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Unique fingerprints lurk in radio signals more often than not, it seems Over the past few years, mobile devices have become increasingly chatty over the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol and this turns out to be a somewhat significant privacy risk.…

Vid-slingers had been asking how this happened for years, even while their channels were spruiking dodgy crypto After years of complaints from YouTubers, Google has pinpointed the root cause of a series of account hijackings: software sponsorship deals that delivered malware.…

Claims shared memory speed breakthrough in new server, plans to enter South Korea and Thailand, and more Announcements were coming thick and fast at Alibaba Cloud's annual APSARA conference, where the Middle Kingdom's biggest cloud unleashed an all-in-one client device, plenty of upgrades to its cloud services, and an uncanny weather predictor.…

Names November as the month for Win 10 H2 update – then reveals major new feature won’t arrive on time Microsoft has released a build of Windows 11 that it claims addresses performance problems the new OS imposed on some systems.…

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, PayPal, Square under investigation America's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said on Thursday it is probing some of the biggest names in the electronic payments industry, requesting detailed information from them on how they collect and use people's spending data.…

As it appears Intel's attempt to gobble the upstart collapses SiFive reckons its fastest RISC-V processor core yet is closing the gap on being a mainstream computing alternative to x86 and Arm.…

Tell us you've been jabbed or... Apple will require unvaccinated workers to get tested for COVID-19 every time they come into the office for work, starting from November 1.…

But with 97 per cent of Android devs offering free software, web giant's share of mobile ad spend matters more Google is cutting the fee it charges Play Store app developers for digital subscriptions from 30 per cent during the first 12 months to 15 per cent at all times.…

Former CTO leaves for car tech biz Another key executive who was part of Intel's RealSense group – which is winding down operations – left the company this month.…

What? No. Noooooooooooooooooo At first glance, Microsoft appears to have torn up the infamous Windows 11 hardware compatibility list by inflicting the code on its latest games console.…

Update to v6.02 – or don't, but on your head be it A remote code execution vulnerability existed in an old and free trial version of WinRAR, according to infosec firm Positive Technologies.…

Keeping up with technology changes 'taking a toll on development' GIMP 2.99.8, a development version with many new features, has been released, but 3.0 is taking its time due to system changes that break things.…

Nation playing catch-up following release from 1979 ban South Korea today came close to joining the small club of nations that can build and launch their own orbital-class rockets, with its maiden attempt blasting off successfully then failing to deploy its payload.…

Looking at code here, there and (almost) everywhere Microsoft has whipped the covers off yet another take on code-in-the-browser with a lightweight version of Visual Studio Code, while unveiling the version 1.0 release of support for Red Hat Java in the freebie source wrangler.…

Automate everything – but while human moderation is hard, robot moderation tends not to work AWS has introduced channel flows to its Chime messaging and videoconferencing API, the idea being to enable automatic moderation of profanity or content that "does not fit" the corporate brand.…

I dream of wires, say Whitehall’s big buyers The UK's central government procurement agency is chumming the waters around the market's swimmers, hoping to tempt suppliers into providing a range of computer network services and kit with a £5bn tender.…

Underling took customer on bucket list trip - and VP signed it off without checking Informatica's former UK & Ireland vice president was correctly sacked after letting a salesman take Highways England's executive IT director on a $5,000 golfing jaunt, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled.…

Meanwhile Elon's running orbital tourist trips and ISS crew missions Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule, designed to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, will not fly until the first half of next year at the earliest, as the manufacturing giant continues to tackle an issue with the spacecraft’s valves.…

Considering the slack security of such kit, it's a perfect storm Increasing numbers of "non-business" Internet of Things devices are showing up inside corporate networks, Palo Alto Networks has warned, saying that smart lightbulbs and internet-connected pet feeders may not feature in organisations' threat models.…

Never mind the performance, man, think of the planet MBB Forum 2021 The "G" in 5G stands for Green, if the hours of keynotes at the Mobile Broadband Forum in Dubai are to be believed.…

Big Blue promises mid-single-digit growth is coming, but CEO struggles to explain how. IBM has blamed another quarter of tepid performance on its servers.…

Pushing for a 5x performance boost albeit over a 2018 cousin Arm has teased an upcoming graphics processor unit, due to be unveiled next year, and said it is tuned heavily for running artificial intelligence code.…

Beijing's recent crackdowns on internet behaviour have spawned rebellious entrepreneurs, because of course they have. China's National Internet Information Office has revisited some of the government's recent internet crackdowns, to put a stop to workarounds such as renting or selling accounts for online games to minors in order to circumvent the three-hours-per-week play time imposed by Beijing.…

Panorama appliance packs Nvidia Jetson Xavier AGX and will be sold – not rented like other AWS on-prem kit Amazon Web Services, the outfit famous for pioneering pay-as-you-go cloud computing, has produced a bit of on-prem hardware that it will sell for a once-off fee.…

Virtzilla will be just fine – it's finally figured out how to woo developers, and hardware players won't desert it Analysis Dell and VMware have named the day they'll break up: November 1.…

Error messages effectively piped to /dev/null, it is alleged Theranos blood-testing machines, which US prosecutors claim failed over 51 per cent of the time, provided no indication if things went awry during demonstrations for visitors, a court has heard.…

Ten-buck increase for 2GB model 'not here to stay' says Upton The price of a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 single-board computer is going up $10, and its supply is expected to be capped at seven million devices this year due to the ongoing global chip shortage.…

Surveillance tech faces trade limits as America syncs policy with treaty obligations More than six years after proposing export restrictions on "intrusion software," the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has formulated a rule that it believes balances the latitude required to investigate cyber threats with the need to limit dangerous code.…

The future's bright, and expensive Corporate technology soothsayer Gartner is forecasting worldwide IT spending will hit $4.5tr in 2022, up 5.5 per cent from 2021.…

AI and 5G to fuel demand for new plants and R&D Chip giant Micron has announced a $150bn global investment plan designed to support manufacturing and research over the next decade.…

Foreign ownership capped at 50% After years of restricting the use and ownership of VPNs, Beijing has agreed to let foreign entities hold up to a 50 per cent stake in domestic VPN companies.…

If you want to know the solution, join this Regcast Sponsored We know for sure that ransomware attackers and sundry dark forces want to break into critical infrastructure. Ransomware attacks on industrial environments have increased by 500 per cent since 2018.…

Windows Insiders get their hands on the Windows Subsystem for Android Microsoft has further teased the arrival of the Windows Subsystem for Android by detailing how the platform will work via a newly published document for Windows Insiders.…

Companies using GPL software should meet their obligations, lawsuit says The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit which supports and defends free software, has taken legal action against Californian TV manufacturer Vizio Inc, claiming "repeated failures to fulfill even the basic requirements of the General Public License (GPL)."…

Kit using the chips to appear next year at the earliest Korean DRAM fabber SK hynix has developed an HBM3 DRAM chip operating at 819GB/sec.…

DARPA imitator not doing much after two years of Johnson government Updated The UK's efforts to copy US government and military innovation outfit DARPA are stalling, according to a leading figure in research and development.…

That rebrand can't come soon enough Updated The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has smacked Facebook with a £50m ($68.7m) fine for "deliberately" not giving it the full picture about its ongoing $400m acquisition of gif-slinger Giphy.…

A death by a thousand cuts The Chromium team has finally done it – File Transfer Protocol (FTP) support is not just deprecated, but stripped from the codebase in the latest stable build of the Chrome browser, version 95.…

Ad-free now but not forever The Brave browser will now default to the company's own search engine, claimed to preserve privacy, while a new Web Discovery Project aims to collect search data again with privacy protection.…

It's like rai-iiiiiin on your wedding day NHS Digital has scored a classic Mail All own-goal by dispatching not one, not two, not three, but four emails concerning an infosec breakfast briefing, each time copying the entirety of the invite list in on the messages.…

Atkins wins £23m deal to build National Underground Asset Register The UK government has awarded management consultancy Atkins a £23m contract to help it get to grips with accidental damage to underground pipes and cables, which is costing £2.4bn a year.…

* Just a couple of billion years The Moon remained volcanically active much later than previously thought, judging from fragments of rocks dating back two billion years that were collected by China's Chang’e 5 spacecraft.…

Website patched following phishing scam, no financial data exposed Updated The Centre for Computing History (CCH) in Cambridge, England, has apologised for an "embarrassing" breach in its online customer datafile, though thankfully no payment card information was exposed.…

Following the Fleet Navigating Officers' course Boatnotes II The art of not driving your warship into the coast or the seabed is a curious blend of the ancient and the very modern, as The Reg discovered while observing the Royal Navy's Fleet Navigating Officers' (FNO) course.…

Gamma ray-spotting 'scope was spinning uncontrollably and unable to make 'leccy until dramatic rescue The European Space Agency (ESA) revealed on Monday that its 19-year-old International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) had a near-death experience last month when failure of a small yet significant part caused it to spin uncontrollably and prevented its solar panels from generating power.…

We've kicked things off with the most splendidly evil fictional corporations, feel free to share your ideas POLL Consumer tech outlet The Verge today reports that Facebook may soon reveal a new name.…

But of course chief exec's first computer was an Acorn Like so many of us in tech, Arm CEO Simon Segars has his own computing origins story, which he shared during a speech on Tuesday at the Arm DevSummit developer conference.…

CrowdStrike says 'LightBasin' gang avoids Windows, and knows that telco networks run on badly-secured *nix A mysterious criminal gang is targeting telcos' Linux and Solaris boxes, because it perceives they aren't being watched by infosec teams that have focussed their efforts on securing Windows.…

Gang says it grabbed internal info, could do the same to Acer elsewhere Taiwanese PC maker Acer has not only admitted servers it operates in India and and Taiwan were compromised but that only those systems in India contained customer data.…

With high enough vax rates, HCL, Infosys and Wipro say hybrid work environment is the way of the future, while TCS is going to want you to come right on in. India's big four IT services providers – HCL, Infosys, Tata Consulting Services, and Wipro – have all highlighted increasing staff attrition rates in their most recently completed quarters.…