SaaS Google shifting workloads to run when the sun will shine and the wind will blow Already time-shifting inside some bit barns with electricity-source-predict-ometer 23 Apr 02:32 | 6
Security Vietnam alleged to have hacked Chinese organisations in charge of COVID-19 response Apparently everyone's cyber-spooks are mad for this right now 23 Apr 03:51 | 23
Video If you want to take social distancing to the next level, and go to the Moon, take this: A complete lunar geology map First-of-its-kind blueprint of materials and structures shared online 23 Apr 04:52 | 11
SaaS IBM Watson GPU cloud cluster Brexits from London to Frankfurt – because GDPR Users have migration work to do in the next month. Good thing nobody's busy right now, eh? 23 Apr 05:31 | 50
Science I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Light-powered nanocardboard robots dancing in the Martian sky searching for alien life 'We’re proposing an entirely different approach' lead prof tells The Reg 23 Apr 06:11 | 25
Legal You have one job, Australian PM tells contact-tracing app, and that’s talking to medicos Still no definitive word on open sourcing or how it will solve Singapore's Apple problem 23 Apr 06:36 | 13
SaaS AWS is now African AF as it opens Cape Town region in South Africa Named AF-SOUTH-1 and near some handy routes to Europe and West Africa 23 Apr 06:39 | 3
Security Why should the UK pensions watchdog be able to spy on your internet activities? Same reason as the Environment Agency and many more Extraordinary surveillance powers set to be injected into govt orgs 23 Apr 07:33 | 187
On-Prem Capita to place bit less sauce in outsourcing execs' share awards packets CEO, CFO take a 70% cut in light of performance, COVID-19 situation 23 Apr 08:17 | 16
Devops Google's cloud-wrangling Anthos completes bridge to Amazon Web Services, Azure waits in the wings Meanwhile, Chocolate Factory to donate its Istio toolkit to vendor-neutral open-source foundation 23 Apr 09:03 |
Security GCC 10 gets security bug trap. And look what just fell into it: OpenSSL and a prod-of-death flaw in servers and apps Static analyzer proves its worth with discovery of null-pointer error 23 Apr 10:06 | 50
Science Geoboffins reckon extreme rainfall might help some volcanoes pop off Pressure after surrounding porous rock sopped up water was at a 50-year high before 2018 Kīlauea eruption 23 Apr 11:18 | 32
Software Welcome to life in the Fossa lane: Ubuntu 20.04 let out of cage and Shuttleworth claims Canonical now 'commercially self sustaining' WireGuard VPN, more Snap, and hints about a GUI for WSL 23 Apr 12:00 | 43
Personal Tech Realme's X50m is a decently specced 5G phone – for the price of a 1995 Nissan Micra So future-proofing your handset might not have to break the bank 23 Apr 12:31 | 41
Networks Work from home surge may work in Wi-Fi 6's favour, reckons analyst house Research ponders whether lockdown may lead folk to update dusty networking kit for sitting room setups 23 Apr 13:10 | 55
Channel Brit IT infrastructure giant Computacenter hits pause on shareholder dividends after furloughing 10% of staff Engineers, consultants can't visit client sites so home they go 23 Apr 13:47 | 4
Software Cortana, why are you still here? Microsoft makes the long-suffering assistant chattier for more countries with new Windows 10 build Also: Remember that whole 'final build' thing? Here's a patch 23 Apr 14:30 | 15
Analysis Google Cloud CEO says Istio will be handed to a foundation. The Reg: But what about..? Google: That will be all. When? Which foundation? What about Knative? 23 Apr 15:16 | 3
Devops European programmers take an extended lunch break as GitHub goes TITSUP* again All fixed now so get back to work 23 Apr 15:48 | 5
On-Prem LCD woes and coronavirus help to send LG Display spiralling into its fifth consecutive quarter of loss World slows down its smartphone buying for a bit 23 Apr 16:51 |
Software Move fast and break stuff, Windows Terminal style: Final update before release will nix your carefully crafted settings Users advised to move file out of folder, let a new one be generated, then copy it back over – if you want to keep them 23 Apr 17:30 | 44
Personal Tech The rumor that just won't die: Apple to keep Intel at Arm's length in 2021 with launch of 'A14-powered laptops' Homegrown chip to shift away from Chipzilla? Hey, it could work 23 Apr 18:18 | 83
Personal Tech Google says no more shady anonymous web ads – if you want your billboard up, you've got to show us some valid ID Um, it wasn't doing this already? That explains a lot 23 Apr 20:14 | 29
Security Canada's .ca overlord rolls out free privacy-protecting DNS-over-HTTPS service for folks in Great White North L’ACEI lance le Bouclier canadien dans le but de protéger gratuitement la vie privée et la sécurité des Canadiens en ligne 23 Apr 22:42 | 19
Personal Tech Kerching! Intel PC chip shortage over just in time for everyone to buy computers for pandemic home working Sales, profit soar in first three months of 2020 as coronavirus helps Chipzilla print money 23 Apr 23:47 | 10