China’s FamousSparrow flies back into action, breaches US org after years off the radar Crew also cooked up two fresh SparrowDoor backdoor variants, says ESET Networks27 Mar 2025 |
IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India Big Blue 'might as well move its headquarters' to Bengaluru since it 'no longer prioritizes' America On-Prem27 Mar 2025 | 1
Dems dub Trump cuts to chip export controls a 'gift' to Xi and Putin Concerns over whether Bureau of Industry and Security, which maintains entity list, would be able to do its job Systems27 Mar 2025 | 10
Tech suppliers await final grade as Trump prepares to flunk Department of Education Vendors with millions in federal contracts are watching nervously Public Sector27 Mar 2025 | 9
Newport Wafer Fab rebooted with £250M silicon carbide investment Britain's biggest semiconductor plant to produce EV chips that can take the heat Systems27 Mar 2025 | 3
The passive aggression of connecting USB to PS/2 Your mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse? Personal Tech27 Mar 2025 | 65
Vivaldi bakes Proton VPN into browser to boost privacy Desktop users get free access – assuming they're cool with logging in and limited speeds Networks27 Mar 2025 | 16
Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache Off-Prem27 Mar 2025 | 6
Dell sheds ten percent of staff for the second year in a row Confirmed: 12,000 people let go over 12 months On-Prem27 Mar 2025 | 12
Microsoft walking away from datacenter leases (probably) isn't a sign the AI bubble is bursting Comment Why lease space that can't power or cool 120kW racks - or the next-gen 600kW monsters? Off-Prem26 Mar 2025 | 19
Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat Updated So F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now ... who knew? CSO26 Mar 2025 | 170
US defense contractor cops to sloppy security, settles after infosec lead blows whistle MORSE to pay -- .. .-.. .-.. .. --- -. ... for failing to meet cyber-grade CSO26 Mar 2025 | 8
It's International Datacenter Day for those who colocate, er, celebrate It's not a party until someone builds a bit barn on greenbelt land Offbeat26 Mar 2025 | 1
US closes subsidiary loophole on dozens of Chinese entity list members Bad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies HPC26 Mar 2025 | 4
NCSC taps influencers to make 2FA go viral Who knew social media stars had a role to play in building national cyber resilience? Security26 Mar 2025 | 13
UK satellite smartphone services could get green light this year At last, cell service from SPAAAAAACE Networks26 Mar 2025 | 27
British govt wants to mainline AI, but its arteries are clogged with legacy tech Spending watchdog says digital professionals need seat at top table to ensure 'transformation' Public Sector26 Mar 2025 | 35
India ditches its 'Google Tax', perhaps to tickle Trump and dodge tariffs Binned an e-commerce tax last year so this may not be complete capitulation Public Sector26 Mar 2025 | 5
Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right? Science25 Mar 2025 | 107
Judge halts DOGE's union personal data grab at OPM, Treasury, Education Officials likely broke Privacy Act by dishing out info without consent Public Sector25 Mar 2025 | 52
VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software As rumors swirl about a new 72-core minimum vSphere license requirement
Credible nerd says stop using atop, doesn't say why, everyone panics Bad news about the Linux system monitor may be on the way
Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat Updated So F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now ... who knew?
US defense contractor cops to sloppy security, settles after infosec lead blows whistle MORSE to pay -- .. .-.. .-.. .. --- -. ... for failing to meet cyber-grade
Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right?
Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache
Microsoft walking away from datacenter leases (probably) isn't a sign the AI bubble is bursting Comment Why lease space that can't power or cool 120kW racks - or the next-gen 600kW monsters?
NCSC taps influencers to make 2FA go viral Who knew social media stars had a role to play in building national cyber resilience?
God didn't have a plan for Gelsinger at Intel. Maybe there is one for his new gig, Gloo Updated Chip guru preaches virtues of 'values-aligned' pray-I, sorry, AI. He's also taken a VC gig
UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London As if living in Croydon wasn't bad enough
Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-hee dies of heart attack at 63 The man who helped make Sammy the biggest name in modern tellies CxO25 Mar 2025 | 6
US Army’s laser obsession continues with yet another drone-zapper deal We have one, yes – but what about a second death ray? Public Sector25 Mar 2025 | 56
Alibaba exec warns of overheating AI infrastructure market Joe Tsai says speculative datacenter builds could exceed actual demand On-Prem25 Mar 2025 | 7
4-day work-week pilot due in tech land by early summer Microsoft and Dell keeping quiet on their work-life-balance trials CxO25 Mar 2025 | 35
London's poor 5G blamed on spectrum, investment, and timing of Huawei ban Interview Other cities either started with rival kit, or had Chinese vendor core already built before any bans, says expert Networks25 Mar 2025 | 51
Hm, why are so many DrayTek routers stuck in a bootloop? Time to update your firmware, if you can, to one with the security fixes, cough cough Cyber-crime25 Mar 2025 | 55
Public-facing Kubernetes clusters at risk of takeover thanks to Ingress-Nginx flaw How many K8s systems are sat on the internet front porch like that ... Oh, thousands, apparently Patches25 Mar 2025 | 1
OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts Updated Kari, are you OK, are you OK, Kari? Networks25 Mar 2025 | 92
Top Trump officials text secret Yemen airstrike plans to journo in Signal SNAFU Updated Massive OPSEC fail from the side who brought you 'lock her up' Public Sector24 Mar 2025 | 186
FCC on the prowl for Huawei and other blocked Chinese makers in America Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting rackets Networks24 Mar 2025 | 7
As nation-state hacking becomes 'more in your face,' are supply chains secure? Interview Ex-US Air Force officer says companies shouldn't wait for govt mandates CSO24 Mar 2025 | 9
Raspberry Pi Power-over-Ethernet Injector zaps life into networks lacking spark Official PoE+ HAT+ for the Pi 5 still MIA Networks24 Mar 2025 | 10
Pentagon kills off HR IT project after 780% budget overrun, years of delays $280M of excess spending makes for a ripe - and reasonable - DOGE target Public Sector24 Mar 2025 | 39
23andMe's genes not strong enough to avoid Chapter 11 CEO steps down after multiple failed attempts to take the DNA testing company private Cyber-crime24 Mar 2025 | 44
2 in 5 techies quit over inflexible workplace policies Return to office, hours and intensity of work cited as reasons to walk CxO24 Mar 2025 | 117
Capita's Northern Ireland school IT deal swells to over half a billion after Fujitsu exit Education authority still searching for an alternative after 13 years Public Sector24 Mar 2025 | 19
After three weeks of night shifts, very tired techie broke the UK’s phone network Who, Me? And got away with it when someone else broke it even more comprehensively On-Prem24 Mar 2025 | 74
Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue' Maps Timeline info wanders off forever for users without encrypted backups Personal Tech24 Mar 2025 | 37
Ex-NSA boss: Election security focus helped dissuade increase in Russian meddling with US Interview Plus AI in the infosec world, why CISA should know its place, and more CSO23 Mar 2025 | 43
Museum digs up Digital Equipment Corporation's dusty digital equipment Remembering the fallen giant's first UK office On-Prem22 Mar 2025 | 103
Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA White House touts massive savings, agencies brace for shake-up Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 71
AWS sued by product manager who says she was laid off for being an older woman 'Flawless' team boss claims she was axed after raising alarm over shrinking female leadership ranks Off-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 39
Euro businesses flummoxed by Scope 3 emissions Measuring all the dirty work of the supply chain and other indirect influences? Ugh, just give us the fine On-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 14
Accenture: DOGE's federal procurement review is hurting our sales Share price list slides for top ten consultant to US government Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 47
Feds charge three over Molotov attacks on Tesla sites in multiple states Attorney General warns people tempted to join 'wave of domestic terrorism' Legal21 Mar 2025 | 91
No big changes to UK broadband regs, despite no real competition for BT Regulator reviews wholesale telecoms markets and decides healthy fiber is its biggest concern Networks21 Mar 2025 | 32
Weeks with a BBC Micro? Good enough to fix a mainframe, apparently On Call With only BASIC knowledge to fall back on, and a typing pool in tears, the OFF switch looked very attractive On-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 149
Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport Power outage means no flights for 24 hours. And chaos. Lots of chaos Disaster Recovery Week21 Mar 2025 | 282
Apple hallucinated Siri's future AI features, lawsuit claims Broken commitment to deliver hyped Intelligence upgrade branded false advertising AI + ML21 Mar 2025 | 40
Dept of Defense engineer took home top-secret docs, booked a fishing trip to Mexico – then the FBI showed up So much for that vacation Public Sector20 Mar 2025 | 60
Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder Tough Euro rules on data accuracy apply to AI yammering, formal complaint to watchdog argues AI + ML20 Mar 2025 | 76
Maximizing ROI with integrated SDN Why SDN should be front of mind for IT teams evaluating VMware alternatives Partner Content
Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again Not even the parts want to be associated with Elon's steel monster Personal Tech20 Mar 2025 | 144
Euro semi firms push for 'Chips Act 2.0' to expand beyond manufacturing Industry leaders want broader strategy, citing supply chain gaps, investment needs, and global trade uncertainty Systems20 Mar 2025 | 12
UK's biggest mobile operator starts 3G switchoff, hopes it won't catch out April fools VMO2 starts in the north of England, says it's already contacted 'known vulnerable customers' Networks20 Mar 2025 | 30
AI puts value in data. So how do we get it out? How HPE is helping to manage storage complexity Sponsored Feature
US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space Begun, preparation for orbital wars has Science20 Mar 2025 | 50
SoftBank buys server-grade Arm silicon designer Ampere Computing Japanese tech investor expects its own hyperscalers and e-com giants to collaborate, which could take a bite out of x86 market On-Prem20 Mar 2025 | 5
It looks like IBM is cutting jobs again, with Classic Cloud hit hard We're told thousands may soon get a pink slip from Big Blue On-Prem20 Mar 2025 | 32
HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional Dynamic Security update blocks 3rd-party cartridges, but keeps printing money Legal19 Mar 2025 | 90
EU says Google scroogles app makers, also gives Apple an antitrust must-do-list Chrome colossus accused of tilting search results, blocking cheaper purchases, while iTitan told to open iOS Personal Tech19 Mar 2025 | 9
VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway How much money was going to be saved by ending tech deal with service-disabled veterans, then? Public Sector19 Mar 2025 | 56
Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue' PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 136
Nvidia invests in quantum computing weeks after CEO said it's decades from being useful GTC Qubit awkward, you might say Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 6
Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry Comment Tech channel increases stockpiling amid 'volatile trade policies.' CIOs to get fewer devices for same money Personal Tech19 Mar 2025 | 45
Interview: Praveen Vaidyanathan, VP and GM of Data Center Business, Micron A discussion on scaling the datacenter with the company’s AI memory and storage portfolio Sponsored Interview
Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware Updated Dev behind the GNU-free distro says boards too slow for serious work Systems19 Mar 2025 | 30
Ex-US Cyber Command chief: Europe and 5 Eyes can't fully replicate US intel Cue deepening existential European dread as Rest of World contemplates Trump turning off the info tap Security19 Mar 2025 | 75
Datacenter vacancies hit record low as power shortages stall projects Analysis Supply chain and tariffs issues could spell trouble across multiple markets, warns JLL Systems19 Mar 2025 | 2
'Once in a lifetime' IT outage at city council hit datacenter, but no files lost Services still down and out, but techies working for local government saved the day On-Prem19 Mar 2025 | 57
Schneider Electric plugs into AI's power hunger with Nvidia digital twin tech GTC Because guesswork won't keep the lights on Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 1
Show top LLMs some code and they'll merrily add in the bugs they saw in training One more time, with feeling ... Garbage in, garbage out AI + ML19 Mar 2025 | 33
Non-x86 servers boom even faster than the rest of the AI-infused and GPU-hungry market Analyst finds 91 percent revenue growth with white box makers leading the way Systems19 Mar 2025 | 4
China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust Apparently boosts battery to 20 km range in 10 seconds, although as ever ... YMMV Personal Tech19 Mar 2025 | 149
Trump fires Democrat FTC commissioners, presaging big tech policy shifts Analysis Remaining Republicans don't like the right to repair, non-compete clause ban, or some social media moderation Public Sector19 Mar 2025 | 99
Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks GTC Now that's what we call dense floating-point compute Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 8
CISA fires, now rehires and immediately benches security crew on full pay DOGE efficiency in action Public Sector18 Mar 2025 | 51
Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip GTC HPE and Lenovo also have plans to put Jensen's latest hardware to work Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 49
Nvidia wants to put a GB300 Superchip on your desk with DGX Station, Spark PCs GTC Or a 96 GB RTX PRO in your desktop or server Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 5
Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data GTC Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 2
We heard you like HBM – Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs will have 288 GB of it GTC There goes AMD's capacity advantage Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 8
Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point Web souk hits back at critical study into union drive at package depot Applications18 Mar 2025 | 27
US tech jobs outlook clouded by DOGE cuts, Trump tariffs Hiring remains relatively strong as analysts warn of slowdown Research18 Mar 2025 | 57
Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller now available to mere mortals For when a Pico 2 is just too general purpose Personal Tech18 Mar 2025 | 6
DoorDash sued for allegedly branding customer a fraudster after delivery photo query Dispute over app privacy escalates into legal brawl Applications18 Mar 2025 | 55
AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites SourceHut says it's getting DDoSed by LLM bots AI + ML18 Mar 2025 | 21
Google’s broadband balloon laser comms tech floated out as independent company Another success for the 'Moonshot factory' and an extra rival for Starlink et al Networks18 Mar 2025 | 20
Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database More light shed on what went down with Marko Elez, thanks to NY AG and co's lawsuit CSO17 Mar 2025 | 129
M4 MacBook Air keeps ports modular, locks tight – still a headache to repair Cupertino’s latest skips iPhone repair gains, iFixit says Personal Tech17 Mar 2025 | 29
Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions Public Sector17 Mar 2025 | 107
UK government to open £16B IT services competition after 6-month delay Technology Services 4 framework expands by £4B, with procurement to begin this week Public Sector17 Mar 2025 | 19
OK, Google: Are you killing Assistant and replacing it with Gemini? Yes, we are. And we promise your 'Droid and smart home kit will get a 'new experience' AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 59
China announces plan to label all AI-generated content with watermarks and metadata Asia In Brief PLUS: Foxconn wants 40 percent AI server market share; Atlassian CEO jets into controversy; Starlink reaches 800 million in India; And more! AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 19
RIP Mark Klein, the engineer who exposed US domestic spying ops after wiring it up AT&T engineer, and the Deep Throat of the network age, dies at 79 Networks15 Mar 2025 | 38
Belgian cops raid Huawei in Euro bribery probe Chinese giant says it's 'committed' to obeying the law as arrests made Networks14 Mar 2025 | 11
AI bubble? What AI bubble? Datacenter investors all in despite whispers of a pop Billions continue to pour into bit barns across the globe On-Prem14 Mar 2025 | 39
IBM boss Arvind Krishna pockets 23% pay rise to $25M CEO salary watch What about the average Big Blue worker? $48,582 up from $43,069 Software14 Mar 2025 | 41
Apple's alleged UK encryption battle sparks political and privacy backlash National security defense being used to keep appeal behind closed doors Security14 Mar 2025 | 82
New kids on the ransomware block channel Lockbit to raid Fortinet firewalls It's March already and you haven't patched? Cyber-crime14 Mar 2025 |