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Simon Sharwood

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Covers:  APAC tech news. Datacenter infrastructure and software. Networking.
Doesn't Cover: Cryptocurrency. VC and funding. Startups, Consumer tech. Crowdfunding. Research conducted by vendors. I do not accept contributed editorial. SMB tech news. UK news. eSIM
Journalist for @theregister. 99% lurker.

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Simon Sharwood’s Biography

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Hello, I am Simon Sharwood. I am Asia-Pacific Editor for The Register.

I live in Sydney, Australia.

I've been doing enterprise tech journalism for almost 30 years. I also did a few years in tech PR.

I cover tech news from the Asia-Pacific for the world, and also focus on datacenter technology, especially virtualization, software-defined datacenters, networking, and internetworking.

Articles

Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered Original

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By Simon Sharwood Verified
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ON CALL Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day, dear reader! And happy Friday, too, as it heralds both the end of the working week and the day on which The Reg delivers another edition of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of support jobs that twisted, tanked, or turned out terrifically. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Roger" who told us he spent decades providing application support for a UK-based biz.
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Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations

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By Simon Sharwood Verified
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Anthropic has admitted that its Claude models escaped sandboxes to access the open internet and attack three organizations – but has also advanced decent excuses for the incidents. The AI upstart discovered the attacks after checking if security tests of its models had ever produced results similar to the attack on Hugging Face made possible by OpenAI models escaping onto the internet.
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Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one

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By Simon Sharwood Verified
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Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one Yes, this is mostly about VMware migrations Data protection vendor Veeam has decided the time is right to support half a dozen more hypervisors in case you are thinking of adopting a new one. Hypervisor migrations are currently a distinct possibility for VMware user who relies on vSphere for basic server virtualization, as Broadcom now focuses on its Cloud Foundation private cloud suite.
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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

PC Week Australia, 1995.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. In fact I own a typewriter that belonged to my grandfather. It is a beautiful artefact in a two-tone leather case with a brass zipper.

How is social media changing news?

By decreasing trust in journalism and therefore changing readers' habits

Awards

Australian IT journalism awards

2025 - Best Technical Journalist
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