Data warehouse firm hopes more will follow Yellowbrick road for real-time analytics, speedy cloud data transfer
But the competition is fierce
06 Aug 10:38 |
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Oppo Find X2 Neo: We're not getting any slimmer through lockdown, but phones are
ReviewLovely-to-hold blower sadly missing some features for the price
06 Aug 09:54 |
National Crime Agency says Brit teen accused of Twitter hack has not been arrested
Bognor Regis man still faces 20 years in clink, though
06 Aug 09:10 |
UK insurance biz Direct Line drops 'misrepresentation' claims against IBM in £36m database platform lawsuit
Case continues over failed Project Emerald
06 Aug 08:30 | 7
Arm and Vodafone flex their muscles to show Cisco they’re fighting fit on the edge
Telcos won't give up on the dream of becoming enterprise app stores instead of dumb data pipes
06 Aug 07:58 | 1
TikTok to splurge €420m on Ireland data centre to get Euro-data into Europe by 2022
Nothing but love for regulators, but nothing for hyperscalers despite previous Google Cloud entanglement
06 Aug 07:24 | 5
Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus
UK govt portal among those borked
06 Aug 07:03 | 11
China re-shapes its silicon industry to boost production
The smaller the manufacturing process, the bigger the subsidies
06 Aug 06:32 | 7
The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant
PicOr maybe a spleen? Stomach? Snot bubble? You decide
06 Aug 06:07 | 18
Google creates secure file locker for countries where people often share smartphones
Handy service for India and Nigeria, or feature creep that constricts competition?
06 Aug 05:09 | 1
We Kana believe it! Raspberry Pi Foundation launches Japanese keyboard
Hiragana love this new peripheral after it created all sorts of firmware fun
06 Aug 04:15 | 13
USA decides to cleanse local networks of anything Chinese under new five-point national data security plan
‘Clean Network’ initiative bans use of Chinese clouds, names Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent as compromised
06 Aug 03:31 | 29
Canon not firing on all cylinders: Fledgling cloud loses people's pics'n'vids, then 'Maze ransomware' hits
'We are investigating the situation'
06 Aug 02:18 | 12
US voting hardware maker's shock discovery: Security improves when you actually work with the community
Black HatES&S takes the bold step of not ignoring vulnerability reports
06 Aug 01:09 | 6
Ever wonder how a pentest turns into felony charges? Coalfire duo explain Iowa courthouse arrest debacle
Black HatGet. The. Terms. Of. The. Audit. In. Writing
05 Aug 23:08 | 8
America was getting on top of its electronic voting machine security – then suddenly... A wild pandemic appears
Black Hat'We need to prepare for a number of scenarios that may not come to fruition' says Prof Blaze
05 Aug 21:06 | 5
Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF
Interview'Customers are trying to use Istio and having a hard time, we see this from the support ticket volume'
05 Aug 20:03 |
Google reports 80% spike of Flutter-built apps in Play Store as 1.20 is released
Autofill arrives for mobile forms, plus new viewer widget, performance and tooling updates
05 Aug 17:12 | 1
Dogged by sickly supply chain, Arista cats warn of networking gear shortages until the end of 2020
CEO bemoans looming recession and 'trade wars', but hey, we're halfway through the week
05 Aug 15:51 |
Intel, VMware collaborate on virtualized RAN platform
Helpful as Huawei is increasingly swept aside for 5G infrastructure
05 Aug 14:48 | 1
Clue's in the name: Samsung's next Galaxy Note line captures scrawls with responsive stylus then punts them over to a PC
It's good at taking notes. Plus: Tablet-sized foldable, ear beans, and more
05 Aug 14:01 | 9
Network sniffers find COVID-19 did not break the internet – though it was behind a massive jump in outages
Disruptions leapt 63% as lockdowns came into force after February
05 Aug 13:20 | 7
Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer
'Not the most glorious of returns to public market' says analyst
05 Aug 12:45 | 5
Google to pull plug on Play Music, its streaming service that couldn't beat Spotify, in favour of YouTube Music
Phased shutdown ends December, and subs will be shunted to other platform
05 Aug 12:15 | 58
UK data watchdog having a hard time making GDPR fines stick: Marriott scores another extension, BA prepares to pay 11% of £183m penalty threat
UpdatedCOVID-battered businesses win reprieve from Information Commissioner's Office
05 Aug 11:25 | 32
Google catches up to AWS and steals a march on Azure with introduction of cloudy Certificate Authority Service
Underdog gives Redmond something to think about
05 Aug 10:43 | 2
TriggerMesh hooks up with AWS EventBridge to connect 'virtually any application' with cloudy service
Welcome to the SMOKEstack, we've got fun and games
05 Aug 10:00 | 2
Austria astroboffins shed a little light on how we might track orbital junk hurtling at spacecraft during daytime
Study reckons observation window would be increased from 6 to 22 hours
05 Aug 09:15 | 2
Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment
Public and voluntary sector welcome to buy from framework agreement winners
05 Aug 08:30 | 3
Apple re-arms the iMac with 10th-gen Intel Core silicon
Now with $500 option for very special glass that makes monitors sparkle, but no home-grown CPUs
05 Aug 08:00 | 52
NSA warns that mobile device location services constantly compromise snoops and soldiers
It might be best not to ask how the NSA knows this and why it advises most mitigations don’t help
05 Aug 07:29 | 67
What a good eye-dea: Battery-less, grain-of-sand-sized 2.4GHz transmitter to help save your eyesight
Wireless sensor to show 'how the body is responding in real-time' to treatment
05 Aug 07:02 | 25
China slams President Trump's TikTok banned-or-be-bought plan in the US
Beijing accuses America of working to destroy businesses it doesn't like
05 Aug 06:27 | 70
There’s no going back. We have entered the age of digital-first. Now we need to secure it
WebcastTune in and hear all about new research into the benefits of safe remote collaboration – auf Deutsch
05 Aug 06:00 |
Alibaba Cloud reduces RAM, disk size and price of some cloud servers
Tiniest instance type gets price hike and spec shrinkage
05 Aug 04:58 | 2
HPE slashes Windows Server 2019 licence costs – if you buy direct for its AMD Epyc Rome-powered servers
UPDATETwo cores for the price of one, under eleven-month ‘pilot’ scheme that Dell's also dangling
05 Aug 04:03 | 3
Chinese debt collectors jailed for cyberbullying under ‘soft violence’ laws
Threatening and insulting WeChat messages and worse earn time inside
05 Aug 02:31 | 12
Self-driving car supremo Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in the clink for stealing trade secrets from Google's Waymo
Yes, you read that right, an American exec is actually going to serve time... eventually. When he chooses
05 Aug 01:02 | 31
Microsoft forked out $13.7m in bug bounties. The reward program's architect thinks the money could be better spent
'A secure dev lifecycle has a much higher ROI than letting the public do the bug detection work for you'
04 Aug 23:43 | 20
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe – because we used astrometry: A Saturn-like world hugging its star
Mexico, US boffins used technique 'for the first time' with ground-based radio 'scopes to spot exoplanet
04 Aug 22:46 | 3
Mozilla doubles down on anti-tracking tech: It'll be tougher for wily ad-biz cookie monsters to track Firefox
Apple still leading in anti-cookie diet, Google – predictably – in the rearguard
04 Aug 20:58 | 33
As the world descends into madness, it's good to see some things never change: Monthly Android patches
Qualcomm bugs among the worst – including a critical hole in wireless networking
04 Aug 20:15 | 15
European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy
'New investigation casts fresh uncertainty over the deal,' says analyst
04 Aug 17:47 | 10
They say the tooth will set you free... so Brit dentist trade union tells members: 'Bad news – we've been hacked'
Bank account numbers and sort codes may have been accessed by intruders
04 Aug 16:32 | 8
Wrap it before you tap it? No, say Linux developers: 'GPL condom' for Nvidia driver is laughed out of the kernel
Facebook's man told: 'OK, now you are just trolling us'
04 Aug 15:45 | 79
Virgin Media CEO says Brit broadband biz 'performed well' in Q2, which is a weird way to say losses almost tripled
More customers, more coverage, but profit proves elusive
04 Aug 15:00 | 16
Uncle Sam blames best pal China as Taidoor crew's dirty RAT takes aim at Western orgs, some have their doubts
Hello, 2009 called, they said they've got an email for you
04 Aug 14:06 | 1
You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing
Modelling suggests massive second wave without major improvements
04 Aug 13:00 | 149
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: Fondleslab sales shoot up to festive season levels as folk work from home
Sorry, it's a bit early for Crimbo singalongs, isn't it?
04 Aug 12:17 | 8
University of Cambridge to decommission its homegrown email service Hermes in favour of Microsoft Exchange Online
Institute says the knowledge needed to run it is fading, but the move wasn't without opposition
04 Aug 11:48 | 141
Workplace Technology latest division to be jettisoned from Capita – back into the hands of its original owner
Outsourcing giant's boss Jon Lewis continues to swing the axe
04 Aug 11:19 | 3
Maker of SonarQube defends DevOps product's security after source code leaks blamed on bad configurations
'Most companies' want to make code 'completely transparent' SonarSource claims – but not outside the firewall
04 Aug 09:26 | 1
Bored binge-watchers bork beleaguered broadband by blasting bandwidth: Global average speeds down 6.31%
You can guess why – but in some places internet actually got faster
04 Aug 08:30 | 30
Aviation regulator outlines fixes that will get the 737 MAX flying again
Software upgrade to deliver less lethally-stubborn automation
04 Aug 07:56 | 102
China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to frag-tastic IDs
Gotta catch 'em all
04 Aug 07:32 | 35
Doctor, doctor, got some sad news, there's been a bad case of hacking you: UK govt investigates email fail
Former trade minister Dr. Liam Fox named as source of leaked trade docs
04 Aug 07:01 | 79
Is securing Office 365 still a future project for your business? Better act now – the future is already here
WebcastNo excuses left – we'll help you on the fast road to compliance
04 Aug 06:00 |
Google reveals washable phone case, plus the new midrange Pixel 4a that goes inside it
Also teases 5G handsets, but says they won't reach India or Singapore
04 Aug 05:04 | 15
Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device
Bluetooth and GPS widget will be used to enforce home COVID quarantine
04 Aug 03:57 | 15
Trump bans Feds from contracting H-1B workers and makes telehealth the new normal
Also touts scheme to have USA to pocket finder’s fee for allowing TikTok sale
04 Aug 02:59 | 26
Leaky AWS S3 buckets are so common, they're being found by the thousands now – with lots of buried secrets
When will this madness end?
03 Aug 23:47 | 45
Assimilation completed! HPE says it has finished the merger with Cray and unveils combo supercomputing lineup
All aboard the exascale express
03 Aug 23:23 | 13
Days after President Trump suggests pausing election over security, US House passes $500m for states to shore up election security
Chances of it getting enacted in time for November – slim to almost nil
03 Aug 20:51 | 34
Apple's big trouble in not-so-little China – culls 30,000 apps from its Middle Kingdom App Store in legal crackdown
Game developers face local license law that could 'devastate' iOS revenues
03 Aug 19:39 | 8
UK Defence Committee chair muses treating TikTok like Huawei: So eyeball its code then ban it from the country?
Chinese-owned vid app reportedly moving HQ to London
03 Aug 17:36 | 9
If you're on invite-only tech-testing scheme, take care with Amazon's Alexa-powered answer to Google's Glass
iFixit reveals repair won't be trivial
03 Aug 17:00 | 24
Alarming news: ADT to flog Nest smart home kit after Google ploughs $450m into corporate security dinosaur
Resell agreement set up amid plans to build next gen of home automation and security gear
03 Aug 16:15 | 5
Linux Foundation rolls bunch of overlapping groups into one to tackle growing number of open-source security vulns
OpenSSF to take projects from CII and OSSC under its umbrella
03 Aug 15:44 | 11
Psst, free advice: You need a hybrid multi-cloud – and here are three reasons why
WebcastWe'll show you how to build that one platform to rule them all
03 Aug 15:00 |
'We stopped ransomware' boasts Blackbaud CEO. And by 'stopped' he means 'got insurance to pay off crooks'
CRM biz doesn't 'anticipate any kind of material financial impact' but can't say same for those whose data was nicked
03 Aug 14:02 | 30
Virgin Galactic pals up with Rolls-Royce to work on Mach 3 Concorde-style private jet that can carry up to 19 people
Same height, bit faster, same wing layout as iconic 1960s airliner
03 Aug 12:59 | 91
In the halcyon days before Brexit, takeover attempts, and COVID-19, HP made 1.3% pre-tax profit on sales at UK limb
PC giant blames restructure costs
03 Aug 12:40 | 6
Struggling company pleads with landlords to slash rents as COVID-19 batters UK high street. The firm's name? Apple
Yes, the one with a $193.8bn cash pile
03 Aug 11:08 | 69
Dynabook Portégé X30L-G: So light, you might even forget about its terrible keyboard
ReviewBut otherwise a capable machine for the road warrior
03 Aug 09:24 | 24
Brit local authority appoints a systems integrator in leap to Oracle cloud, but support time-bomb is already ticking
This should have been started a year ago, Solihull council docs say
03 Aug 08:30 | 5
Microsoft to Cortana: you’re not going out dressed in iOS or Android, young lady!
Third-party skills and smart speaker incarnations also discontinued
03 Aug 08:02 | 33
Co-inventor of the computer mouse, William English, dies
Doug Engelbart had the idea. Bill English did the engineering and made the first ever mouse
03 Aug 07:33 | 31
A tale of mainframes and students being too clever by far
Who, Me?Behold, the Move of Certain Doom
03 Aug 07:02 | 78
Architect of tech contractor tax fraud scheme jailed for at least five years
Payroll company kept over $70m of tax and founders spent it lavishly
03 Aug 06:32 | 35
Oh cool, more Cisco patches to apply. Happy Monday
In BriefMeanwhile, KDE desktops can be pwned by evil archives
03 Aug 06:03 |
AWS adds database on-ramp to its Arm-powered instances
Automation tool RDS can now push MySQL and PostgreSQL onto Arm, MariaDB coming soon
03 Aug 05:01 |
World takes tablets during COVID lockdowns, with shipments spiking 18%
Apple leads in shipments, but also records the slowest growth among branded fondleslab-flingers
03 Aug 02:56 | 9
Linus Torvalds pines for header file fix but releases Linux 5.8 anyway
Lots of love for AMD and POWER 10 and a hint of some Google's operational code making it into future releases
03 Aug 01:24 | 36
Microsoft confirms pursuit of TikTok after Satya Nadella chats to Donald Trump
‘Appreciates President Trump’s personal involvement’ and promises so much security, you’ll be tired of securing
03 Aug 00:38 | 90
US drugstore chain installed anti-shoplifter facial-recognition cameras in 200 locations – for eight years
In briefPlus: Latest hardware results from MLPerf and why so-called text deepfakes are dangerous
02 Aug 13:15 | 34
Lizards for lunch? Crazy tech? Aliens?! Dana Dash: First Girl on the Moon is perfect for the little boffin-to-be in your life
Book reviewBook tries to sell science to girls, so our nine year-old Reg reviewer gives her opinion
02 Aug 10:01 | 24
So many stars, so little time: Machine learning helps astroboffins spot the most oxygen-starved galaxy yet
Don't bother packing your bags for HSC J1631+4426 just yet, it's 430 million light years away
02 Aug 01:58 | 10
Amazon gets green-light to blow $10bn on 3,000+ internet satellites. All so Americans can shop more on Amazon
Jeff knows you've gotta spend money to make money
01 Aug 01:43 | 74
IT giant CSC coughs up $2m after helping New York City bill Medicaid for child therapy rather than insurance cos
Biz and city officials 'frequently ignored' invoice rules, prosecutors said
01 Aug 00:13 | 14
Who was behind that stunning Twitter hack? State spies? Probably this Florida kid, say US prosecutors
Alleged 17-year-old mastermind among trio charged over account mass hijackings
31 Jul 22:28 | 51
We give up, Progressive Web Apps can track you, says W3C: After 5 years, it decides privacy is too much bother
UpdatedYou lot sort it out
31 Jul 20:02 | 32
The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*
The RPG*If you have a PlayStation 4
31 Jul 17:30 | 29
How to democratise IT: Tech big four hoover 63% of global cloudy infrastructure spending
No, we have not used the term 'digital transformation'... oh bugger
31 Jul 16:12 |
All the way to Reno: Oppo's latest mid-ranger going global but lacks 5G compared to similarly specced models
It'll be a tough sell against the OnePluses and Motorolas around
31 Jul 15:00 | 8
An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day
Don't worry if one's loitering in your garden, it'll buzz off in a while
31 Jul 14:15 | 22
For Apple's latest trick, the iCockroach – allowing it to survive while the smartphone sector faces a nuclear winter
Total vendor shipments down 88.5 million year-on-year in first half of 2020
31 Jul 13:30 | 19
First rule of Ransomware Club is do not pay the ransom, but it looks like Carlson Wagonlit Travel didn't get the memo
Exclusive$4.5m may have gone into crims' pockets after bookings biz hit by Ragnar Locker nasty
31 Jul 12:50 | 56
Seeking that perfect role? Come inside and peruse vacancies for developers, testers and DataOps Leaders
Job AlertGet 'em while they're hot
31 Jul 12:08 |
Elite name on Brit scene sponsors retro video games preservation project at the Centre for Computing History
Couldn't come at a better time as Cambridge museum remains closed
31 Jul 11:30 | 48
13 – lucky for some, but not BT because that's how hard pre-tax profits crashed in Q1
COVID-19 ravages former state monopoly as nearly all divisions shrink
31 Jul 10:59 | 8
Burn baby burn, plastic inferno! Infosec researchers turn 3D printers into self-immolating suicide machines
Inflammatory findings from deadly serious investigation
31 Jul 10:15 | 53
Dutch Gateway store was kept udder wraps for centuries until refit dug up computing history
Cow about that?
31 Jul 09:15 | 64
In the market for a second-hand phone? Check it's still supported by the vendor – almost a third sold are not
That means no security updates, which puts users at risk of compromise
31 Jul 08:30 | 58
EU tries to get serious on cybercrime with first sanctions against Wannacry, NotPetya, CloudHopper crews
Russian, Chinese, Nork groups named in bank asset freeze
31 Jul 07:55 | 14
Venerable text editor GNU Nano reaches version 5.0 and adds the modern frippery that is scrollbars
Three big upgrades since 2018 suggests it's far from terminal
31 Jul 07:28 | 54
'I'm telling you, I haven't got an iPad!' – Sent from my iPad
On CallCareless autoreplies cripple email at the heart of local government
31 Jul 07:02 | 235
Voyager 1 cracks yet another barrier: Now 150 Astronomical Units from Sol
20 light hours from Earth and still sending home data
31 Jul 06:36 | 82
Fun fact: If you noticed a while ago Zoom's web client going AWOL for a week, it's because someone found a passcode-cracking hole
Story behind a hasty teardown, fixing of a brute-force vulnerability
31 Jul 06:25 | 8
Twitter says spear-phishing attack hooked its staff and led to celebrity account hijack
Attack came in waves that probed for staff with access to the creds crims craved
31 Jul 05:27 | 19
Legendary Li-ion battery boffin John Goodenough to develop gel power packs with South Korea's SK Innovation
Won't degrade. Won't catch fire. Will be a fine fit for electric vehicles
31 Jul 05:03 | 15
Australia to force Google and Facebook to pay for news and reveal algorithm changes before they whack web traffic
And is willing to fine them hundreds of millions if they don't play nice
31 Jul 04:06 | 28
Glum Alphabet execs look up from red-ink ad figures. What will we do, they ask. Ahem, coughs Google Cloud
Chocolate Factory's as-a-service stuff grows as advertising, profit takes a tumble
31 Jul 02:57 | 7
When you're stuck at home in a pandemic, what do you do? Watch TV, play music, use apps, buy laptops, gadgets... Stuff that Apple touts
And stuff that Cupertino just banked billions from
31 Jul 02:11 | 2
Amazon's coronavirus symptoms: Swelling of the profit, large sales deposits, insatiable demand
When the economy's tanking, who ya gonna call? Jeff Bezos!
31 Jul 00:56 | 9
Intel, boffins invent an AI Clippy for code: Hi, I see you're writing another lock-free bloom filter. Can I help?
Proof-of-concept algorithm-matching system paves way for more complex recommendation engine
31 Jul 00:07 | 9
