They said it'd never happen, but here we are in the year of our Lord 2021 and Microsoft has its own OpenJDK flavour Timing is everything 06 Apr 2021 | 7
Ice Lake, Baby: Intel's 10nm 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable server processors to arrive at last Stop, collaborate and listen, Chipzilla's back with its brand new invention 06 Apr 2021 | 24
Their 'next job could be in cyber': UK Cyber Security Council launches itself by pointing world+dog to domain it doesn't own Shouting cyber cyber cyber, mega mega fail thing 06 Apr 2021 | 109
Another SAP in the face for Oracle: Alphabet soups up financial software by moving off Big Red systems Nothing to do with THAT court case or lack of Oracle certification on GCP. Nope. Definitely not 06 Apr 2021 | 17
Is that... is that a piece of Unikitty? Remembering Skylab via the medium of Lego Now to recreate re-entry with a short drop onto a hard floor 06 Apr 2021 | 13
CERN boffins zap antimatter with ultraviolet lasers in the hope of revealing the secret symmetry of the universe If you can't measure it, you can't research it 06 Apr 2021 | 73
Yep, the 'Who owns Linux?' case is back from the dead Column Not to worry, zombies with a gambling addiction probably won't eat your enterprise brains 06 Apr 2021 | 107
Japan tests digital currency, because all the cool kids are doing it already Starts year-long proof of concept for the basics, meanwhile China is already testing cross-border crypto-payments 06 Apr 2021 | 13
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VMware adds support for 80-core Ampere Altra chips to its experimental Arm hypervisor The ‘we think this is mostly for SmartNICs’ stance is looking a little thinner 06 Apr 2021 | 2
Twitter nukes AI-generated twits who backed Amazon and pushed anti-union rhetoric In Brief Plus: Waymo CEO is standing down, Volvo is partnering with a self-driving startup to stay relevant 06 Apr 2021 | 20
Australian ponders requiring multiple IDs to sign up for social media, plus more crypto-busting backdoors Yes, this could mean Zuck gets your passport and credit card. We’re sure he’ll take care of them properly … 06 Apr 2021 | 101
Subaru parks plans to make 58,000 cars due to brakes on silicon supply chain Workers to get earlier, longer, holiday, probably paid (fingers crossed) 06 Apr 2021 | 21
Myanmar junta suspends all wireless broadband networks until further notice As night-time internet cut-offs stretch beyond 50 consecutive days 06 Apr 2021 | 4
'Anomalous surge in DNS queries' knocked Microsoft's cloud off the web last week in Brief Plus: Top universities hit by data-stealing extortionists 06 Apr 2021 | 5
LG Electronics finally gives up cellphone business Lack of product enthusiasm in a stale market during a semiconductor drought finally killed it 05 Apr 2021 | 29
Yahoo! Answers! will! be! wiped! from! the! internet! next! month! Now we'll never know how babby is formed 05 Apr 2021 | 25
Facebook says dump of 533m accounts is old news. But my date of birth, name, etc haven't changed in years, Zuck Updated Account info swiped in 2019, sold online, now given away for free 05 Apr 2021 | 87
Over a decade on, and millions in legal fees, Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle in Java API legal war America's top judges decide copied code in Android is fair use 05 Apr 2021 | 134
No, no, let's hear this out, says judge waving away Apple's attempt to kill MacBook Pro Flexgate lawsuit Surely this back light problem would have come up in testing, court mulls 05 Apr 2021 | 19
A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do? Who, Me? Halt and catch fire 05 Apr 2021 | 172
QNAP caught napping as disclosure delay expires, critical NAS bugs revealed Updated Remote code execution hole, arbitrary file writing flaw could make a mess of stored files 02 Apr 2021 | 25
Apple begins rejecting apps that use advertising SDKs for fingerprinting users Google comes in late too 02 Apr 2021 | 44
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Absolutely fab: As TSMC invests $100bn to address chip shortage, where does that leave the rest of the industry? Analysis Semiconductor sovereignty, meet supply chain security 02 Apr 2021 | 52
Easily distracted by too many apps, too many meetings, and too much asparagus Something for the Weekend, Sir? Nothing like a steaming bowl of freshly picked spaghetti 02 Apr 2021 | 75
Yep, you're totally unique: That one very special user and their very special problem On Call Register reader finds that some Apple fans are... not very bright? 02 Apr 2021 | 195
Scientists stumped by strange X-rays from Uranus UCL astronomer tells us: 'We were surprised by our discovery' 02 Apr 2021 | 36
Indian business tech spending dips in 2020’s final quarter, lockdown workers helped boost router sales Good times for NVMe-based flash arrays and Cisco 02 Apr 2021 |
If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage Updated It's not DNS. There's no way it can be DNS... It was DNS 01 Apr 2021 | 37
In a devastating blow to all eight of you, Microsoft pulls the plug on Cortana's Android, iOS apps Chatty digital assistant can still be found on Outlook, Teams, Windows 01 Apr 2021 | 32
Turns out humans are leading AI systems astray because we can't agree on labeling Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Asking for a friend's machine-learning code 01 Apr 2021 | 114
FCC acting commissioner proposes dedicated spectrum for private space launches 'The regulatory frameworks we rely on to support these efforts are dated' 01 Apr 2021 | 4
Micron chief warns 'severe shortage' of DRAM expected to continue this year And drought in Taiwan threatens supply. Good news for firm's wallet, not so much for chip buyers 01 Apr 2021 | 9
It's been a long time coming but AWS has at last enabled an interactive serial console for de-borking VMs Handy in an emergency, but only for Nitro instances and requires work in advance 01 Apr 2021 | 16
Dutch watchdog fines Booking.com €475k after it kept customer data thefts quiet for more than 3 weeks Thousands of people's personal information purloined after UAE hotels compromised 01 Apr 2021 | 21