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Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

The top three myths of cloud data protection – busted

Why it is crucial for banks to update their content management strategies

Wipro names new CEO: Former Capgemini COO Thierry Delaporte

High-level musical chairs continue at SAP as yet another senior exec departs

Visual Studio Code finally arrives on ARM64 Windows. No, you haven't woken up in 2017, sadly. It's still 2020

This'll make you feel old: Uni compsci favourite Pascal hits the big five-oh this year

Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election? There were no hacks

Great news. Patch load drops 20% for the first time in 10 years. Bad news: Well, you've heard about coronavirus?

It's not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Watch on-demand, online here: Secure development during digital transformation

So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise

Boeing brings back the 737 Max but also lays off thousands

Vietnam accelerates – dare we say it? – digital transformation for a fourth industrial revolution

China to slice internet connection costs for locals as part of plan to rebound from recent unpleasantness

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Nokia's reboot of the 5310 is a blissfully dumb phone that will lug some mp3s about just fine

Did nobody tell them about the lockdown? Logitech releases new 'luggable' mechanical keyboard for LAN parties

Trump issues toothless exec order to show donors, fans he's doing something about those Twitter twerps

Geek's Guide

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

After 30 years of searching, astroboffins finally detect the universe's 'missing matter' – using fast radio bursts

Turns out Elon can't control the weather – what a scrub: Rain, clouds delay historic manned SpaceX-NASA launch

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

VR flop Magic Leap’s ‘pivot’ spins CEO right off his throne

Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system

China to test digital version of its currency at 2022 Winter Olympics

Verity Stob

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Great success! Finance app was able to inform user that their action was unsuccessful

The RPG

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

The Reg speaks to Blood Music about its retrofuturistic love letter to the adventure game golden age

Software

This'll make you feel old: Uni compsci favourite Pascal hits the big five-oh this year

Spawn of ALGOL turns middle-aged

Business

So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise

On CallCultures clash when a combustion turbine goes K-pop

Software

Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way

Cold weather missed approaches went left instead of right - and vice versa

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Roundup

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Plus other news from infosec land this week

31 May 09:32 | 2

Video

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Bob and Doug are first humans launched into orbit by Elon's Muskteers

30 May 20:06 | 40

Video

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

There's a starship waiting for the sky, he'd like to come meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds

30 May 00:44 | 25

Security

Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election? There were no hacks

'No evidence of damage to network or computers, no evidence of theft, damage, or loss of data'

29 May 23:32 | 57

Personal Tech

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Land Of The Free to List All The Websites You Use

29 May 22:24 | 39

Storage

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

Probing by El Reg's Chris Mellor highlighted in class-action complaint

29 May 21:22 | 26

Webcast

The top three myths of cloud data protection – busted

SaaS is no replacement for disaster recovery as we're about to find out next month

29 May 17:00 |

Software

High-level musical chairs continue at SAP as yet another senior exec departs

Chief beancounter for cloud quits for pastures new

29 May 15:45 | 1

Personal Tech

Nokia's reboot of the 5310 is a blissfully dumb phone that will lug some mp3s about just fine

No Wi-Fi, no newsfeeds – just you, 2G, and your awful music taste

29 May 15:00 | 28

Bootnotes

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

'In Ihrem Budget fehlen sechs Nullen' warned MP

29 May 14:15 | 41

Emergent Tech

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

'Keeping all of the best elements from the G1'... and none of the bad, please

29 May 13:30 | 7

Software

Visual Studio Code finally arrives on ARM64 Windows. No, you haven't woken up in 2017, sadly. It's still 2020

Now you can program like a native with your £899 Surface Pro X – keyboard not included

29 May 12:45 | 11

Bootnotes

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

The RPGThe Reg speaks to Blood Music about its retrofuturistic love letter to the adventure game golden age

29 May 12:00 | 7

Software

This'll make you feel old: Uni compsci favourite Pascal hits the big five-oh this year

Spawn of ALGOL turns middle-aged

29 May 11:20 | 84

Security

Great news. Patch load drops 20% for the first time in 10 years. Bad news: Well, you've heard about coronavirus?

Fix the crits, sort out the rest later

29 May 10:45 | 10

Why it is crucial for banks to update their content management strategies

Collaboration, speed, customer satisfaction, surviving and thriving

29 May 10:00 |

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Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way

Cold weather missed approaches went left instead of right - and vice versa

29 May 09:23 | 91

Personal Tech

Did nobody tell them about the lockdown? Logitech releases new 'luggable' mechanical keyboard for LAN parties

Wireless kit has 40 hours' battery life, but turn off the RGB fripperies and you might get 135 days

29 May 08:15 | 24

Cloud

Wipro names new CEO: Former Capgemini COO Thierry Delaporte

Indian giant's center of power moves from Texas to Paris

29 May 07:41 | 8

Business

So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise

On CallCultures clash when a combustion turbine goes K-pop

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Dell teases PowerScale unified storage array

Pure earnings beats pandemic, CEO recovers from covid-19

Fujitsu launches scale-out block and object storage

Datera bags OEM deal with Fujitsu

Virtualization

VMware virtually untouched by virus, impact of private Keith Urban concert for staff uncertain

Beats the guidance it didn’t think would survive the pandemic

29 May 06:56 |

Emergent Tech

VR flop Magic Leap’s ‘pivot’ spins CEO right off his throne

‘Natural step’ to find new leader after current one burned billions for no appreciable return

29 May 06:32 | 18

Security

It's not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously

GRU crew actively exploit hole – but you patched it months ago, right?

29 May 06:08 | 10

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Science

After 30 years of searching, astroboffins finally detect the universe's 'missing matter' – using fast radio bursts

'We couldn't find half of what should be there. It was a bit of an embarrassment'

29 May 05:05 | 85

Data Centre

Dell says the hard part comes next after rapid pandemic response helped it to stable Q1 revenue

Predicts demand to drop off as component prices rise, no hint of layoff plans

29 May 04:01 | 2

Data Centre

China's Tencent to order ONE MILLION SERVERS as part of $70bn digital infrastructure splurge

Buying all the buzzwords: AI, 5G and Blockchain implementations promised

29 May 02:16 | 8

Security

NTT warns its Singapore cloud was hacked, Japanese customer data compromised

Early May attack hit 600-plus hosting and cloud customers

29 May 01:36 |

Personal Tech

Trump issues toothless exec order to show donors, fans he's doing something about those Twitter twerps

AnalysisAmid political theater, Section 230 protection loss dangled

29 May 00:26 | 207

Artificial Intelligence

Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system

Startup says it's covered by the First Ammendment, ta very much

28 May 22:56 | 17

Personal Tech

Paying Arizona: Google sued by state for location data revenues after tracking state's citizens via mobiles

Chocolate Factory insists its practices have been mischaracterized

28 May 21:50 | 7

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

The top three myths of cloud data protection – busted

Why it is crucial for banks to update their content management strategies

Wipro names new CEO: Former Capgemini COO Thierry Delaporte

High-level musical chairs continue at SAP as yet another senior exec departs

Visual Studio Code finally arrives on ARM64 Windows. No, you haven't woken up in 2017, sadly. It's still 2020

This'll make you feel old: Uni compsci favourite Pascal hits the big five-oh this year

Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election? There were no hacks

Great news. Patch load drops 20% for the first time in 10 years. Bad news: Well, you've heard about coronavirus?

It's not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Watch on-demand, online here: Secure development during digital transformation

So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise

Boeing brings back the 737 Max but also lays off thousands

Vietnam accelerates – dare we say it? – digital transformation for a fourth industrial revolution

China to slice internet connection costs for locals as part of plan to rebound from recent unpleasantness

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Nokia's reboot of the 5310 is a blissfully dumb phone that will lug some mp3s about just fine

Did nobody tell them about the lockdown? Logitech releases new 'luggable' mechanical keyboard for LAN parties

Trump issues toothless exec order to show donors, fans he's doing something about those Twitter twerps

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

After 30 years of searching, astroboffins finally detect the universe's 'missing matter' – using fast radio bursts

Turns out Elon can't control the weather – what a scrub: Rain, clouds delay historic manned SpaceX-NASA launch

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

VR flop Magic Leap’s ‘pivot’ spins CEO right off his throne

Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system

China to test digital version of its currency at 2022 Winter Olympics

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Great success! Finance app was able to inform user that their action was unsuccessful

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

This'll make you feel old: Uni compsci favourite Pascal hits the big five-oh this year

So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise

Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way

Latest News

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election? There were no hacks

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

The top three myths of cloud data protection – busted

High-level musical chairs continue at SAP as yet another senior exec departs

Nokia's reboot of the 5310 is a blissfully dumb phone that will lug some mp3s about just fine

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

Visual Studio Code finally arrives on ARM64 Windows. No, you haven't woken up in 2017, sadly. It's still 2020

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

This'll make you feel old: Uni compsci favourite Pascal hits the big five-oh this year

Great news. Patch load drops 20% for the first time in 10 years. Bad news: Well, you've heard about coronavirus?

Why it is crucial for banks to update their content management strategies

Virtual Events

Quit your addiction to storage

Watch More

Secure development during digital transformation

Register Lecture: Mapping subterranean Britain's tubes

Secure your applications using DevSecOps

\"Hey Wi-Fi, how are you doing?\"

Register Lecture: Can portable atomic clocks end UK dependence on GNSS?

Detecting cyber attacks as a small to medium business

How AI will enable the new era of remote working

Register Lecture: The Death of the Gods – through a tweet darkly

Harnessing the value of data

Build the next generation of your business in the public cloud

Register Lecture: Space Invaders and spamming the Final Frontier

Evolving Datacenters without Complexity

Set up your hybrid cloud right

Register lecture: Teaching self-driving cars how to be more human

Transforming infrastructure to enable top-performing development teams

Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way

Did nobody tell them about the lockdown? Logitech releases new 'luggable' mechanical keyboard for LAN parties

Wipro names new CEO: Former Capgemini COO Thierry Delaporte

So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise

Dell teases PowerScale unified storage array