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Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job -- Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions -- Networks49 minutes ago
ZTE wins "Catalyst Innovator: Voyager" award at Innovate Asia 2025 - Partner Content - Recognition highlights ZTE's leadership in multi-agent and AI-driven ICT solutions - Partner Content3 hours ago
Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL -- Just ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself -- Offbeat5 hours ago
Aisuru botnet turns Q3 into a terabit-scale stress test for the entire internet -- Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks -- Cyber-crime5 hours ago
Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power -- 3 GW is roughly three quarters of the country's peak demand, says Foxglove -- The Future of the Datacenter7 hours ago
ZTE fosters AI-driven win-win cooperation at its Global Services Ecosystem Forum 2025 in Brazil - Advancing AI-powered network innovation through global partnerships across Europe and Latin America - Partner Content3 hours ago
Datacenters that don't have their own power supplies will fail -- It's time to ask your bit barn provider how they'll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices -- The Future of the Datacenter5 hours ago
TLS 1.3 includes welcome improvements, but still allows long-lived secrets - Systems Approach - Tricky tradeoffs are hard to avoid when designing systems, but the choice not to use LLMs for some tasks is clear - Networks - 04 Dec 2025 - | 113 hours ago
India's government targets Uber, Ola with plan to launch zero-commission rideshare platform -- Minister wants to 'free drivers from dependency on private companies' -- Public Sector17 hours ago
Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches -- First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory? -- Storage19 hours ago
Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator -- Rights holders had better buckle up for years of legal wrangling, IP lawyer tells The Reg -- Legal20 hours ago
HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware -- IT giant touts unified management, stretched clusters, and AI-ready networking at Discover Barcelona -- Virtualization20 hours ago
Windows 11 still barely pulling ahead of 10 despite end-of-support push -- Statcounter shows the gap narrowing as users cling to older hardware and familiar workflows -- OSes1 day ago
Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report - Updated - Awarded a £239M contract, outsourcer apologizes for any inconvenience to 1.5M members - Public Sector - 03 Dec 2025 - | 8415 minutes ago
Pat Gelsinger's EUV lithography gig gets $150M wink from Uncle Sam -- Commerce Department wants equity in xLight as it backs a free-electron laser to challenge ASML -- Systems1 day ago
Linux 6.18 arrives as the year's final drop and likely next LTS -- Bye-bye bcachefs, but hello there bhyve -- OSes1 day ago
China using AI as 'precision instrument' of censorship and repression, at home and abroad -- Think tank ASPI says Beijing is even using it to steal fish from the ocean -- AI + ML1 day ago
Indian government reveals GPS spoofing at eight major airports -- Extra infosec investments are taxiing towards the runway -- Security1 day ago
NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece -- Isaacman backs Texas relocation amid warnings that costs could top $150M -- Public Sector2 days ago
Defra admits Windows 10 refresh letter to MPs was wrong – machines were already on Windows 11 -- Corrected document clears up rollout timeline and confirms switch well ahead of deadline -- Public Sector2 days ago
Rethinking desktop real estate in the call center era - Say hello to the little machine with big savings - Sponsored Feature1 day ago
Samsung reveals its first tri-fold phone – and its desktop mode -- Buyers get a one-time discount on screen repairs, which hardly screams 'we nailed this three-screen thing' -- Personal Tech2 days ago
Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators -- Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance -- Networks1 day ago
India demands smartphone makers install a government app on every handset -- 'Sanchar Saathi' shares data to help fight fraud and protect carrier security -- Public Sector2 days ago
UK gov blames budget leak on misconfigured WordPress plugin, server -- Predictable URLs break security through obscurity and lack of server access controls don't help -- Public Sector2 days ago
Nvidia plows $2B into Synopsys to make GPUs a must-have for design, simulation customers -- You could do that on a CPU, but who can say no to a 30x GPU speed boost? -- Systems2 days ago
AWS and Google build a fix for multi-cloud barriers they said didn't exist - Re:invent - After reassuring regulators all was well, pair debut interconnect to smooth the bumps - AWS Re:invent - 01 Dec 2025 - | 31 day ago
Asda's 'self-inflicted' SAP mess after Walmart divorce stalls financial revival -- Overbudget Project Future will continue to cause problems into Q2 next year, chairman admits -- On-Prem3 days ago
Cheaper 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 lands as memory costs go through the roof -- Budget model slips in at $45 while other boards climb amid AI-driven component crunch -- Storage3 days ago
Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul - Updated - Authority follows Birmingham and West Sussex, which both suffered disastrous transitions - Databases - 01 Dec 2025 - | 6016 hours ago
Speccy clone storms back for Christmas without a shred of Sinclair code -- Rubber-key revival leans on Linux, emulation, and third-party ROMs -- Personal Tech3 days ago
Landlord quirks leave thousands of flats stuck in the broadband slow lane -- Openreach pushes for legal overhaul as apartments fall through fiber rollout gaps -- Networks -- 01 Dec 20253 days ago
Google and Apple ordered to stop fake government TXTs - Asia in Brief - PLUS: India wants to build big airliners; Half of South Koreans caught in data leak; Minimum wage for gig workers in Oz; And more! Public Sector - 01 Dec 2025 - | 131 day ago
Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer records -- Crims claim to know which customers are marked 'vulnerable' -- Networks -- 28 Nov 20253 days ago
KDE Plasma sets date to dump X11 as Wayland push accelerates -- If that's a step too far, then there are new versions of CDE – and tmux -- OSes -- 28 Nov 20253 days ago
SK hynix wants you to bond with HBM, so it coated corn in banana chocolate -- Pushes semiconductor familiarity via chip-shaped edible squares -- Systems6 days ago
GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold – it just feels like they are -- Nvidia's accelerators look pricey, but bullion still wins on cost per ounce -- Supercomputing Month6 days ago
Windows keeps obsolete strings forever to avoid breaking translations -- Another reason why the OS seems to swell with every update -- OSes6 days ago
OBR drags in cyber bigwig after Budget leak blunder -- Ex-NCSC chief Ciaran Martin asked to examine how forecast ended up online ahead of schedule -- Offbeat6 days ago
UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B -- OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings -- Public Sector6 days ago
UK Digital Services Tax raises £800M from global tech giants -- Treasury haul beats early forecasts, yet captures only a fraction of the revenue generated in Britain -- Off-Prem6 days ago
Digital Realty, Equinix battle for €4.5B atNorth acquisition -- Nordic datacenter operator's cool-climate facilities attract bids amid AI-driven market frenzy -- On-Prem6 days ago
Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down - On Call - A quick squeeze of the crimper saved the day ... and a career - Networks - 28 Nov 2025 - | 1991 hour ago
China Telecom and ZTE Jointly Craft a New Mobility Blueprint with 5G Intelligent Vehicle - Integrating 5G-A private networks and nationwide multi-DNN routing for end-to-end vehicle intelligence - Partner Content6 days ago
Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation trapped in a software blackhole - hands on - $12K machine promises performance that can scale to 32 chip servers and beyond but immature stack makes harnessing compute challenging - Systems - 27 Nov 2025 - | 102 days ago
FCC sounds alarm after emergency tones turned into potty-mouthed radio takeover -- Agency flags hijacks of insecure studio-to-transmitter gear after attackers pipe in fake alerts and vulgar audio -- Cyber-crime7 days ago
Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty -- OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access -- PaaS + IaaS7 days ago
Scottish council still rebuilding systems two years after ransomware attack -- Audit sympathetic toward Comhairle nan Eilean Siar as staff stretched to capacity trying to recover -- Cyber-crime7 days ago
HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show - Feature - Arm and RISC-V would like a word - Supercomputing Month - 27 Nov 2025 - | 116 days ago
ZTE honored with EU ePrivacyseal Global certificate for five fixed network and smart home - Validated for robust data security, encryption, and access control across the entire service chain - Partner Content7 days ago
TSMC lawsuit claims former exec is probably leaking secrets to Intel -- Chipzilla can certainly use foundry smarts, but denies the allegation -- Legal7 days ago
ICANN distances itself from radical proposal – which it funded – to give nations a role in internet governance -- Africa is again at the center of strife -- Networks7 days ago
Apple's lousy AI didn't stop it beating Samsung's smartphone sales for the first time since 2011 -- Analyst Counterpoint says second-hand phones are also helping Cupertino to the smartphone shipment summit -- Personal Tech7 days ago
AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes when its notoriously flaky US East region wobbles -- 60-minute RTO means big outages can still happen -- PaaS + IaaS7 days ago
CodeRED emergency alert system CodeDEAD after INC ransomware attack -- Regions across US affected, and one tore up its contract for the product -- Cyber-crime8 days ago
US Navy scuttles Constellation frigate program for being too slow for tomorrow's threats -- Service limits 20-ship line to two hulls after redesigns and delays torpedo schedule -- Offbeat8 days ago
HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals -- Gap threatens Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon despite optimistic forecasts of 3 billion ChatGPT users by 2030 -- AI + ML8 days ago
The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC - Feature - From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepower - Supercomputing Month - 26 Nov 2025 - | 64 days ago
London councils probe cyber incident as shared IT systems knocked offline -- Three boroughs confirm investigation amid service outages, disrupted phone lines, and limited online access -- Cyber-crime8 days ago
Tuxedo Computers slams lid on Arm Linux laptop after 18 months of pain -- Planned Snapdragon goes puff and disappears, but the code will survive -- Personal Tech8 days ago
Dell says Windows 11 transition is far slower than Win 10 shift as PC sales stall -- Lessons from COVID and tariff shocks getting Mike D's tech shop through AI-induced memory maze -- Systems7 days ago
India has satisfied its supercomputing needs, but not its ambitions - Feature - Creating 37 supers in a decade is impressive. The homegrown tech in them, less so - Supercomputing Month - 26 Nov 2025 - | 16 days ago
HP to sack up to six thousand staff under AI adoption plan, fresh round of cost-cutting -- Warns memory price explosion means PCs may have less RAM, or use low-cost parts -- AI + ML8 days ago
China Telecom and China Unicom jointly launch the world's first 5G-A service for high-speed rail -- Delivering Gigabit 5G-A connectivity and AI-assured experiences for high-speed rail passengers -- Partner Content8 days ago
Pebble, the e-ink smartwatch that refuses to die, just went fully open source -- Eric Migicovsky wants to ensure Pebble can't be killed again, and DIYers benefit most -- Personal Tech8 days ago
HPE scores $931M contract to make DoD's cloud migration a little less public -- Works like a public cloud but keeps everything on-prem -- Public Sector8 days ago
China Unicom Shangdong and ZTE collaborate to create a benchmark of 5G+AI differentiated service guarantee innovation for campuses -- Intelligent 5G+AI capabilities deliver over 20% improvement in video, gaming, and live-class experiences -- Partner Content8 days ago
Airbus: We were hours from pausing production in Spain - Exclusive - Power outage in Iberia forced datacenter contingency rethink - On-Prem - 25 Nov 2025 - | 586 days ago
Ukraine first country in Europe to get Starlink satellite phone service -- Kyivstar begins trials offering SMS connectivity when ground networks fail -- Networks9 days ago
Russian spy ship theories sink after Orkney blackout traced to wind farm fault -- Timing of Yantar's visit sparked gossip, but engineers point to a misbehaving protection system -- Offbeat9 days ago
China Telecom and ZTE join forces to boost Shandong's rural revitalization via 5G-powered digital transformation - 800MHz 5G breakthroughs and IoT integration drive a new model of rural digital transformation - Partner Content8 days ago
Calls grow for inquiry into UK data watchdog after MoD leak -- ICO accused of backing off oversight as fallout from Afghan blunder widens -- Public Sector9 days ago
PMI (China) awarded ZTE the 2025 Outstanding Project Award for its innovative work in building the state emergency communications system - ZTE's integrated "Air-Sky-Ground" network sets a new benchmark for national emergency communications - Partner Content9 days ago
Britain plots atomic reboot as datacenter demand surges -- Taskforce calls UK the priciest place on Earth to build nuclear projects and urges radical regulatory reset -- The Future of the Datacenter6 days ago
Apple reportedly peels away some sales staff in small round of layoffs -- Company has hitherto thought different about sackings -- CxO9 days ago
NATO taps Google for air-gapped sovereign cloud -- Chocolate Factory wins contract to build fully disconnected systems for training and operational support -- On-Prem10 days ago
6G isn't even here yet but mobile industry wants triple the spectrum -- Report warns of 2030s capacity crunch without expanding mid-band airwaves -- Networks10 days ago
DragonFire laser to be fitted to Royal Navy ships after acing drone-zapping trials -- Costs a tenner a shot instead of £1M per anti-aircraft missile -- Public Sector10 days ago
UK Covid-19 Inquiry finds early pandemic surveillance was weeks out of date -- Lack of effective data flows and reduced scientific investment hampered response -- Public Sector10 days ago
OVH CEO predicts some cloud prices to rise 5-10 percent by mid-2026 -- Or maybe even sooner, warns Octave Klaba, as AI sends storage costs soaring -- Off-Prem10 days ago
Implementation of ZTE All-RAT FDD Massive MIMO AAU on the XLSMART network for investment efficiency and optimization of data and voice services in the transition toward the 5G era - Multi-generation FDD Massive MIMO trial boosts coverage, capacity, and user experience for XLSMART's 5G evolution - Partner Content10 days ago
Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away -- Catch: you have to plug it into a computer first -- Storage12 days ago
Makers slam Qualcomm for tightening the clamps on Arduino - Updated - But the Wiring folks were disenchanted even before Qualcomm swallowed Arduino - Systems - 21 Nov 2025 - | 668 days ago
Pentagon pumps $29.9M into bid to turn waste into critical minerals -- It's unclear how much scandium and gallium ElementUSA will contribute to the supply chain, or when -- Public Sector13 days ago
ZTE collaborates with Telkomsel to build an UE-transparent Hybrid Private Network - Setting a new standard for digital transformation with a scalable hybrid private network for next-generation factories - Partner Content10 days ago
UK minister ducks cost questions on nationwide digital ID scheme -- Committee hears departments may have to stump up cash before savings materialize -- Public Sector13 days ago
Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into classical datacenters -- It's an ethereal and weighty problem, not a powerful conundrum -- The Future of the Datacenter6 days ago
Google links Android's Quick Share to Apple's AirDrop, without Cupertino's help -- Relies on very loose permissions, but don't worry – Google wrote it in Rust -- Networks13 days ago
Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China's Sangfor -- Plans a universal API to back up all hypervisors, too -- Virtualization13 days ago
SEC drops SolarWinds lawsuit that painted a target on CISOs everywhere -- Company 'clearly delighted' with the outcome -- CSO13 days ago
Nvidia pushes out hotfix after Windows 11 October update tanks gaming performance -- Quick and dirty driver aims to undo slowdown introduced in OS patch -- Personal Tech14 days ago
Google and Westinghouse lean on AI to speed US nuclear plant builds -- Pair say digital twin-powered scheduling will cut costs, shrink timelines for 10 planned reactors -- On-Prem14 days ago
Inside the cloud's shift to Arm: Why hyperscalers and the industry are making the switch -- How Arm is redefining cloud performance — and how developers are already building on it -- Sponsored Post13 days ago
China Unicom, ZTE and Trina Solar set a new benchmark for green energy digitalization -- 5G-A, AI and Digital Twin technologies reshape PV manufacturing and operations -- Partner Content13 days ago
Eleven years after Lenovo acquired IBM's x86 server biz, profits are still elusive -- PC sales are pushing upwards nicely, but AI PCs only account for a third of the new fleet -- Systems14 days ago
ZTE's Signal Reach Program in Africa advances digital inclusion with sustainable networks in Ethiopia - Transforming remote communities with accessible, green, and inclusive mobile networks - Partner Content14 days ago
US, UK, Australia sanction Lockbit gang's hosting provider -- 'Bulletproof' hosts partly dodged the last attack of this sort -- Cyber-crime14 days ago
It's a good time to be the arms dealer for the AI boom -- Bubble? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doesn't see one -- Systems14 days ago
US pumps $1B into Three Mile Island nuclear plant reboot to keep AI datacenters fed -- A reactor at the site suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 -- Systems15 days ago
