The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives
Feature Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts
The State of Storage13 Jun 2025 | 26
Special Features
Chinese memory-maker YMTC sues US rival Micron for defamation instead of the usual patent breaches
Alleges dirty PR campaign to slur its tech
The State of Storage13 Jun 2025 | 6
AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030
Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it gets
European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 6
AMD preps rack-scale Helios systems to contend with Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL144
House of Zen's biggest iron yet boasts 72 MI400 GPUs, 260 TBps of UALink bandwidth, and 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4
European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 |
AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled monster built to battle Nvidia's Blackwell
And the House of Zen wants to put 128 of them in your rack
European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 7
Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage
Feature Time to stop giving cold storage the cold shoulder
The State of Storage12 Jun 2025 | 62
Digital Realty CTO on why storage is the datacenter challenge no one's talking about
Interview And why supporting quantum computing is easier than supporting a 1MW rack
The State of Storage12 Jun 2025 | 5
UK reheats Edinburgh supercomputer plan sans exascale chops
Government revives shelved project with fresh funding but scaled-back ambitions
European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 18
Schneider, Nvidia sign pact to cool Europe's AI ambitions
GTC Paris With 1 MW racks and prefab bit barns, the heat is on
European Supercomputing11 Jun 2025 |
SiPearl ships reference node design for Rhea1 high-spec Arm chip
Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks
European Supercomputing11 Jun 2025 | 1
Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers
Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside
European Supercomputing11 Jun 2025 | 2
Snowflake and Databricks bank PostgreSQL acquisitions to bring transactions onto their platforms
Data analytics vendors have tried this before with limited success
The State of Storage10 Jun 2025 | 3
Jupiter, Europe’s most powerful super, takes maiden flight - but misses exascale orbit
ISC Full system expected to break the exaFLOP barrier - perhaps in time for SC25 this fall?
European Supercomputing10 Jun 2025 | 1
Old but gold: Paper tape and punched cards still getting the job done – just about
The State of Storage Will your data still be readable in half a century?
The State of Storage10 Jun 2025 | 78
Omni-Path is back on the AI and HPC menu in a new challenge to Nvidia's InfiniBand
After a five-year hiatus, Cornelis' interconnect returns at 400Gbps, with Ethernet support next
European Supercomputing09 Jun 2025 |
UK's Isambard-AI super powers up as government goes AI crazy
Brace yourselves Britain, PM Keir Starmer's challenged his teams: 'show me how they can use AI'
European Supercomputing09 Jun 2025 | 50
Floppy disks and paper strips lurk behind US air traffic control
Not to worry nervous flyers, FAA vows to banish archaic systems... in a few years
The State of Storage09 Jun 2025 | 47
Seagate still HAMRing away at the 100 TB disk drive decades later
Feature The journey to mass production has been extraordinarily difficult – will it be worth it?
The State of Storage09 Jun 2025 | 27
Ivanti makes dedicated fans of Chinese spies who just can't resist attacking its buggy kit
If it ain't broke?
Datacenter Networking Nexus23 May 2025 | 1
'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers
Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts
European Supercomputing22 May 2025 | 95
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US Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier crew left half-fed by contractor-locked ovens
Army joins in push to break vendor grip on military maintenance
NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts
All about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience'
Microsoft slows Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday due to a 'compatibility issue'
updated On your marks, get set... bork!
Google Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it
UPDATED Big G said it was fixed, but acknowledged ongoing customer pain
Altman fluffs superintelligence to save humanity as OpenAI slashes prices
Everything is AWESOME!!!
DeepSeek installer or just malware in disguise? Click around and find out
'BrowserVenom' is pure poison
'Major compromise' at NHS temping arm exposed gaping security holes
Exclusive Incident responders suggested sweeping improvements following Active Directory database heist
Canva to job candidates: Thou shalt use AI during interviews
Design software slinger warns it won't hire devs who aren't good at modern tools
RIP: Bill Atkinson, co-creator of Apple Lisa and Mac
Obit His work set the direction of modern computer interfaces, and much more
Behold! Humanity has captured our first look at the Sun's South Pole
Confusingly, the magnetic north and south poles are both down there, where the Solar Orbiter can see them
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Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics
LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper
European Supercomputing21 May 2025 | 24
AMD puts Intel in rear view mirror with Threadripper Pro 9000 high-end desktop chips
Computex RDNA 4 makes workstation debut with 32GB R9700
AI Infrastructure Month21 May 2025 | 36
Nvidia part of plans for mega 1.4 GW AI datacenter near Paris
Say something nice? At least France has nuclear power, though its grid needs work
European Supercomputing20 May 2025 | 7
Intel bets you'll stack cheap GPUs to avoid spending top dollar on Nvidia Pros
Computex Behold ‘Project Battlematrix’
AI Infrastructure Month20 May 2025 | 7
Nvidia builds a server to run x86 workloads alongside agentic AI
Computex Wants to be the 'HR department for agents'
AI Infrastructure Month19 May 2025 | 2
Nvidia sets up shop in Taiwan with AI supers and a factory full of ambition
Computex Researchers and TSMC to benefit from expanded infrastructure
AI Infrastructure Month19 May 2025 | 4
Qualcomm confirms it's dipping into datacenter world again, probably for AI
Computex CEO Cristiano Amon teases plans for high-speed-low-power inferencing products
AI Infrastructure Month19 May 2025 | 2
Nvidia opens up speedy NVLink interconnect to custom CPUs, ASICs
Computex One of the two just needs to be made by Nv
AI + ML19 May 2025 |
CoreWeave may have built a house of (graphics) cards
Comment An overdependence on hyperscalers and a mountain of debt could pull the rug out
AI Infrastructure Month16 May 2025 | 5
AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge
CEO warns energy demands will overwhelm grid without extra generation capacity
European Supercomputing16 May 2025 | 66
UK government overrules local council’s datacenter refusal on Green Belt land
DPM signs off 96MW bit barn, citing national policy shift
AI Infrastructure Month16 May 2025 | 37
Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress
Every shipment you make, every FLOP you generate, Uncle Sam will be watching you
AI Infrastructure Month15 May 2025 | 25
How homegrown AI cuts through the hype to deliver real results
Nutanix leverages customer interactions to develop GenAI infra solution and the AI tools to support it
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Meet your new colleague – the ML Admin, who tames LLMs so they're ready to rock
IT department keeps the infrastructure. Then this new persona takes over and handles the AI stuff
AI Infrastructure Month15 May 2025 | 11
Chip bans? LOL! Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough GPUs for future AI model training
Partly because America does AI wrong and it can get more done with less
AI Infrastructure Month15 May 2025 | 20
AMD’s first crack at Nvidia hampered by half-baked training software, says TensorWave boss
Interview Bit barn operator to wedge 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325Xs into AI training cluster
AI Infrastructure Month14 May 2025 | 5
EuroHPC lines up AI upgrade for Leonardo supercomputer
Updated And it's Eviden who has no reason to moan over LISA upgrade - though questions over funding remain
European Supercomputing14 May 2025 | 2
US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree
Prince Mohammed bin Bone Saw will take a few hundred thousand GPUs with his missiles and fighter jets
AI Infrastructure Month14 May 2025 | 46
Trump ends Biden-era dream to cap US AI chip exports
Ding dong, diffusion is dead
AI Infrastructure Month13 May 2025 | 11
Why rapid proliferation of cloud native apps requires faster, more efficient toolsets
Kubernetes enables easy, rapid AI app development, making it the industry standard for AI workloads
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AMD is Ryzen to the SMB occasion with a bundle of baby Epycs
The House of Zen’s low-end enterprise strategy is badge engineering at its best
AI Infrastructure Month13 May 2025 | 13
OpenAI wants to build a subscription for something like an AI OS, with SDKs and APIs and 'surfaces'
CEO Sam Altman has no master plan but imagines custom models built on everything you’ve ever said or read
AI Infrastructure Month13 May 2025 | 19
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart
Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left off
The State of Storage12 May 2025 | 15
You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs
RSAC Rapid7 threat hunter wrote a PoC. No, he's not releasing it
Research11 May 2025 | 64
Tech titans: Wanna secure US AI leadership? Stop giving the world excuses to buy Chinese
Execs from AMD, Microsoft, and OpenAI tear into profit busting AI diffusion rules
AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 22
Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI
This BS ends at some point, right?
AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 48
37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions
Industry ‘pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way’ says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson
The State of Storage09 May 2025 | 157
Elon Musk’s xAI to pull about half of its smog-belching turbines powering Colossus
Updated Newly completed substation will help bear the load
AI Infrastructure Month08 May 2025 | 41
Google tries to greenwash massive AI energy consumption with another vague nuclear deal
Chocolate Factory promises early-stage capital to atomic upstart Elementl
AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 22
Human error and power glitches to blame for most outages
Blackouts less frequent in 2024, still a PITA when the datacenter downtime demons visit
Datacenter Networking Nexus07 May 2025 | 8
Trump's trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev
But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off
AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 4
Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower
What was the plan, showing her his big iron?
AI Infrastructure Month06 May 2025 | 79
AI agents promise big things. How can we support them?
And this is just the beginning
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Cerebras CEO actually finds common ground with Nvidia as startup notches IBM win
Feldman calls US's AI Diffusion rules ‘bad policy’
AI Infrastructure Month06 May 2025 | 1
Brain-inspired neuromorphic computer SpiNNaker overheated when coolers lost their chill
Exclusive Too much hot air brings down Manchester Uni based neural network project
AI Infrastructure Month06 May 2025 | 29
RSA Conf wrap: AI and China on everything, everywhere, all at once
RSAC With North Korean IT workers storming the gates, too
Spotlight on RSAC04 May 2025 | 5
Meta blames Trump tariffs for ballooning AI infra bills
World War Fee Capex could jump by $7B to $72B, Zuckercorp says
AI Infrastructure Month02 May 2025 | 36
Can't get no satisfaction in cyber recovery? Minimum viability is the answer
You might find you can get what you need. At least with a little planning
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Generative AI makes fraud fluent – from phishing lures to fake lovers
RSAC Real-time video deepfakes? Not convincing yet
Spotlight on RSAC02 May 2025 | 5
AI success starts with the right IT infrastructure
Nutanix AI solutions make it easy to tailor IT infrastructure for your AI needs, says product lead Ashwini Vasanth
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Red, white, and blew it? Trump tariffs may cost America the AI race
World War Fee Whole thing gonna be a real PITA for tech sector, says ABI Research
AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 53
How Amazon red-teamed Alexa+ to keep your kids from ordering 50 pizzas
RSAC Will the personal assistant shop for groceries? Or get hijacked by a teen?
Spotlight on RSAC01 May 2025 | 35
AI infrastructure investment may be $8T shot in the dark
McKinsey warns datacenter binge could overshoot actual demand as execs scramble to keep up with hype
AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 17
Google details plans for 1 MW IT racks exploiting electric vehicle supply chain
Switching voltage allows search giant to swap out power delivery system
AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 43
AI software development: Productivity revolution or fraught with risk?
Analysis We look at the state of AI software development – it's not going away, but risks abound
AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 9
Anthropic calls for tougher GPU export controls as Nvidia's CEO implores Trump to spread the AI love
+Comment This couldn't possibly be about Chinese model builders taking some of the shine off US rivals, could it?
AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 10
Ex-NSA cyber-boss: AI will soon be a great exploit coder
RSAC For now it's a potential bug-finder and friend to defenders
Spotlight on RSAC30 Apr 2025 | 13
Ex-CISA chief decries cuts as Trump demands loyalty above all else
RSAC Cybersecurity is national security, says Jen Easterly
Spotlight on RSAC30 Apr 2025 | 11
30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff
Satya Nadella reveals attempts to merge Word, PowerPoint, Excel, which may now happen with LLMs
AI + ML30 Apr 2025 | 88
Supermicro warns of massive revenue miss as buyers pause purchasing plans
Yet more strife for server-maker sees its share price slump by 15 percent
Systems30 Apr 2025 | 3
Homeland Security boss says CISA has gone off the rails, vows to set it right
RSAC Kirsty Noem argues cyber-agency's job is defending America, not becoming 'Ministry of Truth'
Spotlight on RSAC30 Apr 2025 | 27
RSA cofounder: The world would've been better without cryptocurrencies
RSAC Cryptographers' panel a bit gloomy this year
Spotlight on RSAC29 Apr 2025 | 8
Backblaze denies 'sham accounting' claims as short sellers circle
Cloud storage biz says 'baseless allegations' are attempts by analysts to profit
The State of Storage29 Apr 2025 | 16
China now America's number one cyber threat – US must get up to speed
RSAC Former Rear Admiral calls for National Guard online deployment and corporates to be held accountable
Spotlight on RSAC29 Apr 2025 | 22
China is using AI to sharpen every link in its attack chain, FBI warns
RSAC Artificial intelligence is helping Beijing's goons break in faster and stay longer
Spotlight on RSAC29 Apr 2025 | 11
The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers
RSAC FBI and others list how to spot NK infiltrators, but AI will make it harder
Spotlight on RSAC29 Apr 2025 | 96
How to survive as a CISO aka 'chief scapegoat officer'
RSAC Whistleblowing, email is evidential mail, HR is not your friend, and more discussed by CxO panel
Spotlight on RSAC28 Apr 2025 | 9
Admission impossible: NSA, CISA brass absent from RSA Conf
RSAC Homeland Security boss Noem added as last-minute keynote, mind you
Spotlight on RSAC28 Apr 2025 | 11
Google admits depreciation costs are soaring amid furious bit barn build
Still plans to invest $75B in CapEx this year as unable to meet capacity demand
On-Prem25 Apr 2025 | 19
Virgin Atlantic is piloting an OpenAI agent in to help with the 'customer journey'
Interview Hello, operator? Book me to Memphis, Tennessee
AI Software Development Week25 Apr 2025 | 20
US biz stockpilers boost SK Hynix top line as memory market undergoes structural change
'Inventory accumulation' as vendors hoard HBM amid tariff and other pressures
Storage24 Apr 2025 |
Vector search is the new black for enterprise databases
Software slingers from Redis to Teradata are bolting on smarts to stay relevant in GenAI era
AI Software Development Week24 Apr 2025 | 4
Hyperconverged infrastructure is so hot right now it needs liquid cooling
Lenovo brings its Neptune cold plates to servers packing sixth-gen Xeons to run VMware, Nutanix, and AzureStack
Datacenter Networking Nexus24 Apr 2025 | 3
Microsoft 365 Copilot gets a new crew, including Researcher and Analyst bots
You. Will. Love. The. LLM.
AI Software Development Week23 Apr 2025 | 5
As ChatGPT scores B- in engineering, professors scramble to update courses
Now that AI is invading classrooms and homework assignment, students need to learn reasoning more than ever
AI Software Development Week23 Apr 2025 | 120
We’re calling it now: Agentic AI will win RSAC buzzword Bingo
RSAC All aboard the hype train
Spotlight on RSAC23 Apr 2025 | 8
Nvidia rolls out NeMo microservices to help AI help you help AI
Smarter agents, continuous updates, and the eternal struggle to prove ROI
AI Software Development Week23 Apr 2025 | 7
Ex-NSA chief warns AI devs: Don’t repeat infosec’s early-day screwups
Bake in security now or pay later, says Mike Rogers
AI Software Development Week23 Apr 2025 | 6
Asia reaches 50 percent IPv6 capability and leads the world in user numbers
India and China deliver a nice milestone, with help from ancient internet history
Datacenter Networking Nexus23 Apr 2025 | 42
El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production
Hands On Running GenAI models is easy. Scaling them to thousands of users, not so much
AI + ML22 Apr 2025 | 10
ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it
Sam says it's Son's money well spent
Bootnotes21 Apr 2025 | 37
Today's LLMs craft exploits from patches at lightning speed
Erlang? Er, man, no problem. ChatGPT, Claude to go from flaw disclosure to actual attack code in hours
AI Software Development Week21 Apr 2025 | 19
Everything you need to get up and running with MCP – Anthropic's USB-C for AI
Hands On Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it's not all sunshine and rainbows
AI + ML21 Apr 2025 | 5
Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted
Just us or is AI increasingly appearing like an unwanted party guest?
AI Software Development Week18 Apr 2025 | 63
Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy
Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to
int main(enter the void)...
AI Software Development Week18 Apr 2025 | 24
CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun
Comment MITRE, EUVD, GCVE … WTF?
Spotlight on RSAC18 Apr 2025 | 89
Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances
Illegitimi non carborundum? Nice password, Mr Ex-CISA
Spotlight on RSAC17 Apr 2025 | 69
Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek
As Huang jets to Middle Kingdom after H20 ban forces $5.5B hit
AI + ML17 Apr 2025 | 33
Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?
Redmond talks up preview of AI agents navigating apps through the UI
AI Software Development Week16 Apr 2025 | 33
Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find 'insurance' 'policy' in your files
It involves a number close to three or six depending on the pickle you're in
Spotlight on RSAC16 Apr 2025 | 20
Biting the hand that feeds IT
