COVID-19 contact tracing apps were suggested as saviors. They sometimes delivered
COVID Logfile IV Privacy fears didn't materialise, but bungling did
Personal Tech15 Apr 2022 | 62
Simon is The Register's APAC editor, and is based in Australia. He covers the region's news as well as virtualization, data center infrastructure, software, cloud platforms, and more. He's @ssharwood on Twitter.
Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids
Poll We've kicked things off with the most splendidly evil fictional corporations, feel free to share your ideas
Offbeat20 Oct 2021 | 239
China outlines plan to boost economy with AI, a cloud OS it controls – and bringing in skilled foreigners
Other fun bits: An 'asteroid patrol', brain:computer fusion, DNA storage, enhanced privacy laws
Off-Prem09 Mar 2021 | 17
Pat Gelsinger promises Intel can go back to the future – in memo to staff shared with world+dog
New CEO pledges 'aggressive targets' to regain market share and leadership
On-Prem17 Feb 2021 | 11
Kubernetes is 'still hard' so VMware has gone all-in on container-related tech with expanded Tanzu, vSphere 7
The K8s on-ramp you didn't realise you need, or so Virtzilla hopes
Devops10 Mar 2020 | 8
Boss helped sysadmin take down horrible client with swift kick to the nether regions
On-Call Dirty doctor’s dodgy diagnosis defeated. Plus a new chapter for On-Call
On-Prem20 Jul 2018 | 125
Samsung’s new phone-as-desktop is slick, fast and ready for splash-down ... somewhere
Hands-On DeX Pad doesn’t have an obvious role, but finding one will be fun
Personal Tech18 Jul 2018 | 72
Microsoft to pay new bounties for identity services holes
If ye can board Microsoft accounts, Azure AD or even OpenID without the skipper knowing, loot be your reward
Security18 Jul 2018 | 15
People hate hot-desking. Google thinks they’ll love hot-Chromebooking
Especially sysadmins who want to get off the fix-this-PC-now treadmill
On-Prem18 Jul 2018 | 112
AWS launches on-premises EC2 instances for reverse hybrid cloud
They’ll run on the Snowball Edge data transfer device, which packs a Xeon D
SaaS18 Jul 2018 | 5
Azure certifications are awful, Microsoft admits, so it has made new ones
Changes to add ‘more of the skills that you actually need to be successful’
SaaS17 Jul 2018 | 46
Gov.UK to make its lovely HTML exportable as parlous PDFs
Adobe-spawn feels 'more tangible and credible' for government crusties
Legal17 Jul 2018 | 47
‘Elders of the Internet’ apologise for social media, recommend Trump filters to fix it
‘USENET was a pretty clear warning’ of things to come, says new draft IETF standard
Bootnotes17 Jul 2018 | 71
Intel and Micron downgrade 3D Xpoint relationship from friends with benefits to partners
The tech’s almost grown up so they’ll be sleeping in separate rooms under one roof
Storage17 Jul 2018 | 5
Official probe into HPE’s Oz 3Par crashes would create 'further negative publicity' if revealed
And that’s one reason why The Register has been denied access to the final document
Storage17 Jul 2018 | 26
Tech team trapped in data centre as hypoxic gas flooded in. Again
Who, me? Trouble started with a boiling battery and got worse when a ladder fell over
On-Prem16 Jul 2018 | 121
Notes/Domino is alive! Second beta of version 10 is imminent
Analytical email, modern web dev tools and more, for both of you who still care
Software16 Jul 2018 | 46
AWS will make switches to go after Cisco – report
Updated Amazon increasingly accepts hybrid cloud is a thing, but would it really get into support?
Networks16 Jul 2018 | 7
QEMU Qicks out release Qandidate, new Qadence for version 3.0.0
Some qode qleanup, some tweaks and also an arbitrary numbering thing
Virtualization16 Jul 2018 | 1
ZTE sends 400 million hostages, gets back in business stateside
US commerce dept. counts escrow cash, warns it's always watching, Congress still split
Legal15 Jul 2018 | 18
Tech support chap given no training or briefing before jobs, which is why he was arrested
On-Call Our hero fixed a spook-puter and tried to take a broken part back to the office
On-Prem13 Jul 2018 | 104
NFSaaS becomes ‘Azure NetApp Files’ as ONTAP-on-Azure debuts
Preview teased in October 2017 is better late than never, but not yet for production data
Storage13 Jul 2018 | 5
That went well – not! Broadcom’s value dives after CA biz gobble
We called it the weirdest acquisition ever and investors don’t get the deal either
On-Prem13 Jul 2018 | 13
PC shipments just rose, thanks to Windows 10
No, this story didn’t come through a wormhole in time. Q2 2018 was the best since 2012
Personal Tech13 Jul 2018 | 59
Python creator Guido van Rossum sys.exit()s as language overlord
‘Benevolent dictator for life’ tired of the hate, leaves behind no successor or governance
Devops13 Jul 2018 | 142
Microsoft adds subscriptions for SQL and Windows Servers
The plan looks like gentle cloud-herding with cheap, hybrid-cloud-friendly licences
On-Prem12 Jul 2018 | 26
Desktop hypervisor fiends. Both of you. VMware's testing a new cut of Workstation
Complete with a REST API for automated amusement
Virtualization12 Jul 2018 | 7
Salesforce ‘Einstein’ now smart enough for customer service
Your software pal who makes call centres less stabby
Software12 Jul 2018 | 19
Timehop admits to more data leakage, details GDPR danger
Bad actor was inside social network for months without being detected
Security12 Jul 2018 | 17
Infosec defenders' supply chain is inferior to black hats, says Carbon Black CEO
Cloudy analytics as an experience aggregator to the rescue? Maybe
Security11 Jul 2018 | 5
We shall call him Mini-U – Ubuntu reveals tiny cloudy server
‘Minimal Ubuntu’ is optimised for KVM, containers, AWS’ new hypervisor and Google Cloud
SaaS11 Jul 2018 | 16
Xen 4.11 debuts new ‘PVH’ guest type, for the sake of security
Take some paravirtualization, add hardware extensions and – voila – QEMU flies away
Virtualization11 Jul 2018 | 7
New AWS auto-scaler started life as private show for Netflix
Amazon’s own auto-scaler now available for third-party apps
SaaS10 Jul 2018 | 1
You're indestructible, always believe in 'cause you are Go! Microsoft reinvents netbook with US$399 ‘Surface Go’
Ten-inch Win 10 S Pentium tablet. Keyboard, pen $99 each
Personal Tech10 Jul 2018 | 98
Google’s Android Emulator gains AMD and Hyper-V support
But Intel’s HAXM is still ‘Droid’s preferred hypervisor
Virtualization10 Jul 2018 | 4
Tired sysadmin plugged cable into wrong port, unleashed a 'virus'
Who, me? And then his colleagues pulled an all-nighter failing to fix it
On-Prem09 Jul 2018 | 71
Open plan offices flop – you talk less, IM more, if forced to flee a cubicle
Scratch the surface and most of us are misanthropic recluses
Science09 Jul 2018 | 164
Nostalgic social network 'Timehop' loses data from 21 million users
Probably wishes it could go back in time and run 2FA, cos lack of it sparked the leak
Security09 Jul 2018 | 11
Microsoft slows Dynamics 365 update cadence
Twice-annual tweaks is slower than Salesforce and Oracle, faster than other SaaS rivals
Software09 Jul 2018 | 3
Who fancies a six-core, 32GB RAM, 4TB NVME ... convertible tablet?
HP Ink refreshes its schleppable workstation range days after Dell did the same
Personal Tech06 Jul 2018 | 25
Sysadmin cracked military PC’s security by reading the manual
On-Call All it took was a three-fingered salute and some autoexec.bat action
On-Prem06 Jul 2018 | 214
Boeing embraces Embraer to take off in regional jet market
100-seaters are now a duopoly, too, so please don’t mention the trade war
Bootnotes06 Jul 2018 | 36
IBM Cloud’s elasticity stretches and stretches (Big Blue's credibility?)
Slow virtual server provisioning incident mistakenly given Red Alert status
SaaS06 Jul 2018 | 4
Security guard cost bank millions by hitting emergency Off button
Who, me? Special Big Red Buttons cause big trouble
On-Prem05 Jul 2018 | 158
Gentoo GitHub repo hack made possible by these 3 rookie mistakes
Weak password, no 2FA, loose policies ... and only luck limited the damage
Security05 Jul 2018 | 27
IBM wins five-year whole-of-government deal with Australia
Government trumpets savings, Big Blue trumpets quantum blockchain innovation revolution
On-Prem05 Jul 2018 | 45
Xen 4.11 is over a month late and its devs are mostly cool with that
Hardware hassles mean rc7 was needed, spark discussion about release cadence
Virtualization05 Jul 2018 | 1
US Declaration of Independence labeled hate speech by Facebook bots
UPDATE 'Sometimes we get things wrong' says The Social Network™, which fixed it in time for Independence Day
Science05 Jul 2018 | 111
Who fancies a six-core, 128GB RAM, 8TB NVMe … laptop?
Sorry. Not laptops. ‘Mobile workstations’
Personal Tech04 Jul 2018 | 100
Google releases lite PC-snooper, 'cos full mobile management is hard
‘Endpoint Verification’ extension reports basics of devices’ security posture
SaaS04 Jul 2018 | 7
India tells WhatsApp to add filters, ASAP
Riots and murder have followed fake news and 'provocation'
Legal04 Jul 2018 | 20
New Android P beta is 'very close', 'near-final' but also just 'early'
How excited to be? Cautiously, unless you need to get cracking with testing for P's big changes
Software03 Jul 2018 | 44
Dell is still a work in progress as it seeks to dominate all data
Analysis Going public is all about 'financial flexibility for future initiatives'
On-Prem03 Jul 2018 | 10
Sysadmin shut down server, it went ‘Clunk!’ but the app kept running
Who, me? So what did our reader turn off? And what was it running? Oh dear …
On-Prem02 Jul 2018 | 143
Disk firmware can kill a whole cluster how exactly? Cisco explains
UCS and HyperFlex owners at risk of outages thanks to faulty firmware
Systems02 Jul 2018 | 23
Ding dong! Dell about to go public again – report
By swallowing VMware tracking stock, but seemingly not VMware itself
On-Prem02 Jul 2018 | 8
Drug cops stopped techie's upgrade to question him for hours. About everything
On-Call If someone asks you why you’re working in a secure area, get your answer straight!
On-Prem29 Jun 2018 | 155
SD cards add PCIe and NVMe, hit 985 MB/sec and 128TB
'We’re removable SSDs now’, says SD Association
Storage29 Jun 2018 | 32
Azure storage adds static HTML website hosting
Seven years after AWS S3, but just in time for serverless
Devops29 Jun 2018 | 2
Citrix.com 404s mentions of F5 Networks
Recently-litigious Citrix sinks competitive FUD docs. Why might that be?
On-Prem29 Jun 2018 | 4
