Finnish cops grill crew of ship suspected of undersea cable sabotage -- EU 'closely monitoring' along with NATO as state action suspected but not confirmed -- Networks

1 day ago

Google snaps up datacenter power biz Intersect while xAI plans more capacity -- The AI era needs more juice -- Systems

1 day ago

Satellite radio transmissions are jamming telescopes and driving astronomers batty -- Interview -- 'What do we need to do better?' El Reg talks to comms boss about the problem -- Science -- 01 Jan 2026

1 day ago

Nvidia DMs TSMC: Please sir can I have some more? The Chinese are starved for H200s -- GPUzilla has reportedly received orders for more than two million units -- Systems

1 day ago

US Army seeks human AI officers to manage its battle bots -- What, weekend warriors from Silicon Valley not good enough? -- Public Sector

3 days ago

IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world, but don't call it a failure -- Feature -- The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant -- Networks -- 31 Dec 2025

2 days ago

Everybody has a theory about why Nvidia dropped $20B on Groq - they're mostly wrong -- El Reg speculates about what GPUzilla really gets out of the deal -- Systems

3 days ago

The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere - Opinion - From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear - Software - 31 Dec 2025 - | 225

4 hours ago

ServiceNow lays out possible co-CEO structure, but says no change imminent -- The ITSM outfit would join Oracle, Comcast, and Netflix in installing bunk beds in the corner office -- CxO

4 days ago

Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer -- The deal negotiated in September locked Nvidia into a purchase price of $23 per share. Intel shares traded at $36 on Monday -- Systems

5 days ago

Imagine there's no AI. It's easy if you try -- Four completely non-AI-related trends that will shape the future -- Systems

4 days ago

How California built one of the world's biggest public-sector IT systems -- 20 years, multiple delays, and millions of dollars later, FI$Cal is live – mostly -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Europe's cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age - Feature - Countries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground - PaaS + IaaS - 29 Dec 2025 - | 60

5 hours ago

ZTE wins dual awards at PMI Malaysia 2025 for driving digital future with innovative management models - ZTE recognised for delivering Malaysia's largest cloud-based 5G core network integration - Partner Content

5 days ago

Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner passes, aged 83 -- Oversaw a significant resurgence in Big Blue's fortunes during the dotcom era -- On-Prem

5 days ago

China wants to ban making yourself into an AI to keep aged relatives company -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Australia buys air-gapped Google Cloud; Huawei triples use of home-built components; JAXA blames low pressure for rocket crash; And more -- AI + ML

5 days ago

Coming Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed -- Smarter access-point handoffs, better scheduling, fewer stalls -- Networks

5 days ago

AMD Strix Halo vs Nvidia DGX Spark: Which AI workstation comes out on top? -- Hands On -- Two tiny boxes, 128 GB apiece – but very different strengths -- Systems

9 days ago

Finally - a terminal solution to the browser wars -- A full-featured, Sixel-capable terminal browser for those who'd rather skip AI assistants

1 day ago

Starlink to lower orbits of thousands of satellites over safety concerns -- Move will see spacecraft shift from 550 km to 480 km as collision risks rise

1 day ago

LockBit takedown architect gets New Year award from King Charles -- Gavin Webb orchestrated Operation Cronos as it pulled off the legendary disruption sting

1 day ago

Brit lands invite-only Aussie visa after uncovering vuln in government systems -- Jacob Riggs is set to swap London for Sydney some time in the next year

1 day ago

Cybercrook claims to be selling infrastructure info about three major US utilities -- For the bargain price of 6.5 bitcoin

1 day ago

Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it -- Repeat after me: Chatbots are not sentient and have no agency

12 hours ago

Claude is his copilot: Rust veteran designs new Rue programming language with help from AI bot -- Rust veteran Steve Klabnik is using an LLM to explore memory safety without garbage collection

45 minutes ago

Headset hype meets harsh reality as Apple and Meta VR shipments fizzle in 2025 -- But how about some smart glasses instead?

11 hours ago

The Y2K bug delayed my honeymoon ... by 17 years! ON CALL Y2K - More tales of apocalypse avoided - including in an animal testing lab - and the hard work that made that possible

7 hours ago

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop -- Exec argues we need a new metaphor focused on AI as a lever rather than a job killer

20 minutes ago

You don't need Linux to run free and open source software -- Part 2 -- Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows -- OSes

9 days ago

Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date -- Part 1 -- Practical steps to make an aging operating system usable into 2026 -- OSes

10 days ago

US punishes China's 'dominance' of legacy chips with zero percent tariffs -- World War Fee -- President Trump previously threatened 100 percent tariffs, administration now plans something else starting in 2027 -- Public Sector

11 days ago

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again - Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works - Storage - 23 Dec 2025 - | 109

2 days ago

Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year -- Cab drivers protested Uber's arrival, but Westminster has rolled out the welcome mat for clanker chauffeurs -- AI + ML

11 days ago

France's post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident' -- Might be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China -- Shipments still waiting on approval from Beijing -- Systems

12 days ago

EU offers UK early gift: Data adequacy until 2031 -- Relief for those dealing with data pipelines between the two, but move has its critics -- Public Sector

12 days ago

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked -- Opinion -- Something messy happens when the cat hairs of reality meet the shiny hype of smart tech -- AI + ML

12 days ago

AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity – but how long can it last? -- Total operational capacity just keeps rising -- Systems

12 days ago

There's so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM -- SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion -- Security

12 days ago

Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan -- APAC in Brief -- PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips ; Hong Kong's Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more! -- Public Sector

13 days ago

NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift - UPDATED - Time signals shifted by a tiny amount that only very sensitive users would find upsetting - Security - 21 Dec 2025 - | 87

5 days ago

Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul -- We haven't even hit the peak, TechInsights tells El Reg -- Storage

14 days ago

DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission -- But not Phil Collins, sadly -- AI + ML

15 days ago

WatchGuard sounds alarm as critical Firebox flaw comes under active attack -- Newly disclosed vulnerability already being abused, users urged to lock down exposed firewalls -- Networks

15 days ago

NS&I tech overhaul blows past Treasury spending limits -- UK state-owned bank admits revised plan runs beyond contract end with Atos -- Public Sector

15 days ago

Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing - How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers - Sponsored Feature

14 days ago

UK prepares to wave goodbye to 3G telecoms as tri-hard tech retires -- Virgin Media the last to go as users of older mobiles warned to upgrade -- Networks

15 days ago

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud - Exclusive - Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution - PaaS + IaaS - 19 Dec 2025 - | 74

5 days ago

Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits -- Ofcom survey finds 18-34s increasingly see life online as bad for society and their mental health -- Off-Prem

15 days ago

GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens -- Coming with added 'filters and rules' after prototype spat out inaccurate or outright wrong responses -- Public Sector

15 days ago

User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis - On Call - Hey, teacher, leave that cabling alone - Networks - 19 Dec 2025 - | 128

1 day ago

Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths -- Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn't escalate their concerns -- Networks

15 days ago

China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET -- Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace'

15 days ago

Mobile industry says energy targets are meaningless without common metrics -- NGMN warns fragmented standards leave operators guessing about power use

15 days ago

Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration - Lightning fast with oodles of capacity, meet the DE6600 - Partner Content

15 days ago

NHS tech supplier probes cyberattack on internal systems - Updated - Around 2,000 GP practices use its products - Cyber-crime - 18 Dec 2025 - | 3

15 days ago

BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI -- Gov wants broadcaster to revive 1980s computer literacy magic – and maybe flog its archives to tech giants -- AI + ML

16 days ago

DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in -- 18-year-old platform crumbles under 94M daily requests while resellers flog £62 tests for £500 -- On-Prem

16 days ago

Brit broadband grilling descends into farce over targets and definitions -- MPs press minister for answers – and get few -- Networks

16 days ago

United Nations agrees to persist with multi-stakeholder internet governance -- World Summit on the Information Society resolves the world needs a permanent forum to discuss how we manage the 'Net -- Public Sector

16 days ago

Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future -- Even with its new fabs coming online, demand will exceed supply -- Systems

16 days ago

Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists -- Amazon bets that by making AI its own group, it can outpace Microsoft and Google -- AI + ML

17 days ago

Datacenters feel the Bern as Senator Sanders pushes bit barn building pause -- Vermont lawmaker proposes DC moratorium to give Congress time to rein in the AI boom -- Public Sector

17 days ago

Microsoft security update breaks MSMQ on older Win systems -- Folder permission changes cause queue failures and misleading error messages, no real fix yet -- OSes

17 days ago

X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill -- Lawsuit concedes the bird is still the word for many -- Legal

17 days ago

Former UK chancellor George Osborne finds something to do at OpenAI -- Follows Nick Clegg at Meta and Rishi Sunak at Anthropic in snuggling up to US tech -- AI + ML

17 days ago

UK.gov accused of Grinching Christmas by ignoring phone theft scourge -- Six months after expert testimony, no one has yet dialed into promised summit on technical solutions -- Personal Tech

17 days ago

England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion -- Regulator proposes strict limits on screen-based testing, cites infrastructure concerns and lack of evidence for benefits -- Public Sector

17 days ago

UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband -- Changes to Electronic Communications Code would bypass landlord objections to fiber installations -- Networks

17 days ago

Cisco decides its homegrown AI model is ready to power its products -- Apparently you're about to get better advice on any identity issues lurking in your infrastructure -- AI + ML

17 days ago

India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64 -- No details on power consumption, lots of patriotic pride -- Systems

17 days ago

Why do bit barns keep bumping up our bills, Senators ask DC operators -- Amazon, meanwhile, claims its datacenters are helping ratepayers despite tons of evidence to the contrary -- The Future of the Datacenter

17 days ago

Nvidia pledges more openness as it slurps up Slurm -- And parades its latest trio of Nemotron models -- Software

18 days ago

Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on -- Coalition for App Fairness warns App Store fees remain unlawful despite non-compliance ruling -- Applications

18 days ago

US freezes $42B trade pact with UK over digital tax row -- Tech Prosperity Deal paused after London resists pressure on online services levy -- Public Sector

18 days ago

From Georgia to Essex, AI datacenters are testing public goodwill -- Communities on both sides of the Atlantic push back against rapid build-outs -- The Future of the Datacenter

18 days ago

Smartphones face a memory cost crunch – and buyers aren't in the mood - AI-nflation - Rising DRAM and NAND prices are squeezing handset makers and threatening a fragile market recovery - Personal Tech - 16 Dec 2025 - | 27

17 days ago

Intel hires ex-Trump fixer as Washington whisperer -- But when will Chipzilla bring back will.i.am? -- Systems

18 days ago

MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian -- New spy boss says officers must master code alongside tradecraft as agency navigates 'space between peace and war' -- Security

18 days ago

ZTE and industry partners complete TAPI standard initiation, propelling AI all-optical networks into a new era - New ITU-T SG15 initiative advances multi-vendor interoperability at the SDN controller layer, accelerating open and intelligent all-optical networks - Partner Content

18 days ago

UK.gov doubles hardware spending framework to £24B in 6 months -- Massive procurement deal for laptops and software comes after minister vows to squeeze better value from big vendors -- Public Sector

18 days ago

Ofcom comes knocking after BT, Three mobile outages cut 999 access -- Watchdog reviews if failures breached availability rules after downtime left millions unable to make calls -- Networks

18 days ago

US gov't launches 'Tech Force' to replace IT staff DOGE fired -- Washington rediscovers that modern IT doesn't run itself -- Public Sector

19 days ago

New Jolla phone and Sailfish 5 offer a break from iOS-Android monotony - hands on - Powered by the original mobile Linux OS with crowdsourced specs - Personal Tech - 15 Dec 2025 - | 74

9 days ago

Bot invasion increases with Google scraping the way, Cloudflare says -- Mobile traffic now accounts for nearly half of requests -- Networks

19 days ago

Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card -- Paris Buttfield-Addison literally wrote books on Swift -- Devops

19 days ago

GAO report details faltering Veteran's Administration records upgrade program -- Watchdog highlights slate of unmet priorities -- Public Sector

19 days ago

Hyperscalers fuel $112B server spending spree in Q3 -- IDC's latest tracker numbers were brought to you by the letters A and I -- The Future of the Datacenter

19 days ago

Roomba maker iRobot gets cleaned out in Chapter 11 -- Company vacuumed up by its own manufacturer -- Personal Tech

19 days ago

Delay to European Central Bank messaging project cost the Bank of England £23M -- Watchdog links schedule change to replanning of UK payments system overhaul -- Public Sector

19 days ago

Apple, Google forced to issue emergency 0-day patches -- Both admit attackers were already exploiting the bugs, with scant detail and hints of spyware-grade abuse -- Patches

19 days ago

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy -- Minister insists 'modest' bill is not an assault on privacy-preserving tech -- Networks

19 days ago

Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming - Who, Me? One keypress turned a tricky Windows NT balancing act into a life of leisure - CxO - 15 Dec 2025 - | 109

12 days ago

The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years -- SPhotoix moves its 5D Memory Crystal cold storage tech closer to deployment in data centers -- Storage

19 days ago

Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program -- Critical vulnerabilities found in third-party applications eligible for award under 'in scope by default' move -- Security

22 days ago

Uncle Sam sues ex-Accenture manager over Army cloud security claims -- Justice Department alleges federal auditors were misled over compliance with FedRAMP and DoD requirements -- Off-Prem

22 days ago

UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout -- Rights groups say digital-only record is leaking data and courting trouble -- Public Sector

22 days ago

Home Office staff still leaning on 25-year-old asylum case management system -- Replacement rollout plagued by bad data and missing features, says watchdog -- Public Sector

22 days ago

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't - On Call - Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up - Storage - 12 Dec 2025 - | 250

7 days ago

Reddit sues Australia to exempt itself from kids social media ban -- Forum site says it's potentially more harmful to users who don't log in -- Legal

22 days ago

Silicon photonics won't matter 'anytime soon' says Broadcom CEO -- Chips 'n' code giant sitting on $50bn of custom AI accelerator orders, sees more to come -- Systems

22 days ago

Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life -- Copilot – your cuddly companion for nighttime introspection -- AI + ML

23 days ago

Users report chaos as Legal Aid Agency stumbles back online after cyberattack - Exclusive - Workers frustrated with security-first changes to workflows and teething issues - Cyber-crime - 11 Dec 2025 - | 3

23 days ago

India's government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models -- Proposes central body to collect royalties and dole out cash to creators -- AI + ML

23 days ago

Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon call off merger, say they're still besties -- Blame changed market conditions and attitudes, not the return of Nvidia's H200 to China -- Systems

24 days ago

Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors -- But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming -- Databases

24 days ago

Nvidia's unreleased infrastructure management service isn't for tracking GPUs, but it can - updated - If you opt in to the paid service that is - Systems - 10 Dec 2025 - | 2

22 days ago

US Navy pledges $448 million to test if Palantir is seaworthy -- Meet 'ShipOS' -- Public Sector

24 days ago