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Sorry, Moxie. Blaming Agile for software stagnation puts the wrong villain in the wrong play

Opinion Innovation dead for twenty years? Tell that to 2004

Software19 Aug 2024 | 56

Chinese chip equipment maker AMEC sues Pentagon for entity list removal

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: China's richest man used to work for Google; Singtel profit jumps; most APAC governments don't have AI governance policies, and more

AI + ML19 Aug 2024 | 12

Who needs GitHub Copilot when you can roll your own AI code assistant at home

Hands on Here's how to get started with the open source tool Continue

AI + ML18 Aug 2024 | 28

Game not over: Epic brings Fortnite back to iOS in Europe, using its own app store

But the cost of battling Apple and Google? A hefty $1B lost in revenue

Software17 Aug 2024 | 27

California trims AI safety bill to stop tech heads from freaking out

Anthropic boss meanwhile reckons there's 'a good chance ... we'll be able to get models that are better than most humans at most things'

AI + ML16 Aug 2024 | 27

Windows 11 Insider preview brings new Sandbox features and fatter FAT32

Arrives in the Canary Channel and updated via the Microsoft Store

OSes16 Aug 2024 | 18

Warren Buffett ditches his near-$1B Snowflake investment

Oracle of Omaha's exit follows revenue growth shortfall, CEO switch, and customer data leak

Databases16 Aug 2024 | 23

New Zealand minister OKs Kim Dotcom extradition to US

Entrepreneur vows to keep on buffering

Software16 Aug 2024 | 36

If a cheesy '80s flick is a good metaphor for how you run projects, something is wrong

There can be only one … annoying management technique

Software16 Aug 2024 | 36

HPE nabs long-time ally Morpheus Data

The CMP boasts to be the orchestration platform behind GreenLake since 2022

Software15 Aug 2024 |

Gartner mages: Payback from office AI expected in around two years

Hype is peaking now and digital employee experience stuck in trough of disillusionment

AI + ML15 Aug 2024 | 43

Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious

Comment A business breakup may be coming – but what comes after may not be better

Software15 Aug 2024 | 114

AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care

Column Everyone knows automation will happen, which is why everyone needs proof of human involvement

AI + ML15 Aug 2024 | 117

Actors can license AI voice clones in union deal

Thesps at least get final say on what their doppelgängers will say

AI + ML15 Aug 2024 | 7

Microsoft tweaks fine print to warn everyone not to take its AI seriously

Don't use LLMs for anything important and don't try to reverse engineer it

Software14 Aug 2024 | 25

Microsoft squashes bug that sent Windows devices to BitLocker recovery

A patch to fix the patch that caused admins to scamper for their recovery keys

OSes14 Aug 2024 | 14

AI or bust? Only one part of US tech economy keeps growing, says analyst

Investors still shovelling money into AI but 'path to monetization' still far

AI + ML14 Aug 2024 | 7

Apple-flavored Opera One brings its browser AI show to iOS

iPhone version of mobile browser sees surge of interest in wake of EU competition rules

Software14 Aug 2024 |

Biden tries to cut through fog of confusion caused by deliberately deceptive customer service tricks

Targets impossible unsubscribes, elusive human assistance, and other wallet-draining time sinks

Public Sector13 Aug 2024 | 46

Linux Foundation wades into AI as Open Model Initiative joins ranks

Penguins reiterate commitment to 'fostering open, collaborative' development, licensing

AI + ML13 Aug 2024 | 4

Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks IRL? Mostly unscrupulous job seekers, jokesters and trolls

Because apps talking like pirates and creating ASCII art never gets old

AI + ML13 Aug 2024 | 17

AI chatbots amplify creation of false memories, boffins reckon – or do they?

We can misremember it for you wholesale

AI + ML13 Aug 2024 | 14

Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS

You don't get to be the biggest business in the world by being nice

Applications12 Aug 2024 | 100

It's all drying up: Microsoft to erase 3D Paint from digital store

Unloved multi dimensional doodler set for axe as its predecessor gets an AI update

Applications12 Aug 2024 | 21

Google-commissioned report claims early adopters already enjoying fruits of gen-AI labor

Analysis 43% of the time, it really, really works 45% of the time

AI + ML12 Aug 2024 | 47

LLM-driven C-to-Rust. Not just a good idea, a genie eager to escape

Opinion Automatic for the people? Don’t mind if we do

Software12 Aug 2024 | 87

Twilio's Segment SDK challenged with wiretapping claim

Mobile app analytics software said to surreptitiously snarf data

Applications09 Aug 2024 | 5

Microsoft really wants those old Exchange 2016 servers put out to pasture

Come to 2019. The in-place upgrades to the Subscription Edition will be lovely

Software09 Aug 2024 | 39

Core Python developer suspended for three months

Code of Conduct violations include allegations that posts created 'atmosphere of FUD'

Devops09 Aug 2024 | 227

Apple tries again to make EU DMA officials happy – with new fees

Meanwhile, UK watchdog contemplates breaking Cupertino's WebKit rule

Applications09 Aug 2024 | 16

UK monopoly police launch full blown probe of Amazon's Anthropic tie-up

Poor cloud titans, just trying to give a helping hand to AI startups valued at billions of dollars

AI + ML09 Aug 2024 | 5

Techie told 'Bill Gates' Excel is rubbish – and the Microsoft boss had it fixed in 48 hours

On Call I'm a Mac. I'm a PC. You're both annoying me

Software09 Aug 2024 | 114

What's going on with AMD funding a CUDA translation layer, then nuking it?

Analysis We guess the House of Zen wants all you HIP kids to ROCm out with its own runtimes instead

Software09 Aug 2024 | 10

It's 2024 and we're just getting round to stopping browsers insecurely accessing 0.0.0.0

Can't reach someone's private server on localhost from outside? No problem

Research09 Aug 2024 | 39

China’s preferred desktop Linux, openKylin, chases the AI PC in version 2.0

Middle Kingdom netizens can look forward to the same kind of letdown Windows users get with Copilot

OSes08 Aug 2024 | 7

Anaconda puts the squeeze on data scientists now deemed to be terms-of-service violators

Updated Academic, non-profit organizations told to start paying up – or else

Applications08 Aug 2024 | 22

Survey finds that four in five enterprise endpoints could run Windows 11

Bad news: They aren't, and Windows 10 end of support is looming

OSes07 Aug 2024 | 41

Study backer: Catastrophic takes on Agile overemphasize new features

Interview Users just want stuff that works. How hard can it be?

Devops07 Aug 2024 | 92

South Korea to force e-commerce marketplaces to pay vendors faster

Platforms owe billions after they stopped paying and sent thousands of SMEs into cashflow crunches

Software07 Aug 2024 | 9

All y'all love AI, right? Get ready for Gemini in Nest cameras, Google Assistant

And you're replacing Chromecast with TV Streamer? Great! That's a logical step for the evolving landscape of ...

Personal Tech06 Aug 2024 | 14

AMD hopes to unlock MI300’s full potential with fresh code

Devs invited to ROCm out with FP8 precision, quantize to their heart's delight

HPC06 Aug 2024 | 1

Google splats device-hijacking exploited-in-the-wild Android kernel bug among others

And Qualcomm addresses 'permanent denial of service' flaw in its stuff

Patches06 Aug 2024 | 8

Nvidia's subscription software empire is taking shape

Comment $4,500 per GPU per year adds up pretty quick – even faster when you pay by the hour

Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2024 | 23

WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free

The preferred tool of Arthur C Clarke, Anne Rice and George R R Martin

Applications06 Aug 2024 | 131

Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin

Will you see the Lite?

Applications06 Aug 2024 | 96

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI again, claims CEO Sam Altman ‘betrayed’ him

These two are going through a really, really bad breakup

AI + ML05 Aug 2024 | 21

Google paying to be default search on phones is totally against antitrust law, judge rules

Web giant to seek second opinion after bench labels biz 'a monopolist' in DoJ win

Applications05 Aug 2024 | 48

What AI bubble? Groq rakes in $640M to grow inference cloud

In the gold rush, be the one handing out the shovels

Cloud Infrastructure Month05 Aug 2024 | 3

Stock-trading apps fall under the feet of stampeding panicking investors

They're doing you a favor, probably best not to look today

Applications05 Aug 2024 | 12

Anaconda's Python-for-Excel escapes Azure Cloud, heads for your PC

Badger, badger, badger your CIO to let you use this, perhaps

Applications05 Aug 2024 | 6

Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

The technology remains highly controversial despite widespread rollout

Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 292

Atlassian softens its cloud-first approach for remaining on-prem customers

Happy to have 'em go hybrid as it wises up to the enterprise

Applications05 Aug 2024 | 9

DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course

Who wants to make a TRACTOR pull request?

Research03 Aug 2024 | 146

San Francisco set to ban rent-hiking algorithms used by landlords

Automated price-fixing software screwing over tenants? Fog off!

Software02 Aug 2024 | 39

Azure Linux 3 hits general availability – but don't expect any frills

Microsoft's distribution gets a new LTS kernel

OSes02 Aug 2024 | 9

50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution

In 1974, Gary Kildall got the first version working and changed the world of operating systems

OSes02 Aug 2024 | 135

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Gentoo Linux to drop Itanium support as Funtoo fork enters 'Hobby Mode'

Ubuntu 24.04.1 will be late, but fresher kernels are coming

Brit tech mogul Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily amid storms

CockroachDB scuttles away from open source Core offering

Sorry, Moxie. Blaming Agile for software stagnation puts the wrong villain in the wrong play

Chinese chip equipment maker AMEC sues Pentagon for entity list removal

Who needs GitHub Copilot when you can roll your own AI code assistant at home

Game not over: Epic brings Fortnite back to iOS in Europe, using its own app store

California trims AI safety bill to stop tech heads from freaking out

Windows 11 Insider preview brings new Sandbox features and fatter FAT32

Warren Buffett ditches his near-$1B Snowflake investment

New Zealand minister OKs Kim Dotcom extradition to US

If a cheesy '80s flick is a good metaphor for how you run projects, something is wrong

HPE nabs long-time ally Morpheus Data

Gartner mages: Payback from office AI expected in around two years

Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious

AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care

Actors can license AI voice clones in union deal

Microsoft tweaks fine print to warn everyone not to take its AI seriously

Microsoft squashes bug that sent Windows devices to BitLocker recovery

AI or bust? Only one part of US tech economy keeps growing, says analyst

Apple-flavored Opera One brings its browser AI show to iOS

Biden tries to cut through fog of confusion caused by deliberately deceptive customer service tricks

Linux Foundation wades into AI as Open Model Initiative joins ranks

Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks IRL? Mostly unscrupulous job seekers, jokesters and trolls

AI chatbots amplify creation of false memories, boffins reckon – or do they?

Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS

It's all drying up: Microsoft to erase 3D Paint from digital store

Google-commissioned report claims early adopters already enjoying fruits of gen-AI labor

LLM-driven C-to-Rust. Not just a good idea, a genie eager to escape

Twilio's Segment SDK challenged with wiretapping claim

Microsoft really wants those old Exchange 2016 servers put out to pasture

Core Python developer suspended for three months

Apple tries again to make EU DMA officials happy – with new fees

UK monopoly police launch full blown probe of Amazon's Anthropic tie-up

Techie told 'Bill Gates' Excel is rubbish – and the Microsoft boss had it fixed in 48 hours

What's going on with AMD funding a CUDA translation layer, then nuking it?

It's 2024 and we're just getting round to stopping browsers insecurely accessing 0.0.0.0

China’s preferred desktop Linux, openKylin, chases the AI PC in version 2.0

Anaconda puts the squeeze on data scientists now deemed to be terms-of-service violators

Survey finds that four in five enterprise endpoints could run Windows 11

Study backer: Catastrophic takes on Agile overemphasize new features

South Korea to force e-commerce marketplaces to pay vendors faster

All y'all love AI, right? Get ready for Gemini in Nest cameras, Google Assistant

AMD hopes to unlock MI300’s full potential with fresh code

Google splats device-hijacking exploited-in-the-wild Android kernel bug among others

Nvidia's subscription software empire is taking shape

WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free

Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI again, claims CEO Sam Altman ‘betrayed’ him

Google paying to be default search on phones is totally against antitrust law, judge rules

What AI bubble? Groq rakes in $640M to grow inference cloud

Stock-trading apps fall under the feet of stampeding panicking investors

Anaconda's Python-for-Excel escapes Azure Cloud, heads for your PC

Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

Atlassian softens its cloud-first approach for remaining on-prem customers

DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course

San Francisco set to ban rent-hiking algorithms used by landlords

Azure Linux 3 hits general availability – but don't expect any frills

50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution

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