Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching On Call All that kit, and the fix was simply stepping aside Networks17 Apr 2026 | 82
IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookups Networks17 Apr 2026 | 1
Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory Networks17 Apr 2026 | 11
IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google We're not half way there, we're still livin' on a prayer Networks17 Apr 2026 | 85
Bullet train upgrade brings 5G windows and noise-cancelling cabins to Japan Private Shinkansen suites are pulling up to the station in October Networks16 Apr 2026 | 28
Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment Services giant’s staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices Legal16 Apr 2026 | 3
Boeing deliveries soar past Airbus for the first time in years, but this is no time to unbuckle your seat belt Supply chain and engineering woes keep the supply of new planes sputtering Offbeat15 Apr 2026 | 22
AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away Systems15 Apr 2026 | 24
IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz Didn't admit liability, will cough $17M, still fighting age discrimination cases Legal14 Apr 2026 | 44
Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered Science14 Apr 2026 | 8
France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead Après ça, le déluge, as plans call for move away from plenty more American software and hardware Public Sector13 Apr 2026 | 126
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it Who, Me? Optimism is always risky, and defective hardware makes it indigestible Storage13 Apr 2026 | 49
China wants AI to prepare school lessons and mark homework Asia In Brief PLUS: Toyota wheels out basketball bot; Arm scores AI server win with SK Telecom; India ponders payment pauses to foil fraudsters; And more! AI + ML13 Apr 2026 | 5
Linux 7.0 debuts as Linus Torvalds ponders AI's bug-finding powers Makes Rust support official, adds code for ancient Alpha and SPARC CPUs OSes13 Apr 2026 | 13
Red Hat RHELocates its Chinese engineering team to India Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizing OSes10 Apr 2026 | 28
Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job On Call The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the job Columnists10 Apr 2026 | 158
AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load, has almost sold out AI capacity Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomania Systems10 Apr 2026 | 5
South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license back Public Sector10 Apr 2026 | 65
Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise PaaS + IaaS10 Apr 2026 | 43
Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge Exclusive Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everything Virtualization09 Apr 2026 |
Western Union zaps VMware and moves to Nutanix South Korea’s biggest theme park is also riding the VM migration roller coaster Virtualization08 Apr 2026 | 8
Call your existing automation ‘zero-token architecture’ to become an instant agentic AI wiz Kubernetes luminary Kelsey Hightower thinks IT pros need to get smart about thriving in a world that’s trying to hide deep tech On-Prem08 Apr 2026 | 7
Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’ Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoption Public Sector08 Apr 2026 | 25
Nutanix thinks some Azure cloud desktops belong on-prem to make them usable .NEXT Also asserts it can beat Cisco's homebrew hypervisor for calling apps Virtualization07 Apr 2026 |
Nutanix brings its K8s to bare metal because hardware matters again .NEXT Expands compatibility since it's tough to buy the boxes you want right now Virtualization07 Apr 2026 | 3
No-Nvidia interconnect club delivers 2.0 spec before v1.0 silicon ships UALink splits work on physical layer and protocol specs to speed things up, literally and metaphorically Networks07 Apr 2026 | 1
Yahoo! Japan’s owner consolidating 164 OpenStack clusters into one Customizations are causing pain so new cloud will stick to upstream cuts of the open source stack PaaS + IaaS07 Apr 2026 | 10
Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate and plans to use 3.5GW of new Google AI chips Broadcom's building the silicon and is chuffed about that, but also notes Anthropic remains a risk Systems07 Apr 2026 | 10
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe Who, Me? It's not just machines that need proper HVAC Columnists06 Apr 2026 | 65
Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled On Call Y2k Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine Columnists03 Apr 2026 | 31
Memory-makers' shares are down. Some RAM prices have eased. Blaming Google is not a good idea Chocolate Factory boffins have found a way to reduce AI’s memory use, but don’t assume that means less demand for DRAM Systems31 Mar 2026 | 16
Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban Regulator ‘moving into an enforcement stance’ and investigating Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat as millions continue to doomscroll Legal31 Mar 2026 | 60
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference Who, Me? Career-limiting stupidity and rudeness exposed, with terminal consequences Security30 Mar 2026 | 62
US foreign router ban criticized for being ‘industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity’ Public policy professor says it will make America less secure but hits Netgear’s lobbying goals Security30 Mar 2026 | 45
DXC staff to strike in Australia after some go without pay rise for five years Asia In Brief PLUS: Iran war may slow APAC IT spend; Toshiba, Mitsubishi, talk chip biz combo; Fusion plasma control networks; And more! On-Prem30 Mar 2026 | 7
Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work On Call The 600 km drive to fix the mess was a special treat On-Prem27 Mar 2026 | 124
India's space program can't spend money fast enough, putting missions in peril Satnav systems aren't well, IP is being sold too cheap, and thousands of roles remain open Public Sector27 Mar 2026 | 6
China's not thrilled its AI experts want to leave the country Urges scientists to avoid major conference, and looks unkindly on Meta's Manus acquisition Legal27 Mar 2026 | 11
Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda CarStation/PlayMobile won’t hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA Personal Tech26 Mar 2026 | 38
Indian government probes CCTV espionage operation linked to Pakistan Police found cameras pointing at infrastructure Security26 Mar 2026 | 8
Datacenter batteries are selling years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic Shifting production from automotive to compute and working on supercapacitors as another way to protect workloads On-Prem26 Mar 2026 | 11
OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become AWS, Google, Broadcom, or Netscape? AI + ML25 Mar 2026 | 7
Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google Personal Tech25 Mar 2026 | 38
Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run China’s top AI models Claims its set performance records but looks to be years behind western fare Systems25 Mar 2026 | 5
Datadog bets DIY AI will mean it dodges the SaaSpocalypse The theory is that its domain-specific model will beat generalist LLMs on results and economics SaaS24 Mar 2026 | 7
Half of VMware users plan to reduce usage by 2028 Silent exodus brewing but other customers say they feel trapped Virtualization24 Mar 2026 | 18
Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’ ‘People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do’ Personal Tech24 Mar 2026 | 53
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo Who, Me? First came the facepalm, then the faceplant, then the loss of face AI + ML23 Mar 2026 | 146
Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics' Like his promise to get a million robocabs on the road, this doesn't add up Systems23 Mar 2026 | 170
Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11 'Doze boss admits quality is down, promises smaller memory footprint and fixes for many well-known issues OSes23 Mar 2026 | 90
Australia to datacenter operators: BYO energy, pay your way, build green, or stay home Asia In Brief PLUS: Singtel’s triple outage; 17,000 counterfeit hard drives seized; Tech wages shift across Asia; And more! Systems23 Mar 2026 | 6
While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job? On Call He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for a meddling security team's fear of USB On-Prem20 Mar 2026 | 115
Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin applies to launch 51,000 datacenter satellites ‘Project Sunrise’ needs a network that doesn’t exist, a rocket that’s hardly flown, and FCC approval Systems20 Mar 2026 | 75
Meta’s latest AI improves its terrible content moderation, just a little Enterprise tools have detected impossible logins for years. Zuck’s human mods couldn’t join the dots AI + ML20 Mar 2026 | 13
Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they’re inferior and may always be Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to compete Systems20 Mar 2026 | 8
Google offers ‘vibe design’ tool that you can shout at to create a UI Stitch gets voice input and an infinite canvas Software19 Mar 2026 | 17
Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots Micron plans to cash in, after already growing revenue $10 billion in a single quarter Systems19 Mar 2026 | 111
Tencent says small clouds can’t get hardware, so big clouds can hike prices Baidu joins the Chinese cloud price rise party Off-Prem19 Mar 2026 | 1
Alibaba Cloud hikes prices by up to 34%, blames hardware costs and AI demand Compute, storage, and SaaS all slugged - even on Alibaba's own silicon PaaS + IaaS18 Mar 2026 | 4
Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling AI + ML18 Mar 2026 | 18