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 - | 46

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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 - Systems - 23 Mar 2026 - | 139

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Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field -- Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows -- OSes

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Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train -- Turns out artificial general intelligence was a CPU this whole time -- Systems

2 hours ago

Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive -- Microslop? Sorry, we meant Microsoft -- Storage

6 hours 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 -- Networks

5 hours ago

Systemd-free antiX Linux 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form -- Plus: Still supports 32-bit hardware or VMs -- OSes

8 hours 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 -- Software

10 hours 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 Tech

13 hours 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 -- Systems

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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 - | 1

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SpaceX hits back at Amazon in orbital datacenter dispute -- In space, no one can hear you being petty -- Networks

1 day 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 -- Databases

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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 - | 18

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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 - |

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Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates -- The era of reliability begins... right after this out-of-band patch -- OSes

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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 Sector

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Explainer: AI-ready servers - GPUs and data management is important in an AI push, but don't ignore your legacy kit - The Register Explainer

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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

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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! -- Systems

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CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge - feature - The operating system of the universe isn't going to debug itself - Science - 22 Mar 2026 - | 40

8 hours ago

Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst -- The market is contracting -- Personal Tech

3 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 -- OSes

4 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 Sector

4 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-crime

4 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 -- Systems

4 days ago

UK to rethink tech buying after Palantir contracts -- Government looks for sovereign tech as NHS deal nears break clause -- Public Sector

4 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 Sector - 20 Mar 2026 - | 123

2 hours 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-Prem

4 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

4 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

4 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

4 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 Tech

4 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 -- Security

5 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 + ML

5 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 - | 6

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Hide and sleek: Latest Vivaldi release can tuck its UI away until summoned -- New toggle strips away browser chrome if you want -- Software

5 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 Sector

5 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

5 days ago

Chatbot Romeos keep users talking longer, but harm their mental health -- Flattery and delusional talk have negative outcomes -- AI + ML

5 days ago

Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC -- GTC -- Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to say -- Storage

6 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 - |

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Ohio citizens tell hyperscalers to take their supersized datacenters elsewhere -- Residents looking to ban server farms with capacity over 25 MW -- On-Prem -- 18 Mar 2026

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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-crime -- 18 Mar 2026

6 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 -- Offbeat

6 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 -- Software

6 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

6 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

6 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 2026

6 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 -- Systems

6 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 - | 20

5 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 - | 15

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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 Sector

7 days ago

Iran's 'chosen users' get 'privileged access' despite internet blackout for masses -- Civilians relying on Dutch shortwave radio broadcast for outside information -- Networks

7 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 -- Storage

7 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 - Networks - 17 Mar 2026 - | 72

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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-Prem - 17 Mar 2026 - | 118

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Nvidia wraps its NemoClaw around OpenClaw for the sake of security -- gtc -- 'OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI,' insists Nvidia CEO -- Nvidia GTC

7 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 GTC

7 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 GTC

7 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

8 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 - OSes - 16 Mar 2026 - | 81

23 hours 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 -- Security

8 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 -- Applications

7 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 -- HPC

8 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 Sector

8 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 - | 45

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AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches 'hundreds of exabytes' -- Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint -- Off-Prem

8 days ago

Jury out on whether Americans love or hate datacenters -- Most don't think they are good for the environment -- On-Prem

7 days ago

AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to 'paralyse' it -- A 'web of litigation' -- Networks

11 days ago

Watchdog boss calls Capita's £370M DWP win 'extraordinary' amid pension portal dumpster fire -- PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keys -- Public Sector

11 days ago

RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it -- Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot -- Storage

11 days ago

Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power -- It wants 'safe, cost effective, and rapid.' We say: 'Good, fast, cheap – you can have 2' -- On-Prem

11 days ago

Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them -- Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faults -- Networks

11 days ago

Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds - On Call - Have you tried turning it on, never mind off and on again? On-Prem - 13 Mar 2026 - | 125

4 days ago

AI Burning Man happens next week – what to expect at Nvidia GTC 2026 -- From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town -- Nvidia GTC

6 days ago

Apple takes a bite out of app store fees in China -- Beijing hinted it wasn't happy with Cupertino, which weeks later made a change -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes -- Going from eight systems to one means fewer people make decisions to unleash Epic Fury -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Perplexity: Everything is Computer, everything is AI, Computer is everything, AI is us -- Everything extends its cloud Computer to enterprises, your computer -- AI + ML

11 days ago

District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data -- Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unanswered -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline -- OEM delays have become patient care delays -- On-Prem

12 days ago

Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google's fiber biz and Stonepeak's Astound merge -- Alphabet to remain 'significant minority shareholder' -- Networks

12 days ago

Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and immigration -- US spy-tech biz and platform provider retorts that this would be against the current law and a breach of its contract -- Databases

12 days ago

Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles -- DSTL bets £350K the UK can cook up its own exotic materials -- Science

12 days ago

So much for power to the people – AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue -- Plan to fast-track bit barn connections leaves housing developers fuming and billpayers on the hook -- On-Prem

12 days ago

Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying -- Government offers £100K to support software forecasting how travelers choose departure hubs -- Public Sector

12 days ago

Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 – even the Professional edition - Updated - Out of the Copilot and into the fire - Personal Tech - 12 Mar 2026 - | 24

7 days ago

Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon - Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can't flag obvious AI slop - Systems - 12 Mar 2026 - |

12 days ago

ICO fines Police Scotland over data-sharing debacle in gross misconduct case -- Blue-on-blue internal investigation lands force £66k fine -- Security

13 days ago

Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh -- Let them eat cores -- Personal Tech

13 days ago

Ayar Labs taps Wiwynn to cram 1,024 GPUs into a photonic rack system - Exclusive - Reference design to stitch more than a thousand accelerators into a single enormous server. Systems - 11 Mar 2026 - | 6

11 days ago

Lightmatter says latest photonics will slash datacenter fiber bills in half -- Latest optical engine may not be CPO, but it's still better than pluggables -- On-Prem

13 days ago

Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them -- Officials suspend Basel-Stadt trial and launch probe -- Public Sector

13 days ago

Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study -- Subscribers north of the border suffer the most long-running failures per £100 spent -- Networks

13 days ago

EU legal eagle says banks should refund cybercrime victims first, argue later -- Analysis -- Advocate General urges rethink of PSD2 to speed compensation after scams -- Security

13 days ago

Your datacenter's power architecture called. It's not happy -- Feature -- AI factories demand 800 volts because physics doesn't care about your upgrade budget -- On-Prem

13 days ago

Post Office's £142M subsidy for Horizon fallout and IR35 bill reviewed by watchdog -- CMA advisers say extra support justified as remediation costs and tax liability mount -- Software

12 days ago

Whitehall can't cost digital ID until it decides how to build it -- Consultation launched, People's Panel planned, yet still no price tag attached -- Public Sector

13 days ago

Oracle says AI coding tools are helping it dodge the SaaSpocalypse -- Big Red reckons paying for datacenters is easy when you have half a trillion dollars of cloud orders on the books -- SaaS

13 days ago

Governments across Asia order work from home, thanks to Iran war -- Pakistan, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines are all trying to conserve fuel -- Public Sector

13 days ago