February 2009 Archive • The Register

You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Fujitsu tells 80,000 of its Japan employees: From now on, you work remotely

July? British government could decide to boot Chinese giant Huawei from the UK's networks by this month

ITAM Forum asks software giants to stop browbeating customers onto their clouds with threats of licence audits

How New Relic takes the guesswork out of IT fixes

Linux kernel coders propose inclusive terminology coding guidelines, note: 'Arguments about why people should not be offended do not scale'

When a deleted primary device file only takes 20 mins out of your maintenance window, but a whole year off your lifespan

Microsoft takes tweaking tongs to Windows 10's Start Menu once again

Scala contributor: Open source and diversity key to tackling dev skills shortage

Hundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers

Want to kill all the weak passwords? This may be the tool for you

Your 2.3m Instagram fans won't stop the FBI... Web star accused of plotting to launder millions from cyber-crime

You may be distracted by the pandemic but FYI: US Senate panel OK's backdoors-by-the-backdoor EARN IT Act

Languishing lodash library loophole finally fitted for a fix: It's only taken since October to address security bug

Containers to capture 15% of all enterprise apps across 75% of business by 2024

HashiCorp Cloud Platform unveiled – but in private beta for AWS only

Microsoft snubs Service Fabric as it plots to switch Teams infrastructure to Kubernetes

When Facebook says you're not a good 'culture fit', it means you're not White or Asian enough – complaint

Baroness Dido Harding lifts the lid on the NHS's manual contact tracing performance: 'We contact them up to 10 times over a 36-hour period'

Oracle sued by a shareholder who alleges its lack of progress in diversity amounts to 'dishonesty'

£40m wasna enough for ink and toner cartridges in public sector, says Scottish government

Like a Bolt from the blue, Huawei's fledgling AppGallery signs a ride-sharing platform

Cool IT support drones never look at explosions: Time to resolution for misbehaving mouse? Three seconds

'Google cannot stop it, control it or curtail it...' Inside the murky world of fake addiction treatment center search spam

Purism's quest against Intel's Management Engine black box CPU now comes in 14 inches

Geek's Guide

A bad day in New Zealand: Rocket Lab's 13th mission ends in failure

UK government shakes magic money tree, finds $500m to buy a stake in struggling satellite firm OneWeb

Don't beat yourself up for overeating in lockdown. This black hole scoffs equivalent of our Sun every day

UK space firms forced to adjust their models of how the universe works as they lose out on Copernicus contracts

Detroit cops employed facial recognition algos that only misidentifies suspects 96 per cent of the time

If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free

It's a tough time for digital transformation in the financial services world – but fret not, there’s help at hand

Huawei develops epidemic prevention and control solutions for safer travel

Verity Stob

Things can't go on like this. You need to get fit for the sake of your health. I'm going to write you a prescription for... an e-bike

If there's a lesson to be learned in these torrid times, it's that civilisation is fleeting – but Windows XP is eternal

E-scooter fanboy so hyped for Teesside to host UK's first trial

Erudite, insightful, self-aware and almost human: Give your local database admin a hug – it's DBA Appreciation Day

February >2009 Archive

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You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Fujitsu tells 80,000 of its Japan employees: From now on, you work remotely

July? British government could decide to boot Chinese giant Huawei from the UK's networks by this month

ITAM Forum asks software giants to stop browbeating customers onto their clouds with threats of licence audits

How New Relic takes the guesswork out of IT fixes

Linux kernel coders propose inclusive terminology coding guidelines, note: 'Arguments about why people should not be offended do not scale'

When a deleted primary device file only takes 20 mins out of your maintenance window, but a whole year off your lifespan

Microsoft takes tweaking tongs to Windows 10's Start Menu once again

Scala contributor: Open source and diversity key to tackling dev skills shortage

Hundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers

Want to kill all the weak passwords? This may be the tool for you

Your 2.3m Instagram fans won't stop the FBI... Web star accused of plotting to launder millions from cyber-crime

You may be distracted by the pandemic but FYI: US Senate panel OK's backdoors-by-the-backdoor EARN IT Act

Languishing lodash library loophole finally fitted for a fix: It's only taken since October to address security bug

Containers to capture 15% of all enterprise apps across 75% of business by 2024

HashiCorp Cloud Platform unveiled – but in private beta for AWS only

Microsoft snubs Service Fabric as it plots to switch Teams infrastructure to Kubernetes

When Facebook says you're not a good 'culture fit', it means you're not White or Asian enough – complaint

Baroness Dido Harding lifts the lid on the NHS's manual contact tracing performance: 'We contact them up to 10 times over a 36-hour period'

Oracle sued by a shareholder who alleges its lack of progress in diversity amounts to 'dishonesty'

£40m wasna enough for ink and toner cartridges in public sector, says Scottish government

Like a Bolt from the blue, Huawei's fledgling AppGallery signs a ride-sharing platform

Cool IT support drones never look at explosions: Time to resolution for misbehaving mouse? Three seconds

'Google cannot stop it, control it or curtail it...' Inside the murky world of fake addiction treatment center search spam

Purism's quest against Intel's Management Engine black box CPU now comes in 14 inches

A bad day in New Zealand: Rocket Lab's 13th mission ends in failure

UK government shakes magic money tree, finds $500m to buy a stake in struggling satellite firm OneWeb

Don't beat yourself up for overeating in lockdown. This black hole scoffs equivalent of our Sun every day

UK space firms forced to adjust their models of how the universe works as they lose out on Copernicus contracts

Detroit cops employed facial recognition algos that only misidentifies suspects 96 per cent of the time

If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free

It's a tough time for digital transformation in the financial services world – but fret not, there’s help at hand

Huawei develops epidemic prevention and control solutions for safer travel

Things can't go on like this. You need to get fit for the sake of your health. I'm going to write you a prescription for... an e-bike

If there's a lesson to be learned in these torrid times, it's that civilisation is fleeting – but Windows XP is eternal

E-scooter fanboy so hyped for Teesside to host UK's first trial

Erudite, insightful, self-aware and almost human: Give your local database admin a hug – it's DBA Appreciation Day

February >2009 Archive

Browse by publication date:

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Detroit cops employed facial recognition algos that only misidentifies suspects 96 per cent of the time

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