Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating
Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner £4.3B deal gives telco full control of Britain's largest mobile operator
UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized
Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold Tech giant counts record piles of cash while buyers face years of elevated prices
The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time Survey finds more workloads run off-site than at in-house corporate facilities for the first time
AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning Cloud operators have already claimed most of its nearline capacity through 2028
Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first Washington rallies allies to shape next-generation networks after spending 18 months rattling them
Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber Latest batch takes the copper sales restrictions to 1,572 locations and 15.4 million premises
British Army finds a new eye in the sky after Watchkeeper woes Tekever AR5 drone regarded as more up-to-date answer to provide battlefield surveillance for soldiers
Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills Pinkie promise gains 200-plus new participants and precisely zero enforcement
EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment? Proposed cybersecurity legislation may force a cull of high-risk network technology, costing tens of billions
Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter The Reg was there as locals aired grievances over poor communication, noise, and light pollution at Waltham Cross facility
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal
Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast
AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit alleges Ex-staffer accuses Amazon's Virginia datacenters of quietly guzzling H20 all year round, despite 'water positive' PR push
Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin
AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone
Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk 24-hour outage in key AWS region could leave UK firms nursing massive losses, researchers claim
AI memory crunch takes a bite out of PC shipments IDC warns smaller players may struggle as DRAM drought drags on
Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint Ofcom: Telco encouraged staff to drop calls and put customers on hold for no reason when they wanted to cancel
DRAM prices are killing the cheap smartphone Now eats 60% of a sub-$400 handset's bill of materials and it's only getting worse
UK guts planning red tape so datacenters can bypass the neighbors faster Overhaul of process could give NIMBYs one year less to complain
Samsung floats 2028 launch for seaborne datacenter Korean megacorp sets itself a target date to commercialize watery server farm concept
Amazon Leo constellation nears 400 satellites as broadband launch looms Online emporium's Starlink rival says it will start service later this year as another 29 birds reach orbit
Startup targets datacenters with 3D-printed nuclear reactor module Fancy a thorium microreactor capable of delivering up to 30 MWe of juice for up to 30 years?
EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists Report says proposed rewrite gives operators more freedom to shop around for a greener grade
SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building
UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues
Brit competition cops fast-track £2B borging of Netomnia into Openreach challenger Liberty Global, Telefónica, and InfraVia have grand designs on the UK fiber market
IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom
UK government wants 'trusted' news sources promoted above the social media noise That's public service media such as the BBC, according to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
O2 joins UK 2G switch-off with summer 2029 start date It's not just old phones – many smart meters and telecare alarms still use the ancient technology
Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028 Ahem. National effort required to kick-start the era of quantum-enabled scientific discovery and keep America ahead of the game
Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges Floating or sub-surface bit barns are all the rage, but unlikely to compete with multi-gigawatt sites
Nvidia gets all agentic about supercomputing for scientific research Tireless AI agents could help scientists do research humans alone can't, says GPU giant
The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon Some hardware firms redesigning products to use older DDR2 and DDR3 components
Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up Missiles and radars also included in £752M aid package
Geopolitical jitters push Europe's internet registry away from cloud-first strategy Members aren't RIPE for a new charging scheme, though
AI nose uses 'Smell Language Model' to sniff out signs of disease Sampling patients' breath may save lives and emergency room resources
Only half of US datacenter capacity planned for 2026 is actually under construction Another fun example of AI hype and reality colliding
Smartphone market to shrink 15 percent this year due to memory crisis Buyers put off by rising prices expected to turn to second-hand phones instead
Intel starts cooking up enhanced 18A-P silicon for would-be foundry customers Chipzilla claims 9% speed bump without extra power draw but is compatible with designs for 18A
Non-x86 servers now nearly half the market, IDC says Demand for AI systems plus the shortage of DRAM and NAND are shaping the global market
Qualcomm said to be circling AI chip biz Tenstorrent in $10B RISC-V power play Potential takeover would represent significant commitment to the open instruction set architecture
HPE offers VMware refugees a year off the meter Free VM Essentials license and cut-price Zerto dangled at customers eyeing a platform escape
Feds snooze as US datacenter law set to lapse with no replacement in site Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) of 2023 covers standards including security and sustainability
US Army picks out Vampire to fill a gap in its layered drone defenses L3Harris supplies system that can down incoming drones with laser-guided rockets
Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H2O in its bit barns last year The West's biggest online shopping mall comes clean about its datacenter water usage
Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts iFixit teardown reveals two-year-old, mid-range, Chinese Android
Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend Satnav parts designed and manufactured in the EU, but using GlobalFoundries to produce them
Datacenter growth may run into a power wall by 2030 Grid operators could struggle to support new bit barn construction
Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting' Productivity gains lost as staff spoon-feed AI and correct its cock-ups
Brussels' datacenter efficiency scorecard may come with a credit warning Moody's says proposed A-to-G green grades for bit barns could affect financing
France and Germany agree to disagree, ditch joint next-gen Euro fighter Aircraft at core of the Future Combat Air System canned as parties could not decide who leads on the work
Amazon Leo's satellite homework is late, but FCC won't flunk it just yet Orbital broadband biz will miss its July 30 deadline to have 1,616 spacecraft in place
UK boffin bait lands 18 international researchers Global Talent visa program aims to draw in dissatisfied scientists from countries including the US
Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships If you thought driverless cars were bad, imagine a 200,000 ton container ship
Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security DoE wants to keep 13 coal-fired power generators going at the same time as funding nuclear research
Brit regulator finds mobile network service on trains is far from first class Comms watchdog says up to 83% of tests fail the 'good performance' threshold
AMD takes a third of server CPU market as shipments grow Intel still owns the room, but Epyc keeps nicking the furniture
Intel bit off more than it could chew with 18A process node CFO Zinsner insists the troubled node was a one-off as 14A stays on track
Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators NGMN wants a clear migration path before next-gen network rollouts begin
Marvell enters the AI network fray with 102.4 Tbps switch silicon High radix, low latency and low power is what AI datacenters crave, the chipmaker says
Expect more of those DRAM price hikes as memory shortage continues to bite Chip costs may rise another 63% this quarter, as effects feed through to PC pricing
Satellite phone dreams orbit reality as direct-to-cell usage set to underwhelm Nice technology, shame about the price and the indoor blackouts
Ohio hits pause on datacenter tax breaks draining its coffers Buckeye State found it had inadvertently joined the billion dollar losers' club
Putin sends submarines to survey Britain's subsea cables. UK deploys Royal Navy, mobilizes parliamentary draftsmen Proposed legislation threatens fines and prison for reckless damage. Russian Prez must be shaking in his boots
FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right TV and radio stations told to review current practices to align with public interest obligations
Europe told to cool its datacenter boom before water and power run short Get the balance right, Grundfos says, and the region will be a shining example of how to do it without sacrificing the environment
Qualcomm picks bad time to pitch a $300 laptop platform Systems based on Snapdragon C to target students, families, and small businesses
Researchers find all big-name bots bomb EU compliance tests Given a chance, AI will be breaking the law, breaking the law
UK armed forces aims for secure comms via optical satellite links Brit military boffins test ground station with infra-red lasers to deliver multi-gigabits downloads
6G: The next gen of wireless tech nobody's ready to pay for Standards body on track for 2028 specs drop. Telcos on track for 2028 existential crisis about 5G ROI
Huawei's chip law looks less like Moore and more like marketing Chinese tech biz shows off clever workaround for its process node gap, but it isn't catching up with Intel and TSMC
No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship Spanish shipbuilder's 75-meter drone vessel comes with sensors, modular payloads, and no room for sailors
As memory prices squeeze enterprise buyers, Lenovo laughs all the way to the bank Switch to premium devices pays off as PC giant post record record, just don't ask about cheap laptops
AT&T sues to ditch Cali copper phone lines to save billions Telecoms giant files suit in Golden State so it doesn't have to maintain network it claims is hardly used
AWS parades orgs that took up its offer for Euro Sovereign Cloud Customers want their data kept and processed strictly within the EU
