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3 months ago

On-Prem - Global IT spending to hit $4.5 trillion in 2022, says Gartner - The future's bright, and expensive - |

40 minutes ago

Memory maker Micron moots $150bn mega manufacturing moneybag -- AI and 5G to fuel demand for new plants and R&D

2 hours ago

DRAM, it stacks up: SK hynix rolls out 819GB/s HBM3 tech -- Kit using the chips to appear next year at the earliest

2 hours ago

Hitting underground pipes and cables costs the UK £2.4bn a year. We need a data platform for that, says government -- Atkins wins £23m deal to build National Underground Asset Register

1 hour ago

Boatnotes II -- Ancient with a dash of modern: We joined the Royal Navy to find there's little new in naval navigation -- Following the Fleet Navigating Officers' course

13 hours ago

Personal Tech -- Sir Clive Sinclair inspired me and 'whole load of others' at Arm, says CEO Simon Segars -- But of course chief exec's first computer was an Acorn

13 hours ago

Personal Tech -- Allegations of favoring visa holders over US workers for jobs cost Facebook just 4 hours of annual profit -- And that $14.25m is supposed to be some kind of record

20 hours ago

Personal Tech -- Google Pixel 6, 6 Pro Android 12 smartphone launch marred by shopping cart crashes -- Chocolate Factory talks up Tensor mobile SoC, Titan M2 security ... for those who can get them

23 hours ago

Networks -- HPE's Aruba adopts DPUs, but in a switch, not a server -- Decides switches need help performing network functions, just like servers need their CPUs free for core workloads

1 day ago

Updated -- Weeks after Red Bee Media's broadcast centre fell over, Channel 4 is still struggling with subtitles -- Got a Disaster Recovery plan? Ever tested it? You probably should...

8 hours ago

Reg Reader Survey -- Share your experience: How does your organization introduce new systems? -- The answer is rarely obvious. Take part in our short poll and we'll find out together

1 day ago

Review -- These Rapoo webcams won't blow your mind, but they also won't break the bank -- And they're almost certainly better than a laptop jowel-cam

1 day ago

Personal Tech -- A Raspberry Pi HAT for the Lego Technic fan -- Sneaking in programming under the guise of plastic bricks

1 day ago

On-Prem -- Intel teases 'software-defined silicon' with Linux kernel contribution – and won't say why -- It might enable activation of entirely new features on existing Xeon CPUs ... or, you know, not

1 day ago

Analysis -- Chip manufacturers are going back to the future for automotive silicon -- Where we're going, we don't need 5nm

1 day ago

Personal Tech -- Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims -- We can't wait to see the logic gymnastics needed to justify this

1 day ago

Personal Tech -- Apple arms high-end MacBook Pro notebooks with M1 Pro, M1 Max processors -- x86 is an eighty-sixed ex

1 day ago

Personal Tech -- US lawmakers give Amazon until November to prove it didn't lie to Congress -- This better be a Prime delivery

2 days ago

Personal Tech -- There are 875 million good reasons why the paperless office won't happen soon -- UK Cabinet Office organises latest print hardware and supplies mega framework

2 days ago

Opinion -- Think your phone is snooping on you? Hold my beer, says basic physics -- Information wants to be free, and it's making its escape

2 days ago

NSFW Who, Me? -- What do you mean you gave the boss THAT version of the report? Oh, ****ing ****balls -- Say what you mean

2 days ago

On-Prem -- Chinese developers rebel against long working hours with crowdsourced tell-all on employers -- Despite modern labour laws, 72-hour work weeks are still common

2 days ago

Personal Tech -- Toyota needs more than its Cheer Squad to deal with chip shortages, as five more home factories forced into idleness -- Car makers facing increasingly tough times until supply catches up

4 days ago

Personal Tech -- Everyone who wants a smartphone for Chrimbo will get one, but in the real world things are somewhat different -- Global handset market slips in Q3 on sliding chipset availability, says Canalys

5 days ago

On-Prem -- Keep expectations low and you won't be disappointed: OVH manages 6 per cent increase on its IPO debut -- French cloud provider puts outage and fire behind it to focus on beating the big players

5 days ago

Networks -- German Pirate Party member claims EU plans for a GDPR-compliant Whois v2 will lead to 'doxxing and death lists' -- ICANN also dislikes it but web infrastructure firms don't really mind

5 days ago

On Call -- Scoot on over for a wheely tricky mystery with an electrifying solution -- The computer is a chauvinist, you say?

5 days ago

Personal Tech -- US Army slows ~$20bn project to put Microsoft's HoloLens VR headsets into the field -- Deployment of 120,000 headsets hoped to 'increase lethality' pushed into 2022

5 days ago

Personal Tech -- Enthusiasts dash for RISC-V computer with GPU -- Want one? Too late

5 days ago

On-Prem - TSMC's post-pandemic future in a world short of chips? New factories, more revenue - It's not all bad news for some - |

5 days ago

Personal Tech -- LinkedIn shutting down in China after mounting government pressure to censor social media content -- Try InJobs instead! All the fun of a résumé and no comments allowed

5 days ago

On-Prem -- Nine floors underground, Oracle's Israel data centre can 'withstand a rocket, a missile or even a car bomb' -- New cloud region able to hold out against attacks due to regional instability

6 days ago

Personal Tech -- 'Father of the Xbox' Seamus Blackley issues Twitter apology to AMD over last-minute switch to Intel CPUs -- AMD had the last laugh – their kit is in both PlayStation and Xbox these days

6 days ago

Networks -- LAN traffic can be wirelessly sniffed from cables with $30 setup, says researcher -- What's a long length of electrical wire? A transmitter, of course

2 days ago

Personal Tech -- Acer expands its antimicrobial PC offerings – with caveat they may not offer any protection -- Because digital viruses aren't the only ones we're worried about right now

6 days ago

Personal Tech -- Report: Apple short of 10 million iPhone 13s this year due to ongoing chip shortage -- Broadcomm,Texas Instruments, and more buckling under supply crisis

6 days ago