Does UK's Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends -- Minister, platform providers disagree on whether law would have helped avoid last summer's riots -- Public Sector

3 hours ago

AWS creates EC2 instance types tailored for demanding on-prem workloads -- What? Why? It's an update to its Outposts racks hybrid cloud rigs aimed at bankers and telcos -- On-Prem

3 hours ago

Chinese carmaker Chery using DeepSeek-driven humanoid robots as showroom sales staff -- And of course – sigh – they look like women with long blonde hair -- AI + ML

6 hours ago

Supermicro warns of massive revenue miss as buyers pause purchasing plans - Yet more strife for server-maker sees its share price slump by 15 percent - Systems - 30 Apr 2025 - |

8 hours ago

Homeland Security boss says CISA has gone off the rails, vows to set it right -- RSAC -- Kirsty Noem argues cyber-agency's job is defending America, not becoming 'Ministry of Truth' -- Spotlight on RSAC

9 hours ago

Intel tweaks its 18A process with variants tailored to mass-market chips, big AI brains -- Direct Connect -- If Lip Bu Tan can't sell you his LLM accelerator, he's more than willing to build yours -- On-Prem

10 hours ago

Trump admin freaks out over mere suggestion Amazon was going to show tariff impact on prices -- World War Fee -- Revealing import taxes would be 'hostile and political' to Dear Leader -- Personal Tech

11 hours ago

Meta bets you want a sprinkle of social in your chatbot - Sharing is caring when your entire business is built on it - AI + ML - 29 Apr 2025 - | 2

2 hours ago

TAKE IT DOWN Act? Yes, take the act down before it's too late for online speech -- Good intentions, terrible wording – and Trump can't wait to use it because 'nobody gets treated worse than I do' -- Personal Tech

14 hours ago

Backblaze denies 'sham accounting' claims as short sellers circle -- Cloud storage biz says 'baseless allegations' are attempts by analysts to profit -- Storage

18 hours ago

After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade -- HMRC kicks off procurement to modernize customer service after scathing reports -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Amazon's first 27 Kuiper broadband sats make it into orbit on an Atlas V -- One launch down, 80-plus to go, for a pittance compared to planned AWS spending -- Networks

1 day ago

How to survive as a CISO aka 'chief scapegoat officer' -- Whistleblowing, email is evidential mail, HR is not your friend, and more discussed by CxO panel -- Spotlight on RSAC

1 day ago

DOGE may help Elon Musk's biz empire dodge $2.4B in liabilities – Senate probe -- Dem Sens demand action to stop SpaceX oligarch from turning watchdogs into corporate yes-men -- Public Sector

1 day ago

State Dept reorg could harm US in tech battle with China -- Demotion of cyberspace policy team, closure of others, not a great look -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Artist formerly known as Indian Business Machines pledges $150B for US ops, R&D - Comment - Did we says offshore? We meant, er, hardcore. Amirite, DOGE bros? On-Prem - 28 Apr 2025 - | 33

6 hours ago

Why brave the jet lag? KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China have the answers - The cloud native world is evolving fast — and not just in Silicon Valley. Why your next stop should be Hong Kong - Partner content

1 day ago

Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, economists claim -- 'When we look at the outcomes, it really has not moved the needle'

15 hours ago

The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers -- FBI and others list how to spot NK infiltrators, but AI will make it harder

3 hours ago

Open source text editor poisoned with malware to target Uyghur users -- Who could possibly be behind this attack on an ethnic minority China despises?

15 hours ago

Back online after 'catastrophic' attack, 4chan says it's too broke for good IT -- Image board hints that rumors of a poorly maintained back end may be true

1 day ago

Cybersecurity CEO accused of running malware on hospital PC blabs about it on LinkedIn -- Sometimes, silence is the best option

1 day ago

808 lines of BBC BASIC and a dream: Arm architecture turns 40 -- 'We thought it was a really obvious way to build a processor and everybody would be doing it'

5 hours ago

Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline -- Cyberattack? Bad software update? International oopsie? The cause is unclear, but Iberia is dark

1 day ago

Infosec pros tell Trump to quit bullying Chris Krebs – it's undermining security -- Top voices warn that political retaliation puts democracy and national defense at risk

3 hours ago

Admission impossible: NSA, CISA brass absent from RSA Conf -- Homeland Security boss Noem added as last-minute keynote, mind you

3 hours ago

From PlayStation to routers, you've probably been using FreeBSD without knowing it -- The OS came first, the foundation later – so what does it do?

2 hours ago

EU Chips Act heading for failure, time for Chips Act 2.0 -- Damning report says it set a moving target that was way too ambitious -- Systems

1 day ago

Windows profanity filter finally gets a ******* off switch -- No more asterisks. Voice typing now reflects the true spirit of your rage -- OSes

1 day ago

Fujitsu and its no public sector bids promises... what happened to them? Comment - Government procurement process is very involved - Public Sector - 28 Apr 2025 - | 15

3 hours ago

Even untouched by tariffs, UK financial IT braces for the blow -- Spend will come under scrutiny, but projects with good returns still likely to get backing, analyst says -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Elon Musk's X revenues in the UK crashed in 2023, down 66% -- Latest profit and loss accounts carry scars of ad spending exodus, but things improving. Maybe not everywhere though -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction -- Opinion -- Think that next refresh is going to get better? The first step to freedom is admitting there's a problem -- OSes

2 days ago

Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions -- And just-about bricks some of its older models everywhere -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Toyota picks Huawei's Android-killer HarmonyOS for its Chinese electric sedan -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Korea's SK Telecom replacing SIMs after attack; India automates satellite docking; China greens its datacenters; and more -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

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2 days ago

New APNIC director general steps up to steer the internet for 4 billion users - Interview - Jia Rong Low hopes to make registries interesting again - Networks - 27 Apr 2025 - | 5

15 hours ago

DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI -- Now that's a sum of all fears -- AI + ML

1 day ago

UK bans game controller exports to Russia in bid to ground drone attacks -- Moscow likely to respawn elsewhere -- Edge + IoT

4 days ago

Signalgate lessons learned: If creating a culture of security is the goal, America is screwed - Opinion - Infosec is a team sport ... unless you're in the White House - Public Sector - 25 Apr 2025 - | 97

10 minutes ago

Amid CVE funding fumble, 'we were mushrooms, kept in the dark,' says board member -- What next for US-bankrolled vulnerability tracker? It's edging closer to a more independent, global future -- CSO

4 days ago

Hydrotreated vegetable oil is not an emission-free swap for diesel in datacenters -- Biofuel lowers pollutants, but won't eliminate 'em, and could mean DCs compete for supplies -- On-Prem

4 days ago

Google admits depreciation costs are soaring amid furious bit barn build -- Still plans to invest $75B in CapEx this year as unable to meet capacity demand -- On-Prem

4 days ago

£136M government grant saves troubled Post Office from suboptimal IT -- Taxpayers foot bill to get to new platform as Fujitsu package balloons to £2.44 billion -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Techie diagnosed hardware fault by checking customer's coffee - On Call - Volts make jolts - On-Prem - 25 Apr 2025 - | 116

7 hours ago

New Intel boss is all about 'de-laborating' the x86 giant – aka job cuts -- Thousands face ax, more given RTO orders in quest to suck less -- On-Prem

5 days ago

Assassin's Creed maker faces GDPR complaint for forcing single-player gamers online -- Collecting data from solo players is a Far Cry from being necessary, says noyb -- Security

5 days ago

US biz stockpilers boost SK Hynix top line as memory market undergoes structural change - 'Inventory accumulation' as vendors hoard HBM amid tariff and other pressures - Storage - 24 Apr 2025 - |

5 days ago

Decades-old bug in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas finally shows itself -- Something broke on Windows 11 24H2, but dev who discovered it tells El Reg this time Microsoft's not to blame -- OSes

5 days ago

Qualcomm says license fight was because Arm wants to make its own server chips -- Alleges semi designer tried to obstruct Qualy's build of Arm-compatible custom cores -- Systems

5 days ago

Sustainability still not a high priority for datacenter industry - Extreme weather is - such - a problem when building bit barns... hmmm, wonder what could be causing that? On-Prem - 24 Apr 2025 - | 24

4 days ago

Hyperconverged infrastructure is so hot right now it needs liquid cooling -- Lenovo brings its Neptune cold plates to servers packing sixth-gen Xeons to run VMware, Nutanix, and AzureStack -- On-Prem

6 days ago

India's services giants brace for impact as US tariffs bite their customers -- Wipro was forced to pause an active SAP project due to client's jitters -- Channel

6 days ago

IBM dragged down by DOGE contract cancellation roulette -- Big Blue downplays impact of Elon-gated cost-cutting -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Blue Shield says it shared health info on up to 4.7M patients with Google Ads -- Tech giants don't need smartphone mics to target adverts – your insurer just gives your data away, anyway -- CSO

6 days ago

Hey Google, if Chrome is going to be single soon, OpenAI is interested -- ChatGPT maker to join line of suitors if Chocolate Factory forced to offload browser -- AI + ML

6 days ago

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6 days ago

Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA -- Bad timing, claim industry watchers, who say rulings could seriously upset an already delicate US-EU relationship -- Legal

6 days ago

European biz calls for Euro tech for local people -- 'Europe Stand Tall' campaign kicks off amid fear, uncertainty and doubt about Trump administration -- PaaS + IaaS

6 days ago

Fujitsu promised to sit out UK deals ... then Northern Ireland called with £125M -- Despite Horizon fallout, Japanese supplier continues to win public sector work -- Public Sector

7 days ago

America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside - Opinion - The CVE system nearly dying shows that someone has lost the plot - CSO - 23 Apr 2025 - | 92

13 hours ago

Asia reaches 50 percent IPv6 capability and leads the world in user numbers -- India and China deliver a nice milestone, with help from ancient internet history -- Networks

7 days ago

India gets Google to unbundle Android and the Play Store on Smart TVs -- Meanwhile, OpenAI expresses an interest in unbundling Chrome from Google -- Public Sector

7 days ago

Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised -- World War Fee -- Detail? Rationale? Timeline? Nope! It's the art of the squeal -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE -- Going to spend more time with his Sieg Heils, maybe -- Public Sector

6 days ago

US to slap up to 3,521% tariffs on SE Asian solar imports – especially you, Cambodia -- world war fee -- Uncle Sam says Chinese factories use proxies to dodge import taxes -- On-Prem

7 days ago

Two CISA officials jump ship, both proud of pushing for Secure by Design software -- As cyber-agency faces cuts, makes noises about switching up program -- Public Sector

7 days ago

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7 days ago

Relax, AWS reassessing colo lease talks is just 'routine capacity management' -- Hyperscaler says there's no decrease in demand, it's just looking for good deals -- Systems

7 days ago

El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production - Hands On - Running GenAI models is easy. Scaling them to thousands of users, not so much - AI Software Development Week - 22 Apr 2025 - | 10

5 days ago

UK-based self-driving car startup Wayve heads to Japan for more driving data -- On a road trip with an AI by your side -- AI + ML

7 days ago

Google's email spoofed by cunning phisherfolk who re-used DKIM creds -- Infosec In Brief -- PLUS: Malware developers adopt Node.js; US disinformation warriors disbanded; Gig worker accounts for sale; and more -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

It takes one click to join Uber One, but quitting might need 32 actions -- Which is one reason US regulators just sued the rideshare and delivery giant -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

ICE enlists Palantir to develop all-seeing 'ImmigrationOS' eye to speed up deportations -- Only Peter Thiel-backed biz can pull off $30M IT deal, apparently -- Public Sector

8 days ago

Downward DOGE: Elon Musk keeps revising cost-trimming goals in a familiar pattern -- Comment -- On top of that, Trump's increased federal spending almost completely negates $150B in cuts -- Public Sector

9 days ago

HP settles fake discount lawsuit for just $4M. Don't expect much of a payout -- When it comes to sales and rebates, PC giant takes 'Keep Reinventing' seriously -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

What to do once your Surface Hub v1 becomes an 84-inch, $22K paperweight -- Oh. You expected serious suggestions? -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy - Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to - int main(enter the void) ... AI Software Development Week - 18 Apr 2025 - | 24

7 days ago

Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI - Updated - Using LLMs to pick programs, people, contracts to cut is bad enough – but doing it with Musk's Grok? Yikes - Public Sector - 18 Apr 2025 - | 67

7 days ago

CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun -- Comment -- MITRE, EUVD, GCVE ... WTF? -- Spotlight on RSAC

7 days ago

IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices -- Exclusive -- 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge -- On-Prem

12 days ago

Google wins 1-1: Judge rules ad giant broke some antitrust law -- After battle with Uncle Sam over online competition, web giant vows to appeal the bit it lost, celebrates the half it won -- Personal Tech

12 days ago

Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances -- Illegitimi non carborundum? Nice password, Mr Ex-CISA -- Spotlight on RSAC

7 days ago

Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek -- As Huang jets to Middle Kingdom after H20 ban forces $5.5B hit -- AI + ML

12 days ago

Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure -- Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed -- PaaS + IaaS

12 days ago

Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers -- 'It's amazing how fast the change has been' -- PaaS + IaaS

12 days ago

TSMC prepping for tariff turmoil, denies joint venture talks with Intel - Chip contract manufacturer not immune to 'uncertainties and risks' caused by Trump's import taxes - Systems - 17 Apr 2025 - |

12 days ago

Datacenters selling power back to the grid? Don't bet on it, say operators - Analysis - Bit barns in Dublin doubled as battery farms, the rest of the world isn't buying it - CxO - 17 Apr 2025 - | 33

8 days ago

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies -- Truck-mounted demonstration weapon costs 10p a pop, says MOD -- Security

13 days ago

Competition boffin launches class action against Google UK over search dominance -- Alleges £5B in harm caused by Android deals, anticompetitive actions -- Personal Tech

13 days ago

Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes -- Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us -- Networks

13 days ago

Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog -- Ignored infosec rules, exfiltrated data ... then the mysterious login attempts from a Russian IP address began – claim -- CSO

13 days ago

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims -- Give Elon an inch and he'll take thousands of miles ... allegedly -- Bootnotes

13 days ago

California sues President Tariff -- Public Sector

13 days ago

White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo -- Public Sector

13 days ago

Signalgate chats vanish from CIA chief phone -- Extraordinary rendition of data, or just dropped it out of a helicopter? -- CSO

13 days ago

First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales - World War Fee - Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible? HPC - 16 Apr 2025 - | 7

8 days ago

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades -- Intune policies turn out to be mere suggestions -- OSes

13 days ago

CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home -- Uncertainty is the new certainty -- CSO

13 days ago

AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed -- Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair -- Software

13 days ago

ASML hits targets but orders sag as Trump trolls markets -- Dutch lithography king sticks to €35B forecast despite investor jitters -- Systems

13 days ago

In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield -- Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns -- Legal

14 days ago

Legacy tech is the gift that keeps billing for UK's tax collector -- £5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC -- Public Sector

14 days ago

TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails -- It's not DNS. It can't be DNS? Right? -- Networks

14 days ago

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13 days ago

South Korea to build mini-fabs as part of $25B plan to prop up tariff-targeted industries -- Fancy a doctorate in semiconductor design? The land of K-Pop wants you to help future-proof its industry -- Public Sector

13 days ago

Japan serves Google a cease and desist order over its Android bundling deals -- Won't let the Big G require its apps and search to be installed on smartphones -- Public Sector

14 days ago