All except Italy, that is For the second year in a row, the UK is second worst in the G7 league of industrial nations for broadband speed, only faster than Italy, according to a report published today.…
Lees meerSmartphone software set to link more services to patients despite privacy fears NHS Digital has awarded IBM a £52.4 million ($60.2 million) contract for supporting and developing the NHS App, which the UK government plans to make the standard way fo…
Lees meerTo sell or not to sell... that is the national security assessment, decision delayed once more The UK government has asked for more time to make its final decision on whether to retroactively approve or block the sale of Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) comp…
Lees meerIt’s an eight-bit affair for the Apple II, complete with Flying Toasters and many other upgrades Apple will on September 7th stage one of its live infomercials to launch products expected to include this year’s iPhone – complete with satellite messa…
Lees meer16-year-old feature request to fix it judged so hard it doesn’t offer bang for buck – to Atlassian After The Register covered the eleven years and counting wait for Atlassian to deliver custom domain names for its cloudy products, readers pointed ou…
Lees meerMaybe it’s putting the savings into new discounts for Windows Server and M365? Microsoft has told its north American partners they can’t pay it with checks starting from December 1st.…
Lees meerAlso separatism, nationalism, and whether Big Tech does enough to police user-generated content India’s IT minister has picked a fight with Wikipedia after alleging that Pakistani entities edited a page describing a member of the men’s national cric…
Lees meerCan tech hold its own among an overflowing in-tray? Former foreign secretary Liz Truss has been voted in as the UK's next prime minister – at least by about 80,000 Conservative Party members – and will face a barrage of policy decisions. Questions o…
Lees meerFrom the department of 'what fresh hell?' Weddings already suck, and the tasteful wedding is becoming ever rarer. If the ceremony is not at a Victorian folly that costs more to book than a normal person's annual salary, you could well be in for a di…
Lees meerLaunch postponements also a part of the writeoff as company pins hopes on SpaceX OneWeb has taken a $229.2 million hit after it cancelled launches from Russia's Baikonur facility, and a number of its low Earth orbit satellites that were waiting to b…
Lees meerSLS rocket is a mix of old and new NASA's Space Launch System might look like a mishmash of heritage Space Shuttle parts but it's all new hardware, and the team who built the twin boosters and engines have been talking about the challenges of bringi…
Lees meerCulture secretary talks up pre-Commons reading as UK waits to hear who new leader will be On the day the UK is set to appoint its new prime minister, digital and culture secretary Nadine Dorries is introducing legislation in Parliament she promises …
Lees meerWe trawled through the licensing terms and spoke to the vendors so you don't have to Feature For developers, there is no debate. The future of the database is open source. A glance at the 2022 Stack Overflow survey of around 70,000 code-wranglers s…
Lees meerJust one big GUI mess Opinion The sight of a former executive laying into their old company is rarely less than delicious. And when that company is Microsoft, the exec is head of user experience, and the complaint is about the solid slab of sadness…
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Lees meerWindows Defender update fixed the mess after a weekend of false positive weirdness Microsoft appears to have fixed a problem that saw its Defender antivirus program identify apps based on the Chromium browser engine and/or Electron JavaScript framew…
Lees meer‘I had a sharp new suit and a misplaced sense of confidence’ – and made a costly mistake Before you shell out big bucks to engage the services of consultants, perhaps consider this week’s instalment of Who, Me? and the adventures of a reader we’ll c…
Lees meerPilot scheme running in Europe, APAC, sees ad giant still take a four percent cut Google has started a test of alternative payment systems in its Play store.…
Lees meerEscalation of targeted threats is an ‘emergency’ that required ‘dangerous’ decision ‘we are not comfortable with’, says CEO Cloudflare has decided to stop providing its services to Kiwi Farms, just days after defending the site’s eligibility for its…
Lees meerPLUS: Australia mints a physical crypto-coin; Alibaba Cloud claims world's biggest DC; India’s space airbags; and more China will conduct a three month blitz to cleanse the local internet of "rumors and false information".…
Lees meerTop official spells out simply why America is going back to the Moon Interview "There is no SpaceX without NASA," Thomas Zurbuchen, an associate administrator at the US space agency's Science Mission Directorate, told The Register this week as a Fa…
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