Updated
HPE has 'substantially succeeded' in its £3.3bn fraud trial against Autonomy's Mike Lynch – judge
All eyes turn to Priti Patel as midnight extradition deadline looms
In brief
US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems to apply for loans
Plus: Apple patches exploited-in-the-wild bug, White House zero-trust order, and more
Software
How can we recruit for the future if it takes an hour to send an email, asks Air Force AI bigwig in plea for better IT
Billions spent on weapons and boondoggles while service members battle away on cheapo PCs
Security
Intel fails to get Spectre, Meltdown chip flaw class-action super-suit tossed out
Cheesed-off customers have 'alleged enough facts at this stage' to allow legal battle to continue, says judge
On-Prem
You're fabbing it wrong: Chip shortages due to lack of investment in the right factories, says IDC
Not enough money going into 40nm+ process nodes
28 Jan 21:50 |
OSes
Microsoft brings Jenny, Aria, and more interface tweaks to new Windows 11 Insider build
Exorcising the ghost of Windows past
28 Jan 21:01 |
Networks
California's net neutrality law dodges Big Telecom bullet
Federal appeals court upholds decision not to block connection protection rules
28 Jan 20:06 | 2
Offbeat
Joe Danger rides to the rescue as ageing title tugs at the heartstrings
Hobby project sees Hello Games' first baby return at the request of a dedicated dad
28 Jan 19:02 | 1
Networks
Not Azure thing: Using MS's Quantum to schedule chats with spacecraft on the DSN
Oh boy
28 Jan 18:13 | 1
Storage
Blistering bandwidth: JEDEC pushes out HBM3 memory specs
All that and improved energy efficiency
28 Jan 17:28 |
Databases
Despite growth, questions remain over whether SAP can get customers off-prem fast enough to appease investors
€500m cloud investments drag on profit
28 Jan 16:47 | 3
Webinar
Watching Microsoft 365 spread through your enterprise? So are the cyber-criminals
What should protection for your 365 data really look like?
28 Jan 16:00 |
OSes
New tools to simplify wrapping your head around Kubernetes
Where to begin when you're ready to get your K8s on
28 Jan 15:15 |
Off-Prem
ISO.org outage hits day 3: Still in the dark as the important matter of bunk bed standards enters discussion
Time to get out ISO 22300:2021, Security and resilience – Vocabulary
28 Jan 14:16 | 9
Channel
Capita offloads Microsoft licensing biz Trustmarque to private equity for £110m
Remainder of Capita's Portfolio of unwanted businesses to be expunged by year end, says CEO
28 Jan 13:45 | 1
Security
Internet Society condemns UK's Online Safety Bill for demonising encryption using 'think of the children' tactic
Plus: Cops' surveillance is used against drug gangs and not child abusers, says Tutanota
28 Jan 12:56 | 41
Updated
HPE has 'substantially succeeded' in its £3.3bn fraud trial against Autonomy's Mike Lynch – judge
All eyes turn to Priti Patel as midnight extradition deadline looms
28 Jan 11:50 | 65
Science
UK government responds to post-Brexit concerns and of course it's all the fault of those pesky EU negotiators
'Incalculable cost' of non-participation in Horizon programme 'continues to rise'
28 Jan 11:45 | 93
Poll
Crack team of boffins hash out how e-scooters should sound – but they need your help*
*They're probably fine
28 Jan 11:03 | 100
THEM'S THE RULES
UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit infosec pros
Are you competent? Ethical? Welcome to UKCSC's new list
Head of Big Tech Expertise? Believe it or not, it's a UK.gov vacancy for a Whitehall job
What happened to loosening stranglehold of major tech firms on the public sector?
US mergers doubled in 2021 so FTC and DoJ seek new guidelines to stop illegal ones
Last set of rules written in 2010 – a whole different era in tech terms
Tougher rules on targeted ads, deepfakes, crafty web design, and more? Euro lawmakers give a thumbs up
'This is strongly limiting the scope of maneuver by Big Tech', expert tells El Reg
UK regulators to scrutinise cloud resilience in response to financial services sector's reliance on the fluffy stuff
Bank of England watchdog seeks 'more oversight' into 'critical third parties', eyes up outages and cyber attacks
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
How to get banned from social media without posting a thing
Mme D finally takes to the Web 2.0 stage and becomes a bad actor
28 Jan 10:17 | 77
Episode 2
BOFH: On Wednesdays, we wear gloves
In which Simon meets the new accountant
28 Jan 09:30 | 49
On Call
Bouncing cheques or a bouncy landing? All in a day's work for the expert pilot
Sure, you can program an autopilot but will you be defeated by a Dell?
28 Jan 08:31 | 79
Personal Tech
Apple Mac sales break records amid ex-86-odus to Arm-compatible M1 silicon
Cook & Co made $384M profit per day during latest quarter
28 Jan 07:28 | 44
Networks
Bonus features: Sony uses Blu-ray tech to simulate 466Mbps laser link from the stratosphere to space
Together with Japanese space agency, now imagining optical comms terminals on sats
28 Jan 06:33 | 5
Security
Silk could tie up all-but-unbreakable encryption, say South Korean boffins
At last, a worm that improves security
28 Jan 05:31 | 26
Virtualization
VMware fixes vSphere release it pulled, sorts out Log4j while it's at it
Driver drama is done, new dev practices should prevent repeats, says Virtzilla
28 Jan 03:27 | 2
Software
How can we recruit for the future if it takes an hour to send an email, asks Air Force AI bigwig in plea for better IT
Billions spent on weapons and boondoggles while service members battle away on cheapo PCs
28 Jan 02:28 | 46
EXTRAORDINARY SCIENCE
Something 4,000 light years away emitted strange radio bursts. This is where we talk to scientists for actual info
'This experience has taught me that it's worth trying out looking at the sky in entirely new ways'
Alien life on Super-Earth can survive longer than us due to long-lasting protection from cosmic rays
Laser experiments show their magnetic fields shielding their surfaces from radiation last longer
AI-enhanced frog stem cells start to replicate in entirely new ways
Xenobots scoop up loose cells to make more of themselves. We welcome our new overlords
SpaceX Starlink sat streaks now present in nearly a fifth of all astronomical images snapped by Caltech telescope
Annoying, maybe – but totally ruining this science, maybe not
Security
Intel fails to get Spectre, Meltdown chip flaw class-action super-suit tossed out
Cheesed-off customers have 'alleged enough facts at this stage' to allow legal battle to continue, says judge
28 Jan 01:18 | 23
Updated
FCC pulls the plug on China Unicom's permission to provide telecoms in the US
As commissioner suggests watchdog gets ability to crack down further on China-controlled data centers
28 Jan 00:32 | 5
In brief
US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems to apply for loans
Plus: Apple patches exploited-in-the-wild bug, White House zero-trust order, and more
27 Jan 23:41 | 13
Bootnotes
Carked it, Diem? Zuckerberg's grand cryptocurrency thing may sell off assets for $200m
Facebook-born blockchain payment system's day well and truly seized
27 Jan 21:48 | 18
Networks
FPGA now means Finally, PRC Grants Approval: China OKs AMD's $35bn Xilinx buy
hurdles <= hurdles - 1;
27 Jan 19:44 | 2
Storage
Thanks for the memory: Samsung says DRAM, NAND profits up Q-on-Q, sales down as global supply chain bites
Expects more stability but warns of potential fab lockdowns on road ahead
27 Jan 18:37 |
OSes
For first time in nearly 17 years, stable Linux kernel version has over 999 commits – but not everyone heard about it
'Script was adding the cc: to msg.000 not msg.0000'
27 Jan 17:13 | 11
Security
Targeted ransomware takes aim at QNAP NAS drives, warns vendor: Get your updates done pronto
Nasty demands hefty Bitcoin ransom
27 Jan 16:19 | 8
Updated
Instant Ump: HP Inc's subscription ink services hiking prices from next month
Customers in mid-tier band facing up to 50% higher fees... and they're delighted
27 Jan 15:34 | 44
Networks
Toaster-friendly alternative web protocol Gemini attracts criticism for becoming exclusive clique
While creators were stripping away annoying styling, users started to make Geminispace a bunker, says engineer
27 Jan 14:50 | 34
Edge + IoT
January edition of Azure Sphere OS cancelled after Microsoft actually listens to customer's complaint
Wait – is this the same company that gave us Windows?
27 Jan 14:05 | 6
SaaS
ServiceNow CEO says mergers and acquisitions are off the table – too messy
It's as if Bill McDermott's SAP tenure never happened
27 Jan 13:18 | 11
PAID FEATURES
If experience is the new storage battlefield, what does winning look like?
Time to look at on-prem storage through the cloud, says HPE
Why global DDoS protection is essential for Anycast networks
‘If you don’t have Anycast it’s not a good DNS service’
Continuous security and compliance for hybrid cloud, the Red Hat way
Tune in, turn on, run in the background, using Red Hat DevSecOps framework
Migrating to the cloud can still be a gamble. How can you be sure it pays off?
A long-term partner can help you shorten the odds
Science
Burning plasma signals step forward in race for nuclear fusion as researchers get bigger capsule for their 192-laser experiment
But work at US security-linked lab falls short of true ignition. 'This is physics,' they say
27 Jan 12:32 | 37
Exclusive
Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC's 60886 number could snoop on Brit taxpayers' locations
Bitter contract dispute revealed HLR lookup capability baked into agreement
27 Jan 11:59 | 69
Personal Tech
Imagination GPU cleared for RISC-V CPU compatibility, licensed to chip designers
We love it when a plan comes together
27 Jan 11:03 | 20
HPC
Hardware boffin starts work on simulation of an entire IBM S/360 Model 50 mainframe
With microcode intact so it can talk to an original operator's console
27 Jan 10:13 | 42
Off-Prem
Regulations and compliance are 'a curate's egg' for digital transformation, say IT pros in finance, telecoms and public sector
Hurdle or driver for modernisation? A bit of both, apparently
27 Jan 09:30 | 7
Paid Feature
Shooting for the cloud? Make sure you're squeezing the right trigger
Here are the new rules for data centre consolidation
27 Jan 07:30 |
Security
Indonesia bars financial institutions from offering crypto services
Advises citizens to avoid 'Ponzi schemes'
27 Jan 07:13 | 17
On-Prem
Twelve years after Intel was fined $1.2bn for unfairly running over rivals, an EU court says: No need to pay
Ah, y'know what, maybe those rebates for not using AMD chips weren't so anti-competitive after all, eh?
27 Jan 06:40 | 42
Personal Tech
How US sanctions slugged Huawei and helped Apple top China's Q4 smartphone sales
Cupertino cut prices and cleaned up
27 Jan 04:45 | 7
Security
China orders web operators to spring clean its entire internet
Purveyors of rumours, flirty teens, dodgy infomercials, or bloody violence all told to get in the bin – yet again
27 Jan 03:01 | 21
OSes
Indian government floats idea of home-grown challenger for Android and iOS
May not be the smartest move seeing as alternative OSes crater – and Google promised to spend billions in India
27 Jan 01:19 | 10
Personal Tech
In a first, FTC extracts millions of dollars from online store accused of blocking bad reviews on its website
Glad rags merchandiser denies wrongdoing, says it coughed up $4.2m to 'avoid distraction'
27 Jan 00:28 | 28
On-Prem
5nm? Pah. Texas Instruments focuses on 45nm+ analog, embedded electronics – and makes bank
Most electronics in the things you use are on old-school-gen process nodes, after all
Security
Alert: Let's Encrypt to revoke about 2 million HTTPS certificates in two days
Relatively small number of certs issued using verification method that doesn't comply with policy
OSes
Windows boss Panos Panay talks up 'new era of the PC' – translation: An era of new PCs
1.4 billion devices running Redmond's OS, Android apps coming, and more
Networks
Refresh? No, F5 says supply of networking chips is still awful, getting worse...
More than 400 orders for components cancelled by suppliers, says CEO
26 Jan 18:45 | 5
Science
ESA's Solar Orbiter sneaks in bonus science by choking on the dust of a comet tail (again)
Plucky probe due to make closest pass to the Sun in March
26 Jan 17:59 | 3
Personal Tech
US President Joe Biden reminds the White House he is serious about repairability
Tech giants will voluntarily do the right thing because of course they always do
26 Jan 17:04 | 23
Bootnotes
How to polish the bottom line? Microsoft makes it really hard to claim expenses, say staffers
If even Captain PowerShell can't automate this, what hope is there for the rest of us?
26 Jan 16:17 | 65
Break point: Notepad++, Traefik, Charmed Kubeflow, Vulkan, Google Cloud Deploy, and Rancher Desktop
GraalVM 22.0 digs up fresh Truffle APIs, better heap isolation
Here’s to easy access: Apache Kafka 3.1 presents OIDC support, open endpoint queries
Bits, bobs, and better work tree support: Git 2.35 is now available
AI + ML
Korea gives a $7.5bn nod to the metaverse and AI projects
Move over K-pop, the K-metaverse is coming
Legal
Mike Lynch loses US extradition delay bid: Flight across the Atlantic looks closer than ever
Autonomy founder set for criminal trial on multiple counts of fraud over sale of biz to HPE
OSes
OpenShell has been working on a classic replacement for Windows 11's Start menu
It's still early days, though
Popular
Exclusive
Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC's 60886 number could snoop on Brit taxpayers' locations
Bitter contract dispute revealed HLR lookup capability baked into agreement
HPC
Hardware boffin starts work on simulation of an entire IBM S/360 Model 50 mainframe
With microcode intact so it can talk to an original operator's console
On-Prem
5nm? Pah. Texas Instruments focuses on 45nm+ analog, embedded electronics – and makes bank
Most electronics in the things you use are on old-school-gen process nodes, after all
Personal Tech
Imagination GPU cleared for RISC-V CPU compatibility, licensed to chip designers
We love it when a plan comes together
OSes
For first time in nearly 17 years, stable Linux kernel version has over 999 commits – but not everyone heard about it
'Script was adding the cc: to msg.000 not msg.0000'
Networks
Toaster-friendly alternative web protocol Gemini attracts criticism for becoming exclusive clique
While creators were stripping away annoying styling, users started to make Geminispace a bunker, says engineer
Science
Something 4,000 light years away emitted strange radio bursts. This is where we talk to scientists for actual info
'This experience has taught me that it's worth trying out looking at the sky in entirely new ways'
In brief
US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems to apply for loans
Plus: Apple patches exploited-in-the-wild bug, White House zero-trust order, and more
Personal Tech
In a first, FTC extracts millions of dollars from online store accused of blocking bad reviews on its website
Glad rags merchandiser denies wrongdoing, says it coughed up $4.2m to 'avoid distraction'
Updated
Instant Ump: HP Inc's subscription ink services hiking prices from next month
Customers in mid-tier band facing up to 50% higher fees... and they're delighted
STORIES
Science
It's more than 20 years since Steps topped the charts. It could be less than that for STEP's first fusion energy
Anyone fancy a spherical tokamak in their backyard?
26 Jan 12:33 | 67
Security
Infosec big dogs break out the bubbly over UK government's latest cyber strategy emission
See that? That's a promise of fat contracts, that is
26 Jan 11:55 | 8
Software
Microsoft revenue up by a fifth as world shuffles through the pandemic into the metaverse
Cloud the top earner as usual but Redmond is doubling down on gaming
26 Jan 11:29 | 8
On-Prem
IR35 is the biggest threat to the contractor working model, survey finds
Brexit, COVID-19 and tax rises all eclipsed by the omnipresent rule change, study of contractors finds
26 Jan 09:30 | 47
