License to thrill BSL refuseniks? Sentry introduces Functional Source License Yet another attempt to create better balance for devs and users Software20 Nov 2023 | 5
Microsoft dials back Bing after users manage to recreate Disney logo in fake AI-generated images AI In Brief Plus: Amazon lays off hundreds of employees working on Alexa, and more AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 38
Europe says Adobe's $20B buy of Figma will kill competition Updated Software duo must respond with remedies – plus: closing deal in '23 likely a Figma of their imagination Software20 Nov 2023 | 9
Fired OpenAI boss Sam Altman may join Microsoft Updated Worst season of Succession ever AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 21
Ubuntu Budgie switches its approach to Wayland Exclusive Elementary OS going full speed ahead, but Parachutist Parakeet considers a new, post-Enlightenment glide path OSes20 Nov 2023 | 50
Linux Deepin's big brother claims it's hit three million installs The other big Chinese distro, after Kylin, seems to be thriving OSes20 Nov 2023 | 5
CEO of self-driving cab outfit Cruise parks his career Updated After string of self-driving crashes, Kyle Vogt plans to 'spend time with my family and explore some new ideas' AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 22
Xen Project improves the art of virtual machine maintenance with annual hypervisor release Version 4.18 brings first ports to RISC-V and PowerPC, support for next-gen datacenter CPUs Virtualization20 Nov 2023 |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's ejection sparks theories as odd as some ChatGPT output Updated Interim CEO appointed as rumours swirl about comebacks, doing a startup, or even hardware with Jony Ive AI + ML19 Nov 2023 | 29
Control Altman delete: OpenAI fires CEO, chairman quits Final update Chief gets upgraded to customer – LLMs may be coming for your job but the board came for his AI + ML17 Nov 2023 | 73
IBM pauses advertising on X after ads show up next to antisemitic content Updated Twitter, meanwhile, tells us its brand safety controls are just as strong – or stronger – than other platforms Applications17 Nov 2023 | 170
Copilot coming to Windows 10 to help navigate the OS's twilight years Microsoft has listened, but only to people who like its AI assistant OSes17 Nov 2023 | 50
Windows users can soon ditch Bing, Edge, other bundleware – but only in the EU On the other hand, Europeans have to wait for Copilot OSes17 Nov 2023 | 86
Wish you could sing like Charli XCX or possess any musical talent? YouTube AI might make that happen Fake it (with a neural network) until you make it AI + ML17 Nov 2023 | 22
FCC probes rise of AI robocall armies 'Hello, our records indicate that you had an accident with a massively overhyped technology that wasn't your fault...' AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 6
Microsoft takes aim at on-desk, non-cloudy developers with Windows AI Studio Ignite Yes, it's true, not everyone uses Azure – shock AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 11
Canonical intros Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering As Ubuntu approaches its 20th anniversary, some more of its pieces may be Snapping together OSes16 Nov 2023 | 30
Cerebras CEO puts Nvidia on blast for 'arming' China with top-tier GPUs SC23 Calls biz rival 'un-American' for weaving around chip export ban AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 5
Use AI to accelerate adoption of central bank digital currencies, says IMF head No turning back for cash replacement tokens, especially if they make credit more accessible Software16 Nov 2023 | 15
AI copyright row deepens: Stability VP quits in protest over 'fair use' excuse Refuses to sing from the corporate songbook on the legal grounds for training neural nets on people's work AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 24
Microsoft touts mirroring over moving in data warehouse gambit Ignite Fabric update cuts against the grain, and may have more to do with Databricks partnerships Databases15 Nov 2023 |
You get a Copilot, and you get a Copilot – Microsoft now the Copilot company Ignite Bing Chat is now known as – you can guess. Plus more AI bits and pieces coming to Teams, Office, etc AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 43
OpenAI pauses ChatGPT Plus sign-ups as it 'hits capacity' If only there was an investor with a scalable cloud to hand... AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 2
RHEL and Alma Linux 9.3 arrive – one is free, one merely free of charge The Hat adds tool to facilitate migration from various free RHEL-a-like distros OSes15 Nov 2023 | 20
To pay or not to pay for AI's creative 'borrowing' – that is the question One that Microsoft and Meta dodged during House of Lords committee AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 54
Rivian bricks infotainment systems in 'fat finger' fiasco Updated Ruh-roh, where did the aircon go? Software15 Nov 2023 | 24
Google DeepMind's GraphCast AI weather predictor looks fascinating on paper but ... ... Even its creators say it ain't 'a replacement for traditional forecasting methods' AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 14
Software is listening for the options you want it to offer, and it's about time Comment Talking back to devices will end the confusion caused by long menus of functions nobody uses AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 24
UnitedHealthcare's broken AI denied seniors' medical claims, lawsuit alleges Post-acute care algorithm allegedly comes up short 90% of the time AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 37
YouTubers kindly asked to mark their deepfake vids as Fake Fakey McFake Fakes Fess up before Google's robo-cops possibly finger your synthetic drivel AI + ML14 Nov 2023 | 18
AI chemist creates catalysts to make oxygen using Martian meteorites Robotic process hunts down local extraterrestrial materials to aid supply of on-site fuel and oxygen AI + ML14 Nov 2023 | 6
SUSE CTO talks about OpenELA and keeping customer trust Interview Head in the sand about the end of CentOS? Have a few more years of support... for a fee OSes14 Nov 2023 | 8
VMware revealed Symantec SASE integration plan before Broadcom finished buying it Still no word on when the deal will happen, or what’s holding it up Virtualization14 Nov 2023 | 1
Strike over? US actors may return to work with top-tier 'progressive AI protections' Producers will need OK from performers, will pay them to create digi-personas AI + ML13 Nov 2023 | 3
Ubuntu for Arm64 laptops (plus RISC kit) Ubuntu Summit Did you know there's an Asahi flavored Ubuntu? And Debian, too OSes13 Nov 2023 | 3
Generative AI: It’s not just for the big guys Smaller organizations can enjoy the fruits of generative AI by combining small language models with retrieval augmented generation Commissioned
Google Photos' AI Magic Editor won't change pictures of IDs, receipts, faces, or bodies AI in brief Plus: Amazon is reportedly training a two-trillion-parameter LLM, and more AI + ML13 Nov 2023 | 13
Kubernetes' Tim Hockin on a decade of dominance and the future of AI in open source Interview Going back to a time before autocomplete Software13 Nov 2023 | 3
Microsoft hits Alt+F4 on internal ChatGPT access over security jitters, irony ensues Apparently the move was in error AI + ML10 Nov 2023 | 14
UK signals legal changes to self-driving vehicle liabilities But with technical and insurance industry question unanswered, a few potholes may lie ahead AI + ML10 Nov 2023 | 93
Canonical shows how to use Snaps without the Snap Store Ubuntu Summit Despite what you may have heard, it's not as proprietary as the trolls think OSes10 Nov 2023 | 70
Child psychiatrist jailed after making pornographic AI deep-fakes of kids Perp said to have secretly recorded patients – and digitally undressed them using web neural networks AI + ML10 Nov 2023 | 54
DDoS-like attack brought down OpenAI this week, not just its purported popularity Plus: Lab launches dataset sharing initiative for its own benefit AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 2
Don't worry about those new export rules, China – Nvidia's already got more sanctions-compliant GPUs for ya Chips limbo-dance right under Biden's performance limits AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 10
The GDPR's new ally How C2RO and Lenovo deploy edge-cloud AI and computer vision to analyze video footage and stay GDPR compliant Sponsored Feature
Fedora 39 waves goodbye to modularity, but has enough spins to make your head spin 20th anniversary version of Linux distro brings lots of new goodies OSes09 Nov 2023 | 20
Intel's Arun Gupta on open source pragmatism and fanatics Interview VP of the Open Ecosystem at chip biz talks trust in the era of AI Software09 Nov 2023 | 3
A secure future-proofed app infrastructure Telemetry, automation address top multi-cloud networking woes and more Partner Content
India gives social media platforms 36 hours to remove deepfakes Today it's Bollywood actors, tomorrow it could be lawmakers themselves AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 10
FTC interrupts Copyright Office probe to flip out over potential AI fraud, abuse Sir, this is a Wendy's AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 22
Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him ROTM Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician's death at Korean food plant AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 126
Adobe sells fake AI-generated Israel-Hamas war images – then the news ran them as real The world needs a timeout moment AI + ML08 Nov 2023 | 27
Cruise patches robo-taxi software to not drag humans across the road anymore Self-driving car outfit also creates chief safety officer role. No wonder AI + ML08 Nov 2023 | 22
Oracle off the hook for fraud but judge allows breach of contract claim to continue Building material supplier left without functional ERP can amend claim Databases08 Nov 2023 | 13
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation leaps aboard the AI bandwagon KubeCon Nice tech, but poke underneath and you'll find Kubernetes Software08 Nov 2023 | 1
OpenAI tackles 'major outage' hitting ChatGPT APIs Final update Meltdown apparently resolved, capacity issues still popping up, as Claude hits a resource wall AI + ML08 Nov 2023 | 5
1 in 5 VMware customers plan to jump off its stack next year Updated Forrester predicts exodus from Virtzilla following Broadcom takeover Virtualization08 Nov 2023 | 30
Canonical reveals more details about Ubuntu Core Desktop Ubuntu Summit This new entrant in the immutable space is not a replacement for ordinary Ubuntu OSes08 Nov 2023 | 34
Pharma boffins sharpen hunt for target molecules using graph DB French pharma firm Servier gets Neo4j to help find relationships in 'messy' data Databases08 Nov 2023 | 1
US actors are still on strike – and yup, it's about those looming AI clones Updated How about you pay us every time our likeness is used by algorithms to make studio execs richer? AI + ML08 Nov 2023 | 38