The Register

You may be interested in tech, but backers want to know about revenue 'multipliers'

SAP aims to convert €5bn in revenue from support and software licences into cloud subscriptions over the next five years, according to the German software giant's CFO.…

Ok, so you have 2.7 million developers.... one for every phone you might sell in 2025?

Huawei's sales and shipments may be shrinking like a snowball in the Sahara, but armed with App Gallery platform stats, it is trying to put on a brave public showing.…

New Windows Server ahoy - but the company would rather talk about Azure

Ignite Microsoft has released a preview of Windows Server 2022, with "secured core", improved Windows Containers, and MsQuic protocol support in the kernel.…

Neanderthal ear scans support idea they could hear us and had a 'type of human language'

Computerised tomography scans and auditory bioengineering models of fossilised Neanderthals ears suggest our closest extinct cousins had a hearing range necessary to process human speech.…

Feeds growing market for edge kit with gear rated for temps below freezing

Lenovo has updated its edge computing hardware portfolio, adding two rugged compact machines to its ThinkEdge line-up.…

Microsoft's OS might be time-expired, but the pastry is, well, far too edible

Bork!Bork!Bork! While the French may project their borkage as art onto the wall of a Lyon tunnel, Brits seem to prefer theirs glaring down balefully from a screen in a sausage roll emporium in Yately.…

It's your computer, not ours – but we may go ahead and update it for you, says team

The Linux Mint team has introduced a fix for a memory leak it does not fully understand: restarting the Cinnamon desktop.…

And they're getting into the ransomware game too, warns Sophos

Gootkit financial malware has been resurrected to fling ransomware payloads at unwitting marks, according to Sophos.…

Network Solutions hasn't confirmed what happened, though

The short-lived theft of Perl.com in late January is believed to have been the result of a social engineering attack that convinced registrar Network Solutions to alter the domain's records without valid authorization.…

Special vote to sack UK internet registry's CEO and chairman coming later this month

The board of .uk internet registry operator Nominet is again under pressure after support to fire the organisation’s CEO and chairman hit a critical milestone.…

Goes deep on Docker and adopts ‘strangler fig’ pattern to replace legacy platform

Netflix has revealed it’s built a new media ingestion and distribution platform and expects to spend much of 2021 on a migration from what it describes as a “large and complicated legacy system”.…

Matter held not for long... but for long enough

Video Physicists have trapped a sliver of the world’s coldest plasma in a magnetic "bottle" for the first time, taking the first tentative steps towards building increasingly realistic simulations of the interiors of stars.…

Japan doubles up for AWS, Indonesia warms up for Microsoft as Alibaba and Google lie in wait

AWS and Microsoft have expanded their Asian cloud presences.…

Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor’s 7nm ambitions are dust

One of China’s next-generation chipmakers appears to have collapsed, potentially hampering the nation’s march to silicon-self-sufficiency.…

Online banking, thousands of ATMs offline while mess cleaned up

Japan’s Mizuho Bank has apologised after data migration work turned its ATMs into card-eating monsters, prevented customers from withdrawing their cash and crippled online banking.…

Stops well short of ordering govt action as fresh discrimination lawsuit filed

President Joe Biden has weighed into a battle over unionization taking place at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, posting a video in which he warns that “it's not up to an employer to decide” if their workers’ unionize and that “there should be no intimidation, no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda.”…

Code problem keeps Mercedes, Venturi teams out of qualifying race

Swiss Formula E driver Edoardo Mortara ended up in hospital after a software error left him driving into a safety wall at the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in Diriyah, Saudia Arabia, on Saturday.…

Hong Kong-based suspect wanted to create rival startup using pilfered silicon carbide MOSFET blueprints – claim

A Chinese businessman has been accused by the US government of trying to steal silicon secrets from General Electric (GE).…

But the Chocolate Factory has workers' privacy at heart. No, really

Google is nudging its G Suite Workspace tools further toward a hybrid workplace with the addition of services aimed at frontline workers, among other tweaks and enhancements.…

'BigQuery is pretty fast anyway so you'd really need to value the extra speed'

Google has introduced a caching layer in Big Query - its cloud data warehouse - designed to speed up responses to users as they explore and experiment with data.…