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by Matt Dupuy on (#5K3QQ)
Buckeye State legislature looks on as key, hairpin fall off of entirely unmagnetic nurse A registered nurse helped the US on its seemingly inevitable descent into terminal conspiracy-induced intellectual collapse last week when she stood in front of the Ohio state legislature and attempted to convince lawmakers that COVID-19 vaccinations "magnetise" their recipients.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5K3KZ)
It's Crookedgate! Folks report receiving whizzy Apple gear with slightly wonky displays Poor old Apple. First came "Antennagate", then Butterflygate, then "Batterygate". Now, owners of the M1 iMac are complaining about slightly lopsided screens.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5K3G7)
Now why on Earth would you be shy about your £528m relationship? Capita has signed a customer management contract extension with an un-named “major European telecoms provider” worth up to £528m, it told the London Stock Exchange today.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5K3G8)
Lindy Cameron gives private industry an unusual nod in speech full of interventionism Forget foreign spies. The head of Britain's National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has warned it is ransomware that's the key threat for most people.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5K3D3)
Authority investigating whether duopoly is harming consumers The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a market study into Google and Apple's duopoly of the mobile sphere, with the aim of determining whether this has resulted in reduced innovation and higher prices for consumers.…
by Gareth Halfacree on (#5K3D4)
Research team: We've proved hardware-plus-software mods can keep your secrets secret Researchers from the University of Rochester have created TimeCache, an approach to system security claimed to protect against side-channel attacks like evict+reload and Spectre, without the usual deleterious impact to performance.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K3A5)
Officials fear if info is misappropriated, community will lose confidence in app Police accessed COVID tracking QR check-in data to investigate a murder, causing the state of Western Australia (WA) to introduce urgent legislation in Parliament today.…
by Tim Richardson on (#5K37R)
Companies were puppets to Indian biz Underpin Services Private Limited Two Kent-registered IT companies have been wound up in the High Court of England and Wales for trying to scam punters with fake pop-ups to generate tech support cons.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5K37S)
Substitution's 'not a silver bullet' advisor says An IT contractor has lost an appeal [PDF] which found he was an employee in the eyes of HMRC, with the judges agreeing he fell under the new IR35 off-payroll tax rules.…
by Gareth Halfacree on (#5K35D)
Company claims 'no current indication' top-secret data was plundered The REvil ransomware gang, thought to be behind an attack on meat producer JBS which netted an impressive $11m payoff, has found another victim. Worryingly, this one works with the US Department of Defence on the nation's nuclear weapons programme.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5K35E)
Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee asked health secretary Matt Hancock, but he wasn't much help Comment Most people are aware of some things and not aware of other things. But UK health secretary Matt Hancock isn't sure if he's aware of something or not.…
by Matt Dupuy on (#5K331)
Eurasian Jays mostly unmoved by illusionist jiggery-pokery, more interested in worms Psychology boffins at the University of Cambridge have been pushing back the barriers of understanding via the unlikely-sounding practice of trying to fool birds with magic tricks.…
by Tim Richardson on (#5K314)
Book smarts vs street smarts face-off might have been an inside job, claims egghead chief Exclusive Eggheads at high IQ society Mensa have ruled out claims that their website was hacked earlier this year, according to an email seen by The Register.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5K2ZH)
You may know them as ‘SmartNICs’ or ‘DPUs’. Intel plans to make ‘em and software that lets 'em drive virtual networks and storage at scale Intel has added “infrastructure processing units” (IPUs) to its list of must-have data centre infrastructure, and promised it’ll build more of them and offer software to put them to work.…
by David Gordon on (#5K2ZJ)
Here’s how HCI and the public cloud can help Promo Public institutions and health bodies face the perpetual challenge of creating ever increasing efficiencies with IT budgets that never grow as fast as they like. The last year has only highlighted the problem and increased the pressure.…
by Iain Thomson on (#5K2XS)
Plus: Alleged Trickbot developer cuffed by US agents In brief The outgoing head of Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad has suggested that Stuxnet wasn't the only spanner in the works his agency put into Iran's nuclear programme.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5K2WJ)
Community to think outside the pants After three decades, Coq, a theorem-proving programming language developed by researchers in France, is being fitted for a new name because it has become impossible to ignore that it sounds like bawdy English slang.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K2WK)
China lashed for ignoring norms, retorts that Western clique isn't playing fair A communiqué issued at the conclusion of the NATO summit has called for China to observe the laws of cyberspace, and set out new standards by which members of the alliance will consider cyberattacks.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5K2SJ)
Much bubble, none value, regulator excite Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has banned dealing in some cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5K2SK)
Private companies to sort out the transportation, US agency's fees are non-trivial NASA is hoping to host more amateur astronauts at the International Space Station, putting them up for as much as two weeks at a time.…
by Iain Thomson on (#5K2Q5)
Meltdown over a non-meltdown Analysis You may have seen in the news some panic about a Chinese nuclear reactor going wrong, and a warning of an "imminent radiological threat." Well, don't worry: it's a routine fuel rod problem.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5K2Q6)
Infosys-built service was promised to "make the compliance experience more taxpayer friendly" India’s Income Tax Department has acknowledged that its shiny new e-tax portal broke, badly, by authorising an extension for some tax filings and reverting to manual processing of printed documents.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5K2N5)
LinkedIn back in play / Supremes kick case back downstairs / hiQ still at risk The US Supreme Court has offered Microsoft's LinkedIn another chance to prevent hiQ from scraping its public profiles.…
by Richard Speed on (#5K2N6)
Had trouble getting vertical at the weekend? NASA used a pair of cranes to hoist the SLS core stage Engineers have hoisted the core stage of NASA's mega-rocket, the Space Launch System, vertical ready to bolt on its boosters and roll the stack to the launchpad later this year.…
by Tim Richardson on (#5K2KJ)
Chap painted greeting on rooftop... in Sydney Bloody helpful, those Aussies. And jolly friendly too. In fact, they're so damn helpful one bloke painted "Welcome to Perth" in giant capital letters on a rooftop so air passengers about to land at the city airport could look down and see the greeting.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5K2H4)
'Nothing had been determined', says phone giant Samsung is said to be considering delaying the launch of this year's Galaxy S21 FE sub-flagship due to the ongoing shortage of semiconductor components.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5K2FF)
Hopes raised in West of an extradition or law enforcement agreement to stem the tide The G7 summit of western countries has called upon Russia to "identify, disrupt, and hold to account those within its borders who conduct ransomware attacks, abuse virtual currency to launder ransoms, and other cybercrimes."…
by Richard Speed on (#5K2FG)
Lengthy support for enterprises that prefer things just so Ubuntu Pro is coming to Google Cloud, replete with an all-important 10-year maintenance commitment for corporate punters who like things stable.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5K2FH)
Will be transferred to a halfway house, attorney continues to fight for presidential pardon Reality Winner, the former NSA intelligence contractor who leaked evidence of Russian interference in a US Presidential election to the press, has been released from prison.…
by Tim Richardson on (#5K2AV)
Injunction halts introduction of $15-a-month fee for low-income households A new law due to come into force tomorrow that would force broadband providers in New York State to provide net access to low-income households for $15 a month has been put on hold.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K2AW)
Fines for sending 'core' and 'important' info overseas, although what qualifies remains undefined China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has passed a new data security law requiring companies to seek approval before transferring what it refers to as "core" data overseas.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K26A)
Car maker to draw upon its investments in hydrogen fuel tech Honda and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have agreed to embark on a joint feasibility study to supply oxygen, hydrogen, and electricity to humans and rovers in outer space.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5K24E)
Chocolate Factory presses home its advantage in web-based collaboration Google is extending Workspace, its rebranded productivity and collaboration tools, to "anyone with a Google account", and will introduce Workspace Individual subscriptions with "premium capabilities."…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5K24F)
Analyst: Big 5 manufacturers should be able to shoulder ongoing semiconductor shortage 2020 was a dismal year for the smartphone industry, with sales tanking in the face of the pandemic. But things are now looking up, with Canalys expecting a 12 per cent recovery this year, albeit one not evenly shared by vendors.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5K21B)
Plus: Biden sets up AI task force, and Waymo expands autonomous trucking operation with new partnership In brief Nvidia has snapped up computer vision startup DeepMap to help build the company's self-driving platform.…
by Richard Speed on (#5K21C)
Admits nothing but promises amendments to auto-renewal, refund policies The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has inked a deal with Norton where it will refund customers whose antivirus software subscription was automatically renewed.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5K1Y6)
The big get Huawei: telco starts to rip and replace Chinese network maker's kit Vodafone has revealed the first vendors included in its OpenRAN rollout as the telco starts to rip and replace its network infrastructure across Wales and the South East of England.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5K1V6)
Firm provides fresh water and wastewater to millions of Brits IBM, Tata Consultancy Services, and Wipro are among 13 winners on a £50m deal to help build and manage applications for UK utility Southern Water.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5K1RM)
Wasn't it to be the 'last version of Windows'? Maybe not... Microsoft has updated its product lifecycle documentation to state that Windows 10 Home and Pro will be retired on 14 October 2025.…
by Richard Speed on (#5K1PA)
Burning dollars faster than liquid oxygen and hydrogen $28m has secured someone a seat on the first crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard, with the mystery bidder scoring the right to breathe the same air as fellow passenger Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.…
by Richard Speed on (#5K1PB)
My God! It's full of Bork! Bork!Bork!Bork! A black oblong of purest bork glares balefully over shoppers in Plymouth, southwest England. An echo from an alternative future or just big-screen borkage?…
by Richard Speed on (#5K1M1)
Sutherland Spaceport: A Prime location? Interview British rocketeeer Orbex has spent the best part of the last half decade or so moving towards the goal of a first commercial orbital launch from home soil. While others have shown off engine firings and sub-orbital lobs, Orbex is aiming for orbit with its Prime rocket.…
by Rupert Goodwins on (#5K1JA)
If we trust it, crooks will too – meaning Plod can get their kiloscrote nab Column Back in October, a call by spy agencies to weaken end-to-end encryption "because of the children" provoked a bit of analysis on how many times UK Home Secretaries had banged the same drum. All of them, it turned out. All of the time.…
by Dominic Connor on (#5K1GH)
Pandemic has opened a can of worms for our work goals with what comes next Feature It may not be your fault that your broadband is crap, but it is your problem when you're interviewing over Zoom or even Teams.…
by Richard Speed on (#5K1GJ)
UPS = Uninterruptable Pager Spying Who, Me? We go Down Under for today's Who, Me? with a slightly NSFW tale of an incomplete checklist, a surprise outage, and an even more surprised gerbil.…
by David Gordon on (#5K1DV)
How to bust the bottlenecks without breaking the bank Webcast We all know HPC and AI datasets are going to be massive. But they’re also very different, the former being focused around large, sequential files, while the former are much more random.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5K1CQ)
Crims now know what not to trust, and how to stymie future infiltrations Comment In April 1943, Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was killed when the US Air Force shot down the plane carrying him to Balalae Airfield in the Solomon Islands.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K19G)
Dr Rachid Yazami shares his predictions for EV batteries with The Register Feature Morocco-born Dr Rachid Yazami has lived all over the world, thanks to an invention he made in his first year as a PhD student – the graphite anode – which is one of the key components that make lithium-ion batteries perform so well.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5K17J)
As in it's stopped selling the ladders needed to clamber up and do maintenance. Thankfully the internet can help IBM has pulled up the ladder behind customers of its Blue Gene/Q supercomputers.…
by Dave Cartwright on (#5JZJG)
There was no big bang – and it could happen to you Feature When designing systems that our businesses will rely on, we do so with resilience in mind.…