Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications
(2020/06/01)
Here's hoping the winner does a better job than Sopra Steria
UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme
(2020/06/01)
And if you win, we'll make it into a kitemark
75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain
(2020/06/01)
There are perks to starting out as online-only, says Gartner
SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station
(2020/06/01)
Even the aircon worked in the Muskmobile
Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler
(2020/06/01)
Who, Me? Beware the forgotten bit of test text lurking in the application
Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround
(2020/06/01)
Workstation has one job: running VMs. And now it can do it on Windows with Hyper-V enabled
80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds
(2020/06/01)
As he gives us version 5.7 with support for Apple power tech and better exFAT
The inevitable coronavirus-inspired cyber-attacks are stepping up. Are you ready?
(2020/06/01)
They’re not very sophisticated, but they’re working: Watch and learn how to fight back
Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots
(2020/06/01)
Roundup Plus: Amazon mulls snapping up self-driving startup
Singapore to accelerate digitalisation of COVID-kicked economy
(2020/06/01)
New agency will hustle small retailers onto digital payments and teach seniors how to Internet
Australia to refund $720m in 'debts' determined by dodgy algorithm
(2020/06/01)
May well have been killer algorithm, too
Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack
(2020/05/31)
Roundup Plus other news from infosec land this week
They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station
(2020/05/30)
Video Bob and Doug are first humans launched into orbit by Elon's Muskteers
Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn
(2020/05/30)
Video There's a starship waiting for the sky, he'd like to come meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds
Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election? There were no hacks
(2020/05/29)
'No evidence of damage to network or computers, no evidence of theft, damage, or loss of data'
Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam
(2020/05/29)
Land Of The Free to List All The Websites You Use
Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays
(2020/05/29)
Probing by El Reg 's Chris Mellor highlighted in class-action complaint
The top three myths of cloud data protection – busted
(2020/05/29)
SaaS is no replacement for disaster recovery as we're about to find out next month
High-level musical chairs continue at SAP as yet another senior exec departs
(2020/05/29)
Chief beancounter for cloud quits for pastures new
Nokia's reboot of the 5310 is a blissfully dumb phone that will lug some mp3s about just fine
(2020/05/29)
No Wi-Fi, no newsfeeds – just you, 2G, and your awful music taste
Compassion -- that's the one things no machine ever had. Maybe it's
the one thing that keeps men ahead of them.
-- McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3