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£1bn Brit court digitisation scheme would be great ... if Wi-Fi situation wasn't 'wholly inadequate'
Unfortunately, these things need internet to work The tech behind the £1bn justice system modernisation programme, intended to digitise the process against a backdrop of court closures, has been slammed by British MPs.…
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From the broken world of banking to the broken world of govt IT Mark Denney has left the creaking world of banking IT to join the, er, creaking world of government IT – taking the role of interim chief digital and information officer at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.…
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by John Oates on (#4TH1Y)
Disposable furniture flogger seeks data wranglers Scandi furniture emporium Ikea is seeking privacy specialists to join its office in Malmö, Sweden.…
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by Matthew Huges on (#4TH20)
Professional wireless buds pack interesting features, though iFixit, the Huntingdon Life Sciences of the tech world, has published its long-awaited teardown of the latest Apple earbuds (or, using the terminology of pro tea-leaves readers at Gartner, "earworn wearables").…
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by John Oates on (#4TH22)
Yes, the chips are still down Samsung Electronics profits shrivelled up in the third quarter of 2019 thanks to the ongoing memory market downturn.…
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UK.gov handout scrutinised due to boss's friendship with PM A £100,000 government grant to Jennifer Arcuri's infosec training business, Hacker House, has been flagged as "appropriate" following an investigation.…
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by John Oates on (#4TGRW)
Sexual assault reports under investigation Greater Manchester Police have confirmed they are investigating two allegations of sexual assault against Lawrence Jones, who stepped down as boss of UKFast yesterday.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4TGRY)
Obsidian nails it The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. This time we're heading spacewards again, to The Outer Worlds to be exact, otherwise known as Halcyon, a corporate hellhole colony at the arse-end of the galaxy.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4TGS0)
Two countries separated by a common language The US Air Force (USAF) has declared it is awarding a contract to Raytheon thanks to its pressing need for "full ARSE compatibility", including Windows 10 support, with equipment designed for maintaining fighter jet missiles.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4TGKD)
Look in my eye and say that Something for the Weekend, Sir? Thrilling news: my Libra account is ready! I can barely restrain my excitement.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4TGKF)
In which our hero becomes an accidental expert On Call Welcome to On Call, The Register's weekly cautionary tale for those who believe a good deed can ever go unpunished.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4TGKG)
The 'massive unseen companion' is still a mystery Astrophysicists may have discovered the smallest black hole yet – just 3.3 times the mass of our Sun – according to a new paper published in Science.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4TGKJ)
Not bad if you have over $3 million to splash out on cloud DeepMind’s AlphaStar AI bot has reached Grandmaster level at StarCraft II, a popular battle strategy computer game, after ranking within the top 0.15 per cent of players in an online league.…
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by David Gordon on (#4TGFH)
From incident response and forensics to disassemblers and debuggers, it's all covered Promo No matter how thorough your security preparations, chances are that hidden threats already lurk inside your organisation's networks. Even the most advanced security and monitoring tools can’t be solely relied upon on to keep persistent adversaries out of your systems.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TGFJ)
Bogus charges being racked up by Android tool Malicious code slipped into a popular Android keyboard app racked up millions of dollars in fraudulent charges for unlucky punters.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TG5K)
Power to the people... in charge of IT – phew! Microsoft has done an about-face on its plan to let folks bypass their Office 365 administrators and purchase Power Platform tools willy-nilly for work.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4TG5N)
Civil-rights warriors sue FBI, DEA, DoJ over fears of secretive mass-spying network The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and the Department of Justice (DoJ) in an effort to find out what the US federal government’s systems and policies are around facial recognition.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TFYG)
Crook exploited security hole, hijacked punter's bank cards A fraudster exploited a bizarre weakness in Amazon's handling of customer devices to hijack a netizen's account and go on multiple spending sprees with their bank cards, we're told.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4TFYJ)
What do you expect from Mister 'Truth isn't truth'? The month after Rudy Giuliani was named the US president’s cybersecurity adviser, the former mayor of New York queued up outside an Apple Store in San Francisco to get staff to reset his iPhone because he couldn’t remember the passcode.…
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by John Oates on (#4TFME)
It is Halloween after all Global shipments of smartphones bucked the market's downward trend in the third quarter of 2019 to increase by a paltry 1 per cent – the first signs of growth in two years.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4TFMG)
Let's all have a code audi- oh, wait, they did that already Encrypted email biz ProtonMail has open-sourced the code for its iOS app, having paid for a code audit that says there's nothing wrong with it.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4TFMH)
Proud CEO Cook hails a 'remarkable year'... perhaps for all the wrong reasons Apple has always been able to conjure magic of sorts – be it hardware, software or services based – that captures the imagination and the wallets of its loyal users. But in fiscal '19, Apple performed an altogether different kind of act, a vanishing one: it managed to make $5bn of sales revenue disappear.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4TFMK)
Our old friend the Investigatory Powers Act says so A radio electronics geek has been caught eavesdropping on NHS medics' pager messages, translating the signals into text while broadcasting them on the internet via a publicly available webcam stream – possibly committing a crime in the process.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4TF9V)
New global site permissions but rivals still ahead on privacy Version 2.9 of Chromium-based web browser Vivaldi boasts a new central control of website permissions.…
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by John Oates on (#4TF9X)
Wouldn't it be nice if they did more of the legwork? European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager has proposed forcing technology firms to prove their actions are not harming the market or consumers.…
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by David Gordon on (#4TF9Z)
Join El Reg and experts from Google Cloud and Trax for top advice and info Webcast It’s hard to find an IT decision maker or strategist who doesn’t dream of being able to deploy and manage applications without obliging the company’s administrators and developers to learn different environments and APIs.…
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Troubled outsourcer continues work with troubled bank The Co-operative Bank has renewed its mortgage servicing contract with Capita, handing the controversial outsourcer £141m over six years.…
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All divisions flat or down as firm tries to up its fibre plans Higher spectrum fees and content costs were blamed by BT for a wobbly bottom line at the half-way stage of its financial year.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4TF12)
Software giant joins OpenJDK for the second time Microsoft signed Oracle's contributor agreement "in the past week" and is officially joining OpenJDK, the official open-source implementation of Java, according to a senior product manager at the Redmond-based machine.…
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by John Oates on (#4TF14)
Local regulator says it hasn't approved scheme. Meanwhile, Spain up to similar tricks The Belgian city of Kortrijk in West Flanders is reportedly using data provided by a mobile phone company to count the number of people present in the town and where they come from.…
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by John Oates on (#4TF16)
Wife takes the reins pending investigation Lawrence Jones, founder and boss of Manchester hosting provider UKFast, has stepped down while an internal investigation probes allegations of sexual assault, harassment and bullying made against him.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4TF17)
Data-fetching scheme seems to be catching on At the GraphQL Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday, Matt DeBergalis, co-founder and CTO at data plumbing biz Apollo GraphQL, urged companies to appoint a data graph champion to help ease the implementation of GraphQL, a query language for fetching data.…
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UK climate change minister sets phasers to 'WTF' The UK government has insisted it is "confident" it will meet the new smart meter rollout date, despite the project now running four years late and £2.5bn over budget.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4TF1A)
Plus: Solution to 250g drone weight limit is 249g drone The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has caved in on its slow-motion disaster of a drone database – by asking flier associations to email it details of their members in a spreadsheet.…
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All is forgiven! The Ministry of Justice is to hand over £800m of British taxpayer's dosh to scandal-hit Serco in return for 10 years' worth of outsourced prisoner escort and custody services.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4TEW2)
Don't get too excited, though – we need quintillions of these things Video Scientists have built microscopic primitive robots that can swim in wastewater and remove radioactive uranium, in the hopes that they can one day be used to clean up nuclear spills for humans.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4TEW4)
Snap-happy handset also packs massive 5,170mAh battery Phone launches are usually leakier than an Ikea colander, and the release of the upcoming Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro is no exception.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4TEW6)
Prof tells El Reg it could be on the marketplace after two to three years of testing The dream of charging an electric car in just ten minutes can be achieved in the not too distant future, according to a paper published in the journal Joule on Wednesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4TEKN)
How to make friends and influence people, 2019 Edition On Tuesday, Don HO, the developer of Notepad++, a free GPL source code editor and notepad application for Microsoft Windows, released version 7.8.1, prompting a social media firestorm and a distributed denial of service attack.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4TEE7)
Scumbags admit extorting $100k from taxi app biz Two men have confessed they siphoned confidential information from databases hosted in the Amazon cloud, and then demanded payment to delete their copies of the data.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4TEE9)
Lawmakers, ISPs and cable companies all vying to get a piece of the action Analysis It’s amazing how a couple of billion dollars focuses the mind.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TE7P)
Oher sofwae ikey hi y egession in uggy opeaing syse Twitter says a bug in macOS 10.15.1 aka Catalina stops users of the social network's desktop Mac app from entering certain letters in account password fields.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4TE7R)
It’s almost as if social media giant has ill-considered, naive, spectacularly stupid policies Comment Facebook’s controversial policy to exempt political ads from factual review has taken another dive after the social media giant appeared to state it gets to decide which politicians the policy applies to.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TDX9)
Go Zuck yourself, fam Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are today busy deleting the personal profiles of employees at NSO Group amid an ongoing legal battle.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4TDXB)
RCEs and all sorts of other vulns plugged, so get installing Apple has released patches for the hated macOS Catalina – but not to fix the operating system's UI failures. These are security updates also affecting iOS and Apple Watches, and include one that prevents a remote attacker from executing code on your iThings.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4TDXD)
It's Donald Trump's favourite company, according to numbercrunchers The disruptive campaign against Huawei might be in full flow in the US and to an extent Europe, but in its homeland of China, the company's smartphone business is swelling to record proportions.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4TDKX)
Two Books, 600 nits – another is first to feature Intel's Lakefield chippery (Soz, Microsoft) Yesterday, at its developer conference, Samsung announced three new laptops: a pair of notebooks certified by Intel's Project Athena programme, the Galaxy Book Flex and Galaxy Book Ion, as well as a machine that uses Intel's new Lakefield chipsets, the Galaxy Book S.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4TDKZ)
CEO apologises for ill-considered proposal GitLab has swiftly backtracked on plans to add telemetry services to track usage of its products.…
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by John Oates on (#4TDM0)
Antisocial network accepts Cambridge Analytica wrist slap Facebook has ended its appeal against the UK Information Commissioner's Office and will pay the outstanding £500,000 fine for breaches of data protection law relating to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.…
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We need your insights, please – and it'll take just a few minutes Reader survey Do you work in financial services? Are you plugged into conversations about all of the extra unstructured content flying around your organization as a result of everything "going digital?"…
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