Why AI benchmarks suck Anyone remember when Volkswagen rigged its emissions results? Oh... AI + ML15 Feb 2025 | 15
UK's new thinking on AI: Unless it's causing serious bother, you can crack on Comment Plus: Keep calm and plug Anthropic's Claude into public services AI + ML15 Feb 2025 | 40
Datacenter energy demand in bitbarn 'capital of the world' Virginia nearly doubled in second half of 2024 Dominion Energy already eyeing another 26 GW worth of datacenter demand On-Prem14 Feb 2025 | 2
HPE says blocking Juniper buy is a sure Huawei to ensure China and Cisco thrive Analyst argues stopping the deal benefits Switchzilla by preventing rise of strong challenger for AI networks Networks14 Feb 2025 | 9
Chinese AI marches on as Baidu makes its chatbot free, Alibaba scores Apple deal New ‘Deep Search’ thinking and planning bot to go up against peoples’ champion DeepSeek AI + ML14 Feb 2025 | 2
Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit Talk about court red-handed AI + ML14 Feb 2025 | 84
Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study From the billionaire who said real-time surveillance is good for keeping us in check AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 61
IBM return-to-office order hits finance, ops teams amid push to dump staff for AI Demand described as a 'soft layoff' On-Prem12 Feb 2025 | 33
Running hot? Server shipments forecast to cool in 2025 Supply chain and regulatory hurdles likely to shrink figures On-Prem12 Feb 2025 |
EU plans to 'mobilize' €200B to invest in AI to catch up with US and China Captain's Log, Stardate 3529.7 – oh yeah, Commish also withdrawing law that would help folks sue over AI harms AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 13
UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant Economy-boosting bit barn? Not in my back yard, some locals expected to say On-Prem12 Feb 2025 | 116
AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds Updated Research after Apple Intelligence fiasco shows bots still regularly make stuff up AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 104
After Copilot trial, government staff rated Microsoft's AI less useful than expected Not all bad news for Redmond as Australian agency also found strong ROI and some unexpected upsides AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 54
A win at last: Big blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap You gotta fight ... for your Reuters ... to party AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 34
I'm a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicant …Twice Remote position, webcam not working, then glitchy AI face ... Red alert! CSO11 Feb 2025 | 81
DeepMind working on distributed training of large AI models Alternate process could be a game changer if they can make it practicable AI + ML11 Feb 2025 | 10
UK government using AI tools to check up on roadworthy testing centers Who tests the testers? AI + ML11 Feb 2025 | 58
Only 4 percent of jobs rely heavily on AI, with peak use in mid-wage roles Mid-salary knowledge jobs in tech, media, and education are changing. Folk in physical jobs have less to sweat about AI + ML11 Feb 2025 | 27
Some workers already let AI do the thinking for them, Microsoft researchers find Dammit, that was our job here at The Reg. Now if you get a task you don't understand, you may assume AI has the answers AI + ML11 Feb 2025 | 47
Intel loses another exec as datacenter, AI chief named Nokia CEO Justin Hotard tapped to replace Pekka Lundmark at the Finnish telco On-Prem10 Feb 2025 | 8
Why do younger coders struggle to break through the FOSS graybeard barrier? FOSDEM 2025 The hurdles are higher than you might imagine
Critical PostgreSQL bug tied to zero-day attack on US Treasury High-complexity bug unearthed by infoseccers, as Rapid7 probes exploit further
Watchdog ponders why Apple doesn't apply its strict app tracking rules to itself Germany's Federal Cartel Office voices concerns iPhone maker may be breaking competition law
Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit Talk about court red-handed
Techie cleaned up criminally bad tech support that was probably also an actual crime On Call Outsourcing is not supposed to involve taking clients' hardware out of their building to your house
Chinese spies suspected of 'moonlighting' as tawdry ransomware crooks Some employees steal sticky notes, others 'borrow' malicious code
SonicWall firewalls now under attack: Patch ASAP or risk intrusion via your SSL VPN Roses are red, violets are blue, CVE-2024-53704 is sweet for a ransomware crew
If you dread a Microsoft Teams invite, just wait until it turns out to be a Russian phish Roses aren't cheap, violets are dear, now all your access token are belong to Vladimir
Our world faces 'unprecedented' spike in electricity demand And it's not just datacenters driving the need for 3,500 TWh of new energy generation by 2027
2 charged over alleged New IRA terrorism activity linked to cops' spilled data Officer says mistakenly published police details were shared 'a considerable amount of times'
Meta's plan to erase 5% of workforce starts today 'Intense year' ahead, warned Zuck. Got to spend billions on AI and work to stay out of Trump's bad books AI + ML10 Feb 2025 | 23
Cloudflare hopes to rebuild the Web for the AI age - with itself in the middle Also claims it’s found DeepSeek-eque optimizations that reduce AI infrastructure requirements Networks10 Feb 2025 | 10
SoftBank woos OpenAI with $40B, making Microsoft's $13B look quaint Some of that cash is reportedly headed for $500B Stargate dream AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 11
Microsoft 365 price rises are coming – pay up or opt out (if you can find the button) It's not auto-enrollment. It's just your current plan with extra Copilot for more money. Completely different AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 91
Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data But 'original sin' has already been committed, shrugs industry AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 50
Hardware quality problems and server supply chain kinks slow Amazon’s $100 billion AI build Reverses life extensions for some servers it now feels aren’t useful in the inferencing age AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 4
When it comes to AI ROI, IT decision-makers not convinced Proof of concept projects stuck in pilot phase as investors get itchy feet AI + ML06 Feb 2025 | 16
Copilot+ PCs? Customers just aren't buying it – yet 57% higher price point and app compatibility issues aren't helping Personal Tech06 Feb 2025 | 90
US cranks up espionage charges against ex-Googler accused of trade secrets heist Mountain View clocked onto the scheme with days to spare AI + ML05 Feb 2025 | 15
DeepSeek rated too dodgy down under: Banned from Australian government devices As American big tech companies lashed for their slow efforts to prevent harms AI + ML05 Feb 2025 | 10
Who's afraid of DeepSeek's impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive Systems05 Feb 2025 |
Google torpedoes 'no AI for weapons' rules Will now happily unleash the bots when 'likely overall benefits substantially outweigh the foreseeable risks' AI + ML05 Feb 2025 | 34
OpenAI, Microsoft urge judge to toss out Musk's 'fact-free' lawsuit Updated Lawyers argue billionaire's 105-page complaint 'lurches from theory to theory' AI + ML04 Feb 2025 | 16
Ireland's AI minister has never used ChatGPT but swears she'll learn fast Hey, it's not like any governments know what they are doing Offbeat04 Feb 2025 | 23
UK govt must learn fast and let failing projects die young Tackle longstanding issues around productivity, cyber resilience and public sector culture, advises spending watchdog Public Sector04 Feb 2025 | 11
Not even Nvidia's Jensen Huang can talk President Tariffs out of chip import taxes GPU giant could just wait eight minutes for Donald to change his mind AI + ML04 Feb 2025 | 28
US senator wants to slap prison term, $1M fine on anyone aiding Chinese AI with ... downloads? As UK proposes laws against neural-nets-for-pedophiles AI + ML03 Feb 2025 | 41
TSA’s airport facial-recog tech faces audit probe Senators ask, Homeland Security watchdog answers: Is it worth the money? Security03 Feb 2025 | 21
OpenAI unveils deep research agent for ChatGPT Takes a bit more time to spout a bit less nonsense AI + ML03 Feb 2025 | 14
DeepSeek spills Big AI's open secret: Bright people with good ideas can beat billion dollar binges Opinion You can’t make monopoly money without a monopoly, but you sure can lose it AI + ML03 Feb 2025 | 28
Singapore says Nvidia's astounding local sales don't mean it's the source of DeepSeek's GPUs Asia In Brief PLUS: Chinese bus lanes put Tesla in a tangle; India drops electronics tariffs; Samsung worries about soft demand AI + ML03 Feb 2025 | 15
Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter Comment But it still has a chance at the network edge and the PC The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond01 Feb 2025 | 38
DeepSeek or DeepFake? Our vultures circle China's hottest AI Kettle If this keeps Silicon Valley on its toes and honest, who are we to complain? AI + ML01 Feb 2025 | 41
You begged Microsoft to be reasonable. Instead it made Copilot reason-able with OpenAI GPT-o1 'Magical free' upgrade coincidentally follows M365 price hike SaaS31 Jan 2025 | 25
Google to Iran: Yes, we see you using Gemini for phishing and scripting. We're onto you And you, China, Russia, North Korea ... Guardrails block malware generation Security31 Jan 2025 | 13
What better place to inject OpenAI's o1 than Los Alamos national lab, right? Tackling disease, tick. High-energy physics, tick. Nuke security, also tick HPC30 Jan 2025 | 8
Microsoft catapults DeepSeek R1 into Azure AI Foundry, GitHub Distilled version for Copilot+ PCs on the way, too – 太棒了!! AI + ML30 Jan 2025 | 5
DeepSeek stirs intrigue and doubt across the tech world China's AI disruptor rattles industry watchers with unproven claims AI + ML30 Jan 2025 | 42
IBM seeks $3.5B in cost savings for 2025, discretionary spend to be clipped Workforce rebalancing? Yes, but on the plus side, the next 12 months are all about AI, AI, and more AI Software30 Jan 2025 | 9
DeepSeek's not the only Chinese LLM maker OpenAI and pals have to worry about. Right, Alibaba? Analysis Qwen 2.5 Max tops both DS V3 and GPT-4o, cloud giant claims AI + ML30 Jan 2025 | 32
Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more? Yup, DeepSeek Oh someone's in DeepShi... CSO30 Jan 2025 | 71
Datacenters are hotter than ever, and we're not talking about rack temperatures Exploding market led to $73B in M&A activity in 2024 On-Prem29 Jan 2025 |
ASML makes hay while suns shines, but Trump could rain on its parade Netherlands biz riding AI boom, though China crackdown looms Systems29 Jan 2025 | 21
AI revoir, Lucie: France's answer to ChatGPT paused after faux pas overdrive Slew of embarrassing answers sends open source chatterbox back for more schooling AI + ML29 Jan 2025 | 69
OpenAI cozies up to Uncle Sam with ChatGPT government edition Pay no attention to the DeepSeek behind the headlines AI + ML28 Jan 2025 | 8
Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs No wonder OpenAI needs $500B for Stargate Systems28 Jan 2025 | 271
US AI shares battered, bruised, and holding after yesterday's DeepSeek beating Nvidia says its chips are still needed, OpenAI says it'll keep buying them en masse, but shares are still down AI + ML28 Jan 2025 | 33
AI facial recognition could sink this murder probe updated Cops relied on unreliable tech for search warrant, omitted details ... so judge bins off evidence AI + ML28 Jan 2025 | 37
DeepSeek isn't done yet with OpenAI – image-maker Janus Pro is gunning for DALL-E 3 Crouching tiger, hidden layer(s) AI + ML27 Jan 2025 | 24
DeepSeek's R1 curiously tells El Reg reader: 'My guidelines are set by OpenAI' Updated Despite impressive benchmarks, the Chinese-made LLM is not without some interesting issues AI + ML27 Jan 2025 | 32
DeepSeek limits new accounts amid cyberattack Updated Chinese AI startup grapples with consequences of sudden popularity Cyber-crime27 Jan 2025 | 43
AI agents? Yes, let's automate all sorts of things that don't actually need it Opinion OpenAI's Operator a solution in search of a problem AI + ML27 Jan 2025 | 47
Tech stocks tank as US AI dominance no longer a sure bet Chinese startup DeepSeek rolls out open LLMs to rival Meta, OpenAI at fraction of cost AI + ML27 Jan 2025 | 46
Robots in schools, care homes next? This UK biz hopes to make that happen Interview Bot manufacturers should think outside the box of humanoid form – unless those makers are Engineered Arts On-Prem27 Jan 2025 | 34
China's DeepSeek just emitted a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC Hands on El Reg digs its claws into Middle Kingdom's latest chain of thought model AI + ML26 Jan 2025 | 120
AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud GameOn? It's looking more like game over for that biz Cyber-crime24 Jan 2025 | 30
Stargate, smargate. We're spending $60B+ on AI this year, Meta's Zuckerberg boasts Can't keep the drama Llama out of this race On-Prem24 Jan 2025 | 75
What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore? Feature We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course Systems24 Jan 2025 | 35
Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths Who guards the guardrail makers? Not the bosses who hire them, it's alleged AI + ML24 Jan 2025 | 15
OpenAI's Operator agent wants to tackle your online chores – just don’t expect it to nail every task Hello Operator? Can you give me number nine? Can I see you later? Will you give me back my dime? AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 14
Musk torches $500B Stargate AI plan, Altman strikes back Updated OpenAI boss tell world's richest man money is there to fund infrastructure project AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 79
ChatGPT has a Thursday lie down OUTAGE Generative AI needs a break, just like the rest of us, m'kay? AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 23
SK hynix wobbles on market uncertainty, despite record 2024 earnings Shares slide at 'most profitable' company in Korea as world worries over geopolitics Storage23 Jan 2025 |
Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out? Opinion As Microsoft, Apple, and Google switch the tech on by default, what happened to asking for permission first? AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 167
Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim Nailed just 15% of assigned tasks AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 75
LinkedIn accused of training AI on private messages Updated Microsoft's IG-for-suits insists lawsuit's claims are without merit AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 20
Microsoft throws more cash at its carbon guilt by replanting Brazilian rainforest Updated Meanwhile, datacenter emissions continue to soar On-Prem22 Jan 2025 | 14
Real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret Amazon doesn't break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google On-Prem22 Jan 2025 | 10
Google DeepMind CEO says 2025's the year we start popping pills AI helped invent Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon Science22 Jan 2025 | 30
Apple Intelligence turned on by default in upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3 Plus: Google stuffs Gemini into Workspace, with a hidden off switch? AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 68
OpenAI wants to blow through $500B on AI infrastructure for itself, with help from pals Updated SoftBank, Oracle, MGX form Stargate Project with ChatGPT maker, intend to outspend Microsoft this year AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 16
UK aims to fix government IT with help from AI Humphrey Ring a bell? Suite of tools named after Yes Minister's master of manipulation Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 76
AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads Now if only the councils could afford to fill them Offbeat21 Jan 2025 | 141
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format Databases20 Jan 2025 |
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior 'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs AI + ML20 Jan 2025 | 23
Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions? Comment While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers AI + ML20 Jan 2025 | 26
OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries The S in LLM stands for Security AI + ML19 Jan 2025 | 31
Copilot invades Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for an extra three bucks a month Updated For those of you tearing your hair out, we have a way to disable AI assistant in Word AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 80
Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI Summaries will return when Apple Intelligence has 'improved' AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 48
Brit government contractor CloudKubed enters administration Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions supplier in hands of FRP Advisory Public Sector17 Jan 2025 | 10
Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products If you want a picture of the future, imagine your infosec team stamping on software forever AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 85
Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 11
Google reports halving code migration time with AI help Chocolate Factory slurps own dogfood, sheds drudgery in specific areas AI + ML16 Jan 2025 | 15
AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach Plus: Bit barns' demand for water, land, and power could breed 'growing opposition' from residents On-Prem16 Jan 2025 | 74
US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register Sophgo scores a place on Entity List, Indian nuclear boffins taken off Legal16 Jan 2025 | 4
Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer System to feature hundreds of liquid-cooled Blackwell systems HPC16 Jan 2025 | 23
Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition You may not need to go full Juggalo for the sake of privacy AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 47
'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages Babel Fish like ML model emerges after training on 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 28
Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR Interview She doesn't feel pity, remorse, or fear, but she'll craft a polite email message as she turns you down AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 83
Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI Energy consumption set to become a key performance indicator by 2027 On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 36