Electric cars no more likely to flatten you than the noisy ones, study finds
Recent collision data points to comparable injury rates across modern vehicle types
Personal Tech10 Dec 2025 | 138
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.
SAP users in the dark about vendor's plan for data analytics
February product launch fails to register, with concerns remaining about integration
Databases09 Dec 2025 |
IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse
Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates
Databases08 Dec 2025 | 5
UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact
Kendall says Whitehall will use bulk buying to squeeze better value from cloud giants
Public Sector08 Dec 2025 | 21
Salesforce finds new AI monetization knobs to twist
With seat and usage-based deals back on the table, CRM giant tells investors agent prices are going up
SaaS05 Dec 2025 | 4
Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help
Union fields member complaints as it presses outsourcer over botched rollout
Public Sector05 Dec 2025 | 39
Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job
Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions
Networks04 Dec 2025 | 57
UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze
Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle
Databases04 Dec 2025 | 8
Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse
LEO communications satellites are proliferating like rabbits
Science03 Dec 2025 | 19
Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report
Updated Awarded a £239M contract, outsourcer apologizes for any inconvenience to 1.5M members
Public Sector03 Dec 2025 | 99
MongoDB talks up its AI chops by talking down PostgreSQL
CEO touts win from 'super-high growth' customer that couldn't scale on rival system
Databases02 Dec 2025 | 13
HSBC partners with Mistral AI as banking giants spend billions looking for LLM boost
Move follows Bank of America's $4B new tech war chest
AI + ML01 Dec 2025 | 7
Asda's 'self-inflicted' SAP mess after Walmart divorce stalls financial revival
Overbudget Project Future will continue to cause problems into Q2 next year, chairman admits
On-Prem01 Dec 2025 | 29
Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul
Updated Authority follows Birmingham and West Sussex, which both suffered disastrous transitions
Databases01 Dec 2025 | 62
UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B
OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings
Public Sector28 Nov 2025 | 143
UK Digital Services Tax raises £800M from global tech giants
Treasury haul beats early forecasts, yet captures only a fraction of the revenue generated in Britain
Off-Prem28 Nov 2025 | 18
One-fifth of the jobs at your company could disappear as AI automation takes off
AI-pocalypse IT in the firing line as 'legacy' roles under the microscope
AI + ML27 Nov 2025 | 72
Workday confronts existential threat as customers freeze hiring
HR software vendor pushes cross-selling as modest workforce growth exposes vulnerability of per-seat pricing
SaaS26 Nov 2025 | 9
HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals
Gap threatens Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon despite optimistic forecasts of 3 billion ChatGPT users by 2030
AI + ML26 Nov 2025 | 58
Employee trust in SAP board dips amid ongoing restructure
German mega vendor responds to latest in-house survey
Databases25 Nov 2025 | 5
UK lines up £250M cloud procurement to feed its growing AI research appetite
Plan would link commercial capacity with Britain's flagship supercomputers
Supercomputing Month25 Nov 2025 | 3
NATO taps Google for air-gapped sovereign cloud
Chocolate Factory wins contract to build fully disconnected systems for training and operational support
On-Prem24 Nov 2025 | 11
UK Covid-19 Inquiry finds early pandemic surveillance was weeks out of date
Lack of effective data flows and reduced scientific investment hampered response
Public Sector24 Nov 2025 | 77
Big Red borrows a lot of green, hopes AI will put it in the black
opinion Cost of insuring against Oracle debt default spikes as September seems a long time ago
AI + ML21 Nov 2025 | 15
UK minister ducks cost questions on nationwide digital ID scheme
Committee hears departments may have to stump up cash before savings materialize
Public Sector21 Nov 2025 | 76
Don't spill your guts to your chatbot friend - it'll hoover up that info for training
LLM makers may be training on user chat with few privacy safeguards, lawmakers hear
AI + ML20 Nov 2025 | 8
Manchester hits snooze again on joining Palantir-run NHS data platform
Care board still waiting for evidence that it will be in the best interests of the population
Databases20 Nov 2025 | 38
Microsoft-SAP pact aims to keep Euro cloud running in a crisis
Vendors set up sovereign fallback so customers aren't stranded by foreign interference
Off-Prem19 Nov 2025 | 7
Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres rivals
Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst says
Databases19 Nov 2025 | 8
SAP's migration narrative suddenly looks messy as Kingfisher goes off-script
B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain
Databases19 Nov 2025 | 10
Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdown
European Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets Act
AWS Re:invent18 Nov 2025 | 4
SAP portal outage raises questions over vendor's cloud readiness
Disruption left customers unable to track support cases, upgrades, or patching work
SaaS17 Nov 2025 |
Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform
Partnership with UK-based 'AI upskilling platform' aims to boost software's usage
Databases17 Nov 2025 | 18
Europe's IT spend to surge 11% as cloud sovereignty fever takes hold
AI, cybersecurity, and geopolitical jitters forecast to push market to $1.4T next year
On-Prem14 Nov 2025 | 3
Digital overhaul at UK's NS&I bank is £1.3B over budget and 4 years late
Updated Watchdog says program buckled under procurement failures and technical complexity
Public Sector14 Nov 2025 | 18
ERP carnage continues as orgs jump in unprepared
Lack of executive backing, unrealistic plans, and muddled goals remain recipe for failure
Databases13 Nov 2025 | 28
Geopolitics push European CIOs to think local on cloud
Majority of customers plan to favor domestic providers as sovereignty fears rise
AWS Re:invent13 Nov 2025 | 13
Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan
'Don't just give me a price list or licensing module that spikes cost by 20x, show me the value,' says CTO
Databases12 Nov 2025 | 54
How to bluff your way to AI credibility with the right buzzwords
As Gartner offers another serving of word salad, it’s time to know your skillatrophy from your pipeline choke
AI + ML10 Nov 2025 | 12
UK military looking for tactical comms, systems suppliers in deal worth up to £9.6B
Major battle field technology refresh will be open to the rest of public sector
Public Sector10 Nov 2025 | 32
UK tax collector falls short on digital efficiency, watchdog says
Treasury found £1.6 billion for extra tech investment expecting 15 percent efficiency saving. So far HMRC has underwhelmed
Public Sector07 Nov 2025 | 31
'Vibe coding' named Word of the Year. Developers everywhere faceplant
It's not a bug, it's a feeling
AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 65
Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us
Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers
PaaS + IaaS06 Nov 2025 | 29
Two-fifths of SAP Americas users yet to ditch legacy ERP
S/4HANA migration? Many still worried about business process change
Databases05 Nov 2025 | 7
Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions
Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI
Databases05 Nov 2025 |
Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope
Norges Bank Investment Management votes against excessive award, automaker's share price skids
Offbeat04 Nov 2025 | 118
Keeping the lights on takes up nearly all police IT spending in England and Wales
Plans for investing in AI and service transformation held up as treasury pulls plug, NAO finds
Public Sector04 Nov 2025 | 18
Gullible bots struggle to distinguish between facts and beliefs
Researchers point to risks in high-stakes applications as well as the potential to spread misinformation
AI + ML03 Nov 2025 | 51
Paradox: Agentic AI dev roles are less in demand as agents take over
IEEE survey of senior techies in six countries finds recrutiment for data analytics, and machine learning on the up
Software03 Nov 2025 | 10
Meta to sell $30B in bonds to build AI datacenters
Zuckcorp will gladly pay you in 2065 for the eyewatering sums it is borrowing today
On-Prem31 Oct 2025 | 19
The clock's ticking for MySQL 8.0 as end of life looms
Percona says more than half of installs remain on version set to lose support in 2026
Databases31 Oct 2025 | 11
Google parent company spending like a drunken sailor as capex triples over 2 years
Microsoft also ramping up spending, but investors concerned about overshooting demand
AI + ML30 Oct 2025 | 14
US government shutdown clouds an otherwise sunny ServiceNow forecast
Enterprise software giant lifts guidance but adds 'prudence' as federal contracts stall
SaaS30 Oct 2025 | 3
AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay
Bosses banking on automation? 55% will regret those job cuts
AI + ML29 Oct 2025 | 89
UK government on the lookout for bargain-priced CTO
Dangles £100K for someone to fix £23B tech mess
Public Sector29 Oct 2025 | 58
AI bubble to deflate as enterprises defer spending to 2027
ai-pocalypse Gap between vendor promises and business results set to trigger market correction, research firm predicts
AI + ML28 Oct 2025 | 10
UK government inflates G-Cloud framework to £14B
Procurement delays and lock-in fears see framework balloon in size and scope
Public Sector28 Oct 2025 | 10
Marks & Spencer swaps out TCS for fresh helpdesk deal
Move follows months-long procurement process as retailer refreshes parts of its IT support setup
On-Prem28 Oct 2025 | 34
As AI agents join SaaS, AWS tells users to expect more pricing puzzles
Interview Cloud giant says choice and flexibility matter more than standardization – for now
SaaS27 Oct 2025 | 1
MPs urge government to stop Britain's phone theft wave through tech
Committee says Apple, Google, and Samsung could render stolen handsets worthless if compelled to act
Personal Tech25 Oct 2025 | 174
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