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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days 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 -- Networks

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days ago

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

4 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

4 days 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

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

5 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

6 days 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

6 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

6 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

7 days ago

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

6 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

10 days ago

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

4 days ago

New York's incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at his inauguration party -- Zohran Mamdani appears not to understand that smartphones can be used for evil

5 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

6 days ago

The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere -- From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear

4 days ago

Europe's cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age -- Countries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground

5 days ago

European Space Agency hit again as cybercrims claim 200 GB data up for sale -- As in past incidents, ESA says the impact was limited to external systems

3 days ago

When the AI bubble pops, Nvidia becomes the most important software company overnight -- Want to survive the crash? Find another way to make money with GPUs

5 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

2 days ago

Cybersecurity pros admit to moonlighting as ransomware scum -- Pair became ALPHV affiliates to prey on US-based clients

4 days ago

Banksy's Limitless limited by Windows Activation -- Digital screen snafu or satirical comment on Microsoft's licensing policies?

5 days 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

10 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

11 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

12 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

3 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

13 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

13 days ago

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

13 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

13 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

13 days ago

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

13 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

13 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

14 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

7 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

15 days ago

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

16 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

16 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

16 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

15 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

16 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

6 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

16 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

16 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

2 days ago

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

16 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'

17 days ago

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

17 days ago

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

16 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

16 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

17 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

17 days ago

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

17 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

18 days ago

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

18 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

18 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

18 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

18 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

18 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

18 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

18 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

18 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

18 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

19 days ago

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

19 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

18 days ago

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

19 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

19 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

19 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

19 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

18 days ago

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

19 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

19 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

19 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

19 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

19 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

20 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

10 days ago

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

20 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

20 days ago

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

20 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

20 days ago

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

20 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

20 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

20 days ago

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

20 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

13 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

20 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

23 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

23 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

23 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

23 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

8 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

24 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

24 days ago

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

24 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

24 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

24 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

25 days ago

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

25 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

24 days ago

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

25 days ago