Microsoft puts the freeze on employee salaries, CEO pay still as hot as ever
Despite billions of dollars in profit, Satya Nadella points to those pesky 'macroeconomic uncertainties'
Ubuntu 23.04 welcomes three more flavors, but hamburger menus leave a bad taste
Official Cinnamon, Edubuntu reborn, and an updated Kylin
With AI hype driving up server GPU prices, will cloud costs rise next? We reckon so
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And what next for cooling, datacenter placement, and more – tune in and find out direct from our vultures
Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby
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Why sign up for ChatGPT when LLaMA and a multicore beast can do as well?
Microsoft signs up to buy electricity produced by fusion, perhaps in 2028
How complicated can cold fusion be, really?
Science12 May 2023 |
India to send official whassup to WhatsApp after massive spamstorm
In a weird way, we can blame this on AI being a better bet than blockchain
Security12 May 2023 |
GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI fail to wriggle out of Copilot copyright lawsuit
Judge won't toss out two key charges, software source slurping case is on
Software12 May 2023 |
Google accused of stomping on rivals as it stamps out annoying Calendar spam
Talk about going against the Grain
Personal Tech11 May 2023 | 2
Let white-hat hackers stick a probe in those voting machines, say senators
HAVA go at breaking electronic ballot box security
Research11 May 2023 |
EU still set to OK Microsoft's Activision slurp, UK disagrees
We've got four words for you: Insert coin to continue
Personal Tech11 May 2023 | 2
Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers
Black Hat Asia The threat is coming from inside the supply chain
Cyber-crime11 May 2023 | 14
VA's Cerner EHR platform fails to deliver medications to veterans
Messy system is forcing VA pharmacies to work overtime to deal with poor IT, committee told
Databases11 May 2023 | 2
Open source at Los Alamos Lab: Pragmatism as its nucleus
Don't miss Its 20,000-node cluster uses outdated MariaDB – for very good reasons
If you don't brush and floss, you're gonna get an abscess – same with MySQL updates
Database hygiene matters, says Percona expert
Databases11 May 2023 | 3
Alien rock causes cosmic disturbance in New Jersey home
Potential meteorite excites everyone but the insurance company
Offbeat11 May 2023 | 22
With AI hype driving up server GPU prices, will cloud costs rise next? We reckon so
Register Kettle And what next for cooling, datacenter placement, and more – tune in and find out direct from our vultures
AI + ML11 May 2023 |
ENISA leans into EU-based clouds with draft cybersecurity label
Time for AWS and pals to start thinking about JVs?
Security11 May 2023 | 7
Microsoft puts the freeze on employee salaries, CEO pay still as hot as ever
Despite billions of dollars in profit, Satya Nadella points to those pesky 'macroeconomic uncertainties'
Software11 May 2023 | 13
Ubuntu 23.04 welcomes three more flavors, but hamburger menus leave a bad taste
Official Cinnamon, Edubuntu reborn, and an updated Kylin
OSes11 May 2023 | 27
Strategic about storage
How to optimize your object storage needs with a ‘multicloud by design’ strategy
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TypeScript is ‘not worth it’ for developing libraries, says Svelte author, as team switches to JavaScript and JSDoc
Return of the applet? CheerpJ 3.0 runs a full JVM in HTML5 and WebAssembly
Despite ‘extremely disruptive’ Jakarta EE change, Red Hat releases the Quarkus 3.0 container-optimized framework
Reduce costs by 90% by moving from microservices to monolith: Amazon internal case study raises eyebrows
GOOGLE IO 2023
A deeper dive into Google's cloud, app and AI developer day
Focus WebGPU, Chrome extensions, Android, Dart, Flutter, and more
What you need to know from 2023's Google IO: PaLM 2, Pixel Fold, AI everywhere
Summary We sat through the Chocolate Factory's PR blitz so you don't have to
When push comes to shove, Google vacuums up GPU chips
Analysis Take a seat over there, TPUv4, we're rolling out Nvidia silicon
Show us the sauce code... Wendy's and Google to test drive-thru order-taking bot
Also What's worse for humanity: The slow, cruel eradication of labor, or those square patties?
Apple, Google propose anti-stalking spec for Bluetooth tracker tags
Earlier We moved fast and broke things, people got harassed and murdered, so let's revisit privacy
EU-US Privacy Framework could make life easier for a data biz, if it survives
Analysis But what about the Brits? A lawyer gives their take on the privacy minefield
Legal11 May 2023 | 16
Nvidia CEO pay falls ten percent in FY23 on missed sales targets
He still gets paid 94 times what his median workers do
Systems11 May 2023 | 5
NASA tests bot built to slither across, and beneath, alien worlds' ice
Video Wheels come off plan to explore Enceladus – in a good way
Science11 May 2023 | 6
Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby
Column Why sign up for ChatGPT when LLaMA and a multicore beast can do as well?
AI + ML11 May 2023 | 20
MACHINE LEARNING
Microsoft can't stop injecting Copilot AI into every corner of its app empire
News Teams gets a bot, OneNote gets a bot, PowerPoint gets a bot, Outlook gets a bot, everybody* gets a bot!
ML hype will drive datacenter GPU prices sky high
Analysis First the pandemic, then crypto, now chatbots
The first real robot war is coming: Machine versus lawyer
Opinion Go, Team Robot
OpenAI's ChatGPT may face a copyright quagmire after 'memorizing' these books
In-depth This top-drawer AI tech has a major science-fiction habit
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
India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios
Where feature phones remain prevalent, Spotify is not an option and the 'net is little use in an emergency
Personal Tech11 May 2023 | 42
The Hubble Space Telescope is sinking! Two startups want to save it for free
But it's up to NASA to approve a rescue mission. Cue Aerosmith
Science11 May 2023 | 21
So much for Pakistan’s plan for digital economy – it’s turned off the internet
As protests roil, connectivity has been cut with no relief in sight
Networks11 May 2023 | 7
Cisco to manufacture telecoms gear in India – but not much and not soon
‘To further strengthen and diversify the supply chain’ which is just what India loves to hear
Networks11 May 2023 | 2
4 ways CIOs can optimize IT and boost business value
One way to do more with less is to build business value using as-a-Service to optimize workload placement
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This upstart is selling tickets for a SpaceX trip to the world's first private space station
30 days with three other people in a double-width shipping container built by a crypto billionaire. What's not to like?
Science10 May 2023 | 19
YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens
Just a small experiment – for now?
Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 136
Don't turn it off and on again: Expired Cisco cert cripples vEdge SD-WAN kit
Updates said to be rolling out now... if your gateway hasn't already bricked itself
Networks10 May 2023 | 14
Twitter adds new DM features, and Musk claims encryption is here, starting today
Updated We'll believe our DMs are secure when someone provides proof, thanks
Security10 May 2023 | 14
Developers now able to 'customize' their Azure Virtual Desktop experience
Build your own ‘golden images’ and then connect 'em to more stuff, says Microsoft
PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 1
Dell reneges on remote work promise, tells staff to wear pants at least 3 days a week
Some say return to the office is a soft layoff, others blame Gen Z
On-Prem10 May 2023 | 94
Cut the DRAM waste, cut the energy bill
How ZeroPoint optimizes performance and energy use in datacenters with memory compression
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MariaDB's Xpand offers PostgreSQL compatibility without the forking drama
Play designed to swat CockroachDB and tempt users over from hyperscaler DBaaS systems
Databases10 May 2023 | 3
23-year-old Brit linked to 2020 Twitter attack and SIM-swap scheme pleads guilty
Admits to cyberstalking, wire fraud charges as Feds take $700k off him
Cyber-crime10 May 2023 | 12
The world of work is broken and it's Microsoft's fault
Employees are wasting literal days on meetings and email – but in rides AI like a knight in shining armor, right?
Offbeat10 May 2023 | 48
Capita looking at a bill of £20M over breach clean-up costs
Analyst says expense 'no small drop in ocean' but reputational damage could be 'far greater'
Cyber-crime10 May 2023 | 8
Money starts to flow as liquid cooling gets hot in datacenters
Global investment company KKR picks up CoolIT Systems for $270M
On-Prem10 May 2023 |
Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech
Building a wall... of code
Devops10 May 2023 | 144
Microsoft Azure CTO believes confidential computing is the future of targeted advertising
Wait... what?
PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 24
Korea hopes US will extend sanction exemptions for SK hynix and Samsung
Stuck in the middle or not, supply chains – and the Korean economy – must carry on
Legal10 May 2023 | 1
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Centralized secrets management picks up pace
How cloud migration and machine identities are fueling enterprise demand for secrets management systems
The good, the bad and the generative AI
ChatGPT is just the beginning: CISOs need to prepare for the next wave of AI-powered attacks
Want to put more data in your database engine?
Learn how bulk Amazon S3 imports open the floodgates for Amazon DynamoDB
AI defenders ready to foil AI-armed attackers
Operational AI cybersecurity systems have been gaining valuable experience that will enable them to defend against AI-armed opponents.
Meta wheels out Deloitte to plug the metaverse. Is anyone actually convinced?
Comment All these analysts know is that their gut says... maybe
Apple finally pro giving Pro iPads these Pro apps
Final Cut, Logic to land on fondleslabs – in subscription form
IBM launches Watsonx to help enterprises streamline workers out the door
Let's face it, Big Blue has plenty of experience in that area
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Dell reneges on remote work promise, tells staff to wear pants at least 3 days a week
Some say return to the office is a soft layoff, others blame Gen Z
Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech
Building a wall... of code
Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers
Black Hat Asia The threat is coming from inside the supply chain
YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens
Just a small experiment – for now?
Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby
Column Why sign up for ChatGPT when LLaMA and a multicore beast can do as well?
The world of work is broken and it's Microsoft's fault
Employees are wasting literal days on meetings and email – but in rides AI like a knight in shining armor, right?
Google Cloud's watery Parisian outage enters third week, with no end in sight
To make matters worse, other bits of the same region have wobbled
Don't turn it off and on again: Expired Cisco cert cripples vEdge SD-WAN kit
Updates said to be rolling out now... if your gateway hasn't already bricked itself
Sonatype axes 14 percent of staff, reminds them not to talk to the press
Exclusive Workers slam 'horrendous' handling of layoffs that left even 'engineering managers in the dark'
So much for Pakistan’s plan for digital economy – it’s turned off the internet
As protests roil, connectivity has been cut with no relief in sight
STORIES
Two Microsoft Windows bugs under attack, one in Secure Boot with a manual fix
Patch Tuesday On the plus side, this month's update batch is a bit smaller than usual
Patches09 May 2023 | 17
Nutanix de-converges by allowing dedicated nodes for compute and storage
This could be the way to get HCI out of its ghetto
Systems09 May 2023 | 1
FBI-led Op Medusa slays NATO-bothering Russian military malware network
Perseus to the rescue as Snake eats itself
Cyber-crime09 May 2023 | 7
What should protection for your 365 data really look like?
Don't let the cyber-criminals spread through your enterprise
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RSA CONFERENCE
Another RSA Conf under our belt, here's the stuff we didn't print
Wrap-up For the event itself, it's like the COVID-19 pandemic was all just a long-gone bad dream
Keep calm and carry on when the supply chain goes up in flames
Panel Lessons learned from the front-line responders
You don't have to wait for quantum computing to prepare for it
Interview Rapid7 CSO Jaya Baloo on how to tackle this potential looming tech
Future of warfare is AI, retired US Army general warns
Keynote Imagine fighting swarms – swarms – of autonomous planes
Mandiant's 'most prevalent threat actor' may be living under your roof – the teenager
Panel Plus they are cliquey as all hell
EV truck maker Nikola stalls in 2023, pulls out of Europe, hits brakes on production
If Q1 was 'very solid,' what does a bad quarter look like?
Microsoft disarms push notification bombers with number matching in Authenticator
Mandatory measure against attackers who spam MFA folks into submission
Star Fomalhaut has dusty little secret – two more debris belts and a potential planetary party
Nearby system was thought to have an exoplanet, but that was wrong. Now NASA says there may be multiple
Musk decides to bury dead Twitter accounts, warns users follower counts could sink
Why do this? Freeing up abandoned handles is 'important'
Personal Tech09 May 2023 | 42
EU proposes spyware Tech Lab to keep Big Brother governments in check
Potential roles for IT pros and lawyers, European city location included
Security09 May 2023 | 7
When you try to hire a freelancer to write SQL and all you get is incorrect AI garbage
hCaptcha researchers find that online labor platforms need work
AI + ML09 May 2023 | 39
Growing up fast
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