Atos shares spiked this morning after it confirmed that negotiations to purchase DXC Technology are dead in the water. An audacious bid, reported to be in the region of $10bn, was made by the French integrator-cum-outsourcer in the first week of January, representing a move away from the typical bolt-on deals Atos funds. But it wasn’t to be, Atos confirmed to the Paris stock market this morning. “The Board…

Read More

Scaleway is running a farm of Apple M1 Mac Minis in its repurposed fallout shelter beneath Paris, France. Customers seeking the M1-as-a-Service experience can order up a Mac Mini M1 and be running in under five minutes, according to the company. The cost is €0.10 per hour with a 24-hour commitment. The company claimed it could offer a “fully native Big Sur experience” with 8GB of unified RAM and…

Read More

Slack says it has identified a scaling failure in its AWS Transit Gateways (TGWs) as the reason for the chat service’s monumental outage on 4 January. As a result, Amazon’s cloud computing arm said it is “reviewing the TGW scaling algorithms”. The comms platform’s outage came at a bad time, just when people were getting back to work after the holiday period. This, said Slack in its detailed report,…

Read More

Bork!Bork!Bork! Even after a year of readers sending in photos taken of error screens they’ve seen out and about for The Reg‘s Bork column, the infamous Windows “Blue Screen of Death” has remained a mainstay. However, have you wondered why blue is the colour? Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer took to his YouTube channel over the weekend to give us his view on matters. Firstly, “I never once heard…

Read More

IT teams at Asos.com face absorbing massive stock and brand data in the company’s £295m acquisition spree while at the same time finishing a global retail e-commerce system project. The day after the go-live deadline for the online fast-fashion retailer’s new Truly Global Retail (TGR), the company announced the acquisition of high-street brands Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge, and HIIT from failed retail group Arcadia in a deal worth £295m….

Read More

The Linkerd project, a lightweight service mesh for Kubernetes, has formed a steering committee as it competes for developer attention with Google-sponsored Istio as well as other projects. A service mesh adds essential features like traffic management, observability, and network security to microservices running on Kubernetes. Linkerd is implemented in Rust and its original creator, Buoyant CEO William Morgan, designed it to solve the service mesh problem in the…

Read More

UK weather forecasting agency the Met Office is tendering for delivery partners to help it build its data platform over the next four years in a framework deal that could be worth £30m. The main objective of getting new suppliers on board as part of the four-year deal is to help build a common Met Office data platform, exploiting the future of data sciences, and a common approach to…

Read More

When Google Chrome 90 arrives in April, visitors to websites that depend on TLS server authentication certificates from AC Camerfirma SA, a digital certificate authority based in Madrid, Spain, will find that those sites no longer present the secure lock icon. Certificate authorities (CAs) are in the business of signing digital certificates to certify that those certs belong to the domains with which they’re associated. Such promises are part…

Read More

Outgoing VMware CEO and incoming Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has revealed he was initially approached to take a seat on the chipmaker’s board. In an appearance on the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Gelsinger said he had previously been approached about Chipzilla’s top job but declined. He was later approached with an offer to take a seat on Intel’s board, an offer that appealed to Gelsinger and which Michael Dell approved….

Read More

Analysis The campaign to remove the CEO and non-elected board members of .uk internet registry operator Nominet may be over before the official petition is even filed. The PublicBenefit.uk drive, spearheaded by CEO of hosting company Krystal Simon Blackler, announced its intention to call for an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on Sunday, noting that it already had 40 members on board and so had sufficient votes to legally require…

Read More