What a cluster fsck: New scheduling code plus Intel's Alder Lake CPU mix equals a slower Linux kernel 5.16
Can we just postpone these changes to next year?
Software
Could we use an LLVM-based cross-compiler to build apps for quantum computers? This alliance says yes
Microsoft, Linux Foundation-backed QIR has a chance to make QC source code portable across different systems
Software
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a coding puzzle and it's a doozy
2021 Advent of Code prepares for launch
Register Debate
Big challenge with hardware subscriptions? Getting what we need, not what someone else wants us to have
Reject the one-size-fits-all approach offered by the cloud giants
Software
Apple files fresh appeal to stop court order demanding external payment systems in iOS apps
iGiant warned developers it could still charge fees for third-party financial transactions anyway
02 Dec 00:59 |
On-Prem
Amazon accused of grossly underreporting COVID-19 cases to US labor agency
'Yes, we had nearly 20,000 cases last year but only 27 were directly work-related. Honestly.'
01 Dec 23:06 | 3
Snapdragon Tech Summit
Qualcomm makes its own mobile gaming rig, hypes new Windows 11 chips
G3x Handheld Developer Kit born from hookup with Razer
01 Dec 23:00 | 1
On-Prem
Google sued for firing staff who claim they tried to follow 'Don't be evil' motto
Civil complaint dovetails with ongoing litigation over alleged union busting
01 Dec 21:49 | 6
Paid Feature
Rewriting your disaster recovery plan might just save your company…and could transform it
Just be sure it actually works
01 Dec 21:00 |
SaaS
Microsoft's Teams Essential tier seems designed to coax people on to Business Basic
Looks like good value, but sorely lacking in some important areas
01 Dec 20:01 | 2
Science
Russia: It isn't just us – a bit of an old US rocket might get as close as 5.4km to the ISS
Meanwhile, Soyuz Cluedo continues: It was someone, with the drill, in the habitation module
01 Dec 19:05 | 12
Webinar
The HPC cutting edge might just be swinging in your direction
E is for exascale, enterprise and … easy?
01 Dec 18:00 |
OSes
Microsoft: What's that? A patch for make-me-admin vuln? Sorry – can't hear you. Have a new jumper instead
Redmond fiddles with Paint while Windows burns
01 Dec 17:12 | 10
SaaS
So it turns out Google would like to pass Knative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after all
That means the 'forseeable future' at Mountain View is... about two years
01 Dec 16:19 | 1
Software
What a cluster fsck: New scheduling code plus Intel's Alder Lake CPU mix equals a slower Linux kernel 5.16
Can we just postpone these changes to next year?
01 Dec 15:27 | 3
Security
Singapore and UK ink digital trade agreements at Future Tech Forum in London
Such memorandums of understanding are all the rage
01 Dec 14:30 |
Software
Pension cold-calling financial services biz cops largest ever fine from UK data watchdog
EB Associates facing £140k penalty for 107,000 illegal calls
01 Dec 13:50 | 15
Legal
Microsoft shareholders vote for a report into harassment within the company
Median pay gap reporting found less favour
01 Dec 13:08 | 2
Software
Could we use an LLVM-based cross-compiler to build apps for quantum computers? This alliance says yes
Microsoft, Linux Foundation-backed QIR has a chance to make QC source code portable across different systems
01 Dec 12:16 | 7
Software
Brit RPA upstart Blue Prism falls into arms of US tech holdings biz SS&C for £1.24bn
Software automation specialist escaping London Stock Exchange
PaaS + IaaS
Big challenge with hardware subscriptions? Getting what we need, not what someone else wants us to have
Register Debate Reject the one-size-fits-all approach offered by the cloud giants
Science
ESA's Solar Orbiter sails safely past Earth despite orbiting debris concerns
See if you can guess when the spacecraft thrusters took over
Software
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a coding puzzle and it's a doozy
2021 Advent of Code prepares for launch
01 Dec 09:15 | 13
Personal Tech
Samsung wheels out new silicon that turns cars into 5G-fuelled entertainment hubs
Nice wheels! Thanks, it's got eight Cortex-A76 cores, a 5G modem and 32GB of RAM
01 Dec 07:56 | 24
Security
UK watchdog's punishment for Blackbaud, Easyjet, other big privacy lawbreakers was slap on the wrist in private
Is this what they call light-touch regulation?
01 Dec 07:28 | 19
Software
Beijing wants to level up China's software industry, with an emphasis on FOSS
Plans to build 'two or three open source communities with international influence' in the next five years
01 Dec 06:57 | 18
Science
We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Mega-comets lurking in solar systems, spewing carbon monoxide
Comet BB is not only largest of its type that we know of, it was likely active billions of miles from the Sun
01 Dec 06:32 | 10
Software
Need a new CEO, Salesforce? Have two – Bret Taylor and Marc Benioff to share the job
Restores twin CEO structure that ended in 2020, no indication this has deeper meaning
01 Dec 05:58 |
Snapdragon Tech Summit
Qualcomm takes a swipe at Apple's build-not-buy culture (because it wants to sell stuff to Apple)
Suggests collaboration with OS suppliers is the best way to innovate, ignoring that Google just designed its own silicon for Pixel 6
01 Dec 04:59 | 16
Security
UK intel chief says MI6 must outsource innovation – and James Bond's in-house 'Q' is nonsense
China is on the march, Russia loves to destabilise, no intelligence agency can stop 'em without help
01 Dec 03:56 | 27
Servers
Cisco tells UCS owners they may have a screw loose – in the server chassis
Power supplies are screwed up because they're not all screwed in
PaaS + IaaS
AWS unveils Graviton3 Arm chips and more. But the real story is the slide from IaaS to packaged solutions
Re:Invent CEO Adam Selipsky takes the stage in Vegas – and may be on a collision course with customers
Personal Tech
Qualcomm crams more smarts into flagship mobile chip: It's the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Snapdragon Tech Summit Do you want a smartphone to know you that well?
OCR Engine Tesseract 5.0 converts to float for faster training and recognition
Skint but looking to get complex machine learning models into production? Serverless might be the answer
Break point: Lens, Kong Mesh, Spring Boot, Git Tower, and Amazon AppStream
PHP 8.1 presents web developers with the gift of enums, Fibers, and readonly props
Personal Tech
If at first Amazon doesn't let you succeed, try, try again: Warehouse workers given second chance at union vote
US watchdog tosses previous result in the trash after election fairness slammed
30 Nov 21:17 | 18
Security
It's the flu season – FluBot, that is: Surge of info-stealing Android malware detected
And a bunch of bank-account-raiding trojans also identified
30 Nov 20:11 | 5
Applications
AsmREPL: Wing your way through x86-64 assembly language
Assemblers unite
30 Nov 18:59 | 14
Applications
Microsoft adds Buy Now, Pay Later financing option to Edge – and everyone hates it
There's always Use Another Browser
30 Nov 17:00 | 64
Security
Visiting a booby-trapped webpage could give attackers code execution privileges on HP network printers
Patches available for 150 affected products
30 Nov 15:59 | 21
Video
Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection
Parachute snagged on ship's bows
30 Nov 14:55 | 144
Security
Lloyd's of London suggests insurers should not cover 'retaliatory cyber operations' between nation states
And they might attribute cyber attacks if governments won't
30 Nov 14:02 | 18
Legal
UK competition regulator to Meta's Facebook: Sell Giphy, we will not approve the purchase
CMA finds that deal would be bad for consumers and tighten Zuck's grip on almost half of £7bn digital ad spend
30 Nov 13:15 | 26
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Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection
Parachute snagged on ship's bows
Software
You loved running JavaScript in your web browser. Now, get ready for Python scripting
All thanks to CPython, WebAssembly, and some clever developers (And yes, there's Pyodide, too)
Applications
Microsoft adds Buy Now, Pay Later financing option to Edge – and everyone hates it
There's always Use Another Browser
Re:Invent
Can Rust save the planet? Why, and why not
The snag: This programming language is safe and efficient, but hard to learn, impacting productivity
Snapdragon Tech Summit
Qualcomm takes a swipe at Apple's build-not-buy culture (because it wants to sell stuff to Apple)
Suggests collaboration with OS suppliers is the best way to innovate, ignoring that Google just designed its own silicon for Pixel 6
Security
Panasonic admits intruders were inside its servers for months
Spotted the crack after it ended – still not sure what was lost
Re:Invent
AWS unveils Graviton3 Arm chips and more. But the real story is the slide from IaaS to packaged solutions
CEO Adam Selipsky takes the stage in Vegas – and may be on a collision course with customers
Security
Visiting a booby-trapped webpage could give attackers code execution privileges on HP network printers
Patches available for 150 affected products
Register Debate
The climate is turning against owning our own compute hardware. Cloud is good for you and your customers
From the data centre to the desktop, here is the green solution
Applications
Think that spreadsheet in your company's accounts dept is old? 70 years ago, LEO ran the first business app
Mods to the design of EDSAC were 'considerable' says boffin
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Face it: Today’s development shortcut is tomorrow’s intractable problem
OutSystems insiders talk technical debt
Database sprawl is choking your organization. Here’s how to bypass it
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When digital transformation is the goal, network renovation isn’t good enough
Keeping secure with iomart in the second wave of SD-WAN
Winter is coming … with a blizzard of live and virtual SANS Institute events
Or a long, hot summer of cybersec training, depending where you are
Science
You, me and debris: NASA cans ISS spacewalk because it's getting too risky outside
Broken antenna will have to wait as warning comes in less than 24 hours before airlock opening
Devops
Can Rust save the planet? Why, and why not
Re:Invent The snag: This programming language is safe and efficient, but hard to learn, impacting productivity
PaaS + IaaS
The climate is turning against owning our own compute hardware. Cloud is good for you and your customers
Register Debate From the data centre to the desktop, here is the green solution
Software
You loved running JavaScript in your web browser. Now, get ready for Python scripting
All thanks to CPython, WebAssembly, and some clever developers (And yes, there's Pyodide, too)
30 Nov 09:58 | 33
Applications
Think that spreadsheet in your company's accounts dept is old? 70 years ago, LEO ran the first business app
Mods to the design of EDSAC were 'considerable' says boffin
30 Nov 09:30 | 81
AI + ML
UK privacy watchdog may fine selfie-hoarding Clearview AI £17m... eventually, perhaps
Regulator's 'assertions are factually and legally incorrect' biz tells El Reg
30 Nov 08:26 | 20
On-Prem
Quantum computing to grow by 50 per cent per year until 2027, when revenue will still be chump change
IDC reckons industry will be worth $8.6B a year – or about a quarter of one Dell quarter
30 Nov 07:56 | 10
Science
Hubble space 'scope brings its Cosmic Origins Spectrograph back online
Work continues on code to make the observatory operate happily when control unit message sync glitches out
30 Nov 06:58 | 8
Off-Prem
Euro-telcos call on big tech to help pay for their network builds
Aka 'rebalancing global technology giants and the European digital ecosystem'
30 Nov 06:16 | 30
Science
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
30 Nov 05:01 | 29
Security
Panasonic admits intruders were inside its servers for months
Spotted the crack after it ended – still not sure what was lost
30 Nov 04:27 | 10
On-Prem
HPE sees 'no indication' its tech was sold to Chinese military, seeks answers from Uncle Sam on sanctions
In the dark about how New H3C chip org ended up on USA’s naughty list
29 Nov 23:54 | 11
Science
James Webb Space Telescope may actually truly launch this century, says NASA
Will it fly by Christmas? Betteridge's law probably applies
29 Nov 21:58 | 23
Personal Tech
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey rebrands himself a 'single point of failure' and quits
That's so Meta
29 Nov 21:14 | 30
Autonomy Trial
UK Home Secretary delays Autonomy founder extradition decision to mid-December
Could be a Christmas surprise in store from Priti Patel
29 Nov 18:57 | 11
Personal Tech
Want to buy your own piece of the Pi? No 'urgency' says Upton of the listing rumours
A British success story... what happens next?
29 Nov 17:21 | 22
Software
All change at JetBrains: Remote development now, new IDE previewed
Security, collaboration, flexible working: Fleet does it all apparently
29 Nov 16:36 | 12
Off-Prem
Nextcloud and cloud chums fire off competition complaint to the EU over Microsoft bundling OneDrive with Windows
No, it isn't the limited levels of storage that have irked European businesses
29 Nov 15:35 | 31
Security
Wind turbine maker Vestas confirms recent security incident was ransomware
10 days after attack 'almost all systems' up and running, refuses to say if ransom was paid
29 Nov 14:29 | 9
Science
UK Space Agency wants primary school kids to design a logo for first Brit launches
Submissions must create a 'sense of pride.' What could possibly go wrong?
On-Prem
Threeshiba: Key Toshiba investor opposes firm's split
3D Investments said plan will result in 'three underperforming companies'
PaaS + IaaS
Renting IT hardware on a subscription basis is bad for customers
Register Debate We're back with another debate you can vote on as we argue back and forth – this time over cloud computing
Software
Project Union: Microsoft releases Windows App SDK 1.0, developers try to puzzle it out
Multiple Windows in WinUI 3? Next version. Open source? Maybe one day
29 Nov 10:00 | 20
Opinion
Smart things are so dumb because they take after their makers. Let's fix that
IoT still needs its lightbulb moment
29 Nov 09:15 | 84
Who, Me?
When civilisation ends, a Xenix box will be running a long-forgotten job somewhere
'Keep it running a few weeks.' Fast-forward 5 years. 'Why'd it break, man!?'
29 Nov 08:30 | 139
Personal Tech
It's 2021 and someone's written a new Windows 3.x mouse driver. Why now?
For those of you who virtualise Microsoft’s finest and struggle with the pointer, this developer has an answer
29 Nov 06:58 | 36
AI + ML
Warning: China planning to swipe a bunch of data soon, so quantum computers can decrypt it later
Meanwhile, the Middle Kingdom’s military plans an AI offensive – in the labs and on the field of combat
29 Nov 06:31 | 73
Off-Prem
Indian government warns locals not to use Starlink's internet services
If you are going to sell satellite internet subscriptions in India, you Musk get a license, says regulator
29 Nov 05:25 | 37
re:Invent
AWS is on the threshold of adulthood, but is nowhere near grown up
The cloudy concern is a prodigy, but early promise is no guarantee of dominance
29 Nov 03:58 | 11
Security
Australia will force social networks to identify trolls, so they can be sued for defamation
At the same time, will overrule court decision that traditional publishers are liable for comments on social media
29 Nov 01:15 | 54
