IRS using AI to catch rich people and tax-dodging corps AI in brief Plus: Google CEO says AI will be biggest tech shift in our lives, new official AI words on Dictionary.com AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 10
Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? Opinion Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed Databases11 Sep 2023 | 101
G20 sets 2027 as the year in which it hopes members can tax crypto transactions Leaders settle for modest action on issues including AI, stablecoins, cross-border payments Software11 Sep 2023 | 6
IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week Managers warn company goals can't be achieved unless coders get more face time and less FaceTime AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 156
GenAI proponents exploring its use alongside infrastructure-as-code It’s not 'Alexa: build me a K8s cluster' but could become Ansible or Chef using models trained on log files to recommend what your app needs AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 3
NixCon drops Palmer Luckey's AI combat drone maker Anduril as sponsor due to military ties NixOS event organizers say community unhappy about funding from Pentagon contractor AI + ML08 Sep 2023 | 8
GNOME 45 formalizes extensions module system As it reaches Release Candidate status, one change among many will have more visible impact OSes08 Sep 2023 | 36
TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months Boss Mark Liu says silicon ready but advanced packaging isn't AI + ML08 Sep 2023 | 4
PEBCAK problem transformed young techie into grizzled cynical sysadmin On Call Banks aren't very creative, which became an issue for one customer Software08 Sep 2023 | 143
India warns ecommerce 'basket sneaks' and 'confirm shamers' their days are numbered Amazon, Google, and Meta helped it to draft guidelines on preventing 'dark patterns' Software08 Sep 2023 | 19
Microsoft to shield paid-up Copilot customers from any AI copyright brawls it starts Tough luck, freeloaders: You're on your own AI + ML07 Sep 2023 | 8
Windows August update plays Blue Screen bingo – and MSI boards got the winning ticket BIOS update issued with tweaked Intel microcode OSes07 Sep 2023 | 18
Linux distros drop their feelgood hits of the summer A quiet period for the IT industry is a good time to rebuild and refresh, apparently OSes07 Sep 2023 | 12
Microsoft to kill off Outlook REST API v2.0 in 2024 – for real this time Learn to love Microsoft Graph or say hello to Mr 404 Software07 Sep 2023 | 10
d-Matrix bets on in-memory compute to undercut Nvidia in smaller AI models Microsoft among in-memory AI chip startup's backers AI + ML07 Sep 2023 | 3
AI to replace 2.4 million jobs in the US by 2030, many fewer than other forms of automation It's not all bad news. Poets are safe. And machines will take some jobs no human wants AI + ML06 Sep 2023 | 37
Google settles another Play Store antitrust case Perhaps the Chocolate Factory didn't feel like staring down 36 state AGs with two other competition cases pending Applications06 Sep 2023 | 3
Scared of flying? Good news! Software glitches keep aircraft on the ground NATS explains last week's UK chaos as bug delays 211 United Airlines flights Software06 Sep 2023 | 62
Windows File Explorer gets nostalgic speed boost thanks to one weird bug A glitch that makes the lives of users better? Where do we sign? OSes06 Sep 2023 | 58
SAP user group calls for support deadline reprieve amid hospital billing worries Schedule is unrealistic... it takes 2 years just to tender, protests board member Databases06 Sep 2023 | 13
Decades-old Home Office asylum system misses EOL deadline, no new timetable in place Exclusive Replacement due more than a decade ago, Casework Information Database soldiers on as case backlog hits record highs Databases06 Sep 2023 | 38
Google rebrands 'android' as 'Android' to remove any doubt about its affiliations LOGOWATCH 'Bugdroid' goes a bit 'Village People' to become 'as dynamic as Android itself' Software06 Sep 2023 | 32
Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history YMMV, based on where you are Applications06 Sep 2023 | 91
US AGs: We need law to purge the web of AI-drawn child sex abuse material Deepfakes of underage girls set off alarm bells for legal eagles AI + ML06 Sep 2023 | 42
AI coding is 'inescapable' and here to stay, says GitLab Getting strong FOMO vibes from devs – tho how ML is actually used among engineers may surprise you Devops05 Sep 2023 | 23
Fedora and Asahi Linux pals revamp installation process Switch to Calamares aims to make setup simpler OSes05 Sep 2023 | 4
Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster Authority effectively bankrupt as ERP car crash adds to equal pay liability Databases05 Sep 2023 | 236
Three years after setting off, Bus Open Data Service wants consultants to help it on its journey UK tender hopes to boost beleaguered local bus services Databases05 Sep 2023 | 12
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Guild behind actors' strike fears video game workers also at risk from AI Authorizes strike for voice and motion capture talent at major game studios AI + ML05 Sep 2023 | 35
ArcaOS 5.1 gives vintage OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21st century When your '90s nostalgia craves a modern touch OSes04 Sep 2023 | 72
X may train its AI models on your social media posts AI In brief Plus: AI luminary Douglas Lenat passed away, and US newspaper chain halts publishing of AI-generated articles AI + ML04 Sep 2023 | 20
So you want to save energy? Ditch web apps and go native, boffins say Take up less CPU time and memory? What amazing tech is this?! Software04 Sep 2023 | 32
Farewell WordPad, we hardly knew ye Microsoft ends development of free basic word processor bundled with Windows Software04 Sep 2023 | 143
The world seems so loopy. But at least someone's written a memory-safe sudo in Rust Turns out we can have nice things? Software02 Sep 2023 | 141
Dell and Samsung grab first-class tickets for AI hype train Stock prices shoot up thanks to tech flavor of the moment AI + ML01 Sep 2023 | 6
What happens when What3Words gets lost in translation? UK emergency services organizations urged to consider alternatives Applications01 Sep 2023 | 168
antiX 23: Anarchic for sure, but 'design by committee' isn't always the best for Linux Still, it's blisteringly fast and systemd-free too OSes01 Sep 2023 | 58
From browser brat to backend boss: Will WASM win the web wars? Opinion WebAssembly is getting a lot of hype, but is it the game-changer some think it is? Devops01 Sep 2023 | 66
Pokémon Go was a 'success disaster' and Niantic is still chasing another hit The past seven years have seen improved mapping, AR and AI, and the developer's gotta catch 'em all ahead of Monster Hunter launch Software01 Sep 2023 | 21
Broadcom boss dismisses notion China could derail VMware buy As Nutanix celebrates Cisco hook-up and quirky cloud repatriations Software01 Sep 2023 | 2
How to ask Facebook's Meta to not train its AI models on some of your personal info Hey, stop Zucking up my data! AI + ML31 Aug 2023 | 38
Arm wrestles assembly language guru's domains away citing trademark issues Maria Markstedter spent years writing about chip biz's ISA, is a tad miffed by heavy-handed takedown tactics Software31 Aug 2023 | 106
With version 117, Firefox finally speaks Chrome's translation language It also beats its main rival in some speed tests now Applications31 Aug 2023 | 51
Another thing AI is better at than you: First-person drone racing May as well give up already AI + ML31 Aug 2023 | 10
As VMware says goodbye, leadership thinks Broadcom buy is a win Exec chuffed regulators accepted perhaps-overstated lame duck argument Virtualization31 Aug 2023 | 7
Chinese vendor apologizes for claiming Microsoft open source code was its own product CEC-IDE is re-skinned Visual Studio Code with added censorware to spot terms like ‘Taiwan Independence’ Software31 Aug 2023 | 15
OpenAI urges court to throw out authors' claims in AI copyright battle ChatGPT's prose harvesting protected by fair use, super-lab argues AI + ML31 Aug 2023 | 42
After injecting pop-up ads for Bing into Windows, Microsoft now bends to Europe on links Clicking a URL from a system service will actually open in your chosen browser. For some. How fancy OSes30 Aug 2023 | 36
Tesla's purported hands-free 'Elon mode' raises regulator's blood pressure NHTSA is already worried Autopilot and FSD make drivers irresponsible – this surely won't help matters Software30 Aug 2023 | 57
Google wants to takes a byte out of Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL migration service Third-party and bespoke apps most likely candidates for the switch Databases30 Aug 2023 | 15
This profiler chatbot promises to help speed up your Python – we can believe it Interview Scalene, Scalene, Scalene, Scalene, I'm beggin' of you please improve my code Software30 Aug 2023 | 12
AI-powered monitors to defend Washington DC against aerial threats Replaces surveillance systems installed after 9/11 - and years before drones became a threat AI + ML30 Aug 2023 | 7
Google threatens to inject Duet AI bot into more corners of Workspace: Meet, Chat, etc Cloud Next And adds rivals Claude 2, Falcon, Llama 2 to Vertex AI AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 6
Perhaps AI is going to take away coding jobs – of those who trust this tech too much Llama 2 avoids errors by staying quiet, GPT-4 gives long, if useless, samples AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 19
Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next Cloud Next TPU v5e, A3 VMs, and GKE Enterprise headline first in-person shindig since pandemic Cloud Infrastructure Week29 Aug 2023 |
FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds On AWS Firecracker – but there are other new micro-VM engines around, too Applications29 Aug 2023 | 80
NHS watchdog expresses vendor lock-in concerns over Federated Data Platform deal Quango must show Palantir does not have unfair advantage in procurement Databases29 Aug 2023 | 8
OpenAI pops an enterprise sticker on ChatGPT to give big biz some peace of mind Here's what you actually get for this VIP level. And how is Microsoft happy with this? AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 4
Nvidia just made a killing on AI – where is everyone else? Comment It doesn't matter if your GPU is better at training if no one can get hold of them AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 10