Biting the hand that feeds IT — Enterprise Technology News and Analysis
The Indian state of Rajasthan yesterday cut off internet access to millions of citizens, in order to prevent cheating in an exam.…
Posted on 27 September 2021 | 5:57 am
Backup vendor Veeam is almost certainly going to ditch per-socket licensing.…
Posted on 27 September 2021 | 4:01 am
The Quad group of nations – the USA, India, Australia, and Japan – has announced several joint initiatives to share technology and spur its development, among them a plan to set new global security standards for the technology industry.…
Posted on 27 September 2021 | 2:21 am
Updated Huawei finance chief Meng Wanzhou has reached a deal with the US Justice Department to drop the fraud and conspiracy charges against her in exchange for admitting that she made false statements about her company's business dealings with Iran.…
Posted on 25 September 2021 | 12:20 am
China has once again banned cryptocurrencies.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 9:51 pm
Upset with Apple's handling of its Security Bounty program, a bug researcher has released proof-of-concept exploit code for three zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple's newly released iOS 15 mobile operating system.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 7:43 pm
Distributed relational database Yugabyte has launched a database-as-a-service product following a rush of inspiration from Facebook, Google and the world of FOSS.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 6:41 pm
Chemists have discovered four new materials based on ideas generated from a neural network, according to research published in Nature.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 5:36 pm
Video As autumn arrives in the northern hemisphere, scientists have shown how tiny connected semiconductors can be distributed on the wind in a similar way to the seasonal spreading of airborne seeds.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 4:29 pm
Microsoft has followed up a lacklustre Surface hardware event with a Windows 11 Release Preview for Windows Insiders.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 3:33 pm
Studies of biodiversity around the former Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan have shown that a decade after the nuclear incident there in March 2011, the local wildlife, at least, is mostly thriving.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 2:45 pm
Special series After a great first episode, the MCubed webcast will be back on October 7, 2021 to tackle a whole other beast: Continuous Delivery in Machine Learning.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 1:45 pm
Comment Hewlett Packard Enterprise has posted a "UK Public Sector Manifesto" with nine themes, alongside a campaign hyping the value of hybrid cloud.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 1:02 pm
Giant Pay – an umbrella company used by contractors across the UK – has confirmed "suspicious activity" on its platform is behind a days-long ongoing outage that has left folk fretting about whether they'll get paid this month.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 12:26 pm
Bork!Bork!Bork! Sometimes only the freshest of borks will do, and sometimes the best laid plans of administrators can go awry.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 11:29 am
Boatnotes II As HMS Severn continues hosting the Royal Navy's Fleet Navigating Officer's course, The Register has taken a closer look at the precision demanded of naval officers conning their ships in and out of one of the most cramped ports where the Navy routinely operates.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 10:49 am
Review One of the reasons Linux has never caught on as a desktop operating system, as Linux fans know, is that Linux isn't a desktop operating system, it's a kernel. And assembling it into a coherent package users can install is the job of a distribution.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 10:01 am
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Something is out of place; it does not quite fit. I reach down and give it a gentle tug. Ah, that's better.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 9:14 am
The UK Armed Forces are looking to restart a £1.7bn procurement for recruitment and onboarding of personnel to cover extensive IT investments as well as process outsourcing.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 7:45 am
The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) is worried its guidance on preventing the internet and all it connects becoming a casualty of war is being misinterpreted, perhaps wilfully.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 7:28 am
On Call Fire up the Cossie*! We're going back to the '80s with an On Call tale that combines the drama of a fast Ford motor with the eldritch horror of Unix serial port settings.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 7:02 am
Boffins at Japan's Keio University reckon they've built viable optical fibers from plastics.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 6:02 am
Apple has warned iPhone and Mac users it's aware of security bugs in its software that are being actively exploited.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 5:01 am
India's Telecoms Regulatory Authority has revealed that the nation has over 800 million active broadband subscribers.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 2:58 am
Folks in the US will see the transformative effects of 5G first in the areas of online gaming and fixed wireless broadband internet connections, Ericsson North America CEO Niklas Heuveldop said on Thursday.…
Posted on 24 September 2021 | 1:35 am
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed Assembly Bill 701, establishing new protections for workers at warehouse distribution centers.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 11:52 pm
Two IT trade groups on Wednesday challenged the constitutionality of Texas' new social media law, arguing that it compels companies to host speech they disagree with in violation of their First Amendment rights.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 9:57 pm
Dell CEO Michael Dell once loved big-ticket acquisitions, but not anymore.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 9:14 pm
Boston Dynamics' creepy robot dog Spot has found another new employer for its unique skillset.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 8:27 pm
Updated Smartphones, tablets, and cameras sold within the European Union could be forced to adopt a single standard charging port by the middle of the decade if the latest plans from the European Commission get the go-ahead.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 7:44 pm
Facebook is remaining silent over two explosive lawsuits unsealed this week which contain allegations that board members "authorized" the overpayment of an FTC fine by up to $4.9bn in order to protect CEO Mark Zuckerberg.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 6:15 pm
The GNOME Foundation has released GNOME 41 - six months after GNOME 40, which was the first to be based on the GTK4 toolkit.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 5:30 pm
Mobile tech outfit GigSky is to add a data plan to its mobile app, using the Citizen's Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) small cell infrastructure deployed by the Helium blockchain community.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 4:45 pm
Google has again refused to say whether it will reimburse Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for all the money it has spent warning consumers about dodgy financial ads carried on the tech giant’s platform.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 4:06 pm
Northern Irish prosecutors are pondering whether to charge two police officers with Computer Misuse Act offences after what local reports described as a Twitter trolling campaign.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 3:16 pm
GAIA-X, Europe's long awaited federated data infrastructure, got a fresh bulding block this week in the shape of the Eclipse Dataspace Connector, an open-source framework for multi-cloud, policy-based B2B data sharing.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 2:29 pm
BT has spelled out its opposition to the proposed takeover of Hutchison’s mobile phone masts and towers in the UK by Spanish towerco Cellnex following the publication of legal documents yesterday.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 1:43 pm
A second leak of personal data was reportedly committed by the Ministry of Defence, raising further questions about the ministry's commitment to the safety of people in Afghanistan, some of whom are its own former employees.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 1:00 pm
A report from DORA, that's the Devops Research and Assessment sponsored by Google and other DevOps vendors, says 26 per cent of surveyed technology workers consider themselves "elite performers."…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 12:14 pm
A former IBM general manager who was posted to the United Arab Emirates is being sued by the company for £290,000 after filing an employment tribunal case claiming unfair dismissal.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 11:26 am
Intel's vision of the computing architecture of autonomous vehicles is similar to that of PCs, with pricey models getting better hardware and the latest software, and cheaper self-driving cars getting the bare minimum.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 10:43 am
Researchers at security specialist ESET claim to have found a shiny new advanced persistent threat (APT) group dubbed FamousSparrow - after discovering its custom backdoor, SparrowDoor, on hotels and government systems around the world.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 10:00 am
Bork!Bork!Bork! Windows XP continues to hang in there – quite literally – as the operating system does what it does best some 90 metres above the London's River Thames.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 9:15 am
Interview Developers targeting Android are spoiled for choice with their platforms.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 8:30 am
Infosys has admitted it has missed the Indian government's deadline to fix the tax portal it built, but which has been a glitchy mess since its June 2021 launch.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 7:58 am
Systems Approach In 1984, artificial intelligence was having a moment. There was enough optimism around it to inspire me to explore the role of AI in chip design for my undergraduate thesis, but there were also early signs that the optimism was unjustified.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 7:28 am
Imagine an optic fiber that can sense the presence of a nearby jackhammer and warn its owner that it is in danger of being dug up, just in time to tell diggers not to sink another shaft. Next, imagine that an entire city's installed base of fiber could be turned into sensors that will make planners think twice before installing IoT devices.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 6:58 am
Faced with limited resources in a pandemic, Greece turned to machine-learning software to decide which sorts of travelers to test for COVID-19 as they arrived in the country.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 6:26 am
Some of Google's Wing delivery drones have been grounded by angry Australian birds.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 6:01 am
Prices for DRAM and NAND flash are set to fall, sharply, in the second half of 2022 according to analyst firm Gartner.…
Posted on 23 September 2021 | 4:28 am