Broadband rollouts feel the burn from AI memory frenzy - Prices for router and set-top boxes up nearly sevenfold, squeezing telcos and raising deployment costs - Storage - 13 Feb 2026 - |

22 minutes ago

US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters -- Bitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National Laboratory -- Systems

52 minutes ago

Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny -- Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad -- Personal Tech

1 hour ago

MPs brand NS&I's £3B IT overhaul a 'full-spectrum disaster' -- Watchdog says savings bank botched tech revamp, warning taxpayers remain exposed after years of delays -- Networks

2 hours ago

Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats -- On Call -- Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder -- On-Prem

7 hours ago

Multistakeholder internet governance can be messy. APNIC wants it that way -- APRICOT 2026 -- Regional internet registry that serves half of humanity wants more perspectives in more languages -- Networks

10 hours ago

Samsung says it's first to ship HBM4, a day after Micron revealed its own sales - This bodes well for Nvidia getting Vera Rubin out the door next quarter as planned - Systems - 13 Feb 2026 - |

11 hours ago

OpenAI dishes out its first model on a plate of Cerebras silicon - GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark may be a mouthfull, but it's certainly fast at 1,000 Tok/s running on Nvidia rival's CS3 accelerators - Systems - 12 Feb 2026 - | 7

22 minutes ago

Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract -- Big Red joins AWS on a multi-cloud defense platform -- Public Sector

20 hours ago

Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree -- DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks -- Legal teeth sold separately -- Networks

1 day ago

Feeling brave? Ministry of Defence seeks £300K digital boss to manage £4.6B spend -- Whoever gets it will steer UK department's IT, AI strategy, and megabucks vendor deals -- Public Sector

1 day ago

The UK government isn't spending much taxpayer cash on X -- Department for Education dropped £27,118. The rest, little to nothing -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Cisco hikes prices to cover memory cost rises, says you don't much care -- Switchzilla is only getting a small slice of the AI boom, but sees a campus refresh wave cresting -- Networks

1 day ago

Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill -- Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story -- Systems

1 day ago

Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely -- Only for three days, though, then it's back to the misery feed -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Lawmakers demand great wall to keep advanced chipmaking gear out of China -- Allies that don't align on chip controls could face US component curbs, they argue -- Systems

1 day ago

T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation -- This AI is so network native, the telco tells us, that it all works on existing hardware - no datacenters involved -- Networks

1 day ago

Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware -- Flaw abused 'in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals'

21 hours ago

The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware -- Open Source Policy Summit 2026 -- That's not a good idea

19 hours ago

Were telcos tipped off to *that* ancient Telnet bug? Cyber pros say the signs stack up -- Curious port filtering and traffic patterns suggest advisories weren't the earliest warning signals sent

1 day ago

Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators -- APRICOT 2026 -- Low-earth orbit broadband is a no-brainer for remote area connectivity, but a brain teaser for lawmakers and networkers

11 hours ago

Posting AI-generated caricatures on social media is risky, infosec killjoys warn -- The more you share online, the more you open yourself to social engineering

17 hours ago

Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers -- Genetic study finds domestic pigs' year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar

1 hour ago

Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers -- Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says

12 hours ago

Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust -- Businesses are embedding prompts that produce content they want you to read, not the stuff AI makes if left to its own devices

5 hours ago

Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs -- Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise

2 hours ago

Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 26H1, but you can't have it -- No known issues, no .NET Framework 3.5, but only for new Snapdragon X2 hardware right now

21 hours ago

Brussels drafts blueprint to spot and swat rogue drones -- Action Plan calls for EU-wide drills, industry forums, and expanded identification requirements -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder -- 200,000-strong union says spy-tech firm's ICE work undermines patient trust -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live -- Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestions -- SaaS

2 days ago

Only one in five Euro datacenters AI-ready as builders battle land and labor blues -- Report warns skills shortages and grid bottlenecks threaten to stall region's capacity push -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer - FOSDEM 2026 - If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today? Personal Tech - 11 Feb 2026 - | 54

34 minutes ago

Legacy systems blamed as ministers promise no repeat of Afghan breach -- UK government grilled over progress made to prevent a second life-threatening leak -- Security

2 days ago

As OpenAI and Claude fight over ads, Google says 'show me the money' -- The Chocolate Factory isn't showing ads in Gemini, but AI Mode is fair game -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum' Because AI won't only run in Big Tech's giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connections - Edge + IoT - 11 Feb 2026 - |

2 days ago

Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie -- Just change the name to CAIsco already, Chuck -- Networks

2 days ago

Market for gear that stops GPUs losing their cool is red hot as Trane gulps down LiquidStack -- Great time to be a liquid cooling startup -- Systems

2 days ago

Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency -- Someday -- Science

2 days ago

Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave -- CFO and general counsel both step down -- On-Prem

2 days ago

AFRINIC says it's back on track and will soon deliver the plan that proves it - APRICOT 2026 - As the governance policy designed to protect regional internet registries nears completion - Networks - 10 Feb 2026 - | 2

1 day ago

Trump to hyperscalers: your datacenters, your power bill -- As communities push back on utility costs, White House tells Big Tech to fund their own AI expansion -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks -- Operation Cyber Guardian involved 100-plus staff across government and industry -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Apple, Google agree to loosen grip on UK app stores -- Competition watchdog secures promises on approvals, rankings, and platform access -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment - APRICOT 2026 - Leaving you to worry about the effects on your team, vendor lock-in, tokenomics, and more - Networks - 10 Feb 2026 - | 32

1 day ago

Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031 -- AI, sovereignty drives continental drift of datacenter capacity -- On-Prem

3 days ago

British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain -- Troops fitted with new comms kit as part of Project ASGARD -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter -- Planners backed it, campaigners blasted it, and officials sided with emissions fears -- HPC

3 days ago

Cisco challenges Broadcom, Nvidia with a 102.4T switch of its own - Switchzilla leans on P4 programmability and revamped congestion controls to differentiate its latest Silicon One ASIC - Networks - 10 Feb 2026 - |

3 days ago

Dijkstra's algorithm won't be replaced in production routers any time soon - Systems Approach - Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex - Networks - 10 Feb 2026 - | 40

10 hours ago

Yahoo! Japan! and ! Line! to! merge! systems! into! massive! private! cloud! -- Just the sort of project that screams 'years of delays and blowouts', but Asian giant thinks it can beat Silicon Valley at its own game -- Off-Prem

3 days ago

OpenAI introduces ads...for the people! -- ChatGPT starts showing marketing messages in the US -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks -- Staff data belonging to the regulator and judiciary's governing body accessed -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite - Updated - Gartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers - PaaS + IaaS - 09 Feb 2026 - | 9

2 days ago

Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere -- Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premier -- Systems

4 days ago

Brussels eyes crowbar for Meta's WhatsApp AI lockout -- Euro watchdog says Zuckercorp blocked rival assistants, weighs emergency action to force 'em back in -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay -- Average Swiss salaries dwarf those on offer across the rest of the continent -- Software

4 days ago

European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend -- Officials explore issue affecting infrastructure after CERT-EU detected suspicious activity -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty -- FOSDEM 2026 -- One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all -- Networks

4 days ago

The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation -- Opinion -- Sudo make me a star -- Software

4 days ago

Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office - Who, Me? You can fix all sorts of things with a paperclip, but not gullibility - On-Prem - 09 Feb 2026 - | 110

3 hours ago

Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar -- Upgraders and home lab builders flaunt their memory-inflated wealth -- Systems

4 days ago

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm -- Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation -- Offbeat

6 days ago

Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines -- Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown -- Networks

6 days ago

Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI -- There's about $35M up for grabs if your circuits can beat today's limits -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint -- Rhapsody in beige -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

CISA orders federal agencies to rip out EOL edge kit before cybercrooks move in -- A year to replace end-of-support firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways -- Networks

7 days ago

DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom - AI-pocalypse - Benefits system trials automation amid growing interest in universal basic income - Public Sector - 06 Feb 2026 - | 37

3 days ago

UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat -- West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates -- Databases

7 days ago

New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor - On Call - Poking around in deep menus found a fault that flummoxed old hands - Software - 06 Feb 2026 - | 157

1 day ago

Netlife Ecuador partners with ZTE to advance smart cloud platform deployment and accelerate smart home innovation - Commercial rollout boosts after-sales efficiency and strengthens smart home security - Partner Content

7 days ago

SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites -- The FCC is taking public comments - now's your chance to tell them this plan is bonkers -- Public Sector

7 days ago

UK's 'world-first' deepfake detection framework unlikely to stop the fakes, says expert -- Home Office enlists Microsoft to set industry standards as AI-generated forgeries surge from 500K to 8M in two years -- AI + ML

8 days ago

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files -- AI helpers can now rummage through multiple documents -- Storage

8 days ago

Curse of AI to push up PC prices as memory and CPU shortages bite -- Component supply is being diverted toward datacenters, squeezing the consumer market -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

Italy claims cyberattacks 'of Russian origin' are pelting Winter Olympics -- Right on cue, petulant hacktivists attempt to disrupt yet another global sporting event -- Cyber-crime

8 days ago

CentOS is coming to RISC-V soon if you have the kit -- FOSDEM 2026 -- The RHELatives are more versatile than you might realize -- OSes

8 days ago

Cloud sovereignty is no longer just a public sector concern -- Interview -- Businesses still chase the cheapest option, but politics and licensing shocks are changing priorities, says OpenNebula Systems -- PaaS + IaaS

7 days ago

UK justice system unplugs from ancient datacenters after five-year slog -- 37 court applications shifted off failing kit, though some are camping in a temporary hosting facility

7 days ago

Britain courts private cash to fund 'golden age' of nuclear-powered AI -- Framework aims to lure investors into powering the compute boom

7 days ago

AI's lust for memory drags down the smartphone industry, and Qualcomm with it -- On the upside, House of the Snapdragon has started shipping its own AI silicon -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

Positron: we don't need no fancy HBM to compete with Nvidia's Rubin -- Pleb-tier LPDDR5x apparently good enough for Arm-backed AI startup's next-gen Asimov accelerators -- Systems

8 days ago

Server CPUs join memory in the supply shortage, pushing up prices -- Silicon manufacturing issues to blame -- Systems

8 days ago

Estonia hedges its bets on US tech while going all-in on Microsoft -- Riigi IT preps European escape plan as it herds civil servants into Redmond's cloud -- Public Sector

8 days ago

Microsoft engineer speedruns Raspberry Pi magic smoke in five minutes -- Only cool dudes should wear a HAT backward -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

UK watchdog to rule on £246M Post Office subsidy over Horizon scandal and IR35 -- CMA's Subsidy Advice Unit reviewing state aid linked to redress and off-payroll tax costs -- Public Sector

9 days ago

EU's fishy digital certificate system leaves exporters floundering -- Catch platform sinks under weight of bugs, missing species, and postal code gaffes while containers pile up at ports -- Software

9 days ago

Universal £7,500 payout offered to PSNI staff over major data breach -- Affected police officers squeezed mental health services, relocated over safety fears -- Security

9 days ago

'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP - Open Source Policy Summit 2026 - Open source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech - Software - 04 Feb 2026 - | 150

3 days ago

UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law -- As Spain announces stern laws for social media, and Elon Musk's response shows regulators keep looking his way -- Legal

9 days ago

For once, Supermicro has dodged drama and just delivered datacenters -- Single customer accounted for 63 percent of surging revenue -- Systems

9 days ago

Too much AI for some, too little for others: Why AMD can't win with investors - A diverse portfolio is usually a good thing, except when AI is the only thing - Systems - 04 Feb 2026 - |

9 days ago

'Lethal' and 'magical' Palantir tech is in demand by Pentagon, China, Middle East, CEO says -- Less popular in Canada and Northern Europe -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Next-gen nuclear reactors safe enough to skip full environmental reviews, says Trump admin -- DoE trims NEPA paperwork for advanced reactors -- Public Sector

9 days ago

CISA updated ransomware intel on 59 bugs last year without telling defenders -- GreyNoise's Glenn Thorpe counts the cost of missed opportunities -- CSO

9 days ago

Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights - Opinion - CEO Alex Karp meets criticism with soaring revenues and a sermon - Applications - 03 Feb 2026 - | 78

2 days ago

Europe shrugs off tariffs, plots to end tech reliance on US -- Governments and businesses respond to Trump pressures by upping spending in domestically controlled infrastructure -- On-Prem

10 days ago

HP CEO prints final page after six years, moves to PayPal -- Multimillion-dollar tenure could have bought a couple of crates of toner -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops -- Algorithmic bias probe continues, CEO and former boss summoned to defend the platform's corner -- Security

10 days ago

Microsoft finally sends TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to the cloud retirement home -- Azure Storage now requires version 1.2 or newer for encrypted connections -- Storage

10 days ago

Polish cops bail 20-year-old bedroom botnet operator -- DDoSer of 'strategically important' websites admitted to most charges -- Cyber-crime

10 days ago

UK names Barnsley as first Tech Town to see whether AI can fix... well, anything - AI-pocalypse - South Yorkshire becomes ground zero for nationwide experiment with £500K seed funding - AI + ML - 03 Feb 2026 - | 87

7 days ago

British military to get legal OK to swat drones near bases -- Armed Forces Bill would let troops take action against unmanned threats around defense sites -- Public Sector

10 days ago

South Korea enlists AI to spot pump and dump schemes on social media, or in Spam -- Main stock exchange targets shares, government agency looks for crypto crooks -- Public Sector

10 days ago

Let them eat Pi: RAM shortage bumps Raspberry prices as much as $60 -- Second price increase in just two months -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

Intel welcomes memory apocalypse with Xeon workstation refresh -- Chipzilla touts 4 TB of DDR5 and 128 lanes of PCIe 5 for less than the House of Zen just in time for memory winter -- Systems

10 days ago

DRAM prices expected to double in Q1 as AI ambitions push memory fabs to their limit -- NAND flash now expected to surge 55–60% compared to Q4 -- Storage

10 days ago

US TikTok service restored after cloud 'that doesn't go down' went down -- Winter storm knocks out Oracle datacenter, despite Larry Ellison's reliability boasts -- On-Prem

11 days ago