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People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO

In brief Plus: Activists fight for EU ban on AI lie detectors, and is the age prediction tool used by Meta accurate?

AI + ML04 Jul 2022 | 18

Rufus and ExplorerPatcher: Tools to remove Windows 11 TPM pain and more

Turn off chip detection, bypass need for a Microsoft account, change how Explorer works

Applications04 Jul 2022 | 35

We need a Library of Congress – but for the digital world

Opinion Hack the future with a meta museum: 1 weird trick to free 50 years of digital life

Databases04 Jul 2022 | 18

Microsoft teases Outlook Lite for Android

What are the 'main benefits' of Outlook? Whatever they are, that's all you'll get

Applications04 Jul 2022 | 28

China rallies support for Kylin Linux in war on Windows

openKylin project is latest chapter in Beijing's love-hate relationship with Redmond

OSes03 Jul 2022 | 48

W3C overrules objections by Google, Mozilla to decentralized identifier spec

Oh no, he DIDn't

Applications01 Jul 2022 | 59

Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus

Thanks to Linux wunderkind Rudra Saraswat, not Canonical, this time

OSes01 Jul 2022 | 16

Cloudera adopts Apache Iceberg, battles Databricks to be most open in data tables

Move follows Databricks' donation of Delta Lake 2.0 to Linux Foundation

Databases01 Jul 2022 |

Your data could transform your company. You just need to transform your database first

Say sayonara to SANs, hello to HCI by catching up on this webinar

Devops tool Jenkins now requires Java 11: This might sting a bit

Final shift set for version 2.357 of developer automation platform

Devops01 Jul 2022 | 4

Open source Office rival Collabora releases web-based CODE 22.05

Already host your own file-sharing tool? Now you can add a web-based office suite on top

Applications01 Jul 2022 | 2

Windows 11: The little engine that could, eventually

Stalled marketshare seems to be creeping upwards again in consumer, enterprise – but adoption still a slog

OSes01 Jul 2022 | 25

Apple lets devs in South Korea switch payment providers – with a lot of legwork

iPhone seller makes changing to a third party payment platform expensive and difficult. We're shocked. Shocked

Software01 Jul 2022 | 13

Intuit pulls QuickBooks from India, uncomfortably quickly

Walks away from enormous but parochial market, while leaving global development teams in place

Applications01 Jul 2022 | 4

Central bank: Crypto 'derives value based on make believe', threatens financial stability

India's Reserve Bank no fan of digi-dollars – even its own planned central bank digital currency

Software01 Jul 2022 | 10

Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same

Paid-for Copilot trained on FOSS code final straw for Software Freedom Conservancy

AI + ML30 Jun 2022 | 93

Meta: We need 5x more GPUs to combat TikTok, stat

Comment And 30% fewer new engineers this year

AI + ML30 Jun 2022 | 30

Old-school editor Vim hits version 9 with faster scripting language

All of the famed user-friendliness and ease of use – and 'drastically' better performance

Applications30 Jun 2022 | 45

Microsoft plans to dig through your Edge Collections to make suggestions

Updates inbound to that browser you use to download a different browser

Applications30 Jun 2022 | 46

Thunderbird 102 gets a major facelift, Matrix chat support

Mozilla's messaging client appears to have benefited from sponsor shakeup

Applications30 Jun 2022 | 43

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China rallies support for Kylin Linux in war on Windows

openKylin project is latest chapter in Beijing's love-hate relationship with Redmond

What to do about inherent security flaws in critical infrastructure?

Industrial systems' security got 99 problems and CVEs are one. Or more

Getting that syncing feeling after an Exchange restore

Who, Me? We've got the whole weekend. What could go wrong?

UK signs deal to share police biometric database with US border guards

Officials could access data to make immigration decisions, European Parliament report suggests

British Army Twitter and YouTube feeds hijacked by crypto-promos

If you can't defend against crypto bros…

Rufus and ExplorerPatcher: Tools to remove Windows 11 TPM pain and more

Turn off chip detection, bypass need for a Microsoft account, change how Explorer works

Massive telecom outage in Japan kicks 40 million mobile users offline

KDDI advises customers to act like it's 1993 and rediscover landlines and payphones

Cloud infrastructure spend to crack $90b and overtake non-cloud in 2022

Buyers other than cloud operators remain the dominant source of dollars

Microsoft teases Outlook Lite for Android

What are the 'main benefits' of Outlook? Whatever they are, that's all you'll get

Will cloud giants really drive colos off a financial cliff?

Analysis The dude who predicted the Enron collapse bets they will

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Database backup and protection made simple

How Rubrik delivers fast, easy access for all

Nvidia, Siemens tout 'industrial metaverse' to predict the future

Using Pixar-derived tech to make digital twins immersive

Software30 Jun 2022 | 12

Alibaba spins out a biz to productize home-grown data tools

Business intelligence and analytics as a service, for marketers and techies

Software30 Jun 2022 | 1

Arrogant, subtle, entitled: 'Toxic' open source GitHub discussions examined

Analysis Developer interactions sometimes contain their own kind of poison

Devops29 Jun 2022 | 105

DataStax launches streaming data platform with backward support for JMS

Or move to Apache Pulsar for efficiency gains, says NoSQL vendor

Databases29 Jun 2022 |

Infor to stop developing CM3 on-prem software for IBM iSeries

Updated ERP vendor had promised containerized options, but looks set to focus on the cloud

Databases29 Jun 2022 |

FabricScape: Microsoft warns of vuln in Service Fabric

Not trying to spin this as a Linux security hole, surely?

Devops29 Jun 2022 | 11

EndeavourOS Artemis: Arch Linux, but a bit friendlier

The Reg FOSS desk takes the latest release, 22.6, for a spin

OSes29 Jun 2022 | 5

PowerShell pusher to log off from Microsoft: Write-Host "Bye bye, Jeffrey Snover"

'If you ever were rooting for somebody, please do him a favor and go tell him'

Software29 Jun 2022 | 59

Is computer vision the cure for school shootings? Likely not

Comment Gun-detecting AI outfits want to help while root causes need tackling

AI + ML28 Jun 2022 | 89

Ditching VMware over the Broadcom buy? Here are some of your options

Opinion What's your contingency plan?

Virtualization28 Jun 2022 | 24

Altair pays off $79m owed to SAS in software license spat, will sell rival product

Epic copyright saga rumbles on as US giant vows to keep fighting UK data analytics firm

Software28 Jun 2022 | 1

Visual Studio adds ability to edit code in All-in-One Search

Just one more wafer-thin feature to pop in Microsoft's swelling dev suite

Devops28 Jun 2022 | 4

VMware reveals vSphere-as-a-service – but not the price

Cloudy vSphere+ can manage multiple on-prem environments but not VMw-powered public clouds … for now

Virtualization28 Jun 2022 | 5

YugabyteDB tempts devs with read-committed isolation levels

It's easier than retraining PostgreSQL devs, says distributed relational database startup

Databases28 Jun 2022 | 2

Running DOS on 64-bit Windows and Linux: Just because you can

FOSS Fest DOS isn't dead. You can still run it and its apps, even now

OSes28 Jun 2022 | 78

China's blockchain boosters slam crypto as Ponzi scheme

Communists reckon Bill Gates and Warren Buffet got it right

Software28 Jun 2022 | 59

Misguided call for a 7-Zip boycott brings attention to FOSS archiving tools

Analysis It's good to highlight some alternatives, but security issues are overblown

Software27 Jun 2022 | 159

NASA's Psyche mission: 2022 launch is off after software arrives late

Launch window slides into 2023 or 2024 for asteroid-probing project

Applications27 Jun 2022 | 4

Can SONiC be the Linux of Networking?

Hear how Dell’s latest open source NOS offers Linux for deployment on any scale

Cloudflare menaces virtual desktops with isolated browser access to internal networks

Gives cloudy email a kicking, too – but VDI should be safe in its bastions

Virtualization27 Jun 2022 | 3

Manufacturers realize quantifiable gains - Analytics, cloud, edge intelligence & 5G

It’s time for factories to get smart

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Cerebras sets record for 'largest AI model' on a single chip

In brief Plus: Yandex releases 100-billion-parameter language model for free, and more

AI + ML27 Jun 2022 | 5

Zendesk sold to private investors two weeks after saying it would stay public

Private offer 34 percent above share price is just the thing to change minds

Software27 Jun 2022 | 10

The importance of unifying database backup and recovery…

...and why you don’t necessarily need the help of specialist DBAs

Now Amazon debuts an AI programming assistant – CodeWhisperer

Did they get GitHub Copilot to write it?

AI + ML23 Jun 2022 | 6

Linus Torvalds says Rust is coming to the Linux kernel 'real soon now'

Maintainer lack of familiarity won't be an issue, chief insists, citing his own bafflement when faced with Perl

OSes23 Jun 2022 | 62

Train once, run anywhere, almost: Qualcomm's drive to bring AI to its phone, PC chips

Software toolkit offered to save developers time, effort, battery power

AI + ML23 Jun 2022 | 2

Ubuntu Touch OTA-23 is coming: Do you have one of the older model phones that can test it?

Linux fondleslab effort continues to update 16.04-based phone/tablet distro

OSes23 Jun 2022 | 13

Want your data flowing to every part of your company? You need to get it to the cloud first

Join this webinar to hear how HCI can help

Original Acorn Arthur project lead explains RISC OS genesis

Paul Fellows describes how it beat the overambitious ARX to Acorn's Archimedes computer

OSes23 Jun 2022 | 38

Windows 11 22H2 is almost here. Is it ready for the enterprise?

The Start Menu has been tweaked, but Smart App Control will appeal to the security conscious

OSes23 Jun 2022 | 48

Broadcom sketches out VMware ambitions that stretch from mainframe to cloud

Engineers, sales teams told to stick around, customers promised more 'choice' – to buy from Symantec or CA

Virtualization23 Jun 2022 | 11

WSL2 on Windows Server 2022 hits Windows Update

Devs who like a Linux flavor to their server code get a gift from Redmond

OSes22 Jun 2022 | 1

TypeScript joins 5 most used languages in 2022 lineup

Stackoverflow survey: JavaScript still in lead. Plus, you may hate COBOL, but users saw a salary jump

Software22 Jun 2022 | 15

Rows, columns, and the search for a database that can do everything

Analysis Snowflake last week promised analytics and transactions in the same system. For some it was déjà vu all over again

Databases22 Jun 2022 | 6

Graphical desktop system X Window just turned 38

Down but not yet on its Way(land) just yet

Software22 Jun 2022 | 74

Leading Arch Linux derivative Manjaro puts out version 21.3

A simpler, easier remix sounds like a good thing, but glitches like these shouldn't be in a point release

OSes22 Jun 2022 | 8

Tencent's WeChat wants no more talk of cryptocurrency and NFTs

In unrelated news, China's rollout of a central bank digital currency continues

Software22 Jun 2022 | 10

HCL to end all support for old versions of Notes and Domino in 2024

As if users needed any more reminders they’re stuck on a dying platform

Software22 Jun 2022 | 13

Samsung invests in ML chip startup NeuReality

Coining the term hardware-based 'AI hypervisor' has to be worth several million, dontcha think?

AI + ML21 Jun 2022 | 1

Microsoft promises to tighten access to AI it now deems too risky for some devs

Deep-fake voices, face recognition, emotion, age and gender prediction ... A toolbox of theoretical tech tyranny

AI + ML21 Jun 2022 | 10

For a few days earlier this year, rogue GitHub apps could have hijacked countless repos

A bit of a near-hit for the software engineering world

Devops21 Jun 2022 | 5

GitHub's AI code assistant Copilot takes flight. And that'll be $10 a month, please

You wanna bug fix and chill?

AI + ML21 Jun 2022 | 19

RISC OS: 35-year-old original Arm operating system is alive and well

1980s refugee, open source, and runs on modern kit

OSes21 Jun 2022 | 110

Microsoft pulls Windows 10/11 installation websites in Russia

Big Tech sanctions continue to roll in, Putin retaliates with counter sanctions

OSes21 Jun 2022 | 65

UK's Post Office shells out for SAP software it thought it had

'Significantly under-licenced' but didn't factor in Customer Success Manager when dealing with reseller

Applications21 Jun 2022 | 15

Wi-Fi hotspots and Windows on Arm broken by Microsoft's latest patches

Updated Only way to resolve is a rollback – but update included security fixes

OSes20 Jun 2022 | 57

If AI chatbots are sentient, they can be squirrels, too

In Brief Plus: FTC warns against using ML for automatic content moderation, and more

AI + ML20 Jun 2022 | 16

SpiralLinux: Anonymous creator of GeckoLinux puts out new Debian remix

Yes, yet another Debian downstream, but a particularly interesting one

Software20 Jun 2022 | 16

Unbelievably clever: Redbean 2 – a single-file web server that runs on six OSes

'Write once, run anywhere' finally came true, thanks to APE and the Cosmopolitan libc

Applications20 Jun 2022 | 42

AI's most convincing conversations are not what they seem

Opinion It's time to toss the Turing test – it's not really about the machines at all

AI + ML20 Jun 2022 | 126

Telegram adds paid tier as it cracks 700 million users

Without so much as a mention of encryption, but with a pastel-hued emoji-heavy nod to ‘sustainable monetization’

Applications20 Jun 2022 | 7

Microsoft readies Windows Autopatch to free admins from dealing with its fixes

I got 99 problems but a patch ain't one? Well, that is the hope anyway

Software17 Jun 2022 | 47

Adobe lowers 2022 forecast, blames Ukraine war, strong dollar

Extended 'summer season' also at fault, says software slinger as share price slides

Software17 Jun 2022 | 8

Leave that sentient AI alone a mo and fix those racist chatbots first

Something for the Weekend Cue robot armies of whiny digital seven-year-olds complaining they're being 'cancelled'

AI + ML17 Jun 2022 | 85

Ubuntu releases Core 22: Its IoT and edge distro

A tougher nut to crack than the regular flavor, some will find it very tasty

OSes17 Jun 2022 | 11

How did you mourn Internet Explorer's passing?

Tombstones, memes, Clippy, and probably a cat or two. The web pays its respects

Software16 Jun 2022 | 85

If you really want to transform your business, get AI to transform your infrastructure first

ITOps isn’t enough anymore reckons HPE. You need AIOps

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Back to the Future of Collaboration Applications

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Microsoft warns IT admins on EU data processing, fixes File Explorer flaws

Surface Pro X users advised to dodge another Dev Channel build or risk the ultimate Dark Mode

OSes16 Jun 2022 | 1

Microsoft CRM tool to pull sales data from email, Teams calls, Office 365

Out-of-the-box integration with Salesforce and Dynamics: SAP, Oracle CRM customers must wait

Applications16 Jun 2022 | 5

RubyGems polishes security practices with multi-factor authentication push

Faced with rising software supply-chain attacks, package registries are locking things down

Devops16 Jun 2022 | 1

Not a GNOME fan, and like the look of Windows? Try KDE Plasma or Cinnamon

New versions of both desktops drop... with one the oldest FOSS 'top around

OSes16 Jun 2022 | 40

Look to insects if you want to build tiny AI robots that are actually smart

Flying, swarming, decision making already in production in nature

AI + ML16 Jun 2022 | 21

GPUs aren’t always your best bet, Twitter ML tests suggest

Graphcore processor outperforms Nvidia rival in team's experiments

AI + ML16 Jun 2022 | 5

NoSQL player Aerospike links up with Starburst for SQL-based access to edge data

'We’re not necessarily replacing Snowflake' is an interesting choice of words

Databases15 Jun 2022 |

Cassandra vendor DataStax secures $115m investment for $1.6b valuation

Tech stock crash fails to deter Goldman Sachs as it leads funding round in the real-time data specialist

Databases15 Jun 2022 | 1

Tesla Autopilot accounts for 70% of driver assist crashes, says US traffic safety body

First of its kind report from NHTSA comes with caveats, though – the new tech also saves lives

AI + ML15 Jun 2022 | 58

Disaster management needs a well-planned pipeline

Find out what that looks like by listening into our webinar

End-of-life smartphone? Penguins at postmarketOS aim to revive it

Alpine-based distro runs on old mobiles abandoned by Android and their manufacturers

OSes15 Jun 2022 | 39

Thunderbird is coming to Android – in K-9 Mail form

Rumble heard as two faithful friends merge into lycanthropic chimæra

Applications15 Jun 2022 | 63

Travis CI exposes free-tier users' secrets – new claim

API can be manipulated to reveal tokens in clear text log data

Devops14 Jun 2022 | 4

Database from the 1980s needs time travel says author

It's back to the future for PostgreSQL as Michael Stonebraker lists priorities for the popular open-source system he helped create

Databases14 Jun 2022 | 5

Internet Explorer 11 limps to the end of Windows 10 road

Going from the semi-annual channel, but you'll never really wash it off the internals

Software14 Jun 2022 | 42

Microsoft's sought-after tabbed File Explorer gets closer to release

Users hopeful of waving bye to window overload as staggered rollout moves from Dev to Beta Channel

OSes14 Jun 2022 | 8

Xen patches three bugs that allow guest-host takeover

Paravirtualized guests on old x86s are the risk – just the sort of thing that gets forgotten

Virtualization14 Jun 2022 | 3

MongoDB wants to grab work from other databases

Analysis Goal is to bring analytics to its transactional workloads but there are places where this might fall short

Databases13 Jun 2022 | 4

Google engineer suspended for violating confidentiality policies over 'sentient' AI

Blake Lemoine began to believe that LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, exhibited self-awareness

AI + ML13 Jun 2022 | 193

Concerns that £360m data platform for NHS England is being set up to fail

Delays said to favor Palantir as health service seeks suppliers to support its top-down data revolution

Databases13 Jun 2022 | 43

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