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Software - 1 hour 47 min ago
How collective talent and collaboration may reap nothing but rewards for financial services

Webinar  There's been quite a surge in open-source software development in recent years, but its use remains unequal across business sectors.…

PostgreSQL pioneer's latest brainchild promises time travel to dodge ransomware

Software - 1 hour 50 min ago
Michael Stonbraker on the neat side effects of putting an operating system on top of a database

Database pioneer Michael Stonebraker is promising his new concept of putting the operating system on top of a database could help end ransomware.…

Databricks claims its open source foundational LLM outsmarts GPT-3.5

Software - 2 hours 48 min ago
In the AI gold rush, analytics outfit wants to provide the shovels

Analytics platform Databricks has launched an open source foundational large language model, hoping enterprises will opt to use its tools to jump on the LLM bandwagon.…

AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware

Software - 4 hours 19 min ago
Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that

In-depth  Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI.…

Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokers

Software - 9 hours 18 min ago
Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster – this time authorities think they've reduced false positives

Singapore has improved the AI it uses to detect smokers who light up in the many places where the practice is forbidden across the island nation, to help local law enforcement more efficiently stub out offenders.…

Hyperfluorescent OLEDs promise more efficient displays that won't make you so blue

Science - 11 hours 4 min ago
Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues

A recent paper published in Nature demonstrates that hyperfluorescent OLEDs could significantly reduce the energy required to display the color blue – potentially mitigating, but not solving, screen burn-in.…

Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requests

Software - Wed, 2024-03-27 22:06
Beware support calls offering a fix

Apple device owners, consider yourselves warned: a targeted multi-factor authentication bombing campaign is under way, with the goal of exhausting iUsers into allowing an unwanted password reset.…

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

Software - Wed, 2024-03-27 21:26
We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know

More than half of Americans are using ad blocking software, and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to three-quarters.…

NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense

Science - Wed, 2024-03-27 20:57
Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory has had a problem, prompting engineers on the ground to hit the reset button.…

Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic

Software - Wed, 2024-03-27 19:55
Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude

Amazon says it has concluded its investment in AI super-startup Anthropic, which now stands at $4 billion, a figure the e-commerce colossus committed to last year.…

SEC cleared to take securities beef against Coinbase to trial

Software - Wed, 2024-03-27 19:31
Judge says watchdog can HODL four of its five charges against crypto exchange

The SEC's lawsuit accusing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase of operating as an unregistered securities broker has survived its first legal challenge, opening the door for the case to go to trial.…

NASA to shoot rockets at April solar eclipse to see how it messes with the atmosphere

Networks - Wed, 2024-03-27 18:30
Boffins hope to better understand how phenomena disrupt comms tech in order to prevent future outages

There's a total solar eclipse coming up in North America, and NASA plans to shoot some rockets at it to see how the ionosphere changes as the Sun is obscured by the Moon.…

Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs

Software - Wed, 2024-03-27 18:00
Some staff are worried – can't think why

Mutterings of alarm are emerging from the cloisters of Red Hat after the world's largest management consultancy was hired to help the IBM subsidiary focus engineers on their highest-value work.…

Boeing and subsidiary file trade secrets lawsuit against Virgin Galactic

Science - Wed, 2024-03-27 14:30
Oh, and there's small matter of an alleged $26M in unpaid bills

Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation have sued Virgin Galactic, alleging the space tourism company has misappropriated trade secrets.…

In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem

Software - Wed, 2024-03-27 12:30
Regulators reminded that longstanding concerns haven't been addressed

Competition cops in Europe and the United Kingdom have started paying attention to in-app browsers, a controversial mechanism for presenting web content within native apps.…

Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learning

Software - Wed, 2024-03-27 11:45
Researchers reckon results could improve recipe development for food and beverages

Joining the list of things that probably don't need improving by machine learning but people are going to try anyway is Belgian beer.…

Windows Format dialog waited decades for UI revamp that never came

Software - Wed, 2024-03-27 10:15
'Temporary' isn't always

Windows has a built-in reminder of the perils of temporary solutions thanks to the 30-year-old porting efforts of former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer.…

BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who

Software - Wed, 2024-03-27 05:30
Finally, a power greater than AI hype: angry fandom

Pics  The BBC has decided to exterminate its experiments using generative AI to promote venerable Sci-Fi show Doctor Who.…

XenServer is back, with a rebranded Citrix Hypervisor and a tasty three-host freebie

Software - Wed, 2024-03-27 03:44
Per-socket licensing regime may explain years of ups and downs

XenServer, the Cloud-Software-Group-owned server virtualization spinout from Citrix, has debuted its new/old product, XenServer 8.…

Intel chases smaller code shops with expanded AI PC dev program, NUC kit

Software - Tue, 2024-03-26 22:34
Chipzilla wants more apps coded for NPUs, not Nvidia

Intel has expanded its efforts to encourage programmers to code for the “AI PC” by targeting smaller software houses with a development kit based on Asus’s NUC 14 Pro PC.…

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