Kilopixel creator kills livestream switch before woodblock display hits Crysis point -- All good things must come to an end -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Uncle Sam doesn't want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China -- End of verified end user status means South Korean memory vendors will need licenses to bring restricted chipmaking tech into Chinese fabs -- Systems

2 days ago

Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference -- Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party -- Systems

1 day ago

xAI's Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups -- Bias, a lack of safety reporting, and the whole 'MechaHitler' thing are all the evidence needed, say authors -- Public Sector

2 days ago

AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says -- GMP library test meltdown has AMD looking for answers -- Systems

2 days ago

Pentagon ends Microsoft's use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud -- 'It blows my mind,' says SecDef -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Intel's deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs -- The $5.7B check has cleared, CFO says -- Public Sector

2 days ago

FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam -- Chocolate Factory says people keep marking them as such, so QED -- Public Sector

2 days ago

30 years later, Doom returns to SNES with Raspberry Pi RP2350 muscle -- Limited Run Games swaps in silicon to emulate Super FX chip and hit 20 fps -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11 -- Nobody knows why they need one, but folk seem to be buying them -- Systems

2 days ago

DOGE delayed deals, says Nutanix -- But private cloud contender sees upside in its modernization mission -- Virtualization

3 days ago

Dialing Earth: Skylo set to leapfrog T-Mobile and offer voice calls via satellite -- Only a few Android phones will be able to support the service -- Networks

3 days ago

Good morning, Brit Xbox fans – ready to prove your age? -- Microsoft blames incoming UK Online Safety Act, says you have until 2026 -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Wastewater monitoring project could catch next pandemic early, says health agency -- UK starts early warning system combing through stuff that folks flush away -- Public Sector

3 days ago

AI arms dealer Nvidia laments the many billions lost to US-China trade war -- China would be a $50 billion a year market for Nvidia if Uncle Sam would let us sell competitive products, says Jensen Huang -- Systems

3 days ago

Uncle Sam throws AI 'chili cook-off' to spice up healthcare fraud detection -- No stew on the stove, but plenty of heat as devs compete to flag suspect Medicare data -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Taiwan indicts three over alleged theft of TSMC trade secrets - Chipmaker keen to protect assets as race for 2nm process heats up - Systems - 27 Aug 2025 - |

4 days ago

EchoStar sells off its spectrum for more than its total market cap -- $23B deal with AT&T shows where the money is -- Networks

4 days ago

More than 100 companies are chasing an AI chip gold rush. Few will surive -- Quick, get some investment money before the bubble bursts -- Systems

4 days ago

Intel pitches Clearwater Forest as a consolidation play for all you hoarding ancient Xeons - Hot Chips - Chipzilla's first datacenter part to use 18A process tech is another core-packed monster - Systems - 27 Aug 2025 - | 5

3 days ago

BGP's security problems are notorious. Attempts to fix that are a work in progress - Systems Approach - Securing internet infrastructure remains a challenging endeavour - Networks - 27 Aug 2025 - | 14

2 days ago

Cupertino must stop calling Apple Watches 'carbon neutral,' German court rules -- Judge says label is 'misleading' -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

Uncle Sam speedruns AI chatbot adoption for federal workers -- The GSA is letting AI chatbot makers jump the FedRAMP queue -- Public Sector

5 days ago

VMware customers say bye-bye Broadcom and vote for Nutanix - Many seeking a replacement for VMware are turning to Nutanix as a strategic choice - Sponsored feature

4 days ago

Silver State goes dark as cyberattack knocks Nevada websites offline -- Phone lines also down as officials rely on social media to issue updates -- Systems

5 days ago

Malware-ridden apps made it into Google's Play Store, scored 19 million downloads -- Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures us -- Security

5 days ago

Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech -- COMMENT -- Poor defenseless tech companies need help despite massive profits, low tax bills, and monopoly positions -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Trump made Intel an offer it couldn't refuse -- Comment -- 10 percent equity and maybe that $8.9 billion in CHIPS funds you're waiting on doesn't get lost in red tape -- Systems

6 days ago

Solid-gold nav bars? Trump plans redesign of government websites -- Okay, who has the gold leaf, paint, and #FFD700? -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Getting touchy-feely with a Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 - HANDS ON - Ideal for that one weird project you've been thinking about - Personal Tech - 25 Aug 2025 - | 13

2 days ago

Junk is the new punk: Why we're falling back in love with retro tech -- It was a simpler time -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

US government snaps up 10% of Intel for $8.9B -- The funds were already allocated under the CHIPS Act and Secure Enclave program -- Systems

8 days ago

Trump's gold-plated smartphone can't seem to decide which design to copy -- Latest ad for the T1 looks suspiciously like a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra in a Spigen case -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Tesla bid to become a UK electricity supplier gets politically 'charged' -- LibDem leader Sir Ed Davey calls Elon Musk a threat to national security -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

UK patches air defense with 6 extra Land Ceptor missile launchers -- Hmm, six, well, that's going to make Russia worry ... -- Public Sector

9 days ago

NIMBYs threaten to sink Project Sail, a $17B datacenter development in Georgia -- Coweta County stalls bit barn vote as residents revolt -- Systems

9 days ago

Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two -- Project scrambles for mitigation as AUR, forums, and main site feel the strain -- OSes

9 days ago

Don't cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms -- FTC chair: Companies could face enforcement if they give in -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Japan's Fugaku supercomputer follow-up adds Nvidia GPUs -- Fujitsu doesn't have the project all to itself any more -- HPC

9 days ago

DeepSeek's new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon -- Point release retuned with new FP8 datatype for better compatibility with homegrown silicon -- AI + ML

9 days ago

Google joins government AI discount frenzy, undercuts competition with $0.47 deal -- If anyone's gonna lock in Uncle Sam's business, it'd better be us! -- Public Sector

10 days ago

Transatlantic chip war fizzles as EU and US framework confirms 15% tariff cap - World War Fee - US pulls back from Trump's threatened 100% levy but not everyone pleased at Europe's concessions - Public Sector - 21 Aug 2025 - | 30

8 days ago

Colt changes tune, admits data theft as Warlock gang begins auction -- Worried about your data? No probs, says firm, we'll check the dark web crims' list for you! Yes really -- Networks

10 days ago

FydeOS offers ChromeOS without the Google strings attached -- Fork runs Android apps and keeps old PCs ticking over ... all without signing into an account with the mothership -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday -- Great Firewall took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn't have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the dark -- Networks

10 days ago

Post-privacy AI glasses claim to listen to your every word -- Digitally enabled omniscience is neat, if you can bear the cost of being constantly monitored by an AI agent -- AI + ML

11 days ago

Google tries to trump iPhone launch with AI-powered Pixel 10 range - Video - At 3% US market share, we don't think Cook & Co are sweating - Personal Tech - 20 Aug 2025 - | 66

9 days ago

Talk to the bot: Salesforce AI agents could replace US govt employees -- Have a complaint? Need a benefit? Agentforce now has a bot for that -- AI + ML

11 days ago

IETF Draft suggests making IPv6 standard on DNS resolvers - partly to destroy IPv4 -- Dragging DNS into the modern age. And if that means fewer people need to buy IPv4, so much the better -- Networks

11 days ago

Uncle Sam launches AI sandbox for government use, says it won't be around for long - GSA AI chief says market can do better but the feds needed a kickstart - Public Sector - 20 Aug 2025 - |

10 days ago

Chinese funding backs sale of British microLED specialist -- Plessey sold to Haylo Labs, financed by $100M Goertek loan -- Systems

11 days ago

'Limited' data leak at Aussie telco turns out to be 280K customer details -- iiNet breach blamed on single stolen login, with emails, phone numbers, and addresses exposed -- Networks

11 days ago

Beeline and ZTE advance Kazakhstan's digital future with Giga City 2.0 -- ZTE and Beeline Kazakhstan unveiled Giga City 2.0 – a transformative initiative marking a new era of AI-driven innovation and sustainable connectivity -- Partner Content

11 days ago

China Telecom Shanghai and ZTE deploy 5G-A EasyOn·Robot private network -- ZTE's 5G-A EasyOn·Robot private network fulfills the requirements of diverse smart devices and applications -- Partner content

11 days ago

GlobalFoundries inks domestic chipmaking deal with Cirrus Logic -- No word yet on when any homegrown hardware production begins -- Systems

11 days ago

Uncle Sam eyes slice of Intel in return for CHIPS Act cash -- Hmmm, state ownership of private corps... what does that remind us of? -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Fried chips: UK's nascent semi industry risks faltering - Feature - Good start, but you have to keep it up, say key players - Personal Tech - 20 Aug 2025 - | 31

10 days ago

Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records -- Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

Open the pod bay door, GPT-4o -- Researchers use LLM in 'AI Space Cortex' to automate robotic extraterrestrial exploration -- AI + ML

11 days ago

AWS still cares enough about Intel to order up a fresh batch of custom Xeons -- Memory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types -- Off-Prem

11 days ago

Top AWS chip designer reportedly defects to Arm as it weighs push into silicon -- Rami Sinno led Trainium and Inferentia development at Amazon -- Systems

12 days ago

To heck with export controls! Nvidia reportedly plotting cut-down B300 for Chinese market -- It's that or a replacement for its aging H200 NVL PCIe cards -- Systems

12 days ago

Uncle Sam asks industry if it has AI that'll make procurement suck less -- Plan includes chatbots 'with full user context and data access' – what could go wrong? -- Public Sector

12 days ago

How to level up your multi-site IT - Cloud outage? No problem. Use VergeOS instead - Partner content

11 days ago

PinePhone Pro canned in pursuit of RISC-V business -- Unexpected news from Pine64, but there are other goodies to compensate -- Personal Tech

12 days ago

Grow a new Arm: UK advisory body wants investment in local AI chips -- Report recommends that the UK become a leader in chip design -- Public Sector

12 days ago

Commodore Amiga turns 40, headlines UK exhibition - Hands on - 500, 600, 1200, 2000... what's your number? Personal Tech - 19 Aug 2025 - | 91

1 day ago

US spy chief claims UK backed down over Apple backdoor demand -- Tulsi Gabbard boasts Washington forced Blighty to drop iPhone encryption fight -- CSO

12 days ago

Softbank bets $2 billion on Intel having a future -- Takes two percent stake as rumours swirl Uncle Sam could do something similar -- Systems

12 days ago

List or get off the pot: Auditors demand gov't improve IT reporting or give it up -- A plan to standardize IT record keeping is incomplete after 8 years, and the GAO wants someone to act -- Public Sector

13 days ago

From PAYE to P45: HMRC staff fired for prying into taxpayer data -- Agency swears breaches are rare, just not rare enough to stop 186 being binned for sticky fingers -- Public Sector

13 days ago

Boffins say tool can sniff 5G traffic, launch 'attacks' without using rogue base stations - UPdated - Sni5Gect research crew targets sweet spot during device / network handshake pause - Research - 18 Aug 2025 - | 12

9 days ago

Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results -- Who, Me? -- The real lesson here is how little some companies care about training -- Storage

13 days ago

India's PM laments missing out on global chipmaking dominance – in 1964! Prime Minister promises first local silicon will appear this year, decades after Fairchild Semi's Robert Noyce made polite inquiries - Systems - 18 Aug 2025 - | 2

12 days ago

Timekettle T1 AI translator helps you scale the Tower of Babel -- hands on -- Handy tool for when only a dedicated device will do -- Offbeat

14 days ago

Election workers fear threats and intimidation without feds' support in 2026 -- Feature -- 'Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst,' one tells The Reg -- Security

15 days ago

Minority Report: Now with more spreadsheets and guesswork -- Precogs replaced by profiling and postcode data... and 'AI'. What could wrong? Lots, say privacy campaigners -- Databases

15 days ago

Ethernet switch vendors like Cisco are riding high on AI network economics -- When one GPU translates into three to five of the fastest switch ports money can buy, can you blame them? -- Cloud Infrastructure Month

15 days ago

Little LLM on the RAM: Google's Gemma 270M hits the scene -- A tiny model trained on trillions of tokens, ready for specialized tasks -- AI + ML

16 days ago

Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline -- Who knew zero-days could be so useful to highway speedsters? -- Cyber-crime

16 days ago

Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline -- Updated -- London-based multinational takes customer portal and Voice API platform offline as 'protective measure' following breach -- Cyber-crime

16 days ago

Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL -- Feature -- Government: 'Trust us, it'll be different this time' -- Public Sector

16 days ago

Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable -- On Call -- Somebody built a very sick network in the bowels of a hospital -- Networks

16 days ago

Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide -- Register debate series -- As £9 billion MoU sparks debate about value for money, it's time to have your say -- Public Sector

16 days ago

Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI's made it a server-slinger first and foremost -- Next: Modular datacenters ready to host rack-scale systems, to meet endless demand -- Systems

16 days ago

Breathe easy: Apple Watch can read your oxygen levels again -- iBiz shifts data to iPhone in patent workaround -- Personal Tech

16 days ago

Psst: wanna buy a legit FBI email account for $40? -- Government and police employee credentials sold at bargain-basement prices on underground forums -- Cyber-crime

17 days ago

Voice, vision, pen: Oh dear. Windows boss says Microsoft is again reshaping OS - COMMENT - Lessons of Windows 8 unlearned as software giant gives users what it thinks they need - Personal Tech - 14 Aug 2025 - | 98

7 days ago

Alexa hits snooze on basic functions as alarms and timers KO'd in UK outage -- Brits wake to a beeping nightmare as Amazon's AI assistant forgets how to set – or stop – alarms -- Personal Tech

17 days ago

Amazon's $100B DC spend similar to entire Costa Rica GDP -- Microsoft cap-ex larger than output of Uganda and Google trumps Slovenia... all in the name of AI -- Cloud Infrastructure Month

17 days ago

Stock in the Channel pulls website amid cyberattack - Updated - Intruders accessed important systems but tells customers their data is safe - Cyber-crime - 14 Aug 2025 - | 5

9 days ago

Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins -- Social media marketeers getting better at concealing promos in posts -- Offbeat

17 days ago

The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft? Register debate series - Are UK taxpayers getting real value from SPA24 — or just high cost convenience? Public Sector - 14 Aug 2025 - | 60

15 days ago

Datacenter diplomacy: Australia commits to help Vanuatu build bit barns -- $79 million is a small price to pay to keep China at bay -- Off-Prem

17 days ago

Hungry hyperscalers boosted Cisco's AI sales by a cool billion bucks - Big Tech is spending vastly more on AI infrastructure but Switchzilla thinks its piece of the pie will be fat and juicy - Networks - 14 Aug 2025 - |

17 days ago

Tsunami forecasting about to get a lot faster thanks to El Capitan super -- The world's most powerful known supercomputer stretches its legs with some life-saving science -- HPC

18 days ago

Gov't HR department latest to get nastygram from auditors -- OPM is the fourth federal agency to get a list of outstanding items from GAO in past two weeks -- Public Sector

18 days ago

US weather agency dangles $396M to run ops for its next space-watching fleet -- Hurricane data, schmurricane data: Have you heard about that Sun burp? -- Public Sector

18 days ago

No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritize El Reg, others in search results - hands on - How to pick the news sources you want to see more (and less) Personal Tech - 13 Aug 2025 - | 23

14 days ago

CoreWeave CFO: $25B raised in debt and equity in 18 months -- Reliant on two mega customers? Who says GPU-for-rent kingpin is a not a sustainable biz model? -- Cloud Infrastructure Month

17 days ago