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Hubble, Hubble, toil and trouble: NASA pores over moth-eaten manuals ahead of switch to backup hardware Procedure on stricken space telescope may be attempted later this week

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tsoHost pleads for 'patience and understanding' as sites borked, support sinkholed

Like 'thoughts and prayers' but for web hosting

9 Comments

It had to happen: Microsoft's cloudy Windows 365 desktops are due to land next month

The good: It's a Windows PC running in the cloud. The bad: It's a Windows PC running in the cloud

36 Comments

Informatica bids to become Switzerland of data with SaaSy governance and catalogue tool

Stakes claim for neutral territory after Databricks and cloud vendors make play to manage your data

1 Comments

NEC to move its IT into Azure and give staff – all 110,000 of ’em – a cloudy Windows desktop

Japanese services giant deepens ties with Microsoft and reckons it can address Japan’s ageing population

11 Comments

Okta Brings Zero Trust Identity and Access to Defense Department Networks Zero Trust and Identity Management: A Game Changer for DoD Network Security

Huawei Industrial Digital Transformation Conference highlights innovation and applied scenarios of technologies The Register takes you through the event’s keynotes

Offbeat

Sweat-sipping wearable aims to charge electronics without couch potatoes lifting a finger

What's wrong with plugging it in?

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Trouts on a plane: Utah drops fish into lakes from aircraft and circa 95% survive

Meanwhile, Minnesota city authorities evict dozens of monster goldfish from murky local lake

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UK's biggest trade union takes aim at Amazon over 'price gouging' allegations

Nothing to see here, says gargantuan online retailer, thrilled as ever to chat with a union

13 Comments

Hubble, Hubble, toil and trouble: NASA pores over moth-eaten manuals ahead of switch to backup hardware

Procedure on stricken space telescope may be attempted later this week

45 Comments

Here boy! Making the Sample Fetch Rover that'll collect soil from the Red Planet

El Reg grabs a moment in time with ExoMars trundlebot's chief engineer

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Beijing bans merger of Tencent gaming outfits Huya and DouYu, to prevent a monopoly

Want to know what did get approval? Tencent’s bring-it-home acquisition of search engine Sogou

4 Comments

Securing Managed Kubernetes With Prisma Cloud Whitepaper

Real-Time Visibility And Monitoring In Your Cloud Environment E-book

On-Prem

The coming of Wi-Fi 6 does not mean it's time to ditch your cabled LAN. Here's why

There's a time and place for wireless tech, but it still can't compete

10 Comments

Compsci eggheads bring OpenCL framework to RISC-V to push parallel performance

Extended version of POCL now supports everything from high-end parts to embedded chips

2 Comments

Cellnex and CK Hutchison have just 5 days to prove mass mobile tower sell-off won't harm competition

Cellnex already 'largest' phone mast supplier, says UK regulator

7 Comments

Imagine a world where Apple shacked up with Xerox in the '80s: How might it look today?

An alternative history of the computer revolution

58 Comments

ZTE Axon 30 Ultra: Strong effort from an entity-lister, but your tiny child hands may struggle

What a whopper

25 Comments

Google fined €500m for not paying French publishers after using their words on web

If the Chocolate Factory doesn't play ball soon it'll be an extra €1m a day

33 Comments

Remote and branch office and edge IT

Adapt to your new reality outside the data centre

Security

Facial-recognition technology gets a smack in the chops from civil rights campaigners

US retailers accused of privacy invasion

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Hong Kong working to share its digital IDs with mainland China

App currently used for 110 government services, more to come

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What follows Patch Tuesday? Exploit Wednesday. Grab this bumper batch of security updates from Microsoft

Four flaws already being abused in the wild to compromise victims

13 Comments

Cybercriminals took advantage of WFH to target financial services companies, say financial bods

Home Wi-Fi was an obvious target, but evildoers also knew to probe cloudy connections

3 Comments

Microsoft names Chinese group as source of new attack on SolarWinds

Bad actor likes to work through insecure consumer routers and has form attacking tech companies and military targets

7 Comments

Software

Happy 4.20: Latest version of Tails bakes connection wizard into top-secret Linux distro

Privacy-focused operating system now more flexible in how you get online

AI changes everything – so you need to change your attitude to adopting new tech

Here’s how to not get left behind

Huh, it's as if something happened that made people not like CentOS so much

Ubuntu snatches top spot in 2020 OpenStack User Survey

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Report: 83% of UK software engineers suffer burnout, COVID-19 made it worse

Lessons of Agile still relevant, still not being applied

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South Korea’s top telco launches 'metaverse'

SK Telecom's ‘Ifland’ offers 66 facial expressions, 800 fashion items, plans to offer more serious collaboration real soon now

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Hubble, Hubble, toil and trouble: NASA pores over moth-eaten manuals ahead of switch to backup hardware [Thu Jul 15 2021]

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Hubble, Hubble, toil and trouble: NASA pores over moth-eaten manuals ahead of switch to backup hardware

Off-Prem

tsoHost pleads for 'patience and understanding' as sites borked, support sinkholed

It had to happen: Microsoft's cloudy Windows 365 desktops are due to land next month

Informatica bids to become Switzerland of data with SaaSy governance and catalogue tool

NEC to move its IT into Azure and give staff – all 110,000 of ’em – a cloudy Windows desktop

Okta Brings Zero Trust Identity and Access to Defense Department Networks

Huawei Industrial Digital Transformation Conference highlights innovation and applied scenarios of technologies

Offbeat

Sweat-sipping wearable aims to charge electronics without couch potatoes lifting a finger

Trouts on a plane: Utah drops fish into lakes from aircraft and circa 95% survive

UK's biggest trade union takes aim at Amazon over 'price gouging' allegations

Hubble, Hubble, toil and trouble: NASA pores over moth-eaten manuals ahead of switch to backup hardware

Here boy! Making the Sample Fetch Rover that'll collect soil from the Red Planet

Beijing bans merger of Tencent gaming outfits Huya and DouYu, to prevent a monopoly

Securing Managed Kubernetes With Prisma Cloud

Real-Time Visibility And Monitoring In Your Cloud Environment

On-Prem

The coming of Wi-Fi 6 does not mean it's time to ditch your cabled LAN. Here's why

Compsci eggheads bring OpenCL framework to RISC-V to push parallel performance

Cellnex and CK Hutchison have just 5 days to prove mass mobile tower sell-off won't harm competition

Imagine a world where Apple shacked up with Xerox in the '80s: How might it look today?

ZTE Axon 30 Ultra: Strong effort from an entity-lister, but your tiny child hands may struggle

Google fined €500m for not paying French publishers after using their words on web

Remote and branch office and edge IT

Security

Facial-recognition technology gets a smack in the chops from civil rights campaigners

Hong Kong working to share its digital IDs with mainland China

What follows Patch Tuesday? Exploit Wednesday. Grab this bumper batch of security updates from Microsoft

Cybercriminals took advantage of WFH to target financial services companies, say financial bods

Microsoft names Chinese group as source of new attack on SolarWinds

Software

Happy 4.20: Latest version of Tails bakes connection wizard into top-secret Linux distro

AI changes everything – so you need to change your attitude to adopting new tech

Huh, it's as if something happened that made people not like CentOS so much

Report: 83% of UK software engineers suffer burnout, COVID-19 made it worse

South Korea’s top telco launches 'metaverse'

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