Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages Google on Thursday unleashed a wave of new open-weights Gemma models optimized for agentic AI and coding, under a more permissive Apache 2.0 license aimed at winning over enterprises.…
About that partnership... Microsoft on Thursday unveiled public preview versions of three home-baked machine learning models focused on speech recognition, speech synthesis, and image generation.…
Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems A software toolkit built for DARPA to test and validate covert communication networks is now open source, and it could help orgs who want to experiment with new kinds of secure, anonymous communications t...
Source code with a side of Vidar stealer and GhostSocks Tens of thousands of people eagerly downloaded the leaked Claude Code source code this week, and some of those downloads came with a side of credential-stealing malware.…
Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong A recent surge of interest in Microsoft's Terms of Use for Copilot is a reminder that AI helpers are really just a bit of fun.…
Tie-up aims to widen Big Blue’s access to power-efficient compute IBM and Arm are working together on getting software developed for Arm chips to run on Big Blue's enterprise systems, with an eye on future AI and data-intensive workloads.…
Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners' European outfits Ionos and Nextcloud have launched Euro-Office, a fork of the OnlyOffice cloud-based productivity suite aimed at orgs with qualms around sovereignty, provoking an angry r...
In space no one can you scream, at Microsoft Many a frustrated user has sworn they'll launch Microsoft Outlook into space, but NASA has actually done it – on a journey around the Moon, where it's now causing problems for astronauts.…
The chatbot will be a doorway to the company's other services Salesforce has begun to position Slack, its business collaboration platform, as the interface through which users can access and act on data in enterprise applications from rival vendors.…
Name is a joke but the project is real, said main engineer The world's most popular CMS has been remade with the help of AI. Cloudflare has released EmDash version 0.1, described as a rebuild of the WordPress CMS (content management system) but using TypeScript rather than PHP. …
Patch Tuesday often gets blamed when a reboot merely exposes damage already done, according to Chen It's not me, it's you. Five words that signify the end of a relationship with a toxic partner, or an ill-timed riposte to users tired of broken Microsoft updates.…
Supplier will need to look after networks, email, tech support, tools and more – plus find cost savings The BBC is looking for a supplier to provide IT for all its workforce and help automate parts of the corporation through a contract apparently named after a dog.…
We must design expecting much of what we publish will be reinterpreted by 'systems we don't control' Those who rely on artificial intelligence to summarize official material may get a misleadingly narrow or incomplete version of it, a senior designer for the UK government has warned.…
And of course the Orion toilet malfunctioned Toilet trouble, telemetry problems, and an issue with the flight termination system have not marred the Artemis II mission to the Moon, which launched yesterday.…
And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis The latest update to the handy SystemRescue is here with a new kernel. There's also a new GParted Live, and some other handy utilities.…
Connected devices can leave an otherwise secure network vulnerable Pwned Welcome to Pwned, The Register's new column, where we highlight the worst infosec own goals so you can, hopefully, protect against them. Caffeine is an essential tool for most IT defenders, so, on balance, we're sure it has...
First public downstream victim, but won't be the last AI hiring startup Mercor confirmed it was "one of thousands of companies" affected by the LiteLLM supply-chain attack as the fallout from the Trivy compromise continues to spread.…
Chocolate Factory’s compression tech clears the way to cheaper AI inference, not more affordable memory When Google unveiled TurboQuant, an AI data compression technology that promises to slash the amount of memory required to serve models, many hoped it would help with a memory shortage that has...
WARN filings in two states show 1,000+ layoffs, but wider cuts remain unconfirmed By his third failed attempt to log into Oracle’s VPN on Tuesday morning, a decades-long employee of the company started to get a bad feeling.…
AI is eroding trust in digital communications and data, giving old-school spycraft fresh relevance for modern agents The bots won't be coming for 007's job anytime soon. According to a former CIA officer, AI may help create false documents, but this fakery will give old-fashioned human intelligen...