GCC 15 to keep Itanium support for now, after all
Now, can someone come up with an emulator for the things, please?
Software01 Nov 2024 | 12
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An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy
Ubuntu Summit 2024 ASWF is the open source foundation run by the folks who give out Oscars, and you've probably seen the results
Software01 Nov 2024 | 13
Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30
MIcrosoft extends its Extended Security Updates club to consumers, at last
OSes31 Oct 2024 | 87
Microsoft accused of 'greenwashing' as AI used in fossil fuel exploration
Activists press Redmond to come clean on ‘material reputational, legal, and operational risks’
AI + ML31 Oct 2024 | 18
VMware by Broadcom lifts storage allowances and prices for vSphere Foundation
This will both ease and exacerbate price concerns and competitive sniping
Virtualization31 Oct 2024 | 4
Microsoft turning away AI training workloads – inferencing makes better money
Azure's acceleration continues, but so do costs
AI + ML31 Oct 2024 | 17
US Army should ditch tanks for AI drones, says Eric Schmidt
And what do you know, Google's former CEO just so happens to have a commercial solution
AI + ML30 Oct 2024 | 117
Windows Themes zero-day bug exposes users to NTLM credential theft
Plus a free micropatch until Redmond fixes the flaw
Security30 Oct 2024 | 5
Reddit CEO thanks AI for helping the site finally turn a profit
After 19 years of losses, all it took was a machine translation of its posts to get out of the red
AI + ML30 Oct 2024 | 14
Best practices for GenAI vector data queries
Discover techniques for improving application performance and delivering relevant AI-driven insights
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OpenAI reportedly asks Broadcom for help with custom inferencing silicon
Fabbed by TSMC, needed for … it's a secret
AI + ML30 Oct 2024 | 6
No-Nvidias networking club convenes in search of open GPU interconnect
Ultra Accelerator Link consortium promises 200 gigabits per second per lane spec will debut in Q1 2025
Networks30 Oct 2024 | 2
Alphabet posts big revenue and profit growth, just 1,100 job losses
Google Cloud grows fast thanks to AI, which now writes a quarter of all G-code
AI + ML30 Oct 2024 | 30
Cast a hex on ChatGPT to trick the AI into writing exploit code
'It was like watching a robot going rogue' says researcher
Cybersecurity Month29 Oct 2024 | 27
Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Don't hold your breath Putin
Software29 Oct 2024 | 247
Softbank CEO says 'super AI' will arrive in 2035 and cost $9T
Video Oh, and it'll need the total current US power output
AI + ML29 Oct 2024 | 21
xAI picked Ethernet over InfiniBand for its H100 Colossus training cluster
Work already underway to expand system to 200,000 Nvidia Hopper chips
Systems29 Oct 2024 | 2
Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype
Linux kernel creator says let's see which workloads use GenAI in five years
AI + ML29 Oct 2024 | 96
US Army turns to 'Scylla' AI to protect depot
Ominously-named bot can spot trouble from a mile away, distinguish threats from false alarms, says DoD
AI + ML29 Oct 2024 | 3
The troublesome economics of CPU-only AI
Analysis At the end of the day, it all boils down to tokens per dollar
Systems29 Oct 2024 | 4
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If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap
60% tariffs on all Chinese goods are going to slam the IT sector
VMware by Broadcom lifts storage allowances and prices for vSphere Foundation
This will both ease and exacerbate price concerns and competitive sniping
Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years
India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time
Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30
MIcrosoft extends its Extended Security Updates club to consumers, at last
Hide the keyboard – it's the only way to keep this software running
On Call Lunch can be surprisingly dangerous. So can tea
Tower PC case used as 'creative cavity' by drug importer
Motherboard missing, leaving space for a million hits of meth
LottieFiles supply chain attack exposes users to malicious crypto wallet drainer
A scary few Halloween hours for team behind hugely popular web plugin
Apple throws shade on pokey AI PCs, claims its maxed out M4 chips are 4x faster
Busy week for Cupertino sees shrunken Mac minis, updated lappies, and new SoCs
Microsoft turning away AI training workloads – inferencing makes better money
Azure's acceleration continues, but so do costs
Hack Nintendo's alarm clock to show cat pics? Let's-a-go!
How 'Gary' defeated Bowser broke into the interactive alarm clock
STORIES
Microsoft accuses Google of creating a lobbying front called 'Open Cloud Coalition'
Seemingly dissatisfied with CISPE settlement, new UK-centric cloudy industry group calls for end to 'restrictive licensing'
Software29 Oct 2024 | 12
iFixit to the rescue: McDonald's workers can rescue their own ice cream machines
Burger me! Partial success in chipping away at insane DMCA rules
Software29 Oct 2024 | 53
Google reportedly developing an AI agent that can control your browser
Project Jarvis will apparently conduct research, purchase products, and even book a flight on your behalf
AI + ML28 Oct 2024 | 50
GenAI's dirty secret: It's set to create a mountainous increase in e-waste
New modelling shows tech could massively increase current volumes of electronic landfill by 2030
AI + ML28 Oct 2024 | 26
Delta officially launches lawyers at $500M CrowdStrike problem
Legal action comes months after alleging negligence by Falcon vendor
Cybersecurity Month28 Oct 2024 | 23
Satya Nadella asked for 50% cut in his incentive payout over security failures
Comment Microsoft agreed, then upped his payout 63%
Software28 Oct 2024 | 24
WordPress forces user conf organizers to share social media credentials, arousing suspicions
One told to take down posts that said nice things about WP Engine
Software28 Oct 2024 | 40
Veeam tests support for another VMware alternative: XCP-NG
As Gartner rates the contenders for those contemplating a move off Virtzilla, with Nutanix on top of the list
Virtualization28 Oct 2024 | 3
Is Microsoft's AI Copilot? CoPilot? Co-pilot? MVP creates site to help get it right
When you say 'team' do you mean 'Teams' or a SharePoint 'team site'? Letmecorrectthatforyou.com explains the difference
Software28 Oct 2024 | 39
'Open banking' rules will put your financial data back where it belongs
Well, at least eventually since some companies have until 2030 to comply
Software27 Oct 2024 | 8
AlmaLinux shows off its new Kitten
Also there's a beta of 9.5 – which is more than there is of RHEL
OSes26 Oct 2024 | 14
Perplexity AI decries News Corp's 'simply false' data scraping claims
'They prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations'
AI + ML25 Oct 2024 | 24
The open secret of open washing – why companies pretend to be open source
Opinion Allowing pretenders to co-opt the term is bad for everyone
Columnists25 Oct 2024 | 45
San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for open source
Puts Chief Tightwad Officers on notice
Software25 Oct 2024 | 80
Hackers love GitHub dorks - SecOps love outsmarting them
How GitGuardian enables auditing of GitHub footprints to mitigate past, present, and future leaks
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Your computer's not working? Sure, I can fix that problem – which I caused
On Call Not paying what you agreed for a job can prove expensive in the long run
Software25 Oct 2024 | 64
OpenAI loses another senior figure, disperses safety research team he led
Artificial General Intelligence readiness advisor Miles Brundage bails, because nobody is ready
AI + ML25 Oct 2024 | 39
Polish radio station ditches DJs, journalists for AI-generated college kids
Station claims it's visionary, ex-employees claim it's cynical; reality appears way more fiscal
AI + ML25 Oct 2024 | 53
Hugging Face puts the squeeze on Nvidia's software ambitions
AI model repo promises lower costs, broader compatibility for NIMs competitor
AI + ML24 Oct 2024 | 16
Emergency patch: Cisco fixes bug under exploit in brute-force attacks
Who doesn't love abusing buggy appliances, really?
Software24 Oct 2024 | 3
With record revenue, SK hynix brushes off suggestion of AI chip oversupply
How embarrassing for Samsung
AI + ML24 Oct 2024 |
Bitwarden's FOSS halo slips as new SDK requirement locks down freedoms
Arguments continue but change suggests it's not Free Software anymore
Applications24 Oct 2024 | 16
Here's a NIS2 compliance checklist since no one cares about deadlines anymore
Only two EU members have completed the transposition into domestic law
Cybersecurity Month24 Oct 2024 | 11
Vivaldi gives its browser a buffing, adds a dashboard
Everybody needs more widgets in their life, right?
Applications24 Oct 2024 | 22
Voice-enabled AI agents can automate everything, even your phone scams
All for the low, low price of a mere dollar
Security24 Oct 2024 | 23
Anthropic's latest Claude model can interact with computers – what could go wrong?
For starters, it could launch a prompt injection attack on itself...
AI + ML24 Oct 2024 | 8
Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
Removal of kernel maintainers linked to Russia attributed to sanctions
Software23 Oct 2024 | 257
NHS would be hit by 'significant' costs if UK loses EU data status, warn Lords
As another government yet again seeks to reform UK GDPR, legislators say data must continue to flow
Public Sector23 Oct 2024 | 189
Codasip opens up SDK for CHERI protection on RISC-V chips
Alliance commits to Integrating the architecture into all high-tech products
Software23 Oct 2024 | 1
SuperHTML is here to rescue you from syntax errors, and it's FOSS
Author would like to see a switch back to plain old static HTML. Us too
Applications23 Oct 2024 | 99
OpenAI's rapid growth loaded with 'corner case' challenges, says Fivetran CEO
Interview GenAI poster child is a 100-story-tall baby with simple infrastructure but extreme demands
Databases23 Oct 2024 |
AI firms and civil society groups plead for passage of federal AI law ASAP
Congress urged to act before year's end to support US competitiveness
AI + ML23 Oct 2024 | 8
Huawei makes divorce from Android official with HarmonyOS NEXT launch
Another step toward tech independence for China – on the day Tim Cook came to town
OSes23 Oct 2024 | 31
Fujitsu delivers GPU optimization tech it touts as a server-saver
Middleware aimed at softening the shortage of AI accelerators
AI + ML23 Oct 2024 |
Fake reviewers face the wrath of Khan
From hell's heart I stab at thee
Software22 Oct 2024 | 29
Sorry, but the ROI on enterprise AI is abysmal
Appen points to, among other problems, a lack of high-quality training data labeled by humans
AI + ML22 Oct 2024 | 45
Western Digital wasn't the only one - Windows 24H2 update bluescreens Asus systems
Microsoft blocks updates to avoid giving admins another headache
OSes22 Oct 2024 | 12
Tech firms to pay millions in SEC penalties for misleading SolarWinds disclosures
Unisys, Avaya, Check Point, and Mimecast settled with the agency without admitting or denying wrongdoing
Software22 Oct 2024 | 7
Socket plugs in $40M to strengthen software supply chain
Biz aims to scrub unnecessary dependencies from npm packages in the name of security
Applications22 Oct 2024 |
Clock's ticking on PostgreSQL 12, but not everyone is ready to say goodbye
11% of databases still on aging version with a month of support left
Databases22 Oct 2024 | 10
Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year
More senior than Windows itself, and still runs the world
Applications22 Oct 2024 | 108
Major publishers sue Perplexity AI for scraping without paying
We sell that to OpenAI – how dare you steal it and make stuff up
AI + ML22 Oct 2024 | 16
Lab-grown human brain cells drive virtual butterfly in simulation
Could organoid-driven computing be the future of AI power?
Science22 Oct 2024 | 32
India, Nvidia, discuss jointly developed AI chip
Current capabilities mean local manufacturing is not likely – but a chip tuned to Indian needs could work
Systems22 Oct 2024 | 4
Intern allegedly messed with ByteDance's LLM training cluster
No losses caused – except the intern's job – says TikTok parent
AI + ML22 Oct 2024 | 18
Microsoft says its Copilot AI agents set to tackle employee tasks in November
Let bots manage your supply chain? What could possibly go wrong?
AI + ML21 Oct 2024 | 16
Gary Marcus proposes generative AI boycott to push for regulation, tame Silicon Valley
Interview 'I am deeply concerned about how creative work is essentially being stolen at scale'
AI + ML21 Oct 2024 | 32
Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise
Mozilla and Google complicate life for users of uBlock Origin and uBlock Lite
Software21 Oct 2024 | 100
UK authority struggles to RISE with SAP, throws another £9M at project
Gloucestershire continues with legacy system as SaaS replacement delayed by more than a year
Databases21 Oct 2024 | 13
AI 'bubble' will burst 99 percent of players, says Baidu CEO
Asia In Brief Plus: Australian bank glitch empties accounts; China online slang crackdown; Toshiba teams with Airbus; and more
AI + ML20 Oct 2024 | 18
WinAmp's woes will pass, but its wonders will be here forever
Opinion Not as clumsy or random as a streamer, an elegant player for a more civilized age
Software20 Oct 2024 | 49
Open source LLM tool primed to sniff out Python zero-days
The static analyzer uses Claude AI to identify vulns and suggest exploit code
Security20 Oct 2024 | 9
Someone's finally taking on £10M Hull City Council ERP deal to replace Oracle
Step forward Workday after mega long procurement to support system that went live 22 years ago
Databases18 Oct 2024 | 23
HashiCorp unveils 'Terraform 2.0' while tiptoeing around Big Blue elephant in the room
HashiConf shindig oddly reluctant to mention impending IBM acquisition
Devops18 Oct 2024 | 14
Destiny Robotics settles SEC case over AI-powered human robot vaporware
Raised $141k+ crowdfunding, but now powered down
AI + ML18 Oct 2024 | 5
Qualcomm 'pausing' X-Elite Dev Kit, offering refunds
Five months in, only 200 units reached customers, Qualy tells El Reg
Systems17 Oct 2024 | 5
Microsoft crafts Rust hypervisor to power Azure workloads
OpenVMM touts stronger security, but not ready for prime time just yet
Software17 Oct 2024 | 8
Manifest file destiny: Declare your funding needs via JSON
India-based stockbroker Zerodha pledges $1M a year for open source projects
Software17 Oct 2024 | 2
Western Digital releases firmware fix for SSDs blighted by Windows 11 24H2 BSODs
Microsoft tells us it is investigating the issue... Phew, that's ok then
OSes17 Oct 2024 | 31
Post Office CTO had 'nagging doubts' about Horizon system despite reliability assurances
As 'heat' built from campaigners, tech boss kept telling MPs everything was fine
Public Sector17 Oct 2024 | 81
Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI
Claims their child will 'suffer irreparable harm' if the record stays
AI + ML16 Oct 2024 | 178
IBM: Insurance industry bosses keen on AI. Customers, not so much
Fewer than 30% of clients happy dealing with a generative AI virtual agent
AI + ML16 Oct 2024 | 17
Productivity suites, Exchange servers in path of Microsoft's end-of-support wave
Less than a year to go – is your enterprise ready for the change?
Applications16 Oct 2024 | 5
Inexorable march of progress at SAP threatens to leave users behind
AI hardly a hot topic with some customers calling for more innovation on-prem
Databases16 Oct 2024 | 4
Windows 7 finally checks out as POSReady 7 closes the till on an era
Embedded versions live longer – including Windows 10 LTSC
OSes16 Oct 2024 | 16
Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo
As badly as the later development of the player itself, really
Software16 Oct 2024 | 152
NHS England warned about plans to extend Covid-era rules for patient data access
Governance and public consultation need work before rule change goes ahead
Databases16 Oct 2024 | 9
Google's memory safety plan includes rehab for unsafe languages
Large C and C++ codebases will be around for the 'foreseeable future'
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2024 | 30
AT&T and Broadcom may settle VMware support case
Fresh filing sees Broadcom admit it discounts deeply – music to the ears of all Virtzilla users coming off contract
Virtualization16 Oct 2024 | 7
Asian tech ministers fear effective AI regulation will prove elusive
New Zealand isn't bothering. Singapore fears harms are inevitable
Public Sector16 Oct 2024 | 1
Digital River runs dry, hasn't paid developers for sales since July
Vendor told El Reg the biz's law firm claims merchant debts aren’t valid obligations
Software15 Oct 2024 | 60
Sysadmins rage over Apple’s ‘nightmarish’ SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts plot
Max validity down from 398 days to proposed 45 by 2027
Software15 Oct 2024 | 128
Microsoft teases latest Windows 10 build despite looming end
Rearranging the deckchairs as support iceberg approaches
OSes15 Oct 2024 | 15
VMware settles securities fraud class suit with $102.5M payout
Traded its shares between 2018 and 2020? You could cash in
Virtualization15 Oct 2024 | 5
Intel, AMD team with tech titans for x86 ISA overhaul
Linus Torvalds, Broadcom, Dell, HPE, and Lenovo on the list
Systems15 Oct 2024 | 23
Windows 11 24H2 disk space hoarding a 'reporting error'
Microsoft adds another item to the known issues list
OSes15 Oct 2024 | 21
Automotive AI player Cerence appoints ex-Intel boss Brian Krzanich as its CEO
Public opinion is against him, as comments on LinkedIn go dark
AI + ML15 Oct 2024 | 4
WordPress bans WP Engine from sponsoring or participating in user groups
As Matt Mullenweg and David Heinemeier Hansson feud over FOSS, community worries about the fallout
Software15 Oct 2024 | 30
AI amplifies systemic risk to financial sector, says India's Reserve Bank boss
Who also worries misinformation on social media could threaten liquidity
AI + ML15 Oct 2024 | 6
Big data vendors introduce Apache Iceberg features in same week
Market rivals settle on open table format, while Microsoft and Databricks go their own way
Databases14 Oct 2024 | 2
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