Updated The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has rattled a saber at Anthropic over the use of its materials in training the AI vendor's models, urging it to set its LLMs free.…
Apple's latest MacBook may be cheap, but it also comes with something modern MacBooks haven't offered in years: a fighting chance of being repaired.…
Unemployment rates among recent graduates could climb above 30 percent because so many early career routine tasks will be performed by AI agents, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott has said.…
Opinion There are two ways to look at the California Assembly Bill 1043, known as The Digital Age Assurance Act or DAAA. One is to say it is a 2025 law requiring operating systems and app stores to implement age verification during account setup to protect minors online. The other is to note that the law is all the worst things a law can be.…
Companies House was forced to pull down its record-filing platform for the entire weekend to rectify a "security issue" that exposed the personal details of company directors and other data to any logged in users.…
Microsoft has blamed Samsung for some devices suffering C:\ drive access problems coincidentally close to March's Patch Tuesday.…
The UK government is splashing out £45 million (c $60 million) on a new AI-driven supercomputer designed to help scientists model the chaotic physics of nuclear fusion, with the system expected to come online this summer at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) Culham campus.…
West Sussex County Council has once again delayed the implementation of Oracle Fusion for HR and payroll – set to replace an aging SAP system – following a series of setbacks that have seen expected costs swell to more than 15 times the original estimate.…
More than a year after MPs warned that victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal were still waiting for compensation, Parliament says the system meant to pay them remains slow, bureaucratic, and flawed – meaning thousands of sub-postmasters are still fighting for payouts while taxpayers pick up the bill.…
Who, Me? The world of work can be thankless, which is why The Register tries to brighten up the Monday return to toil by bringing you a fresh installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column where you confess to your IT screw-ups and tell us how you got away with it.…
Amazon Web Services on Saturday celebrated the 20th birthday of its Simple Storage Service (S3) and revealed a few little secrets about the service.…
Film preservation organization Film Is Fabulous! has found a pair of Doctor Who episodes thought to have been lost forever.…
Asia in brief India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change last week staged a two-day national workshop titled “Policy Implementation for Minimizing Elephant Mortalities on Railway Track” – and one of the ideas discussed was using AI to protect the beasts and workers.…
Infosec In Brief Canadian outsourcer Telus Digital has admitted it fell victim to a cyberattack.…
Kettle It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - if you're an AI aficionado, that is, as chip giant Nvidia, now the most valuable company in the world, is kicking off its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on Monday.…
Three-quarters of the American public have heard of datacenters, but they haven't quite made their minds up yet about whether they approve of them or not.…
Workers who believe "leveraging cross-functional synergies" sounds profound may want to rethink their career trajectory because a new study suggests people who fall for corporate word salad also tend to perform worse at their jobs.…
At the start of the working day at Cortical Labs’ datacenter in Melbourne, Australia, technicians top up the resident computers with a liquid modelled on the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the human brain.…
Seeing is believing, or so it was said up until AI required questioning everything. But even when braced to resist the slop roulette of online interaction, pictures are worth a thousand tokens.…
You don't get what you don't pay for! Microsoft's GitHub is dialing back on expenses by removing several costly premium models from its free GitHub Copilot Student plan.…
