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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T2DJ)
Modern analytical techniques suggest the natural satellite cooled much faster than previously thought Humans haven't been on the Moon for 49 years but samples they took continue to provide new discoveries.…
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by Chris Williams on (#5T2C8)
Shocked, shocked, to find that anti-competitive behavior is going on in here The UK's antitrust regulator fears Apple and Google have a "vice-like grip" on mobile apps and browsers, which freezes out competitors and gives folks a crummy deal.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T2AT)
Parker solar probe partly determines where Sol ends and begins NASA's Parker solar probe has become the first spacecraft to reach the Sun, after solar boffins announced the feat at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T27Y)
Chinese handset maker doesn't go too hardcore, focuses on making snaps sparkle Oppo has joined the elite club of smartphone makers that design their own silicon for use in their products.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T276)
Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward measures ventilation quality so diners can breathe easy Chiyoda Ward, an area of central Tokyo, has created an app to help folks ascertain whether or not a restaurant is well ventilated and therefore less likely to lead to a COVID-19 infection.…
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by Chris Williams on (#5T26D)
Round off the year with a large crop of fixes for programming blunders Patch Tuesday It's not just Log4j you need to worry about this week. It's the final Patch Tuesday of the year.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5T25E)
Not to mention the FAA delegating its watchdog duties to the actual aircraft manufacturers An Aviation Whistleblower report issued Tuesday by a US Senate committee cites numerous oversight gaps within the government and the aviation industry.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5T20Z)
Now open-source logging library's JNDI disabled entirely by default, message lookups removed Last week, version 2.15 of the widely used open-source logging library Log4j was released to tackle a critical security hole, dubbed Log4Shell, which could be trivially abused by miscreants to hijack servers and apps over the internet.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5T1X8)
Three years of pushback have produced few changes while search giant insists it's listening to netizens Analysis The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Tuesday renewed its campaign to convince Google to listen to criticism of the tech goliath's plan to overhaul its browser extension platform and to make changes while there's still time.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#5T1JZ)
Private equity owners play pass the parcel One of the biggest beasts in the password management world, LastPass, is being spun out from parent LogMeIn as a "standalone cloud security" organisation.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5T1G0)
Too far? Committee thinks it doesn't go far enough Britain's Online Safety Bill is being enthusiastically endorsed in a "manifesto" issued today by MPs who were tasked with scrutinising its controversial contents.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T1D3)
Forrester research sheds new light on dynamic Larry Ellison says is going in Big Red's favour New figures from global research group Forrester suggest Oracle ERP users are more likely to look for systems from alternative vendors than arch-rival SAP. More than a quarter of users of its finance applications are looking to switch, the study showed.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T1A0)
Regulatory body needs method to account for business models that monetize free services Current US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosures have not evolved to capture new Big Tech business models and thus allow the world's megacorps to dodge antitrust rules, with the integrity of the market policed only by whistleblowers, according to a recent study.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5T17G)
Nobody wants to see Rosalind Franklin scattered over Oxia Planum The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has successfully completed a high-altitude drop test.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5T14T)
UK.gov talks tough: 'We will not hesitate to act if required to protect our critical national telecoms infrastructure' Billionaire telco tycoon Patrick Drahi has upped his stake in BT to 18 per cent but says he is not intending – at least not yet – to launch a full-blown bid to buy the business, a move the UK government warned it may thwart anyway.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T119)
Project hits the buffers after 'increased understanding' of the product West Sussex County Council faces a two-year delay to a £7.5 million Oracle ERP project once offered up as an exemplar of the company's competitive position against SAP.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T0ZK)
November incident led to delays in emergency service dispatches Exclusive An IT failure that led to a critical incident delaying ambulance dispatches from an NHS service in the south of England was down to network failures following routine maintenance, according to a Freedom of Information response.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T0YE)
Cupertino also added a Digital Legacy – special IDs so your loved ones can get your data once you're dead Apple has updated its operating systems for the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Watch and TV boxen, correcting dozens of security issues along the way.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T0X2)
Trader said he was just betting on COVID-induced digitalization, but investigation suggests otherwise Tech execs from Infosys and Wipro have been denied complete reversal of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) directions resulting from insider trading accusations.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T0VW)
Does the cloud belong in a city that's literally sinking? Rent some servers and find out Amazon Web Services has a new region for its cloudy customers to consider – in Indonesia.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T0VX)
Penguinistas will get all the holiday fun of an extra release candidate instead The Register can at last reveal the answer to the question on everyone's lips: who would win a hypothetical fight between Santa Claus and Linus Torvalds?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T0SE)
Washington discovers UX psychology, A/B tests, and single sign-on United States president Joe Biden has issued an executive order designed to modernise government services, especially online.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5T0QR)
Would more money have prevented this security flaw? Would the cash be useful in other ways anyway? Analysis The disclosure of a critical security hole in Log4j last week has renewed calls to rethink how open-source software gets developed, paid for, and maintained, not that the long-simmering issue ever really went away.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T0PY)
US think tank reckons services giant abuses spirit of skilled migrant system The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has published an analysis accusing Indian services company HCL of systemic underpayment of workers holding H-1B visas issued to skilled migrants in the US.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5T0ME)
This might be the bug that deserves the website, logo and book deal Miscreants are wasting no time in using the widespread Log4j vulnerability to compromise systems, with waves and waves of live exploit attempts focused mainly – for now – on turning infected devices into cryptocurrency-mining botnet drones.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5T0E3)
More than eighty feared dead across multiple US states hit by super storms Six people were killed on Friday night when a severe storm struck an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, and dozens more lost their lives in nearby Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5T0E4)
OK, it wasn't DNS, but it was hanging around the scene looking shifty Amazon has published some additional information for last week's US-East-1 outage that revealed its staffers had to pick their way through log files when the web giant's own monitoring tools were hit.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T0BF)
You can still get a badge if you go now The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is ending its Commercial Space Astronaut Wings programme, citing waning exclusivity.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5T072)
Plus: bugs found on Mars! Of the software kind, of course In Brief The vice-president of the United States, Kamala Harris, was mocked by commentators this week for her aversion to Bluetooth on security grounds. Security professionals think she has a point – given her position.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T045)
Police National Computer, customs rig and more fingered in PAC report UK government has "no clear plan" to set out how it will replace ageing legacy systems vital for the operation of the public sector, despite some systems dating back to the 1970s, according to a committee of MPs.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5T019)
Big implications for millions of staffers' Christmas pay packets Kronos Private Cloud has been hit by a ransomware attack. The company, also known as Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), provides timekeeping services to companies employing millions across worldwide.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5SZY9)
A space thing running late? Who would have thought it? Delays are a way of life for the space community, and the European Space Agency (ESA) has flown past its latest deadline for replying to astronaut applicants.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5SZYA)
You have until 10 January to make your feelings felt The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is to take a closer look at Microsoft's buy of talkative AI specialist Nuance.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5SZWE)
Symptom tracker suffers Monday morning borkage The ZOE COVID study app is still reportedly wobbly for some users after being entirely down and out for several hours this morning.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5SZRM)
New tool for security, insights, and fixing "gender and racially insensitive language rampant in code" The Linux Foundation (LF) will spend over $180m in 2021, 20 per cent up on last year, and highlights the role of its new LFX platform in its just-published annual report.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5SZPZ)
A little bit more QWERTY never hurty Review The mechanical keyboard space is teeming with competition. If you're a gamer, a coder, or simply type a lot, there's something for you. But asterisk, dear reader: that's only true if you're wedded to the PC.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#5SZNN)
Open source is no place for secrets Opinion This is a critical time for the Good Chip Intel. After the vessel driftied through the Straits of Lateness towards the Rocks of Irrelevance, Captain Pat parachuted into the bridge to grab the helm and bark "Full steam ahead!"…
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by Richard Speed on (#5SZNP)
Patching the patch Who, Me? Welcome to another Who, Me? confession from the Register readership, and a reminder of the unexpected side effects of software updates.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5SZJ2)
Amazon's latest Kindle Paperwhite sees Reg hack's fondleslab get a rest Review Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite e-book reader has solved several problems for me and overcome a shortcoming of the iPad. If only it didn't also make me guilty about adding another device to my already computer-infested life.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5SZJ3)
E-commerce giant's #metoo moment takes sinister turn Chinese state-owned media has run an interview with a woman – identified only by her last name Zhou – who alleged she was fired after claiming one of the firm's execs raped her while on a business trip, according to an interview between Zhou and Dahe Daily.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5SY28)
Plus: DeepMind's latest language model research and more Clearview’s controversial facial recognition technology is getting closer to being patented by the US Patent and Trademark Office.…
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'We will eventually learn' PCs with 5G connectivity could face issues that include international roaming support, but T-Mobile is working through those issues, in addition to figuring out what data plans may look like.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5SXN0)
El Reg maps the tributaries Red Hat has released CentOS Stream 9, the first major version since the company badly shook its community by announcing it was ending traditional CentOS a year ago.…
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The boss isn't too busy to be named Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang continues inventing, as if his role in the rise of GPUs wasn't enough.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5SXKQ)
Introducing Ventoy Friday FOSS Fest Ventoy is a free tool that turns any USB key into a multi-boot wonder.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5SXJ9)
PWC report shows long list of missed opportunities to shut out extortion crims Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) was almost paralysed by ransomware after a single user opened a malicious file attached to a phishing email, a consultancy's damning report has revealed.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5SXJA)
CFO now ruling the roost as mortgage biz reportedly delays SPAC sale Better CEO Vishal Garg, best-known for firing 900 employees over one giant Zoom call, is taking time off work while the company hires a third-party to perform a “leadership and cultural assessment.”…
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by Richard Speed on (#5SXGW)
Not great, not terrible Cloud software biz Hashicorp hit the markets this week with an initial public offering priced at $80 per share after which its stock enjoyed a modest rise as investors cracked open their wallets.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5SXF7)
Thank goodness he didn't make a diversion for Coco Pops A German employer has been left on the hook after a worker slipped and broke his back on the "commute" from his bed to the home office.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5SXBQ)
El Reg, as ever, helps you to get back in the game Debian is having problems with a current version of Firefox that leaves users with a dangerously outdated browser.…
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