Your ransomware nightmare just came true – now what?
Feature Don't negotiate unless you must, and if so, drag it out as long as you can
CSO06 Jun 2025 | 40
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Opinion The word Microsoft does not appear in this article. Why would you think otherwise?
AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 10
Tariff woes equal US smartphone price hikes, shrinking sales
World War Fee Liberation Day not freeing consumers or businesses of their hard earned disposable income
Personal Tech30 May 2025 | 45
Economists blame Trump tariffs, AI explosion for threatening global economy
Businesses need to adopt AI, says WEF, but uncertainty is a blocker
AI + ML29 May 2025 | 15
European Commission: Make Europe Great Again... for startups
Sick of paying the US tech tax and relinquishing talent to other continents, politicians finally wake up
CxO29 May 2025 | 31
Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds
IT leaders in region eyeing American hyperscalers escape hatch
PaaS + IaaS28 May 2025 | 11
Empire of office workers strikes back against RTO mandates
The rebellion grows and it seems resistance is not futile
CxO27 May 2025 | 126
Anthropic Claude 4 models a little more willing than before to blackmail some users
Open the pod bay door
AI + ML22 May 2025 | 21
AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics
Column Being human and working on a team is the job, not writing code
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 74
Google crowns Jules to be its agent and spreads the AI love
Google I/O Choc Fac brings gen mods to Android, Chrome, pretty much everywhere else
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 6
How open systems drive AI performance
Open-source philosophy, system-level optimizations prevent nightmare GenAI deployments, says CentML CTO
Partner content
To progress as an engineer career-wise, become a great communicator
Systems Approach It'll even help you develop technical skills
CxO18 May 2025 | 35
Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard
Python, TypeScript, Azure SDK devs among those let go
Software16 May 2025 | 45
AMD’s first crack at Nvidia hampered by half-baked training software, says TensorWave boss
Interview Bit barn operator to wedge 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325Xs into AI training cluster
AI Infrastructure Month14 May 2025 | 5
Trump ends Biden-era dream to cap US AI chip exports
Ding dong, diffusion is dead
AI Infrastructure Month13 May 2025 | 11
Microsoft boots 3% of staff in latest cull, middle managers first in line
Redmond talks up new technologies, capabilities for productivity ... just don’t call it AI
Software13 May 2025 | 26
Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz
All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense now
CxO12 May 2025 | 46
Tech titans: Wanna secure US AI leadership? Stop giving the world excuses to buy Chinese
Execs from AMD, Microsoft, and OpenAI tear into profit busting AI diffusion rules
AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 22
Workday handed no-bid deal to fix staffing meltdown at Uncle Sam's uber-HR agency
Updated Do we smell DOGE? Yup
SaaS08 May 2025 | 17
‘Infuriated’, ‘disappointed' ... Ex-VMware customers explain why they migrated to Nutanix
Next As Broadcom flings legal nastygrams at its own punters
Virtualization08 May 2025 | 38
Popular
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown
Who, Me? And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else
Former US Army Sergeant pleads guilty after amateurish attempt at selling secrets to China
Infosec in brief PLUS: 5.4M healthcare records leak; AI makes Spam harder to spot; Many nasty Linux vulns; and more
Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t
Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers
Breaking the nerd internet: Three overlapping generations of tech history – in one selfie
Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Dave Cutler have dinner
Experts count staggering costs incurred by UK retail amid cyberattack hell
Cyber Monitoring Centre issues first severity assessment since February launch
Huawei's latest notebook shows China is still generations behind in chipmaking
Kirin X90 SoC made on two-year-old 7nm N+2 process
Iran cyberattacks against US biz more likely following air strikes
Plus 'low-level' hacktivist attempts
The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world
Opinion Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off
Typhoon-like gang slinging TLS certificate 'signed' by the Los Angeles Police Department
Chinese crew built 1,000+ device network that runs on home devices then targets critical infrastructure
Second attack on McLaren Health Care in a year affects 743k people
Criminals targeted the hospital and physician network’s Detroit cancer clinic this time
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OpenAI drafts Instacart boss as CEO of Apps to lure in the normies
A B2B, API move this ain't, in our view
AI + ML08 May 2025 | 8
Trump's trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev
But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off
AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 4
FYI: Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM, LOL
Just 1 in 4 bets paying off so far
AI + ML06 May 2025 | 14
Microsoft will let partners get creative with pay-when-you-want SaaS plans
A few million here, a few million there, pretty soon you're talking real money
SaaS06 May 2025 | 2
AI success starts with the right IT infrastructure
Nutanix AI solutions make it easy to tailor IT infrastructure for your AI needs, says product lead Ashwini Vasanth
Sponsored post
Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, economists claim
'When we look at the outcomes, it really has not moved the needle'
AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 34
How to survive as a CISO aka 'chief scapegoat officer'
RSAC Whistleblowing, email is evidential mail, HR is not your friend, and more discussed by CxO panel
Spotlight on RSAC28 Apr 2025 | 9
Why brave the jet lag? KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China have the answers
The cloud native world is evolving fast — and not just in Silicon Valley. Why your next stop should be Hong Kong
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New Intel boss is all about ‘deleveraging’ the x86 giant
Updated Thousands face ax, more given RTO orders in quest to suck less
On-Prem24 Apr 2025 | 79
Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised
World War Fee Detail? Rationale? Timeline? Nope! It's the art of the squeal
Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 183
El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production
Hands On Running GenAI models is easy. Scaling them to thousands of users, not so much
AI + ML22 Apr 2025 | 11
Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy
Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to
int main(enter the void)...
AI Software Development Week18 Apr 2025 | 24
Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers
'It's amazing how fast the change has been'
PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 119
Datacenters selling power back to the grid? Don’t bet on it, say operators
Analysis Bit barns in Dublin doubled as battery farms, the rest of the world isn’t buying it
CxO17 Apr 2025 | 33
California sues President Tariff
World War Fee Ah yes, the courts, that'll totally work
Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 51
White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo
World War Fee Just make it 420.69 and be done with it, Mr President
Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 78
Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze
World War Fee Investment delays are inevitable as uncertainty clouds US trade policy, warns investment bank
CxO14 Apr 2025 | 121
CIO and digi VP to depart UK retail giant Asda as Walmart divorce woes settle
Exclusive Brit retailer says troubled breakup with tech platform of former US owner nearing conclusion
On-Prem14 Apr 2025 | 16
Apple settles unfair labor charges brought by fired engineering manager
Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights
CxO10 Apr 2025 | 3
Procter & Gamble study finds AI could help make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette
Go on, then, knock yourself out, pal
AI + ML08 Apr 2025 | 43
Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud
And it can be yours for a rather steep $349
OSes03 Apr 2025 | 126
Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block
Vision Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder
CxO01 Apr 2025 | 8
Nvidia’s AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen’s GPU math mistake
Comment Old naming convention didn't just 'screw up' the NVLink nomenclature - it left money on the table
AI + ML01 Apr 2025 | 22
Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better'
Vision AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ...
On-Prem01 Apr 2025 | 18
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
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
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 | 122
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 | 42
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
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
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
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 | 28
Cybereason CEO leaves after months of boardroom blowups
Updated Complaint alleges 13 funding proposals foundered amid battle for control
Security06 Mar 2025 | 2
Worry not. China's on the line saying AGI still a long way off
Instead of Turing Test, subject models to this Survival Game to assess intelligence, scientist tells The Reg
AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 42
It's bad enough we have to turn on cams for meetings, now the person staring at you may be an AI deepfake
Says the biz trying to sell us stuff to catch that, admittedly
AI + ML04 Mar 2025 | 18
So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?
Comment Mixed messages from Pentagon, CISA as Trump gets pally with Putin and Kremlin strikes US critical networks
Public Sector04 Mar 2025 | 218
US stocks slip as Trump pulls trigger on Canada, Mexico, China tariffs
Updated With friends like these...
Public Sector03 Mar 2025 | 110
Phantom of the Opera: AI agent now lurks within browser, for the lazy
Too shiftless to even click on a few things while online shopping, hm? Just ask this built-in assistant
AI + ML03 Mar 2025 | 12
Cybersecurity not the hiring-'em-like-hotcakes role it once was
Analysis Ghost positions, HR AI no help – biz should talk to infosec staff and create 'realistic' job outline, say experts
CSO03 Mar 2025 | 15
Yes, Slack isn't working properly right now – enjoy your internet snow day
Final update Chat app chaps slapped, rapped for leaving yakkity-yakkers in a flap
SaaS26 Feb 2025 | 9
Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on US clouds back under the spotlight
Interview Technologist Bert Hubert tells The Reg Microsoft Outlook is a huge source of geopolitical risk
Off-Prem26 Feb 2025 | 124
Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel
Microsoft CEO is more interested in neural nets boosting GDP than delivering superhuman intelligence
AI + ML26 Feb 2025 | 72
Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs
Uncle Sam's number-crunchers warn lawyers, customer service reps to brace for change, say techies will be fine
Databases25 Feb 2025 | 11
How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit
Analysis Blueprints shared for jail-breaking models that expose their chain-of-thought process
AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 30
LLM aka Large Legal Mess: Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing
Plus: Anthropic rolls out Claude 3.7 Sonnet
AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 33
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not an illusion, but it soon might be
Global tech corps wrestle with policy disparity on either side of the Atlantic
CxO13 Feb 2025 | 291
Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study
From the billionaire who said real-time surveillance is good for keeping us in check
AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 69
IBM return-to-office order hits finance, ops teams amid push to dump staff for AI
Demand described as a 'soft layoff'
On-Prem12 Feb 2025 | 35
I'm a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicant …Twice
Remote position, webcam not working, then glitchy AI face ... Red alert!
CSO11 Feb 2025 | 82
Democrats demand to know WTF is up with that DOGE server on OPM's network
Updated Are you trying to make this easy for China and Russia?
Public Sector06 Feb 2025 | 153
Trump admin seeks to reclassify federal CIOs, opening door to political appointees
Fall in line with executive policy or you're gone, acting OPM chief insists
CxO05 Feb 2025 | 48
Alphabet achieves first $100B annual profit ... and sees its shares sink
Whaddya gotta do to impress investors these days? Maybe convince them you're not overspending on AI?
Off-Prem05 Feb 2025 | 6
Another banner year for ransomware gangs despite takedowns by the cops
And it doesn't take a crystal ball to predict the future
Cyber-crime31 Jan 2025 | 6
You probably have more CIO experience than the incoming White House CIO
From AI startup CISO to running federal IT - sure, why not?
Public Sector28 Jan 2025 | 30
DeepSeek's R1 curiously tells El Reg reader: 'My guidelines are set by OpenAI'
Updated Despite impressive benchmarks, the Chinese-made LLM is not without some interesting issues
AI + ML27 Jan 2025 | 32
Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths
Who guards the guardrail makers? Not the bosses who hire them, it's alleged
AI + ML24 Jan 2025 | 15
OpenAI's Operator agent wants to tackle your online chores – just don’t expect it to nail every task
Hello Operator? Can you give me number nine? Can I see you later? Will you give me back my dime?
AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 14
Former Amazon exec appointed as boss of UK's competition watchdog
Interim appointment after former head booted out for not being 'sufficiently focused on growth'
CxO22 Jan 2025 | 11
Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom
The nascent tech enters Hype Cycle’s downward slope, says Gartner
CxO22 Jan 2025 | 13
OpenAI wants to blow through $500B on AI infrastructure for itself, with help from pals
Updated SoftBank, Oracle, MGX form Stargate Project with ChatGPT maker, intend to outspend Microsoft this year
AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 16
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior
'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs
AI + ML20 Jan 2025 | 23
Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling
Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in
Nvidia GTC17 Jan 2025 | 11
IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year
Half the number of roles axed, and yes – you can keep blaming AI
CxO15 Jan 2025 | 36
Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR
Interview She doesn't feel pity, remorse, or fear, but she'll craft a polite email message as she turns you down
AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 83
Intel Capital next into the chip giant's trebuchet, to be shot as far over the wall as possible
This'll be good for you, don't you worry, CFO tells venture fund while pulling back the sling
CxO15 Jan 2025 | 8
Tesla, Musk double down on $56B payday appeal
What could be the motivation for continuing to fight the case?
CxO09 Jan 2025 | 75
Kyndryl's consulting business may be less than it seems
Special report Insiders say it's largely a matter of labeling
CxO08 Dec 2024 | 22
The workplace has become a surveillance state
Cracked Labs report explores the use of motion sensors and wireless networking kit to monitor offices
CxO27 Nov 2024 | 72
AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews
Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry's personal info from HR bots
AI + ML21 Nov 2024 | 140
Here's how a Trump presidency could change the tech industry
Kettle Anything could happen in the next half ... decade
Public Sector13 Nov 2024 | 123
TSMC's US operations threatened with employee discrimination class action
Updated Allegedly it's hard to get ahead at the chipmaker unless you speak Mandarin
CxO13 Nov 2024 | 7
AMD axes 4% of staff while staring hungrily at AI, servers
LLM, LLM on the wall, who will be laid off first of all?
AI + ML13 Nov 2024 | 7
Air National Guardsman gets 15 years after splashing classified docs on Discord
22-year-old talked of 'culling the weak minded' – hmm!
Cyber-crime13 Nov 2024 | 93
Flanked by Palantir and AWS, Anthropic's Claude marches into US defense intelligence
An emotionally manipulable AI in the hands of the Pentagon and CIA? Cool
AI + ML07 Nov 2024 | 4
Mozilla Foundation crumbles as third of staff cast off
Firefox overlord to 'revisit' advocacy mission
Applications06 Nov 2024 | 89
Average North American CISO pay now $565K, mainly thanks to one weird trick
Best way to boost your package is to leave, or pretend to
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2024 | 12
Hands up who hasn't made an offer to buy some part of Intel
Comment Now Arm reportedly approached, rebuffed by Chipzilla. Who's next? MOS Technology?
Systems27 Sep 2024 | 21
Now Dell salespeople must be onsite five days a week
Return-to-office mandate reaches inevitable conclusion
CxO26 Sep 2024 | 119
There’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is
Comment Is this from the same gossips who were wrong about Altera and Mobileye or the DoJ subpoenaing Nvidia?
Personal Tech21 Sep 2024 | 22
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