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Japanese shipper MOL wants a floating datacenter, and Hitachi just climbed aboard -- Second-hand ship, seawater cooling, with operations eyed for 2027 -- On-Prem

2 hours ago

OpenAI gets $122B to 'just build things' as the world blows them up - Opinion - War, oil shocks, and market nerves could yet knock the AI boom off course - AI + ML - 01 Apr 2026 - | 10

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'People's Panel' to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K -- We could tell you no for free -- Public Sector

5 hours ago

France buys nuclear supercomputing spinoff Bull from Atos for €404M -- Paris makes sovereignty play as it becomes sole shareholder -- HPC

5 hours ago

AI server farms heat up the neighborhood for miles around, paper finds -- Researchers say localized warming can extend well past site edges, raising concerns about community impact -- Systems -- 01 Apr 2026

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We know what day it is but these Raspberry Pi price hikes are no joke -- Hot DRAM! Who is going to drop nearly $400 on an underpowered Linux computer? -- Personal Tech -- 01 Apr 2026

7 hours ago

Raspberry Pi leans into semiconductors as sales climb – especially in US and China -- Chip shipments overtake boards and modules as industrial demand grows, raising questions about hobbyist roots -- Personal Tech -- 31 Mar 2026

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Arm says agentic AI needs a new kind of CPU. Intel's DC chief isn't buying it - Interview - Cores it's got what agents crave - Systems - 31 Mar 2026 - | 3

1 day ago

Android keyboard ditches keys entirely, predicts what you mean -- Aimed at blind tablet users, although it's winning sighted fans too -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Memory-makers' shares are down. Some RAM prices have eased. Blaming Google is not a good idea -- Chocolate Factory boffins have found a way to reduce AI's memory use, but don't assume that means less demand for DRAM -- Systems

1 day ago

Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia's kids social media ban -- Regulator 'moving into an enforcement stance' and investigating Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat as millions continue to doomscroll -- Legal

1 day ago

US PC shipments to fall 13% as memory and storage crunch hits budget systems -- Omdia says education, consumer, commercial, and public sector demand will weaken through 2026 -- Systems

2 days ago

FCC says it's making it easier for US telcos to ditch legacy lines -- But critics say stopping some engineering tests is not the sort of corner you want to cut -- Networks

2 days ago

ZTE and Kcell sign strategic MoU to boost terminal ecosystem and FWA services in Kazakhstan - ZTE and Kcell aim to bridge Kazakhstan's connectivity gap - Partner Content

1 day ago

UK fines Irish Apple outpost over sanctions-busting payments to Russian dev -- Regulator says payments totaling £635K reached entity owned and controlled by a designated person -- Applications

2 days ago

South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions eyes new shores for rack-scale invasion -- Funding round comes ahead of planned IPO -- Systems

2 days ago

European Commission admits attackers broke into public web systems, but says little else - Brussels notifying 'Union entities' whose data may've been snatched in websites breach - Cyber-crime - 30 Mar 2026 - | 5

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Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC - Opinion - Canny planning or dangerous compromise? Matt Brittin takes the hotseat at a pivotal moment - Personal Tech - 30 Mar 2026 - | 69

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Enterprise infrastructure is entering an economic reset -- Here's how to cope with the memory pricing squeeze -- Partner Content

2 days ago

Explainer: Self-driving networks -- Here's how your next network will look after itself -- The Register Explainer

2 days ago

Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference -- Who, Me? -- Career-limiting stupidity and rudeness exposed, with terminal consequences -- Security

2 days ago

US foreign router ban criticized for being 'industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity' -- Public policy professor says it will make America less secure but hits Netgear's lobbying goals -- Security

2 days ago

DXC staff to strike in Australia after some go without pay rise for five years -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Iran war may slow APAC IT spend; Toshiba, Mitsubishi, talk chip biz combo; Fusion plasma control networks; And more! -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion -- New campus to include on-site power generation -- On-Prem

4 days ago

Apple's last tower topples... and the others will follow -- Farewell, Mac Pro: Increasing integration means the end of expandable computers -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption -- Ratepayer Protection Pledge is unenforceable without hard numbers, Warren and Hawley argue -- On-Prem

5 days ago

UK government admits Capita pension portal was crapita at launch -- PAC grilling reveals £239M bought a system that couldn't handle the work, the volumes, or placeholder text -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work - On Call - The 600 km drive to fix the mess was a special treat - On-Prem - 27 Mar 2026 - | 115

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India's space program can't spend money fast enough, putting missions in peril -- Satnav systems aren't well, IP is being sold too cheap, and thousands of roles remain open -- Public Sector

5 days ago

AMD's new desktop CPU oozes cache out of all 16 cores -- Turns out massive caches are good for more than games. House of Zen boasts 5-13% perf boost over prior-gen part -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

'Empathetic' Salesforce bots to help those fired by uncaring humans -- I'm sorry, Dave. I can't give you your job back, but here's the form you fill out to collect benefits -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America -- Maybe that's why Tim didn't get an invitation to the President's tech bro club? -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

Three more charged over alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling scheme to China - Prosecutors say trio used Thai front companies to reroute high-end AI servers - Systems - 26 Mar 2026 - |

6 days ago

Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization -- Microsoft's Clippy for 21st century deployed to evaluate returns? Industry Wales chair brands it just 'wrong' -- AI + ML

6 days ago

UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful -- 300 families undergo 6-week trial to test impact on sleep, school, and home life -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda -- CarStation/PlayMobile won't hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

Datacenter batteries are selling years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic -- Shifting production from automotive to compute and working on supercapacitors as another way to protect workloads -- On-Prem

6 days ago

Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war - rsac 2026 - Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC... RSA - 25 Mar 2026 - | 15

6 days ago

Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros -- Plus one actual physicist -- Science

7 days ago

Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants -- Effort includes permitting and planning -- AI + ML

7 days ago

Dell slims down business laptops, fattens up cooling and battery life -- Pro line gets new naming convention and some serious upgrades -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs -- I'll just clear up that up, shall I? -- OSes

7 days ago

HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS after competition melts away -- Insiders say single-bidder process left little room for negotiation -- Public Sector

7 days ago

Samsung still glued to its bad habits with Galaxy S26 Ultra -- Flagship phone scores 5/10 from iFixit as the parts that break most often remain firmly out of reach -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access - Opinion - A handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their code - Software - 25 Mar 2026 - | 99

2 days ago

YouTuber lands on Moon using a ZX Spectrum. Conditions apply -- BASIC and bit-banging used to guide a simulated lander down to a virtual lunar touchdown -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Nothing screams casual career pivot like joining the UK Ministry of Defence for a cool £162K -- AI and quantum on to-do list for Chief Digital Technology Officer in charge of £140.7M budget. Fancy it? -- Public Sector

7 days ago

Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs -- Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run China's top AI models -- Claims its set performance records but looks to be years behind western fare -- Systems

7 days ago

HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops in bid for small biz -- HP IQ can chat, share files, and break down everything people said in the conference room. -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money machine -- Breaking free of its IP licensing shackles -- Systems

7 days ago

Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens -- They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylus -- Science

7 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

8 days 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

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

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 - | 78

6 days 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

8 days 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

8 days 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

9 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

9 days 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

9 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

9 days ago

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 - | 167

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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

9 days ago

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 days ago

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

11 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

12 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

12 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

12 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

12 days ago

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

12 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 - | 124

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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

12 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

12 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

12 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

12 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

12 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

13 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

13 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

9 days ago

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

13 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

13 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

13 days ago

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

13 days ago

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

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Ransomware crims abused Cisco 0-day weeks before disclosure, says Amazon security boss - Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposed - Security - 18 Mar 2026 - |

13 days ago

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

14 days ago

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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 days ago