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Government Tech Week

The Register will be taking an in-depth look at the challenges facing government IT organizations. From bullet-proof security to making tough decisions about IT infrastructure, Government Tech Week will bring you up to speed on what's next in the public sector.

22 482
Re: HMRC : alway defining new ways
ScottishYorkshireMan
Wednesday 14th June 2023 09:16 GMT

Spotlight on Databases

This month The Register will take a deep dive into the world of databases; from established monoliths to the emerging crop of upstarts. Join us for a special 30 days of interviews and analysis on these tools that drive business forward.

30 308
Russia's Cozy Bear dives into cloud environments with a new bag of tricks
Dr_Sandra_Lee
Thursday 28th August 2025 15:01 GMT

Defense Tech Week

All week long The Register will explore the wide-ranging technologies that power next-generation global military and defense. From future aerospace to innovations in securing defense systems, we'll take a deep dive into what's next for defense and military tech.

29 722
China aims to pair J-20 stealth fighter with 'loyal wingman' battle drone
Phones Sheridan
Thursday 3rd August 2023 16:11 GMT

Energy Efficient Datacenters

This week El Reg will be taking the heat when it comes to cooling high-density chips, networking, and server hardware with our special focus on energy efficient tech and concepts.

17 368
.. Sleep states? I friggen don't think so ..
_Elvi_
Monday 1st May 2023 14:51 GMT

Spotlight on RSA

Over the last 32 years the RSA conference has grown from a few security geeks getting together to one of the largest security conferences in the world, attracting those who need to know what to invest in next to keep networks secure. The four-day event will be held in San Francisco between April 24 - 27 and we'll be covering it live.

39 454
UnitedHealth's 'egregious negligence' led to Change Healthcare ransomware infection
baytechrecovery
Wednesday 25th June 2025 12:57 GMT

Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week

This week The Register will bring special focus to the broad technologies delivering next-generation clean energy. From fusion to EVs and future datacenter cooling, follow us this week for an in-depth look at what's next.

15 469
Re: Where's the power coming from?
CowHorseFrog
Monday 13th November 2023 23:57 GMT

The Reg in Space

Make space for The Reg in Space week. All week we'll be bringing you the best of what's happening on this planet and others.

24 534
Re: no society has lasted anything like a thousand years so far.
ArrZarr
Tuesday 20th February 2024 08:58 GMT

Sysadmin Month

From tools, data security practices, network troubleshooting, server virtualization insights, backup strategies, performance optimization techniques, user management, cloud guidance, automation and scripting and more, tune in all month.

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Re: Oh dear
Alan Brown
Friday 20th September 2024 16:56 GMT

Black Hat and DEF CON

Join The Register as we tackle the most important stories around Black Hat and DEF CON 2023. From in-depth interviews to detailed analysis, El Reg has you covered.

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Re: The truth is out there !!!
Sceptic Tank
Tuesday 20th August 2024 14:28 GMT

Cybersecurity Month

Fortify your frontlines: It's Cybersecurity Month at The Register, your one-stop hub to bulletproof your digital landscape. From next-gen firewalls to human-factor risks, we're diving deep to make sure you stay ahead of the gang.

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Re: security???
GerHobbelt
Friday 13th February 2026 21:41 GMT

Malware Month

Join The Register as we dive deep into the world of malware: From examining the latest threats to enterprises to dissecting the internal anatomy of code used in today's cyber-attacks, we want to help you better protect your organization. Forewarned is forearmed.

41 460
Re: Not a Modbus _exploit_
Alan Brown
Saturday 10th August 2024 08:54 GMT

Cloud Infrastructure Month

During Cloud Infrastructure Month, The Register will ascend the layers of modern cloud architectures, evaluating the engineering marvels and challenges at play. We'll dissect the techical innards from IaaS to PaaS and the hardware that backs it all up, with a lens on security.

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Re: Updated for the modern era ...
Enric Martinez
Thursday 23rd October 2025 09:52 GMT

VMware Explore

For the 15th year in a row, The Register is attending VMware's annual conference and will bring readers all the news from the show, what it means for users, and how it advances Broadcom's strategy to transform the virtualization pioneer. We'll also consider how VMware's flagship products and technologies have evolved and explore the VMware vision for the future of hybrid cloud.

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So basically...
DrXym
Friday 5th September 2025 13:40 GMT

The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond

The Register embarks on a deep technical exploration into the next generation of datacenter design and infrastructure as the massive AI-driven buildout gets underway. We'll dig into the technicalities of photonic computing, liquid cooling systems, and the implementation of advanced neural network processors within datacenter environments. We'll also look at the energy necessary to power the buildout, including advances in clean energy and concerns about the grid.

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Re: Confused
Anonymous Coward
Wednesday 31st December 2025 17:52 GMT

Ransomware in Focus

The Register's incisive week on ransomware delves into the siege on enterprise, exploring the evolution of these malicious exploits, defense mechanisms, and the cost of resilience in the face of digital extortion. Join us for critical insights into the fight against ransomware.

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Re: Revole the certificate!
Phil Koenig
Thursday 13th March 2025 01:25 GMT

Nvidia GTC

The Register is attending Nvidia's annual GPU Technology Conference, aka GTC, in San Jose, California, and will bring readers all the news from the event that matters to them as well as commentary and analysis. From software agents and AI microservices to the latest accelerators and chain-of-thought reasoning models, we'll give you the snapshot you need of this Silicon Valley giant.

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Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks
Decay
Wednesday 10th September 2025 22:47 GMT

Disaster Recovery Week

For The Register's Disaster Recovery Week, we delve into DR strategies, from robust backups to resilient policies, to help you stay up and running in the face of adversity.

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Re: once upon a time at the pub
chivo243
Thursday 10th April 2025 22:39 GMT

AI Software Development Week

The Register dives into the latest in AI development, offering insights into tools, frameworks, and best practices for creating and deploying AI solutions. Topics include agents, data management, and ethical considerations. This series equips developers and IT professionals with strategies for integrating AI smoothly and efficiently into existing workflows and applications.

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Re: Google AI Overview
NATTtrash
Saturday 6th September 2025 08:02 GMT

Spotlight on RSAC

The RSA Conference has grown into one of the largest information security conferences in the world, attracting those who need to know what to invest in next to keep networks secure. Check out our coverage of the San Francisco event right here.

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RSA cofounder: The world would've been better without cryptocurrencies
Viacheslav78
Monday 8th September 2025 08:36 GMT

AI Infrastructure Month

The Register's AI Infrastructure Month highlights the cutting-edge technologies, architectural advancements, and industry trends shaping the future of AI workloads. With a focus on hardware, scalability, and performance optimization, the coverage offers expert insights and detailed analysis tailored for IT leaders and AI practitioners navigating this rapidly evolving landscape.

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Re: and nothing of value lost
Anonymous Coward
Monday 16th June 2025 11:34 GMT

European Supercomputing

Join The Register for its European Supercomputing Week, in which we'll highlight the continent's achievements and the challenges it faces in its quest to develop homegrown high-performance computing systems.

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AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled monster built to battle Nvidia's Blackwell
Anonymous Coward
Thursday 3rd July 2025 13:28 GMT

The State of Storage

Dive into a week exploring the latest in IT storage with The Register â?? from hard drives to cloud. Understand the challenges and opportunities as we unravel the narrative of storage efficiency, security, and innovation at the enterprise level.

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Re: There is a lot of "non-active" data out there
CountCadaver
Monday 3rd November 2025 01:16 GMT

Datacenter Networking Nexus

The Register explores the latest in modern datacenter networking. This week offers insights into how organizations can optimize their infrastructure for performance, scalability, and security.

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Before the megabit: A trip through vintage datacenter networking
GeneralDisaster
Tuesday 26th August 2025 13:37 GMT

Supercomputing Month

Charting the Exascale Horizon: As the calendar turns to November 2025, The Register is locked onto the pulse of supercomputing. This month coincides with the esteemed SC25 conference, and we're dedicating our coverage to the technical marvels and milestones of high-performance computing (HPC). We'll dissect the latest breakthroughs pushing towards exascale computing, unravel the complexities of advanced parallel processing architectures, and spotlight the innovations in energy-efficient design that keep these giants running cooler. From tackling grand global challenges to driving forward the frontier of artificial intelligence, join us in a month-long technical tribute to the titans of computational might.

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HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show
borje
Friday 5th December 2025 18:53 GMT

SC25

The team will be on-hand to discover what lies at the frontiers of modern supercomputing; from the latest major deployments and architectures to the software and applications that make large-scale computing matter for industry and governments alike.

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LPO?
cmac
Monday 24th November 2025 16:41 GMT

AWS Re-invent

The Register will be on hand in Las Vegas to bring you the latest announcements, exclusive customer and partner insights, and expert analysis from the cloud industry biggest and most important event - AWS Re:invent.

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Graviton sign of amd failure
Fizzypo
Tuesday 9th December 2025 21:03 GMT

Agentic AI

The buzzword of the moment and the next stage in the AI revolution is agentic AI, in which autonomous software agents will employ AI to complete tasks on behalf of users. This week we'll explore the underlying infrastructure, including the evolving protocol landscape, and explore real-world use cases from the huge variety of vendors jumping aboard this bandwagon.

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Deciphering the alphabet soup of agentic AI protocols
teebie
Wednesday 4th February 2026 12:24 GMT

Deep dive into “Special Features” topics

State Forum Posts Latest Post
open India has satisfied its supercomputing needs, but not its ambitions 1
By HuBo
Thursday 27th November 2025 03:30 GMT
open UK lines up £250M cloud procurement to feed its growing AI research appetite 3
By Anonymous Coward
Tuesday 25th November 2025 14:10 GMT
open Britain plots atomic reboot as datacenter demand surges 28
By codejunky
Friday 5th December 2025 09:40 GMT
open How high-end supercomputer filesystem DAOS can break out of its niche 4
By AtomicWombat
Tuesday 25th November 2025 04:05 GMT
open Copackaged optics have officially found their killer app - of course it's AI 17
By cmac
Monday 24th November 2025 16:41 GMT
open Nvidia's green500 dominance continues as France's Kairos super takes efficiency title 3
By HuBo
Saturday 22nd November 2025 02:35 GMT
open Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into classical datacenters 10
By ThatOne
Saturday 22nd November 2025 18:08 GMT
open SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions 3
By Jimmy2Cows
Friday 21st November 2025 17:11 GMT
open AWS under pressure as big three battle to eat the cloud market 9
By Anonymous Coward
Monday 24th November 2025 16:45 GMT
open Amazon security boss: Hostile countries use cyber targeting for physical military strikes 15
By D2ZGF
Monday 24th November 2025 08:44 GMT
open Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdown 4
By Taliesinawen
Tuesday 18th November 2025 17:18 GMT
open Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel 1
By HuBo
Wednesday 19th November 2025 00:47 GMT
open Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI 14
By Rivalroger
Monday 24th November 2025 15:03 GMT
open Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run 3
By HuBo
Tuesday 18th November 2025 01:46 GMT
open Need AI? Dell backs up the truck and tips out servers, storage, blueprints 3
By Anonymous Coward
Tuesday 18th November 2025 21:25 GMT
open Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs eyes hyperscale customers with GUC design collab 3
By short
Monday 17th November 2025 14:14 GMT
open Power: The answer to and source of all your AI datacenter problems 21
By Yet Another Anonymous coward
Tuesday 18th November 2025 23:47 GMT
open GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast 9
By village-id10t
Wednesday 26th November 2025 16:25 GMT
open HPE details Vera Rubin blades for next-gen Cray supercomputers 1
By HuBo
Thursday 13th November 2025 17:12 GMT
open Geopolitics push European CIOs to think local on cloud 13
By may_i
Saturday 22nd November 2025 14:00 GMT
open Atlassian twice shunned AWS Graviton CPUs, but now runs Jira and Confluence on them 15
By Charlie Clark
Friday 14th November 2025 09:49 GMT
open Battery trade war hits booming datacenter industry 22
By Wapiya
Tuesday 25th November 2025 21:15 GMT
open AI isn't throttling HPC. It is HPC 14
By Snake
Monday 24th November 2025 17:37 GMT
open Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software 35
By Anonymous Coward
Saturday 8th November 2025 16:57 GMT
open Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers 4
By Omnipresent
Saturday 8th November 2025 12:33 GMT
open AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system 4
By HCV
Wednesday 5th November 2025 20:00 GMT
open Power crunch threatens to derail AI datacenter construction 12
By Anonymous Coward
Tuesday 18th November 2025 09:44 GMT
open $10B + spent on liquid cooling this week – it's only Tuesday 4
By veti
Wednesday 19th November 2025 06:05 GMT
open AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI 28
By Zolko
Tuesday 18th November 2025 09:06 GMT
open AI blew open software security, now OpenAI wants to fix it with an agent called Aardvark 18
By Peter Gathercole
Monday 3rd November 2025 11:15 GMT
open Ransomware gang runs ads for Microsoft Teams to pwn victims 13
By bigphil9009
Monday 3rd November 2025 14:01 GMT
open Hacking LED Halloween masks is frighteningly easy 34
By PRR
Sunday 18th January 2026 01:45 GMT
open Claude code will send your data to crims ... if they ask it nicely 16
By Anonymous Coward
Thursday 6th November 2025 15:57 GMT
open Major telecom supplier compromised by unnamed nation-state attackers 5
By ecofeco
Thursday 30th October 2025 19:57 GMT
open Nvidia pitches Omniverse DSX as model for gigawatt-scale AI factories 1
By harrys
Wednesday 29th October 2025 16:31 GMT
open Firewalls and VPNs are so complex now, they can actually make you less secure 21
By Peter Gathercole
Monday 3rd November 2025 10:34 GMT
open Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever 9
By Anonymous Coward
Wednesday 29th October 2025 12:21 GMT
open Android malware types like your gran to steal banking creds 8
By doublelayer
Wednesday 29th October 2025 20:22 GMT
open Qualcomm announces AI accelerators and mysterious racks they’ll run in 1
By Irongut
Tuesday 28th October 2025 11:20 GMT
open Atlas vuln lets crims inject malicious prompts ChatGPT won't forget between sessions 3
By Camilla Smythe
Wednesday 29th October 2025 20:26 GMT
open HPE's Discovery to succeed Frontier supercomputer with next-gen Cray tech 3
By Dwarf
Saturday 1st November 2025 14:13 GMT
open Everybody's warning about critical Windows Server WSUS bug exploits ... but Microsoft's mum 22
By Dwarf
Saturday 1st November 2025 21:41 GMT
open Norks droning on about your dream job while pwning your PC 5
By Scott 53
Tuesday 25th November 2025 13:25 GMT
open OpenAI's Atlas shrugs off inevitability of prompt injection, releases AI browser anyway 13
By Beeblebrox
Monday 27th October 2025 17:10 GMT
open Ex-Uber CSO is gellin' like a felon with teen cyber crims, explains why they do it 14
By Whoopsie
Sunday 2nd November 2025 13:57 GMT
open NextSilicon Maverick-2 promises to blow away the HPC market Nvidia left behind 2
By HuBo
Thursday 23rd October 2025 16:01 GMT
open Salt Typhoon hit governments on three continents with SharePoint attacks 2
By steviebuk
Thursday 23rd October 2025 19:03 GMT
open MCP attack abuses predictable session IDs to hijack AI agents 2
By AnAnonymousCanuck
Wednesday 22nd October 2025 13:25 GMT
open Suspected Salt Typhoon snoops lurking in European telco's network 2
By Anonymous Coward
Tuesday 21st October 2025 10:13 GMT
open Xubuntu downloads section injection threatens users with crypto infection 2
By FirstTangoInParis
Thursday 23rd October 2025 18:52 GMT

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