After Copilot trial, government staff rated Microsoft's AI less useful than expected
Not all bad news for Redmond as Australian agency also found strong ROI and some unexpected upsides
AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 54
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.
NASA’s radiation tolerant computer lives up to its name after surviving Van Allen belts
'RadPC' flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon
Off-Prem11 Feb 2025 | 38
January earthquake shook $165M off TSMC’s revenue forecast
Promises production schedule will get back on track
On-Prem11 Feb 2025 | 1
Does this thing run on a 220 V power supply? Oh. That puff of smoke suggests not
Who, Me? That's not even the worst part of this story, which features a flood, broken promises, and plenty of panic
Personal Tech10 Feb 2025 | 147
Cloudflare hopes to rebuild the Web for the AI age - with itself in the middle
Also claims it’s found DeepSeek-eque optimizations that reduce AI infrastructure requirements
Networks10 Feb 2025 | 10
Judge says US Treasury ‘more vulnerable to hacking’ since Trump let the DOGE out
Order requires destruction of departmental data accessed by Musky men
Public Sector10 Feb 2025 | 57
India's banking on the bank.in domain cleaning up its financial services sector
With over 2,000 banks in operation, a domain only they can use has potential to make life harder for fraudsters
Security10 Feb 2025 | 16
Huawei revenue growing fast, suggesting China's scoffing at sanctions
Asia In Brief PLUS: Japan shifts to pre-emptive cyber-defense; Thailand cuts cords connecting scam camps; China to launch 'moon hopper' in 2026; and more!
Security09 Feb 2025 | 11
I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried?
On Call Shabby admin invented 'transparent tape' – a terrible storage medium but a magic tool for unlocking IT budgets
Storage07 Feb 2025 | 191
Hardware quality problems and server supply chain kinks slow Amazon’s $100 billion AI build
Reverses life extensions for some servers it now feels aren’t useful in the inferencing age
AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 4
Uber CEO warns robotaxis can't find a fast route to commercial viability
Fleets built to handle peak demand will lose money, leaving humans driving to the rescue
Personal Tech06 Feb 2025 | 48
Arm gives up on killing off Qualcomm's vital chip license
The British are coming, the British are coming ... to terms with their loss
On-Prem06 Feb 2025 | 27
Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills
Exclusive New home, Platform9, says it’s also helping a Fortune 500 company to migrate 40,000 VMs
Virtualization05 Feb 2025 | 6
DeepSeek rated too dodgy down under: Banned from Australian government devices
As American big tech companies lashed for their slow efforts to prevent harms
AI + ML05 Feb 2025 | 10
CompSci teacher sets lab task: Accidentally breaking the university
Who, Me? Hey! Teacher! Leave our network alone!
Networks03 Feb 2025 | 52
Privacy Commissioner warns the ‘John Smiths’ of the world can acquire ‘digital doppelgangers’
Australian government staff mixed medical info for folk who share names and birthdays
Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 44
As Trump slugs Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs, industry groups hope trade war weapon isn’t pointed at their feet
Updated Tech lobby isn't at the negotiating table, fears unintended consequences
Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 141
Singapore says Nvidia's astounding local sales don't mean it's the source of DeepSeek's GPUs
Asia In Brief PLUS: Chinese bus lanes put Tesla in a tangle; India drops electronics tariffs; Samsung worries about soft demand
AI + ML03 Feb 2025 | 15
Arrr! Can a sailor's marlinspike fix a busted backplane?
On Call 'Ancient mariner' who came to make the fix in historical costume was such a shock nobody made a pirate joke
On-Prem31 Jan 2025 | 67
Tired techie botched preventative maintenance he soon learned wasn't needed
Who, Me? Epic late-night road trip would have been awesome if not for a secret change of plans
Personal Tech27 Jan 2025 | 70
First all-Indian chips to debut this year, 25 more local designs in the works
28nm and fatter processes first, says minister, as semiconductor supply chain players move to cash in
Systems24 Jan 2025 | 20
User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count?
On Call Then suggested a bloke down the pub might be able to help fix it
Personal Tech24 Jan 2025 | 139
China and friends claim success in push to stamp out tech support cyber-scam slave camps
Paint a target on Myanmar, pledge more info-sharing to get the job done
Cyber-crime24 Jan 2025 | 12
Beijing picking up some of the bill for iPhones sold in China
What? Why? Xi wants people spending, so has extended a subsidy scheme to phones, tabs, and smartwatches
Personal Tech23 Jan 2025 | 7
Samsung Galaxy S25 is so smart it wears Crocs, allegedly resists quantum decryption
First look This year's model adds lots of AI, improved management, and support for biz buyers
Personal Tech22 Jan 2025 | 32
China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run
1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that
Science22 Jan 2025 | 74
VMware migrations will be long, expensive, risky, Gartner warns
And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon
Virtualization21 Jan 2025 | 34
TSMC pauses production after strong earthquake hits Taiwan
Geopolitical rumblings one day, geological rumblings the next
Off-Prem21 Jan 2025 | 9
This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service
Tycoon's auditors to probe Uncle Sam's IT with full access to unclassified data
Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 171
China ever-so slightly softens stance on possible US TikTok sale
Updated President Trump allows vid app to keep running for 75 days while he reviews security concerns and develops a policy
Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 10
Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?
Who, Me? A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble
Columnists20 Jan 2025 | 90
When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight
Asia In Brief PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company
Software20 Jan 2025 | 5
Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service
The same Florida Man who wanted to ban the app in the first place
Public Sector20 Jan 2025 | 124
Tech support fill-in given no budget, no help, no training, and no empathy for his plight
On Call Fixed the problem anyway – with no approval for a purchase and no permission to use a device
Storage17 Jan 2025 | 86
AWS adds 32-vCPU option and an easier on-ramp to its cloudy desktops
Weirdly, this shows the weakness of hosted Windows with an admission about vidchats
Virtualization17 Jan 2025 | 7
SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero
Updated Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch – as aircraft divert from falling debris
Science17 Jan 2025 | 118
Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling
Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in
Nvidia GTC17 Jan 2025 | 11
India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit
As the ESA celebrates planned break-up of its solar blotter-spotter
Science16 Jan 2025 | 14
US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register
Sophgo scores a place on Entity List, Indian nuclear boffins taken off
Legal16 Jan 2025 | 4
Parallels brings back the magic that was waiting seven minutes for Windows to boot
In a preview of x86_64 VMs running on Apple silicon, so it’s excusable for now
Virtualization16 Jan 2025 | 32
Microsoft’s latest on-prem Azure is for apps you don’t want in the cloud, but will manage from it
Azure Local is about hybrid management, not hybrid resource pools, and is catching up with virtual rivals
On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 6
Boeing going backwards as production’s slowing and woes keep flowing
No such problems at Airbus, which cruised at a high level and shipped almost two planes a day last year
Offbeat15 Jan 2025 | 91
Intel Capital next into the chip giant's trebuchet, to be shot as far over the wall as possible
This'll be good for you, don't you worry, CFO tells venture fund while pulling back the sling
CxO15 Jan 2025 | 8
SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover
Plus: SpaceX rocket re-entries spark airline delays
Bootnotes15 Jan 2025 | 54
Intel’s datacenter architecture boss and Xeon lead jumps to Qualcomm
Sailesh Kottapalli sees ‘a once-in-a-career opportunity’ at the house of Snapdragon – maybe server CPUs or AI silicon?
Systems14 Jan 2025 | 1
Sonos CEO steps down after smart speaker app upgrade hit bum note
Board appoints interim leader to stay in tune with its turnaround song, both execs hear sweet sound of cash landing in the bank
Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 37
In AI agent push, Microsoft re-orgs to create 'CoreAI – Platform and Tools' team
Nad lad says 30 years of change happening in 3 years ... we're certainly feeling the compression of time
AI + ML13 Jan 2025 | 10
Life lesson: Don't delete millions of accounts on the same day you go to the dentist
Who, Me? Or ignore documentation that warns you are about to do something dangerous
Databases13 Jan 2025 | 65
Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
Exclusive Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy to make migration a mission
Virtualization13 Jan 2025 | 37
Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer
‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7
Personal Tech13 Jan 2025 | 62
Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI
Won’t say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react – so far with anger
SaaS13 Jan 2025 | 128
TSMC revenue booms and you don’t need AI to figure out why
Asia In Brief PLUS: China plans unified APIs; Singapore lets Police run scam victims’ bank accounts; Fujitsu now too cool for aircon
Systems12 Jan 2025 | 6
Devs sent into security panic by 'feature that was helpful … until it wasn't'
On Call Screenshot showed it wasn't a possible attack – unless you qualify everything Google does as a threat
SaaS10 Jan 2025 | 79
Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content
Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader?
Legal10 Jan 2025 | 26
Is that a bird’s nest, a wireless broadband base station, or both?
Everything in Australia is deadly, in this case giant eagles guarding eggs in places wireless broadband techs need to reach
Offbeat10 Jan 2025 | 66
Rollable laptop displays to roll off the production line from April, says Samsung
CES Lenovo’s already showing them off in a bonkers laptop
Personal Tech10 Jan 2025 | 42
Microsoft invites Chinese software vendors to sell on its marketplace and through its partners
Good luck getting buyers and resellers excited about that
Channel09 Jan 2025 | 7
Japanese police claim China ran five-year cyberattack campaign targeting local orgs
‘MirrorFace’ group found ways to run malware in the Windows sandbox, which may be worrying
Security09 Jan 2025 | 6
Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of freely licensed advanced chip design
Third-gen Xiangshan may be close to performance of Arm’s made-for-HPC Neoverse 2
Systems08 Jan 2025 | 11
Akamai to quit its CDN in China, seemingly not due to trouble from Beijing
Security and cloud compute have so much more upside than the boring business of shifting bits
Security08 Jan 2025 | 4
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