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22 Jun 22:00 |
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Updated
What knocked out Brit cloud slinger Memset for the night? A busted fibre cable upstream of its data centre, apparently
Multi-hour outage and customers left in the dark
22 Jun 15:45 | 11
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22 Jun 07:30 |
SaaS
SFX house Weta goes into the SaaS business with cloudy pipeline and its in-house animation tools
Code behind LoTR, Planet of the Apes and other flicks wrapped around Autodesk Maya
22 Jun 06:31 | 2
Channel
The great fire sale continues as Capita sells government joint venture Axelos for £380m
It's the longest day of the year
21 Jun 13:04 | 5
Updated
UK financial watchdog dithers over £680k refund from Google (in ad credits, mind you) for running anti-fraud ads
MPs give FCA a telling-off for wasting taxpayer money
18 Jun 14:17 | 21
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Facebook and Singapore teams looking for ways to get data centres relaxing in moist tropical climes
Heat and humidity are horrible, and your server can’t quaff a cocktail to cool off
18 Jun 02:29 | 7
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Microsoft loves Linux so much that packages.microsoft.com has fallen and can't get up
Ubuntu fans report 404 errors amid 'space issues' TITSUP*
17 Jun 14:02 | 15
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Not very sage rage over UK pay outage: Opayo says 'ohheyno' as payment processor's payments stop processing
Glitch leaves punters unable to pay for their goods and services
17 Jun 12:40 | 9
Edge + IoT
UK product safety regulations are failing consumers online, in the IoT, and … with artificial intelligence?
So the National Audit Office found in report on the Office of Product Safety and Standards, anyway
17 Jun 10:01 | 15
Updated
You had one job: Akamai's Prolexic Denial-of-Service protection system fingered after users in Australia denied, er, services
Major banks, websites, gaming services, and more taken down
17 Jun 09:15 | 6
Webcast
You've been told to do a digital transformation. First, you'll need a digital culture
Oh, you want to know how to do that? Start here…
16 Jun 09:15 |
PaaS + IaaS
Big Tech critic Lina Khan confirmed as FTC chairwoman
Promises to 'safeguard fair competition and protect consumers, workers, and honest businesses ... with vigor'
16 Jun 00:38 | 8
SaaS
Google opens Workspace to anyone with a Google account, but you'll need to cough up for the good stuff
Chocolate Factory presses home its advantage in web-based collaboration
14 Jun 16:47 | 12
SaaS
Flush with cash: UK utility Southern Water names 13 winners who'll drink up £50m application deal
Firm provides fresh water and wastewater to millions of Brits
14 Jun 13:15 | 3
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Cloudflare network outage disrupts Discord, Shopify
And its CAPTCHA alternative challenged by security researcher
11 Jun 20:53 | 7
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UK's Government Digital Service extends contracts with Post Office and Digidentity for wobbly Verify ID system
Now they've got £5m to try to stop it falling over again
11 Jun 13:02 | 8
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Amazon to bring a full region to Israel, land of large government contracts
Three availability zones prophesied to open in the first half of 2023
11 Jun 07:58 | 4
Updated
AWS Frankfurt experiences major breakdown that staff couldn’t fix for hours due to ‘environmental conditions’ on data centre floor
Cloud colossus says aircon fail caused kit to shut down, networks dropped out and EC2 instances went dark
11 Jun 01:04 | 31
Channel
UK.gov finally proposes to police rogue umbrella companies but leaves questions unanswered
Show me the money! say campaigners hoping to stamp out nefarious practices
10 Jun 15:30 | 5
Popular
Updated
Hubble Space Telescope sails serenely on in safe mode after efforts to switch to backup memory modules fail
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Personal Tech
Now that China has all but banned cryptocurrencies, GPU prices are falling like Bitcoin
Let's just check BTC-USD, oh yeah, waaay down
Column
Windows 11: Meet the new OS, same as the old OS (or close enough)
From point release to pointless release
Security
US Air Force announces plan to assassinate molluscs with hypersonic missile
No word on whether top brass considered just shelling them into submission
Register Debate
VMs were a fad fit for the Great Recession. Containers’ time has finally come
No more managing operating systems and monolithic apps? Where do I sign!
Who, Me?
Updating in production, like a boss
The pain in Spain comes mainly from a lack of training
Security
South Korea’s nuclear research agency breached by North Korea-affiliated cyberattackers, says malware analyst group
Think tank says inconsistencies in story were not a cover-up — just a mistake from “working-level staff”
Security
It's 2021 and a printf format string in a wireless network's name can break iPhone Wi-Fi
Hope no one's created guest networks called '%Free %Coffee at %Starbucks'
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Emergency mode? Bah! It takes a Microsoft product to really break a digital sign
Memory is not the only thing leaking from Windows
Networks
'Lots of failed startups came out of Campus': Google axes London hub because startup scene 'doesn't need' another 7 floors of workspace
It needs 'resources, mentors, and programs ... at scale, anywhere'
STORIES
Edge + IoT
An anti-drone system that sneezes targets to death? Would that be a DARPA project? You betcha
Hotshot snotbot shows grotty terror plot buzzbots what's what
10 Jun 09:15 | 73
PaaS + IaaS
Would-be AWS bomber pleads guilty, faces 5 to 20 years behind bars for plot to take out government servers
FBI reveals undercover employee sold him fake explosives before arrest
10 Jun 02:05 | 10
Channel
Microsoft's bricks-and-mortar retail operation set to return from the grave? Not quite
From July you'll be able to swipe credit card for kit at 'Experience Centers'
09 Jun 19:24 | 1
Edge + IoT
In this round of 'Real life or Black Mirror episode', drones that hunt down humans by listening to their screams
Plus: UAVs that can smell your poop – both for benign purposes, mind
09 Jun 13:02 | 29
Off-Prem
Fastly 'fesses up to breaking the internet with an 'an undiscovered software bug' triggered by a customer
Promises it won't happen again, expresses remorse … all the usual stuff that clouds (and Zuck) say after they stumble around making messes
09 Jun 07:25 | 111
SaaS
Indian Finance Minister throws Infosys under the bus as new e-tax portal fails on first day
Minister moved from celebrating new facility to complaining about it in a handful of hours
09 Jun 04:58 | 11
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Generous Alibaba to scatter 0.9% of annual revenue over Southeast Asia to develop tech talent and infrastructure
Also announces buttload of new products at Cloud Summit event
08 Jun 17:45 | 8
Updated
Global Fastly outage takes down many on the wibbly web – but El Reg remains standing
'Potential impact to performance' drops some of the world's biggest websites offline
08 Jun 10:46 | 103
Reader survey
Legacy applications, shiny new cloud – how do you make them work together?
Tell us what’s holding you back from the cloud or pushing you forward
08 Jun 07:25 |
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Custom HMCTS video platform bought as part of £280m digitisation project used less than Zoom, say judges
At least it was more popular than Skype... just
07 Jun 12:15 | 13
Webcast
Is your data safe in the cloud? Depends who you ask…
And if you ask your cloud provider, the answer might shock you
03 Jun 20:00 |
Sapphire Now
Lack of clarity on RISE: Transformation, implementation and data management all roles for partners. 'So, what's SAP doing?'
As Sapphire Now kicks off, users, SIs and analysts see unanswered questions
03 Jun 10:02 | 2
Channel
Massive tech-for-British-schoolkids cash pot up for grabs as UK education buyers prep £140m agreement
It is Thursday and it's framework-tastic
03 Jun 09:16 | 11
Off-Prem
Tencent Cloud adds second data centre in Germany, Thailand, and Japan, plus a third in Hong Kong
Plans to grow capacity in all 27 regions by 30 percent in 2021
03 Jun 03:58 | 1
PaaS + IaaS
IBM Cloud messes up again: Customers sent same warning email 25 times in 40 minutes
Ironically, they’re all advance notice of maintenance that's promised to improve resilience
02 Jun 23:23 | 3
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02 Jun 17:00 |
