Sony no longer home of the Bravia as it plans TV biz spin-out to China’s TCL
Hasn't said why, but low market share in a slow-growing market suggests it can't be bothered
Personal Tech21 Jan 2026 |
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UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads
Labels Zuck’s ad library ‘a window into criminality’ and the Social Network as ‘happy to turn a blind eye’
Legal20 Jan 2026 | 30
Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, reckons he can handle edge AI alone
Interview OG CDN boss says fighting illegal streams is about stopping criminals cashing in, not free speech
Legal20 Jan 2026 | 11
Micron finds a way to make more DRAM with $1.8bn chip plant purchase
Taiwan’s Powerchip sells legacy fab it opened just 19 months ago after spending $9.5 billion
Systems20 Jan 2026 | 8
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key
Who, Me? Bank staff wore the blame for a silly security slip
Security19 Jan 2026 | 116
Hiring at India’s Big Four outsourcers stalls, as AI seemingly makes an impact
Revenue growth is sluggish, too
Channel19 Jan 2026 | 11
Microsoft hiring energy strategists to power its Asian datacenters
Asia In Brief PLUS: ASUS gets into healthcare gadgets; Vietnam’s first fab; Australia's child social ban takes out 4.7 million accounts; And more!
Off-Prem19 Jan 2026 |
Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue
On Call How not to maintain computers
On-Prem16 Jan 2026 | 193
Wikimedia’s 25th birthday gift: Letting more AIs scour pages volunteers created
Microsoft promises to be a responsible copilot
AI + ML16 Jan 2026 | 26
TSMC sees no signs of the AI boom slowing for at least two or three years
2nm process will go large this year, and bring inevitable price rises
AI + ML16 Jan 2026 | 7
Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it
Exclusive Retail giant's disty, reseller, and vendor all say they can't and won't sell
Software15 Jan 2026 | 50
China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware
Hasn’t revealed how much kit did the job, so Nvidia can probably rest easy
AI + ML15 Jan 2026 | 9
Anthropic finds $1.5 million to help Python Foundation improve security
AI upstart also upscales its Labs to find the next frontier
Security14 Jan 2026 |
India’s flagship PSLV rocket fails for the second time in a row
One payload out of fifteen survived and sent home some useful data
Science14 Jan 2026 | 11
Trump administration sets GPU export rules that put Chinese buyers at the back of the queue
America first, for sales and access to foundries
Public Sector14 Jan 2026 | 12
Lenovo has a hunch you’re about to try quitting VMware
Tweaks its hardware to run multiple private cloud stacks, and shift between them
Virtualization13 Jan 2026 | 6
India demands crypto outfits geolocate customers, get a selfie to prove they’re real
Government is fed up with bad actors using digi-cash to fund dodgy deeds
Public Sector13 Jan 2026 | 9
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause
Who, Me? UPSes don’t work without power, or well-designed electricals
Storage12 Jan 2026 | 124
Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine
Labels Rome's comms regulator ‘a quasi-judicial body’ that works on behalf of ‘shadowy, European media cabal’
Legal12 Jan 2026 | 158
India’s government denies it plans to demand smartphone source code
Says ongoing talks about security are about understanding best practice, not strong-arming vendors
Security12 Jan 2026 | 5
Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut
Asia in Brief PLUS: Cambodia arrests alleged scam camp boss; Baidu spins out chip biz; Panasonic’s noodle shop plan; And more!
Legal12 Jan 2026 | 28
Help desk read irrelevant script, so techies found and fixed their own problem
On Call As you should, when being told the only remedy is deleting everything and starting again
Security09 Jan 2026 | 110
Iran’s internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response
Outages hit Russia and Ukraine, too
Networks09 Jan 2026 | 30
China to probe Meta’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus
Grab some popcorn for the Xi vs Zuck bout, which may not be the biggest fight on the card
AI + ML09 Jan 2026 | 2
Cloudflare pours cold water on ‘BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela’ theory
Suggests rotten routing, not evidence of a cyber-strike before kinetic action
Networks08 Jan 2026 | 14
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble
Who, Me? Meet the ‘Mean Avenger’, the office anti-hero who steps in when managers don’t defend their team
Software05 Jan 2026 | 62
The Y2K bug delayed my honeymoon … by 17 years!
ON CALL Y2K More tales of apocalypse avoided - including in an animal testing lab - and the hard work that made that possible
Columnists02 Jan 2026 | 65
IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world, but don't call it a failure
Feature The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant
Networks31 Dec 2025 | 239
Hong Kong’s newest anti-scam technology is over-the-counter banking
Funds in ‘Money Safe’ accounts are only available when customers appear for face-to-face verification
Cyber-crime31 Dec 2025 | 27
Cybersecurity pros admit to moonlighting as ransomware scum
Pair became ALPHV affiliates to prey on US-based clients
Cyber-crime31 Dec 2025 | 12
New York’s incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at his inauguration party
Zohran Mamdani appears not to understand that smartphones can be used for evil
Security31 Dec 2025 | 51
Korean telco failed at femtocell security, exposed customers to snooping and fraud
One cert, in plaintext, on thousands of devices, led to what looks like years of crime
Cyber-crime30 Dec 2025 | 3
Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words
UPDATED ‘General agents’ to infuse Meta’s products real soon now
AI + ML30 Dec 2025 | 28
When the lights went out, and the shooting started, Y2K started to feel all too real
On Call Y2K More millennial tech support tales from your fellow readers
Columnists29 Dec 2025 | 68
Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner passes, aged 83
Oversaw a significant resurgence in Big Blue’s fortunes during the dotcom era
On-Prem29 Dec 2025 | 32
Accused data thief threw MacBook into a river to destroy evidence
Former staffer of Korean e-tailer Coupang accessed 33 million records but may have done less damage than feared
Cyber-crime29 Dec 2025 | 43
China wants to ban making yourself into an AI to keep aged relatives company
Asia In Brief PLUS: Australia buys air-gapped Google Cloud; Huawei triples use of home-built components; JAXA blames low pressure for rocket crash; And more
AI + ML29 Dec 2025 | 26
'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it when trying to make chatbots work
Opinion Everything you hated about text adventure games is now being sold as a productivity tool
AI + ML26 Dec 2025 | 54
IT team forced to camp in the office for days after Y2K bug found in boss's side project
On Call Y2K The lack of trust that leads to outsourcing can be expensive
Columnists26 Dec 2025 | 74
Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030
Plans move to Rust, with help from AI
Software24 Dec 2025 | 191
AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix’s AHV hypervisor
VMware's main challenger already embraces multiple storage options
Virtualization24 Dec 2025 | 1
US punishes China’s ‘dominance’ of legacy chips with zero percent tariffs
World War Fee President Trump previously threatened 100 percent tariffs, administration now plans something else starting in 2027
Public Sector24 Dec 2025 | 42
Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year
Cab drivers protested Uber’s arrival, but Westminster has rolled out the welcome mat for clanker chauffeurs
AI + ML23 Dec 2025 | 71
France’s post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident'
Might be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix
Public Sector23 Dec 2025 | 8
Japan loses another H3 launcher, plus the satnav bird it carried
25 percent failure rate for JAXA's space truck, with the second stage again proving perilous
Science23 Dec 2025 | 8
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good
Who, Me? Mousey wouldn’t work, wah-wah-wah
Columnists22 Dec 2025 | 129
There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM
SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion
Security22 Dec 2025 | 35
Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan
APAC in Brief PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips ; Hong Kong’s Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more!
Public Sector22 Dec 2025 | 10
NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift
UPDATED Time signals shifted by a tiny amount that only very sensitive users would find upsetting
Security21 Dec 2025 | 87
User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis
On Call Hey, teacher, leave that cabling alone
Networks19 Dec 2025 | 134
Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths
Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn’t escalate their concerns
Networks19 Dec 2025 | 47
China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET
Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace'
Networks19 Dec 2025 | 49
United Nations agrees to persist with multi-stakeholder internet governance
World Summit on the Information Society resolves the world needs a permanent forum to discuss how we manage the 'Net
Public Sector18 Dec 2025 | 8
Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future
Even with its new fabs coming online, demand will exceed supply
Systems18 Dec 2025 | 16
Cisco decides its homegrown AI model is ready to power its products
Apparently you’re about to get better advice on any identity issues lurking in your infrastructure
AI + ML17 Dec 2025 | 9
India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64
No details on power consumption, lots of patriotic pride
Systems17 Dec 2025 | 48
No, SoundCloud hasn’t started tuning out VPNs. It’s mopping up after a cyberattack
Bum note for 20 percent of users whose data leaked
Security16 Dec 2025 | 2
Ford shifts gears to build batteries for datacenters
EV sales didn’t accelerate as hoped, so it will repurpose idling factories
Off-Prem16 Dec 2025 | 41
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming
Who, Me? One keypress turned a tricky Windows NT balancing act into a life of leisure
CxO15 Dec 2025 | 110
Japan just sent origami to space to unfurl possibilities for outsized antennas
That’s just one of 16 innovative and experimental sats that launched Sunday
Science15 Dec 2025 | 5
Biting the hand that feeds IT
