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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QJTR)
Docs were smuggled past security and sold for $110K of Monero after ProtonMail exchanges between 'Alice and 'Bob' The United States Department of Justice has announced a leak of information pertaining to the design of the nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarine, and the arrest of the alleged leakers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5QHSJ)
Plus: DeepMind makes its first profit... by selling to its stablemates In brief Clearview AI says it has scraped more than 10 billion photographs from people’s public social media accounts for its controversial facial-recognition tool.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5QHMZ)
'We don’t host the content of the websites at issue' Cloudflare is not liable for any copyright infringement for content hosted on websites its content-delivery network supports, a US federal judge ruled this week.…
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Let's see how the world's largest companies wriggle out of this one The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has finalized a plan on global tax laws that could lead to Big Tech paying more in taxes no matter where they operate.…
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by Team Register on (#5QGZ4)
Brave of Zuckerberg to switch to a three-day working week The Facebook empire on Friday experienced some aftershocks after its massive Monday outage, leaving some netizens unable to use its apps and websites as expected.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5QGXH)
Definitely not another sub, oh no sir A US nuclear submarine has "struck an object" while submerged in the South China Sea – and the US Navy is insisting that it wasn't a Chinese submarine.…
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Now they just have to make it work... Venture capital firms are pouring billions into quantum computing companies, hedging bets that the technology will pay off big time some day.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5QGQE)
Weird all Jorvik Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork – our column of reader-submitted unhappy displays – is celebrating 30 years of Microsoft Money this month with an example of why Windows, .NET and ATMs do not make good bedfellows.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5QGKV)
2 new building-block rack and 3 small footprint towers in DC-optional refresh Dell revealed its latest refresh for its Dell EMC Poweredge servers yesterday, emphasizing their small size and reduced latency for uses in places like hospitals, retail space or offices.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5QGHJ)
It isn't just the big dogs preparing to bite, warns Redmond Iran, Turkey and both North and South Korea are bases for nation-state cyber attacks, Microsoft has claimed – as well as old favourite Russia.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5QGF0)
Aims to take kids from Instagram to integration with gamified approach The developers behind popular language education app Duolingo are setting their sights on maths education.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5QGF1)
Outage prompts customer ire, again A British VoIP firm has staggered back to its feet after being smacked with a series of apparent DDoSes a month after suffering a series of sustained attacks it said were delivered by the REvil ransomware gang.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5QGCZ)
Senedd Cymru ICT crowd have earned their Friday beers Citizens in Wales are set to be required to comply with COVID-19 passport rules to attend mass events, partly because of an apparent technical glitch in the UK nation's Parliament or Senedd Cymru, in Welsh.…
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When you need to do audio, voice or image processing at the network edge or on a battery budget RISC-V looks set to be extended to bring more computing power to applications on smaller devices.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5QGAC)
Dark pattern consent dialog invites users to share their location with advertisers Mozilla is trialling personalised advertising in its Firefox Suggest feature, along with sponsored search results, with users told that it "helps fund Firefox development."…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#5QG8C)
My next column will be written in spaaaaaace Something for the Weekend, Sir? Look deep into my soil. Hold it, feel it, smell my soil.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5QG4B)
Remember those days when OSes were the be-all and end-all? Canalys Forums With minds fixed on PC shortages and the next looming round of price hikes, there was nary a mention of Microsoft's freshly laid OS by the biggest vendors and resellers at this year's Canalys Forums EMEA 2021 gabfest.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5QG2T)
Your PC is not a fridge On Call Friday brings the promise of a weekend free from the work laptop but likely shackled to the personal laptop instead. Kick off your two days of downtime with another tale from those brave enough to be On Call.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QG1F)
OECD close to finalising implementation plan hoped to secure a share of revenue from digital multinationals The Republic of Ireland has signed on to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's plans to create harmonised tax laws that stop Big Tech companies reducing their bills by officially conducting their business in low-tax jurisdictions.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5QG1G)
All invited to comment about how operating systems have screwed them Japan's Fair Trade Commission on Wednesday launched an investigation into potential antitrust behavior by mobile OS providers – with Apple and Google at the top of the list.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QFYX)
Calls for anything connected to the Internet to live in a room controlled by the CISO India has announced a new security policy for its power sector and specified a grade of isolation it says exceeds that offered by air gaps.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QFWE)
Publishers won't get ads, advertisers won't get a voice, nobody will be spared weeks of tedious culture wars Google has decided not to run any ads alongside content that "contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change".…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5QFVD)
Spare parts, repair manuals more easily available in victory for right to repair ... when it happens Microsoft has pledged to help folks independently repair their own broken Surface laptops and Xbox consoles by making spare parts and information more easily available by the end of 2022.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5QFTK)
Next chapter in AI Dungeon saga: Banning gamers for what the bot said Feature Let this be a warning to all AI developers: check your data before you train your model.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5QFKK)
And that's regardless of whether they work from home or are in the office All IBM employees in America must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by December 8 – or they’ll be suspended from work with no pay.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5QFHB)
Jackpot moment for SVR operatives Russia's SVR spy agency made off with information about US counterintelligence investigations in the wake of the SolarWinds hack, according to people familiar with the American government cleanup operation.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5QFC5)
All change on 2022 ride to the ISS NASA has shown its tremendous confidence in Boeing's Starliner by shifting astronauts scheduled to launch aboard the calamity capsule to SpaceX's Crew Dragon.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5QF99)
Blasts proposals for Secretary of State to approve ICO guidance The UK’s outgoing Information Commissioner has issued a strongly worded statement warning of the future independence of the office in the face of government plans to reform data protection law.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5QF9A)
The number you have dialled has not been recognised Microsoft Teams' Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) integration has fallen over.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5QF6B)
Change is scary There is some good news for enterprises keen on Surface devices, but wary of Windows 11. Microsoft confirmed last night that commercial customers could still select Windows 10 if they wished.…
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NSO Group's Pegasus malware was used to spy on Dubai princess's lawyers during child custody dispute
by Gareth Corfield on (#5QF38)
Firm apparently terminated UAE's contract when it realised Updated Cherie Blair tipped off a Jordanian princess that the royal's estranged husband, the Sheikh of Dubai, had deployed NSO Group's Pegasus malware against her and her lawyers, a series of explosive High Court judgments [PDFs] have revealed.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5QEZV)
'There's no independent search engine really, other than Google and Bing' Interview Four search providers – DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, and Lilo – have penned an open letter to the European Commission claiming that Google is suppressing search engine competition.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5QEX6)
That is merely a 'failure of a single effort' says foundation VMware has stated that the Cloud Foundry-based Tanzu Application Service for Kubernetes did not meet its standards, but despite this Cloud Foundry Foundation said that its Kubernetes transition is alive and well.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5QEX7)
It's not as if gamers care about that sort of stuff Chipmaker AMD has reported that some of its silicon lucky enough to have made the cut for Windows 11 is having difficulty with the new OS.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5QETY)
Promise to become 'a science and technology superpower' not cutting much ice with Chipzilla Intel is cutting the UK out of its European expansion plans based on the nation's decision to leave the EU, the world's biggest political and trading bloc.…
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Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry awarded to boffins studying complex systems, organic catalysts
by Katyanna Quach on (#5QES0)
20m Swedish kronor – close to 2 million quid – to be shared The Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry were this week awarded to scientists for groundbreaking research into climate, complex systems, and a new type of catalyst.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5QEPX)
The kids are alright: 15-year-old scoops top prize The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) has announced the winning entry for its BBC Micro-inspired music challenge.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5QEN2)
Which doesn't help when there's a £47.1m hole in the budget Facing a £47.1m budget shortfall, Surrey County Council has been forced to delay the implementation of a £30m Unit4 ERP system, incurring additional annual support fees of £700,000 on its ageing SAP system.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5QEJG)
Blackberry says APT41 gang used lumpen remixes of Microsoft domain names to lure the unwary Blackberry's Research and Intelligence Team has uncovered three phishing schemes targeting Indian nationals, and says a Chinese state-sponsored malware gang is the culprit.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5QEJH)
Majority of MEPs want end to police face-ID'ing anyone and everyone in public, and more Police should be banned from using blanket facial-recognition surveillance to identify people not suspected of crimes. Certain private databases of people’s faces for identification systems ought to be outlawed, too.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QEJJ)
Analyst firm says new OS doesn't offer much to biz, so doesn't warrant rapid upgrade Analyst firm Gartner has advised its customers what to do about Windows 11: get familiar with it and plan for eventual adoption, but don't rush to implement.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QEFV)
Community not happy with justification for actions taken without consultation or recent engagement .NET Foundation executive director Claire Novotny has apologised for her actions, after other members objected to her intervention on one of its projects and a board member resigned over the organisation's direction.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QEDX)
But who needs the latest and greatest when 17nm has been boosted, eh? Samsung has added a 2nm process node to its foundry roadmap, and said products built with the new tech should go in sale in 2025.…
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Or will do in practical terms when devices start appearing, anyway A key standard set to double data transfer speeds between the main components of computers will be finalized in a matter of months.…
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Octeon 10 packs Arm CPU cores, crypto and AI acceleration, and more Marvell has produced samples of a server microprocessor with up to 24 Arm-compatible cores that could be used for applications involving artificial intelligence as well as network management, a spokesperson told The Register.…
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Monopoly is a board game, not a handbook Apple's decision to only allow Apple Pay to access the NFC chip in iPhones could result in the Silicon Valley giant paying hefty anti-monopoly fines in Europe.…
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by David Gordon on (#5QDZV)
Protect your deployment from ransomware attacks with Kasten by Veeam Sponsored Who do you consider the most innovative, agile tech team out there? Sadly, it’s probably the cybercriminal community, particularly those who specialise in ransomware attacks.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5QDZW)
Eleven. Eleh-ven. Ala-vuhn*. Oh never mind Google has launched a speech identification system aimed at commercial call centres – leaving some biometric security questions unanswered at the same time.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5QDXE)
Drivers slip into the kernel as team ponders GPU hardware Efforts to bring Linux to Apple Silicon have resulted in a basic functional desktop, according to the Asahi Linux team.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5QDTD)
Unless you want to leak like a sieve The Apache Software Foundation has hurried out a patch to address a pair of HTTP Web Server vulnerabilities, at least one of which is already being actively exploited.…
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