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VMware 'rebalances' with layoffs that converge hyperconverged team

Tencent’s gaming surge trumps potential loss of the one or two percent of cash it makes in America

India to trial restoration of Internet access in Kashmir

Cisco to sell everything-as-a-service – even core networking hardware – and cut costs by a billion bucks

Splunk sales ace wins sex discrimination case after new boss handed her key accounts to blokes deemed 'flight risks'

Just can't let go of those Windows CE apps? Microsoft has a container for that

Some lucky web developer just scored $20k to scour Facebook out of Neil Young’s website

Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'

Irony, thy name is SANS: 28k records nicked from infosec training org after staffer's email account phished

If you haven't yet patched this critical hole in SAP NetWeaver Application Server, today is not your day

This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height

Citrix warns of patch-ASAP-grade bugs in its working-from-home products, just as we're all working from home

AWS Marketplace webinar: Learn how to automate and scale continuous integration to boost your business

Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

What looks like a global pay freeze, sounds like a global pay freeze, but isn't a global pay freeze? Ask IBM

UK.gov to propose new rules for online political campaigns after last election marred by an avalanche of fake news

Pakistan aims to quadruple IT exports to $5bn, with freelancing youth to the fore

UK utility Thames Water splashes cash as host of IT consultancies appointed to handle £100m worth of deals

We have bad news for non-US Microsoft fans: The incoming Surface Duo is underspecced, overpriced, and over there

Never Hertz to try: Samsung's new adaptive display tech will change frequency depending on the app you're running

How is Trump's anti-Chinese rhetoric playing out? 70% of smartphones sold in the US are – surprise – made in China

Microsoft spills beans on release, pricing for folding fancyphone: Start your Surface Duo engines now

Geek's Guide

America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish

Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons

Why so salty, Ceres? Is it on account of your underground oceans and cryovolcanism?

NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects

Bratty Uber throws tantrum, threatens to cut off California unless judge does what it says in driver labor rights row

India explores blockchain-powered voting but not to enable online elections

Googlers show off AI that can help developers protect crypto code from key-slurping side-channel attacks

Uncle Sam says it's perfecting autonomous AI-powered drone, vehicle swarms to 'dominate' battlefields

Verity Stob

The future of signage is here, and it wants an update

Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck

What are you gonna do? Give me detention? Illinois schools ban pyjamas in online classes

UK lockdown easing heralds the return of burgers... and bork

Servers

Super Cali COVID count is somewhat out of focus, server crash and expired cert makes numbers quite atrocious

Computer glitch followed by senior public health resignation in Golden State

10 Aug 23:41 | 28

UPDATE

HPE slashes Windows Server 2019 licence costs – if you buy direct for its AMD Epyc Rome-powered servers

Two cores for the price of one, under eleven-month ‘pilot’ scheme that Dell's also dangling

05 Aug 04:03 | 4

Servers

This investor blew nearly $300,000 on Intel shares the day before 7nm disaster reveal. Yup, she's suing

Chipzilla faces potential class-action headache after stock price plunge

29 Jul 19:30 | 40

Servers

AMD is now following More's Law: More chips, more money, more pressure on Intel, more competition in the x86 space

Chipzooky's fortunes are Ryzen Epyc-ly

29 Jul 01:09 | 35

Servers

When those new servers you ordered aren't delivered, you probably won't order any more servers - and that's why India's market has shriveled

Except for IBM’s non-x86 boxes which have posted modest growth

22 Jul 04:01 |

On Call

Oh sure, we'll just make a tiny little change in every source file without letting anyone know. What could go wrong?

Up from the depths / Thirty stories high / Breathing fire / Its head in the sky / IT'S EMAIL!

17 Jul 07:15 | 103

Servers

Hot, synchronous DRAM: Next-gen memory tech spec DDR5 lands

Power-sipping, phat bandwidth and dope density

16 Jul 20:12 | 18

Who, Me?

Finally, a wafer-thin server... Only a tiny little thin one. Oh all right. Just the one...

The UPS gets its revenge in a tale of fire, fury and farming

29 Jun 06:15 | 143

Servers

Ampere smacks the ball over the net, back at Marvell: Our Altra Max cloud processor will have 128 Arm cores

That's 32 more than you... when it ships... next year

23 Jun 13:00 | 8

Servers

Ancient Arm server outfit Kaleao resprouts as Bamboo with CPU offload plan and electricity-saving power play

PANDA architecture said to be ideal microservices-muncher

23 Jun 10:01 | 2

Servers

Latest Xeons land in new Huawei server despite looming US ban

Although Huawei’s details are rather thin on this one

19 Jun 03:13 | 3

Servers

Windows Server to require TPM2.0 and Secure boot by default in future release

Jan 1, 2021 deadline for server-makers to get with the program

15 Jun 07:54 | 27

Who, Me?

'We're changing shift, and no one can log on!' It was at this moment our hero knew server-lugging chap had screwed up

Where's the DHCP box? It's behind y... oh heck

11 May 07:15 | 75

Servers

Server sales went through the roof in the first three months of 2020. Enjoy it while it lasts, Dell, HPE, and pals

Enterprise demand set to soften, offset tier-two cloud, telco sales

07 May 07:01 | 1

Who, Me?

Dumpster diving to revive a crashing NetWare server? It was acceptable in the '90s

Broken pencil + ball of stolen Blu Tack = IT joy

27 Apr 07:15 | 107

Who, Me?

Getting a pizza the action, AS/400 style

It looks like you need some pepperoni and cheese. Do you want some help with that?

20 Apr 07:15 | 190

Servers

AMD takes another crack at Intel's server stronghold with more Epyc silicon

All 'the working from home and virtual desktops' might make you think about data center rebuilds, hmm?

14 Apr 13:00 | 12

Exclusive - updated

Welcome to the telco, we've got fun and games: BT inks 5-year deal to outsource mainframe management to IBM

You lot can keep the blinkenlights flashing but you'll have to be TUPEd from BT...

01 Apr 15:00 | 35

Servers

Gods of cloud smiled on Chinese server makers in Q4, as mainframe punters chucked a big bone at IBM

Oh to be at the mercy of tech buyers at AWS, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Tencent, Alibaba... we could go on

19 Mar 10:45 | 3

Servers

Ampere's server chip has 80 Arm CPU cores? Yeah, well, our ThunderX3 will have 96 with 384 threads, says Marvell

Plus: Intel ditches forthcoming Cooper Lake single, dual-socket 14nm Xeons from its roadmap

18 Mar 08:04 |

VMware 'rebalances' with layoffs that converge hyperconverged team

Tencent’s gaming surge trumps potential loss of the one or two percent of cash it makes in America

India to trial restoration of Internet access in Kashmir

Cisco to sell everything-as-a-service – even core networking hardware – and cut costs by a billion bucks

Splunk sales ace wins sex discrimination case after new boss handed her key accounts to blokes deemed 'flight risks'

Just can't let go of those Windows CE apps? Microsoft has a container for that

Some lucky web developer just scored $20k to scour Facebook out of Neil Young’s website

Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'

Irony, thy name is SANS: 28k records nicked from infosec training org after staffer's email account phished

If you haven't yet patched this critical hole in SAP NetWeaver Application Server, today is not your day

This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height

Citrix warns of patch-ASAP-grade bugs in its working-from-home products, just as we're all working from home

AWS Marketplace webinar: Learn how to automate and scale continuous integration to boost your business

Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

What looks like a global pay freeze, sounds like a global pay freeze, but isn't a global pay freeze? Ask IBM

UK.gov to propose new rules for online political campaigns after last election marred by an avalanche of fake news

Pakistan aims to quadruple IT exports to $5bn, with freelancing youth to the fore

UK utility Thames Water splashes cash as host of IT consultancies appointed to handle £100m worth of deals

We have bad news for non-US Microsoft fans: The incoming Surface Duo is underspecced, overpriced, and over there

Never Hertz to try: Samsung's new adaptive display tech will change frequency depending on the app you're running

How is Trump's anti-Chinese rhetoric playing out? 70% of smartphones sold in the US are – surprise – made in China

Microsoft spills beans on release, pricing for folding fancyphone: Start your Surface Duo engines now

America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish

Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons

Why so salty, Ceres? Is it on account of your underground oceans and cryovolcanism?

NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects

Bratty Uber throws tantrum, threatens to cut off California unless judge does what it says in driver labor rights row

India explores blockchain-powered voting but not to enable online elections

Googlers show off AI that can help developers protect crypto code from key-slurping side-channel attacks

Uncle Sam says it's perfecting autonomous AI-powered drone, vehicle swarms to 'dominate' battlefields

The future of signage is here, and it wants an update

Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck

What are you gonna do? Give me detention? Illinois schools ban pyjamas in online classes

UK lockdown easing heralds the return of burgers... and bork

Servers

Super Cali COVID count is somewhat out of focus, server crash and expired cert makes numbers quite atrocious

HPE slashes Windows Server 2019 licence costs – if you buy direct for its AMD Epyc Rome-powered servers

This investor blew nearly $300,000 on Intel shares the day before 7nm disaster reveal. Yup, she's suing

AMD is now following More's Law: More chips, more money, more pressure on Intel, more competition in the x86 space

When those new servers you ordered aren't delivered, you probably won't order any more servers - and that's why India's market has shriveled

Oh sure, we'll just make a tiny little change in every source file without letting anyone know. What could go wrong?

Hot, synchronous DRAM: Next-gen memory tech spec DDR5 lands

Finally, a wafer-thin server... Only a tiny little thin one. Oh all right. Just the one...

Ampere smacks the ball over the net, back at Marvell: Our Altra Max cloud processor will have 128 Arm cores

Ancient Arm server outfit Kaleao resprouts as Bamboo with CPU offload plan and electricity-saving power play

Latest Xeons land in new Huawei server despite looming US ban

Windows Server to require TPM2.0 and Secure boot by default in future release

'We're changing shift, and no one can log on!' It was at this moment our hero knew server-lugging chap had screwed up

Server sales went through the roof in the first three months of 2020. Enjoy it while it lasts, Dell, HPE, and pals

Dumpster diving to revive a crashing NetWare server? It was acceptable in the '90s

Getting a pizza the action, AS/400 style

AMD takes another crack at Intel's server stronghold with more Epyc silicon

Welcome to the telco, we've got fun and games: BT inks 5-year deal to outsource mainframe management to IBM

Gods of cloud smiled on Chinese server makers in Q4, as mainframe punters chucked a big bone at IBM

Ampere's server chip has 80 Arm CPU cores? Yeah, well, our ThunderX3 will have 96 with 384 threads, says Marvell

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Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks

Google offers first part of its in-house M:N thread code as open source to Linux kernel

You had one job... Just two lines of code, and now the customer's Inventory Master File has bitten the biscuit

VMware discontinues Datrium hardware and hyperconverged OS, effective immediately

Apple's at it again: Things go pear-shaped for meal planner app after iGiant opposes logo

China now blocking ESNI-enabled TLS 1.3 connections, say Great-Firewall-watchers

Pay ransomware crooks, or restore the network? Guess which way this city chose after weighing up the costs

Peer-to-peer takes on a whole new meaning when used to spy on 3.7 million or more cameras, other IoT gear

Programming pioneer Fran Allen dies aged 88 after a career of immense contributions to compilers

Huawei running out of smartphone CPUs as US sanctions begin to bite

Not exactly the kind of housekeeping you want when it means the hotel's server uptime is scrubbed clean

Is that a typo? Oh, it's not a typo. Ampere really is touting an 80-core 64-bit 7nm Arm server processor dubbed Altra

Chipzilla or Chipzooky? If Intel's server CPU sales keep on shrinking, El Reg will have to update the branding

C'mon SPARCky, it's just an admin utility update. What could possibly go wrong?

Coronavirus to decimate server supply chain, analysts claim: Sales to fall 10% as factories stay shut

Who needs the A-Team or MacGyver when there's a techie with an SCSI cable?

Intel server chip shortages continue to bite: HPE warns of Xeon processor supply drought for the whole of 2020

The Register disappears up its own fundament with a Y2K prank to make a BOFH's grinchy heart swell with pride

El Reg presents: Your one-step guide on where not to store electronic mail

Apple sues iPhone CPU design ace after he quits to run data-center chip upstart Nuvia

Here's a bit of Intel for you: Neri a day goes by that HPE doesn't feel CPU shortage pinch

Cloud vendors burp after last year's server sales feast, couldn't possibly eat any more