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by Thomas Claburn on (#5K4GD)
Developers fed up with iGiant neglecting non-native software Apple's WebKit team has managed to break the popular IndexedDB JavaScript API in the latest version of Safari (14.1.1) on macOS 11.4 and iOS 14.6.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K4GE)
Plans four crewed missions to assemble “heavenly palace” China will on Thursday launch a crew of three on a mission to start assembling the nation’s first space station.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5K4EX)
Source code auction 'similar to selling an autograph copy of a book' Internet trailblazer Sir Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning off a link to his very early World Wide Web browser and server source code in the form of a non-fungible token.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K4EY)
China’s fan economy is the new business model for artists and brands - and it sometimes gets ugly China is trying to make its cyberspace a bit kinder and is targeting a phenomenon appealing largely but not solely to female teenagers known as "fan quan", or fan clubs, to do so.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K4DJ)
New design leads the eye from the throne to the sewer, allegedly cost $1.5m LogoWatch Online scheduling service Calendly has updated its logo and attracted some criticism because it looks, well, a bit shit.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K4BT)
Services giant given a week’s notice of interrogation as e-tax service continues to splutter Infosys has been hauled in by India’s Ministry of Finance to explain the glitchy e-tax system it developed for the nation.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K4AM)
Shopping service Taobao scraped by affiliate marketer; developer and boss jailed Alibaba’s Chinese shopping operation Taobao has suffered a data breach of over a billion data points including usernames and mobile phone numbers. The info was lifted from the site by a crawler developed by an affiliate marketer.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K49S)
Ampere gets more love and the Raspberry Pi gets some stability tweaks for you virtual adventurers out there VMware’s unsupported version of its ESXi hypervisor for Arm platforms has been updated with support for two-socket servers and Nvidia's Arm-flexing development boards.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5K493)
Promises to 'safeguard fair competition and protect consumers, workers, and honest businesses ... with vigor' US President Joe Biden has successfully installed Lina Khan, a top legal scholar and an outspoken critic of Big Tech, as the new chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5K47T)
Leak of glossy makeover turns hype up to ... you get the idea Microsoft's Windows 11, expected to debut at a company event scheduled for June 24, has leaked online and is now appearing in screenshots on various websites.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5K42P)
Then solves a longstanding extinction puzzle Scientists at the University of Michigan have celebrated an experiment where ultra-tiny computers were strapped to the backs of snails – solving a long-unanswered extinction mystery.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5K40F)
BC judge lengthens notice period The British Columbia Supreme Court has ordered Dell Canada to pay a former sales representative nearly C$500,000 in damages after ruling he had been wrongfully terminated.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5K40G)
Here we go again A US judge has denied HPE's motion for a summary judgement in its long-running Solaris operating system support squabble with Oracle.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5K3XW)
Panic over for users as others step up to take his place Norbert Preining, the maintainer of the Cinnamon desktop packages for Debian is quitting as he no longer uses it - though others have volunteered to take his place.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5K3V3)
Medical device cybersecurity raises its head in CISA warning A defibrillator management platform was riddled with vulnerabilities including a remote command execution flaw that could seemingly be invoked by uploading an Excel spreadsheet to the platform.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5K3QP)
Also: Overclocked Pi 4s in the cloud, anyone? Raspberry Pi fans have reasons for cheer this week as support for the Pi 400 showed up in the queue for version 5.14 of the Linux kernel, and hosting outfit Mythic Beasts added overclocked Pi 4s to its Raspberry Pi cloud.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5K3QQ)
Buckeye State legislature looks on as key, hairpin fall off of entirely unmagnetic nurse A registered nurse helped the US on its seemingly inevitable descent into terminal conspiracy-induced intellectual collapse last week when she stood in front of the Ohio state legislature and attempted to convince lawmakers that COVID-19 vaccinations "magnetise" their recipients.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5K3KZ)
It's Crookedgate! Folks report receiving whizzy Apple gear with slightly wonky displays Poor old Apple. First came "Antennagate", then Butterflygate, then "Batterygate". Now, owners of the M1 iMac are complaining about slightly lopsided screens.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5K3G7)
Now why on Earth would you be shy about your £528m relationship? Capita has signed a customer management contract extension with an un-named “major European telecoms provider” worth up to £528m, it told the London Stock Exchange today.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5K3G8)
Lindy Cameron gives private industry an unusual nod in speech full of interventionism Forget foreign spies. The head of Britain's National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has warned it is ransomware that's the key threat for most people.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5K3D3)
Authority investigating whether duopoly is harming consumers The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a market study into Google and Apple's duopoly of the mobile sphere, with the aim of determining whether this has resulted in reduced innovation and higher prices for consumers.…
by Gareth Halfacree on (#5K3D4)
Research team: We've proved hardware-plus-software mods can keep your secrets secret Researchers from the University of Rochester have created TimeCache, an approach to system security claimed to protect against side-channel attacks like evict+reload and Spectre, without the usual deleterious impact to performance.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K3A5)
Officials fear if info is misappropriated, community will lose confidence in app Police accessed COVID tracking QR check-in data to investigate a murder, causing the state of Western Australia (WA) to introduce urgent legislation in Parliament today.…
by Tim Richardson on (#5K37R)
Companies were puppets to Indian biz Underpin Services Private Limited Two Kent-registered IT companies have been wound up in the High Court of England and Wales for trying to scam punters with fake pop-ups to generate tech support cons.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5K37S)
Substitution's 'not a silver bullet' advisor says An IT contractor has lost an appeal [PDF] which found he was an employee in the eyes of HMRC, with the judges agreeing he fell under the new IR35 off-payroll tax rules.…
by Gareth Halfacree on (#5K35D)
Company claims 'no current indication' top-secret data was plundered The REvil ransomware gang, thought to be behind an attack on meat producer JBS which netted an impressive $11m payoff, has found another victim. Worryingly, this one works with the US Department of Defence on the nation's nuclear weapons programme.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5K35E)
Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee asked health secretary Matt Hancock, but he wasn't much help Comment Most people are aware of some things and not aware of other things. But UK health secretary Matt Hancock isn't sure if he's aware of something or not.…
by Matt Dupuy on (#5K331)
Eurasian Jays mostly unmoved by illusionist jiggery-pokery, more interested in worms Psychology boffins at the University of Cambridge have been pushing back the barriers of understanding via the unlikely-sounding practice of trying to fool birds with magic tricks.…
by Tim Richardson on (#5K314)
Book smarts vs street smarts face-off might have been an inside job, claims egghead chief Exclusive Eggheads at high IQ society Mensa have ruled out claims that their website was hacked earlier this year, according to an email seen by The Register.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5K2ZH)
You may know them as ‘SmartNICs’ or ‘DPUs’. Intel plans to make ‘em and software that lets 'em drive virtual networks and storage at scale Intel has added “infrastructure processing units” (IPUs) to its list of must-have data centre infrastructure, and promised it’ll build more of them and offer software to put them to work.…
by David Gordon on (#5K2ZJ)
Here’s how HCI and the public cloud can help Promo Public institutions and health bodies face the perpetual challenge of creating ever increasing efficiencies with IT budgets that never grow as fast as they like. The last year has only highlighted the problem and increased the pressure.…
by Iain Thomson on (#5K2XS)
Plus: Alleged Trickbot developer cuffed by US agents In brief The outgoing head of Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad has suggested that Stuxnet wasn't the only spanner in the works his agency put into Iran's nuclear programme.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5K2WJ)
Community to think outside the pants After three decades, Coq, a theorem-proving programming language developed by researchers in France, is being fitted for a new name because it has become impossible to ignore that it sounds like bawdy English slang.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K2WK)
China lashed for ignoring norms, retorts that Western clique isn't playing fair A communiqué issued at the conclusion of the NATO summit has called for China to observe the laws of cyberspace, and set out new standards by which members of the alliance will consider cyberattacks.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5K2SJ)
Much bubble, none value, regulator excite Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has banned dealing in some cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5K2SK)
Private companies to sort out the transportation, US agency's fees are non-trivial NASA is hoping to host more amateur astronauts at the International Space Station, putting them up for as much as two weeks at a time.…
by Iain Thomson on (#5K2Q5)
Meltdown over a non-meltdown Analysis You may have seen in the news some panic about a Chinese nuclear reactor going wrong, and a warning of an "imminent radiological threat." Well, don't worry: it's a routine fuel rod problem.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5K2Q6)
Infosys-built service was promised to "make the compliance experience more taxpayer friendly" India’s Income Tax Department has acknowledged that its shiny new e-tax portal broke, badly, by authorising an extension for some tax filings and reverting to manual processing of printed documents.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5K2N5)
LinkedIn back in play / Supremes kick case back downstairs / hiQ still at risk The US Supreme Court has offered Microsoft's LinkedIn another chance to prevent hiQ from scraping its public profiles.…
by Richard Speed on (#5K2N6)
Had trouble getting vertical at the weekend? NASA used a pair of cranes to hoist the SLS core stage Engineers have hoisted the core stage of NASA's mega-rocket, the Space Launch System, vertical ready to bolt on its boosters and roll the stack to the launchpad later this year.…
by Tim Richardson on (#5K2KJ)
Chap painted greeting on rooftop... in Sydney Bloody helpful, those Aussies. And jolly friendly too. In fact, they're so damn helpful one bloke painted "Welcome to Perth" in giant capital letters on a rooftop so air passengers about to land at the city airport could look down and see the greeting.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5K2H4)
'Nothing had been determined', says phone giant Samsung is said to be considering delaying the launch of this year's Galaxy S21 FE sub-flagship due to the ongoing shortage of semiconductor components.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5K2FF)
Hopes raised in West of an extradition or law enforcement agreement to stem the tide The G7 summit of western countries has called upon Russia to "identify, disrupt, and hold to account those within its borders who conduct ransomware attacks, abuse virtual currency to launder ransoms, and other cybercrimes."…
by Richard Speed on (#5K2FG)
Lengthy support for enterprises that prefer things just so Ubuntu Pro is coming to Google Cloud, replete with an all-important 10-year maintenance commitment for corporate punters who like things stable.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5K2FH)
Will be transferred to a halfway house, attorney continues to fight for presidential pardon Reality Winner, the former NSA intelligence contractor who leaked evidence of Russian interference in a US Presidential election to the press, has been released from prison.…
by Tim Richardson on (#5K2AV)
Injunction halts introduction of $15-a-month fee for low-income households A new law due to come into force tomorrow that would force broadband providers in New York State to provide net access to low-income households for $15 a month has been put on hold.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K2AW)
Fines for sending 'core' and 'important' info overseas, although what qualifies remains undefined China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has passed a new data security law requiring companies to seek approval before transferring what it refers to as "core" data overseas.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K26A)
Car maker to draw upon its investments in hydrogen fuel tech Honda and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have agreed to embark on a joint feasibility study to supply oxygen, hydrogen, and electricity to humans and rovers in outer space.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5K24E)
Chocolate Factory presses home its advantage in web-based collaboration Google is extending Workspace, its rebranded productivity and collaboration tools, to "anyone with a Google account", and will introduce Workspace Individual subscriptions with "premium capabilities."…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5K24F)
Analyst: Big 5 manufacturers should be able to shoulder ongoing semiconductor shortage 2020 was a dismal year for the smartphone industry, with sales tanking in the face of the pandemic. But things are now looking up, with Canalys expecting a 12 per cent recovery this year, albeit one not evenly shared by vendors.…