Coronavirus

We've made it: Microsoft deems El Reg relevant enough to have a play with the nerfed version of its upcoming Xbox

Review Not sure if we should be honoured or offended, but the Series S is a huge step up from its predecessor

Personal Tech05 Nov 2020 | 39

Trump H-1B visa crackdown hit with legal double whammy: Tech giants, Chamber of Commerce challenge rules

'Foreign-born scientists, engineers, developers of emerging technology, other highly skilled workers' locked out of America

Science03 Nov 2020 | 33

Protecting the NHS: NCSC fended off lots of meddling aimed at UK health orgs while ransomware ramped up

But annual report doesn't mention China once

Security03 Nov 2020 | 3

Just cough into your phone, please... MIT lab thinks it can diagnose COVID-19 from the way you expectorate

Coming soon to an app, maybe

AI + ML31 Oct 2020 | 53

Update to NHS COVID-19 app brings improved warnings, end to 'ghost' notifications

It's all about timing, apparently

Software29 Oct 2020 | 32

Much like the British on holiday, NHS COVID-19 app refuses to work with phones using unsupported languages

Issue affects Android devices but fix said to be imminent

Software28 Oct 2020 | 48

SAP stock price crashes 23%, €28bn wiped out as firm warns of Klein(er) revenues, profits ahead due to COVID-19

SAP: Look into the cloud, look around the cloud... you're under. Market: Nope

Software26 Oct 2020 | 10

Finding remote working a bit of a grind? Microsoft staffers feel your pain

Gloomy workers unlikely to moan about open plan again as office reopening slides to July 2021

Legal23 Oct 2020 | 27

NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app is leaving some unable to access government self-isolation grants

'That button is there on the app' says minister. How many times have you heard a client make wild claims about functionality?

Software23 Oct 2020 | 45

Coronavirus outbreak triggered a rush of online attacks against retail loyalty schemes, Akamai reckons

Digital souks are sitting ducks for identity fraudsters

Security21 Oct 2020 | 6

UK test-and-trace coronavirus data may be handed to police to nab those who aren't self-isolating as required

Plod 'involvement' could deter testing, says doctors' union

Security19 Oct 2020 | 52

Your web browser running remotely in Cloudflare's cloud. That's it. That's the story

Social distancing isn't just for surviving the pandemic – now this internet giant can add it to your browser

SaaS15 Oct 2020 | 20

COVID-19 security tips: Ensure you sack your staff without leaving their IT access enabled, says Secureworks

Infosec biz issues mildly off-the-wall guidance for incident responders

Security15 Oct 2020 | 26

'Facebook simply would not exist today if not for Bletchley Park,' says social network – but don't hold that against it

Zuckerberg and UK government throw code-breaking site funding lifeline

Security14 Oct 2020 | 33

'You've got the old cheeky Corona': Ireland's pandemic advice SMS service can be spoofed, warns researcher

Get cell broadcast tech in, urges onetime Lulzsec white hat

Security12 Oct 2020 | 3

Microsoft tells staff work-from-home is now ‘standard’ – with caveats galore

Boss has to agree, home time not to exceed 50 percent and let’s talk about salary if you leave town

Personal Tech12 Oct 2020 | 51

Alibaba and pals grab £35m in Jisc contracts to give overseas students access to UK courses during pandemic

Bulk of deal focuses on secure, high-performance connectivity to China

Networks09 Oct 2020 | 8

From the Department of WCGW: An app-controlled polycarbonate lock with no manual override/physical key

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Did we mention where it goes? Plus: LinkedIn trolling and other lockdown fun

Bootnotes09 Oct 2020 | 83

Welp, it is the season for silicon mega-mergers... AMD rumored to be in advanced talks to buy FPGA slinger Xilinx for $30bn+

Let the chips fall where they may

Science09 Oct 2020 | 17

Death of the PC? Do me a favour, says Lenovo bigwig: 'I'm expecting the biggest growth in a decade... for 2021'

Canalys Forum 2020 Exec adopts a build-and-they-will-come mentality

On-Prem07 Oct 2020 | 38

What a Hancock-up: Excel spreadsheet blunder blamed after England under-reports 16,000 COVID-19 cases

Updated All amid a second wave of the bio-nasty

Software05 Oct 2020 | 286

Institute of Directors survey says most bosses expect no mass return to the office if COVID-19 crisis ever ends

Remote working here to stay for many

Legal05 Oct 2020 | 54

UK privacy watchdog confirms probe into NHS England COVID-19 app after complaints of spammy emails, texts

Exclusive Officials say it was a 'matter of public health importance to encourage people to download the app'

Security01 Oct 2020 | 110

Looking for a new hobby to kill the COVID-19 blues? Join NASA's Planet Patrol to hunt for alien worlds

Video You, over there, rustle up a warp drive while we're finding a new galactic pad

Science01 Oct 2020 | 7

Bill Gates lays out a three-point plan to rid the world of COVID-19 – and anti-vaxxer cranks aren't gonna like it

Aunty Mabel on Facebook thinks he is a Bond baddie (spoiler: he's not)

Legal30 Sep 2020 | 184

NHS England awards £1.6m deal to build digital staff 'passports' in fight against coronavirus second wave

Leaving it a bit late, aren't we? They better be blue

Software30 Sep 2020 | 24

NHS COVID-19 app's first weekend: With fundamental testing flaw ironed out, bugs remaining are relatively trivial

Shaky start out of the gates and still some issues, but at least it's here

Software28 Sep 2020 | 144

Too many staff have privileged work accounts for no good reason, reckon IT bods

Ever seen a Trello board you thought you shouldn't? If you're in UK or US, you're not alone

Security28 Sep 2020 | 78

NHS COVID-19 launch: Risk-scoring algorithm criticised, the downloads, plus public told to 'upgrade their phones'

So... totally seamless then

Applications24 Sep 2020 | 119

UK ICO fines biz profiteering from COVID-19 crisis by sending unsolicited marketing texts to Joe Public

Digital Growth Experts Ltd hit send on 16k+ messages. The fine? £3.70 per text

Security24 Sep 2020 | 14

England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data

Just in time for the second wave and new movement restrictions

Software24 Sep 2020 | 222

With the robotic process automation market taking off, it wouldn't be like Microsoft to not grab a slice of the action

Ignite Redmond to take baby steps on desktop while established vendors turn gaze to enterprise deployments

Software23 Sep 2020 | 1

Your latest security headache? Ed from accounting using his kid as an unpaid helpdesk

Techie teens, not IT support, tasked with helping work-from-home parents sort out vid calls, Word and Excel files, antivirus – survey report

Security23 Sep 2020 | 47

Humans suck so much at beating this pandemic that Microsoft has made an AI to enforce social distancing

Ignite 'People analytics' tool touted to count folks, measure how close they are via video cameras

AI + ML22 Sep 2020 | 26

Cisco bets on real-world events with overseas audiences resuming in late 2021

Branded tat and disrupto-talks could return - albeit nine months later than usual in Oz plague capital

Networks22 Sep 2020 | 2

Top 5 billionaires find that global pandemics are good for business – and their wallets

Richest boys' club wealth grew by $101.7bn between March and June

On-Prem18 Sep 2020 | 26

Fighting an insurer over lockdown payout? UK policyholders just won an important COVID-19 test case

After wrangling the small print over countless Skype for Business meetings (yes really)

On-Prem16 Sep 2020 | 9

QR-code based contact-tracing app brings 'defining moment' for UK’s 'world beating' test and trace system

Remember when The Reg told you in 2012 that they were taking over?

Software11 Sep 2020 | 72

Entertainment-productivity mashups, lockdown tablets and 5G on the desktop: Tech show shakes stylus at post-COVID world

IFA 2020 How many of you lot need help from an app to cook a steak?

Personal Tech09 Sep 2020 | 4

Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan

Opinion State aid needed to nurture the UK’s first-trillion dollar tech company, political puppet-master claims

Legal08 Sep 2020 | 252

As Amazon pulls union-buster job ads, workers describe a 'Mad Max' atmosphere – unsafe, bullying, abusive

Special report El Reg speaks to those battling the dog-eat-dog regime in internet giant's warehouses

Personal Tech02 Sep 2020 | 165

Tech industry might have weathered the storm so far, but challenges will be felt from next year, Unit4 boss warns

Interview ERP outfit picks its battles in darkening enterprise software cloud

Software02 Sep 2020 | 1

What rhymes with 'boom' and is veritably raking it in thanks to the coronavirus pandemic?

Do people even know alternative videoconferencing software exists?

SaaS01 Sep 2020 | 28

50%+ of our office seats are going remote, say majority of surveyed Register readers. Hi security, bye on-prem

Reader research We asked hundreds of IT decision makers where their priorities lie – here are the results

On-Prem20 Aug 2020 | 49

While the world pushes back against COVID-19, Facebook has a pandemic of a different sort – medical misinformation

And antisocial network's efforts to stop spread aren't working, says Avaaz

Personal Tech19 Aug 2020 | 40

Please stop hard-wiring AWS credentials in your code. Looking at you, uni COVID-19 track-and-test app makers

In America, student schools you!

Security17 Aug 2020 | 41

UK govt reboots A Level exam results after computer-driven fiasco: Now teacher-predicted grades will be used after all

F**k the algorithm, indeed

Software17 Aug 2020 | 135

HPE hopes COVID-19 clouds will pass as UK limb's sales down for third year in a row

Why does it always rain on me?

On-Prem14 Aug 2020 | 4

NHS tests COVID-19 contact-tracing app that may actually work properly – EU neighbors lent a helping hand

Not just Germany stepping up to the plate – Ireland, too, we're told

Applications14 Aug 2020 | 125

Ink tanks park themselves all over the lawns of Western Europe as orders flood in

Get off my grass! ... And onto my WFH desktop

On-Prem13 Aug 2020 | 45

COVID-19 has done what Microsoft and Intel couldn't – given people a reason for a PC upgrade

Lenovo says online sales soared in Q1 and has new hyper-plan for its data center unit

On-Prem13 Aug 2020 | 6

What looks like a global pay freeze, sounds like a global pay freeze, but isn't a global pay freeze? Ask IBM

Exclusive HR boss warns staff Big Blue will 'suspend' salary reviews, shunt rises into 2021

On-Prem12 Aug 2020 | 15

Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'

250 'true Mozillians' laid off, Taiwan office completely shuttered

Software11 Aug 2020 | 62

Dreams feel real while we're in them, don't they Salesforce? 'Critical' virtual event Dreamforce faces the axe

'Obviously a critical brand' says CEO Benioff as he calls off online occasion

SaaS11 Aug 2020 | 1

UK lockdown easing heralds the return of burgers... and bork

Bork!Bork!Bork! Eat out to BSOD?*

Bootnotes11 Aug 2020 | 19

Super Cali COVID count is somewhat out of focus, server crash and expired cert makes numbers quite atrocious

Computer glitch followed by senior public health resignation in Golden State

Systems10 Aug 2020 | 28