The Register

Central bank and government to observe effort run by railways, telcos, industrial titans, and private banks A group of over 70 Japanese organisations have decided to create their own blockchain-backed digital currency.…

Cynos.7 trojan found its way into 9.3 million downloads Cybersecurity researchers at anti-virus software company Dr Web have discovered a treasure trove of malware-laced Android games on Huawei's AppGallery.…

Other additions to Entity List are accused of helping Pakistan, North Korea make nukes, missiles The US Dept of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security has added 27 companies to its list of entities prohibited from doing business with the USA on grounds they threaten national security – and one of the firms is associated with HPE’s Chinese joint venture H3C.…

Nice employees you have, be a shame if something were to happen to them The Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor has told 13 foreign businesses, predominantly US tech firms, they must set up and/or maintain offices in Russia if they want to keep doing business in the country.…

'I wish I had done it differently' she tells jury in fraud trial Theranos boss Elizabeth Holmes admitted in court this week she personally added Pfizer and Schering-Plough logos to her startup's presentations while trying to seal a deal with Walgreens.…

Where this technology grew from, and what it offers you Systems Approach The recent announcements from Intel about Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) have prompted us to revisit the topic of how functionality is partitioned in a computing system.…

But Redmond has bigger questions to answer regarding Azure architecture Microsoft hopes to improve the resilience of its cloud services by extending an "outage mode" for Azure Active Directory to cover web as well as desktop applications.…

10 quintillion IP addresses per subnet but expect some pain AWS customers can now create IPv6-only virtual private cloud (VPC) networks, with the company claiming it is a "monumental step forward" towards the enablement of IPv6 on its cloud.…

Over at rival HP, the story is more about building too many Chromebooks and watching demand for them ebb away The humble PC continues to bring home the bacon for Dell, with shipments to corporate customers going through the roof, in spite of previous worries about shortages and price hikes. But things are less rosy at HP, which has been caught out by the recent collapse in Chromebook orders.…

Hardware supply chain issues? Somebody else's problem, guv Hyperconverged infrastructure software outfit Nutanix has almost, but not quite, stopped burning cash as its cash flow neared positivity in its latest set of results.…

Watchdog argues 'fairness' in process should keep some documents confidential Data privacy campaign group noyb, founded by Austrian lawyer Max Schrems, has filed a complaint with the Austrian Office for the Prosecution of Corruption (WKStA) for a potential violation of Austrian criminal laws by the Irish Data Protection Commission.…

Customers accuse Redmond of making standard functionality a pricey extra Microsoft is restoring first-party support for Remote Assistance, logging onto a user's PC to troubleshoot, but "at a price above the existing licensing options."…

Regional exec says Apple wants offensive researchers out of the field because they are harmful to the reputation of the company Kaspersky's APAC director of Global Research and Analysis, Vitaly Kamlyuk, has called Apple's lawsuit against Pegasus maker NSO a "declaration of war against software developers."…

Bruce Willis not required NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory's (APL) Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is under way following a successful launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9.…

'Many appear to placing huge bets on it as a replacement for Huawei' Analysis Hot on the heels of the UK government enshrining in law the power to strip out Huawei, five European carriers have banded together to ask European policymakers to push the development of open radio access network (OpenRAN).…

Millions of devices potentially vulnerable, we're told Check Point Research will today spill the beans on security holes it found within the audio processor firmware in millions of smartphones, which can be potentially exploited by malicious apps to secretly eavesdrop on people.…

This is likely what the IT dept would chuck the regular user Review Lenovo has bucked the trend for vanishingly slim bezels and a paucity of ports with a conservative take on the corporate laptop in the form of the latest T14s ThinkPad.…

... and a damn big radio telescope A team of scientists has managed to bounce a LoRa message off the Moon, setting an impressive record of 730,360km for the furthest distance such a data message has travelled.…

Trillion-dollar giants vow to appeal against penalties that amount to just a few hours of profit Italy's competition authority has fined Apple and Amazon €200m after deciding the pair colluded to unfairly restrict the supply of Apple products and Beats headphones in the Euro nation.…

Clouds and hardware types queueing up to talk now Virtzilla is free of Dell VMware has posted another quarter of strong financial results and revealed that industry players have started to discuss new possibilities now that the company is not part of Dell.…

Description of new 'Official Digital Currency Bill' appears to allow general use of Blockchain India’s government appears set to ban private cryptocurrencies.…

Cisco’s new software license agreement means one payment can cover code and services Cisco has updated its main software licence, the Enterprise Agreement, to version 3.0 and claims it’s now more flexible as while you need to commit to a certain level of spend up-front, your payments can be shifted among products, or even spent on services.…

$17B worth of chip factory will go nicely with the big BBQ joints in the town of Taylor Samsung has finally announced the location of the US semiconductor manufacturing facility it's building with an eye on addressing global silicon shortages: Taylor, Texas.…

In unexpected development, website promptly fell over A website operated by Singapore’s border control agency, Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA), fell over for five hours almost as soon as registrations for overseas travel were offered to expats who had been stuck in the city-state for over 18 months.…

Beware of Communists bearing internet governance proposals, says Australian Strategic Policy Institute China is actively trying to export its internal internet governance model, according to a paper from the International Cyber Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.…

Funny how this has happened again References to Afilias have been spotted in the technical requirements for the contract to run the trendy top-level domain .tv, suggesting the process is in one way or another stacked in the internet registry operator's favor.…

iGiant pledges any damages plus $10m to anti-cybersurveillance groups Apple today sued NSO Group, which sells spyware to governments and other organizations, for infecting and snooping on people's iPhones.…

InstallerFileTakeOver code pops up on GitHub The day has a 'y' in it, so it must be time for another zero day to drop for a Microsoft product. In this case, a local privilege-elevation vulnerability to gain control of fully patched Windows 10, 11, and Server systems up to the 2022 build.…

Drug delivery, environmental clean up, building in space among possible applications Scientists say they have succeeded in producing programmable 3D printed objects from microbial ink produced by genetically modified E coli (Escherichia coli) bacteria.…

Complaints abound that yoof use it to mean 'digital currency' Poll Infosec must "reclaim" the word crypto from people who trade in Bitcoins and other digital currencies, according to industry veteran Bruce Schneier – and it seems some Reg readers agree while others disagree.…

Scripting language's dependency on two contributors sparks worries about its future A group of 10 companies is forming a new PHP Foundation, with temporary administrators including PHP founder Rasmus Lerdorf.…

'Exceptional' case involves 100 BTC payoff, judge told A Briton accused of playing a pivotal role in an $8.5m SIM-swapping attack shouldn't be extradited to the US because he might commit suicide, making his an "exceptional" case, a court was told.…

Welcome to 'The First Rust Governance Crisis' Updated The Rust language community is in disarray following the resignation of the entire moderation team, citing the "structural unaccountability" of the core development team.…

Another 30 minutes and there would have been nothing to see A week after Google suffered a TITSUP*, the gang at Mountain View has published a lengthy post-mortem on what went wrong. It was a known bug in the configuration pipeline.…

Plans to change UK regulations could mean a 'significant departure' from EU law, watchdog says The UK's National Data Guardian (NDG) has warned the government against watering down individuals' rights to challenge decisions made about them by artificial intelligence.…

O Cannabis! Meanwhile, ride biz back to court in the UK over driver contracts Uber Technologies' munchies delivery service, Uber Eats, has set its sights on another growth industry in the Canadian province of Ontario, Reuters reports.…

Do users dream of Elastic fleets? Amazon made Fleets available for AppStream desktop applications this week, as the prospect of tighter lockdowns and more remote work looms.…

Trampolines and Retpoline: Applying patches at the function level Microsoft has posted details of how its Hotpatching feature applies security patches to Windows Server without requiring a reboot – but although the company said it is working on broader availability, it remains Azure-only.…

There's a default admin password online too The Ministry of Justice has secured a set of Wi-Fi access points that potentially gave admin access to industrial control equipment after a tipoff by The Register.…

New agency in charge, still outsourcing like the clappers Global IT consultancies Accenture and Deloitte have scooped up nearly £94m in contracts from the UK public health agency after it took charge of the Test and Trace COVID-19 response.…

Marketing jargon alert: Modernized, streamlined, brand iconography and more prominent fireballs inside LogoWatch Qualcomm has decided that its Snapdragon silicon can stand on its own as a brand.…

Plus: DNS cache poisoning again, cops probe property conveyancing group's IT outage, Azure hole addressed, and more In brief Sky has fixed a flaw in six million of its home broadband routers, and it only took the British broadcaster'n'telecoms giant a year to do so, infosec researchers have said.…

Space agencies have been planning this thing since 1996, so what's four more days? The European Space Agency has delayed the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope until December 22 so that it can undergo additional testing following an incident that sent unintended vibrations through the observatory.…

Starting with a release called Amazon Linux 2022 that just hit preview Amazon Web Services has announced that it will release an updated version of its own Linux every two years, starting with Amazon Linux 2022, which it is previewing now.…

Japanese space agency wants 'nauts with good eyesight and work experience – no degree required The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched an astronaut recruitment drive last week with reduced academic requirements as it seeks to diversify and refresh the nation's corps of space travelers.…

Loaded with all the goodies coders need to run wild with new OS, and packaged for four hypervisors Microsoft has quietly slipped out a test cut of Windows 11 for developers.…

Infosec firm says it found unpatched software, Bank admits Exchange may not have been in the best shape India's Punjab National Bank has smacked down a security firm's allegation that it exposed personal and financial data of its 180 million customers – but appears to have admitted its Exchange Server implementation wasn't in tip-top shape.…

Middle Kingdom suggests US is making it all up to justify arms development. As if! A Chinese hypersonic glider that completed a test flight in July appears to be more sophisticated than first thought. It is reported the aircraft was able to fire a missile while travelling at five times the speed of sound.…

Globo sports brand also interested in AWS analytics systems, data lakes and ML tools as part of upgrade Adidas has opted to upgrade its ERP system to SAP S/4HANA, transferring it to the cloud with AWS rather than using RISE with SAP, the lift-shift-and-transform service launched by the German vendor earlier this year.…

Attorney for aggrieved scientist urges judge to let the evidence be presented Analysis IBM has consistently denied that its layoffs over the past few years have targeted older workers.…