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A practical demonstration of the difference between 'resilient' and 'redundant'
Monday, 06 September 2021 17:34

Who, Me? Monday is upon us, and with it comes a cautionary tale of how one Register reader's overconfidence led to his undoing, thanks to an unexpected interfacing with a belt buckle, in today's edition of Who, Me?

Our story comes from "Dan", a lead system admin at what he described as a "rather large company" where the vast majority of the business went though a single suite of application backed up by a central database.

"The number of zeros on the 'dollars per minute' lost in unscheduled downtime was frightening," he told us.

The company liked Dan. He had

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O-RAN Alliance: Nokia downplays decision to take breather as critics worry over fate of key industry groups
Thursday, 02 September 2021 19:35

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Backs away from potential Entity List security issues related to Chinese alliance members

Ericsson has voiced its concern over "progress" within the O-RAN Alliance, days after Nokia called a technical timeout with the group amid

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Can we talk about Kevin McCarthy promising revenge if Big Tech aids probe into January insurrection?
Thursday, 02 September 2021 15:31

HTTP/2 200 date: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 14:00:13 GMT content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 link: ; rel=preload; as=script;,/2a187785310f54560b573b276050c65f990d7d12/javascript/_.js>; rel=preload; as=script;,/default/82a7662fa59348b11e792d1684679c0a86db35e7/scaffolding.css>; rel=preload; as=style;,/default/82a7662fa59348b11e792d1684679c0a86db35e7/design.css>; rel=preload; as=style;,/5e49edbd1875f214e0decae1e24b200066780fa8/style/fonts/arimo/arimo-700.latin.woff2>; rel=preload; as=font; crossorigin;,/5e49edbd1875f214e0decae1e24b200066780fa8/style/fonts/arimo/arimo-400.latin.woff2>; rel=preload; as=font; crossorigin; cache-control: max-age=0 expires: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 14:00:13 GMT vary: Accept-Encoding x-reg-bofh: pfy01us x-clacks-overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett, Lester Haines cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC expect-ct: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct" server: cloudflare cf-ray: 6887436a885e55a5-SYD Can we talk about Kevin McCarthy promising revenge if Big Tech aids probe into January insurrection? • The Register

'A Republican majority will not forget'

The Republican minority leader of the US House of Representatives this week issued a very public threat to cellphone networks and social media giants that were asked to cooperate with

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China welcomed its billionth netizen in the first half of 2021
Monday, 30 August 2021 18:01

HTTP/2 200 date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:00:04 GMT content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 link: ; rel=preload; as=script;,/2a187785310f54560b573b276050c65f990d7d12/javascript/_.js>; rel=preload; as=script;,/default/82a7662fa59348b11e792d1684679c0a86db35e7/scaffolding.css>; rel=preload; as=style;,/default/82a7662fa59348b11e792d1684679c0a86db35e7/design.css>; rel=preload; as=style;,/5e49edbd1875f214e0decae1e24b200066780fa8/style/fonts/arimo/arimo-700.latin.woff2>; rel=preload; as=font; crossorigin;,/5e49edbd1875f214e0decae1e24b200066780fa8/style/fonts/arimo/arimo-400.latin.woff2>; rel=preload; as=font; crossorigin; cache-control: max-age=0 expires: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:00:04 GMT vary: Accept-Encoding x-reg-bofh: pfy01us x-clacks-overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett, Lester Haines cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC expect-ct: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct" server: cloudflare cf-ray: 686e8b10b831fd1e-SYD China welcomed its billionth netizen in the first half of 2021 • The Register

297M are rural, 983M use instant messaging, 469M order food online, and they average 26.9 hours online every week

More than a billion Chinese citizens now use the internet, according to the China Internet Network Information Centre's 48th Statistical Report on

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Japan's bullet trains replace smoking rooms with Zooming rooms
Friday, 27 August 2021 17:15

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Also offers free mice, power bricks, lap pillows and fast WiFi in cars rated to allow 300km/h video chat

The Central Japan Railway Company will replace smoking rooms on some of its Shinkansen bullet trains with Zooming cars.

The company already offers on-train

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UK promises big data law shake-up... while also keeping the EU happy, of course. What could go wrong?
Thursday, 26 August 2021 22:24

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New Information Commissioner to be given licence to promote 'innovation and growth'

The UK has named a new Information Commissioner and announced a bullish approach to reforming data laws post-Brexit. That is, if it's

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