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As China embraces Big Tech again, Alibaba plans vast spend to push for artificial general intelligence

Asia in Brief Plus: Samsung exec jailed for selling DRAM secrets; ASUS launches sweetly scented mouse; Toyota’s smart city nears opening; and more

AI + ML23 Feb 2025 | 2

If you thought training AI models was hard, try building enterprise apps with them

Interview Aleph Alpha's Jonas Andrulis on the challenges of building sovereign AI

AI + ML23 Feb 2025 | 4

Docker delays Hub pull limits by a month, tweaks maximums, stalls storage billing indefinitely

Image fetches to be capped on hourly basis for Personal, unauthenticated use, paid-for plans get unlimited access

Devops22 Feb 2025 | 11

Data is very valuable, just don't ask us to measure it, leaders say

After fifteen years of big hype, less than 25% of orgs measure value of data, analytics

Databases21 Feb 2025 | 24

Hey programmers – is AI making us dumber?

Opinion If you don't need to think about easy questions, will you be able to answer complex questions?

AI + ML21 Feb 2025 | 94

Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code, says its rise is inevitable

Final update Nobody wants memory bugs. Penguinistas continue debate on how to squish 'em

OSes21 Feb 2025 | 178

Microsoft expands Copilot bug bounty targets, adds payouts for even moderate messes

Said bugs 'can have significant implications' – glad to hear that from Redmond

AI + ML20 Feb 2025 | 7

GitLab and its execs sued again and again over 'misleading' AI hype, price hikes

Bosses bragged about Duo Chat bot, buyers weren’t buying it – claim

AI + ML20 Feb 2025 | 7

DXC paid 50% more than original contract value for disastrous public sector Oracle project

Updated Systems integrator secured 'variation' just before mega SAP migration put on hold

Databases20 Feb 2025 | 43

A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive

Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid

On-Prem20 Feb 2025 | 12

We meet the protesters who want to ban Artificial General Intelligence before it even exists

Feature STOP AI warns of doomsday scenario, demands governments pull the plug on advanced models

AI + ML19 Feb 2025 | 31

KDE Plasma 6.3 released – and 6.3.1 is already here

A year on from the big overhaul of Plasma 6, more functionality appears

OSes19 Feb 2025 | 13

Microsoft boffins promise entire game worlds made from AI slop

WHAM, bam, no thank you, ma'am?

AI + ML19 Feb 2025 | 19

Your days of driver sync via Windows Server Update Services are numbered

Microsoft suggests a move to the cloud

Applications19 Feb 2025 | 22

Type-safe C-killer Delphi hits 30, but a replacement has risen

The FOSS world has replicated most of it in Lazarus

Software19 Feb 2025 | 141

Microsoft declutters Windows 11 File Explorer in the name of Euro privacy

Also hammers another nail into Cortana's coffin with the end of Location History

OSes19 Feb 2025 | 27

HP Inc to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin'

Tech and people behind IoT brooch that reviewers instantly hated will one day pep up printers

Personal Tech19 Feb 2025 | 54

Snake Keylogger slithers into Windows, evades detection with AutoIt-compiled payload

Because stealing your credentials, banking info, and IP just wasn’t enough

Research18 Feb 2025 | 8

GNOME 48 beta is another nail in X11's coffin

Our first look at the default desktop for Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 'Plucky Puffin'

OSes18 Feb 2025 | 73

Oracle extends 19c database support to 2032, making it 'longest strategic release'

Meanwhile, on-prem version of 23ai remains uncertain

Databases18 Feb 2025 | 3

Time to make C the COBOL of this century

Opinion Lions juggling chainsaws are fun to watch, but you wouldn't want them trimming your trees

CSO18 Feb 2025 | 222

Grok 3 wades into the AI wars with 'beta' rollout

Musk's latest attempt at a 'maximally truth-seeking' bot arrives

AI + ML18 Feb 2025 | 46

Kelsey Hightower on dodging AI and the need for a glossary of IT terms

Interview The science of the appliance and opening the lid of the black box to find... it's just software

Software18 Feb 2025 | 28

UK electrical utility seeks partner for £81M SAP overhaul as support deadline closes in

Integrations with third-party software await chosen provider

Databases18 Feb 2025 | 11

DeepSeek disappears from South Korean app stores over privacy concerns

Nation also orders thousands of GPUs to advance local AI smarts

Public Sector18 Feb 2025 | 8

Even Linus Torvalds can have trouble with autocycle … autocracy… AUTOCOMPLETE!

Penguin Emperor's weekly State Of The Kernel post went astray

OSes18 Feb 2025 | 38

The future of AI is ... analog? Upstart bags $100M to push GPU-like brains on less juice

Interview EnCharge claims 150 TOPS/watt, a 20x performance-per-watt edge

AI + ML17 Feb 2025 | 17

Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?

If MS-DOS could play Doom, surely a battleship gray button was a possibility?

OSes17 Feb 2025 | 136

Loken: An easy interactive way to better looking websites

Interview A 'synthesizer for websites' lets you experiment and improvize your way to CSS

Software17 Feb 2025 | 3

Bank of England Oracle Cloud bill balloons – but when you print money, who's counting?

Old Lady of Threadneedle Street to pay millions for 'amended implementation methodology'

Databases17 Feb 2025 | 26

Backup software vendor Veeam deleted forum data after restoration SNAFU

DevOps team did the dirty on a database

Storage17 Feb 2025 | 7

This open text-to-speech model needs just seconds of audio to clone your voice

Hands on El Reg shows you how to run Zyphra's speech-replicating AI on your own box

AI + ML16 Feb 2025 | 47

Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze

State Of Open Overworked, under pressure, and subjected to abuse – is it really worth it?

Software16 Feb 2025 | 80

Why AI benchmarks suck

Anyone remember when Volkswagen rigged its emissions results? Oh...

AI + ML15 Feb 2025 | 29

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 | 80

Users await the fine print on SAP Business Suite reboot

Cloud-based revival should come with 'a corresponding discount scale,' customers say

Applications14 Feb 2025 | 4

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 | 7

Why do younger coders struggle to break through the FOSS graybeard barrier?

FOSDEM 2025 The hurdles are higher than you might imagine

Software14 Feb 2025 | 111

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 | 95

After clash over Rust in Linux, now Asahi lead quits distro, slams Linus' kernel leadership

I fought the Torv and ... the Torv won

OSes13 Feb 2025 | 158

Analysts welcome ACID transactions on real-time distributed Aerospike

The little database company with big users gaining fans as it adds consistency to speed and scale

Databases13 Feb 2025 | 3

US lawmakers press Trump admin to oppose UK's order for Apple iCloud backdoor

Senator, Congressman tell DNI to threaten infosec agreements if Blighty won't back down

Security13 Feb 2025 | 57

SAP snared in revenue trap unless it extends legacy ERP support

User can still push for perpetual licenses despite vendor's craving for subscription deals

Databases13 Feb 2025 | 7

LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab

FOSDEM 2025 Standard FOSS office suite continues to evolve in interesting new directions

Applications13 Feb 2025 | 145

WordPress war latest: Ploy to trademark Hosted WordPress, Managed WordPress derailed

Updated Objection from open source community heralded as 'great victory for the ecosystem'

Software13 Feb 2025 | 8

Feds want devs to stop coding 'unforgivable' buffer overflow vulnerabilities

FBI, CISA harrumph at Microsoft and VMware in call for coders to quit baking avoidable defects into stuff

CSO13 Feb 2025 | 75

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 | 69

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 | 35

Running hot? Server shipments forecast to cool in 2025

Supply chain and regulatory hurdles likely to shrink figures

On-Prem12 Feb 2025 | 2

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 | 15

Why SAP may be mulling 2030 end of maintenance for legacy ERP

Users' sluggish migration of critical apps mean current deadline not workable, says analyst

Databases12 Feb 2025 | 21

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 | 119

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 | 105

Murena boss says customers about to wake up from its cloud storage nightmare

Interview Four months since cloud drive kicked the bucket, but resolution comes today... hopefully

Storage12 Feb 2025 | 16

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

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As China embraces Big Tech again, Alibaba plans vast spend to push for artificial general intelligence

If you thought training AI models was hard, try building enterprise apps with them

Docker delays Hub pull limits by a month, tweaks maximums, stalls storage billing indefinitely

Data is very valuable, just don't ask us to measure it, leaders say

Hey programmers – is AI making us dumber?

Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code, says its rise is inevitable

Microsoft expands Copilot bug bounty targets, adds payouts for even moderate messes

GitLab and its execs sued again and again over 'misleading' AI hype, price hikes

Euro cloud biz trials 'server blades in a cold box' system

Data intelligence comes first when building AI

UK tax authority eyes £880M overhaul for Northern Ireland trade services

DXC paid 50% more than original contract value for disastrous public sector Oracle project

A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive

We meet the protesters who want to ban Artificial General Intelligence before it even exists

KDE Plasma 6.3 released – and 6.3.1 is already here

Microsoft boffins promise entire game worlds made from AI slop

Your days of driver sync via Windows Server Update Services are numbered

Type-safe C-killer Delphi hits 30, but a replacement has risen

Microsoft declutters Windows 11 File Explorer in the name of Euro privacy

HP Inc to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin'

Snake Keylogger slithers into Windows, evades detection with AutoIt-compiled payload

GNOME 48 beta is another nail in X11's coffin

Oracle extends 19c database support to 2032, making it 'longest strategic release'

Time to make C the COBOL of this century

Grok 3 wades into the AI wars with 'beta' rollout

Kelsey Hightower on dodging AI and the need for a glossary of IT terms

UK electrical utility seeks partner for £81M SAP overhaul as support deadline closes in

DeepSeek disappears from South Korean app stores over privacy concerns

Even Linus Torvalds can have trouble with autocycle … autocracy… AUTOCOMPLETE!

The future of AI is ... analog? Upstart bags $100M to push GPU-like brains on less juice

Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?

Loken: An easy interactive way to better looking websites

Bank of England Oracle Cloud bill balloons – but when you print money, who's counting?

Backup software vendor Veeam deleted forum data after restoration SNAFU

This open text-to-speech model needs just seconds of audio to clone your voice

Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze

Why AI benchmarks suck

UK's new thinking on AI: Unless it's causing serious bother, you can crack on

Users await the fine print on SAP Business Suite reboot

Datacenter energy demand in bitbarn 'capital of the world' Virginia nearly doubled in second half of 2024

Why do younger coders struggle to break through the FOSS graybeard barrier?

HPE says blocking Juniper buy is a sure Huawei to ensure China and Cisco thrive

Chinese AI marches on as Baidu makes its chatbot free, Alibaba scores Apple deal

Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit

After clash over Rust in Linux, now Asahi lead quits distro, slams Linus' kernel leadership

Analysts welcome ACID transactions on real-time distributed Aerospike

US lawmakers press Trump admin to oppose UK's order for Apple iCloud backdoor

SAP snared in revenue trap unless it extends legacy ERP support

LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab

WordPress war latest: Ploy to trademark Hosted WordPress, Managed WordPress derailed

Feds want devs to stop coding 'unforgivable' buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

IBM return-to-office order hits finance, ops teams amid push to dump staff for AI

Running hot? Server shipments forecast to cool in 2025

EU plans to 'mobilize' €200B to invest in AI to catch up with US and China

Why SAP may be mulling 2030 end of maintenance for legacy ERP

UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds

Murena boss says customers about to wake up from its cloud storage nightmare

After Copilot trial, government staff rated Microsoft's AI less useful than expected

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