On-Prem News • The Register

On-Prem

Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider's fake help-desk calls: 'Those guys are good'

INTERVIEW Plus, Co-op tells The Reg: 'we took early and decisive action' to block the crooks

CSO18 May 2025 | 8

To progress as an engineer career-wise, become a great communicator

Systems Approach It'll even help you develop technical skills

CxO18 May 2025 | 8

Apple to add fresh accessibility features for 2025

Global Accessibility Awareness Day It matters for everyone, because we'll all be disabled one day

Personal Tech18 May 2025 | 7

Fired US govt workers, Uncle Xi wants you! – to apply for this fake consulting gig

Phony LinkedIn recruitment ads? Groundbreaking

Public Sector16 May 2025 | 12

America’s consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown

Crooks must be licking their lips at the possibilities

Personal Tech16 May 2025 | 9

Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'

Agitprop? Protest? An attempt to suck up to the boss?

AI + ML16 May 2025 | 83

Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard

Python, TypeScript, Azure SDK devs among those let go

Software16 May 2025 | 26

Dems are upset about DOGE's IRS hackathon, but the IRS says it never happened

Tax bods characterize it more as a brainstorming session, says Elon's unit wasn't involved

Public Sector16 May 2025 | 13

Apple slams door on Fortnite's stateside iOS comeback

Epic's latest submission blocked right after CEO offered truce with Cupertino

Personal Tech16 May 2025 | 23

Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg

Extending all the dumped devices' lives by 12 months? Like taking 2M cars off the road each year

Personal Tech16 May 2025 | 38

AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge

CEO warns energy demands will overwhelm grid without extra generation capacity

AI Infrastructure Month16 May 2025 | 47

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 | 11

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 | 48

UK government overrules local council’s datacenter refusal on Green Belt land

DPM signs off 96MW bit barn, citing national policy shift

AI Infrastructure Month16 May 2025 | 34

Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India

Cupertino's plan to spend $500bn stateside wasn’t enough to placate the tycoon of tariffs

Public Sector16 May 2025 | 50

Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress

Every shipment you make, every FLOP you generate, Uncle Sam will be watching you

AI Infrastructure Month15 May 2025 | 25

Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%

Surely Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric has nothing to do with it

On-Prem15 May 2025 | 43

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'

Cyber-crime15 May 2025 | 14

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

OSes15 May 2025 | 228

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

AI Infrastructure Month15 May 2025 | 19

Popular

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

Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos

Linux 6.15 is coming along nicely too, unless autocorrect messes things up

NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix

Failure could've triggered a small explosion

Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection

Exclusive Claims policy change is really just a way to squeeze out competition

As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database

EUVD comes into play not a moment too soon

CISA mutes own website, shifts routine cyber alerts to Musk’s X, RSS, email

Updated Cripes, we were only joking when we called Elon's social network the new state media

VPN Secure parent company CEO explains why he had to axe thousands of 'lifetime' deals

Admits due diligence fell short - furious users cry ‘gaslighting’

Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare

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

Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz

All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense now

MORE
STORIES

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

AI Infrastructure Month14 May 2025 | 5

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

Public Sector14 May 2025 | 41

Uncle Sam pulls $2.4B Leidos deal to support CISA after rival alleges foul play

Nightwing claims insider intel helped secure lucrative CISA work but US says decision is unrelated

Public Sector14 May 2025 | 4

Intel needs external foundry customers to make 14A process node pay off

Ailing chip giant targets 2027 break-even as costly EUV tools raise stakes

Systems14 May 2025 | 8

Intel Xeon 6 CPUs make their name in AI, HPC

There isn’t a datacenter workload whose performance or efficiency isn’t improved by using Xeon 6 chips

Partner content

Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb

'Legitimate interest' won't wash, says privacy outfit, as Zuck's org claims activists want to 'delay AI innovation'

AI + ML14 May 2025 | 71

VPN Secure parent company CEO explains why he had to axe thousands of 'lifetime' deals

Admits due diligence fell short - furious users cry ‘gaslighting’

Networks14 May 2025 | 74

Go ahead and ignore Patch Tuesday – it might improve your security

No rush, according to Gartner chap who says: 'Nobody has ever out-patched threat actors at scale'

Patches14 May 2025 | 32

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 | 6

Everyone's deploying AI, but no one's securing it – what could go wrong?

CYBERUK Crickets as senior security folk asked about risks at NCSC conference

CSO14 May 2025 | 21

Post Office finally throttles delayed in-house EPOS project

Troubled state biz tenders £410M software and DC-to-cloud migration plan, goodbye to Fujitsu on the Horizon

Public Sector14 May 2025 | 34

EuroHPC lines up AI upgrade for Leonardo supercomputer

Updated And it's Eviden who has no reason to moan over LISA upgrade - though questions over funding remain

AI Infrastructure Month14 May 2025 | 2

Ransomware scum have put a target on the no man's land between IT and operations

Defenses are weaker, and victims are more likely to pay, SANS warns

CSO14 May 2025 | 16

US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree

Prince Mohammed bin Bone Saw will take a few hundred thousand GPUs with his missiles and fighter jets

AI Infrastructure Month14 May 2025 | 46

NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now

Court orders halt to layoffs – as folks steering American innovation wonder how long injunction will last

Science14 May 2025 | 8

Trump ends Biden-era dream to cap US AI chip exports

Ding dong, diffusion is dead

AI Infrastructure Month13 May 2025 | 11

Intel's data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet again

ETH Zurich boffins exploit branch prediction race condition to steal info from memory, fixes have mild perf hit

Research13 May 2025 | 5

Microsoft boots 3% of staff in latest cull, middle managers first in line

Redmond talks up new technologies, capabilities for productivity ... just don’t call it AI

Software13 May 2025 | 26

Commvault fixes critical Command Center issue after flaw finder alert

Pay-to-play security on CVSS 10 issue is now fixed

Patches13 May 2025 |

Judge puts two-week pause on Trump's mass government layoffs

But the government may be ignoring it anyway

Public Sector13 May 2025 | 72

AMD is Ryzen to the SMB occasion with a bundle of baby Epycs

The House of Zen’s low-end enterprise strategy is badge engineering at its best

AI Infrastructure Month13 May 2025 | 13

Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos

Linux 6.15 is coming along nicely too, unless autocorrect messes things up

OSes13 May 2025 | 98

Amazon tested warehouse robots and found they're not ready to replace humans

Rise of the machines postponed ... for now

AI + ML13 May 2025 | 30

Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz

All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense now

CxO12 May 2025 | 46

CISA mutes own website, shifts routine cyber alerts to Musk’s X, RSS, email

Updated Cripes, we were only joking when we called Elon's social network the new state media

Security12 May 2025 | 53

FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart

Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left off

Storage12 May 2025 | 8

US, China agree to roll back tariffs – but only for 90 days

world war fee IT projects may remain in limbo due to deal being far from final, but markets are up, so Trump'll declare a win

Personal Tech12 May 2025 | 50

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

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

Software12 May 2025 | 90

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

AI + ML12 May 2025 | 113

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

UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans

France's share of MOD cash is growing while the US's shrinks

Offbeat10 May 2025 | 78

Nip chip smugglers by building trackers into GPUs, US Senator suggests

On-Prem09 May 2025 | 73

US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties

DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom

Science09 May 2025 | 81

US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check

Price tag unknown

Public Sector09 May 2025 | 108

Tech titans: Wanna secure US AI leadership? Stop giving the world excuses to buy Chinese

Execs from AMD, Microsoft, and OpenAI tear into profit busting AI diffusion rules

AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 22

Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI

This BS ends at some point, right?

AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 47

If Google is forced to give up Chrome, what happens next?

Opinion It's going to be very, very interesting in a 'May you live in interesting times' way

Software09 May 2025 | 74

People find amazing ways to break computers. Cats are even more creative

On Call PC repair chap turned pet detective to diagnose the defective

Personal Tech09 May 2025 | 144

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

Why complex networks need additional support

Network ops, maintenance issues don’t solve themselves – AI-powered automation can help deal with them

Sponsored feature

Stop Pakistani content at the border, India tells media, tech biz

Songs, social network vids threaten national security, apparently

Public Sector08 May 2025 | 12

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

‘Infuriated’, ‘disappointed' ... Ex-VMware customers explain why they migrated to Nutanix

Next As Broadcom flings legal nastygrams at its own punters

Virtualization08 May 2025 | 38

OpenAI drafts Instacart boss as CEO of Apps to lure in the normies

A B2B, API move this ain't, in our view

AI + ML08 May 2025 | 8

Arm says it isn’t worried by tariffs, but won't give guidance for FY'26

World War Fee No direct impact on royalty, licensing biz but device end demand in firing line

Systems08 May 2025 | 3

Arista cats purr over $2B quarter while tariff time bomb ticks

World War Fee Networking biz cashes in on AI hysteria, warns trade tensions could disrupt supply and margins

Networks08 May 2025 | 2

Nvidia boss gets 45% pay bump, but is the billionaire happy?

Jenson Huang's compensation package swells to $49.8M, firm reveals younger Huangs on the payroll too

Systems08 May 2025 | 20

Elon Musk’s xAI to pull about half of its smog-belching turbines powering Colossus

Updated Newly completed substation will help bear the load

AI Infrastructure Month08 May 2025 | 40

India ready to greenlight Starlink – as long as it lets New Delhi censor, snoop

Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity

Networks07 May 2025 | 10

Apple exec sends Google shares plunging as he calls AI the new search

Updated Eddy Cue tells DC court Safari to rope in Anthropic, OpenAI and co

Personal Tech07 May 2025 | 45

You'll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection

We were shocked – SHOCKED – by the answer

Security07 May 2025 | 58

90-second Newark blackout exposes parlous state of US air traffic control

United Airlines canceling flights as chaos mounts

Networks07 May 2025 | 58

Human error and power glitches to blame for most outages

Blackouts less frequent in 2024, still a PITA when the datacenter downtime demons visit

AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 8

Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

Comment Windows 11's hardware requirements: Sales ploy or security play?

Personal Tech07 May 2025 | 140

Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support

Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped

OSes07 May 2025 | 74

Citrix finds new use for virtualization: Avoiding PC price hikes caused by tariffs

World War Fee Seeing as IT giant's CEO is big at DOGE, this is delicious

Virtualization07 May 2025 | 28

New Zealand kind-of moves to ban social media for under-16s, require age checks for new accounts

Prime Minister bemoans bullying, addiction, and inappropriate content – but isn’t planning a rapid vote

Public Sector07 May 2025 | 30

Trump's trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev

But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off

AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 4

Trump's wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington

We'd be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech's renewable energy ambitions aren't known in the White House

On-Prem07 May 2025 | 62

Feeling dumb? Let Google's latest AI invention simplify that wordy writing for you

Zog brain hurt. Zog want Google help make read easier

AI + ML06 May 2025 | 41

Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower

What was the plan, showing her his big iron?

AI Infrastructure Month06 May 2025 | 79

FYI: Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM, LOL

Just 1 in 4 bets paying off so far

AI + ML06 May 2025 | 14

Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying, opens fire on open source

(If only that would keep folks off unsanctioned chat app side quests)

Public Sector06 May 2025 | 75

Palantir loves the smell of DOGE budget cuts in the morning

Data giant backs federal austerity push, saying it's 'the right thing' for US

Databases06 May 2025 | 33

Cerebras CEO actually finds common ground with Nvidia as startup notches IBM win

Feldman calls US's AI Diffusion rules ‘bad policy’

AI Infrastructure Month06 May 2025 | 1

Brain-inspired neuromorphic computer SpiNNaker overheated when coolers lost their chill

Exclusive Too much hot air brings down Manchester Uni based neural network project

AI Infrastructure Month06 May 2025 | 29

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

CISA slammed for role in 'censorship industrial complex' as budget faces possible $500M cut

Because who needs cybersecurity when there’s culture wars to win

Public Sector06 May 2025 | 38

IT pros are caught between an AI rock and an economic hard place

Tech gigs slide, or so this analysis of US jobs data claims

On-Prem05 May 2025 | 18

Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess

Updated No, really? That's a shocking surprise

Security05 May 2025 | 38

Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’

Hails DOGE operatives for computer skills during interview in which he also flubbed some tech investment figures

Public Sector05 May 2025 | 73

India’s chipmaking ambitions hurt by Zoho’s no-go and Adani unease

Asia in brief PLUS: China spring cleans its AIs; South Korea fines Meta, probes Broadcom; and more!

Public Sector05 May 2025 | 7

Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way

Proposed cuts would mean: No Lunar Gateway, Artemis hardware to retire, ISS toast in 2030

Science02 May 2025 | 121

Meta blames Trump tariffs for ballooning AI infra bills

World War Fee Capex could jump by $7B to $72B, Zuckercorp says

AI Infrastructure Month02 May 2025 | 36

Can't get no satisfaction in cyber recovery? Minimum viability is the answer

You might find you can get what you need. At least with a little planning

Sponsored feature

Raspberry Pi slices Compute Module 4 prices

Grab more headroom with the 4 and 8 GB variants

Personal Tech02 May 2025 | 20

TikTok fined €530M after EU user data ends up on servers in China

Ireland privacy watchdog says transfers violated GDPR, as Chinese app confirms €1B datacenter in Finland

Personal Tech02 May 2025 | 17

UK's smaller broadband operators face tough road ahead, consolidation possible

Report into alternative networks says competition with BT and co making life harder than ever

Networks02 May 2025 | 47

Techie solved supposed software problem by waving his arms in the air

On Call Used his loaf and found sweet solution for bakery borkage

On-Prem02 May 2025 | 125

The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT

About Us

Our Websites

Your Privacy

Situation Publishing

Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2025