On Call A word to the Wyse: Smoking cigars in the office is very bad for you... and your monitor A matte-black terminal? Neat! Where can I get one?
Job Alert USA, Germany, UK: From systems engineer to data centre mechanics guru, here are this week's jobs Worldwide vacancies if you're looking for work – and free ads if you want workers
The RPG Valheim: How the heck has more 'indie shovelware with PS2 graphics' sold 4 million copies in a matter of weeks? Now, this might shock you, but it's something we like to call 'fun' (if you have friends)
Personal Tech Apple, forced to rate product repair potential in France, gives itself modest marks Never mind the glue and soldered RAM 27 Feb 06:13 | 49
Legal Biden nixes Trump immigrant visa ban as clock runs down on H-1B suspension Keeping family members out of the country deemed harmful 27 Feb 01:42 | 2
Personal Tech TikTok to cough up $92m to settle data privacy sueballs over harvesting too much data Or about five days of annual operating profit 27 Feb 00:06 | 3
Bootnotes Choose your fighter! March Mammal Madness pits poor, innocent critters against each other in mortal combat Not literally and all in the name of education 26 Feb 23:01 | 16
Security Imperva pretty adamant that security analytics aggregator product Sonar is not 'one dashboard to rule them all' Uh huh... it's a good time to be in enterprise security analytics 26 Feb 21:48 |
OSes Apple's latest macOS Big Sur update stops cheapo USB-C hubs bricking your machine Still, it's probably best to stick with eye-wateringly expensive official peripherals 26 Feb 21:01 | 33
Science Bezos denied: New Glenn launch pushed into 2022 after Space Force says no Also: Old age a bigger risk for Branson's passengers as Virgin Galactic slips again 26 Feb 20:00 | 22
Science Huawei to Hell: Embattled Chinese comms giant said to be revving up for a move into the electric vehicle market Though company insists it is 'not a car manufacturer' 26 Feb 19:06 | 4
On-Prem Bloody Dell! The humble notebook made the difference between a crappy fiscal 2021 and a good one Yes, we will never mention the death of the PC again, at least until next time 26 Feb 18:17 | 6
The RPG Valheim: How the heck has more 'indie shovelware with PS2 graphics' sold 4 million copies in a matter of weeks? Now, this might shock you, but it's something we like to call 'fun' (if you have friends) 26 Feb 17:14 | 38
SaaS Rude awakening for SaaS giants Salesforce, Workday as both find 20% growth isn't good enough for market Yeah, you did great, but you should have done better 26 Feb 16:18 | 4
Job Alert USA, Germany, UK: From systems engineer to data centre mechanics guru, here are this week's jobs Worldwide vacancies if you're looking for work – and free ads if you want workers 26 Feb 15:28 | 3
Software EDB tries to crowbar graph, JSON, and time-series data models into PostgreSQL – but can they pull it off? Specialist databases will still be necessary, analyst says 26 Feb 14:22 | 2
Legal HPE urges judge to pick through Deloitte-bashing report it claims demolishes Autonomy founder's defence Plus: Full ruling in $5bn High Court case expected by end of Q1 26 Feb 13:39 | 26
Science ESA mulls sending waves of robot explorers into dark depths of lunar lava tubes Lidar-equipped spherical probes or solar panel-powered cranes, perhaps? 26 Feb 12:54 | 13
Security Google looks at bypass in Chromium's ASLR security defense, throws hands up, won't patch garbage issue Engineers write off GC abuse because Spectre broke everything anyway 26 Feb 11:58 | 25
Storage Seagate UK customer stung by VAT on replacement drive shipped via the Netherlands Well, Brexit meant Brexit 26 Feb 11:15 | 205
Episode 2 BOFH: 7 jars of Marmite, a laptop and a good time Or 'How PFY and I do Access Control' 26 Feb 10:25 | 75
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Half a million stolen French medical records, drowned in feeble excuses A bitter pill best swallowed with eight gallons of swimming pool water 26 Feb 09:30 | 74
On Call A word to the Wyse: Smoking cigars in the office is very bad for you... and your monitor A matte-black terminal? Neat! Where can I get one? 26 Feb 08:15 | 119
HPC We need a 20MW 20,000-GPU-strong machine-learning supercomputer to build EU's planned digital twin of Earth And this machine will be used to *check notes* study climate change. Study it or cause it? 26 Feb 07:27 | 83
Legal Zuck chucks Myanmar military out of Facebook and Instagram Is The Social Network™ finally declaring a stance in democracy and politics 26 Feb 05:57 | 24
On-Prem VMware reports ‘progress on potential spinoff from Dell’, beats expectations for Q4 and full FY2021 Containerised Tanzu portfolio starts to make serious sales progress 26 Feb 04:56 |
On-Prem New Nutanix CEO hints at mid-year product bundle launch And reckons subscription acceleration means flat revenue is nothing to worry about 26 Feb 04:01 |
Personal Tech In YouTube's world, parental supervision means: 'Everyone sign in to Google, click once, and trust we get it right' That's what's on offer in new 'supervised' YouTube mode for tweens and teens 26 Feb 02:57 | 15
Security India's demand to identify people on chat apps will 'break end-to-end encryption', say digital rights warriors Announced rules also require fast takedowns of content, online profile verification, and more 26 Feb 02:10 | 24
Software Red Hat returns with another peace offering in the wake of the CentOS Stream affair: More free stuff Approved open-source projects to get no-cost subscriptions (if they haven't already got one) 26 Feb 00:44 | 26
SaaS Digital trust-busting time? US lawmakers mull how to tame giga-corps Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook Remedies to gatekeepers range from nothing to an antitrust breakup 25 Feb 22:10 | 16
Sponsored Four fundamental principles for great software development The OutSystems Mission 25 Feb 20:00 |
SaaS Stop us if you've heard this one before: Microsoft to lure users with industry-specific solutions in the cloud Redmond taking a leaf out of the enterprise app makers' book 25 Feb 19:24 | 6
Security 1Password has none, KeePass has none... So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app? Third-party code in security-critical apps is obviously suboptimal, but company says you can opt out 25 Feb 18:39 | 75
SaaS Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it's had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you More expensive, less flexible, but easier and safer to use 25 Feb 17:30 | 25
Software Ever wondered why that one weird file keeps being included? Super sleuth TypeScript 4.2 is here You again! That uninvited guest that just keeps turning up... 25 Feb 15:42 | 16
Software The bank of Bitcoin: MicroStrategy's share price rides high on the back of cryptocurrency investment Deposits $1bn+ real world greenbacks into digital dosh, may borrow to buy more 25 Feb 14:59 | 25
Networks FCC announces winners in $81bn 5G spectrum auction. Congrats to Verizon, which must cough up $45.4bn AT&T and T-Mobile also have to write enormous cheques before March 24 25 Feb 14:12 | 16
Security UK's National Cyber Security Centre sidles in to help firm behind hacked NurseryCam product secure itself Plus: User passwords were stored in plain text after all 25 Feb 13:07 | 13
Security Ever felt that a few big tech companies are following you around the internet? That's because ... they are Experimental blocking of sites that load resources from four big companies makes the web unusable 25 Feb 12:04 | 65
Analysis 'Meritless': Exam software maker under fire for suing teacher who tweeted links to biz's unlisted YouTube vids EFF bod slams effort 'to silence a critic' as $50k+ raised to challenge lawsuit 25 Feb 11:11 | 43
Legal Qualcomm under fire for 'anticompetitive' patent shenanigans causing pricey UK smartphones Which? rides to the rescue of consumers and... er... Apple and Samsung? 25 Feb 10:06 | 51
SaaS UK minister tries to intervene after Government Digital Service migration mangles Ministry of Justice webpages Public outcry over access – all because £450m agency doesn't have school-grade web skills 25 Feb 09:02 | 40
Promo Jaguar Racing chief waves green flag at Micro Focus Universe 2021 What it’s like managing code running at 200 KPH? Find out here 25 Feb 08:00 |
On-Prem HP loses attempt to deny colossal commission to star sales staffer Contract was clear and trying to backdate changes was naughty, rules Australian court 25 Feb 07:29 | 41