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Big Cloud is still making bank – Is this AI adoption, price rises, or what? Kettle - Shareholders are loving it. What are customers getting out of it all? AI + ML - 26 Apr 2024 - | 2

8 hours ago

ASML caves to US pressure to cease servicing some kit used by Chinese customers -- Not even maintenance is OK in the eyes of the Uncle Sam -- Systems

9 hours ago

Two indicted for 'illegally exporting' chip gear from US to China -- One Chinese national arrested in Chicago while another suspect thought to be abroad -- Systems

1 hour ago

Kaiser Permanente handed over 13.4M people's data to Microsoft, Google, others -- Ouch! -- CSO

13 hours ago

Huawei and pals reportedly plan to produce high bandwidth memory by 2026 - Getting their hands on AI memory one Huawei or another... Storage - 26 Apr 2024 - | 1

9 hours ago

The eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80! -- Feature -- Yes, they are harder to solder, but there's way more potential -- Personal Tech

17 hours ago

Demystifying multicloud complexity with a universal storage layer - Multicloud has the potential to increase costs and operational complexity, but a universal storage layer can help - Commissioned

14 hours ago

TikTok ban could escalate US-China trade war, ex-White House CIO tells The Reg -- interview -- Doing business in Beijing? 'You need to do a what-if scenario' -- Personal Tech

19 hours ago

45 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute lineup -- Exclusive -- Plus the system builder says an Arm-based system is already in the works -- Systems

21 hours ago

IBM and LzLabs to clash in UK court over Software Defined Mainframe -- Already facing off against each other in Texas over separate reverse engineering claims -- On-Prem

22 hours ago

UK agriculture department slammed for paper pushing despite tech splurges -- Defra is counting contractors like sheep -- Public Sector

23 hours ago

Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right -- On Call -- Support chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious ways -- Personal Tech

21 hours ago

Flaws in Chinese keyboard apps leave 750 million users open to snooping, researchers claim -- Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn't living its name -- Security

1 day ago

Atlassian loses half its CEOs, but customers stay solid after Server products exit support -- Discloses ongoing experiments with usage-based pricing -- Software

1 day ago

Intel excited by PC sales pop and GPU prospects, but investors aren't because the outlook is poor -- Chipzilla's Foundry business weighs down the Gelsinger gang - for now -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls' -- Cash to go out as refunds to punters -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off -- As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

FCC votes 3-2 to bring net neutrality back from the dead -- Law responds again to pings -- Networks

1 day ago

TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026 -- Watch out Intel ... Angstrom-class A16 with Super Rail backside power tech incoming -- Systems

1 day ago

City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout -- Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place -- Public Sector

1 day ago

The cutting edge in power grid management - Watch this webinar for a guide to building efficient, secure electricity grids in the digital age - Commissioned

1 day ago

SK hynix breaks Q1 revenue records on back of AI boom - Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM tech - Storage - 25 Apr 2024 - |

1 day ago

Atos hopes for lifeline as refinancing saga set to drag on into May - Struggling French tech giant posts disappointing Q1 results - On-Prem - 25 Apr 2024 - | 5

1 day ago

Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful - Systems Approach - Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters - Software - 25 Apr 2024 - | 46

10 hours ago

Indian bank's IT is so shabby it's been banned from opening new accounts -- After two years of warnings, and outages, regulators ran out of patience with Kotak Mahindra Bank -- Security

2 days ago

Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes -- Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Easing the cloud migration journey - Huawei's Net5.5G converged IP network can improve cloud performance, reliability and security, says the company - Sponsored Feature

1 day ago

Australia's spies and cops want 'accountable encryption' - aka access to backdoors -- And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacks -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Governments issue alerts after 'sophisticated' state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes -- Don't get too comfortable: 'Line Dancer' malware may be targeting other vendors, too -- Security

2 days ago

With Run:ai acquisition, Nvidia aims to manage your AI kubes - Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMs - AI + ML - 24 Apr 2024 - |

2 days ago

Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher - Opinion - It's the millions-of-robotaxis promise again – and all y'all buying it this time, too? Personal Tech - 24 Apr 2024 - | 84

1 hour ago

Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking -- Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done' -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Lenovo and Micron first to implement LPCAMM2 in laptop -- The SODIMM replacement finally arrives -- Systems

2 days ago

US Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs -- Senior execs making $150K+ will still have to abide by them, but they fall away for everyone else -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Tesla misses the mark on all fronts in quarter of chaos -- Who cares that net profit slid 55%? Not Wall Street -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits -- Directive places requirements on gizmo vendors, but still needs formal approval -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Rapidus US chief says AI chip crunch, supply chain paranoia make for an ideal growth climate -- Interview -- Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators -- Systems

2 days ago

If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? -- Exclusive -- One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all -- Research

3 days ago

Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app -- You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles -- Software

3 days ago

China's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers -- China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines -- Systems

3 days ago

Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban - Updated - Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA! Personal Tech - 24 Apr 2024 - | 81

9 hours ago

US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V -- Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics -- Public Sector

3 days ago

White House tweaks HIPAA to shield medical files of those seeking reproductive care -- In theory, this should make it harder for states to compel data-sharing to enforce anti-abortion laws -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Intel Foundry ticks another box in quest to fab mil-spec chips for US DoD - Gelsinger and gang certified to court wider array of defense contractors - Public Sector - 23 Apr 2024 - |

3 days ago

Using its own sums, AMD claims it's helping save Earth with Epyc server chiplets - Comment - Smaller dies, less wafer loss equals lower emissions, exec claims - Systems - 23 Apr 2024 - | 1

2 days ago

Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists -- Strange tales from San Francisco -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Banned Nvidia GPUs sneak into sanction-busting Chinese servers -- Graphics giant and partners say they're clean – it's all technically legit -- Systems

3 days ago

Miles of optical fiber crafted aboard ISS marks manufacturing first -- ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics -- Networks

3 days ago

Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand -- Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analysts -- Storage

3 days ago

iPhone sales dive 19.1% in China as Huawei comeback hits Apple in the high end -- From first place to third as local brands grow -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

AI at the edge: from theory to practice - How AI at the edge offers potential to provide valuable, real-time insights to better navigate complex data and opportunities - Commissioned

3 days ago

Digital Realty wants to turn Irish datacenters into grid-stabilizing power jugglers -- Electricity goes both ways as bit barns in Dublin aim to cut emissions and boost the bank -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Don't rent out that container ship yet: CIOs and biz buyers view AI PCs with some caution -- Risky bet? Premium price with 'no demonstrable benefits'? It doesn't sound like an order avalanche -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Meta comms chief handed six-year Russian prison sentence for 'justifying terrorism' -- Memo to Andy Stone: Don't go to Moscow for your holidays -- Public Sector

3 days ago

European Commission to suspend TikTok's new rewards program, open second probe -- For some reason the world's most notorious app decided not to tick all boxes under the world's toughest digital law -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Australia secures takedown order for terror videos, which Elon Musk wants to fight - +Comment - Yet X remains a supporter of The Christchurch Call, an international agreement to stop video nasties - Personal Tech - 23 Apr 2024 - | 62

23 hours ago

Japan to draw up routes for roads dedicated to robot trucks -- Digital reform conference sees PM repeat calls to get online government services right at last -- Public Sector

4 days ago

FBI and friends get two more years of warrantless FISA Section 702 snooping -- Senate kills reform amendments, Biden swiftly signs bill into law -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Tesla slashes vehicle and self-driving-ish software prices as shares plummet -- Because nothing reassures investors like discounting some inventory -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters -- $20m to keep the industry from having to rely on fossil fuels -- On-Prem

4 days ago

Germany arrests trio accused of trying to smuggle naval military tech to China -- Prosecutors believe one frikkin' laser did make its way to Beijing -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Gone in 35 seconds – the Cybertruck's misbehaving acceleration pedal -- Riveting conclusion to Tesla recall saga -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

More than a third of enterprise datacenters expect to deploy liquid cooling by 2026 - Survey - Which one of you is already running 100-plus kilowatt racks? On-Prem - 22 Apr 2024 - | 2

3 days ago

Microsoft foresees a new type of AI PC: A Surface designed with help from machines -- For now, Redmond is dogfooding Azure for product simulations -- AI + ML

5 days ago

Zilog to end standalone sales of the legendary Z80 CPU -- The processor that gave the world the ZX Spectrum and so much more is out of wafers -- Systems

5 days ago

China creates 'Information Support Force' to improve networked defence capabilities -- A day after FBI boss warns Beijing is poised to strike against US infrastructure -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Elon Musk's X to challenge Australian content takedown orders in court -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Samsung in 'emergency mode'; Tim Cook's Asian charm tour; APAC AI spend to surge -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director -- Interview -- With little competition at the goverment level, Windows giant has no incentive to make its systems safer -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Microsoft teases deepfake AI that's too powerful to release -- VASA-1 framework can turn a still image and a cloned voice file into a plausible video of a person talking -- AI + ML

5 days ago

Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash -- Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: 'Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage' -- Personal Tech

6 days ago

SpaceX, Northrop Grumman reportedly working on US spy sat program -- LEO rising in US military: Close encounters of the recon kind -- Networks

7 days ago

AI energy draw from Chicago datacenters to rise ninefold -- No wonder industry is exploring nuclear as an alternative to electricity -- On-Prem

7 days ago

A quarter of 5-7 year olds now use smartphones, says regulator -- Social media use and gaming show steep increases within the age group, after UK comms watchdog given new powers -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

Germany cuffs alleged Russian spies over plot to bomb industrial and military targets -- Apparently an attempt to damage Ukraine's war effort -- Security

7 days ago

Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed -- UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware -- Networks

8 days ago

Your trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why - On Call - Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the debrief meeting - On-Prem - 19 Apr 2024 - | 123

23 hours ago

Huawei's latest flagship smartphone contains no world-shaking silicon surprises -- Kirin 9010 SoC powering the Pura 70 is impressive, but doesn't indicate unforeseen prowess -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

IBM accused of cheating its own executive assistants out of overtime pay -- Big Blue bosses retaliate against those seeking overtime, lawsuit claims -- On-Prem

8 days ago

Microsoft aims to triple datacenter capacity to fuel AI boom -- And it's far from the only hyperscaler getting in on the act -- On-Prem

8 days ago

911 goes MIA across multiple US states, cause unclear - Updated - Some say various cell services were out, others still say landlines were affected. What just happened? Networks - 18 Apr 2024 - | 36

4 days ago

TSMC expects customers to pay more for chips fabbed overseas -- It'll be pricier, but there are geopolitical benefits, says CEO -- Systems

8 days ago

Micron scores $6.1B CHIPS Act cash for New York and Idaho fabs - Memorymaker to park mega plant in Syracuse, says senator - Systems - 18 Apr 2024 - |

8 days ago

Novelty flip phone strips out almost every feature possible to be as boring as possible -- Only good for calls and texts pretty much, and that's no mistake -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

Prolific phishing-made-easy emporium LabHost knocked offline in cyber-cop op - Feature - Police emit Spotify Wrapped-style videos to let crims know they're being hunted - Security - 18 Apr 2024 - | 13

6 days ago

AI PCs are here but a killer application for biz users? Nope -- Resist the pressure to jump on the bandwagon just yet warns, warns Forrester -- AI + ML

8 days ago

Cisco creates architecture to improve security and sell you new switches -- Hypershield detects bad behavior and automagically reconfigures networks to snuff out threats -- Security

9 days ago

Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app -- Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes -- Software

9 days ago

Taiwanese film studio snaps up Chinese surveillance camera specialist Dahua - Stymied by sanctions, it had to go ... but where? Security - 18 Apr 2024 - |

8 days ago

HPE sues China's Inspur Group over server patents -- Middle Kingdom biz accused of IP theft and changing names to evade sanctions -- Systems

9 days ago

Hugely expanded Section 702 surveillance powers set for US Senate vote -- Opponents warn almost anyone could be asked to share info with Uncle Sam -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road -- Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan -- Storage

9 days ago

Uncle Sam earmarks $54M of CHIPS funding for small-biz semiconductor boffinry -- Up to 24 outfits to bag taxpayer cash for projects 'developing a viable product or service' for US chip industry -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Psst, hey. It's the NSA. You want some AI security advice? -- You can trust us, we're the good guys -- AI + ML

9 days ago

America may end up with paid-for 5G fast lanes under net neutrality anyway -- Damn you, network virtualization -- Networks

9 days ago

ASML ships another high NA EUV lithography machine to mystery client -- The cutting-edge chipmaking tool for a secret customer -- Systems

9 days ago

Kremlin's Sandworm blamed for cyberattacks on US, European water utilities -- Water tank overflowed during one system malfunction, says Mandiant -- Research

9 days ago

Future Roku TVs may inject tailored ads into anything and everything when you pause - Updated - Muted the audio? That's an advert. Paused a video? That's an advert - Personal Tech - 17 Apr 2024 - | 60

4 days ago

Tesla asks shareholders to reinstate Musk's voided $56B pay package -- Given the electric car maker's annus horribilis so far in 2024, does the chief even deserve it? -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Samsung boosts LPDDR5X to 10.7 Gbps, ups efficiency and capacity for mobile and servers -- Guess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I -- Storage

9 days ago

ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders -- Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line -- Systems

9 days ago