VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination -- Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock -- PaaS + IaaS

18 hours ago

ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild -- Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched -- Cyber-crime

18 hours ago

Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more -- Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech -- AI + ML

19 hours ago

Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal -- CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule -- Networks

19 hours ago

NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns -- Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change -- Software

21 hours ago

Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release - Antiques Code Show - New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard - Personal Tech - 05 May 2026 - | 21

2 hours ago

Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us' -- The Iran war has been great for business -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple's Mac Mini now starts at $799 -- The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear -- FEATURE -- The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino

1 day ago

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner -- Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving -- Who, Me? -- That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble

1 day ago

Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back -- Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark -- In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in 'Hybrid Navy' -- Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise -- PAC: Now why can't everybody else in public sector do it like this? -- Public Sector

2 days ago

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs -- Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it -- Off-Prem

3 days ago

Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred -- Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone -- Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos -- If software writes software the risk is "systematic failure at scale". Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester -- AI + ML

4 days ago

That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry -- Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans' -- Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow -- OSes

4 days ago

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down -- 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender -- Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed -- Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year -- Security

4 days ago

DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it -- Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right' -- Public Sector -- 01 May 2026

4 days ago

Qualcomm teases 'dedicated CPU for agentic experiences' and 'agentic smartphones' -- Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler -- Systems -- 01 May 2026

4 days ago

Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over -- In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can 'contribute to global stability' -- Systems -- 01 May 2026

5 days ago

Phone users know when to hold 'em, delay upgrades amid inflation -- Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average -- Personal Tech -- 30 Apr 2026

5 days ago

Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet -- Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs -- Networks

5 days ago

Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans' -- But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya? -- OSes

5 days ago

Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes -- AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them -- AI + ML

5 days ago

Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005 -- Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support' -- Cyber-crime

5 days ago

What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia - Exclusive - Just in time for the Trump-Xi summit - Cyber-crime - 30 Apr 2026 - | 3

5 days ago

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs -- Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ cops -- Software

5 days ago

Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops -- Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves -- Offbeat

5 days ago

Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds -- Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management -- On-Prem

6 days ago

ZTE partners with China's National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine to build a new paradigm of smart interventional medicine - ZTE and NCRCIM leverage "CardioMind" AI and full-stack computing to drive global healthcare equity - Partner Content

5 days ago

Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1 -- Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about -- Networks

6 days ago

Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00 - Antiques code show - Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notes - OSes - 29 Apr 2026 - | 24

2 days ago

EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online -- 'Online platforms can rely on our app,' says Commish, 'there are no more excuses' -- Applications

6 days ago

Wind Telecom Dominican Republic and ZTE join forces to accelerate smart home innovation -- Elevating residential connectivity with AI-driven network optimization and secure cloud-based home monitoring solutions -- Partner Content

6 days ago

GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks -- 32 phone calls, 17 email chains, a 5-day ordeal, and no help during the daddy of all stuffups, claim those affected -- Networks

6 days ago

When robots join the race: 5G-A powers a new kind of marathon -- Human and humanoid runners share the track as next-gen connectivity underpins real-time AI performance -- Sponsored Post

6 days ago

Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm -- No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights on -- On-Prem

7 days ago

Tenstorrent's Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon -- RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassis -- AI + ML

7 days ago

Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids -- DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as Gemini -- AI + ML

7 days ago

UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team -- £125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to live -- Public Sector

7 days ago

Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts -- Pair accused of creating literal flame war as bonkers conspiracy theories grow -- Networks

7 days ago

SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question -- Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options -- Software

7 days ago

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 - | 45

5 days ago

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

7 days 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

7 days ago

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

8 days 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

8 days ago

Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm -- They were doing it in Texas... -- Systems

6 days 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

8 days 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 - | 27

2 days 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

8 days 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

8 days 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

8 days 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 -- Offbeat

8 days 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

8 days 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 -- Public Sector

8 days ago

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

9 days 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

11 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

11 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

11 days ago

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

11 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

11 days 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

11 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

11 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

11 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

11 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 - | 125

1 day ago

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

12 days ago

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

12 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 - |

12 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

12 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

12 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 - 23 Apr 2026 - | 20

9 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 - 23 Apr 2026 - | 2

11 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

12 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

12 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

12 days ago

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

12 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

13 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

13 days ago

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

13 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 - |

13 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

13 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

12 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

13 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

13 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

13 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 - | 28

6 days ago

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

14 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

14 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

12 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

14 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

14 days ago