Coronavirus

FBI boss says COVID-19 'most likely' escaped from lab

Latest claim comes days after Dept of Energy waved finger in China's direction

Offbeat01 Mar 2023 | 237

Petaflops help scientists understand why some COVID-19 variants are more contagious

'If we did one of these calculations in our lab, we are talking weeks or months'

HPC23 Feb 2023 | 14

I was reasonable to ask to WFH in early days of COVID, says fired engineer

Infrastructure company retorts that it is an 'essential' business and cites lack of medical records

Off-Prem17 Jan 2023 | 50

Crowds not allowed to leave Shanghai Disneyland without a negative COVID test

Let us go, let us gooooooo

Offbeat02 Nov 2022 | 26

Gartner predicts 9.5% drop in PC shipments

Stark contrast to 11 percent increase year-over-year in 2021 shipments

Personal Tech30 Jun 2022 | 4

Back-to-office mandates won't work, says Salesforce's Benioff

As industry and governments push to get workers crammed into commuter trains, glass box edifices, tech boss says: 'Why?'

SaaS24 Jun 2022 | 72

UK health privacy watchdog still in talks over who is accessing country's COVID data store

Over a year after discussions began, National Data Guardian continues to pursue transparency in health data use

Security14 Jun 2022 | 6

Next six months could set a new pace for work-life balance

Poll The only way to ease transition back to office is reduce the time in the office

Personal Tech07 Jun 2022 | 36

ServiceNow ordered a year's worth of hardware to avoid supply chain hassles

CTO shares datacenter secrets with The Reg: NVMe, MariaDB, mid-range x86 CPUs, S3-alike, and more

On-Prem25 May 2022 | 16

Fresh concerns about 'indefinite' UK government access to doctors' patient data

As England's controversial scheme to grab 55 million citizen's medical data is withdrawn, emergency powers are extended

Security23 Mar 2022 | 33

Outsourcing firm Serco wins £212m UK Test and Trace deal

Updated Nice work if you can get it – it bagged £322m deal for Test and Trace last year

On-Prem22 Mar 2022 | 9

Dear chip designers, if you're struggling to get components made, try 28nm. Supply set to overtake demand

Analysis Put your nodes to the grindstone

On-Prem04 Feb 2022 | 9

Microsoft sends HoloLens 2 into a care home... Nope, not a headline gag about retiring the tech. They actually did this

Hands-free kit a 'game changer' for doctors assessing residents during pandemic

Bootnotes19 Jan 2022 | 4

Billionaires see wealth double during pandemic as tech bros lead the charge

Now what – in the middle of a pandemic – is a useful thing we could do with that $800bn extra dosh, Oxfam wonders

Offbeat18 Jan 2022 | 56

Rocketing chip sales growth to ease off this year, reach $680bn, say analysts

Meanwhile Deloitte says semiconductors are 'growing as fast or faster than ever before'

On-Prem10 Jan 2022 | 5

Log4j and Omicron: Brothers in harm, mothers of invention

Opinion That which does not kill us can still ruin our Christmas

Columnists20 Dec 2021 | 36

Randox's Certifly app for vaccinated international arrivals has to be side-loaded onto Android phones

Which, alongside its £20-a-pop COVID-19 tests, isn't a great look

Software15 Nov 2021 | 32

Brit MPs blast Baroness Dido Harding's performance as head of NHS Test and Trace

Programme lacked transparency at critical stage in pandemic, report says

Databases12 Oct 2021 | 150

Zoom-o-cracy: Wales MP misses vote, allowing COVID-passport rule change, blames the IT dept

Senedd Cymru ICT crowd have earned their Friday beers

Applications08 Oct 2021 | 39

Biggest takeaway from pandemic lockdowns for Microsoft? Teams stopped talking to each other

Maybe they were using, you know, Microsoft's collaboration service

Offbeat09 Sep 2021 | 20

SAP 'investigating' after viral video allegedly shows anti-mask employee coughing on shoppers

Updated COVIDiot caught on film harassing others for following pandemic precautions

Bootnotes08 Sep 2021 | 64

Global pandemic was good for business, say UK infosec pros – but we're still burning out

Chartered Institute of Information Security reveals what you're all thinking

Security08 Sep 2021 | 5

'It takes a hell of a mental toll' – techies who lost work due to COVID share their stories

COVID Logfile III Some refined their CVs relentlessly. Others studied. Many wept, more than once. But most see an upside to their changed circumstances

SaaS07 Sep 2021 | 24

IBM looks to pandemic and post-Brexit fallout, sees nothing but money-making opportunities

Makes prediction as revenue sinks and profits evaporate at UK trading arm

Off-Prem01 Sep 2021 | 8

Gartner predicts surge in government IT spending in post-pandemic catch-up

'Unprecedented public demand' as dear leaders heave services for world+dog online

Systems31 Aug 2021 | 6

Oh the humanity: McDonald's out of milkshakes across Great Britain

Will this nightmare ever cease?

Bootnotes24 Aug 2021 | 313

More than half of companies rethinking back-to-office plans amid variant uncertainty and vaccine mandates – survey

Thought you were all set to return? Yeah, about that

Networks24 Aug 2021 | 92

GlobalFoundries confidentially files paperwork for $25bn IPO – report

Plus: Toyota, Volkswagen to cut production due to component drought

On-Prem19 Aug 2021 | 1

CES to require proof-of-vaccination at 2022 tech mega-conference

Because what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas

On-Prem18 Aug 2021 | 2

Facebook now says it won't recall staff to its offices until 2022 due to delta variant

It's the Social distancing Network™

On-Prem13 Aug 2021 | 8

Scientists reckon eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio, harder than smallpox – just buckle in for a wait

You looked like you needed some good news

Science10 Aug 2021 | 175

Microsoft to require proof of vaccination from on-site staff, pushes back full reopening

Unless your doctor or god says you can't have the jab

On-Prem04 Aug 2021 | 169

UK chancellor: Getting back to the altar of corporate dreams (the office) will boost young folks' careers

Look at what hanging around the water cooler did for me, says son-in-law of billionaire Infosys founder

On-Prem03 Aug 2021 | 114

A global pandemic and ransomware explosion makes for a bumper quarter at Google parent Alphabet

Chief exec Pichai wants to 'help people get the information they need,' even as YouTube fingered for conspiracy guff

Off-Prem28 Jul 2021 | 1

Dang vaccines dented our bottom line in the connected home sector, says Netgear

Swings and roundabouts: They also drove a 58% boost to business revenue

Networks22 Jul 2021 | 9

Apple delays recalling staff to offices until October as Delta variant romps across US

Twitter, Salesforce, Google, Microsoft have reopened, kind of

On-Prem20 Jul 2021 | 55

Happy 'Freedom Day': Stats suggest many in England don't want it or think it's a terrible idea

Coronavirus restrictions lifting, but to what cost?

Offbeat19 Jul 2021 | 243

How many Brits have deleted life-saving track and trace app from their phones? No idea, junior minister tells MPs

After a troubled birth, infamous but effective code becomes an inconvience

Software15 Jul 2021 | 91

UK govt draws a blank over vaccine certification app – no really, the report is half-empty

Maybe it's that infamous brain fog

Security13 Jul 2021 | 74

TSMC and Foxconn sign on dotted line to buy 10 million Pfizer vaccines for Taiwan

Foxconn's Terry Gou says deal had no guidance nor interference from Beijing

Offbeat12 Jul 2021 | 2

PPE, Part II: UK health department takes second stab at e-commerce system for personal protective equipment

Let's hope this time a shortage can be averted

Software05 Jul 2021 | 5

Google to bake COVID-19 vaccine passport support into Android with Passes API update

Digital vax record stored on user's smartphone

Software02 Jul 2021 | 25

Advert for coronavirus 'destroying' air 'purifier' exterminated by UK watchdog

If only it were that easy

Bootnotes24 Jun 2021 | 19

Chromebook boom won’t outlive COVID-19 pandemic, says IDC

Tablets also flattened as punters resume spending on real-world fun

Personal Tech24 Jun 2021 | 21

Deluded medics fail to show Ohio lawmakers that COVID vaccines magnetise patients

Buckeye State legislature looks on as key, hairpin fall off of entirely unmagnetic nurse

Bootnotes15 Jun 2021 | 118

Western Australia rushes out legislation after cops access contact-tracing data to investigate serious crimes

Officials fear if info is misappropriated, community will lose confidence in app

Software15 Jun 2021 | 42

Want to keep working in shorts and flipflops way after this is all over? It could be time to rethink your career moves

Feature Pandemic has opened a can of worms for our work goals with what comes next

Offbeat14 Jun 2021 | 86

Pakistan's Punjab province tells citizens to get jabbed or have their SIM card blocked

Well, that's one way to do it

Networks11 Jun 2021 | 56

Y'all ready to get back to the office this October, Facebook tells staff in the US

Sure, you can apply to work from home in the middle of nowhere, just don't expect Silicon Valley pay

On-Prem10 Jun 2021 | 15

That AI scanning your X-ray for signs of COVID-19 may just be looking at your age

In brief Plus: DARPA wants to spend $1m on AI research studying information warfare

AI + ML07 Jun 2021 | 7

Apple to summon staff back to the office in September

You don't spend $5bn on a shiny glass Ive-designed HQ and leave it empty

On-Prem03 Jun 2021 | 23

Holy margins, Batman: Pandemic tech prices balloon as demand outweighs stocks and suppliers get greedy

Hall of Shame as IT buyers admit to paying £110 for a £14 mouse and keyboard

On-Prem21 May 2021 | 40

Singapore orders social media to correct Indian politician’s allegation of local COVID-19 variant

Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act swings into action

Legal21 May 2021 | 26

NHS App gets go-ahead for vaccine passport use despite protest from privacy groups

Big Brother Watch warns app contains too much sensitive medical information

Security11 May 2021 | 51

NHS Digital booking website had unexpected side effect: It leaked people's jab status

Wanna find out if your employee has had a shot? Just lob her postcode and DoB into this website

Applications06 May 2021 | 41

Some stayed in Croatian castles. Some hid in cars. We speak to techies who experienced lockdown in very different ways

Covid Logfile II Tales from less-conventional bunkers at the height of the pandemic

SaaS05 May 2021 | 30