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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 | 156

Workday handed no-bid deal to fix staffing meltdown at Uncle Sam's uber-HR agency

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 | 1

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 | 6

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

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

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

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

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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

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US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

Some see an action to benefit Elon. The White House sees an agency obsessed with DEI

You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs

RSAC Rapid7 threat hunter wrote a PoC. No, he's not releasing it

Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sickness

Opinion We need to make taking IT systems 'off the books' a problem for corporate types

DOGE worker's old creds found exposed in infostealer malware dumps

Infosec in brief PLUS: Celsius scammer sent to slammer; Death-by-hacking victim warns you're never safe; and more

Paul McCartney, Elton John, other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping

Musicians, artists, writers, actors urge government to protect copyright

So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?

Who, Me? It was acceptable in the '80s

Britain's cyber agents and industry clash over how to tackle shoddy software

CYBERUK Providers argue that if end users prioritized security, they'd get it

LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true

As long as those fit into a 20 x 20 x 20 grid and can be built from 8 basic bricks

OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release

Canary fans told it hurts functionality to the point that it makes 'using your PC to do even basic things difficult'

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

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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 | 7

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

How the collapse of local cloud provider caused biz continuity issues in UK government

And that was on top of a £17.5M underwriting bill for insolvent UKCloud

Disaster Recovery Week03 Mar 2025 | 52

UK government's cloud strategy: Pay more, get less, blame vendor lock-in?

Home Office's £450M deal with AWS raises questions over competition and aligning department requirements

PaaS + IaaS28 Feb 2025 | 19

Payday from hell as several British banks report major outages

Many can't access online banking although customers can keep tapping away in shops

Off-Prem28 Feb 2025 | 97

IBM likes Hashicorp, finally puts a $6.4B ring on it

Monopoly watchdogs forever hold their peace, unlike developers still unhappy about Terraform license switch

Devops28 Feb 2025 | 9

Microsoft names alleged credential-snatching 'Azure Abuse Enterprise' operators

Crew helped lowlifes generate X-rated celeb deepfakes using Redmond's OpenAI-powered cloud – claim

AI + ML28 Feb 2025 | 3

AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot

Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction

Science27 Feb 2025 | 13

No new engineer hires this year as AI coding tools boost productivity, says Salesforce

Yet growth in its AI agent biz not enough to improve numbers

Applications27 Feb 2025 | 9

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