'OpenSlopware' briefly flowers, fades, falls – but fortunately was forked, fast. The splendidly-named "OpenSlopware" was, for a short time, a list of open source projects using LLM bots. Due to harassment, it's gone, but forks of it live on ... .
Gotta pay for those datacenter buildouts somehow. OpenAI's budget ChatGPT Go subscription tier has migrated to the US, soon to be accompanied by advertising. The company's free tier will be similarly afflicted ... .
Rinse of the machines. A cautionary tale about relying on robots. Bork!Bork!Bork! UK water company Severn Trent learned an unfortunate lesson about text-to-speech systems when a robocall to customers went hilariously wrong ... .
This is a threat to security - and to the weekend for some unlucky netadmins. Cisco finally delivered a fix for a maximum-severity bug in AsyncOS that has been under attack for at least a month ... .
Merge Labs envisions controlling devices using your brain - without implanting hardware in your body. OpenAI, having invested heavily in artificial intelligence, is placing a side bet on organic intelligence ... .
How not to maintain computers. On CallWelcome again to On Call, The Register's Friday column in which we take great delight in telling your tech support stories – mostly the ones involving bizarre behavior and heroic fixes ... .