Marc Randolph

'Joan Is Awful' Black Mirror episode rebounds on Netflix

Streaming biz terms and conditions searches jump 1,524%

Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 58

No more free love: Netflix expands account sharing restrictions

A 31-day limit on how long you can be away from your home IP address is included too

Networks09 Feb 2023 | 99

Netflix changes CEO-sharing arrangement, teases paid password-sharing

Reed Hastings steps down as joint boss to become board chair

Personal Tech20 Jan 2023 | 29

Apache Iceberg promises to change the economics of cloud-based data analytics

Feature Adopted by Snowflake, Google and Cloudera, we look at why the Netflix-developed table format is important

Databases03 Jan 2023 | 6

SEC: Startup had 'no functional streaming service', raised $1.3m anyway

Asks Florida judge to sanction 'American-Latino centric version of Netflix’ for alleged fraud

Legal22 Dec 2022 | 12

Cassandra 4.1 promises dev guardrails and pluggable storage

Apache project focused on stability following previous major upgrade

Databases09 Dec 2022 | 2

Apple v Chicago streaming service tax battle ends in hushed settlement

A 9% levy on content slingers will stand in The Windy City – are others next?

Personal Tech25 Jul 2022 | 9

Netflix to crack down on account sharing, offer ad-laden cheaper options

Streaming giant plans to grow by adding new subscription tier and building up games unit

Personal Tech20 Apr 2022 | 147

South Korea sets site reliability engineering standards for Big Tech

Wants Google, Meta, Netflix and locals to work harder on uptime, warn locals of outages in Korean

Off-Prem08 Dec 2021 | 5

Netflix shows South Korea a rerun of 'We Won't Pay Your Telcos For Bandwidth'

Season Two looks like it'll be a courtroom drama

Networks08 Nov 2021 | 39

Netflix sued by South Korean ISP after Squid Game fans swell traffic to '1.2Tbps'

You better cough up for all this bandwidth, says broadband biz

Networks01 Oct 2021 | 153

Facebook used facial recognition without consent 200,000 times, says South Korea's data watchdog

Hands Zuck its second-largest fine ever, also makes Netflix pay up and warns Google to be more obvious about privacy

Legal26 Aug 2021 | 22

New on Netflix: A corporate drama in which staff are sued for abusing early access to financial data

Plus: Pearson settles case for $1m alleging it misled investors over data spillage

Legal19 Aug 2021 | 15

Cassandra 4.0 release held back after Apple engineer discovers last-minute bug

Bid to build the most stable iteration of the columnar database has its price

Databases19 Jul 2021 | 4

Ex Netflix IT ops boss pocketed $500k+ in bribes before awarding millions in tech contracts

Pay-to-play bungs required to do business with video-streaming giant

Off-Prem03 May 2021 | 40

Netflix reveals massive migration to new mix of microservices, asynchronous workflows and serverless functions

Goes deep on Docker and adopts ‘strangler fig’ pattern to replace legacy platform

Applications02 Mar 2021 | 39

Netflix chooses its own judgment in 'Bandersnatch' case: Settle and make the nasty lawsuit go away

Maybe next time Brooker can choose to write a proper Black Mirror episode

Bootnotes26 Nov 2020 | 24

Pakistan calls on Facebook to extend holocaust denial ban into Islamophobia crackdown

As comms minister says nation will create its own regulated Netflix clone

Legal26 Oct 2020 | 50

DaaS-appearing trick: Netflix teases desktops-as-a-service product

Aimed at VFX creators working on shows it has commissioned, not the rest of us sadly

SaaS20 Jul 2020 | 6

Indonesia slaps 10 percent tax on three Googles

But only on one AWS, one Spotify and one Netflix - and zero Microsofts

Legal09 Jul 2020 | 5

Netflix says subscriptions just boomed but tells investors it's no money heist and they should expect stranger things

And starts deploying TLS1.3 to make streams faster and more secure

Security22 Apr 2020 | 28

Watch your MANRS: Akamai, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Google, and pals join internet routing security effort

Filtering, anti-spoofing, coordination, validation to prevent crooks, spies hijacking victims' connections

Networks31 Mar 2020 | 9

Netflix starts 30-day video data diet at EU's request to ensure network availability during coronavirus crisis

Looks like you'll have to stream Derry Girls in lower resolution for a bit

Networks20 Mar 2020 | 105

Broadcom sues Netflix for its success: You’re stopping us making a fortune from set-top boxes, moans chip designer

Where there's a hit, there's a writ

Personal Tech17 Mar 2020 | 76

Like other tech giants, Netflix gets govt takedown demands – and impressively, none of them involve Adam Sandler

Nor any requests to remove the works of Rob Schneider, Kevin James, or Ashton Kutcher, sadly

Personal Tech07 Feb 2020 | 37

Imagine an Upside Down world where a vastly inferior OS went on to dominate... Stranger Things have happened

Confirmed: Windows 1.11 is a thing. Kind of

OSes08 Jul 2019 | 70

FAANGs for the memories: Breaking up big tech's biggest isn't a matter of if, but of when

Column Everyone's had enough of their sh!t

Legal26 Mar 2019 | 45

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

Say GDP-aaaRrrgh, streamers: Max Schrems is coming for you, Netflix and Amazon

Updated Apple and others also in firing line as complaints filed

Legal18 Jan 2019 | 27

World+dog did 107% more tech, telco and media deals this year so far

Analyst pins global deal values at $371bn for first half 2018

On-Prem06 Aug 2018 | 1

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

Ex-Netflix veep allegedly banked payola for tech deals with web TV giant

Michael Kail's House of Cards tumbles, now Orange is his New Black, potentially

Personal Tech02 May 2018 | 5

Amazon and Netflix join Hollywood to lob sueball at 'Kodi' service SetTV

No surprise really

Legal23 Apr 2018 | 26

Gmail is secure. Netflix is secure. Together they're a phishing threat

Google doesn't recognise dots in email addresses, which creates an opportunity for evil

Security10 Apr 2018 | 142

What ends with X and won't sue security researchers?

Netflix lures bounty-hunters, Dropbox offers vulnerability research safe harbour

Security22 Mar 2018 | 3

Meltdown's Linux patches alone add big load to CPUs, and that's just one of four fixes

Netflix chap predicts streamer will cop slowdown between 0.1% and 6%

OSes12 Feb 2018 | 47

Mine all the data, they said. It will be worth your while, they said

When instrumentation goes too far

Devops10 Jan 2018 | 11

Netflix silent about ridicule as it discusses punters' viewing habits

Vid biz's admission shows that no data is private

Personal Tech12 Dec 2017 | 81

Netflix mulls using AI to craft personalized movie trailers for viewers

Boffins experiment with machine-learning-edited promos to lure ppl to its flicks

AI + ML06 Dec 2017 | 29

Give us a bloody PIN: MPs grill BBC bosses over subscriber access

Sketch Now that's a hard one

Legal07 Nov 2017 | 104

'App DDoS bombs' that slam into expensive APIs worry Netflix

Attackers can look legit while hitting APIs that make the most work for an app

Security01 Aug 2017 | 8

Facebook may print money but thirsty Wall Street wants more

Analysis Monetising video... RU serious, Zuck?

On-Prem27 Jul 2017 | 15

systemd'oh! DNS lib underscore bug bites everyone's favorite init tool, blanks Netflix

Repeat after me: _ is allowed in domain names

Software24 Jul 2017 | 150

Tapping the Bank of Mum and Dad: Why your Netflix subscription is poised to rise (again)

Analysis Valley's funding new companies that end up looking just like the old ones

On-Prem19 Jul 2017 | 35

Sniffing the scent of free publicity, Google and Facebook steamroll into net neutrality protest

Didn't talk to organizers, don't have any plans yet

Personal Tech07 Jul 2017 | 3

In the week Uber blew up, Netflix restates 'No brilliant jerks' policy

Forget free sushi, gyms or Steve Jobs clones. Netflix values fearless sharing

On-Prem22 Jun 2017 | 78

Oh, wow, Canada: No more carrier-locked phones for Canucks

And no fees for unshackling mobes, either – all from December this year

Personal Tech15 Jun 2017 | 26

Auntie sh!tcans BBC Store after 18 months

Customers offered Amazon vouchers or a full refund

Personal Tech25 May 2017 | 73

EU pegs quota for 'homegrown' content on Netflix at 30 per cent

Streaming service argues it'll result in lower quality work

Personal Tech25 May 2017 | 46

TCP/IP headers leak info about what you're watching on Netflix

Not even HTTPS can hide your secret Gilmore Girls fetish

Security12 Apr 2017 | 36

Linux-using mates gone AWOL? Netflix just added Linux support

Brace yourselves, netadmins, streamer's promising more and chunkier vids everywhere

OSes22 Mar 2017 | 47

Netflix treats security ills with Stethoscope: Open-source self-probing tool

Software scrutinizes device defenses, is better than just yelling IT policies at staff

Security22 Feb 2017 | 6

Euro bloc blocks streaming vid geoblocks

Now your soaps can come on holiday, too

Legal09 Feb 2017 | 30

Facebook's dabblings in TV suggest Zuck isn't actually a genius after all

Comment Just... why?

Personal Tech02 Feb 2017 | 40

BBC surrenders 'linear' exclusivity to compete with binge-watch Netflix

Vows to dump entire series on iPlayer before they air on TV

Personal Tech11 Jan 2017 | 142

Hollow, world! Netflix premieres Java in-memory database toolkit

Store modestly sized databases locally and avoid cache maintenance

Databases05 Dec 2016 | 11