Don't rush to adopt QUIC – it's a slog to make it faster than TCP
Boffins say their real-world tests show developers can make more of a difference than switching transport protocols
04 Aug 2021 | 31
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VMware starts customer testing for vSphere on network accelerators
Looks to be still figuring out what to do with it, rather than prepping product
04 Aug 2021 |
Chinese state media describes gaming as 'spiritual opium' that stunts education and destroys families
Tencent shares dive and company restricts hours of play
04 Aug 2021 | 74
Tesla battery fire finally flamed out after four-day conflagration
Only one Megapack went up, adjacent containers mostly kept their cool
03 Aug 2021 | 120
IBM Cloud took the evening off – 23 services were hard to provision for eight hours
Similar problem hit over the weekend, and Google has also had severe recent wobbles
03 Aug 2021 | 9
Microsoft's Cloud PCs debut – priced between $20 and $158 a month
First Look We tried 'em on Windows, iOS and Android, and can't say they're very exciting
03 Aug 2021 | 97
Australian court rules an AI can be considered an inventor on patent filings
IP lawyer says decision is bad because the last thing we need is robot patent trolls
02 Aug 2021 | 55
Huawei to America: You're not taking cyber-security seriously until you let China vouch for us
Slams Biden's Executive Order on improving infosec, calls for multilateral trust framework
02 Aug 2021 | 25
AWS adds browser access to its cloudy WorkSpaces desktops – but not for Linux
Microsoft's Windows 365 will do much the same when it launches
02 Aug 2021 | 11
Jack Dorsey's side hustle – payments outfit Square – acquires buy now pay later darling Afterpay for $29bn
Plans to make partial payments for almost anything the new normal
02 Aug 2021 | 21
HP Inc slurps Teradici to get better at delivering remote PCs
Apparently quite a few people haven't been in the office as much lately
30 Jul 2021 | 10
Intel scoops out five flavours of Ice Lake Xeons for workstations
They're good for stuff like supporting 4TB of RAM and PCIe 4.0
30 Jul 2021 | 20
Giant Tesla battery providing explosion in renewable energy – not as intended
Toxic smoke from fire forces Australian residents indoors just two days after COVID lockdown lifted
30 Jul 2021 | 100
The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay
We mention this because Intel stopped shipping them yesterday, ending a strange story
30 Jul 2021 | 39
Communism never looked so good: China cracks down on pop-up ads
Developers accused of ignoring regulations and adding adware where it's not allowed
30 Jul 2021 | 18
Israeli authorities investigate NSO Group over Pegasus spyware abuse claims
Reason for probe unknown, but CEO claims it will vindicate company's claims
29 Jul 2021 | 25
Hungarian tech store closed by World War II bomb
Please shop online instead while it's safely disposed of, says branch of CCTV specialist MASCO
29 Jul 2021 | 27
'Woefully insufficient': Biden administration's assessment of critical infrastructure infosec protection
Memorandum details plans to turn that around with rapid development of security baselines, not mandates
29 Jul 2021 | 7
AWS to retire EC2-Classic – the network glue that helped start the IaaS rush
Comment You've got a year to sort yourself out if you're still using it for some reason
29 Jul 2021 | 3
Google revamps bug bounty program
Announces that it's paid out for 11,000 bugs in under eleven years
28 Jul 2021 | 9
Biden warns 'real shooting war' will be sparked by severe cyber attack
Suggests incident 'of great consequence' in the real world could be a tipping point
28 Jul 2021 | 74
IBM's z/OS update for mainframes about to land – on last day of predicted launch window
Version 2.5 adds lots of love for hybrid cloud, Linux containers, and even a COBOL/Java combo
28 Jul 2021 | 7
Tencent suspends signups to WeChat, citing 'security upgrade' and need to comply with Chinese laws
Promises everything will be back to normal sometime in early August
28 Jul 2021 |
Google promises its days as a cold-eyed API-killer are behind it
Customers are afraid of commitment, so new rules for enterprise APIs promise to stick around until you ride off into the sunset
27 Jul 2021 | 8
