Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away Applications16 May 2025 | 9
Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade Beast of Redmond runs scared from EC antitrust cops half decade after rivals complained SaaS16 May 2025 | 2
Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation We suspect Philippe Salle will need it, not to mention staff and customers On-Prem16 May 2025 | 3
How sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world' Success of UK's Universal Credit has lessons for government IT projects, former minister claims Public Sector16 May 2025 | 32
Jilted AWS reckons VMware is now crusty like a mainframe Gives both platforms the ‘generative AI will freshen it up and shift it to the cloud’ treatment Virtualization16 May 2025 | 5
Microsoft blows deadline for special Azure for EU hosters Lawyers prepare to get suited and booted if 'Plan B' to address unfair competition claims is a no show PaaS + IaaS16 May 2025 | 4
C-suite at Alphabet make B-A-N-K from 2024 equity awards CEO Pichai slumming it on a measly $10.725M compared to lieutenants PaaS + IaaS14 May 2025 | 5
TikTok's Chinese app - Douyin - in trouble after spat over the price of jade Asia In Brief PLUS: Huawei's Windows-free PC appears; Robo-car rentals come to China; Europe, India, collab in space; and more Legal12 May 2025 | 4
37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions Industry ‘pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way’ says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson PaaS + IaaS09 May 2025 | 157
Workday handed no-bid deal to fix staffing meltdown at Uncle Sam's uber-HR agency Updated Do we smell DOGE? Yup SaaS08 May 2025 | 17
Delta Air Lines class action cleared for takeoff over CrowdStrike chaos Judge allows aspects of passenger lawsuit to proceed Security07 May 2025 | 2
Microsoft will let partners get creative with pay-when-you-want SaaS plans A few million here, a few million there, pretty soon you're talking real money SaaS06 May 2025 | 2
Omnissa, VMware’s old end-user outfit, moves to manage servers and … Apple Watches? And declares hypervisor independence after being tied to vSphere Virtualization06 May 2025 | 4
China's Loongson gets OpenStack boost from Inspur on its MIPS-y silicon State-backed chip slinger inches closer to cloud-scale relevance PaaS + IaaS06 May 2025 | 8
NATS custody battle ends with CNCF, Synadia sharing nicely Trademark, domain name, GitHub repos stay under control of open source foundation – no word on any forking off for now PaaS + IaaS02 May 2025 | 4
20% discount offer on Windows 365 expires around same time as Windows 10 support Can't run Windows 11? Microsoft suggests renting it instead SaaS02 May 2025 | 44
Trio arrested in £3M UK bribery probe over Microsoft datacenter build in Netherlands Blu-3 accused of paying off former Mace Group associates Legal02 May 2025 | 7
AI success starts with the right IT infrastructure Nutanix AI solutions make it easy to tailor IT infrastructure for your AI needs, says product lead Ashwini Vasanth Sponsored post
Microsoft tries to kill the 'pausing datacenter builds must be bad news for AI' trope Sees economic strife as chance to sell even more stuff than its $70bn Q3 haul Off-Prem01 May 2025 | 5
Anthropic calls for tougher GPU export controls as Nvidia's CEO implores Trump to spread the AI love +Comment This couldn't possibly be about Chinese model builders taking some of the shine off US rivals, could it? AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 10
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix Failure could've triggered a small explosion
The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet Linux types mobilize website to help people avoid creating more e-waste
Here's what we know about the DragonForce ransomware that hit Marks & Spencer Would you believe it, this RaaS cartel says Russia is off limits
Coinbase extorted for $20M. Support staff bribed. Customers scammed. One hell of a SNAFU Expert tells us: 'It is the most unique breach disclosure I've ever seen'
GAO finds billions in possible government savings, all without Elon's help Comment More than $100M in costs could be cut by gutting duplicative IT alone, making DOGE itself look a bit redundant
AMD’s first crack at Nvidia hampered by half-baked training software, says TensorWave boss Interview Bit barn operator to wedge 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325Xs into AI training cluster
Chip bans? LOL! Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough GPUs for future AI model training Partly because America does AI wrong and it can get more done with less
Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos AlphaEvolve may optimize your code in ways you hadn’t thought possible. Or not. Not is possible, too
Cyber fiends battering UK retailers now turn to US stores Interview DragonForce-riding ransomware ring also has 'shiny object syndrome' so will likely move on to another sector soon
Anthropic’s law firm throws Claude under the bus over citation errors in court filing AI footnote fail triggers legal palmface in music copyright spat
Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence Brad Smith commits org to facing off with US govt in court to protect them PaaS + IaaS30 Apr 2025 | 105
Cloud doesn’t mean secure: How Intruder finds what others miss A cloud security platform that manages the attack surface and security vulnerabilities in AWS Sponsored post
AWS creates EC2 instance types tailored for demanding on-prem workloads What? Why? It’s an update to its Outposts racks hybrid cloud rigs aimed at bankers and telcos On-Prem30 Apr 2025 | 2
After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade HMRC kicks off procurement to modernize customer service after scathing reports Public Sector29 Apr 2025 | 23
Why brave the jet lag? KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China have the answers The cloud native world is evolving fast — and not just in Silicon Valley. Why your next stop should be Hong Kong Partner content
UK bans game controller exports to Russia in bid to ground drone attacks Moscow likely to respawn elsewhere Edge + IoT26 Apr 2025 | 49
Google admits depreciation costs are soaring amid furious bit barn build Still plans to invest $75B in CapEx this year as unable to meet capacity demand On-Prem25 Apr 2025 | 19
India’s services giants brace for impact as US tariffs bite their customers Wipro was forced to pause an active SAP project due to client’s jitters Channel24 Apr 2025 | 18
When Microsoft made the Windows as a Service pivot Comment Former Microsoft engineer calls the Windows of today 'a tool that's a bit of an adversary' SaaS23 Apr 2025 | 57
European biz calls for Euro tech for local people 'Europe Stand Tall' campaign kicks off amid fear, uncertainty and doubt about Trump administration PaaS + IaaS23 Apr 2025 | 69
El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production Hands On Running GenAI models is easy. Scaling them to thousands of users, not so much AI + ML22 Apr 2025 | 10
Africa's boardless, bossless, generally troubled internet registry to hold elections in June Receiver warns of ‘potential interferences’ and appoints senior British lawyers to oversee candidate nomination process Off-Prem22 Apr 2025 |
Oracle hopes talk of cloud data theft dies off. CISA just resurrected it for Easter Some in the infosec world definitely want to see Big Red crucified CSO18 Apr 2025 | 6
Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 64
Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers 'It's amazing how fast the change has been' PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 119
Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us Networks17 Apr 2025 | 17
In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns Legal16 Apr 2025 | 50
Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing Maybe don't push to production without properly testing first? SaaS16 Apr 2025 | 32
Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption When the power went out, they didn’t switch on Off-Prem15 Apr 2025 | 29
Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months Updated Users, unsurprisingly, are not pleased and feel forgotten amid Redmond's Copilot frenzy OSes14 Apr 2025 | 68
AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary Comment Carbon capture, SMRs, fusion power - tech titans' climate strategies are packed with moon shots AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 18
Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts $5.1B cancellations pitched as efficiency move, though costly Trump birthday parade mulled Public Sector11 Apr 2025 | 47
IBM shareholders asked to back greater lobbying transparency Activist investor finds payments groups lobbying against climate action Software11 Apr 2025 | 8
Bezos cost Amazon more than Jassy did in 2024 compensation stakes Exec pay outlined in Proxy Statement, and things did not go well for either workforce or calls for climate transparency reports PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2025 | 8
Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs Cloud Next Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 18
M365 Family users wake up to notice 'Your subscription expired' Final update License to freak out? El Reg reader recommends reverting to pen, paper, pub SaaS10 Apr 2025 | 87
The Reg translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned TL;DR: Move along, still nothing to see here - an idea that leaves infosec pros aghast Cyber-crime10 Apr 2025 | 27
Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in Cloud Next Customers aren't sure, economy isn't great, tech looks cute, though AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 5
Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons Cloud Next Sure, we're doing FP8 versus a supercomputer's FP64. What of it? AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 2
Google's got a hot cloud infosec startup, a new unified platform — and its eye on Microsoft's $20B+ security biz Cloud Next How Chocolate Factory hopes to double down on enterprise-sec CSO09 Apr 2025 | 7
Oracle says its cloud was in fact compromised Reliability, honesty, accuracy. And then there's this lot PaaS + IaaS08 Apr 2025 | 37
Legal clock ticking for Microsoft over alleged software license abuses With weeks to meet terms of settlement agreement, engineers in Redmond still don't have a product to show CISPE PaaS + IaaS07 Apr 2025 | 10
Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption The need to scale still battling security worries ... on both sides PaaS + IaaS04 Apr 2025 | 35
Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud And it can be yours for a rather steep $349 OSes03 Apr 2025 | 126
Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare Comment Recovery's never been harder in today's tangled, outsourced infrastructure Disaster Recovery Week03 Apr 2025 | 6
UK government told to get a grip on £23B tech spend Former official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment Public Sector03 Apr 2025 | 32
Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling Double-oh-sh... CSO02 Apr 2025 | 10
Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence Victims expect to spend considerable time and money over privacy incident, lawyers argue PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2025 | 9
Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options £5M in savings? Should've gone to third-party support PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2025 | 34
Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer Software01 Apr 2025 | 121
Delicious irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft's money into open source cloud federation tech Fulcrum is region's latest challenge to the hyperscalers PaaS + IaaS01 Apr 2025 | 7
Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed 1990s incident response in 2025 PaaS + IaaS31 Mar 2025 | 8
UK finance watchdog spends millions 'enhancing' Workday software rolled out 4 years ago FCA still splashing on customizing, integrating HR and finance system way after 2021 go-live SaaS31 Mar 2025 | 8
Congress takes another swing at Uncle Sam's software licensing mess SAMOSA digested by House last year, but choked on in Senate. Second time's a charm? Public Sector28 Mar 2025 | 21
CoreWeave cools its jets, downsizing IPO as investor heat fades That stands for I Probably Overestimated? AI + ML28 Mar 2025 | 3
Tech suppliers await final grade as Trump prepares to flunk Department of Education Vendors with millions in federal contracts are watching nervously Public Sector27 Mar 2025 | 32
Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache Off-Prem27 Mar 2025 | 11
Microsoft walking away from datacenter leases (probably) isn't a sign the AI bubble is bursting Comment Why lease space that can't power or cool 120kW racks - or the next-gen 600kW monsters? Off-Prem26 Mar 2025 | 45
There are 10,000 reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud's security breach denial Customers come forward claiming info was swiped from prod Cyber-crime25 Mar 2025 | 43
Raspberry Pi Power-over-Ethernet Injector zaps life into networks lacking spark Official PoE+ HAT+ for the Pi 5 still MIA Networks24 Mar 2025 | 10
Oracle Cloud says it's not true someone broke into its login servers and stole data Despite evidence to the contrary as alleged pilfered info goes on sale Cyber-crime23 Mar 2025 | 29
Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA White House touts massive savings, agencies brace for shake-up Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 72
AWS sued by product manager who says she was laid off for being an older woman 'Flawless' team boss claims she was axed after raising alarm over shrinking female leadership ranks Off-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 39
Euro businesses flummoxed by Scope 3 emissions Measuring all the dirty work of the supply chain and other indirect influences? Ugh, just give us the fine On-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 14
Microsoft ducks politico questions on Copilot bundling and lack of consent Consumer price hikes come amid interrogation of why customers have to opt out of added AI features Applications21 Mar 2025 | 43
Accenture: DOGE's federal procurement review is hurting our sales Share price list slides for top ten consultant to US government Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 50
Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update Updated Testing? We've heard of it Applications20 Mar 2025 | 57
Tencent slows pace of GPU rollout as DeepSeek helps it wring more performance from fewer accelerators Chinese giant says locals are more efficient than Western hyperscalers, and has tiny capex to prove it AI + ML20 Mar 2025 | 3
Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue' PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 136
Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year 'Three-year' tech support deal still running PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 18
Non-x86 servers boom even faster than the rest of the AI-infused and GPU-hungry market Analyst finds 91 percent revenue growth with white box makers leading the way Systems19 Mar 2025 | 4
ATMs in the Amazon: Edge is crossing its tipping point, says SUSE CTO SUSECON 2025 Sending Kubernetes and AI into orbit as devices move from 'glorified sensors' to 'decision-making' Edge + IoT18 Mar 2025 | 5
Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud Web souk says Echo hardware doesn't have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 81
Nextcloud puts out fire after data leak panic Community calls for off-by-default data sharing setting Software13 Mar 2025 | 3
DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs Project dubbed 'wasteful' – Musk's lot says under-pressure VA must do it 'in-house' Public Sector12 Mar 2025 | 106
Eight days later, Microsoft Outlook users still struggle on iOS devices Cloudy email rises like a zombie, though its digital grave still marked by big red cross Applications11 Mar 2025 | 33
Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build Guessed tax obligations wrong which helped to disappoint Wall Street even as sales boomed Off-Prem11 Mar 2025 | 4
No peace for Gandi this past weekend, after storage SNAFU breaks email and more Oh, and Musk blames ‘Ukraine area’ for X downtime Storage11 Mar 2025 | 21
Axiom Space and Red Hat to take edge computing into orbit To boldly go where HPE and Raspberry Pi have been for a while Edge + IoT07 Mar 2025 | 4
Oracle outage hits US Federal health records systems Big Red pushes restart button after users locked out of apps across Veterans Affairs hospitals, other govt departments Databases07 Mar 2025 | 16
HPE revenue outlook feels the thump of Trump tariffs Thousands brace for layoffs as shares slide 20% On-Prem07 Mar 2025 | 15
Still can't get to your Outlook mailbox? You aren't alone No 'zero days without incident' sign for Microsoft thanks ongoing problems SaaS06 Mar 2025 | 29
Watchdog fails to stop big vendor lock-in, say UK cloud market's smaller players Global giants shouldn't be allowed to make 'committed spend' public sector deals and make discounts we cannot match PaaS + IaaS06 Mar 2025 | 9
iOS users left refreshing in vain as Microsoft Outlook woes drag on Native mail app? More like no mail app Applications05 Mar 2025 | 17
Microsoft teases sales agent automation for M365 and Dynamics 365 Redmond says you could ask one for a 'list of deals ... at risk of falling through' AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 3
Microsoft Exchange Admin Center takes extended siesta in the EU Updated Wasn't the cloud supposed to be the cheap, reliable option? SaaS04 Mar 2025 | 7
Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes Presumably hosted by AWS? Disaster Recovery Week04 Mar 2025 | 23
Microsoft: So what if it costs 4X as much to run Windows Server in AWS, Alibaba, and Google? That's competition, that's protecting our IP, Redmond's lawyers tell UK monopoly cops PaaS + IaaS04 Mar 2025 | 44
Microsoft blames Outlook's wobbly weekend on 'problematic code change' And Monday's not looking that steady, either SaaS03 Mar 2025 | 27
Microsoft unveils finalized EU Data Boundary as European doubt over US grows Some may have second thoughts about going all-in with an American vendor, no matter where their data is stored PaaS + IaaS03 Mar 2025 | 51