City council faces £216.5M loss over Oracle system debacle Europe's largest local authority canceled expected savings baked into financial plans Databases20 Aug 2024 | 105
Euro antitrust cop Margrethe Vestager to depart after decade of reining in Big Tech Her legacy hinges on her successor – will they double down? Public Sector20 Aug 2024 | 5
Pakistan’s internet slows to uncomfortable levels, allegedly due to new China-style firewall Minister issues denial – it's just an upgrade to the 'web-management system' Public Sector20 Aug 2024 | 6
Nvidia's latest AI climate model takes aim at severe weather That tornado warning couldn't possibly be a hallucination... could it? Science19 Aug 2024 | 8
Microsoft closes Windows 11 upgrade loophole in latest Insider build Pretending you're a server won't stop the hardware police Personal Tech19 Aug 2024 | 57
Virginia's datacenters guzzle water like there's no tomorrow, says FOI-based report AI's thirst for power is only making things worse On-Prem19 Aug 2024 | 26
Raspberry Pi 5 slims down for cut-price 2 GB RAM version Nobody really needs more than that, right? Personal Tech19 Aug 2024 | 75
Stargazing with the Beaverlab Finder TW2 Hands On Good for beginners, but a few missing features will annoy Personal Tech17 Aug 2024 | 55
Game not over: Epic brings Fortnite back to iOS in Europe, using its own app store But the cost of battling Apple and Google? A hefty $1B lost in revenue Software17 Aug 2024 | 27
DoD spins up supercomputer to accelerate biothreat defense Officials claim it'll be able to develop defensive solutions in 'days, if not hours' HPC16 Aug 2024 | 17
California trims AI safety bill to stop tech heads from freaking out Anthropic boss meanwhile reckons there's 'a good chance ... we'll be able to get models that are better than most humans at most things' AI + ML16 Aug 2024 | 27
Texas Instruments calculates its US CHIPS Act winnings at $1.6B Another $3B in loans also on the table to support $18B foundry enlargement Public Sector16 Aug 2024 | 7
Shots fired as AT&T and Verizon ask FCC to block Starlink's direct-to-cell plans Rivals claim signal waiver would interfere with terrestrial networks Networks16 Aug 2024 | 40
Equinix pilots use of fuel cell in 'shipping container' outside datacenter Future of low carbon sustainable tech? Not so fast, this is still a trial and only for backup power On-Prem16 Aug 2024 | 17
UK farm ministry offers £27M to support legacy systems for another three years Controversial payment systems set for another lease of life Public Sector16 Aug 2024 | 19
Client tells techie: You're not leaving the country until this printer is working On Call A long and strange tech support story that starts in Africa and ends in a Presidential Suite On-Prem16 Aug 2024 | 60
Twitter must pay over half a million to unfairly dismissed Irish exec Remember the 'go hardcore or go home' email? Turns out: not super compatible with Irish employment law Personal Tech15 Aug 2024 | 153
Cisco slashes thousands of staff, 7% of entire workforce, pivots into AI Reorg of entire biz as tech giant addresses downturn in core networking segment Networks15 Aug 2024 | 15
IRS has loads of legacy IT, still has no firm plans to replace it Treasury questions the retirement of the, er, Technology Retirement Office Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 31
Delays? We're still shipping 'small quantities' of Nvidia's GB200 in Q4, Foxconn insists Production ramp won't kick off until Q1 2025 Systems14 Aug 2024 | 1
Building high performance fabrics with Ethernet How Dell is helping its customers to be GenAI ready Sponsored Feature
SiFive offers potential Neoverse N2 rival – the P870-D RISC-V core for datacenters Chip upstart takes aim at Arm with design that can scale up to 256 cores Systems14 Aug 2024 | 3
UK's 'electricity superhighway' gets green light just in time for AI to gobble it all up 500 km transmission cable promises enough power for two million homes, or a heck of a lotta GPUs On-Prem14 Aug 2024 | 130
Still waiting for a Pi 500 and wondering what do this summer? The team knows you want one, but in the meantime why not make one yourself? Personal Tech14 Aug 2024 | 53
Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern' Is it an ad? Or serious infosec advice? Personal Tech14 Aug 2024 | 59
Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years There's a blockchain involved so it's totally going to stop you getting those calls Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 33
India shuffles away draft law treating influencers like real broadcasters Online celebs might find that flattering – but not if it means a committee must approve their next livestream Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 12
Biden tries to cut through fog of confusion caused by deliberately deceptive customer service tricks Targets impossible unsubscribes, elusive human assistance, and other wallet-draining time sinks Public Sector13 Aug 2024 | 46
Google brings more Gemini AI features to Android, saves the best for Pixel 9 Video And four more phones. Woo. Yay. Personal Tech13 Aug 2024 | 17
Akeana debuts RISC-V CPU designs on $100M budget, longs for an Arm wrestle Whatever happened to the team behind Marvell’s ThunderX2 chips? Oh, hello Systems13 Aug 2024 | 2
Another GPU cloud emerges. This time, upstart Foundry Biz set sights beyond just another rent-an-accelerator cluster provider Systems13 Aug 2024 | 1
Huawei's Ascend 910 launches this October to challenge Nvidia's H100 US sanctions may make things hard for Huawei, but the tech titan still has big GPU ambitions Systems13 Aug 2024 | 1
Demand for AI servers causing a run on enterprise SSDs, hiking prices Bad news if you're buying personal kit as consumer flash starts getting $$$ Storage13 Aug 2024 | 4
UK semi industry exposed to supply chain risk, China state ownership Report suggests govt get cracking on a proper ownership structure survey and ... hang on, did they forget the Midlands? Systems13 Aug 2024 | 14
Small datacenters face the axe under China's new energy policy Tech industry told to clean up its act – and help others to do likewise – in pursuit of 2035 'Beautiful China' goal Off-Prem13 Aug 2024 |
Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS You don't get to be the biggest business in the world by being nice Applications12 Aug 2024 | 100
Before we put half a million broadband satellites in orbit, anyone want to consider environmental effects? SpaceX 'WasteX' Starlink said to make up 60% of sats circling Earth Networks12 Aug 2024 | 80
Intel's microcode fix to save Raptor Lake chips may only work with default power settings All those BIOS options that promise better performance? Enabling them might kill your processor Systems12 Aug 2024 | 27
Cisco plans to slash thousands more jobs amid AI, cybersecurity push Updated Cuts reportedly to come as soon as Wednesday's earnings release Networks12 Aug 2024 | 13
Twitter's former chairman sues X over unpaid options Seeks $23 million in damages over Musk's alleged reluctance to pay his bills Personal Tech12 Aug 2024 | 31
India’s Bharti Enterprises now largest shareholder in UK's BT Group 'Surprising move' for Indian megacorp but less so for French seller Altice Networks12 Aug 2024 | 8
Cigarette break burned out a huge chunk of Africa's internet who, me? A fake hacker trying to take credit didn't help much, either Networks12 Aug 2024 | 66
Former YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, 56, succumbs to cancer A career and life so classically Silicon Valley Personal Tech12 Aug 2024 | 28
Gas pipeline players in talks to fuel AI datacenter demand Utility tapped out? Why not build your own? Systems11 Aug 2024 | 27
Raptor Lake microcode limits Intel chips to a mere 1.55 volts to prevent CPU destruction Is that a lot? Depends on the context. GHz, no. Voltage, yes Personal Tech09 Aug 2024 | 28
Intel's annus horribilis continues as AMD gains ground Rival making its biggest inroads in server CPU segment Systems09 Aug 2024 | 8
What's going on with AMD funding a CUDA translation layer, then nuking it? Analysis We guess the House of Zen wants all you HIP kids to ROCm out with its own runtimes instead Software09 Aug 2024 | 10
HP Inc loves China – but wants to reduce the risks it presents Amid reports that plenty of PC production will shift elsewhere, supply chain boss emphasizes agility Personal Tech09 Aug 2024 | 9
Report slams Boeing and NASA over shoddy quality that's delayed SLS blastoff Space Launch System project overspent, under-built, and is overdue, government probe finds Science09 Aug 2024 | 51
Delta: CrowdStrike's offer to help in Falcon meltdown was too little, too late Airline unimpressed with 'unhelpful and untimely' phone call from CEO, Falcon maker says claims untrue CxO08 Aug 2024 | 32
Intel's legal troubles mount after plunging stock sparks yet another court battle Pension fund claims CEO, CFO covered up truth about money-pit foundry Systems08 Aug 2024 | 15
US 'laptop farm' man accused of outsourcing his IT jobs to North Korea to fund weapons programs American and Brit firms thought they were employing a Westerner, but not so, it's alleged CSO08 Aug 2024 | 19
Intel finally has a new GPU – for cars Chipzilla takes its Arc Alchemist A750, gives it some more RAM, and says it’s for AI-powered jalopies Systems08 Aug 2024 | 7
Raptor Lake microcode patch arrives for Intel motherboards this month, ASUS and MSI say Updated MSI even claims all of its LGA 1700 motherboards will get updated before month end Systems08 Aug 2024 | 2
80 years ago, IBM gave Harvard University one of the world's earliest computers Feature In celebration of US Navy funded electromagnetic wonder that is the Automated Sequence Controlled Calculator On-Prem08 Aug 2024 | 20
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 lands with (drum roll) RISC-V cores Beefier Arms next to RV rival CPUs, offering a glimpse of the future Personal Tech08 Aug 2024 | 34
Nokia goes from phones to drones with Swiss service rollout No pricing disclosed but plan allows users to order hands-off flights without operating any units Networks08 Aug 2024 | 3
Report: Tech misconceptions plague the IT world Just snapping the webcam shutter closed won't keep a user safe online Personal Tech08 Aug 2024 | 74
UK Royal Mint mining PCBs for precious metals in e-waste recovery effort There's gold in them thar boards Personal Tech08 Aug 2024 | 66
Easing the pressure on datacenter infrastructure How Nokia’s SR Linux NOS enhances automation to even out performance and maintain business continuity Sponsored Post