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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KWAH)
Reg chats to developer whose joke that mere mention of a new prod would appear in job ads came true and spawned books, songs, forks, cryptocoin, and more A tweeted musing that merely mentioning a new AWS product would be enough to see it appear in job ads has come true — even though the product mentioned is made up.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5KV67)
Plus: Cops seize 3D printers 'used to print guns', and more bits and bytes In brief In what's looking like a nasty supply-chain attack, IT systems management biz Kaseya was compromised by miscreants, which then used its VSA product to infect its own customers and then their customers with ransomware.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5KTRF)
Plus: SoftBank halts Pepper the robot production In brief The latest results by benchmarking consortium MLPerf, tracking the best chips for training the most popular neural networks, are out and a new player has entered the game: Graphcore.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5KTMC)
Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State, no fish involved Last week, third-party cookies received a stay of execution from Google that will allow them to survive until late 2023 – almost two years beyond their previously declared decommission date. But the search-ads-and-apps biz is already planning a resurrection of sorts because third-party cookies are just too useful.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KTHE)
Krishna: 'Our hybrid cloud and AI strategy is strongly resonating with clients' - no, really, it is Former president and CEO of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst, is quitting the biz less than two years after rocking up at Big Blue, the hard-pressed business claimed today.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5KTHF)
Critic points out that restrictive T&Cs just make it 'Twitter without the porn' Former Trump campaign communications strategist and expert DNA communicator Jason Miller has launched a new social media platform he hopes will be the long-awaited free-speech utopia to rival Big Tech's supposedly crushing grip on public discourse.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5KTFD)
IP address inside Department of Science and Technology ran a vulnerability scan on target Qurium Media Foundation has reported a campaign of DDoS attacks on Filipino media outlets and human rights organisations that appear to be coming from the country's Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and Army.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5KTFE)
Technology has outpaced laws, says House committee chairman The US House Committee on the Judiciary met on Wednesday to hear testimony on the government's practice of secretly subpoenaing cloud service providers, and Microsoft was happy to oblige.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5KTDC)
In-store/work-from-home arrangement extended to Apple Store Geniuses Megacorp Apple will reportedly allow its blue-T-shirted retail elves to work from home in a similar manner to its office workers.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5KTAN)
Don't be allured by the siren sound of inclusion and lasting efficiency gains, says report The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) warned about Big Tech's potential to dominate the financial services sector and overrun banks in its Financial Stability Report released yesterday.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5KT7S)
Big Red and Amazon just can't let $10bn cloud award go Oracle has filed a fresh petition with the Supreme Court of the United States, opening another chapter in its year-long battle with the Pentagon over the award of a $10bn Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract to Microsoft.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5KT4Y)
Next version of iPhone software boasts plenty of changes, but experience will be buggy for now If you aren't afraid of life on the bleeding edge, Apple has rolled out the first public beta version of iOS 15, allowing anyone with a taste for buggy pre-release software to get their fix.…
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by David Gordon on (#5KT4Z)
Being remote doesn’t mean you can’t keep IT close Webcast People were talking about the network edge well before 2020, though the past 18 months has really shoved what's “out there” to the centre of discussion.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5KT2A)
On the other hand, he did have two years to raise watchdog's profile The former head of the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has put the boot into his old employer, saying it lacks the necessary clout to take on the world's biggest digital companies.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KSZD)
That printer plugged into your domain controller? Yeah, you might not be using that for a while Microsoft has assigned CVE-2021-34527 to the print spooler remote code execution vulnerability known as "PrintNightmare" and confirmed that the offending code is lurking in all versions of Windows.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5KSX5)
Self-signed invoices let him cream off hundreds of thousands An IT manager who defrauded an Essex hospital trust out of more than £800,000 using two fake companies set up to commit his crimes has been jailed – after a court heard that he had previous convictions for dishonesty.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KSX6)
The flight of the bearded one means Shepard will be second. Again Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson is set to take his first jaunt to the edge of space ahead of commercial spaceflight rival Jeff Bezos, with an 11 July trip aboard VSS Unity.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5KSTZ)
Who has the best RHEL clone? Rivals jostle for position Rocky Linux 8.4, which was made generally available early last week, attracted 80,000 downloads within 72 hours, but disaffected CentOS users are wondering whether Rocky, rival AlmaLinux, or some other OS, is the right next move.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5KSS6)
Mi Smart Band 6 needs to be slicker, bigger, and brighter to really get you faster and fitter Review Xiaomi's Mi Smart Band 6 fitness wearable is a pleasant device but is too small and finicky to satisfy those who take athletic performance seriously.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#5KSQ4)
These things really get my goat Something for the Weekend, Sir? "Sign with the devil here." Do what? "Church of Satan. Jot your name on the form and we’ll email you details."…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5KSQ5)
316 people complained to the Information Commissioner's Office A Leeds-based claims management firm has been fined £200,000 for making more than 11 million unwanted PPI calls, the UK's data watchdog announced today.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KSNH)
When a user really is holier than thou On Call We round out the week with a spiritual On Call from a reader who was on the receiving end of a higher calling. By phone.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5KSKZ)
Finding could boost performance and efficiency of future gadgets The latest Apple fondleslab is thin, sure, but it could be thinner – like what boffins at Tel Aviv University have hailed as "the world's tiniest technology," measuring just two atoms thick.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5KSJF)
Focus is on persuading desktop developers to refresh applications for Windows 11 Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform (UWP), once touted as the future of Windows development, will not be getting updated for WinUI 3 according to current plans, software giant said in a community call.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5KSFY)
AutoNav performs 'thinking while driving' – any chance we could get more of that on Earth ... for humans? As Perseverance begins to roll its way around Mars, NASA engineers are gradually allowing the rover to drive autonomously, to a degree, using computer algorithms running on a navigation computer.…
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by David Gordon on (#5KSDV)
Hear how real users are doing this: Watch the Nutanix Database Summit on-demand Webcast Moving to hybrid cloud should open up a world of possibilities for transforming your technology infrastructure and your organization as a whole.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5KSCS)
Digital vax record stored on user's smartphone Android will soon have the ability to store and display proof of Covid-19 vaccination, Google has said.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5KSBF)
While Uncle Sam recommends shutting down print spooler service Another potential mitigation has emerged for the PrintNightmare zero-day vuln, which lets low-privileged users execute code as SYSTEM on Windows domain controllers: remove those people from a backwards-compatibility group.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5KS9Z)
Unreliable messaging interferes with contract completion, we're told, as Slack channels flooded with memes IBM's email migration misadventure has been worse than the IT titan has let on, current and former staff have told us.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5KS86)
Thanks, Vlad, for the cyber-check-up and the containerization case study US and UK intelligence and law enforcement agencies on Thursday issued a joint cybersecurity advisory [PDF] warning that Russian military intelligence is using Kubernetes clusters cloaked by various VPN services and Tor relays to conduct brute force attacks on enterprise and cloud environments.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KS5X)
Niggles continue even after problem was quietly fixed The Dell SupportAssist RCE furore has rumbled on after infosec outfit Eclypsium snapped back at Microsoft's statement on the matter.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5KS3V)
Human resettlement after 2011's nuclear disaster facing opposition from indestructible, betusked interlopers Scientists have uncovered a new threat to humanity emerging in the area surrounding the former Fukushima nuclear power plant: indestructible radioactive hybrid terror pigs.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5KS11)
Questions all got a bit too much, although nothing legally wrong with the holding The charity set up by Hasso Plattner, co-founder and formerly long-serving CEO of SAP, has decided it no longer wishes to invest in a joint venture set up by the German ERP giant.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5KS12)
'Complaint is noticeably devoid of factual allegations' Attorneys for Google have called for a would-be class action lawsuit linked to its COVID-19 tracking software to be thrown out on grounds that any alleged data breaches are both "theoretical" and "hypothetical".…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5KRYV)
Gadget capable of 'opening the gates for attackers to roam untethered through an entire organisation' Netgear has patched serious security vulnerabilities in its DGN2200v1 network router, following the discovery of "very odd behaviour" by a Microsoft security research team - a somewhat understated way of saying that attackers can gain "complete control over the router."…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5KRVK)
Alrighty... that's OK then? Amazon's carbon emissions grew by almost a fifth last year as its business was buoyed by a pandemic-related sales spike and an ever-growing shift to online activity.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5KRR4)
Boffins point to benefits of putting rad-hardened ASICs in orbit Boffins from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and European Space Agency (ESA) have penned a paper detailing the design of a processor they hope could run deep neural networks in space – building on the free and open-source RISC-V architecture and its vector extensions.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5KRR5)
UK.gov's carrots and sticks never came to pass, author tells us Cyber insurance isn't forcing organisations to improve their infosec practices, a think-tank has warned – and some insurers are thinking of giving up thanks to the impact of ransomware.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5KRMY)
60 years after Alan Shepard made his Mercury flight, one of the Mercury 13 will get her turn Jeff Bezos has upped the ante in the battle of the billionaire bros by handing a seat in the first crewed New Shepard flight to Virgin Galactic customer and member of the Mercury 13, Wally Funk.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5KRMZ)
Nation's broadband plumber increasingly desperate to ditch its copper network In an attempt to pull costly support from its copper network, Openreach has agreed to cap wholesale costs for providers who stop selling copper-based broadband products in areas where FTTP is available.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5KRG9)
Lifespan of 3 to 5 years falls short of what's needed for a Mars mission NASA has demonstrated the first trapped-ion space clock in a move that could pave the way for real-time navigation in deep space.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5KRGA)
Android App Bundle required, APK submission no longer allowed Google will require mobile developers to use an Android App Bundle for submitting applications to its Play Store from August 2021, optimising distribution and also requiring Google to hold the developer's private signing key.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5KRDX)
Oh, and it would like everyone to know it had a fantastic sales quarter, natch Memory-maker Micron intends to implement extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography in its fabrication plants by 2024.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5KRBT)
Proceeds to go towards charitable causes, Father of the Web confirms The auction of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's source code for the World Wide Web as a cryptographically backed Non-Fungible Token (NFT) has concluded, with the web daddy pocketing $5,434,500 for something already public.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5KRBV)
System trains itself to spot suicidal behavior and alert a controller South Korea's capital and largest metropolis has turned to AI for suicide detection and prevention on popular bridges along the prominent Han River, according to the system's developers at the Seoul Institute of Technology (SIT).…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5KRA2)
New technique quicker and greener, but needs batteries to be designed for dismantling Boffins have laid claim to a "ground-breaking invention" which they say will make it considerably easier to recycle batteries from electric vehicles, laptops, and the like – an ultrasonic delaminator.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5KR86)
For educational purposes, of course Exoskeleton startup Auxivo is aiming to encourage the next generation of cyborgs with the launch of an educational kit dubbed the EduExo Pro, a complete exoskeleton for one arm.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5KR6S)
PSTN to be axed in 2025 UK businesses must prepare for the retirement of the copper-based phone network that may cause devices to stop working.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#5KR4Z)
Voluntary location-tracking to crimp COVID is too good a tool to waste Column Five years ago I visited Shanghai, to see what the future might look like. I came back wondering how the rest of us had missed QR codes.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5KQYV)
NHTSA sets 24-hour deadline for reporting significant crashes America's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will now require details of any and all crashes involving self-driving cars from automakers within one day of them knowing about the accident.…
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