Google dangles bundle of cloud goodies to lure biz devs away from AWS

Ad-slinger pushes its very own version of Lambda, opens YouTube and AdWords data hose Google Next '17  Google has rolled out a slew of new additions to its Cloud platform, including public release of the Cloud Functions serverless code set.…

User lubed PC with butter, because pressing a button didn't work

Same worker also thought Excel was a great app for making art ON-CALL  Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's Friday foray into a mailbag stuffed full of readers' recollections of being asked to fix things that should never have broken.…

Google dangles bundle of cloud goodies to lure biz devs away from AWS

Ad-slinger pushes its very own version of Lambda, opens YouTube and AdWords data hose Google Next '17  Google has rolled out a slew of new additions to its Cloud platform, including public release of the Cloud Functions serverless code set.…

John Carmack claimt miljoenen dollars ZeniMax wegens overname id Software

John Carmack klaagt zijn voormalige werkgever ZeniMax aan omdat hij nog 22,5 miljoen dollar van dat bedrijf tegoed zou hebben. In 2009 nam Zenimax id Software over en afgesproken zou zijn dat Carmack daar 45 miljoen dollar aan verdiende. Hij zou maa…

'Nigerian princes' snatch billions from Western biz via fake email – Interpol

Cybercrime even has its own religion in Ghana Spoofed email and malware hidden in attachments netted crooks in West Africa more than $3bn in three years from businesses.…

DeepMind. Blockchain. Medical records. Google. AI – wow, we just won machine learning bingo!

Nah, trust us, there is something to this Google-stablemate DeepMind is creating a blockchain-like system to show how sensitive medical data passing through its processors will be used, allowing healthcare professionals to check if data has been tam…

Google’s AI subsidiary turns to blockchain technology to track UK health data

LG G6 poll: Quad DAC, wireless charging, or 64GB?

'Ondanks verbetering nog steeds veel overheidswebsites zonder https'

De Open State Foundation heeft opnieuw onderzoek uitgevoerd naar het gebruik van een https-verbinding bij de homepagina's van overheidswebsites. Ondanks een toename van het aantal https-pagina's is slechts iets meer dan de helft van de homepagina's …

Calibre 2.81

Versie 2.81 van Calibre is uitgekomen. Calibre is een opensource- en crossplatform-e-bookbeheerprogramma. Het kan onder meer alle relevante informatie en kaftafbeeldingen opzoeken, en e-boeken converteren om ze geschikt te maken voor de diverse soor…

BOAR-ZILLA stalks Fukushima's dead zone

Wild boars in empty towns are nastily radioactive, but sadly remain normal size and lack atomic breath Radioactive wild boars have become a problem in the evacuation zone around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant.…

America's Marine Corp steamy selfies scandal, a Senate probe – and El Reg to the rescue

Image archive torn offline after we raise alarm Next Tuesday, US Senators will hold a special hearing into America's ongoing military sex scandal. Archives of compromising snaps of female US Marine Corps fighters are being shared online, and the Sen…

Messaging app Viber is adding self-destructing chats for its 800 million users

Asking Alexa ‘who poop?’ is a wild ride

Fear-mongering political populists sparked futile surveillance boom in UK, USA, says UN

Special Rapporteur calls for privacy as a right, but also for International Data Warrants The United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy has heavily criticised new surveillance laws in France, Germany, the UK and the USA, saying they…

Zerto SNAFU can cause data corruption on Nutanix boxen

DR upstart's board adds chap with data loss experience: Yahoo! CFO Ken Goldman Nutanix users protecting their data with Zerto software need to pay close attention to the latter's recently-released 5.0U2 as it fixes a problem that could cause data co…

Zerto SNAFU can cause data corruption on Nutanix boxen

DR upstart's board adds chap with data loss experience: Yahoo! CFO Ken Goldman Nutanix users protecting their data with Zerto software need to pay close attention to the latter's recently-released 5.0U2 as it fixes a problem that could cause data co…

Elon Musk promises Australia a huge new battery farm in less than 100 days or it’s free

Microsoft to close its social network on a week's notice – and SIX people complain

Low-profile So.cl was an experiment, not a flop. Promise Microsoft will close So.cl, its very low-key social network, on March 15.…

Public IPv4 drought: Verizon Wireless to stop handing out static addys

There's nothing for it but IPv6. And potentially new kit Verizon Wireless will soon stop issuing public static IPv4 addresses to its business customers “due to a shortage of available addresses.”…

MAC randomization: A massive failure that leaves iPhones, Android mobes open to tracking

Security flaws smash worthless privacy protection Analysis  To protect mobile devices from being tracked as they move through Wi-Fi-rich environments, there's a technique known as MAC address randomization. This replaces the number that uniquely ide…