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 | 175
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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 | 6
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 | 2
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 | 38
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 | 4
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 | 15
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 | 93
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 | 64
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 | 102
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 | 70
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 | 176
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
Trump tariffs ruled illegal within minutes of Musk announcing end of government role
World War Fee Hardware biz gets a reprieve but administration’s plans are unchanged
Public Sector29 May 2025 | 153
German court parks four Volkswagen execs in jail over Dieselgate scandal
More cases about 2015 software swindle stuck in legal traffic jam
Legal28 May 2025 | 50
SpaceX resets 'Days Since Last Starship Explosion' counter to zero, again
Musk’s rocket co fails to deploy any dummy satellites either
Science28 May 2025 | 79
ASUS to chase business PC market with free AI, or no AI - because nobody knows what to do with it
Computex Really strong USB ports make a difference too by reducing the need for motherboard replacements
Personal Tech28 May 2025 | 22
Europe warns giant e-tailer to stop cheating consumers or face its wrath
No, not Amazon. China’s SHEIN is in the spotlight for fake discounts, grubby greenery, and evading inquiries
Public Sector27 May 2025 | 66
Get a custom paint job for earbuds at a nail salon, type on a baguette, then build a fountain for your PC
Computex Taiwan's tech expo dishes up the usual oddities - some less bonkers than they seem
Personal Tech27 May 2025 | 17
China spawns an x86 supercomputing monster, with an AMD connection
Chipmaker Hygon, which recently teased a 128-core, 512-thread CPU, merges with server-maker Sugon
Systems27 May 2025 | 22
Techies thought outside the box. Then the boss decided to take the box away
Who, Me? Life in a corporate aquarium didn’t go swimmingly
Offbeat26 May 2025 | 108
Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax'
World War Fee But pauses tech-adjacent threat to slap all Euro-imports with 50 percent duties
Public Sector26 May 2025 | 173
China approves rules for national ‘online number’ ID scheme
Asia In Brief PLUS: Original emoji retired; Xiaomi's custom silicon; Pakistan dedicates 2,000 MW to AI and crypto
Public Sector26 May 2025 | 18
Even a humble keyboard is now political in Taiwan
Computex Chinese manufacturers are advertising how they dodge tariffs, and tech leaders know they’re in a new world
Personal Tech25 May 2025 | 26
User unboxed a PC so badly it 'broke' and only a nail file could fix it
On Call For once, the IT department was rewarded for finding the fix, and the perfect-if-unexpected fixer
Personal Tech23 May 2025 | 129
Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates
Says it will serve half of humanity but testing that claim produced a hilarious ChatGPT fail
AI + ML23 May 2025 | 33
Rideshare companies in India are asking for tips before the trip
Consumer affairs Minister is not happy with Uber for following local players with this scheme to encourage rapid pickups
Public Sector23 May 2025 | 25
China finds a previously unknown microbe on its space station
Don’t panic! It's related to an earthly bug, eats gelatin, not astronauts, and may have adapted to life in space
Science22 May 2025 | 17
Apartment living to get worse in 5 years as 6 GHz Wi-Fi nears ‘exhaustion’
Cable Labs predicts two percent packet loss and 10ms latency in some buildings unless more spectrum freed
Networks22 May 2025 | 137
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang labels US GPU export bans ‘precisely wrong’ and ‘a failure’
Computex Argues the world needs China’s AI researchers working on his chips so the rest of us benefit
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 22
Dell creates one private cloud to rule them all and in the datacenter bind them
Mix Master Mike will spin up Nutanix, VMware, Red Hat on the same beastly cluster
PaaS + IaaS20 May 2025 | 3
Foxconn chairman predicts AI will end manufacturers' search for cheap labor
Computex Urges world leaders to pay attention because he’s already building factories in which GenAI is acing scutwork
AI + ML20 May 2025 | 14
Nvidia builds a server to run x86 workloads alongside agentic AI
Computex Wants to be the 'HR department for agents'
AI Infrastructure Month19 May 2025 | 2
Qualcomm confirms it's dipping into datacenter world again, probably for AI
Computex CEO Cristiano Amon teases plans for high-speed-low-power inferencing products
AI Infrastructure Month19 May 2025 | 2
Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload
Who, Me? Yard of Eden just doesn't have the right ring to it
Software19 May 2025 | 317
China launches an AI cloud into orbit. 12 sats for now, 2,800 in coming years
Asia In Brief PLUS: South Korea signs for massive supercomputer; HCL gets into chipmaking; US tariffs slow APAC tech buying; and more
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 14
Dilettante dev wrote rubbish, left no logs, and had no idea why his app wasn't working
On Call Self-taught coders who work in HR and have a doctorate in English tend to do that
Applications16 May 2025 | 197
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