Tech that helps people outshone overhyped AI at CES 2026 -- Opinion -- Nobody really needs an AI toothbrush that sends their gums to the cloud -- Personal Tech

24 minutes ago

Iran's internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response -- Outages hit Russia and Ukraine, too -- Networks -- 09 Jan 2026

24 minutes ago

China to probe Meta's acquisition of AI outfit Manus - Grab some popcorn for the Xi vs Zuck bout, which may not be the biggest fight on the card - AI + ML - 09 Jan 2026 - |

24 minutes ago

While you pay through the nose for memory, Samsung expects to triple its profits in Q4 -- Memory pricing expected to surge another 60% in Q1 with relief years away -- Storage -- 08 Jan 2026

24 minutes ago

Pay and pray: Nvidia reportedly wants money up front for Chinese H200 orders - Beijing could green-light sales to select customers as soon as this quarter - Systems - 08 Jan 2026 - |

10 hours ago

Why colos are city slickers and hyperscalers are country bumpkins -- One wants customers next door, the other wants cheap power -- On-Prem

13 hours ago

Trump spectrum sale leaves airlines with $4.5B bill for altimeter do-over -- Just refreshed to avoid 5G interference? Do it again, FAA tells industry, as Upper C-band auction looms -- Networks

16 hours ago

CISA flags actively exploited Office relic alongside fresh HPE flaw -- Max-severity OneView hole joins a PowerPoint bug that should've been retired years ago -- Cyber-crime

17 hours ago

AOSP on a diet plan as Google halves Android code drops -- Two a year is for your own good, Mountain View insists -- OSes

17 hours ago

Logitech macOS mouse mayhem traced to expired dev certificate -- Company says it dropped the ball, apologizes for wasting people's time -- Patches

21 hours ago

Cloudflare pours cold water on 'BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela' theory -- Suggests rotten routing, not evidence of a cyber-strike before kinetic action -- Networks

1 day ago

AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far -- AMD boasts 1000x higher AI perf by 2027 and pulls the lid off Helios compute tray ahead of 2H 2026 launch -- Systems

1 day ago

SanDisk heals WD Black and Blues, rebrands beloved client SSDs -- NVMe drives to live on under the Optimus banner -- Storage

1 day ago

FAA signs radar deals to drag US air traffic control out of the 1980s -- RTX and Indra land contracts as long-delayed overhaul moves ahead -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Luggable datacenter: startup straps handles to server with 4 H200 GPUs -- Who can lift a 77-pound box into the overhead? -- Systems

1 day ago

Virginia's datacenter tax breaks cost state $1.6B in 2025 -- Trillion-dollar internet giants don't need freebies, watchdog warns, as giveaways double in a year -- On-Prem

1 day ago

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger -- Opinion -- Proposal targets long-standing behavior as 'an X11ism' -- OSes

1 day ago

Earlier Horizon rollout could widen net for quashed Post Office convictions -- Committee told shifting timelines could alter automatic reversals in UK's historic Fujitsu computing scandal -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Ministry of Justice splurged £50M on security – still missed Legal Aid Agency cyberattack -- Updated -- High-risk system compromised long before intrusion was finally spotted -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath -- Production halts and supply-chain disruption left luxury automaker reeling in fiscal Q3 -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Recline of the machines: Terminator felled by dodgy battery - Bork!Bork!Bork! The rise will be postponed until you hit F1 to continue - Offbeat - 07 Jan 2026 - | 20

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UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go -- Department for Work and Pensions lines up bot bouncers for one of Europe's largest call-handling systems -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Lenovo shows off new laptops that twist and roll -- The company has also redesigned the X1 Carbon's internals for easier repairs -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

What if Linux ran Windows... and meant it? Meet Loss32 -- It's crazy, a million-to-one shot, but it might just work -- OSes

2 days ago

Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver - Want to shield yourself against ransomware? Accelerate your recovery times. It starts with effective backup storage - Sponsored Post

1 day ago

Mem-ageddon: AI chip frenzy to wallop DRAM prices with 70% hike -- Samsung and SK hynix readying another gouge as server silicon squeeze leaves PCs and phones out in the cold -- Systems

2 days ago

Humongous 52-inch Dell monitor will make you feel like king of the internet with four screens in one -- Also: The XPS brand is back -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Crypto wallet shop Ledger confirms customer data lifted in Global-e snafu -- Order and contact details accessed via ecommerce partner, and phishing has begun -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

UK urged to unplug from US tech giants as digital sovereignty fears grow -- Campaigners say Britain's dependence on Big Tech leaves critical systems exposed to political pressure -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

Students bag extended Christmas break after cyber hit on school IT -- Phones, email, and core systems knocked out at Higham Lane in Nuneaton -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

UK injects just £210M into cyber plan to stop Whitehall getting pwnd -- Central government will supposedly be as secure as energy facilities and datacenters under new proposals -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks -- Notebook updates and enterprise tools also inbound from IT giant -- Systems

3 days ago

AMD clocks in with higher CPU speeds, leaves architecture untouched -- New chips same as the old chips -- Systems

2 days ago

Intel unleashes Panther Lake CPUs, first built on 18A process -- Company claims its Ultra Series 3 processors will offer the best battery life yet -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Nvidia says it's more than doubled the DGX Spark's performance since launch -- Just maybe not in the way you're thinking -- Systems

3 days ago

Every conference is an AI conference as Nvidia unpacks its Vera Rubin CPUs and GPUs at CES -- Teasing the next generation earlier than usual -- Systems

3 days ago

Qualcomm is determined to cut a slice out of Intel's PC pie with latest Snapdragon chips -- Enterprises have been slow to adopt Arm laptops so far -- Systems

3 days ago

EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes them -- US trade body threatens software and services market access unless European approach changes -- Legal

3 days ago

UK's long-delayed Emergency Services Network eyes satellites for help -- Direct-to-device services from low Earth orbit floated to plug coverage gaps -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Capita tells civil servants to wait for chatbots to fix pension portal woes - Exclusive - Outsourcer promises customers a service with 'AI at its core.' They just want a website that works - Public Sector - 05 Jan 2026 - | 73

5 hours ago

New Zealand orders review into ManageMyHealth cyberattack -- Government 'incredibly' concerned about breach potentially affecting more than 100,000 patients -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

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

6 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

6 days ago

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

6 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 -- 02 Jan 2026

6 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 - | 22

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 -- 31 Dec 2025

6 days ago

US Army seeks human AI officers to manage its battle bots -- What, weekend warriors from Silicon Valley not good enough? -- Public Sector -- 31 Dec 2025

7 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

9 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

10 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

9 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

10 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 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

10 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

10 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 - 29 Dec 2025 - | 26

3 days ago

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

10 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

14 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

14 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

15 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

16 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

16 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

17 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

17 days ago

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

17 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

17 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 - 22 Dec 2025 - | 125

3 days ago

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

17 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

17 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

18 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

17 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

19 days ago

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

20 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

20 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

20 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

19 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

20 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

20 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

20 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

20 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

20 days ago

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

21 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'

21 days ago

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

21 days ago

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

20 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

20 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

21 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

21 days ago

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

21 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

22 days ago

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

22 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

22 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

22 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

22 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

22 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

22 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

22 days ago