Biting the hand that feeds IT — Enterprise Technology News and Analysis
In Brief Elon Musk's SpaceX demonstrated that a long-dormant pad could be reactivated with seemingly little effort after it launched the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite from Space Launch Complex 4 at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base.…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 5:03 pm
Players' managers looking to lift salaries by a couple of million pounds or so better check their email read receipts: a full week after Manchester United was hit by hackers, many of its systems remain offline, with at least one report claiming the club is being shaken down for ransom.…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 4:15 pm
Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has bid farewell to the company's budget sub-brand Honor, saying that selling the business will safeguard it from forces in America he believes are seeking to destroy Huawei.…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 3:30 pm
Promo You know you’ve got lots of data resting in your systems. But how much of it is usable information, that your colleagues can actually put to work?…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 2:45 pm
A UK infosec bod has launched a petition asking the government if it would please drop its plans to install backdoors in end-to-end encryption.…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 2:01 pm
Capita has opened talks with a new suitor for its Education Software Solutions business, the one it tried to offload earlier in the year at a price reported to be higher than the entire group's market capitalisation on the London Stock Exchange.…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 1:15 pm
The UK government has announced plans to set up a Digital Markets Unit (DMU) to level the advertising playing field currently dominated by the likes of Google and Facebook.…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 12:34 pm
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Help me up, would you, luvvie?…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 11:56 am
The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. We've continued to put the Xbox Series S through its paces [read: played it a lot] with one of the titles available on the console from launch on 10 November, Assassin's Creed Valhalla.…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 11:06 am
How is Britain's £1.3bn National Cyber Security Strategy going? Nobody really cares any more – even the Cabinet Office, judging by its latest progress report.…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 10:04 am
Irish computer vision and AI agriculture specialist Cainthus hopes to raise $50m after launching a facial recognition tool for cows.…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 9:08 am
On Call Friday is upon us so take a moment from glumly hitting refresh on your government website of choice and join us for a story of abbreviations and adult filters in today's edition of On Call.…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 8:02 am
Amazon Web Services has quietly revealed that it has hired Rust compiler co-lead Felix Klock.…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 6:01 am
The European Space Agency has formalised its plan to dispose of space junk by using an orbiting claw to grab an old bit of rocket before dragging both the claw and the junk to a fiery doom.…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 4:01 am
China's clouds grew by 65 per cent in 2020's third quarter, collectively hauling in $5bn of revenue in the period.…
Posted on 27 November 2020 | 1:58 am
TikTok has another week to sort out its sale to Oracle, Walmart, and their investor pals.…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 11:58 pm
Version 8.0 of the PHP scripting language is scheduled for release on 26 November, which coincides with the US Thanksgiving holiday.…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 5:00 pm
The gov.uk postcode-searching tool for Britons to find out what level of coronavirus lockdown they'll be in until Christmas has crashed on launch and been withdrawn.…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 3:58 pm
Looking for something to do in quarantine? How about booting DOS from a 10-inch vinyl record?…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 2:59 pm
Streaming giant Netflix has agreed to settle a lawsuit over the trademark rights to the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series of books.…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 2:10 pm
HP might have dropped the Ink Inc from its corporate banner but CEO Enrique Lores is still mining for the black gold: with the firm clawing back cash by slapping away the grubby hands of its pesky "unprofitable customers" from its printing rig.…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 1:34 pm
A new report from the UK's House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) argues the country should enshrine the "right to repair" in law and reduce VAT on tech repair services, while Europe's Parliamentarians also voted to further the cause.…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 1:04 pm
As we near the northern winter solstice, the Sun continues to produce a steady power output of 384.6 yottawatts resulting from the fusion of hydrogen into helium in two distinct nuclear reactions. Direct observation of the secondary cycle was published in the journal Nature for the first time yesterday.…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 12:34 pm
Among the economic doom and gloom of the UK's Autumn Spending Review, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak inadvertently revealed the sop UK.gov plans to throw to telcos after sacking Huawei from the UK's 5G rollout at the behest of an orange one-term president of the US.…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 11:21 am
Microsoft's Productivity Score has put in a public appearance in Microsoft 365 and attracted the ire of privacy campaigners and activists.…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 10:53 am
It has been a difficult year for the mobile industry as economic uncertainty and widespread national lockdowns further depressed the public's appetite for handset upgrades. Some vendors are faring better than others, however, with Xiaomi proving especially resilient.…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 9:03 am
Event If there’s anything that hasn’t come to a halt this year, it surely is software development and service infrastructure work. We know you’ve all been busy so here’s another chance to get in your presentation proposal for our Continuous Lifecycle Online 2021 conference.…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 7:00 am
The United States' Clean Network plan has won support from 53 nations and 180 telcos, and Huawei has unwittingly legitimised it.…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 4:58 am
Salesforce is reportedly deep in talks to buy Slack, according to The Wall Street Journal, which says a deal could happen "in days".…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 1:59 am
China has responded to India's new round of bans on mobile apps by attacking the reasons for the banishments.…
Posted on 26 November 2020 | 12:12 am
The Boeing 737 Max was safe enough to fly without the controversial MCAS system but would not have met safety certification rules, the EU Aviation Safety Agency has said after confirming the airliner will return to European skies in January 2021.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 8:27 pm
Sopra Steria has said a previously announced Ryuk ransomware infection will not only cost it "between €40m and €50m" but will also deepen expected financial losses by several percentage points.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 7:30 pm
AWS has delivered the one message that will strike fear into the hearts of techies working out their day before Thanksgiving Holidays: US-EAST-1 region is suffering a "severely impaired" service.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 6:32 pm
Is it a vote of confidence when the CFO sells $2.5m in shares as the CEO is about to make his big pitch of the year and the quarterly results are due?…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 4:30 pm
It is now seven straight quarters since Dell's infrastructure unit last grew but COO Jeff Clarke reckons he's spotted some green shoots of recovery that might bode well for server and storage spending next year.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 3:55 pm
It's been a while coming, but browser maker Vivaldi has finally released a public preview of its long awaited email client.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 3:00 pm
The US Federal Communications Commission has rejected a petition [PDF] from controversial Chinese teleco kit maker ZTE asking the agency to reconsider whether it should be deemed a national security threat.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 2:15 pm
Though taxis can do a lot of things, like getting one from A to B, emptying out bank accounts, and even transporting BSODs, we suspect that preventing the spread of COVID-19 is not one of them.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 1:30 pm
One anniversary unlikely to be marked within the bowels of Redmond is that of Microsoft Bob. However, a retired engineer has taken to YouTube to confirm that the unloved interface did indeed enjoy a second life as digital ballast for Windows XP.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 12:46 pm
Ticketmaster is claiming that the ICO's £1.25m data breach fine clears it of any responsibility for its network being infected by card-skimming malware, according to correspondence seen by The Register.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 11:59 am
Bork!Bork!Bork! Join us on a jaunt to an Australian shopping centre, where Windows 7 rules the roost and the digital signage, it seems, might be watching your every move.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 11:05 am
Film-maker Werner Herzog has upended the scorn bucket over billionaire electric car and space firm mogul Elon Musk's plans to create a city on Mars.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 10:02 am
MongoDB has just found out what it can spend the marketing budget on, if not the usual fodder of canapés and international flights.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 9:03 am
NASA has revealed it’s building network cables capable of surviving supersonic flight.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 6:57 am
VMware has reported Q3 growth that beat guidance offered earlier in its financial year but said results would have been better but for a slowdown in “transformational projects”.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 5:58 am
Poll The Utah Department of Public Safety has found a mysterious metal monolith in a remote corner of the state.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 4:02 am
UPDATED Infosec researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 threat intelligence unit spotted a pair of prominent Chinese apps leaking personal data, and after it informed Google the ad giant dumped the apps from its Play store.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 1:58 am
India has banned another 43 apps from operating in its territory.…
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 12:01 am
Comcast has vowed to enforce its 1.2TB-a-month download limit in more US states, expanding the policy to cover the nation's northeast and mid-Atlantic corners.…
Posted on 24 November 2020 | 10:51 pm
Amazon is close to launching Sidewalk – its ad-hoc wireless network for smart-home devices that taps into people's Wi-Fi – and it is pretty much an opt-out affair.…
Posted on 24 November 2020 | 8:46 pm