How IT titan's 'Incentive Plan Letter' anti-contract is starting to unravel Analysis A 17-year veteran of IBM is suing the American giant claiming it failed to pay him promised sales commissions – a charge made by other Big Blue salespeople in at l…
Lees meerOpen-source design for Root of Trust chips The OpenTitan project – an open-source design for a Root of Trust (RoT) SoC (System on a Chip) based on RISC-V and managed by a team in Cambridge, UK – was teased by Google along with several partners today…
Lees meerPlans to aggregate it with other databases should be discussed, says ethics group An independent ethical advice group has raised concerns about the UK Home Office's £842m Biometrics programme, which will store millions of people's highly sensitive b…
Lees meerTransform your IT to lighten the load on developers Webcast Skilled developers are a precious asset, so organisations are understandably anxious to make the most of their valuable time in the face of competing requests and projects.…
Lees meerPlus summary of everything else announced at Windows titan's Florida shindig Ignite Microsoft has announced Azure Arc, which extends the Azure management portal to embrace services running on-premises or on other clouds.…
Lees meerBumps up engineer total for UK & Ireland to 4k - but is that enough? Sky's broadband and TV arm will hire 1,000 new staff members, half of whom will be engineers.…
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Lees meerFTC tells Senator staff reports are confidential The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has refused to release an infamous report into Google’s anti-competitive behavior, claiming that staff reports are exempt from America's Freedom of Information Act.…
Lees meerStock crashes by 25%+ on weaker sales outlook The share price for Arista Networks has crashed after the network switch maker warned of a sudden softening to its turnover due to a "cloud titan" customer cutting back on its spending plans.…
Lees meerUnfortunately, these things need internet to work The tech behind the £1bn justice system modernisation programme, intended to digitise the process against a backdrop of court closures, has been slammed by Brit MPs.…
Lees meerSexual assault reports under investigation Greater Manchester Police have confirmed they are investigating two allegations of sexual assault against Lawrence Jones, who stepped down as boss of UKFast yesterday.…
Lees meerPower to the people... in charge of IT – phew! Microsoft has done an about-face on its plan to let folks bypass their Office 365 administrators and purchase Power Platform tools willy-nilly for work.…
Lees meerJoin El Reg and experts from Google Cloud and Trax for top advice and info Webcast It’s hard to find an IT decision maker or strategist who doesn’t dream of being able to deploy and manage applications without obliging the company’s administrators …
Lees meerAll divisions flat or down as firm tries to up its fibre plans Higher spectrum fees and content costs were blamed by BT for a wobbly bottom line at the half-way stage of its financial year.…
Lees meerWife takes the reins pending investigation Lawrence Jones, founder and boss of Manchester hosting provider UKFast, has stepped down while an internal investigation probes allegations of sexual assault, harassment and bullying made against him.…
Lees meerWhere should you keep a safe copy of your biz data? Synology has an idea Sponsored Software-as-a-service has become the norm, rather than the exception, for small businesses. For example, on productivity and collaboration, it’s now difficult to fin…
Lees meerLawmakers, ISPs and cable companies all vying to get a piece of the action Analysis It’s amazing how a couple of billion dollars focuses the mind.…
Lees meerWe need your insights, please – and it'll take just a few minutes Reader survey Do you work in financial services? Are you plugged into conversations about all of the extra unstructured content flying around your organization as a result of everyth…
Lees meerAcquisition cracks Europe for US data centre giant US data centre biz Digital Realty is proposing a takeover of Dutch colocation flogger Interxion for an eye-popping $8.4bn.…
Lees meerStrong Ryzen, Epyc performance hampered by slow sales for semi-custom AMD saw strong desktop and server processor sales tempered by a dip in its trade of semi-custom games console chips.…
Lees meerJoin us and Qumulo next month to explore and discuss digital strategy to data practicality Webcast Let’s keep this simple. You’re looking to move to the cloud because you know just how powerful the model can be. You’ve seen what's possible when you…
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