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Timekettle T1 AI translator helps you scale the Tower of Babel -- hands on -- Handy tool for when only a dedicated device will do -- Offbeat

11 hours ago

Election workers fear threats and intimidation without feds' support in 2026 -- Feature -- 'Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst,' one tells The Reg -- Security

1 day ago

Minority Report: Now with more spreadsheets and guesswork -- Precogs replaced by profiling and postcode data... and 'AI'. What could wrong? Lots, say privacy campaigners -- Databases

1 day ago

Ethernet switch vendors like Cisco are riding high on AI network economics -- When one GPU translates into three to five of the fastest switch ports money can buy, can you blame them? -- Cloud Infrastructure Month

1 day ago

Little LLM on the RAM: Google's Gemma 270M hits the scene -- A tiny model trained on trillions of tokens, ready for specialized tasks -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline -- Who knew zero-days could be so useful to highway speedsters? -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline -- Updated -- London-based multinational takes customer portal and Voice API platform offline as 'protective measure' following breach -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL -- Feature -- Government: 'Trust us, it'll be different this time' -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable -- On Call -- Somebody built a very sick network in the bowels of a hospital -- Networks

2 days ago

Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide -- Register debate series -- As £9 billion MoU sparks debate about value for money, it's time to have your say -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI's made it a server-slinger first and foremost -- Next: Modular datacenters ready to host rack-scale systems, to meet endless demand -- Systems

2 days ago

Breathe easy: Apple Watch can read your oxygen levels again -- iBiz shifts data to iPhone in patent workaround -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Psst: wanna buy a legit FBI email account for $40? -- Government and police employee credentials sold at bargain-basement prices on underground forums -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Voice, vision, pen: Oh dear. Windows boss says Microsoft is again reshaping OS - COMMENT - Lessons of Windows 8 unlearned as software giant gives users what it thinks they need - Personal Tech - 14 Aug 2025 - | 95

1 hour ago

Alexa hits snooze on basic functions as alarms and timers KO'd in UK outage -- Brits wake to a beeping nightmare as Amazon's AI assistant forgets how to set – or stop – alarms -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Amazon's $100B DC spend similar to entire Costa Rica GDP -- Microsoft cap-ex larger than output of Uganda and Google trumps Slovenia... all in the name of AI -- Cloud Infrastructure Month

3 days ago

Stock in the Channel pulls website amid cyberattack -- Updated -- Intruders accessed important systems but tells customers their data is safe -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins -- Social media marketeers getting better at concealing promos in posts -- Offbeat

3 days ago

The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft? -- Register debate series -- Are UK taxpayers getting real value from SPA24 — or just high cost convenience? -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Datacenter diplomacy: Australia commits to help Vanuatu build bit barns -- $79 million is a small price to pay to keep China at bay -- Off-Prem

3 days ago

Hungry hyperscalers boosted Cisco's AI sales by a cool billion bucks - Big Tech is spending vastly more on AI infrastructure but Switchzilla thinks its piece of the pie will be fat and juicy - Networks - 14 Aug 2025 - |

3 days ago

Tsunami forecasting about to get a lot faster thanks to El Capitan super -- The world's most powerful known supercomputer stretches its legs with some life-saving science -- HPC

3 days ago

Gov't HR department latest to get nastygram from auditors -- OPM is the fourth federal agency to get a list of outstanding items from GAO in past two weeks -- Public Sector

3 days ago

US weather agency dangles $396M to run ops for its next space-watching fleet -- Hurricane data, schmurricane data: Have you heard about that Sun burp? -- Public Sector

4 days ago

No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritize El Reg, others in search results - hands on - How to pick the news sources you want to see more (and less) Personal Tech - 13 Aug 2025 - | 23

4 hours ago

CoreWeave CFO: $25B raised in debt and equity in 18 months -- Reliant on two mega customers? Who says GPU-for-rent kingpin is a not a sustainable biz model? -- Cloud Infrastructure Month

3 days ago

MS confidence in Windows 11: Pay us to host VMs for when your desktop inevitably dies -- Windows 365 Reserve offers 10-day cloud PCs when your machine goes kaput – but you'll still need another device to access them -- OSes

4 days ago

UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new vans heading to a town near you -- Seven additional regions across England will now have access to the controversial tech -- Security

4 days ago

Marc Andreessen wades into the UK's Online Safety Act furor -- Shock news: billionaire techpreneur is not a fan -- Security

4 days ago

Microsoft wares may be UK public sector's only viable option -- Register debate series -- For now at least, even though government buying can improve, open source is not all it's cracked up to be -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of 'high severity' protocol flaws need painful fixes -- Updated -- Foundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time -- Security

4 days ago

Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power -- You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI -- Software

4 days ago

Ransomware crew spills Saint Paul's 43GB of secrets after city refuses to cough up cash -- Minnesota's capital is the latest to feature on Interlock's leak blog after late-July cyberattack -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Beijing doesn't want Nvidia's H20s anywhere near sensitive government workloads -- Don't need to give Uncle Sam any more reason to think kill switches are a good idea -- Public Sector

5 days ago

US lawmakers introduce bill to update ancient export control IT systems -- Last year's attempt failed, but increased concern over the state of the BIS might make the second time the charm -- Public Sector

5 days ago

GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic - Deal could give legislative and judicial agencies access to AI that hallucinated legal citations in a court filing - Public Sector - 12 Aug 2025 - |

4 days ago

Major outage at Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office blamed on 'cyber incident' -- Website, emails, and phones are down for a second day -- Security

5 days ago

Platform9 pushes swing capacity workaround for VMware migrants -- Efforts to build easier off-ramps are ... err ... ramping up -- Virtualization

5 days ago

Arm juices mobile GPUs with neural tech for better graphics -- Designs scheduled for launch in 2026, developer kit for programmers out today

5 days ago

Trump does a 180 on Intel chief following White House meeting -- Chip giant praises 'president's strong leadership,' promises to 'restore this great American company'

5 days ago

Hyundai: Want cyber-secure car locks? That'll be £49, please -- Automaker's answer to spate of car thefts is to charge customers for extra -- Security

5 days ago

Ebuyer website bought by Fraser Group plc - Exclusive updated - UK online reseller bought out of administration in -pre-pack agreement, say sources - Channel - 12 Aug 2025 - | 65

11 hours ago

Colo operators flock to emerging markets to build DCs -- Joburg and Warsaw among the hotspots for sprawling server farm construction -- On-Prem

5 days ago

Defra doubles contract value for cloud and DC services -- Legacy tech for nation's farmers must migrate ... contract swells to £245M -- Cloud Infrastructure Month

5 days ago

The White House could end UK's decade-long fight to bust encryption - Analysis - Home Office officials reportedly concede Brit government on back foot as Trump moves to protect US Big Tech players - Security - 12 Aug 2025 - | 67

1 hour ago

UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly' -- Taskforce delivers damning interim report on next generation of energy generation -- Science

5 days ago

Poisoned telemetry can turn AIOps into AI Oops, researchers show -- Sysadmins, your job is safe -- Networks

5 days ago

Nvidia gives its tiniest workstation GPUs a Blackwell boost -- 70W TDP means the new RTX Pro 4000 SFF and RTX Pro 2000 won't blow power budgets -- Systems

5 days ago

Fed cloud contracts up 2x this year after red tape slashing -- Biden-era program has reduced FedRAMP processing times to just five weeks from previous year or more -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Wikimedia Foundation loses first court battle to swerve Online Safety Act regulation -- But it can contest if it lands up in 'Category 1,' and the move hurts operations, says judge -- Security

6 days ago

Viennese virtualization veteran releases Proxmox VE 9 and Backup Server 4 -- Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment update -- Virtualization

6 days ago

Hanging up: AOL to pull the plug on its dial-up service after 36 years -- A symphony of screeching come to an end! Parent Yahoo! confirms! -- Networks

6 days ago

Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan to visit White House after Trump calls for him to step down -- Amid hints by president he may announce 100% tariffs on imported chips, semiconductors -- Systems

6 days ago

Deepfake detectors are slowly coming of age, at a time of dire need -- DEF CON -- By video, picture, and voice – the fakers are coming for your money -- AI + ML

6 days ago

The UK's cartographer maps mission to help people and business -- Feature -- AR games mingle with underground assets in the data plan for 200-year-old Ordnance Survey -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

Your CV is not fit for the 21st century – time to get it up to scratch -- And yes, that means (retch) catering to AI searchers -- AI + ML

6 days ago

Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off -- Who, Me? -- Instructor ended up teaching a lesson in how to get away with mistakes

6 days ago

Nvidia and AMD reportedly chipping in to Washington's coffers with 15 percent fee for China sales - Trump administration's licenses come with an IOU - Public Sector - 11 Aug 2025 - | 21

5 days ago

How fixed wireless access can bridge the digital divide wherever you are - Wireless reaches the parts fiber can't - Sponsored feature

6 days ago

India's services giant TCS lays off over 10,000 for reasons including AI, hikes wages for survivors -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Huawei open sources its CUDA equivalent; China boosts brain-computer interfaces; Scientists to visit penguins Trump taxed; And more!

6 days ago

Ex-White House cyber, counter-terrorism guru: Microsoft considers security an annoyance, not a necessity -- Comment -- Tells The Reg China's ability to p0wn Redmond's wares 'gives me a political aneurysm' -- CSO

9 days ago

UK secretly allows facial recognition scans of passport, immigration databases -- updated -- Campaigners brand Home Office's lack of transparency as 'astonishing' and 'dangerous' -- AI + ML

8 days ago

Sopra Steria bags £115 million legacy extension from UK pensions department after delays to replacement ERP project -- New SaaS system awaits a 'fully costed and deliverable integrated plan' before it can support 280,000 employees -- Databases

9 days ago

UK proxy traffic surges as users consider VPN alternatives amid Online Safety Act -- It's 'more than a temporary trend,' Decodo claims -- Networks

9 days ago

Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK -- A Microsoft Exit strategy isn't just a good idea, it's vital. It must go a long way beyond a farewell to Redmond -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act -- Will someone think of the deals politicians are making? -- Security

9 days ago

North of England snubbed by UK government bag-a-boffin scheme -- Home of Manchester Baby can't bid for talent, baby -- Science

9 days ago

Confirmed: PCIe 8.0 will double version 7.0's speed and reach 256.0 GT/s -- A new connector may be on the cards, too -- Systems

9 days ago

AWS offers $1B credit to slash Uncle Sam's cloud bills - and lock in as a provider until at least 2028 -- What, you don't expect them to keep using Microsoft with its Chinese cloud admins, do you? -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Euro Commish on US lobbying against EU DSA rules: 'Our standards are not up for discussion' -- Tells The Reg they never were ... 'and this will not change' -- Legal

10 days ago

Black Hat's network ops center brings rivals together for a common cause - Black Hat - The Reg goes behind the scenes of the conference NOC, where volunteers 'look for a needle in a needle stack' Security - 07 Aug 2025 - | 3

7 days ago

Trump calls for Intel CEO's head over alleged China links -- Chipzilla boss accused of huge conflict of interest -- Systems

10 days ago

Snowflake builds Spark clients for its own analytics engine - No need to spin up separate Apache Spark clusters, vendor claims - Storage - 07 Aug 2025 - |

10 days ago

Meta training AI on social media posts? Only 7% in Europe think it's OK - Updated - Privacy campaigner Max Schrem's NOYB is back on Zuck's back - AI + ML - 07 Aug 2025 - | 19

9 days ago

LG ordered to pay £150k after phone defect caused Scotland house fire -- Forensics experts say the state of the K8's battery suggests it led to the living room blaze -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

The plan to make all networks optical is about to take two big steps forward -- 'IOWN' backers think it can replace the PCI bus, reinvent servers, and rewire motherboards -- Cloud Infrastructure Month

10 days ago

Amnesty slams Elon Musk's X for 'central role' in fueling 2024 UK riots -- Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft -- Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU -- Public Sector

10 days ago

How to run OpenAI's new gpt-oss-20b LLM on your computer -- Hands On -- All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience -- AI + ML

10 days ago

Trump teases 'approximately' 100 percent tariff for imported semiconductors -- World War Fee -- Exemptions available for chipmakers who promise to build American fabs -- Public Sector

10 days ago

I see you're riding an Uber to work. Would you like a cheap coffee on the way? -- Rideshare giant wants to use AI for delivery of hyper-personalized offers -- AI + ML

10 days ago

Apple piles another $100B on top of previous US manufacturing pledge -- Quick - someone ask Siri if there are still tariffs on India -- Systems

10 days ago

Mauritius investigates AFRINIC as African institutions show support ahead of new elections -- But strife and criticism continue -- Networks

11 days ago

Only ISPs get to determine what constitutes 'affordable' broadband, says team Trump -- A good deal, like beauty, is in the ISP of the beholder, after all - at least if you want BEAD funding -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Trump surprises with TSMC $300B investment claim -- Chip contract manufacturer declines to comment -- Systems

11 days ago

Meta putting wood in bit barns in bid to get greener -- Timber! -- Systems

11 days ago

Arista pushes Ethernet for AI, downplays effect of tariffs - Thanks to LLMs, CEO expects to see networks 'back-end and front-end converge' Networks - 06 Aug 2025 - |

11 days ago

Google, OpenAI, Anthropic get blanket deal to saturate US government with their AI -- Act now and Uncle Sam will throw in ChatGPT Enterprise for your agency for just $1 -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Microsoft hoping to knock users' socks off with Windows XP Crocs -- A crock of what now? -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev - Updated - Cloud giant erased decade of work – denies it was due to botched dry run of user-pruning tool - Cloud Infrastructure Month - 06 Aug 2025 - | 80

5 days ago

Nvidia security boss pledges 'no backdoors' -- As US charges 2 Chinese nationals with illegally shipping chips to China -- Systems

10 days ago

UK's Ministry of Defence pins hopes on AI to stop the next massive email blunder -- Australia's Castlepoint Systems recruited to avoid repeat of Afghan breach scandal -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Birmingham City Council's £131M Oracle rebuild in danger as go-live nears -- Finance and HR system overhaul still faces major risks with just months to go before second launch -- Databases

11 days ago

Mobile industry charts course to smartphone satellite broadband -- First services go live, but full-featured coverage depends on new chips, standards, and constellations -- Networks

11 days ago

Brace yourselves, Backup Exec and InfoScale users, Cloud Software Group just acquired your tools -- Expect the price hikes and channel changes that proved controversial at VMware, Citrix, and DOGE -- Software

11 days ago

Chromebook sales surged in Q2 thanks to Japanese schools - UPDATED - Tablets have also been growing for six straight quarters, says Canalys - Personal Tech - 05 Aug 2025 - | 7

10 days ago

Three US agencies get failing grades for not following IT best practices - Updated - CIOs at the EPA, DHS, and GSA are called out for failure to implement critical cybersecurity recommendations - Public Sector - 05 Aug 2025 - | 5

10 days ago

Chained bugs in Nvidia's Triton Inference Server lead to full system compromise -- Wiz Research details flaws in Python backend that expose AI models and enable remote code execution -- Patches

12 days ago

Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China -- Plan would embed location verification in advanced semiconductors to combat black market exports -- Systems

12 days ago

Eutelsat LEO revenue rockets 84% as governments cool on Starlink -- OneWeb constellation may be smaller, but it's suddenly looking like a safer bet for some -- Networks

12 days ago