Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage
What Microsoft giveth, Microsoft taketh away, again and again
Personal Tech09 Oct 2026 | 52
On-Prem
SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier
Low-band frequencies can reach devices inside buildings, while 2 GHz orbiters could extend coverage beyond cell towers
Networks09 Oct 2026 | 7
Growing pains: how distributed AI training changes the network between datacenters
SPONSORED FEATURE: While linking the GPUs in a datacenter is a challenge, coordinating thousands of them to work efficiently over hundreds of kilometers presents a new set of difficulties.
Networks09 Oct 2026 |
Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand
Buyers rushed to beat hikes earlier this year, but demand has since dried up as AI-fueled component shortages send costs soaring
Personal Tech09 Oct 2026 | 19
Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell
ON CALL Chap who took the job left a trail of wreckage – and invaluable case studies – in his incompetent wake
Systems09 Oct 2026 | 60
Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance
Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers
HPC08 Oct 2026 | 5
TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B deal
Advanced packaging tech is essential to the domestic production of high-performance semiconductors used in AI datacenters
Systems08 Oct 2026 | 2
Gremlin now uses AI to break distributed systems faster
If there's one thing AI can do well, it's failing more quickly than the average SRE
On-Prem08 Oct 2026 |
Too many quantum startups, too little money to keep them alive
Gartner predicts more than half will fold by 2030, even as businesses begin testing the technology's usefulness
Systems08 Oct 2026 | 11
Samsung eyes $80B quarterly profit as memory buyers pay the price
AI demand fattens chipmakers' margins while cheaper PCs and phones become harder to produce profitably
Systems08 Oct 2026 | 12
ICANN reveals bids for new top-level domains
Big tech has piled in with plenty of asks, but faces a fight as eight applicants want .api and seven seek .agi
Networks08 Oct 2026 | 23
Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system
But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right?
Personal Tech07 Oct 2026 | 75
Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra
Poverty-spec model starts at $2,599 with 24 GB of RAM and 512GB of storage with 128 GB models topping $5,899
Personal Tech07 Oct 2026 | 29
Europe's mobile operators sell fewer phones but gain share as budget market shrivels
Contract purchases hold up better than independent retail sales, with Apple overtaking Samsung in the carrier channel
Personal Tech07 Oct 2026 | 8
Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative
Email and calendars move in-house in 2027, with European open source tools to follow
On-Prem07 Oct 2026 | 60
From reactive to proactive: How endpoint monitoring is fixing broken meeting rooms
SPONSORED FEATURE: Cloud-based telemetry is turning meeting rooms into managed endpoints, letting IT teams anticipate failures rather than scramble once users complain
On-Prem07 Oct 2026 |
South Korean president calls for creation of tools that stop all cyber-attacks
'Complete security paradigm refresh' needed for the AI era
Public Sector07 Oct 2026 | 30
Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up
Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity
Systems06 Oct 2026 | 11
Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb
Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity
Science06 Oct 2026 | 128
Atos lands £350M beat keeping Met Police applications running
Six-year deal covers management and security, with options to add cloud and digital workplace services
Public Sector06 Oct 2026 | 7
Popular
Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers
Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites
EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software
OPINION EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup with
Element, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway
Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand
Buyers rushed to beat hikes earlier this year, but demand has since dried up as AI-fueled component shortages send costs soaring
Oracle lets AI agents do the work, provided you stay in Big Red's world
Analysts welcome Fusion Claw's tighter controls but warn of early adoption and cloud lock-in
AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier
Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage
What Microsoft giveth, Microsoft taketh away, again and again
Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment
Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents – handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to model builders
Microsoft leans on open weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge Jev
The first version of Microsoft-Decision-1 is based on Qwen3.5-9B, but the next will sport homegrown tech, Redmond reassures
Growing pains: how distributed AI training changes the network between datacenters
SPONSORED FEATURE: While linking the GPUs in a datacenter is a challenge, coordinating thousands of them to work efficiently over hundreds of kilometers presents a new set of difficulties.
US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway
Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year
STORIES
Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies
Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra
Systems05 Oct 2026 | 5
Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators
INTERVIEW Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?
Systems05 Oct 2026 |
BT buys TalkTalk out of administration to keep 2.5M customers connected
UPDATED Rescue carries an estimated £400M cash impact as Virgin Media declares move 'a stitchup'
Networks05 Oct 2026 | 130
What people say about their file infrastructure once the badge comes off
EVENT Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in Soho on 20 October where infrastructure leaders compare notes on the file estate they inherited, off the record.
Storage05 Oct 2026 |
Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed
Who me? Silly supplier ended up short-changing themselves
Networks05 Oct 2026 | 122
Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40
The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today
Offbeat04 Oct 2026 | 55
Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent
Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!
Systems02 Oct 2026 | 49
Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter could be ready before the power is
Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk
On-Prem02 Oct 2026 | 9
Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch
Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price
Systems02 Oct 2026 | 17
Once a $35 computer, the 2 GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs $67.50
Pi 5 also gets a $12.50 bump as customers urged to consider older models or less RAM
Personal Tech02 Oct 2026 | 20
UK spending watchdog opens investigation into Capita's pension fiasco
Outsourcer admits service remains below expectations after missed recovery deadline
Public Sector02 Oct 2026 | 33
Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work
If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems...
Systems02 Oct 2026 | 29
Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP
Boffin wants to kill TCP in the datacenter for AI. Not all network architects are buying it
Networks01 Oct 2026 | 88
Palantir's Tom Watson lectures MP on accuracy, citing selective data
Former Labour deputy challenges Clive Lewis but skips the warnings attached to NHS figures
Public Sector01 Oct 2026 | 17
Sopra Steria widens legal challenge to Capita's Whitehall outsourcing deal
Unredacted contract prompts fresh claims of preferential treatment and greater risk for the DWP
Public Sector01 Oct 2026 | 20
Singapore’s government creates a dating app
Team that gave the world Bluetooth COVID tracking swipes right on algorithmic matchmaking
Public Sector01 Oct 2026 | 6
RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates ‘much higher’ prices
Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come
Systems01 Oct 2026 | 34
Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wieners
Just ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.
Public Sector30 Sep 2026 | 15
Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China
The chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says
Systems30 Sep 2026 | 4
AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit
That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment
AI and ML30 Sep 2026 | 47
Apple makes the AirPods 5 slightly less hostile to repair
Replaceable earbud batteries lift iFixit score from zero to a dizzying two out of ten
Personal Tech30 Sep 2026 | 1
ZTE and China Mobile Research Institute win the 2026 Leading Lights Award for "Outstanding Use Case: 5G/6G Innovation" with GigaMIMO
PARTNER CONTENT: GigaMIMO bridges 5G-A and 6G by unlocking spatial potential to deliver up to 10x capacity and multi-gigabit speeds on live networks
Networks30 Sep 2026 |
America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill
Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts
On-Prem30 Sep 2026 | 8
Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations
Also requires name change to 'Superintelligence'
AI and ML30 Sep 2026 | 55
Trump launches America.gov with AI chatbots at its core
Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website
Public Sector29 Sep 2026 | 58
AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrified
Regular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap
Personal Tech29 Sep 2026 | 19
Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatment
Equinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself
On-Prem29 Sep 2026 | 8
Former X-Force hackers chase the offensive cyber gold rush
RemoteThreat launches with $7M, 1,000 attack tools, and ambitions to equip enterprises and Uncle Sam for AI-speed operations
Security29 Sep 2026 |
Healthcare campaigners turn up the heat on Palantir at Labour conference
Protesters want ministers to reject an extension of the US spy-tech firm's £330M NHS data platform deal
Public Sector29 Sep 2026 | 23
HMRC bets up to £2.4B on Salesforce for taxpayer CRM overhaul
Ten-year deal covers customer records, case management, portals, analytics, and AI, with extensions possible to 2041
SaaS29 Sep 2026 | 15
Which copy of the file is the real one?
EVENT A Register dinner in Soho on 20 October takes on the file infrastructure everyone still runs and nobody chose, off the record.
Storage29 Sep 2026 |
OpenAI’s dirty deeds Down Under included security bypass attempts, using exposed keys, source code siphon
Admits its agents side-swiped four Australian government sites
AI and ML29 Sep 2026 | 13
AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD
AI and ML28 Sep 2026 | 3
How many times are you paying for the same file?
EVENT A Register dinner in Midtown on 27 October takes on the file infrastructure distributed teams still run and nobody chose, off the record
Storage28 Sep 2026 |
ZTE's Malaysia CelcomDigi dual-network integration project won the Gold Award of IPMA Global Project Excellence Awards 2026
PARTNER CONTENT: Initiated in 1997 by GPM, the award honors outstanding project management teams and is regarded as the "Oscar" of the field
Networks28 Sep 2026 |
Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim visit the ZTE booth at the Global Digital Trade Expo
PARTNER CONTENT: Advancing AI, cloud infrastructure, and digital public services for high-value economic growth
Networks28 Sep 2026 |
U Mobile and ZTE demonstrate portable, 100% green-energy 5G Site to connect remote and underserved communities
PARTNER CONTENT: Beyond rural connectivity, the portable solution also has potential applications in emergency and disaster response
Networks28 Sep 2026 |
Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain
EU firms capture less than 10% of the bloc's datacenter chips, server assembly, and cloud infrastructure markets
Systems28 Sep 2026 | 5
UK government vows to reclaim services from outsourcing giants
Whitehall unit will examine critical contracts after Capita pensions fiasco strengthens case for bringing work in-house
Public Sector28 Sep 2026 | 39
Ofcom pulls the plug on Openreach's aggressive fiber discount
Regulator intervenes after deciding altnets may be unable to match the offer and recover their costs
Networks28 Sep 2026 | 18
ZTE hosts "Smart Factories for the Country of Startups" Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026
PARTNER CONTENT: Driving industrial modernization and AI-Powered manufacturing in Uzbekistan
Networks28 Sep 2026 |
HMRC vowed to break up with Capgemini then paid it another £4.2B
Government wants public spending to back British business, but the French supplier could remain at the tax collector until 2036
Public Sector28 Sep 2026 | 22
Amazon evaluating drone deliveries in Australia, Asia
asia in brief PLUS: Singapore helps Meta find new form of scam; Nothing bets it can create Indian consumer tech giant; Bangkok floods, tech holds on
Personal Tech28 Sep 2026 | 7
How Samsung turned months of inactivity into a very attention-seeking smartphone
Your spare Android won’t come back to life in a hurry but – like neglected PCs – it really should
Personal Tech26 Sep 2026 | 46
Uncle Sam coughs up $1.9B for grid upgrades as datacenters hit a power wall
Better conductors and improved sensing capabilities expected to unlock at least 23 gigawatts of additional capacity
Systems25 Sep 2026 | 18
Google-backed energy outfit brings 33 MW of 4 GW geothermal potential online in Utah
Fervo Energy aims to have 100 MW online by New Year and half a gigawatt by 2028
Systems25 Sep 2026 | 6
Which copy of that file is the real one? Dinner, off the record, in Midtown
EVENT Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in New York on the file infrastructure nobody has got around to replacing, with nothing on the record.
Storage25 Sep 2026 |
Raspberry Pi surfs memory crunch to record first half
A well-timed RAM stockpile helped keep boards shipping while rivals struggled for memory
Storage25 Sep 2026 | 27
UK wants more homes heated by waste heat from datacenters
Millions for building and improving bitbarn driven heat networks - including hot water pushed through tunnel under the Thames
On-Prem25 Sep 2026 | 72
Your files are in four places and nobody knows which one is right
EVENT Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner on the file infrastructure nobody has got round to replacing, under the Chatham House Rule.
Storage25 Sep 2026 |
Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it
ON CALL Malicious compliance crosses cultural barriers
Networks25 Sep 2026 | 82
Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next week
Part of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit
Systems24 Sep 2026 | 10
Meta's new AI fidget is a ... Tamagotchi?
We hope Zuck's Muse Charm doesn't die if you neglect it
Personal Tech24 Sep 2026 | 21
AI boom could wipe 230 million budget phones a year from the market
Sub-$200 shipments forecast to shrink 40% by 2030 as component costs climb
Personal Tech24 Sep 2026 | 6
City council may be waking from its Oracle nightmare but the accounting hangover continues
Europe's largest local authority still cannot get auditors to vouch for its books as historic data problems linger
Public Sector24 Sep 2026 | 9
HSBC decides Samsung Secure Folder and Android's Private Space are no place for a banking app
Customers say the unannounced change also cut off web access that relied on mobile authentication
Personal Tech24 Sep 2026 | 60
Europe’s internet registry wants governance ‘correction’ because its ‘Executive Board’ is not the executive
RIPE NCC hopes members get aboard effort to tidy things up and give its CEO a vote
Networks24 Sep 2026 | 1
OpenAI agents ‘infiltrated Australian government website’
UPDATED Canberra is fuming after AI lab sent the news to a generic unattended email address
Security24 Sep 2026 | 79
Europe's fastest supercomputer is finally getting its domestic silicon infusion
Bull, the system builder behind JUPITER, takes delivery of SiPearl's long-awaited Rhea1 CPUs
Systems23 Sep 2026 | 7
An Epyc trip to Venice: Everything we do and don't know about AMD's 256-core monster chip
16 channels of DDR5, 5+ GHz clock speeds, and support for CXL 3.1 memory god boxes? What's not to like?
Systems23 Sep 2026 | 1
Thoughts return to forbidden RAM upgrades as Raspberry Pi OS gets fresh lick of paint
New dock and app launcher arrive while soaring memory prices revive scrutiny of a two-year-old firmware restriction
Systems23 Sep 2026 | 79
The more Americans hear about datacenters, the less they like them
Pew finds growing concern over their effects on energy bills, the environment, and nearby communities
On-Prem23 Sep 2026 | 28
Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes
Another utility sees the light in putting existing telecoms infrastructure to work
Networks23 Sep 2026 | 3
Excellent Engineer Capability Building Center (Hanoi, Vietnam) inauguration ceremony and the 2026 Engineering Capacity Building Program successfully held in Hanoi
PARTNER CONTENT: Supported by ZTE, the new Center creates a joint platform for 5G, AI, and digital infrastructure development across Southeast Asia
Storage23 Sep 2026 |
Tang Luhao, President of CIS region at ZTE: “We are building a smarter, more connected future for Central Asia”
PARTNER CONTENT: Building infrastructure, cultivating talent, and positioning Uzbekistan as Central Asia’s next tech hub
Networks23 Sep 2026 |
In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols
systems approach Kids can learn why BGP matters in a semester, but that won’t leave them ready to implement it
Networks23 Sep 2026 | 7
EU datacenter green scorecard finally escapes Brussels
Long-delayed sustainability labels land as Commission eyes minimum efficiency standards
On-Prem22 Sep 2026 | 3
Campaigners tell Burnham not to trade away the UK's tech tax to please Trump
Letter lands ahead of the PM's first face-to-face meeting with the US president
Public Sector22 Sep 2026 | 60
Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation'
EXCLUSIVE Other changes also afoot as employees unionize and the distro itself sees modifications
Software22 Sep 2026 | 34
GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in
Mike Bracken says the dash to adopt sovereign AI risks giving more control to a handful of tech suppliers
Public Sector22 Sep 2026 | 14
ZTE backbone microwave network achieves major breakthrough in Peru with innovative CoMP SD Solution
PARTNER CONTENT: Overcoming complex Amazonian environments: ZTE extends ultra-long-Distance Microwave Links While Cutting Deployment Costs in Peru
Networks22 Sep 2026 |
ZTE HI-OTN earns the only unanimous perfect score at Light Reading's 2026 Leading Lights Awards
PARTNER CONTENT: Scaling AI from pilots to deployment: Driving network efficiency, automated O&M, and market leadership in Algeria
Networks22 Sep 2026 |
Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T club
Fueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too
Systems21 Sep 2026 | 2
Skip the upgrade? iPhone 18 Pro aperture about as unrepairable as it gets, iFixit finds
Repairability improvements can't lift last year's score as camera complexity and screen-frame concerns remain
Personal Tech21 Sep 2026 | 49
Google smacks forehead, realizes $899+ thin-and-lights were what it was missing
'A new category,' insists the Chocolate Factory, not a premium Chromebook - yet some of the family resemblance remains
Personal Tech21 Sep 2026 | 49
London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street
Rent-a-GPU firm reportedly seeks a valuation of up to $35B in New York IPO
On-Prem21 Sep 2026 | 27
AI can't outprompt a shortage of power, water, and land
Forrester predicts operators will face tariffs, grid commitments, and tougher community scrutiny
On-Prem21 Sep 2026 | 8
Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty
Modeling suggests liquid-cooled designs can halve water consumption, though the company has skin in the game
On-Prem21 Sep 2026 | 13
American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient
KETTLE US power emissions restrictions are being wiped out, but hey – datacenters running Nvidia kit are getting better at extracting ever bit of compute they can from a megawatt, for what it's worth
Systems21 Sep 2026 | 6
Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on
Who, Me? Attempt to prove procurement prowess ended up gathering dust
Personal Tech21 Sep 2026 | 233