Techies take turns at shut-down top trumps
Who, Me? There's more than one way to accidentally power-down a workplace, you know
On-Prem25 Mar 2019 | 157
Netflix wants to choose its own adventure where Bandersnatch trademark case magically vanishes
Asks judge to toss sueball from branching-plot book publisher
Personal Tech22 Mar 2019 | 62
Campaigners cry foul over NHS Digital plans to grant policy wonks and researchers access to patient-level data
Using private info for funding decisions branded 'toxic'
Legal22 Mar 2019 | 39
Pre-checked cookie boxes don't count as valid consent, says adviser to top EU court
You can't assume active participation from someone who didn't untick something
Legal22 Mar 2019 | 53
Oracle spaffed $30bn on buybacks over the past 9 months, but analysts warn it can't last forever
Big Red in net debt for first time in over a decade – reports
Software22 Mar 2019 | 12
UK.gov admits it was slow to intervene in Verify's abject failure to meet user targets
We might not have signed up users, but at least we created a standard. It only cost £154m...
Legal22 Mar 2019 | 13
Chap joins elite support team, solves what no one else can. Is he invited back? Is he f**k
On Call But he did get a $50 cheque, a piece of acrylic and a fuzzy glow that lasted for years
On-Prem22 Mar 2019 | 183
Cloudera sets its sights on $1bn revenues after Hortonworks slurp gave Wall Street the willies
Interview CMO talks post-merger relationships, open-source spats
SaaS21 Mar 2019 | 1
CLOUDERA gets all SHOUTY about rebrand: SMASHES capslock, but easy on the elephants
Logowatch Merger so fresh, gabfest freebies had old logo
SaaS20 Mar 2019 | 5
Cloudera execs grab the mic at ex-Hortonworks gig, dish details on new data platform
Go off-cluster if you wanna, plus 'batteries-included' Kubernetes containers
SaaS20 Mar 2019 | 2
UK libraries dumped 11% of computers since 2010-11... everybody has one anyway, right?
Fears for vulnerable amid mass migration to online services
Legal18 Mar 2019 | 52
Public disgrace: 82% of EU govt websites stalked by Google adtech cookies – report
Plus: UK health service sites contain commercial trackers
Legal18 Mar 2019 | 78
Oracle's long-running pension plan class action case: C'mon, judge, reject a jury trial – Big Red
Wants court to decide on accusations it failed to properly police pension investments
Software18 Mar 2019 | 12
College student with 'visions of writing super-cool scripts' almost wipes out faculty's entire system
Who, Me? Turns out he probably wasn't smart enough to automate a Unix system update
Software18 Mar 2019 | 149
All good, leave it with you...? Chap is roped into tech support role for clueless customer
On Call 'He was definitely invoiced'
On-Prem15 Mar 2019 | 170
Year 1 of GDPR: Over 200,000 cases reported, firms fined €56 meeelli... Oh, that's mostly Google
2019 just a transition year, says French watchdog
Legal14 Mar 2019 | 27
Tech sector risks GM-crops-like crackdown if it doesn't win back trust, warns privacy watchdog
'We’re living in an age of anger where people feel disempowered, unhappy...'
Legal13 Mar 2019 | 17
Bank of England takes a break from opining on banks' IT outages to 'fess up to forking needless cash on legacy kit, manual processes
Might want to stop throwing stones for a while...
Legal13 Mar 2019 | 10
Not a great day for Oracle: Top cloud exec jumps ship, analyst recommends cutting shares
Amit Zavery to join former Big Red man Thomas Kurian at Google – reports
SaaS12 Mar 2019 | 13
Raiding party! UK's ICO drops in unannounced on couple of dodgy-dialling dirtbag outfits
Data protection police come a-knocking. 'Put your computers and docs in the facking bag!'
Security12 Mar 2019 | 59
Alphabet top brass OK'd $100m-plus payouts to execs accused of sexual misconduct – court docs
Lawsuit accuses Page, Brin et al of harassment cover-up
Legal12 Mar 2019 | 25
2 weeks till Brexit and Defra, at the very least, looks set to be caught with its IT pants down
Manual backup plans will be slow, burdensome and error-prone, sighs report
Legal12 Mar 2019 | 187
Judge brands Uncle Sam's approach to Oracle pay dispute case filings 'troubling'
Govt reminded it should only care about law being observed, 'not in victory or defeat'
Legal12 Mar 2019 | 3
Small Brit firms beg for 'light touch' as only half are ready for digital tax reforms due next month
We also have Brexit to be utterly unprepared for, yo
Software11 Mar 2019 | 53
UK Ministry of Fun seeks deputy director for IT as it edges away from Cabinet Office shared services
DCMS wants to quintuple in-house IT staffers... that'll take it to 10
On-Prem11 Mar 2019 | 12
ICO, forgive me – it has been three weeks since I discovered my breach
Businesses slow to detect, report data leaks pre-GDPR
Legal11 Mar 2019 | 12
Packet switching pickle prompts potential pecuniary problems
Who, Me? Techie's 'oops' moment goes unnoticed due to massive bills
Networks11 Mar 2019 | 67
UK peers suggest one big 'Digital Authority' to watch the tech watchers, tighten up regulation
Another quango? Really? 'It's deliberately not that,' says Lord
Legal09 Mar 2019 | 10
BNP Paribas systems 'tombés à l'eau' in France for over 24hrs
Outage hits websites, apps, international payments
On-Prem08 Mar 2019 | 6
Is this the way the cookie wall crumbles? Dutch data watchdog says nee to take-it-or-leave-it consent
Stern words to sites that deny access if users reject trackers
Legal08 Mar 2019 | 47
Oracle UK tweaks financial reporting, sees revenues rise
Ah, nice move, Big Red – but what's the plan for next year?
Software08 Mar 2019 |
Sure, we've got a problem but we don't really want to spend any money on the tech guy you're sending to fix it
On Call Chap does a lot of travel, zero work for penny-pinching customer
On-Prem08 Mar 2019 | 293
UK's ICO event on targeted ads opens floor to the adtech industry: Anybody? No? Speak for 10 minutes. Hello?
How to wind up your opponents 101: Refuse to engage
Security07 Mar 2019 | 14
UK Ministry of Justice: Surprise! We tested out biometric tech in prisons and 'visitors' with drugs up their bums ran away
Oh, we'll let regulators know about it next time, promise
Security06 Mar 2019 | 69
So Windrush happened, and yet UK Home Office immigration data still has 'appalling defects'
Could errors affect other applications? Dunno. When will new systems be online? Dunno
Legal06 Mar 2019 | 36
Oracle to lure boffins with cloud credits, see if enterprise-grade tech can speed up research
Big Red puts name on $3m NSF project: Because academics love a good cloud credit, amirite?
Software06 Mar 2019 | 4
IR35 contractor tax reforms crawl closer to UK private sector with second consultation
HMRC: How about a client-led dispute resolution process?
Legal05 Mar 2019 | 108
Civil servants 'Sir Humphrey' their way through grilling on UK.gov's digital transformation
MPs ask for specifics, get evasive umming and erring
SaaS05 Mar 2019 | 42
UK.gov's Verify has 'significantly' missed every target, groans spending watchdog
Unclear what risks come with flinging it at the private sector
Software05 Mar 2019 | 48
What links US Supreme Court, copyright legal bills, and stadium hot dog prices? A: Oracle
You can't full me, Larry: Rimini swerves $13m invoice in crucial ruling on 'full' versus 'all'
Software04 Mar 2019 | 7
UK banking was struck by one IT fail every day for most of 2018
May we suggest your mattress as an alternative?
SaaS04 Mar 2019 | 56
UK tech has a month left to bare gender pay gaps, but less than a fifth of firms have ponied up
Take a bow, Serco. Agilisys, hang thy head in shame
Legal04 Mar 2019 | 69
Ah, this military GPS system looks shoddy but expensive. Shall we try to break it?
Who, Me? Did we say break? We meant test its 'survivability'
Security04 Mar 2019 | 203
Boffins put the FUN into fungus by rigging yeast to squirt out the active ingredients in cannabis
Greener than growing green, Berkeley biologists claim
Science01 Mar 2019 | 49
UK's beloved RNGesus machine ERNIE goes quantum in 5th iteration
El Reg takes a trip to TNMoC to swot up on the tech history of Premium Bonds
Science01 Mar 2019 | 53
Customer: We fancy changing a 25-year-old installation. C'mon, it's just one extra valve... Only wafer thin...
On Call Techies spend 12 hours of Christmas Eve in the workhouse when everything that can go wrong, does
On-Prem01 Mar 2019 | 151
Nuisance call boss gets 8-year ban after trying to dodge firms' £700k fines
Director applied to dissolve his companies to skip ICO penalty
Legal28 Feb 2019 | 55
Three-quarters of crucial border IT systems at risk of failure? Bah, it's not like Brexit is *looks at watch* err... next month
EVERYTHING IS FINE
On-Prem28 Feb 2019 | 211
Age checks for online pr0n? I've never heard of it but it sounds like a good idea – survey
ID verification biz: Most Brits don't know smut checks are coming, 60% approve
Legal28 Feb 2019 | 115
Pay row latest: We aren't biased against Big Tech, says Uncle Sam as it rolls eyes at Oracle
Concerns about data requests, job role confusion discussed at town hall talking tour – reports
Legal28 Feb 2019 | 11
French data watchdog withdraws probe from location data guzzling adtech biz Vectaury
CNIL says firm now collects valid consent, shutters case privacy-watchers hoped would help see off adtech's model
Legal27 Feb 2019 | 2
Cops told live facial recog needs oversight, rigorous trial design, protections against bias
How about only using face-scan tech if it, er, actually works, is the only option, eh?
Science27 Feb 2019 | 25
US Supremes urged by pretty much everyone in software dev to probe Oracle's 'disastrous' Java API copyright win
Microsoft, Red Hat, Mozilla, EFF, and more want lower court ruling scrapped
Software26 Feb 2019 | 103
Wanted: DVLA CTO. Must love cloud, open standards, agile – and retiring outdated kit
UK.gov agency dangles £120k salary to rid itself of legacy tech
On-Prem26 Feb 2019 | 26
Moneybags Buffett on ditching Oracle stake: I don't think I understand where the cloud is going
Billionaire investor says he was burnt by IBM – but is 'amazed' at Amazon's rise
SaaS26 Feb 2019 | 31
Musk is in contempt of court, screams SEC after Tesla boss brags about car production rates
Regulator says 'inaccurate' claims go against 2018 settlement
On-Prem26 Feb 2019 | 29
Telecoms kit supplier shut down for carrying on work of two firms that had been... shut down
Firm 'sought to abuse privileges limited liability offers' – insolvency bod
On-Prem26 Feb 2019 | 15
Watchdog asks UK.gov to reissue freedom of information guidance after councils are told to STFU about Brexit plans
Updated ICO slams 'neither confirm nor deny' tactics as unlawful
Legal25 Feb 2019 | 87
SAP plugs IoT into Leonardo toolkit to woo big money industries
MWC Cloud-to-cloud interoperability with Microsoft, more vendors to come
Software25 Feb 2019 | 4
US legal eagle: Well done, you bought privacy compliance tools. Doesn't mean you comply with anything
From California state regs to Europe's GDPR: It's all just a 'veneer of protection'
Legal25 Feb 2019 | 27
Biting the hand that feeds IT
