Boffins deploy machine learning in search for intelligent ET Model developed using TensorFlow and Keras sifts through data for 'technosignatures' from alien worlds AI + ML30 Jan 2023 |
Tech CEO nixes AI lawyer stunt after being threatened with jail time In brief Plus: Google builds text-to-music model but won't release it, and more AI + ML30 Jan 2023 | 16
FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure Opinion Don't throw the open source baby out with the bathwater OSes30 Jan 2023 | 37
After less than half a year, Intel quietly kills RISC-V dev environment Did Pathfinder get lost in sea of red ink? Or is Chipzilla becoming RISC averse? Software30 Jan 2023 | 21
So you want to replace workers with AI? Watch out for retraining fees, they're a killer Comment Who said workforce development was just for humans? AI + ML29 Jan 2023 | 48
Chrome bug bedevils file storage in the cloud 'I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that' Devops29 Jan 2023 | 3
Microsoft squashes Windows 11, Server 2022 bugs with preview patches Remote Desktop, domain controllers giving you gyp? Gamble on these fixes OSes28 Jan 2023 | 4
Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs under changes to Oracle license regime As per employee model replaces old subscription, user bills could soar Software27 Jan 2023 | 79
AWS doubles down on innovations that redefine the database management experience Unveiling Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift and much more Advertorial
What is Google doing with its open source teams? Opinion Nothing good – the recent layoffs hit its best and brightest leaders hard Software27 Jan 2023 | 46
User was told three times 'Do Not Reboot This PC' – then unplugged it anyway On-Call Even with instructions staring them in the face, this genius couldn't get it right Software27 Jan 2023 | 145
Poor Meta. Technical debt and user training made its exabyte-scale data migration tricky Welcome to the real world, kids. And for the rest of us, a future at which Meta is gulp! – better at large-scale analytics Databases27 Jan 2023 | 11
Disaster recovery blunder broke New York Stock Exchange this week The irony, it burns Devops26 Jan 2023 | 12
Memory safety is the new black, fashionable and fit for any occasion Calls to avoid C/C++ and embrace Rust grow louder Software26 Jan 2023 | 57
SAP culls 3,000 jobs from CRM business and its results weren't even that bad 'Targeted restructuring' could have been worse, analyst points out Software26 Jan 2023 | 4
If your Start menu or apps are freezing up on Windows, Microsoft has a suggestion No, it's not install Fedora Linux, sadly OSes26 Jan 2023 | 95
Tesla's Autopilot is losing out to Ford, GM in self-driving tech Life in the fast lane, surely make you lose your mind AI + ML25 Jan 2023 | 58
Oracle engineering exec quits after tryst with health division Reports suggest Don Johnson left after 6 months in charge of strategic unit Databases25 Jan 2023 | 4
Developers: What if someone said you’d never have to meet with marketing again? Atlassian thinks it’s made that possible by extending automation from Jira to Confluence Devops25 Jan 2023 | 8
Software glitch revokes copyright protection for AI-generated comic book So is AI artwork copyrightable? Not quite as case remains up in the air AI + ML25 Jan 2023 | 16
So you want to replace workers with AI? Watch out for retraining fees, they're a killer Comment Who said workforce development was just for humans?
Gee, tanks: Russian hackers DDoS Germany for aiding Ukraine in brief Also: a week of leaks; Riot Games says 'LoL' to source code ransom demands; and Yandex source also appears online
WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage Command line not vetted using full qualification process, says Redmond. We think it involved chewing gum somewhere
Shag pile PC earned techies a carpeting from HR Who, Me? Thankfully a veep with a sense of humor pulled the rug out
After less than half a year, Intel quietly kills RISC-V dev environment Did Pathfinder get lost in sea of red ink? Or is Chipzilla becoming RISC averse?
FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure Opinion Don't throw the open source baby out with the bathwater
China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more
Labyrinth of 371 legacy systems hindered hospital's IT meltdown recovery Guy's and St Thomas' in London spent two months getting back on its feet after heatwave fried datacenter
Oh, 07734! Internet Archive debuts vintage calculator emulator MAME adapted to bring your favorite TI and HP graphing machines back to life
Flutter now has less stutter and plays nicer with the web Version 3.7 shows Google's cross-platform, Dart-based UI framework maturing Software25 Jan 2023 |
Microsoft: You're not out of love with cloud, you're just 'optimizing' it for a bit Q2 results include modest revenue increase, steep consumer and net income decrease Software25 Jan 2023 | 8
Well that escalated quickly: India demos homebrew mobile OS BharOS is based on the Linux kernel and is apparently incapable of running malware OSes25 Jan 2023 | 37
World of Warcraft Classic lead dev resigns to protest 'stack ranking' Brian Birmingham claims he walked after refusing to give team member a 'low' rating Software24 Jan 2023 | 58
Scaling up impossible heights Successfully using serverless SaaS to reap the value of transactional data Webinar
Windows 10 paid downloads end but buyers need not fear ISO-lation Microsoft pulls the plug as of January 31, alternatives are easy to find OSes24 Jan 2023 | 78
ChatGPT talks its way through Wharton MBA, medical exams This perhaps says more about the tests than the artificial intelligence on display AI + ML24 Jan 2023 | 40
Microsoft can't stop itself blowing billions on OpenAI Embrace, extend ... extinguish, but whom or what this time? AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 9
Universities offered software to sniff out ChatGPT-written essays Feature Teachers hopefully get their hands on the tool within months AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 37
Sorry seems to be tech execs' favorite word as DB player Aiven lays off 1 in 5 Finnish open source biz joins elite in correcting pandemic hiring frenzy Databases23 Jan 2023 | 3
Rentokil uses AI rat recognition to plot extermination in real time You know where they eat, where they sleep, where they live... then figure out how to whack them AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 24
XenServer, split from Citrix, promises per-socket prices 'unlike certain other hypervisors' Yeah, we know: Cost alone won't lead to success. But it may be hiring, unlike certain other tech giants Virtualization23 Jan 2023 | 9
Dear Stupid, I write with news I did not check the content of the [Name] field before sending this letter Who, Me? This is what happens when database field names are changed without proper documentation Software23 Jan 2023 | 102
Polish for Windows Spotlight and tabs for Notepad in latest Insiders build You will soon know more about what your PC lockscreen is showing you OSes23 Jan 2023 | 20
India's Supreme Court finds Google's appeal against monopoly fines unappealing Vast and unpleasant – for Google – changes to the Android ecosystem remain a possibility OSes23 Jan 2023 | 4
Publisher halts AI article assembly line after probe In brief Plus: Academics debate citing ChatGPT as research co-author; Getty Images sues Stability AI AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 12
Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Office installs Please, sir. I don't want a 365 subscription OSes21 Jan 2023 | 147
Twitter tweaks third-party app rules to ban third-party apps Setting fire to an ecosystem like it's a spliff on a credulous podcast Applications21 Jan 2023 | 84
Massive outage grounded US flights because someone accidentally deleted a file Our lives are in your hands, and you have butterfingers? Software21 Jan 2023 | 41
Mentally scarred: Kenyan workers taught ChatGPT to recognize offensive text Spare a thought for the workers who read the worst content scraped from the internet to keep you safe AI + ML20 Jan 2023 | 16
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OpenAI's ChatGPT is a morally corrupting influence No principles or virtues, people accepting everything it says – this bot is perfect for political life AI + ML20 Jan 2023 | 85
Arca Noae is modernizing OS/2 Warp for 21st century PCs Retro Tech Week Lewis Rosenthal talks about why some companies still need to run OS/2 today – including on UEFI and GPT hardware OSes19 Jan 2023 | 44
Six years later, HPE and Oracle quietly shut door on Solaris lawsuit Bunfight over support for proprietary Unix operating system ends with a confidential whimper Software19 Jan 2023 | 2
Adobe: Take user data to train generative AI models? We'd never do that Controversial policy change forces chief product officer to speak out AI + ML19 Jan 2023 | 13
Indian official reveals 'plan' to build a national mobile OS Analysis History tells us it will flop. But success might not be the real goal, so much as poking Big Tech OSes19 Jan 2023 | 31
Publisher breaks news by using bots to write inaccurate stories Worse still, human editors appear not to have caught the mistakes AI + ML19 Jan 2023 | 41
Azure Stack HCI gets extra protection with 'long-requested feature' Kerberos support in WAC and a host of other goodies also added Software19 Jan 2023 | 1
Gonna run System Restore in Windows 11? Microsoft says some of its apps won't Want to access Office tools? Don’t try to go back in time Software19 Jan 2023 | 21
Tesla faked self-driving demo, Autopilot engineer testifies Elon should stick to throwing rocks at his truck windows AI + ML18 Jan 2023 | 46
Founder of FreeDOS recounts the story so far, and the future Retro Tech Week What is dead may never die, and it's all thanks to Jim Hall OSes18 Jan 2023 | 18
Microsoft axes 10,000, already breaking bad news to staff Remaining Redmondites told they need to ‘raise the bar’ Software18 Jan 2023 | 103
AI may finally cure us of our data fetish Column There's still a place in the world for good old-fashioned human intelligence AI + ML18 Jan 2023 | 26
Will 2023 be the year of dynamite disinfo deepfakes, cooked up by rogue states? And if so, what are we gonna do about it? AI + ML18 Jan 2023 | 16
Bringing the first native OS for Arm back from the brink Retro Tech Week Steve Revill of RISC OS Open chats to us about taking the project into the future OSes17 Jan 2023 | 40
Writing tool from AI21 Labs won't do all the hard work for you Wordtune Spices is more like an AI-powered Grammarly AI + ML17 Jan 2023 | 2
Unix is dead. Long live Unix! Comment Don't expect to see any more big AIX news. What does that leave us with? OSes17 Jan 2023 | 172
University still living in the Nineties seeks help with move to SAP S/4HANA Tens of millions up for grabs as institution needs to dump legacy code Databases17 Jan 2023 | 36
Microsoft to offer ChatGPT-as-a-service from Azure real soon now Addition of the chatbot everyone's talking about, and to, comes as Azure OpenAI goes GA AI + ML17 Jan 2023 | 19
Beijing lifts restrictions on rideshare giant DiDi Chuxing After eighteen month exile, it's allowed to recruit new customers Software17 Jan 2023 | 1
Quickest way to save with Oracle? Get off Unlimited Licensing Agreements, says pundit They're not the meal deal they might seem to be, claims audit expert Databases16 Jan 2023 | 21
Microsoft and community release scripts to help mitigate Defender mess Techies forced to mop up after update caused ASR rules to detect false positives, wiping icons and apps shortcuts Software16 Jan 2023 | 42
Midjourney, DeviantArt face lawsuit over AI-made art Updated Lawyer known for GitHub Copilot case to argue artists' legal struggle AI + ML16 Jan 2023 | 57
AI lawyer to fight first legal case in court, startup claims In Brief Plus: How much would you pay for ChatGPT? And British AI drug biz gets snapped up for half a billion AI + ML16 Jan 2023 | 26
AWS adds Superapp Grab's Asia-centric maps to its cloudy location service Asia In Brief PLUS ServiceNow makes Japan a discrete region; Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore hub; US snipes at Korean network policy; and more Software16 Jan 2023 | 1
Third-party Twitter apps stopped dead with no explanation from El Musko Sorry, when exactly are you going to sod off to Mars, mate? Software14 Jan 2023 | 123
Surely you can't be serious: Airbus close to landing fully automated passenger jets DragonFly designed to land and taxi when the pilot is incapacitated, or just busy AI + ML13 Jan 2023 | 155
NASA overspent $15m on Oracle software because it was afraid an audit could cost more Houston, we have a problem: Millions wasted on license penalties Software13 Jan 2023 | 40
Google polishes Chromium code with a layer of Rust Mozilla-incubated systems language should make Chrome shine Software12 Jan 2023 | 7
Version 5 of the Endless OS enters testing This may show a future direction for Linux desktops OSes12 Jan 2023 | 70
Microsoft to offer unlimited time off for US staff Incoming corporate policy may lead to stress and burnout for staff, reduced costs for Redmond Software12 Jan 2023 | 36
Games Workshop once again battles scariest monster of all: ERP gone wrong Worldwide expansion reliant on delayed Microsoft Dynamics project as Amazon deal beckons Databases12 Jan 2023 | 50
Fujitsu has a yen for 'large-scale' acquisitions and billions of yen to fund them Digital transformation is still a thing and Japanese giant wants to buy anyone that can do it Software12 Jan 2023 | 7
Cloud Software Group confirms 15 percent headcount cut CEO of Citrix/TIBCO mashup says company has 'strong foundation' and rolls out the Broadcom playbook of focusing on 'top customers' Software12 Jan 2023 | 4
IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source Around 80 positions moved to another continent, Big Blue stays silent OSes12 Jan 2023 | 34
Scientists tricked into believing fake abstracts written by ChatGPT were real Study warns tool could be used to create fake research papers for paper mills AI + ML11 Jan 2023 | 22
Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name Open source org called out for ignoring own code of conduct Software11 Jan 2023 | 280
Fedora 38 is finally taking shape New Budgie and Sway spins, Xfce 4.18, and initial support for Unified Kernel Images Software11 Jan 2023 | 7
That NHS England patient data platform procurement, FDP, is live. And worth up to £480m References to Palantir use cases, 'unique tools' litter the tender docs as critics mull legal action Databases11 Jan 2023 | 20
Meta develops AI targeting system to show housing ads to wider range of users Part of a settlement with US Department of Justice after ads discrimination case AI + ML11 Jan 2023 | 7
Haiku beta 4: BeOS rebuild / almost ready for release / A thing of beauty Open source reimplementation could be even better than the original in its prime OSes11 Jan 2023 | 120
New software sells new hardware – but a threat to that symbiosis is coming Comment Complex software packages need ever gruntier specs... and Koomey’s Law awaits OSes11 Jan 2023 | 33
Asia’s digital divides mean some can’t afford tech upgrade they need to compete International Monetary Fund report suggests 'diffusion' - a kind of tech trickle-down - might sort things out Software11 Jan 2023 | 1
Microsoft to move some Teams features to more costly 'Premium' edition Wants around $10 a month for stuff you get free today, plus plenty more new features Software11 Jan 2023 | 152
Citrix and Tibco staff report sweeping redundancies Future is cloudy at the Cloud Software Group Software11 Jan 2023 | 1
Microsoft may be counting out $10 billion to inject into OpenAI Could ChatGPT be Google's nemesis? AI + ML10 Jan 2023 | 15
Belarus legalizes piracy – but citizens will have to pay for it Meanwhile, the regime is angling to pocket the money owed to rightsholders Software10 Jan 2023 | 19
China follows through on plan to ban deepfake tech Synthetic media undermines national security, says internet regulator AI + ML10 Jan 2023 | 8
BMW updates 90% of EVs sold in the US over power software bug BMW i4, i7 and iX drivers need a fix Software09 Jan 2023 | 21
Python Package Index found stuffed with AWS keys and malware British developer uses homegrown scanning tool to check for risks Software09 Jan 2023 | 20
This is the end, Windows 7 and 8 friends: Microsoft drops support this week Time has run out for users of legacy operating systems – will you upgrade or buy a new PC? OSes09 Jan 2023 | 156
OpenAI is developing software to detect text generated by ChatGPT In brief Plus: Apple using fake AI voices to help indie publishers release audiobooks AI + ML09 Jan 2023 | 32
Adobe will use your work to train its AI algorithms unless you opt out Content analysis system scans data stored on its Creative Cloud services AI + ML07 Jan 2023 | 27
Microsoft’s Nadella: Tech is in for a rough two years Slowing demand and economic pressures are a drag, but AI waits at the end of the rainbow AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 48
Cybercrooks are telling ChatGPT to create malicious code Chatbot might let unskilled criminals launch attacks, if the code works AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 67
Fancy a quick tour of DragonFly BSD 6.4? We buzz around new version of the other-other-other FOSS-xNix-that-isn't-Linux OSes06 Jan 2023 | 39
Mobileye touts bright future while Nvidia, Qualcomm win over automakers Analysis Objects in mirror are closer than they appear AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 1
Mercedes-Benz thinks Nvidia's Omniverse can help with manufacturing CES German automaker gets deeper into the GPU giant's hardware and software ecosystem Software06 Jan 2023 | 4
Southwest Airlines sued for failing to give prompt refunds after IT meltdown Asking us to 'submit a receipt for consideration' just doesn't cut it, claims would-be class action Software06 Jan 2023 | 15