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The trendline doesn't look good for hard disk drives - Feature - Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts

1 day ago

Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join up -- Exclusive -- Mark Zuckerberg reached out to our source directly

23 minutes ago

The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests - Feature - Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel - AI + ML - 15 Jun 2025 - | 21

7 minutes ago

Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage -- Feature -- Time to stop giving cold storage the cold shoulder

39 minutes ago

User demanded a 'wireless' computer and was outraged when its battery died -- On Call -- Abusive manager had to be told there's no such thing as an atomic laptop

39 minutes ago

Windows 95 testing almost stalled due to cash register overflow -- Microsoft veteran on breaking down numbers at the computer store -- Bootnotes

8 hours ago

Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough -- Combining quantum entanglement with hash chains promises randomness which can be relied on -- Science

1 day ago

As RHEL clones hit version 10, Rocky and Alma chart diverging paths -- We take a quick look at the headline features – and the growing differences -- OSes

1 day ago

US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name -- Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201 -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Cyber weapons in the Israel-Iran conflict may hit the US -- With Tehran's military weakened, digital retaliation likely, experts tell The Reg -- Security

1 day ago

AST just got a small boost in its D2C battle against Elon Musk's Starlink -- But the five-satellite upstart has a short time window -- Networks

1 day ago

Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report says -- Some trace back to an outfit under US export controls for alleged PLA links -- Research

1 day ago

Larry Ellison is still not the world's richest person -- Oracle's 80-year-old co-founder pulls off a $25 billion cloud day to leapfrog Zuck and Bezos into the No. 2 spot -- Databases

1 day ago

Enterprise AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud customers -- Please insert another million dollars to continue -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join up - Exclusive - Mark Zuckerberg reached out to our source directly - AI + ML - 13 Jun 2025 - | 39

7 hours ago

Breaking free from data gravity: enabling scalable, compliant AI across Asia-Pacific - It's time to rethink the application delivery controller in a world where data brings its compute infrastructure with it - Partner content

3 days ago

PCIe 7.0 specs finalized at 512 GBps bandwidth, PCIe 8.0 in the pipeline -- Work on next gen already underway, while bandwidth needs for datacenters just keep rising -- Networks

2 days ago

Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks -- Zero-day potentially tied to around 100 suspected infections in 2025 and a spyware scandal on the continent -- Security

2 days ago

The trendline doesn't look good for hard disk drives - Feature - Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts - The State of Storage - 13 Jun 2025 - | 26

7 hours ago

Wanted: Junior cybersecurity staff with 10 years' experience and a PhD -- Infosec employers demanding too much from early-career recruits, says ISC2 -- CSO

2 days ago

GitLab warms up investors for winter release of agentic AI flavoured Duo Workflow

2 days ago

Databricks opens up agentic AI pipelines, fills in Postgres-powered Lakebase

2 days ago

New Relic aims to crack open MCP servers

3 days ago

Apple's Containerization will matter to developers – but Podman devs complain of unfixed issues

4 days ago

Blocking stolen phones from the cloud can be done, should be done, won't be done - Opinion - Big tech can't be bothered to fight crime. It can barely be bothered even to say so

4 days ago

Danish department determined to dump Microsoft -- Comment -- Jutes revolt against Redmond: Minister for Digital Affairs aims the longboats away from Vinland -- Applications

2 days ago

UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs - Deal includes 'waiver of historic fees' Software - 13 Jun 2025 - | 42

1 hour ago

Forget Vibe Coding, we're all about Vine Coding nowadays -- Flame Of The Week -- More like FlAIme Of The Week -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Laser-Based Compute Promises To Light The Way To Faster Physics Sims

1 day ago

AMD Plots Interception Course With Nvidia GPU And System Roadmaps

2 days ago

It's Been Three Years, So It's Time For Another PCI-Express Speed Bump

1 day ago

Cisco's Hyperscale And Cloud AI Push Will Give It Enterprise Clout

2 days ago

BOFH - : Rerouting responsibility via firewall configs - Episode 11 - Two lines of code for an arbitrary office reshuffle sounds too much like work - BOFH - 13 Jun 2025 - | 51

20 hours ago

Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home - It was one of the offenders' final warning - CSO - 13 Jun 2025 - | 20

9 hours ago

User demanded a 'wireless' computer and was outraged when its battery died -- On Call -- Abusive manager had to be told there's no such thing as an atomic laptop -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

UK dumps £2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions -- UPDATED -- STEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished -- Science

2 days ago

Chinese memory-maker YMTC sues US rival Micron for defamation instead of the usual patent breaches -- Alleges dirty PR campaign to slur its tech -- The State of Storage

2 days ago

I'm just a Barbie Girl in a ChatGPT world -- Mattel-OpenAI deal paves the way for an AI beach-off -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Ransomware scum disrupted utility services with SimpleHelp attacks -- Good news: The vendor patched the flaw in January. Bad news: Not everyone got the memo -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Ease the seat back and watch some video in your car with next Apple CarPlay -- Only while parked -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

AI's the end of the Shell as we know it and I feel fine ... but insecure - Column - Model Context Protocol has many fine uses, but then it hinted at becoming a Von Neumann machine

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Google Cloud flexes as first to host Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Server VMs -- Baby got Blackwell GPUs -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

US auditors beg Pentagon to pay attention to latest report about IT system flaws -- The DoD has ignored many past recommendations -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Meta sues 'nudify' app-maker that it claims ran 87k+ Facebook, Instagram ads -- Despite 'multiple enforcement actions,' Joy Timeline HK allegedly wouldn't stop -- Legal

2 days ago

Analysis to action: Operationalizing your threat intelligence - Timing is everything in the war against ransomware thieves, says Prelude Security - Partner content

4 days ago

Google Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it - UPDATED - Big G said it was fixed, but acknowledged ongoing customer pain - PaaS + IaaS - 12 Jun 2025 - | 55

2 days ago

Single passenger reportedly survives Air India Boeing 787 crash -- Aircraft didn't even get its wheels up before sinking into suburban area -- Offbeat

2 days ago

TSMC strengthens Japan ties with joint R&D lab in Tokyo -- University collab underscores pivot to Asia amid unpredictable US policy -- Systems

2 days ago

Quobyte publishes figures for MLPerf Storage benchmark that 'tortures' storage systems

2 days ago

Storage news roundup – June 13

2 days ago

VAST helps spin up Jensen Huang's data flywheel in Paris AI throwdown

2 days ago

Researchers find enterprises' last line of data defence is often full of holes

2 days ago

AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030 -- Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it gets -- European Supercomputing

2 days ago

AMD preps rack-scale Helios systems to contend with Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL144 - House of Zen's biggest iron yet boasts 72 MI400 GPUs, 260 TBps of UALink bandwidth, and 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4 - European Supercomputing - 12 Jun 2025 - |

2 days ago

CISA loses another senior exec - and the budget cuts haven't even started yet -- Another one bites the dust at America's top cybersecurity agency -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Winning the war on ransomware with AI: Four real-world use cases - AI is your secret weapon against ransomware crooks. Here's how to use it - Partner Content

5 days ago

Falcon 9 leaks keep Axiom private astronaut mission on the ground -- Weather and propulsion system problems conspire to keep astronauts away from the ISS -- Science

3 days ago

AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled monster built to battle Nvidia's Blackwell -- And the House of Zen wants to put 128 of them in your rack -- European Supercomputing

2 days ago

Amazon has changed its nuclear deal in Pennsylvania to bypass grumpy regulators -- New front-of-the-meter agreement avoids direct delivery snag that drew regulator pushback -- Systems

3 days ago

Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions -- Distros align with GNOME 49's move to make Wayland the only supported session -- OSes

3 days ago

Nvidia hits the gas on autonomous vehicle software -- GTC Paris -- DRIVE stack promises safer roads and smarter cars – eventually -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage -- Feature -- Time to stop giving cold storage the cold shoulder -- The State of Storage

3 days ago

Google faces billion-quid bruising over Play Store fees in the UK - Competition Appeals Tribunal gives nod for claim to go to trial - Legal - 12 Jun 2025 - | 26

2 days ago

Digital Realty CTO on why storage is the datacenter challenge no one's talking about -- Interview -- And why supporting quantum computing is easier than supporting a 1MW rack -- The State of Storage

3 days ago

'Major compromise' at NHS temping arm exposed gaping security holes -- Exclusive -- Incident responders suggested sweeping improvements following Active Directory database heist -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

AI coding tools are like that helpful but untrustworthy friend, devs say -- Exclusive -- A survey from AI biz Qodo finds robo-coding productivity gains are unevenly distributed -- AI + ML

3 days ago

UK reheats Edinburgh supercomputer plan sans exascale chops - Government revives shelved project with fresh funding but scaled-back ambitions - European Supercomputing - 12 Jun 2025 - | 18

2 days ago

CIO wants to grow tech team by cloning staff as digital twins and AI agents -- Cisco Live -- UC San Diego hopes humans spend less time fighting fires, more time repelling 'exquisite' attacks from abroad that researchers accidentally invited -- AI + ML

3 days ago

AI and virtualization are two major headaches for CIOs. Can storage help solve them both? It's about evolution not revolution, says Lenovo

23 days ago

From hype to harm: 78% of CISOs see AI attacks already -- AI attacks are keeping most practitioners up at night, says Darktrace, and with good reason

23 days ago

How homegrown AI cuts through the hype to deliver real results -- Nutanix leverages customer interactions to develop GenAI infra solution and the AI tools to support it

23 days ago

Why rapid proliferation of cloud native apps requires faster, more efficient toolsets -- Kubernetes enables easy, rapid AI app development, making it the industry standard for AI workloads

23 days ago

Behold! Humanity has captured our first look at the Sun's South Pole -- Confusingly, the magnetic north and south poles are both down there, where the Solar Orbiter can see them -- Science

3 days ago

Oracle scores cloud customer – maybe China's TEMU – that wants any available server, anytime, anywhere -- Big Red hails growth from 'astronomical' and 'insatiable' demand for cloud and huge IaaS growth -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

DeepSeek installer or just malware in disguise? Click around and find out -- 'BrowserVenom' is pure poison -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Canva to job candidates: Thou shalt use AI during interviews -- Design software slinger warns it won't hire devs who aren't good at modern tools -- AI + ML

3 days ago

US Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier crew left half-fed by contractor-locked ovens -- Army joins in push to break vendor grip on military maintenance -- Public Sector

3 days ago

DARPA is testing a device soldiers can swallow to make them less stressed -- Not that kind of edible - this one's electronic -- Science

3 days ago

Altman fluffs superintelligence to save humanity as OpenAI slashes prices -- Everything is AWESOME!!! -- AI + ML

3 days ago

How compliance drives data resilience - Data resilience is more than a regulatory requirement. It's also the path to competitive advantage - SPONSORED FEATURE

5 days ago

RIP: Bill Atkinson, co-creator of Apple Lisa and Mac - Obit - His work set the direction of modern computer interfaces, and much more - Software - 11 Jun 2025 - | 23

1 day ago

Hire me! To drop malware on your computer -- FIN6 moves from point-of-sale compromise to phishing recruiters -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Salesforce tags 5 CVEs after SaaS security probe uncovers misconfig risks - The 16 other flagged issues are on customers, says CRM giant - Research - 11 Jun 2025 - |

3 days ago

Starbucks brews up AI to support baristas instead of replace them -- Customers weren't sold on automation, so the search for ROI continues -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Cisco returns to load balancing market as it chases VMware refugees - Cisco Live - Uses eBPF, which both Google and Meta have proven out at scale - Devops - 11 Jun 2025 - | 2

2 days ago

NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts -- All about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience' -- Science

3 days ago

Asia dismantles 20,000 malicious domains in infostealer crackdown -- Interpol coordinates operation, nabs 32 across Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Nauru -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Tug reaches flaming ship carrying electric cars off Alaska coast -- It's still smoking, but help is on hand -- Science

4 days ago

Are technologists a threat to doing business securely? Why an obsession with technology prevents us from reducing human-initiated cybersecurity breaches - Partner content

6 days ago

Schneider, Nvidia sign pact to cool Europe's AI ambitions -- GTC Paris -- With 1 MW racks and prefab bit barns, the heat is on -- European Supercomputing

4 days ago

Half of businesses rethink ditching humans for customer service bots -- Agentless contact center 'not yet technically feasible, nor operationally desirable' -- AI + ML -- 11 Jun 2025

4 days ago

SiPearl ships reference node design for Rhea1 high-spec Arm chip -- Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks -- European Supercomputing -- 11 Jun 2025

3 days ago