors
Opinion It's time to distinguish image from reality among tech's exhibitionists, though
AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 3
Meta teaches AI image model to stop generating human fingers like a drunk Picasso
Less GPU time, better generated images
AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 5
When a step is a leap
Let VAST Data for NVIDIA SuperPOD scale up your AI initiatives
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UN boss recommends nuclear option for AI regulation
Proposes global brainbox-bossing body based on the International Atomic Energy Agency's blueprint
AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 18
Out with the old, in with the new – Accenture declares AI is 'mature and delivers value'
Plans to bulk brainbox workforce by 40,000, months after ejecting 19,000 accountants and HR types
AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 26
Broadcom squeezed Samsung, now South Korea's squeezing back – hard
Updated Regulators won't accept proposed remedy for nasty parts deal – but EU may have accepted VMware deal
Virtualization14 Jun 2023 |
US government extends software security deadline because vendors aren't ready
This from the Administration that made infosec a priority
Software13 Jun 2023 | 4
At last, Microsoft lets Windows 11 share files with Android apps
Android and Microsoft sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G! But not too much
OSes13 Jun 2023 | 6
FTC pulls emergency brake on Microsoft's marriage to Activision Blizzard
Updated Agency concerned the pair are planning to combine before it's able to make a decision whether to allow it
Software13 Jun 2023 | 27
Surprise! GitHub finds 92% of developers love AI tools
We're fine being judged by code, now that we're getting an assist
AI + ML13 Jun 2023 | 15
Multi-tasking blunder leaves UK tax digitization plans 3 years late, 5 times over budget
Public spending watchdog says scale of task was massively underestimated
Software13 Jun 2023 | 44
Yeah, Rishi, it's AI that'll make Britain great again
DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic promise to give Blighty priority access to their models for safety research
AI + ML13 Jun 2023 | 78
Kinder, gentler Oracle says it's changed, and now wants you to succeed
Only took 'em 46 years …
Software13 Jun 2023 | 47
This AI hype is enough to drive you to drink, lose sleep
Don't take our word – these eggheads claim to have proved it
AI + ML13 Jun 2023 | 8
Betting on AI leads to more educated juniors, fewer mid-level bosses – study
PHBs should fear the PFYs with the ML skills, not the BOFHs
AI + ML12 Jun 2023 | 8
Lawyers who cited fake legal cases generated by ChatGPT blame the software
AI In Brief Plus: Cohere raises $230m in its latest Series C round, and more
AI + ML12 Jun 2023 | 27
Europe to vote on AI laws with potential 7% revenue fines
Risk-based approach puts onus on developers and sees bloc diverge from US, UK plans
AI + ML12 Jun 2023 | 36
Microsoft’s Azure mishap betrays an industry blind to a big problem
Opinion If a tiny typo brings down half of Brazil, perhaps we’re the nuts
Software12 Jun 2023 | 80
HCL proves Lotus Notes will never die by showing off beta of lucky Domino 14.0
It’s a major upgrade to venerable groupware suite that might break it a bit
Software12 Jun 2023 | 60
Time is running out to finish that slurp of Outlook Moca
Microsoft retiring the calendar board view a few short years
Software11 Jun 2023 | 11
GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations
Copilot code-cloning case clarifies claims
AI + ML09 Jun 2023 | 53
CockroachDB hits Azure at last after five-year mission
Interview The database had to be architected from ground up, former GIMP dev Spencer Kimball tell us
Databases09 Jun 2023 | 2
AI weapons need a safe back door for human control
China spends twice as much on AI as everyone else put together: expert witness
AI + ML09 Jun 2023 | 40
Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps?
Opinion Actually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs?
OSes09 Jun 2023 | 158
Why can't Nvidia boss Jensen Huang escape the Uncanny Valley that makes AI feel icky?
Opinion Is he human? Is he an avatar? Does it really even matter?
AI + ML09 Jun 2023 | 8
Reddit cuts five percent of workers while API pricing shift sours developers
Two third-party Reddit apps have thrown in the towel over increased expenses
Software09 Jun 2023 | 18
Microsoft injects ChatGPT into 'secure' US government Azure cloud
What could possibly go wrong?
AI + ML08 Jun 2023 | 11
File Explorer gets facelift in latest Windows 11 build
Nips and tucks aim to give decades-old app a more modern vibe
OSes08 Jun 2023 | 101
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