Db2 is a story worth telling, even if IBM won't Opinion Promise of AI features, but Big Blue won't reveal much more about next steps of its highly regarded relational database Databases04 Jul 2024 | 9
Experimental Mir-based tiling WM is winning acceptance outside Ubuntopia Miracle-WM takes several more steps forward OSes04 Jul 2024 | 6
Datacenter demand driven by AI... but constrained by power shortages Not content with drinking up all our water, now we'll compete with DCs for power AI + ML04 Jul 2024 | 3
Chinese Gen AI researchers snagged more patents than everyone else combined since 2013 You think the US leads the field? Wrong – OpenAI is way down WIPO's charts AI + ML04 Jul 2024 | 14
Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI Take that for ignoring robots.txt! Off-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 34
Meta training AI models on citizen data gets a hard não from Brazil Zuckerborg's justification isn't good enough, says watchdog AI + ML03 Jul 2024 | 4
RIP: WordPerfect co-founder Bruce Bastian dies at 76 Obit Tributes paid to passionate LGBTQ+ equality champion Applications03 Jul 2024 | 47
Figma pulls AI design tool for seemingly plagiarizing Apple's Weather app AI is 'like the fast food of creativity' AI + ML03 Jul 2024 | 12
VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner Latest datacenter Hype Cycle also includes augmented reality, new types of memory, nuke power Virtualization03 Jul 2024 | 32
EFF wants FTC to treat lying chatbots as 'unfair and deceptive' in eyes of the law And hit AI operators 'with all the fines', says Cory Doctorow Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 11
US Army: We want to absorb private-sector AI 'as fast as y'all are building them' How about a nice game of chess instead? AI + ML02 Jul 2024 | 8
FreeDOS and FreeBSD prove old code never dies, just gets nifty updates Anniversary time and both are going strong into their 30s OSes02 Jul 2024 | 50
Nintendo sues alleged Switch pirate pair for serious coin And if court finds for gaming giant? It's-a me! Bankruptcy! Legal02 Jul 2024 | 19
Google Translate now fluent in 110 additional languages from Abkhaz to Zulu Ta shoh scansh mie, son ymmyd Applications02 Jul 2024 | 35
How tech went from free love to pay-per-day Devconf.cz FOSS, AI, blockchain, and the cycle of empty nonsense Applications02 Jul 2024 | 75
YouTube confirms it'll pull AI fakes in 48 hours if a complaint's upheld As ever, terms and conditions apply Personal Tech02 Jul 2024 | 13
France poised to bring 'charges against Nvidia' Euro nation's monopoly gendarmes cheesed off with GPU giant's dominance AI + ML01 Jul 2024 | 15
Lambda on the hunt for 'another $800M' to fuel its GPU cloud Why sell shovels when you can rent them PaaS + IaaS01 Jul 2024 | 3
SK hynix pumps billions into HBM chips to meet AI demand It's already sold out of stock for this year and next Storage01 Jul 2024 |
VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner Latest datacenter Hype Cycle also includes augmented reality, new types of memory, nuke power
Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway
Kernel tweaks improve Raspberry Pi performance, efficiency There's a lot of room for improvement in modern computing, from the low end to the very high
Microsoft Stores all close their doors in China Slump in Surface sales suspected as one reason for move online
Japan's digital minister declares victory against floppy disks The war on the relic is finally won. Now on to fax machines?
Traeger security bugs bad news for grillers with neighborly beef Never risk it when it comes to brisket – make sure those updates are applied
RIP: WordPerfect co-founder Bruce Bastian dies at 76 Obit Tributes paid to passionate LGBTQ+ equality champion
So much for green Google ... Emissions up 48% since 2019 AI datacenters blamed for the increase, even as Chocolate Factory bets on AI to fix it
BT bets big on AI with ServiceNow to cut legacy baggage Promises no pink slips despite service desk in crosshairs
What do CTOs hate most about GenAI? Tool changes that break stuff With so many DB vendors to choose from, our vulture claws over the bewildering choices Databases01 Jul 2024 | 4
A friendly guide to local AI image gen with Stable Diffusion and Automatic1111 Hands On A picture is worth a 1,000 words... or was that a 1,000 TOPS AI + ML29 Jun 2024 | 22
ChatGPT wrongly insists Trump-Biden CNN debate had 1 to 2-minute delay Poll Yes, Joe totally had editing help that night, he was certainly impresszzz.... AI + ML29 Jun 2024 | 57
Microsoft CEO of AI: Your online content is 'freeware' fodder for training models Unless you've got a lawyer, that is AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 56
CISA looked at C/C++ projects and found a lot of C/C++ code. Wanna redo any of it in Rust? So, so many lines of memory-unsafe routines in crucial open source, and unsafe dependencies Research28 Jun 2024 | 77
TeamViewer says Russia broke into its corp IT network Updated Same APT29 crew that hit Microsoft and SolarWinds. How close were we to a mega backdoor situation? CSO28 Jun 2024 | 25
Bill Gates says not to worry about AI gobbling up energy, tech will adapt So that's fine then AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 33
Former Fujitsu engineer apologizes for role in Post Office IT scandal Horizon system expert denied tailoring evidence in convictions later quashed Public Sector28 Jun 2024 | 172
OpenAI, Google ink deals to augment AI efforts with news – it was Time for better sources Tech giants can't play the RAG-time blues until they pay their dues – in this case to quality publishers AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 11
AI to boost datacenter capex by 28.5% and become the top server workload Cooling tech left to sweat the details On-Prem28 Jun 2024 | 4
'Skeleton Key' attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft Simple jailbreak prompt can bypass safety guardrails on major models AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 113
OpenAI develops AI model to critique its AI models When your chatbots outshine their human trainers, you could pay for expertise ... or just augment your crowdsourced workforce AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 6
Apple crippled watchOS to corner heart-tracking market, doctors say Normally it's the iGiant's prices that give the ol' ticker a hard time Personal Tech28 Jun 2024 | 13
TeamViewer can't bring itself to say someone broke into its network – but it happened Updated Claims customer data, prod environment not affected as NCC sounds alarm Cyber-crime28 Jun 2024 | 24
Appeals court reanimates lawsuit accusing Meta of hiring bias against US citizens Software techie claims he was snubbed because he wasn't on an H-1B Software27 Jun 2024 | 18
AI query optimization in IBM's Db2 shows you can teach a tech dinosaur new tricks The database Big Blue doesn't like to talk about gets makeover in November Databases27 Jun 2024 | 36
Anthropic tries 'to enable beneficial uses' of AI by government agencies Not keen on smart weapons, more interested in stopping human trafficking AI + ML27 Jun 2024 | 3
Microsoft yanks Windows 11 update after boot loop blunder Tour of recovery options not supposed to be part of KB5039302 OSes27 Jun 2024 | 34
Reddit hopes robots.txt tweak will do the trick in scaring off AI training data scrapers Pay up or go away, pretty please? AI + ML27 Jun 2024 | 23
Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design, homebrew network used for LLM training Exclusive 15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs – helped by switches with custom heat sinks Systems27 Jun 2024 | 6
Lenovo brings virtualization, cloud stack to Chinese chip designer Loongson's CPU arch NAS slingers, healthcare software makers, government buyers join the march to silicon sovereignty Virtualization27 Jun 2024 | 4
Google begs court for relief from Epic Games' Play Store demands $137M needed to overhaul Play Store too great to bear, Google argues. Oh, and user security is important, too Applications26 Jun 2024 | 28
OneHouse takes $35M to fight for Hudi in table format wars After Databricks snaffled Iceberg-linked Tabular, CEO insists there are more than two horses in this race Databases26 Jun 2024 |
Google festoons Chrome Enterprise browser with more controls Because if there's one thing it really needed more of... Software26 Jun 2024 | 1
Etched looks to challenge Nvidia with an ASIC purpose-built for transformer models Startup says Sohu chip will be 20x faster than Nvidia's H100 in Llama 70B … assuming it's actually built AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 6
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 to receive support right up to end of Unix epoch And there's a special offer on the CentOS-compatible Liberty Linux OSes26 Jun 2024 | 10
Want to save the planet from AI? Chuck in an FPGA and ditch the matrix Watts down, doc: Boffins find machine learning models can function with more modest power requirements AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 35
Apple tells emulator developers it's OK with retro games – not entire OSes Updated We sure hope this won't upset European regulators given how great their relationship is with Apple right now OSes26 Jun 2024 | 21
Stability AI stabilized by investment from Silicon Valley royalty, new executive team Text-to-image AI outfit can now buy time to build products and profit AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 1
If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – like 100,000+ are – remove it immediately Scripts turn sus after mysterious CDN swallows domain CSO25 Jun 2024 | 61
OpenAI to pull plug on 'unsupported' nations – cough, China – from July 9 It’s not entirely clear what actions the ChatGPT maker plans to take, if any AI + ML25 Jun 2024 | 7
And that's 3 recalls for Tesla Cybertruck in as many months Now windshield wipers are failing and trim is detaching of its own accord Personal Tech25 Jun 2024 | 52
SAP customers warned on hidden risks in the unofficial route to the cloud But RISE with SAP can also be too rigid for some customers, Gartner says Databases25 Jun 2024 | 1
Nvidia loses a cool $500B as market questions AI boom Cisco was briefly the world's most valuable company too, you know, just before the dot com bust AI + ML25 Jun 2024 | 19
Andrew Tanenbaum honored for pioneering MINIX, the OS hiding in a lot of computers Software System Award recognises his contributions to education OSes25 Jun 2024 | 49
VMware by Broadcom makes its stack easier to live with, as promised Compute, storage, and networking virtualization brought together – with live ESXi patching Virtualization25 Jun 2024 | 4
On-prem AI has arrived – the solution to cloudy problems no one really has HPE discover Which isn't to say Nvidia and hyperscalers will win, says analyst Steve Brazier, as regulators circle On-Prem25 Jun 2024 | 3
GenAI dominates the narrative in ERP, but what is it good for? Low-code and report production vie for early use cases, but risks remain AI + ML25 Jun 2024 | 7
Ooredoo to splash Nvidia GPUs across the Middle East Qatari telco reckons deal will give it an 18–24 month lead in region AI + ML25 Jun 2024 |
Alibaba Cloud unleashes thousands of Chinese AI models to the world Like Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Studio – but with the added fun of geopolitical risk Off-Prem25 Jun 2024 |
Record labels gang up to sue AI music generator duo into utter oblivion Updated Recording Industry Ass. of America orchestrates war on Udio and Suno AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 49
Ollama drama as 'easy-to-exploit' critical flaw found in open source AI server About a thousand vulnerable instances still exposed online, we're told Patches24 Jun 2024 | 8
Y Combinator, startups funnily enough aren't fans of draft California AI safety law Same old whinging: We can't change the world if you ask us to do it openly AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 17
Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit Steve Teixeira, said to be CEO-in-waiting, now sues Firefox maker for discrimination, retaliation Applications24 Jun 2024 | 91
Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86 AlmaLinux and upstream kernel support for Raspberry Pi 5, plus a forthcoming high-performance Arm64 Tuxedo laptop OSes24 Jun 2024 | 23
It's desktop refresh season in the land of the Windowsalikes Those with curious disposition spoilt for choice as KDE 6.1, Cinnamon 6.2, and IceWM 3.5 all arrive OSes24 Jun 2024 | 22
Samsung teases investment to get into the GPU game Analysis A head-on assault on Nvidia seems unlikely – but dumping AMD from Exynos has merit AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 7
SoftBank boss says 'artificial superintelligence' could be three years away Asia In Brief Plus: Huawei closer to divorcing Android; India probes Amazon warehouses; Singapore gets autonomous street sweepers AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 31
Risk of installing dodgy extensions from Chrome store way worse than Google's letting on, study suggests All depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate Research23 Jun 2024 | 34
Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here's how to get started Hands on In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story AI + ML22 Jun 2024 | 5
From network security to nyet work in perpetuity: What's up with the Kaspersky US ban? Kettle It's been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains Security22 Jun 2024 | 43
Apple Intelligence won't be available in Europe because Tim's terrified of watchdogs These privacy rules might harm privacy! No, really, that's totally why we're doing this AI + ML21 Jun 2024 | 65
Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew 'Substantial proportion' of America to get a little note from next month Cyber-crime21 Jun 2024 | 9
Privacy features lose their way in latest Firefox update Mozilla backtracking on private window changes after uproar Software21 Jun 2024 | 37
How to escape VMware's pricey clutches with Virt-v2v Devconf.cz Or any other hypervisors that might hypothetically be acquired or suddenly get more costly Virtualization21 Jun 2024 | 17
The X Window System is still hanging on at 40 Never underestimate the stickiness of legacy technology Software21 Jun 2024 | 83
You're wrong, I'm right, and you're hiding the data that proves it On Call There should be honor among techies, but it can be hard to admit error Software21 Jun 2024 | 73
How Europe can force Apple to support competition Exclusive Open Web Advocacy report calls for these extensive changes to iGiant's rules Personal Tech21 Jun 2024 | 56
Meta warns bit flips, other hardware faults cause AI errors It's no hallucination: '4 in 1,000 inferences inaccurate' due to this alone, depending on the setup AI + ML21 Jun 2024 | 39
Anthropic delivers Claude 3.5 model – and a new way to work with chatbots Video Fast, funny, visionary, sure ... anything that knocks OpenAI down a peg will do AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 11
Google’s attempt to kill off child privacy app advertising lawsuit defeated Won't somebody pleeease think of the ... oh, right, they are Personal Tech20 Jun 2024 | 5
Biden bans Kaspersky: No more sales, updates in US Blockade begins July 20 on national security grounds as antivirus slinger vows to fight back CSO20 Jun 2024 | 111
Musk ropes Dell, Supermicro into xAI supercomputer project Oh, Mike, what have you got yourself into now HPC20 Jun 2024 | 11
systemd 256.1: Now slightly less likely to delete /home Fixes catastrophic data loss, er, bug, er poorly documented feature... user error Software20 Jun 2024 | 212
Oracle Java license teams set to begin targeting Oracle users who don't think they use Oracle IP address of downloads offers crumb trail to orgs who should be ready for Big Red, says licensing expert Software20 Jun 2024 | 63
Study employs large language models to sniff out their own bloopers What if it's LLMs all the way down? AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 24
Using AI to guide tomorrow’s England stars to greater glory The English FA is using Google Cloud AI to gain insights from scouting reports to nurture star footballers of the future Sponsored Post
AI-assisted automation for clouds and networks climbs Gartner's hype cycles Yes, AI will volunteer to run your IT estate. You might be a fool to trust it AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 2
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever's new startup aims to create 'safe superintelligence' He's in competition with – and critical of – his former workplace AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 27
Valkey gains momentum with broadening band of backers AlmaLinux and Broadcom added to list of partners for open source Redis fork OSes19 Jun 2024 |
Microsoft admits to problems upgrading Windows 11 Pro to Enterprise Recent patches have broken the update path OSes19 Jun 2024 | 12
GenAI more buzz than biz as tech barely dents jobs, says survey Don't believe the hype AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 8
GPU-accelerated VMs on Proxmox, XCP-ng? Here's what you need to know Hands on Go ahead, toss that old gaming card in your box and boost your AI applications — you know you want to AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 14
That PowerShell 'fix' for your root cert 'problem' is a malware loader in disguise Control-C, Control-V, Enter ... Hell Research19 Jun 2024 | 18
HPE intros virtualization solution it says is totally not targeting grumpy VMware customers HPE Discover It's complementary to Virtzilla, and will eschew controverial aspects of Broadcom's licensing changes Virtualization19 Jun 2024 | 4
World's top AI chatbots have no problem parroting Russian disinformation Study finds they're taking Putin pushers' point of view 30% of the time AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 68
EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians If you call 'client-side scanning' something like 'upload moderation,' it still undermines privacy, security Security18 Jun 2024 | 75
Google DeepMind's latest model promises realistic audio for your AI-generated vids Video Launch comes as Runway, Pika, Kling push the boundaries of machine-imagined video AI + ML18 Jun 2024 | 2