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Researcher spots RSA tell-tale lurking in plain sight on VirusTotal Around 1,500 Cobalt Strike beacons uploaded to VirusTotal were reusing the same RSA keys from a cracked version of the software, according to a security researcher who pored through the malware repository.…

More transparency and reporting needed, says Arunja Capital Updated Accusations of harassment and concerns over pay gaps continue to dog Microsoft as shareholders were urged by investor Arunja Capital to vote for the software giant to release transparency reports.…

15% tax minimum to hit tech firms The US government and administrations in Europe have come to an agreement that will drop the threat of tariffs in response to policies on digital services taxes (DSTs).…

Britain's anti Amazon and Google war gets a second front The UK may require smart speakers such as Amazon Echo and Google Home devices to broadcast UK DAB radio stations, over government fears that Brits aren't consuming enough of the unloved radio tech.…

Exodus, movement of the people... to the Middle East or elsewhere More than a third (35 per cent) of contractors in the UK have become permanent employees, retired, shifted to work overseas or are "simply not working" since IR35 tax legislation was revised earlier this year.…

'I can debug production from the IDE,' said CS boss Peter Pezaris Observability company New Relic has acquired CodeStream, specialists in developer collaboration, with the aim being to connect observability data with code in the development environment.…

Remember the R Tape Loading Error? The glory days of audio-cassette loading are set to return in the coming weeks, with retro fans to be treated to a broadcast for them to hit Play and Record to.…

The second vanishing of the cybergang... for now As we noted a few days back, notorious ransomware gang REvil "disappeared" again this week. Recent reports have now shed light on why that may be.…

WebKit engine is well behind the competition Feature The legacy of Internet Explorer 6 haunts web developer nightmares to this day. Microsoft's browser of yore made their lives miserable and it's only slightly hyperbolic to say it very nearly destroyed the entire internet. It really was that bad, kids. It made us walk to school in the snow. Uphill. Both ways. You wouldn't understand.…

A message for you, (on your) rudie Something for the Weekend, Sir? "You've got mail!" announces a voice on the tram.…

Look what you found! Aren't you clever! On Call Let us take a little trip back to the days before the PC, when terminals ruled supreme, to find that the more things change the more they stay the same. Welcome to On Call.…

Chipzilla braces for a China-gaming-ban-shaped hole in future results, predicts more product delays Intel has blamed Apple's switch to its own M1 silicon in Macs for a dip in sales at its client computing group, and foreshadowed future unpleasantness caused by supply chain issues and China's recent internet crackdowns.…

Unique fingerprints lurk in radio signals more often than not, it seems Over the past few years, mobile devices have become increasingly chatty over the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol and this turns out to be a somewhat significant privacy risk.…

Vid-slingers had been asking how this happened for years, even while their channels were spruiking dodgy crypto After years of complaints from YouTubers, Google has pinpointed the root cause of a series of account hijackings: software sponsorship deals that delivered malware.…

Claims shared memory speed breakthrough in new server, plans to enter South Korea and Thailand, and more Announcements were coming thick and fast at Alibaba Cloud's annual APSARA conference, where the Middle Kingdom's biggest cloud unleashed an all-in-one client device, plenty of upgrades to its cloud services, and an uncanny weather predictor.…

Names November as the month for Win 10 H2 update – then reveals major new feature won’t arrive on time Microsoft has released a build of Windows 11 that it claims addresses performance problems the new OS imposed on some systems.…

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, PayPal, Square under investigation America's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said on Thursday it is probing some of the biggest names in the electronic payments industry, requesting detailed information from them on how they collect and use people's spending data.…

As it appears Intel's attempt to gobble the upstart collapses SiFive reckons its fastest RISC-V processor core yet is closing the gap on being a mainstream computing alternative to x86 and Arm.…

Tell us you've been jabbed or... Apple will require unvaccinated workers to get tested for COVID-19 every time they come into the office for work, starting from November 1.…

But with 97 per cent of Android devs offering free software, web giant's share of mobile ad spend matters more Google is cutting the fee it charges Play Store app developers for digital subscriptions from 30 per cent during the first 12 months to 15 per cent at all times.…

Former CTO leaves for car tech biz Another key executive who was part of Intel's RealSense group – which is winding down operations – left the company this month.…

What? No. Noooooooooooooooooo At first glance, Microsoft appears to have torn up the infamous Windows 11 hardware compatibility list by inflicting the code on its latest games console.…

Update to v6.02 – or don't, but on your head be it A remote code execution vulnerability existed in an old and free trial version of WinRAR, according to infosec firm Positive Technologies.…

Keeping up with technology changes 'taking a toll on development' GIMP 2.99.8, a development version with many new features, has been released, but 3.0 is taking its time due to system changes that break things.…

Nation playing catch-up following release from 1979 ban South Korea today came close to joining the small club of nations that can build and launch their own orbital-class rockets, with its maiden attempt blasting off successfully then failing to deploy its payload.…

Looking at code here, there and (almost) everywhere Microsoft has whipped the covers off yet another take on code-in-the-browser with a lightweight version of Visual Studio Code, while unveiling the version 1.0 release of support for Red Hat Java in the freebie source wrangler.…

Automate everything – but while human moderation is hard, robot moderation tends not to work AWS has introduced channel flows to its Chime messaging and videoconferencing API, the idea being to enable automatic moderation of profanity or content that "does not fit" the corporate brand.…

I dream of wires, say Whitehall’s big buyers The UK's central government procurement agency is chumming the waters around the market's swimmers, hoping to tempt suppliers into providing a range of computer network services and kit with a £5bn tender.…

Underling took customer on bucket list trip - and VP signed it off without checking Informatica's former UK & Ireland vice president was correctly sacked after letting a salesman take Highways England's executive IT director on a $5,000 golfing jaunt, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled.…

Meanwhile Elon's running orbital tourist trips and ISS crew missions Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule, designed to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, will not fly until the first half of next year at the earliest, as the manufacturing giant continues to tackle an issue with the spacecraft’s valves.…

Considering the slack security of such kit, it's a perfect storm Increasing numbers of "non-business" Internet of Things devices are showing up inside corporate networks, Palo Alto Networks has warned, saying that smart lightbulbs and internet-connected pet feeders may not feature in organisations' threat models.…

Never mind the performance, man, think of the planet MBB Forum 2021 The "G" in 5G stands for Green, if the hours of keynotes at the Mobile Broadband Forum in Dubai are to be believed.…

Big Blue promises mid-single-digit growth is coming, but CEO struggles to explain how. IBM has blamed another quarter of tepid performance on its servers.…

Pushing for a 5x performance boost albeit over a 2018 cousin Arm has teased an upcoming graphics processor unit, due to be unveiled next year, and said it is tuned heavily for running artificial intelligence code.…

Beijing's recent crackdowns on internet behaviour have spawned rebellious entrepreneurs, because of course they have. China's National Internet Information Office has revisited some of the government's recent internet crackdowns, to put a stop to workarounds such as renting or selling accounts for online games to minors in order to circumvent the three-hours-per-week play time imposed by Beijing.…

Panorama appliance packs Nvidia Jetson Xavier AGX and will be sold – not rented like other AWS on-prem kit Amazon Web Services, the outfit famous for pioneering pay-as-you-go cloud computing, has produced a bit of on-prem hardware that it will sell for a once-off fee.…

Virtzilla will be just fine – it's finally figured out how to woo developers, and hardware players won't desert it Analysis Dell and VMware have named the day they'll break up: November 1.…

Error messages effectively piped to /dev/null, it is alleged Theranos blood-testing machines, which US prosecutors claim failed over 51 per cent of the time, provided no indication if things went awry during demonstrations for visitors, a court has heard.…

Ten-buck increase for 2GB model 'not here to stay' says Upton The price of a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 single-board computer is going up $10, and its supply is expected to be capped at seven million devices this year due to the ongoing global chip shortage.…

Surveillance tech faces trade limits as America syncs policy with treaty obligations More than six years after proposing export restrictions on "intrusion software," the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has formulated a rule that it believes balances the latitude required to investigate cyber threats with the need to limit dangerous code.…

The future's bright, and expensive Corporate technology soothsayer Gartner is forecasting worldwide IT spending will hit $4.5tr in 2022, up 5.5 per cent from 2021.…

AI and 5G to fuel demand for new plants and R&D Chip giant Micron has announced a $150bn global investment plan designed to support manufacturing and research over the next decade.…

Foreign ownership capped at 50% After years of restricting the use and ownership of VPNs, Beijing has agreed to let foreign entities hold up to a 50 per cent stake in domestic VPN companies.…

If you want to know the solution, join this Regcast Sponsored We know for sure that ransomware attackers and sundry dark forces want to break into critical infrastructure. Ransomware attacks on industrial environments have increased by 500 per cent since 2018.…

Windows Insiders get their hands on the Windows Subsystem for Android Microsoft has further teased the arrival of the Windows Subsystem for Android by detailing how the platform will work via a newly published document for Windows Insiders.…

Companies using GPL software should meet their obligations, lawsuit says The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit which supports and defends free software, has taken legal action against Californian TV manufacturer Vizio Inc, claiming "repeated failures to fulfill even the basic requirements of the General Public License (GPL)."…

Kit using the chips to appear next year at the earliest Korean DRAM fabber SK hynix has developed an HBM3 DRAM chip operating at 819GB/sec.…

DARPA imitator not doing much after two years of Johnson government Updated The UK's efforts to copy US government and military innovation outfit DARPA are stalling, according to a leading figure in research and development.…

That rebrand can't come soon enough Updated The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has smacked Facebook with a £50m ($68.7m) fine for "deliberately" not giving it the full picture about its ongoing $400m acquisition of gif-slinger Giphy.…

A death by a thousand cuts The Chromium team has finally done it – File Transfer Protocol (FTP) support is not just deprecated, but stripped from the codebase in the latest stable build of the Chrome browser, version 95.…