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 - 01 May 2026 - |

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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

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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

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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

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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

14 hours 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 - 27 Apr 2026 - | 30

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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 - 27 Apr 2026 - | 100

18 hours 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

7 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

7 days ago

'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild - Who, Me? You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstrom - Bootnotes - 20 Apr 2026 - | 75

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Indonesia's game rating system paused amid claims it leaked developer creds and glimpses of major new titles - Asia In Brief - PLUS: India bins ID app pre-install plan; Robot wins Beijing half-marathon; AI writing Manga speech bubbles; and more! Public Sector - 20 Apr 2026 - | 2

10 days ago

IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure -- Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookups -- Networks

14 days ago

Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day -- Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory -- Networks

14 days ago

IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google -- We're not half way there, we're still livin' on a prayer -- Networks

14 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

14 hours 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

20 hours 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

20 hours 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

17 hours 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

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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

23 hours 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

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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

1 day 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 - | 20

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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

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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

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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

1 day 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

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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

2 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

2 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

2 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

2 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

2 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

2 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

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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

2 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

3 days ago

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

3 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

3 days ago

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

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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

3 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 - | 25

1 day 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

3 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

3 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

3 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

3 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

3 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

6 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

6 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

6 days ago

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

6 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

6 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

6 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

6 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

6 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

7 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 - | 124

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

7 days ago

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

7 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 - |

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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

8 days ago

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

8 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

8 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

8 days ago

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

8 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 - |

8 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

8 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

7 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

8 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

8 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

9 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

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

9 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

9 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

7 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

9 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

9 days ago

England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one -- 90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture -- Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolment -- Security

10 days ago

NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won't be ready for Moon landing -- Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess -- Science

10 days ago

Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again -- The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions -- On-Prem

10 days ago

World's blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home -- Tim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at Apple -- Systems

10 days ago

Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter -- Official involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn't paint entire picture of datacenter's economic benefit -- Public Sector

10 days ago

AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London -- Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts -- On-Prem

10 days ago

UK.gov kicks off half-a-billion quid sovereign AI venture with £80M invite -- Companies get to keep IP developed for government projects -- AI + ML

10 days ago

HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life -- Workstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdown -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing -- Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use -- On-Prem

10 days ago

Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors -- Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes -- Systems

13 days ago

Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned -- Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15 -- Personal Tech

13 days ago

Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug -- University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast -- Personal Tech

13 days ago

Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks -- Top civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for money -- Public Sector

14 days ago

Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching - On Call - All that kit, and the fix was simply stepping aside - Networks - 17 Apr 2026 - | 103

3 days ago

Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban -- If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyard -- Public Sector

14 days ago

Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband -- Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikes -- Networks

14 days ago

A beginner's guide to GPU virtualization: passthrough, vGPU, and MIG - What every IT generalist needs to know before deploying GPU workloads, and why the platform matters more than the hardware. Partner Content

14 days ago