Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their wallet Sales of refurbished PCs are on the up amid shortages of key components, including memory chips, that are making brand new devices more expensive.…
Lees meerFormer Windows manager explains design decisions behind it A former Windows boss has explained why the taskbar in Windows 11 is the way it is and how he "fought hard" to stop Microsoft from removing customization options present in Windows 10.…
Lees meerLots of donations, but lots of pressure to go with it Although we're in mid-February, the Linux Mint project just published its January 2026 blog. This could be seen as one sign of the pressure on the creator of this very successful distro: although…
Lees meerAgency looks to cut waiting times and curb bot-driven slot reselling as it doubles down on IT overhaul The UK's Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is recruiting a chief digital and information officer, partly to help sort out its bot-ridden …
Lees meerStricter rules for VPNs and AI chatbots also in the offing amid child safety push UK prime minister Keir Starmer has set a "months" timeline for the long-brewing plan for a social media age limit, signaling the government is ready to pick a fight wi…
Lees meerOnly for its own comms apps – whose users can probably do without a full private cloud Cisco is getting close to releasing its own hypervisor, as an alternative to VMware for users of its calling applications – software like the Unified Communicatio…
Lees meerOnly for its own comms apps – whose users can probably do without a full private cloud Cisco is getting close to releasing its own hypervisor, as an alternative to VMware for users of its calling applications – software like the Unified Communicatio…
Lees meerOnly for its own comms apps – whose users can probably do without a full private cloud Cisco is getting close to releasing its own hypervisor, as an alternative to VMware for users of its calling applications – software like the Unified Communicatio…
Lees meerPLUS: India demands two-hour deepfake takedowns; Singapore embraces AI; Japanese robot wolf gets cuddly; And more Asia In Brief The United States may be about to change its policies regarding Chinese technology companies.…
Lees meerRegional internet registry that serves half of humanity wants more perspectives in more languages APRICOT 2026 When members of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) got their chance to grill its leaders at yesterday’s annual general m…
Lees meerRegional internet registry that serves half of humanity wants more perspectives in more languages APRICOT 2026 When members of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre got their chance to grill its leaders at yesterday’s annual general meeting, …
Lees meerThe Internet History Initiative wants future historians to have a chance to understand how human progress and technical progress align APRICOT 2026 For almost 30 years, the PingER project at the USA’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used ping …
Lees meerStartup expects to complete construction of its first fuel plant later this year Amazon inched closer to its atomic datacenter dream on Friday after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensed its small modular reactor partner X-energy to make …
Lees meerOxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works Remember that giant green rack-sized blade server Oxide Computer showed off a couple of years back? Well, the startup is still at it, having raked i…
Lees meerDoE bets AI can speed fusion, unlock decades of nuclear data, and probe fundamental physics The Trump administration has outlined the first 26 goals for its project to inject AI into the government's scientific research, and everything from securing…
Lees meerDoE bets AI can speed fusion, unlock decades of nuclear data, and probe fundamental physics The Trump administration has outlined the first 26 goals for its project to inject AI into the government's scientific research, and everything from securing…
Lees meerQ4 figures reveal shifting market share across PCs and cloud infrastructure Intel continues to lose market share to rival AMD across server, desktop, and mobile processors, and this has been noticeable in PCs thanks to supply constraints on Chipzill…
Lees meerPrices for router and set-top boxes up nearly sevenfold, squeezing telcos and raising deployment costs Prices for memory used in routers and set-top boxes are surging nearly sevenfold thanks to AI, raising fresh fears that the industry's silicon bin…
Lees meerMove comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad Ring has cut ties with Flock, citing resource constraints, mere months after the pair announced a partnership.…
Lees meerBitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National Laboratory Nuclear-powered datacenters in the US are moving closer as a consortium prepares to build proposed facilities for the Department of Energy (DoE) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).…
Lees meerWatchdog says savings bank botched tech revamp, warning taxpayers remain exposed after years of delays Britain's state-backed savings bank has been dragged over the coals by Parliament's spending watchdog, which has branded its long-running digital …
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