Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to AI's insatiable thirst Shocking research warns electricity shortages could create construction bottleneck On-Prem07 Feb 2025 | 14
Musk's move fast and break things mantra won't work in US.gov Opinion 248-year-old democracy is not a tech startup Public Sector07 Feb 2025 | 145
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 | 112
Google's 7-year slog to improve Chrome extensions still hasn't satisfied developers Makers of content blockers, privacy add-ons say promises weren't kept Personal Tech07 Feb 2025 | 28
Apple missed screenshot-snooping malware in code that made it into the App Store, Kaspersky claims OCR plugin great for extracting crypto-wallet secrets from galleries Cyber-crime07 Feb 2025 | 4
DOGE geek with Treasury payment system access now quits amid racist tweet claims We did Nazi see that coming Public Sector07 Feb 2025 | 174
Amazon-backed X-energy bags $700M more for itty-bitty nuke reactors that don't exist yet Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear Science06 Feb 2025 | 7
Coordinates of millions of smartphones feared stolen, sparking yet another lawsuit against data broker Fourth time’s the harm? Personal Tech06 Feb 2025 | 5
Federal judge tightens DOGE leash over critical Treasury payment system access Updated Lawsuit: 'Scale of intrusion into individuals' privacy is massive and unprecedented' Public Sector06 Feb 2025 | 21
Dems want answers on national security risks posed by hiring freeze, DOGE probes Updated Are cybersecurity roles included? Are Elon's enforcers vetted? Inquiring minds want to know Security06 Feb 2025 | 31
Google exec sees enterprise quantum app on closer horizon 20 years? More like five for real-world workloads says company's Quantum AI lead HPC06 Feb 2025 | 6
Veterans Affairs reboots Oracle health records project for $330M Concerns around unfixed problems remain after system resulted in harm to some 150 patients Databases06 Feb 2025 | 12
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 | 40
Copilot+ PCs? Customers just aren't buying it – yet 57% higher price point and app compatibility issues aren't helping Personal Tech06 Feb 2025 | 68
Openreach tests 50 Gbps broadband – don’t expect it anytime soon Download speeds of 41.9 Gbps and upload speeds of 20.6 Gbps achieved, claims BT division Networks06 Feb 2025 | 36
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Tesla sales crash in Europe, UK. We can only wonder why Somewhat stale range of Muskmobiles, competition from China, Elon being Elon, or all of the above? Personal Tech06 Feb 2025 | 203
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
Democrats demand to know WTF is up with that DOGE server on OPM's network Are you trying to make this easy for China and Russia? Public Sector06 Feb 2025 | 147
Robocallers who phoned the FCC pretending to be from the FCC land telco in trouble Don't laugh: The $4.5m fine proposed for carrier Telnyx shows how the Trump administration will run its comms regulator Networks06 Feb 2025 | 26
Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer Updated Some worry multiple languages will make it harder to maintain this open source uber-project, others disagree
DOGE geek with Treasury payment system access now quits amid racist tweet claims We did Nazi see that coming
Tesla sales crash in Europe, UK. We can only wonder why Somewhat stale range of Muskmobiles, competition from China, Elon being Elon, or all of the above?
Democrats demand to know WTF is up with that DOGE server on OPM's network Are you trying to make this easy for China and Russia?
Arm gives up on killing off Qualcomm's vital chip license The British are coming, the British are coming ... to terms with their loss
Robocallers who phoned the FCC pretending to be from the FCC land telco in trouble Don't laugh: The $4.5m fine proposed for carrier Telnyx shows how the Trump administration will run its comms regulator
Agent P waxes lyrical about 14 years of systemd FOSDEM 2025 Lennart Poettering gave packed-out keynote talk. Jack Dorsey … didn't
Federal judge tightens DOGE leash over critical Treasury payment system access Updated Lawsuit: 'Scale of intrusion into individuals' privacy is massive and unprecedented'
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
Why UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers Updated Individual publishers could be held liable for visitors' off-topic posts, legal eagle argues
Cisco patches two critical Identity Services Engine flaws One gives root access, the other lets you steal info and reconfig nodes, in the right (or should that be wrong) circumstances Networks05 Feb 2025 |
DOGE latest: Citrix supremo has 'read-only' access to US Treasury payment system CEO of Cloud Software a 'special government employee' probing for Team Elon Public Sector05 Feb 2025 | 26
Trump admin seeks to reclassify federal CIOs, opening door to political appointees Fall in line with executive policy or you're gone, acting OPM chief insists CxO05 Feb 2025 | 45
Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies Radiation-hardening for space environments and energy efficiency tweaks for above and below Systems05 Feb 2025 | 3
US cranks up espionage charges against ex-Googler accused of trade secrets heist Mountain View clocked onto the scheme with days to spare AI + ML05 Feb 2025 | 12
Early mornings, late evenings, weekends. Useless users always demand support OnCall... even when I'm not Techie complains as biz ignores contractual working hours On-Prem05 Feb 2025 | 89
Boeing, Boeing, burned: Over half a billion dollars by Starliner in 2024 More Catastrophic Capsule than Calamity Capsule for Boeing's beancounters Public Sector05 Feb 2025 | 28
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
Who's afraid of DeepSeek's impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive Systems05 Feb 2025 |
Alphabet achieves first $100B annual profit ... and sees its shares sink Whaddya gotta do to impress investors these days? Maybe convince them you're not overspending on AI? Off-Prem05 Feb 2025 | 6
China sticks antitrust probe into Google amid retaliation for Trump import tariffs Plus, Middle Kingdom announces levies and export controls of its own Software04 Feb 2025 | 14
FBI's secret UFO hunters fear Trump's January 6 purge will send them into orbit Maybe Musk just wants the alien space tech that definitely doesn't exist? Public Sector04 Feb 2025 | 52
Intel knocked off global chip revenue top spot after rotten 2024 Missed the AI processor boat, split with CEO savior, lost #1 seat to Samsung Systems04 Feb 2025 | 5
Abandoned AWS S3 buckets can be reused in supply-chain attacks that would make SolarWinds look 'insignificant' When cloud customers don't clean up after themselves, part 97 CSO04 Feb 2025 | 33
Amazon's Kuiper secures license to take on Starlink in the UK Everybody is going to play nice, OK? Networks04 Feb 2025 | 33
UK govt must learn fast and let failing projects die young Tackle longstanding issues around productivity, cyber resilience and public sector culture, advises spending watchdog Public Sector04 Feb 2025 | 11
Not even Nvidia's Jensen Huang can talk President Tariffs out of chip import taxes GPU giant could just wait eight minutes for Donald to change his mind AI + ML04 Feb 2025 | 28
Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID Who better to trust trillions of dollars, SSNs and other sensitive info with than Elon Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 274
Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites Meanwhile, the Internet Archive races to save what it can – again Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 133
Ontario responds to Trump tariff by pitching Starlink deal into the trash Updated Canadian province 'won't do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy' Networks03 Feb 2025 | 103
Intel rakes in €515M from EU after ancient antitrust fine nixed A glimmer of light in an otherwise gloomy year for troubled chipmaker Systems03 Feb 2025 | 12
Call of Duty studio co-founder pleads guilty to crashing drone into firefighting aircraft Peter Tripp Akemann avoids jail, will pay 'Super Scooper' repair costs and is ordered to help with LA's wildfire recovery Personal Tech03 Feb 2025 | 66
US datacenters in for shock as Canada mulls cutting the juice over Trump tariffs Updated Short-term result likely to be increased energy prices across the board On-Prem03 Feb 2025 | 125
FuriPhone FLX1: A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocket Fun with a FOSS-focused Phosh fondleslab Personal Tech03 Feb 2025 | 82
2 officers bailed as anti-corruption unit probes data payouts to N Irish cops Investigating compensation to police whose sensitive info was leaked in 2023 Security03 Feb 2025 | 19
Motorola appeal over £200M price cap for Airwave service rejected Profiteering from emergency services comms network in Britain? Not anymore, says CMA Networks03 Feb 2025 | 19
UK biz dept overspent by £208M prepping to pay workers hurt in Post Office IT scandal Updated Auditor offers qualified opinion as financial fallout from historic miscarriage of justice remains unclear Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 45
CompSci teacher sets lab task: Accidentally breaking the university Who, Me? Hey! Teacher! Leave our network alone! Networks03 Feb 2025 | 51
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
Microsoft vet laments a world where even toothbrushes need reboots Comment Raymond Chen reflects on the never-ending cycle of updates and restarts Personal Tech02 Feb 2025 | 121
Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter Comment But it still has a chance at the network edge and the PC The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond01 Feb 2025 | 38
Windows 11 stages a comeback – still miles behind older sibling Microsoft's latest OS claws back market share from Windows 10, but the finish line is a long way off OSes01 Feb 2025 | 62
Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands return-to-office despite remote work pledge That email chain could have been a 30-second chit-chat, says IT giant On-Prem31 Jan 2025 | 101
Trump’s tariffs, cuts may well put tech in a chokehold, say analysts Forrester's take on President's economic agenda offers little optimism for the industry On-Prem31 Jan 2025 | 223
DeepSeek means companies need to consider AI investment more carefully Analysis But Chinese startup shakeup doesn't herald 'drastic drop' in need for infrastructure buildout, say analysts Systems31 Jan 2025 | 20
BT fiber rollout passes 17 million homes, altnet challenge grows Only 35% of those premises actually hooked up though, plus company reports 'higher competitor losses' Networks31 Jan 2025 | 79
Another banner year for ransomware gangs despite takedowns by the cops And it doesn't take a crystal ball to predict the future Cyber-crime31 Jan 2025 | 6
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 | 65
Googlers asked if they'd like to bury themselves next to Stadia, Chromecast, DropCam That's one way to focus the Platforms & Devices team On-Prem31 Jan 2025 | 14
Intel sinks $19B into the red, kills Falcon Shores GPUs, delays Clearwater Forest Xeons Imagine burning through $72B in one year. Did it make Sam Altman the CEO already? On-Prem31 Jan 2025 | 51
Want Intel in your Surface? That’ll be $400 extra, says Microsoft Makes you wonder, how bad could Windows-on-Arm really be? Personal Tech30 Jan 2025 | 47
What better place to inject OpenAI's o1 than Los Alamos national lab, right? Tackling disease, tick. High-energy physics, tick. Nuke security, also tick HPC30 Jan 2025 | 8
HPE's $14B Juniper takeover slams into Dept of Justice roadblock Merger would kill competition, jack up wireless LAN prices, officials argue Systems30 Jan 2025 | 5
Trump admin's purge of US cyber advisory boards was 'foolish,' says ex-Navy admiral interview ‘No one was kicked off the NTSB in the middle of investigating a crash’ Security30 Jan 2025 | 114
DeepSeek stirs intrigue and doubt across the tech world China's AI disruptor rattles industry watchers with unproven claims AI + ML30 Jan 2025 | 42
IBM seeks $3.5B in cost savings for 2025, discretionary spend to be clipped Workforce rebalancing? Yes, but on the plus side, the next 12 months are all about AI, AI, and more AI Software30 Jan 2025 | 9
Vodafone aims to offer satellite-to-phone connectivity starting later this year Space 5G should reach regular smartphones in rural area notspots Networks30 Jan 2025 | 11
A good kind of disorder: Boffins boost capacitor tech by disturbing dipoles Breakthrough could – eventually – impact smartphone and mobile computing Science30 Jan 2025 | 30
Startup plugs AI datacenters into biogas-powered energy Sidestepping the grid led to 44% cheaper electricity and 70% fewer emissions, CEO says On-Prem30 Jan 2025 | 8
Amazon sued for allegedly slurping sensitive data via advertising SDK Harvesting of location data and other personal info without user consent, lawsuit claims Personal Tech30 Jan 2025 | 24
Wacom says crooks probably swiped customer credit cards from its online checkout Digital canvas slinger indicates dot-com was skimmed for over a month Cyber-crime30 Jan 2025 | 3
Helion bags $425M in fresh funding despite fusion power still being a distant dream Microsoft-backed startup now valued at $5.4B On-Prem29 Jan 2025 | 10
White House asks millions of govt workers if they would be so kind as to fork right off Unions fear federal staff purge and RTO will spark chaos for Americans Public Sector29 Jan 2025 | 106
White House attempts to 'explain' mystery drone sightings: The FAA authorized 'em 'Research and various other reasons' behind hullabaloo ... but why didn't someone say that a month ago? Offbeat29 Jan 2025 | 63
Tiny Linux kernel tweak could cut datacenter power use by 30%, boffins say Not bad for 30 lines of code Systems29 Jan 2025 | 65
Datacenters are hotter than ever, and we're not talking about rack temperatures Exploding market led to $73B in M&A activity in 2024 On-Prem29 Jan 2025 |
Garmin pulls a CrowdStrike, turns smartwatches into fancy bracelets Blue Screen of Death becomes the Blue Triangle of Doom for your wrist Personal Tech29 Jan 2025 | 15
Why is my Mitel phone DDoSing strangers? Oh, it was roped into a new Mirai botnet And now you won't stop calling me, I'm kinda busy CSO29 Jan 2025 | 4
ASML makes hay while suns shines, but Trump could rain on its parade Netherlands biz riding AI boom, though China crackdown looms Systems29 Jan 2025 | 20
Hyperoptic customers left in dark as power outage takes down systems What falls down and doesn't get back up? Full fiber broadband in Glasgow Networks29 Jan 2025 | 10
Ubuntu upgrade had our old Nvidia GPU begging for a downgrade If you need legacy drivers, you might want to keep your older OS version – possibly indefinitely Personal Tech29 Jan 2025 | 41
Microsoft signs eviction notice on Dev Home Development dashboard destined for ditching Personal Tech29 Jan 2025 | 7
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Memories fade. Archives burn. All signal eventually becomes noise Column But where are the comprehensive archives to protect digital works, or allow us to memorialize friends? Storage29 Jan 2025 | 98
Spending watchdog blasts UK govt over sloth-like progress to shore up IT defenses Think government cybersecurity is bad? Guess again. It’s alarmingly so Public Sector29 Jan 2025 | 13
The curious story of Uncle Sam's HR dept, a hastily set up email server, and fears of another cyber disaster Lawsuit challenges effort to create federal-wide centralized inbox expected to be used for mass firings CSO29 Jan 2025 | 57
You probably have more CIO experience than the incoming White House CIO From AI startup CISO to running federal IT - sure, why not? Public Sector28 Jan 2025 | 30
OpenAI cozies up to Uncle Sam with ChatGPT government edition Pay no attention to the DeepSeek behind the headlines AI + ML28 Jan 2025 | 8
Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs No wonder OpenAI needs $500B for Stargate Systems28 Jan 2025 | 271
Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers Popular community site became unmentionable – the irony is thick enough to compile Personal Tech28 Jan 2025 | 54
Why does the UK keep getting beaten up by IT suppliers? Tech and commercial functions need to get in shape for the challenges ahead Public Sector28 Jan 2025 | 78
DeepSeek's R1 curiously tells El Reg reader: 'My guidelines are set by OpenAI' Updated Despite impressive benchmarks, the Chinese-made LLM is not without some interesting issues AI + ML27 Jan 2025 | 32
US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies Updated Uncle Sam will 'no longer blindly dole out money,' State Dept says Public Sector27 Jan 2025 | 86
Nvidia deprecates CUDA support for aging architectures Updated Maxwell, Pascal and Volta, oh my! But fear not, driver support is still safe Software27 Jan 2025 | 8
South Carolina's abandoned nuclear reactors positioned to fuel the AI datacenter boom VC Summer units 2 and 3, abandoned in 2017, are looking for a buyer; owners say tech industry needs are a perfect fit On-Prem27 Jan 2025 | 30
Google takes action after coder reports 'most sophisticated attack I've ever seen' Latest trope is tricky enough to fool even the technical crowd… almost Cyber-crime27 Jan 2025 | 32
Zyxel firewalls borked by buggy update, on-site access required for fix Boxes stuck in boot loops and various other malfunctions Networks27 Jan 2025 | 14
Tech stocks tank as US AI dominance no longer a sure bet Chinese startup DeepSeek rolls out open LLMs to rival Meta, OpenAI at fraction of cost AI + ML27 Jan 2025 | 46