We bought a knockoff Lego launchpad kit from China for our Saturn V rocket so you don't have to
Master builder or vastly inferior?
Software
Oracle starts to lose patience with Solaris holdouts
Users who won’t upgrade to 11.4 given three-year warning of unpleasantness to come
Video
Good news: Boffins have finally built room-temperature superconductors. Bad news: You'll need a laser, a diamond anvil, and a lot of pressure
Lead scientist explains all to El Reg: 'Pressure is the most versatile parameter to create such conditions'
Software
LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice's 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to 'do the right thing' and die
And point everyone at LibreOffice, ta
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Artificial Intelligence
AI cleans up sat radar images so scientists can better spot warning signs before volcanoes go all Mount Doom
Goodbye, Dave
16 Oct 01:15 |
Personal Tech
After Trump, Congress, Supreme Court Justice hit out at tech giants' legal immunity, now FCC boss wants to stick his oar in, too
Pai says he wants to 'clarify' Section 230's 26 words
16 Oct 00:08 | 1
Updated
If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish
And the world breathed a sigh of relief?
15 Oct 22:00 | 11
Cloud
Your web browser running remotely in Cloudflare's cloud. That's it. That's the story
Social distancing isn't just for surviving the pandemic – now this internet giant can add it to your browser
15 Oct 21:44 | 3
Software
Has Apple abandoned CUPS, the Linux's world's widely used open-source printing system? Seems so
After only one public Git commit this year, penguinstas think: Fork it, we don't need Cupertino
15 Oct 20:30 | 6
Security
One alleged Dridex money-launderer set for US extradition, beams UK's National Crime Agency
They nicked six alleged perps last year but only one was charged
15 Oct 19:28 | 1
Security
COVID-19 security tips: Ensure you sack your staff without leaving their IT access enabled, says Secureworks
Infosec biz issues mildly off-the-wall guidance for incident responders
15 Oct 17:30 | 8
Software
Vivaldi heads back to '80s with a pixel-pushing release of its Chromium-based browser
Fiddling with configuration and getting nostalgic in version 3.4
15 Oct 16:45 | 2
HPC
Nvidia signs up for an Italian Job: Building for Europe the 'world's fastest AI supercomputer' by 2022
You were only supposed to blow the bloody bytes off!
15 Oct 16:00 | 4
Networks
Dutch telco KPN goes its own Huawei, picks Ericsson for its 5G core network
'Yet another nail in the coffin' says analyst as former fan NL's biggest operator looks to Sweden
15 Oct 15:01 | 1
Security
Security much? Twitter should have had a CISO to prevent Bitcoin hack, says US state financial body
Plus: Platform censors US newspaper and triggers ordure tsunami
15 Oct 14:15 | 6
Cloud
NHS looks to the market for advice on one system to replace two separate, giant Oracle ERP and HR systems
A hornet's nest within a can of worms running systems worth billions of pounds..
15 Oct 13:47 | 22
Software
Microsoft will adopt Google Chrome's controversial Manifest V3 in Edge
Thought Microsoft would resist Google's ad-friendly tweaks to the browser extension API? Think again
15 Oct 12:36 | 11
Software
Even 2020 cannot bring forth the Year of Linux on the Desktop
Windows Subsystem for Linux or Linux Subsystem for Windows? Who cares, 'open source has won', says Microsoft MVP and Canonical engineer lead
15 Oct 11:34 | 30
Software
LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice's 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to 'do the right thing' and die
And point everyone at LibreOffice, ta
15 Oct 10:12 | 71
Bootnotes
We bought a knockoff Lego launchpad kit from China for our Saturn V rocket so you don't have to
Master builder or vastly inferior?
15 Oct 09:01 | 73
Security
Microsoft would love to hear about 'critical bugs' in .NET 5.0 ahead of the 'unified' platform's November launch
Dare ye use RC2 in production?
15 Oct 08:04 |
Security
Remember when Zoom was rumbled for lousy crypto? Six months later it says end-to-end is ready
But it’s a tech preview and requires opt-in for every meeting
15 Oct 07:33 | 13
Promo
Your digital transformation strategy works for everyone ... except your employees. Does that sound familiar?
Here’s how to make sure truly everyone benefits
15 Oct 07:00 |
Zerto beefs up backup, DR and in-AWS-cloud protection
Pavilion Data adds drive rebuild swarms, extra checksums and standby controllers
Backup a second: Datto aiming to raise half a billion dollars in Oct 21 IPO
Cohesity hooks up with AWS to pipe data management-as-a-service at users, starting with backup
Software
Oracle starts to lose patience with Solaris holdouts
Users who won’t upgrade to 11.4 given three-year warning of unpleasantness to come
15 Oct 06:02 | 35
Video
Good news: Boffins have finally built room-temperature superconductors. Bad news: You'll need a laser, a diamond anvil, and a lot of pressure
Lead scientist explains all to El Reg: 'Pressure is the most versatile parameter to create such conditions'
15 Oct 05:35 | 39
Personal Tech
China watches 170,000 years’ worth of short videos every day
Which goes a long way towards explaining why Tencent just engineered a mega-merger of streaming services
15 Oct 04:05 | 9
Business
Infosys declares local service delivery is great – for customers and avoiding regulatory hassles
No H-1Bs? No worries! Especially with 99 percent of staff working from home to help costs fall and Q2 results soar
15 Oct 01:58 |
Updated
Confirmed: Barnes & Noble hacked, systems taken offline for days, miscreants may have swiped personal info
Nook, line and sinker: Servers restored from backups, punters unable to download purchased e-books
15 Oct 00:41 | 24
Analysis
US Supreme Court Justice flames lower courts for giving 'sweeping immunity' to Facebook, YouTube, etc when it comes to harmful content
Clarence Thomas reckons web giants need to do more to curb abuse
14 Oct 22:29 | 33
Science
Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines
What she in lacks in ethics, she more than makes up for in persistence
14 Oct 21:33 | 108
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Networks
Comcast’s president of tech falls offline while boasting about how great cable is for connectivity
Exec blames mobile LTE, which he was definitely using as Comcast’s president of technology while being interviewed by cable body at a cableco event
Science
Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines
What she in lacks in ethics, she more than makes up for in persistence
Analysis
'20,000-plus staff' could face the chop in spin-off of IBM's IT outsourcing biz, says Wall Street analyst
Good news for Big Blue's market cap, not so much for its workers
Bootnotes
We bought a knockoff Lego launchpad kit from China for our Saturn V rocket so you don't have to
Master builder or vastly inferior?
DevOps
HashiCorp kicks off its annual Digital shindig with managed service versions of Vault, Consul config kit
And an open-source Boundary with zero trust to try out
14 Oct 20:27 |
Security
Intel celebrates security of Ice Lake Xeon processors, so far impervious to any threat due to their unavailability
But when they ship, Chipzilla promises its server silicon will 'double down' on defense mechanisms
14 Oct 19:26 | 21
Sponsored
The rise of fearware and how to fight back
A new kind of email filtering protects against fraud
14 Oct 18:30 |
Cloud
Nokia snuggles up with Google Cloud as it aims to switch off on-prem servers within next two years
Yep, there it is. 'Digital transformation'
14 Oct 17:30 | 4
Artificial Intelligence
Atlassian sprays more machine learning over its cloudy BitBucket, Jira, Confluence wares
Ouch, that 'smarts'
14 Oct 16:44 | 8
Security
McAfee rattles tin for $600m+ in fresh IPO filing valuing firm at $3.6bn
That's if shares sell at the high end
14 Oct 15:52 | 6
Personal Tech
A point of Honor: Huawei in talks to sell its youth-focused smartphone business – report
Digital China Group, TCL and Xiaomi said to be among suitors in deal potentially worth ￡2.8bn
14 Oct 15:36 | 7
Networks
Microsoft teases Azure Data Explorer connector for picking its Synapse analytics service's brains
What do you mean you're not on board the Big Data bus?
14 Oct 15:05 |
What’s the point: LLVM 11, HashiCorp Boundary, Atlassian, and OpenCV
Would you like some polish with that? Rust 1.47 shortens backtraces, looks into large array traits
The Oracle will see you now: DB bedrock introduces Cloud Observability and Management platform
MCubed Online: Join us for one day of practical tips for real-world machine learning
Security
Brit webcam criminal snared in FBI LuminosityLink creepware sting spared prison
Swindon man walks away with two-year suspended sentence
14 Oct 13:57 | 13
Personal Tech
Sailfish floats v3.4 'Pallas-Yll?stunturi', its latest Jolla good reason for itchy-fingered Android and Apple swervers
Tops Ubuntu for catchy release names
14 Oct 13:05 | 19
Business
Don't forget to brush your teeth, WFH staff told as Dropbox drops the office, declares itself 'virtual first'
But is remote working less productive?
14 Oct 11:48 | 18
Security
'Facebook simply would not exist today if not for Bletchley Park,' says social network – but don't hold that against it
Zuckerberg and UK government throw code-breaking site funding lifeline
14 Oct 10:29 | 33
