OK, Google: Are you killing Assistant and replacing it with Gemini?
Yes, we are. And we promise your 'Droid and smart home kit will get a 'new experience'
AI + ML17 Mar 2025 |
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China announces plan to label all AI-generated content with watermarks and metadata
Asia In Brief PLUS: Foxconn wants 40 percent AI server market share; Atlassian CEO jets into controversy; Starlink reaches 800 million in India; And more!
AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 3
DeepSeek-R1-beating perf in a 32B package? El Reg digs its claws into Alibaba's QwQ
Hands on How to tame its hypersensitive hyperparameters and get it running on your PC
AI + ML16 Mar 2025 | 4
AI bubble? What AI bubble? Datacenter investors all in despite whispers of a pop
Billions continue to pour into bit barns across the globe
On-Prem14 Mar 2025 | 27
SUSE doubles down on AI and Multi-Linux Support to prove it's still in the game
SUSECON25 What has more than a decade of support ahead of it cannot be dead
AI + ML14 Mar 2025 | 11
IBM boss Arvind Krishna pockets 23% pay rise to $25M
CEO salary watch What about the average Big Blue worker? $48,582 up from $43,069
Software14 Mar 2025 | 25
AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing
Opinion Biz leaders still dream of obedient agents replacing workers. In the actual workplace, they're going AWOL
AI + ML14 Mar 2025 | 72
Dash to Panel maintainer quits after donations drive becomes dash to disaster
Tin rattling earns rebuke from GNOME extension's original developer as well as dozens of everyday users
Software14 Mar 2025 | 59
Dems ask federal agencies for reassurance DOGE isn't feeding data into AI willy-nilly
Pouring sensitive info into unapproved, unaccountable, unsafe models would be a 'severe' cybersecurity fail
AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 29
We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is
Indie browser maker asks judge for legal shield against copyright threats over AI summaries
AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 42
OpenAI asks Uncle Sam to let it scrape everything, stop other countries complaining
Updated The rest of the world doesn't think 'fair use' is fair but we should make 'em
AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 101
Microsoft tempted to hit the gas as renewables can't keep up with AI
So much for 'carbon negative by 2030'
On-Prem13 Mar 2025 | 16
Frack to the future? Geothermal energy pitched as datacenter savior
If operators are willing to cough up a 'green premium' and tax credits are not repealed
On-Prem13 Mar 2025 | 54
GCC 15 is close: COBOL and Itanium are in, but ALGOL is out
Steering Committee decides against merge of over-complex and largely unloved ALGOL-68 'at this point'
Software13 Mar 2025 | 70
City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster
Opposition faults leadership as officers accused of misleading councillors
Databases13 Mar 2025 | 60
Google slips built-in terminal, Debian Linux VM into Android 15 March feature drop
Try it out now on Pixel phones for some penguin on penguin fun
OSes13 Mar 2025 | 31
Nextcloud puts out fire after data leak panic
Community calls for off-by-default data sharing setting
Software13 Mar 2025 | 3
AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that
Eggheads call for comprehensive rules to govern machine learning in medical settings
AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 49
Get off that old Firefox by Friday or you'll be sorry, says Moz
Root cert expiry may bring breakage or worse for add-ons, media playback, and more
Applications13 Mar 2025 | 45
Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam to not turn off that sweet, sweet Google search money
Firefox maker: Looming antitrust inferno could burn us, too
Applications12 Mar 2025 | 17
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Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset
Updated Expired security cert kerfuffle leaves second-gen, Audio gadgets useless
DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs
Project dubbed 'wasteful' – Musk's lot says under-pressure VA must do it 'in-house'
Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users
Column Vendors just don't want machines to live double lives
Google says it's rolling out fix for stricken Chromecasts
It'll take a few days, give or take your situation
CISA pen-tester says 100-strong red team binned after DOGE canceled contract
Updated Election infosec advisory center also shuttered
Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement
Windows App the way ahead as support pulled from May 27
Get off that old Firefox by Friday or you'll be sorry, says Moz
Root cert expiry may bring breakage or worse for add-ons, media playback, and more
Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it
Crooks built bots to exploit astoundingly bad quotation website and made off with data on thousands
As Chromecast outage drags on, fix could be days to weeks away
Updated Google apologizes but won’t say what went wrong nor when it will make things right
ASML will open Beijing facility despite US sanctions on China
Updated Center will reuse and recondition systems returned from field
STORIES
Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone's game
Comment When it's all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what's behind the curtain?
Systems12 Mar 2025 | 4
Printers start speaking in tongues after Windows 11 update
Who still uses a printer anyway? Oh ... quite a lot of you, it seems
OSes12 Mar 2025 | 30
OpenInfra has only gone and joined the Linux Foundation
Artist formerly known as OpenStack to huddle under same umbrella as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Software12 Mar 2025 | 1
ServiceNow's new AI agents will happily volunteer for your dullest tasks
Yokohama release also adds meta-observabiilty and takes a tilt at CRM
AI + ML12 Mar 2025 | 11
Free95 claims to be a GPL 3 Windows clone, but it's giving vaporware vibes
Don't, don't, DON'T believe the hype
OSes12 Mar 2025 | 56
MariaDB reboots DBaaS plans with open source at the core
Five years after it launched its first database service, the MySQL fork is trying again
Databases12 Mar 2025 |
Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users
Column Vendors just don't want machines to live double lives
Personal Tech12 Mar 2025 | 164
Choose your own Patch Tuesday adventure: Start with six zero-day fixes, or six critical flaws
Patch Tuesday Microsoft tackles 50-plus security blunders, Adobe splats 3D bugs, and Apple deals with a doozy
Patches12 Mar 2025 | 22
Microsoft adds another Copilot hotkey – this time for AI voice chat
Hold Alt + Spacebar for two seconds, and Clippy 2.0 is all ears
OSes11 Mar 2025 | 32
Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement
Windows App the way ahead as support pulled from May 27
OSes11 Mar 2025 | 72
Cerebras to light up datacenters in North America and France packed with AI accelerators
Plus, startup's inference service makes debut on Hugging Face
On-Prem11 Mar 2025 | 4
Fresh Wine-flavored version of Mono released
First new version in about five years, but it's who did it that matters more
OSes11 Mar 2025 | 24
Eight days later, Microsoft Outlook users still struggle on iOS devices
Cloudy email rises like a zombie, though its digital grave still marked by big red cross
Applications11 Mar 2025 | 33
Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months
It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live
Databases11 Mar 2025 | 61
Data deluge pushes financial services deeper into AI
Harnessing AI to optimize applications and services is crucial but building the infrastructure is equally important
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MINJA sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users
Nothing like an OpenAI-powered agent leaking data or getting confused over what someone else whispered to it
AI + ML11 Mar 2025 | 15
Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build
Guessed tax obligations wrong which helped to disappoint Wall Street even as sales boomed
Off-Prem11 Mar 2025 | 4
Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder
Facebook giant allegedly didn't want neural networks to emit results that would give the game away
AI + ML11 Mar 2025 | 20
Google's Chrome divorce still on the cards as Trump's DoJ plays hardball
$1M donation to inauguration fund and a personal appearance by Pichai appear to have been pointless
Applications10 Mar 2025 | 34
Consumer Reports calls out slapdash AI voice-cloning safeguards
Study finds 4 out of 6 providers don't do enough to stop impersonation
AI + ML10 Mar 2025 | 7
The IT world moves fast, so why are admins slow to upgrade?
Comment Mission-critical app migration, 'if it ain't broke...' and more. All that glitters isn't gold when it comes to biz needs
Databases10 Mar 2025 | 93
Strap in, get ready for more Rust drivers in Linux kernel
Likening memory safety bugs to smallpox may not soothe sensitive C coders
OSes10 Mar 2025 | 68
Manus mania is here: Chinese ‘general agent’ is this week’s ‘future of AI' and OpenAI-killer
Prompts see it scour the web for info and turn it into decent documents at reasonable speed
AI + ML10 Mar 2025 | 11
$16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet. It hasn’t gone well
It's just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP
Software10 Mar 2025 | 79
eBPF. It doesn't stand for anything. But it might mean bank
Meta says it cut CPU usage by 20% through kernel-level profiling. Just FYI
OSes09 Mar 2025 | 23
We call this kernel saunters: How Apple rearranged its XNU core with exclaves
iPhone giant compartmentalizes OS for the sake of security
Research08 Mar 2025 | 18
Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery
Researchers find AI isn't ready to help with moral decision making
AI + ML08 Mar 2025 | 78
Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you
Mozilla sells ads, Google limits blocking them – it's time for stricter measures
Software08 Mar 2025 | 153
Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch activated when he was let go
IsDavisLuEnabledInActiveDirectory? Not any more. IsDavisLuGuilty? Yes. IsDavisLuFacingJail? Also yes
Bootnotes08 Mar 2025 | 80
Essential FOSS tools to make macOS suck less
Friday FOSS fest Moved from Windows or Linux? Smooth some of the rough edges
Software07 Mar 2025 | 40
Oracle outage hits US Federal health records systems
Big Red pushes restart button after users locked out of apps across Veterans Affairs hospitals, other govt departments
Databases07 Mar 2025 | 16
Cheap 'n' simple sign trickery will bamboozle self-driving cars, fresh research claims
Now that's sticker shock
Software07 Mar 2025 | 78
HPE revenue outlook feels the thump of Trump tariffs
Thousands brace for layoffs as shares slide 20%
On-Prem07 Mar 2025 | 15
Microsoft tells abandoned Publisher fans to just use Word and hope for the best
PDFs and Powerpoint also lie in wait as 2026 looms
Applications07 Mar 2025 | 119
Troubled French outsourcer Atos finds pot of gold at the end of UK state bank Rainbow
Updated Difficulties unpicking 25 years of technical entanglement secure £474.4M without competition
On-Prem07 Mar 2025 | 27
Glitchy taxi tech blew cover on steamy dispatch dalliance
On Call When 'pickup' means more than just a ride
Software07 Mar 2025 | 83
Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty
€240M found for three-year sprint to develop three chiplets for HPC, AI
HPC07 Mar 2025 | 37
Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle
Now working with seven hyperscalers for custom AI silicon. Not working on acquiring bits of Intel
Virtualization07 Mar 2025 | 18
The Badbox botnet is back, powered by up to a million backdoored Androids
Best not to buy cheap hardware and use third-party app stores if you want to stay clear of this vast ad fraud effort
Cyber-crime07 Mar 2025 | 11
Google teases AI Mode for search, giving Gemini total control over your results
It's just an opt-in Labs curio for now, but so were those ever-present Overviews
Personal Tech06 Mar 2025 | 32
Google Chrome Enterprise to get better warning labels that you're using a company profile
Interface and branding changes arrive to more clearly separate users' work and play lives
Software06 Mar 2025 | 4
Ex-Googler Schmidt warns US: Try an AI 'Manhattan Project' and get MAIM'd
ANALYSIS That's Mutual Assured AI Malfunction in the race for superintelligence
AI + ML06 Mar 2025 | 35
101 fun things to do with a locked Kindle e-reader
FOSDEM 2025 Jailbreak it, or even gut it and turn its screen into a low-power portable display with a Modos e-ink controller
Personal Tech06 Mar 2025 | 76
Microsoft goes native with Copilot. Again
This time we mean it for the Windows chatbot
AI + ML06 Mar 2025 | 42
Xen Project delivers solid hypervisor update and keeps working on RISC-V port
While we’re talking open source V12N, meet SEAPATH: A new hypervisor for electricity grids backed by Red Hat
Virtualization06 Mar 2025 |
It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning
Updated Former allies, take note. This is a WOPR
AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 41
Run DeepSeek R1 on an Apple M3 Ultra Mac Studio? Sure, it'll just cost you $9,499-plus
Desktop family gets chip boost as MacBook Air bags an M4 upgrade, more memory, price cut
Personal Tech05 Mar 2025 | 17
Brits end probe into Microsoft's $13B bankrolling of OpenAI
Redmond doesn't have total control over GPT maker so we lack authority, say monopoly cops
AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 6
iOS users left refreshing in vain as Microsoft Outlook woes drag on
Native mail app? More like no mail app
Applications05 Mar 2025 | 17
Microsoft teases sales agent automation for M365 and Dynamics 365
Redmond says you could ask one for a 'list of deals ... at risk of falling through'
AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 3
Worry not. China's on the line saying AGI still a long way off
Instead of Turing Test, subject models to this Survival Game to assess intelligence, scientist tells The Reg
AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 42
Maybe cancel that ChatGPT therapy session – doesn't respond well to tales of trauma
Great, we've taken away computers' ability to be accurate and given them anxiety
AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 38
Free Software Foundation rides to defend AGPLv3 against Neo4j license add-ons
FOSS bods file amicus brief in hope of preserving core GNU tenet of freedom forever
Software04 Mar 2025 | 23
VMware splats guest-to-hypervisor escape bugs already exploited in wild
The heap overflow zero-day in the memory unsafe code by Miss Creant
Virtualization04 Mar 2025 | 8
Firefox 136 finally brings the features that fans wanted
Vertical tabs, native Arm64 Linux version, and AMD GPU-accelerated video playback
OSes04 Mar 2025 | 38
CoreWeave rides AI wave with IPO filing – but its fate hinges on Microsoft
GPU farm discloses 77% of revenue tied to just two customers, putting Redmond giant front and center
AI + ML04 Mar 2025 |
Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes
Presumably hosted by AWS?
SaaS04 Mar 2025 | 23
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 shuffles out of mainstream support
The fate of Skype is sad, but the clock is ticking for enterprises
Databases04 Mar 2025 | 4
Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers
Not on Firefox or a Chrome derivative? You shall not pass
Software04 Mar 2025 | 66
How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app
No warning, no opt-out, and critic claims ... no consent
Security04 Mar 2025 | 92
It's bad enough we have to turn on cams for meetings, now the person staring at you may be an AI deepfake
Says the biz trying to sell us stuff to catch that, admittedly
AI + ML04 Mar 2025 | 18
Broadcom starts beta for VMware Cloud Foundation 9, the release it reckons will douse user anger
Exclusive Pricing, licensing changes won't feel so bad once you take this private cloud stack for a spin, apparently
Virtualization04 Mar 2025 | 15
Phantom of the Opera: AI agent now lurks within browser, for the lazy
Too shiftless to even click on a few things while online shopping, hm? Just ask this built-in assistant
AI + ML03 Mar 2025 | 12
Microsoft blames Outlook's wobbly weekend on 'problematic code change'
And Monday's not looking that steady, either
SaaS03 Mar 2025 | 27
Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal
Criminal probe understood to have ended following settlement over 'inconsiderate' behavior
Databases03 Mar 2025 | 22
Windows 11 adoption picking up speed, but older sibling still ahead
Microsoft Copilot reckons that it didn't have to be like this
OSes03 Mar 2025 | 14
Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender
Who, Me? Don’t trust your tired self to do rm -rf right
Software03 Mar 2025 | 65
India's top telco plans cloud PCs for its 475 million subscribers
Asia In Brief PLUS: China bans AI leaders from visiting USA; Acer data leak suspect cuffed; and more
Virtualization03 Mar 2025 | 5
C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks'
Bjarne Stroustrup wants standards body to respond to memory-safety push as Rust monsters lurk at the door
Software02 Mar 2025 | 213
Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke
Open source browser maker ties itself up in legalese and explanations
Applications02 Mar 2025 | 141
Windows 7 lives! How to keep your favorite fossil running
You probably shouldn't, but if you must, you can
OSes01 Mar 2025 | 67
Microsoft warns Trump: Where the US won't sell AI tech, China will
Rule hamstringing our datacenters is 'gift' to Middle Kingdom, vice chair argues
AI + ML28 Feb 2025 | 28
IBM likes Hashicorp, finally puts a $6.4B ring on it
Monopoly watchdogs forever hold their peace, unlike developers still unhappy about Terraform license switch
Devops28 Feb 2025 | 9
One stupid keystroke exposed sysadmin to inappropriate information he could not unsee
On Call Turns out you can be too careful checking that backups worked
Storage28 Feb 2025 | 178
Open Source Initiative defends disallowing board candidate after timezone SNAFU
Here's another thing AI can do: Cause conflict around whether it's compatible with the very idea of open source
Software28 Feb 2025 | 28
Microsoft names alleged credential-snatching 'Azure Abuse Enterprise' operators
Crew helped lowlifes generate X-rated celeb deepfakes using Redmond's OpenAI-powered cloud – claim
AI + ML28 Feb 2025 | 3
No new engineer hires this year as AI coding tools boost productivity, says Salesforce
Yet growth in its AI agent biz not enough to improve numbers
Applications27 Feb 2025 | 9
FDA clears Google watch feature to call 911 if you flatline
It looks like you have died. Would you like help?
Offbeat27 Feb 2025 | 53
Nope. You probably can't cash in by turning your office or farm into a datacenter
APRICOT Bit barn developer says your real estate can't take the heat, and forget nuking it to change that
On-Prem27 Feb 2025 | 34
30-year-old NHS supply chain system hit by 35 major alerts in 11 months
Updated Thousands of order lines not picked, causing delays to hospital deliveries
Applications27 Feb 2025 | 29
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