Microsoft rolls out safety tools for Azure AI. Hint: More models Defenses against prompt injection, hallucination arrive as Feds eye ML risks AI + ML29 Mar 2024 | 1
Hillary Clinton: 2024 will be 'ground zero' for AI election manipulation 2016 meddling was 'primitive' compared to what's ahead AI + ML29 Mar 2024 | 11
University of Washington's Workday woes leave research grants in limbo $340M finance upgrade still working out the kinks Databases28 Mar 2024 | 10
Progress outbids private equity in offer for MariaDB plc MySQL sibling saga continues as 40-year-old infrastructure software firm enters the fray Databases28 Mar 2024 | 3
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PostgreSQL pioneer's latest brainchild promises time travel to dodge ransomware Michael Stonbraker on the neat side effects of putting an operating system on top of a database Databases28 Mar 2024 | 13
Databricks claims its open source foundational LLM outsmarts GPT-3.5 In the AI gold rush, analytics outfit wants to provide the shovels AI + ML28 Mar 2024 | 2
AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware In-depth Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that Security28 Mar 2024 | 55
Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokers Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster – this time authorities think they've reduced false positives Public Sector28 Mar 2024 | 16
Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requests Beware support calls offering a fix Security27 Mar 2024 | 14
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know Security27 Mar 2024 | 86
Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 3
SEC cleared to take securities beef against Coinbase to trial Judge says watchdog can HODL four of its five charges against crypto exchange Applications27 Mar 2024 | 2
Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs Some staff are worried – can't think why Software27 Mar 2024 | 28
In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem Regulators reminded that longstanding concerns haven't been addressed Applications27 Mar 2024 | 22
Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learning Researchers reckon results could improve recipe development for food and beverages AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 9
Windows Format dialog waited decades for UI revamp that never came 'Temporary' isn't always OSes27 Mar 2024 | 63
BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who Pics Finally, a power greater than ML hype: Angry fandom Offbeat27 Mar 2024 | 99
XenServer is back, with a rebranded Citrix Hypervisor and a tasty three-host freebie Per-socket licensing regime may explain years of ups and downs Virtualization27 Mar 2024 | 4
Intel chases smaller code shops with expanded AI PC dev program, NUC kit Chipzilla wants more apps coded for NPUs, not Nvidia AI + ML26 Mar 2024 |
AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware In-depth Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know
Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs Some staff are worried – can't think why
What Nvidia's Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators Analysis Air cooling's diminishing returns on full display with Nv's B-series silicon
In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem Regulators reminded that longstanding concerns haven't been addressed
These 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are a ticking time bomb One might say this is a wurst case scenario
Cloud server host Vultr rips user data ownership clause from ToS after web outrage We know the average customer doesn't have a law degree, CEO tells us
UK skies set for cheeky upgrade with hybrid airship Depending on planning permission being given for facility
Chrome for Windows-Arm laptops officially lands in time for Snapdragon X Elite kit At last, no more crappy emulation or experimental builds OSes26 Mar 2024 | 16
Canva acquires Affinity, further wounding a regulator-bruised Adobe Yet another reason to reconsider that overpriced Creative Cloud subscription Applications26 Mar 2024 | 29
Nvidia software exec Kari Briski on NIM, CUDA, and dogfooding AI Interview A RAGs to riches story AI + ML26 Mar 2024 |
Microsoft gets new Windows boss as Start Menu man Parakhin 'to explore new roles' More MS moves just a week after new AI unit and other changes announced OSes26 Mar 2024 | 60
UXL Foundation readying alternative to Nvidia's CUDA for this year An open standard challenger appears Software26 Mar 2024 | 8
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Good news: HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools. Bad news: It broke Updated Python 2 has been dead for four years Applications26 Mar 2024 | 97
Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme Selection comes despite Japanese supplier's role in Post Office scandal Software26 Mar 2024 | 100
SWIFT embraces central bank digital currencies after sandbox success Promises it can handle digi-bucks and tokenized assets without new infrastructure, maybe next year Software26 Mar 2024 | 19
Coherent lights the way to massive AI clusters with optical circuit switches Could end-to-end lasers keep long training jobs on track? Networks25 Mar 2024 | 2
First release candidate of Linux kernel 6.9 looks 'fairly normal,' says Torvalds Improved workqueues mean the end of tasklets is looming at long last OSes25 Mar 2024 | 14
Tiny Corp launches Nvidia-powered AI computer because 'it just works' Startup slams AMD for buggy firmware Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 9
Over 170K users caught up in poisoned Python package ruse Supply chain attack targeted GitHub community of Top.gg Discord server Cyber-crime25 Mar 2024 | 42
ZenHammer comes down on AMD Zen 2 and 3 systems Updated Boffins demonstrate Rowhammer memory meddling on AMD DDR4 hardware Software25 Mar 2024 | 9
The way Apple, Alphabet implemented DMA rules 'seems to be at odds' with law European Commission says 12-month investigation could lead to fine of up to 10% of global revenue OSes25 Mar 2024 | 24
UK health department republishes £330M Palantir contract with fewer ██████ As Good Law Project considers response, ICO slams failure to comply with FoI request Databases25 Mar 2024 | 43
DBA made ten years of data disappear with one misplaced parameter Who, Me? Greybeards thought it was clever, making this an educational experience in more ways than one Databases25 Mar 2024 | 38
SoftIron rolls its own server virt stack to join the 'let's get VMware' crowd Banks on allowing BYO external storage to make migrations less painful Virtualization25 Mar 2024 | 4
Samsung preps inferencing accelerator to take on Nvidia, scores huge sale Asia In Brief PLUS: Tencent's profit plunge; Singtel to build three AI datacenters; McDonald's China gobbles Microsoft AI AI + ML24 Mar 2024 |
Some 300,000 IPs vulnerable to this Loop DoS attack Easy to exploit, not yet exploited, not widely patched – pick three Research24 Mar 2024 | 22
Docker launches Testcontainers on former rival Red Hat's OpenShift Interview CEO Scott Johnston on company pivots and trying not to surprise the community Devops23 Mar 2024 | 5
Flox rocks the Nix box by conquering code chaos FOSDEM FOSS CLI package management framework for repeatable, declarative deployments across multiple platforms OSes23 Mar 2024 | 10
Apple iPhone AI to be powered by Baidu in China, maybe Of course it's called ERNIE seeing as Google has BERT Personal Tech23 Mar 2024 | 13
Uncle Sam wants to know how big airlines use passenger data 'Problematic' carriers can look forward to scrutiny, fines, and new rules Databases22 Mar 2024 | 11
UN unanimously adopts ambitious AI resolution, sans teeth 'Safe, secure and trustworthy' AI a must, says document, but nothing in it ensures anyone plays along AI + ML22 Mar 2024 | 3
CNCF boss talks 'irrational exuberance' in an AI-heavy Kubecon keynote Updated Kubecon? More like Queuecon as Paris show's registration system experiences temporary borkage Software22 Mar 2024 | 11
Whistleblower raises alarm over UK Nursing and Midwifery Council's DB Updated Exclusive Regulatory body insists it's on 'a journey of improvement' Databases22 Mar 2024 | 80
Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing basically no one FOSS developers gotta eat, but users need certainty Software22 Mar 2024 | 41
Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse Doing things outside the walled garden is kinda hard, devs admit Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 18
Licensing labyrinth for Power Apps and Dynamics 365 must be clarified, warns expert Rules still unclear for Microsoft users making potentially costly decisions on enterprise applications Databases21 Mar 2024 | 3
Cloud Software Group snubs GPL obligations, say critics Spawn of Citrix and Tibco 'no longer able to support the community edition of JasperReports Server' Software21 Mar 2024 | 8
Uncle Sam, 15 US states launch antitrust war on Apple Lawsuit alleges iGiant rips off fans, stifles dev innovation, makes it tough to dump iOS for rivals OSes21 Mar 2024 | 40
Meta, Microsoft, X, Match pledge selves to Epic battle against Apple App Store You have my sword ... and my bow ... and my axe! Applications21 Mar 2024 | 14
SAP users aren't keen on upping spending right now Cloud and upgrade conversions remain steady if sluggish, according to ERP spending bellwether DSAG Databases21 Mar 2024 | 5
Why France this week fined Google €250M over web news Google pulls a few coins from the sofa and says whatever, just clarify who needs to be paid for what Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 11
Euro-cloud consortium CISPE calls for investigation of Broadcom Claims members will be bankrupted by new VMware licensing regime, and vital services disrupted Software21 Mar 2024 | 24
ServiceNow goes to Washington DC, with a suitcase full of AI Claims the tech has brought 38 percent improvement to its own dev cycle time Software21 Mar 2024 | 3
Nutanix catapults IP theft sueball at DBaaS startup Tessell Claims former staff ripped off IP and even did demos for their new company on Nutanix computers Databases21 Mar 2024 | 1
Back of the net? Google's DeepMind is coming for football tactics 2026 FIFA World Cup in US could be first to see ML models play a part... and you thought video referees were crap AI + ML20 Mar 2024 | 5
UK awards £1.73M to AI projects to advance net zero goals Great! Just ignore the energy needed to train them, process queries, keep the lights on in datacenters ... AI + ML20 Mar 2024 | 35
Microsoft hits Inflection point, peels off top personnel to form AI division FYI, FTC: Karén Simonyan, DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman absorbed rather than acquired AI + ML19 Mar 2024 | 12
Nvidia: Why write code when you can string together a couple chat bots? GPU giant says NIM will eliminate dependency headaches for the low low cost of $4,500/year per GPU Systems19 Mar 2024 | 14
Homeland Security will test out using genAI to train US immigration officers It's all about privacy, civil rights, civil liberties, ok? AI + ML19 Mar 2024 | 11
Catch Java 22, available from Oracle for a limited time Latest release of coffee-themed programming language aspires to simplicity with a dozen new features Software19 Mar 2024 | 47
AI researchers have started reviewing their peers using AI assistance ChatGPT deems your work to be commendable, innovative, and comprehensive AI + ML19 Mar 2024 | 11
Voltron Data revs up hyper-speed analytics, leaves Snowflake in the dust GPU-based system offers high performance off Parquet files Databases19 Mar 2024 | 7
Linux kernel 4.14 gets a life extension, thanks to OpenELA Could this be the first green shoot of enterprise vendors paying for long-term maintenance? OSes19 Mar 2024 | 7
VMware by Broadcom offers a lifeline to small cloud service providers Exclusive 'White label' program also means retaining customers Virtualization19 Mar 2024 | 12
Dell adds Nvidia's next GPUs to its portfolio of AI platforms Nvidia is a kingmaker, and who wouldn't want to be king? On-Prem19 Mar 2024 | 1
Ker-Splunk! Cisco closes $28 billion analytics acquisition Job one: Splunkify Talos threat intelligence, then do the same all over the Cisco portfolio Software19 Mar 2024 | 8
India celebrates rapid adoption of its internet of livestock Latest piece of digital public infrastructure is positively beastly Public Sector19 Mar 2024 | 8
What strange beauty is this? Microsoft commits to two more non-subscription Office editions Just the apps, none of the cloud, forever – for one payment Software19 Mar 2024 | 122
Grok-1 chatbot code released – open source or open Pandora's box? What hasn't been released by Elon Musk's xAI is also of note AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 16
Investment advisors pay the price for selling what looked a lot like AI fairy tales SEC bags $400K in settlements AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 8
HashiCorp reportedly considering sale amid growing challenges Who would want to snap up Terraform? Devops18 Mar 2024 | 2
UK tech titan Mike Lynch's US fraud trial begins today 13-year saga continues as jury set to hear claims on both sides of HP's Autonomy acquisition disaster Applications18 Mar 2024 | 10
Sorry, Siri: Apple may be eyeing Google Gemini for future iPhones Famous for keeping everything in-house, Apple may be carving AI-shaped door in its garden wall AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 24
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 57
Yes, I did just crash that critical app. And you should thank me for having done so Who, Me? Quick thinking turned poor judgement into genius proactivity Software18 Mar 2024 | 75
India quickly unwinds requirement for government approval of AIs Asia in brief Also: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 2
How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes Hands On Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about Systems17 Mar 2024 | 83
In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don't leave security behind Feature Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more AI + ML17 Mar 2024 | 20
Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 We thought you people wanted choice, IT colossus sniffs Applications15 Mar 2024 | 62
Microsoft license shuffle means Power Apps users could break the bank Updated New restrictions seem to usher users toward expensive Dynamics 365 subscriptions Applications15 Mar 2024 | 21
Raspberry Pi OS 5.2 is here, with pleasant tweaks to Wayland-based desktop Kernel 6.6 and small refinements, plus less visible, but meaningful adjustments OSes15 Mar 2024 | 38
Microsoft says AI alliances are needed to compete with Google Only the Chocolate Factory is 'vertically integrated' to win at 'every AI layer from chips to a thriving mobile app store' AI + ML15 Mar 2024 | 6
IBM CEO pay jumps 23% in 2023, average employee gets 7% And the party extends to shareholders with an overall $6B payout Software15 Mar 2024 | 17
RISE with SAP plan fails to hit go-live date in West of England council Updated Delays spark fears of £500K legacy support bill, plans for new financial year Databases15 Mar 2024 | 11
Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary Adding extra shine to Ubuntu Jammy… with the lightweight edition to follow OSes15 Mar 2024 | 109
Claims emerge that Citrix has doubled price of month-to-month partner licenses Reaction from channel was 'stunned silence followed by anger and disbelief' Channel15 Mar 2024 | 31
Alibaba pits people against AI in its annual mathematics competition Thankfully the prizes for human winners are far higher than those for machines AI + ML15 Mar 2024 |
Broadcom boss Hock Tan acknowledges 'some unease' among VMware community But rates his first 100 days in charge a 'strong start' Virtualization15 Mar 2024 | 33
Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn't leak to ad giant Rare occasion when you do want Big Tech to make a hash of it Personal Tech14 Mar 2024 | 16
Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there? AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 2
Google brains plumb depths of the uncanny valley with latest image-to-video tool VLOGGER needs just a still photo and an audio recording to generate footage, but it's far from perfect Software14 Mar 2024 | 13
Developers beware, Microsoft's domain shakeup is coming soon If you don't pay attention, your lovely little Teams app will stop working Applications14 Mar 2024 | 37
AI and wearables are scaring the wellbeing out of workers We thought everyone was thrilled about being spied on and having their jobs taken by bots AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 21
Exchange Online blocked from sending email to AOL and Yahoo Microsoft IP addresses on the spam naughty step Applications14 Mar 2024 | 47
Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS Thanks to Europe forcing Apple to offer a browser choice screen. Now, about ditching WebKit ... Applications14 Mar 2024 | 65
Microsoft forges One Teams App To Rule Them All Windows preview delivers one app to handle multiple accounts, boosts Copilot's capabilities Software14 Mar 2024 | 40