This won’t hurt a bit, says Veeam, as it flags end of socket-based licensing
Change to universal licenses coming sometime in 2022, says backup vendor, but won't be forced
Opinion
If your head's not in the cloud, you're not in the right place
'Where are the k8s kids?' ask corporates as they can't pay, won't pay
Feature
Calculating the big picture: Future HPC efforts will soon see off its von Neumann past
Dear John, I'm leaving you for a robot
Who, Me?
Don't touch that dial – the new guy just closed the application that no one is meant to close
An unexpected round of Just A Minute for a unsuspecting Weather Presenter
Latest News
Security
Story of the creds-leaking Exchange Autodiscover flaw – the one Microsoft wouldn't fix even after 5 years
Redmond reckoned protocol weakness is not a security vulnerability
27 Sep 23:57 |
AI + ML
Self-sailing Mayflower ship to have another crack at Atlantic crossing next year
Big Blue to return to the big blue waves
27 Sep 22:14 | 1
Software
As Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
From January 2023, add-ons built with Manifest V2 API will fail
27 Sep 20:51 | 6
In brief
Amazon delivery staff 'denied bonus' pay by AI cameras misjudging their driving
Plus: Why trans gamers are turning to deepfake voices, and more bits and bytes
27 Sep 19:06 | 15
Sponsored
Container security without governance is neither secure nor governed
Encryption in a Kubernetes environment
27 Sep 17:00 |
PaaS + IaaS
Two months after Microsoft's fee slash, Google prepares to take a lower cut from vendors on Cloud Platform
It's dev-ine intervention
27 Sep 16:15 | 1
Science
Samsung is planning to reverse-engineer the human brain on to a chip
'Here I am, 100 billion neurons and all you want me to do is calculate all the ways this could possibly go wrong?'
27 Sep 15:16 | 52
Security
UK's National Crime Agency WLTM Deputy Director of Digital Data & Technology
Up to £118,000 and use of Cycle2work scheme for successful applicant
27 Sep 14:31 | 4
Personal Tech
Baby, I swear it's déjà vu: iFixit prises open the iPhone 13 Pro
Battery still swappable – rest fiddly
27 Sep 13:44 | 10
Bootnotes
Want to feel old? Aussie cyclist draws Nirvana baby in Strava on streets of Adelaide because Nevermind is 30
Meanwhile, Nirvana baby unchuffed about being Nirvana baby
27 Sep 12:13 | 30
Off-Prem
Yet another Big Tech exec heads to central government: This time IBMer Dan Bailey in 6-month stint
Big Blue UK and Ireland cloud man hired as 'interim' CTO, tasked with creating fellowship of the cloud
27 Sep 11:28 | 7
Don't Miss
Memory prices to dive in late 2022, says Gartner
Firm says 40 per cent of a server's bill of material costs are tied to memory
Exclusive
Metrobank techies placed at risk of redundancy, severance terms criticised
Now sing with us: Agile, agile, agile...
27 Sep 10:27 | 39
Feature
Calculating the big picture: Future HPC efforts will soon see off its von Neumann past
Dear John, I'm leaving you for a robot
27 Sep 09:28 | 11
Opinion
If your head's not in the cloud, you're not in the right place
'Where are the k8s kids?' ask corporates as they can't pay, won't pay
27 Sep 08:28 | 21
Who, Me?
Don't touch that dial – the new guy just closed the application that no one is meant to close
An unexpected round of Just A Minute for a unsuspecting Weather Presenter
27 Sep 07:30 | 88
Science
Airbus to help build Mexican Moon-mining automata
Commercial partner's ad-funded expedition plans the ultimate pop-up in 2022
27 Sep 06:59 | 13
Legal
Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams
1.6 million people sat teaching eligibility test, chasing 40,000 jobs
27 Sep 05:57 | 25
Software
This won’t hurt a bit, says Veeam, as it flags end of socket-based licensing
Change to universal licenses coming sometime in 2022, says backup vendor, but won't be forced
27 Sep 04:01 | 2
DISCONNECT
3.4 billion people live within range of a mobile network but lack a device to make the connection
ITU and UN think inclusivity may now trump connectivity; Vodafone agrees but fancies more 4G
Japanese boffins say they've created plastic optical fibres to reach places that might break glass
Polymers can transmit at 53Gbps without error correction overheads, and could be just the thing for electric cars
Imagine a fiber optic cable that can sense it's about to be dug up and send a warning
Forget wiring cities with IoT devices – this could be how wide-scale sensing gets done
Stop worrying that crims could break the 'net, say cyber-diplomats – only nations have tried
Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace is a bit miffed its 'Don't attack the internet core' norm is misunderstood
Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams
1.6 million people sat teaching eligibility test, chasing 40,000 jobs
Security
'Quad' group seeks to set security standards for global tech industry
USA, India, Australia, and Japan pledge to build own 5G tech, share space data, secure rare earth supply chains, and more
27 Sep 02:21 | 25
Updated
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou admits lying about Iran deal, gets to go home
US puts charges on ice, extradition attempt halted
25 Sep 00:20 | 82
Personal Tech
For the nth time, China bans cryptocurrencies
Coin prices drop after People's Bank reiterates crackdown
24 Sep 21:51 | 29
Security
Frustrated dev drops three zero-day vulns affecting Apple iOS 15 after six-month wait
Security Bounty program slammed over 'broken promises'
24 Sep 19:43 | 37
Databases
Yugabyte's double-decker DBaaS follows Cochroach in distributed RDBMS
Hopes to lure users with promise of relieving operational burden
24 Sep 18:41 | 8
AI + ML
EurekAI... Neural network leads chemists to discover 'four new materials'
All said to conduct lithium atoms, may be useful for electric car batteries
24 Sep 17:36 | 20
Video
Scientists took cues from helicopter seeds to invent tiny microchips that float on wind
'Microfliers' could carry sensors to monitor air pollution and more
24 Sep 16:29 | 34
OSes
With just over two weeks to go, Microsoft punts Windows 11 to Release Preview
What's that coming over the hill? Is it new hardware? Is it new hardware?
24 Sep 15:33 | 39
Scikit-learn celebrates the big 1.0 with keyword arguments and online one-class SVMs
Break point: Apache Ignite, DKP, WebAssembly PaaS, JupyterLab, and Google Cloud Deploy
Elastic 7.15 plays to the SRE crowd with improved isolation and insight capabilities
GitLab 14.3 premiers proprietary SAST engine, adds flexibility to pipelining
Offbeat
Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without humans, thank you very much
Biodiversity increasing, endangered species gradually returning despite radioactive terror pig presence
24 Sep 14:45 | 67
Special series
You have to bring AI tools into your CI/CD workflow? We've got it covered. Watch this
Join us in October for the next MCubed webcast in which you'll learn all about deploying real-life machine learning in a DevOps world
24 Sep 13:45 |
Comment
HPE campaigns against 'cloud first' push in UK public sector
Because HPE does not do public cloud? No, no, it is 'for the good'
24 Sep 13:02 | 28
Updated
Tech contractors fume over payday outage at Giant Pay after it sniffs 'suspicious activity'
Technical difficulties, please stand by
24 Sep 12:26 | 32
SAIL WITH US
Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship
Meaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response
We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS
El Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course
'Nobody in their right mind would build a naval base here today': Navigating in and out of Devonport
Twisting and turning like a twisty-turny thing
Russia spoofed AIS data to fake British warship's course days before Crimea guns showdown
From the archive: Great powers clash while the rest of us sigh and tut at data feed meddling
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Parking is expensive. It can cost an arm, a leg, and a Windows licence
Activate Windows and put up a parking lot
24 Sep 11:29 | 10
Review
CutefishOS: Unix-y development model? Check. macOS aesthetic? Check (if you like that sort of thing)
Also a range of homegrown apps. Still in beta, so plenty of rough edges, though
24 Sep 10:01 | 67
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Nothing works any more. Who decided that redundant systems should become redundant?
It'll all come out in the wash
24 Sep 09:14 | 115
Episode 17
BOFH: You'll find there's a company asset tag right here, underneath the monstrously heavy arcade machine
Flame purifies all
24 Sep 08:30 | 170
THE ONE AND ONLY
BOFH: You'll find there's a company asset tag right here, underneath the monstrously heavy arcade machine
Flame purifies all
BOFH: 'What's an NFT?' the Boss asks. In this case, 'not financially thoughtful'
Anybody in the market for one of him whimpering?
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
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'
On-Prem
UK Ministry of Defence tries again to procure £1.7bn tri-service recruitment system
New guys can't do a worse job than Capita, right? Right?
24 Sep 07:45 | 33
Security
Stop worrying that crims could break the 'net, say cyber-diplomats – only nations have tried
Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace is a bit miffed its 'Don't attack the internet core' norm is misunderstood
24 Sep 07:28 | 11
On Call
Check your bits: What to do when Unix decides to make a hash of your bill printouts
Symbol shenanigans turned out to be the least of the government's problems
24 Sep 07:02 | 120
Sponsored
Getting Kubernetes up and running is one thing. Managing it successfully is quite another
Don’t be a Kubernetes dummy, download this ebook
24 Sep 06:30 |
Popular
Who, Me?
Don't touch that dial – the new guy just closed the application that no one is meant to close
An unexpected round of Just A Minute for a unsuspecting Weather Presenter
Software
This won’t hurt a bit, says Veeam, as it flags end of socket-based licensing
Change to universal licenses coming sometime in 2022, says backup vendor, but won't be forced
Security
'Quad' group seeks to set security standards for global tech industry
USA, India, Australia, and Japan pledge to build own 5G tech, share space data, secure rare earth supply chains, and more
Legal
Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams
1.6 million people sat teaching eligibility test, chasing 40,000 jobs
Exclusive
Metrobank techies placed at risk of redundancy, severance terms criticised
Now sing with us: Agile, agile, agile...
Opinion
If your head's not in the cloud, you're not in the right place
'Where are the k8s kids?' ask corporates as they can't pay, won't pay
Personal Tech
Baby, I swear it's déjà vu: iFixit prises open the iPhone 13 Pro
Battery still swappable – rest fiddly
Bootnotes
Want to feel old? Aussie cyclist draws Nirvana baby in Strava on streets of Adelaide because Nevermind is 30
Meanwhile, Nirvana baby unchuffed about being Nirvana baby
Feature
Calculating the big picture: Future HPC efforts will soon see off its von Neumann past
Dear John, I'm leaving you for a robot
Security
Fake 'BT' caller fleeces elderly victim of £30k in APP app scam
That's authorised push payment – where they get the mark to make the transfer
STORIES
Networks
Japanese boffins say they've created plastic optical fibres to reach places that might break glass
Polymers can transmit at 53Gbps without error correction overheads, and could be just the thing for electric cars
24 Sep 06:02 | 24
Security
Apple warns of arbitrary code execution zero-day being actively exploited on Macs
Remember iPods? The same bug can bite them, and plenty of older iPhones and iPads too
24 Sep 05:01 | 12
Networks
Indian broadband connections top 800 million … sort of
'Broadband' is defined as 512kbps – for now – and just 24 million current connections are wired
24 Sep 02:58 | 9
Networks
If you're not sold on the benefits of 5G, Ericsson suggests you keep an eye on gaming, home broadband
NA CEO predicts takeoff in 18 months max
24 Sep 01:35 | 18
Legal
California Governor signs bill protecting warehouse workers from unsafe quotas
AB 701 takes aim at Amazon and other warehouse operators that prioritize productivity over health
23 Sep 23:52 | 14
Personal Tech
Texas law banning platforms from social media moderation challenged in lawsuit
Tech trade groups argue prohibition on moderation is unconstitutional
23 Sep 21:57 | 193
On-Prem
Dell bids adieu to the era of big acquisitions, concentrates on paying down debt and Michael's new book
Partnerships are our future, says tycoon
23 Sep 21:14 | 4
Science
Boston Dynamics' Spot robot embarks on its latest thrilling adventure: Insurance!
US company equips cybernetic pooch to help in building inspections, post-disaster assessments
23 Sep 20:27 | 6
SPONSORED STORIES
Getting Kubernetes up and running is one thing. Managing it successfully is quite another
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How AWS created Aurora, a database built for the cloud
Rewriting the rules with logs
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No need to be so DRaaStic?
Operating your network isn’t enough. You need to develop (for) it
Time to drive NetOps beyond the command line
Updated
One-size-fits-all chargers? What a great idea! Of course Apple would hate it
Cupertino thinks EU USB-C plan 'stifles innovation rather than encouraging it'
23 Sep 19:44 | 196
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23 Sep 19:00 |
Legal
Facebook overpaid FTC fine by up to '$4.9bn' to protect Zuckerberg, lawsuits allege
A whole lot of ███ in documents which finger Peter Thiel and execs
23 Sep 18:15 | 21
OSes
GNOME 41: Slick with heaps of new features for users and devs – but annoyances remain
It'll take time for desktop environment to make its way into Linux distros anyway
23 Sep 17:30 | 27
Networks
Need US mobile data? Cellular data plan launches on the Helium Blockchain
The Great Gig in the Sky, or a new plan on GigSky?
23 Sep 16:45 | 3
Off-Prem
Eclipse Data Connector arrives for GAIA-X, Europe's plan to protect its cloud data from foreign tech firms
But local providers slip in favour of US tech - even at home
23 Sep 14:29 | 1
Security
UK Ministry of Defence apologises – again – after another major email blunder in Afghanistan
This time affecting candidates for potential relocation
23 Sep 13:00 | 35
Devops
DORA explorers see pandemic boost in numbers of 'elite' DevOps performers
Or is it that they're just more inclined to complete surveys about themselves?
23 Sep 12:14 | 22
Legal
Senior IBMer hit with £290k demand from Big Blue in separate case as unfair dismissal claim rolls on
High Court and Employment Tribunal cases to be heard soon
23 Sep 11:26 | 28
Personal Tech
If you're Intel, self-driving cars look an awful lot like PCs
Hardware capabilities, latest feature updates? You'll get what you pay for
23 Sep 10:43 | 32
Security
Researchers finger new APT group, FamousSparrow, for hotel attacks
Espionage motive mooted in attacks which hit industry, government too
23 Sep 10:00 | 8
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nah, it's just Windows suffering from a bit of vertigo
Up above the streets and houses, XP's flying high
23 Sep 09:15 | 11
