Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue - On Call - How not to maintain computers - On-Prem - 16 Jan 2026 - | 7

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TSMC sees no signs of the AI boom slowing for at least two or three years -- 2nm process will go large this year, and bring inevitable price rises -- AI + ML

4 hours ago

Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon -- You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink -- Systems

4 hours ago

Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle's borrowing spree sue Big Red - Investors upset that company failed to inform them might need to take out even more debt. Systems - 15 Jan 2026 - | 16

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OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras' AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal -- SRAM-heavy compute architecture promises real-time agents, extended reasoning capabilities to bolster Altman's valuation -- Systems

11 hours ago

Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise -- When margins are this tight, mergers might follow -- Personal Tech

14 hours ago

Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach -- Suspect assisting West Midlands Police over alleged theft at Walsall GP practice -- Security

18 hours ago

Raspberry Pi 5 gets LLM smarts with AI HAT+ 2 -- 40 TOPS of inference grunt, 8 GB onboard memory, and the nagging question: who exactly needs this? -- AI + ML

20 hours ago

China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware -- Hasn't revealed how much kit did the job, so Nvidia can probably rest easy -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Maker fight! SparkFun cuts ties with Adafruit in harassment dispute -- Adafruit claims SparkFun aims to shoot the messenger for criticizing corporate tolerance of intolerance -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Ignore rosy datacenter expansion projections – there isn't enough power -- Grid and generation capacity are not being added fast enough to support the scale of growth many forecasts assume -- Systems

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There was so much fraud on COVID loans, the feds trained an anti-fraud AI on the applications -- Had it been around in 2020, it could have flagged tens of billions before payouts, PRAC tells Congress -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Hasta la vista! Microsoft finally ends extended updates for ancient Windows version -- Support expires for Windows Server 2008, and the codebase released to manufacturing in 2006 -- OSes

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AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits -- Investment in datacenters to peak by 2029, place your bets please -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Stop dragging feet on AI nudification ban, UK government told -- Committee raises concerns over delays and loopholes in proposed law -- AI + ML

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Buy servers now or cry later: DRAM price spike threatens infrastructure budgets -- Component up 63% since September, more pricey memory coming to a supply chain near you -- Storage

1 day ago

AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty -- EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands

12 hours ago

Windows 2000 rusts in peace by the sea -- When salty coastal air meets memory errors in one of Portugal's rail ticket machines

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Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it -- Retail giant's disty, reseller, and vendor all say they can't and won't sell

15 hours ago

AI may be everywhere, but it's nowhere in recent productivity statistics -- Forrester principal analyst JP Gownder says jobs eaten by bots don't come back

13 hours ago

Eurail passengers taken for a ride as data breach spills passports, bank details -- Travel biz tells customers to change passwords beyond its own services

19 hours ago

France fines telcos €42M for sub-par security prior to 24M customer breach -- Three major GDPR violations, including a lack of basic security controls, lead to hefty dent in profits

18 hours ago

Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around -- Latest update focuses on hardware acceleration, security tightening, and a handful of quality-of-life tweaks

19 hours ago

UK backtracks on digital ID requirement for right to work -- U-turn leaves questions on costs, funding, and benefits unanswered

17 hours ago

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever -- Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store.

1 hour ago

New Linux malware targets the cloud, steals creds, and then vanishes -- Cloud-native, 37 plugins ... an attacker's dream

3 hours ago

The AI PC needs to deliver more than performance - it needs to deliver security -- Scanning the future -- Sponsored Feature

1 day ago

CTECC and ZTE Redefine Disaster Response with Air-Space-Ground Intelligent Emergency System -- Integrated UAV, satellite and ground networks restore connectivity during the critical 72-hour rescue window -- Partner Content

1 day ago

Trump administration sets GPU export rules that put Chinese buyers at the back of the queue -- America first, for sales and access to foundries -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Memory shortage could push PC shipments to pre-pandemic lows -- Could be back to 2016 levels -- Systems

2 days ago

SK Hynix's $13B packaging facility promises more HBM for the AI bubble -- Great news for AMD and Nvidia, less so for cash-strapped consumers -- Storage

2 days ago

Cloud to be an American: Congress votes to kick China off remote GPU services -- US House backs bill to regulate remote access to export-controlled chips -- Public Sector

2 days ago

AI and automation could erase 10.4 million US roles by 2030 - AI-pocalypse - Forrester models slow, structural shift rather than sudden employment collapse - AI + ML - 13 Jan 2026 - | 13

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Trump says Americans shouldn't 'pick up the tab' for AI datacenter grid upgrades -- Big Tech warned expansion must come without higher household bills as Microsoft signals support -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Trump may hate renewables, but AI datacenters still fancy cheap solar -- Analysts say cheap energy and storage make sense for bit barns despite policy headwinds -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Federal agencies told to fix or ditch Gogs as exploited zero-day lands on CISA hit list -- Git server flaw that attackers have been abusing for months has now caught the attention of US cyber cops -- Security

2 days ago

Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board -- Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster -- Databases

2 days ago

Britain goes shopping for a rapid-fire missile to help Ukraine hit back -- Project Nightfall aims to deliver a UK-built long-range strike capability at speed -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Fujitsu scores place on £984M UK government framework despite bid boycott -- Turns out the voluntary pledge to restrict public sector tendering during Horizon scandal inquiry has loopholes -- Public Sector

2 days ago

ZTE recognized on CDP Climate A ist for third consecutive year, ranking among the global top 4% ZTE's sustained climate leadership reflects strong governance and measurable green outcomes - Partner Content

2 days ago

Lenovo has a hunch you're about to try quitting VMware -- Tweaks its hardware to run multiple private cloud stacks, and shift between them -- Virtualization

2 days ago

India demands crypto outfits geolocate customers, get a selfie to prove they're real -- Government is fed up with bad actors using digi-cash to fund dodgy deeds -- Public Sector

3 days ago

PC shipments set to hit the buffers as AI guzzles memory -- High-margin infrastructure kit takes precedence, leaving laptops and desktops wanting -- Systems

3 days ago

IceWM soldiers on while Budgie jumps the Wayland ship -- Two new Linux GUIs – plus Phoenix, an experimental new X server in Zig -- Software

3 days ago

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age - Opinion - Venezuela today, Taiwan tomorrow? This might be the last good year for buying hardware - Systems - 12 Jan 2026 - | 104

10 hours ago

Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on -- Tech minister Liz Kendall says the government will back a robust regulatory response -- AI + ML

3 days ago

How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom -- A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant -- OSes

3 days ago

Tories vow to boot under-16s off social media and ban phones in schools -- Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch pitches age limits and classroom curbs as fixes for behavior and mental health -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause - Who, Me? UPSes don't work without power, or well-designed electricals - Storage - 12 Jan 2026 - | 118

17 hours ago

Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine -- Labels Rome's comms regulator 'a quasi-judicial body' that works on behalf of 'shadowy, European media cabal' -- Legal

4 days ago

India's government denies it plans to demand smartphone source code -- Says ongoing talks about security are about understanding best practice, not strong-arming vendors -- Security

4 days ago

Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut -- Asia in Brief -- PLUS: Cambodia arrests alleged scam camp boss; Baidu spins out chip biz; Panasonic's noodle shop plan; And more! -- Legal

4 days ago

Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech -- Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence -- Software

4 days ago

UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence -- ANALYSIS -- Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation -- Cyber-crime

5 days ago

Artificial brains could point the way to ultra-efficient supercomputers -- Sandia National Labs cajole Intel's neurochips into solving partial differential equations -- HPC

6 days ago

Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot -- Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else -- OSes

6 days ago

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info -- No naming that tune and no album covers -- OSes

6 days ago

Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more -- Analysts say production will top out this decade while global electrification keeps ramping -- On-Prem

6 days ago

Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on -- Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts -- Databases

6 days ago

Help desk read irrelevant script, so techies found and fixed their own problem -- On Call -- As you should, when being told the only remedy is deleting everything and starting again -- Security

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days 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

7 days 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

7 days 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 - |

7 days ago

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

7 days 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

7 days 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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days 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

8 days 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

8 days ago

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

8 days 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

8 days ago

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

8 days 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

8 days ago

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger - Opinion - Proposal targets long-standing behavior as 'an X11ism' OSes - 07 Jan 2026 - | 164

4 days 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

8 days 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

8 days 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

8 days 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

8 days ago

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

8 days 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

9 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

9 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

8 days 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

10 days ago

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

9 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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 - | 79

3 days ago

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

10 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

13 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

13 days ago

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

13 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

13 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

9 days ago