WD escapes half a billion in patent damages as judge trims award to $1 SPEX Technologies still gets the win, but failed to 'adequately tie a dollar amount' to infringing acts, says order Storage24 Jun 2025 | 5
Mozilla rolls out Firefox 140 with ESR status and fresh features Say hello to a year's support, but bid goodbye to Pocket Software24 Jun 2025 | 2
HPE puts all its chips in the agentic AI pot HPE Discover 2025 Another OEM has decided we're now in the agentic AI age AI + ML24 Jun 2025 |
Bezos beams up batch two as Project Kuiper plays catch-up with Starlink ULA's Atlas V deploys second load of Amazon's broadband satellites Networks24 Jun 2025 | 3
Google faces UK clampdown as watchdog floats market power rules CMA roadmap outlines potential restrictions on how ad slinger operates in the country Personal Tech24 Jun 2025 | 4
Datacenter market offers us captive customer base, say investors AI boom sparks surge in bit barn funding as firms tout high barriers and sticky clients On-Prem24 Jun 2025 | 1
China’s trying to slim down, which will fatten the smartwatch market Sales are already surging thanks to Beijing's subsidies and Trump's tariffs Personal Tech24 Jun 2025 | 14
Lenovo shows what a Chromebook packing a MediaTek Kompanio Ultra can do Nothing startling, even with Google’s AI extras Personal Tech24 Jun 2025 | 17
America and Britain gear up with Project Flytrap to bring anti-drone kit to the battlefield video Prepping to fight the next war, not the last one Public Sector23 Jun 2025 | 14
Huawei's latest notebook shows China is still generations behind in chipmaking Kirin X90 SoC made on two-year-old 7nm N+2 process Systems23 Jun 2025 | 37
Empire State to site 1 GW nuke as AI bit barns guzzle power It would be the first major US nuclear plant built in over 15 years Systems23 Jun 2025 | 20
Wolfspeed to file for Chapter 11 in deal cutting 70% of debt Power chip biz to hand over equity to lenders, wipe out most shareholders, and keep running during restructuring Systems23 Jun 2025 | 10
Economists sceptical over UK Spending Review's partly AI-driven 10% budget cuts MPs hear doubts over efficiency savings that are reliant on speculative gains from IT, machine learning Public Sector23 Jun 2025 | 26
The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world Opinion Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off On-Prem23 Jun 2025 | 9
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown Who, Me? And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else On-Prem23 Jun 2025 | 138
Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers Networks23 Jun 2025 | 44
US patent office wants an AI to scan for prior art, but doesn't want to pay for it 'The selected vendor must be willing to receive consideration that is primarily non-monetary,' says the USPTO AI + ML20 Jun 2025 | 43
Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti Science20 Jun 2025 | 9
AI gives the sleeping network switch market a good kick Q1 revenue jumps to $11.7B, with 400 and 800 GbE driving the spike Networks20 Jun 2025 | 2
OVHcloud chief talks up sovereignty discussions with the European Commision ... And then promptly deletes comment. Optimism or an opportunity? Or perhaps both PaaS + IaaS20 Jun 2025 | 9
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown Who, Me? And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else
Former US Army Sergeant pleads guilty after amateurish attempt at selling secrets to China Infosec in brief PLUS: 5.4M healthcare records leak; AI makes Spam harder to spot; Many nasty Linux vulns; and more
Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers
Breaking the nerd internet: Three overlapping generations of tech history – in one selfie Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Dave Cutler have dinner
Huawei's latest notebook shows China is still generations behind in chipmaking Kirin X90 SoC made on two-year-old 7nm N+2 process
Experts count staggering costs incurred by UK retail amid cyberattack hell Cyber Monitoring Centre issues first severity assessment since February launch
Typhoon-like gang slinging TLS certificate 'signed' by the Los Angeles Police Department Chinese crew built 1,000+ device network that runs on home devices then targets critical infrastructure
Iran cyberattacks against US biz more likely following air strikes Plus 'low-level' hacktivist attempts
'Psylo' browser tries to obscure digital fingerprints by giving every tab its own IP address Gotta keep 'em separated so the marketers and snoops can't come out and play
The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world Opinion Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off
DHS warns of sharp rise in Chinese-made signal jammers it calls 'tools of terrorism' Seizures up 830% since 2021, with devices linked to interference in emergency responses Networks20 Jun 2025 | 36
Attack on Oxford City Council exposes 21 years of election worker data Services coming back online after legacy systems compromised Cyber-crime20 Jun 2025 | 24
Remembering when NASA stuck a Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747 'Black side down,' Lego style Bootnotes20 Jun 2025 | 62
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Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work Probe into how to implement social media ban finds privacy risks, developer overreach, infosec uncertainties Personal Tech20 Jun 2025 | 36
AFRINIC election proceeds after ICANN’s attempt to replace officials fails Regulator remains concerned about election integrity Legal20 Jun 2025 | 4
ZTE supports AI with full-stack IT offering Company expands from telco origins to support compute-hungry use cases Partner content
China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar Expects Huawei to start exporting AI chips soon, creating global fight for tech stack dominance Public Sector20 Jun 2025 | 35
Japan's sequel to Fugaku supercomputer will be Arm'd to the teeth Fujitsu picked to build system using 'MONAKA-X' CPUs Systems19 Jun 2025 | 5
Interactive IEA tracker shows where AI is guzzling the most energy Observatory maps datacenter hubs and power demand worldwide Systems19 Jun 2025 | 4
UK gov asks university boffins to pinpoint cyber growth areas where it should splash cash Good to see government that values its academics (cough cough). Plus: New board criticized for lacking 'ops' people Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 11
Space manufacturing company Varda gets clearance to launch more uncrewed capsules UPDATED Startup has already shown how to make drugs in space Science19 Jun 2025 | 2
Europe slams online tat bazaar AliExpress for dodging obligation to stop dodgy traders Illegal products abound on Chinese site and its processes to stop ‘em are hopeless Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 42
Iran’s internet goes offline for hours amid claims of ‘enemy abuse’ Bank and crypto outfits hit after Israeli commander mentioned attacks expanding to ‘other areas’ Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 13
Nvidia bets on Gates-backed nuclear startup to keep its AI ambitions from melting down $650M funding round aims to bring TerraPower's Natrium power plant in Wyoming online by 2030 Science18 Jun 2025 | 14
Military-tech upstart Anduril pushes further into NATO with German arms maker deal Move fast and blow things up Systems18 Jun 2025 | 13
Judge smacks down Pentagon plan to slash university research funding awards Sec Def Hegseth says funds better spent elsewhere, because it's not like the military needs new tech, right? Public Sector18 Jun 2025 | 23
European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones Are they using it to death then locking it in a drawer? Schemes needed as shipments of refurbed kit dips Personal Tech18 Jun 2025 | 120
Training AI on Mastodon posts? The idea's extinct after terms updated Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 9
Logitech's latest keyboard and mouse combo is wired, quiet, and suspiciously sensible For that laptop feel without the laptop Personal Tech18 Jun 2025 | 107
Pulsant and Nine23 offer sovereign service for UK govt, regulated sectors Amid growing unease that US may compel cloud providers to hand over European data Systems18 Jun 2025 | 8
Trump administration set to waive TikTok sell-or-die deadline for a third time Quick reminder: The law that banned the app is called ‘Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’ Public Sector18 Jun 2025 | 45
Dems hyperventilate about Palantir's work with the IRS in letter to CEO Karp They're taking the data from IRSengard, claim Dems; officials tell us that's not true Public Sector17 Jun 2025 | 41
Apple dodges Optis patent payout for now as judge orders a do-over Third time's a charm? Personal Tech17 Jun 2025 | 7
Intel reportedly chips away at fab workforce – but hey, maybe there's a tax break coming Layoffs loom at Foundry biz despite CHIPS Act relief on the horizon Systems17 Jun 2025 | 9
Rack scale is on the rise, but it's not for everyone... yet Analysis Still buying B200s and MI300Xs? Don't feel bad, Nvidia and AMD's NVL72 and Helios rack systems aren't really for the enterprise anyway Systems17 Jun 2025 |
UK MoD pauses £92M Oracle Fusion contract amid project governance review Last of Whitehall-wide ERP overhaul will not kick off until next year Databases17 Jun 2025 | 5
Doomed UK smartphone maker Bullitt Group finally liquidated Preferred and secured creditors walk away with nothing Personal Tech17 Jun 2025 | 20
Microsoft brings 365 suite on-prem as part of sovereign cloud push Mostly aimed at Europe and its increasingly nervous users Software17 Jun 2025 | 40
AFRINIC election delayed after ISP Association wins injunction over voter rights UPDATED Polling was supposed to start on Monday - moved to Wednesday after court revisited the case Legal17 Jun 2025 | 2
Defense Department signs OpenAI for $200 million 'frontier AI' pilot project DoD says deal covers 'warfighting'. OpenAI merely mentions healthcare and 'supporting proactive cyber defense' Public Sector17 Jun 2025 | 6
Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone MAGA MVNO and the gold-plated telephone of destiny Personal Tech16 Jun 2025 | 76
Microsoft adds export option to Windows Recall in Europe Updated But lose your code and it's gone for good OSes16 Jun 2025 | 19
BT chief says AI could deliver more job cuts, hints at Openreach sell-off As others roll back use of tech due to quality, customers preferring to talk to humans AI + ML16 Jun 2025 | 26
Northern Ireland government confirms it did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for project Exclusive Scandal-hit IT giant said it wouldn't take on new UK.gov contracts or continue bidding on existing ones unless asked Public Sector16 Jun 2025 | 32
Armored cash transport trucks allegedly hauled money for $190 million crypto-laundering scheme Asia In Brief PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more Cyber-crime16 Jun 2025 | 3
US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201 Public Sector13 Jun 2025 | 28
AST just got a small boost in its D2C battle against Elon Musk's Starlink But the five-satellite upstart has a short time window Networks13 Jun 2025 | 4
Enterprise AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud customers Please insert another million dollars to continue PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2025 | 9
PCIe 7.0 specs finalized at 512 GBps bandwidth, PCIe 8.0 in the pipeline Work on next gen already underway, while bandwidth needs for datacenters just keep rising Networks13 Jun 2025 | 6
Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks Zero-day potentially tied to around 100 suspected infections in 2025 and a spyware scandal on the continent Security13 Jun 2025 | 18
The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives Feature Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts The State of Storage13 Jun 2025 | 32
User demanded a ‘wireless’ computer and was outraged when its battery died On Call Abusive manager had to be told there's no such thing as an atomic laptop Personal Tech13 Jun 2025 | 212
UK dumps £2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions UPDATED STEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished Science13 Jun 2025 | 102
I'm just a Barbie Girl in a ChatGPT world Mattel-OpenAI deal paves the way for an AI beach-off AI + ML13 Jun 2025 | 26
Ease the seat back and watch some video in your car with next Apple CarPlay Only while parked Personal Tech12 Jun 2025 | 28
US auditors beg Pentagon to pay attention to latest report about IT system flaws The DoD has ignored many past recommendations Public Sector12 Jun 2025 | 3
TSMC strengthens Japan ties with joint R&D lab in Tokyo University collab underscores pivot to Asia amid unpredictable US policy Systems12 Jun 2025 | 1
AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030 Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it gets European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 6
AMD preps rack-scale Helios systems to contend with Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL144 House of Zen's biggest iron yet boasts 72 MI400 GPUs, 260 TBps of UALink bandwidth, and 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4 European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 |
CISA loses another senior exec - and the budget cuts haven't even started yet Another one bites the dust at America's top cybersecurity agency Public Sector12 Jun 2025 | 4
AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled monster built to battle Nvidia's Blackwell And the House of Zen wants to put 128 of them in your rack European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 8
Amazon has changed its nuclear deal in Pennsylvania to bypass grumpy regulators New front-of-the-meter agreement avoids direct delivery snag that drew regulator pushback Systems12 Jun 2025 | 11
Nvidia hits the gas on autonomous vehicle software GTC Paris DRIVE stack promises safer roads and smarter cars – eventually Personal Tech12 Jun 2025 | 5
UK Spending Review prescribes £10B digital remedy for NHS Between a borrowing rock and a fiscal hard place, Labour chases efficiency Public Sector12 Jun 2025 | 7
'Major compromise' at NHS temping arm exposed gaping security holes Exclusive Incident responders suggested sweeping improvements following Active Directory database heist Cyber-crime12 Jun 2025 | 18
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US Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier crew left half-fed by contractor-locked ovens Army joins in push to break vendor grip on military maintenance Public Sector11 Jun 2025 | 175
SiPearl ships reference node design for Rhea1 high-spec Arm chip Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks European Supercomputing11 Jun 2025 | 1
UK bets big (and small) on nuclear as datacenter demand expected to climb £14.2B Sizewell C among the investments along side Small Modular Reactors Systems11 Jun 2025 | 53
UK govt promises digital reform in spending review. We've heard that before Opinion How much wishful thinking has entered the pipeline will come to light in 2027 Public Sector11 Jun 2025 | 13
Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside European Supercomputing11 Jun 2025 | 3
Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub Updated The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don't worry – we captured backups AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 48
Cisco Borgs all its management tools into a single Cloud Control console Cisco Live Not just a salve for netadmins – this is also a play to ensure Switchzilla is AI-relevant Networks10 Jun 2025 | 5
Judge cites big OPM records leaks from 2015 in DOGE slapdown Federal court blocks further data sharing, blasts lack of safeguards Public Sector10 Jun 2025 | 3
Trump guts digital ID rules, claims they help 'illegal aliens' commit fraud Also axes secure software mandates - optional is the new secure, apparently Security10 Jun 2025 | 67
Cloud brute-force attack cracks Google users' phone numbers in minutes Chocolate Factory fixes issue, pays only $5K Security10 Jun 2025 | 7
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Huawei founder says USA overestimates its semiconductor prowess Ren Zhengfei says his company is a generation behind, but he knows Huawei to catch up Systems10 Jun 2025 | 16
China orders trial of aged care robots that can cook, clean, and provide emotional support Elon Musk suggested this to Beijing years ago AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 28
ICANN waves hands in protest at AFRINIC election arrangement Worries lawyers overseeing poll may have disqualifying entanglements Legal09 Jun 2025 | 3
As AI gallops through the federal workforce, lawmakers once again call for expanded training The last effort never went anywhere Public Sector09 Jun 2025 | 6
Omni-Path is back on the AI and HPC menu in a new challenge to Nvidia's InfiniBand After a five-year hiatus, Cornelis' interconnect returns at 400Gbps, with Ethernet support next European Supercomputing09 Jun 2025 |
Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame Video Services locked down in America's second-largest city Bootnotes09 Jun 2025 | 75
UK's Isambard-AI super powers up as government goes AI crazy Brace yourselves Britain, PM Keir Starmer's challenged his teams: 'show me how they can use AI' European Supercomputing09 Jun 2025 | 50
US lawmakers fire back a response to Trump's NASA cuts Big expensive Moon rockets = good. Science = yeah, whatever Science09 Jun 2025 | 18
Europe's cloud datacenter ambition 'completely crazy' says SAP CEO Christian Klein sees little benefit from trying to compete with the dominant hyperscalers On-Prem09 Jun 2025 | 63
Microsoft cuts the Windows 11 bloat for Xbox handhelds If gamers can have a slimline version of the OS, why not IT admins? OSes09 Jun 2025 | 39
Floppy disks and paper strips lurk behind US air traffic control Not to worry nervous flyers, FAA vows to banish archaic systems... in a few years The State of Storage09 Jun 2025 | 47
Alphawave Semi swallowed in Qualcomm's $2.4B connectivity conquest Another tech biz to be Yanked from London Stock Exchange Systems09 Jun 2025 | 4