Airbus pulls up hard, no longer buying 29.9% stake in Atos-owned Evidian Under pressure from activist investor, top brass agree to plot new course Systems30 Mar 2023 | 2
Ex-BigQuery exec and Motherduck CEO: For some users, the answer is to think small Interview Former Google veteran talks to El Reg about trends in big data of the past decade Spotlight on Databases21 Mar 2023 |
China outlines plan for National Integrated Government Affairs Big Data System Three million datasets to be thoroughly integrated in the name of efficiency, e-government, and surveillance Software31 Oct 2022 | 4
UK.gov finds billions in cash for big data contracts Project two years in the making aims to improve public services... or what's left of them Databases26 Oct 2022 | 20
Revealed: US telcos admit to storing, handing over location data Letters to FCC confirm what many believed, don't address a bigger problem Security02 Sep 2022 | 14
Amazon finally opens doors to its serverless analytics Still managing app servers by hand? What is this, 2012? Devops02 Jun 2022 |
We've never even built datacenters using robots here on Earth Opinion Interesting Moon experiment raises cool questions about disposal of hidden value Networks30 May 2022 | 43
Pyramid Analytics receives $120m in VC funding for 'decision intelligence' Investor money set to help the software vendor make its AI analytics tech a thing Software09 May 2022 | 8
Mastering metadata key to shifting data fast, says Arcitecta A new transmission protocol can work lightning fast, but only with very thorough records to pull from Networks25 Apr 2022 | 1
Real-time data analytics firm Tinybird nets $37m in Series A Millions of rows per second in real time, so the legend goes... Databases05 Apr 2022 | 1
Big data means big money for the UK government as £2bn tender mooted Central procurement team tickles the market with tantalising offer... but what for? Databases03 Sep 2021 | 12
Big data: Study suggests even a moderate gambling habit is linked to increased mortality and other bad stuff R, me hearties: Boffins sift through 6.5 million individual dataset Science05 Feb 2021 | 42
Microsoft teases Azure Data Explorer connector for picking its Synapse analytics service's brains What do you mean you're not on board the Big Data bus? Networks14 Oct 2020 |
UK.gov pledges probe into tourists' 'motivations' Massively devalued pound anyone? Oh, no... we'll draw post Brexit punters in with big data Legal28 Jun 2019 | 53
Er, good luck: UK.gov's data ethics centre has £2.5m to review biased algos, microtargeting Chairman tells MPs its budget may need revising upwards in future Legal05 Feb 2019 | 1
Hardworking Americans keep busy during the government shutdown driving up smut traffic NSFW links You can make your own Yank joke here Bootnotes22 Jan 2019 | 27
HPE slurps BlueData to jump on containerised analytics and machine learning bandwagon Big data reaps big bucks AI + ML28 Nov 2018 |
Register Lecture: For AI's sake – taming the wild data frontier Blighty's metrology experts define terms Lectures23 Nov 2018 |
UK.gov asks: Are sadistic AI price-bots ganging up on you? Come with me if you want to be ripped off Legal12 Oct 2018 | 18
Consent, datasets and avoiding a visit from the information commissioner Idiot's guide to keeping your GDPR nose clean Legal10 May 2018 | 56
Intel CEO Brian is a man living on the edge Comment And what's on Krzanich's mind? Data. Your data. Petabytes of data SaaS09 May 2018 | 7
Fear the wrath of robots, for their judgement is final and irrevocable The right to be forgiven will soon be more important than the right to be forgotten Science12 Mar 2018 | 26
UK needs a 'digital twin' to keep track of its data assets – report ... and companies need to share their info nicely Legal15 Dec 2017 | 16
Couchbase CEO: 'No current financing plans' but no IPO date either NoSQL biz touts 'engagement database' to firms with cash to burn on 'digital transformation' Databases28 Nov 2017 |
MIT boffins hope to speed up analytics with GitHub-style platform FeatureHub could help arduous process of feature engineering Databases03 Nov 2017 | 2
Data-wranglers Trifacta go public with Google Cloud collaboration Pair takes aim at $20bn analytics market SaaS21 Sep 2017 |
AWS: Don't be a SAP, get one of our massive HANA boxes Cloud-slinger trots out 4TB instances for in-memory databases SaaS14 Sep 2017 | 5
HPE wraps up $8.8bn Micro Focus software dump spin-off Newly minted software giant formally begins operations Software01 Sep 2017 | 11
Pssst, wanna know a secret? MongoDB has confidentially filed for IPO, reports suggest Oracle-chaser expected to go public later this this year On-Prem16 Aug 2017 | 10
Brit firms warned over hidden costs of wiping data squeaky clean before privacy rules hit Paper shredder? You'll need a data-shredder... Legal14 Aug 2017 | 109
Re-identifying folks from anonymised data will be a crime in the UK Government draft confirms only minor deviations from GDPR Legal07 Aug 2017 | 131
Sensor-rich traffic info shows how far Silly Valley has to drive You're not getting on this CAN bus Science26 Jul 2017 | 37
Got some pom-poms handy? UK.gov seeks a geography cheerleader Bid to raise discipline's profile after hitching it to big data hype Legal26 Jul 2017 | 21
House of Lords to probe AI data slurping Who owns all that valuable training info? AI + ML20 Jul 2017 | 4
Time to rethink machine learning: The big data gobble is OFF the menu What size do big things start? Small AI + ML05 Jul 2017 | 25
Hortonworks feathers nest with IBM deal IBM BigInsights users migrating to Hadoop-flinger’s HDP Software15 Jun 2017 | 12
Rustle up a privacy research project and ICO queen Liz will see you handsomely rewarded Grants of up to £100k to figure out implications of big data, blockchain Security07 Jun 2017 | 8
So despite all the cash ploughed into big data, no one knows how to make it profitable Waiting for the next industrial revolution. Still waiting... On-Prem07 Jun 2017 | 47
ICO probes use of data analytics by politicos following Brexit vote Parties warned to follow rules ahead of General Election Legal18 May 2017 | 3
UK General Election 2017: How EU law will hit British politicians' Facebook fight Narrow swings, big data Legal10 May 2017 | 78
Is Britain really worse at 4G than Peru? Special Report Crowd or non crowd - network industry rages on numbers Networks05 May 2017 | 35
Ex-NSA techies launch data governance tool for future algorithm-slavery Immuta debuts Projects for machine learning governance, 'interpretability is key' – CEO Security25 Apr 2017 | 6
Cambridge Analytica arrives in Australia to STEAL our democracy! Firm that claims credit for Trump and Brexit arrives to pitch marketers and pollies Software02 Apr 2017 | 9
Dr Hannah Fry: We need to be wary of algorithms behind closed doors Interview UCL researcher on the tragedy of the age of data Security20 Mar 2017 | 31
Cloudera blows sawdust off new data science workbench Still keeping schtum on IPO, though Software14 Mar 2017 | 3
Cloudera set for $4.1bn IPO this year – reports 'We don't need to raise more money for… ever' On-Prem13 Mar 2017 |
Centrelink 'big data' system built without consulting taxman Bad requirements make bad systems, episode 1,001 Legal08 Mar 2017 | 4
MongoDB emits free-tier DBaaS and migration service to woo devs MongoDB Atlas to lift interest, maybe? Databases07 Mar 2017 | 3
Big data should be 'part of UK's core national infrastructure' – Civil Service chief exec There's an app that maps public toilets – how could it not be core infrastructure? On-Prem21 Feb 2017 | 14
BS Detection 101 becomes actual University subject Uni of Washington says the age of Big Data makes statistical literacy essential Software20 Feb 2017 | 36
See you around, Larry: AWS is our new Oracle, says Microsoft's Nadella Analysis As cloud era sweeps in, Redmond faces up to fresh competition SaaS30 Jan 2017 | 8
US Army's spun-off GPU database gets ready for more matrix operations Also: We could rebuild Trump's social score, we have the technology Networks24 Jan 2017 | 2
Elementary, my dear IBM: When will Watson make money? Big Blue talks 'silver threads' On-Prem20 Jan 2017 | 21
UK.gov departments are each clinging on to 100 terabytes of legacy data Recreating old work to the tune of £500m per year On-Prem18 Jan 2017 | 16
Exclusive billionaires' investment club leads Collibra's $50m Series C Belgian data governance business only loses a single board position too, sweet On-Prem18 Jan 2017 | 3
Hadoop hurler Hortonworks votes Tibco veteran for president Corporate veteran to re-invigorate big-data sales Software13 Jan 2017 | 2
British Hadoop security startup expands to New York to land big investor Panaseer reckons market there is more mature, i.e. it spends more money on security Security11 Jan 2017 | 2
Google must be Beaming as Apache announces its new top-level projects eBay's Eagle monitoring software also soaring with open-source foundation On-Prem10 Jan 2017 | 5
Uber's Movement dumps data on city planners By providing anonymized data to cities, Uber aims to shape transport policies Software09 Jan 2017 | 11
A vintage year for snoopers and big state-ists Year in Review What the Brexit PM and Orange POTUS elect meant Software26 Dec 2016 | 40
1.4bn records from HaveIBeenPwned offered for your analytical pleasure Troy Hunt's Christmas trove is a splendid gift for security and data nerds Security06 Dec 2016 | 5
Amazonian Athena gifts the AWS team with the wisdom of SaaS on PaaS Business is Redshifting itself into analytics queries Software01 Dec 2016 | 1