Lenovo has a hunch you’re about to try quitting VMware
Tweaks its hardware to run multiple private cloud stacks, and shift between them
Virtualization13 Jan 2026 |
On-Prem
India demands crypto outfits geolocate customers, get a selfie to prove they’re real
Government is fed up with bad actors using digi-cash to fund dodgy deeds
Public Sector13 Jan 2026 | 2
PC shipments set to hit the buffers as AI guzzles memory
High-margin infrastructure kit takes precedence, leaving laptops and desktops wanting
Systems12 Jan 2026 | 9
IceWM soldiers on while Budgie jumps the Wayland ship
Two new Linux GUIs – plus Phoenix, an experimental new X server in Zig
Software12 Jan 2026 | 3
The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age
Opinion Venezuela today, Taiwan tomorrow? This might be the last good year for buying hardware
Systems12 Jan 2026 | 57
Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on
Tech minister Liz Kendall says the government will back a robust regulatory response
AI + ML12 Jan 2026 | 65
How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom
A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant
OSes12 Jan 2026 | 38
Tories vow to boot under-16s off social media and ban phones in schools
Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch pitches age limits and classroom curbs as fixes for behavior and mental health
Personal Tech12 Jan 2026 | 43
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause
Who, Me? UPSes don’t work without power, or well-designed electricals
Storage12 Jan 2026 | 79
Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine
Labels Rome's comms regulator ‘a quasi-judicial body’ that works on behalf of ‘shadowy, European media cabal’
Legal12 Jan 2026 | 89
India’s government denies it plans to demand smartphone source code
Says ongoing talks about security are about understanding best practice, not strong-arming vendors
Security12 Jan 2026 | 4
Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut
Asia in Brief PLUS: Cambodia arrests alleged scam camp boss; Baidu spins out chip biz; Panasonic’s noodle shop plan; And more!
Legal12 Jan 2026 | 25
Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech
Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence
Software11 Jan 2026 | 78
UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence
ANALYSIS Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation
Cyber-crime10 Jan 2026 | 37
Artificial brains could point the way to ultra-efficient supercomputers
Sandia National Labs cajole Intel's neurochips into solving partial differential equations
HPC09 Jan 2026 | 22
Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot
Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else
OSes09 Jan 2026 | 34
Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info
No naming that tune and no album covers
OSes09 Jan 2026 | 124
Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more
Analysts say production will top out this decade while global electrification keeps ramping
On-Prem09 Jan 2026 | 26
Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on
Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts
Databases09 Jan 2026 | 48
Help desk read irrelevant script, so techies found and fixed their own problem
On Call As you should, when being told the only remedy is deleting everything and starting again
Security09 Jan 2026 | 108
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Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine
Labels Rome's comms regulator ‘a quasi-judicial body’ that works on behalf of ‘shadowy, European media cabal’
AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them
exclusive Poison Fountain project seeks allies to fight the power
Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut
Asia in Brief PLUS: Cambodia arrests alleged scam camp boss; Baidu spins out chip biz; Panasonic’s noodle shop plan; And more!
Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech
Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause
Who, Me? UPSes don’t work without power, or well-designed electricals
Meta admits to Instagram password reset mess, denies data leak
infosec in brief PLUS: Veeam patches critical vuln; Crims bribing dark web insiders; UK school takedown; And more
The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age
Opinion Venezuela today, Taiwan tomorrow? This might be the last good year for buying hardware
How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom
A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant
2026 brings a bumper crop of Microsoft tech funerals
A busy year of end-of-support dates awaits unwary admins
India’s government denies it plans to demand smartphone source code
Says ongoing talks about security are about understanding best practice, not strong-arming vendors
STORIES
Tech that helps people outshone overhyped AI at CES 2026
Opinion Nobody really needs an AI toothbrush that sends their gums to the cloud
Personal Tech09 Jan 2026 | 18
Iran’s internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response
Outages hit Russia and Ukraine, too
Networks09 Jan 2026 | 30
China to probe Meta’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus
Grab some popcorn for the Xi vs Zuck bout, which may not be the biggest fight on the card
AI + ML09 Jan 2026 | 2
While you pay through the nose for memory, Samsung expects to triple its profits in Q4
Memory pricing expected to surge another 60% in Q1 with relief years away
Storage08 Jan 2026 | 10
Pay and pray: Nvidia reportedly wants money up front for Chinese H200 orders
Beijing could green-light sales to select customers as soon as this quarter
Systems08 Jan 2026 |
Why colos are city slickers and hyperscalers are country bumpkins
One wants customers next door, the other wants cheap power
On-Prem08 Jan 2026 | 4
Trump spectrum sale leaves airlines with $4.5B bill for altimeter do-over
Just refreshed to avoid 5G interference? Do it again, FAA tells industry, as Upper C-band auction looms
Networks08 Jan 2026 | 31
CISA flags actively exploited Office relic alongside fresh HPE flaw
Max-severity OneView hole joins a PowerPoint bug that should've been retired years ago
Cyber-crime08 Jan 2026 | 6
AOSP on a diet plan as Google halves Android code drops
Two a year is for your own good, Mountain View insists
OSes08 Jan 2026 | 13
Logitech macOS mouse mayhem traced to expired dev certificate
Company says it dropped the ball, apologizes for wasting people's time
Patches08 Jan 2026 | 48
Cloudflare pours cold water on ‘BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela’ theory
Suggests rotten routing, not evidence of a cyber-strike before kinetic action
Networks08 Jan 2026 | 13
AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far
AMD boasts 1000x higher AI perf by 2027 and pulls the lid off Helios compute tray ahead of 2H 2026 launch
Systems07 Jan 2026 | 14
SanDisk heals WD Black and Blues, rebrands beloved client SSDs
NVMe drives to live on under the Optimus banner
Storage07 Jan 2026 | 14
FAA signs radar deals to drag US air traffic control out of the 1980s
RTX and Indra land contracts as long-delayed overhaul moves ahead
Public Sector07 Jan 2026 | 21
Luggable datacenter: startup straps handles to server with 4 H200 GPUs
Who can lift a 77-pound box into the overhead?
Systems07 Jan 2026 | 20
Virginia's datacenter tax breaks cost state $1.6B in 2025
Trillion-dollar internet giants don't need freebies, watchdog warns, as giveaways double in a year
On-Prem07 Jan 2026 | 9
GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger
Opinion Proposal targets long-standing behavior as 'an X11ism'
OSes07 Jan 2026 | 164
Earlier Horizon rollout could widen net for quashed Post Office convictions
Committee told shifting timelines could alter automatic reversals in UK's historic Fujitsu computing scandal
Public Sector07 Jan 2026 | 33
Ministry of Justice splurged £50M on security – still missed Legal Aid Agency cyberattack
Updated High-risk system compromised long before intrusion was finally spotted
Cyber-crime07 Jan 2026 | 8
Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath
Production halts and supply-chain disruption left luxury automaker reeling in fiscal Q3
Cyber-crime07 Jan 2026 | 16
Recline of the machines: Terminator felled by dodgy battery
Bork!Bork!Bork! The rise will be postponed until you hit F1 to continue
Offbeat07 Jan 2026 | 24
UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go
Department for Work and Pensions lines up bot bouncers for one of Europe's largest call-handling systems
Public Sector07 Jan 2026 | 51
Lenovo shows off new laptops that twist and roll
The company has also redesigned the X1 Carbon’s internals for easier repairs
Personal Tech07 Jan 2026 | 25
What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32
It's crazy, a million-to-one shot, but it might just work
OSes06 Jan 2026 | 198
Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver
Want to shield yourself against ransomware? Accelerate your recovery times. It starts with effective backup storage
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Mem-ageddon: AI chip frenzy to wallop DRAM prices with 70% hike
Samsung and SK hynix readying another gouge as server silicon squeeze leaves PCs and phones out in the cold
Systems06 Jan 2026 | 22
Humongous 52-inch Dell monitor will make you feel like king of the internet with four screens in one
Also: The XPS brand is back
Personal Tech06 Jan 2026 | 75
Crypto wallet shop Ledger confirms customer data lifted in Global-e snafu
Order and contact details accessed via ecommerce partner, and phishing has begun
Cyber-crime06 Jan 2026 | 3
UK urged to unplug from US tech giants as digital sovereignty fears grow
Campaigners say Britain's dependence on Big Tech leaves critical systems exposed to political pressure
PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2026 | 76
Students bag extended Christmas break after cyber hit on school IT
Phones, email, and core systems knocked out at Higham Lane in Nuneaton
Cyber-crime06 Jan 2026 | 26
UK injects just £210M into cyber plan to stop Whitehall getting pwnd
Central government will supposedly be as secure as energy facilities and datacenters under new proposals
Public Sector06 Jan 2026 | 10
Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks
Notebook updates and enterprise tools also inbound from IT giant
Systems06 Jan 2026 | 105
AMD clocks in with higher CPU speeds, leaves architecture untouched
New chips same as the old chips
Systems06 Jan 2026 | 11
Intel unleashes Panther Lake CPUs, first built on 18A process
Company claims its Ultra Series 3 processors will offer the best battery life yet
Personal Tech05 Jan 2026 | 17
Nvidia says it's more than doubled the DGX Spark’s performance since launch
Just maybe not in the way you're thinking
Systems05 Jan 2026 | 1
Every conference is an AI conference as Nvidia unpacks its Vera Rubin CPUs and GPUs at CES
Teasing the next generation earlier than usual
Systems05 Jan 2026 | 3
Qualcomm is determined to cut a slice out of Intel's PC pie with latest Snapdragon chips
Enterprises have been slow to adopt Arm laptops so far
Systems05 Jan 2026 | 13
EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes them
US trade body threatens software and services market access unless European approach changes
Legal05 Jan 2026 | 33
UK's long-delayed Emergency Services Network eyes satellites for help
Direct-to-device services from low Earth orbit floated to plug coverage gaps
Public Sector05 Jan 2026 | 9
Capita tells civil servants to wait for chatbots to fix pension portal woes
Exclusive Outsourcer promises customers a service with 'AI at its core.' They just want a website that works
Public Sector05 Jan 2026 | 79
New Zealand orders review into ManageMyHealth cyberattack
Government 'incredibly' concerned about breach potentially affecting more than 100,000 patients
Cyber-crime05 Jan 2026 | 7
Headset hype meets harsh reality as Apple and Meta VR shipments fizzle in 2025
But how about some smart glasses instead?
Personal Tech02 Jan 2026 | 48
Finnish cops grill crew of ship suspected of undersea cable sabotage
EU 'closely monitoring' along with NATO as state action suspected but not confirmed
Networks02 Jan 2026 | 55
Google snaps up datacenter power biz Intersect while xAI plans more capacity
The AI era needs more juice
Systems02 Jan 2026 | 3
Starlink to lower orbits of thousands of satellites over safety concerns
Move will see spacecraft shift from 550 km to 480 km as collision risks rise
Networks02 Jan 2026 | 51
Satellite radio transmissions are jamming telescopes and driving astronomers batty
Interview 'What do we need to do better?' El Reg talks to comms boss about the problem
Science01 Jan 2026 | 22
Nvidia DMs TSMC: Please sir can I have some more? The Chinese are starved for H200s
GPUzilla has reportedly received orders for more than two million units
Systems31 Dec 2025 | 11
US Army seeks human AI officers to manage its battle bots
What, weekend warriors from Silicon Valley not good enough?
Public Sector31 Dec 2025 | 9
IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world, but don't call it a failure
Feature The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant
Networks31 Dec 2025 | 238
Everybody has a theory about why Nvidia dropped $20B on Groq - they're mostly wrong
El Reg speculates about what GPUzilla really gets out of the deal
Systems31 Dec 2025 | 24
The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere
Opinion From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear
Software31 Dec 2025 | 250
ServiceNow lays out possible co-CEO structure, but says no change imminent
The ITSM outfit would join Oracle, Comcast, and Netflix in installing bunk beds in the corner office
CxO30 Dec 2025 | 11
Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer
The deal negotiated in September locked Nvidia into a purchase price of $23 per share. Intel shares traded at $36 on Monday
Systems29 Dec 2025 | 20
Imagine there's no AI. It's easy if you try
Four completely non-AI-related trends that will shape the future
Systems29 Dec 2025 | 40
How California built one of the world's biggest public-sector IT systems
20 years, multiple delays, and millions of dollars later, FI$Cal is live – mostly
Public Sector29 Dec 2025 | 24
Europe's cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age
Feature Countries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground
PaaS + IaaS29 Dec 2025 | 60
ZTE wins dual awards at PMI Malaysia 2025 for driving digital future with innovative management models
ZTE recognised for delivering Malaysia’s largest cloud-based 5G core network integration
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Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner passes, aged 83
Oversaw a significant resurgence in Big Blue’s fortunes during the dotcom era
On-Prem29 Dec 2025 | 32
China wants to ban making yourself into an AI to keep aged relatives company
Asia In Brief PLUS: Australia buys air-gapped Google Cloud; Huawei triples use of home-built components; JAXA blames low pressure for rocket crash; And more
AI + ML29 Dec 2025 | 26
Coming Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed
Smarter access-point handoffs, better scheduling, fewer stalls
Networks26 Dec 2025 | 41
AMD Strix Halo vs Nvidia DGX Spark: Which AI workstation comes out on top?
Hands On Two tiny boxes, 128 GB apiece – but very different strengths
Systems25 Dec 2025 | 11
You don't need Linux to run free and open source software
Part 2 Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows
OSes25 Dec 2025 | 148
Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date
Part 1 Practical steps to make an aging operating system usable into 2026
OSes24 Dec 2025 | 88
US punishes China’s ‘dominance’ of legacy chips with zero percent tariffs
World War Fee President Trump previously threatened 100 percent tariffs, administration now plans something else starting in 2027
Public Sector24 Dec 2025 | 42
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again
Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works
Storage23 Dec 2025 | 107
Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year
Cab drivers protested Uber’s arrival, but Westminster has rolled out the welcome mat for clanker chauffeurs
AI + ML23 Dec 2025 | 71
France’s post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident'
Might be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix
Public Sector23 Dec 2025 | 8
Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China
Shipments still waiting on approval from Beijing
Systems22 Dec 2025 | 13
EU offers UK early gift: Data adequacy until 2031
Relief for those dealing with data pipelines between the two, but move has its critics
Public Sector22 Dec 2025 | 7
The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked
Opinion Something messy happens when the cat hairs of reality meet the shiny hype of smart tech
AI + ML22 Dec 2025 | 125
AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity – but how long can it last?
Total operational capacity just keeps rising
Systems22 Dec 2025 | 3
There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM
SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion
Security22 Dec 2025 | 35
Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan
APAC in Brief PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips ; Hong Kong’s Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more!
Public Sector22 Dec 2025 | 10
NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift
UPDATED Time signals shifted by a tiny amount that only very sensitive users would find upsetting
Security21 Dec 2025 | 87
Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul
We haven't even hit the peak, TechInsights tells El Reg
Storage20 Dec 2025 | 77
DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission
But not Phil Collins, sadly
AI + ML19 Dec 2025 | 32
WatchGuard sounds alarm as critical Firebox flaw comes under active attack
Newly disclosed vulnerability already being abused, users urged to lock down exposed firewalls
Networks19 Dec 2025 | 14
NS&I tech overhaul blows past Treasury spending limits
UK state-owned bank admits revised plan runs beyond contract end with Atos
Public Sector19 Dec 2025 | 23
Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing
How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers
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UK prepares to wave goodbye to 3G telecoms as tri-hard tech retires
Virgin Media the last to go as users of older mobiles warned to upgrade
Networks19 Dec 2025 | 82
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