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

21 minutes 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

21 minutes 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

21 minutes 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

21 minutes 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

3 hours 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 -- PaaS + IaaS

3 hours 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 -- On-Prem -- 05 Feb 2026

3 hours ago

Britain courts private cash to fund 'golden age' of nuclear-powered AI -- Framework aims to lure investors into powering the compute boom -- On-Prem -- 05 Feb 2026

3 hours 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 hours 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

16 hours ago

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

21 hours 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

21 hours ago

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

22 hours 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day 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 - | 126

10 minutes 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

1 day ago

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

1 day 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 - |

1 day 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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day 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 - | 72

21 minutes 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

1 day 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

2 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

2 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

2 days ago

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

2 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 - | 85

2 hours 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

2 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

2 days ago

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

2 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

2 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

2 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

3 days ago

Microsoft's Sinofsky saw Surface fail coming – then hit up Epstein for advice on exit - DOJ files show former Windows chief predicting a public flop before mulling next mission - Personal Tech - 02 Feb 2026 - | 32

1 day ago

Infrastructure cyberattacks are suddenly in fashion. We can buck the trend -- Opinion -- Don't be scared of the digital dark – learn how to keep the lights on -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Microsoft's 'atypical' emergency Windows patches are becoming awfully typical -- Opinion -- Administrators sigh: OOBs, they did it again -- OSes

3 days ago

Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server -- Who, Me? -- Love hurts, but being exposed is more painful -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Capgemini to sell the biz that works for US government amid criticism of ICE contract -- 'The nature and scope of this work has raised questions' says CEO, who swears he couldn't spot it sooner

3 days ago

India dangles 20-year tax holiday for clouds that serve offshore users - Asia In Brief - PLUS: NTT offshores to Vietnam; Japan adds AI interface to space data; Samsung cashes in on memory boom - Public Sector - 02 Feb 2026 - | 3

2 days ago

Sword of Damocles hangs over UK military's Ajax as minister says back it or scrap it -- Armored vehicle trials halted after troops report noise and vibration symptoms

3 days ago

Feeling taxed by layoffs, IRS turns to AI helpers -- Fewer humans, more bots - just in time for filing season

4 days ago

Backblaze says AI traffic and neoclouds could shape future networks - The western US saw the most activity overall - Networks - 30 Jan 2026 - |

5 days ago

Want digital sovereignty? That'll be 1% of your GDP into AI infrastructure please -- Analyst predicts massive spend on domestic AI stacks -- On-Prem

6 days ago

NS&I's IT car crash considers cutting legacy links to stop the bleeding -- £1.3B over budget and four years late, bank searches for a way to not to bust new timetable and funding pot -- Public Sector

6 days ago

In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened - On Call - 60-minute SLA was effectively useless and the contractor admitted it - Databases - 30 Jan 2026 - | 99

5 hours ago

Uncle Sam dangles nuclear campuses for states while watering down safety rules -- Governors offered atomic megasites and federal cash as hundreds of pages of regulations go missing -- Science

6 days ago

Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out -- Cerner, though acquired in 2022, is nothing to multibillion black hole -- On-Prem

7 days ago

Sat Nad declares Windows 11 has a billion users – just don't bother asking for details -- Terrible start to 2026 offset by optimistic operating system numbers -- OSes

7 days ago

Meta to pour the GDP of Kenya into AI infrastructure push in 2026 -- Zuck bets big on 'personal superintelligence' with $135B splurge -- On-Prem

7 days ago

Capita pension portal 'fiasco' forces Cabinet Office into damage control -- 150-strong 'surge team' deployed as 8,500 retirees left high and dry, some waiting 9 months for legally owed cash -- Public Sector

7 days ago

Birmingham City Council's Oracle ERP fiasco now £144M and still not working -- Five years after its planned go-live, the system remains incomplete as costs balloon more than sevenfold -- Databases

7 days ago

Irony alert: Anthropic helps UK.gov to build chatbot for job seekers -- The jobs that will be eradicated by our AI overlords -- AI + ML

7 days ago

Bork ventures to the Middle of Lidl - Bork!Bork!Bork! Happier days at Intel nailed to the wall of discount retailer - Personal Tech - 29 Jan 2026 - | 33

1 day ago

Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant's OpenAI exposure -- All the promises in the world won't pay the GPU bills when the music stops -- AI + ML

7 days ago

Cops put Microsoft Copilot in holding cell after controversial hallucination -- Chatbot banned – for now – after it dreamed up West Ham match that never happened -- AI + ML

8 days ago

Cops get more facial recognition vans as UK bets big on AI policing -- Home Office white paper promises millions for LFR, a new Police.AI unit, and a bespoke legal framework -- Public Sector

8 days ago

How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies - Feature - You can't cheaply recompute without re-running the whole model – so KV cache starts piling up - Agentic AI - 28 Jan 2026 - | 5

3 days ago

UK tax collector plans £2B tech binge as legacy systems refuse to die - Updated - AWS and Capgemini loom large in HMRC's procurement pipeline - Public Sector - 28 Jan 2026 - | 20

3 days ago

Britain's Ministry of Defence signs on the dotted line with Palantir -- 'Follow-on' agreement lasts 3 years as US techies protest vendor's ICE contract Stateside -- Public Sector

8 days ago

ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you -- Agency looks to understand the extent of identifying information available to its masked agents -- Public Sector

8 days ago

Nudify app proliferation shows naked ambition of Apple and Google -- Researchers with the Tech Transparency Project found all sorts of apps that let users create fake non-consensual nudes of real people -- Legal

8 days ago

Penguin in your pocket: Nexphone dual boots into Linux, Windows 11 -- An expandable tablet, and a phone that reboots into desktop Windows -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

Micron continues fab spending spree with $24B NAND storage plant in Singapore -- No salvation from the memory winter, though - plant won't start churning out chips until 2028 -- Systems

8 days ago

Watchdog says US weather alerts are getting lost in translation -- GAO urges NWS to firm up its AI language plans as policy shifts slow multilingual warnings -- AI + ML

9 days ago

France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative -- French govt says state-run service 'Visio' will be more secure. Now where have we heard that name before? -- Software

9 days ago

Succession: Linux kernel community gets continuity plan for post-Linus era -- Conclave doc outlines path to eternal releases -- OSes

9 days ago

Japan doubles down on Trump's Genesis AI supercomputing effort - RIKEN links up with Argonne, Fujitsu, and Nvidia to build next-gen infrastructure - HPC - 27 Jan 2026 - |

9 days ago

High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep -- Victim and Big Brother Watch will argue the Met's policies are incompatible with human rights law -- Security

9 days ago

Microsoft's Maia 200 promises Blackwell levels of performance for two-thirds the power -- Inference-optimized chip 30% cheaper than any other AI silicon on the market today, Azure's Scott Guthrie claims -- Systems

9 days ago

Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE -- But CEOs remain frozen in place -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Internet spent Q4 '25 losing fights with cables, power, and itself -- Latest data from Cloudflare shows cable cuts, power failures, and network faults drive steady run of internet outages -- Networks

9 days ago

Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy -- Thankfully they only sufffered two outages in 2025. And now it has flown in experts to play with configurations -- PaaS + IaaS

9 days ago

EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images -- Probe follows outcry over use of creepy image generation tool -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

Microsoft probes Windows 11 boot failures tied to January security updates -- Some machines are failing to start after security updates, prompting yet another Microsoft investigation -- OSes

10 days ago

Microsoft rushes out another fix for cloud storage after January update -- 2026 is shaping up to be a bumper year for patch management -- Storage

9 days ago

Oracle AI sailed the world on Royal Navy flagship via cloud-at-the-edge kit -- Big Red says 'sovereign' platform supports decision-making and operational learning at sea -- AI + ML

10 days ago

UK digital ID goes in-house, government swears it isn't an ID card -- Minister dodges cost questions while promising smartphone-free access and 'robust' verification -- Public Sector

10 days ago

Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam - Who, Me? This story starts with the worst mistake of them all – loaning a tool - On-Prem - 26 Jan 2026 - | 190

22 hours ago

Emmabuntüs DE 6: A newbie-friendly Linux to help those in need -- A distro aimed at helping people, reducing e-waste – and helping a charity, too -- OSes

10 days ago

Bill Gates-backed startup aims to revive Moore's Law with optical transistors -- Neurophos is developing a massive optical systolic array clocked at 56GHz good for 470 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute -- Systems

12 days ago

UK border tech budget swells by £100M as Home Office targets small boat crossings -- Drone, satellite, and other data combined to monitor unwanted vessels -- Public Sector

12 days ago

Tesla Full Self Driving subscription to rise alongside its capabilities -- One-time FSD purchase no longer available as Elon Musk talks up future where drivers can be asleep at the wheel -- AI + ML

13 days ago

Fortinet admits FortiGate SSO bug still exploitable despite December patch -- Fix didn't quite do the job – attackers spotted logging in -- CSO

13 days ago

Qualcomm CEO pockets 15% pay rise as profits fall 45% -- Cristiano Amon took home almost $30M in 2025 as the chipmaker booked higher revenues despite earnings slide -- Systems

13 days ago

British government caves on datacenter approval after legal challenge -- Ministry admits greenlighting London-based megabit barn without proper environmental safeguards -- On-Prem

13 days ago

London boroughs limping back online months after cyberattack -- Direct debits? Maybe February. Birth certificates? Dream on. Council tax bills? Oh, those are coming -- Cyber-crime

13 days ago

Marching orders delayed: Veterans' Digital ID off to a slow start -- Much owed to the few, but takeup is under 1% -- Public Sector

13 days ago

Tech support detective solved PC crime by looking in the carpark - On Call - Overnight action made for a sticky situation in the candy factory - Personal Tech - 23 Jan 2026 - | 80

6 days ago

Oracle, Michael Dell, named as investors in JV that will run TikTok's US operations -- Big Red gets to store data, advise on security, and store the 'I'll watch just one more video' algo -- SaaS

13 days ago

Intel puts consumer chip production on back burner as datacenters make a run on Xeons -- CFO David Zinsner says foundry capacity should improve starting in Q2 -- Systems

13 days ago

Former crypto-mining company building 430 MW datacenter in secret location for secret client -- Keeps location under wraps after communities opposed past projects -- Systems

13 days ago

Trump says he got a deal for rare earths in Greenland, but they won't come easy -- You can't just grab 'em by the mine shafts - there aren't any -- Public Sector

13 days ago

Raspberry Pi flashes new branded USB drives that promise speedy performance -- The aluminum sticks come in 128GB and 256GB variants -- Personal Tech

13 days ago

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

14 days 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

14 days 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

14 days ago

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

14 days ago