Quantum? No solace: Nvidia CEO sinks QC stocks with '20 years off' forecast CES D-Wave, Rigetti, others plummet nearly 50% after Huang says the obvious On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 2
Garmin Connect outage leaves folks unable to share their fitness virtue signaling RUN/STOP Personal Tech08 Jan 2025 | 5
Amazon splashes $11B on AI datacenters in Georgia Peach State already home to more than 50 bit barns On-Prem08 Jan 2025 |
Never mind those Chinese spies: US Air Force picks Verizon for 35 base network upgrades Salt Typhoon? Unpatched network kit? Sorry, I think you're breaking up Networks08 Jan 2025 | 2
AI hype led to an enterprise datacenter spending binge in 2024 that won't last GPUs and generative AI systems so hot right now... yet 'long-term trend remains,' says analyst On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 1
UK digital markets watchdog expects to launch investigations within the month using new powers Regulator will see a 'participative' approach before imposing fines Public Sector08 Jan 2025 | 12
Additional Microprocessors Decoded: Quick guide to what AMD is flinging out next for AI PCs, gamers, business CES Plus: A peek at Nvidia's latest hype Systems08 Jan 2025 | 3
Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of freely licensed advanced chip design Third-gen Xiangshan may be close to performance of Arm’s made-for-HPC Neoverse 2 Systems08 Jan 2025 | 6
Akamai to quit its CDN in China, seemingly not due to trouble from Beijing Security and cloud compute have so much more upside than the boring business of shifting bits Security08 Jan 2025 | 3
US watchdog sticks probe into 2.6M Teslas over so-called Smart Summon crash reports If it's spelled like an A.S.S, acts like an ass, maybe it's just... Software08 Jan 2025 | 22
Uncle Sam now targets six landlord giants in war on alleged algorithmic rent fixing One of ya is gonna sing like a canary, prosecutors say AI + ML08 Jan 2025 | 19
FCC boss urges speedy spectrum auction to fund 'Rip'n'Replace' of Chinese kit Telcos would effectively fund grants paid to protect national security Networks08 Jan 2025 | 11
Now Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68% CES Make America irate again Personal Tech07 Jan 2025 | 112
Zuck takes a page from Musk: Meta dumps fact-checkers, loosens speech restrictions Updated 'We're going to catch less bad stuff,' Facebook tycoon admits, but it's worth it to get Trump off his back Personal Tech07 Jan 2025 | 115
Many people are saying a luxury Dubai property developer will blow $20B on US datacenters A successful real-estate billionaire and Donald Trump walk into a bar... On-Prem07 Jan 2025 | 3
John Deere boasts driverless fleet - who needs operators, anyway? CES Lots of new ways to cut labor costs, no mention of repairability AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 24
Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X chip targets $600 Copilot+ PCs CES Hopes to elbow out competition on Arm-based hardware Systems07 Jan 2025 | 2
UK gives Openreach £289M for 4 rural broadband contracts in 'gigabit by 2030' push Updated Nation's dominant broadband plumber wins ahead of altnets Networks07 Jan 2025 | 28
The unlicensed OneDrive free ride ends this month Kind old Microsoft is worried about security and compliance ... nothing to do with a free storage loophole Storage07 Jan 2025 | 32
Intel debuts laptop silicon that doesn't qualify for Microsoft's 'Copilot+ PC' badge CES TOPS, SCHMOPS, says Chipzilla, our NPUs may be slow but that doesn't matter Systems07 Jan 2025 | 16
Now Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68% CES Make America irate again
DEF CON's hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills after paralyzing neck injury Marc Rogers is 'lucky to be alive'
3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error Worker copy-pasted wrong YouTube URL, says ChainPatrol
The unlicensed OneDrive free ride ends this month Kind old Microsoft is worried about security and compliance ... nothing to do with a free storage loophole
Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh' CES Slumping market share, unwanted features ... no, it's the consumers who are wrong!
Nvidia shrinks Grace-Blackwell Superchip to power $3K mini PC CES Tuned for running chunky models on the desktop with 128GB of RAM, custom Ubuntu
US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies This could be the start of a saga to rival TikTok’s troubles, and embroil Tesla and Microsoft
Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics Opinion Leaders miffed at 'unacceptable interference'
Even at $200/mo, Altman admits ChatGPT Pro struggles to turn a profit comment But don't worry, he's 'figured out' AGI
Demand for AI servers sees Foxconn fly and suppliers come along for the ride Record quarterly revenue at contract manufacturing giant suggests strong demand for hardware of all sorts Systems07 Jan 2025 |
Nvidia shrinks Grace-Blackwell Superchip to power $3K mini PC CES Tuned for running chunky models on the desktop with 128GB of RAM, custom Ubuntu AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 6
Dude, you got a Dell, period! RIP XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, Precision CES It'll all end in tiers Personal Tech07 Jan 2025 | 55
New Orleans attacker used Meta smart glasses to plan New Year's Day massacre But Jabbar did not live stream his actions on Jan 1, FBI confirmed Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 16
Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google If you can't beat 'em, just imitate their branding, hide yours and hope they don't notice Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 49
FireScam infostealer poses as Telegram Premium app to surveil Android devices Once installed, it helps itself to your data like it's a free buffet Research06 Jan 2025 | 5
Eutelsat OneWeb blames 366th day for 48-hour date disaster Leap year curse strikes satellite broadband vendor Networks06 Jan 2025 | 60
AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025 With those whopping returns who could argue with the premis... oh wait On-Prem06 Jan 2025 | 27
Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery Longer support for newer models won't save prior versions from scrapheap Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 65
Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters But investors still betting big on bit barns thanks to AI and cloud demand On-Prem06 Jan 2025 | 11
After China's Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now Opinion If 40 years of faulty building gets blown down, don’t rebuild with the rubble Cyber-crime06 Jan 2025 | 40
Taiwan reportedly claims China-linked ship damaged one of its submarine cables More evidence of Beijing’s liking for gray zone warfare, or a murky claim with odd African entanglements? Security06 Jan 2025 | 12
Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%' State masks up finally – its IP addresses, that is Personal Tech05 Jan 2025 | 115
How datacenters use water – and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible Feature If they're not consuming H2O directly, the power plant almost certainly is On-Prem04 Jan 2025 | 72
Encryption backdoor debate 'done and dusted,' former White House tech advisor says interview When the FBI urges E2EE, you know it's serious business Cyber-crime04 Jan 2025 | 71
Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files And, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution Personal Tech04 Jan 2025 | 32
First Foxconn, now Microsoft: Wisconsin town dissed by big tech Redmond's pause to redesign planned datacenters won't scuttle this project, say Mount Pleasant officials On-Prem03 Jan 2025 | 13
We’re paying for what we don’t get: East D.C. neighbors frustrated with Amazon’s Prime delivery exclusions Feature Locals demand transparency - and a refund wouldn't hurt Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 45
With datacenter power crisis looming, US government looks to Constellation Not just AWS, Microsoft et al that are betting on nuclear energy, 13 federal agencies get in on act too On-Prem03 Jan 2025 | 10
US logic in question, but perhaps American memory can still prevail Comment With Intel's foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push Storage03 Jan 2025 | 10
IBM and GlobalFoundries settle multibillion-dollar trade secret and contract lawsuits Clears way for 'new opportunities' for collab, say pair Systems03 Jan 2025 |
Tech titans hide in shadows awaiting Trump tariff threats Being more diplomatic than the politicians makes sense amid fear of upsetting the next US President Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 60
Nick Clegg steps down as Meta's top flack in favor of more Trump-friendly candidate Runny Clegg scrambles for door Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 39
Accenture wins £35M more UK tax work without competition despite promise to 'disaggregate' System which went live in 2009 cannot be supported by another supplier, tax collector says Applications03 Jan 2025 | 8
HMD Fusion: A budget repairable smartphone with modular flair Review Expansion port on the back lets you add Outfits with added functions Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 34
Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 68
Tech support warrior left cosplay battle and Trekked to the office On Call Set aside the bat'leth to fix trivial problem for p'takh On-Prem03 Jan 2025 | 71
Chinese cyber-spies reportedly targeted sanctions intel in US Treasury raid OFAC, Office of the Treasury Secretary feared hit in data-snarfing swoop CSO02 Jan 2025 | 3
FCC net neutrality rules dead again as appeals court sides with Big Telco No more back-and-forth: Rosenworcel tells Congress the issue needs legislating Networks02 Jan 2025 | 26
Apple offers to settle 'snooping Siri' lawsuit for an utterly incredible $95M Even the sound of a zip could be enough to start the recordings, according to claims Security02 Jan 2025 | 38
Will 2025 be the year satellite-to-smartphone services truly take off? Analysis Connectivity direct to unmodified mobes looms, thanks to Starlink and co Networks02 Jan 2025 | 39
With 10 months of support remaining, Windows 10 still dominates Statcounter figures show Windows 11 losing user love OSes02 Jan 2025 | 70
Screwed by the cloud: Hardware vendors looking for that raison d'refresh 40% of world's servers are 6 years +, drink 66% of DC energy, provide 7% of compute. Please refresh, says HPE On-Prem02 Jan 2025 | 14
Trump's tariff threats could bump PC prices by almost half Warning of planned hikes limit forecasts to just 2% shipment growth for US market in 2025 Personal Tech02 Jan 2025 | 79
RISC-V is making moves, but it has work to do if it wants to hit the mainstream Feature Can it topple x86 and Arm, or is the gap too wide to close? Systems02 Jan 2025 | 21
Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid Report charts four scenarios from 'Sustainable AI' to 'Who Turned Out The Lights?' On-Prem02 Jan 2025 | 56
Next-gen Wi-Fi to trade ludicrous speed for the boring art of actually working Eighth generation of the standard is all about ultra reliability Networks02 Jan 2025 | 42
Can 4G feature phones rise again on the back of QVGA, thin clients, and remote browsers? The developer of the Puffin Browser thinks so – and has a million users to show for it Personal Tech02 Jan 2025 | 30
Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did Opinion 2024's Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor Bootnotes01 Jan 2025 | 112
US Army soldier who allegedly stole Trump's AT&T call logs arrested Brings the arrest count related to the Snowflake hacks to 3 Cyber-crime01 Jan 2025 | 16
Starlink direct-to-cell is coming to Ukraine Cell towers not required when messaging on Musk's finest Networks01 Jan 2025 | 19
US Treasury Department outs the blast radius of BeyondTrust's key leak Data pilfered as miscreants roamed affected workstations Cyber-crime31 Dec 2024 | 16
Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers Feature Saturation point, and Nintendo and Sega, were just around the corner Personal Tech28 Dec 2024 | 167
After a long lunch, user thought a cursor meant their computer was cactus On Call Reg-reading heroes snacked on their woes and solved problems with extreme speed On-Prem27 Dec 2024 | 100
Former NSA cyberspy's not-so-secret hobby: Hacking Christmas lights Video Rob Joyce explains how it's done Security25 Dec 2024 | 42
What do ransomware and Jesus have in common? A birth month and an unwillingness to die Feature 35 years since AIDS first borked a PC and we're still no closer to a solution Cyber-crime24 Dec 2024 | 23
Jury spares Qualcomm's AI PC ambitions, but Arm eyes a retrial Analysis The victory may be short lived as the chip designer gears up for second round Legal23 Dec 2024 | 15
AI's rising tide lifts all chips as AMD Instinct, cloudy silicon vie for a slice of Nvidia's pie Analyst estimates show growing apetite for alternative infrastructure Systems23 Dec 2024 | 7
OneOdio Focus A5: Big battery, budget sound, and a bargain bin price Review Inexpensive over-ear gear, but active noise cancelling won't block out the carol singers Personal Tech23 Dec 2024 | 15
Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain Opinion It's all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want AI + ML22 Dec 2024 | 142
US bipartisan group publishes laundry list of AI policy requests Chair Jay Obernolte urges Congress to act – whether it will is another matter AI + ML19 Dec 2024 | 9
Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic Comment It's not just one hyperbolic billionaire – the entire industry is chasing the AI dragon Systems19 Dec 2024 | 174
Apple and Meta trade barbs over interoperability requests Both are only thinking about the best interests of users, of course Personal Tech19 Dec 2024 | 35
Asda decided on a 'no go' for 'mass rollout' of store IT conversion Exclusive Amid plans to convert smaller stores, retailer opted to stall December shift as Walmart tech divorce continues On-Prem19 Dec 2024 | 53
Fear of Foxconn reportedly driving possible Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi merger The EV race is well and truly running, and no-one wants to be left in the dust Personal Tech19 Dec 2024 | 112
Intel sued again over struggling foundry business Derivatives claim seeks damages from execs and board members Legal18 Dec 2024 | 8
US reportedly mulls TP-Link router ban over national security risk updated It could end up like Huawei -Trump's gonna get ya, get ya, get ya Security18 Dec 2024 | 57
We told Post Office about system problems at the highest level, Fujitsu tells Horizon Inquiry State-owned retail company was not subordinate to Japanese multinational in technical matters, legal rep says Software18 Dec 2024 | 124
When your technological ghosts come back to haunt you, expect humbug Column Spirits of the NeXTcube, the web ad, and the cursed smartphone deliver a seasonal Technicarol Personal Tech18 Dec 2024 | 14
Taiwan in talks to tap Amazon's Project Kuiper space broadband In case of submarine cable failure, call Jeff Bezos Networks18 Dec 2024 | 6
Nvidia upgrades tiny Jetson Orin Nano dev kits for the holidays 'Super' edition promises 67 TOPS and 102GB/s of memory bandwidth for your GenAI projects Systems17 Dec 2024 | 14
Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really? Analysis Not as impenetrable as you might think, but still more than Intel or AMD would like Systems17 Dec 2024 | 34
Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom Meanwhile, some iPhone users apathetic about introduction of AI features Personal Tech17 Dec 2024 | 104
Australia moves to drop some cryptography by 2030 – before quantum carves it up The likes of SHA-256, RSA, ECDSA and ECDH won't be welcome in just five years Security17 Dec 2024 | 52
Jury trial kicks off Arm's wrestling match with Qualcomm The Nuvia buyer's alleged violations of license terms expected to last through Friday Legal16 Dec 2024 | 11
Europe signs off on €10.6B IRIS² satellite broadband deal Service promised by 2030 for bloc's take on Starlink Networks16 Dec 2024 | 41
Take a closer look at Nvidia's buy of Run.ai, European Commission told Updated Campaign groups, non-profit orgs urge action to prevent GPU maker tightening grip on AI industry Systems16 Dec 2024 | 3
$800 'AI' robot for kids bites the dust along with its maker Comment - Updated Moxie maker Embodied is going under, teaching important lessons about cloud services AI + ML16 Dec 2024 | 104
The sweet Raspberry taste of success masks a missed opportunity Opinion Best way to demystify modern computing? Brick it Personal Tech16 Dec 2024 | 161
China's homebrew Bluetooth alternative is on the march as Beijing pushes universal remotes 'Star Flash' is said to include 5G tech and leave rival wireless protocols struggling in the crack of a sofa Personal Tech16 Dec 2024 | 54
Infosys founder calls for 70-hour work week – again – claiming it creates jobs Asia In Brief Plus: China wants to end AI mashups of classic vids; TSMC set to open Japan fab; and more On-Prem16 Dec 2024 | 51
Cheat codes for LLM performance: An introduction to speculative decoding Hands on Sometimes two models really are faster than one AI + ML15 Dec 2024 | 46
Contrary to some, traceroute is very real – I should know, I helped make it work Systems Approach Gather around the fire for another retelling of computer networking history Networks14 Dec 2024 | 79
Iran-linked crew used custom 'cyberweapon' in US critical infrastructure attacks IOCONTROL targets IoT and OT devices from a ton of makers, apparently Research13 Dec 2024 | 15
Musk's lawyer asks SEC to quit pestering the shy and retiring billionaire Won't someone think of Elon? Ah, who are we kidding - none of this will matter in a month Personal Tech13 Dec 2024 | 85
Android beefs up Bluetooth tag stalker protections Wider ecosystem still has work to do, though Personal Tech13 Dec 2024 | 24
Intel execs discuss the possibility of spinning off foundry 'Does it ever fully separate? I think that's an open question for another day,' interim co-CEO says Systems13 Dec 2024 | 11
Backup failed, but the boss didn't slam IT – because his son was to blame On Call ISP deserves criticism too for falling over after script kiddie beefing Networks13 Dec 2024 | 33
FCC throws open 6 GHz band to unlicensed low-power gizmos Good news for techies pushing 'education, healthcare, and entertainment' gadgets in the US Networks12 Dec 2024 | 13
Cruise shutdown blastzone increases – Microsoft takes $800M charge General Motors pulling the plug on autonomous taxi biz hits Redmond in the wallet AI + ML12 Dec 2024 | 20