China’s trying to slim down, which will fatten the smartwatch market
Sales are already surging thanks to Beijing's subsidies and Trump's tariffs
Personal Tech24 Jun 2025 | 13
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Lenovo shows what a Chromebook packing a MediaTek Kompanio Ultra can do
Nothing startling, even with Google’s AI extras
Personal Tech24 Jun 2025 | 13
Omnissa brings VDI-style app packaging to physical PCs
VMware spin-out is making friends and choosing some enemies
Virtualization24 Jun 2025 | 4
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown
Who, Me? And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else
On-Prem23 Jun 2025 | 137
Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t
Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers
Networks23 Jun 2025 | 36
AI-hosted infomercial shifts $7.5 million worth of product in China
Asia In Brief PLUS: India tries to untangle TXT marketing opt-ins; China’s AI crackdown succeeds; Australia and Boeing team AWACS, drones; and more!
AI + ML23 Jun 2025 | 2
AI gives the sleeping network switch market a good kick
Q1 revenue jumps to $11.7B, with 400 and 800 GbE driving the spike
Networks20 Jun 2025 | 2
Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it
On Call Sometimes the 'R' in RTFM stands for 'Remember'
Columnists20 Jun 2025 | 179
Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work
Probe into how to implement social media ban finds privacy risks, developer overreach, infosec uncertainties
Personal Tech20 Jun 2025 | 36
AFRINIC election proceeds after ICANN’s attempt to replace officials fails
Regulator remains concerned about election integrity
Legal20 Jun 2025 | 4
China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar
Expects Huawei to start exporting AI chips soon, creating global fight for tech stack dominance
Public Sector20 Jun 2025 | 35
Europe slams online tat bazaar AliExpress for dodging obligation to stop dodgy traders
Illegal products abound on Chinese site and its processes to stop ‘em are hopeless
Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 42
Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears
‘Windows 365 Reserve’ will be usable ten days a year for undisclosed fee
Virtualization19 Jun 2025 | 34
Iran’s internet goes offline for hours amid claims of ‘enemy abuse’
Bank and crypto outfits hit after Israeli commander mentioned attacks expanding to ‘other areas’
Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 13
Japan set to join the re-usable rocket club after Honda sticks a landing
France announced its own effort to build re-usable engines on the same day
Science18 Jun 2025 | 30
Trump administration set to waive TikTok sell-or-die deadline for a third time
Quick reminder: The law that banned the app is called ‘Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’
Public Sector18 Jun 2025 | 45
Broadcom delivers VMware Cloud Foundation 9 – the release that realizes its private cloud vision
Promises silos for VMs, storage, and networks are out. Happy cloud-like days are in, without hyperscale complications
Virtualization17 Jun 2025 | 2
‘AI is not doing its job and should leave us alone’ says Gartner’s top analyst
As for agentic AI, don’t get him started about the enormous challenge of making it work vendors just won't discuss
AI + ML17 Jun 2025 | 72
Microsoft brings 365 suite on-prem as part of sovereign cloud push
Mostly aimed at Europe and its increasingly nervous users
Software17 Jun 2025 | 40
AFRINIC election delayed after ISP Association wins injunction over voter rights
UPDATED Polling was supposed to start on Monday - moved to Wednesday after court revisited the case
Legal17 Jun 2025 | 2
Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules
Who, Me? Custom text fields can be a powerful form of protest
Offbeat16 Jun 2025 | 56
Google Cloud caused outage by ignoring its usual code quality protections
Promises operational change - and improvements to customer comms when it crashes
Off-Prem16 Jun 2025 | 24
VMware and Siemens spar over where to stage software licence showdown
German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USA
Legal16 Jun 2025 | 10
Armored cash transport trucks allegedly hauled money for $190 million crypto-laundering scheme
Asia In Brief PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more
Cyber-crime16 Jun 2025 | 3
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 Tech13 Jun 2025 | 212
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 Storage13 Jun 2025 | 7
Google Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it
UPDATED Big G said it was fixed, but acknowledged ongoing customer pain
PaaS + IaaS12 Jun 2025 | 55
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 + ML12 Jun 2025 | 22
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 + IaaS12 Jun 2025 | 3
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 + ML11 Jun 2025 | 40
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
Devops11 Jun 2025 | 2
Cisco president says dredging coding syntax from wetware memory wastes engineers' expensive synapses
Cisco Live Wants to let AI do the boring bits so his team can invent more cool stuff
AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 60
Cisco Borgs all its management tools into a single Cloud Control console
Cisco Live Not just a salve for netadmins – this is also a play to ensure Switchzilla is AI-relevant
Networks10 Jun 2025 | 5
Huawei founder says USA overestimates its semiconductor prowess
Ren Zhengfei says his company is a generation behind, but he knows Huawei to catch up
Systems10 Jun 2025 | 16
China orders trial of aged care robots that can cook, clean, and provide emotional support
Elon Musk suggested this to Beijing years ago
AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 28
ICANN waves hands in protest at AFRINIC election arrangement
Worries lawyers overseeing poll may have disqualifying entanglements
Legal09 Jun 2025 | 3
Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe
Who, Me? If you like it to keep working, don’t put a ring on it
On-Prem09 Jun 2025 | 95
Chap claims Atari 2600 'absolutely wrecked' ChatGPT at chess
1.19MHz eight-bit CPU trounced modern GPUs – can you do better with your retro-tech?
AI + ML09 Jun 2025 | 66
China's asteroid-and-comet hunter probe unfurls a 'solar wing'
Asia in brief Plus: Hitachi turns graybeards into AI agents, Tiananmen anniversary censorship, AWS in Taiwan, and more!
Science09 Jun 2025 | 4
Techie traced cables from basement to maternity ward and onto a roof, before a car crash revealed the problem
On Call Doctor? Why does this hospital network run in such strange places?
Networks06 Jun 2025 | 103
Toshiba realises it can build, power, and maintain datacenters – so builds a team to do it all
Show us another company that builds power plants, semiconductors, and hard disks
Off-Prem06 Jun 2025 | 5
Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins, as most big customers sign for private cloud bundles
Chip biz surging too as CEO Hock Tan predicts optical GPU interconnects are a year or two away
Virtualization06 Jun 2025 | 24
Ukrainian carriers are leasing their IPv4 addresses to stay afloat - sometimes after being overrun by Russia
Who can begrudge them? Maybe all of us if IP brokers send them to loose operators
Networks05 Jun 2025 | 7
China accuses Taiwan of running five feeble APT gangs, with US help
The authors who claimed America hacked itself to discredit Beijing are back with another report
Security05 Jun 2025 | 11
IBM Cloud login breaks for second time this week and Big Blue isn't saying why
To make matters worse, IBM's security software has a critical vuln caused by an exposed password
Off-Prem05 Jun 2025 | 8
HPE working on Plan B if DoJ nixes the Juniper deal it rates as shareholders' rocket to riches
AI sales are a little 'lumpy' but all things hybrid cloud are going well - including job cuts
PaaS + IaaS04 Jun 2025 | 4
‘Deliberate attack’ deletes shopping app’s AWS and GitHub resources
CEO of India's KiranaPro, which brings convenience stores online, vows to name the perp
Cyber-crime04 Jun 2025 | 22
Regulator sues product comparison site alleged to only compare products on which it earned commission
No wonder those products always rated so highly
Legal03 Jun 2025 | 18
Atlassian tweaks licenses to reward those who buy more, but gets its sums wrong
Happy to bill for parts of a month when you buy, not when you say goodbye
Software03 Jun 2025 | 11
IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight
Sev-1 incident downs support portals and means application data paths ‘may be affected’
Off-Prem03 Jun 2025 | 9
Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter
Who, Me? Some people will do anything to avoid an all-nighter
On-Prem02 Jun 2025 | 105
Odd homage to '2001: A Space Odyssey' sees 'Blue Danube' waltz beamed at Voyager 1
Birthdays for ESA (50) and Johann Strauss (200) marked with music of the spheres
Science02 Jun 2025 | 73
Intel reportedly investigates return to memory biz with Japan’s SoftBank
Asia In Brief PLUS: Equinix Singapore outage; Japan and India explore geocoding; APAC datacenter shortage predicted
Systems02 Jun 2025 | 2
VMware drops the lowest tier of its partner program – except in Europe
Wants channel to be all in on private cloud as more details emerge on VCF 9 licensing and hardware
Virtualization01 Jun 2025 | 22
Techie fixed a ‘brown monitor’ by closing a door for a doctor
On Call After three service calls, user reflected on their utter stupidity
On-Prem30 May 2025 | 177
Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet in the Oort cloud
Thank whoever decided to make the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey public for this discovery
Science30 May 2025 | 23
Security outfit SentinelOne's services back online after lengthy outage
Probably not a cyber-incident, but definitely not a good look
Security30 May 2025 | 2
China to visit Earth’s ‘quasi-moon’ and bring a chunk of it back home
Tianwen 2 probe launched Thursday and will also get up close with a comet
Science29 May 2025 | 14
HP Inc. hastens China exit as tariffs kick a hole in its profits
Hiked prices and thinks that will make buyers nervous
Personal Tech29 May 2025 | 20
India none-too-subtly reminds Big Tech that local laws prohibit dark patterns
‘Consumers will not tolerate deceit’ Minister tells Amazon, Apple, Samsung and Uber
Legal29 May 2025 | 9
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