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by Richard Speed on (#5KANM)
Memory is not the only thing leaking from Windows Bork!Bork!Bork! It's a return to familiar ground for the bork desk today as that most common of Windows occurrences turns up in a UK transport hub: a screen of bluest death.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#5KAKG)
Let’s talk procedures. Plus: Are you dealing with errors in a way that leaves room for people to own up to them? This correspondent has a confession to make: I’m not perfect and sometimes things don’t go as I hoped.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#5KAHX)
From point release to pointless release Column A new version of Windows was once a big deal. Upgrading was expensive for everyone, with warehouses-worth of physical media being pushed into retail channels to displace the old. It couldn't happen very often, so version numbers became signifiers of great importance.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5KAHY)
President blames China for blocking government purchases as tech titans say they'll find five million doses The Taiwanese government has approved a plan for tech titans Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Foxconn to purchase and donate 10 million doses of COVID-19 jabs as the country seeks to increase its rate of vaccination.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KAG8)
The pain in Spain comes mainly from a lack of training Who, Me? Testing in production has always been a thing, sometimes by accident and sometimes because the powers that be cannot be bothered with multiple environments. And sometimes things go wrong. Welcome to Who, Me?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KAG9)
NASSCOM says industry has already weathered the worst automation has to offer, but may use different definitions of where jobs are at risk India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) has strongly criticised a Bank of America prediction that automation would cause three million job losses in its industry.…
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by David Gordon on (#5KAER)
Network invaders haven't stopped learning ... have you? Promo The last year has shown that lock down and travel restrictions are no barrier to learning. After all, when it comes to the cybersecurity world, miscreants seem to have learned plenty.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5KADD)
Think tank says inconsistencies in story were not a cover-up — just a mistake from “working-level staff” South Korean officials have admitted that government nuclear think tank Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) was hacked in May 2021 by North Korea’s Kimsuky group. The Korean news outlet that broke the story has accused KAERI of a cover-up.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KAC4)
Minister lashes avian network and suggests its legal protections may have been removed India has again expressed severe displeasure with Twitter, following three different incidents embroiling the micro-blogging service in a complex debate about sovereignty and censorship and possibly making the company liable for its users’ posts.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KA9J)
Company conspired with government to make life hard for activist foreign investors Japanese industrial giant Toshiba is attempting to recover from its third major corporate governance scandal in six years — and this time the nation's prime minister is alleged to have played a part.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5K9TM)
It's a Jersey thing, you wouldn't understand A New Jersey water park has had to modify its summer reopening plans after one of its star attractions caught fire and partially burned down.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5K8SR)
Plus: Canon has cameras that only let employees into meeting rooms if they smile, and more In brief The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS), which set sail this week from the UK to the US, failed just three days into its journey. It appears a mechanical fault occurred, something the Mayflower's AI can't fix itself.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5K8JR)
Chat-bot maker LivePerson wins lawsuit against call-center outfit [24]7.ai On Thursday, a jury in a federal court in Oakland, California, found call center biz [24]7.ai – as in, 24/7 – guilty of unfair competition and stealing trade secrets from chatbot maker LivePerson, awarding the company more than $30m in damages.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5K8EF)
Keeps small-time devs on the reservation with AWS credits, too Amazon this week said it would reduce its Appstore commission rate for less successful developers, following recent similar moves by Apple and Google, and is sweetening its deal by offering AWS credits to support apps' backend services.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5K8CV)
Crackdown on loopholes that allow 'high-risk' vendors to have equipment approved for use in the US The US Federal Communications Commission is pressing forward with a proposal that would ban telecommunications providers [PDF] from using equipment made by manufacturers deemed to present a risk to national security.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5K8B7)
Fair Repair Act targets all varieties of electronic devices A New York congressman has introduced a federal right-to-repair bill, just a week after the state's Senate passed a bill addressing the same issue. That state bill has failed to progress, we note.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5K89J)
Booze-fuelled Change.org campaign implores Amazon founder to 'GOBBLE DA LISA!' Ultra-billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has already been the subject of a petition asking him not to return to Earth after he blasts off in his New Shepard rocket on July 20, but even if he is allowed back, Bezos is now facing an even more difficult prospect.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5K87Q)
Plus: Updates to .NET 6, ASP.NET Core, and .NET MAUI Microsoft has unveiled a slew of developer tools, including a preview of the 64-bit Visual Studio 2022, ahead of that developer event set for 24 June.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5K84Y)
Hello, 2002 called with one of the oldest low-tech tricks in the book Malware laced with racial epithets tries to block Windows-based victims from visiting file-sharing sites associated with copyright infringement, according to new Sophos research.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5K81X)
Biz will develop Magnetized Target Fusion technology at the site General Fusion – the Canadian-based atomic outfit backed by Jeff Bezos and a battalion of other major investors – is to build a test facility in Oxfordshire to showcase its power-generating technology.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5K81Y)
MPs give FCA a telling-off for wasting taxpayer money The UK's financial regulator is refusing to say whether it will accept an offer by Google to pay back more than £600,000 spent on online ads warning people about the dangers of money scams.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5K7Z1)
UK infosec accreditation body still won't publish exam cheatsheet scandal report nor be interviewed by El Reg Ian Glover, president of infosec accreditation body CREST, is stepping down from his post, he told the organisation's annual general meeting yesterday.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5K7Z2)
$500, 136-piece, tribble-laden Star Trek tribute is immense, but clearly illogical Playmobil is set to boldly go where no three-inch man has gone before with the release of a metre-long replica of the NCC-1701 USS Enterprise from the original Star Trek series.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5K7W9)
'This is shooting Schematron in the heart ... its heart is individual open source developers' The original inventor of a popular XML standard, Rick Jelliffe, who created Schematron, has protested that his open source work is now behind a paywall at standards body ISO.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5K7SC)
Ideal for Apple fans who appreciate little boxes made of clicky-clacky Review Mechanical keyboard manufacturers have typically swerved Mac users. It's not personal, it's just business.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5K7SD)
Successful applicant must 'change existing thinking', which is odd as it's all been going so well up to now No 10 Downing Street - the home of the UK Prime Minister - is looking to hire a big cheese at the Brexit Opportunities Unit to bring a fresh new oomph and zing to Whitehall.…
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by David Gordon on (#5K7QC)
Hear how real-world users have switched to DBaaS with the Nutanix Database Summit on-demand Promo If your organisation still relies on a creaking, legacy database, it’s not just your data administrators who are suffering.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5K7NH)
First 'AMpLe' concept proves worryingly simple to implement with success Researchers at the Ubiquitous System Security Lab of Zhejiang University and the University of Michigan's Security and Privacy Research Group say they've found a way to blind autonomous vehicles to obstacles using simple audio signals.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#5K7KQ)
How did I love thee? Let me count the email redirections Something for the Weekend, Sir? How many websites do I have? Go on, take a guess. Well done! You might be correct… or perhaps not. Honestly, I have no idea.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K7J7)
Switchzilla adds 5G options to edge routers and gateways, bets you'd rather buy its kit than run multiple networks Cisco has announced industrial routers and internet gateways with baked in 5G as it tries to extend the enterprise network and SD-WAN to the edge.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5K7J8)
Choose Your Own On Call On Call You can never be sure who is on the other end of the on-call phone. It might be a minion... but sometimes it might be the master. Or maybe not.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K7GS)
4000 service provider clouds are based on vSphere — now they’re all capable of running Kubernetes too VMware has shipped Tanzu Basic for service providers, making it possible to run Kubernetes on over 4000 clouds, and thereby given itself a better chance at having its containerised stack succeed.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K7FH)
Plans to roll 1,000 of 'em off the production line in three years Chinese tech giant Baidu and state-owned BAIC Group's ARCFOX Brand have teamed to build 1000 autonomous electric vehicles (EVs) for use as taxis over the next three years — and claim they’ve cut manufacturing costs to just $75,000 apiece.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K7E8)
Fragfest adds green blood, Azure cloud, shirts, and detailed rules about how to kill people politely to satisfy regulators PUBG, one of the highest-profile China-linked apps India banned in 2020, has been allowed back into Google’s Indian Play store despite India's previous insistence its bans are permanent.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K7CX)
Huawei, Cisco, and Samsung caught out as US-based testing labs allegedly sent work to China South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has revoked safety certification for 1696 communications products after discovering that test results attesting to their safety were misrepresented.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K7C1)
Heat and humidity are horrible, and your server can’t quaff a cocktail to cool off Singapore’s two major universities — Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) — have announced they are establishing a US$17.2M research program to develop data centre cooling tech that works in tropical environments.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5K7B4)
It'll be absolutely FABS-ulous, Wyden and Crapo promise US senators introduced a law bill on Thursday offering semiconductor manufacturers tax credits to encourage them to build more fabrication plants on American soil as well as specialized equipment for chips.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5K79Y)
Try it with phish'n'chips Google has proposed a framework called SLSA for dealing with supply chain attacks, a security risk exemplified by the recent compromise of the SolarWinds Orion IT monitoring platform.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5K777)
Follow this Plymouth to Plymouth trip online A 15-metre-long autonomous human-free ship has begun a 3,000-odd-mile trip from the UK to the US to recreate the historic Mayflower voyage of 1620.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5K744)
And did a code bug throw a spanner in the works for IRON investors? A cryptocurrency token called TITAN collapsed on Wednesday, going from about $60 apiece to near zero in a matter of hours. The sales frenzy, attributed to a sell-off driven by whales – people who hold large amounts of a cryptocurrency in this context – also destabilized a so-called stablecoin known as IRON.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5K71C)
Privacy browser's former chief policy officer calls web advertising ecosystem 'the Biggest. Data. Breach. Ever' Former Brave chief policy officer Johnny Ryan is continuing his crusade against the online advertising industry by filing a lawsuit against Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and US telco AT&T in Germany.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5K71D)
Ex-Pink Floyd uber-grouch calls social media mandroid 'one of the most powerful idiots in the world' Grouchy former Pink Floyd bassist/vocalist Roger Waters launched an expletive-laden attack on human-impersonating Facebook CEObot Mark Zuckerberg after receiving a request from Instagram to use one of his songs in a promotional film.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5K6Z0)
Google knows best Google's Chrome team has introduced projects to assist framework authors with what it considers best practice, starting mainly with the React-based Next.js.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5K6WN)
ISS solar array installation overran after a good old 'off and on again' There are two things a spacewalker doesn't want to hear: "Can you turn it off and turn it on again?" and "What's that hissing sound?"…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5K6SJ)
30kg stash lost overboard by smugglers enough to get anyone out of their shell A member of the newly inaugurated US Space Force discovered more than she bargained for as she conducted a survey of turtle nests on the coast around Cape Canaveral last month.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5K6NR)
Also touts sharded graph application running on 1,000 servers Neo4j has secured another $325m in a funding round and said it was ready to demo a distributed graph database with a trillion relationships, sharded across 1,000 servers, returning queries in a matter of milliseconds.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5K6JR)
Let's 'free up data for innovation and in the public interest,' says paper A UK government taskforce chaired by the architect of the disastrous £700m "one dole-to-rule-them-all" Universal Credit IT project, Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP, has published a wish list of regulatory proposals it wants to see adopted by a post-Brexit administration.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5K6JS)
Apple CEO stays on message during interview while Epic case rumbles along Tim Cook has claimed that proposed reforms to the App Store are "not in the best interests of the user" and would "destroy the security of the iPhone."…
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by Richard Speed on (#5K6F7)
Ubuntu fans report 404 errors amid 'space issues' TITSUP* Microsoft demonstrated its deep and meaningful affection for all things penguin overnight by borking packages.microsoft.com and leaving some Linux fans bereft of the company's wares.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5K6C6)
New 60 vCPU VMs come with some bold price-performance claims, but AMD needs to stay on its toes Google's cloud arm has hooked up with AMD, tapping up its latest EPYC processors for a new family of virtual machines, Tau VMs, aimed at scale-out applications - but the company isn't keen on tying itself down to just one chip-slinger.…
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