Software

Doing business in Beijing? 'You need to do a what-if scenario'

interview  It didn't seem America's divest-or-ban bill for TikTok was going to make it into law when we last spoke with former White House chief information officer Theresa Payton – but law it now is. …

Cloudy hosts given short license change deadlines, customers warned of support portal brownouts

VMware by Broadcom’s breakup with its end-user compute products will enter a new phase next week, with cloudy service providers and customers both warned of imminent changes.…

Discloses ongoing experiments with usage-based pricing

Atlassian co-founder and co-CEO Scott Farquhar has announced he will step down in August, leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes alone at the top of the Australian collaborationware company.…

Machine learning could be an expensive habit

Google’s parent company Alphabet and Microsoft saw the price of their shares surge in after-hours trading after the AI-infatuated businesses delivered higher-than-anticipated quarterly earnings.…

Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal

Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using AI software to make it seem as if he made racist and antisemitic remarks.…

As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts

Between shutting down or selling TikTok, owner ByteDance would prefer doing the former.…

Pulumi's CEO on new products and that other Infrastructure as Code company

Interview  Infrastructure as code biz Pulumi has updated its eponymous Deployments product with drift detection and automated clean-up for an untidy reality.…

App maker accuses Cupertino of defying EU rules

Spotify claims Apple rejected an update to the popular music streaming app that would have informed users about purchase methods outside of the Apple ecosystem.…

Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place

Birmingham City Council, Europe's biggest local authority, has no way of knowing if financial fraud has been committed after it failed to run security and audit features in a new Oracle Fusion ERP system.…

Revenues up, but is the AI hype bubble is threatening to burst?

Meta's shares tumbled after company boss Mark Zuckerberg said the quiet bit out loud: it will take a while before AI bets start paying back the huge financial investments it is making.…

The software redemption

Teaching prisoners how to design and program websites turns out to improve their sense of self-worth and provides them with digital literacy skills that help them stay out of prison.…

Tech giants confident everything's in order

UK regulators want to hear from "interested third parties" on whether Microsoft and Amazon's investments in AI startups is impeding competition.…

'Software companies try to extend their reach and their usage, but this can't be by locking in users,' says process mining lead

BMW's process mining leader has called for greater openness among enterprise application and software vendors to avoid data lock-in.…

Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters

Systems Approach  Full disclosure: I have a history with AI, having flirted with it in the 1980s (remember expert systems?) and then having safely avoided the AI winter of the late 1980s by veering off into formal verification before finally landing on networking as my specialty in 1988.…

Investors want to know what Big Blue is smoking after growth disappoints

IBM has announced it will acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, and touted the deal as meaning its hybrid cloud platform will emerge with a “comprehensive” set of products.…

Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMs

Nvidia on Wednesday announced the acquisition of AI-centric Kubernetes orchestration provider Run:ai in an effort to help bolster the efficiency of computing clusters built on GPU.…

It's not the fastest machine learning model, but you can't have everything

Apple, not normally known for its openness, has released a generative AI model called OpenELM which apparently outperforms a set of other language models trained on public data sets.…

And you thought the Bing begging was annoying

Microsoft has made good on its promise, or threat, to put advertisements inside the Windows 11 Start menu with its latest update.…

Why OpenJDK is as important as ever in the big picture of IT

Sponsored Feature  For nearly 30 years, Java has been one of the most widely used programming languages in the world, thanks to its versatility, reliability, stability and continuous evolution in addressing the needs of the DevOps community.…

CISPE says concessions 'solve nothing'

Euro cloud trade body CISPE has hit back at concessions offered by Broadcom over VMware licensing, saying these do not address key issues that led it to lobby the European Commission into investigating.…