Revenge for being fired is best served profitably
On Call Why yes, I will help you again – for a price
Personal Tech04 Oct 2024 | 30
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Elon Musk's X mashed by Australian court for evading child protection reporting
Argument that it didn't inherit Twitter's legal obligations did not hit the spot
Legal04 Oct 2024 | 37
Microsoft lifts the price of System Center by ten percent
For version 2025, out on November 1st and adding various modern goodies
Software03 Oct 2024 | 10
‘Undigestible rate of change’ sees vendor supergroup create ‘The Open Compute of AI’
It’s called ‘Cosmos’ and Nvidia, Cisco, X, SuperMicro and VAST Data all think it will help – them and you
AI + ML03 Oct 2024 | 1
OpenStack Dalmatian debuts with a new dashboard, better security and GPU-wrangling
If you think VMware has gone to the dogs, maybe check it out?
Virtualization03 Oct 2024 | 4
The fix for BGP's weaknesses has big, scary, issues of its own, boffins find
Bother, given the White House has bet big on RPKI – just like we all rely on immature internet infrastructure that usually works
Security02 Oct 2024 | 8
China trains 100-billion-parameter AI model on home grown infrastructure
Research institute seems to have found Huawei to do it – perhaps with Arm cores - despite sanctions
AI + ML02 Oct 2024 | 15
AT&T claims VMware by Broadcom offered it a 1,050 percent price rise
And that Broadcom has prevented vendors from selling to the telco giant
Software01 Oct 2024 | 34
Epic Games starts Battle Royale with Samsung, Google over app store practices
Updated Alleges Korean giant's app store lockdown is no accident, and anticompetitive
Software01 Oct 2024 | 12
Kamala Harris campaign motorcade halted by confused robotaxis
Is this AI showing the would-be leader of the free world who's really the boss?
AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 99
India scores its first fab, and it looks like it was at Japan's expense
PSMC does a deal with Tata in what really might be – all hype aside – an actual 'key milestone'
Systems30 Sep 2024 |
OS/2 expert channeled a higher power to dispel digital doom vortex
On Call 'He sat in a chair, rubbed his temple, and began to recite syntax as if performing magic'
OSes27 Sep 2024 | 174
India flips the switch on three homebrew supercomputers
Rudra machines use local designs for server, interconnect, and cooling – but seemingly not a planned 96-core Arm CPU
HPC27 Sep 2024 | 1
Memory-maker Micron predicts new wave of server consolidation
AI boosted revenue last year, demand for more RAM in devices to help in 2025
Systems26 Sep 2024 | 1
Infosys scores deal to write code for EV-maker Polestar
HQ in Sweden, made in China, programmed in Bengaluru, but with a traditional offshoring marque
Software26 Sep 2024 | 47
VMware reportedly probed by Japanese anti-monopoly cops
Updated Broadcom's software bundles under scrutiny after perhaps irking Fujitsu
Virtualization25 Sep 2024 | 5
India funds Moon lander, space station module, and Venus orbiter
Wants lunar sample return within three years, Venus launch in 2028, orbiting hab in 2035, boots on Luna five years later
Science25 Sep 2024 | 10
Samsung and pals Hyundai, Kia team for software-defined cars, IoT integration
Turn on home aircon and maybe peer inside the fridge or oven – all from behind the wheel
Personal Tech25 Sep 2024 | 30
Xen to RISC-V port progresses with foundational efforts
But work on big ticket items needed to make the combo a contender is yet to commence
Virtualization24 Sep 2024 | 5
AT&T intends to quit VMware, Broadcom claims in legal broadside
Counter-arguments in support spat paint unflattering picture of telco giant's IT estate
Virtualization23 Sep 2024 | 31
Huawei to dump Windows for PCs in favor of its own HarmonyOS
Asia In Brief Plus: Indian gov's fact-checking unit ruled unlawful; Fukushima datacenter boom; GoTo partners with Tencent, too
OSes23 Sep 2024 | 23
Crack coder wasn't allowed to meet clients due to his other talent: Blisteringly inappropriate insults
On Call Then he stopped being a coding whiz, which is when the trouble started
Software20 Sep 2024 | 160
A huge week for satnav as both China and Europe make generational launches
Upgrades on the way for both, with deep-ocean services and programmable sats on the way
Science20 Sep 2024 | 24
Citrix adds remote Mac support, but some customers are grumpy
License changes and product bundles aren't going down well, says Gartner's DaaS magical quadrant
Virtualization20 Sep 2024 | 5
Broadcom CEO predicts hyperscalers poised to build million-accelerator clusters
Hock Tan reckons the silicon sales cycle is about to swing up, sharply, too
Systems19 Sep 2024 | 7
LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in
Updated Opt out if you don't like it – EU and a few others, including now the UK, excepted
AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 89
New RFC explains how protocol developers can avoid building human rights abuses into the internet
Something tells us Vlad and Xi probably won't bother reading it
Software18 Sep 2024 | 16
Australian Police conducted supply chain attack on criminal collaborationware
Sting led to cuffing of alleged operator behind Ghost – an app for drug trafficking, money laundering, and violence-as-a-service
Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 9
On Call’s Greatest Hits, as voted for by you, the readers
On Call The 20 most-commented-on tech support columns from On Call's first 500 instalments
Offbeat17 Sep 2024 | 17
Desktop hypervisors are like buses: None for ages, then four at once
VirtualBox, Parallels, and VMware have all upgraded
Virtualization17 Sep 2024 | 24
250 million-plus unused IPv4 addresses should be left alone, argues network boffin
Tests show it's just too hard to put the unused 240/4 block to work
Networks16 Sep 2024 | 91
China wants red flags on all AI-generated content posted online
Visible and audible warnings, plus metadata, with absence of info considered suspicious
Public Sector16 Sep 2024 | 19
Thank you, Reg Readers: On Call has turned 500!
Started on a whim, almost a decade later it's a fixture – and a marvelous demonstration of your wit and wisdom
Bootnotes15 Sep 2024 | 30
Muppet broke the datacenter every day, in its own weighty way
On Call Mr Snuffleupagus turned out to be all too real and bad at database resilience
On-Prem13 Sep 2024 | 76
Cambodian senator sanctioned by US over alleged forced labor cyber-scam camps
Do not go on holiday to the O Smach Resort
Cyber-crime13 Sep 2024 | 8
Australia’s government spent the week boxing Big Tech
With social media age limits, anti-scam laws, privacy tweaks, and misinformation rules Elon Musk labelled 'fascist'
Public Sector13 Sep 2024 | 41
Pokémon GO was an intelligence tool, claims Belarus military official
Augmented reality meets warped reality
Personal Tech12 Sep 2024 | 36
Medical cannabis CTO says vendors would hang up when he called looking for a deal
Alternaleaf now has an outsized tech team, a build-not-buy mentality, and a love of FOSS
CxO11 Sep 2024 | 15
Alibaba Cloud struggles after blaze at Digital Realty Singapore datacenter
Chinese giant claims lithium batteries exploded, now one server hall is waterlogged
PaaS + IaaS10 Sep 2024 | 4
ServiceNow moves its backend off MariaDB to homebrew Postgres
Xanadu release also adds a Pro tier, along with lots more AI
Applications10 Sep 2024 | 4
We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too
Gartner thinks generative AI is right for only five percent of workloads
AI + ML10 Sep 2024 | 65
Thanks, Edward Snowden: You propelled China to quantum networking leadership
Beijing aimed research at immediate needs – like blocking leaks – while the US sought abstract knowledge
Networks10 Sep 2024 | 52
AI bills can blow out by 1000 percent: Gartner
Preventing that is doable, but managing what happens when AI upsets people is hard
AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 29
Huawei debuts triple-folding Mate XT smartphone
Asia In Brief Plus: 550MW more DCs for India; Australia poised to use decryption powers; Indonesia creates cyber warfare unit
Personal Tech09 Sep 2024 | 9
To patch this server, we need to get someone drunk
On Call When maintenance windows are hard to open, a little lubrication helps
Patches06 Sep 2024 | 116
SQL king Larry Ellison becomes sequel sultan with controlling interest in Paramount Global
Oh, great: another tech billionaire owns a media company – although his son probably runs the show
Offbeat06 Sep 2024 | 39
VMware revenue bounces for Broadcom, chips were a little undercooked
CEO says market for non-AI silicon has bottomed out
Virtualization06 Sep 2024 | 7
AT&T sues Broadcom for 'breaking' VMware support extension contract
Telco giant slams silicon-and-software shop for trying to bully it into buying software it doesn't want or need, at huge prices
Virtualization05 Sep 2024 | 29
Telegram apologizes to South Korea and takes down smutty deepfakes
Unclear if this is a sign controversial service is cleaning up its act everywhere
Public Sector04 Sep 2024 | 10
Elon Musk’s Starlink won't block Elon Musk’s X in Brazil, as required by court order
Appeal panel upholds ban as Musk Xeets up a rage-storm
Legal03 Sep 2024 | 156
Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps
Machine learning helps, but more data catches more faults - so Chinese champ has shared its data
Devops03 Sep 2024 | 2
One of China's best GPU prospects admits it's failing, lays off workers
Needs new investors to get beyond current modest products
Systems03 Sep 2024 | 8
Veeam debuts its Proxmox backup tool – and reveals outfit using it to quit VMware
More help for Nutanix, too
Software02 Sep 2024 | 24
Novel attack on Windows spotted in phishing campaign run from and targeting China
Resources hosted at Tencent Cloud involved in Cobalt Strike campaign
Research02 Sep 2024 | 3
A nice cup of tea rewired the datacenter and got things working again
On Call See? The world’s second best hot non-alcoholic beverage can fix anything
On-Prem30 Aug 2024 | 116
Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s welcome
VMware Explore But users aren’t optimistic it will land softly
VMware Explore29 Aug 2024 | 32
Nvidia's growth slows to a mere 122 percent but it’s still topping expectations
Still growing in China, ramping Hopper prods and predicting Blackwell billions soon
Cloud Infrastructure Month29 Aug 2024 | 10
Public clouds are 'dirty' about VMware's on-prem push, says Broadcom CEO Hock Tan
VMware Explore Virtzilla's sales swing decisively to the Cloud Foundation bundle
VMware Explore29 Aug 2024 | 8
Supermicro delays 10-K filling due to accounting issues
Financial research org labels server-maker a ‘serial recidivist’, alleges quality product problems
Systems28 Aug 2024 | 5
Warren Buffett’s favorite insurer GEICO drops VMware for OpenStack
Seeks customizable cloud and less lock-in
Software28 Aug 2024 | 11
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