AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads Now if only the councils could afford to fill them Offbeat21 Jan 2025 | 20
VMware migrations will be long, expensive, and risky, warns Gartner And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon Virtualization21 Jan 2025 | 9
Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency emerges with tech modernization mission US Digital Service re-named and told to audit government tech and work on data-sharing Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 26
Improved Windows Search arrives... but only for Copilot+ PCs Semantic indexing does some discreet rifling through local drawers of Insiders Software20 Jan 2025 | 14
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 | 10
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 | 35
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior 'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs AI + ML20 Jan 2025 | 19
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 | 20
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 | 4
Donald Trump proposes US government acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service Incoming president promises to allow ongoing operations for 90 days just as made-in-China app started to go dark Public Sector20 Jan 2025 | 112
OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries The S in LLM stands for Security AI + ML19 Jan 2025 | 26
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 | 21
How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history Opinion With added manga and snark. What's not to like? OSes18 Jan 2025 | 83
Copilot invades Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for an extra three bucks a month Many users less than impressed by unexpected arrival of AI assistant in Word AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 72
Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI Summaries will return when Apple Intelligence has 'improved' AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 45
Brit government contractor CloudKubed enters administration Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions supplier in hands of FRP Advisory Public Sector17 Jan 2025 | 9
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 | 83
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
How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish Opinion Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian
OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries The S in LLM stands for Security
Donald Trump proposes US government acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service Incoming president promises to allow ongoing operations for 90 days just as made-in-China app started to go dark
Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap Crypto critics unhappy as BTC hits all-time high and Melania launches her own currency
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior 'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format
Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account? Who, Me? A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble
Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic Infosec in brief PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more
Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors Students have work to complete at home in the meantime
Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions? Comment While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers
Google reports halving code migration time with AI help Chocolate Factory slurps own dogfood, sheds drudgery in specific areas AI + ML16 Jan 2025 | 14
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 | 36
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 | 21
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 | 68
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 | 31
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 | 80
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 | 32
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
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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 | 4
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 | 43
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
Absolute Linux has reached the end – where to next? Analysis Linux distros that don't exist, but we wish did OSes14 Jan 2025 | 52
Europe hopes Trump trumps Biden's plan for US to play AI gatekeeper Export controls would limit shipments of GPUs to large swaths of EU AI + ML14 Jan 2025 | 76
Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky Updated Free Our Feeds solicits funds to foster AT Protocol that powers decentralized social media Bootnotes14 Jan 2025 | 60
WordPress drama latest: Leader Matt Mullenweg exiles five contributors WordPress.org accounts cancelled, dissidents told to fork off Applications14 Jan 2025 | 29
In AI agent push, Microsoft re-orgs to create 'CoreAI – Platform and Tools' team Nad lad says 30 years of change happening in 3 years ... we're certainly feeling the compression of time AI + ML13 Jan 2025 | 10
CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don't expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet Rent-a-GPU outfit's latest datacenters are packed to the brim with H200s Systems13 Jan 2025 | 2
Azure, Microsoft 365 MFA outage locks out users across regions It's fixed, mostly, after Europeans had a manic Monday Security13 Jan 2025 | 10
Nvidia snaps back at Biden's 'innovation-killing' AI chip export restrictions 'New rule threatens to squander America's hard-won technological advantage' says GPU supremo Systems13 Jan 2025 | 23
Tesla recalls 239,382 vehicles over rearview camera problems Software snafu can fry computer components for owners of Musk's electric buggies Personal Tech13 Jan 2025 | 78
UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation Government adopts all 50 venture capitalist recommendations but leaves datacenter energy puzzle unsolved AI + ML13 Jan 2025 | 104
UK prepared to throw planning rules out the window for massive datacenters Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project designation could tear down more restrictions On-Prem13 Jan 2025 | 85
Life lesson: Don't delete millions of accounts on the same day you go to the dentist Who, Me? Or ignore documentation that warns you are about to do something dangerous Databases13 Jan 2025 | 58
Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform Exclusive Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy to make migration a mission Virtualization13 Jan 2025 | 37
Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer ‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7 Personal Tech13 Jan 2025 | 62
Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI Won’t say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react – so far with anger SaaS13 Jan 2025 | 125
That subdued CES has us wondering what 2025 will look like, tech-wise Kettle El Reg vultures circle the Consumer Electronics Show Personal Tech12 Jan 2025 | 16
Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club Right as Uncle Sam pushes for Chrome sell-off, eh? Applications10 Jan 2025 | 13
New Outlook marches onto Windows 10 for what little time it has left Users of doomed operating system to receive unloved app via an update OSes10 Jan 2025 | 67
Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL On the Fritz: German router maker AVM lets device rights case end after coughing up source code Software10 Jan 2025 | 41
Mail-out madness as insurer offers refunds to customers in error Hastings has a mystery to solve – how did all those customers get offered refunds? Databases10 Jan 2025 | 45
Hands-on jobs to grow fastest, because AI can't touch them World Economic Forum finds huge demand for brainbox skills, news for how it changes your role AI + ML10 Jan 2025 | 60
Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader? Legal10 Jan 2025 | 26
Biden said to weigh global limits on AI exports in 11th-hour trade war blitz updated China faces outright ban while others vie for Uncle Sam's favor Public Sector09 Jan 2025 | 8
Microsoft preps for a year of enterprise-impacting M365 retirements Hey administrators – buckle up. 2025 is going to be a wild ride OSes09 Jan 2025 | 8
Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well Simply the best FOSS desktop OS there is, outside of the Windows and Unix families Applications09 Jan 2025 | 67
Trump China tariffs to 'overshadow' the 'progress' of AI PCs Already inflated costs of NPU-based boxes set to jump on import tax AI + ML09 Jan 2025 | 25
£3.8B later, old tech supplier flames still burning for HMRC Deal supposed to end in 2017 continues to haunt tax collector procurement Software09 Jan 2025 | 10
To save the energy grid from AI, use open source AI, says open source body Linux Foundation Energy argues rapidly decentralizing electricity sector can't succeed with silos AI + ML09 Jan 2025 | 5
Microsoft invites Chinese software vendors to sell on its marketplace and through its partners Good luck getting buyers and resellers excited about that Channel09 Jan 2025 | 7
Securing AI workloads in multi-tenant K8s clusters Discover how F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes offloads critical AI tasks to BlueField-3 DPUs Partner Content
We did warn you – 2025 may be the year AI bots take over Meta's 'verse Opinion Can't grow any more? Let's just invent engagement! Personal Tech08 Jan 2025 | 51
Amazon splashes $11B on AI datacenters in Georgia Peach State already home to more than 50 bit barns On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 2
AI hype led to an enterprise datacenter spending binge in 2024 that won't last GPUs and generative AI systems so hot right now... yet 'long-term trend remains,' says analyst On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 7
Google snags ex-Microsoft exec to helm cloud in the UK Maureen Costello hopes to 'empower' businesses with AI PaaS + IaaS08 Jan 2025 | 6
Just when you thought terminal emulators couldn't get any better, Ghostty ships HashiCorp co-founder's side project reaches 1.0 – er, 1.0.1 Applications08 Jan 2025 | 91
Honda upgrades robot brain into OS for future electric cars Remember humanoid bot ‘Asimo’, which could kick balls and pour beer? It survives as EV software AI + ML08 Jan 2025 | 9
US watchdog sticks probe into 2.6M Teslas over so-called Smart Summon crash reports If it's spelled like an A.S.S, acts like an ass, maybe it's just... Software08 Jan 2025 | 34
Uncle Sam now targets six landlord giants in war on alleged algorithmic rent fixing One of ya is gonna sing like a canary, prosecutors say AI + ML08 Jan 2025 | 24
John Deere boasts driverless fleet - who needs operators, anyway? CES Lots of new ways to cut labor costs, no mention of repairability AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 42
AI can improve on code it writes, but you have to know how to ask LLMs do more for developers who already know what they're doing Software07 Jan 2025 | 34
Apple shrugs off BBC complaint with promise to 'further clarify' AI content It's down to users to do the fact-checking themselves AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 47
Windows 11 24H2 can run – sort of – in 184MB Do you really need a new PC for Microsoft's latest and greatest? OSes07 Jan 2025 | 36
Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook Interview Engineer who works on ways to prove that code is mathematically correct finds his field is suddenly much less obscure AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 84
The latest language in the GNU Compiler Collection: Algol-68 That is not dead which can eternal lie… including the grandparent of C, apparently Software07 Jan 2025 | 64
Demand for AI servers sees Foxconn fly and suppliers come along for the ride Record quarterly revenue at contract manufacturing giant suggests strong demand for hardware of all sorts Systems07 Jan 2025 |
Nvidia shrinks Grace-Blackwell Superchip to power $3K mini PC CES Tuned for running chunky models on the desktop with 128GB of RAM, custom Ubuntu AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 9
3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error Worker copy-pasted wrong YouTube URL, says ChainPatrol AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 57
Even at $200/mo, Altman admits ChatGPT Pro struggles to turn a profit comment But don't worry, he's 'figured out' AGI AI + ML06 Jan 2025 | 30
Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh' CES Slumping market share, unwanted features ... no, it's the consumers who are wrong! Software06 Jan 2025 | 175
Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google If you can't beat 'em, just imitate their branding, hide yours and hope they don't notice Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 79
AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025 With those whopping returns who could argue with the premis... oh wait On-Prem06 Jan 2025 | 30
Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery Longer support for newer models won't save prior versions from scrapheap Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 70
Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters But investors still betting big on bit barns thanks to AI and cloud demand On-Prem06 Jan 2025 | 12
Microsoft's spat with ValueLicensing limps toward 2026 showdown Legal tussle over resale of on-prem perpetual licenses kicked off four years ago Software06 Jan 2025 | 3