Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats
On Call Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder
On-Prem13 Feb 2026 | 13
Simon is The Register's APAC editor, and is based in Australia. He covers the region's news as well as virtualization, data center infrastructure, software, cloud platforms, and more. He's @ssharwood on Twitter.
Multistakeholder internet governance can be messy. APNIC wants it that way
APRICOT 2026 Regional internet registry that serves half of humanity wants more perspectives in more languages
Networks13 Feb 2026 | 1
Samsung says it's first to ship HBM4, a day after Micron revealed its own sales
This bodes well for Nvidia getting Vera Rubin out the door next quarter as planned
Systems13 Feb 2026 |
Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators
APRICOT 2026 Low-earth orbit broadband is a no-brainer for remote area connectivity, but a brain teaser for lawmakers and networkers
Networks12 Feb 2026 | 57
Cisco hikes prices to cover memory cost rises, says you don’t much care
Switchzilla is only getting a small slice of the AI boom, but sees a campus refresh wave cresting
Networks12 Feb 2026 | 3
VMware scores early win in Siemens software licensing dispute
Judge agrees with Virtzilla's argument that the case should be heard in the US, not Germany
Virtualization11 Feb 2026 | 13
Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum'
Because AI won’t only run in Big Tech’s giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connections
Edge + IoT11 Feb 2026 |
Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie
Just change the name to CAIsco already, Chuck
Networks11 Feb 2026 | 6
AFRINIC says it's back on track and will soon deliver the plan that proves it
APRICOT 2026 As the governance policy designed to protect regional internet registries nears completion
Networks10 Feb 2026 | 2
AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment
APRICOT 2026 Leaving you to worry about the effects on your team, vendor lock-in, tokenomics, and more
Networks10 Feb 2026 | 32
Yahoo! Japan! and ! Line! to! merge! systems! into! massive! private! cloud!
Just the sort of project that screams ‘years of delays and blowouts’, but Asian giant thinks it can beat Silicon Valley at its own game
Off-Prem10 Feb 2026 | 12
Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture
Still supported with no death date set, but no new features planned
PaaS + IaaS09 Feb 2026 | 1
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office
Who, Me? You can fix all sorts of things with a paperclip, but not gullibility
On-Prem09 Feb 2026 | 108
Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar
Upgraders and home lab builders flaunt their memory-inflated wealth
Systems09 Feb 2026 | 13
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents
Asia In Brief PLUS: China broadens cryptocurrency crackdown; Australian facial recognition privacy revisited; Singapore debuts electric VTOL; and more!
Legal09 Feb 2026 | 5
Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0
But first, kernel 6.19 is upon us, with many goodies
OSes09 Feb 2026 | 59
Summer in Australia means beers, beaches, and bork
BORK!BORK!BORK! Supermarket printer error gets holiday off to a shabby start
OSes06 Feb 2026 | 11
New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor
On Call Poking around in deep menus found a fault that flummoxed old hands
Software06 Feb 2026 | 157
Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees
Government decides theoretical knowledge vs. experience debate is worth settling
Off-Prem06 Feb 2026 | 45
Atlassian swears it can handle AI without blowing out costs, or being swamped
CEO feels under-appreciated amid year-long value slump
SaaS06 Feb 2026 | 17
Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar
Picks chap who used to lead Redmond’s security, lures replacement from Google
Software05 Feb 2026 | 82
AI’s lust for memory drags down the smartphone industry, and Qualcomm with it
On the upside, House of the Snapdragon has started shipping its own AI silicon
Personal Tech05 Feb 2026 | 9
UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law
As Spain announces stern laws for social media, and Elon Musk’s response shows regulators keep looking his way
Legal04 Feb 2026 | 29
Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings
As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out
PaaS + IaaS04 Feb 2026 | 1
For once, Supermicro has dodged drama and just delivered datacenters
Single customer accounted for 63 percent of surging revenue
Systems04 Feb 2026 | 5
Microsoft kills standalone SharePoint and OneDrive plans, because they’re not suite enough
Blames ‘unintended or nonstandard usage’ and the cost of keeping them alive
Off-Prem03 Feb 2026 | 25
South Korea enlists AI to spot pump and dump schemes on social media, or in Spam
Main stock exchange targets shares, government agency looks for crypto crooks
Public Sector03 Feb 2026 | 3
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server
Who, Me? Love hurts, but being exposed is more painful
On-Prem02 Feb 2026 | 105
Capgemini to sell the biz that works for US government amid criticism of ICE contract
'The nature and scope of this work has raised questions' says CEO, who swears he couldn't spot it sooner
Public Sector02 Feb 2026 | 43
Oracle expects investors to pump $50 billion into its cloud this year alone
Big Red will use debt and equity finance to keep itself in the pink
Off-Prem02 Feb 2026 | 21
India dangles 20-year tax holiday for clouds that serve offshore users
Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT offshores to Vietnam; Japan adds AI interface to space data; Samsung cashes in on memory boom
Public Sector02 Feb 2026 | 3
In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened
On Call 60-minute SLA was effectively useless and the contractor admitted it
Databases30 Jan 2026 | 101
'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour
Feature Developer behind it is sick with worry he might have changed software development in nasty ways
Agentic AI27 Jan 2026 | 155
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam
Who, Me? This story starts with the worst mistake of them all – loaning a tool
On-Prem26 Jan 2026 | 190
Tech support detective solved PC crime by looking in the carpark
On Call Overnight action made for a sticky situation in the candy factory
Personal Tech23 Jan 2026 | 80
Oracle, Michael Dell, named as investors in JV that will run TikTok's US operations
Big Red gets to store data, advise on security, and store the 'I'll watch just one more video' algo
SaaS23 Jan 2026 | 10
Anthropic writes 23,000-word 'constitution' for Claude, suggests it may have feelings
Describes its LLMs as an ‘entity’ that probably has something like emotions
AI + ML22 Jan 2026 | 84
eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots
This establishment does not serve agents, says digital tat bazaar
AI + ML22 Jan 2026 | 18
Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop
Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly' ones
Security21 Jan 2026 | 10
Sony no longer home of the Bravia as it plans TV biz spin-out to China’s TCL
Hasn't said why, but low share in a slow-growing market suggests it can't be bothered
Personal Tech21 Jan 2026 | 81
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 | 43
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 | 12
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 | 144
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 | 209
Wikimedia’s 25th birthday gift: Letting more AIs scour pages volunteers created
Microsoft promises to be a responsible copilot
AI + ML16 Jan 2026 | 27
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 | 12
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 | 15
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 | 29
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