by Lindsay Clark on (#59VHM)
And it's waving £350m to get it done London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is on the hunt for an IT service oufit to help run its sprawling application estate in a contract that could be worth up to £350m.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#59VF3)
Oh dear Huawei is reportedly aiming to move chip fabrication in-house for its battered telecoms infrastructure business in a move that will allow it to continue trading without falling afoul of ongoing US sanctions.…
by Tim Anderson on (#59VF4)
Outfit quits browser stats game, and you'll never guess who benefits most from shift to Client Hints NetMarketShare – which has supplied free statistics on browsers, devices, operating system, and search engines for the last 14 years – is ending its reports, with October 2020 being the last month covered.…
by Iain Thomson on (#59VCR)
Plus: Immigration lawyers for Mountain View breached, SonarQube hack worse than thought, and more In brief Bad news for those who have bought into the Nest Secure home surveillance system – Google has surprised many by halting further deployments.…
by Paul Kunert on (#59VA9)
Public sector to be treated as one vast buyer of clouds under One Government Value Agreement Exclusive Amazon Web Services is the final of the big three cloud providers to have put pen to paper to sell a range of cloud services to the British government under a pre-defined discount, The Reg can reveal.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#59V8D)
Plus: Watch a self-driving race car drive into a wall, and download the new version of PyTorch In brief Trey Parker and Matt Stone, best known for their cartoon South Park, have created a new comedy deepfake series called Sassy Justice.…
by Rupert Goodwins on (#59V65)
Software, security, distributed systems, process-based engineering... e-voting might not be such a bad idea Column E-voting over the internet is by common consent a bad idea.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#59V66)
App gap is painful so only true believers should buy it Review The Huawei Mate 40 Pro is a heartbreakingly good phone.…
by Richard Speed on (#59V4C)
Blu Tack not included: The Reg pulls it apart, then puts it through its paces Review Perhaps a little too early for a festive gift guide comes another official incarnation of the Raspberry Pi – this time built into a keyboard.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#59V2W)
Web giant insists anti-bot service isn't used for personalized ads – but cookie claims don't quite add up Analysis Six years ago, Google revised its reCAPTCHA service, designed to filter out bots, scrapers, and other automated web browsing, and allow humans through to websites.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#59V14)
And because all Microsoft really cares about now is Azure, SMB over TCP-killer QUIC is coming to make better cloud connections Microsoft has teased some coming-real-soon-now features for future editions of Windows Server.…
by Richard Speed on (#59V15)
International adventure, crafty customs, and what not to pack in the hand luggage Who, Me? Ever opened a PC only to experience a sinking sensation when things don't look the way you'd expected? Add a twist of international spice and you have this week's Who, Me?…
by Simon Sharwood on (#59TZD)
Court ponders keeping it alive for three plaintiffs before deciding Made-in-China app can keep amusing everyone A group of TikTok users have won a case that will mean the made-in-China social network can keep operating in the United States beyond the November 12th deadline the Trump administration set for it to secure a locally-owned operator.…
by David Gordon on (#59TY2)
Time to take another look at VDI this month Webcast Virtual desktop infrastructure has long been one of the tech industry’s perennial next big things, but you might be forgiven for thinking it’s never quite lived up to its promise.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#59TY3)
This time to protect judicial enforcement authorities, but previous bans on publishing Police's personal details haven't stopped the practice Hong Kong’s government has won a temporary injunction that bans “doxxing”, the practice of publishing private information about an individual in the hope it causes them discomfort.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#59TVQ)
Flagship Mate 40 smartmobe adds a wallet for China’s electro-currency Huawei has shown how China might go about spreading its digital currency: by baking it into local smartphones.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#59TSF)
$9bn SpaceJet isn’t dead, but defence, mobility and electronics offer better short-term prospects Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has all-but-abandoned its ambition to become a civil aviation player.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#59TSG)
New security guidance calls for random webcam snaps to authenticate users, adoption of VPN and MFA India’s Securities and Exchange Board (SEBI) appears to have sent a circular to stock exchanges that calls for market participants to upgrade information security as bad actors seek to take advantage of the financial services industry’s move to working from home.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#59RXY)
Coming soon to an app, maybe Academics claim their AI software can detect, with 98.5 per cent accuracy, whether or not someone has caught the COVID-19 coronavirus, just from the sound of their coughing.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#59RJP)
There may be carbon, water, clay, perhaps even platinum, gold in them hills NASA has stowed away its first ever sample of asteroid regolith, collected by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from space rock Bennu, and is working on bringing the material home for 2023.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#59REB)
Chocolate Factory spills beans on make-me-admin flaw Google's Project Zero bug-hunting team has disclosed a Windows kernel flaw that's being actively exploited by miscreants to gain administrator access on compromised machines.…
by Richard Speed on (#59RBS)
I'd take back that bork that hurt you, or drink tea.... Bork!Bork!Bork! While Marty McFly's Delorean remains the stuff of fiction, the power of Bork could allow you to experience 2013 while avoiding the disappointing cup of coffee that is 2020.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#59R8Y)
Not without Apple's proprietary System Configuration app anyway Right-to-repair campaigners have discovered that Apple's iPhone 12 rejects replacement camera modules in the absence of a proprietary software tool.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#59R8Z)
Yep, it's the artists occasionally known as APT28 The US government, in full pre-presidential election high alert, has issued a warning about an evolved strain of backdoor malware from a Russian offensive cyber unit.…
by Richard Currie on (#59R2X)
Sadly, the space opera franchise's first proper starfighter game in yonks just isn't that good The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. It's time to lock S-foils in attack position because we're checking out Squadrons, EA's attempt at a dedicated Star Wars space combat game, and the first in the genre to grace the galaxy far, far away for a long time.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#59R2Y)
Analyst figures add insult to injury for embattled comms biz Huawei's godawful 2020 continues to worsen, with the Chinese smartphone maker suffering a double-digit drop in shipment volumes globally, according to analysts' preliminary Q3 sales estimates.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#59QZS)
The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street needs help managing thousands of laptops, PCs and tablets The Bank of England has said it is looking for an IT supplier to support its extensive personal computer estate in a contract which is set to be worth around £46.5m.…
by Paul Kunert on (#59QTZ)
An unsightly stain among otherwise solid Apple results – considering the sh*t show that is 2020 Apple's iPhone sales shrunk for the second fiscal year in a row due to the delayed launch of its next-generation blower – the only blemish on an otherwise solid set of profit & loss accounts filed in the middle of a pandemic.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#59QR9)
UK watchdog's mooted £99m penalty comes in at just £18.4m Your name, address, phone number, email address, passport number, date of birth, and sex are worth just £0.05 in the eyes of the UK Information Commissioner's Office, which has fined Marriott £18.4m after 339 million people's data was stolen from the hotel chain.…
by Phil Mitchell on (#59QRA)
Employers seek software engineers, support, new grads, and more Job Alert We've got a bunch of interesting roles to get your teeth stuck into this week.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#59QNV)
And the 'acceptable company name' charset is hardcoded... in legislation Companies House has blocked someone who registered a new biz with a name that contained the right characters arranged in the right order to trigger a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against users of the service's API.…
by Paul Kunert on (#59QKH)
Systems, networks staffers face round 2 as round 1 crew packs their cables BT workers in the Technology division are keen on taking industrial action to oppose the multi-year and multi-billion pound cost cutting programme that CEO Philip Jansen inherited and has continued to run.…
by Tim Anderson on (#59QKJ)
'X works extremely well for what it is, but what it is is deeply flawed' Red Hat's Adam Jackson, project owner for the X.Org graphical and windowing system still widely used on Linux, said the project has been abandoned "to the extent that that means using it to actually control the display, and not just keep X apps running."…
by Richard Speed on (#59QHM)
Also: ESA looks to the Moon, RocketLab launches another 10 sats, and SpaceX probably thinks that's cute In brief NASA has stuck a pin in 14 November (15 Nov for those running on GMT) for the launch of the first crew rotation mission to the International Space Station (ISS) to be launched from US soil.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#59QFH)
CyberStart America challenge aims to find talented network defenders Starting on Friday, US high school students can register to participate in CyberStart America, an online puzzle-solving game designed to identify cybersecurity talent and qualify participants for an opportunity to compete in the National Cyber Scholarship Competition next year.…
by Alistair Dabbs on (#59QFJ)
From pasta to teleporting robots: something to chew on Something for the Weekend, Sir? Did you enjoy World Pasta Day? It was last Sunday. Me, I made a big bowl of it and tucked in along with my mates Mark Arony and Al Dente.…
by Richard Speed on (#59QCJ)
IT idiocy by government is as old as IT itself On Call Thundering IT incompetence by government is hardly new. While the antics of the present UK administration may have gone beyond satire, round out your week with an On Call reminder that things never really change.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#59QCK)
Pandemic makes for huge growth, but one customer remains elusive: Facebook plans $23bn new infrastructure spend Amazon Web Services remains the king of the clouds, at least when measured by revenue, according to analyst outfit Canalys.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#59QA4)
Snacks will ID themselves using RFID and an app will tell punters when there's cheap chow to be chomped Japan will conduct a test of sandwiches and other snacks that discount themselves as they age.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#59Q8T)
Tickles the Azure Hybrid Benefit so that RHEL and SUSE users get the same deal as Windows buyers The fine folk at Licensing School have noticed a new-ish example of Microsoft’s ongoing ardour for Linux: a BYO licensing scheme that makes it easier to bring Red Hat and SUSE deals to Azure.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#59Q7C)
'We are proud people choose Google Search not because they have to, but because it's convenient,' states CEO Google’s search and advertising business has bounced back, parent biz Alphabet said on Thursday as it revealed reported healthy revenues amid the coronavirus pandemic.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#59Q6W)
State of local software industry also revealed: 7 million workers, $36bn of exports The Central Committee of Chinese Communist Party has declared the nation will become the world’s top innovator in coming years and says it wants to be entirely self-sustaining in tech within 15 years.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#59Q4R)
Bezos predicts a very Merry Christmas Amazon on Thursday reported $96.1bn in revenue for its third quarter of 2020, a 37 per cent increase year-on-year that demonstrated its continued resistance to pandemic-induced economic malaise.…
by Iain Thomson on (#59Q35)
Stark warning from SANS' Johannes Ullrich - RCE's gonna GET 'ya Last week Oracle released one of its mammoth quarterly patch dumps - with 402 fixes. Well, it turns out that if you missed one and you're running WebLogic 10.3.6.0.0, 12.1.3.0.0, 12.2.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.1.0.0, you've probably already been tagged by hackers.…
by Iain Thomson on (#59PYC)
Big money in American politics proves chum in the water for online sharks As America counts down to the November 3 elections, things are tense for political campaigns. There's a lot of money flying around and the online criminals have sensed blood in the water.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#59PV6)
'Facebook You Owe Us' wants to run a not-quite-class-action-style lawsuit A campaign to sue Facebook over lax privacy policies that allowed Cambridge Analytica to slurp almost a million people's personal data from the social networking website hopes to become a representative action in the High Court, its instigators said today.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#59PR8)
It's all about timing, apparently The NHS has updated its COVID-19 app for England and Wales*, meaning it now uses the latest version of the contact tracing API co-developed by Google and Apple.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#59PN3)
And infosec firms say it's only got worse over this year Ryuk ransomware is being aggressively deployed to target US healthcare institutions, government cyber organisations in the US have warned.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#59PN4)
Don't suppose that factored into the '10 Reasons to be Excited About Workday at McGill!' Montreal's McGill University has left 150 temporary workers unpaid as it struggles to iron out technical problems and user training following the introduction of a new Workday HR and payroll system.…
by David Gordon on (#59PHB)
Let us show you how to outsmart them Webcast If you think cybercriminals and hackers are without a shred of empathy or human understanding, you’d be wrong.…