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Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months -- Analysts say three-screen smartphone successful as a proof of concept, memory crunch potentially made it unsustainable -- Personal Tech -- 18 Mar 20265 hours ago
BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops -- MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen instead -- Off-Prem1 day ago
Apple's MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years - iFixit opens Apple's budget system, discovers something missing from MacBooks: replaceable components - Personal Tech - 16 Mar 2026 - | 581 minute ago
EU legal eagle says banks should refund cybercrime victims first, argue later -- Analysis -- Advocate General urges rethink of PSD2 to speed compensation after scams -- Security7 days ago
Your datacenter's power architecture called. It's not happy -- Feature -- AI factories demand 800 volts because physics doesn't care about your upgrade budget -- On-Prem7 days ago
Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat -- Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks -- Edge + IoT9 days ago
Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Indonesia joins kids social media ban; China frets about AI job impacts; India's PC market fails to launch, again; And more -- Systems7 days ago
Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics -- feature -- Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits -- Systems11 days ago
Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services - 'There's a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall' AI + ML - 07 Mar 2026 - | 517 days ago
Microsoft finally gets around to fixing Windows 10 Recovery Environment after breaking it in October - Released from the curse of the update bork fairy - OSes - 06 Mar 2026 - | 108 days ago
China's rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan - Call to do better with chips and put AI everywhere is more than rhetoric because China's scientists are sprinting ahead - Systems - 06 Mar 2026 - | 89 days ago
North Korea's 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un -- Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators -- Cyber-crime2 hours ago
Britain's satellite-watching gap to be plugged with £17.5M eyeball in Cyprus -- No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capability -- Offbeat4 hours ago
IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 in target smash and grab -- Median employee increase? 2.1%. And shareholders urged to vote against a request for AI bias reporting -- Software4 hours ago
It's not a binary choice. Independent boffin builds a ternary CPU on an FPGA -- Three is the magic number as first off-the-shelf general-purpose ternary hardware since c 1965 lands -- Systems -- 18 Mar 20266 hours ago
Japan to allow 'proactive cyber-defense' from October 1st -- In less polite places, this is called 'hacking back' or 'offensive cyber-ops' -- Security -- 18 Mar 20266 hours ago
Nvidia's on-again off-again H200 sales in China are now on again -- GTC -- Beijing appears to have eased its policy of pushing local GPUs -- Systems17 hours ago
World - Coin - 's newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you - Sell your soul to the orb - Security - 17 Mar 2026 - | 184 hours ago
Chips... in spaaaace – courtesy of Nvidia - gtc - The Space-1 Vera Rubin Module will solve all your in-space computing needs - Nvidia GTC - 17 Mar 2026 - | 1443 minutes ago
Ofcom sees no need for overhaul in next phase of fiber rollout despite BT domination -- Regulator nudges broadband market, hopes competition will turn up in 2031 -- Public Sector1 day ago
Iran's 'chosen users' get 'privileged access' despite internet blackout for masses -- Civilians relying on Dutch shortwave radio broadcast for outside information -- Networks1 day ago
Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS -- Linux still can't mount or read APFS volumes by default ... but that's about to change -- Storage1 day ago
Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet -- Feature -- SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else -- Networks1 day ago
Nvidia wraps its NemoClaw around OpenClaw for the sake of security -- gtc -- 'OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI,' insists Nvidia CEO -- Nvidia GTC1 day ago
Nvidia powers further into the CPU market with new rack systems packing 256 Vera processors -- GTC -- The cubicals of the agentic AI age are cores -- Nvidia GTC1 day ago
Nvidia slaps $20B Groq tech into massive new LPX racks to speed AI response time -- GTC -- GPUzilla's $20B acquihire paves to way to AI agents that halucinate faster than ever -- Nvidia GTC1 day ago
Age verification isn't sage verification when it's inside operating systems -- Opinion -- Toothbrushes, Turing and the truth give the lie to California's legal lunacy -- OSes23 hours ago
Flaw in UK's corporate registry let directors rummage through rival records -- Back button blunder in WebFiling service run by Companies House revealed confidential paperwork -- Security2 days ago
Microsoft points at Samsung after Galaxy app bug locks users out of C:\ -- 'Access denied' errors hit certain Windows 11 machines running vendor utility -- Applications1 day ago
UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power -- 'Sunrise' beast will run AI-heavy simulations of plasma behavior and reactor physics -- HPC2 days ago
Horizon redress still a mess, MPs say – and Fujitsu hasn't paid a penny -- System compensating victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal still slow, thousands of ex-subpostmasters waiting for payments -- Public Sector2 days ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble - Who, Me? Client omissions caused the problem, so guess who was thrown under the bus - On-Prem - 16 Mar 2026 - | 414 hours ago
AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches 'hundreds of exabytes' -- Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint -- Off-Prem2 days ago
Jury out on whether Americans love or hate datacenters -- Most don't think they are good for the environment -- On-Prem1 day ago
AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to 'paralyse' it -- A 'web of litigation' -- Networks4 days ago
Watchdog boss calls Capita's £370M DWP win 'extraordinary' amid pension portal dumpster fire -- PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keys -- Public Sector5 days ago
RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it -- Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot -- Storage5 days ago
Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power -- It wants 'safe, cost effective, and rapid.' We say: 'Good, fast, cheap – you can have 2' -- On-Prem5 days ago
Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them -- Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faults -- Networks5 days ago
Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds - On Call - Have you tried turning it on, never mind off and on again? On-Prem - 13 Mar 2026 - | 1231 day ago
AI Burning Man happens next week – what to expect at Nvidia GTC 2026 -- From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town -- Nvidia GTC43 minutes ago
Apple takes a bite out of app store fees in China -- Beijing hinted it wasn't happy with Cupertino, which weeks later made a change -- Personal Tech5 days ago
Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes -- Going from eight systems to one means fewer people make decisions to unleash Epic Fury -- Public Sector5 days ago
Perplexity: Everything is Computer, everything is AI, Computer is everything, AI is us -- Everything extends its cloud Computer to enterprises, your computer -- AI + ML5 days ago
District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data -- Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unanswered -- Public Sector5 days ago
Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline -- OEM delays have become patient care delays -- On-Prem6 days ago
Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google's fiber biz and Stonepeak's Astound merge -- Alphabet to remain 'significant minority shareholder' -- Networks6 days ago
Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and immigration -- US spy-tech biz and platform provider retorts that this would be against the current law and a breach of its contract -- Databases6 days ago
Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles -- DSTL bets £350K the UK can cook up its own exotic materials -- Science6 days ago
So much for power to the people – AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue -- Plan to fast-track bit barn connections leaves housing developers fuming and billpayers on the hook -- On-Prem6 days ago
Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying -- Government offers £100K to support software forecasting how travelers choose departure hubs -- Public Sector6 days ago
Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 – even the Professional edition - Updated - Out of the Copilot and into the fire - Personal Tech - 12 Mar 2026 - | 241 day ago
Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon - Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can't flag obvious AI slop - Systems - 12 Mar 2026 - |6 days ago
ICO fines Police Scotland over data-sharing debacle in gross misconduct case -- Blue-on-blue internal investigation lands force £66k fine -- Security7 days ago
Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh -- Let them eat cores -- Personal Tech7 days ago
Ayar Labs taps Wiwynn to cram 1,024 GPUs into a photonic rack system - Exclusive - Reference design to stitch more than a thousand accelerators into a single enormous server. Systems - 11 Mar 2026 - | 65 days ago
Lightmatter says latest photonics will slash datacenter fiber bills in half -- Latest optical engine may not be CPO, but it's still better than pluggables -- On-Prem7 days ago
Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them -- Officials suspend Basel-Stadt trial and launch probe -- Public Sector7 days ago
Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study -- Subscribers north of the border suffer the most long-running failures per £100 spent -- Networks7 days ago
Post Office's £142M subsidy for Horizon fallout and IR35 bill reviewed by watchdog -- CMA advisers say extra support justified as remediation costs and tax liability mount -- Software5 days ago
Whitehall can't cost digital ID until it decides how to build it -- Consultation launched, People's Panel planned, yet still no price tag attached -- Public Sector7 days ago
Oracle says AI coding tools are helping it dodge the SaaSpocalypse -- Big Red reckons paying for datacenters is easy when you have half a trillion dollars of cloud orders on the books -- SaaS7 days ago
Governments across Asia order work from home, thanks to Iran war -- Pakistan, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines are all trying to conserve fuel -- Public Sector7 days ago
AI datacenters may gulp a New York City's worth of water on hot days -- Study warns peak cooling demand could strain US water systems by 2030 -- Systems7 days ago
Sorry, kids. Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments -- Low-cost computers bashed by billion-dollar investment in AI infrastructure -- Personal Tech8 days ago
Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks -- Don't celebrate yet – more states are considering them -- OSes8 days ago
Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones -- Warning, lockout, then wipe if your device trips detection -- Personal Tech8 days ago
Polish cops bust alleged teen DDoS kit sellers – youngest just 12 -- Kids profited from tools used to attack popular websites, say officials -- Cyber-crime8 days ago
Retro tech fan views LaserDisc movie data with a budget microscope -- Analog video spied by looking really, really closely at tracks -- Offbeat8 days ago
Mystery outage behind US airline JetBlue asking FAA to ground its flights -- Aircraft on the ground briefly halted until systems were up again -- Systems8 days ago
Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers -- Autonomous assistants could manipulate choices, push pricier deals, and prioritize their creators -- AI + ML8 days ago
HPE tweaks T&Cs so the price it quotes may not be the price you pay -- With memory and storage contributing over half the price of a server, Big Green needs to protect its margins -- Systems8 days ago
Palantir's lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff -- As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs 'real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments' -- Public Sector8 days ago
RSS dulls the pain of the modern web - opinion - Feeds are alive, well, and can help deshittify things - Personal Tech - 09 Mar 2026 - | 737 days ago
Ex-Meta execs pop up on Nscale board as rent-a-GPU firm raises $2B -- Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan Decker -- On-Prem9 days ago
Dutch cops warn 100 alleged scammers: Turn yourselves in or we tell Grandma -- Two-week deadline to fraudsters to fess up or have their faces plastered across every screen in the country -- Security9 days ago
Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns -- This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk -- AI + ML9 days ago
Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters -- UK government slams comments as 'sickening and irresponsible' -- Personal Tech9 days ago
UK government's Shared Services Strategy is entering the danger zone -- Opinion -- Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workers -- Databases9 days ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract -- Who, Me? -- Ignorance really was the way to achieve bliss -- Networks9 days ago
Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds -- World War Fee -- Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crack -- Legal9 days ago
Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids -- Meta supposedly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by Nvidia -- Systems10 days ago
Cisco warns of two more SD-WAN bugs under active attack -- Switchzilla says flaws could allow file overwrites or privilege escalation -- Cyber-crime12 days ago
Washington reportedly moves to tighten leash on AI chip exports -- Draft rules could force Nvidia and AMD to seek government approval before selling abroad -- Systems12 days ago
UK peers warn weakening AI copyright law could hammer creative industries -- House of Lords committee says ministers must not trade a £124B sector for promises of future tech growth -- AI + ML12 days ago
UK Treasury not sure about ditching Oracle to join £1.7 billion shared services program it is funding -- Updated -- It promised £1.15B... but finance ministry yet to show 'formal commitment' to adopt Workday SaaS, watchdog says -- Databases8 days ago
UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps -- Exclusive -- Seven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunal -- Edge + IoT9 days ago
Rethinking storage for the AI era - Huawei outlines how telecom operators may need to redesign data infrastructure as AI workloads grow - Sponsored Post12 days ago
Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out -- On Call -- Discovering, and explaining, the bizarre cause was harder than the job he was sent to do -- On-Prem12 days ago
Document Foundation urges EU to ditch Excel lock-in for cybersecurity law consultation -- UPDATED -- LibreOffice steward pleased says Commish saw the light, no longer requires Excel feedback form -- Public Sector9 days ago
Trump administration spoiling for a fight over global satellite regulations -- Updated -- FCC not pleased about EU space tech reqs to enter Common market, among other things -- Networks9 days ago
UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything' -- Contractors tasked with improving AI reportedly had access to intimate footage captured through wearables -- Security13 days ago
MoJ puts Prisoner Telephony Service replacement on hold yet again -- Project dialed back, BT asked to keep current system for another 54 months -- Networks13 days ago
UK still doodling digital pound while Brussels frets over payment sovereignty -- Geopolitical tensions turn up the pressure for European legislators -- Software13 days ago
Broadcom says AI companies can't make their own silicon any time soon -- Offers booming customer accelerator biz as evidence, while VMware props up its software business -- Systems13 days ago
Intel numbers boss swears big Foundry wins are coming soon -- Meanwhile Chipzilla's 18A process tech could see external deployment after all -- Systems13 days ago
Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise -- Cupertino grabs an aging A18 Pro from parts bin to power its latest attempt at an entry-level MacBook -- Personal Tech13 days ago
Flex appeal: UK datacenter cuts AI power draw 40% on command -- London GPU farm dances to National Grid's tune in five-day trial, critical workloads not disrupted -- On-Prem14 days ago
Kaspersky dismisses claims Coruna iPhone exploit kit is connected to NSA-linked operation -- Follows suggestions iPhone-pwning toolset bears hallmarks of zero-days that targeted Russian diplomats -- Security14 days ago
