The best literary fiction out now: The Silver Book by Olivia Laing, One Aladdin, Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson, Archipelago of the Sun by Yoko Tawada
The best children's fiction out now: PORRIDGE PLEASE! by Laura Mucha Illustrated by Marc Boutavant, ROBIN by Sarah Ann Juckes, WE FELL APART by E. Lockhart
UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B
The UK government has finally put a £1.8 billion price tag on its digital ID plans – days after the minister responsible refused to name a figure.…
This poisonous tale is a deadly festive treat: Death in Ambush by Susan Gilruth, Murder on the Great Northern Railway by Edward Marston, Maigret's Holiday by Georges Simenon
Met Office issues weather warning as Essex braced for heavy rain on Saturday
Met Office issues weather warning as Essex braced for heavy rain on Saturday
Pictured: the stepdad and stepson who strangled police officers in city centre
UK Digital Services Tax raises £800M from global tech giants
The UK government collected just £800 million in Digital Services Tax (DST) from companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, eBay, and TikTok in the most recent tax year.…
Essex independent shops need you to support small businesses this Black Friday
India has satisfied its supercomputing needs, but not its ambitions
Feature In the decade since India launched its National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), the nation has commissioned 37 machines with a combined power of 39 petaFLOPS, with another 35-petaFLOPS hybrid due to come online later this year. But while plenty of those machines use locally developed technology, India is yet to deliver on its ambition to become a leader or major semiconductor player.…
Digital Realty, Equinix battle for €4.5B atNorth acquisition
Digital Realty and a consortium including Equinix are competing to acquire atNorth, a Scandinavian datacenter operator, according to reports.…
A12 traffic delays due to lane closure as police aid driver of broken down van
Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of delivering excellent tech support amid your colleagues' ambivalence, anger, and unjust admonitions.…
Error'd: On the Dark Side
...matter of fact, it's all dark.
Gitter Hubber checks in on the holidays: "This is the spirit of the Black Friday on GitHub. That's because I'm using dark mode. Otherwise, it would have a different name… You know what? Let's just call it Error Friday!"
"Best get typing!" self-admonishes.
Jason G.
Suffering a surfeit of snark, he proposes
"Not sure my battery will last long enough.
Finally, quantum resistant security.
I can't remember my number after the 5000th digit.
" Any of those will do just fine.
Don't count Calle L. out. "This is for a calorie tracking app, on Thanksgiving. Offer was so delicious it wasn't even a number any more! Sadly it did not slim the price down more than expected."
"Snow and rain and rain and snow!" exclaims Paul N. "Weather so astounding, they just had to trigger three separate notifications at the same time."
It's not a holiday for everyone though, is it? Certainly not for Michael R. , who is back with a customer service complaint about custom deliveries. "I am unlucky with my deliveries. This time it's DPD. "
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Essex man caught drink driving twice banned from roads for two years
Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks
Food company Campbell’s, best known for its soups and the iconic cans they come in, has parted ways with a vice president for IT after another member of the company’s tech team recorded him criticizing the company’s products.…
Korean web giant Naver acquired crypto exchange Upbit, which reported a $30m heist a day later
South Korean web giant Naver has had an interesting week, after it acquired a cryptocurrency exchange that the next day revealed it had suffered a serious cyberattack.…
Rosalind Franklin rover catches a break as NASA reaffirms commitment
The European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin rover has received a boost with confirmation that NASA is staying in the project.…
ICANN distances itself from radical proposal – which it funded – to give nations a role in internet governance
ICANN has defended its decision to fund a group that proposed a radical new governance model that would give states a role in regulating the internet, and distanced itself from the group’s proposal.…