Sound familiar? Yes, you read it on El Reg last July The Ministry of Defence has today re-announced for the third time that it has awarded a £30m contract to build a great big feck-off laser cannon for zapping the Queen's enemies.…
Lees meerApple says its App Store welcomed 2017 with its busiest single day ever on New Year’s Day, capping a record-breaking holiday season. There were nearly US$240 million in purchases. read more
Lees meerQuark has announced an extension to the “QuarkXPress 2016 Buy One, Get One” offer. From now until Jan. 31, everyone who purchases or upgrades to QuarkXPress 2016 will receive a second license, worth $849, completely free. Get all the details about t…
Lees meerNow that 2016 is over, some companies are taking time to look back and recap how they fared last year. And now Apple has shared some stats showing us how the App Store did. New Year’s Day 2017 was the single biggest day ever on the App Store – with…
Lees meerOld-school PRC response to the 140-character kid Incoming US president Donald Trump has been reprimanded by China for indulging in “Twitter diplomacy”.…
Lees meerGovernment's obsession is a load of hot air, claims professor The government should ignore the 5G hype and invest its £700m funding earmarked for the technology on ubiquitous 4G technology instead, a top telecoms expert has urged.…
Lees meerCapparsa (http://www.capparsa.com/) has released TimeTag 5.0, an update to the syncing-enabled time tracking solution for macOS. It’s designed for freelancers and achievers. TimeTag features …
Lees meerBigs up its vSphere replacement creds Unlike what's happening with the famed Athenian ruin, Nutanix is building up its Acropolis product, and has made v5.0 available with more than 45 new features.…
Lees meerBigs up its vSphere replacement creds Unlike what's happening with the famed Athenian ruin, Nutanix is building up its Acropolis product, and has made v5.0 available with more than 45 new features.…
Lees meerBetter mother matching needed Troubling new findings have been discovered that could affect the lives of (misleadingly* branded) "three-parent" offspring born thanks to breakthrough mitochondrial replacement therapy.…
Lees meerShard this for a game for forks! Mega Mountain View SQL decision 'coming' The cloud wars won't be won on price – but customers are waking up to the costs, according to Google.…
Lees meerShard this for a game for forks! Mega Mountain View SQL decision 'coming' The cloud wars won't be won on price – but customers are waking up to the costs, according to Google.…
Lees meerAnd the year hyper-converged infrastructure put a dent in SANs Storage Review in 2016 Storage in 2016 saw its on-premises SAN/filer array heartland assaulted by the public cloud on the one hand, and hyper-converged and software-defined storage on t…
Lees meerAnd the year hyper-converged infrastructure put a dent in SANs Storage Review in 2016 Storage in 2016 saw its on-premises SAN/filer array heartland assaulted by the public cloud on the one hand, and hyper-converged and software-defined storage on t…
Lees meerMighty Trojan probe will eye up biggest metal ball in Solar System Vid NASA has OKed two new missions to study some of the most interesting asteroids in our solar system, as part of its ongoing Discovery mission program.…
Lees meerSGX needs I/O protection, Austrian boffins reckon Intel's Software Guard Extensions started rolling in Skylake processors in October 2015, but it's got an Achilles heel: insecure I/O like keyboards or USB provide a vector by which sensitive user dat…
Lees meerSpammer opts for penal colony Russia is reportedly letting convicted crackers take a seat in its offensive operations units, as an alternative to doing time.…
Lees meerCalling 'tinkerers and thinkers' America's Federal Trade Commission has kicked off a challenge to see who can come up with good ideas for securing the Internet of Things.…
Lees meerPublishing system makers say it's a hoax Updated A hacker is claiming to have breached the FBI's website security, dumping staffers' email addresses and SHA1-scrambled password hashes with salts online. Meanwhile, the makers of the site's publishin…
Lees meerBoffins get best fix so far on mysterious 'FRB' location Sorry to say this, but fast radio bursts still aren't alien communications. There is a surprise, however, in the latest science about them – the only repeating burst yet known comes from a "pu…
Lees meerHR staffers, crap corporate spam filters, in VXer sights Criminals are posing as job applicants to drop ransomware into human resources departments.…
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