Human-replacing AI startups reach $1bn unicorn status
In brief Plus: Meta builds speech-to-speech system to translate Hokkien, Waymo expands to LA, and more
AI + ML23 Oct 2022 | 1
Software
How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling
Hands On Long live the King's English or something like that
Applications22 Oct 2022 | 250
Microsoft said to be in talks to invest more in OpenAI
Software giant is already in deep, giving the startup $1 billion in 2019
AI + ML21 Oct 2022 | 3
OpenBSD 7.2: The other other FOSS xNix released with Apple M2 support
Plus better support for some newer Intel wireless and graphics chipsets
OSes21 Oct 2022 | 19
Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time
First Look Works well, but selection of available apps is meagre
Virtualization21 Oct 2022 | 44
India fines Google $162 million for abusing Android monopoly
That's a whole six hours of revenue, but requirements to open the Android ecosystem will hit harder
OSes21 Oct 2022 | 2
Ubuntu 22.10 is out, with an extra remix in the family: Unity
Linux wunderkind's project now an official flavor as 'Kinetic Kudu' brings nine months of updates
OSes20 Oct 2022 | 13
AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education
Analysis Boffins say educators need to deal with opportunities and risks of GitHub Copilot and pals
AI + ML20 Oct 2022 | 24
SolarWinds and Dynatrace directors resign over antitrust concerns
DoJ cracks down on competing companies that share board members
Software20 Oct 2022 | 3
The only Windows 10 updates for the year are coming. Spoiler alert: It's just security
What did you expect, HoloLens-ready Minesweeper and new skins for Calculator?
OSes19 Oct 2022 | 13
Google submits Go apps container project to Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Did we say donate? We meant submit. Megacorp swiftly KOs former blog title
Devops19 Oct 2022 | 1
How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm
Special report AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one
AI + ML19 Oct 2022 | 66
FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor
"Serverless" microVMs further blur the line between containers and virtual machines
Virtualization19 Oct 2022 | 9
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NASA AI shows slashing sulfur in shipping fuel cut air pollution at sea
COVID-19 pandemic made a bit of a dent, too
AI + ML19 Oct 2022 | 8
YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs
There goes Woke Big Tech again, downplaying traditional liberal views
AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 111
Self-driving tech startup values crash 81% in 2 years
LiDAR companies lead the pack, with valuations plummeting up to 99% since IPO
AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 24
FOSS digital audio workstation Ardour reaches version 7
An open source rival to Ableton
OSes18 Oct 2022 | 4
Firefox 106 will let you type directly into browser PDFs
Sorry Adobe but we can let users type or even hand-write directly
Software18 Oct 2022 | 86
AWS targets desktop virtualization rigs with lift and shift to cloudy DaaS
Citrix can do this too. Hyperconverged infrastructure's salad days serving virtual PCs might be ending
Virtualization18 Oct 2022 | 3
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China dumps dud chips on Russia, Moscow media moans
What? Sanctions-busting sellers aren't interested in your complaints? That's a shame
YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs
There goes Woke Big Tech again, downplaying traditional liberal views
Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling all-nighters just before deadline
Release candidate one for Linux 6.1 has appeared
Mars rover Curiosity reaches sulfate-rich Mount Sharp after 10-year journey
NASA had been aiming for the region since before landing because there are 'signs of past water'
Firefox 106 will let you type directly into browser PDFs
Sorry Adobe but we can let users type or even hand-write directly
CEO told to die in a car crash after firing engineers who had two full-time jobs
Poll Boss says it was 'stealing' – but what do you think?
'Fully undetectable' Windows backdoor gets detected
SafeBreach supposedly spots somewhat stealthy subversive software
The great semiconductor drought may be about to break
Or maybe we've just lost our appetite. Either way, lead times are very slowly on the mend
Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time
First Look Works well, but selection of available apps is meagre
How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm
Special report AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one
STORIES
Waferscale, meet atomic scale: Uncle Sam to test Cerebras chips in nuke weapon sims
Thermonuclear warheads, so hot right now
AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 6
Broadcom to spin VMware takeover as creating 'more competition' in cloud
Chip giant flutters eyelashes at Europe in hope of early acqusition
Virtualization17 Oct 2022 | 8
Google reveals another experimental operating system: KataOS
Based on Rust, on top of seL4 – a big deal in the microkernel world
OSes17 Oct 2022 | 27
Vodafone to move SAP S/4HANA ERP system to Google Cloud
Spare a thought for the techies hauling on-prem mega-platform of one of world's biggest mobile companies to the fluffy stuff
Databases17 Oct 2022 | 17
Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling all-nighters just before deadline
Release candidate one for Linux 6.1 has appeared
OSes17 Oct 2022 | 57
Loathsome eighties ladder-climber levelled by a custom DOS prompt
Who, Me? This wasn't WarGames – it was far more serious
Software17 Oct 2022 | 112
Microsoft extends Azure Hybrid benefit to some on-prem software
Azure Stack HCI and Azure Kubernetes Service can be free for Windows Server customers. Microsoft hopes that price will encourage you to stick around
Software17 Oct 2022 |
Weird robot breaks down in middle of House of Lords hearing on AI art
In brief Plus: Listen to Fake Joe Rogan interviewing Bogus Steve Jobs in bizarre podcast episode
AI + ML16 Oct 2022 | 37
Just $10 to create an AI chatbot of a dead loved one
Feature How software can help some grieve, perturb others
AI + ML15 Oct 2022 | 60
US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system
Nothing like medical orders routed into /dev/null and other problems to hold up a roll out
Databases14 Oct 2022 | 10
Linux kernel 6.1 will contain fixes, features. Useful Rust modules? Not yet
But you get a super practical patch that prints CPU, core, and socket when you get a segfault
OSes14 Oct 2022 | 10
Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop
Opinion But, it won't play out the way you think it will
OSes14 Oct 2022 | 146
SAP's German-speaking heartlands still struggling with ERP vendor's cloud vision
'Customers will not – at least not in the short term – move exclusively to cloud scenarios'
Databases14 Oct 2022 | 8
Fujitsu and Japanese Uni propose 'endorsement layer' to make the internet trustable
Hope to combat misinformation with graph of observations that prove what you’re reading is reliable
Software14 Oct 2022 | 18
Zinc: An Ubuntu remix that dares to be different
Impressive distro is somewhere between a tech demo and a power user's tool
OSes13 Oct 2022 | 13
Canonical displays controversial 'ad' in shell update prog
Updated Ubuntu once again courts controversy, but alternative commands are available
OSes13 Oct 2022 | 61
Want to crawl inside a nuke plant swinging a hammer? No? Toshiba's inspection bots will do it instead
Go ahead, feel redundant: machines reduce maintenance time by 12 days and go places humans cannot
Software13 Oct 2022 | 12
AI recruitment software is 'automated pseudoscience', Cambridge study finds
HR diversity claims via software are rot, according to boffins
AI + ML13 Oct 2022 | 111
Microsoft attempts to eat Oracle's database lunch with Azure migration service
Ignite Redmond hopes move will lure more to its PostgreSQL managed service
Databases12 Oct 2022 | 5
Tuxedo Computers releases version 1.0 of its Ubuntu remix
We spin up Linux PC vendor's first public version of its in-house OS
OSes12 Oct 2022 | 10
UK hospitals fall back on pen and paper after Oracle Cerner outage
Staff couldn't access patient records and paper stocks were running low
Databases12 Oct 2022 | 12
Nvidia not cutting it? Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived
GCN Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPUs and Mount Evans SmartNICs pop their heads above ground, too
AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 3
Oracle VirtualBox 7.0 is here – just watch out for the proprietary Extension Pack
Latest version of FOSS hypervisor boasts support for new 3D acceleration tech and encrypted virtual machines
Virtualization11 Oct 2022 | 37
Structured data, unstructured data: It shouldn't matter, says Google
GCN Apache Spark comes to BigQuery while BigLake gets Iceberg support
Databases11 Oct 2022 | 2
Samsung's Ukraine headquarters damaged by Russian missile strike
R&D Center focuses on autonomous AI, otherwise known as On-Device AI
AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 22
SAP users see scattered clouds on the horizon
User group's views are at odds with the software giant's direction
Databases11 Oct 2022 | 1
People still seem to think their fancy cars are fully self-driving
This is despite a history of assistive software being involved in crashes
AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 122
UK govt launches multibillion procurement for tax agency application services
First chunk of mega-frameworks go to market
Applications11 Oct 2022 | 5
Singapore suggests blockchain to speed cross-border payments
Monetary Authority director calls current system 'not fit for 21st century'
Software11 Oct 2022 | 9
Solving the problem of disaster recovery and performance at a global scale
How Amazon delivers multi-active, multi-region database replication for performance and availability
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More than 4 in 10 PCs still can't upgrade to Windows 11
Research by Lansweeper shows Microsoft's stringent hardware requirements still at play
OSes10 Oct 2022 | 141
VMware acknowledges the wisdom of never buying version 1.0 of a product
To get you upgrading faster, vSphere will now be released for Initial Availability before reaching General Availability
Virtualization10 Oct 2022 | 5
Lab explores dystopian future of AI helping cops catch criminals
In brief Plus: US AI Bill of Rights, and a new framework to run models on AMD and Nvidia GPUs more flexibly
AI + ML08 Oct 2022 | 11
Plop. That's the sound of a boot manager booting PCs off media they can't start from
Friday Freeware Fest … Including virtual machines as well as physical ones
OSes07 Oct 2022 | 23
Fivetran slammed for dropping SQL support. CEO: 'Blame me for this'
Updated Ubiquitous database language support continued through third-party tool, users told
Databases07 Oct 2022 | 11
AI co-programmers perhaps won't spawn as many bugs as feared
They can't be any worse than some human developers
AI + ML07 Oct 2022 | 16
Amazon halts work on ‘Scout’ delivery-bot that delivered parcels no faster than humans
Meanwhile in China, Alibaba runs 500 delivery-bots and they’ve delivered 10 million items to Easy Street
AI + ML07 Oct 2022 | 61
Canonical makes Ubuntu Pro free for up to five machines
Kernel live-patching and a full decade of software updates
OSes06 Oct 2022 | 3
DeepMind uses matrix math to automate discovery of better matrix math techniques
How Meta, er, meta
AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 15
Microsoft warns: Windows 11 update breaks provisioning
And it wouldn't be a Redmond OS update without printing issues
OSes06 Oct 2022 | 31
Nuh-uh, Meta, we can do text-to-video AI, too, says Google
Brace yourself for a weird future where everything is imagined by magic sand we taught how to think
AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 5
AI eye-scanner can tell whether you'll croak it from a heart attack
If and when this hits the mainstream, who's going to trust their retinas to random models?
AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 19
Splunk alleges source code theft by former employee who started rival biz
Updated Cribl accused of terrible behaviour, horrible IP practices, responds saying accusations are risible
Software06 Oct 2022 | 10
OpenStack ends requirement for six-monthly upgrades with ‘SLURP’ plan
As version ‘Zed’ debuts, project slows down a little
Software06 Oct 2022 |
SUSE wheels out first public prototype of its server Linux distro, asks for feedback
Adaptable Linux Platform v0.01 shows that the future of SLE is containerized
OSes05 Oct 2022 | 12
Linux 6.1: Rust to hit mainline kernel
New language will be official, probably within a couple of months
OSes05 Oct 2022 | 32
IceWM reaches version 3 after a mere 25 years
And it's not the only venerable window manager still in development
Applications05 Oct 2022 | 28
VideoLAN to India: If you love FOSS so much, why have you blocked our downloads?
Activists help pen letter to New Delhi demanding answers
Software05 Oct 2022 | 10
Don't mind Facebook, just putting its own browser in its Android app
Analysis Totally not for data collection
Software04 Oct 2022 | 45
You thought you bought software – all you bought was a lie
Comment Isn't code something worth paying for? Well, frankly, no
Software04 Oct 2022 | 216
Someone's at last helping AI models understand those with speech disabilities
Welsh, on the other hand, there's no tech that can help with that
AI + ML04 Oct 2022 | 16
NetScaler reclaims identity after Citrix, Tibco merge as ‘Cloud Software Group’
Other business units also made full members of group, perhaps hinting and spin-outs
Software04 Oct 2022 |
Big changes coming in Debian 12: Some parts won't be FOSS
Vote result good news for new users, but might be bad for remixes
OSes03 Oct 2022 | 27
PostgreSQL 15 promises to ease Oracle and SQL Server migrations
MERGE means more code can be copied from earlier installation, because let's be real – that's how it's happening
Databases03 Oct 2022 | 12
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Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst drowns data lakehouse concept
Interview Colorful data techie seeks to fend off rivals
Databases03 Oct 2022 | 6
Tesla has a lot of work to do on its Optimus robot
Optimus Sub-Prime? For something meant to revolutionize production lines, reveal wasn't quite there yet
AI + ML03 Oct 2022 | 109
Google Translate dropped in mainland China
Search engine was banned so no surprise no one was using it
Applications03 Oct 2022 | 3
Bank of England puts cloud analytics on todo list after seeing off market collapse
Data more essential than ever, says analytics chief as Liz Truss U-turns on tax, and world+dog remembers Bank's there to manage risk
Databases03 Oct 2022 | 24
Linux kernel 6.0 debuts, Linus Torvalds teases ‘core new things’ coming in version 6.1
Linux boss' launch message is more ‘6.0 is overrated’ than ‘The joy of 6.0’
OSes02 Oct 2022 | 25
Text-to-image models are so last month, text-to-video is here
In brief Plus: Did Bruce Willis sell his image rights to AI biz creating deepfakes? And more
AI + ML01 Oct 2022 | 17
Google delays execution of doomed Chrome extensions
Busineses get a little longer with Manifest v2, everyone else... it depends
Applications30 Sep 2022 | 20
Amazon lets you rent Ubuntu Pro. Yes, it's Linux on the virtual desktop
Insert your Year of Linux joke here, we dare you
Virtualization30 Sep 2022 | 7
Here's OpenStack Platform 17 – aka what Red Hat hopes your network operator will one day use
The project with the thumbs up from CERN ... and China
OSes30 Sep 2022 |
How Citrix dropped the ball on Xen ... according to Citrix
Open Source Summit How to win friends and admit how you lost them earlier?
Virtualization30 Sep 2022 | 17
Atlassian smartens up security, licensing admin tools
And bundles its best bits at bargain price in case someone wants you to work their way for a while
Devops29 Sep 2022 | 2
Upcoming Outlook for Windows app opens to more testers
Office Insider? You might want to check refreshed email client
Applications29 Sep 2022 | 6
Cockroach Labs CTO: Google became too comfortable, I wasn't being challenged
Interview Peter Mattis on starting a multibillion-dollar company as serverless database hits GA
Databases29 Sep 2022 | 4
Europe just might make it easier for people to sue for damage caused by AI tech
Imagine the lawyer infomercials – Did a computer hurt you? Call (30) 555 1234...
AI + ML29 Sep 2022 | 17
UK, US slip down World Digital Competitiveness Ranking
Denmark takes top spot, Croatia improves fastest, Hong Kong flops
Software29 Sep 2022 | 12
Tencent has its Meta moment as CEO Pony Ma outlines 'immersive convergence'
Video confs to add multi-sensory interaction and by 2040 maybe even brain/machine interfaces
Software29 Sep 2022 | 5
OpenAI opens doors to DALL-E after the horse has bolted to Midjourney and others
Ironic that an ML lab with so many accelerators is such a slowpoke
AI + ML29 Sep 2022 | 7
Cloudflare's invisible CAPTCHA works by probing browsers with JavaScript
Beta-grade widget respects your privacy, we're promised
Software28 Sep 2022 | 31
Uncle Sam to unmask anonymous writers using AI
Along with revealing authors, IARPA also wants bot to disguise scribes
AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 50
Late but lustrous, a fresh remix of Ubuntu emerges
UbuntuDDE 22.04 is colorful, and with slightly less Chinese flavor than Ubuntu Kylin
OSes28 Sep 2022 | 10
Russia's Facebook-like VK removed from Apple App Store
Apps still available on Google Play, digital ministry says it's investigating
Applications28 Sep 2022 | 1
Is it time to retire C and C++ for Rust in new programs?
Column Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure CTO, thinks so
Software28 Sep 2022 | 200
Save the whales – with, uh, artificial intelligence?
When a Klingon Bird-of-Prey just won't cut it
AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 10
Ford buys into Middle Kingdom market with China EV subsidiary
As Intel expands its collaboration with Chinese car-maker Geely
AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 4
China's central bank declares victory over online lenders, Bitcoin speculators
Just in time for the Party Congress, whatever the reality of the situation
Software28 Sep 2022 | 3
