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Copy-left behind: Permissive MIT, Apache open-source licenses on the up as developers snub GNU's GPL
by Thomas Claburn on (#4Y1BW)
Share all our code modifications with others? Think again, hippie Permissive open-source software licenses continue to gain popularity at the expense of copyleft licenses, according to a forthcoming report from WhiteSource, a biz that makes software licensing management tools.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Y1BY)
Meanwhile, AMD snags Intel exec as server chip boss Google is hoping to improve the appeal of its mid-tier Cloud platform to enterprises with a new set of support and response options.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Y140)
Good news: There is none. Well, apart from you can at least fully patch the Microsoft blunder Vid Easy-to-use exploits have emerged online for two high-profile security vulnerabilities, namely the Windows certificate spoofing bug and the Citrix VPN gateway hole. If you haven't taken mitigation steps by now, you're about to have a bad time.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Y0VP)
Connecticut Supremes affirm trial judge's decision to toss 'pay to play' claim Gartner did not defame network app biz Netscout by placing it in the "challenger" section of its Magic Quadrant instead of the "leaders" section, the Supreme Court of the US state of Connecticut has ruled.…
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Azure consultant's Google image search results hotlinking sueball booted off the pitch by High Court
by Gareth Corfield on (#4Y0HD)
British copyright law probably wasn't right way to do this one An Azure consultant has lost his bid to sue Google for copyright infringement over search results that sent web users to a website run by a hotlinker who was displaying one of his photos.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Y0HF)
Apple: 'The apps you use every day.' Except that one. And that one. And those are right out The macOS Catalina bad news train kept on rolling this week as AccountEdge, friend of the Apple-using beancounters, threw in the towel over the forced migration of Macs to a 64-bit world.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Y0HH)
'A very long haul' says judge as HPE v Lynch and Hussain reaches its end Autonomy Trial After 93 days in the courtroom, the $5bn Autonomy Trial has reached its end, with Mike Lynch's lawyers urging the judge to dismiss all of HPE's claims against the British software firm's former CEO.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Y077)
Bankers ring in 2020 by thwacking employees with the Windows stick Microsoft and UK finance behemoth Lloyds Banking Group have signed a deal that will see the Windows giant manage the group's desktops and mobile devices.…
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by Team Register on (#4Y079)
Dive into an all-day workshop – now at early-bird prices – for practical advice from experts in the field Event If you want to get deep into continuous delivery, or get your hands dirty with Kubernetes or Lambda, our Continuous Lifecycle London conference has a workshop for you.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#4Y07B)
Docs keen to hear how, as promised, project will make their own logins less of a Hancockup UK doctors' union the British Medical Association (BMA) is seeking clarification on how GPs will access the £40m funding for single sign-on to health systems recently promised by health and social care secretary Matt Hancock.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#4Y07C)
Software licensing issues made it harder to turn the page Libraries Northern Ireland - the public sector organ which, erm, runs libraries in Northern Ireland - has renewed an IT services contract with Fujitsu worth £12m after running out of time to run a tender process.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4Y00M)
June 2020 is the end for users on Windows, Linux and Mac Google has rolled out a new schedule for ending support for Chrome Apps – packaged desktop applications built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript – in favour of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and other browser-based approaches such as Chrome Extensions.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4Y00N)
German Constitutional Court is much more dangerous than people think It has been years in the making and Europe’s largest law firms are smacking their lips in anticipation but the long-held dream of a single European patent system may die next month – and everyone appears to be in denial.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#4Y00Q)
Execs don't care to keep things shipshape if they don't see a return.... so let's MAKE them Column On New Year's Eve 2019, the good ship Travelex struck the iceberg of ransomware. That's not a good metaphor, to be honest: when the SS Titanic hit its frozen nemesis, it had the good taste to unambiguously sink in two hours and 40 minutes. Not so Travelex.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#4XZW3)
Join us next month in a cosy pub to hear all about Ordnance Survey's latest project Register Lecture A golden age of cartography is upon us. Only this time, it's satellites and tech firms’ vehicles that are crossing the Earth’s surface, compiling maps for their distant masters who are building geospatial services.…
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by David Gordon on (#4XZW5)
Sign up now: The UK government's scheme to help new companies grow and scale is back Promo If you need your new security company to get noticed, Tech Nation’s Cyber programme is back, opening its doors for another cohort of infosec companies looking to scale at speed.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XZW7)
Yum, long noodle-like stars Astronomers have finally figured out what the peculiar object known as “G2†orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is: a behemoth star created from the merger of two binary stars being stretched by the extreme tidal forces around the black hole.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4XZQP)
Decision is preliminary and unenforced, though a good start Analysis In a massive win for privacy rights, a preliminary ruling from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has made clear that national security concerns do not override citizens’ data privacy. Thus, ISPs should not be forced to hand over personal information without clear justification.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XZK8)
Most-accurate algorithms showed 'little to no bias', so nothing to fear, eh? Vid A recent US government report investigating the accuracy of facial recognition systems across different demographic groups has sparked fresh questions on how the technology should be regulated.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XZKA)
Wow, it's all coming up Trump right now, huh? America and China have struck a deal that may signal the beginning of the end in their ongoing trade war.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XZKC)
Enjoy that new version 72? Donate.mozilla.org is a thing, folks On Wednesday Mozilla Corporation, maker of the Firefox browser and would-be internet privacy protector, said it plans to lay off an undisclosed number of employees.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XZDN)
Exposed: Intimate... personal details belonging to thousands of folks A pair of misconfigured cloud-hosted file silos have left thousands of peoples' sensitive info sitting on the open internet.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XZDQ)
House of Larry delivers massive update for 93 products Oracle has released a sweeping set of security patches across the breadth of its software line.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XZ58)
Redmond loves Linux so much this Internet-Explorer-replacement is for Windows, macOS only right now Microsoft's Edge browser, retooled to run on Chromium's open source foundation, has shed its beta designation and entered general release on Wednesday, promising performance, productivity, privacy, and value – a word which here means Microsoft Rewards gift card points for using Bing and access to so-called Premium News.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4XZ5A)
Going like Blazor(s) everywhere, says Microsoft, but will this enthusiasm last? Microsoft will provide experimental support for native mobile applications using its Blazor web development platform.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XYW3)
£20k 'incentive' up for grabs if you can get something into the App Gallery before the end of Jan The embattled Chinese networking gear and mobe slinger used its London Developer Conference on Wednesday to lure coders to its HMS (Huawei Mobile Services) platform as a post-Google world beckoned.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4XYW5)
Plenty of cash flying around ahead of that $5bn biz gobble Updated What an interesting world of revolving doors the enterprise storage sector can be sometimes.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XYW7)
No Continuum this time, now it's all about the Android Review Late, lightweight and looking like a Macbook, the new NexDock has finally arrived. But with the world agog over foldables, is it any good?…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#4XYJH)
Now sing with us: Validation, governance and security Ontotext, the Bulgarian software developer focused on organisational semantic knowledge, has rolled out an update to its graph database, GraphDB 9.1.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XYJK)
One-time chief finance suit's legal defence sums up at end of marathon $5bn trial Autonomy Trial Key witnesses in the Autonomy Trial testified against Mike Lynch and Sushovan Hussain to save their own skins from US prosecutors, Hussain's barrister told London's High Court.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4XYJN)
Big Blue to build and run private cloud TSB parent, Spain's Banco Sabadell, has signed a €1bn group deal with IBM to build and run its entire banking infrastructure via a private cloud among a raft of other services – the outage-hit UK arm has told The Register.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XYJP)
This is what happens when you scrimp on software dev, testing and docs Boeing's deliveries of new airliners have slumped to a reported 11 year low following the 737 Max software flaw which caused two fatal crashes.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4XY9Z)
We'll 'empower millions of citizen developers' says Google. Now where have we heard that before? Google has cleared the way for non-developers to build applications that make use of Google cloud services with the acquisition of Seattle-based no-code development platform AppSheet confirmed.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XYA1)
Surely only a matter of time before the Matrix has you? Scientists say they have used electricity generated by plant life to power an IoT sensor and send a signal to an overhead satellite.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4XYA3)
Who will control the CC TLD in future? Well, only one company fits the criteria, funnily enough Special report The Colombian government has been accused by its own internet community of fudging a contract so that just one North American company in particular is eligible to operate the .co top-level domain-name registry.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4XY5G)
Must have missed Oracle's December memo: 'It is now time that we part ways with this business' Customers of Oracle's DynDNS who used the service for domain registration - rather than just dynamic DNS - have suffered a sudden involuntary change of registrar, in some cases redirecting websites to those of different companies.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#4XY5J)
Plus: 'Member when we modelled sales for Remain? Good times – analyst IT departments should stash away some of their budgets to cope with the likely disruption caused by Brexit - the UK is scheduled to shift to a new trading agreement with the EU and further afield by the end of 2019.…
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by David Gordon on (#4XY5K)
EDR is an SMB's best friend, says F-Secure Webcast We don’t want to spook anyone, but… cyber-criminals have been busy.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XY17)
Meanwhile: IBM Power processors to appear in a Google Cloud near you, if you ask nicely Data-center operator Equinix has agreed to acquire upstart Packet in what it hopes is a move into the edge compute market.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XY19)
Negative torque didn't bring the plucky spacecraft down, thankfully The European Space Agency’s Huygens probe, the farthest lander to ever make it in the outer solar system, spun wildly in the opposite direction as expected as it descended onto one of Saturn’s moons. Now, scientists have finally figured out what went wrong, 15 years after the probe’s landing.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XXWG)
Undergrads hired to tutor juniors due to 'rapidly increasing enrollment' – for too little in return The University of California, Berkeley is under pressure to cough up more than $5m to reimburse computer-science students who were denied benefits and tuition fee refunds despite working as part-time teaching assistants.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XXWJ)
Legal war could rest on nineteenth century mapping ruling by past court With America's Supreme Court expected to hear arguments in Google v. Oracle over the copyrightability of software application programming interfaces come March, the search biz's ideological allies have rushed to support the company with a flurry of filings.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XXPN)
Another day, another critical set of flaws A pair of widely used WordPress plugins need to be patched on more than 320,000 websites to close down vulnerabilities that can be exploited to gain admin control of the web publishing software.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XXPP)
Ad giant chides rivals for encouraging invasive tracking techniques Analysis On Tuesday, Google published an update on its Privacy Sandbox proposal, a plan thoroughly panned last summer as a desperate attempt to redefine privacy in a way that's compatible with the ad slinger's business.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XXEJ)
Grab your Microsoft, Adobe, SAP, Intel, and VMware fixes now Patch Tuesday In the first Patch Tuesday of the year, Microsoft finds itself joined by Adobe, Intel, VMware, and SAP in dropping scheduled security updates.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4XXEM)
This isn't the way to make the Cook(ie) crumble Analysis Apple has responded to a demand from the United States' Attorney General William Barr that it grant the FBI access to two iPhones used in a recent shooting by carefully calling bullshit on his claims.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XX4T)
RAM, bam, thank you .. actually... hmmmm. That's kind of excessive There's just a few short weeks until the Samsung Unpacked launch event, where the South Korean giant will unveil this year's ultra-pricey flagships. Predictably, most of the pertinent details have already dripped out. The latest pertains to the potent Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra*, which packs some unbelievably meaty specs.…
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US hands UK 'dossier' on Huawei: Really! Still using their kit? That's just... one... step... beyond
by Gareth Corfield on (#4XX4W)
American security officials fly to London to 'brief' Boris It would be "nothing short of madness" to use Huawei gear in Britain's 5G mobile networks, an American national security adviser has reportedly told UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#4XWTR)
Project holding steady for resident techies but white knuckle ride continues Fantasy model manufacturer and tabletop wargames flinger Games Workshop has dispatched a warning note about the continued danger inherent to an ongoing project to replace its core ERP systems with Microsoft Dynamics 365.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XWTT)
You may not have plumbing to the premises, but by god you'll have fibre Good news for much-maligned new-build contractors in the UK - equally maligned broadband infrastructure provider OpenReach today said it will drop the threshold for installing gigabit-capable fibre-to-the-premises connections to new build developments - from 30 houses to just 20.…
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