On Call
Malware and Trojans, but there's only one horse the boss man wants to hear about
The company's IT might be on fire, but my needs trump those of the many
Feature
Tolerating failure: From happy accidents to serious screwups … Time to look at getting it wrong, er, correctly
Let’s talk procedures. Plus: Are you dealing with errors in a way that leaves room for people to own up to them?
Episode 14
BOFH: They say you either love it or you hate it. We can confirm you're going to hate it
So what you're saying is you updated the new machines from the network – the infected network
Interview
DevOps still 'rarely done well at scale' concludes report after a decade of research
Puppet Field CTO Nigel Kersten speaks to the Reg about 10 years of studying DevOps adoption
Latest News
Software
Tech spec experts seek allies to tear down ISO standards paywall
Open letter drafted against what's seen as unjustified profiteering
31 Jul 13:06 | 40
Security
Sysadmins: Why not simply verify there's no backdoor in every program you install, and thus avoid any cyber-drama?
Just 'validate third-party code before using it', says Euro body
31 Jul 07:14 | 43
Personal Tech
Euro watchdog will try to extract $900m from Amazon for breaking data privacy laws
You miss every shot you don't take, we guess
30 Jul 22:33 | 19
Software
Russia says software malfunction caused Nauka module to unexpectedly fire thrusters, tilt space station
You call this a glitch?
30 Jul 20:09 | 44
Virtualization
HP Inc slurps Teradici to get better at delivering remote PCs
Apparently quite a few people haven't been in the office as much lately
30 Jul 18:04 | 7
PaaS + IaaS
'$6 in every $10' spent on cloud infrastructure is with AWS, Microsoft, or Google
Fewer and fewer orgs want to run their own data centre
30 Jul 17:16 | 11
Security
Here's 30 servers Russian intelligence uses to fling malware at the West, beams RiskIQ
Biden-Putin summit went well, then
30 Jul 16:24 | 8
PaaS + IaaS
Google picked as yet another 'strategic partner' for SAP's RISE but Microsoft still lingers on the scene
German software giant's relationships are anything but exclusive
30 Jul 15:30 | 1
Storage
UK regulator waves through SK Hynix's $9bn acquisition of Intel's NAND and SSD biz
Number of 'strong remaining competitors' within the market planning expansions of their own, says CMA
30 Jul 14:43 | 3
Personal Tech
Happy 60th, Sinclair Radionics: We'll remember you for your revolutionary calculators and crap watches
ZX Spectrum was pretty cool too
30 Jul 14:01 | 57
Bootnotes
On this most auspicious of days, we ask: How many sysadmins does it take to change a lightbulb?
Protip: Don't treat the IT department like this if you value your life
30 Jul 12:15 | 54
OFFICE OF THE FUTURE?
Want to keep working in shorts and flipflops way after this is all over? It could be time to rethink your career moves
Pandemic has opened a can of worms for our work goals with what comes next
Great reset? More like Fake Reset: Leaders need a reality check if they think their best staff will give up hybrid work
Fortune favours the flexible in the new normal
Time for a 'great experiment' says Cisco as it lets team leaders set place of work
Fewer than one-in-four staff want to be in the office for more than three days a week
I'm feeling lucky: Google, Facebook say workers must be vaccinated before they return to offices
As web search giant stalls end to work-from-home to mid-October
Apple delays recalling staff to offices until October as Delta variant romps across US
Twitter, Salesforce, Google, Microsoft have reopened, kind of
Legal
London class-action sueball against Google is a lot like Epic's case except fandroids might win enough for a pint
Hundreds of millions in damages, Play Store in the sights etc. etc.
30 Jul 11:30 | 25
Offbeat
What to do with our leftover Saturn V Lego? Why, build another rocket, of course
This time the Saturn 1B
30 Jul 10:01 | 11
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
You MUST present your official ID (but only the one that's really easy to fake)
I can show you my Three Widths swimming certificate if it helps
30 Jul 09:15 | 87
Episode 14
BOFH: They say you either love it or you hate it. We can confirm you're going to hate it
So what you're saying is you updated the new machines from the network – the infected network
30 Jul 08:30 | 90
Personal Tech
Intel scoops out five flavours of Ice Lake Xeons for workstations
They're good for stuff like supporting 4TB of RAM and PCIe 4.0
30 Jul 07:59 | 18
On Call
Malware and Trojans, but there's only one horse the boss man wants to hear about
The company's IT might be on fire, but my needs trump those of the many
30 Jul 07:30 | 25
Off-Prem
AWS growing so fast its revenue makes it bigger than Cisco or HP
Nobody wants to run their own data centers anymore, says CFO
30 Jul 06:58 | 7
Security
We can't believe people use browsers to manage their passwords, says maker of password management tools
You just save it in Chrome or Firefox? Ugh. And then it autofills when you need it again? Oh the horror
30 Jul 06:27 | 75
Popular
Personal Tech
Dell won't ship energy-hungry PCs to California and five other US states due to power regulations
Energy efficiency rules appear to be limiting the availability of gaming rigs
Feature
I've got a broken combine harvester – but the manufacturer won't give me the software key
Right-to-repair activists welcome policy wins with caution
Column
Windows 11 comes bearing THAAS, Trojan Horse as a service
You may know it better as Teams. Giddy up
Servers
Microsoft abandons semi-annual releases for Windows Server
Special capabilities on Azure leaving on-premises users behind
Security
Scam-baiting YouTube channel Tech Support Scams taken offline by tech support scam
'It was pretty convincing until the very end,' says host Jim Browning
Security
Apple patches zero-day vulnerability in iOS, iPadOS, macOS under active attack
Characteristically mum about details
Bootnotes
D'oh! Misplaced chair shuts down nuclear plant in Taiwan
Surprisingly a real-life scenario and not a plotline from The Simpsons
Comment
AWS to retire EC2-Classic – the network glue that helped start the IaaS rush
You've got a year to sort yourself out if you're still using it for some reason
Security
SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen from back of a truck, then turned up on YouTube
Has since been recovered, and Scaleway now ships disks with GPS trackers
Security
We can't believe people use browsers to manage their passwords, says maker of password management tools
You just save it in Chrome or Firefox? Ugh. And then it autofills when you need it again? Oh the horror
STORIES
Offbeat
Giant Tesla battery providing explosion in renewable energy – not as intended
Toxic smoke from fire forces Australian residents indoors just two days after COVID lockdown lifted
30 Jul 04:47 | 82
Servers
The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay
We mention this because Intel stopped shipping them yesterday, ending a strange story
30 Jul 04:07 | 31
Legal
Communism never looked so good: China cracks down on pop-up ads
Developers accused of ignoring regulations and adding adware where it's not allowed
30 Jul 01:58 | 14
Updated
International Space Station stabilizes after just-docked Russian module suddenly fires thrusters
Crew not in danger, NASA insists
30 Jul 00:44 | 49
Applications
Google Play puts Android apps on notice: No naughty JavaScript, Python, Lua
And come April next year, accurate disclosures of personal data usage will be required
29 Jul 23:58 | 11
Personal Tech
Huawei says its latest flagship smartphones lack 5G, blames US sanctions
Qualcomm tells us it has permission to provide 4G-only Snapdragon 888 chip
29 Jul 22:38 | 9
Networks
Time for a 'great experiment' says Cisco as it lets team leaders set place of work
Fewer than one-in-four staff want to be in the office for more than three days a week
29 Jul 21:52 | 4
Applications
Privacy proves elusive in Google's Privacy Sandbox
Like FLoC, FLEDGE isn't yet ready to fly for web-based ads, judging from this proof-of-concept exploit code
29 Jul 19:55 | 17
SPACE DRAMA
Russia says software malfunction caused Nauka module to unexpectedly fire thrusters, tilt space station
You call this a glitch?
Russia's Pirs ISS module scheduled to fall away, much like Moscow's interest in the space station
Troubled Nauka might actually make it after four orbit corrections – since we left work Friday
Have you turned it off and on again? Russia's Nauka module just about makes it to the ISS
Elderly lab negotiates tricky docking
Not only is Hubble back online after outage, it's already taking photos of the cosmos
After hundreds of hours of work, engineers called out of retirement for help
The James Webb Space Telescope, a project dating back to the late 1900s, may launch this very century
Europeans still hoping for Halloween lift-off
Storage
Thanks for the memory: Add Samsung to the list of tech giants raking it in despite supply concerns
Turns out that Austin factory shutdown was nothing but a blip
29 Jul 18:40 |
Science
Have you turned it off and on again? Russia's Nauka module just about makes it to the ISS
Elderly lab negotiates tricky docking
29 Jul 16:46 | 35
Security
Spam is Chipotle's secret ingredient: Marketing email hijacked to dish up malware
More than 120 messages caught trying to filch credentials from customers of USAA Bank, Microsoft
29 Jul 16:00 | 3
Security
Upcoming Android privacy changes include ability to blank advertising ID, and 'safety section' in Play store
New policies give users more control, but ad tracking still on by default
29 Jul 15:30 | 14
Databases
NoSQL Couchbase launches schema-like features to take on the transactional databases of the relational world
Doing both in one system might be 'somewhat elegant' but user experience remains to be seen, analyst says
29 Jul 14:45 | 2
Virtualization
Red Hat buddies up with Nutanix to provide an escape route from VMware
'We have customers saying, help us out of this pickle here, can you possibly just support RHEL running on top of AHV?'
29 Jul 13:31 | 4
Offbeat
NFT or not to NFT: Steve Jobs' first job application auction shows physically unique beats cryptographically unique
Great, maybe the trend can FOAD now
29 Jul 13:01 | 25
Personal Tech
Qualcomm's bumper Q3 growth comes with supply constraints warning, but Intel may ride to the rescue
Company confirms it's investigating adding Chipzilla to multi-source vendor list, alongside TSMC and Samsung
29 Jul 12:15 |
Applications
Microsoft's new 'power app converging model' hits public preview with Custom Pages
Aims to heal perplexing split between Canvas and Model-driven apps
29 Jul 11:28 | 3
Analysis
Hard drives at Autonomy offices were destroyed the same month CEO Lynch quit, extradition trial was told
Court finally hands down written ruling – and it's very bad news for UK exec
29 Jul 10:01 | 55
Offbeat
Beige pencil stockists on high alert as 'Colouring Book of Retro Computers' hits the crowdfunding circuit
YouTuber's project already well past its goal
29 Jul 09:15 | 34
Sponsored
Nine questions to ask when choosing a CDN provider
Here's your essential checklist for the future
29 Jul 07:30 |
Security
Israeli authorities investigate NSO Group over Pegasus spyware abuse claims
Reason for probe unknown, but CEO claims it will vindicate company's claims
29 Jul 07:00 | 25
Security
Here's a list of the flaws Russia, China, Iran and pals exploit most often, say Five Eyes infosec agencies
And you've patched them all, haven't you, diligent readers?
29 Jul 06:26 | 21
Offbeat
Hungarian tech store closed by World War II bomb
Please shop online instead while it's safely disposed of, says branch of CCTV specialist MASCO
29 Jul 06:01 | 27
Security
'Woefully insufficient': Biden administration's assessment of critical infrastructure infosec protection
Memorandum details plans to turn that around with rapid development of security baselines, not mandates
29 Jul 05:15 | 7
