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Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel
Microsoft CEO is more interested in neural nets boosting GDP than delivering superhuman intelligence
Google previews free Gemini Code Assist tier – uses your code to improve AI models by default
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Microsoft's updated Windows battery indicator rollout runs out of juice
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Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl
APRICOT 2025 With a generation of networking engineers set to retire, is this how to give their successors a faster start?
Networks27 Feb 2025 |
How mega city council's failure to act on Oracle rollout crashed its financial controls
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PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2025 | 3
FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license
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Databases27 Feb 2025 | 9
Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o
Model was fine-tuned to write vulnerable software – then suggested enslaving humanity
AI + ML27 Feb 2025 | 26
Cash torrent pouring into Nvidia slows – despite booming Blackwell adoption
May we all have problems like annual revenue growth dropping from 126 to 114 percent
Systems27 Feb 2025 | 4
FAA confirms it's testing Starlink, maybe for tasks Elon says Verizon is doing badly
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Networks27 Feb 2025 | 11
Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China's Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time
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Networks27 Feb 2025 | 2
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Cyber-crime26 Feb 2025 | 4
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Cyber-crime26 Feb 2025 | 9
100-plus spies fired after NSA internal chat board used for kinky sex talk
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Bootnotes26 Feb 2025 | 34
Like a kid handing in homework at the last minute, Supermicro finally files its missing financial figures
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On-Prem26 Feb 2025 | 3
Data resilience and data portability
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SaaS26 Feb 2025 | 8
Qualcomm pledges 8 years of security updates for Android kit using its chips (YMMV)
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Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 3
Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you...
Arm rolls out the Cortex-A320 for small embedded gear that dreams of big-model inference
Networks26 Feb 2025 | 5
Windows 11 24H2 goes back to the drawing board over AutoCAD 2022 glitch
Safeguard hold applied after designer darling borked by problematic update
OSes26 Feb 2025 | 15
Workday talks up AI agents platform that will reap rewards of staff cuts
CEO assures investors he'll plough headcount savings into risk-management enterprise product
AI + ML26 Feb 2025 | 6
Framework guns for cheap laptops with upgradeable alternative
Chromebook-area pricing for latest designs
Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 27
Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on US clouds back under the spotlight
Interview Technologist Bert Hubert tells The Reg Microsoft Outlook is a huge source of geopolitical risk
Off-Prem26 Feb 2025 | 67
Microsoft's updated Windows battery indicator rollout runs out of juice
How hard can it be to add colors and percentages?
OSes26 Feb 2025 | 61
Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect
Experts warned the UK’s recent 'victory' over Apple would kickstart something of a domino effect
Security26 Feb 2025 | 70
SpaceX says bad vibes most likely cause of Starship 7 flop
All fixed for Flight Test Eight, OK?
Science26 Feb 2025 | 29
Murena kicks Google out of the Pixel Tablet
Privacy-centric Android makes more sense on this form factor than a phone
Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 30
Harassment allegations against DEF CON veteran detailed in court filing
FYI More than a dozen women came forward with accusations
HP CEO pay for 2024 = 261,658 toner cartridges
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On-Prem26 Feb 2025 | 10
Wozniak: I didn't reduce chip count for manufacturing. I wanted to prove I was clever
Plus: Beware of a hotspot called 'spanky'
Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 14
Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel
Microsoft CEO is more interested in neural nets boosting GDP than delivering superhuman intelligence
AI + ML26 Feb 2025 | 58
Google previews free Gemini Code Assist tier – uses your code to improve AI models by default
Swift on the server? Faster and cheaper than Python in case study, but beware slow builds
AI is eroding code quality states new in-depth report
AWS Amplify hosting adds server-side IAM roles for integration with other services
200-plus impressively convincing GitHub repos are serving up malware
Infosec bytes Plus: DOGE staff quit; LastPass PC, Mac gasp; and CISA warns Oracle and Adobe flaws under attack
Security26 Feb 2025 | 7
Incoming deputy boss of Homeland Security says America's top cyber-agency needs to be reined in
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Public Sector26 Feb 2025 | 32
Drug-screening biz DISA took a year to disclose security breach affecting millions
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Cyber-crime26 Feb 2025 | 5
Xi know what you did last summer: China was all up in Republicans' email, says book
Of course, Microsoft is in the mix, isn't it
Cyber-crime25 Feb 2025 | 25
Shifting the cybersecurity odds
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MITRE Caldera security suite scores perfect 10 for insecurity
Is a trivial remote-code execution hole in every version part of the training, or?
Research25 Feb 2025 | 11
IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax
Big Blue eyes integration with its AI development studio
Databases25 Feb 2025 | 1
The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin
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Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface
Only a test at the moment, but a sign of things to come?
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Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco
Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances
Databases25 Feb 2025 | 102
China's Silver Fox spoofs medical imaging apps to hijack patients' computers
Sly like a PRC cyberattack
Research25 Feb 2025 | 2
Data intelligence comes first when building AI
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London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world
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Networks25 Feb 2025 | 25
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Offbeat25 Feb 2025 | 79
Malware variants that target operational tech systems are very rare – but 2 were found last year
Fuxnet and FrostyGoop were both used in the Russia-Ukraine war
Research25 Feb 2025 | 4
OBS-tacle course: Fedora and Flathub's Flatpak fiasco sparks repo rumble
Dispute settled, but not the causes
OSes25 Feb 2025 | 19
Southern Water takes the fifth over alleged $750K Black Basta ransom offer
Leaked chats and spilled secrets as AI helps decode circa 200K private talks
Cyber-crime25 Feb 2025 | 34
Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs
Bureau of Labor Statics warns lawyers and customer service reps to brace for change, says techies will be fine
Databases25 Feb 2025 | 11
If you dip your toes into immersion cooling, watch out for dielectric liquid sharks
APRICOT 2025 The small pool of suppliers understand their market power
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Despite Wall Street jitters, AI hopefuls keep spending billions on AI infrastructure
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LLM aka Large Legal Mess: Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing
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Google binning SMS MFA at last and replacing it with QR codes
Everyone knew texted OTPs were a dud back in 2016
CSO25 Feb 2025 | 103
Apple promises to spend $500B, hire 20K over 4 years to swerve Trump import tariffs
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On-Prem24 Feb 2025 | 24
US Dept of Housing screens sabotaged to show deepfake of Trump sucking Elon's toes
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Intel cranks up accelerators in Xeon 6 blitz to outgun AMD
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
