Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds - On Call - Have you tried turning it on, never mind off and on again? On-Prem - 13 Mar 2026 - | 100

2 minutes ago

Jury out on whether Americans approve or disapprove of datacenters -- Most don't think they are good for the environment. -- On-Prem

7 hours ago

AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to 'paralyse' it -- A 'web of litigation' -- Networks

2 days ago

Watchdog boss calls Capita's £370M DWP win 'extraordinary' amid pension portal dumpster fire -- PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keys -- Public Sector

2 days ago

RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it -- Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot -- Storage

2 days ago

Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power -- It wants 'safe, cost effective, and rapid.' We say: 'Good, fast, cheap – you can have 2' -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them -- Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faults -- Networks

2 days ago

AI Burning Man happens next week –what to expect at Nvidia GTC 2026 -- From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town -- Systems

2 days ago

Apple takes a bite out of app store fees in China -- Beijing hinted it wasn't happy with Cupertino, which weeks later made a change -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes -- Going from eight systems to one means fewer people make decisions to unleash Epic Fury -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Perplexity: Everything is Computer, everything is AI, Computer is everything, AI is us -- Everything extends its cloud Computer to enterprises, your computer -- AI + ML

2 days ago

District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data -- Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unanswered -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline -- OEM delays have become patient care delays -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google's fiber biz and Stonepeak's Astound merge -- Alphabet to remain 'significant minority shareholder' -- Networks

3 days ago

Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and immigration -- US spy-tech biz and platform provider retorts that this would be against the current law and a breach of its contract -- Databases

3 days ago

Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles -- DSTL bets £350K the UK can cook up its own exotic materials -- Science

3 days ago

So much for power to the people – AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue -- Plan to fast-track bit barn connections leaves housing developers fuming and billpayers on the hook -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying -- Government offers £100K to support software forecasting how travelers choose departure hubs -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 - even the Professional edition - Updated - Out of the Copilot and into the fire - Personal Tech - 12 Mar 2026 - | 22

2 days ago

Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon - Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can't flag obvious AI slop - Systems - 12 Mar 2026 - |

3 days ago

AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours -- David and Goliath...but with AI agents

5 days ago

Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them -- Officials suspend Basel-Stadt trial and launch probe

4 days ago

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting -- Opinion -- Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis

1 day ago

FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools -- Infosec In Brief -- PLUS: Europol takes down two crime gangs; LastPass users phished (again); Crooks increase crypto hauls; And more

6 days ago

Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns -- This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk

6 days ago

DR-DOS rises again – rebuilt from scratch, not open source -- Project claims legal clarity and zero legacy code, but offers binaries only

3 days ago

Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92 -- Obit -- Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time

6 hours ago

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns -- This is not satire, but we wish it was

3 days ago

Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward -- Google evolves its pricing for agentic AI tool, pointing devs towards on-demand credits or $250 per month Ultra plan

2 days ago

Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack -- Could steal sensitive personal and financial data

4 days ago

ICO fines Police Scotland over data-sharing debacle in gross misconduct case -- Blue-on-blue internal investigation lands force £66k fine -- Security

4 days ago

Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh -- Let them eat cores -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Ayar Labs taps Wiwynn to cram 1,024 GPUs into a photonic rack system - Exclusive - Reference design to stitch more than a thousand accelerators into a single enormous server. Systems - 11 Mar 2026 - | 6

2 days ago

Lightmatter says latest photonics will slash datacenter fiber bills in half -- Latest optical engine may not be CPO, but it's still better than pluggables -- On-Prem

4 days ago

Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study -- Subscribers north of the border suffer the most long-running failures per £100 spent -- Networks

4 days ago

EU legal eagle says banks should refund cybercrime victims first, argue later -- Analysis -- Advocate General urges rethink of PSD2 to speed compensation after scams -- Security

4 days ago

Your datacenter's power architecture called. It's not happy -- Feature -- AI factories demand 800 volts because physics doesn't care about your upgrade budget -- On-Prem

4 days ago

Post Office's £142M subsidy for Horizon fallout and IR35 bill reviewed by watchdog -- CMA advisers say extra support justified as remediation costs and tax liability mount -- Software

3 days ago

Whitehall can't cost digital ID until it decides how to build it -- Consultation launched, People's Panel planned, yet still no price tag attached -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Oracle says AI coding tools are helping it dodge the SaaSpocalypse -- Big Red reckons paying for datacenters is easy when you have half a trillion dollars of cloud orders on the books -- SaaS

4 days ago

Governments across Asia order work from home, thanks to Iran war -- Pakistan, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines are all trying to conserve fuel -- Public Sector

4 days ago

AI datacenters may gulp a New York City's worth of water on hot days -- Study warns peak cooling demand could strain US water systems by 2030 -- Systems

5 days ago

Sorry, kids. Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments -- Low-cost computers bashed by billion-dollar investment in AI infrastructure -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks -- Don't celebrate yet – more states are considering them -- OSes

5 days ago

Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones -- Warning, lockout, then wipe if your device trips detection -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

Polish cops bust alleged teen DDoS kit sellers – youngest just 12 -- Kids profited from tools used to attack popular websites, say officials -- Cyber-crime

5 days ago

Retro tech fan views LaserDisc movie data with a budget microscope -- Analog video spied by looking really, really closely at tracks -- Offbeat

5 days ago

Mystery outage behind US airline JetBlue asking FAA to ground its flights -- Aircraft on the ground briefly halted until systems were up again -- Systems

5 days ago

Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers -- Autonomous assistants could manipulate choices, push pricier deals, and prioritize their creators -- AI + ML

5 days ago

HPE tweaks T&Cs so the price it quotes may not be the price you pay -- With memory and storage contributing over half the price of a server, Big Green needs to protect its margins -- Systems

5 days ago

Palantir's lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff -- As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs 'real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments' -- Public Sector

5 days ago

RSS dulls the pain of the modern web - opinion - Feeds are alive, well, and can help deshittify things - Personal Tech - 09 Mar 2026 - | 73

4 days ago

Ex-Meta execs pop up on Nscale board as rent-a-GPU firm raises $2B -- Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan Decker -- On-Prem

6 days ago

Dutch cops warn 100 alleged scammers: Turn yourselves in or we tell Grandma -- Two-week deadline to fraudsters to fess up or have their faces plastered across every screen in the country -- Security

6 days ago

Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters -- UK government slams comments as 'sickening and irresponsible' -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

UK government's Shared Services Strategy is entering the danger zone - Opinion - Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workers - Databases - 09 Mar 2026 - | 9

5 days ago

Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat - Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks - Edge + IoT - 09 Mar 2026 - | 106

3 days ago

Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract -- Who, Me? -- Ignorance really was the way to achieve bliss -- Networks

6 days ago

Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds -- World War Fee -- Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crack -- Legal

6 days ago

Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Indonesia joins kids social media ban; China frets about AI job impacts; India's PC market fails to launch, again; And more -- Systems

4 days ago

Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics - feature - Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits - Systems - 07 Mar 2026 - | 18

5 days ago

Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services -- 'There's a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall' -- AI + ML

8 days ago

Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids -- Meta supposedly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by Nvidia -- Systems

7 days ago

Cisco warns of two more SD-WAN bugs under active attack -- Switchzilla says flaws could allow file overwrites or privilege escalation -- Cyber-crime

9 days ago

Washington reportedly moves to tighten leash on AI chip exports -- Draft rules could force Nvidia and AMD to seek government approval before selling abroad -- Systems

9 days ago

UK peers warn weakening AI copyright law could hammer creative industries -- House of Lords committee says ministers must not trade a £124B sector for promises of future tech growth -- AI + ML

9 days ago

Microsoft finally gets around to fixing Windows 10 Recovery Environment after breaking it in October -- Released from the curse of the update bork fairy -- OSes

9 days ago

UK Treasury not sure about ditching Oracle to join £1.7 billion shared services program it is funding - Updated - It promised £1.15B... but finance ministry yet to show 'formal commitment' to adopt Workday SaaS, watchdog says - Databases - 06 Mar 2026 - | 14

5 days ago

UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps -- Exclusive -- Seven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunal -- Edge + IoT

6 days ago

Rethinking storage for the AI era - Huawei outlines how telecom operators may need to redesign data infrastructure as AI workloads grow - Sponsored Post

9 days ago

Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out -- On Call -- Discovering, and explaining, the bizarre cause was harder than the job he was sent to do -- On-Prem

9 days ago

China's rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan - Call to do better with chips and put AI everywhere is more than rhetoric because China's scientists are sprinting ahead - Systems - 06 Mar 2026 - | 8

6 days ago

Document Foundation urges EU to ditch Excel lock-in for cybersecurity law consultation -- UPDATED -- LibreOffice steward pleased says Commish saw the light, no longer requires Excel feedback form -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Trump administration spoiling for a fight over global satellite regulations -- Updated -- FCC not pleased about EU space tech reqs to enter Common market, among other things -- Networks

6 days ago

UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything' -- Contractors tasked with improving AI reportedly had access to intimate footage captured through wearables -- Security

10 days ago

MoJ puts Prisoner Telephony Service replacement on hold yet again -- Project dialed back, BT asked to keep current system for another 54 months -- Networks

10 days ago

UK still doodling digital pound while Brussels frets over payment sovereignty -- Geopolitical tensions turn up the pressure for European legislators -- Software

10 days ago

Broadcom says AI companies can't make their own silicon any time soon -- Offers booming customer accelerator biz as evidence, while VMware props up its software business -- Systems

10 days ago

Intel numbers boss swears big Foundry wins are coming soon -- Meanwhile Chipzilla's 18A process tech could see external deployment after all -- Systems

10 days ago

Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise -- Cupertino grabs an aging A18 Pro from parts bin to power its latest attempt at an entry-level MacBook -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

Flex appeal: UK datacenter cuts AI power draw 40% on command -- London GPU farm dances to National Grid's tune in five-day trial, critical workloads not disrupted -- On-Prem

11 days ago

Kaspersky dismisses claims Coruna iPhone exploit kit is connected to NSA-linked operation -- Follows suggestions iPhone-pwning toolset bears hallmarks of zero-days that targeted Russian diplomats -- Security

11 days ago

NIMBY pushback begins to bite US datacenter buildout -- New capacity under construction falls for first time since 2020 as permitting, zoning, and power hurdles mount -- On-Prem

11 days ago

Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies -- Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

UK digital ID brief quietly moves to new minister after resignation -- James Frith takes reins from Josh Simons, who quit even though he was cleared over journalist vetting scandal -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US -- Big Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down again -- PaaS + IaaS

11 days ago

Users fume at Outlook.com email 'carnage' Updated - Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at Microsoft - Networks - 04 Mar 2026 - | 109

5 days ago

Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform -- Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and Microsoft -- PaaS + IaaS

11 days ago

Huawei pushes networks toward AI-driven intelligence at MWC Barcelona 2026 - Carrier infrastructure moves beyond connectivity to integrate AI functions at the heart of network operations - Sponsored Post

6 days ago

One vendor doesn't mind high RAM prices: VMware -- Memory tiering and pooled memory are having a moment because they offer the chance to use less RAM -- Systems

11 days ago

European Space Agency and China both achieve gigabit links to geostationary satellites -- Raises hopes birds 40,000km away can be reprogrammed, for science or military purposes -- Networks

11 days ago

Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs fills its wallet to mass-produce CPO chiplets - Company aims to stitch tens of thousands of GPUs together for more efficient training and inference - Systems - 03 Mar 2026 - |

11 days ago

Facebook went down for about three hours, interrupting your poking and Meta's ads business - Updated - Go outside and smell some flowers - Networks - 03 Mar 2026 - | 26

9 days ago

Apple jacks up MacBook pricing with M5 Pro, Max debut -- No one can hide from the RAMapocalypse, not even Tim Apple -- Personal Tech

12 days ago

Lawmakers take pick to ICE's warrantless location tracking purchases -- After DHS's $2.3M PenLink contract gets 'shady' label -- Public Sector

12 days ago

Accenture down to buy Downdetector as part of $1.2 billion deal -- The deal includes all Ookla assets including Speedtest, Ekahau, and RootMetrics -- Networks

12 days ago

Western governments seek to lock down 6G before it even exists -- Telecoms coalition wants to avoid another 5G-style vendor scramble with early security guardrails -- Networks

12 days ago

CIOs say AI adoption is moving faster than they can manage -- Risk management? Continuity plan if our provider disappears? We've heard of these things -- AI + ML

12 days ago

Bank of England says it can run £431M settlement system without Accenture -- Deputy governor tells MPs central bank now has in-house skills and IP to maintain revamped RTGS -- Public Sector

12 days ago

Chrome Gemini panel became privilege escalator for rogue extensions -- High-severity flaw let malicious add-ons access system via browser's embedded AI feature -- Security

12 days ago

Vodafone to use Amazon sats for cell backhaul in remote parts of Europe, Africa -- From Bavarian Alps to Congo basin and other places where laying cable is a PITA -- Networks

12 days ago

Brussels urged to pay 'sovereignty premium' to narrow China battery gap -- Analysis claims €500 per EV could secure local production and cut reliance on foreign supply chains -- Personal Tech

12 days ago

Gamers furious as indie studio Cloud Imperium quietly admits to data breach -- Slow disclosure and odd reassurance that exposing names and contact details won't be a problem isn't going down well -- Security

11 days ago

Huawei brings its flatpack AI datacenters, packed full of Chinese chips, to the world -- Claims it can build and deploy them fast, whether they run at speed is another matter -- On-Prem

12 days ago

Nvidia burns $4B to light up American photonics manufacturing - Coherent, Lumentum each walk away with $2B in cash and a multi-billion purchase commitment - Networks - 02 Mar 2026 - |

12 days ago

Popular prayer program becomes propaganda pusher after reported Israeli hack -- Iranian worshippers got notifications saying 'help has arrived' -- Offbeat

13 days ago

Qualcomm, Nvidia ready for 'AI-native' 6G, if only the world knew what it was -- Meanwhile, formal 6G specs are still in the works -- Networks

13 days ago

Singapore eyes barge-based hydrogen power for datacenters -- Saves real estate by putting the power on the water -- Systems

13 days ago