Tesla FSD ignores school bus lights and hits 'child' dummy in staged demo Video Its driverless cars are already testing in Austin - good luck Software30 May 2025 | 54
Perplexity offers training wheels for building AI agents Generate modest interactive apps, spiffy charts, and bland screenplays as needed AI + ML30 May 2025 | 1
Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them Public Sector30 May 2025 | 5
Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs 'The operating system couldn't be loaded' is never a great message Patches29 May 2025 | 16
German court parks four Volkswagen execs in jail over Dieselgate scandal More cases about 2015 software swindle stuck in legal traffic jam Legal28 May 2025 | 49
From Russia with chokehold: Putin says foreign IT firms still in Russia should be 'strangled' He was responding to a gripe from a Russian IT provider about competition from Microsoft and Zoom Public Sector27 May 2025 | 24
Arc put on ice as The Browser Company bets big on AI-powered Dia No more features for the design darling - now it’s all about chatting with your tabs like they’re sentient Personal Tech27 May 2025 | 12
AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads 'Your well-honed customer experience is noise to an agent' AI + ML27 May 2025 | 37
Ransomware attack on MATLAB dev MathWorks – licensing center still locked down Commercial customers, STEM students all feeling the pain after mega outage of engineering data-analysis tool Cyber-crime27 May 2025 | 22
Anthropic Claude 4 models a little more willing than before to blackmail some users Open the pod bay door AI + ML22 May 2025 | 21
SAP users grapple with 50% premium for industry-standard service levels Vendor's AI-infused pitch at Sapphire marred by backlash over support costs Databases22 May 2025 | 5
AI can't replace freelance coders yet, but that day is coming Claude passed 80% of tasks assigned in a recent study AI + ML22 May 2025 | 24
Google's AI vision clouded by business model hallucinations google i/o The agentic era may not be all that it's cracked up to be AI + ML21 May 2025 | 14
US teen to plead guilty to extortion attack against PowerSchool The 19-year-old and a partner first tried to extort an unnamed telco, but failed Cyber-crime21 May 2025 | 1
Google crowns Jules to be its agent and spreads the AI love Google I/O Choc Fac brings gen mods to Android, Chrome, pretty much everywhere else AI + ML21 May 2025 | 6
Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things Google I/O Search? That's now artificial intelligence, too AI + ML20 May 2025 | 25
Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade Creative Cloud Pro arrives with more AI, higher prices, and a familiar feeling of déjà vu Applications20 May 2025 | 50
Microsoft revives DOS-era Edit in a modern shell Build Fast, compact, useful? Who are you, and what did you do with Windows? OSes20 May 2025 | 72
Techies propose the Agent Name Service: It's like DNS but for AI agents Because nobody wants a random and unverified bot tickling their APIs AI + ML20 May 2025 | 13
Microsoft adds Grok – the most unhinged chatbot – to Azure AI buffet Never mind the chatbot's recent erratic behavior AI + ML19 May 2025 | 24
GitHub Copilot angles for promotion from assistant to agent Build Agent mode arrives, for better or worse AI + ML19 May 2025 | 7
Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away ZKLP system allows apps to confirm user presence in a region without exposing exactly where Security17 May 2025 | 59
Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard Python, TypeScript, Azure SDK devs among those let go Software16 May 2025 | 45
Anthropic’s law firm throws Claude under the bus over citation errors in court filing AI footnote fail triggers legal palmface in music copyright spat Legal15 May 2025 | 30
Socket buys Coana to tell you which security alerts you can ignore Sometimes, less information is more Security15 May 2025 |
A year on, Valkey charts path to v9 after break from Redis Interview Fork focuses on stability and inclusion as it preps for more ambitious changes Databases15 May 2025 | 1
Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos AlphaEvolve may optimize your code in ways you hadn’t thought possible. Or not. Not is possible, too AI + ML15 May 2025 | 12
VPN Secure parent company CEO explains why he had to axe thousands of 'lifetime' deals Admits due diligence fell short - furious users cry ‘gaslighting’ Networks14 May 2025 | 74
Post Office finally throttles delayed in-house EPOS project Troubled state biz tenders £410M software and DC-to-cloud migration plan, goodbye to Fujitsu on the Horizon Public Sector14 May 2025 | 35
Intel's data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet again Updated ETH Zurich boffins exploit branch prediction race condition to steal info from memory, fixes have mild perf hit Research13 May 2025 | 5
Commvault fixes critical Command Center issue after flaw finder alert Pay-to-play security on CVSS 10 issue is now fixed Patches13 May 2025 |
M365 apps on Windows 10 to get security fixes into 2028 Support for the underlying OS is another story Applications12 May 2025 | 10
Britain's cyber agents and industry clash over how to tackle shoddy software CYBERUK Providers argue that if end users prioritized security, they'd get it CSO12 May 2025 | 76
US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check Price tag unknown Public Sector09 May 2025 | 108
openSUSE deep sixes Deepin desktop over security stink Linux giant finds Chinese environment to be perilous beneath pretty exterior Security09 May 2025 | 23
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 | 44
GNOME Foundation's new executive director is Canadian, a techie, and a GNOME user Steven Deobald certainly talks the talk OSes08 May 2025 | 19
'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 | 11
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 | 131
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 | 14
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 | 128
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 | 41
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 | 75
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 | 10
Commodore OS 3 is the loudest Linux yet One distro has to be the most extra – and here it is OSes06 May 2025 | 51
Infosec guru Schneier worries corp AI will manipulate us RSAC Can we turn to govt, academic models instead? AI + ML06 May 2025 | 15
OpenAI caves to pressure, keeps nonprofit in charge Funny what a public scolding from AI luminaries and a word from state AGs can do AI + ML05 May 2025 | 5
Oregon State University's Open Source Lab is running on fumes Shakeup in US higher education funding means FOSS incubator is short a quarter of a million bucks Software02 May 2025 | 20
NATS custody battle ends with CNCF, Synadia sharing nicely Trademark, domain name, GitHub repos stay under control of open source foundation – no word on any forking off for now PaaS + IaaS02 May 2025 | 4
Liz Warren, Trump admin agree on something: Army should have right to repair As military memo makes it official policy Public Sector02 May 2025 | 27
Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot Why optimize code when you can just start running sooner? Software01 May 2025 | 100
AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals Keep plugging those LLMs into your apps, folks. This neural network told me it'll be fine AI + ML01 May 2025 | 39
KDE 3 lives to fight another day as Trinity Desktop 14.1.4 hits the shelves Good news, everyone: 15 years on, TDE still pushes pixels OSes01 May 2025 | 19
Ghost in the shell script: Boffins reckon they can catch bugs before programs run Go ahead, please do Bash static analysis CSO30 Apr 2025 | 39
Meta bets you want a sprinkle of social in your chatbot Sharing is caring when your entire business is built on it AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 3
Duolingo jumps aboard the 'AI-first' train, will phase out contractors Luis von Ahn says small quality hits are a price worth paying to ride the wave AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 36
The State of Open Source in 2025? Honestly, it's a mess but you knew that already The good news: everyone's using it. The bad news: have you seen how they're using it? Software29 Apr 2025 | 38
Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, economists claim 'When we look at the outcomes, it really has not moved the needle' AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 34
Virgin Atlantic is piloting an OpenAI agent in to help with the 'customer journey' Interview Hello, operator? Book me to Memphis, Tennessee AI Software Development Week25 Apr 2025 | 20
Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks Cursor, Codium makers lose access as add-on goes exclusive Devops24 Apr 2025 | 69
IBM dragged down by DOGE contract cancellation roulette Big Blue downplays impact of Elon-gated cost-cutting Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 23
Microsoft 365 Copilot gets a new crew, including Researcher and Analyst bots You. Will. Love. The. LLM. AI Software Development Week23 Apr 2025 | 5