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Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse

Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?

HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin

It's not much cheaper than an equivalent laptop, so who's this for, exactly?

A close-up thumb in front of a digital fingerprint recognition overlay.

UK wants fresh fingerprints on £300M biometrics platform

Home Office probes supplier interest as core police and immigration system heads for support shake-up

Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims

Good times, bad times

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Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift

Not just for hated US Presidents, now even tech bros lament their foes

Iran war hits datacenter building supply chains, upping costs

BCS says builders face up to 20% material hikes and patchy deliveries

A raspberry tart on a glass plate with a jar of jam, red berries, and green leaves on a white surface.

Raspberry Pi wants Windows admins to Connect – or it might pull the plug

Remote access software could bring mixed fleets under one roof, assuming enough people ask for it

Close-up of a police officer in a checkered cap covering their face with one hand.

UK abandons police database cloud move after £35M transformation stalls

Home Office finds 80% of code cannot be reused, balks at £26M in extra costs

Close-up of a dangling Ethernet plug with a blurred cable on a white background.

ON CALL: Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client

It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in

HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi

NetAdmins can stay in the loop while they learn to trust AI to tackle some scutwork

TomTom’s route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion

Users report disappearing favorites, blank route planners, and cloud sync failures amid outage

Official PCIe 8.0 draft aims for 1 TB/s data rate

Final specs due for release in 2028, so don't hold your breath for the hardware

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Home Office seeks three CTOs to keep borders, passports, and core IT ticking

Roles span eGates, passports, visas, asylum applications, and enterprise services – yours for up to £105K

Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’

Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips

Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets

Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?

Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway

Initial phases of SpaceX's Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters

DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year

Commercial PC demand expected to cushion broader slowdown

It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet

Major .de domains experienced hours-long outage after registry distributed faulty signatures

Close-up of a black Xbox controller on a wooden surface.

It's game over for Copilot on Xbox

Microsoft winds down console AI assistant as new boss says it no longer fits the plan

Traditional terraced houses in warm sunset light with parked cars and trees.

Planning and land searches hit by IT problems in 3 councils following SaaS migration

EXCLUSIVE: Searches go missing, house sales fall through, and a 5G mast erected by mistake

Couple wearing sunglasses looking surprised by something

DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to

A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not

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

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

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Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'

The Iran war has been great for business

Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799

The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer

Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop

Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space

Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear

The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino

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

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

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

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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

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?

Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred

Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it

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The Librem 5 has 3GB of memory and 32GB of storage. Pic: Purism website

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

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

security cctv camera on the roof of the van. mobile surveillance camera. Pic by: Semiglass / Shutterstock

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

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'

Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’

Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler

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’

Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation

Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average

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

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

ZTE-China-National-Clinical-Research-Center-for-Interventional-Medicine

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

On-Prem news | The Register

ON-PREM

Latest news and insights from the world of on-premises and personal technology

Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse

HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin

UK wants fresh fingerprints on £300M biometrics platform

Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims

Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift

Iran war hits datacenter building supply chains, upping costs

Raspberry Pi wants Windows admins to Connect – or it might pull the plug

UK abandons police database cloud move after £35M transformation stalls

ON CALL: Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client

HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi

TomTom’s route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion

Official PCIe 8.0 draft aims for 1 TB/s data rate

Home Office seeks three CTOs to keep borders, passports, and core IT ticking

Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’

Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets

Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway

DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year

It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet

It's game over for Copilot on Xbox

Planning and land searches hit by IT problems in 3 councils following SaaS migration

DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to

Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal

Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release

Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'

Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799

Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop

Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner

Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back

Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’

Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise

Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry

UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender

DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it

Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’

Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over

Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation

Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet

Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds

ZTE partners with China's National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine to build a new paradigm of smart interventional medicine

Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm

Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1

Wind Telecom Dominican Republic and ZTE join forces to accelerate smart home innovation

ZTE and XLSMART officially launch Innovation Center in Jakarta, accelerating 5G-advanced and AI readiness for Indonesia

GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks

When robots join the race: 5G-A powers a new kind of marathon

Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm

UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team

Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts

UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit

The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown

Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm

Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space

Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle

ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds

Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot

PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch

Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs

US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit

ZTE reports first-quarter revenue of RMB 35.0 billion, up 6% YoY, with computing revenue mix rising to 27%

Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores

UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room

To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane

US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes

YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard

TUIT and ZTE unveil new initiatives for student internships and tech employment

Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70%