Dell's 52-inch enormo-monitor is a tsunami of impractical fun
personal tech You probably don't need it, but as an example of the possible it impresses
Personal Tech12 Sep 2026 | 13
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On Call: Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix
personal tech There's no place like the Home directory, but the Documents folder is sometimes nicer
Personal Tech11 Sep 2026 | 89
Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on
SOFTWARE It’s a better interface, can speed installations, and drives IaaS sales too
Applications11 Sep 2026 | 3
Laptop-slinger Framework refunding customers who paid top dollar for RAM
personal tech Puts a whole new spin on ‘Cheap as chips’
Personal Tech10 Sep 2026 | 6
Microsoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter
software Ironically, this idea lands as Salesforce is struggling to sell its own AI
Software10 Sep 2026 | 5
VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups – or migrations to rivals
virtualization Says license was never about moving VMs
Virtualization10 Sep 2026 | 25
Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code
software Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments
Software09 Sep 2026 | 21
Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing
public sector Plans 30x datacenter expansion for less than what big tech spends in a month
Public Sector09 Sep 2026 | 6
US claims Chinese AI companies’ core AI strategy is distilling American models
AI AND ML Spooks and CISA point to ‘industrial-scale distillation’ by DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese players
AI and ML09 Sep 2026 | 43
‘Global reckoning’ is coming for big tech, says Australian minister
legal Introduces 'digital duty of care' that will mean Aussies get ‘my feed, my way’ – without algorithms if requested
Legal08 Sep 2026 | 22
Huawei proudly shows off an entirely un-American chip
systems Resistance is futile
Systems08 Sep 2026 | 47
Amazon-branded plane in fatal accident at Miami Airport
on-prem Couldn’t stop before the end of a runway
On-Prem07 Sep 2026 | 55
Who, Me? Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire
personal tech Even the greatest scientific minds are at risk of rogue 9-pin connectors
Personal Tech07 Sep 2026 | 132
Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds
OS PLATFORMS Last week, he blamed himself for being ‘a grade A nincompoop’ who assumed a system upgrade couldn’t possibly go wrong
OS Platforms07 Sep 2026 | 19
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals
off-prem PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more
Off-Prem07 Sep 2026 | 7
On Call: User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key
personal tech Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work
Personal Tech04 Sep 2026 | 84
Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud
OFF-PREM This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale
Off-Prem04 Sep 2026 | 84
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release
security Three critical vulns demand your attention, one a make-me-root mess in Nexus 9000 Series Switches that you can mitigate, not fix
Security04 Sep 2026 | 2
VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade
virtualization Found the time to focus and ‘corrected’ incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds
Virtualization02 Sep 2026 | 30
A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter
virtualization The budget was minimal, FedEx was the bottleneck, and DNS was of course the source of trouble
Virtualization02 Sep 2026 | 20
Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss
virtualization And RISC-V is absolutely nowhere
Virtualization02 Sep 2026 | 12
Tape still isn’t dead, but shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025
storage LTO program is confident this is a glitch, not terminal unspooling
Storage02 Sep 2026 | 29
If hardware price squeezes make you sad, VMware says it will all end in tiers
virtualization Virtzilla finding more ways to pull data out of DRAM to enable ‘densification’ and dodge the RAMpocalypse
Virtualization01 Sep 2026 | 18
VMware uses Nvidia-favored 'AI factory' brand to build something with rival AMD
Virtualization Forget the confusing branding and focus on your shrinking token bill
Virtualization31 Aug 2026 | 2
Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries
virtualization Promises ‘secure artifacts’ for Spring and RabbitMQ, and other projects that matter to its Tanzu suite
Virtualization31 Aug 2026 | 14
The balkanization of virtualization will de-throne VMware, which doesn't mind a bit
VIRTUALIZATION The real fight is who wins the most AI and K8s workloads
Virtualization31 Aug 2026 | 11
Who, me? Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up
networks The real mistake here was probably sending someone so young to do the job
Networks31 Aug 2026 | 45
Debian votes to let contributors code with AI
AI AND ML Disclosure optional, quality mandatory
AI and ML30 Aug 2026 | 40
On Call: Exec couldn’t identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call
personal tech One retro numeric keypad looks much like any other to some users
Personal Tech28 Aug 2026 | 205
Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it’s drawing customers’ blood
security The fix is either an unvalidated and unofficial emergency patch or taking the server offline
Security28 Aug 2026 | 9
Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds
Security Alleged crew behind the Shai-Hulud worm and other supply chain attacks nabbed with help from the FBI
Security28 Aug 2026 | 9
Police investigating possible forgery at AFRINIC election
NETWORKS The regional internet registry is also trying to make it easier to terminate members
Networks27 Aug 2026 | 4
You could own AI.slop, if applicant for new global top-level domains get their way
Networks Resistance is futile: .borg is on the list, along with .itiswhatitis, .therapy, and.hype. If that’s scary, might a cup of .tea help?
Networks27 Aug 2026 | 15
Nutanix built $20m AI cluster to reduce use of Copilot and Claude, expects ROI in a year
virtualization Also thinks Arm can give it a hand on the edge during RAMpocalypse
Virtualization27 Aug 2026 |
India’s crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets
SCIENCE A space station by 2035 is ISRO’s new mission
Science26 Aug 2026 | 4
Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over
software Oh great, Big Tech is now in prime position to decide which messages get through
Software26 Aug 2026 | 67
Australia’s record industry won’t chart tunes recorded in the key of AI
AI AND ML This is basically a riff on ‘You wouldn’t steal a car’ and means only the human league can have a hit
AI and ML25 Aug 2026 | 25
SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year
off-prem And fly ‘significant scale’ in 2028 – a claim that isn’t entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt
Off-Prem25 Aug 2026 | 37
IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently
systems Cunning plan to expand the amount of software that runs on mainframes is also an admission ISVs are focusing their energies elsewhere
Systems25 Aug 2026 | 24
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight
Science Chang'e 7 didn’t meet unspecified ‘launch requirements’
Science24 Aug 2026 | 4
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory
SOFTWARE It survived testing and the boss signed off, so who was really to blame?
Software24 Aug 2026 | 47
Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave
software Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing
Software23 Aug 2026 | 49
Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it
software After imagining explosions, blackouts, and daring escapes, this techie decided the best thing to do was just not doing the job
Software21 Aug 2026 | 134
Cisco bug severity warning reads like Olympic gymnastics scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5.
security Secure Workload Software has five nasty flaws and even SaaS users have updates to install
Security21 Aug 2026 | 9
Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins
off-prem Cloudy AI is Chinese giant’s ‘most certain’ path to growth as e-commerce slows
Off-Prem21 Aug 2026 | 1
Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation
Policies and code of conduct breached
Legal21 Aug 2026 | 13
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing
offbeat Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster
Offbeat20 Aug 2026 | 52
IBM says super-chill boxes that connect through 'cryogenic tunnels' will get quantum computers scaling
systems Absolute zero inside is much cooler than Intel inside
Systems20 Aug 2026 | 3
Microsoft ends one of the last ways to buy VMware without big bundles
virtualization Broadcom’s VCF-or-nothing licenses are coming to Azure
Virtualization20 Aug 2026 | 14
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon
ofbeat As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations
Offbeat19 Aug 2026 | 41
Baidu says Chinese buyers want local AI chips due to ‘supply chain’ issues
Systems It seems like Nvidia’s not getting back into the Middle Kingdom anytime soon
Systems19 Aug 2026 | 4
Australian hotel chain leaks guests’ PII after breach at third-party database operator
cyber-crime Unknown parties know where you stayed last summer, down under, across 120 Quest properties
Cyber-crime19 Aug 2026 | 1
Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI
AI and ml $10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP
AI and ML18 Aug 2026 | 92
Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced
software If you’re still talking about ‘DirSync’ or ‘Active Directory’ instead of ‘Entra’, and need to explain why, this is the site for you
Software18 Aug 2026 | 33
Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains
virtualization Boeing quietly joins FOSS hypervisor crew, as AMD and Renesas lead new effort to comply with formal standards
Virtualization18 Aug 2026 | 2
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard
systems Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie
Systems17 Aug 2026 | 101
Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says ‘new normal’ means he had to do it now ... or never?
OS Platforms Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support
OS Platforms17 Aug 2026 | 20
Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive
software Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service
Software17 Aug 2026 | 14
Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new model is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI
Security PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!
Security17 Aug 2026 | 1
Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support
software Connecting a single power cord turned into a lucrative all-nighter
Software14 Aug 2026 | 80