Wouldn't be about cutting energy costs for your 100+ bit barns, then? Microsoft is turning over a new leaf and going green. At least, that's what the firm’s chief environmental strategist has claimed as he sketched plans to make its data centres mor…
Lees meerLatest wave of software-inspired bloodletting Cisco's UK staffers are beginning to feel the cold, sharp edge of the networking borg's axe, with up to 500 souls put at risk of redundancy across its entire local operation, multiple sources have confir…
Lees meerDeadline for awards entries extended We know some blazers take longer to warm up than others, so you’ll be pleased to know that the deadline for this year’s Tech Trailblazers Awards has been extended to October 6.…
Lees meerAnd he would have got away with it too, if it wasn't for a simple scheduled audit A 49-year-old IT bloke from Essex has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment on two counts of fraud after his cunning plan to steal £450,000 from his employer was …
Lees meer‘You’d swear a horse did it,’ says appaled retailer A desperate Dublin shopkeeper has placed a toilet and a pile of his very competitvely priced bog roll on the pavement outside his shop after a series of visits from a loose boweled night owl.…
Lees meerReg poll fills C4's empty tent issue Two weeks after Channel 4’s £75m grab of Great British Bake Off from the BBC, the broadcaster has a big marquee but no filling.…
Lees meerWhichever way you look it's all exactly the same, boffins confirm Scientists have confirmed that the universe is very likely the same in every direction, showing that the assumption of the universe being isotropic can be safely used in cosmology.…
Lees meerAlso told: ‘Don’t look at France... it’s a nightmare’ British universities are looking to deepen links with their continental counterparts or even open offshore campuses in order to maintain their EU ties.…
Lees meerMust notify cops in advance of nookie 'as soon as practicable' A York judge has made some trifling tweaks to an order he imposed on a former IT contractor banning him from having sex unless he asked police 24 hours in advance.…
Lees meerIf you could all just gather round my laptop... Something for the Weekend, Sir? The man on stage is baffled. It was his big moment, a chance to show off his company’s proficiency and expertise, but now he’s being made to look useless.…
Lees meerThis one's in Cheltenham. Makes a change from hipsterville East London Plans are afoot in Westminster to burn even more taxpayers' cash by launching a new cyber-security startup accelerator in Cheltenham.…
Lees meerDenial of service dross dead. A dozen flaws have been patched in OpenSSL, including one high severity hole that allows denial of service attacks.…
Lees meerAn Apple user with muscular dystrophy writes Opinion Apple describes their sexy new iPhone 7 and iOS 10 operating system as the most advanced yet. Well, they say that every year, don't they?…
Lees meerInvestigation shows staffer screw-up over leak Sources close to the investigation into how NSA surveillance tools and zero-day exploits ended up in the hands of hackers has found that the agency knew about the loss for three years but didn’t want an…
Lees meerJavaScript superset adds new features including non-nullable types and read-only properties Microsoft has released TypeScript 2.0, a major update to its typed version of JavaScript.…
Lees meer'This is not the ISP of Richard Branson' insiders complain to El Reg Exclusive Virgin Media staff have voiced widespread discontent over its gobble by Liberty Global, with one describing their new corporate daddy as "faceless change drivers with no…
Lees meerReader jolted from the matrimonial bed in the dark tells of happy ending ON-CALL Thank Arioch it's Friday, because the working week is nearly over and we can ease you into it with another instalment of On-Call, our end-of-week trawl through readers…
Lees meerPHBs are applying the Ford Pinto formula to your data Whenever mega-hacks like the Yahoo! fiasco hit the news, inevitably the question gets asked as to why the IT security systems weren't good enough. The answer could be that it's not in a company's…
Lees meerHP and Samsung had goods stranded at sea by container line's bankruptcy Bankers have loaned US$100m to Korean shipping line Hanjin, likley saving Christmas tech companies, distributors and retailers.…
Lees meerNumerical addresses too vague to be relied on, say activists A new white paper from the Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that police rely too heavily on IP addresses when conducting criminal investigations.…
Lees meerGoogle's red screen of death marks half of malcious sites, McAfee only 11 per cent At least 15,769 WordPress websites - and probably more - have been compromised this year, half slipping past Google's Safe Browsing checks, says security researcher D…
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