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EventIf you’re looking for a thorough grounding in serverless computing, or just want to kick your existing experiments into a higher gear, why not join our workshop day at Serverless Computing London next month. We’ve got a trio of all-day optional workshops, each of which is led by a bona fide expert in the field. Lars Röwekamp …

EventOur Continuous Lifecycle event's call for papers closes this month, and we want to hear from you. If you’ve been putting DevOps, application lifecycle management, continuous delivery, cloud native, and container technologies and methodologies to work, we’d love to hear from you. And if you’ve hit speedbumps rolling out these …

A Facebook employee died at the tech giant's Silicon Valley headquarters today in an apparent suicide. According to police, the person jumped from the fourth-floor of a building on the social network's sprawling campus in Menlo Park, California, at 11.30am. He was declared dead at the scene by emergency services, and foul play …

That sound you can hear is the clock ticking down on your chance to register for this year’s Byte Night sleep out. The annual fundraiser from Action for Children helps the charity support vulnerable children across the UK, including tackling youth homelessness, and it’s not too late for you to do your bit. The event takes …

EventServerless Computing London hits Westminster again this November, and if you’re a charity or similar non-profit, we’d love for you to join us. We’ve got 20 conference tickets to give away, on a first come first served basis, for those who qualify. These passes will get you into all the keynotes and conference sessions on …

UpdatedTwitter.com is down worldwide along with its mobile and tablet apps. Yes, we know this must be a difficult time for you all. The antisocial network, which is frequented by about 326 million users a month, fell offline about 45 minutes ago at time of publication. By worldwide, we mean at least in North and South America, …

El Reg this week asked readers to lean their e-bike against the Japanese maple that overlooks the strategy boutique to help Ed Ho, GM for the Build division at DXC Technology, determine what his employer's brand stands for. Our legions of readers, of course, knew exactly how to give DXC execs the full treatment, saving cash …

Google is right now recovering from a multi-hour outage that knocked several of its internet services offline for unlucky netizens on Sunday. Beginning around 12.20pm US West Coast time (1900 UTC), the ad giant started noticing systems, ranging from Gmail and YouTube to its G Suite and cloud hosting platform, were dropping …

Who, Me?Monday has once again reared its head, and with that we welcome you back to Who, Me?, El Reg's weekly column where techies tell us about incidents from days of yore. Today we meet "Ian", who wrote in about a time his helpful advice was not quite as helpful as he'd thought it might be. At least not to the top brass. Ian, an …

On CallHave you got that Friday feeling? El Reg does, mainly because we're bringing you the latest instalment of On Call. Every week, we trawl through emails recounting the times readers have been faced with a particularly tricky call-out, searching for the best one to take you into the weekend. This time, we meet "Wayne", who got …

Who, Me?Are you hoping to make it through the week without a major balls-up? El Reg's fingers are crossed for you – but remember, not everyone is that lucky. On the plus side, that does provide us – and you – with the fodder we need for our Who, Me? column. Our weekly trip down the memory lanes people would probably rather forget is …

On CallAll hail On Call, the beacon of light at the end of the long week's tunnel. Here, readers share their tech support triumphs and woes, from the infuriating to the fascinating, for your reading pleasure. This time, we meet "Nico", who was faced with something of a PIBKAC situation when email was a slightly newer innovation, in …

We’re thrilled to announce that Facebook’s Sebastian Riedel will be delivering a keynote at Minds Mastering Machines (MCubed), our three day delve into artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced analytics this autumn. Sebastian leads the London site of Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and is also a professor in Natural …

Who, Me?Welcome once more to Who, Me? your weekly shot in the arm with other readers' ugly tales of lost jobs and catastrophic cockups. This week, we meet "Trevor", who tells us about a time an over-egged CV got him, and his firm, in a spot of bother over the festive season. Trevor was working for an outsourcer in Dublin and was lent …

On CallIt's that time again: Friday morning, and your weekly dose of On Call, where we gather round to share a laugh at someone else's expense. This week, we return to the saga of Bruce and Sheila, a tech support chap and a PA working in a petrochemical firm in South Africa. When we last saw them, Sheila had been struggling to put …

RoundupYou're busy. We're busy... looking busy. Here's a quick catch up on this week's chip news for you. Intel continues rolling out ninth-gen Core processors: In October last year, Intel launched its ninth-generation still-14nm Core processors for desktops and laptops. These are dubbed the Coffee Lake Refresh because it's a refresh …

Who, Me?Welcome once more to Who, Me? where readers share their panic-inducing moments of tech support cock-ups. A quick cup of coffee leaves production manager in fits and a cleaner in tears READ MORE This week, we meet "Adrian", who was consulting for a local weekly newspaper in the 1980s when he nearly destroyed 20 or so people’s …

On CallRoll up, roll up, to the best part of your day, nay, your week – On Call, where Reg readers share Eureka moments and gleeful memories in tech support. User secures floppies to a filing cabinet with a magnet, but at least they backed up daily... right? READ MORE This week, we meet "Jean", who was working as field tech support …

The world might be in turmoil, but if you want to learn how to turn chaos into an advantage, you should be joining us at Continuous Lifecycle in just over a month’s time. Chaos engineering is just one of the topics on our agenda, along with DevOps, Containers, Serverless and much more. Crystal Hirschorn will be explaining how …

There’s just a few days left to grab your early bird tickets for Continuous Lifecycle, and join us in May for three days of serverless, containers, CI/CD and DevOps. We’ll be taking an indepth look at how the smartest companies have overhauled how they do their software development and deployment to save time, money and …

EventsIf you want to accelerate your software development and deployment operation, and stay within budget, get your skates on to grab a handful of tickets for Continuous Lifecycle London before our early bird offer expires in two weeks. We have two excellent keynote speakers in the shape of Kubernetes pioneer and Heptio CTO Joe …

Serverless Computing London returns in November, and we want you to be there, on stage. Last year Situation Publishing, the people behind The Register and DevClass, together with Heise Medien, launched Serverless Computing London, the first three day event to focus on the full range of serverless platforms and tools, and how …

Huawei has slapped two employees on the wrist for making promotional tweets using a rival Apple's iPhone. Citing an internal memo, Reuters said that digital marketing agency Sapient had "VPN problems" sending the tweet by desktop – because of China's great firewall. An iPhone with a roaming SIM was used instead. Huawei may …

EventsWe'll be revealing the first tranche of speakers for Continuous Lifecycle 2019 next week, meaning you have just days to save hundreds of pounds with our blind bird ticket offer. Once again, our independent committee have put together a programme that spans fundamental tools and concepts of containerization, continuous delivery …

UK security training company Hacker House briefly had its site blocked after being mistaken for malware by Cisco's security wing Talos' smart "threat intelligence" software. Hacker House runs training classes on ethical hacking and defense techniques, as well as its own business security services in areas like penetration …