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UK government admits Capita pension portal was crapita at launch -- PAC grilling reveals £239M bought a system that couldn't handle the work, the volumes, or placeholder text -- Public Sector1 day ago
Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work - On Call - The 600 km drive to fix the mess was a special treat - On-Prem - 27 Mar 2026 - | 741 minute ago
AMD's new desktop CPU oozes cache out of all 16 cores -- Turns out massive caches are good for more than games. House of Zen boasts 5-13% perf boost over prior-gen part -- Personal Tech1 day ago
Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America -- Maybe that's why Tim didn't get an invitation to the President's tech bro club? -- Personal Tech1 day ago
Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion -- New campus to include on-site power generation -- On-Prem15 hours ago
Advancing smarter and more inclusive digital connectivity for Indonesia, Telkomsel and ZTE strengthen collaboration at MWC Barcelona 2026 - Partner Content - Edge compute and AI get the spotlight as operators grapple with scale and service quality - Partner Content20 hours ago
Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption -- Ratepayer Protection Pledge is unenforceable without hard numbers, Warren and Hawley argue -- On-Prem20 hours ago
India's space program can't spend money fast enough, putting missions in peril -- Satnav systems aren't well, IP is being sold too cheap, and thousands of roles remain open -- Public Sector1 day ago
'Empathetic' Salesforce bots to help those fired by uncaring humans -- I'm sorry, Dave. I can't give you your job back, but here's the form you fill out to collect benefits -- Public Sector1 day ago
Three more charged over alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling scheme to China - Prosecutors say trio used Thai front companies to reroute high-end AI servers - Systems - 26 Mar 2026 - |2 days ago
Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization -- Microsoft's Clippy for 21st century deployed to evaluate returns? Industry Wales chair brands it just 'wrong' -- AI + ML2 days ago
UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful -- 300 families undergo 6-week trial to test impact on sleep, school, and home life -- Public Sector2 days ago
Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda -- CarStation/PlayMobile won't hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA -- Personal Tech2 days ago
Datacenter batteries are selling years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic -- Shifting production from automotive to compute and working on supercapacitors as another way to protect workloads -- On-Prem2 days ago
Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war - rsac 2026 - Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC... RSA - 25 Mar 2026 - | 151 day ago
Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros -- Plus one actual physicist -- Science2 days ago
Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants -- Effort includes permitting and planning -- AI + ML2 days ago
Dell slims down business laptops, fattens up cooling and battery life -- Pro line gets new naming convention and some serious upgrades -- Personal Tech3 days ago
Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs -- I'll just clear up that up, shall I? -- OSes3 days ago
HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS after competition melts away -- Insiders say single-bidder process left little room for negotiation -- Public Sector3 days ago
Samsung still glued to its bad habits with Galaxy S26 Ultra -- Flagship phone scores 5/10 from iFixit as the parts that break most often remain firmly out of reach -- Personal Tech3 days ago
Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access - Opinion - A handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their code - Software - 25 Mar 2026 - | 9812 minutes ago
YouTuber lands on Moon using a ZX Spectrum. Conditions apply -- BASIC and bit-banging used to guide a simulated lander down to a virtual lunar touchdown -- Personal Tech3 days ago
Nothing screams casual career pivot like joining the UK Ministry of Defence for a cool £162K -- AI and quantum on to-do list for Chief Digital Technology Officer in charge of £140.7M budget. Fancy it? -- Public Sector3 days ago
Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs -- Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google -- Personal Tech3 days ago
Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run China's top AI models -- Claims its set performance records but looks to be years behind western fare -- Systems3 days ago
HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops in bid for small biz -- HP IQ can chat, share files, and break down everything people said in the conference room. -- Personal Tech2 days ago
AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money machine -- Breaking free of its IP licensing shackles -- Systems3 days ago
Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens -- They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylus -- Science3 days ago
Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field -- Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows -- OSes3 days ago
Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train -- Turns out artificial general intelligence was a CPU this whole time -- Systems3 days ago
Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive -- Microslop? Sorry, we meant Microsoft -- Storage4 days ago
Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers -- Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink -- Networks4 days ago
Systemd-free antiX Linux 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form -- Plus: Still supports 32-bit hardware or VMs -- OSes4 days ago
Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's self-inflicted wounds - Opinion - Sorry seems to be the hardest word at Microsoft - OSes - 24 Mar 2026 - | 781 day ago
EU broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are the next gatekeepers -- Open letter warns tech is shaping what audiences see while slipping past regulation -- Software4 days ago
Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term 'metaverse' -- 'People don't like wearing things on their faces and don't trust those who do' -- Personal Tech4 days ago
SoftBank to build massive AI datacenter on former US nuclear weapons site -- 10GW server farm, 10GW of new generation, and $4.2bn grid upgrade. And someone else is paying for the uranium cleanup -- Systems4 days ago
Smooth criminals talking their way into cloud environments, Google says - RSAC 2026 - Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins - RSA - 23 Mar 2026 - | 14 days ago
SpaceX hits back at Amazon in orbital datacenter dispute -- In space, no one can hear you being petty -- Networks4 days ago
Palantir trial plugs into UK financial watchdog's data trove -- US analytics firm handed access to sensitive intel, raising yet more questions about vendor lock-in -- Databases5 days ago
We tested Intel's new chips for cash-strapped hardcore PC users and they're impressive - Review - More cores, higher clocks, lower prices - Personal Tech - 23 Mar 2026 - | 183 days ago
US chip testing firm shrugged off ransomware hit as minor – then came the data leak - Trio-Tech International initially said hack wasn't 'material,' but then stolen data was published - Cyber-crime - 23 Mar 2026 - |4 days ago
Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates -- The era of reliability begins... right after this out-of-band patch -- OSes5 days ago
CMA dithers on cloud probe as Microsoft's meter runs on taxpayer dime -- Every month of 'careful consideration' is another month Redmond laughs all the way to the bank -- Public Sector5 days ago
Explainer: AI-ready servers - GPUs and data management is important in an AI push, but don't ignore your legacy kit - The Register Explainer5 days ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo - Who, Me? First came the facepalm, then the faceplant, then the loss of face - AI + ML - 23 Mar 2026 - | 13514 hours ago
Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics' -- Like his promise to get a million robocabs on the road, this doesn't add up -- Systems5 days ago
Australia to datacenter operators: BYO energy, pay your way, build green, or stay home -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Singtel's triple outage; 17,000 counterfeit hard drives seized; Tech wages shift across Asia; And more! -- Systems5 days ago
CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge -- feature -- The operating system of the universe isn't going to debug itself -- Science6 days ago
Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst -- The market is contracting -- Personal Tech7 days ago
Microsoft breaks Microsoft account sign-ins in Windows 11 with latest update -- OneDrive, Office, Teams Free users greeted with phantom 'no internet' errors, restart may help if you're lucky -- OSes8 days ago
UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias -- Cams statistically more likely to ID Black people, says new research -- Public Sector8 days ago
Feds disrupt monster IoT botnets behind record-breaking DDoS attacks -- Millions of hijacked devices powered traffic floods targeting defense systems and beyond -- Cyber-crime8 days ago
Supermicro co-founder arrested, charged over $2.5B Nvidia GPU sales to China -- Indictment claims dummy servers and bogus docs used to slip past US export controls -- Systems8 days ago
UK to rethink tech buying after Palantir contracts -- Government looks for sovereign tech as NHS deal nears break clause -- Public Sector8 days ago
Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor -- Opinion -- Audit trails aplenty, but no price tag – and no clue how long your data sticks around -- Public Sector8 days ago
While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job? -- On Call -- He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for a meddling security team's fear of USB -- On-Prem8 days ago
Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin applies to launch 51,000 datacenter satellites -- 'Project Sunrise' needs a network that doesn't exist, a rocket that's hardly flown, and FCC approval -- Systems8 days ago
Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they're inferior and may always be -- Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to compete -- Systems8 days ago
Decoding Nvidia's Groq-powered LPX and the rest of its new rack systems - GTC DEEP DIVE - From LPUs and GPUs to CPUs and switches, everything you need to know about Nvidia's latest kit - Nvidia GTC - 19 Mar 2026 - | 65 days ago
Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say -- Pair say review of studies, other evidence, proves more countries need to do like Australia and keep kids offline -- Personal Tech8 days ago
Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to -- Chocolate Factory describes concession as an attempt to balance openess with safety -- Security8 days ago
PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI -- Professional services giant did not read its own report on lackluster benefits -- AI + ML8 days ago
Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic reports on AI site reliability engineering - QCon London - It's still a job for humans, even though bots can search logs at the speed of I/O - AI + ML - 19 Mar 2026 - | 65 days ago
Hide and sleek: Latest Vivaldi release can tuck its UI away until summoned -- New toggle strips away browser chrome if you want -- Software9 days ago
GOV.UK chatbot gets smarter but slower as LLMs improve -- Accuracy jumps from 76% to 90% across public pilots, while users wait nearly 11 seconds for answers -- Public Sector9 days ago
Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots -- Micron plans to cash in, after already growing revenue $10 billion in a single quarter -- Systems -- 19 Mar 20269 days ago
Chatbot Romeos keep users talking longer, but harm their mental health -- Flattery and delusional talk have negative outcomes -- AI + ML -- 18 Mar 20269 days ago
Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC -- GTC -- Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to say -- Storage9 days ago
Ransomware crims abused Cisco 0-day weeks before disclosure, says Amazon security boss - Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposed - Security - 18 Mar 2026 - |8 days ago
Ohio citizens tell hyperscalers to take their supersized datacenters elsewhere -- Residents looking to ban server farms with capacity over 25 MW -- On-Prem9 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-crime9 days 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 -- Offbeat10 days 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 -- Software10 days ago
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 202610 days 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 202610 days 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 202610 days 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 -- Systems10 days 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 - | 209 days 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 - | 159 days 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 Sector11 days ago
Iran's 'chosen users' get 'privileged access' despite internet blackout for masses -- Civilians relying on Dutch shortwave radio broadcast for outside information -- Networks11 days 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 -- Storage11 days 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 -- Networks11 days 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-Prem11 days 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 GTC11 days 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 GTC11 days 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 GTC11 days 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 - | 598 days 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 -- OSes10 days 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 -- Security12 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 -- Applications11 days 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 -- HPC12 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 Sector12 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 - | 459 days ago
AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches 'hundreds of exabytes' -- Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint -- Off-Prem12 days ago
Jury out on whether Americans love or hate datacenters -- Most don't think they are good for the environment -- On-Prem11 days ago
AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to 'paralyse' it -- A 'web of litigation' -- Networks14 days ago
