UK.gov to propose new rules for online political campaigns after last election marred by an avalanche of fake news
Voters need to know who they are being targeted by, says MP
12 Aug 2020 | 67
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, the then gong-collecting staple of IT’s senior managers. 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.
Dreams feel real while we're in them, don't they Salesforce? 'Critical' virtual event Dreamforce faces the axe
'Obviously a critical brand' says CEO Benioff as he calls off online occasion
11 Aug 2020 | 1
UK Home Office dishes out contracts to 999 control room vendors after wasting cash on network tech it abandoned
Another chapter in the sorry Emergency Services Network saga
11 Aug 2020 | 15
Why so salty, Ceres? Is it on account of your underground oceans and cryovolcanism?
Dawn probe's last data shows surprising results from asteroid belt
11 Aug 2020 | 7
UK utility Thames Water splashes cash as host of IT consultancies appointed to handle £100m worth of deals
Just how 'digital' does an H2O supplier have to be?
11 Aug 2020 | 14
As hospital-based infections set to rise, best not change the vendor behind the system that tracks them, hm?
Now's not the time for competition, says Public Health England
10 Aug 2020 | 18
UK puts £200m on table for dynamic purchasing system to supply public sector with AI
Don't worry, your job's safe... we think
07 Aug 2020 | 18
Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance
I always feel like ... somebody's watching me (and they're doing it continuously)
07 Aug 2020 |
Frosty the plaintiff: Yeti Data flings surprise trademark sueball at Snowflake
Blizzard of litigation ahead of purported $20bn IPO
06 Aug 2020 | 3
Data warehouse firm hopes more will follow Yellowbrick road for real-time analytics, speedy cloud data transfer
But the competition is fierce
06 Aug 2020 | 1
Network sniffers find COVID-19 did not break the internet – though it was behind a massive jump in outages
Disruptions leapt 63% as lockdowns came into force after February
05 Aug 2020 | 8
Austria astroboffins shed a little light on how we might track orbital junk hurtling at spacecraft during daytime
Study reckons observation window would be increased from 6 to 22 hours
05 Aug 2020 | 3
Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment
Public and voluntary sector welcome to buy from framework agreement winners
05 Aug 2020 | 5
You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing
Modelling suggests massive second wave without major improvements
04 Aug 2020 | 177
Brit local authority appoints a systems integrator in leap to Oracle cloud, but support time-bomb is already ticking
This should have been started a year ago, Solihull council docs say
03 Aug 2020 | 6
An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day
Don't worry if one's loitering in your garden, it'll buzz off in a while
31 Jul 2020 | 22
Firefighters to UK Home Office: Yeah, maybe don't turn off emergency comms network before replacement is ready
Prospects of cursed ESN project still murky for customers-to-be
30 Jul 2020 | 39
How Bude: Google's sole-financed private undersea pipe to make a landing in Cornwall
Cable named for compsci legend Grace Hopper to link US, UK, Spain
28 Jul 2020 | 19
UK housing associations offer framework worth up to £400m to eBay-for-plumbers startup (but it won't get to keep it all)
'Equity-backed' DB-'n'-services biz hooks up tenants with vetted local repair shops
28 Jul 2020 | 7
It must have been love, but it's over now: Rockset tries to break up storage and compute, meet transactional, data-warehouse systems in middle
Propositions database land with a 'real-time' system
28 Jul 2020 | 4
SAP takes a punch to its software licensing revenue but Ellison's promise of customer exodus to Oracle seemingly fails to materialise
Nothing to say, Larry? Makes a change
27 Jul 2020 | 1
Eye see you're having surgery: Origami inspires tiny, super-accurate robot surgeon
Research showed 'reduced deviation' when it made a 0.5mm x 0.5mm slice
27 Jul 2020 | 13
Cabinet Office takes over control of UK government data: Mundane machinery or Machiavellian manoeuvrings?
Argh! Dominic Cummings' department! Everybody panic!
24 Jul 2020 | 56
UK weather watcher will make it rain to the tune of $30m for support on new data platform
Met Office has taken a shine to data science
24 Jul 2020 | 4
