Reader survey
Legacy applications, shiny new cloud – how do you make them work together?
Tell us what’s holding you back from the cloud or pushing you forward
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Whatever you've been doing during lockdown, you better stop it right now
You never did learn to play guitar, did you? Too late now...
On Call
We don't know why it's there, we don't know what it does – all we know is that the button makes everything OK again
It must be working, look at the LED
Column
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The best time to build a semiconductor foundry is 5 years ago
The history of computing is all change, all the time. Yet silicon-slingers let the chips fail where they may
Latest News
Feature
Excuse me, what just happened? Resilience is tough when your failure is due to a 'sequence of events that was almost impossible to foresee'
There was no big bang – and it could happen to you
12 Jun 07:00 | 34
Personal Tech
FTC approves $61.7m settlement with Amazon for pocketing driver tips
Delivery drives to get refund
11 Jun 23:08 | 25
Legal
Amazon exec's husband jailed for two years for insider trading. Yes, with Amazon stock
Couple now definitely past their Prime
11 Jun 21:57 | 20
Off-Prem
Cloudflare network outage disrupts Discord, Shopify
And its CAPTCHA alternative challenged by security researcher
11 Jun 20:53 | 1
Applications
Women techs fume, offer crowdsourced fixes as Michelle Obama's online keynote crashes
'Unforeseen server conditions' blamed
11 Jun 20:08 | 7
Servers
Ireland warned it could face 'rolling blackouts' if it doesn't address data centres' demand for electricity
Utilities watchdog launches consultation that may affect green island's mega bit barns
11 Jun 19:11 | 34
Networks
Pakistan's Punjab province tells citizens to get jabbed or have their SIM card blocked
Well, that's one way to do it
11 Jun 18:29 | 15
Don't Miss
No change control? Without suitable planning, a change can be as good as an arrest
Feature How to make software ch-ch-ch-changes easier
Personal Tech
New York State Senate first to pass landmark right-to-repair bill – but don't go popping the champagne just yet
... lower house, the State Assembly, is not likely to pass the bill
11 Jun 17:38 | 4
Comment
UK tells UN that nation-states should retaliate against cyber badness with no warning
Even nuclear missile attacks came with a 4-minute heads-up
11 Jun 16:44 | 36
Bootnotes
Dealing with the pandemic by drinking and swearing? Boffins say you're not alone
While social media gets a portion of the blame for COVID-19's initial spread
11 Jun 16:02 | 37
Popular
Legal
Amazon exec's husband jailed for two years for insider trading. Yes, with Amazon stock
Couple now definitely past their Prime
Personal Tech
FTC approves $61.7m settlement with Amazon for pocketing driver tips
Delivery drives to get refund
Off-Prem
Cloudflare network outage disrupts Discord, Shopify
And its CAPTCHA alternative challenged by security researcher
Feature
Excuse me, what just happened? Resilience is tough when your failure is due to a 'sequence of events that was almost impossible to foresee'
There was no big bang – and it could happen to you
Applications
Women techs fume, offer crowdsourced fixes as Michelle Obama's online keynote crashes
'Unforeseen server conditions' blamed
Servers
Ireland warned it could face 'rolling blackouts' if it doesn't address data centres' demand for electricity
Utilities watchdog launches consultation that may affect green island's mega bit barns
Networks
Pakistan's Punjab province tells citizens to get jabbed or have their SIM card blocked
Well, that's one way to do it
Geek's Guide To Britain
The Eigiau Dam Disaster: Deluges and deceit at the dawn of hydroelectric power
A trip to beautiful Snowdonia lakes takes in early hydroelectric experiment... and a tragedy for a village
Legal
BT sues supplier for £72m over exchange gear that allegedly caused wave of ADSL outages
Tii Technologies claims hamfisted BT bods caused problems, not their kit
Comment
UK tells UN that nation-states should retaliate against cyber badness with no warning
Even nuclear missile attacks came with a 4-minute heads-up
STORIES
Software
UK competition bods to keep tabs on Google, ensure 'Privacy Sandbox' doesn't distort competition
CMA claims to have taken 'oversight role' over removal of third-party cookies
11 Jun 15:19 | 1
Off-Prem
UK's Government Digital Service extends contracts with Post Office and Digidentity for wobbly Verify ID system
Now they've got £5m to try to stop it falling over again
11 Jun 13:02 | 6
Security
EA Games looted by intruders: Publisher says 'no player data accessed' after reported theft of FIFA 21, Frostbite source
'Surprise stealing mechanics' made short work of network perimeter security
11 Jun 12:25 | 15
Geek's Guide To Britain
The Eigiau Dam Disaster: Deluges and deceit at the dawn of hydroelectric power
A trip to beautiful Snowdonia lakes takes in early hydroelectric experiment... and a tragedy for a village
11 Jun 11:26 | 31
Quantum gives ActiveScale a sizable upgrade
Analyst IDC: Is that a blip? Nope, it’s some actual external storage growth after 12 months of decline
HPE ushers in Nutanix Era: Fancy a swim in our everything-as-a-service GreenLake?
Roll-your-own server crew at Liqid add vCentre composable server plug-in
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Whatever you've been doing during lockdown, you better stop it right now
You never did learn to play guitar, did you? Too late now...
11 Jun 09:15 | 57
Episode 7
BOFH: Despite the extremely hazardous staircase, our IT insurance agreement is at an all-time low. Can't think why
Why show them the door when a window will do?
11 Jun 08:30 | 35
Off-Prem
Amazon to bring a full region to Israel, land of large government contracts
Three availability zones prophesied to open in the first half of 2023
11 Jun 07:58 | 3
On Call
We don't know why it's there, we don't know what it does – all we know is that the button makes everything OK again
It must be working, look at the LED
11 Jun 07:31 | 100
HOME OF THE BOFH
BOFH: Despite the extremely hazardous staircase, our IT insurance agreement is at an all-time low. Can't think why
Why show them the door when a window will do?
BOFH: I'm so pleased to be on the call, Boss. No, of course this isn't a recording
I was thinking to myself, 'This could be Heaven or this could be Hell'
BOFH: But we think the UK tax authorities would be VERY interested in how we used COVID support packages
Or we could just all contract a little amnesia...
BOFH: Postman BOFH's Special Delivery Service
Back to the office we trudge, dragging our hooked tails behind us
Break point: Waypoint, Docker Desktop, Facebook, React, and Weave GitOps Core
Out with the old: HashiCorp announces HCP Packer, on-prem tools start throwing out their plugins
Grafana 8 centralizes alert management, simplifies query troubleshooting
Internet down, infrastructure as code up: Terraform 1.0 finally lands
Legal
Mounties messed up by using Clearview AI, says Canadian Privacy Commissioner
RCMP said it only used technology to rescue children, but regulator says that's wrong and Privacy Act was breached
11 Jun 06:58 | 4
Security
Seven-year-old make-me-root bug in Linux service polkit patched
Error handling? Nah, let's just unlock everything and be done with it
11 Jun 06:28 | 47
Security
China arrests over 1000 for using cryptocurrency to help launder proceeds of phone scams
As local search engines stop providing results on crypto-keywords
11 Jun 05:58 | 3
Science
Perserverance Mars rover sets off on its first mission, to boldly drill and return samples as no rover has drilled before
All systems check out, it's time to science the s**t out of Mars
11 Jun 05:01 | 12
OSes
Linus Torvalds tells kernel list poster to 'SHUT THE HELL UP' for saying COVID-19 vaccines create 'new humanoid race'
'Any Linux discussion list isn't going to have your idiotic drivel pass uncontested from me'
11 Jun 02:49 | 204
Updated
AWS Frankfurt experiences major breakdown that staff couldn’t fix for hours due to ‘environmental conditions’ on data centre floor
Cloud colossus says aircon fail caused kit to shut down, networks dropped out and EC2 instances went dark
11 Jun 01:04 | 31
AI + ML
McDonald's AI drive-thru bot accused of breaking biometrics privacy law
Would you like a lawsuit with that?
10 Jun 23:57 | 50
Storage
Snowflake agrees it's good to share... on its platform, while Databricks opts for a more vendor-neutral approach
Enterprise newcomer has its work cut out in the data marketplace field
10 Jun 23:08 |
Applications
Oracle and partners sued over claims they over-elevated NetSuite's capabilities
Maker of industrial lift gear claims fraud as software project sinks
10 Jun 21:55 | 8
On-Prem
Intel made $2bn+ takeover offer for RISC-V chip darling SiFive – report
Someone's got to keep Altera company
10 Jun 21:20 | 5
Bootnotes
Apple, it's OK. Seriously. You don't need to blind your iOS 15 engineers to prevent leaks
No one expects the Worldwide Loyalty Team!
10 Jun 20:16 | 16
OSes
Google wants to look like it cares about your privacy with Android 12 Beta 2, but note that's not how Google works
Still, it's this or iOS
10 Jun 19:27 | 18
