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by Simon Sharwood on (#51D6T)
This is clearly not the time to test your company's social media policy, because that's what was used to let him go Infosys has fired an employee who reportedly used his Facebook account to suggest wilfully spreading coronavirus.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#51CCR)
Big Brother refitted for Big Hover Authorities in the UK have begun using drones to direct the public to comply with public health measures announced on Monday to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#51C77)
Scientists pull coronavirus treatment study apart after rushed publication A research paper, championed by President Donald Trump, that suggested hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin could effectively treat COVID-19 coronavirus victims is flawed, scientists fear.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#51C1H)
Failed defamation claim proves pricey After three years of legal wrangling, the defamation lawsuit brought by Brad Spengler and his company Open Source Security (OSS) against open-source pioneer Bruce Perens has finally concluded.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#51C1K)
Doc Frown: Searls decries video-conferencing software's 'creepy' closeness with ad tracking As the global coronavirus pandemic pushes the popularity of videoconferencing app Zoom to new heights, one web veteran has sounded the alarm over its "creepily chummy" relationship with tracking-based advertisers.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#51BEQ)
UK volumes quieter than mix of Call of Duty and Merseyside derby streamers, says Openreach Britain has plenty of internet traffic "headroom" despite the explosion in remote working during the coronavirus shutdown, telcos and mobe networks have told The Register.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#51BER)
Outsourcer vows to help efforts in healthcare call centres Outsourcing firm Capita has slashed £25m from planned capital spending in response to the "unprecedented situation" caused by the novel coronavirus outbreak.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51BES)
Things go sideways in Sainsbury's Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another in The Register's occasional series on computers flashing their undercrackers to all and sundry.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51B4B)
Cross-platform tool aims high while IDE gets stuck into Git Microsoft has slung out a pair of previews, giving admins a look at PowerShell 7.1 and developers another chance to play with Visual Studio 2019 16.6…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#51B4D)
Watch the Atlas V 551 rocket blast off Vid The US Space Force embarked on its first official mission on Thursday, launching a military communications satellite aboard an Atlas V 551 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#51B4F)
Now wash your hands Updated UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#51AW8)
Big Blue reopens window of opportunity, no end date mentioned IBM has extended the window of opportunity for its Global Technology Services workforce in the UK to nominate themselves for voluntary redundancy after too few people put their hand up in the allotted time.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#51AWA)
Less fashionable than React Native, but a mature solution for .NET developers Microsoft continues to evolve its Xamarin technology for cross-platform coding with .NET, even though alternatives like React Native and Blazor are getting plenty of attention within the company.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#51AQ5)
Look on my beanpoleness, ye Blighty, and mea-sure! Far away enough? Check our converter and find out! As you nervously shuffle away from your close-talking neighbour who always stood too near at the best of times, tutting and muttering "social distancing", you may wonder to yourself just what two metres or six feet should really look like. Luckily, El Reg's Standards Soviet is here to help.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#51AQ7)
Your search ranking will suffer less if you just make it a bit rubbish instead As companies shut their doors against the coronavirus outbreak, Google has released a set of guidelines to website owners on how to minimise the long-terms effects on their business's search ranking.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51AQ8)
How to Excel (sorry) on the helldesk On Call Well done! You've made it to Friday! As a reward, treat yourself to another cup of tea and an extra slice of toast, and enjoy a morning story of panicking users and level-headed IT pros in today's On Call.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51AQA)
Folks at one Antarctic base have noisy, stinky, neighbors right now. And they're isolated until November Reg readers confined to quarters for the duration of the global coronavirus pandemic are probably not enjoying being at home all day, every day.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#51AQC)
We talk to CF's CTO as missing piece added to open-source application platform Cloud Foundry, an open-source foundation dedicated to a cloud-oriented application platform, is now incubating the KubeCF project, and has also welcomed Google upgrading its membership to platinum – the highest level.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51AQE)
Symantec, Cisco, Uber and the loathsome Juul shed most staff in the tech sector The State of California has released its newest report on job losses, and it's not pretty.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#51AJE)
Terahertz nanoplasma kit makes traditional transistors look slow in comparison Scientists have crafted a tiny flexible electrical device capable of generating terahertz waves that can penetrate walls and microscopic cells, potentially paving the way for new imaging techniques – and fast switching in chips.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51AJG)
The nation is already well and truly routed, and telcos have new taxes to pay India’s networking equipment market collapsed before the Coronavirus could stab it in the back, thanks in part to a new tax on telcos.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#51AJJ)
Vodafone, Orange, AT&T, and Softbank are already users, will soon have Azure option Microsoft has become the latest company to have a crack at helping telcos prepare for 5G by acquiring network specialist Affirmed Networks.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51AEW)
You can’t seriously be asking why. Do you live under a rock? The reason is coronavirus Dell today slipped out a regulatory filing in which it withdrew the financial guidance it offered in late February.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#51AEX)
Videos claiming to have magic savior pills racked up millions of views amid allegedly fraudulent investment scheme A social-media marketer is understood to be the first person to be hit with a federal fraud charge in the US for allegedly trying to trick people into investing in a bogus COVID-19 cure.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#51A9Q)
Presumed pandemic profiteering may be just confused staff Analysis Earlier this week, Monkeybrains, a San-Francisco-based internet service provider, asked ZayoGroup, a communication infrastructure biz based in Boulder, Colorado, to temporarily upgrade a network circuit from 2Gbps to 10Gbps.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51A9S)
Team Redmond stokes the flames as an exercise in black humor Microsoft is right now groaning under the weight of a 52,000-person internal Reply-All email storm.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#51A0V)
Oh Ce-Celia, I'm down on my knees, I'm begging you please to phone home For much of its life, Huawei didn't have to think too much about its software ecosystem, at least with regard to its once-growing Western market. But then Donald Trump pulled the rug out from underneath the Middle Kingdom mobe maker with a Google embargo.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#51A0X)
'We believe the stolen graphics IP is not core to the competitiveness or security of our graphics products' On Wednesday, AMD confirmed intellectual property related to its graphics processors was stolen last year, though insisted the leaked files will not damage its business nor compromise product security.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#51A0Y)
East Coast looks to be hardest hit. C'mon, Chocolate Factory, we're relying on you to pull us through A bunch of Google services, from Gmail and Google Drive to Hangouts and Classroom, fell offline for unlucky netizens in North America today.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#519P9)
Chocolate Factory's software souk still Trumped, so you'll have to make do with AppGallery Undeterred by US boycotts, Huawei has pushed out a new range of Android smartphones without the Google software that usually comes with them.…
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by Richard Speed on (#519PB)
Was 0.5mm of laptop really worth five years of pain, Tim? Teardown terrors iFixit have opened up the innards of the new MacBook Air to reveal not only the departure of the hated butterfly keyboard, but also tweaks that might make things a bit more repairable. Kind of.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#519BQ)
Online sales up 72%, but retailer warns of impact of store closures Online sales at Dixons Carphone shot up as Brits began preparing en masse to work from home by shelling out on notebooks, printers and – to keep the kids happy – games consoles, in response to the spread of COVID-19.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#519BS)
Flagship's snappers would be great if we weren't under lockdown Hands on Huawei, when translated from the original Chinese, means "terrible timing"*. Case in point: the Huawei P40 Pro packs one of the best smartphone cameras yet, but comes at a time when most people are (or should be) self-isolating.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#519BV)
Citrix, Cisco and Zoho-pwning APT41 attack wave seems in awfully bad taste Proving that no good crisis ever goes to waste, Chinese government hacking crew APT41 launched a campaign that abuses vulns in Citrix Netscaler and Zoho ManageEngine, according to threat intel outfit FireEye.…
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by Richard Speed on (#519BW)
Try the Tablet Experience and pretend the Windows 8 Tablet Mode never happened Microsoft celebrated the arrival of a new boss for the Windows Insider Program with a fresh build and another crack at dealing with Windows 10's often maddening approach to tablets.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#519BY)
Erm, guys, this is lovely. But isn't selling new kit pretty important? Samsung has announced an update for the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note 10 that will imbue them with powers previously only available on the newer Galaxy S20 range.…
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by Richard Speed on (#519C0)
Microsoft makes sandwiches and Intel empties its factories of protective gear Roundup Welcome to another round-up of bandwagon-hopping and genuine altruism from big tech as the industry continues its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#5193N)
Pyjama party for NAND and DRAM flinger Chipmaker Micron forecast quarterly revenues above analysts' estimates as the novel coronavirus outbreak fuels demand for notebooks and data centre services.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5193Q)
What will be the fate of an open-source project relied upon by so many? In November 2019, Denis Pushkarev, maintainer of the popular core-js library, lost an appeal to overturn an 18-month prison sentence imposed for driving his motorcycle into two pedestrians, killing one of them.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5193S)
Java Database Connectivity built in to hook up easily with analytics tools Graph database spinner Neo4j has built Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) into its tech as standard with the promise of making life easier for users of popular analytics and visualisation tools who want to work on graph data.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5193V)
No snark, just something to help an IT industry in need It won't have escaped anyone in the tech community and the wider world that we are in for some challenging times.…
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by Richard Speed on (#518Z1)
Zoomarine: Oceans of fail Bork!Bork!Bork! Worried about The Rise Of The Machines in these troubled times? Cheer yourself up with another example of what computers get up to when humans aren't watching, courtesy of your self-isolated vultures at The Register.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#518Z3)
Sure, the bullet couldn't shift a big boulder, but it may have learned Ryugu's composition and birthday Astroboffins have analysed what happened when the Japanese probe Hayabusa2 shot a 2kg Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI) at asteroid Ryugu in 2019.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#518Z5)
Sure, we'll delete local data after seven days but there's a way to avoid that After three years of escalating restrictions on third-party cookies to protect user privacy, Apple on Tuesday went all-in with full third-party cookie blocking.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#518Z6)
And ready to build the stuff that the rest of the world needs to stay online during the CoronaCrisis The vast majority of Huawei's employees are back to work following nationwide shutdowns implemented in response to the coronavirus outbreak in China.…
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by David Gordon on (#518Z8)
Isolation is the perfect time to learn new skills Promo Amid this planet's ongoing pandemic and stay-at-home measures, if you’re keen to repurpose all that time previously spent commuting, attending conferences, and so on, why not take a look at the SANS Institute’s Online Cybersecurity Training.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#518V0)
Spacecraft instruments switched off after COVID-19 outbreak forces mission control to send workers home ESA will pause on-board operations of its spacecraft exploring our Solar System – after sending its mission control center staff home to help contain the coronavirus pandemic.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#518V2)
Terms not revealed, but hopes are high that consolidation will be a good thing Japanese display giant Sharp will gobble NEC's display business in a push to expand into North America and Europe.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#518Q8)
And that's perhaps not the worst of viral idiocy in Australia: One minister made up a cyber-attack to cover for inadequate web provisioning Police have charged an Australian moron who coughed on a copper in Coffs Harbour and claimed he was suffering from COVID-19.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#518QA)
Team explains privacy preservation plan and how smartphones' wireless prowess is wildly variable Singapore plans to open source a smartphone app its digital government team has developed to track citizens' encounters with Coronavirus carriers.…
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