Health crusaders prep legal challenge over NHS mega contract with Palantir
Groups claim Federated Data Platform requires new legislation to go ahead
Databases01 Dec 2023 | 3
Lindsay Clark has been writing about business technology for more than 20 years, starting at PC Week in the late 1990s. He went on to manage the news team at Computer Weekly in the early 2000s. His career was waylaid by music, which merited brief session appearances on BBC radio shows including those hosted by Mark Riley, Janice Long, and Whispering Bob Harris. As a freelance journalist, he has written for The Financial Times, The Guardian, and a list of B2B titles as long as your arm.
He joined The Register in February 2020 to cover database software and other enterprise IT technologies.
Six pack of sub-Neptune exoplanets hang tight around nearby star
Their resonant orbits have remained unchanged for some 4 billion years
Science30 Nov 2023 | 7
SAP faces more accusations of breaching on-prem customers' trust
Cloud-only innovation strategy slammed as users opt for on-prem and hosted support for S/4HANA
Databases30 Nov 2023 | 11
IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon
Updated Users on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though
Databases29 Nov 2023 | 5
AI agents can copy humans to get closer to artificial general intelligence, DeepMind finds
Google’s AI offshoot finds copy-cat robots capable of aping living mentors
AI + ML28 Nov 2023 | 34
Couchbase takes fight to MongoDB with columnar side store upgrade
DBaaS update aimed at customers looking for live analytics on apps
Databases28 Nov 2023 |
Neuralink pockets extra VC cash in computer-brain interface quest
Funding follows FDA approval for human trial
Science27 Nov 2023 | 2
Microsoft, Databricks double act tries to sew up the data platform market
Analysis But the one-stop shop vision fails to take it far beyond the competition
Databases27 Nov 2023 | 2
Taxing times: UK missed out on £1.75B because of digitization delays
Public Accounts Committee slams progress and questions plans
Public Sector24 Nov 2023 | 25
Palantir bags £330M NHS data bonanza despite privacy fears
Award follows £1 deal during pandemic and £60 million in non-competitive contracts
Databases22 Nov 2023 | 34
Three quarters of software engineers face retaliation for whistleblowing
Staff afraid to raise alarm when they see negligence, discrimination and more
Software21 Nov 2023 | 16
Francis Maude mulls mulligan on muddled merger of UK govt tech services
Former Whitehall axe wielder wants Cabinet Office to undo his great work
Public Sector17 Nov 2023 | 21
Databricks' lakehouse becomes foundation under fresh layer of AI dreams
Mega startup serves slice of GenAI with data engineering main as it tries to upstage Microsoft’s Fabric showpiece
Storage16 Nov 2023 |
Microsoft touts mirroring over moving in data warehouse gambit
Ignite Fabric update cuts against the grain, and may have more to do with Databricks partnerships
Databases15 Nov 2023 |
To pay or not to pay for AI's creative 'borrowing' – that is the question
One that Microsoft and Meta dodged during House of Lords committee
AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 54
Corduroy is coming to the metaverse with touchy-feely robotic sensors
Just what virtual reality needs – an update that brings a bit of texture torture
Science14 Nov 2023 | 4
AI chemist creates catalysts to make oxygen using Martian meteorites
Robotic process hunts down local extraterrestrial materials to aid supply of on-site fuel and oxygen
AI + ML14 Nov 2023 | 6
AWS staffer shows off the workplace that used to be a prison
Panopticon design gains new meaning for the all powerful cloud platform
Bootnotes13 Nov 2023 | 13
Amazon's retail wing tops list of take-down demands from Europe under new DSA law
Box shifter says it caught millions of miscreants with its own systems though
Personal Tech13 Nov 2023 | 5
UK signals legal changes to self-driving vehicle liabilities
But with technical and insurance industry question unanswered, a few potholes may lie ahead
AI + ML10 Nov 2023 | 93
Enterprise wallets to sustain European IT growth as devices lag
Software and services set to save continent's tech growth into 2024, says Gartner
CxO09 Nov 2023 |
Oracle off the hook for fraud but judge allows breach of contract claim to continue
Building material supplier left without functional ERP can amend claim
Databases08 Nov 2023 | 13
1 in 5 VMware customers plan to jump off its stack next year
Updated Forrester predicts exodus from Virtzilla following Broadcom takeover
Virtualization08 Nov 2023 | 30
Boffins detect direct evidence of atomic oxygen on Venus's day side
Measures could help future probe mission, plus understanding of why boiling hot atmos so different to Earth's
Science08 Nov 2023 | 13
Pharma boffins sharpen hunt for target molecules using graph DB
French pharma firm Servier gets Neo4j to help find relationships in 'messy' data
Databases08 Nov 2023 | 1
UK may demand tech world tell it about upcoming security features
Campaigners say proposals to reform laws are 'dangerous' and an attack on safety
Public Sector07 Nov 2023 | 150
SAP jumps on AI-assisted coding wagon, but uses its own ABAP language
The cloud-only move may leave out devs writing for on-prem systems, which still make up the majority
Databases07 Nov 2023 | 2
New orientation assistant to help prevent astronauts getting lost in space
Which way is up? Just feel the vibrations, man
Science06 Nov 2023 | 10
World leaders ink AI safety pacts while Musk and Sunak engage in awkward bromance
Summit's crowning glory was a not-legally-binding document that China didn't sign
AI + ML03 Nov 2023 | 79
Brit pensions scheme flushed £74M when it walked from Atos deal
Annual report reveals 'challenges' around 'commercial and risk appetite'
Public Sector03 Nov 2023 | 12
Snowflake puts LLMs in the hands of SQL and Python coders
As more features come to Data Cloud, customers might want to keep an eye on consumption
Storage02 Nov 2023 | 2
European Commission loves Oracle enough to sign six-year cloud deal
Larry promised Brussels 'less risk and cost' and they believed it
PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2023 | 15
UK convinces nations to sign Bletchley Declaration in bid for AI safety
Tech leaders and politicos descend on Britland to thrash out regulation and governance
AI + ML01 Nov 2023 | 34
MariaDB Foundation CEO claims 'sanity' has returned to MariaDB plc
Exclusive Kaj Arnö mulls cash crisis, de-listing threat, job cuts, and strategy rewrite at MySQL fork vendor
Databases01 Nov 2023 | 21
Where do people feel most at risk of being pwned? The pub
Pints, pork scratchings, and password-free Wi-Fi: The nearly perfect brew
Bootnotes01 Nov 2023 | 36
UK policing minister urges doubling down on face-scanning tech
'No question' it will solve more crimes, Tory MP claims
Security31 Oct 2023 | 49
Unit4 ditching on-prem in favor of SaaS come 2025
Exclusive Clients have a little over a year to get their affairs in order
Databases31 Oct 2023 | 13
Tech bros still cling to sexist stereotypes, forgetting female pioneers who coded their path
Research sheds light on attitudes holding industry back
Offbeat30 Oct 2023 |
Just one in ten UK orgs have significant AI investment plan
Gen AI still in the pilot stage, despite government hopes to be world leader
AI + ML30 Oct 2023 | 21
Mars' iron core surrounded by molten rock, seismic studies show
Two new pieces of research suggest center is smaller than previously thought
Science27 Oct 2023 | 6
Larry Ale-ison institute invests in Oxford pub linked to Tolkien, CS Lewis
DBAs come in for beer but struggle to find a table, query imaginary world in wardrobe
Bootnotes26 Oct 2023 | 33
Half a billion pound NHS data platform award still stuck in the pipes
Palantir users' endorsement letter could lay the ground for Palantir win
Databases20 Oct 2023 | 11
Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle
Mangled spreadsheets mean government was asleep on the job and should be held to account
Personal Tech20 Oct 2023 | 39
Analysts scratch heads over MariaDB's decision to ditch DBaaS crown jewels
'Their future is murky at the moment'
Databases19 Oct 2023 | 5
In-memory database Redis wants to dabble in disk
Aims to lower costs and broaden appeal of system popular with devs
Databases19 Oct 2023 | 10
Boris Johnson's mad hydrogen for homes bubble bursts
It was a gas while it lasted but 'no public policy' to replace natural gas for heating
Science18 Oct 2023 | 302
TileDB secures $34M to reimagine databases, not just collect GitHub stars
System aims to clean mess of high-performance analytics cluttering the modern data stack
Databases17 Oct 2023 | 3
UK government slammed for Palantir 'free trial period' deal in Ukraine housing scheme
Updated US spy-tech vendor’s tactic deemed 'contrary to the principles of public procurement'
Public Sector17 Oct 2023 | 17
TaxWatch finds astute scheme minimizes Big Tech's UK tax bill by over $2B
As British public spending comes under pressure, tech superstars seemingly avoid two-thirds of tax burden
Legal16 Oct 2023 | 12
Birmingham set to miss deadline to make Oracle disaster 'safe and compliant'
Bankrupt council is like 'ship adrift' – lacks financial info in midst of equal pay nightmare
Databases16 Oct 2023 | 32
MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall
Strategic DBaaS and distributed back end jettisoned after years of promotion
Databases13 Oct 2023 | 12
Gas supplier blames 'rogue' code for Channel Island outage
CEO claims bug had millions-to-one chance of disrupting supply – but it did
Software13 Oct 2023 | 67
Engineers pave the way for building lunar roads with Moon dust
Just melt it with lasers, say researchers in Germany
Science12 Oct 2023 | 34
Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'
Exclusive Mangled mismatch of formats, macros, and VLOOKUP practice hits wannabe anesthetists
Software12 Oct 2023 | 189
Astronomers spot collision between two exoplanets, both feared vaporized
Dust blocks light from Sun-like star as far-off worlds meet
Science11 Oct 2023 | 24
SAP barely moving needle to migrate users off ECC before support ends
Gartner finds only a third are somewhat prepared for S/4HANA transition
Databases11 Oct 2023 | 7
New information physics theory is evidence 'we're living in a simulation,' says author
But why would a simulation create El Reg? Mmm... pizza
Offbeat10 Oct 2023 | 168
SAP customers on brink of ERPocalypse as 2025 support cliff looms for ECC
When German vendor promised service until 2027, not everyone qualified
Databases10 Oct 2023 | 10
Qualtrics culls 780 jobs amid 'complex' growth spurt
Staff get Zoom meeting to hear how they might be hit after phase of rapid hiring ends
Software09 Oct 2023 | 6
Beethoven and Brahms move audience members to synchronization symphony
Music sets hearts beating in lockstep, researchers find
Science07 Oct 2023 | 13
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