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by Matt Dupuy on (#5KQ16)
Well-travelled billionaire's likeness very likely to follow recent examples of other questionable public art The city of New York received an addition to its trove of often obscure and peculiar statuary when a life-sized polyester resin figure of famously charismatic Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk was unveiled in Downtown Manhattan.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5KPY9)
Vuln thankfully patched following Google Project Zero disclosure Google's Project Zero has emitted another vulnerability report, showing off a proof-of-concept exploit against the open-source KVM hypervisor that allows an attacker to escape a virtual machine on AMD-based servers – taking control of the underlying host system.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KPVW)
Won't someone think of the children Former Microsoft engineer and creator of the Windows Task Manager Dave Plummer has issued a reminder to all programmers to take care over the imagery conjured up by a quickly typed description.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5KPVX)
That's tough talk – especially after the amazing reversal on £680k it spent on anti-fraud ads with search giant The UK's financial regulator has given a lukewarm response to Google's plans to tighten the promotion of scams on its platforms.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5KPSH)
Christian org becomes latest victim of latter-day IT scourge Exclusive Criminals infected the Salvation Army in the UK with ransomware and siphoned the organisation's data, The Register has learned.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#5KPQN)
Turn off. Tune out. Relax Feature Just because the internet is always on doesn't mean that we should be. People need time away from work to relax and recharge, unencumbered by phone and email when working outside the office.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5KPP5)
Concerned researchers suggest some form of subtle regulation to prevent end of humanity as we know it A group of 17 researchers from a wide cross-section of different disciplines have come together to contribute to a paper suggesting social media might be a risk to humanity's continued existence as we know it.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KPM5)
But only in India, and only in English … for now at least Google has announced SMS-grooming tech that it will only offer in India.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5KPM6)
Well, that was a busy month for gravitational wave boffins Gravitational wave detectors have reportedly spotted the merger of a black hole and a neutron star – not once but twice in the same month.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5KPJR)
Global median score jumped by ten per cent in two years — and just as well The United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) published its 2020 Global Cyber Security Index on Tuesday, and listed the US first in overall ranking, followed by a tie for second place tie between the UK and Saudi Arabia.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KPHH)
United Airlines buys 200 planes — plans to give ’em ten inches of entertainment and a double dose of wireless US-based mega-airline United Airlines has announced it will purchase 200 new planes — a mixture of Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320 Neos — and equip the lot with in-seat Bluetooth.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KPFZ)
An eager queue has already formed in Asia, Latin America, and Africa — but do those nations know about the glitches, or the digital divide issues? India has decided to open-source the Co-WIN platform it created to arrange bookings for COVID-19 vaccinations.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5KPDS)
Admins tend to forget that subdomains don’t inherit security controls, leaving the likes of CNN, Harvard, Cisco, and US health authorities with vulnerabilities Abandoned or ignored subdomains often include overlooked vulnerabilities that leave organisations open to attack, according to a team of infosec researchers from the Vienna University of Technology and the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The team’s work will be presented at the 30th USENIX Security Symposium this August.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5KPCT)
Maybe call it backseat programming for now? GitHub on Tuesday unveiled a code-completion tool called Copilot that shows promise though still has some way to go to meet its AI pair programming goal.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5KPBZ)
An Ocean's 11 of exploitation involving guessable random numbers and hostname shenanigans Google Compute Engine virtual machines can be hijacked and made to hand over root shell access via a cunning DHCP attack, according to security researcher Imre Rad.…
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Digital delinquent deletes developer's database during disastrous Docker deployment, defaults damned
by Thomas Claburn on (#5KP85)
NewsBlur RSS tracker accidentally left MongoDB store facing public internet during migration to containers NewsBlur, an RSS news reading app for the web and mobile devices, recently had one of its databases deleted thanks to an insecure default setting that has dogged developers using Docker since 2014.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5KP46)
Impressive, but it's still no Apple Samsung today committed to provide its enterprise-edition flagships with half a decade's worth of security updates.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5KP47)
Only academics, researchers, nonprofits need apply to AIER initiative AMD has rolled out a programme that it hopes will tempt scientific computing types away from Nvidia and the CUDA ecosystem and onto its own Instinct accelerator range and ROCm run-anywhere software platform: the AMD Instinct Education and Research (AIER) initiative.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5KP1W)
Localised brain sleeping behind wakeful forgetfulness and poor atten Neuroscientists have developed a method for predicting when your mind might go blank or completely forget whatever it was we were talking about.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5KNZN)
Plus: 10nm Sapphire Rapids Xeon chips delayed to Q1 2022 Intel has officially sounded the death knell for Transactional Synchronisation Extensions (TSX) on a selection of processors from Skylake to Coffee Lake – a security-enhancing move which will have an oversized performance impact on certain workloads.…
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by David Gordon on (#5KNZP)
Join us online and set your data free Webcast Unlocking the value your corporate data is one of the core elements of digital transformation.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KNWX)
Plus great news for all seven of you: An ARM64 build of its software suite Amid the unveiling of Windows 11 and the backlash over the frankly pisspoor way Microsoft handled the operating system's hardware requirements, the software behemoth quietly emitted a native ARM64 build of its Office cash cow.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5KNSY)
Companies rely on estimates that are often wrong, says Finops Foundation A report on Kubernetes expenditure from the Finops Foundation, in association with CNCF, shows that costs are rising and companies struggle to predict them accurately.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5KNPV)
No indication any of it went on preventing theft of CCTV footage, though, eh Matt? The Cabinet Office spaffed almost £300,000 on cybersecurity-related training for its staff in the last year – an eye-popping increase of almost 500 per cent on the year before.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5KNPW)
Double-digit LTE coverage increases projected for low-population areas Far-flung parts of Scotland and Wales have been promised a major boost in mobile connectivity by 2025, according to a roadmap for the Shared Rural Network that UK government published today.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5KNKJ)
'Smart Fund' would be redistributed among creators and performers Leading lights in the world of "the arts" have called for a techy tax on mobiles, laptops, and PCs to help finance creative industries they claim have been ravaged by lack of revenue and funding.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5KNG4)
Rugged fondleslab ideal for field work starts at £2,218 with lots to configure Panasonic's Toughbook G2 tablet will feature 10-finger touch even with gloves on and full Windows 11 compatibility.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KNG5)
Amazon boss's Blue Origin New Shepard launch currently scheduled for 20 July A pair of rich white men look set to duke it out at the edge of space after Virgin Galactic was given the green light by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly customers to space.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5KNDP)
Nice work if you can get it Fujitsu has been awarded a £9.2m contract extension by the Northern Ireland Education Authority for changes to the implementation of an Oracle HR and payroll system that is already nearly three years late.…
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When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos's £136m contract with NHS England
by Lindsay Clark on (#5KNBD)
'All software must be safely and securely deployed within guidelines provided to us,' says outsourcer French outsourcer Atos has been charging NHS England between £6,000 and £8,000 for packing up popular free and open-source software requested by workers in the non-departmental government body.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5KN98)
But Brits can seemingly keep using the website The UK's financial watchdog has fired a warning shot across the bow of Binance, and ordered it to place a notice on binance.com scaring off Brit crypto fans.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KN99)
If you'd like to restart and try ag- Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft Windows is notable for its ability to fall over pretty much anywhere, but this is, we think, the first time it has disgraced itself over the side of a hotel.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5KN7F)
Clawed critters less depressed as human drugs pollute their freshwater homes A study by freshwater crustacean boffins in Florida has revealed that feeding antidepressants to crayfish can make them more outgoing and adventurous — which is more or less a definition of how antidepressants are supposed to work. On humans, at least.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5KN66)
You'll need two hubs and about £300 The M1 MacBook Pro is like that brilliant colleague who insists on microwaving fish in the office kitchenette. Good at its job, certainly, but also deeply annoying.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KN4V)
Even non-x86 sales grew and SPARC is still selling — but storage sales slipped Indian businesses went on a server-shopping spree in the first quarter of 2021, says analyst firm IDC.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5KN3H)
Three teams stand to win US$37,000 and fifteen teams get mentorship and Sandbox toys Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have become a hot topic for governments around the world, and Singapore has come up with a novel way of planning its own effort: a crowdsourced competition.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5KN26)
One team says DF2 is 72m LY away, another disagrees – we speak to both sides Never mind memory errors from radiation. Another deteriorating part of the decades-old Hubble Space Telescope has found itself in a jam. This time its camera unit is once again in the middle of a clash between scientists over whether or not the galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 contains any dark matter.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KN0H)
UK, Australia, Russia ranked in second tier. North Korea and Iran are a step down but feisty The United States is comfortably the world’s most powerful nation when measured on “cyber capabilities that make the greatest difference to national power,” according to British think tank The International Institute for Strategic Studies.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KMZE)
US thus doesn’t need a central bank digital currency, says bigwig The United States doesn't need a central bank digital currency (CBDC) because such a thing will not notably improve the nation's financial system. And also, the US dollar isn't threatened by digital currencies nor other nations' CBDCs, so what's the point?…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5KMXD)
Watchdog has 30 days to try again or let it go A US federal court on Monday threw out an antitrust complaint that threatened to break up Facebook.…
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Microsoft releases Windows 11 Insider Preview, attempts to defend labyrinth of hardware requirements
by Thomas Claburn on (#5KMWF)
Says its PC Health Check app didn't provide 'the level of detail or accuracy you expected from us' Microsoft on Monday released its first Windows 11 Insider Preview build (22000.51) to its Dev channel. It also took the opportunity to tackle head on the criticism it faced over the operating system's tough hardware requirements.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5KMS2)
Chinese space agency emits footage of Red Planet bot Videos The China National Space Administration has released videos and pictures of its first Mars rover scooting around on the surface of the Red Planet.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5KMMZ)
Redmond's legendary QA strikes again Microsoft on Friday admitted it had signed malicious third-party driver code submitted for certification through its Windows Hardware Compatibility Program.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5KMJW)
Possible west coast/east coast beef brewing over deliberate misinterpretation of 'Big Apple' Apple may be considering increasing the size of the iPad Pro’s display, with potential stretches including 14-inch and 16-inch versions, according to reports.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5KMGN)
Gas giant's atmosphere has the right concentration of water and temperature Astroboffins from Queen's University Belfast reckon the clouds that swirl around Jupiter might contain enough water to support life.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KME5)
Why can't Ingenuity use its blades to clear panels? It's 2,145 miles away Amid reports of declining power levels, NASA's InSight lander looks set to keep its science instruments running for most of summer.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5KMB7)
Apparently Eastenders' Phil Mitchell is in charge these days - it sounds fighty The head of the UK's competition regulator said the body planned to "come down like a ton of bricks" on anyone attempting to stifle the country's economic recovery.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5KMB8)
It just works, until it unexpectedly and disastrously doesn't If you have a pacemaker, it’s probably not a good idea to hug your Apple kit. The company has warned about potential interference with implanted medical devices from virtually every product it sells.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5KM7Y)
Windows App SDK, Android, Arm64, micro-interactions, and two new fonts Microsoft has been hyping the versatility of Windows 11 for developers, from Android to Linux to Progressive Web Applications and the new Win UI 3, though much of what it showed last week also applies to Windows 10.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5KM4X)
It's like an animal farm / That's the rural charm in the country BT is looking to the heavens to help connect homes and businesses in the UK's rural areas to the internet – inking a deal with none other than partly state-owned OneWeb, the telco has confirmed.…
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