Simon Sharwood

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 | 48

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

Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire

Who, me? Even the greatest scientific minds are at risk of rogue 9-pin connectors

Personal Tech07 Sep 2026 | 138

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

User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key

on call Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work

Personal Tech04 Sep 2026 | 87

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

EXCLUsIVE 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

The budget was minimal, FedEx was the bottleneck, and DNS was of course the source of trouble

Networks02 Sep 2026 | 20

Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss

And RISC-V is absolutely nowhere

Virtualization02 Sep 2026 | 13

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

Virtzilla finding more ways to pull data out of DRAM to enable ‘densification’ and dodge the RAMpocalypse

Storage01 Sep 2026 | 18

VMware uses Nvidia-favored 'AI factory' brand to build something with rival AMD

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

Promises ‘secure artifacts’ for Spring and RabbitMQ, and other projects that matter to its Tanzu suite

Software31 Aug 2026 | 14

The balkanization of virtualization will de-throne VMware, which doesn't mind a bit

The real fight is who wins the most AI and K8s workloads

Virtualization31 Aug 2026 | 11

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

Exec couldn’t identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call

ON CALL One retro numeric keypad looks much like any other to some users

Personal Tech28 Aug 2026 | 208

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 | 26

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 | 135

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

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

New Zealand says China tried using space investments to spy on local affairs

Intelligence Service says finding domestic threats is harder due to proliferation of toxic content online

Security14 Aug 2026 | 17

Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix

Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on

Laptop-slinger Framework refunding customers who paid top dollar for RAM

Microsoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter

VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups – or migrations to rivals

Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code

Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing

US claims Chinese AI companies’ core AI strategy is distilling American models

‘Global reckoning’ is coming for big tech, says Australian minister

Huawei proudly shows off an entirely un-American chip

Amazon-branded plane in fatal accident at Miami Airport

Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire

Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds

Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals

User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key

Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud

Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release

VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade

A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter

Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss

Tape still isn’t dead, but shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025

If hardware price squeezes make you sad, VMware says it will all end in tiers

VMware uses Nvidia-favored 'AI factory' brand to build something with rival AMD

Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries

The balkanization of virtualization will de-throne VMware, which doesn't mind a bit

Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up

Debian votes to let contributors code with AI

Exec couldn’t identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call

Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it’s drawing customers’ blood

Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds

Police investigating possible forgery at AFRINIC election

You could own AI.slop, if applicant for new global top-level domains get their way

Nutanix built $20m AI cluster to reduce use of Copilot and Claude, expects ROI in a year

India’s crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets

Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over

Australia’s record industry won’t chart tunes recorded in the key of AI

SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year

IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently

China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight

Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory

Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave

Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it

Cisco bug severity warning reads like Olympic gymnastics scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5.

Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins

Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation

China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing

IBM says super-chill boxes that connect through 'cryogenic tunnels' will get quantum computers scaling

Microsoft ends one of the last ways to buy VMware without big bundles

NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon

Baidu says Chinese buyers want local AI chips due to ‘supply chain’ issues

Australian hotel chain leaks guests’ PII after breach at third-party database operator

Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI

Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced

Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains

Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard

Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says ‘new normal’ means he had to do it now ... or never?

Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive

Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new model is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI

Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support

New Zealand says China tried using space investments to spy on local affairs