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
Software
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
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior
'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs
AI + ML20 Jan 2025 | 19
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
Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day
Turns out tool does both file transfers and security fixes fast
Patches17 Jan 2025 | 19
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
NARROWER TOPICS
Google reports halving code migration time with AI help
Chocolate Factory slurps own dogfood, sheds drudgery in specific areas
AI + ML16 Jan 2025 | 14
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
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
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
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
Sonos CEO steps down after smart speaker app upgrade hit bum note
Board appoints interim leader to stay in tune with its turnaround song, both execs hear sweet sound of cash landing in the bank
Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 37
WordPress drama latest: Leader Matt Mullenweg exiles five contributors
WordPress.org accounts cancelled, dissidents told to fork off
Applications14 Jan 2025 | 29
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
Look for the label: White House rolls out 'Cyber Trust Mark' for smart devices
Beware the IoT that doesn’t get a security tag
Security09 Jan 2025 | 38
UK government pledges law against sexually explicit deepfakes
Not just making them, but sharing them too
Public Sector09 Jan 2025 | 29
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
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
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
3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error
Worker copy-pasted wrong YouTube URL, says ChainPatrol
AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 57
Eutelsat OneWeb blames 366th day for 48-hour date disaster
Leap year curse strikes satellite broadband vendor
Networks06 Jan 2025 | 62
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
Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators
New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA
Science05 Jan 2025 | 12
CAPTCHAs now run Doom – on nightmare mode
As if the bot defense measure wasn't obnoxious enough
Offbeat03 Jan 2025 | 42
Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust
Mini-C is a subset of C that can be automatically turned to Rust without much fuss
Software03 Jan 2025 | 117
Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 69
25 years on from Y2K, let's all be glad it happened way back then
Comment With today’s connected tech, a similar-scale bug would be hard to squash
Software02 Jan 2025 | 121
Boffins ponder paltry brain data rate of 10 bits per second
You may not need that high-bandwidth brain-computer interface
Science01 Jan 2025 | 92
Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control
Feature Dodgy AI chatbots as brains – what could go wrong?
AI + ML19 Dec 2024 | 93
Microsoft won't let customers opt out of passkey push
Enrollment invitations will continue until security improves
Security18 Dec 2024 | 109
Boffins trick AI model into giving up its secrets
All it took to make an Google Edge TPU give up model hyperparameters was specific hardware, a novel attack technique … and several days
Research18 Dec 2024 | 20
Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really?
Analysis Not as impenetrable as you might think, but still more than Intel or AMD would like
Systems17 Dec 2024 | 34
Alpine Linux 3.21: Lean, mean, and LoongArch-ready
A cool mountain breeze blowing in after the new LTS kernel
OSes17 Dec 2024 | 16
Australia moves to drop some cryptography by 2030 – before quantum carves it up
The likes of SHA-256, RSA, ECDSA and ECDH won't be welcome in just five years
Security17 Dec 2024 | 52
Red Rabbit Robotics takes human form to sell work as a service
Take this job and automate it
Offbeat15 Dec 2024 | 21
Google Timeline location purge causes collateral damage
Privacy measure leaves some mourning lost memories
Security13 Dec 2024 | 48
Google Gemini 2.0 Flash comes out with real-time conversation, image analysis
Chocolate Factory's latest multimodal model aims to power more trusted AI agents
AI + ML11 Dec 2024 | 25
Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic
Updated Mullenweg and co ordered to restore WP Engine's access to wordpress.org and stop touching WordPress installations
Software11 Dec 2024 | 34
AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling
Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory
Systems10 Dec 2024 | 10
Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI
Python security developer-in-residence decries use of bots that 'cannot understand code'
Devops10 Dec 2024 | 91
We can't make this stuff up: Palantir, Anduril form fellowship for AI adventures
Meanwhile, Sauron secures funding. Really
AI + ML09 Dec 2024 | 38
FreeBSD 14.2 wants to woo Docker fans, but still struggles with Wi-Fi
Another buzzword box ticked: OCI-compliant containers
OSes05 Dec 2024 | 22
Wish there was a benchmark for ML safety? Allow us to AILuminate you...
Very much a 1.0 – but it's a solid start
AI + ML05 Dec 2024 | 13
Google DeepMind touts AI model for 'better' global weather forecasting
Bases predictions on historical data, instead of solving physics equations
AI + ML05 Dec 2024 | 39
AWS says AI could disrupt everything – and hopes it will do just that to Windows
re:Invent Cloud colossus reckons it can clarify hallucinations, get your apps off Microsoft's OS at pleasing speed
AI + ML04 Dec 2024 | 36
GitHub's boast that Copilot produces high-quality code challenged
We're shocked – shocked – that Microsoft's study of its own tools might not be super-rigorous
AI + ML03 Dec 2024 | 58
Bluesky keeps growing, and so do its problems
Impersonators, harmful content and AI scraping are up, too
Software02 Dec 2024 | 82
Arch Linux installer now slightly less masochistic
'BTW I use Arch' runway greased, plus clarification around package licensing
OSes29 Nov 2024 | 35
UK financial regulator slammed for failed tech transformation
Poor software projects among efforts to overhaul FCA that came up short, MPs find
Public Sector27 Nov 2024 | 7
The workplace has become a surveillance state
Cracked Labs report explores the use of motion sensors and wireless networking kit to monitor offices
CxO27 Nov 2024 | 72
Cloudflare broke its logging-as-a-service service, causing customer data loss
Software snafu took five minutes to roll back. The mess it made took hours to clean up
Off-Prem27 Nov 2024 | 5
FTC urges smart device makers to disclose software update lifecycles
You need to know in advance when your kit will be bricked or downgraded – it's the law
Public Sector27 Nov 2024 | 23
How US Dept of Justice's cure for Google could inflict collateral damage
Opinion Remedies should be refined with an eye toward broad platform rights and responsibilities
Software25 Nov 2024 | 26
We can clone you wholesale: Boffins build ML agents that respond like specific people
Oh, AI wanna be like you, AI wanna walk like you, talk like you, too
AI + ML24 Nov 2024 | 47
AI Jesus is ready to dispense advice from a booth in historic Swiss church
Pope, Depeche Mode, silent on digital second coming
Bootnotes23 Nov 2024 | 74
Amazon bets another $4B on Anthropic
You just gonna stand there, Google, let AWS take the 'primary training partner' title? Not gonna do nothing?
AI + ML22 Nov 2024 | 7
Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive
People just don't know how to wrangle chatbots into useful things, Intel says
AI + ML22 Nov 2024 | 110
DARPA-backed voting system for soldiers abroad savaged
VotingWorks, developer of the system, disputes critics' claims
Security21 Nov 2024 | 5
API error knocks PayPal, Venmo offline around the globe
It's fixed now, but aside from an error with the Braintree GraphQL API it's not clear what happened
Applications21 Nov 2024 | 3
AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews
Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry's personal info from HR bots
AI + ML21 Nov 2024 | 140
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