Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back - Opinion - Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating - AI + ML - 28 Apr 2026 - | 2

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UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit -- Comparison between 2 vendors was never meant to be seen ... or made -- Public Sector

4 minutes ago

Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don't pay publishers -- Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went home -- Legal

1 hour ago

China blocks Zuck's acquisition of AI outfit Manus -- Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions -- Legal

7 hours ago

The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown -- After missing its 2025 target, Boeing's MQ-25A Stingray is one step closer to a carrier deck -- Public Sector

9 hours ago

The crypto-to-AI bandwagon jumpers' club just landed another member: Core Scientific -- They were doing it in Texas... -- Systems

13 hours ago

Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space -- Facebook provider also working with energy storage firm to keep 100 hours of juice on hand -- On-Prem

17 hours ago

SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months - Updated - Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team - Science - 27 Apr 2026 - | 18

9 hours ago

Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle -- Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors -- Public Sector

12 hours ago

Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet -- Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grew -- Security

21 hours ago

Burglar alarm biz burgled: ADT confirms cyber intrusion after ShinyHunters extortion attempt -- Security giant says attackers grabbed 'limited set' of data. Crooks claim 10 million records -- Cyber-crime

21 hours ago

ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds -- UK's data watchdog confirms its boss has been off the job since February while an HR investigation runs -- Public Sector

22 hours ago

Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs -- What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever? -- Public Sector

3 days ago

US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit -- Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhere -- Networks

3 days ago

Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network -- Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agency -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

More ancient Linux device support faces the chop -- One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers -- OSes

3 days ago

Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table -- Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again... now it has to build the chips -- Security

3 days ago

Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense -- opinion -- The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance

22 hours ago

AI's not going to kill open source code security -- Opinion -- Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way

22 hours ago

Tokenmaxxing isn't an AI strategy -- Before checking AI's price tag, see whether it fits

22 hours ago

Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now -- KETTLE -- Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos

22 hours ago

PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch -- Who, Me? -- There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODs

22 hours ago

Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now -- Opinion -- AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that

22 hours ago

Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot -- Microsoft Copilot now heading into 'Official Sensitive' work after winning back just 26 minutes a day in a trial

22 hours ago

Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup's production database -- Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding

1 hour ago

In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day

22 hours ago

Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now -- Keep the patches away for as long as you like

19 hours ago

Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores -- After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse -- Systems

3 days ago

Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami -- Oval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that don't quite add up -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos -- Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the border -- Security

3 days ago

UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room -- Nothing says 'We want honest opinions' like a 36,000-letter mailshot with no awkward questions allowed -- Public Sector

4 days ago

To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane - On Call - Won't somebody think of the children not being hit by a load of building materials? Networks - 24 Apr 2026 - | 122

1 hour ago

US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes -- Three vendors matched to three sites -- Public Sector

4 days ago

YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard -- What are you doing to solve the memory crisis? -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70% Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptions - Storage - 23 Apr 2026 - |

4 days ago

American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir -- Wins $300M deal over Salesforce, IBM because of 'integration with existing USDA systems,' among other things -- Public Sector

4 days ago

AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers -- Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear -- Systems

4 days ago

Medical data of 500k Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals -- Updated -- World's largest biomedical dataset lifted and shifted on Chinese mega marketplace -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Hybrid clouds have two attack surfaces and you're not paying enough attention to either -- Black Hat Asia -- Windows Admin Center flaws mean on-prem can attack cloud, and vice-versa -- Applications

4 days ago

Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet -- EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon -- Systems

4 days ago

If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you -- Orgs can now buy UK cyber agency engineered commercial gadget, but details are slim -- Security

4 days ago

Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it -- Whitehall content teams play whack-a-mole with zombie pages as Google hoovers up the lot -- AI + ML

5 days ago

Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date -- NCSC passes judgment: passkeys pass muster, passwords fail -- Security

5 days ago

SK Hynix's aspirations for 'Merica-made HBM inch closer to reality -- New site set to begin manufacturing and testing HBM memory just in time for Nvidia's Rubin-Ultra GPUs in 2028 -- Systems

5 days ago

Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor -- Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containers -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Datacenter boom keeps dirty coal plants alive in the US -- Happy Earth Day! -- Systems

5 days ago

Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad - Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue diet - Devops - 22 Apr 2026 - |

5 days ago

Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3 -- Latest hardware sports dock for graphic card, power sipping battery -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win - Google Cloud Next - x86 gets the boot as Google pairs up its TPUs with some Arm-based Axion cores - AI + ML - 22 Apr 2026 - | 6

4 days ago

Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges -- Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws -- Security

5 days ago

Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects -- Brit firms look to run tech overseas as govt tries to support 'sovereign' creators -- AI + ML

6 days ago

Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock -- Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment -- On-Prem

6 days ago

Apple has an opportunity to rediscover humanity in its push toward AI - OPINION - John Ternus can remake Apple the way it should have been - On-Prem - 21 Apr 2026 - | 27

1 day ago

Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months -- Still only a tiny slice of mobile activity overall -- Networks

6 days ago

FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' -- One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume -- Science

6 days ago

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match - Review - An $899 CPU? In this economy? Personal Tech - 21 Apr 2026 - | 27

4 days ago

Crook claims to leak 'video surveillance footage' of companies -- Mexican IT services firm admits it was hacked, but says client operations weren't affected -- Cyber-crime

6 days ago

Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters -- No facial recognition privacy intrusions either! Well, maybe a little -- Security

6 days ago

England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one -- 90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture -- Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolment -- Security

7 days ago

NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won't be ready for Moon landing -- Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess -- Science

7 days ago

Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again -- The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions -- On-Prem

7 days ago

World's blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home -- Tim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at Apple -- Systems

7 days ago

Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter -- Official involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn't paint entire picture of datacenter's economic benefit -- Public Sector

7 days ago

AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London -- Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts -- On-Prem

7 days ago

UK.gov kicks off half-a-billion quid sovereign AI venture with £80M invite -- Companies get to keep IP developed for government projects -- AI + ML

7 days ago

HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life -- Workstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdown -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing -- Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use -- On-Prem

7 days ago

'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild -- Who, Me? -- You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstrom -- Bootnotes

8 days ago

Indonesia's game rating system paused amid claims it leaked developer creds and glimpses of major new titles -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: India bins ID app pre-install plan; Robot wins Beijing half-marathon; AI writing Manga speech bubbles; and more! -- Public Sector

8 days ago

Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors -- Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes -- Systems

10 days ago

Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned -- Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15 -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug -- University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks -- Top civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for money -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching - On Call - All that kit, and the fix was simply stepping aside - Networks - 17 Apr 2026 - | 103

22 hours ago

IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure -- Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookups -- Networks

11 days ago

Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day -- Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory -- Networks

11 days ago

IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google -- We're not half way there, we're still livin' on a prayer -- Networks

11 days ago

Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban -- If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyard -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband -- Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikes -- Networks

11 days ago

A beginner's guide to GPU virtualization: passthrough, vGPU, and MIG - What every IT generalist needs to know before deploying GPU workloads, and why the platform matters more than the hardware. Partner Content

11 days ago

Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews -- Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps up -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned -- When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on... -- AI + ML

11 days ago

Cops hand Motorola £25M no-bid deal to keep 2000-era radios alive -- Biz as usual for Brit public sector: ESN replacement is 12 years late and £3B over budget -- Public Sector

12 days ago

QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different -- Deciphering the third transport protocol's four RFCs is a task to rival the proverbial blind man trying to understand an elephant -- Networks

12 days ago

Bullet train upgrade brings 5G windows and noise-cancelling cabins to Japan -- Private Shinkansen suites are pulling up to the station in October -- Networks

12 days ago

Not all networks can handle AI traffic – and experts are sounding alarms -- Y'all been focusing on compute and forgot about how the data moves around -- Networks

12 days ago

US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally -- Report says authorities are flouting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidies -- On-Prem

12 days ago

UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk -- Open Rights Group says years of reliance on US giants have left Britain exposed -- Public Sector

12 days ago

Orbital datacenter startup CEO admits launch economics don't fly, presses ahead regardless -- Needs SpaceX et al to drop prices and give competitors a ride into space to make it work -- Systems

12 days ago

The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out - Opinion - The perfect combination of hardware and experiences will arrive, no matter what Zuck and Neal Stephenson think - Personal Tech - 15 Apr 2026 - | 42

5 days ago

AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop -- Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away -- Systems

12 days ago

Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands - Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises - Sponsored Feature

12 days ago

Oracle taps Bloom for 2.8 GW of fuel cells to keep datacenter binge going -- With grid hookups slow and turbines scarce, on-site power is starting to look less optional -- Systems

13 days ago

Amazon pays $11.5B to satisfy satellite-envy while cowering in Musk's shadow -- Deal only comes with 24 operational sats, but also an Apple deal, spectrum licenses, and plenty of IP -- Networks

13 days ago

IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz -- Didn't admit liability, will cough $17M, still fighting age discrimination cases -- Legal

13 days ago

Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout -- Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in US -- Personal Tech

13 days ago

Britain gives Rolls-Royce the nod to sketch out its mini reactor future -- Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030s -- Systems

13 days ago

UK state bank considers lengthening disastrous IT program -- Already £1.3B over budget and 4 years late, NS&I could extend timetable beyond 8 years -- Public Sector

14 days ago

When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It's trying to get back there now - Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese foothold - Systems - 14 Apr 2026 - |

14 days ago

Attention, gamers: The FAA wants YOU to be an air traffic controller -- GG noob, who cleared you to land? -- Public Sector

14 days ago

Veterans Affairs has lost track of software licenses amid $985M bill -- Department putting systems in place to manage 'restrictive licensing practices' -- Public Sector

14 days ago

UK defense startup to supply drone interceptors for Britain and allies -- MoD plans rapid procurement of Cambridge Aerospace's Skyhammer system at home and abroad -- Edge + IoT

14 days ago

NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round -- Benchmarking contract lays groundwork for renegotiating £774M software agreement -- Personal Tech

14 days ago

France's digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead -- Après ça, le déluge, as plans call for move away from plenty more American software and hardware -- Public Sector

15 days ago

IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it -- Who, Me? -- Optimism is always risky, and defective hardware makes it indigestible -- Storage

15 days ago

China wants AI to prepare school lessons and mark homework -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Toyota wheels out basketball bot; Arm scores AI server win with SK Telecom; India ponders payment pauses to foil fraudsters; And more! -- AI + ML

15 days ago