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GNOME Foundation's new executive director sparks witch hunt Holly Million faces scorn despite proven job record OSes24 Oct 2023 | 82
IBM shows off its sense of humor in not-so-funny letter leak Internal memos detail discontinued Dad-joke products Bootnotes23 Aug 2023 | 55
Security needs to learn from the aviation biz to avoid crashing Black Hat video 'Until someone has to go to jail for doing it wrong the teeth are not going to be the same' Security11 Aug 2022 | 89
Spot the irony: India's Reserve Bank says outsourcing and offshoring are risky So risky that new guidelines are needed to ensure engagements don't go pear-shaped Security14 Feb 2022 | 11
Who's Intel Inside and Outside today: PC chip boss installed after EVP heads for exit – plus next CFO named 25-year veteran Michelle Johnston Holthaus appointed alongside beancounter from Micron Personal Tech11 Jan 2022 |
Tech Bro CEO lays off 900 people in Zoom call and makes himself the victim Video 'The last time I did this, I cried' says Better.com CEO Vishal Garg Off-Prem07 Dec 2021 | 118
UK government rolls out £3.6bn management consultancy framework amid scrutiny of rising external expertise spending Accenture poised to get contracts for hardware, software and IT advice as mega-pie sliced On-Prem30 Sep 2021 | 16
Surprise! Developers' days ruined by interruptions and meetings, GitHub finds If you want to be happy at work, never meet more than twice a day Devops25 May 2021 | 31
FSF doubles down on Richard Stallman's return: Sure, he is 'troubling for some' but we need him, says org And we're so sorry for not warning staff or anyone else about his board reelection, adds foundation Software12 Apr 2021 | 138
Intel couldn't shrink to 7nm on time – but it was able to reduce one thing: Its chief engineer's employment What, or rather, who's that going under wheels of Chipzilla's bus? Science27 Jul 2020 | 87
GNU means GNU's Not U: Stallman insists he's still Chief GNUisance while 18 maintainers want him out as leader Now-removed personal website statement sparks confusion Software07 Oct 2019 | 182
Why do cloud leaks keep happening? Because no one has a clue how their instances are configured McAfee study finds poor setups, even worse visibility Security24 Sep 2019 | 31
NPM Inc settles union-busting complaints on third try – after CEO trolled for ordering internal mole hunt Stuffed mole toys arrive at JavaScript biz after chief exec demands to know who was talking to El Reg Software02 Jul 2019 | 43
Dead LAN's hand: IT staff 'locked out' of data center's core switch after the only bloke who could log into it dies 'We can replace it but we have no idea what the config is on the device' Networks20 Mar 2019 | 160
Uber drivers game Uber's system like Uber games the entire planet App cabbies push back against controlling black-box computers Science02 Aug 2017 | 43
Want to kill your IT security team? Put the top hacker in charge BSides spills the beans on how to manage white hats at work Security14 Jul 2017 | 44
The exploding Note 7 is no surprise – leaked Samsung doc highlights toxic internal culture Exec-only presentation encourages intimidation of staff On-Prem13 Oct 2016 | 103
BOFH: Why, I LOVE work courses. Please tell me more, o wise one! Episode 11 Leadership styles ... I like Hugo Boss suits and people waving at me? BOFH14 Aug 2015 | 65
How tech bosses manage their teams for fun and profit CIO Manifesto 'Whenever I hear the word culture I reach for my org chart...' Channel26 Mar 2015 | 7
Symantec sources claim exec teams in place by April Fools' Day Have you heard the one about the Veritas brand being dug up? Channel26 Jan 2015 | 7
Google boss Larry Page gives Sundar Pichai keys to the kingdom Android, Chrome boss moves another step closer to Choc Factory's top job On-Prem25 Oct 2014 | 3
Password manager LastPass goes titsup: Users locked out Updated Customers can't get into their accounts as service topples Security12 Aug 2014 | 134
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The rise of the humans: How to outsmart the digital deluge How many times did you check your phone while reading this? On-Prem17 Jun 2014 | 14
Microsoft gins up admin-soothing Azure file vault Wanna link many VMs to one storage pool? Now you can. Monday's looking up, eh? Eh? SaaS12 May 2014 |
Review: GFI Cloud eliminates need to nursemaid Windows Help for the hard-pressed sysadmin SaaS06 May 2014 | 8
Over half of software developers think they'll be millionaires – study 'New power class' is rising 'from basements into boardrooms' Devops14 Apr 2014 | 44
Haunted Empire calls Apple 'a cult built around a dead man.' Tim Cook calls it 'nonsense' His opinion is unsurprising; the fact that he offered it publicly is On-Prem19 Mar 2014 | 50
Ballmer: 'We made more money than almost anybody on the PLANET' And then Apple came along, sighs Microsoft's soon-to-be-ex-CEO On-Prem11 Dec 2013 | 63
Dell exec tells El Reg: Privatization has fired up 'world's largest startup' SC13 Freedom to pursue 'hunches' will make make the next few years 'a scream' On-Prem26 Nov 2013 | 8
Crack our 'military-grade' email encryption and we'll give you 5% of our firm Hungarian startup tries novel bug-testing system Security05 Nov 2013 | 10
Techies with Asperger's? Yes, we are a little different... Solving fiendishly intricate tech problems? Love it. Office politics and subtext? No thanks On-Prem08 Oct 2013 | 194
HP unleashes OneView admin tool on lazy, uncooperative servers One platform to manage them all, one platform to define them Systems25 Sep 2013 | 7
Canonical adds ARM servers to Landscape control freak Shifting server management into 'hyperscale' OSes12 Sep 2013 |
Ex-Microsofties drop cloudy-apps-for-idiots box ElasticBox This can't be as easy as it sounds, can it? Applications28 Jun 2013 |
Cisco gobbles cloud power meter biz JouleX for $107m Data center energy control-freak snapped up Channel29 May 2013 |
New Intel CEO Krzanich takes reins of core product groups Management shakeup, new devices division launched On-Prem21 May 2013 | 3
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Dell snaps up Enstratius for cloud wrangling Big Mike is getting agnostic about heavenly infrastructure Channel06 May 2013 |
CIOs: Are you your CEO's business partner or their gimp? Secret CIO A Machiavellian guide for the modern CIO On-Prem14 Apr 2013 | 22
Jobs' first boss Nolan Bushnell: 'Steve was difficult but valuable' 'To most potential employers, he'd just seem like a jerk in bad clothing.' On-Prem30 Mar 2013 | 76
IBM builds next-gen cloud control freak on OpenStack Riding out of Folsom on a Grizzly to a Smart(er)Cloud SaaS04 Mar 2013 | 1
Oracle management tools top critical list in quarterly patch party No sign of a Java fix however Security11 Jan 2013 | 5
VMware crams more cloudy calories in vCloud Suite's cakehole VMworld Europe Chubby control freak now with more to grab hold of Virtualization09 Oct 2012 | 2
OpenStack certification up for grabs - if you pass its Kobayashi Maru Klingons are in your cluster, what do you do? SaaS03 Oct 2012 | 7
RackWare uncloaks self, unveils cloudy control freakery Getting physical as well as virtual Virtualization25 Sep 2012 | 1
Dell spills beans on biz app rejig after software gobble fest Texan titan also polishes control-freak appliance KACE Software25 Sep 2012 |
IT departments are BRATTY TEENAGERS Submit to tough love from ITSM father figure, says BMC process wonk On-Prem27 Jul 2012 | 86
VMware snatches cloud-furtling biz from the very jaws of Dell When you need to flip down that non-standard hypervisor SaaS03 Jul 2012 |
Top bosses admit: Tweets, Facebook Likes influence decisions 'This guy in his shed lol'd at our product - axe it' On-Prem13 Jun 2012 | 16
HP's ProLiant Gen8 control freakery 'So smart they virtually take care of themselves' Systems20 Feb 2012 | 10
Top RIM jobs shake-up: Heads roll... but not very far Comment Heins spills beans on BlackBerry rescue plan On-Prem24 Jan 2012 | 19
Sir Howard's days as Sony prez said to be numbered Younger blood may lead the struggling company On-Prem06 Jan 2012 | 11
Cloudera gets proactive with Hadoop management Updated Lets loose freebie control freak SaaS08 Dec 2011 |
Microsoft updates Intune to patch cloud pitch Offers incentives for partners to push code SaaS17 Oct 2011 | 2