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Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M -- An hour's tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands -- Public Sector

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Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions -- Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI -- Databases

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Why digital sovereignty is the key to public sector transformation -- From public sector to education, IONOS and Dataport prove trust begins with secure infrastructure. -- Partner Content

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China's president Xi Jinping jokes about backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones -- South Korea's president laughed, so perhaps it was funny? Unlike China's censorship and snooping

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AN0M, the backdoored 'secure' messaging app for criminals, is still producing arrests after four years -- 55 cuffed last week after court ruled sting operation was legal

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AI's biggest threat isn't skynet, it's thermodynamics -- xFusion champions a holistic hardware strategy that tackles the fundamental physics of the modern datacenter -- Sponsored Feature

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Pop!_OS deejays prepare to release holiday remix along with Cosmic v 1.0 - Ubuntu Summit - Christmas is coming, the GNOME is getting fat... please put a penny in the old red hat? OSes - 03 Nov 2025 - | 18

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Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land - It's less bonkers than it sounds given the challenges of wiring Africa - Networks - 03 Nov 2025 - | 49

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ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through carrier-grade NAT: Cloudflare -- When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors -- Networks -- 03 Nov 2025

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Datacenter biz and nuke startup join forces for Texas AI ranch -- The bit barn will run on gas power first. -- Systems -- 31 Oct 2025

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Developer puts Windows 7 on a crash diet, drops it to down to 69 MB -- Trim down for obsolete operating system leaves it booting, but not much else -- OSes -- 31 Oct 2025

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Canonical CEO says no to IPO in current volatile market -- Interview -- 'We should be a public company,' Shuttleworth tells The Reg, just not 'with our trousers around our ankles' -- OSes

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France jacks into the Matrix for state messaging – and pays too -- Comment -- Governments eye comms alternatives as sovereignty worries mount -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Machine learning saves £4.4M in UK.gov work and pensions fraud detection -- Poor data standards across government hamper scaling, says Parliament spending watchdog -- Public Sector

9 days ago

The Chinese Box and Turing Test: AI has no intelligence at all -- It's just good at mass-production copy and paste -- AI + ML

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The perfect AWS storm has blown over, but the climate is only getting worse -- When it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella -- PaaS + IaaS

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Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware - Who, Me? Four back-to-back weekends of work – and disastrously bad documentation – will do that do a techie - On-Prem - 27 Oct 2025 - | 129

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How to build sustainable AI? Start with the network - Baking in sustainability begins with smart network design - Sponsored Feature

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Engineering CPO is easy — scaling it for AI will take an ecosystem - Co-packaged optics promise a big boost for AI - Sponsored Post

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Supermicro warns it will miss revenue forecast by a lazy billion bucks or more -- Mystery customer wants an upgrade that will take some time -- Systems

12 days ago

Intel says server CPUs will be hot again – in a good way, to power AI workloads – any year now -- Chipzilla returns to profit and suggests customers are primed to sign for foundry services once it nails 18A process -- Systems

12 days ago

AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system -- CEO Lisa Su says next-gen MI400 GPUs and architecture gaining traction with hyperscalers -- Systems

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AMD red-faced over random-number bug that kills cryptographic security -- Local privileges required to exploit flaw in Ryzen and Epyc CPUs. Some patches available, more on the way -- Security

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M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump -- Retailer's tech systems aren't down anymore, but the same can't be said for its rocky financials -- Cyber-crime

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Power crunch threatens to derail AI datacenter construction -- Supply chains also unprepared for liquid cooling demands -- On-Prem

8 hours ago

UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support -- After a £312M upgrade to the retiring OS, Defra still has 24,000 devices to replace -- Public Sector

10 hours ago

Trump turnabout sees him re-nominate amateur astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA -- Ruled him out just six months ago due to Musky connections -- Public Sector

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Supermicro admits building AI infrastructure is a tricky, low-margin business ... for now -- Can't rule out more revenue wobbles given the complexity of big projects -- Systems

15 hours ago

Tanzania back online after politically motivated five-day outage -- Net access cut on election eve, resumed after widely-loathed president was sworn in after disputed poll -- Public Sector

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Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not -- DHS rule would expand biometric collection to immigrants and some citizens linked to them -- Public Sector

21 hours ago

IBM cutting several thousand jobs in latest layoffs -- Resource Actions expected to hit half of US Infrastructure group -- On-Prem

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Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes - No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix - Sponsored Feature

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Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope -- Norges Bank Investment Management votes against excessive award, automaker's share price skids -- Offbeat

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Win10 still clings to over 40% of devices weeks after Microsoft pulls support -- Popular operating system much more sticky than Windows 7 was during its EOL -- OSes

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$10B + spent on liquid cooling this week – it's only Tuesday -- Eaton and Vertiv splash cash as HPC infrastructure and AI factories run hot -- Supercomputing Month

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Keeping the lights on takes up nearly all police IT spending in England and Wales -- Plans for investing in AI and service transformation held up as treasury pulls plug, NAO finds -- Public Sector

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'What the hell, Microsoft?' Users hit with incorrect ESU and LTSC Win10 out-of-support messages -- Microsoft accidentally tells supported users that they aren't -- OSes

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AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI - Feature - How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff - Supercomputing Month - 04 Nov 2025 - | 24

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Ministry of Defence's F-35 blunder: £57B and counting -- Government spending watchdog eviscerates penny wise, pound foolish approach -- Offbeat

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Cisco suggests a stubby chassis, shrunken servers and router, to tame the edge -- 'Unified Edge' designed so even retail workers can replace a server -- On-Prem

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Metropolitan Police hails facial recognition tech after record year for arrests -- But question marks remain over the tech's biases -- Security

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Labor organizers accuse Rockstar Games of 'ruthless act of union busting' after layoffs -- Does Discord need some stars for when Management is watching? -- Software

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The race to shore up Europe's power grids against cyberattacks and sabotage -- Feature -- Ukraine first to demo open source security platform to isolate incidents, stop lateral movement -- Security

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Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu -- Ubuntu Summit -- Jon Seager, VP of Engineering, talks exclusively to The Reg -- OSes

2 days ago

From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world -- Opinion -- Taking belief in LLMs very literally indeed -- AI + ML

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White House says China to lift rare earth export bans, stop probes into US tech companies - Asia In Brief - PLUS: Google's massive AI giveaway in India; Raid on Australian software company; Alleged scam camp owner's assets seized; and more! Public Sector - 03 Nov 2025 - | 13

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International Criminal Court kicks Microsoft Office to the curb -- Rough justice? Redmond out as Germany's openDesk judged a better fit -- Applications

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Meta to sell $30B in bonds to build AI datacenters -- Zuckcorp will gladly pay you in 2065 for the eyewatering sums it is borrowing today -- On-Prem

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Linux vendors are getting into Ubuntu – and Snap -- Ubuntu Summit -- Ubuntu's much-maligned format may be finally reaching critical mass -- OSes

5 days ago

VodafoneThree to offshore UK network jobs to India -- Exclusive -- TUPE or not TUPE? Not for roles being sent overseas amid a push to meet post-merger rollout targets -- Networks

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England's local government shake-up promises to be a massive tech headache -- Surrey to be divided into two new councils in first phase of countrywide reorg -- Public Sector

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O2 cranks prices mid-contract, essentially telling customers to like it or lump it - Updated - Ofcom 'disappointed' by decision that 'goes against the spirit of our rules' Networks - 31 Oct 2025 - | 82

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NHS left with sick PCs as suppliers resist Windows 11 treatment -- Hospitals told to upgrade, but some medical device makers haven't prescribed compatibility yet -- OSes

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Europe preps Digital Euro to enter circulation in 2029 -- Because fewer people like banknotes, and payment sovereignty is a problem -- Public Sector

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Colorado launches lawyers at Trump admin over space base relocation -- State cries foul over "crooked elections" claim in Alabama move -- Offbeat

6 days ago

Trump and Xi ease trade tensions, but Nvidia still can't sell Blackwell in China -- US President did discuss chip exports with his counterpart, but made no breakthroughs -- Public Sector

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US government shutdown clouds an otherwise sunny ServiceNow forecast -- Enterprise software giant lifts guidance but adds 'prudence' as federal contracts stall -- SaaS

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Italian tech company promises to make America Online great again -- Dial-up dinosaur finds yet another corporate home as Yahoo waves goodbye -- Networks

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Equinix revealed as occupant of £3.9B UK datacenter campus -- Investment will fund 250 MW, three-facility campus near London as AI and cloud demand surge -- On-Prem

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Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe -- Time to put eggs in more than one basket? -- PaaS + IaaS

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There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing -- Ohio State boffins coax shiitake and button varieties into behaving like memristors -- Offbeat

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DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage - Updated - We're guessing that turning it off and on again won't help given qubits can be on and off at the same time - Off-Prem - 30 Oct 2025 - | 38

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Samsung picks fights with Google and Qualcomm -- Brings its largely unloved browser to PCs and promises to make its Exynos SoCs more competitive -- Software

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AI is making Google and Meta even stronger and richer -- So they're increasing spending on infrastructure to keep it that way -- AI + ML

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Microsoft gives Windows 11 a fresh Start – here's how to get it -- More convenient layout saves you a click -- OSes

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Smile! Uncle Sam wants to scan your face on the way in – and out -- Noncitizens, prepare to have your mugshot stored for up to 75 years -- Public Sector

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Nvidia pitches Omniverse DSX as model for gigawatt-scale AI factories -- GPU giant teams with partners to create digital twin blueprint for next-gen datacenters -- Systems

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AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay -- Bosses banking on automation? 55% will regret those job cuts -- AI + ML

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UK politicians to draft outage blueprint after AWS calamity -- 60% of government services rely on Amazon, Google, or Microsoft's clouds -- PaaS + IaaS

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Bolt Graphics unveils Zeus GPU built on RISC-V and path tracing tech - Ubuntu Summit - Onboard cores use a Linux stack based on Ubuntu - Systems - 29 Oct 2025 - | 9

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UK government on the lookout for bargain-priced CTO -- Dangles £100K for someone to fix £23B tech mess -- Public Sector

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Zen Internet loses unfair dismissal appeal case with former CEO -- Judges agree broadband biz didn't follow its own procedures when booting boss -- Networks

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Starlink tells the world it has over 150 sextillion IPv6 addresses -- But the data describing where they're used - which is help to fight crime - isn't very useful -- Networks

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ZTE hosts ZTE Broadband User Congress 2025 in Mexico city under the theme "AI Boosting Broadband Benefits" ZTE proposes the "AI x Optical" solution to help operators shift from selling bandwidth to providing computing power as a service. Partner Content

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Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever -- 100,000 Blackwell GPUs and 2,200 exaFLOPs make for a big system -- Supercomputing Month

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OpenAI tells Trump to build more power plants or China wins the AI arms race -- 'Electrons are the new oil,' ChatGPT maker claims, demanding 100 GW per year -- On-Prem

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Euro cloud alliance urges action on Broadcom as Microsoft mends fences -- CISPE says post-VMware conduct raises fresh antitrust concerns -- Networks

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Cloudflare Q3 report shows the internet still breaks for the strangest reasons -- From natural disasters to stray bullets and exams, it's been a shaky quarter for the world's connectivity -- Networks

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Beatings, killings, and lasting fear: The human toll of MoD's Afghan data breach -- Research submitted to Parliament details deaths, raids, and mental trauma linked to 2022 relocation leak -- Security

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Google says reports of a Gmail breach have been greatly exaggerated -- Ad and cloud biz rubbishes claims that 183 million accounts broken into -- Security

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UK government inflates G-Cloud framework to £14B -- Procurement delays and lock-in fears see framework balloon in size and scope -- Public Sector

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Cloud's new performance leader: Arm beats x86 - AWS's Arm Neoverse-based Graviton4 chips set a new bar, beating AMD and Intel in performance and price-performance Signal65 benchmarks - Partner Content

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Marks & Spencer swaps out TCS for fresh helpdesk deal -- Move follows months-long procurement process as retailer refreshes parts of its IT support setup -- On-Prem

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Qualcomm announces AI accelerators and mysterious racks they'll run in -- House of the Snapdragon promises – without much detail – this kit will enable coolly efficient inferencing -- PaaS + IaaS

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Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached -- Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped -- Devops

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HPE's Discovery to succeed Frontier supercomputer with next-gen Cray tech -- Oak Ridge's $500M system due in 2028, paired with a separate Lux AI cluster arriving two years earlier -- Supercomputing Month

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EU sovereignty plan accused of helping US cloud giants -- Brussels' framework muddies the waters and could hand advantage to foreign hyperscalers, says trade body -- PaaS + IaaS

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X says passkey reset isn't about a security issue – it's to finally kill off twitter.com -- Social media site dispatches crucial clarification days after curious announcement -- Personal Tech

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Ex-CISA head thinks AI might fix code so fast we won't need security teams -- Jen Easterly says most breaches stem from bad software, and smarter tech could finally clean it up -- Cyber-crime

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UN Cybercrime Treaty wins dozens of signatories, to go with its many critics -- Allows surveillance and cross-border evidence sharing, which worries human rights groups -- Cyber-crime

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MPs urge government to stop Britain's phone theft wave through tech -- Committee says Apple, Google, and Samsung could render stolen handsets worthless if compelled to act -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

AI investment is the only thing keeping the US out of recession -- Datacenter infrastructure and model development spending offset high borrowing costs -- AI + ML

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Alaska Airlines grounded by mystery IT meltdown - Updated - Failure at primary datacenter leaves planes parked and passengers angry, second incident since July - On-Prem - 24 Oct 2025 - | 28

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Digital ID is now less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers -- Starmer rebrands unpopular scheme as convenience tool after backlash -- Public Sector

12 days ago

BBC probe finds AI chatbots mangle nearly half of news summaries -- Google Gemini worst offender with 76% error rate -- AI + ML

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Iran's MuddyWater wades into 100+ government networks in latest spying spree - Group-IB says Tehran-linked crew used hijacked mailbox and VPN to sling phishing emails across Middle East - Security - 24 Oct 2025 - |

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AI is driving networking and compute together - ZTE CEO Xu Ziyang talks power, performance and sustainability - Sponsored Feature

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Trump's workforce cuts blamed as America's cyber edge dulls -- The Cyberspace Solarium Commission says years of progress are being undone amid current administration's cuts -- Public Sector

13 days ago

Apple's ultra-thin iPhone flops as foldable iPad hits a crease -- Weak demand for iPhone Air and delays to a costly foldable tablet suggest Cupertino's hardware experiments are struggling -- Personal Tech

13 days ago

Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software -- Check Point helps exorcise vast 'Ghost Network' that used fake tutorials to push infostealers -- Cyber-crime

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