Uncle Sam's VMware 'bargain' doesn't include the actual hypervisor -- GSA trumpets 64% discounts on Broadcom's VMware portfolio, core vSphere platform mysteriously absent from agreement -- PaaS + IaaS

42 minutes ago

EU's Digital Networks Act sets telcos squabbling before the ink is dry - Comms harmonization plan already drawing fire from operators and Big Tech alike - Networks - 22 Jan 2026 - |

27 minutes ago

Bank of England: Financial sector failing to implement basic cybersecurity controls -- Mind the cyber gap – similar flaws highlighted multiple years in a row -- Security

1 hour ago

Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers -- Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade -- Patches

2 hours ago

House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16 -- As public consultation kicks off, members of UK Parliament's second chamber highlight damage to children -- Public Sector

2 hours ago

Turing Institute Chief Scientist takes acting CEO role amid defense push -- Professor Mark Girolami keeps seat warm after Jean Innes bailed following ministerial arm-twisting -- AI + ML

2 hours ago

Another week, another emergency patch as Cisco plugs Unified Comms zero-day -- The critical-rated flaw leaves unpatched systems open to full takeover -- Networks

2 hours ago

SAP scores £275M award from UK tax collector – sans competition - Updated - System handling £800B must be SaaS and sovereign. Only German vendor fits the bill, says HMRC - Databases - 22 Jan 2026 - | 8

42 minutes ago

British Army's drone degree program set to take flight -- Program will train just 20 people per year -- Public Sector

6 hours ago

eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots -- This establishment does not serve agents, says digital tat bazaar -- AI + ML

10 hours ago

AI networking startup Upscale scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch - Plans to swing SkyHammer silicon into UALink switches later this year - Networks - 22 Jan 2026 - |

14 hours ago

House GOP wants final say on AI chip exports after Trump gives Nvidia a China hall pass -- Bill still needs to pass the House and Senate before the president can sign or veto it -- Public Sector

16 hours ago

Social Security Administration admits it underreported DOGE dirty dealings -- Encrypted files, Cloudflare sharing, and political outreach surface in DOJ filings -- Public Sector

20 hours ago

EU considers whether there's Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years -- Still dominant in Germany's networks, among others -- Networks

1 day ago

FTC tries to un-Zuck Meta's grip on the market by dragging it back to court -- Artist formerly known as Facebook can't escape the legal-verse -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages -- Its very own Snooper's Charter comes a month after proposed biometric tech expansion -- Security

1 day ago

Microsoft admits Outlook might freeze when saving files to OneDrive -- January update is the gift that keeps on giving -- Storage

1 day ago

Best of British: UK's infosec envoys include Cisco, Palo Alto, and Accenture -- Minister unwraps ambassadors of the Software Security Code of Practice -- Security

1 day ago

Microsoft CEO: AI sovereignty isn't where it runs, it's who controls it -- Ownership of models, embedded corporate knowledge matters more than server location, Nadella says -- AI + ML

1 day ago

MX Linux 25.1 brings back switchable init systems -- Dislike systemd but occasionally need it for something? MX can help -- OSes

1 day ago

Child safety or age-gating for all? UK social media ban plan draws fire -- Open Rights Group says plans would create serious privacy risks -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Kids learn computer theory with wood, cardboard, and hot glue -- Behold the cardboard ENIAC -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Sony no longer home of the Bravia as it plans TV biz spin-out to China's TCL -- Hasn't said why, but low share in a slow-growing market suggests it can't be bothered -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Anthropic CEO: Selling H200s to China is like giving nukes to North Korea -- This is totally not because China is giving away its best models away for free, right? -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Power scarcity drives datacenters to Texas, where the juice is -- Plus, one in three bit barns expected to exceed 1 GW by 2035 -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge -- PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Windows 11, not AI, kick-started the PC upgrade cycle -- Corporate IT refreshed hardware to stay supported, not chase new features -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

MPs ask who's responsible when AI crashes the UK finance system -- Committee says watchdogs lack urgency as accountability for automated decisions remains unresolved -- AI + ML

2 days ago

England's Department of Health and Social Care offering £285k for new tech director -- Fancy it? As national health tech boss, you'd be one of the highest paid in the team -- Public Sector

2 days ago

£45B savings remain theoretical as UK digital roadmap delayed again -- Promised plan keeps slipping as ministers talk up future efficiency -- Public Sector

2 days ago

UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads -- Labels Zuck's ad library 'a window into criminality' and the Social Network as 'happy to turn a blind eye' -- Legal

2 days ago

Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, reckons he can handle edge AI alone - Interview - OG CDN boss says fighting illegal streams is about stopping criminals cashing in, not free speech - Legal - 20 Jan 2026 - | 12

1 day ago

AIS and ZTE achieve AIR RAN commercialization for differentiated experience at Thailand BMMF#15 - AIR RAN delivers premium 5G experience monetization and zero-lag performance at Thailand's largest music festival - Partner Content

2 days ago

Micron finds a way to make more DRAM with $1.8bn chip plant purchase -- Taiwan's Powerchip sells legacy fab it opened just 19 months ago after spending $9.5 billion -- Systems

2 days ago

Just the Browser claims to tame the bloat without forking -- Strips the slop and snoopery from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox -- Software

2 days ago

UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids -- Labour's latest U-turn? 61 backbenchers pile pressure for Starmer to back Tory peer's amendment -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Warwickshire school to reopen after cyberattack crippled IT -- Kids return to classrooms after safety infrastructure knocked out -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Price, battery life, performance – that's how you sell PCs -- Traditional considerations back in vogue. On-device AI? Not so much -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight -- Capable of carrying 1-ton payload and key to strategy protecting North Atlantic from Russian submarines -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack - Opinion - Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that - Software - 19 Jan 2026 - | 116

6 hours ago

ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key - Who, Me? Bank staff wore the blame for a silly security slip - Security - 19 Jan 2026 - | 128

42 minutes ago

Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD -- AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime time. -- HPC

3 days ago

Fast Pair, loose security: Bluetooth accessories open to silent hijack -- Sloppy implementation of Google spec leaves 'hundreds of millions' of devices vulnerable -- Research

5 days ago

Trump wants big tech to pay for big beautiful power plants -- It just needs PJM Interconnection, one of the US's biggest grid operators, to green light the auction -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Micron breaks ground on humungous NY DRAM fab after beating bats and tree huggers -- Chipmaker claims the four-fab site could expand US-based DRAM production by a factor of 12 -- Storage

5 days ago

Ready for a newbie-friendly Linux? Mint team officially releases v 22.3, 'Zena' -- Newer kernel, newer Cinnamon, new tools, and even new icons -- OSes

5 days ago

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check -- That went well -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

Hyperscalers, vendors funding trillion dollar AI spree, but users will have to pay up long term -- Analyst: We'll hit a spot where 'we go from that was a great idea to where's my revenue?' -- AI + ML

6 days ago

Lawmakers urge FTC to probe Trump Mobile over 'deceptive' marketing -- Gold phone more like fool's gold as none show up six months later -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

Researchers scrutinize datacenters' lifecycles, aiming to make them more sustainable -- Much of the damage done well before first power-on, in bit barns' childhood, says study -- On-Prem

6 days ago

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 - | 204

13 hours ago

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

6 days 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 - 15 Jan 2026 - |

6 days 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

6 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

7 days 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. -- OSes

7 days 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

7 days 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

7 days 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

7 days 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

7 days ago

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

7 days 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 -- Cyber-crime

7 days 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

7 days ago

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

8 days 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 -- Software

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

8 days 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

8 days 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

8 days ago

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

8 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

8 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

8 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

7 days ago

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

8 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 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 - | 110

2 days 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 days 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

11 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 - 10 Jan 2026 - | 40

7 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

12 days ago

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

12 days ago