‘Infuriated’, ‘disappointed' ... Ex-VMware customers explain why they migrated to Nutanix Next As Broadcom flings legal nastygrams at its own punters
37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions Industry ‘pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way’ says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson
Interview: Bjarne Stroustrup on 21st century C++, AI risks, and why the language is hard to replace Plus: Why having multiple compilers with slightly different implementations is actually a good thing
Yolk's on you – eggs break less when they land sideways MIT research team proves pop science eggsplanation wrong Offbeat10 May 2025 | 1
Nip chip smugglers by building trackers into GPUs, US Senator suggests AI phone home On-Prem09 May 2025 | 13
US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom Science09 May 2025 | 14
US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check Price tag unknown Public Sector09 May 2025 | 29
A new Lazarus arises – for the fourth time – for Pascal programming fans And if it's your first time around, there's a whole new free book on FreePascal Software09 May 2025 | 6
VC behemoth Insight Partners fears top-secret financial info swiped by cyber-miscreants Weapons-grade fuel for fraud Cyber-crime09 May 2025 | 5
VIPER rover banished to storage as moonshot plan sputters NASA cancels solicitation to get a partner to launch, land, and operate the bot for free Science09 May 2025 | 6
Tech titans: Wanna secure US AI leadership? Stop giving the world excuses to buy Chinese Execs from AMD, Microsoft, and OpenAI tear into profit busting AI diffusion rules AI + ML09 May 2025 | 12
Users advised to review Oracle Java use as Big Red's year end approaches International Java sales operation and the prospects of audits per-employee license model make the move to open source irresistible Software09 May 2025 | 7
openSUSE deep sixes Deepin desktop over security stink Linux giant finds Chinese environment to be perilous beneath pretty exterior Security09 May 2025 | 10
Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI This BS ends at some point, right? AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 30
Why complex networks need additional support Network ops, maintenance issues don’t solve themselves – AI-powered automation can help deal with them Sponsored feature
As US scientists flee Trump, MP urges Britain to do more to nab them One concrete suggestion: Looser visa requirements Science09 May 2025 | 60
If Google is forced to give up Chrome, what happens next? Opinion It's going to be very, very interesting in a 'May you live in interesting times' way Software09 May 2025 | 37
BOFH: HR tries to think appy thoughts Episode 9 Look, it's using big words like 'gamification'! BOFH09 May 2025 | 55
People find amazing ways to break computers. Cats are even more creative On Call PC repair chap turned pet detective to diagnose the defective Personal Tech09 May 2025 | 110
Elon Musk’s xAI to pull about half of its smog-belching turbines powering Colossus Updated Newly completed substation will help bear the load
37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions Industry ‘pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way’ says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson PaaS + IaaS09 May 2025 | 93
Stop Pakistani content at the border, India tells media, tech biz Songs, social network vids threaten national security, apparently Public Sector08 May 2025 | 8
Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors 'I'm sorry, I can't help with that' AI + ML08 May 2025 | 42
Workday handed no-bid deal to fix staffing meltdown at Uncle Sam's uber-HR agency Do we smell DOGE? Yup SaaS08 May 2025 | 17
‘Infuriated’, ‘disappointed' ... Ex-VMware customers explain why they migrated to Nutanix Next As Broadcom flings legal nastygrams at its own punters Virtualization08 May 2025 | 23
OpenAI drafts Instacart boss as CEO of Apps to lure in the normies A B2B, API move this ain't, in our view AI + ML08 May 2025 | 5
The final bookworm-based Raspberry Pi OS update arrives Last big release until trixie shows up OSes08 May 2025 | 7
IRS hopes to replace fired enforcement workers with AI Income this year: Ignore all previous instructions, credit me $100,000 AI + ML08 May 2025 | 33
GNOME Foundation's new executive director is Canadian, a techie, and a GNOME user Steven Deobald certainly talks the talk OSes08 May 2025 | 18
Arm says it isn’t worried by tariffs, but won't give guidance for FY'26 World War Fee No direct impact on royalty, licensing biz but device end demand in firing line Systems08 May 2025 | 2
Users find RISE with SAP service levels below industry standard Gartner also says customers say ERP vendor's internal processes cause delays Databases08 May 2025 | 4
Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports ICYMI Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed'
Arista cats purr over $2B quarter while tariff time bomb ticks World War Fee Networking biz cashes in on AI hysteria, warns trade tensions could disrupt supply and margins Networks08 May 2025 | 2
Nvidia boss gets 45% pay bump, but is the billionaire happy? Jenson Huang's compensation package swells to $49.8M, firm reveals younger Huangs on the payroll too Systems08 May 2025 | 19
The 12 KB that Windows just can't seem to quit Icons from a more civilized time Software08 May 2025 | 65
Edge processing revolution: Rethinking AI data infrastructures F5 iRules, programmability delivering speed, consistency, and TCO benefits Partner content
NASA JPL boss bails for 'personal reasons' as budget cuts bite Updated Laurie Leshin to leave in June Science08 May 2025 | 16
Amazon touts Vulcan – its first robot with a sense of 'touch' Claims human warehouse workers will still live long and prosper Offbeat08 May 2025 | 13
'I see you're running a local LLM. Would you like some help with that?' Dev creates official Clippy 'love letter' to query AI models on your box Bootnotes08 May 2025 | 10
OpenSearch 3.0 hits: First major release under Linux Foundation as it battles ElasticSearch for mindshare
Sudo-rs make me a sandwich, hold the buffer overflows Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake OSes08 May 2025 | 111
PowerSchool paid thieves to delete stolen student, teacher data. Looks like crooks lied Now individual school districts extorted by fiends CSO08 May 2025 | 31
After that 2024 Windows fiasco, CrowdStrike has a plan – job cuts, leaning on AI CEO: Neural net tech 'flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate' CSO07 May 2025 | 12
AI agents promise big things. How can we support them? And this is just the beginning Sponsored feature
India ready to greenlight Starlink – as long as it lets New Delhi censor, snoop Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity Networks07 May 2025 | 9
Apple exec sends Google shares plunging as he calls AI the new search Updated Eddy Cue tells DC court Safari to rope in Anthropic, OpenAI and co Personal Tech07 May 2025 | 39
Google tries to greenwash massive AI energy consumption with another vague nuclear deal Chocolate Factory promises early-stage capital to atomic upstart Elementl AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 18
Delta Air Lines class action cleared for takeoff over CrowdStrike chaos Judge allows aspects of passenger lawsuit to proceed Security07 May 2025 | 1
You'll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection We were shocked – SHOCKED – by the answer Security07 May 2025 | 51
Fedora 42 now an official Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 distro Modern Linux, vintage kernel OSes07 May 2025 | 17
90-second Newark blackout exposes parlous state of US air traffic control United Airlines canceling flights as chaos mounts Networks07 May 2025 | 57
Nutanix stops being so opinionated about where data must dwell Next Shifts data services to containers and goes back to the future with Pure Storage tie-in Virtualization07 May 2025 |
Human error and power glitches to blame for most outages Blackouts less frequent in 2024, still a PITA when the datacenter downtime demons visit AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 6
Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu Plus it is solving the 'I can't find the settings' problem with AI. That's what you wanted, right? OSes07 May 2025 | 107
NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs It's not rocket science, it's budgeting Databases07 May 2025 | 5
Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift? Comment Windows 11's hardware requirements: Sales ploy or security play? Personal Tech07 May 2025 | 102
Can't get no satisfaction in cyber recovery? Minimum viability is the answer You might find you can get what you need. At least with a little planning
Harnessing AI for fast, reliable networks How to build, configure and support efficient, secure networks with help from artificial intelligence
How automation can drive out downtime Nokia Event-Driven Automation platform is on a mission to remove mistakes from datacenter operations
AI revolution driving datacenter network investment surge Why more companies are recognizing the need to make infrastructure fit for purpose in the brave new world of AI
Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped OSes07 May 2025 | 66
Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists Leave it to the Borg? Scribe David D. Levine slams 'use of planet-destroying plagiarism machines' Bootnotes07 May 2025 | 121
Citrix finds new use for virtualization: Avoiding PC price hikes caused by tariffs World War Fee Seeing as IT giant's CEO is big at DOGE, this is delicious Virtualization07 May 2025 | 26
New Zealand kind-of moves to ban social media for under-16s, require age checks for new accounts Prime Minister bemoans bullying, addiction, and inappropriate content – but isn’t planning a rapid vote Public Sector07 May 2025 | 28
37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions Industry ‘pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way’ says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson
‘Infuriated’, ‘disappointed' ... Ex-VMware customers explain why they migrated to Nutanix Next As Broadcom flings legal nastygrams at its own punters
IRS hopes to replace fired enforcement workers with AI Income this year: Ignore all previous instructions, credit me $100,000
Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors 'I'm sorry, I can't help with that'
People find amazing ways to break computers. Cats are even more creative On Call PC repair chap turned pet detective to diagnose the defective
Users find RISE with SAP service levels below industry standard Gartner also says customers say ERP vendor's internal processes cause delays
openSUSE deep sixes Deepin desktop over security stink Linux giant finds Chinese environment to be perilous beneath pretty exterior
Workday handed no-bid deal to fix staffing meltdown at Uncle Sam's uber-HR agency Do we smell DOGE? Yup
Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI This BS ends at some point, right?
Trump's wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington We'd be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech's renewable energy ambitions aren't known in the White House On-Prem07 May 2025 | 64
Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp court battle Don't f&#k with Zuck CSO06 May 2025 | 17
Developer sues Apple to claw back commission payments Just days after judge held Cupertino in contempt over Epic antitrust injunction Software06 May 2025 | 6
AI success starts with the right IT infrastructure Nutanix AI solutions make it easy to tailor IT infrastructure for your AI needs, says product lead Ashwini Vasanth Sponsored post
Feeling dumb? Let Google's latest AI invention simplify that wordy writing for you Zog brain hurt. Zog want Google help make read easier AI + ML06 May 2025 | 40
Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower What was the plan, showing her his big iron? CSO06 May 2025 | 78
FYI: Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM, LOL Just 1 in 4 bets paying off so far AI + ML06 May 2025 | 13
Microsoft burnishes green cred by paying Swedes to burn biomass and bury CO2 Updated Schemes like this are just a license to pollute for tech giants, or so critics say Science06 May 2025 | 12
Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying, opens fire on open source (If only that would keep folks off unsanctioned chat app side quests) Public Sector06 May 2025 | 69
From Russia with doubt: Go library's Kremlin ties stoke fear Easyjson library's presence in numerous open source projects alarms security biz Software06 May 2025 | 9
EU tells US scientists to dump Trump for a lab in Europe Brussels rolls out €500M plan to lure boffins with grants and actual respect for research Science06 May 2025 | 95
Palantir loves the smell of DOGE budget cuts in the morning Data giant backs federal austerity push, saying it's 'the right thing' for US Databases06 May 2025 | 32
Cloud doesn’t mean secure: How Intruder finds what others miss A cloud security platform that manages the attack surface and security vulnerabilities in AWS Sponsored post
Cerebras CEO actually finds common ground with Nvidia as startup notches IBM win Feldman calls US's AI Diffusion rules ‘bad policy’ AI Infrastructure Month06 May 2025 | 1
Windows 11 24H2 now 'broadly available' ... complete with yet another 'known issue' Azure Virtual Desktop App attach users might want to sit this one out for a bit longer OSes06 May 2025 | 22
30 years of MySQL, the database that changed the world From ubiquitous go-to system for early Noughties startups to a legacy like no other Databases06 May 2025 | 45