Microsoft wants to stick adverts in Bing chat responses Hey Bing, help me find a new browser, er, AI chatbot Personal Tech30 Mar 2023 | 4
Korea passes tax break-driven 'Chips Act' as protectionism fears mount Plus: Complains criteria for foreign companies to access US funding too strict. It's not a great sign, is it? Systems30 Mar 2023 | 1
Intel successfully ships an updated datacenter roadmap What's coming up in 2023 and beyond Systems30 Mar 2023 |
TikTok: Is this really a national security scare or is something else going on? Register Kettle Our vultures who cover the news weigh in Personal Tech30 Mar 2023 | 29
Airbus pulls up hard, no longer buying 29.9% stake in Atos-owned Evidian Under pressure from activist investor, top brass agree to plot new course Systems30 Mar 2023 | 1
SK hynix CEO says CHIPS Act red tape may be too sticky to bother Updated Korean chipmaker created an org to keep it ahead of geopolitical messes On-Prem30 Mar 2023 |
Diving DRAM prices are a problem not even AI can solve Analysts just don't see digi-brains making a difference to dismal demand that's caused deep discounting Systems29 Mar 2023 | 9
Lockheed Martin launches biz to build lunar satellite network Crescent Space will be 'well positioned' to get a piece of NASA's cash pie, no contract yet Networks29 Mar 2023 | 1
US bans good for Chinese chipmakers, and bad for us, says Taiwanese rival Beijing investing locally in advanced nodes will mean it buys locally, says MediaTek chairman Systems29 Mar 2023 | 13
Micron writes off $1.43B in inventory as sales dive, claims only way is up AIs are going to need memory and storage silicon, you know Systems29 Mar 2023 | 6
Germany sours on Microsoft again, launches antitrust review Welcome to the club, says Google, Meta, and Amazon On-Prem29 Mar 2023 | 27
Intel pours Raptor Lake chips into latest NUC Mini PC line Big is not always beautiful Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 13
SHEIN has the look of America's next tech-meets-geopolitics fit-up Chinese fast fashion vendor could be this season's TikTok thanks to alleged tax evasion, slave labour, toxic goods, and an outsized carbon footprint Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 17
Apple sued for allegedly firing, threatening union organizers iGiant urged to think different about workers' rights Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 25
US cyber spymaster calls TikTok China's 'Trojan horse' It's not a smoking gun, it's 'a loaded gun' suggests NSA's Rob Joyce Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 29
Amazon opens its ad-hoc Wi-Fi-sipping Sidewalk mesh to all manner of gadgets A reminder you can still opt-out Networks28 Mar 2023 | 33
Nexperia claims Newport Wafer may close if sale goes ahead Staff may head for exit, followed by customers, it would 'decimate' ops, says CEO Systems28 Mar 2023 | 5
For whom the bell polls: Twitter voting is for Blue users only now Opinion Is there a role for a poll for just Blue Tickers, not proles, or is this troll a social media own goal? Personal Tech28 Mar 2023 | 65
APNIC backed off naming naughty nominees after injunction threat Code of conduct complaints were not publicized in case it disrupted voting Networks28 Mar 2023 | 3
Publishers land killer punch on Internet Archive in book copyright court battle Analysis Dot-org vows to appeal after judge decides digitizing printed titles and lending them out isn't fair use Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 46
Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out First version built on 20.04 hits smartphones and tablets of UBPorts fans
Microsoft Defender shoots down legit URLs as malicious Updated Those hoping to use nefarious websites like, er, Zoom are overrun by alerts. Redmond 'investigating'
Apple sued for allegedly firing, threatening union organizers iGiant urged to think different about workers' rights
Google again accused of willfully destroying evidence in Android antitrust battle Updated Starting to see a pattern here? Judge seems to think so
US bans good for Chinese chipmakers, and bad for us, says Taiwanese rival Beijing investing locally in advanced nodes will mean it buys locally, says MediaTek chairman
Warning: Your wireless networks may leak data thanks to Wi-Fi spec ambiguity How someone can nab buffered info, by hook or by kr00k
Amazon opens its ad-hoc Wi-Fi-sipping Sidewalk mesh to all manner of gadgets A reminder you can still opt-out
China urges Apple to improve security and privacy It's a juicy market that welcomes foreign investment, National development boss reminds Tim Cook
Apple patches all the iThings, including iOS 15 hole under attack right now Issue identified in February but owners of older kit weren't warned
Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid Move over, magic crystals – electric syrup is here
Fresh models of Framework modular laptops in the works What to expect? 16 inch model, a desktop case, and both Intel and AMD variants Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 20
OneWeb lofts last batch of satellites to enable global internet service Mission accomplished? Meanwhile Musk's Starlink's V2 sats experience de-orbit-worthy 'issues' Networks27 Mar 2023 | 4
Power to the engineering people Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances are tailor made for complex FEA workloads Sponsored
Botched migration resulted in a great deal: One for the price of two Who Me? Moving premises can have all manner of hidden traps. Here's one to watch for Networks27 Mar 2023 | 79
France bans all recreational apps – including TikTok – from government devices Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 42
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 | 6
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 | 90
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 | 72
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 | 71
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 | 4
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 | 40
Amazon to shutter Digital Photography Review Respected hands-on outlet tossed under the layoff bus Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 47
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 | 127
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
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
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 | 27
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 Sponsored Feature
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 | 136
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 | 31
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 Sponsored Feature
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 | 97
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 ADVERTORIAL
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 Sponsored Feature
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
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 | 108
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