Oracle taps Bloom for 2.8 GW of fuel cells to keep datacenter binge going -- With grid hookups slow and turbines scarce, on-site power is starting to look less optional -- Systems

2 hours ago

Amazon pays $11.5B to satisfy satellite-envy while cowering in Musk's shadow -- Deal only comes with 24 operational sats, but also an Apple deal, spectrum licenses, and plenty of IP -- Networks

6 hours ago

IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz -- Didn't admit liability, will cough $17M, still fighting age discrimination cases -- Legal

12 hours ago

Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout -- Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in US -- Personal Tech

12 hours ago

Britain gives Rolls-Royce the nod to sketch out its mini reactor future -- Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030s -- Systems

13 hours ago

UK state bank considers lengthening disastrous IT program -- Already £1.3B over budget and 4 years late, NS&I could extend timetable beyond 8 years -- Public Sector

15 hours ago

When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It's trying to get back there now - Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese foothold - Systems - 14 Apr 2026 - |

16 hours ago

Attention, gamers: The FAA wants YOU to be an air traffic controller -- GG noob, who cleared you to land? -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Veterans Affairs has lost track of software licenses amid $985M bill -- Department putting systems in place to manage 'restrictive licensing practices' -- Public Sector

1 day ago

UK defense startup to supply drone interceptors for Britain and allies -- MoD plans rapid procurement of Cambridge Aerospace's Skyhammer system at home and abroad -- Edge + IoT

1 day ago

NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round -- Benchmarking contract lays groundwork for renegotiating £774M software agreement -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

France's digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead -- Après ça, le déluge, as plans call for move away from plenty more American software and hardware -- Public Sector

1 day ago

IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it -- Who, Me? -- Optimism is always risky, and defective hardware makes it indigestible -- Storage

1 day ago

China wants AI to prepare school lessons and mark homework -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Toyota wheels out basketball bot; Arm scores AI server win with SK Telecom; India ponders payment pauses to foil fraudsters; And more! -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user -- Lock-screen keyboard no longer accepts háček in student's alphanumeric passcode -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Hungarian government creds left in the safe hands of 'FrankLampard' -- Nearly 800 state logins surfaced in breach data, including defense and NATO-linked accounts -- Security

3 days ago

Electronics industry says FCC's foreign-made router policy is a bit of a mesh -- Trade group warns onshoring demands will leave Americans stuck with older gear -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Amazon would rather shareholders did not look too closely at carbon footprint -- Investors urged to reject proposal for more disclosure on whether AWS expansion risks climate goals -- PaaS + IaaS

4 days ago

Fewer than 3 in 10 register for HMRC's Making Tax Digital shake-up -- Most sole traders and landlords ignore marketing campaigns, though fines are coming -- Public Sector

4 days ago

AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load, has almost sold out AI capacity -- Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomania -- Systems

4 days ago

South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access -- Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license back -- Public Sector

4 days ago

World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate -- C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home -- CxO

5 days ago

Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement -- FTC lawsuit lingers, while encouraging signs point to Iowa bill succeeding too -- On-Prem

5 days ago

OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape -- Sam Altman's datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain's AI ambitions -- On-Prem

5 days ago

Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market -- Memory costs were already through the roof - now freight's spiking too, and budget systems face extinction -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions -- The core product is solid and priced fairly -- Storage

5 days ago

UK.gov's top tech jobs pay more than prime minister earns -- DSIT hiring directors general with packages reaching £260K plus pension -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Capita's pension portal exposes civil servants' private data -- As if the backlog, the bugs, and the chatbot fixes weren't enough -- Public Sector

5 days ago

UK to spend £15M on AI-powered crime mapping in knife violence crackdown -- Home Office hopes tech will help cops target hotspots as ministers push to halve offenses -- AI + ML

5 days ago

Call your existing automation 'zero-token architecture' to become an instant agentic AI wiz -- Kubernetes luminary Kelsey Hightower thinks IT pros need to get smart about thriving in a world that's trying to hide deep tech -- On-Prem

6 days ago

Nvidia's Rubin GPU is likely to be late thanks to memory shortage and technical challenges -- China-bound Hopper accelerators are also likely to ship in smaller volumes than previously forecast, industry watchers say -- Systems

6 days ago

RAF eyes cheap drone-killer as Typhoon jet tests laser-guided rockets -- BAE says trials could offer cheaper way to counter uncrewed aerial threats -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Supermicro launches probe after staff charged with China export violations - Board-led inquiry follows indictment of two employees and a contractor over alleged diversion of Nvidia GPU servers - Systems - 08 Apr 2026 - |

6 days ago

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers - Updated - To 'minimize disruption,' Bezoscorp offers a 20% discount on new hardware you didn't want - Personal Tech - 08 Apr 2026 - | 205

9 hours ago

Investors are going nuclear to keep UK's AI datacenters fed -- Market watcher says money is pouring into British atomic and fusion startups amid massive energy demand -- On-Prem

6 days ago

DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B -- Supplier will support the current Oracle E-Business Suite and lead migration to a new Oracle Fusion SaaS platform -- Databases

6 days ago

NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams -- Two practice web addresses appear to have been compromised -- Security

6 days ago

UK's grand plan to fuel AI with public data faces uphill battle -- Agents will look for info elsewhere unless official sources sharpen up -- AI + ML

6 days ago

How to navigate the storage crunch in the AI era - Watch this webinar and stop playing guessing games with your AI storage - Webinar Promo

6 days ago

Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones -- President Brad Smith tells an interviewer that Microsoft is reconsidering datacenter design in light of Iran war -- On-Prem

6 days ago

Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the 'easiest country to develop AI' -- Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoption -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Intel gets trapped in Elon's reality distortion field as it joins in megafab delusions -- Space is just the next stop on the AI hype train, right after AGI -- Systems

7 days ago

Break, no fix: Apple and Samsung make repairs hard -- Motorola and Google top PIRG's latest scorecard -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Uzbekistan and ZTE forge strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation - ZTE and Ministry of Digital Technologies sign MoU at MWC 2026 to modernize telecom infrastructure and explore 6G, Wi-Fi 7/8, and satellite innovations - Partner Content

6 days ago

Only 28% of AI infrastructure projects fully pay off, survey finds -- ITSM the area most likely to offer wins, according to Gartner research -- AI + ML

7 days ago

No-Nvidia interconnect club delivers 2.0 spec before v1.0 silicon ships -- UALink splits work on physical layer and protocol specs to speed things up, literally and metaphorically -- Networks

7 days ago

Shots fired – literally – over proposal to build datacenter in Indianapolis -- From a gun into the front door of a councilor who supports plan -- On-Prem

7 days ago

OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches' Kubecon - Geopolitics enter the room as Thierry Carrez shows that there's more to Kubecon than AI - Public Sector - 07 Apr 2026 - | 6

6 days ago

Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows - Opinion - Walled gardens make more sense when it's an AI-lligator infested swamp outside - Personal Tech - 07 Apr 2026 - | 110

1 day ago

Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online -- Ofcom finds social media participation dropping as skepticism about digital life grows -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate and plans to use 3.5GW of new Google AI chips -- Broadcom's building the silicon and is chuffed about that, but also notes Anthropic remains a risk -- Systems

7 days ago

How Nvidia learned to embrace the light in its quest for scale -- The GPU king's move to optical scale-up was inevitable -- Systems

9 days ago

US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks -- Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems -- Networks

12 days ago

IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes to better support AI -- Tie-up aims to widen Big Blue's access to power-efficient compute -- Systems

12 days ago

Want to be the IT Crowd for the BBC? An £800M contract beckons -- Supplier will need to look after networks, email, tech support, tools and more – plus find cost savings -- Public Sector

12 days ago

AI search is atomizing our information, warns government digital designer -- We must design expecting much of what we publish will be reinterpreted by 'systems we don't control' -- Networks

12 days ago

Live and Let AI: Former CIA officer says human spies matter more in the LLM age -- AI is eroding trust in digital communications and data, giving old-school spycraft fresh relevance for modern agents -- Public Sector

12 days ago

Japanese shipper MOL wants a floating datacenter, and Hitachi just climbed aboard -- Second-hand ship, seawater cooling, with operations eyed for 2027 -- On-Prem

13 days ago

OpenAI gets $122B to 'just build things' as the world blows them up - Opinion - War, oil shocks, and market nerves could yet knock the AI boom off course - AI + ML - 01 Apr 2026 - | 25

6 days ago

'People's Panel' to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K -- We could tell you no for free -- Public Sector

13 days ago

France buys nuclear supercomputing spinoff Bull from Atos for €404M -- Paris makes sovereignty play as it becomes sole shareholder -- HPC -- 01 Apr 2026

13 days ago

AI server farms heat up the neighborhood for miles around, paper finds -- Researchers say localized warming can extend well past site edges, raising concerns about community impact -- Systems -- 01 Apr 2026

13 days ago

We know what day it is but these Raspberry Pi price hikes are no joke -- Hot DRAM! Who is going to drop nearly $400 on an underpowered Linux computer? -- Personal Tech -- 01 Apr 2026

13 days ago

Raspberry Pi leans into semiconductors as sales climb – especially in US and China -- Chip shipments overtake boards and modules as industrial demand grows, raising questions about hobbyist roots -- Personal Tech -- 31 Mar 2026

13 days ago

Arm says agentic AI needs a new kind of CPU. Intel's DC chief isn't buying it - Interview - Cores it's got what agents crave - Systems - 31 Mar 2026 - | 4

12 days ago

Android keyboard ditches keys entirely, predicts what you mean -- Aimed at blind tablet users, although it's winning sighted fans too -- Personal Tech

14 days ago

Memory-makers' shares are down. Some RAM prices have eased. Blaming Google is not a good idea -- Chocolate Factory boffins have found a way to reduce AI's memory use, but don't assume that means less demand for DRAM -- Systems

14 days ago

Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia's kids social media ban -- Regulator 'moving into an enforcement stance' and investigating Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat as millions continue to doomscroll -- Legal

14 days ago

US PC shipments to fall 13% as memory and storage crunch hits budget systems -- Omdia says education, consumer, commercial, and public sector demand will weaken through 2026 -- Systems

15 days ago

FCC says it's making it easier for US telcos to ditch legacy lines -- But critics say stopping some engineering tests is not the sort of corner you want to cut -- Networks

15 days ago

ZTE and Kcell sign strategic MoU to boost terminal ecosystem and FWA services in Kazakhstan - ZTE and Kcell aim to bridge Kazakhstan's connectivity gap - Partner Content

14 days ago

UK fines Irish Apple outpost over sanctions-busting payments to Russian dev -- Regulator says payments totaling £635K reached entity owned and controlled by a designated person -- Applications

15 days ago

South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions eyes new shores for rack-scale invasion -- Funding round comes ahead of planned IPO -- Systems

15 days ago

European Commission admits attackers broke into public web systems, but says little else -- Brussels notifying 'Union entities' whose data may've been snatched in websites breach -- Cyber-crime

15 days ago

Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC - Opinion - Canny planning or dangerous compromise? Matt Brittin takes the hotseat at a pivotal moment - Personal Tech - 30 Mar 2026 - | 75

12 days ago

Enterprise infrastructure is entering an economic reset - Here's how to cope with the memory pricing squeeze - Partner Content

15 days ago

Explainer: Self-driving networks - Here's how your next network will look after itself - The Register Explainer

15 days ago

Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference -- Who, Me? -- Career-limiting stupidity and rudeness exposed, with terminal consequences -- Security

15 days ago

US foreign router ban criticized for being 'industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity' Public policy professor says it will make America less secure but hits Netgear's lobbying goals - Security - 30 Mar 2026 - | 45

13 days ago

DXC staff to strike in Australia after some go without pay rise for five years -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Iran war may slow APAC IT spend; Toshiba, Mitsubishi, talk chip biz combo; Fusion plasma control networks; And more! -- On-Prem

15 days ago

Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion -- New campus to include on-site power generation -- On-Prem

18 days ago

Apple's last tower topples... and the others will follow -- Farewell, Mac Pro: Increasing integration means the end of expandable computers -- Personal Tech

18 days ago

Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption -- Ratepayer Protection Pledge is unenforceable without hard numbers, Warren and Hawley argue -- On-Prem

18 days ago

UK government admits Capita pension portal was crapita at launch -- PAC grilling reveals £239M bought a system that couldn't handle the work, the volumes, or placeholder text -- Public Sector

18 days ago

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work - On Call - The 600 km drive to fix the mess was a special treat - On-Prem - 27 Mar 2026 - | 124

12 days ago

India's space program can't spend money fast enough, putting missions in peril -- Satnav systems aren't well, IP is being sold too cheap, and thousands of roles remain open -- Public Sector

18 days ago

AMD's new desktop CPU oozes cache out of all 16 cores -- Turns out massive caches are good for more than games. House of Zen boasts 5-13% perf boost over prior-gen part -- Personal Tech

19 days ago

'Empathetic' Salesforce bots to help those fired by uncaring humans -- I'm sorry, Dave. I can't give you your job back, but here's the form you fill out to collect benefits -- Public Sector

19 days ago

Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America -- Maybe that's why Tim didn't get an invitation to the President's tech bro club? -- Personal Tech

19 days ago

Three more charged over alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling scheme to China - Prosecutors say trio used Thai front companies to reroute high-end AI servers - Systems - 26 Mar 2026 - |

19 days ago

Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization -- Microsoft's Clippy for 21st century deployed to evaluate returns? Industry Wales chair brands it just 'wrong' -- AI + ML

19 days ago

UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful -- 300 families undergo 6-week trial to test impact on sleep, school, and home life -- Public Sector

19 days ago

Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda -- CarStation/PlayMobile won't hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA -- Personal Tech

19 days ago

Datacenter batteries are selling years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic -- Shifting production from automotive to compute and working on supercapacitors as another way to protect workloads -- On-Prem

19 days ago

Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war - rsac 2026 - Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC... RSA - 25 Mar 2026 - | 15

19 days ago

Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros -- Plus one actual physicist -- Science

20 days ago

Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants -- Effort includes permitting and planning -- AI + ML

20 days ago

Dell slims down business laptops, fattens up cooling and battery life -- Pro line gets new naming convention and some serious upgrades -- Personal Tech

20 days ago

Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs -- I'll just clear up that up, shall I? -- OSes

20 days ago

HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS after competition melts away -- Insiders say single-bidder process left little room for negotiation -- Public Sector

20 days ago