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Polly wants a snapper? Parrot swipes GoPro for sweet views of New Zealand's Fiordland
Oi, kea! Video An endangered parrot native to New Zealand's alpine region went full David Attenborough on a family enjoying Fiordland National Park by swooping off with their GoPro camera as they tried to film it.…
Facebook fined peanuts after Giphy staff quit and firm didn't tell UK competition regulators
£1.5m fine is 0.005% of social network's profits British competition regulators have again fined Facebook, this time 0.005 per cent of its annual profits, for ignoring them – a move that's bound to have CEO Mark Zuckerberg sobbing for mercy.…
EU digital sovereignty project Gaia-X hands out ID tech contracts
Swiss, German and Indian companies ready the blockchain for Self-Sovereign Identity The Gaia-X project has awarded work to a consortium including Vereign and DAASI International that takes it one step closer to realising Self Sovereign Identity technology.…
Open-source Kubernetes tool Argo CD has a high-severity path traversal flaw: Patch now
Craft Helm chart, receive secrets A zero-day vulnerability in open-source Kubernetes development tool Argo lets malicious people steal passwords from git-crypt and other sensitive information by simply uploading a crafted Helm chart.…
Cloud spending hit $50bn in Q4 2021 as business recovers
Most lucrative quarter ever for compute sellers, say analysts Global spending on cloud infrastructure services exceeded $50bn for the first time in the Q4 of 2021, according to figures from research outfit Canalys.…
Dear chip designers, if you're struggling to get components made, try 28nm. Supply set to overtake demand
Put your nodes to the grindstone Analysis Amid the semiconductor crunch, there's an interesting cliff forming at 28nm.…
12-year-old revives Unity desktop, develops software repo client, builds gaming environment for Ubuntu...
If you don't already feel enough of an under-achiever, read on There are some interesting developments to keep an eye on in the world of Ubuntu: a new client for the community software repo, a tool to help Ubuntu gamers – and Rudra Saraswat, the 12-year-old brains behind them.…
Automakers continue to see chip-supply carnage as vendors talk of sales pain
Toyota benefits from 2011 tsunami lessons, according to reports Jaguar Land Rover, the custodian of those iconic British car brands owned by India's Tata Motors, this week announced lost £9m in the final quarter of 2021 in part down to the global semiconductor shortage which followed the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Have you tried restarting? Reinstalling? Upgrading? Moving house and changing your identity?
Or maybe we could take a quick look at our servers Something for the Weekend? Go away. I've had enough of you. We no longer connect like we used to. After all this time together, it's as you don't even know who I am.…
Taekwindow: Time to make your middle mouse button earn its keep
We've got to get our flying kicks somewhere Friday FOSS Fest The Reg FOSS desk is, as you might expect, mostly Linux-based, but your correspondent does keep Windows around for things like rooting smartphones and reflashing BIOSes. There are a few things I miss switching from Linux, and the handy functions of the middle mouse button are high on the list. This is where Taekwindow scores.…
No, I've not read the screen. Your software must be rubbish
Dialog? What dialog? On Call Friday is upon us, bringing with it the promise of the weekend and the jolly times it entails. Start the end of your week with a visit to the On Call archives and the delight of taking a support call from users of software you wrote.…
Amazon stretches working life of its servers an extra year, for AWS and its own ops
Cloud colossus accounts for lion's share of Amazonian profits Amazon will run its servers and networking kit for an extra year – for both its own operations and for Amazon Web Services – and expects to save a billion dollars next quarter as a result.…
Cisco inferno: Networking giant reveals three 10/10 rated critical router bugs
RV family of routers is in trouble, and fixed software is yet to arrive for some models Cisco has revealed five critical bugs, three of them rated 10/10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, that impact four of its router families aimed at small businesses. And it only has patches available for two of the affected ranges.…
Chip shortage: Buyers sign multiyear, no-take-back deals to secure supplies, says NXP
Contracts fit automakers and other manufacturers with 'very sticky products, very long life cycles' – CEO Chip shortages are so bad that customers are willing to sign multiyear non-cancellable, non-returnable (NCNR) contracts to secure supplies, according to semiconductor supplier NXP.…
Indian PM says digital rupee will facilitate creation of global digital payment scheme
This is news to the rest of the world Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has offered some more details about the nation’s newly revealed plan to introduce a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the next year.…
Flutter flits onto Windows, declared fit for production
Google's take on cross-platform development arrives on Microsoft's desktop Google's cross-platform app framework Flutter has hit version 2.1 and added production support for apps on Windows.…
That's a signature move: How $320m in Ether was stolen from crypto biz Wormhole
Failure to validate input in DeFi code let attacker mint money Wormhole, a protocol for connecting different blockchains, lost about $320m worth of Ether (ETH), thanks to poorly crafted code.…
US Senate to vote on stopping Big Tech extracting 'monopolist rent' from app developers
Billions in profits at stake for Apple and Google's money-making machines The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to pass the Open App Markets Act, despite intense lobbying from Apple and Google.…
Privacy Shield: EU citizens might get right to challenge US access to their data
Are we nearly there yet? Officials from the EU and US are nearing a solution in long-running negotiations over transatlantic data sharing.…
Phishing kits' use of man-in-the-middle reverse proxies is growing, warns Proofpoint
Spoof site looks real because it is... but you're not talking to who you think In the beginning we had passwords. Their hackability made a lot of people very angry and passwords were widely regarded as a bad move. Then we had two-factor authentication – and now Proofpoint reckons criminals online are able to start bypassing them with transparent reverse proxies.…
Out of beta and ready for data: 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS is here
Now you just need a compatible device... The Raspberry Pi Foundation has officially released the 64-bit version of the Linux-based OS Formerly Known As Raspbian.…
JumpCloud joins the patch management crowd, starting with Windows and Mac updates
Linux and mobile coming soon Cloud directory specialist JumpCloud is moving into the crowded patch management market with an extension to its platform to automate patch updates.…
KP Snacks hit by ransomware: Crisps and nuts firm KO'd by modern scourge
Firm doesn't know when it'll restart salty goodness deliveries Some of Britain's favourite pub munch could end up in short supply after KP Snacks, makers of nuts and crisps, suffered a ransomware attack.…
Former tech CIO jailed for setting up £475k backhander scam with IT outsourcing firm
One-time head of Hampshire Police IT gets six years A pro-outsourcing CIO whose first act at a new employer was to set up a £475,000 backhander scheme has been jailed for six years.…
OpenStack-to-the-edge darling StarlingX hits 6.0, makes useful config tweaks
Open-source, full-stack edge and industrial IoT software moves to Linux kernel 5.10 StarlingX, an open-source platform for edge computing based on OpenStack, has hit release 6.0 with a Linux Kernel upgrade plus security and deployment enhancements to make it easier to manage systems.…
Exasol pledges to help customers avoid cloud bill shock with new DBaaS
Distributed in-memory system more efficient than other cloud data warehouses, vendor claims Distributed in-memory analytics specialist Exasol has launched a database-as-a-service claiming its approach to parallel processing could help reduce nasty shocks in cloud fees.…
Jeff Bezos adds some more overheads to his $485m yacht by taking down historic bridge
Rotterdam can't get over it When buying a 40m-tall, three-mast luxury yacht is like you or I popping to the corner shop for a Freddo, what does it matter if a 144-year-old bridge has to be dismantled to get the thing out of the shipyard?…
Execs keep flinging money at us instead of understanding security, moan infosec pros
Oh what a problem to have Fresh from years of complaining about underfunding and not having enough staff to deal with problems, infosec bods are now complaining that corporate execs merely firehose cash at them without getting their own hands dirty or engaging with the problem.…
Update 'designed to improve user experience' takes down the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal
Redmond's quality control shines once more Updated Microsoft's legendary approach to quality was demonstrated this morning as the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal fell over.…
Welsh home improvement biz fined £200,000 over campaign of 675,478 nuisance calls
ICO says Home2Sense showed 'complete disregard for people's privacy' Home2Sense Ltd, a home improvement biz, is nursing a £200,000 financial penalty from the UK's data watchdog for making well over half a million marketing calls to people that registered to opt out of such botheration.…
Working in Arm's engineering team? You're probably happy with your pay rise
But some staffers fared better than others Arm has agreed a pay increase for employees following the scrapping of a wellbeing allowance last year, yet it appears that while engineers were offered an 8 per cent jump, other types of worker fared less well.…
Grab some tissues: Facebook's user base and profits shrank, tanking Meta's share price
Blame it on the metaverse, Apple, TikTok, inflation, and higher data charges in India For the first time in its history, Facebook has reported a decline in user numbers. Investors hammered the share price of Meta – Facebook's parent company – after the market closed, with scrip slumping from around $323 to $249.…
FBI says more cyber attacks come from China than everywhere else combined
Currently investigating over 2,000 attacks on US targets – new file every 12 hours US Federal Bureau of Investigation director Christopher Wray has named China as the source of more cyber-attacks on the USA than all other nations combined.…
Google's DeepMind says its AI coding bot is 'competitive' with humans
Gulp! Code that codes displays some critical thinking capabilities Alphabet-owned AI outfit DeepMind claims it has created an AI that can write programming code, find novel solutions to interesting problems, and do it at the level of the mid-ranking human entrants in coding contests.…
Android devices, demand in China help keep Qualcomm from worrying too much about losing Apple
Oh, yeah, and Windows on Arm. Who could forget that? No Apple as a modem customer for much longer? Not too much of a problem for Qualcomm, which is now relying more than ever on Android and China, and to some extent, Windows, to make up for the lost revenue.…
Worried about occasional npm malware scares? They're more common than you may think
WhiteSource says it spotted 1,300 malicious JavaScript packages in 2021 alone Malware gets spotted in GitHub's npm registry every few months, elevating concerns about the software supply chain until attention gets diverted and worries recede until the next fire drill.…
Absolutely fabless: Chip startup funding reaches record $20bn in 2021
America focuses on AI and emerging tech, China on the gaps left by US sanctions Chip startups raked in a record $19.4bn in funding last year in a boom market driven by semiconductor shortages and trade wars.…
Right-to-repair laws proposed in the US aim to make ownership great again
Bills seek to legalize digital lock breaking when mending stuff, ensure farmers can fix their machines American farmers may soon be able to repair their agricultural equipment without paying the maker of their machinery for the privilege. And owners of other products may also see fewer repair barriers, depending upon how two new pieces of federal legislation are received.…
Prince of Packaging HP Inc snaps up zero-plastic bottle maker
Patented plastic-free tech from Choose Packaging Paragon of packetry HP has acquired Choose Packaging, inventor of a zero-plastic paper bottle.…
Another Massive Display as AMD hails 'outstanding' 2021, teases Genoa and Bergamo chips
Semiconductor giant sees growth across the board AMD has hailed 2021 as an "outstanding" year with each of its business units growing significantly, thanks to strong sales of its Epyc server chips and data centre GPUs. The firm is hoping to continue this with its Genoa chips this year and Bergamo in 2023.…
Remote code execution vulnerability in Samba due to macOS interop module
Patch now An exploit in Samba 4 allowed remote code as root due to a bug in its support for Mac clients. It's fixed in 4.13.17, 4.14.12 and 4.15.5, and in case you can't update, there are patches.…
Telecoms consulting outfit Sentaca disappears inside IBM's Hybrid Cloud Services
Big Blue wants to 'bring edge and 5G to life for enterprises' IBM has acquired Sentaca, a telecoms consulting services and solutions provider, with the aim of boosting its own hybrid cloud consulting business in the communications service provider space.…
UK think tank proposes Online Safety Bill reviewer to keep tabs on Ofcom decisions
Terror watchdog is a bad model to follow, though Even think tanks with close links to the UK's Conservative government are now criticising the Online Safety Bill, with the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) describing it today as "a significant threat to freedom of speech, privacy and innovation."…
European watchdog: All data collected about users via ad-consent popup system must be deleted
Decision to affect Google's, Amazon's and Microsoft's online ads biz All data collected through the Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) must now be deleted by the 1,000+ firms that pay international digital marketing and advertising association IAB Europe to use it. This includes Google's, Amazon's and Microsoft's online advertising businesses.…
50 lines of Bash to bring a Wordle fan out of their shell
Solved today's in two? Now try and exit Vim We are delighted to note that a version of the word game the New York Times bought for seven figures can now be played via a 50-line Bash script.…
Court of Appeal ruling offers hope for UK umbrella firm workers chasing holiday pay
Plumber's right did not lapse 'but carried over and accumulated until termination of the contract' A former worker for Pimlico Plumbers has won a case in the Court of Appeal over the right for backdated holiday pay in a case set to help employees of umbrella companies in all sectors, including information technology.…
UK to splash another £1.4bn on protecting non-existent 'national interests in space'
But what of the domestic launchers? Updated The UK government is to spend an extra £1.4bn on space defence on top of the £5bn allocated to upgrade the Skynet satellite communication system.…
Brocade wrongly sacked award-winning salesman who depended on company insurance for cancer treatment
'Global benefit' chief: Broadcom buyout means pay your own way Brocade sacked a former Sales Manager of the Year who was suffering from cancer when the company was bought by Broadcom – a decision that led to the man's health insurance being cancelled.…
Breath of fresh air: v7.3 of LibreOffice boasts improved file importing and rendering
And better compatibility with some more proprietary word processors Six months after LibreOffice 7.2, version 7.3 is out with faster and more accurate file importing and rendering for improved compatibility with Microsoft Office.…
DMCA-dot-com XSS vuln reported in 2020 still live today and firm has shrugged it off
Researcher tells world after being stonewalled There is a live cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in takedowns website DMCA-dot-com's user interface. It's existed for more than a year and the site's operators don't appear to be interested in fixing it.…
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