European Union lawmakers line up to defend world's first AI Act Rules were not bent for Big Tech, politicians say AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 10
New York Times: OpenAI’s claim we 'hacked' its products both 'irrelevant' and 'false' Media giant's counterfiling accuses AI darling of 'spin' in copyright infringement case AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 3
Generative AI and the wizardry of the wide-open ecosystem Organizations struggling to launch generative AI initiatives have magic tricks at their disposal Commissioned
The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready? Microsoft prepares to replace an old faithful with something shiny, new, and lacking key features. Sound familiar? Applications13 Mar 2024 | 226
Fedora 41's GNOME to go Wayland-only, says goodbye to X.org Don't worry, you can still put it back, but it's an accessibility snag OSes13 Mar 2024 | 32
Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models Infosec folk aren’t thrilled that if you poke APIs enough, you learn AI's secrets AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 43
Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine – so it's already an AI PC Opinion Language models are entirely happy on the desktop Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 37
Dirty data shocks Indian taxpayers with huge bills Extra zeroes added to transaction values, just a handful of days before a payment deadline Public Sector13 Mar 2024 | 13
GitHub fixes pull request delay that derailed developers Went down yesterday, too, longer and harder. Maybe we should call it GitFlub? Software13 Mar 2024 | 5
Meet the Proxinator: A hyperbox that puts SATA at the heart of VMware migrations Exclusive Proxmox box sees fresh dedicated hardware become part of the market for Virtzilla alternatives Systems13 Mar 2024 | 11
Now you can compare your Chromium browser with that other Chromium browser using Speedometer 3.0 When almost everyone has the same engine, are benchmarks so important? Applications12 Mar 2024 | 10
Google searches for boss to get grip on climate, energy costs of this AI hype cycle Hyperscalers increasingly looking over shoulders as workloads grow AI + ML12 Mar 2024 | 3
Oracle investors hear the magic word 'Nvidia' and boom! Buy, buy, buy Forget the piffle about real world results, let's look at the potential of wundertech Databases12 Mar 2024 |
No App Store needed: Apple caves, will allow sideloading in EU Think this'll help you escape the fees? Nope – Apple still wants a cut for letting devs install things on user devices Applications12 Mar 2024 | 13
We asked Intel to define 'AI PC'. Its reply: 'Anything with our latest CPUs' If it has a GPU and NPU, plus VNNI and DP4a instructions, it qualifies. But it's not a brand like vPro or Ultrabook Personal Tech12 Mar 2024 | 26
Home Office’s shiny immigration system glitches causing delays Amid reports emerge of technical issues, immigration teams keep 24-year-old legacy system up and running Public Sector12 Mar 2024 | 25
Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole' Plaintiffs seek termination of permissionless and unpaid AI data harvesting Legal12 Mar 2024 | 31
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Network Rail steps back from geofencing over safety fears Award winning tech turns out to be less than accurate Applications12 Mar 2024 | 39
Singapore's central bank warns AI isn't ready to handle monetary policy LLMs show promise, but are 'not yet capable of providing credible explanations for their own predictions' AI + ML12 Mar 2024 | 9
GPT-4 won't run Doom but will play the game poorly Should we worry this model is happy to grab a gun and start blasting? AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 22
Filing NeMo: Nvidia's AI framework hit with copyright lawsuit Claims allegedly pirated content from Books3 dataset trawled by its models AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 8
Trying out Microsoft's pre-release OS/2 2.0 It fell through a timewarp from an alternate and very different computing universe OSes11 Mar 2024 | 96
PlanetScale ends free tier bid, sheds staff in profitability bid CEO defends decision in difficult tech market Databases11 Mar 2024 | 1
AI models show racial bias based on written dialect, researchers find Those using African American vernacular more likely to be sentenced to death, if LLMs were asked to decide AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 72
Linux for older phones postmarketOS changes its init system Good news, everyone! The world's favorite daemon, systemd, is coming to phones. OSes11 Mar 2024 | 116
How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model Opinion Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not Databases11 Mar 2024 | 31
Intern with superuser access 'promoted' himself to CEO Who, Me? Older and wiser colleagues couldn’t see the funny side Software11 Mar 2024 | 63
China pushes its payment platforms towards an international presence Bejing allows easier access to AliPay and Tencent's Weixin, and higher spending limits too Software11 Mar 2024 | 7
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back on the company's board, along with three new members AI in brief PLUS: Microsoft bars prompts to make Copilot less violent and NSFW AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 8
Linux 6.9 will be the first to top ten million Git objects For now, have Linux 6.8, which Linus Torvalds could find no reason to delay OSes11 Mar 2024 | 28
You got legal trouble? Better call SauLM-7B Cooked in a math lab, here's an open source LLM that knows the law AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 27
Biden's State of the Union included a battle cry against AI mimicry Lots of pats on the back for the CHIPS Act too AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 16
Nano a nono: Pixel 8 phones too dumb for Google's smallest Gemini AI model Some might say a blessing in disguise Personal Tech08 Mar 2024 | 12
Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI US spy-tech firm at center of UK health data systems applies its technology to altogether different ends AI + ML08 Mar 2024 | 19
Age of AI - large models call for better database choice AI, Pangu Models, automation pervade across Huawei’s cloud database, infrastructure, services Partner Content
AI mishaps are surging – and now they're being tracked like software bugs Interview The Register speaks to the folks behind the AI Incident Database AI + ML08 Mar 2024 | 8
Euro-cloud consortium issues ultimatum to Microsoft: Fix your licensing or else Redmond hasn't budged on deals that make its wares cheaper on Azure, and regulators are circling Software08 Mar 2024 | 16
Broadcom says VMware to grow revenue by double-digit percentages all year Networking silicon surges, Carbon Black to be kept in the fold Virtualization08 Mar 2024 | 12
India plans 10,000-GPU sovereign AI supercomputer Puts $1.2 billion on the table for AI skills and local LLMs, tells private enterprise it expects help Public Sector08 Mar 2024 | 5
Securing open source software: Whose job is it, anyway? CISA announces more help, and calls on app makers to step up CSO08 Mar 2024 | 21
Windows 10 failing to patch properly? You are most definitely not alone It looks like you're trying to update an operating system. Shall I be spectacularly unhelpful with that? OSes07 Mar 2024 | 41
Chrome users – get an alert when extensions are in danger of falling into wrong hands Under New Management is an early-warning system for potential poisoning of add-ons with malware Applications07 Mar 2024 | 22
Reddit rolling out AI bouncer to halt harassment If any mods are considering an anti-IPO blackout, you could be replaced by a bot AI + ML07 Mar 2024 | 13
Apple's had it with Epic's app store shenanigans, terminates dev account Updated No end in sight for 'horror show' even with EU's DMA Applications07 Mar 2024 | 72
Venturing beyond the default OS on Raspberry Pi 5 The pros and cons of some other Arm Linux distros for the pocket powerhouse OSes07 Mar 2024 | 54
UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings Now, who was it 'challenged' the NHS to go paperless by 2018? Public Sector07 Mar 2024 | 73
Bank's struggle to replace Atos threw system back to dark ages Costly project to switch supplier likely to continue into 2025, says watchdog Software07 Mar 2024 | 20
VMware urges emergency action to blunt hypervisor flaws Critical vulns in USB under ESXi and desktop hypervisors found by Chinese researchers at cracking contest Virtualization07 Mar 2024 | 16
Reminder: Infostealer malware is coming for your ChatGPT credentials Singaporean researchers note rising presence of OpenAI logins in infostealer malware logs Security07 Mar 2024 | 14
Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 6
Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower Updated AI tech loves picturing women in underwear, Windows giant won't do anything about it, watchdog told AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 92
Governments not keen on pushing citizen-facing AI services, for obvious reasons As soon as public sector implements GenAI, someone will do their best to break it... or even flirt with it AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 4
'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit Estimates put audits at $3B revenue for Ellison's company, so go at your own pace, experts recommend Databases06 Mar 2024 | 58
EU users can't update 3rd party iOS apps if abroad too long Remember how Apple told you security was its paramount concern? Applications06 Mar 2024 | 92
OpenAI goes public with Musk emails, claiming he backed for-profit plans Be careful what you write in that message AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 22
Year of Linux on the desktop creeps closer as market share rises a little 25% increase in seven months… But it depends how you count it OSes06 Mar 2024 | 173
Supermium drags Google Chrome back in time to Windows XP, Vista, and 7 If you really need obsolete OSes, here's a modern(ish) browser OSes06 Mar 2024 | 49
China pushes 'AI Plus' initiative to integrate technology and industry Beijing used a similar moniker for program that arguably gave us TikTok, Tencent, and Xiaomi Public Sector06 Mar 2024 | 5
What a surprise! Apple found a way to deliver browser engine and app store choice We know this because those features just landed in iOS 17.4, along with lots of other goodies OSes06 Mar 2024 | 61