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
Let them eat Pi: RAM shortage bumps Raspberry prices as much as $60 Second price increase in just two months Personal Tech02 Feb 2026 | 41
Intel welcomes memory apocalypse with Xeon workstation refresh Chipzilla touts 4 TB of DDR5 and 128 lanes of PCIe 5 for less than the House of Zen just in time for memory winter Systems02 Feb 2026 | 5
DRAM prices expected to double in Q1 as AI ambitions push memory fabs to their limit NAND flash now expected to surge 55–60% compared to Q4 Storage02 Feb 2026 | 21
US TikTok service restored after cloud 'that doesn't go down' went down Winter storm knocks out Oracle datacenter, despite Larry Ellison's reliability boasts On-Prem02 Feb 2026 | 17
Microsoft's Sinofsky saw Surface fail coming – then hit up Epstein for advice on exit DOJ files show former Windows chief predicting a public flop before mulling next mission Personal Tech02 Feb 2026 | 33
Infrastructure cyberattacks are suddenly in fashion. We can buck the trend Opinion Don't be scared of the digital dark – learn how to keep the lights on Cyber-crime02 Feb 2026 | 8
Microsoft's 'atypical' emergency Windows patches are becoming awfully typical Opinion Administrators sigh: OOBs, they did it again OSes02 Feb 2026 | 48
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server Who, Me? Love hurts, but being exposed is more painful On-Prem02 Feb 2026 | 105
Capgemini to sell the biz that works for US government amid criticism of ICE contract 'The nature and scope of this work has raised questions' says CEO, who swears he couldn't spot it sooner Public Sector02 Feb 2026 | 43
India dangles 20-year tax holiday for clouds that serve offshore users Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT offshores to Vietnam; Japan adds AI interface to space data; Samsung cashes in on memory boom Public Sector02 Feb 2026 | 3
Sword of Damocles hangs over UK military’s Ajax as minister says back it or scrap it Armored vehicle trials halted after troops report noise and vibration symptoms Public Sector01 Feb 2026 | 94
Feeling taxed by layoffs, IRS turns to AI helpers Fewer humans, more bots - just in time for filing season Public Sector30 Jan 2026 | 9
Backblaze says AI traffic and neoclouds could shape future networks The western US saw the most activity overall Networks30 Jan 2026 |
Want digital sovereignty? That'll be 1% of your GDP into AI infrastructure please Analyst predicts massive spend on domestic AI stacks On-Prem30 Jan 2026 | 27
NS&I's IT car crash considers cutting legacy links to stop the bleeding £1.3B over budget and four years late, bank searches for a way to not to bust new timetable and funding pot Public Sector30 Jan 2026 | 58
In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened On Call 60-minute SLA was effectively useless and the contractor admitted it Databases30 Jan 2026 | 101
Uncle Sam dangles nuclear campuses for states while watering down safety rules Governors offered atomic megasites and federal cash as hundreds of pages of regulations go missing Science29 Jan 2026 | 25
Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out Cerner, though acquired in 2022, is nothing to multibillion black hole On-Prem29 Jan 2026 | 29
Sat Nad declares Windows 11 has a billion users – just don't bother asking for details Terrible start to 2026 offset by optimistic operating system numbers OSes29 Jan 2026 | 41
Meta to pour the GDP of Kenya into AI infrastructure push in 2026 Zuck bets big on 'personal superintelligence' with $135B splurge On-Prem29 Jan 2026 | 13
Capita pension portal 'fiasco' forces Cabinet Office into damage control 150-strong 'surge team' deployed as 8,500 retirees left high and dry, some waiting 9 months for legally owed cash Public Sector29 Jan 2026 | 34
Birmingham City Council's Oracle ERP fiasco now £144M and still not working Five years after its planned go-live, the system remains incomplete as costs balloon more than sevenfold Databases29 Jan 2026 | 86
Irony alert: Anthropic helps UK.gov to build chatbot for job seekers The jobs that will be eradicated by our AI overlords AI + ML29 Jan 2026 | 9
Bork ventures to the Middle of Lidl Bork!Bork!Bork! Happier days at Intel nailed to the wall of discount retailer Personal Tech29 Jan 2026 | 33
Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant's OpenAI exposure All the promises in the world won't pay the GPU bills when the music stops AI + ML29 Jan 2026 | 25
Cops put Microsoft Copilot in holding cell after controversial hallucination Chatbot banned – for now – after it dreamed up West Ham match that never happened AI + ML28 Jan 2026 | 48
Cops get more facial recognition vans as UK bets big on AI policing Home Office white paper promises millions for LFR, a new Police.AI unit, and a bespoke legal framework Public Sector28 Jan 2026 | 15
How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies Feature You can’t cheaply recompute without re-running the whole model – so KV cache starts piling up Agentic AI28 Jan 2026 | 5
UK tax collector plans £2B tech binge as legacy systems refuse to die Updated AWS and Capgemini loom large in HMRC's procurement pipeline Public Sector28 Jan 2026 | 20
Britain's Ministry of Defence signs on the dotted line with Palantir 'Follow-on' agreement lasts 3 years as US techies protest vendor's ICE contract Stateside Public Sector28 Jan 2026 | 26
ICE knocks on ad tech’s data door to see what it knows about you Agency looks to understand the extent of identifying information available to its masked agents Public Sector27 Jan 2026 | 84
Nudify app proliferation shows naked ambition of Apple and Google Researchers with the Tech Transparency Project found all sorts of apps that let users create fake non-consensual nudes of real people Legal27 Jan 2026 | 37
Penguin in your pocket: Nexphone dual boots into Linux, Windows 11 An expandable tablet, and a phone that reboots into desktop Windows Personal Tech27 Jan 2026 | 23
Micron continues fab spending spree with $24B NAND storage plant in Singapore No salvation from the memory winter, though - plant won't start churning out chips until 2028 Systems27 Jan 2026 | 1
Watchdog says US weather alerts are getting lost in translation GAO urges NWS to firm up its AI language plans as policy shifts slow multilingual warnings AI + ML27 Jan 2026 | 31
France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative French govt says state-run service 'Visio' will be more secure. Now where have we heard that name before? Software27 Jan 2026 | 104
Succession: Linux kernel community gets continuity plan for post-Linus era Conclave doc outlines path to eternal releases OSes27 Jan 2026 | 28
Japan doubles down on Trump's Genesis AI supercomputing effort RIKEN links up with Argonne, Fujitsu, and Nvidia to build next-gen infrastructure HPC27 Jan 2026 |
High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep Victim and Big Brother Watch will argue the Met's policies are incompatible with human rights law Security27 Jan 2026 | 28
Microsoft's Maia 200 promises Blackwell levels of performance for two-thirds the power Inference-optimized chip 30% cheaper than any other AI silicon on the market today, Azure's Scott Guthrie claims Systems26 Jan 2026 | 7
Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE But CEOs remain frozen in place Public Sector26 Jan 2026 | 228
Internet spent Q4 '25 losing fights with cables, power, and itself Latest data from Cloudflare shows cable cuts, power failures, and network faults drive steady run of internet outages Networks26 Jan 2026 | 1
Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy Thankfully they only sufffered two outages in 2025. And now it has flown in experts to play with configurations PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2026 | 14
EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images Probe follows outcry over use of creepy image generation tool Personal Tech26 Jan 2026 | 27
Microsoft probes Windows 11 boot failures tied to January security updates Some machines are failing to start after security updates, prompting yet another Microsoft investigation OSes26 Jan 2026 | 27
Microsoft rushes out another fix for cloud storage after January update 2026 is shaping up to be a bumper year for patch management Storage26 Jan 2026 | 2
Oracle AI sailed the world on Royal Navy flagship via cloud-at-the-edge kit Big Red says 'sovereign' platform supports decision-making and operational learning at sea AI + ML26 Jan 2026 | 34
UK digital ID goes in-house, government swears it isn't an ID card Minister dodges cost questions while promising smartphone-free access and 'robust' verification Public Sector26 Jan 2026 | 84
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam Who, Me? This story starts with the worst mistake of them all – loaning a tool On-Prem26 Jan 2026 | 190
Emmabuntüs DE 6: A newbie-friendly Linux to help those in need A distro aimed at helping people, reducing e-waste – and helping a charity, too OSes25 Jan 2026 | 38
Bill Gates-backed startup aims to revive Moore's Law with optical transistors Neurophos is developing a massive optical systolic array clocked at 56GHz good for 470 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute Systems24 Jan 2026 | 22
UK border tech budget swells by £100M as Home Office targets small boat crossings Drone, satellite, and other data combined to monitor unwanted vessels Public Sector24 Jan 2026 | 26
Tesla Full Self Driving subscription to rise alongside its capabilities One-time FSD purchase no longer available as Elon Musk talks up future where drivers can be asleep at the wheel AI + ML23 Jan 2026 | 161
Fortinet admits FortiGate SSO bug still exploitable despite December patch Fix didn't quite do the job – attackers spotted logging in CSO23 Jan 2026 | 3
Qualcomm CEO pockets 15% pay rise as profits fall 45% Cristiano Amon took home almost $30M in 2025 as the chipmaker booked higher revenues despite earnings slide Systems23 Jan 2026 | 11
British government caves on datacenter approval after legal challenge Ministry admits greenlighting London-based megabit barn without proper environmental safeguards On-Prem23 Jan 2026 | 67
London boroughs limping back online months after cyberattack Direct debits? Maybe February. Birth certificates? Dream on. Council tax bills? Oh, those are coming Cyber-crime23 Jan 2026 | 12
Marching orders delayed: Veterans' Digital ID off to a slow start Much owed to the few, but takeup is under 1% Public Sector23 Jan 2026 | 66
Tech support detective solved PC crime by looking in the carpark On Call Overnight action made for a sticky situation in the candy factory Personal Tech23 Jan 2026 | 80