For blinkenlights sake.... RTFM! Yes. Read The Front of the Machine On Call Before smartphones and LCD displays there were... green lights and red lights 09 Apr 2021 | 156
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 07 Apr 2021 |