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by Lindsay Clark on (#5KM4Y)
Look who's having a good pandemic Serco has been awarded a £322m contract to continue its work on the COVID-19 Test and Trace system in England and Northern Ireland.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5KM2R)
UK International Trade Secretary and Singaporean Minister of Trade Relations will also meet digitally Singapore and the United Kingdom begin negotiations today for a trade agreement in the hope of removing barriers related to exporting digital content and services.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KM0C)
Different hardware, same problem NASA has fired up the Hubble Space Telescope's backup payload computer to find that the spacecraft still has problems.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KKYJ)
Uni of Edinburgh buys in with new supercomputer based on HGX platform Mobile World Congress Nvidia has decided to bet on both Arm and x86 platforms for the 5G edge, with a new data processing unit – aka SmartNIC – that packs 16 Arm cores.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KKWR)
Borkage haunts one of the oldest station buildings in the world Bork!Bork!Bork! Take a break from Microsoft's relentless plugging of the new with a glimpse of one of its operating systems of yesteryear doing what it does best: falling over into a heap.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#5KKWS)
Introducing 'Core Web Vitals' Feature Google stopped prioritising Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) format in its Top News carousel last month. This means website owners no longer need to publish an extra set of pages written in the AMP format. Instead sites need to meet what Google calls "Core Web Vitals."…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5KKTV)
She worked for mini umbrella biz, not Serco itself, tribunal judge rules A British coronavirus contact tracer who has said she was sacked from Serco for blowing the whistle on a data breach had part of her legal case thrown out because she was working for a mini umbrella company and not Serco itself, a judge has ruled.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#5KKSF)
That which is born of the hack is hard to kill Column As these words are written, the Hubble SpaceTelescope is out of commission, victim of a computer fault yet to be diagnosed. It still orbits 550km up, still automatically aiming itself at targets in this galaxy and others. But it is a zombie dance. Its instruments are blind and deaf, waiting for instructions from an onboard controller that lies silent.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KKRR)
Garden hose + handy tap = bad times Who, Me? Feeling the burn? Stress getting to you? Today's edition of Who, Me? concerns pressure of a different sort as a Reg reader experiences a most unexpected deluge.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KKQB)
Exabyte-tending cloud storage outfit’s new data centre was built on Dell storage servers, but its own kit will live on Cloud storage outfit Backblaze, which for years has rolled its own hardware, has turned to Dell for its storage needs in a new Amsterdam bit barn.…
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Of course you want to kick off a digital transformation. Just remember to bring your people with you
by David Gordon on (#5KKQC)
Here’s how to build a digital culture Webcast Digital transformation isn’t just about technology and products, it’s about people. So, how do you think your people feel about being transformed, even disrupted?…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5KKQD)
Staff Q&A sees workers ask about supply chain troubles. The answer was ‘figure it out’ — and do the same for shabby cloud storage CPU utilisation rates Huawei CEO and founder Ren Zhengfei has urged the company’s employees to learn from the USA and not narrow their thinking, despite decrying the US bans that have hurt his company.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5KKP5)
Manufacturers’ marketing reflects good intentions and the realities of challenged supply chains and tightening laws The world has a shortage of plastics, and the ensuing challenges — rather than a desire to protect the planet — may well be the reason you’ve recently heard about recycled plastic working its way into laptops and other gadgetry.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KKJT)
Brief account shutdown due to DMCA request interpreted as sign of avian network’s lawless intentions The Indian Government’s dispute with Twitter took a new turn over the weekend with IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad accusing the micro-blogging service of breaking Indian law by following US law.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KKG9)
M1 support, interesting Azure integrations and RISC-V love among notable features Linus Torvalds has released version 5.13 of the Linux kernel after a very smooth development process that required just seven release candidates.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5KK5D)
Plus: AlphaFold on drugs, and a Google Cloud AI tool to spot dodgy kit In Brief If you're wondering what it takes to develop a self-driving car, know that Tesla is using a 1.8-exaFLOP AI supercomputer packed with 5,760 GPUs that train neural networks it hopes one day will power autonomous vehicles.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5KJ4M)
'Public money should be going to small companies and those who need to recover from the pandemic' A leading Green MSP has called for the Scottish government to sever all ties with Amazon – including the £4.7m a year it spends on AWS – following a report alleging the e-tailer dumps thousands of unsold items each week.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5KJ3C)
Plus: A tale of tech woe and E3 best bits The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. Before we get into it, quick story: I wasn't sure if I'd make this deadline because I came back from holiday to find my PC had acquired a fondness for crashing then rebooting anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour into playing something.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5KHZR)
Plus: Amazon gobbles Wickr, automakers cough to privacy blunders, and more In brief The SolarWinds backdoor gang last month infiltrated Microsoft's support desk via a phishing attack to obtain information to use in cyber-attacks on some of the Windows giant's own customers, it was reported.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5KHXT)
Time-wasting commits called out as effort to burnish submission metrics Updated Last week, Linux kernel contributor Qu Wenruo scolded another code donor, Zhen Lei, for wasting kernel maintainers' time with unnecessary patches.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5KHWS)
Also ordered to pay back $2.5m on his way to American cooler An expert penetration tester working for the notorious cyber-crime gang FIN7 was sent down for seven years on Friday and told to cough up $2.5m for breaking into corporate computer systems.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5KHT8)
Did we mention you'll soon be paying to play in 30 days, too? AWS has set up a competition for its customers' developers to find and fix one million bugs.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5KHR6)
Surfboard, not corporate board. But we're sure Zuck is working on that, too Uncanny Valley-dwelling Facebook founderbot Mark Zuckerberg has revealed pictures of a new surfboard he has had custom-made, resplendent with a cartoon picture of him surfing while wearing too much sunscreen.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KHNY)
If your chip's not on the list, you're not coming in. Even you, Surface Studio 2 Windows 11 won't land until nearer the end of the year and when it does users will only get a supported sample of the OS if they have relatively new hardware.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5KHJZ)
F-bomb tirade cheerleader triumphs over school board in landmark First Amendment case The US Supreme Court has ruled that teenagers cussing out public high schools on social media is protected speech under the First Amendment to the US Constitution, so long as it doesn't include threats, bullying or anything that disrupts the operation of the school.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KHK0)
Come for a dip in our cloud, the SMB over QUIC is lovely Amid all the emissions about Windows 11 this week came the stealthy arrival of the public preview of Windows Server 2022: Azure Edition.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5KHGX)
And it affects 129 models of PC and laptop... or about 30 million computers A chain of four vulnerabilities in Dell's SupportAssist remote firmware update utility could let malicious people run arbitrary code in no fewer than 129 different PCs and laptops models – while impersonating Dell to remotely upload a tampered BIOS.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5KHE2)
SAP banking platform still on the scene Deutsche Bank is to migrate all its Oracle systems onto a single instance of Big Red's on-prem cloud.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5KHE3)
IR35 status of 1 in 5 cases still undetermined by 'fundamentally flawed' app The UK tax collector’s controversial Check Employment Status Tool used by contractors to determine their IR35 status returned inconclusive responses for one in five of the million plus times it was called upon in 16 months.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5KHAR)
Trove too tempting for computer criminals while public unaware of their rights, says David Davis A judicial review will inevitability challenge the UK government's plans to extract millions of sensitive medical records held on GP systems in England, according to a high-profile backbench Conservative MP.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5KHAS)
Storage giant fingers 'critical' bug allowing remote factory resets that wipe contents Western Digital has alerted customers to a critical bug on its My Book Live storage drives, warning them to disconnect the devices from the internet to protect the units from being remotely wiped.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5KH6T)
yy/mm/dd. Yep that's £2,104.18 a ride for April beachgoers Hundreds of visitors to Brighton Pier have been left thousands of pounds out of pocket after a Worldpay payment snafu left them less than amused.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5KH6V)
Refuses to give tech giants a five-star rating Google and Amazon are waiting to hear about their own five-star rating today after the UK's competition regulator announced it had opened a formal investigation into fake reviews on their platforms.…
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by David Gordon on (#5KH40)
Rubrik Data Security Talks also features Anonymous veteran, top security leaders Promo Despite putting thorough and rigorous defensive security measures in place, ransomware is still getting in and corrupting data, forcing organisations to pay massive ransom fees.…
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by David Gordon on (#5KH1A)
Get your CVs ready and good luck Job Alert The Register is publishing free job ads to help keep tech professionals in gainful employment during these challenging times.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KH1B)
She's sitting in a floating popout window for video calls while you get on with your life Browser veteran Opera has taken a break from selling fintech to issue an update codenamed "R5" to its desktop browser - complete with consumer-friendly music streaming and video-calling features.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KGYW)
Reg readers couldn’t split the argument – perhaps because we kept coming back to containers inside VMs being sensible Register Debate Reg readers have a reputation as never being short of an opinion. So, it is with more than a little surprise that we must declare our latest debate, on the motion Containers will kill Virtual Machines, was a tie!…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5KGYX)
Alleged exec meetings with Japanese government detailed in explosive report Toshiba shareholders voted to oust chairman Osamu Nagayama and a member of the company's audit committee, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, during their annual general meeting.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5KGWV)
Data law's transparency requirement currently not being met, according to powerful doctors' union Updated The UK’s influential doctors’ union reckons NHS Digital’s current communication of its controversial plan to extract patients’ medical histories from GP systems is going so well the government agency’s own enforcer of patient confidentiality could step in and halt the programme.…
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‘What are the odds someone will find and exploit this?’ Nice one — you just released an insecure app
by Davey Winder on (#5KGTZ)
Who’s to blame: devs or management? And how do we cure application vulnerability epidemic Feature According to a recently published Osterman Research white paper, 81 per cent of developers admit to knowingly releasing vulnerable apps.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#5KGS8)
I'm not the robot, pal, you are Something for the Weekend, Sir? I have failed the Turing test – again. Apparently I am unable to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to that of a human being.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KGQR)
Let me draw a picture for you On Call The week may be over, but the capacity of users to stick things where they shouldn't is far from exhausted. Welcome to another edition of On Call.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5KGP9)
SONIC the, er, edge... hog? The Ministry of Fun* has (virtually) cut the ribbon on its latest 5G testing centre to verify the security and resilience of OpenRAN kit seeking a place among the UK's 5G network infrastructure.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KGPA)
Whatever happened to cloud being a super way to preserve cashflow? Amazon Web Services has started allowing its customers to pay in advance.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5KGMW)
Made-in-Xinjiang feedstock for solar panels and semiconductors is under scrutiny The USA's Customs and Border Patrol on Thursday banned imports of silica products widely used in solar panels, but also useful for other silicon wafers, on grounds they were made in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where it is alleged Muslim-minority Uyghur population conduct forced labor.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KGKR)
No word on what this means for Android Go or Android One, but Indian mega-carrier Jio is excited about over-the-air updates, Google Assistant and more Google has revealed that it has created an “optimised” version of Android designed specifically for one phone — a device to be launched in September by Indian carrier Jio. But the ads giant has not said what the new phone means for its other efforts to create a version of Android tailored to deployment in hardware at prices accessible for people in developing nations.…
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by Larry Peterson on (#5KGJ5)
A technical yet demystifying dive into networking tech you can’t avoid Systems Approach I remember when I first heard about Service Meshes in 2017, and wondering what the big deal was. Building cloud applications as a graph of microservices was commonplace, and telcos were hard at work inventing yet other ways to chain together virtualized network functions. Service graphs, service chains, service meshes … how many ways do we really need to talk about composing complex systems from a collection of smaller components?…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5KGH8)
We're looking forward to the late 21st-century colony wars Over the next quarter century, China wants to set up a permanent base on Mars for "large scale development of the Red Planet," and install a sci-fi carbon-nanotube elevator to shuttle goods between the surface and spacecraft in orbit.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5KGFM)
Plan to reinvent advertising turns out to be more difficult than expected Google, which makes the only major browser not blocking third-party cookies by default, has revised its commitment to phase out third-party cookies by 2022.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5KGEG)
Well, it's a start The US House Judiciary Committee this week approved half a dozen major bipartisan antitrust bills aimed at clamping down on the growing power of Big Tech and its monopolization of some markets.…
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