SaaS Microsoft admits pandemic caused Azure ‘constraints’ and backlog of customer quota requests Warehoused servers were ready, but then the world discovered Teams 24 Apr 02:19 | 14
Science Want to put a satellite into orbit for US comms? Whoa, says Uncle Sam: Where's your space crash risk assessment? FCC emits rules to tackle danger of orbital debris 24 Apr 03:20 | 17
On-Prem Taiwan’s tech production went boom! in March Possibly picking up China's slack. Fingers crossed for more than that! 24 Apr 04:05 | 5
Networks Cisco UCS servers slugged by 'This SSD will self-destruct in 40,000 hours' firmware farrago As Firepower kit hit by rare and ridiculous ‘silkscreen ID flaw’ 24 Apr 04:58 | 30
On-Prem Citrix goes up the down escalator and doesn't just issue guidance – it's increased 2020 targets We were made for these times, says remote app-slinger, but we’re staying off planes 24 Apr 06:41 | 1
On Call Elevating cost-cutting to a whole new level with million-dollar bar bills The curse of RS-232 strikes again in part two of our serial series 24 Apr 07:15 | 148
Bork!Bork!Bork! 'Non-commercial use only'? Oopsie. You can't get much more commercial than a huge digital billboard over Piccadilly 2012: The London Olympics, Baumgartner jumping from a balloon, and TeamViewer revealing someone wasn't using the right licence 24 Apr 08:15 | 53
SaaS Infor feels the lure of Azure as ERP underdog's customers in retail express reservations about Amazon's cloud Platform is 'tightly' integrated with AWS S3, but now an alternative is needed 24 Apr 09:02 |
Software Keen to go _ExtInt? LLVM Clang compiler adds support for custom width integers 'Standard C integer types are incredibly wasteful' for certain types of programming 24 Apr 09:50 | 64
Software Forget tabs – the new war is commas versus spaces: Web heads urged by browser devs to embrace modern CSS Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma coloring ban. You come and go, you come and go... 24 Apr 10:49 | 164
Job Alert Looking for a new tech gig? Engineers, developers, and Atlassian admin sought – more details inside Send us your open positions and we'll run them for free right here on The Reg, no catch 24 Apr 11:30 | 4
Science Nineteen mysterious invaders from another Solar System spotted hanging around the outside edge of ours Plus astroboffins confirm 'masked' asteroid heading Earthwards 24 Apr 12:05 | 19
Software The Adobe Flash Farewell Tour 2020: LibreOffice to axe export support for .SWF in version 7 Another one bites the dust 24 Apr 12:33 | 37
Bootnotes Royal Navy nuclear submarine captain rapped for letting crew throw shoreside BBQ party They'd been at sea for months – before coronavirus, even 24 Apr 13:10 | 165
Devops API hubs multiplying? SoftwareAG touts AppMesh control pane to wrangle service mesh mess DevOps, IT crew - time to get to know each other... 24 Apr 13:47 | 3
Software Android 11 Developer Preview 3 allows your mobe to become a router via USB Ethernet – if you can get a decent signal Plus: Multitasking and other functions rejigged, but no promises they'll stick 24 Apr 14:29 | 22
Personal Tech Where the hell Huawei? It should be a bit easier to tell now the AppGallery has its first proper navigation app Courtesy of mapping underdog Here WeGo 24 Apr 15:14 | 21
Science Famously flawed, it is 30 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched The Register takes a look at the most famous of the Great Observatories 24 Apr 16:30 | 21
On-Prem Billionaires showered with wealth as experts say global economy set for long and deep recession New study shows pandemic drove up profits for some... 24 Apr 17:41 | 52
Video We're in a timeline where Dettol maker has to beg folks not to inject cleaning fluid into their veins. Thanks, Trump Meanwhile, lawyer wanders beaches dressed as the Reaper... it has been a long week. Happy Friday, folks 24 Apr 18:20 | 260
Software Amazon pushes the button on Keyspaces: Cassandra lookalike to boost its NoSQL credentials Serverless NoSQL DB to come up against open source sister 24 Apr 19:03 | 1
Security Spyware maker NSO can't claim immunity, Facebook lawyers insist – it's time to face the music Software developers aren't nation states, antisocial giant points out 24 Apr 21:05 | 44
Science Wake up, Neo: Microsoft mulls using your brain waves or body heat to mine crypto-currency while viewing ads So this is how the world ends – as a Matrix fanfic 24 Apr 23:26 | 20