Idle hands are SETI's workshop Who, Me? Monday is upon us and International Bacon Day is but a fleeting memory. Join us, pork lovers and swervers alike, in welcoming the week with another entry in The Register's Who, Me? feature.…
Lees meerEveryone's looking to cash in on the race to next-gen network With 5G increasingly touted as an alternative to existing fixed-line broadband connections, Taiwanese semiconductor biz MediaTek has pushed out its latest chipset for next-generation rout…
Lees meerHanding out ThinkAgile in Microsoft, VMware and Nutanix flavours Lenovo has whipped the covers from a range of server hardware and services that targets businesses finding themselves suddenly at the sharp end of a march to remote working.…
Lees meerAnyone can make infosec mistakes, but Cisco isn't anyone COMMENT Cisco this week launched a version of WebEx Classrooms, a version of its online collaboration suite tweaked for educational purposes and promised to enable “secure hybrid learning”.…
Lees meerThe Reg talks to the experts about how to manage spend Feature Spinning up services on public clouds is dead easy, but what about staying in control of the bill?…
Lees meerMeanwhile, UK languishes in 47th according to Cable.co.uk rankings The UK has slipped down the global broadband speed rankings and now sits at 47th place, according to a new report from Cable.co.uk.…
Lees meerNo one wants them – including all of Britain’s top brands Nominet is at it again: the .uk registry operator has emailed owners of .co.uk domain names to panic them into renewing .uk domains they never wanted in the first place.…
Lees meerAstroturfing, political postururing and invective, as the future of the internet becaomes partisan Comment A flawed consultation into Section 230 – America's safety blanket that shields online platforms like Google and Facebook – has already devolv…
Lees meerSouth Carolina crook jailed for 2 years after flogging $340k of purloined Cisco kit A former IT security director was yesterday given a two-year prison sentence after he admitted to stealing and reselling dozens of networking switches from a county …
Lees meerSeems the only things being generated by Pentagon deal are legal arguments The ongoing JEDI pantomime took another turn today [PDF] as Oracle's challenges to the handling of the winner-takes-all $10bn cloud contract were rejected by a US Court of Fe…
Lees meerFor when precision isn't so important Microsoft shone light today on a new type, Half, lurking within the depths of .NET 5 Preview 7, aimed at adding another IEEE 754 format as well as saving a bit of storage space.…
Lees meerDo people even know alternative videoconferencing software exists? The coronavirus pandemic has been kind to videoconferencing service Zoom, which has seen Q2 2021 revenues soar by 355 per cent year-on-year on the back of widespread adoption by busi…
Lees meerAt registry operator, money talks and everyone else is ignored Analysis Nominet has backtracked on a plan to give itself control of .uk's multi-million-pound domain-name-expiration market following an outcry by its members.…
Lees meerPlus: Time to dump that old backdoored ZTE mobile hotspot In brief Cisco has warned hackers are crashing or crippling its networking kit out in the field by black-holing all available memory via specially crafted IGMP packets.…
Lees meerThere be dragons, say US authorities, so first planned US-HK cable darkens its last leg Google and Facebook have dumped plans to build an undersea cable between the US and Hong Kong after after US security agencies warned that Beijing could use the …
Lees meerCloudflare fingers intertwined BGP and Flowspec SNAFUs Internet backbone operator CenturyLink has experienced an outage that degraded performance of major web companies around the world.…
Lees meerWe're apart but never more together – tune in to make your remote infrastructure sing Webcast As remote and dispersed working continues – and is likely to continue to do so until a COVID-19 virus vaccine is fully deployed, and then some – the IT in…
Lees meerFirm not the only SaaS-y outfit to enjoy bumper results during pandemic In what has been a bumper week for SaaS slingers, cloudy HR and finance application specialist Workday has shovelled 20 per cent more sales onto its top line and slashed losses.…
Lees meerWhat happened? No info. *Total Inability To Support Users with the Particulars It's Friday at month's end just before a Bank Holiday – Pay and Bills Day – and users of Santander's UK arm have been unable to use online banking and apps since 9:49 AM …
Lees meerBrushing away the cobwebs of decades-old code like Indiana Jones On Call What's that coming over the hill, could it be Friday? Hurrah! Time to settle down for a reminder about the dangers of over-modifying a system past its prime in today's instalm…
Lees meerNew $750m investment from Bain and strong revenue means he reckons the time is right +COMMENT Nutanix has announced that co-founder and CEO Dheeraj Pandey will retire from the role once a replacement has been found.…
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