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Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them

APRICOT 2026 The Internet History Initiative wants future historians to have a chance to understand how human progress and technical progress align

Networks14 Feb 2026 | 16

Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production

Startup expects to complete construction of its first fuel plant later this year

Systems14 Feb 2026 | 22

Oxide plans new rack attack, packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM

Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works

Systems13 Feb 2026 | 1

Trump's Genesis Mission gets its first set of 26 sure-to-succeed objectives

DoE bets AI can speed fusion, unlock decades of nuclear data, and probe fundamental physics

Public Sector13 Feb 2026 | 29

AMD climbs in desktop and server CPUs while Intel battles supply squeeze

Q4 figures reveal shifting market share across PCs and cloud infrastructure

Systems13 Feb 2026 | 3

Broadband rollouts feel the burn from AI memory frenzy

Prices for router and set-top boxes up nearly sevenfold, squeezing telcos and raising deployment costs

Storage13 Feb 2026 | 17

US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters

Bitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National Laboratory

Systems13 Feb 2026 | 12

Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny

Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad

Personal Tech13 Feb 2026 | 16

MPs brand NS&I's £3B IT overhaul a 'full-spectrum disaster'

Watchdog says savings bank botched tech revamp, warning taxpayers remain exposed after years of delays

Networks13 Feb 2026 | 28

Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats

On Call Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder

On-Prem13 Feb 2026 | 87

Multistakeholder internet governance can be messy. APNIC wants it that way

APRICOT 2026 Regional internet registry that serves half of humanity wants more perspectives in more languages

Networks13 Feb 2026 | 4

Samsung says it's first to ship HBM4, a day after Micron revealed its own sales

This bodes well for Nvidia getting Vera Rubin out the door next quarter as planned

Systems13 Feb 2026 |

OpenAI dishes out its first model on a plate of Cerebras silicon

GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark may be a mouthfull, but it's certainly fast at 1,000 Tok/s running on Nvidia rival's CS3 accelerators

Systems12 Feb 2026 | 7

Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract

Big Red joins AWS on a multi-cloud defense platform

Public Sector12 Feb 2026 | 5

Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware

Flaw abused 'in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals'

Cyber-crime12 Feb 2026 | 31

Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree

DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock

Personal Tech12 Feb 2026 | 24

UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks

Legal teeth sold separately

Networks12 Feb 2026 | 27

Feeling brave? Ministry of Defence seeks £300K digital boss to manage £4.6B spend

Whoever gets it will steer UK department's IT, AI strategy, and megabucks vendor deals

Public Sector12 Feb 2026 | 7

The UK government isn't spending much taxpayer cash on X

Department for Education dropped £27,118. The rest, little to nothing

Public Sector12 Feb 2026 | 63

Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators

APRICOT 2026 Low-earth orbit broadband is a no-brainer for remote area connectivity, but a brain teaser for lawmakers and networkers

Networks12 Feb 2026 | 58

Popular

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows

Hands-on Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course

Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024

As if admins haven't had enough to do this week

How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them

Just ask DeepSeek

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Bork!Bork!Bork! One destination passengers were definitely not hoping to reach

Oxide plans new rack attack, packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM

Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works

Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them

APRICOT 2026 The Internet History Initiative wants future historians to have a chance to understand how human progress and technical progress align

MPs brand NS&I's £3B IT overhaul a 'full-spectrum disaster'

Watchdog says savings bank botched tech revamp, warning taxpayers remain exposed after years of delays

Booster nozzle anomaly fails to stop ULA Vulcan Centaur reaching orbit

Fiery mid-flight incident not enough to derail US Space Force mission

Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college

By partnering with CodePath, AI biz aims to modernize how people learn to program

Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny

Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad

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Cisco hikes prices to cover memory cost rises, says you don’t much care

Switchzilla is only getting a small slice of the AI boom, but sees a campus refresh wave cresting

Networks12 Feb 2026 | 4

Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill

Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story

Systems12 Feb 2026 | 8

Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely

Only for three days, though, then it's back to the misery feed

Personal Tech11 Feb 2026 | 7

Lawmakers demand great wall to keep advanced chipmaking gear out of China

Allies that don’t align on chip controls could face US component curbs, they argue

Systems11 Feb 2026 | 24

T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation

This AI is so network native, the telco tells us, that it all works on existing hardware - no datacenters involved

Networks11 Feb 2026 | 12

Brussels drafts blueprint to spot and swat rogue drones

Action Plan calls for EU-wide drills, industry forums, and expanded identification requirements

Public Sector11 Feb 2026 | 8

Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder

200,000-strong union says spy-tech firm's ICE work undermines patient trust

Public Sector11 Feb 2026 | 43

Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live

Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestions

SaaS11 Feb 2026 | 37

Only one in five Euro datacenters AI-ready as builders battle land and labor blues

Report warns skills shortages and grid bottlenecks threaten to stall region's capacity push

On-Prem11 Feb 2026 | 16

Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer

FOSDEM 2026 If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today?

Personal Tech11 Feb 2026 | 57

Legacy systems blamed as ministers promise no repeat of Afghan breach

UK government grilled over progress made to prevent a second life-threatening leak

Security11 Feb 2026 | 17

As OpenAI and Claude fight over ads, Google says ‘show me the money’

The Chocolate Factory isn't showing ads in Gemini, but AI Mode is fair game

AI + ML11 Feb 2026 | 18

Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum'

Because AI won’t only run in Big Tech’s giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connections

Edge + IoT11 Feb 2026 |

Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie

Just change the name to CAIsco already, Chuck

Networks11 Feb 2026 | 6

Market for gear that stops GPUs losing their cool is red hot as Trane gulps down LiquidStack

Great time to be a liquid cooling startup

Systems11 Feb 2026 | 4

Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency

Science10 Feb 2026 | 14

Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave

CFO and general counsel both step down

On-Prem10 Feb 2026 | 14

AFRINIC says it's back on track and will soon deliver the plan that proves it

APRICOT 2026 As the governance policy designed to protect regional internet registries nears completion

Networks10 Feb 2026 | 2

Trump to hyperscalers: your datacenters, your power bill

As communities push back on utility costs, White House tells Big Tech to fund their own AI expansion

On-Prem10 Feb 2026 | 30

Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks

Operation Cyber Guardian involved 100-plus staff across government and industry

Cyber-crime10 Feb 2026 | 7

Apple, Google agree to loosen grip on UK app stores

Competition watchdog secures promises on approvals, rankings, and platform access

Personal Tech10 Feb 2026 | 12

AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment

APRICOT 2026 Leaving you to worry about the effects on your team, vendor lock-in, tokenomics, and more

Networks10 Feb 2026 | 33

Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031

AI, sovereignty drives continental drift of datacenter capacity

On-Prem10 Feb 2026 | 16

British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain

Troops fitted with new comms kit as part of Project ASGARD

Public Sector10 Feb 2026 | 38

Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter

Planners backed it, campaigners blasted it, and officials sided with emissions fears

HPC10 Feb 2026 | 33

Cisco challenges Broadcom, Nvidia with a 102.4T switch of its own

Switchzilla leans on P4 programmability and revamped congestion controls to differentiate its latest Silicon One ASIC

Networks10 Feb 2026 |

Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon

Systems Approach Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex

Networks10 Feb 2026 | 41

Yahoo! Japan! and ! Line! to! merge! systems! into! massive! private! cloud!

Just the sort of project that screams ‘years of delays and blowouts’, but Asian giant thinks it can beat Silicon Valley at its own game

Off-Prem10 Feb 2026 | 12

OpenAI introduces ads...for the people!

ChatGPT starts showing marketing messages in the US

Personal Tech10 Feb 2026 | 32

Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks

Staff data belonging to the regulator and judiciary's governing body accessed

Cyber-crime09 Feb 2026 | 1

Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite

Updated Gartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers

PaaS + IaaS09 Feb 2026 | 9

Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere

Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premier

Systems09 Feb 2026 | 56

Brussels eyes crowbar for Meta's WhatsApp AI lockout

Euro watchdog says Zuckercorp blocked rival assistants, weighs emergency action to force 'em back in

AI + ML09 Feb 2026 | 19

Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay

Average Swiss salaries dwarf those on offer across the rest of the continent

Software09 Feb 2026 | 21

European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend

Officials explore issue affecting infrastructure after CERT-EU detected suspicious activity

Cyber-crime09 Feb 2026 | 3

Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty

FOSDEM 2026 One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all

Networks09 Feb 2026 | 23

The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation

Opinion Sudo make me a star

Software09 Feb 2026 | 56

Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office

Who, Me? You can fix all sorts of things with a paperclip, but not gullibility

On-Prem09 Feb 2026 | 113

Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar

Upgraders and home lab builders flaunt their memory-inflated wealth

Systems09 Feb 2026 | 13

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation

Offbeat07 Feb 2026 | 104

Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines

Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown

Networks07 Feb 2026 | 121

Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI

There’s about $35M up for grabs if your circuits can beat today’s limits

Public Sector06 Feb 2026 | 16

Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint

Rhapsody in beige

Personal Tech06 Feb 2026 | 49

CISA orders federal agencies to rip out EOL edge kit before cybercrooks move in

A year to replace end-of-support firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways

Networks06 Feb 2026 | 6

DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom

AI-pocalypse Benefits system trials automation amid growing interest in universal basic income

Public Sector06 Feb 2026 | 37

UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat

West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates

Databases06 Feb 2026 | 53

New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor

On Call Poking around in deep menus found a fault that flummoxed old hands

Software06 Feb 2026 | 159

Netlife Ecuador partners with ZTE to advance smart cloud platform deployment and accelerate smart home innovation

Commercial rollout boosts after-sales efficiency and strengthens smart home security

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SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites

The FCC is taking public comments - now’s your chance to tell them this plan is bonkers

Public Sector05 Feb 2026 | 109

UK's 'world-first' deepfake detection framework unlikely to stop the fakes, says expert

Home Office enlists Microsoft to set industry standards as AI-generated forgeries surge from 500K to 8M in two years

AI + ML05 Feb 2026 | 6

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

AI helpers can now rummage through multiple documents

Storage05 Feb 2026 | 59

Curse of AI to push up PC prices as memory and CPU shortages bite

Component supply is being diverted toward datacenters, squeezing the consumer market

Personal Tech05 Feb 2026 | 20

Italy claims cyberattacks 'of Russian origin' are pelting Winter Olympics

Right on cue, petulant hacktivists attempt to disrupt yet another global sporting event

Cyber-crime05 Feb 2026 | 33

CentOS is coming to RISC-V soon if you have the kit

FOSDEM 2026 The RHELatives are more versatile than you might realize

OSes05 Feb 2026 | 13

Cloud sovereignty is no longer just a public sector concern

Interview Businesses still chase the cheapest option, but politics and licensing shocks are changing priorities, says OpenNebula Systems

PaaS + IaaS05 Feb 2026 | 2

UK justice system unplugs from ancient datacenters after five-year slog

37 court applications shifted off failing kit, though some are camping in a temporary hosting facility

On-Prem05 Feb 2026 | 37

Britain courts private cash to fund 'golden age' of nuclear-powered AI

Framework aims to lure investors into powering the compute boom

On-Prem05 Feb 2026 | 13

AI’s lust for memory drags down the smartphone industry, and Qualcomm with it

On the upside, House of the Snapdragon has started shipping its own AI silicon

Personal Tech05 Feb 2026 | 9

Positron: we don’t need no fancy HBM to compete with Nvidia’s Rubin

Pleb-tier LPDDR5x apparently good enough for Arm-backed AI startup's next-gen Asimov accelerators

Systems04 Feb 2026 | 5

Server CPUs join memory in the supply shortage, pushing up prices

Silicon manufacturing issues to blame

Systems04 Feb 2026 | 8

Estonia hedges its bets on US tech while going all-in on Microsoft

Riigi IT preps European escape plan as it herds civil servants into Redmond's cloud

Public Sector04 Feb 2026 | 22

Microsoft engineer speedruns Raspberry Pi magic smoke in five minutes

Only cool dudes should wear a HAT backward

Personal Tech04 Feb 2026 | 76

UK watchdog to rule on £246M Post Office subsidy over Horizon scandal and IR35

CMA's Subsidy Advice Unit reviewing state aid linked to redress and off-payroll tax costs

Public Sector04 Feb 2026 | 31

EU's fishy digital certificate system leaves exporters floundering

Catch platform sinks under weight of bugs, missing species, and postal code gaffes while containers pile up at ports

Software04 Feb 2026 | 25

Universal £7,500 payout offered to PSNI staff over major data breach

Affected police officers squeezed mental health services, relocated over safety fears

Security04 Feb 2026 | 3

'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP

Open Source Policy Summit 2026 Open source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech

Software04 Feb 2026 | 152

UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law

As Spain announces stern laws for social media, and Elon Musk’s response shows regulators keep looking his way

Legal04 Feb 2026 | 29

For once, Supermicro has dodged drama and just delivered datacenters

Single customer accounted for 63 percent of surging revenue

Systems04 Feb 2026 | 5

Too much AI for some, too little for others: Why AMD can't win with investors

A diverse portfolio is usually a good thing, except when AI is the only thing

Systems04 Feb 2026 |

'Lethal' and 'magical' Palantir tech is in demand by Pentagon, China, Middle East, CEO says

Less popular in Canada and Northern Europe

Public Sector03 Feb 2026 | 19

Next-gen nuclear reactors safe enough to skip full environmental reviews, says Trump admin

DoE trims NEPA paperwork for advanced reactors

Public Sector03 Feb 2026 | 77

CISA updated ransomware intel on 59 bugs last year without telling defenders

GreyNoise's Glenn Thorpe counts the cost of missed opportunities

CSO03 Feb 2026 | 4

Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights

Opinion CEO Alex Karp meets criticism with soaring revenues and a sermon

Applications03 Feb 2026 | 78

Europe shrugs off tariffs, plots to end tech reliance on US

Governments and businesses respond to Trump pressures by upping spending in domestically controlled infrastructure

On-Prem03 Feb 2026 | 75

HP CEO prints final page after six years, moves to PayPal

Multimillion-dollar tenure could have bought a couple of crates of toner

Personal Tech03 Feb 2026 | 13

X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops

Algorithmic bias probe continues, CEO and former boss summoned to defend the platform's corner

Security03 Feb 2026 | 76

Microsoft finally sends TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to the cloud retirement home

Azure Storage now requires version 1.2 or newer for encrypted connections

Storage03 Feb 2026 | 7

Polish cops bail 20-year-old bedroom botnet operator

DDoSer of 'strategically important' websites admitted to most charges

Cyber-crime03 Feb 2026 | 4

UK names Barnsley as first Tech Town to see whether AI can fix... well, anything

AI-pocalypse South Yorkshire becomes ground zero for nationwide experiment with £500K seed funding

AI + ML03 Feb 2026 | 87

British military to get legal OK to swat drones near bases

Armed Forces Bill would let troops take action against unmanned threats around defense sites

Public Sector03 Feb 2026 | 56

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