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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 -- Databases7 hours ago
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 Content1 day ago
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 snooping1 day ago
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 legal1 day ago
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 Feature1 day ago
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 - | 181 day ago
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 - | 4911 minutes ago
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 20252 days ago
Datacenter biz and nuke startup join forces for Texas AI ranch -- The bit barn will run on gas power first. -- Systems -- 31 Oct 20252 days ago
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 20252 days ago
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' -- OSes6 days ago
France jacks into the Matrix for state messaging – and pays too -- Comment -- Governments eye comms alternatives as sovereignty worries mount -- Public Sector6 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 Sector9 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 + ML8 days ago
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 + IaaS9 days ago
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 - | 1291 day ago
How to build sustainable AI? Start with the network - Baking in sustainability begins with smart network design - Sponsored Feature9 days ago
Engineering CPO is easy — scaling it for AI will take an ecosystem - Co-packaged optics promise a big boost for AI - Sponsored Post9 days ago
Supermicro warns it will miss revenue forecast by a lazy billion bucks or more -- Mystery customer wants an upgrade that will take some time -- Systems12 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 -- Systems12 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 -- Systems3 hours ago
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 -- Security5 hours ago
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-crime7 hours ago
Power crunch threatens to derail AI datacenter construction -- Supply chains also unprepared for liquid cooling demands -- On-Prem8 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 Sector10 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 Sector13 hours ago
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 -- Systems15 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 Sector15 hours ago
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 Sector21 hours ago
IBM cutting several thousand jobs in latest layoffs -- Resource Actions expected to hit half of US Infrastructure group -- On-Prem22 hours ago
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 Feature15 hours ago
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 -- Offbeat1 day ago
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 -- OSes1 day ago
$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 Month2 hours ago
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 Sector1 day ago
'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 -- OSes1 day ago
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 - | 242 hours ago
Ministry of Defence's F-35 blunder: £57B and counting -- Government spending watchdog eviscerates penny wise, pound foolish approach -- Offbeat1 day ago
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-Prem1 day ago
Metropolitan Police hails facial recognition tech after record year for arrests -- But question marks remain over the tech's biases -- Security2 days ago
Labor organizers accuse Rockstar Games of 'ruthless act of union busting' after layoffs -- Does Discord need some stars for when Management is watching? -- Software2 days ago
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 -- Security2 days ago
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 -- OSes2 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 + ML2 days ago
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 - | 131 day ago
International Criminal Court kicks Microsoft Office to the curb -- Rough justice? Redmond out as Germany's openDesk judged a better fit -- Applications5 days ago
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-Prem5 days ago
Linux vendors are getting into Ubuntu – and Snap -- Ubuntu Summit -- Ubuntu's much-maligned format may be finally reaching critical mass -- OSes5 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 -- Networks5 days ago
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 Sector5 days ago
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 - | 821 day ago
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 -- OSes5 days ago
Europe preps Digital Euro to enter circulation in 2029 -- Because fewer people like banknotes, and payment sovereignty is a problem -- Public Sector5 days ago
Colorado launches lawyers at Trump admin over space base relocation -- State cries foul over "crooked elections" claim in Alabama move -- Offbeat6 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 Sector6 days ago
US government shutdown clouds an otherwise sunny ServiceNow forecast -- Enterprise software giant lifts guidance but adds 'prudence' as federal contracts stall -- SaaS6 days ago
Italian tech company promises to make America Online great again -- Dial-up dinosaur finds yet another corporate home as Yahoo waves goodbye -- Networks6 days ago
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-Prem6 days ago
Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe -- Time to put eggs in more than one basket? -- PaaS + IaaS6 days ago
There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing -- Ohio State boffins coax shiitake and button varieties into behaving like memristors -- Offbeat6 days ago
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 - | 381 day ago
Samsung picks fights with Google and Qualcomm -- Brings its largely unloved browser to PCs and promises to make its Exynos SoCs more competitive -- Software6 days ago
AI is making Google and Meta even stronger and richer -- So they're increasing spending on infrastructure to keep it that way -- AI + ML6 days ago
Microsoft gives Windows 11 a fresh Start – here's how to get it -- More convenient layout saves you a click -- OSes6 days ago
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 Sector7 days ago
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 -- Systems7 days ago
AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay -- Bosses banking on automation? 55% will regret those job cuts -- AI + ML7 days ago
UK politicians to draft outage blueprint after AWS calamity -- 60% of government services rely on Amazon, Google, or Microsoft's clouds -- PaaS + IaaS7 days ago
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 - | 95 days ago
UK government on the lookout for bargain-priced CTO -- Dangles £100K for someone to fix £23B tech mess -- Public Sector7 days ago
Zen Internet loses unfair dismissal appeal case with former CEO -- Judges agree broadband biz didn't follow its own procedures when booting boss -- Networks7 days ago
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 -- Networks7 days ago
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 Content7 days ago
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 Month5 days ago
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-Prem8 days ago
Euro cloud alliance urges action on Broadcom as Microsoft mends fences -- CISPE says post-VMware conduct raises fresh antitrust concerns -- Networks8 days ago
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 -- Networks8 days ago
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 -- Security8 days ago
Google says reports of a Gmail breach have been greatly exaggerated -- Ad and cloud biz rubbishes claims that 183 million accounts broken into -- Security8 days ago
UK government inflates G-Cloud framework to £14B -- Procurement delays and lock-in fears see framework balloon in size and scope -- Public Sector8 days ago
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 Content8 days ago
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-Prem8 days ago
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 + IaaS8 days ago
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 -- Devops8 days ago
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 Month5 days ago
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 + IaaS9 days ago
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 Tech9 days ago
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-crime9 days ago
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-crime9 days ago
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 Tech11 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 + ML12 days ago
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 - | 288 days ago
Digital ID is now less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers -- Starmer rebrands unpopular scheme as convenience tool after backlash -- Public Sector12 days ago
BBC probe finds AI chatbots mangle nearly half of news summaries -- Google Gemini worst offender with 76% error rate -- AI + ML12 days ago
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 - |12 days ago
AI is driving networking and compute together - ZTE CEO Xu Ziyang talks power, performance and sustainability - Sponsored Feature12 days ago
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 Sector13 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 Tech13 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-crime13 days ago
