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 | 3
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 |
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 | 15
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 | 1
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 | 11
US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters Bitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National Laboratory Systems13 Feb 2026 | 10
Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad Personal Tech13 Feb 2026 | 12
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 | 24
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 | 66
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 | 4
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 | 60
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
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
Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware Flaw abused 'in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals'
The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware Open Source Policy Summit 2026 That's not a good idea
AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way
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
OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much Opinion Fanboys think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Devs aren't nearly as won over
Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise
Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock
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
Supply chain attacks now fuel a 'self-reinforcing' cybercrime economy Researchers say breaches link identity abuse, SaaS compromise, and ransomware into a cascading cycle
Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats On Call Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder
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 Someday 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 | 40
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 | 21
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 | 112
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 Partner Content
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 | 151
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
South Korea enlists AI to spot pump and dump schemes on social media, or in Spam Main stock exchange targets shares, government agency looks for crypto crooks Public Sector03 Feb 2026 | 3