Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators -- AI power demands drive operators to repurpose aircraft parts amid gas turbine shortages -- Systems

9 minutes ago

UK competition cops brand Apple, Google with 'strategic market status' for mobile -- Designation hands CMA broad oversight of their app stores and platforms -- Personal Tech

9 minutes ago

Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode - Updated - October security patch leaves users unable to fix their PCs - OSes - 20 Oct 2025 - | 75

8 hours ago

The real insight behind measuring Copilot usage is Microsoft's desperation - Opinion - Citizen! You are falling short in your AI usage targets! Strive harder for the revolution! AI + ML - 20 Oct 2025 - | 50

8 hours ago

Tech industry grad hiring crashes 46% as bots do junior work - ai-pocalypse - GenAI meets Gen Z – only one gets the job - AI + ML - 16 Oct 2025 - | 65

1 day ago

Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers -- Comment -- Oracle slurps your data whether you like it or not... for the good and bad of the planet -- AI + ML

6 days ago

Mind the gap – in mobile coverage: UK train signal to stay patchy till 2030 - Minister pins hopes on low Earth orbit satellites to plug crap rail connectivity - Networks - 16 Oct 2025 - | 17

2 days ago

Arduino has a new job selling chips for its new owner. Let's not pretend otherwise -- Opinion -- Getting swallowed by a whale is a life-changing event no matter what the whale says -- Systems

9 days ago

UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders - Pre-market charm offensive begins for Edinburgh's next national number-cruncher - HPC - 13 Oct 2025 - | 6

7 days ago

China moves to extend control over tech industry's critical rare earths -- New laws restrict goods that are manufactured outside of China -- Systems

13 days ago

Panther Lake sets stage for Intel's 2 nm comeback, but many details still TBD -- Notebook chip promises 8 to 16 cores and up to 180 TOPS of total AI performance when it hits shelves in January -- Systems

13 days ago

Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it - Who, Me? Big Blue turned the air blue - Software - 06 Oct 2025 - | 152

8 hours ago

Big money is nervous about AI hype, but not ready to call it a bubble - Analysis - Exploding valuations and mountains of debt, and yet.... AI + ML - 03 Oct 2025 - | 82

15 days ago

China's CR450 bullet train clocks 453 km/h in pre-service tests -- Wheeled wonder leaves European rail in the dust -- Offbeat

6 hours ago

Royal Navy sharpens claws on Wildcat choppers with anti-drone Martlet missiles -- Laser-guided weapon reaches full service after successful sea trials -- Public Sector

6 hours ago

UK data regulator defends decision not to investigate MoD Afghan data breach -- ICO says probe unnecessary after reviewing ministry's handling of leak -- Security

7 hours ago

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists -- Amazon's hours-long cloud blackout transformed the future of sleep into a sauna and cat care into chaos -- PaaS + IaaS

23 hours ago

Introducing NTFSplus – because just one NTFS driver for Linux is never enough -- Dev unveils a faster, modernized take on Microsoft's file system for penguin-powered PCs -- OSes

1 day ago

Mobian makes Debian's latest 'Trixie' release pocket-sized -- Another phone Linux? The Reg attempts to disentangle the options -- OSes

1 day ago

ZTE and DNS:NET partner to launch advanced Wi-Fi 7 tri-band solution in Germany - Next-generation XGS-PON Wi-Fi 7 Tri-Band solution debuts at Network X in partnership with DNS:NET - Partner Content

8 hours ago

Nexperia drama intensifies as Dutch chipmaker denies ousted CEO's claims of Chinese split -- The government in the Netherlands has taken control of the company -- Systems

1 day ago

UK rethinks offshoring ban for £8M online procurement system -- Cabinet Office signals it might let supplier ship work abroad after 'unforeseeable' event -- Public Sector

2 days ago

UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch -- Once more into the, er, breach? -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Meta convinces Blue Owl to cut $30B check for its Hyperion AI super cluster -- Deal keeps debt off Social Media empire's books -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Amazon spills plan to nuke Washington...with X-Energy mini-reactors -- Now they just need to get regulatory approval -- Networks

4 days ago

Hyperscalers try to beat the heat with larger racks, more air flow -- Most datacenters to ditch 19-inch standard for 21-inch OCP kit by 2030 -- On-Prem

4 days ago

Chamber of Commerce sues over Trump's $100K H-1B paywall -- US biz lobby claims president overstepped his authority with proclamation demanding hefty visa fee -- Legal

4 days ago

Replaying ancient steps - How HPC is igniting discoveries in dinosaur locomotion (and beyond) Partner Content

4 days ago

Turns out the end of Windows 10 is good for something: The PC refresh cycle -- Operating system's D-day resuscitates flatlining computer sector -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Labor unions sue Trump administration over social media surveillance - Updated - Sharing views POTUS doesn't like? Say goodbye to that visa, First Amendment be damned - Legal - 17 Oct 2025 - | 78

1 day ago

Carmakers fear chip crunch as Dutch sanctions hit Nexperia -- Beijing blocks exports after Netherlands imposes special measures on Chinese-owned chipmaker -- Systems

5 days ago

Literal crossed wires sent cops after innocent neighbors in child abuse case -- Eight-year telco blunder had a profound impact on three wrongly accused in Wales -- Networks

5 days ago

Britain's AI gold rush hits a wall – not enough electricity -- Energy secretary Miliband promises renewable utopia for green and pleasant land... filled with datacenters -- On-Prem

5 days ago

'Fax virus' panicked a manager and sparked job-killing Reply-All incident - On Call - The 1990s called with a reminder that in the time before ransomware, infosec panics could be quite quaint - Networks - 17 Oct 2025 - | 141

2 days ago

TSMC hurrying to bring advanced chip tech to Arizona fab -- CEO C.C. Wei cites strong demand for AI products. Intel may also be a factor -- Systems

5 days ago

NordVPN open sources its Linux GUI client under GPLv3 -- Joins its command-line client from a couple of years ago -- Networks

6 days ago

Locked out of your Gmail account? Google says phone a friend -- Recovery feature lets trusted contacts help you get back in when other methods fail -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

US hyperscalers to guzzle 22% more grid juice by end of 2025 -- AI hype fuels bit barn boom – and utilities are sweating the surge -- On-Prem

6 days ago

Senator presses Cisco over firewall flaws that burned US agency -- Bill Cassidy letter asks if Switchzilla sat on critical flaws before feds were forced into emergency patching -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Firefox 144 brings fixes, features, and farewells for 32-bit Linux die-hards -- Mozilla hardens its browser and toys with AI search while closing the door on legacy systems -- Software

6 days ago

The $100B memory war: Inside the battle for AI's future -- Feature -- The AI gold rush is so large that even third place is lucrative -- Storage

6 days ago

Meta sends Arm a friend request asking for help with Nvidia's Grace CPUs - No custom Arm CPUs to speak of yet - Systems - 16 Oct 2025 - |

6 days ago

Apple goes all in on AI acceleration with M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros -- Oh and the CPU is up to 15% faster for those that could care less about articifically intelligent Apple products and more about getting work done -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

ASML shrugs off China slump with faith in AI-fueled chip demand -- Beijing's self-reliance push and US export limits hit orders -- Systems

6 days ago

Everyone wants a fancy phone – even the folk buying them second-hand -- IDC and Counterpoint say premium kit is driving sales in both new and used markets -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records -- ICO makes example of outsourcing giant over sluggish cyber response -- Cybersecurity Month

7 days ago

Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack -- Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses -- Applications

7 days ago

Trump's anti-sustainability agenda comes to Eurozone -- canalys emea forum 2025 -- ESG kicked like a 'toxic political football' amid greenwashing -- CxO

5 days ago

UK government's £45B AI savings pitch built on broad-brush guesswork, MPs told -- Think tank cautions that without job cuts or capital savings, the math doesn't add up -- Public Sector

7 days ago

AI is the flying car of the mind: An irresistible idea nobody knows how to land or manage -- Column -- And which will crash, repeatedly, until users learn how to handle it safely -- AI + ML

7 days ago

CISA cuts more staff and reassigns others as government stays shut down -- America's main cybersecurity agency has lost almost 1,000 people this year -- Public Sector

7 days ago

18 zettaFLOPS of new AI compute coming online from Oracle late next year -- New clusters to feature 800,000 Nvidia Blackwell and 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450X GPUs -- Systems

7 days ago

Microsoft seeding Washington schools with free AI to get kids and teachers hooked -- To the slop trough, kiddos! -- AI + ML

7 days ago

What do we want? Windows 10 support! When do we want it? Until 2030! Updated - Protesters slam forced obsolescence outside Microsoft's office - OSes - 14 Oct 2025 - | 70

5 days ago

Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN -- Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won't fully roll out for several months -- Networks

8 days ago

British govt agents demand action after UK mega-cyberattacks surge 50% -- Warn businesses to act now as high-severity incidents keep climbing -- Cyber-crime

8 days ago

Ofcom refuses to bite over Openreach's fiber freebies -- Watchdog says it sees no case to investigate discounted FTTP upgrade offer – but will keep an eye on it -- Networks

8 days ago

EU biometric border system launch hits inevitable teething problems -- Malfunctioning equipment and manual processing cause 90-minute waits -- Public Sector

8 days ago

Nvidia's GB10 workstations arrive with 1 petaFLOPS of compute, 128GB of VRAM, and a $3K+ price tag -- Systems from Nvidia, Dell, and others available starting Oct. 15 -- Systems

8 days ago

Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily -- Then shalt thee change the setting three times, no more! -- Storage

8 days ago

Bose kills SoundTouch: Smart speakers go dumb in Feb -- Cloud support to be ditched on older hardware, customers left with pricey paperweights -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers -- Outage knocks out phones, broadband – even telco's own status page -- Networks

8 days ago

Broadcom cozies up to OpenAI for 10 GW custom chip love-in -- Every human deserves their own accelerator, says ChatGPT creator -- Systems

8 days ago

SpaceX limbers up for Starship flight 11 as launch pad faces retirement - Updated - Another flawless demonstration or unplanned explosion await - Science - 13 Oct 2025 - | 26

6 days ago

Datacenter water use? California governor says don't ask, don't tell -- Bid for transparency on consumption evaporates with Newsom veto -- On-Prem

9 days ago

China probes Qualcomm's Autotalks deal amid rising US trade tensions -- Beijing insists it's business as usual – Washington might see it differently -- Systems

9 days ago

End of Windows 10 support is the perfect time for the Windows 11 installer to fail -- Microsoft admits its media creation tool 'might not work as expected' -- OSes

9 days ago

Fujitsu pumps £280M into UK arm to keep lights on after Horizon scandal -- Parent firm's cash keeps division afloat as Post Office inquiry nears final report -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Dutch government puts Nexperia on a short leash over chip security fears -- Minister invokes powers to stop firm shifting knowledge to China, citing governance shortcomings -- Systems

9 days ago

Britain's biggest nuclear site looks set to outlast SAP support again -- Sellafield considers using legacy ECC software beyond extended 2030 cut-off -- Applications

9 days ago

Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company -- Who, Me? -- Illicit colo cleanup seemed like a good way to get out of the house during Covid -- Networks

9 days ago

Inside the belly of the beast: A technical walk through Intel's 18A production facility at Fab52 -- deep dive -- Now if Lip Bu Tan can just find a willing customer -- On-Prem

10 days ago

Who gets a Mac at work? Here's how companies decide -- You can't always get what you want -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

Kyndryl sued for firing non-white workers, disabled vet -- Security team cuts allegedly targeted workers based on race, national origin, age, and whistleblowing -- On-Prem

11 days ago

Senate says Nvidia chips are for America first as China tightens import controls -- Xi to the left of me, Trump is to the right; Huang I am, stuck in the middle with GPUs -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal -- High gas prices and surging AI demand send operators back to the dirtiest fuel in the stack -- On-Prem

12 days ago

50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity -- Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaos -- Science

12 days ago

Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian' -- Exclusive -- Houston, we have a custody battle -- Science

12 days ago

US PC shipments hit the buffers as Trump's tariffs take their toll -- WORLD WAR FEE -- Rest of the world surges on Windows 10 end-of-life upgrades -- Personal Tech

12 days ago

SoftBank snaps up ABB's robotics biz for $5.4B to fuel 'physical AI' dreams -- Japanese tech goliath gets grabby with industrial automation as ABB shelves spin-off plans -- AI + ML

13 days ago

Nextcloud withdraws European Commission OneDrive bundling complaint -- Blames 'lack of interest' from the EU policy enforcer for towel throwing -- Public Sector

13 days ago

Cisco's new router unites disparate datacenters into AI training behemoths -- With enough routers, Switchzilla says it can link bit barns 1,000 km apart and scale fabrics beyond 3 exabits per second -- Networks

13 days ago

As real life banks close, network operator starts a Scam School to stop Granny getting mugged online -- Broadband biz teams up with Good Things Foundation to teach the digitally doddery how to dodge fraud -- Networks

14 days ago

UK Home Office doubles down on Oracle with £54M cloud contract -- Department also wedded to Big Red in shared service applications -- Public Sector

14 days ago

Brits sitting on £1.6B gold mine of Windows 10 junk as support ends -- Recyclers reckon millions of obsolete PCs could yield a small fortune in precious metals -- Personal Tech

14 days ago

China is building a thriving semi industry off US leftovers, export controls be damned -- House Committee on China wants more comprehensive ban on chipmaking equipment exports to Middle Kingdom -- Public Sector

14 days ago

FCC kicks off 'Space Month' with vow to fast-track satellite licensing -- Agency aims to replace its default 'no' with default 'yes' while overhauling rules for operators -- Public Sector

14 days ago

London cops unplug iPhone crime ring said to nick 40% of city's mobiles -- Met's year-long Operation Echosteep nets thousands of stolen devices and several arrests -- Personal Tech

15 days ago

Britain eyes satellite laser warning system and carrier-launched jet drones -- Space sensors and UAVs at sea top MoD's list in new wave of cutting-edge projects -- Edge + IoT

15 days ago

UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project -- Department eyes new app to tap national ANPR data for live alerts, searches, and integrations -- Public Sector

15 days ago

OpenAI IP promises ring hollow to Sora losers - analysis - Altman promises copyright holders a cut of video revenue, if he ever figures out how to make some. AI + ML - 06 Oct 2025 - | 15

14 days ago

Deloitte refunds Aussie gov after AI fabrications slip into $440K welfare report -- Big Four consultancy billed Canberra top dollar, only for investigators to find bits written by a chatbot -- AI + ML

15 days ago

OpenAI and AMD link arms for AI buildout: It's a power-for-equity swap -- 6GW chip pact sends AMD stock soaring, Nvidia has a rival for Altman biz love -- Systems

16 days ago

EchoStar secures rights to spectrum it plans to sell to SpaceX -- Musk space biz: 'Anyone else that wants to use the spectrum must coordinate with us first' -- Networks

16 days ago

An idea that won't sink: China planning underwater datacenter deployment -- Under the sea, under the sea... bit barnacle's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me -- On-Prem

16 days ago

Qualcomm in the dock over 'patent tax' on smartphones -- Consumer group Which? says owners of Apple and Samsung devices overcharged by £480M -- Systems

16 days ago

ICE plans to scour Facebook, TikTok, X, and even defunct Google+ for illegal immigration leads -- Draft solicitation calls for nearly 30 contractors to mine social media and other open-source data -- Public Sector

18 days ago

UK government says digital ID won't be compulsory – honest -- Even spy-tech biz Palantir says 'steady on' as 2.76M Brits demand it be ditched -- Public Sector

18 days ago

Retro nerd hacks LEGO's Game Boy into the real deal -- Modder crams working hardware into plastic shell and fires up Tetris -- Offbeat

19 days ago

Struggling to heat your home? How about 500 Raspberry Pi units? -- UK Power Networks trials Thermify's HeatHub boilers, swapping gas flames for clustered compute -- On-Prem

19 days ago