LIGO cranks up the sensitivity to sniff out gravitational waves
The instrument that proved Einstein right is back
Science26 May 2023 | 6
Lindsay Clark has been writing about business technology for more than 20 years, starting at PC Week in the late 1990s. He went on to manage the news team at Computer Weekly in the early 2000s. His career was waylaid by music, which merited brief session appearances on BBC radio shows including those hosted by Mark Riley, Janice Long and Whispering Bob Harris. As a freelance journalist, he has written for The Financial Times, The Guardian and a list of B2B titles as long as your arm. He joined The Register in February 2020.
IR35 costs UK Research and Innovation £36M – the same it spent funding tech projects
Quango tax blunder follows similar payments from Defra and MoJ
Science26 May 2023 | 16
Before you sprinkle AI on all your analytics, check data quality
Gartner asks for some fundamentals in a slew of AI-in-analytics announcements
Databases25 May 2023 | 3
Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster
Doubts over Birmingham’s decision to replace SAP in plan once hailed an exemplar win by Larry Ellison
Databases25 May 2023 | 72
Facial recog system used by Met Police shows racial bias at low thresholds
Tech used at King's Coronation employs higher thresholds on once-only watch-lists, Met tells MPs
Security25 May 2023 | 19
Lightning just as frightening on Jupiter as it is on Earth
Juno probe strikes at the similarities despite differences in planets' size and structure
Science24 May 2023 | 5
TikTok to let Oracle view source code, algorithm, and content moderation
It's all in the name of national security as Trump-era collab continues in Project Texas
Security23 May 2023 | 10
Keir Starmer's techno-fix for the NHS: Déjà vu disaster or brave new blunder?
Opinion Beware over promising benefits and underestimating complexity
Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 132
SAP's cloud drive hits speed bumps with American users
ERP giant losing points on execution and flexibility
Databases23 May 2023 | 3
UK told it must double low carbon investment to meet net zero targets
Complexity also a problem across 115 funding streams, watchdog says
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week23 May 2023 | 41
Excess profits on Motorola's Airwave estimated to be £1.3B
UK competition regulator begins consultation on price controls for controversial blue light network
Networks22 May 2023 | 12
Boeing takes flight in sustainability battle with carbon data cruncher
Analytics to grok impact of competing greener tech as industry seeks environmentally friendly path
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week18 May 2023 | 2
NHS England spends £8M to extend Microsoft deals by a month
Updated Good day at the Office for Windows giant as nurses still fight for pay raises
PaaS + IaaS18 May 2023 | 52
Up to £895M up for grabs in UK Emergency Services procurement
Here we go again: Next piece in troubled ESN upgrade
Networks18 May 2023 | 15
SAP gets cloudy with a chance of AI in bid to woo on-prem brigade
HR chatbots and more as maintenance deadline looms
AI + ML17 May 2023 | 2
Supernova peekaboo could provide clues to our universe's age
Gravitational lensing technique offers hope in cracking cosmological conundrum
Science16 May 2023 | 7
Qlik's got Talend as visualization vendors merge
Private equity investor Thoma Bravo's portfolio swells
Databases16 May 2023 | 2
MariaDB CEO: People who want things free also want to have very nice vacations
Former MySQL fork launches attack on hyperscaler database services with support for multiple front ends
Databases16 May 2023 | 44
Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess
Opinion Brexit-supporting offshore merchant wonders what has happened to all the investment
Science15 May 2023 | 414
Most of UK agriculture dept's customer interactions are paper based
Only 20% of biz apps directly supported, with 30% requiring 'hypercare' at farming org
Applications12 May 2023 | 31
If you don't brush and floss, you're gonna get an abscess – same with MySQL updates
Database hygiene matters, says Percona expert
Databases11 May 2023 | 4
Open source at America's famous Los Alamos Lab: Pragmatism as its nucleus
Its 20,000-node cluster uses outdated MariaDB – for very good reasons
HPC10 May 2023 | 10
MariaDB's Xpand offers PostgreSQL compatibility without the forking drama
Play designed to swat CockroachDB and tempt users over from hyperscaler DBaaS systems
Databases10 May 2023 | 3
Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech
Building a wall... of code
Devops10 May 2023 | 166
UK's NS&I extends Atos contract as procurement drags on
Delays to $1 billion replacement will see March 2024 contract deadline missed
On-Prem09 May 2023 | 3
Hubble spots stellar midwife unit pumping out baby planets
Young mother only 10 million years old appears to have twins
Science05 May 2023 | 20
Russia tops national leagues in open source downloads
Putin FOSS to work when Microsoft et al abandoned pariah state
OSes05 May 2023 | 28
Users complain over UK state-owned bank's services as Atos eyes the exit
Updated National Savings & Investment contracting for massive tech deals as customers complain of 2FA failure
Security05 May 2023 | 44
Ten-day optical burst shows star eating giant planet, scientists say
Twelve-year interaction ended with a bang
Science04 May 2023 | 10
OpenText CEO: Micro Focus buy is an enterprise portfolio play
Interview Climbing the software stack, new owner sees IBM and ServiceNow as rivals
Software04 May 2023 |
SAP signs IBM Watson deal, ChatGPT showstopper waits in the wings
50-year-old ERP vendor reaches for 15-year-old AI to be down with the kids
AI + ML03 May 2023 | 4
Academics have 'no confidence' in Edinburgh University's response to its Oracle disaster
Updated Institution yet to answer 'elementary' project management questions after upgrade left staff and suppliers unpaid
PaaS + IaaS03 May 2023 | 43
EDB offers 'risk-free' migration to lure Oracle users to the PostgreSQL side
Long-suffering Big Red customers 'may finally be ready,' says analyst
Databases02 May 2023 | 8
SAP users not happy about German giant's price rises
Issues remain in the costs for development and quality assurance in the cloud
Databases02 May 2023 | 14
Trino and dbt open source data tools snuggle closer with integrated SaaS
Managed offerings now work in tandem to crunch data where it resides
Databases28 Apr 2023 |
UK emergency services take DIY approach amid 12-year wait for comms upgrade
Motorola's contract departure draws question mark over future of ESN
Networks28 Apr 2023 | 77
Brit fusion magnets set for US gamma ray bombardment test
Tokamak Energy off to Albuquerque desert to douse kit in radiation
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week27 Apr 2023 | 10
Just what the universe needs right now: A black hole with wind
Gusts associated with M87 accretion flow surprises scientists peering into massive ring-like structure
Science27 Apr 2023 | 18
Oracle's examplar win over SAP for Birmingham City Council is 3 years late
It also required £20 million in extra funds – and Larry wants to brag about this?
Databases26 Apr 2023 | 44
UK becomes Unicorn Kingdom, where AI fairy dust earns King's ransom
Opinion Dungeon master Sunak talks up 'funky' Silicon Valley sales pitch while schools left without maths teachers
AI + ML25 Apr 2023 | 99
US Veterans Affairs Dept shoots down $10B Oracle Cerner dream
Despite Ellison's health world ambitions, Uncle Sam resets massive project over harm to patient health
Databases24 Apr 2023 | 1
American private equity can't wait to gobble up Euro stalwart Software AG
Silver Lake set to grab control of firm with legacy from Moon landing era
Software24 Apr 2023 | 15
It's a matter of when, not if, customers move to the cloud, SAP tells investors
That's news to some as analysts claim on-prem will be here for the foreseeable
Databases21 Apr 2023 | 12
Central UK govt awards £12M+ contract to leave Google Workspace for Microsoft 365
Capgemini gets the job of saying goodbye to the Chocolate Factory
Applications21 Apr 2023 | 44
Proliferation of AI weapons among non-state actors 'could be impossible to stop'
Governments also have no theory on how nefarious groups might behave using the tech
AI + ML21 Apr 2023 | 24
Oracle offers AI to tell you if those lead times are hogwash
It'll also give staff career advice
AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 3
Metal-rich stars inhibit chances of life on their planets
They give off less UV, but more is absorbed by their planets’ atmospheres, boffins tell life hunters
Science19 Apr 2023 | 21
UK pensions dept hands Softcat £250M for Microsoft subscriptions
Deal done as UK.gov negotiates new £12 billion framework
Software19 Apr 2023 | 17
Fujitsu bags £142M UK government work since Horizon probe announced
Latest £16.5M Post Office contract among many deals awarded despite MPs' calls and ongoing investigation
On-Prem18 Apr 2023 | 34
Wrong time to weaken encryption, UK IT chartered institute tells government
Plus: Signal, WhatsApp, and Viber also write online protest over Online Safety Bill back door
Security18 Apr 2023 | 145
MariaDB cuts jobs, repeats 'going concern' warning to stock market
New CFO sees interesting in-tray at 20 percent year-on-year growth database company
Databases18 Apr 2023 | 6
NHS England considered using Palantir tech to manage strike disruption
But then opted for spreadsheets instead
Databases17 Apr 2023 | 20
UK consortium bid for NHS data platform falls at first hurdle
Vows to regroup and come back stronger after failing in bid Palantir is pipped to win
PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2023 | 43
FerretDB 1.0 offers fresh approach to open source document databases
How to PostgreSQL MongoDB out of the equation
Databases14 Apr 2023 | 7
Boffins rewrite the book on how Earth's oceans developed
You don't need alien asteroids, you just need a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and liquid hot magma
Science13 Apr 2023 | 33
Salesforce lets go of more of its towering presence in San Francisco
Updated Fancy a sublease? Office digs in Silicon Valley hometown hotspot up for grabs
PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2023 | 4
Tiny Brit tech firms win spots on £1.84B public sector contract. Kidding, it's the usual suspects
Collective deal to cover software needs for every rung of government
PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2023 | 23
Three quarters of UK tech pros are ready to leave their jobs
Despite layoff trend, IT staff seek mobility over security
Personal Tech11 Apr 2023 | 50
Fujitsu sets out on 5-year mission to standardize ERP on SAP S/4HANA
To that we say good luck
PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2023 | 9
CAN do attitude: How thieves steal cars using network bus
It starts with a headlamp and fake smart speaker, and ends in an injection attack and a vanished motor
Research06 Apr 2023 | 198
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