First Look
Microsoft's Cloud PCs debut – priced between $20 and $158 a month
We tried 'em on Windows, iOS and Android, and can't say they're very exciting
03 Aug 2021 | 100
3rd > August > 2021 Archive
Security
Research finds cyber-snoops working for 'Chinese state interests' lurking in SE Asian telco networks since 2017
Handy way to keep tabs on 'activists, politicians, business leaders, and more'
03 Aug 2021 | 8
Networks
Ever wondered how much data web giants generate? Singaporean super-app Grab says 40TB a day
Reports record Q1 sales and advances plans for SPAC-ulative IPO
03 Aug 2021 | 8
Off-Prem
IBM Cloud took the evening off – 23 services were hard to provision for eight hours
Similar problem hit over the weekend, and Google has also had severe recent wobbles
03 Aug 2021 | 9
Offbeat
Tesla battery fire finally flamed out after four-day conflagration
Only one Megapack went up, adjacent containers mostly kept their cool
03 Aug 2021 | 124
Offbeat
Amazon sets the date for televised return to Middle Earth: September 2022
Big tech gets busy in New Zealand as LoTR TV show wraps filming the same day Google opens Auckland office
03 Aug 2021 | 31
Review
Vivo X60 Pro: Branding was plastered all over the Euros, but does the phone perform better than the English team?
We reckon it'd snatch it in extra time thanks to camera
03 Aug 2021 | 23
Databases
Leeds City Council swallows the Gartner glossary and orders up 'post-modern' ERP in £44m SAP replacement
When do we get avant-garde ERP?
03 Aug 2021 | 9
Personal Tech
'Prophetic' Steve Jobs autograph telling kid to 'go change the world!' among Apple memorabilia at auction
The kid went on to work for IBM. Awks
03 Aug 2021 | 25
Security
Shopping for execs: ID management biz Okta poaches Google's veep of engineering to run product dev activities
Head techie for Chocolate Factory's search ad biz departs Mountain View
03 Aug 2021 | 6
PaaS + IaaS
Customers warn Gartner of AWS's high-pressure sales tactics in latest verdict on public cloud providers
Top three no surprise but users offer some sharp comments
03 Aug 2021 | 21
On-Prem
UK chancellor: Getting back to the altar of corporate dreams (the office) will boost young folks' careers
Look at what hanging around the water cooler did for me, says son-in-law of billionaire Infosys founder
03 Aug 2021 | 114
Software
Salesforce follows application rivals into the RPA market with Servicetrace purchase
Replacing swivel-chair integration is not a market that independent vendors will get to themselves
03 Aug 2021 |
Security
UK's Ministry of Defence coughs up bug bounties for crowdsourced pentesting
Small steps could lead to bigger strides
03 Aug 2021 | 11
OSes
WireGuard VPN gets native port to the Windows kernel
'This project is a big deal to me' says protocol's creator
03 Aug 2021 | 10
Networks
'This is the worst I've seen it' says Arista boss as entire network hardware sector battles component shortages, doubled lead times for semiconductors
Campus, routing, switching, and data centre kit all affected
03 Aug 2021 | 5
Devops
Stack Overflow survey: Microsoft IDEs dominate, GCP and Azure battle behind AWS
Most-used language? JavaScript, of course – though for a big salary, try Clojure
03 Aug 2021 | 24
Security
Russia tells UN it wants vast expansion of cybercrime offenses, plus network backdoors, online censorship
And said entirely with a straight face, too
03 Aug 2021 | 38
Science
International Space Station actually spun one-and-a-half times by errant Russian module's thrusters
540 degrees total, not just 45, NASA tells El Reg
03 Aug 2021 | 57
Personal Tech
Blizzard president, HR chief exit games giant in wake of sexual harassment uproar
Lawsuit, employee walkout elicit reform promises from Diablo goliath
03 Aug 2021 | 22
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