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Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs

A massively increased bill was one motive, but customers went cold on Virtzilla, and OpenNebula proved more efficient

Virtualization02 Dec 2024 | 41

Claims of 'open' AIs are often open lies, research argues

'When policy is being shaped, definitions matter'

AI + ML02 Dec 2024 | 10

Google India probed after driver fatally followed Maps route over unfinished bridge

Asia in Brief Plus: 95 percent of Chinese broadband tops 100 megabits; Yahoo Japan photo album privacy breach; and more

Software01 Dec 2024 | 37

India spending $170M to take its tax system paperless by rebuilding three legacy systems

Let's see how this goes

Software28 Nov 2024 | 10

Microsoft hits back at claims it slurps your Word, Excel files to train AI models

Updated Confusion over Connected Experiences settings in 365 apps spark concerns

AI + ML27 Nov 2024 | 42

Foursquare to close, but Swarm game will live on

And the company is doing the right thing with its database

Databases27 Nov 2024 | 7

Cloudflare broke its logging-as-a-service service, causing customer data loss

Software snafu took five minutes to roll back. The mess it made took hours to clean up

Off-Prem27 Nov 2024 | 5

Microsoft slaps Windows 11 update hold on hardware connected to eSCL devices

Scanners, printers, and... fax machines?

OSes26 Nov 2024 | 8

FLTK hits 1.4, arrives speaking Wayland and with better HiDPI support

A mere 13 years since the last point release

Software26 Nov 2024 | 9

Bing Wallpaper app, now in Windows Store, accused of cookie shenanigans

Microsoft free tool snooping on users? Surely not!

Security26 Nov 2024 | 47

Google must face £7B UK class action over search engine dominance

Ad slinger alleged to have abused position, resulting in higher prices for consumers

Software26 Nov 2024 | 24

UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in

Updated Meanwhile, budget clambered from £2.6M to nearly £40M, says report

Databases26 Nov 2024 | 54

AWS bends to Broadcom's will with VMware Cloud Foundation as-a-service

Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM are all doing it. Andy Jassy's rent-a-server shop may have felt it was leaving money on the table

Virtualization26 Nov 2024 | 5

Bluesky too opaque about user figures for Euro watchdogs

Updated X rival also under fire for failing to designate legal representative

Legal26 Nov 2024 | 82

Kill Oracle's 'JavaScript' trademark, Deno asks USPTO

Petition claims database titan maintained its mark by making a fraudulent claim

Software26 Nov 2024 | 56

How US Dept of Justice's cure for Google could inflict collateral damage

Opinion Remedies should be refined with an eye toward broad platform rights and responsibilities

Software25 Nov 2024 | 26

RHEL 9.5 debuts alongside AlmaLinux, Rocky, and Oracle updates

Plus, soon you'll be able to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a supported option under WSL

OSes25 Nov 2024 | 16

Microsoft reboots Windows Recall, but users wish they could forget

Comment AI snapshot tool stumbles back into the spotlight with more issues

AI + ML25 Nov 2024 | 79

Smile! UK cops spend tens of millions on live facial recognition tech

Labour government keen, though critics paint it as a severe threat to privacy

Software25 Nov 2024 | 71

Microsoft shuttering dedicated licensing education, certification site

Spreading the content around other places – and may also sprinkle some AI in because why not

Software25 Nov 2024 | 13

We can clone you wholesale: Boffins build ML agents that respond like specific people

Oh, AI wanna be like you, AI wanna walk like you, talk like you, too

AI + ML24 Nov 2024 | 49

One thing AI can't generate at the moment – compelling reasons to use it for work

Kettle Our vultures think this tech is interesting but in its 8-bit stage

AI + ML23 Nov 2024 | 56

AI Jesus is ready to dispense advice from a booth in historic Swiss church

Pope, Depeche Mode, silent on digital second coming

Bootnotes23 Nov 2024 | 77

Now’s your chance to try Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall ... maybe

Like its AI, this automated screenshotter and logger is a feature not exactly everyone wanted

OSes22 Nov 2024 | 37

Amazon bets another $4B on Anthropic

You just gonna stand there, Google, let AWS take the 'primary training partner' title? Not gonna do nothing?

AI + ML22 Nov 2024 | 7

Public developer spats put bcachefs at risk in Linux

Updated Fisticuffs in FOSS-land! Fancy file system's future fraught!

OSes22 Nov 2024 | 72

Microsoft pulls text recognition from Photos app preview

OCR tech not quite ready for primetime, in this bit of Windows at least

Applications22 Nov 2024 | 14

Datacenters could blow up your electric bill thanks to AI

Operators may have to pay more for energy if capacity cannot meet demand

The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond22 Nov 2024 | 24

A year after Broadcom took control of VMware, it's in the box seat

Updated Customers are 'all miserable' but not yet deciding to bail - and AT&T appears to have settled its licensing dispute

Virtualization22 Nov 2024 | 45

AI PCs: 'Something will have to give in 2025, and I think it's pricing'

Consultant bemoans lack of use cases and businesses' budget

AI + ML22 Nov 2024 | 84

Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive

People just don't know how to wrangle chatbots into useful things, Intel says

AI + ML22 Nov 2024 | 110

New York Times lawyers claim OpenAI accidentally deleted evidence in copyright case

Updated Probably not intentional, but '150 person-hours' of work were still lost

AI + ML21 Nov 2024 | 8

Neuralink brain chips head for the Great White North

Canadian volunteers wanted for mind-meld trials

AI + ML21 Nov 2024 | 14

Prepare for an AI policy upending under Trump, say experts

Analysis Biden executive orders are as good as dead, and the industry will probably have more say in what comes next

Public Sector21 Nov 2024 | 27

API error knocks PayPal, Venmo offline around the globe

It's fixed now, but aside from an error with the Braintree GraphQL API it's not clear what happened

Applications21 Nov 2024 | 3

Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11

Never mind ESU... how about that upgrade?

OSes21 Nov 2024 | 135

DoJ wants Google to sell off Chrome and ban it from paying to be search default

Updated Filing also suggests it flogging off Android, stops scraping content for AI without opt-out

Applications21 Nov 2024 | 61

Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do?

Gartner weighs the pros and cons of the latest enterprise hotness

AI + ML21 Nov 2024 | 35

AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews

Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry's personal info from HR bots

AI + ML21 Nov 2024 | 135

Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's government

Digital end of life planning saves your loved ones from a little extra anguish

Software21 Nov 2024 | 77

We'll answer any questions DoJ has, HPE CEO tells us as Feds probe $14B Juniper buy

Takeover still expected to close late 2024 or early next year

Networks20 Nov 2024 | 11

Job seekers call BS on the workplace AI revolution

Survey respondents doubt it boosts performance or even lightens the load

AI + ML20 Nov 2024 | 23

Google's AI bug hunters sniff out two dozen-plus code gremlins that humans missed

OSS-Fuzz is making a strong argument for LLMs in security research

AI + ML20 Nov 2024 | 9

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96

Obit Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week

Bootnotes20 Nov 2024 | 121

Google changes Android release cycle so new versions arrive in Q2

Version 16 developer preview starts the new cycle, with warnings for devs to test sooner rather than later

OSes20 Nov 2024 | 10

Microsoft 365 Copilot trips over angle brackets, frustrating coders

updated Chatbot seems to choke when fed tricky less-than character

AI + ML19 Nov 2024 | 22

Microsoft breaks timezones in Settings and calls on an unlikely ally for help

Control Panel hobbles to the rescue!

Applications19 Nov 2024 | 30

Microsoft Fabric promises transactions, analytics on one database service

Ignite Windows giant also improving Iceberg support after throwing lot in with Delta Parquet

Databases19 Nov 2024 | 6

Database warhorse SQL Server 2025 goes all-in on AI

Ignite Better locking, improved query optimization, and... Copilot

Databases19 Nov 2024 | 5

Microsoft unleashes autonomous Copilot AI agents in public preview

Ignite They can learn, adapt, and make decisions – but don't worry, they're not coming for your job

PaaS + IaaS19 Nov 2024 | 9

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Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs

Claims of 'open' AIs are often open lies, research argues

Google India probed after driver fatally followed Maps route over unfinished bridge

Brits think AI in the workplace is all chat, no bot for now

Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros

Arch Linux installer now slightly less masochistic

Cloudy with a chance of GPU bills: AI's energy appetite has CIOs sweating

Microsoft preps big guns to shift Copilot software and PCs

Panasonic brings its founder back to life as an AI

Microsoft patches the patch that broke Exchange Server

Yup, half of that thought-leader crap on LinkedIn is indeed AI scribbled

Microsoft informed of yet another antitrust probe by US authorities

No, Broadcom did not just end VMware's flagship VCDX certification program

India spending $170M to take its tax system paperless by rebuilding three legacy systems

Microsoft hits back at claims it slurps your Word, Excel files to train AI models

Foursquare to close, but Swarm game will live on

Cloudflare broke its logging-as-a-service service, causing customer data loss

Microsoft slaps Windows 11 update hold on hardware connected to eSCL devices

FLTK hits 1.4, arrives speaking Wayland and with better HiDPI support

Bing Wallpaper app, now in Windows Store, accused of cookie shenanigans

Google must face £7B UK class action over search engine dominance

UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in

AWS bends to Broadcom's will with VMware Cloud Foundation as-a-service

Bluesky too opaque about user figures for Euro watchdogs

Kill Oracle's 'JavaScript' trademark, Deno asks USPTO

How US Dept of Justice's cure for Google could inflict collateral damage

RHEL 9.5 debuts alongside AlmaLinux, Rocky, and Oracle updates

Microsoft reboots Windows Recall, but users wish they could forget

Smile! UK cops spend tens of millions on live facial recognition tech

Microsoft shuttering dedicated licensing education, certification site

We can clone you wholesale: Boffins build ML agents that respond like specific people

One thing AI can't generate at the moment – compelling reasons to use it for work

AI Jesus is ready to dispense advice from a booth in historic Swiss church

Now’s your chance to try Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall ... maybe

Amazon bets another $4B on Anthropic

Public developer spats put bcachefs at risk in Linux

Microsoft pulls text recognition from Photos app preview

Datacenters could blow up your electric bill thanks to AI

A year after Broadcom took control of VMware, it's in the box seat

AI PCs: 'Something will have to give in 2025, and I think it's pricing'

Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive

New York Times lawyers claim OpenAI accidentally deleted evidence in copyright case

Neuralink brain chips head for the Great White North

Prepare for an AI policy upending under Trump, say experts

API error knocks PayPal, Venmo offline around the globe

Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11

DoJ wants Google to sell off Chrome and ban it from paying to be search default

Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do?

AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews

Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's government

We'll answer any questions DoJ has, HPE CEO tells us as Feds probe $14B Juniper buy

Job seekers call BS on the workplace AI revolution

Google's AI bug hunters sniff out two dozen-plus code gremlins that humans missed

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96

Google changes Android release cycle so new versions arrive in Q2

Microsoft 365 Copilot trips over angle brackets, frustrating coders

Microsoft breaks timezones in Settings and calls on an unlikely ally for help

Microsoft Fabric promises transactions, analytics on one database service

Database warhorse SQL Server 2025 goes all-in on AI

Microsoft unleashes autonomous Copilot AI agents in public preview

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