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by Richard Speed on (#5T9HR)
With Vivaldi. While parked Chromium-based browser Vivaldi has ported its eponymous Android Tablet browser to Android Automotive, making it the first web browser on the operating system and available in the Polestar 2 electric car.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T9EB)
The five grams of Ryugu we got suggests it's made of the same stuff as the outer Sun Researchers have published the first analyses of samples plucked from asteroid 162173 Ryugu by Japan's spacecraft Hayabusa2, revealing, for the first time, the physical properties and composition of a carbonaceous asteroid.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#5T9BH)
Empty your inboxes, people, we can duck this problem together Column It’s often said that the second most important job in Australia – behind Prime Minister – is captain of the Australian men’s cricket team.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T98A)
But did so operating as NICs – the real fun starts in mid-2022 when VMware’s hypervisor for SmartNICs should land Nvidia has claimed a world record for storage IOPS using its Bluefield data processing units (DPUs).…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T95X)
The Ellume COVID-19 Home Test was connected to the internet of woefully insecure things for a while Security vendor F-Secure has faked a COVID test result on a Bluetooth-equipped home COVID Test. Thankfully the vendor’s since fixed the device.…
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More advanced manufacturing processes will attract the big rupees, but scheme seems unlikely to make India a major player India’s government has revealed more details about its plans to become a major chip manufacturing hub .…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T926)
Alternative route will skip the Suez Canal and other tricky spots In the 15th century, European traders that hoped to reach Asia had problems: a round trip by land or sea took years and involved many lethal perils. Navigators of the day therefore imagined sailing the “Northwest Passage,” a route across the Atlantic, then over the top of North America, before sliding south to Japan.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5T8KG)
Just four months on, 6.1 is Odin with a facelift Review A new minor version of Elementary OS, a rather modernist and minimalist Ubuntu derivative, fixes a lot of small details. The Register took it for a quick spin.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T8J0)
Central government still struggling with its own off-payroll tax rules Updated The UK government's own employment checker tool and guidance has led to wrong calls on the tax status of freelance workers, costing £120m across two Whitehall departments.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5T8EQ)
Perpetrators' ID unknown, however The Belgian Ministry of Defence has suffered a cyber attack after miscreants exploited one of the vulnerabilities in Log4j. The attack marks the first occasion that a NATO country's defence ministry has fallen victim to the flaws.…
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Nottingham University awards cloud finance and HR deal in £29.75m deal 2.5 years after Unit4 upgrade
by Lindsay Clark on (#5T8C0)
Meanwhile, search for service partner stalls after early engagement over possible £80m contract Updated Just two and a half years after upgrading its Unit4 HR and finance system, the University of Nottingham has awarded a £29.75m deal to Oracle partner Evolutionary Systems.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T8A7)
Shares them with Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned after sweeping them up from ‘compromised cloud storage’ The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency and National Cyber Crime Unit have uncovered a colossal trove of stolen passwords.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T89G)
Open source, offers fast, lossless compression, and has a very charming name A developer named Dominic Szablewski has given the world a new file format with a splendid name: the Quite OK Image Format (QOI).…
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Diagnosis confirmed: Oracle has a case of healthcare cravings, bought Cerner for $28.3bn as the cure
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T88T)
Deal will see Cerner's systems shifted to the Big Red Cloud and medicos given hands-free voice interface Rumours that Oracle planned to buy healthcare software concern Cerner have proven correct.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T874)
Other Chinese properties also doing very well TikTok became the world’s most popular web site during 2021, according to Cloudflare’s Radar service.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#5T853)
Who's TT when it's at home? The DoJ, Defense dept, and Homeland Security Security agencies in the United States have recommended the FCC approves the switch-on of a mega US-to-APAC undersea cable after Google and Meta agreed to restrict China-based firm Pacific Light Data Communications Co Ltd's "access to information and infrastructure."…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5T84B)
Swiss cough up accused crim while Russia is 'deeply disappointed' The US Attorney's Office of Massachusetts on Monday announced the extradition of Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian business executive with ties to the Kremlin, on charges of hacking US computer networks and committing securities fraud by trading on undisclosed financial data.…
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by Agam Shah in New Jersey on (#5T83B)
Santa leaving coal in enthusiasts' stockings Online retailers may not be able to send you a specific Raspberry Pi 4B model even for next year's Christmas.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T7X2)
Plans afoot to integrate financial management with retail UK accounting software outfit Sage today said it had agreed to acquire the remaining stake in Brightpearl, providers of cloud-based retail software, for $299m (£225m).…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5T7VN)
Scottish MSP Dacoll was hit, however The Clop ransomware gang pwned a managed service provider with access to the UK's Police National Computer, dumping data on its dark web leaks site – but officials deny that police data was compromised.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T7RW)
Box shifter argues it's not clear what it is supposed to change Amazon is set for an early Christmas present as a Luxembourg judge suspended a court order requiring a daily $750,000 payment towards a disputed $844m (€746m) fine.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T7N7)
Those enabling piracy may be guilty until they prove otherwise Malaysia's House of Representatives has passed an amendment to a 1987 Copyright Act that makes enabling illegal streaming punishable by fine, prison or both.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#5T7KN)
That which does not kill us can still ruin our Christmas Opinion Infosec takes many cues from the human immune system. The analogies and metaphors are useful and apt: viruses, vectors, evolving a defence where learning is part of the response...…
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by Richard Speed on (#5T7JK)
It's all open source's fault! Or is it? Who, Me? Welcome to another edition of Who, Me? in which a Register reader makes the impossible possible and actually gets Wi-Fi working on Linux.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T7GD)
Major update has passed quality control and will catch up to platform and app updates Data protection vendor Veeam has revealed it’s working to productise the Salesforce backup tools built for its own use.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5T7F2)
Plus: Deep dive into the NSO Group's zero-click exploit and 'Hack the DHS!' In Brief VMware has warned users a flaw in its VMware Verify two-factor authentication product could allow a malicious actor with a first-factor authentication credential to obtain a second factor from its VMware Verify product.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T7DR)
WfH kit has all been bought, but the pressure is now on to upgrade For the first time since the global pandemic began, the PC monitor market has shown a year-on-year decline, according to analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) last week.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T7C4)
Regulator says US giant lied about deal with Future Coupons, which responded by stabbing Amazon in the front India’s competition regulator has revoked approval for Amazon.com’s alliance with local retail giant Future Group, alleging that the American company fibbed quite a lot in filings about the deal.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T7AC)
Confirms version 5.16 will receive an eighth release candidate Linus Torvalds has confirmed that version 5.16 of the Linux kernel will take a little longer to develop than usual, thanks to Christmas.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T78V)
Third major fix in ten days is an infinite recursion flaw rated 7.5/10 The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has revealed a third bug in its Log4 Java-based open-source logging library Log4j.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5T67X)
Report claims Huawei techs working for Chinese intelligence compromised Australian telco Suspicions about the integrity of Huawei products among US government officials can be attributed in part to a 2012 incident involving a Huawei software update that compromised the network of a major Australian telecom company with malicious code, according to a report published by Bloomberg.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5T5YD)
Maybe you're not too cool for intuitive FOSS Fest Tilde is a plain text editor for the Linux console. The difference is that even if you've never seen it before, you already know how to use this one.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5T5X7)
Federal agencies have a week to get their systems patched The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday escalated its call to fix the Apache Log4j vulnerability with an emergency directive requiring federal agencies to take corrective action by 5 pm EST on December 23, 2021.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5T5VZ)
Gullible conspiracists find that stupid is as stupid does The Dutch Authority for Nuclear Safety and Regulation Protection has banned a list of so-called anti-5G necklaces, wristbands and eye masks because they could harm their gullible users.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5T5JH)
That makes 4 concurrent court cases over hotly disputed 2011 buyout Autonomy founder Mike Lynch's extradition has been temporarily halted after the British software millionaire filed a judicial review challenging legal findings against him.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5T5FZ)
£200k Anglo-French heat-seeking missile does its thing The RAF has scored its first air-to-air "kill" – where an aircraft downs an enemy aircraft – for almost 40 years after shooting down a drone over Syria.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T5AG)
Big Red targets health records specialist Cerner in $30bn takeover bid Oracle has reportedly set its sights on the $30bn acquisition of US electronic health records specialist Cerner as it tries to further penetrate the medical sector.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5T57Z)
Plus: Quad9 loses German DNS-blocking injunction pause attempt Admiral, the UK-based insurance company, has been refused legal access to a non-customer's mobile phone location data after claiming it would help decide whether or not a policyholder was committing fraud.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5T56R)
It looks like you're going to be isolating over Christmas. Would you like some help with that? Our back-of-the-cupboard Microsoft knitwear is winging its way to a lucky(?) reader. Naturally, the winning entry for next year's theme was Clippy-related but there were some crackers from the Reg readership.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#5T54W)
It’s FAQing annoying to tell the truth Something for the Weekend, Sir? Do you need help?…
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by Richard Speed on (#5T52Z)
One to wheel out when those friend tech support calls get too much On Call IT folk don't so much give gifts as recycle old hardware. A worthy endeavour, until the inevitable call for help comes on. Our response? Depends on how evil we're feeling at the time. Welcome to On Call.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T4ZS)
It’s massive and fun to fly in, but expensive to run and not as nimble as rivals The last bolts have been fastened to the last Airbus A380, marking the end of manufacture for the world's most capacious passenger aircraft.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T4Y8)
Academy of Military Medical Sciences lands on the Entity List for its role, along with 36 other orgs The USA has added another 37 organizations – 34 of them from China – to its list of businesses with which US interests can't interact without a license, with 12 of them earning their places for developing "mind control weapons."…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T4VJ)
No crypto, no sex, no clips from the telly. Enthusiastic and historically accurate socialism welcome China's Netcasting Services Association has issued a list of 100 topics local netizens must not include in short videos posted online.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T4QT)
Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management can leak info via server-side request forgery VMware customers have probably had a busy week because more than 100 of the IT giant's products are impacted by the Log4j bug.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5T4QV)
Meta adverse to internet mercenaries using its social networks to help governments violate human rights Facebook successor Meta on Thursday said it canceled 1,500 social media accounts used by seven surveillance-for-hire firms to conduct online attacks against government critics and members of civil society.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T4PV)
Alleges it and seven other Middle Kingdom tech outfits aid systematic oppression of Uyghur minority The US Treasury today banned American investment in eight entities – including prosumer drone maker DJI – that Uncle Sam claims are “part of the Chinese military-industrial complex” and active participants in surveillance and repression of the Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang province.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5T4MC)
Have all those scientists been naughty ... or nice? Updated The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been confirmed for December 24* after engineers investigated and fixed up a communications problem on board the booster and spacecraft combo.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5T4G6)
Somehow people keep buying into dodgy crypto projects that vanish with investor funds First, come up with a catchy name for a cryptocurrency project. Next, convince the credulous to buy associated digital tokens. Finally, abandon the project and keep investors' funds.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5T4DX)
Millipede? Has something been bugging you about the name? Not any more Pedantic observers of arthropods can finally sleep at night as scientists have discovered a millipede with more than 1,000 legs.…
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