UK Spending Review prescribes £10B digital remedy for NHS
Between a borrowing rock and a fiscal hard place, Labour chases efficiency
Public Sector12 Jun 2025 | 7
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.
UK bets big (and small) on nuclear as datacenter demand expected to climb
£14.2B Sizewell C among the investments along side Small Modular Reactors
Systems11 Jun 2025 | 50
UK govt promises digital reform in spending review. We've heard that before
Opinion How much wishful thinking has entered the pipeline will come to light in 2027
Public Sector11 Jun 2025 | 12
Snowflake and Databricks bank PostgreSQL acquisitions to bring transactions onto their platforms
Data analytics vendors have tried this before with limited success
The State of Storage10 Jun 2025 | 3
1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope data just hit the internet
Online catalog gives open science access to data from early universe
Science09 Jun 2025 | 13
Europe's cloud datacenter ambition 'completely crazy' says SAP CEO
Christian Klein sees little benefit from trying to compete with the dominant hyperscalers
On-Prem09 Jun 2025 | 60
£127M wasted on failed UK nuclear cleanup plan
Don't worry, only 100 more years of Sellafield nuclear site cleansing to go
Science07 Jun 2025 | 75
Just 15 buyers are in charge of £14B in UK central government tech spending
Concerns over lack of commercial expertise with big tech suppliers as country implements digital 'Blueprint'
Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 33
Take ChatGPT back to the 2010s and they’d think AGI arrived, says Altman
OpenAI CEO enjoys speculative love-in with Snowflake boss as critics worry over what 1,000X compute would do to the planet
AI + ML05 Jun 2025 | 34
Industry reacts to DuckDB's radical rethink of Lakehouse architecture
Excitement over DuckLake, but momentum is with Iceberg as players at AWS, Snowflake weigh in
Databases05 Jun 2025 | 7
UK tech job openings climb 21% to pre-pandemic highs
Accenture points to AI hiring spree, with London dominating demand
AI + ML05 Jun 2025 | 10
Cops want Apple, Google to kill stolen phones remotely – so why won't they?
Tech giants say blocking purloined devices via IMEI could open new fraud risks
Personal Tech04 Jun 2025 | 87
Workday promises to grow workforce slowly and differently after shedding 1,750 jobs
February jobs cuts will be followed by rehiring in line with AI 'aspirations,' CFO says
SaaS03 Jun 2025 | 16
AI hype fuels pay rise – but only if you're in the right gig
Software among the sectors seeing a productivity boost, PwC claims
AI + ML03 Jun 2025 | 5
Snowflake finance veep says big corps migrate at a glacial pace
$100 million+ deals are beholden to enterprises' on-prem upgrade cycles
SaaS02 Jun 2025 | 7
Best pricing model for AI? Work in progress, says Salesforce
Is that 'best' for customers or for shareholders? Any vendors that think they've got this 'all figured out is kidding themselves'
AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 9
UK's answer to Darpa invests £23.3M in touchy-feely robots
Latest project gets the green light although Brexit-era brainchild faces spending review
Public Sector30 May 2025 | 6
Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage
Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL
Storage30 May 2025 | 21
Look forward to having a Slack teammate, says Salesforce's Benioff
No, that's not someone on your team who doesn't pull their weight
Applications29 May 2025 | 3
OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort
Even when instructed to allow shutdown, o3 sometimes tries to prevent it, research claims
AI + ML29 May 2025 | 51
DuckDB flips lakehouse model with bring-your-own compute and metadata RDBMS
Open source in-process OLAP system launches rival to Iceberg and Delta Lake table format, and more
Databases28 May 2025 |
Salesforce takeover of Informatica is on for $8 billion
Marc Benioff eyes up all those lovely data tools for AI push
PaaS + IaaS27 May 2025 | 10
UK tax collector puts half a billion on table for call center services
Taxpayers on hold for 798 years might wish for a better service
Public Sector27 May 2025 | 36
Microsoft stitches transactional databases to Fabric analytics system
SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems
Databases23 May 2025 | 5
One of Britain's largest health trusts says 'no ta' to Palantir-run data platform – for now
Care board defers decision to adopt national system
Databases23 May 2025 | 7
SAP users grapple with 50% premium for industry-standard service levels
Vendor's AI-infused pitch at Sapphire marred by backlash over support costs
Databases22 May 2025 | 5
Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics
LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper
European Supercomputing21 May 2025 | 24
Greater Manchester says its NHS analytics stack is years ahead of Palantir wares
Care board draws red lines over use of UK government-backed Federated Data Platform
Databases21 May 2025 | 54
UK 'extremely dependent' on US for space security
After 60 years+ cooperation on space and military ops, worrying 'rhetoric' from Team Trump has Brits examining options
Security21 May 2025 | 108
European customers report Oracle Cloud identity outage, Big Red is silent
DownDetector reported problems for about 6 hours
PaaS + IaaS19 May 2025 | 17
When LLMs get personal info they are more persuasive debaters than humans
Large-scale disinfo campaigns could use this in machines that adapt 'to individual targets.' Are we having fun yet?
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 17
AI skills shortage more than doubles for UK tech leaders
Highest recorded jump in skills gap for more than a decade, recruiter finds
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 39
Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg
Extending all the dumped devices' lives by 12 months? Like taking 2M cars off the road each year
Personal Tech16 May 2025 | 59
How sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world'
Success of UK's Universal Credit has lessons for government IT projects, former minister claims
Public Sector16 May 2025 | 81
Some English hospitals doubt Palantir's utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain it'
After UK spends hundreds of millions, several say existing systems are better
Databases16 May 2025 | 29
The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce's Benioff says
Cheaper, open source AI will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterparts
AI + ML14 May 2025 | 7
Post Office finally throttles delayed in-house EPOS project
Troubled state biz tenders £410M software and DC-to-cloud migration plan, goodbye to Fujitsu on the Horizon
Public Sector14 May 2025 | 35
Tech suppliers asked to support single electronic health record across England
Labour health secretary’s vision for one record to rule 'em all, for each patient, set to come to market
Databases13 May 2025 | 53
Paul McCartney, Elton John, other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping
Musicians, artists, writers, actors urge government to protect copyright
AI + ML12 May 2025 | 42
Yolk's on you – eggs break less when they land sideways
MIT research team proves pop science eggsplanation wrong
Offbeat10 May 2025 | 65
Users advised to review Oracle Java use as Big Red's year end approaches
International Java sales operation and the prospects of audits per-employee license model make the move to open source irresistible
Software09 May 2025 | 26
Users find RISE with SAP service levels below industry standard
Gartner also says customers say ERP vendor's internal processes cause delays
Databases08 May 2025 | 4
NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs
It's not rocket science, it's budgeting
Databases07 May 2025 | 6
Palantir loves the smell of DOGE budget cuts in the morning
Data giant backs federal austerity push, saying it's 'the right thing' for US
Databases06 May 2025 | 33
30 years of MySQL, the database that changed the world
From ubiquitous go-to system for early Noughties startups to a legacy like no other
Databases06 May 2025 | 46
NATS custody battle ends with CNCF, Synadia sharing nicely
Trademark, domain name, GitHub repos stay under control of open source foundation – no word on any forking off for now
PaaS + IaaS02 May 2025 | 4
Redis 'returns' to open source with AGPL license
New plan may remain too restrictive for some developers
Databases01 May 2025 | 38
HMRC's Making Tax Digital scheme also made tax more expensive – by £300M
Watchdog says transformation effort added costs instead of savings for most businesses
Public Sector01 May 2025 | 75
Does UK's Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends
Minister, platform providers disagree on whether law would have helped avoid last summer's riots
Public Sector30 Apr 2025 | 75
After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade
HMRC kicks off procurement to modernize customer service after scathing reports
Public Sector29 Apr 2025 | 23
CNCF tells main NATS contributor Synadia that it's free to fork off
But what it can't do is 'unilaterally claw back a community project and its infrastructure, assets, and branding'
Software28 Apr 2025 | 2
Fujitsu and its no public sector bids promises... what happened to them?
Comment Government procurement process is very involved
Public Sector28 Apr 2025 | 19
Even untouched by tariffs, UK financial IT braces for the blow
Spend will come under scrutiny, but projects with good returns still likely to get backing, analyst says
On-Prem28 Apr 2025 | 2
£136M government grant saves troubled Post Office from suboptimal IT
Taxpayers foot bill to get to new platform as Fujitsu package balloons to £2.44 billion
Public Sector25 Apr 2025 | 57
AI training license will allow LLM builders to pay for content they consume
Updated UK org backing it promises 'legal certainty' for devs, money for creators... but is it too late?
AI + ML24 Apr 2025 | 45
Vector search is the new black for enterprise databases
Software slingers from Redis to Teradata are bolting on smarts to stay relevant in GenAI era
AI Software Development Week24 Apr 2025 | 4
Only 3,000 staff jump from SAP after 10,000 earmarked to be pushed
CFO says 'a cushion of several thousand employees we can play with' is a good thing in uncertain times
Databases23 Apr 2025 | 17
Fujitsu promised to sit out UK deals ... then Northern Ireland called with £125M
Despite Horizon fallout, Japanese supplier continues to win public sector work
Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 27
Small ocean swirls may have an outsized effect on climate, NASA satellite shows
SWOT satellite lets scientists observe small-scale eddies and waves for the first time
Science17 Apr 2025 | 16
Bank of England flirts with offline digital dosh
No signal? No problem. But also no solid commitment to Britcoin yet
Software17 Apr 2025 | 44
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