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
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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