Enterprise Technology News and Analysis
- Second time lucky for Thoma Bravo, which scoops up Darktrace for $5.3Bby Connor Jones on April 26, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Analysts brand deal a 'nail in the coffin' for UK tech investment Private equity investor Thoma Bravo has successfully completed a second acquisition attempt of UK-based cybersecurity company Darktrace in a $5.3 billion deal.…
- The eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80!by Liam Proven on April 26, 2024 at 3:00 pm
Yes, they are harder to solder, but there's way more potential Feature The Z80 has a long series of successor models – some compatible and some not. There are multiple options for hobbyist computer builders.…
- Encrypted email service files DMA complaint claiming it vanished from Google Searchby Richard Speed on April 26, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Tuta cries foul, Chocolate Factory denies service unreachable Tutao, known for the encrypted email service Tuta Mail, has filed a Digital Markets Act (DMA) complaint to the EU over an alleged de-ranking in Google Search.…
- TikTok ban could escalate US-China trade war, ex-White House CIO tells The Regby Brandon Vigliarolo on April 26, 2024 at 1:00 pm
Doing business in Beijing? 'You need to do a what-if scenario' interview It didn't seem America's divest-or-ban bill for TikTok was going to make it into law when we last spoke with former White House chief information officer Theresa Payton – but law it now is. …
- UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world oppositionby Connor Jones on April 26, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Only minor changes from original proposals that kicked up privacy storm The UK's contentious Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill (IPB) 2024 has officially received the King's nod of approval and will become law.…
- 45 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute lineupby Tobias Mann on April 26, 2024 at 11:00 am
Plus the system builder says an Arm-based system is already in the works Exclusive Canadian systems builder 45 Drives is perhaps best known for the dense multi-drive storage systems employed by the likes of Backblaze and others, but over the last year the biz has expanded its line-up to virtualization kit, and now low-power clients and workstations aimed at enterprises and home enthusiasts alike.…
- IBM and LzLabs to clash in UK court over Software Defined Mainframeby Dan Robinson on April 26, 2024 at 10:15 am
Already facing off against each other in Texas over separate reverse engineering claims IBM and LzLabs are to lock horns in a London court next week over Big Blue's claim of breach of contract relating to mainframes and the development of software to allow mainframe applications run on x86 server clusters.…
- UK agriculture department slammed for paper pushing despite tech splurgesby Lindsay Clark on April 26, 2024 at 9:30 am
Defra is counting contractors like sheep The UK agriculture department is "working towards" getting consultant and contractor numbers down to less than a quarter of its tech and digital transformation teams and reducing contingent labor to 12 percent of headcount by the end of the financial year.…
- Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work rightby Simon Sharwood on April 26, 2024 at 7:32 am
Support chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious ways On Call As another week drains down the plughole of history, it's time for The Register to once again deliver a fresh instalment of On Call – our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support torments and triumphs.…
- VMware’s end-user compute community told to brace for ‘Omnissa’ shiftby Simon Sharwood on April 26, 2024 at 6:33 am
Cloudy hosts given short license change deadlines, customers warned of support portal brownouts VMware by Broadcom’s breakup with its end-user compute products will enter a new phase next week, with cloudy service providers and customers both warned of imminent changes.…
- Flaws in Chinese keyboard apps leave 750 million users open to snooping, researchers claimby Simon Sharwood on April 26, 2024 at 5:33 am
Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn't living its name Many Chinese keyboard apps, some from major handset manufacturers, can leak keystrokes to determined snoopers, leaving perhaps three quarters of a billion people at risk according to research from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.…
- Atlassian loses half its CEOs, but customers stay solid after Server products exit supportby Simon Sharwood on April 26, 2024 at 2:58 am
Discloses ongoing experiments with usage-based pricing Atlassian co-founder and co-CEO Scott Farquhar has announced he will step down in August, leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes alone at the top of the Australian collaborationware company.…
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