Broadcom CEO promises $2 billion annual R&D boost to make VMware better at the things it already does Hock Tan thinks hybrid multicloud can be made much easier to use Virtualization04 May 2023 | 7
Orqa drone goggles bricked: Time-bomb ransomware or unpaid firmware license? VR headset maker and software dev clash over blame Software03 May 2023 | 19
Windows 11 wrecks speech recognition for some apps Microsoft OS stutters with Japanese and Chinese languages OSes03 May 2023 | 4
SAP signs IBM Watson deal, ChatGPT showstopper waits in the wings 50-year-old ERP vendor reaches for 15-year-old AI to be down with the kids AI + ML03 May 2023 | 4
When it comes to Linux distros, one person's molehill is another's mountain Comment Gosh, you're a fussy old lot, aren't you? OSes03 May 2023 | 179
Rise of the machines is slower than expected says World Economic Forum Don't get too comfortable, machines are doing more thinking AI + ML03 May 2023 | 24
OpenAI's ChatGPT may face a copyright quagmire after 'memorizing' these books This top-drawer AI tech has a major science-fiction habit AI + ML03 May 2023 | 91
Ed tech house Chegg's share price halves after blaming ChatGPT for subscription dip Student app maker says it's 'not a sky falling thing,' customizes own LLM just in case AI + ML02 May 2023 | 1
Microsoft helps devs create chatbots – because who needs human interaction anyway? It's now easier to whip up the conversational tool of your HR department's dreams Applications02 May 2023 | 4
Samsung puts ChatGPT back in the box after 'code leak' Others also blocked as company works on its own generative AI tech AI + ML02 May 2023 | 5
EDB offers 'risk-free' migration to lure Oracle users to the PostgreSQL side Long-suffering Big Red customers 'may finally be ready,' says analyst Databases02 May 2023 | 8
SAP users not happy about German giant's price rises Issues remain in the costs for development and quality assurance in the cloud Databases02 May 2023 | 14
Microsoft cries foul over UK gaming deal blocker but it's hard to feel sorry for them Opinion Brit regulator is merely heeding the Call of Duty Software02 May 2023 | 80
CERN celebrates 30 years since releasing the web to the public domain Software vendors and the EU weren’t interested, so giving it away became the best option Software02 May 2023 | 104
IBM's motto is 'Think' – its CEO reckons AI can do that as well as some workers Thousands of back-office jobs to go as Big Blue replaces them with brainboxes AI + ML02 May 2023 | 29
Streaming apps – and maybe even Cloud PCs – coming to electric cars What else are you going to do while waiting for it to charge? Virtualization02 May 2023 | 57
Microsoft pushes users to the Edge in Outlook, Teams The 1990s are back, baby Applications02 May 2023 | 53
Misinformation tracker warns 'new generation' of AI-scribed content farms on the rise NewsGuard finds 49 websites spewing robo-written garbage to scoop ad money AI + ML02 May 2023 | 13
Top Google boffin Hinton quits, warns of AI danger, partly regrets life's work 'Look at how it was five years ago and how it is now. Take the difference and propagate it forwards. That's scary' AI + ML01 May 2023 | 77
EU legislates disclosure of copyright data used to train AI In brief Watch the AI-generated anti-Biden advert from the GOP, and more AI + ML01 May 2023 | 10
Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize, CEO wades in Exclusive 'Reject this capitalist logic' urges French legion within Linux slinger OSes28 Apr 2023 | 47
No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final Shift off to Win 11 now, go on... better hope your biz is giving out fresh hardware OSes28 Apr 2023 | 210
Trino and dbt open source data tools snuggle closer with integrated SaaS Managed offerings now work in tandem to crunch data where it resides Databases28 Apr 2023 |
AI models may not yet be safe, but at least we can make them affordable … ish Boffins devise query language for LLMs to make them more civil and less expensive AI + ML28 Apr 2023 | 2
Here's how the data we feed AI determines the results Opinion Generative AI hallucinations are the least of our problems AI + ML28 Apr 2023 | 32
iPhones hook up with Windows as Microsoft’s Phone Link dials up Apple's iOS Windows Phone did this ages ago but flopped OSes28 Apr 2023 | 39
Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145 Three minutes of video, 100 sentences of speech, and 24 hours gets you a bot to front your livestreams and answer questions AI + ML28 Apr 2023 | 9
Dropbox drops 16% of staff, points finger at hard-up customers and AI We've progressed from blaming this kinda thing on millennials, immigrants, China, woke libs, etc AI + ML27 Apr 2023 | 34
Musk tried to wriggle out of Autopilot grilling by claiming past boasts may be deepfakes Tycoon hopes to swerve deposition in Tesla death crash lawsuit AI + ML27 Apr 2023 | 69
President Biden urged to appoint AI officers to regulate this shiny-shiny tech And a pin to pop this hype bubble would be nice, too AI + ML27 Apr 2023 | 7
ChatGPT hasn't been around for long and Nvidia already wants to put a leash on it NeMo Guardrails stops everything that made these chatbots so much fun AI + ML26 Apr 2023 | 9
How prompt injection attacks hijack today's top-end AI – and it's tough to fix Feature In the rush to commercialize LLMs, security got left behind AI + ML26 Apr 2023 | 54
Oracle's examplar win over SAP for Birmingham City Council is 3 years late It also required £20 million in extra funds – and Larry wants to brag about this? Databases26 Apr 2023 | 44
Microsoft makes Windows Server 2022 licenses a little less cynical Addresses annoyances like 20-core VMs requiring 24 licenses Software26 Apr 2023 | 23
Stop OpenAI training its models on your chats by turning off history Also: ChatGPT Business tier will be available in the next few months AI + ML26 Apr 2023 | 7
UK becomes Unicorn Kingdom, where AI fairy dust earns King's ransom Opinion Dungeon master Sunak talks up 'funky' Silicon Valley sales pitch while schools left without maths teachers AI + ML25 Apr 2023 | 99
That's cute. UK.gov gathers up £100M for AI super-models Figure not a typo, tho it will be paired with £900M 'BritGPT' supercomputer, which is a bit more like it AI + ML25 Apr 2023 | 25
US Supreme Court snubs that guy who wants AI recognized as patent inventors No surprise for a panel that appears to enjoy taking away rights rather than granting them AI + ML24 Apr 2023 | 49
IBM pauses counting its billions to trim Red Hat staff Customers shouldn't even notice, sniffs Linux distro CEO OSes24 Apr 2023 | 28
US Veterans Affairs Dept shoots down $10B Oracle Cerner dream Despite Ellison's health world ambitions, Uncle Sam resets massive project over harm to patient health Databases24 Apr 2023 | 1
Tesla wins key court battle over Autopilot crash blame Anyone else who wants to take on Musk, please take note AI + ML24 Apr 2023 | 45
American private equity can't wait to gobble up Euro stalwart Software AG Silver Lake set to grab control of firm with legacy from Moon landing era Software24 Apr 2023 | 15
Google's AI chatbot Bard catches up to generating code In brief NSFW? You'll need to check outputs for accuracy. Plus: OpenAI CEO says massive model era's over, Microsoft said to be building custom AI chip AI + ML24 Apr 2023 | 4
If you don't get open source's trademark culture, expect bad language Opinion Rust never sleeps. Sometimes it dozes at the wheel Software24 Apr 2023 | 56
UK monopoly watchdog gives Broadcom-VMware probe a tight timetable If the news is bad for chip giant, a remedy will need to be found very quickly indeed Virtualization24 Apr 2023 | 3
Department of Homeland Security bets on AI to help handle China Secretary worries about critical infrastructure being held to ransom AI + ML24 Apr 2023 | 8
QEMU 8.0 hatches more support for Arm and RISC-V Sapphire Rapids joins the fun, and there's even something for s390x users Virtualization24 Apr 2023 | 3
Linux 6.3 debuts after 'nice, controlled release cycle' Preps for Intel's Meteor Lake, improves support for Chinese RISC-V silicon, and gets to the starting line with a racing wheel OSes24 Apr 2023 | 5
Autonomy's Mike Lynch loses battle against extradition to the US on fraud charges Next stop, Euro human rights court? Software21 Apr 2023 | 25
It's a matter of when, not if, customers move to the cloud, SAP tells investors That's news to some as analysts claim on-prem will be here for the foreseeable Databases21 Apr 2023 | 12
Central UK govt awards £12M+ contract to leave Google Workspace for Microsoft 365 Capgemini gets the job of saying goodbye to the Chocolate Factory Applications21 Apr 2023 | 44
Proliferation of AI weapons among non-state actors 'could be impossible to stop' Governments also have no theory on how nefarious groups might behave using the tech AI + ML21 Apr 2023 | 24
ChatGPT fans need 'defensive mindset' to avoid scammers and malware Palo Alto Networks spots suspicious activity spikes such as naughty domains, phishing, and worse AI + ML21 Apr 2023 | 4
Google backs Bard to generate ads, which apparently improves creativity Assures advertisers 'guardrails' will stop anything bad from happening AI + ML21 Apr 2023 | 16
Huawei replaces ERP with homebrew effort, claims it’s perfect and shows company will thrive despite sanctions Compares three-year development push to a famous battle that saw Communist forces triumph Applications21 Apr 2023 | 20
ChatGPT creates mostly insecure code, but won't tell you unless you ask Boffins warn of risks from chatbot model that, Dunning–Kruger style, fails to catch its own bad advice Software21 Apr 2023 | 59
Google Brain, protein-folding DeepMind fold into one Great minds in tech come together to solve hard problems – such as, why did anyone think Bard was a good name? AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 5
Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster scuttles into public view You may be all a Flutter over the installer OSes20 Apr 2023 | 21
What does an ex-Pharma Bro do next? If it's Shkreli, it's an AI Dr bot Martin, for it is him, tells El Reg: 'We've looked around for a real LLM-powered chatbot' AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 33
Microsoft nopes out after Twitter starts charging $$$ for API access Opinion Plus: Musk threatens lawsuit, claims Redmond trained models 'illegally using Twitter data' Software20 Apr 2023 | 66