Let's Encrypt rolls out free security certs for IP addresses -- You probably don't need one, but it's nice to have the option

12 hours ago

UK eyes new laws as cable sabotage blurs line between war and peace -- It might be time to update the Submarine Telegraph Act of 1885

23 hours ago

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle -- NASA science might be cut, but cash can be found to move a 'space vehicle' from museum to museum

12 hours ago

US imposes sanctions on second Russian bulletproof hosting vehicle this year -- Aeza Group accused of assisting data bandits and BianLian ransomware crooks

12 hours ago

Call center staffers explain to researchers how their AI assistants aren't very helpful - ai-pocalypse - Lots of manual corrections and data entry still required

4 hours ago

Cisco scores a perfect 10 - sadly for a critical flaw in its comms platform -- The second max score this week for Netzilla - not a good look

6 hours ago

ChatGPT creates phisher's paradise by recommending the wrong URLs for major companies -- Crims have cottoned on to a new way to lead you astray

4 hours ago

Coming to PostgreSQL: On-disk database encryption -- Open source initiative aims to offer enterprise security feature without vendor lock-in

6 hours ago

Wayback gives X11 desktops a fighting chance in a Wayland world -- Minimalist glue code offers surprising lifeline for stubborn display setups

53 minutes ago

CISA warns the Signal clone used by natsec staffers is being attacked, so patch now -- Two flaws in TeleMessage are 'frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors'

2 minutes ago

US budget bill passes without controversial block on states regulating AI -- And with some increases to rural broadband funds, fresh spectrum auctions, and wholesale dismantling of clean energy subsidies -- Public Sector

3 hours ago

US Air Force holds hypersonic resupply site review amid seabird concerns -- Red-tailed tropicbirds stymie Johnston Atoll maneuvers -- Public Sector

3 hours ago

Musk's antics and distractions are backfiring as Tesla's car business stalls -- Comment -- Robotaxis, humanoid robots, and fights with Trump can't hide declining EV sales

4 hours ago

Tariffs and trade turmoil driving up cost and build times for datacenters -- World War Fee -- Biz needs AI infra for training ever larger models, but something's gotta give

4 hours ago

Gone in 40 days: US drops ban on export of chip design tools to China - World War Fee - Vendors have reason to celebrate as geopolitics recalibrate - Systems - 03 Jul 2025 - | 13

4 hours ago

Meta calls €200M EU fine over pay-or-consent ad model 'unlawful' -- 'Deserves fair compensation for the valuable and innovative services'? Which ones are those then? -- Personal Tech

12 hours ago

'Quad' nations launch plan to stop China making critical minerals into Unobtanium -- India, Japan, USA and Australia see risks and opportunities in rare earths -- Public Sector

20 hours ago

HPE finally closes Juniper deal, but offers no details on what happens next -- A big shrug to early integration questions -- Networks

1 day ago

Huawei can't wriggle out of Iran sanctions trial, judge rules -- Dismissal bid denied as 16-count indictment moves toward court in May 2026 -- Networks

20 hours ago

'Elevated' moisture reading ignored before Heathrow-closing conflagration, says NESO -- Datacenters kept humming along, but there's plenty of blame to be passed around elsewhere -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Microsoft's on-prem Exchange and Skype for Business Server go subscription-only -- Are you sure you wouldn't rather run in our cloud? -- Software

1 day ago

Amazon's latest Graviton 4 EC2 instances pack dual 300Gbps NICs -- And no, that's not a typo -- PaaS + IaaS

1 day ago

Arista acquires VMware's VeloCloud SD-WAN outfit from Broadcom -- It's 2025 so even this networking deal is about AI, which is apparently about to change wide area networks -- Networks

1 day ago

Senate decides free rein for AI companies isn't such a good thing -- Trump's budget bill moves back to the House with some mods -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Chip design is a RISC-y business: Codasip puts itself up for sale -- R&D teams are 'separable' says biz, which is open to offers for parts or the whole -- Systems

2 days ago

Apple accuses former engineer of taking Vision Pro secrets to Snap -- He didn't cover his tracks very well, the iGiant claims in a court filing -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

EU rattles its purse and AI datacenter builders come running -- 176 expressions of interest to erect 'gigafactories' across 16 member states, with 3 million GPUs needed -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Folks aren't buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs - World War Fee - Plus: Consumers respond to imminent Win 10 cutoff date with collective 'Meh' Personal Tech - 01 Jul 2025 - | 66

12 hours ago

Critics blast Microsoft's limited reprieve for those stuck on Windows 10 -- Users tired of being 'yanked around' as end of support looms -- OSes -- 01 Jul 2025

2 days ago

DRAM spot prices doubled last week -- Fears that DDR4 has hit the end of the road and the return of tariffs may be to blame -- Systems -- 01 Jul 2025

2 days ago

Sinaloa drug cartel hired a cybersnoop to identify and kill FBI informants -- Device compromises and deep-seated access to critical infrastructure exposed surveillance vulnerabilities in agency's work -- Security -- 30 Jun 2025

2 days ago

Arm muscles into server market – but can't wrestle control from x86 just yet -- Server shipments surge 70% in 2025, still shy of datacenter dominance goal -- Systems -- 30 Jun 2025

2 days ago

Cloud lobby warns EU: Clamp down on water rules and we'll evaporate -- CISPE floats reforms to avoid new costs, fragmentation, and infrastructure flight -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Your browser has ad tech's fingerprints all over it, but there's a clean-up squad in town - Opinion - Like being hard to spot? They'd much rather you didn't - Security - 30 Jun 2025 - | 52

1 day ago

DoJ clears HPE to buy Juniper if it sells Instant On Wi-Fi and licenses some code -- Which it will, happily, to create a networking biz that's still far smaller than Cisco's or Nvidia's -- Networks

3 days ago

China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers -- Chipmaker Loongson says server CPUs on par with 2021's Ice Lake, as local press tout kit to manage 1,024-qubit systems -- Systems

3 days ago

Canada orders Chinese CCTV biz Hikvision to quit the country ASAP -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Broadband blimps to fly in Japan; Starbucks China put ads before privacy; and more! -- Public Sector

3 days ago

How Broadcom is quietly plotting a takeover of the AI infrastructure market -- feature -- When AI is a nesting doll of networks, so why reinvent the wheel when you can license it instead -- Datacenter Networking Nexus

6 days ago

Cisco punts network-security integration as key for agentic AI -- Getting it in might mean re-racking the entire datacenter and rebuilding the network, though -- Datacenter Networking Nexus

6 days ago

Before the megabit: A trip through vintage datacenter networking -- When it was all about the baud rate -- Datacenter Networking Nexus

6 days ago

The network is indeed trying to become the computer -- Analysis -- Masked networking costs are coming to AI systems -- Datacenter Networking Nexus

6 days ago

Fresh UK postcode tool points out best mobile network in your area -- Pick a provider based on how good their local 4G and 5G coverage is

6 days ago

Don't shoot me, I'm only the system administrator! -- On Call -- When police come to investigate tech support, make sure you have your story straight -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Starlink helps eight more nations pass 50 percent IPv6 adoption -- Brazil debuts, Japan bounces back, and tiny Tuvalu soars on Elon's broadband birds

6 days ago

Australia not banning kids from YouTube – they'll just have to use mum and dad's logins -- Regulator acknowledges that won't stop video nasties, but welcomes extra 'friction' -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Cisco fixes two critical make-me-root bugs on Identity Services Engine components -- A 10.0 and a 9.8 – these aren't patches to dwell on -- Datacenter Networking Nexus

6 days ago

The SmartNIC revolution fell flat, but AI might change that - Analysis - The idea of handing off networking chores to DPUs persists even if it hasn't caught on beyond hyperscalers - Datacenter Networking Nexus - 26 Jun 2025 - | 4

3 days ago

Gridlocked: AI's power needs could short-circuit US infrastructure -- You are not prepared for 5 GW datacenters, Deloitte warns -- On-Prem

7 days ago

Glasgow City Council online services crippled following cyberattack -- Nothing confirmed but authority is operating under the assumption that data has been stolen -- Cyber-crime

7 days ago

Qilin ransomware attack on NHS supplier contributed to patient fatality -- Pathology outage caused by Synnovis breach linked to harm across dozens of healthcare facilities -- Cyber-crime

7 days ago

UK to buy nuclear-capable F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers -- Aircraft meant to bolster NATO deterrent will rely on allied support to stay airborne -- Security

7 days ago

Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds -- Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out -- AI + ML

7 days ago

French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools -- Ingredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice -- Public Sector

7 days ago

Japanese company using mee-AI-ow to detect stressed cats -- Rabo's 'Catlog' smart collar sniffs for freaked-out felines, alerts owners with an app -- AI + ML

7 days ago

AFRINIC election annulled after ICANN writes angry letter to African regional internet registry - Updated - The group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022 - Networks - 26 Jun 2025 - | 23

13 hours ago

Intel totals automotive group -- Lip-Bu Tan calls in the crusher -- Systems

7 days ago

Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore -- Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free -- Public Sector

8 days ago

Rack-scale networks are the new hotness for massive AI training and inference workloads - Analysis - Terabytes per second of bandwidth, miles of copper cabling, all crammed into the back of a single rack - Datacenter Networking Nexus - 25 Jun 2025 - | 2

7 days ago

Three goes to zero as UK mobile provider suffers voice and text outage -- Millions of customers left speechless -- Networks

8 days ago

Hyperscalers to eat 61% of global datacenter capacity by decade's end - Cloud and AI demand propel rapid buildout as on-prem share drops to 22% On-Prem - 25 Jun 2025 - |

8 days ago

Microsoft dangles extended Windows 10 support in exchange for Reward Points -- Or your cloud-bound soul. Otherwise, $30 please -- OSes

8 days ago

Brit politicians question Fujitsu's continued role in public sector contracts - Updated - Despite Horizon scandal promises to end bidding, bids keep popping up - Public Sector - 25 Jun 2025 - | 24

6 days ago

UK govt dept website that campaigns against encryption hijacked to advertise ... payday loans -- Company at center of findings blamed SEO on outsourcer -- Security

8 days ago

Bank of England expands data and cloud framework by £26.7 million after revising data strategy -- Dependent on SAP and Oracle, UK central bank wants to modernize in the cloud, refresh data strategy -- Public Sector

8 days ago

FinOps isn't dead – you're just doing it alone - A more collaborative approach to managing cloud costs is giving this discipline an evolutionary boost - Partner content

8 days ago

HPE Aruba boasts that when network problems come along, its AI will whip them into shape -- NetAdmins may be mere years away from devolving into babysitters for bots -- Datacenter Networking Nexus

8 days ago

Don't look up: NASA is struggling to execute its planetary defense plan -- Audit finds budget uncertainties and tiny staff make it hard to mount a fight against killer space rocks -- Science

8 days ago

Tesla Robotaxi videos show Elon's way behind Waymo - Video - Musk promised a million auto-autos by 2020. He's delivered maybe 10 - AI + ML - 24 Jun 2025 - | 163

5 days ago

WD escapes half a billion in patent damages as judge trims award to $1 -- SPEX Technologies still gets the win, but failed to 'adequately tie a dollar amount' to infringing acts, says order -- Storage

9 days ago

Mozilla rolls out Firefox 140 with ESR status and fresh features -- Say hello to a year's support, but bid goodbye to Pocket -- Software

9 days ago

HPE puts all its chips in the agentic AI pot - HPE Discover 2025 - Another OEM has decided we're now in the agentic AI age - AI + ML - 24 Jun 2025 - | 1

8 days ago

Bezos beams up batch two as Project Kuiper plays catch-up with Starlink -- ULA's Atlas V deploys second load of Amazon's broadband satellites -- Networks

9 days ago

Google faces UK clampdown as watchdog floats market power rules -- CMA roadmap outlines potential restrictions on how ad slinger operates in the country -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Datacenter market offers us captive customer base, say investors -- AI boom sparks surge in bit barn funding as firms tout high barriers and sticky clients -- On-Prem

9 days ago

China's trying to slim down, which will fatten the smartwatch market -- Sales are already surging thanks to Beijing's subsidies and Trump's tariffs -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Lenovo shows what a Chromebook packing a MediaTek Kompanio Ultra can do -- Nothing startling, even with Google's AI extras -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

America and Britain gear up with Project Flytrap to bring anti-drone kit to the battlefield - video - Prepping to fight the next war, not the last one - Public Sector - 23 Jun 2025 - | 17

6 days ago

Huawei's latest notebook shows China is still generations behind in chipmaking -- Kirin X90 SoC made on two-year-old 7nm N+2 process

9 days ago

Empire State to site 1 GW nuke as AI bit barns guzzle power -- It would be the first major US nuclear plant built in over 15 years

9 days ago

Wolfspeed to file for Chapter 11 in deal cutting 70% of debt -- Power chip biz to hand over equity to lenders, wipe out most shareholders, and keep running during restructuring

10 days ago

Economists sceptical over UK Spending Review's partly AI-driven 10% budget cuts -- MPs hear doubts over efficiency savings that are reliant on speculative gains from IT, machine learning -- Public Sector

10 days ago

The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can't: Change the world -- Opinion -- Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off

10 days ago

Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown -- Who, Me? -- And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else

10 days ago

Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don't -- Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers -- Networks

10 days ago

US patent office wants an AI to scan for prior art, but doesn't want to pay for it -- 'The selected vendor must be willing to receive consideration that is primarily non-monetary,' says the USPTO -- AI + ML

13 days ago

Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink -- French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti -- Science

13 days ago

AI gives the sleeping network switch market a good kick -- Q1 revenue jumps to $11.7B, with 400 and 800 GbE driving the spike -- Networks

13 days ago

OVHcloud chief talks up sovereignty discussions with the European Commission -- ... And then promptly deletes comment. Optimism or an opportunity? Or perhaps both -- PaaS + IaaS

7 days ago

DHS warns of sharp rise in Chinese-made signal jammers it calls 'tools of terrorism' -- Seizures up 830% since 2021, with devices linked to interference in emergency responses -- Networks

13 days ago

Attack on Oxford City Council exposes 21 years of election worker data -- Services coming back online after legacy systems compromised -- Cyber-crime

13 days ago

Remembering when NASA stuck a Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747 -- 'Black side down,' Lego style -- Bootnotes

13 days ago

Don't let downtime lead to your downfall - Modernize your data protection strategy with fast object storage to experience up to 6x faster restores and 20x lower TCO - Partner content

13 days ago

Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work -- Probe into how to implement social media ban finds privacy risks, developer overreach, infosec uncertainties -- Personal Tech

13 days ago

AFRINIC election proceeds after ICANN's attempt to replace officials fails -- Regulator remains concerned about election integrity -- Legal

13 days ago

ZTE supports AI with full-stack IT offering - Company expands from telco origins to support compute-hungry use cases - Partner content

13 days ago

China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar -- Expects Huawei to start exporting AI chips soon, creating global fight for tech stack dominance -- Public Sector

14 days ago

Japan's sequel to Fugaku supercomputer will be Arm'd to the teeth -- Fujitsu picked to build system using 'MONAKA-X' CPUs -- Systems

14 days ago

Interactive IEA tracker shows where AI is guzzling the most energy -- Observatory maps datacenter hubs and power demand worldwide -- Systems

14 days ago

UK gov asks university boffins to pinpoint cyber growth areas where it should splash cash -- Good to see government that values its academics (cough cough). Plus: New board criticized for lacking 'ops' people -- Public Sector

14 days ago

Space manufacturing company Varda gets clearance to launch more uncrewed capsules - UPDATED - Startup has already shown how to make drugs in space - Science - 19 Jun 2025 - | 2

11 days ago

Europe slams online tat bazaar AliExpress for dodging obligation to stop dodgy traders -- Illegal products abound on Chinese site and its processes to stop 'em are hopeless -- Public Sector

14 days ago

Iran's internet goes offline for hours amid claims of 'enemy abuse' -- Bank and crypto outfits hit after Israeli commander mentioned attacks expanding to 'other areas' -- Public Sector

14 days ago

Nvidia bets on Gates-backed nuclear startup to keep its AI ambitions from melting down -- $650M funding round aims to bring TerraPower's Natrium power plant in Wyoming online by 2030 -- Science

15 days ago

Military-tech upstart Anduril pushes further into NATO with German arms maker deal -- Move fast and blow things up -- Systems

15 days ago

Judge smacks down Pentagon plan to slash university research funding awards -- Sec Def Hegseth says funds better spent elsewhere, because it's not like the military needs new tech, right? -- Public Sector

15 days ago

European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones -- Are they using it to death then locking it in a drawer? Schemes needed as shipments of refurbed kit dips -- Personal Tech

15 days ago

Training AI on Mastodon posts? The idea's extinct after terms updated -- Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though -- AI + ML

15 days ago

Logitech's latest keyboard and mouse combo is wired, quiet, and suspiciously sensible -- For that laptop feel without the laptop -- Personal Tech

15 days ago