Software

Even as enterprises defer spending and analysts spot dotcom-era warning signs

Tech execs are adamant the AI craze is not a bubble, despite the vast sums of money being invested, overinflated valuations given to AI startups, and reports that many projects fail to make it past the pilot stage.…

State-backed attackers started poking flaw as soon as it dropped – anyone still unpatched is on borrowed time

Amazon has warned that China-nexus hacking crews began hammering the critical React "React2Shell" vulnerability within hours of disclosure, turning a theoretical CVSS-10 hole into a live-fire incident almost immediately.…

With seat and usage-based deals back on the table, CRM giant tells investors agent prices are going up

Salesforce has told investors it is upping prices for AI agent platforms, claiming customers will get between three and ten times the value from investment as it introduces new AI charging models.…

Umpteen other distros just put out new versions, but this one is our favorite

Kernel 6.18 has already been designated the new LTS release – just as we predicted – and Alpine Linux 3.23 has arrived carrying it ahead of a flurry of other year-end distro updates.…

Diarmuid Early takes world title after outpacing 11 rivals

Ireland's Diarmuid Early has won the Excel World Championship. Readers of a certain age may be disappointed to learn he has never used Lotus 1-2-3.…

Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process

The latest release of FreeBSD contains a lot of crucial under-the-hood changes – and drops 32-bit support on both x86 and POWER, although ARM-v7 survives.…

You can improve the odds by combining skepticism, verification habits, and a few technical checks

Opinion  Liars, cranks, and con artists have always been with us. It's just that nowadays their reach has gone from the local pub to the globe.…

Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security

On Call  Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday column that tries to improve the health of the tech support ecosystem by sharing readers' sickening stories of bringing broken tech back from the brink.…

New ‘Datacenter Manager’ manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters

Open source virtualization project Proxmox has delivered the first full and stable release of its Datacenter Manager product, making it a more viable alternative as a private cloud platform.…

Automated software keeps getting better at pilfering cryptocurrency

Anthropic could have scored an easy $4.6 million by using its Claude AI models to find and exploit vulnerabilities in blockchain smart contracts.…

'You're absolutely right! I was totally lying to you!'

Some say confession is good for the soul, but what if you have no soul? OpenAI recently tested what happens if you ask its bots to "confess" to bypassing their guardrails.…

$200M deal brings Claude into data cloud, yet its touted ‘90%+’ accuracy needs human oversight

Anthropic and Snowflake announced a deal that will allow the deployment of AI agents capable of complex, multi-step analysis inside Snowflake's governed data environments.…

OpenAI and Microsoft yank their chatbots, telling millions of users to head elsewhere

The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe into Meta after WhatsApp rewrote its rules to block rival AI chatbots including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot.…

ZTE outlines a human-centered, long-term roadmap for agentic AI adoption

Microsoft warns Start menu, Explorer, and other XAML apps can crash or vanish on managed devices

Microsoft has admitted that it might have broken Windows components including the Start menu and Explorer in the latest round of updates.…

Just ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself

Logitech's CEO says that AI-powered devices are a solution looking for a problem, despite being a strong proponent of AI and her firm pushing out exactly the kind of thing she's talking about.…

Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle

UK SAP users say licensing and pricing complexity is muddying the picture for Business Suite, the vendor's new model for cloud applications.…

One dev thinks this will become their second-highest cost, fears they’ll have to pass it on

Exclusive  SaaS-y accounting outfit Xero has advised developers who integrate their products with its services that they’ll soon have to pay for the privilege in a new way.…

Ferrous Systems achieves IEC 61508 (SIL 2) certification for systems that demand reliability

Memory-safe Rust code can now be more broadly applied in devices that require electronic system safety, at least as measured by International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards.…

Gartner found only 20% of customer service leaders have cut human agents because of AI

The world’s smallest digital violin is playing for AI chatbots, which are having a hard time elbowing out their human counterparts for jobs in customer service, according to a Gartner study.…