VMware users gripe over 3-year commitment to renew licenses Chips and software giant Broadcom says it's 'flexible and open' on licensing terms, but customers disagree Virtualization23 Jan 2025 | 28
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
Biz tax rises, inflation and high interest. Why fewer UK tech firms started in 2024 And the government thinks that AI and taking shackles off big tech will help? God help Britain Channel23 Jan 2025 | 32
Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim Nailed just 15% of assigned tasks AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 74
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
Supply chain attack hits Chrome extensions, could expose millions Threat actor exploited phishing and OAuth abuse to inject malicious code Cyber-crime22 Jan 2025 | 6
Microsoft throws more cash at its carbon guilt by replanting Brazilian rainforest Updated Meanwhile, datacenter emissions continue to soar On-Prem22 Jan 2025 | 14
Better power management, security, and scheduling in Linux kernel 6.13 But no changes to bcachefs OSes22 Jan 2025 | 6
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
Microsoft joins CISPE, the Euro cloud crew that tried to curb its licensing Exclusive From fighters to friends in six months, despite AWS voting against it PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2025 | 10
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
VMware migrations will be long, expensive, risky, Gartner warns And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon Virtualization21 Jan 2025 | 34
This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service Tycoon's auditors to probe Uncle Sam's IT with full access to unclassified data Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 171
Improved Windows Search arrives... but only for Copilot+ PCs Semantic indexing does some discreet rifling through local drawers of Insiders Software20 Jan 2025 | 28
Linux Mint 22.1 Xia arrives fashionably late Both the Ubuntu and Debian-based editions get Cinnamon 6.4 and other goodies OSes20 Jan 2025 | 59
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 |
Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users Ready or not, here I come OSes20 Jan 2025 | 118
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
When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight Asia In Brief PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company Software20 Jan 2025 | 5
Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service The same Florida Man who wanted to ban the app in the first place Public Sector20 Jan 2025 | 124
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
Windows Insiders can now turn on Administrator Protection from settings Security feature widens out to more Windows 11 users, including those at home OSes18 Jan 2025 | 24
How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history Opinion With added manga and snark. What's not to like? OSes18 Jan 2025 | 122
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 | 79
Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI Summaries will return when Apple Intelligence has 'improved' AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 47
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
AWS adds 32-vCPU option and an easier on-ramp to its cloudy desktops Weirdly, this shows the weakness of hosted Windows with an admission about vidchats Virtualization17 Jan 2025 | 7
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
Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5 The eighth point-release of Bookworm – yes, you read that right – and the latest MX with new Xfce OSes16 Jan 2025 | 37
Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law, advocacy groups argue Free Software Foundation Europe and others urge European Commission to double down on DMA Software16 Jan 2025 | 27
UK government tech procurement lacks understanding, says watchdog NAO report highlights £3B cost overruns and 29 years of cumulative delays in IT projects Personal Tech16 Jan 2025 | 69
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
Parallels brings back the magic that was waiting seven minutes for Windows to boot In a preview of x86_64 VMs running on Apple silicon, so it’s excusable for now Virtualization16 Jan 2025 | 32
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
Windows Patch Tuesday hits snag with Citrix software, workarounds published Microsoft starts 2025 as it hopefully doesn't mean to go on Patches15 Jan 2025 | 8
'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
British tribunal claim aims to take a bite out of Apple over App Store fees Collective Proceedings Order seeks £1.5B from iGiant Applications15 Jan 2025 | 10
UK businesses eye AI as the cheaper, non-whining alternative to actual staff Rising costs blamed, although any excuse to do more with less AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 133
Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds Good ol' spreadsheet data could benefit from 'revolutionary' approach to ML inferences Databases15 Jan 2025 | 10
Microsoft fixes under-attack privilege-escalation holes in Hyper-V Patch Tuesday Plus: Excel hell, angst for Adobe fans, and life's too Snort for Cisco Patches15 Jan 2025 | 7
Allstate accused of quietly paying app makers for driver data Insurance giant sued by Texas for using surveillance without consent to jack up premiums, deny coverage Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 24
Biden opens federal land to power-hungry AI datacenters Watt's the problem? Not enough energy to win the arms race? The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond14 Jan 2025 | 6
Price-fixing-as-a-service: The claim against healthcare cost-cruncher MultiPlan Interview Attorney Jennifer Scullion on allegations of algorithmic suppression of competition Software14 Jan 2025 | 13
Oracle open source overlord calls it quits, leaves with big ol' pile of shares 38-year veteran Edward Screven led technology and architecture decisions since Sun merger Databases14 Jan 2025 | 5
Microsoft, PC makers cut prices of Copilot+ gear in Europe, analyst stats confirm Double-digit reduction only served to 'stimulate some interest' AI + ML14 Jan 2025 | 48
Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change 'Let's not do this again please'... days before release date OSes14 Jan 2025 | 44
Snyk appears to deploy 'malicious' packages targeting Cursor for unknown reason Updated Packages removed, vendor said to have apologized to AI code editor as onlookers say it could have been a test Security14 Jan 2025 | 1