DNS overload, as usual, blamed for two-day outage An app, dubbed RobinHood, designed for armchair Gordon Gekkos to trade shares and crypto-currencies with ease, fell offline for two days this week – after netizens flooded it hoping to exploit stock-…
Lees meerFears grow that letting Chinese giant into Blighty has left it 'utterly friendless' A bipartisan coalition of US senators has urged Britain to reconsider its decision to permit "high-risk" vendors, namely China's Huawei, to supply non-core elements …
Lees meerDepartment of Energy turns to HPE, AMD to flesh out monster The US Department of Energy has revealed a few more details about the supercomputer it has commissioned to simulate and study America's stockpile of nuclear weapons. This is the machine tha…
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Lees meerManagement puts on a brave face for Wall Street HPE endured a rough few months thanks to a hardware crunch and manufacturing headaches caused in part by the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus, it said Tuesday.…
Lees meerAnd policies and teams in place – on the double Uncle Sam has finally had enough: 15 years after it put out a memo telling its federal organizations they had to start moving to IPv6, it has decided to give sluggish bureaucrats a kick in the ass.…
Lees meerNational survey of ISPs flags familiar recommendations for better internet New Jersey has bested New York when it comes to broadband, according to a survey of all 2,000 ISPs across the US – and both beat the rest of the country.…
Lees meerExperts drafted in to help new hires answer customers' technical questions Amazon Web Services plans to double its sales staffing numbers this year in the face of mounting competition and slowing growth.…
Lees meerCloud data warehouse slinger claims it can help comb through event logs Cloud-native data warehouse vendor Snowflake and Edge Delta have spun up a new SecOps architecture they claim will broaden the application of analytics in a security information…
Lees meerNeeding a landline will soon be a thing of the past BT's Openreach today launched an IP-based network that aims to ultimately replace the UK's public switched telephone network (PSTN), which carries analogue voice communications.…
Lees meerOpen-source chap Boris Renski chats to El Reg about the near future Interview The co-founder of Kubernetes cloud outfit Mirantis, Boris Renski, has left the business to start a new venture focused on 5G-based "private LTE" campus networks.…
Lees meerMan who steered firm away from burning platform steps away: 'I want to do something different' Nokia Oyj will say jäähyvästi to current CEO Rajeev Suri in September, replacing him with Pekka Lundmark – who currently heads energy firm Fortum.…
Lees meerStill a monopoly in Western Euro channel, but it's smaller: shortages and AMD ROME burning Intel market share It isn't just in PCs that Intel's vice-like grip is weakening – its share of server CPU sales for standalone build-to-order (BTO) options a…
Lees meerWe're all Doomed Who, Me? Welcome to Monday. As the weekend recedes and workstations are fired up, pause a moment to travel with us to a time when an ill-judged bit of gaming took down an entire network and a Reg reader uttered "Who, Me?"…
Lees meerHardware is hard Cisco has begun a new round of job cuts as the networking giant's traditional hardware business faces slowing sales.…
Lees meerThe heat was on, risin' to the top / Everybody's goin' strong, and that's when the SPARC got hot On Call Welcome to On Call, The Register's weekly dip into the big bag of woe unleashed by users on those responsible for picking up the telephone.…
Lees meerHey – there's always Visual SourceSafe, right? Source shack GitHub has taken a tumble today with many users finding pretty much all of its services either degraded or borked beyond belief.…
Lees meerThat US investment would sound pretty good right about now Nokia is reportedly exploring the possibility of a merger or acquisition in the face of intense pressures on profitability.…
Lees meerIt's Amazon how much some people are making off cloud... about Jeffin' $40bn Google will pump more than $10bn into offices and data centres across the US this year as it gears up for a fight with rival clouds Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure.…
Lees meerPlus: World Tour Sydney event goes online only over coronavirus Lose a chief executive officer, promote a chairman and buy a company: that's how they roll at cloud-based CRM monster Salesforce.com.…
Lees meerBasic authentication will be OFF for Exchange Online email and other services from October 2020 Microsoft has doled out more details on forthcoming changes to the way mail clients authenticate to Exchange Online, the email service used by Office 365…
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