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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T3V8)
Both WWE and Reddit have cult-like followings, so why not? Comment Reddit says it has "confidentially" filed an S-1 form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as part of the process to list publicly.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T3S2)
'Cloud-native' outfit munches up $278m in new funding Cockroach Labs, the unfortunately named firm behind the distributed RDBMS CockroachDB, is ending the year as it began – with a massive inhalation of investor cash.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5T3QE)
Settles claims relating to cyber attack and data leak, court hears British Mensa Limited has paid former CTO Eugene Hopkinson defamation damages and costs settling his claims of libel, malicious falsehood, and breach of his rights under the UK GDPR relating to a series of statements it made on the subject of a January 2021 cyber-attack and a data leak at the org.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T3NZ)
Lack of recognition and support for quality engineering part of science's reproducibility problem, MPs hear Lack of support for software engineering is holding back efforts to improve reproducibility and openness in the UK's scientific research, a panel of MPs was reliably informed yesterday.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5T3MB)
Don't worry, it'll be carbon neutral ... In an appropriately nebulous blog post, Kickstarter, the non-profit crowdfunding site, has announced it will move to a decentralised model via the dreaded blockchain.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T3K1)
First five full releases took 20 years, this one arrived in 18 months Text editor GNU Nano has reached version 6.0.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5T3HK)
And potentially an increase in UK state-backed hacks The British government has launched a £2.6bn National Cyber Strategy, intended to steer the state's thinking on cyber attack, defence and technology for the next three years – and there's some good news if you run a tech company.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T3HM)
Looks a lot like a response to messaging services passing data through China Social media and search engine operators in Japan will be required to specify the countries in which users' data is physically stored, under a planned tweak to local laws.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T3GN)
Ingenuity clocks up 30 minutes flying in the Martian skies NASA has revealed that Ingenuity – the experimental helicopter sent to Mars with the Perseverance Rover – has clocked up a whole half-hour of flight in the Red Planet's meanly thin atmosphere.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T3E5)
Which isn't a lot – a single fab can cost more than the entire subsidy pool. India wants four built soon India has unveiled a $10 billion subsidy scheme designed to lure semiconductor manufacturers to its shores.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T3DD)
Company behind cloud-native DB munches up $273m in new funding Cockroach Labs, the unfortunately named firm behind the distributed RDBMS CockroachDB, is ending the year as it began – with a massive inhalation of investor cash.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T3CH)
But still allows limited harvesting Meta has expanded its bug bounty program to include payouts for reports of scraping attacks on Facebook – but hold your applause.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5T3CJ)
Non-consensual on-device image analysis perhaps was difficult to reconcile with privacy protests Updated Apple evidently has decided against forcing customers to run its sex crime detection software on their iPhones in order to refer those stashing illegal child abuse images in iCloud to authorities.…
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by Chris Williams on (#5T3A8)
Microsoft says cyber-spies linked to Beijing, Tehran are getting busy with security flaw along with world + dog Microsoft reckons government cyber-spies in China, Iran, North Korea, and Turkey are actively exploiting the Log4j 2.x remote-code execution hole.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5T396)
Other terminals welcome Microsoft is to make its new Windows Terminal the default for command line applications in Windows 11.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5T37S)
Not so much JEDI lightsabers, more magic WANDS The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has revealed why it upheld Microsoft's challenge over the award of a $10bn National Security Agency (NSA) cloud contract to arch-rival AWS.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5T37T)
Export controls aren't enough, Dems say: Bring on the Global Magnitsky Act Eighteen US Democratic lawmakers have asked the Treasury Department and State Department to punish Israel-based spyware maker NSO Group and three other surveillance software firms for enabling human rights abuses.…
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by Chris Williams on (#5T34J)
Not getting a COVID-19 jab? That's not very googley of you Updated Google has given its anti-vax workers an ultimatum: you're fired unless you comply with its COVID-19 vaccination rules.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5T30Q)
If you're wondering why you couldn't access a website, app, or service for about 30 minutes today, this may be it Amazon Web Services gave everyone a scare today as it once again suffered a partial IT breakdown, briefly taking down a chunk of the web with it. If you found you were unable to use your favorite website or app for a moment today, this may have been why.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T2Y4)
Wanna play on a US stock exchange? You'll need US regulators on side South Korean semiconductor company Magnachip has terminated its planned merger with Chinese private equity firm Wise Road Capital.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5T2V3)
And online flea market had IDOR in an iOS-focused API UK online used goods bazaar Gumtree exposed its users' home addresses in the source code of its webpages, and then tried to squirm out of a bug bounty after infosec bods alerted it to the flaw.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5T2RK)
High price and no ARM64 yet. We quiz boss on whether it makes sense Interview Azul, a provider of OpenJDK (Java runtime) builds, has introduced a "Cloud Native Compiler" which offers remote compilation of Java to native code, claiming it can reduce compute resources by up to 50 per cent.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5T2NX)
It isn't just the products that are embarrassing Microsoft's Raymond Chen has continued his odyssey through the Windows vendor's back catalogue of awkward product names with the story behind WinCE.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T2KM)
REST-to-GraphQL data hub also on offer and looking for more contributions Hasura, a vendor specialising in the GraphQL data-fetching query language, has created a low-code approach to connecting existing REST endpoints into a unified GraphQL API.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T2HA)
'Event imputation' draws on lots of other sources to fill in gaps CompSci boffins think they've come up with a novel way to recreate missing entries in log files.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5T2FP)
What is it for and how does it work? The Reg investigates Comment The growing scepticism around web3 can be summed up by the titles of a few recent blog posts. Web3 is B*llsh*t. Web3? I have my DAOts. Web3 is not decentralization.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T2DJ)
Modern analytical techniques suggest the natural satellite cooled much faster than previously thought Humans haven't been on the Moon for 49 years but samples they took continue to provide new discoveries.…
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by Chris Williams on (#5T2C8)
Shocked, shocked, to find that anti-competitive behavior is going on in here The UK's antitrust regulator fears Apple and Google have a "vice-like grip" on mobile apps and browsers, which freezes out competitors and gives folks a crummy deal.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T2AT)
Parker solar probe partly determines where Sol ends and begins NASA's Parker solar probe has become the first spacecraft to reach the Sun, after solar boffins announced the feat at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T27Y)
Chinese handset maker doesn't go too hardcore, focuses on making snaps sparkle Oppo has joined the elite club of smartphone makers that design their own silicon for use in their products.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T276)
Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward measures ventilation quality so diners can breathe easy Chiyoda Ward, an area of central Tokyo, has created an app to help folks ascertain whether or not a restaurant is well ventilated and therefore less likely to lead to a COVID-19 infection.…
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by Chris Williams on (#5T26D)
Round off the year with a large crop of fixes for programming blunders Patch Tuesday It's not just Log4j you need to worry about this week. It's the final Patch Tuesday of the year.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5T25E)
Not to mention the FAA delegating its watchdog duties to the actual aircraft manufacturers An Aviation Whistleblower report issued Tuesday by a US Senate committee cites numerous oversight gaps within the government and the aviation industry.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5T20Z)
Now open-source logging library's JNDI disabled entirely by default, message lookups removed Last week, version 2.15 of the widely used open-source logging library Log4j was released to tackle a critical security hole, dubbed Log4Shell, which could be trivially abused by miscreants to hijack servers and apps over the internet.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5T1X8)
Three years of pushback have produced few changes while search giant insists it's listening to netizens Analysis The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Tuesday renewed its campaign to convince Google to listen to criticism of the tech goliath's plan to overhaul its browser extension platform and to make changes while there's still time.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#5T1JZ)
Private equity owners play pass the parcel One of the biggest beasts in the password management world, LastPass, is being spun out from parent LogMeIn as a "standalone cloud security" organisation.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5T1G0)
Too far? Committee thinks it doesn't go far enough Britain's Online Safety Bill is being enthusiastically endorsed in a "manifesto" issued today by MPs who were tasked with scrutinising its controversial contents.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T1D3)
Forrester research sheds new light on dynamic Larry Ellison says is going in Big Red's favour New figures from global research group Forrester suggest Oracle ERP users are more likely to look for systems from alternative vendors than arch-rival SAP. More than a quarter of users of its finance applications are looking to switch, the study showed.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T1A0)
Regulatory body needs method to account for business models that monetize free services Current US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosures have not evolved to capture new Big Tech business models and thus allow the world's megacorps to dodge antitrust rules, with the integrity of the market policed only by whistleblowers, according to a recent study.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5T17G)
Nobody wants to see Rosalind Franklin scattered over Oxia Planum The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has successfully completed a high-altitude drop test.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5T14T)
UK.gov talks tough: 'We will not hesitate to act if required to protect our critical national telecoms infrastructure' Billionaire telco tycoon Patrick Drahi has upped his stake in BT to 18 per cent but says he is not intending – at least not yet – to launch a full-blown bid to buy the business, a move the UK government warned it may thwart anyway.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T119)
Project hits the buffers after 'increased understanding' of the product West Sussex County Council faces a two-year delay to a £7.5 million Oracle ERP project once offered up as an exemplar of the company's competitive position against SAP.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T0ZK)
November incident led to delays in emergency service dispatches Exclusive An IT failure that led to a critical incident delaying ambulance dispatches from an NHS service in the south of England was down to network failures following routine maintenance, according to a Freedom of Information response.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T0YE)
Cupertino also added a Digital Legacy – special IDs so your loved ones can get your data once you're dead Apple has updated its operating systems for the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Watch and TV boxen, correcting dozens of security issues along the way.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T0X2)
Trader said he was just betting on COVID-induced digitalization, but investigation suggests otherwise Tech execs from Infosys and Wipro have been denied complete reversal of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) directions resulting from insider trading accusations.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T0VW)
Does the cloud belong in a city that's literally sinking? Rent some servers and find out Amazon Web Services has a new region for its cloudy customers to consider – in Indonesia.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T0VX)
Penguinistas will get all the holiday fun of an extra release candidate instead The Register can at last reveal the answer to the question on everyone's lips: who would win a hypothetical fight between Santa Claus and Linus Torvalds?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T0SE)
Washington discovers UX psychology, A/B tests, and single sign-on United States president Joe Biden has issued an executive order designed to modernise government services, especially online.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5T0QR)
Would more money have prevented this security flaw? Would the cash be useful in other ways anyway? Analysis The disclosure of a critical security hole in Log4j last week has renewed calls to rethink how open-source software gets developed, paid for, and maintained, not that the long-simmering issue ever really went away.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T0PY)
US think tank reckons services giant abuses spirit of skilled migrant system The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has published an analysis accusing Indian services company HCL of systemic underpayment of workers holding H-1B visas issued to skilled migrants in the US.…
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