Science
Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors
Hunt follows £210m government funding in small modular reactor model
24 Jan 2022 15:09 | 57
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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.
Science
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... a massive black hole spewed out gases that probably helped make stars
As it destroys so it creates
24 Jan 2022 11:47 | 7
Databases
Team behind delayed ERP project was aware of problems but didn't inform Surrey County Council for months
Move from SAP to Unit4 held up by comms 'issues' between supplier and authority
24 Jan 2022 10:17 | 12
On-Prem
You might want to consider the cost of not upgrading legacy tech, UK's Department for Work and Pensions told
Processes relying on 1980s ICL mainframe contributed to £1bn pension black hole
21 Jan 2022 15:16 | 27
Exclusive
'Please download in Microsoft Excel': Meet the tech set to monitor IT performance across central UK government
Influencing billions in spending, the Cabinet Office will keep tabs on Whitehall with… a spreadsheet?!?
21 Jan 2022 11:24 | 116
Software
The robots are coming! 12 million jobs lost to automation in Europe by 2040 – analyst
Ageing populations, competition, cost-cutting and COVID-19 driving increased adoption
20 Jan 2022 11:51 | 74
AI + ML
UK government backs away from proposals to remove individuals' rights to challenge AI decision making
Meanwhile, ICO says government should not be choosing its CEO in debate over its future independence
19 Jan 2022 11:48 | 20
AI + ML
UK police lack framework for adopting new tech like AI and face recognition, Lords told
Governance structure is 'a bush, not a tree' – whatever that means
19 Jan 2022 09:30 | 18
Offbeat
Billionaires see wealth double during pandemic as tech bros lead the charge
Now what – in the middle of a pandemic – is a useful thing we could do with that $800bn extra dosh, Oxfam wonders
18 Jan 2022 14:00 | 52
Science
Move over exoplanets, exomoons are the next big thing
Is that an extremely large moon we see outside the solar system, astro-boffins ask themselves
17 Jan 2022 15:25 | 23
Databases
And relax: No repeat car crash financials for SAP in 2021 as cloud services come good
Let's not mention on-premise licences....
15 Jan 2022 01:54 | 1
Legal
Support specialist Rimini Street found in contempt of court for continued Oracle copyright infringements
It took two years for Big Red to find five breaches
14 Jan 2022 20:15 | 12
On-Prem
Key pillar in the UK's border control upgrade programme 'lacks a systems integrator'
Home Office IT units confused over who is fulfilling the vital role
14 Jan 2022 14:42 | 15
Security
Austrian watchdog rules German company's use of Google Analytics breached GDPR by sending data to US
Schrems II ruling continues to trouble transatlantic data sharing
13 Jan 2022 14:48 | 44
Databases
Games Workshop has chucked another £500k at entrenched ERP project with no end to epic battle in sight
Plans for new online shop get seal of approval despite Microsoft Dynamics delays
13 Jan 2022 11:47 | 62
Legal
HMRC tool for measuring IR35 status is so great, employers are ditching it in their droves
Survey shows majority of UK firms have lost at least half of their contractors over tax reform
13 Jan 2022 09:30 | 44
Offbeat
Anonymous employee review site Glassdoor research: Tech companies dominate the best places to work
But is industry wealth, a skills shortage or a self-selecting sample creating the result?
12 Jan 2022 19:33 | 34
Databases
Dev's PostgreSQL experiment probes possibility of zero-downtime schema migration
It has potential, says one expert
12 Jan 2022 09:29 | 11
PaaS + IaaS
UK regulators to scrutinise cloud resilience in response to financial services sector's reliance on the fluffy stuff
Bank of England watchdog seeks 'more oversight' into 'critical third parties', eyes up outages and cyber attacks
11 Jan 2022 16:15 | 16
On-Prem
UK taxman breathes life into old relationship as Capgemini handed £51m deal extension
French vendor joins fellow Aspire alumnus Fujitsu in winning contracts that extend beyond 2022 deadline
11 Jan 2022 11:00 | 11
Databases
Another day, another ERP project behind schedule: This time it's Norfolk County Council and an Oracle system
Cost of over-run was unknown, but won't be as bad as delays at other authorities, council document claims
11 Jan 2022 09:53 | 21
Databases
When ERP projects go awry: Surrey County Council incurs £3.2m additional costs in delayed Unit4 project
Select committee set to examine causes of the setbacks
10 Jan 2022 11:32 | 17
On-Prem
UK government tool to monitor its legacy application estate is… LATE
Hardly a surprise from the team that brought you billion-pound delays to the Emergency Services Network
10 Jan 2022 09:14 | 38
Science
Feeling virtuous with a good old paperback? Well, don't. Switching to traditional media does not improve mood
Study hopes to take the elitism out media consumption
07 Jan 2022 18:29 | 53
On-Prem
A fifth of England's NHS trusts are mostly paper-based as they grapple with COVID backlog, warn MPs
Recent report on IT-led change must be acted on by NHS leaders to address pandemic fallout
07 Jan 2022 10:17 | 67
Databases
All your database are belong to us: Snowflake named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines
Homespun database trackers also see PostgreSQL and MongoDB as hotshots for 2021
06 Jan 2022 17:28 | 5
Networks
Northern Ireland aims to break free from BT's 27-year reign with £125m procurement of land registry systems
Telco won't be gone until 2026 as Land and Property Services plans epic project timeline
06 Jan 2022 10:28 | 15
Applications
UK government stacks up to £1.8bn in vertical application framework
Specialist software providers in education, health, and policing can look forward to fireside chat
06 Jan 2022 08:38 | 4
Applications
Hauliers report problems with post-Brexit customs system but HMRC insists it is 'online and working as planned'
Originally launched as 'minimum viable product', GVMS has the necessary upgrades, UK taxman says
05 Jan 2022 14:52 | 265
Security
John Edwards takes the reins at the UK's data protection watchdog
Information Commissioner faces a year of upheaval in data law
04 Jan 2022 13:58 | 14
Databases
Db2, where are you? Big Blue is oddly reluctant to discuss recent enhancements to its flagship database
Cloud-native RDBMS is coming, on AWS and Azure. Yet IBM's only preaching to the choir
23 Dec 2021 12:02 | 54
Updated
UK's Defra and Ministry of Justice facing £120m IR35 tax bills thanks to inaccuracies in assessing contractors' status
Central government still struggling with its own off-payroll tax rules
21 Dec 2021 14:44 | 49
Updated
Nottingham University awards cloud finance and HR deal in £29.75m deal 2.5 years after Unit4 upgrade
Meanwhile, search for service partner stalls after early engagement over possible £80m contract
21 Dec 2021 09:42 | 14
SaaS
Sage to acquire remaining stake in ecommerce platform Brightpearl for £225m
Plans afoot to integrate financial management with retail
20 Dec 2021 17:07 | 5
Personal Tech
Luxembourg judge hits pause on Amazon's daily payments of disputed $844m GDPR fine
Box shifter argues it's not clear what it is supposed to change
20 Dec 2021 13:33 | 41
Updated
Cerner, a company that scooped more than £100m in NHS deals in a year, is in Oracle's crosshairs
Big Red targets health records specialist Cerner in $30bn takeover bid
17 Dec 2021 13:58 | 8
Science
Newly discovered millipede earns its name by being the first to walk on one thousand legs
Millipede? Has something been bugging you about the name? Not any more
16 Dec 2021 20:08 | 77
Updated
Samsung gets 2-year contract extensions to provide rugged handsets for UK's troubled Emergency Services Network
Fiasco replacing fire, police and ambulance comms already costing £550m for each year of delay
16 Dec 2021 15:12 | 11
Databases
Database company Cockroach Labs more than doubles in value to $5bn
'Cloud-native' outfit munches up $278m in new funding
16 Dec 2021 12:33 | 3
Software
£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit
Lack of recognition and support for quality engineering part of science's reproducibility problem, MPs hear
16 Dec 2021 10:27 | 240
Databases
Trouble getting REST APIs into GraphQL? Try our low-code approach, says Hasura
REST-to-GraphQL data hub also on offer and looking for more contributions
15 Dec 2021 12:30 | 1
Science
Apollo 17 samples yield fresh insights 49 years after mission left the Moon
Modern analytical techniques suggest the natural satellite cooled much faster than previously thought
15 Dec 2021 09:30 | 13
Databases
Oracle finance application customers more likely to leave for another vendor than SAP's – analyst
Forrester research sheds new light on dynamic Larry Ellison says is going in Big Red's favour
14 Dec 2021 15:19 | 5
SaaS
West Sussex County Council faces two-year delay to replace ageing SAP system for Oracle
Project hits the buffers after 'increased understanding' of the product
14 Dec 2021 10:27 | 22
Exclusive
FoI response points to network updates for ambulance outage on England's south coast
November incident led to delays in emergency service dispatches
14 Dec 2021 09:30 | 17
On-Prem
UK government has 'no clear plan' for replacing ageing legacy IT estate, MPs report
Police National Computer, customs rig and more fingered in PAC report
13 Dec 2021 16:05 | 51
Databases
Ghost of Christmas past haunts Oracle despite impressive revenue growth
Payment over Mark Hurd dispute hits figures as Ellison bigs up cloud ERP
10 Dec 2021 13:30 | 3
Science
Gas giant 11 times the mass of Jupiter discovered in b Centauri binary system
Orbit roughly 100 times wider than that of similar planets in our solar system
09 Dec 2021 19:01 | 17
On-Prem
Academics horrified that administration of Turing student exchange scheme outsourced to Capita
Company ousts British Council in running Erasmus replacement
09 Dec 2021 16:00 | 47
AI + ML
Road to nowhere: UK plans for an 'AI assurance industry' but destination is unclear
Govt hopes for 'mature, world-class' sector, but doubts linger over regulation
09 Dec 2021 13:00 | 4
Legal
German court rules cookie preference service that shared IP addresses with US firm should be halted
Schrems II starts to be felt in Europe
08 Dec 2021 17:20 | 34
Science
Boffins demonstrate a different kind of floppy disk: A legless robot that hops along a surface
This is fine
08 Dec 2021 09:15 | 20
Databases
MongoDB logs 50% hike in Q4 sales, beats analysts forecasts for next quarter
Yet losses grow at NoSQL database biz
07 Dec 2021 20:01 | 1
Security
Foreign Office IT chaos: Shocking testimony reveals poor tech support hindered Afghan evac attempts
Contributed to dysfunction as diplomats and soldiers struggled to get Afghan helpers out of reach of Taliban
07 Dec 2021 13:49 | 54
Off-Prem
Thought NHS Digital's wind-down meant it would stop writing cheques? Silly you. It's gone on an IT buying spree
£37m signed up for soon-to-be-defunct non-dept public body
07 Dec 2021 11:30 | 34
On-Prem
Questions over timetable slippage in UK taxman's £7bn 'cliff edge' IT procurement
Watchdog says tenders to be published by September – but HMRC procurement show that's not going to plan
07 Dec 2021 09:15 | 2
Updated
MySQL a 'pretty poor database' says departing Oracle engineer
PostgreSQL a better option for open source RDBMS, he claims
06 Dec 2021 16:02 | 156
On-Prem
Sun sets: Oracle to close Scotland's Linlithgow datacentre
Questions for tenants as Ellison's gang executes its OCI strategy
06 Dec 2021 10:00 | 37
SaaS
Not only was the UK Financial Ombudsman Service's Workday system months late, 38 IT workers' jobs are at risk
Questions remain over data warehouse dependencies and redundancies
03 Dec 2021 16:56 | 11
Legal
UK data watchdog fines government office for disclosing New Year's gong list
New IT systems set up incorrectly, published CSV files which included names, addresses
02 Dec 2021 15:02 | 21
