Networks Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule
Personal Tech Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard
Public Sector Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us' The Iran war has been great for business
Personal Tech Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799 The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer
Networks Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino
On-Prem Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges
Networks Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble
Personal Tech Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades
Public Sector Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’ Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet
Public Sector Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise PAC: Now why can't everybody else in public sector do it like this?
Public Sector Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it
Personal Tech Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives
Personal Tech That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock
Public Sector UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters
Public Sector DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right'
Systems Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’ Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler
Systems Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can ‘contribute to global stability’
Personal Tech Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average
Networks Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs
On-Prem Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management
Systems ZTE partners with China's National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine to build a new paradigm of smart interventional medicine ZTE and NCRCIM leverage "CardioMind" AI and full-stack computing to drive global healthcare equity
Networks Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1 Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about
Networks Wind Telecom Dominican Republic and ZTE join forces to accelerate smart home innovation Elevating residential connectivity with AI-driven network optimization and secure cloud-based home monitoring solutions
Networks ZTE and XLSMART officially launch Innovation Center in Jakarta, accelerating 5G-advanced and AI readiness for Indonesia Driving cross-sector digital transformation through collaborative 5G-A research and AI-powered network solutions
Networks GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks 32 phone calls, 17 email chains, a 5-day ordeal, and no help during the daddy of all stuffups, claim those affected
Networks When robots join the race: 5G-A powers a new kind of marathon Human and humanoid runners share the track as next-gen connectivity underpins real-time AI performance
On-Prem Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights on
Public Sector UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team £125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to live
Networks Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts Pair accused of creating literal flame war as bonkers conspiracy theories grow
Public Sector UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit Comparison between 2 vendors was never meant to be seen ... or made
Public Sector The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown After missing its 2025 target, Boeing's MQ-25A Stingray is one step closer to a carrier deck
Systems Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm They were doing it in Texas...
On-Prem Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space Facebook provider also working with energy storage firm to keep 100 hours of juice on hand
Public Sector Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors
Public Sector ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds UK’s data watchdog confirms its boss has been off the job since February while an HR investigation runs
Public Sector Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot Microsoft Copilot now heading into ‘Official Sensitive’ work after winning back just 26 minutes a day in a trial
Personal Tech PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODs
Public Sector Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever?
Networks US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhere
Networks ZTE reports first-quarter revenue of RMB 35.0 billion, up 6% YoY, with computing revenue mix rising to 27% AI infrastructure and international growth offset domestic carrier shifts as "Connectivity + Computing" strategy takes hold
Systems Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse
Public Sector UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room Nothing says 'We want honest opinions' like a 36,000-letter mailshot with no awkward questions allowed
Networks To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane Won't somebody think of the children not being hit by a load of building materials?
Public Sector US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes Three vendors matched to three sites
Personal Tech YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard What are you doing to solve the memory crisis?
Networks TUIT and ZTE unveil new initiatives for student internships and tech employment Empowering Uzbekistan’s digital future through international hackathons, AI integration, and advanced internship pathways
Storage Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70% Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptions
Public Sector American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir Wins $300M deal over Salesforce, IBM because of 'integration with existing USDA systems,' among other things
Systems AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear
Systems Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon
Systems SK Hynix’s aspirations for ’Merica-made HBM inch closer to reality New site set to begin manufacturing and testing HBM memory just in time for Nvidia's Rubin-Ultra GPUs in 2028
Public Sector Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containers
Personal Tech Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3 Latest hardware sports dock for graphic card, power sipping battery
On-Prem Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment
On-Prem Apple has an opportunity to rediscover humanity in its push toward AI John Ternus can remake Apple the way it should have been
Networks Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months Still only a tiny slice of mobile activity overall
Personal Tech England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one 90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork
On-Prem Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions
Systems World's blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home Tim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at Apple
Public Sector Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter Official involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn't paint entire picture of datacenter's economic benefit
On-Prem AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts
Personal Tech HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life Workstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdown
On-Prem Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use
Public Sector Indonesia’s game rating system paused amid claims it leaked developer creds and glimpses of major new titles PLUS: India bins ID app pre-install plan; Robot wins Beijing half-marathon; AI writing Manga speech bubbles; and more!
Systems Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes
Networks ZTE highlights path to broadband monetization at FTTH conference 2026 Urges operators to shift focus from traditional network metrics to managing user experience and customer behavior
Personal Tech Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15
Personal Tech Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast
Public Sector Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks Top civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for money
Networks Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching All that kit, and the fix was simply stepping aside
Networks IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookups
Networks Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory
Networks IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google We're not half way there, we're still livin' on a prayer
Public Sector Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyard
Networks Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikes
Systems A beginner's guide to GPU virtualization: passthrough, vGPU, and MIG What every IT generalist needs to know before deploying GPU workloads, and why the platform matters more than the hardware.
Public Sector Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps up
Public Sector Cops hand Motorola £25M no-bid deal to keep 2000-era radios alive Biz as usual for Brit public sector: ESN replacement is 12 years late and £3B over budget
Networks QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different Deciphering the third transport protocol's four RFCs is a task to rival the proverbial blind man trying to understand an elephant
Networks Bullet train upgrade brings 5G windows and noise-cancelling cabins to Japan Private Shinkansen suites are pulling up to the station in October
Networks Not all networks can handle AI traffic – and experts are sounding alarms Y'all been focusing on compute and forgot about how the data moves around
On-Prem US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally Report says authorities are flouting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidies
Public Sector UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk Open Rights Group says years of reliance on US giants have left Britain exposed
Systems Orbital datacenter startup CEO admits launch economics don't fly, presses ahead regardless Needs SpaceX et al to drop prices and give competitors a ride into space to make it work
Personal Tech The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out The perfect combination of hardware and experiences will arrive, no matter what Zuck and Neal Stephenson think
Systems AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away
Systems Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises
Systems Oracle taps Bloom for 2.8 GW of fuel cells to keep datacenter binge going With grid hookups slow and turbines scarce, on-site power is starting to look less optional
Networks Amazon pays $11.5B to satisfy satellite-envy while cowering in Musk's shadow Deal only comes with 24 operational sats, but also an Apple deal, spectrum licenses, and plenty of IP
Networks ZTE and CIMB expand strategic partnership to support 5G deployment and digital infrastructure across ASEAN Leveraging tech leadership and strategic financing to accelerate 5G deployment and bridge the digital divide across Southeast Asia
Personal Tech Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in US
Systems When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It's trying to get back there now
Networks ZTE launches regional service center at Uzbekistan's IT park to boost IT exports and create high-skilled jobs
Public Sector OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches'
Systems Memory-makers' shares are down. Some RAM prices have eased. Blaming Google is not a good idea
Systems ZTE showcases end-to-end intelligent computing at CloudFest 2026 in Germany, empowering the digital future
On-Prem Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion
Networks Advancing smarter and more inclusive digital connectivity for Indonesia, Telkomsel and ZTE strengthen collaboration at MWC Barcelona 2026
Public Sector Nothing screams casual career pivot like joining the UK Ministry of Defence for a cool £162K
Networks ZTE achieves multiple awards at 2026 Lightwave Innovation Reviews, leading global AI optical network innovation
Personal Tech Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’
Systems Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics'
Networks Herotel brings 10Gbps-capable fibre to South African townships, with 3,000 customers already connected and 1 million homes to follow
