We talk to W3C board vice-chair Robin Berjon about the InterPlanetary File System Interview The decentralized web is alive and well despite Web3 financial scheming Networks15 Mar 2024 | 8
Microsoft forges One Teams App To Rule Them All Windows preview delivers one app to handle multiple accounts, boosts Copilot's capabilities Software14 Mar 2024 | 40
Microsoft Copilot for Security prepares for April liftoff Automated AI helper intended to make security more manageable Security13 Mar 2024 | 22
Dirty data shocks Indian taxpayers with huge bills Extra zeroes added to transaction values, just a handful of days before a payment deadline Public Sector13 Mar 2024 | 13
Network Rail steps back from geofencing over safety fears Award winning tech turns out to be less than accurate Applications12 Mar 2024 | 36
GPT-4 won't run Doom but will play the game poorly Should we worry this model is happy to grab a gun and start blasting? AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 21
AI models show racial bias based on written dialect, researchers find Those using African American vernacular more likely to be sentenced to death, if LLMs were asked to decide AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 72
You got legal trouble? Better call SauLM-7B Cooked in a math lab, here's an open source LLM that knows the law AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 27
Microsoft sends OneDrive URL upload feature to the cloud graveyard Preview's promise ends in digital dust Storage08 Mar 2024 | 22
The DMA hasn't changed Big Tech's anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality Public Sector07 Mar 2024 | 1
Microsoft drags Windows Subsystem for Android into the trash Amazon Appstore tieup fizzles out, too OSes05 Mar 2024 | 55
US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism Feature Trade watchdog argues that browsing and location data are sensitive and deserve to be defended Public Sector05 Mar 2024 | 36
Tiny Core Linux 15 stuffs modern computing in a nutshell Updated with kernel 6.6, latest GCC and glibc, still under 25 MB OSes04 Mar 2024 | 43
EU-turn! Now Apple says it won't banish Home Screen web apps in Europe So, er, how will WebKit-only applications work under latest Euro antitrust laws? Anyone? Tim? Applications02 Mar 2024 | 38
Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code /* Hope no one ever reads these functions lmao */ Security01 Mar 2024 | 62
GitHub struggles to keep up with automated malicious forks Cloned then compromised, bad repos are forked faster than they can be removed Security01 Mar 2024 | 26
Turns out cops are super interested in subpoenaing suspects' push notifications Those little popups may reveal location, device details, IP address, and more Public Sector29 Feb 2024 | 10
KDE Plasma 6.0 brings the same old charm and confusion The big new version of the other desktop, complete with improved HDR and a spinning desktop cube OSes29 Feb 2024 | 46
Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0 Following in the same direction as the good ship KDE Plasma OSes29 Feb 2024 | 35
Toyota admits its engines are overrated – by its own power testing software Japan's government slapped it for using the wrong code to produce too-powerful results Software29 Feb 2024 | 34
BEAST AI needs just a minute of GPU time to make an LLM fly off the rails Talk about gone in 60 seconds AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 10
What is GitHub Copilot Enterprise? You and your org just might find out firsthand Big biz invited to like and subscribe, without fear of litigation Devops27 Feb 2024 | 5
Boffins caution against allowing robots to run on AI models Before building the Torment Nexus, consider the risks AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 9
Microsoft's February Windows 11 security update unravels at 96% for some users Was your Patch Tuesday followed by a Rollback Wednesday? You're not alone OSes27 Feb 2024 | 42
Capita wins uncontested extension to mega millions Northern Ireland Education contract Latest £33M awarded without competition in 11+ years contract that's now worth well over half a billion Personal Tech27 Feb 2024 | 11
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns Maker of ML accelerators wants more people to use ML AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 131
Nevada sues to deny kids access to Meta's Messenger encryption State government says it's thinking of the children Security26 Feb 2024 | 37
Prompt engineering is a task best left to AI models Machine-learning boffins find open source neural nets can optimize their own queries AI + ML22 Feb 2024 | 16
GNOME 46 beta has more tweaks than a coffee shop The future desktop of Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40 is nearly ready OSes21 Feb 2024 | 15
Microsoft veteran on how to blue screen your way to better testing A crash course on making Windows crash on demand Offbeat21 Feb 2024 | 18
Microsoft Publisher books its retirement party for 2026 Updated Venerable desktop publisher not going to get a Copilot any time soon Applications20 Feb 2024 | 50
How to weaponize LLMs to auto-hijack websites We speak to professor who with colleagues tooled up OpenAI's GPT-4 and other neural nets Research17 Feb 2024 | 24
Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms Opening up code used in criminal prosecutions for scrutiny? But where's the text-to-vid hype and doomsaying? AI + ML16 Feb 2024 | 42
Apple makes it official: No Home Screen web apps in European Union iBiz expresses regret for the impact of its entirely avoidable decision Applications16 Feb 2024 | 113
Google debuts Gemini 1.5 Pro model in challenge to rivals OpenAI meanwhile teases experimental text-to-vid system Sora AI + ML15 Feb 2024 | 3
Microsoft warns Dev Drive daredevils to back up or beware after latest build Rolling back will cause data loss, Windows Insiders told OSes15 Feb 2024 | 6
Miscreants turn to ad tech to measure malware metrics Now that's what you call dual-use tech Research15 Feb 2024 | 4
AI won't take our jobs and it might even save the middle class MIT economist argues ML can moderate the inequalities of the Information Age AI + ML14 Feb 2024 | 32
It's time we add friction to digital experiences and slow them down Column Decades of obsessing about always going faster have left us in constant danger Software14 Feb 2024 | 77
Europe loosens the straps tying Apple and Microsoft to tough antitrust rules Did someone say a safety word? iMessage, Bing, Edge, Ads avoid gatekeeper restrictions Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 11
Just one bad packet can bring down a vulnerable DNS server thanks to DNSSEC Updated 'You don't have to do more than that to disconnect an entire network' El Reg told as patches emerge Patches13 Feb 2024 | 15
RIP John Walker, software and hardware hacker extraordinaire Obit Creator of the Hacker Diet and sponsor of pre-Web hypermedia system Xanadu Software13 Feb 2024 | 18
Unit4 software's budget bungle leaves schools counting the cost MP calls on council to ensure education teams can plan their financial futures Databases13 Feb 2024 | 21
Meta says risk of account theft after phone number recycling isn't its problem to solve Leaves it to carriers, promoting a complaint to Irish data cops from Big Tech's bête noire Personal Tech13 Feb 2024 | 107
Chrome engine devs experiment with automatic browser micropayments I'd buy that for a $0.00000001 Applications13 Feb 2024 | 105
HPE seeks $4B in damages from Autonomy boss Mike Lynch and his ex-CFO Could have been worse – IT giant was asking for five On-Prem12 Feb 2024 | 16
ANZ Bank test drives GitHub Copilot – and finds AI does give a helping hand Expert Python programmers saw the most benefit AI + ML10 Feb 2024 | 40
Microsoft's Notepad goes from simple text editor to Copilot conspirator No guarantee it'll come to Windows proper, but testers can give it a poke Applications09 Feb 2024 | 40
Curious tale of broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago Interview It’s not NTP. There’s no way it’s NTP. It was NTP On-Prem09 Feb 2024 | 32
When red flags are just office decoration: Edinburgh Uni's Oracle IT disaster Management either weren't told about risks or ignored them, report finds Systems08 Feb 2024 | 91
In its tantrum with Europe, Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta, still hasn't fixed them PWAs demoted to OWB: Operating Within Browser Software08 Feb 2024 | 60
Rust can help make software secure – but it's no cure-all Security is a process, not a product. Nor a language Security08 Feb 2024 | 36
Twitter spinout Bluesky ends invite-only phase and opens its doors to all comers Dorsey-backed federated social media alternative promises custom feed algos, and more SaaS06 Feb 2024 | 21
Mozilla adds paid-for data-deletion tier to Monitor, its privacy-breach radar Firefox maker promises to lean on personal info brokers to scrub records Personal Tech06 Feb 2024 | 15
KDE 6 misses boat to make it into Kubuntu 24.04 'Noble Numbat' users will face a major post-install upgrade, which isn't ideal OSes06 Feb 2024 | 14
AI models just love escalating conflict to all-out nuclear war 'We have it! Let’s use it' proclaims the most warlike GPT-4-Base AI + ML06 Feb 2024 | 73
Google throws $1M at Rust Foundation to build C++ bridges Chocolate Factory matches Microsoft money for memory safety Devops05 Feb 2024 | 14
Building a 16-bit CPU in a spreadsheet is Excel-lent engineering But can it run Doom? Bootnotes02 Feb 2024 | 23
Cloudflare sheds more light on Thanksgiving security breach in which tokens, source code accessed by suspected spies Atlassian systen compromised via October Okta intrusion CSO02 Feb 2024 | 14
JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry Some devs just don't want anything to do with neural-network code serfs Software01 Feb 2024 | 83
Brit watchdog thinks Google's tweaked Privacy Sandbox still isn't cricket Good start, but we want further reassurance, says Competition and Markets Authority Applications01 Feb 2024 | 15
Web devs fear Apple's iOS shakeup for Europe will be a nightmare for support Still, there's hope for actual browser competition on iPhones Software31 Jan 2024 | 24