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Cisco takes small steps towards IT-as-a-service, more software-defined networking
For compute and SD-WAN only, with plenty of details not yet in place
09 Apr 2021 | 1
India uses controversial Aadhaar facial biometrics to identify COVID vaccination recipients
Safer than eyeballs or fingerprints, apparently
09 Apr 2021 | 2
‘Can COVID-19 vaccines connect me to the internet?’
It’s not The Register asking. The question comes from the official Australian government vaccine advice service (and the answer is ‘No’)
09 Apr 2021 | 40
Vietnam reveals state-run Alibaba-and-Amazon alternative, aims it at the EU
Government hopes to cash in on free trade agreement with B2B e-commerce
09 Apr 2021 | 16
Apple's pending privacy clampdown drives desperate marketers to overwhelm domain database
Public Suffix List halts submissions from those seeking reprieve from iGiant's rules
09 Apr 2021 | 28
Biden administration effectively slaps bans on seven Chinese supercomputer companies for military links
Organizations added to Entity list
09 Apr 2021 | 9
What's this about a muon experiment potentially upending Standard Model of physics? We speak to one of the scientists involved
'It’s an exciting prospect, but too early to say so definitively' professor tells us
08 Apr 2021 | 69
Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children
Passenger weight blunder led to wrong thrust used on takeoff, says watchdog
08 Apr 2021 | 310
W3C Technical Architecture Group slaps down Google's proposal to treat multiple domains as same origin
First Party Sets 'harmful to the web in its current form'
08 Apr 2021 | 24
South Africa's state-owned energy firm to appeal after court rules Oracle does not have to support its software
Eskom disputes results of Big Red audit
08 Apr 2021 | 48
Xen releases a new version 4.15 after a slightly delayed development process
Teases new ‘Hyperlaunch’ tech that will allow booting of whole VM fleets
08 Apr 2021 | 2
Website maker Wix embarks on weird WordPress-trashing campaign, sends 'influencer' users headphones from 'WP'
'Creepy' videos liken CMS giant to 'absent, drunken father' – but its market share is only rising
08 Apr 2021 | 30
Beloved pixel pusher Paint prepares to join Notepad for updates from Microsoft Store
You cannot kill what does not die
08 Apr 2021 | 59
Gitpod ditches Eclipse Theia for Visual Studio Code under redesign, sponsors new dev experience event
'Allowing everyone to use their favourite IDE just makes a lot of sense'
08 Apr 2021 | 4
Apple extends Find My support to third-party vendors including Belkin, Dutch bike maker VanMoof, and Chipolo
Expensive bike, earpods can now be tracked from inside the walled garden
08 Apr 2021 | 6
UK reseller sues Microsoft for £270m in damages claiming prohibitive contracts choke off surplus Office licence supplies
Updated ValueLicensing also calls for action to 'restore and maintain competition and choice in the market'
08 Apr 2021 | 34
Belgian police seize 28 tons of cocaine after 'cracking' Sky ECC's chat app encryption
Euro cops take $1.65bn of blow off the streets after poring over messages
08 Apr 2021 | 84
Ex-Geeks staff lose legal bid to claw back withheld training costs from final paycheques
Company acted fairly and reasonably, rules judge
08 Apr 2021 | 39
UK government rings £1.5bn dinner bell for software design and implementation, 54 vendors come running
Though framework agreement 'cannot guarantee any business'
08 Apr 2021 | 9
Huawei re-org: Chinese giant merges its cloud and compute business units
Reports of cloud team's demise may be premature
08 Apr 2021 | 1
There’s a whole wide world of web application firewall options – so how do you choose the right one?
Webcast Take the heat out of your firewall deployment
08 Apr 2021 |
British gambling giant Betfred told to pay stiffed winner £1.7m jackpot after claiming 'software problem'
Terms and conditions 'not transparent or fair', High Court judge says
08 Apr 2021 | 77
Greenland's elections just bolstered China's tech world domination plan
Wait... what? Strap in for the story of an Australian rare earth miner, partly owned by China, and worries about uranium dust
08 Apr 2021 | 35
Indian defense chief admits China’s cyber-weapons would ‘disrupt large number of systems’ whenever Beijing presses the button
Video Working to improve 'cyberwalls', but for now swift recovery is main strategy
08 Apr 2021 | 14
Toshiba launches cloudy managed IoT database service running its own GridDB
And ponders whether to let itself be bought by private equiteer CVC for $20bn
08 Apr 2021 | 1
Remember AMD, Xilinx were merging? Shareholders give thumbs up to $35bn deal
Let's see what the regulators say
08 Apr 2021 | 3
DoorDash delivery drivers try to manipulate the food biz's payment algorithm to earn a living wage in gig economy
The trick is to get buddies to decline low-paying jobs and check old code
07 Apr 2021 | 31
Another supply-chain attack? Android maker Gigaset injects malware into victims' phones via poisoned update
Software nasty also 'persists after a factory reset'
07 Apr 2021 | 12
AWS straps Python support to its automated CodeGuru tool, slashes prices – just don't go over 100,000 lines
Or the cost triples, which is one way to encourage concise programming
07 Apr 2021 | 9
Software in space race heats up: Microsoft eyes satellite image processing with Thales Alenia Space's digital image analyst
DeeperVision software coming to Azure Marketplace
07 Apr 2021 | 4
US national parks to be smothered under blanket of liquid-hot Magma. Yes, the open-source 5G software
Now sulky teens can TikTok while you marvel at boring nature stuff
07 Apr 2021 | 18
'Our hosted pools are under attack by abusers': Azure DevOps enjoys a midweek TITSUP*
Crypto-mining jerks at least partly to blame
07 Apr 2021 | 8
Redis Labs doubles value to $2bn in 9 months with $110m Series G funding round
SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 steps up to boost the coffers of NoSQL database biz
07 Apr 2021 | 1
UK government launches new tech watchdog – because the digital sales tax went so well
Digital Markets Unit takes aim at giants' conduct with users and advertisers
07 Apr 2021 | 1
Any old iron slowing down your cloud migration? Here’s what to do
Webcast Emulation could save you from a complete meltdown
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