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InstallerFileTakeOver code pops up on GitHub The day has a 'y' in it, so it must be time for another zero day to drop for a Microsoft product. In this case, a local privilege-elevation vulnerability to gain control of fully patched Windows 10, 11, and Server systems up to the 2022 build.…

Drug delivery, environmental clean up, building in space among possible applications Scientists say they have succeeded in producing programmable 3D printed objects from microbial ink produced by genetically modified E coli (Escherichia coli) bacteria.…

Complaints abound that yoof use it to mean 'digital currency' Poll Infosec must "reclaim" the word crypto from people who trade in Bitcoins and other digital currencies, according to industry veteran Bruce Schneier – and it seems some Reg readers agree while others disagree.…

Scripting language's dependency on two contributors sparks worries about its future A group of 10 companies is forming a new PHP Foundation, with temporary administrators including PHP founder Rasmus Lerdorf.…

'Exceptional' case involves 100 BTC payoff, judge told A Briton accused of playing a pivotal role in an $8.5m SIM-swapping attack shouldn't be extradited to the US because he might commit suicide, making his an "exceptional" case, a court was told.…

Welcome to 'The First Rust Governance Crisis' Updated The Rust language community is in disarray following the resignation of the entire moderation team, citing the "structural unaccountability" of the core development team.…

Another 30 minutes and there would have been nothing to see A week after Google suffered a TITSUP*, the gang at Mountain View has published a lengthy post-mortem on what went wrong. It was a known bug in the configuration pipeline.…

Plans to change UK regulations could mean a 'significant departure' from EU law, watchdog says The UK's National Data Guardian (NDG) has warned the government against watering down individuals' rights to challenge decisions made about them by artificial intelligence.…

O Cannabis! Meanwhile, ride biz back to court in the UK over driver contracts Uber Technologies' munchies delivery service, Uber Eats, has set its sights on another growth industry in the Canadian province of Ontario, Reuters reports.…

Do users dream of Elastic fleets? Amazon made Fleets available for AppStream desktop applications this week, as the prospect of tighter lockdowns and more remote work looms.…

Trampolines and Retpoline: Applying patches at the function level Microsoft has posted details of how its Hotpatching feature applies security patches to Windows Server without requiring a reboot – but although the company said it is working on broader availability, it remains Azure-only.…

There's a default admin password online too The Ministry of Justice has secured a set of Wi-Fi access points that potentially gave admin access to industrial control equipment after a tipoff by The Register.…

New agency in charge, still outsourcing like the clappers Global IT consultancies Accenture and Deloitte have scooped up nearly £94m in contracts from the UK public health agency after it took charge of the Test and Trace COVID-19 response.…

Marketing jargon alert: Modernized, streamlined, brand iconography and more prominent fireballs inside LogoWatch Qualcomm has decided that its Snapdragon silicon can stand on its own as a brand.…

Plus: DNS cache poisoning again, cops probe property conveyancing group's IT outage, Azure hole addressed, and more In brief Sky has fixed a flaw in six million of its home broadband routers, and it only took the British broadcaster'n'telecoms giant a year to do so, infosec researchers have said.…

Space agencies have been planning this thing since 1996, so what's four more days? The European Space Agency has delayed the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope until December 22 so that it can undergo additional testing following an incident that sent unintended vibrations through the observatory.…

Starting with a release called Amazon Linux 2022 that just hit preview Amazon Web Services has announced that it will release an updated version of its own Linux every two years, starting with Amazon Linux 2022, which it is previewing now.…

Japanese space agency wants 'nauts with good eyesight and work experience – no degree required The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched an astronaut recruitment drive last week with reduced academic requirements as it seeks to diversify and refresh the nation's corps of space travelers.…

Loaded with all the goodies coders need to run wild with new OS, and packaged for four hypervisors Microsoft has quietly slipped out a test cut of Windows 11 for developers.…

Infosec firm says it found unpatched software, Bank admits Exchange may not have been in the best shape India's Punjab National Bank has smacked down a security firm's allegation that it exposed personal and financial data of its 180 million customers – but appears to have admitted its Exchange Server implementation wasn't in tip-top shape.…

Middle Kingdom suggests US is making it all up to justify arms development. As if! A Chinese hypersonic glider that completed a test flight in July appears to be more sophisticated than first thought. It is reported the aircraft was able to fire a missile while travelling at five times the speed of sound.…

Globo sports brand also interested in AWS analytics systems, data lakes and ML tools as part of upgrade Adidas has opted to upgrade its ERP system to SAP S/4HANA, transferring it to the cloud with AWS rather than using RISE with SAP, the lift-shift-and-transform service launched by the German vendor earlier this year.…

Attorney for aggrieved scientist urges judge to let the evidence be presented Analysis IBM has consistently denied that its layoffs over the past few years have targeted older workers.…

Yikes: Up to 1.2 million customers affected GoDaddy has admitted to America's financial watchdog that one or more miscreants broke into its systems and potentially accessed a huge amount of customer data, from email addresses to SSL private keys.…

What could possibly go wrong? Microsoft has rolled out an early preview of Azure App Service Automatic Scaling – a handy tool, assuming Azure hasn't hit capacity once again.…

You're your own security team, remember? If you run a small online business powered by the Magento ecommerce platform, Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is begging you to make sure it's fully patched ahead of Black Friday.…

NHSX also doomed in shake-up of 'odd' tech leadership structure The UK health secretary has confirmed the demise of NHS Digital and NHSX, the organisations that take various roles in NHS IT strategy and execution.…

High DPI continues to be a challenge in ancient desktop framework Microsoft's oldest .NET desktop framework, Windows Forms, has been improved for .NET 6, though full support for high resolution displays is "a challenging undertaking," according to software engineer Igor Velikorossov.…

Company data compromised but not systems containing customer or supplier information Vestas Wind Systems, one of the world's largest makers of wind turbines, today confirmed company data has been compromised in a "cyber security incident" that forced the firm to isolate parts of its IT infrastructure.…

Never mind the practicality, feel the grief As alert folks of a cross-platform inclination will have noticed, Paragon's NTFS driver was accepted into the Linux kernel, and was released as part of 5.15.…

Another German region tries to ditch closed code for open source From the department of If At First You Don't Succeed Try Try Again comes news that a German state is to have a crack at shifting thousands of PCs from proprietary software to an open-source alternative.…

Privacy challenges and rushed implementation should make this cash alternative much less attractive Opinion Nigeria recently became the first African country to launch its central bank digital currency (CBDC), the eNaira. However, there are significant privacy challenges that could make eNaira a lot less attractive.…

Effort to bring the ABAP programming language to S/4HANA cloud ERP system attracts criticism SAP is launching support for its ABAP programming languages to offer developers the possibility to build more features directly into the S/4HANA Cloud version of its ERP system.…

Every debris cloud has a silver lining Opinion International politics proves Homo sapiens' kinship with purple-arsed baboons. There is yelling, there is exaggerated gesture, there is much ballistic propulsion of poo. The point to it all is surprisingly laudable: avoid actual conflict by play-acting it out.…

Unexpected consequences of the SQL Slammer worm Who, Me? Do you check your emails before sending them? Re-read a dozen times but still that typo sneaks through? Welcome to a Who, Me? in which a reader learns that one mistyped letter can result in a visit from the legal department.…

By revisiting farm reform, PM Modi has left the future of the contentious 'AgriStack' uncertain India has scrapped plans to reform its agriculture sector – a decision that looks like a win for the nation's farmers, but a setback for Big Tech.…

Alibaba and Tencent racked up more than ten cases – each China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has fined tech giants 43 times – with Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent told to pay up for failing to declare deals deemed to violate anti-monopoly legislation.…

Interoperability issues with Ethernet controller sends vSphere 7 Update 3 back to the drawing board VMware has removed its latest major vSphere release – Version 7, Update 3 – from its download service, citing driver interoperability problems that could cause failures during upgrades.…

Video app promises not to let naughty content cross the border, and to ban those who try Pakistan has allowed TikTok to resume operations on its soil.…

Ganja believe it? Seller claimed to sell 'Stevia leaves', but shifted a tonne of wacky 'baccy before being busted Updated Police in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have charged Amazon India executives under narcotics laws, after uncovering a marijuana smuggling operation centered around the e-commerce website.…

If you want more memory or internal storage, ordering before April 2022 is wise IBM has warned owners of POWER8 servers that their upgrade options are about to become limited.…

CEO blames 'Increased verbosity of network traffic' Some Tesla drivers who fancied going for a spin on Saturday were unable to do so after an update to the cars' companion app produced server errors.…

Plus: GPT-3 is now generally available and one man goes undercover in Amazon to live under AI In brief Contract lawyers are increasingly working under the thumb of facial-recognition software as they continue to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

There's not enough evidence, judge ruled A federal judge dismissed the proposed class-action lawsuit accusing retail brokerage biz Robinhood of colluding with trading firm Citadel Securities to prevent people from purchasing GameStop and other so-called meme stocks, earlier this year.…

And lo, it was foretold, punter shall speak unto punter from a single app Most modern chat systems are entirely proprietary: proprietary clients, talking proprietary protocols to proprietary servers. There's no need for this: there are free open standards for one-to-one and one-to-many comms for precisely this sort of system, and some venerable clients are still a lot more capable than you might remember.…

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle deemed worthy After cancelling its contentious Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud contract solicitation in July, the US Department of Defense (DoD) promised a followup request for proposals to provide cloud services for national defense under a less catchy acronym, the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC).…

It's moving on up now Mediatek rolled out what could be the first chip based on the Armv9, which is the ARM's first architectural upgrade in a decade.…

Known issues list continues to grow Windows 11 has continued to notch up known issues as Microsoft admitted to problems in the Intel Smart Sound department and Microsoft Installer following a security update.…

SaaSy vendor takes comfort in contingent workforce software acquisition Workday has swallowed vendor management SaaS type VNDLY for over half a billion dollars, just as 9 per cent of the company's value was wiped off after moderately positive financial results failed to impress investors.…

Who’d have thought that there could be so many approaches to putting new stuff in? Reg Reader Survey Our recent survey into how we go about introducing new systems threw up a set of responses that were positively multifarious. Who’d have thought that there could be so many approaches to putting new stuff in? Thank-you to everyone who participated. Now let's take a gander at the results.…