Botched migration resulted in a great deal: one for the price of two
Moving premises can have all manner of hidden traps. Here's one to watch for
Networks27 Mar 2023 |
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Chinese web giant Baidu backs RISC-V for the datacenter
Gee, why could that be? Nah, not that. AI contender might just want better SmartNICs
On-Prem27 Mar 2023 | 1
How Arm aims to squeeze device makers for cash rather than pocket pennies for cores
Analysis I am altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further
On-Prem25 Mar 2023 | 62
RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94
'Impossible to imagine the world we live in today ... without his contributions'
On-Prem25 Mar 2023 | 49
Utah outlaws kids' social media addiction, sets digital curfew
Age verification, a private right to sue Big Tech ... thinking of the children or political points?
Personal Tech24 Mar 2023 | 53
Cisco, Huawei, Ericsson on the hook for Philippine telco's $880M overspend
Next time you blow a project budget, console yourself that you weren’t this bad
Networks24 Mar 2023 | 3
Intel bumps up core counts for 13th-gen vPro chips
'We don't think it's a luxury' veep tells The Reg
On-Prem23 Mar 2023 | 8
D-Wave hello to another quantum pioneer warned over possible delisting
Share price slides below $1 for 30 days straight, but company vows it will comply with NYSE regs again
HPC23 Mar 2023 | 3
Turing Award goes to Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of the Ethernet
A cool $1 million to a man who is not afraid to eat his own words, nor roll out his own cable
Networks23 Mar 2023 | 39
Amazon to shutter Digital Photography Review
Respected hands-on outlet tossed under the layoff bus
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 46
If scammers use your AI code to rip off victims, the FTC may want a word
A good watchdog does blame the tools, or something like that
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 18
Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years
Smartphones and tablets would also be added to the EU's list of devices that must be repairable under new rule
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 115
IT depts struggle with skills shortages despite Big Tech layoffs
You'd think there'd be more techies on the market, but many cuts were in business areas
On-Prem22 Mar 2023 | 63
Reaping the rewards of the future
The benefits of modernizing your PC estate
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Marvell Technology to open redundancy chute in face of industry slowdown
Releasing 4% of workforce
Systems22 Mar 2023 | 3
Are you ready to go all-in, head-first, on a laptop? ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X asks for that commitment
Desktop Tourism 'Creator' machine is lovely, but seems unsuited to life on the periphery
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 45
Nvidia CEO promises sustainability salvation in the cult of accelerated computing
GTC Not quite as dramatic as AMD's Lisa Su and her visions of nuclear-powered supercomputers
Systems21 Mar 2023 | 1
Nvidia's generative AI inferencing card is just two H100s glued together
GTC Don’t need a 700W fire-breathing GPU? It also launched an itty-bitty AI chip too
Systems21 Mar 2023 | 2
Nvidia hooks TSMC, ASML, Synopsys on GPU accelerated lithography
GTC What's next – AI designing AI chips? Oh wait... that's exactly what's next
Systems21 Mar 2023 | 4
Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop
A modern RISC computer trying desperately to pretend it's just another PC
Personal Tech21 Mar 2023 | 102
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Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes
Australian airline Qantas warns pilots to keep calm and carry on amid reports of satnav and altimeter jamming
GitHub publishes RSA SSH host keys by mistake, issues update
Getting connection failures? Don't panic. Get new keys
OpenAI CEO 'feels awful' after ChatGPT leaks conversations, payment info
Updated Delayed mea culpa isn't a good look for a biz with 'open' in the name
Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop
A modern RISC computer trying desperately to pretend it's just another PC
Stanford sends 'hallucinating' Alpaca AI model out to pasture over safety, cost
Meta-made small language model can produce misinformation, toxic text
How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers
Updated Digital lending is only fine when we do it
IT phone home: How to run up a $20K bill in two days and get away with it by blaming Cisco
Who, Me? Badly configured routers ended up costing a bundle
Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change
Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened
Cisco, Huawei, Ericsson on the hook for Philippine telco's $880M overspend
Next time you blow a project budget, console yourself that you weren’t this bad
Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools
Opinion The war in Ukraine is bad and wrong… but does blocking these contributions help Ukraine?
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How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers
Updated Digital lending is only fine when we do it
Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 111
Apple bags patent for folding phone that closes as it's dropped
You've gotta protect those butter-soft OLED screens somehow
Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 26
AWS wants to cook its datacenter chips with vegetable oil
Ditching diesel in attempt to shrink its carbon footprint
On-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 15
Turning green with professional-grade PCs
Climate change negatively impacts our society, leaving businesses to find new ways to optimize business operations to reduce CO2 emissions
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IT phone home: How to run up a $20K bill in two days and get away with it by blaming Cisco
Who, Me? Badly configured routers ended up costing a bundle
Networks20 Mar 2023 | 134
Germany clocks that ripping out Huawei, ZTE network kit won't be cheap or easy
More than half of Euro nation's infrastructure would have to go
Networks18 Mar 2023 | 58
Alarming: Tesla lawsuit claims collision monitoring system is faulty
Alert noise is 'loud and distracting' for drivers, claims filing
Personal Tech17 Mar 2023 | 68
Shareholders sue Google, claim it hid anticompetitive ad practices
Aggrieved investors claim tech giant fibbed to inflate stock prices... and it backfired
Personal Tech17 Mar 2023 | 15
UK watchdog still not ruled on Openreach wholesale fiber discounts
Rival network operators champing at the bit amid claims dominant former state firm's undercutting them
Networks17 Mar 2023 | 14
HPC in the cloud for FEA
How AWS’ infrastructure powers the most demanding computer simulations
Hot Seat Interview
Techie fired for inventing an acronym – and accidentally applying it to the boss
On Call A tale of how a PEBCAK became a CLE
On-Prem17 Mar 2023 | 188
Lenovo ordered to pay $140M for InterDigital patents – sees this as a 'major win'
Oh wait, another appeal is on the way. Seventh time the charm?
Networks17 Mar 2023 | 11
Qualcomm adds 'premium experiences' to Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2
Tosses some features to mid-tier masses, including those buying upcoming Redmi, realme handsets
Systems17 Mar 2023 | 9
Cosmic rays more likely to glitch out water-cooled computers
'Soft errors' caused by neutrons are well known. This study suggests we might be making them more likely
Systems17 Mar 2023 | 39
As chip sales slump, inflation makes the price of Samsung's Texas fab blow out
South Korean titan budgeted $17 billion. Could now need over $25 billion to bring the facility online
Systems16 Mar 2023 | 2
Dual Tesla lawsuits pull Elon Musk into right-to-repair war
The nearly identical class action suits claim Tesla unlawfully restricted access to third party repairs and parts
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 40
ReMarkable emits Type Folio keyboard cover for e-paper tablet
Distraction-free long-life e-ink handheld writing tool becomes a typing tool too... but leaves us conflicted
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 42
Globalization is over, and it'll cost you, according to TSMC founder
Free trade not quite as dead, 'but it's in danger' says Morris Chang
Systems16 Mar 2023 | 29
Budget: UK chip strategy still nowhere to be seen. Money for quantum, AI? Sure
Um, folks? All this tech kinda needs semiconductors
HPC16 Mar 2023 | 36
The Stonehenge of PC design, Xerox Alto, appeared 50 years ago this month
Feature We all owe three things to this pioneering machine – two more than you might think
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 145
Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly
Online ad colossus hopes it can still make money when users want privacy
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 29
Workers don't want these humanoid robots telling them to be happy
Shocking!
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 113
Biden wants to claw back, flog off 1.5GHz of spectrum
Good news, unless trees or walls get in the way
Networks15 Mar 2023 | 10
T-Mobile US buys Ryan Reynolds-backed Mint Mobile for $1.35B
Video However, those Ryan Reynolds commercials aren't going anywhere
Personal Tech15 Mar 2023 | 9
Fewer bonuses for Apple staff in latest cost-cutting measure
Don't worry about Tim – executive's rewards are reportedly unaffected. Phew
Personal Tech15 Mar 2023 | 7
Enter Tinker: Asus pulls out RISC-V board it hopes trumps Raspberry PI
Chances its Arm that maker community is looking for a fresh SBC
Systems15 Mar 2023 | 69
Feeding the smartphone frenzy? It’s a matter of time and space
Micron’s novel 1-beta node can connect your smartphone and the enterprise
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Samsung to splurge $230B on five new chip plants for South Korea
Will build out domestic industry while it builds out US domestic industry...
Systems15 Mar 2023 | 1
Amazon: Behold our antennas, which you cannot use just yet
Project Kuiper satellite broadband coming next year, maybe
Networks15 Mar 2023 | 15
Watch Reg vultures wrap their heads around Silicon Valley Bank collapse
Register Kettle Can we blame social media for this? We can try
Personal Tech14 Mar 2023 | 19
The US would sooner see TSMC fabs burn than let China have them
Successful invasion would make China 'the OPEC of silicon chips'
Systems14 Mar 2023 | 96
Cloud upstart offers free heat if you host its edge servers
That's one way to counteract rising energy prices – but do you want to sit next to a DC?
On-Prem14 Mar 2023 | 37
Meta chops another 10,000 employees, closes 5,000 vacancies
The Year of Efficiency may also include sending engineers back into the office
Personal Tech14 Mar 2023 | 60
Faster and more accurate weather forecasting with HPC in the cloud
How HPC and Amazon EC2 instances are helping climate scientists provide better early warnings on the world’s changing weather
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Industrial design: AMD brings 4th gen Epyc power to embedded applications
7-year availability as kit goes in hardware that hangs around much longer than average PC
Systems14 Mar 2023 | 6
Requiem for Google Reader, dead for a decade but not forgotten
Special report RSS pioneer Dave Winer sees Mastodon as a positive sign
Networks14 Mar 2023 | 50
Engineers are supposed to solve difficult problems. Waiting in a queue for time on the supercomputer shouldn’t be one of them
How Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances, powered by 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, are optimized for complex FEA workloads
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Qualcomm tries to kick holes in logic behind €242M fine
Hopes to avoid paying up for crushing a rival while helping Huawei and ZTE to prosper
Networks14 Mar 2023 | 4
Flirting hard with India doesn't mean US is breaking up with China
Commerce secretary says relationship with Beijing is 'benign' and wants to be open to new possibilities
On-Prem14 Mar 2023 | 17
Rivian wants out of Amazon electric van lock-in
10k delivery vehicles this year isn't going to cut it and upstart really needs the cash
Personal Tech13 Mar 2023 | 12
ReRAM redo: UCL spinout scores £7M to push Resistive RAM
Remember the storage class memory that never took off? It's back
Systems13 Mar 2023 | 10
UK datacenter biz Ark goes on date with private equity suitors
Government supplier said to be valued at $2.5B
On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 1
Rebel without a clause: ISP promises broadband with no contract
We don't need to trap customers to force loyalty, says boss
Networks13 Mar 2023 | 44
UK govt adds £4B to value of delayed tech procurement
Hardware, software, kitchen sink: it's all in there
On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 3
Techie wiped a server, nobody noticed, so a customer kept paying for six months
Who, me? A missed migration mitigated the mistake
On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 90
Switchzilla revisits training and cert tools with looming debut of 'Cisco U.'
Some training in refreshed certification platform to be free, including short how-to vids
Networks13 Mar 2023 | 5
Cop a load of this DIY e-ink calendar to help plan those projects you'll never finish
Or how you'll spend your copious free time running CP/M on a cheap computer
Personal Tech11 Mar 2023 | 7
Meta confirms decentralized Twitter rival in the works
Where there's disaffected twits there's potential revenue, and Facebook parent smells blood – er, profit
Personal Tech11 Mar 2023 | 28
US plays Whac-A-Mole with Inspur subsidiaries to close China sanction loopholes
If your name's not on the entity list ... you're OK to do business with American companies
On-Prem11 Mar 2023 | 8
Rambus takes charge of Arm’s CryptoCell, CryptoIsland IP
Updated Building a watertight SoC? You'll have to go through IP-slinger now
Systems10 Mar 2023 | 2
Is this the year 100GE NICs go mainstream? If you're into AI, it might be
Gotta go fast!
Networks10 Mar 2023 | 5
Netherlands joins US blockade of Chinese chip industry
No DUV for you
Systems10 Mar 2023 | 9
Brit chipmaker issues warning about inventory glut
IQE says collapse in smartphone sales may wipe one-third off revenue in first half of 2023
Systems10 Mar 2023 | 7
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux laptop
Hands-on Is Lenovo's fastest, thinnest, lightest flagship good at this sort of thing?
Personal Tech10 Mar 2023 | 153
Duelling techies debugged printer by testing the strength of electric shocks
On Call Even a hundred-volt jolt couldn’t convince one of them that hardware was the problem
On-Prem10 Mar 2023 | 107
Lenovo revs up a rackable Aston Martin … workstation?
It’s red, it’s fast, it packs 4th-gen Xeons and Nvidia RTX 6000s, and it looks like it’s been run over by a sports car
Personal Tech10 Mar 2023 | 14
Cash-strapped Intel looks for $3B in savings to pursue '5 nodes in 4 years' dream
Cheap as chips? Not in this case
Systems09 Mar 2023 | 4
AMD flips the bird at Intel as it glides past in CPU-GPU stakes
CTO warns chips and process technology must be designed together more closely thanks to Moore's Law
Systems09 Mar 2023 | 4
60% of Germany's 5G network is Huawei, says Chinese embassy
Would be a shame if anything happened to it
Networks09 Mar 2023 | 40
UK Prime Minister wants £800M to spend on big British iron
Analysis The people can eat turnips, Sunak wants a super... computer.
On-Prem09 Mar 2023 | 96
£2B in UK taxpayer cash later, and still no Emergency Services Network
And not even a tentative date for a system go-live either
Networks09 Mar 2023 | 106
Sony won't budge on Microsoft-Activision merger objection
Ten-year deal to put Call of Duty on PlayStation shot down
Personal Tech09 Mar 2023 | 30
China's semiconductor and IC imports have slumped. Why on Earth could that be?
It looks like sanctions – and economic chills – are biting as total trade with EU, US and Japan declines
Systems09 Mar 2023 | 23
Cop warrant orders Ring to cough up footage from inside this guy's home
Don't say you weren't warned
Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 74
Four charged with swiping $1m+ of gear from Microsoft cargo trucks
Talk about off the back of a lorry
Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 11
Europe, America fear Twitter job cuts mean it can't protect users
How will Elon conform to FTC decrees and EU laws? He probably doesn't know, either
Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 15
Swedish datacenter operator wants to go nuclear
Harnessing a Small Modular Reactor could also power 30,000 surrounding homes, Bahnhof CEO claims
On-Prem08 Mar 2023 | 15
Intel rattles the tin for another €5B in subsidies to build German fab
Please, sir, we want some more
Systems08 Mar 2023 | 21
While Intel XPUs are delayed, here's some more FPGAs to tide you over
The F in F-Tile is for fast, right?
Systems08 Mar 2023 | 3
China's government re-orgs Sci-Tech ministry to advance self-reliance push
Leaders accuse Biden administration of neo-McCarthyism
Systems08 Mar 2023 | 4
'Thousands' at Meta face layoffs this week
Sorry, you're Zucked
Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 26
US Air Force scares up $75.5M for ad-hoc missile silo network
At a planned 25k square miles, it's said to be largest net of its kind yet
Networks07 Mar 2023 | 7
Ex-Tweep mocked by Musk for asking if he'd actually been fired
Updated This internet soap opera continues
Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 130
Lonestar bags $5m in seed funding for lunar datacenter project
That's one small step for upstart, with many, many more to go
On-Prem07 Mar 2023 | 6
German 5G network ban said to loom for Huawei and ZTE
Playing catch-up with Western allies, federal government to initiate rip 'n replace for mobile operators
Networks07 Mar 2023 | 36
DXC Technology says takeover talks terminated
Admirer - said to be Baring Equity Asia - couldn't raise funds in current climate
On-Prem07 Mar 2023 | 2
When plastering over a crack isn’t enough
How modernizing your PC estate helps optimize business
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IDC gets even more pessimistic about PC sales
Retirement of Windows 10 should eventually drive recovery in 2024 and 2025
Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 29
Beijing's done its sums and found a billion netizens watching short video services
Meanwhile, TikTok analog Douyin cleans up 5,000 misbehaving e-commerce accounts
Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 5
Nvidia in blast radius as Uncle Sam looks to cut off China's Huawei for good
GeForced into a cold war
Systems07 Mar 2023 | 9
Biting the hand that feeds IT
