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SaaS is no replacement for disaster recovery as we're about to find out next month Webcast While moving into cloud working environments often meets a fair degree of push-back, the other side of the coin is that businesses believe throwing everything into the cloud makes them suddenly immune to any of the previous, established occupational hazards of networking technology.…

Chief beancounter for cloud quits for pastures new The departure could not have come at a worse time for SAP, but Todd McElhatton, veep and chief beancounter for the Cloud Business Group, is the latest person to hang up their hat at the German database giant.…

Chief beancounter for cloud quits for pastures new The departure could not have come at a worse time for SAP, but Todd McElhatton, veep and chief beancounter for the Cloud Business Group, is the latest person to hang up their hat at the German database giant.…

No Wi-Fi, no newsfeeds – just you, 2G, and your awful music taste The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic was the primary tormentor of late-2000s commuters*. With a powerful built-in speaker and room for a micro SD card, shellsuit-sporting hoodlums could serenade weary bus-goers with the latest computer-generated noise from the Ministry of Sound.…

No Wi-Fi, no newsfeeds – just you, 2G, and your awful music taste The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic was the primary tormentor of late-2000s commuters*. With a powerful built-in speaker and room for a micro SD card, shellsuit-sporting hoodlums could serenade weary bus-goers with the latest computer-generated noise from the Ministry of Sound.…

'In Ihrem Budget fehlen sechs Nullen' warned MP Austria's parliament came within moments of slashing its annual spending limit to peanuts after someone omitted the key words "figures in millions" from its national budget bill.…

'In Ihrem Budget fehlen sechs Nullen' warned MP Austria's parliament came within moments of slashing its annual spending limit to peanuts after someone omitted the key words "figures in millions" from its national budget bill.…

'Keeping all of the best elements from the G1'... and none of the bad, please HP has given the moribund Windows Mixed Reality market a shot in the arm by opening pre-orders for its long-teased HP Reverb G2 headset.…

Now you can program like a native with your £899 Surface Pro X – keyboard not included Good news for those who have splashed the cash on Microsoft's flagship Surface Pro X – the software behemoth has emitted an ARM64 build of Visual Studio Code.…

The Reg speaks to Blood Music about its retrofuturistic love letter to the adventure game golden age The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. 2020 (or is it 2077?) is the year of Cyberpunk on the Desktop, with CD Projekt Red due to release its hugely anticipated project in September. That's still some way away, so we are once again forgoing the enhanced capabilities of our rig in favour of something that wouldn't look out of place in Sierra's early '90s back catalogue. It's also the first video game we've heard of to be published by a heavy metal record label. Do we have your attention? Then let us enter the VirtuaVerse.…

Spawn of ALGOL turns middle-aged Pascal, a descendant of ALGOL 60 and darling of computer science courses for decades, turns 50 this year.…

Fix the crits and backload the rest later Over the first quarter of 2020, the number of security bugs disclosed by software makers fell 20 per cent though not for any of the right reasons, it seems.…

Cold weather missed approaches went left instead of right - and vice versa A very specific software bug made airliners turn the wrong way if their pilots adjusted a pre-set altitude limit.…

Wireless kit has 40 hours' battery life, but turn off the RGB fripperies and you might get 135 days Swiss peripherals maker Logitech has lifted the lid on its latest mechanical keyboard – the G915 TKL.…

Indian giant's center of power moves from Texas to Paris Wipro has named its new CEO: 25-year Capgemini veteran Thierry Delaporte will take the big chair as of July 6th.…

Cultures clash when a combustion turbine goes K-pop On Call Friday has rolled around once more, bookending a sunny week in the UK and promising a weekend free of actual work. Unless, of course, you are one of the unfortunates cursed to be On Call.…

Beats the guidance it didn’t think would survive the pandemic VMware’s financial performance appears to have been virtually untouched by the novel coronavirus, after the company today posted fiscal Q1 2020 revenue of $2.734bn – four million dollars more than the guidance it pulled due to uncertainty about the pandemic’s impact on the world economy.…

‘Natural step’ to find new leader after current one burned billions for no appreciable return The controversial CEO of money-burning virtual reality startup Magic Leap has announced he’;s leaving the job.…

GRU crew actively exploit hole – but you it patched months ago, right? The NSA has raised the alarm over what it says is Russia's active exploitation of a remote-code execution flaw in Exim for which a patch exists.…

'We couldn't find half of what should be there. It was a bit of an embarrassment' Astronomers have finally found hard-to-detect visible matter scattered across space, left over from the Big Bang, after searching for nearly thirty years, according to a study published in Nature.…

Predicts demand to drop off as component prices rise, no hint of layoff plans Dell has landed its first quarter for fiscal 2021 with a tiny dip in revenue compared to the same period last year, but warned that its usual seasonal revenue and profit surges probably won’t happen next quarter.…

Buying all the buzzwords: AI, 5G and Blockchain implementations promised China's Tencent, the owner of billion-member messaging app WeChat, has announced it will spend 500 billion yuan ($70bn) into new infrastructure over the next five years.…

Early May attack hit 600-plus hosting and cloud customers Global system integrator NTT has said someone hacked their way into its hosting and cloud services and may have accessed 600-odd customers’ data.…

Amid political theater, Section 230 protection loss dangled Analysis Following a fit of indignation at Twitter's decision to apply a fact check notice to some of his recent Twitter messages, US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that purports to limit the liability protection afforded to internet platforms when they take action on user posts.…

Startup says it's covered by the First Ammendment, ta very much The American Civil Liberties Union has sued Clearview AI for scraping billions of photos from public social media profiles, without people's explicit consent, to train its facial-recognition system.…

Chocolate Factory insists its practices have been mischaracterized Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming the ad biz employs unfair and deceptive trade practices to collect location data from mobile phones.…

The price will only go down The maintainers of OpenSSH, widely used for connecting securely to servers and devices over networks, have warned that the SHA-1 algorithm will be disabled in a "near-future release".…

Colour us shocked A £339 "anti-5G" product billed as the "first to market full-spectrum protection" appears to be nothing more than a bog-standard £5 USB stick with an LED on the end, according to Pen Test Partners.…

Scampering through spring fields, or a cautious dribble seeping under the bathroom door? After a lengthy gestation in the Insider Program, the Windows 10 May 2020 Update (aka 2004, aka 20H1) has arrived, replete with a Linux kernel in the form of the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL).…

So says Barracuda Networks, anyway Digital rogues are shunning Microsoft in favour of Google when it comes to launching branded spear-phishing attacks, according to threat intel firm Barracuda Networks.…

Have your say – we want to hear your insights and experiences Reader survey It’s a truism that not only does business rely on the information it holds, for many it is that information that pushes the organisation’s growth and prosperity. This puts the storage infrastructure and its performance firmly in management’s sights, especially as the range of demanding workloads ramps up every quarter.…

Sorry, fraud is a crime in both our countries Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou has suffered a fresh setback in her fight to avoid extradition to the US after a Canadian judge ruled her case could continue.…

Double the RAM but not double the price Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, has confirmed a doubling of the diminutive computer's RAM to 8GB for £74.…

Patch Thursday is for you, Patch Tuesday is for everyone else Apple has alerted users about a bunch of security fixes for its software on supported versions of macOS that you ought to install as soon as you can.…

Thows arms around Salesforce and Microsoft in cloudy cuddle Workday, purveyor of in-memory cloud-native HR and finance tools, has lowered its subscription revenue estimates by up to $85m for fiscal 2021 in response to the COVID-19 crisis.…

Hilarious Launched with website glitches and no associated phone app, England's Test and Trace programme - expected to help lift the nation safely out of its COVID-19 lockdown - went live this morning.…

'We appreciated your input and insights' Updated Keivan Beigi, developer of AppGet, has described how Microsoft nearly hired him to work on the open-source Windows package manager as an official feature, then went quiet for six months before announcing WinGet, which Beigi says is "very inspired by AppGet".…

The vulnerability allegedly leaked his location, making him a target for hitmen The older brother of dead Colombian cocaine warlord Pablo Escobar is suing Apple for a whopping $2.6bn over a security vulnerability that allegedly allowed miscreants to access his location via his iPhone X handset.…

Oh wait You can file this one under: "Better late than never." The General Court of the European Union has annulled an earlier European Commission ruling blocking a merger between O2 and Three on competition grounds, following an appeal from the latter.…

Trendy systems programming lingo tops poll fifth year on the trot Rust for the fifth year in a row has held its position as the most-loved programming language in Stack Overflow's annual developer survey, even if it's not the primary language for most programmers and not many jobs require it.…

Not just a bunch of complete bankers Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another entry in the pantheon of borkage. This time from an Android app demonstrating that the path to success is to first find failure.…

'Split-shift model' to safely help 'critical infrastructure workforce' do its thing Broadcom has sent staff back into corporate offices in England – though workers elsewhere in the UK can continue working remotely, a letter seen by The Register reveals.…

A dozen daring firms will duke it out for the right to get India talking and take on the world! HCL and Zoho are among the companies shortlisted in the Indian government's competition to develop a locally-made video conferencing platform for its own use.…

Dev sticks with elderly GTK+2 GUI toolkit because 'we would gain nothing' by upgrading The sound-tinkerers among you will be pleased to learn that Ardour 6.0 is out, representing a major upgrade of the open-source digital audio workstation for Linux, macOS and Windows.…

And still no sign of safe software or approval to fly Boeing has resumed production of the 737 Max, its passenger plane with software so flawed that its certification was yanked after being found to have caused two fatal accidents.…

Losses deepened, optimism increased Nutanix has beaten the interim guidance it offered investors as the COVID-19-induced economic slowdown impacted its operations.…

Unethical developers drum up bogus user counts to gain trust Efforts to manipulate installation counts in Chrome Web Store extension listings appear to be alive and well, despite a developer's personal crusade to call attention to the problem.…

Launch comes ahead of UK rolling out its controversial version Switzerland says it is the first country to roll out a contact-tracing app for the COVID-19 coronavirus using technology and a set of APIs produced jointly by Apple and Google.…

Prime Minister gives e-cash and e-government a hurry-up as Apple tunes in to its manufacturing smarts Vietnam has accelerated its adoption of all things digital.…

Trump's throwing everything at the social wall to see what will stick Opinion “In their natural habitat, when chimpanzees become angry, they often stand up, wave their arms, and throw branches or rocks – anything nearby that they can get their hands on. When chimps are removed from the wild and kept in captivity, they experience stress and agitation, which can cause them to react in the same way – by throwing things,” explains the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada.…