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by Katyanna Quach on (#5MZKS)
Congrats, $2.15 is on its way to you. And millions on lawyers and admin costs Check your bank accounts this month. A settlement payment from Google, regarding a privacy hole in its now-defunct Google+ social network, may be winging its way to you. All $2.15 of it.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5MZHA)
'Free and fair election was impossible' Amazon interfered with a formal election by its warehouse workers in Alabama to unionize – and staff ought to be given a second chance to vote again, an official at the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has concluded.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5MZE3)
Heaven forbid someone lifts the lid on social network's disinformation and public manipulation Facebook, which has repeatedly touted its transparency efforts, on Tuesday disabled the accounts of independent ad transparency researchers.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5MZCV)
Isn't that work-at-home-workforce eyeing a return to the office? RingCentral is all about the integration of apps in the comms and collaboration sectors to boost productivity and efficiency, but the biz might just need someone to run the same rules over its own bloated overheads.…
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by David Gordon on (#5MZAX)
Trust us – you need to tune into this Webcast Some say the best form of defense is offense. But when it comes to modern ransomware from cyber-crime orgs that are well-funded, possibly have state actor backing, and have your data under their control, just how offensive can you afford to be?…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5MZ53)
USENIX will continue to create similar content for SREcon USENIX, the not-for-profit advanced computing association, has decided to put an end to its beloved LISA sysadmin conferences, at least as a standalone event.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5MZ20)
Company says it didn't skimp on security before everything went wrong SolarWinds is urging a US federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against it by aggrieved shareholders who say they were misled about its security posture in advance of the infamous Russian attack on the business.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5MYY1)
Potential customers or freeloaders to blame? Also: Everything coming up Dutch for one UK user A free two-month trial for Windows 365, a virtual PC running Windows 10 on Microsoft's Azure cloud, has been withdrawn after only a day having "reached capacity."…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5MYVZ)
Now that's an expensive contract The UK government has let nearly £40m in contracts to a single supplier for a text message, email, and "letter management" platform.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5MYS4)
Security not good enough, claims Chocolate Factory engineer Google's open security team has claimed the Linux kernel code is not good enough, with nearly 100 new fixes every week, and that at least 100 more engineers are needed to work on it.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5MYQB)
Spared prison but must give Panther and AA gun to collector or museum An 84-year-old German man has been fined €250,000 (£212,796.10) for keeping stockpiles of Second World War-era weaponry in his basement – including a 45-ton tank.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5MYNQ)
Last claim standing relegated to the County Court after judge's ruling A Brit who tried to sue Dixons Carphone over the 2018 hack of 10 million customers' details, including 5.9 million payment cards, has had his case booted out of the High Court.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5MYKN)
Business teams might want to look at their operating models post-pandemic, user groups suggest SAP customers need to change the way they operate to shift their ERP systems to the cloud, according to the CEO of the Americas' SAP Users' group (ASUG).…
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UK data watchdog sees its approach to government health tech during COVID-19 outbreak as 'pragmatic'
by Lindsay Clark on (#5MYJ6)
Pandemic also behind fall in breaches, according to ICO annual reaport The UK's data watchdog has defended its approach to regulating government health technologies during the pandemic as "pragmatic."…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5MYGS)
Boffins say their real-world tests show developers can make more of a difference than switching transport protocols Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC), the alternative to Transmission Control Protocol advanced as a fine way to speed up web traffic, struggles to deliver that outcome without considerable customisation.…
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China tightens distributor cap after local outfits hoard automotive silicon then charge silly prices
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5MYEZ)
State Administration of Market Supervision warns it's going after collusion to cash in on shortages Chinese antitrust watchdog, State Administration of Market Supervision (SAMR), announced Tuesday it has started investigating price gouging in the automotive chip market.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5MYDF)
Says digi-bucks are 'rife with fraud, scams, and abuse' that have created a 'Wild West' of speculation and naughtiness US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Gary Gensler has described cryptocurrency as "rife with fraud, scams, and abuse in certain applications" and called for more government regulation to protect investors in the assets.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5MYC0)
Looks to be still figuring out what to do with it, rather than prepping product VMware has offered its customers the chance to use its flagship ESXi hypervisor running on SmartNICs.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5MYAK)
Tencent shares dive and company restricts hours of play China's government has again expressed its severe dislike of gaming, and one of the nation's major purveyors of such entertainment has reacted by limiting the time that can be spent on the pastime.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5MY88)
Unless your doctor or god says you can't have the jab Not for the first time, Microsoft has followed Apple's lead and will not bring staff back to its offices until October at the earliest.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5MY5T)
Lawsuit, employee walkout elicit reform promises from Diablo goliath Activision Blizzard on Tuesday announced new leadership for Blizzard Entertainment group following a recent sex discrimination and harassment lawsuit filed by California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) and an employee walkout demanding better working conditions.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5MY28)
540 degrees total, not just 45, NASA tells El Reg The International Space Station actually spun one and a half times last week after the just-docked Russian Nauka module unexpectedly fired its thrusters.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5MXXR)
And said entirely with a straight face, too Russia has put forward a draft convention to the United Nations ostensibly to fight cyber-crime.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5MXT4)
Most-used language? JavaScript, of course – though for a big salary, try Clojure Stack Overflow has published its latest developer survey, revealing widespread deployment of Microsoft's development tools as well as Google Cloud Platform and Azure jockeying behind AWS.…
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by David Gordon on (#5MXRC)
Learn how to manage the risks of cloud native environments with Aqua and AWS Promo There’s no doubt that adopting DevOps methodologies and CI/CD pipelines, and extending cloud native technologies like containerization can massively accelerate your application development and deployment.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5MXKX)
Campus, routing, switching, and data centre kit all affected Semiconductor lead times are running at up to 60 weeks or twice the pre-pandemic norms, according to networking biz Arista.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5MXHE)
'This project is a big deal to me' says protocol's creator WireGuard, a high performance and easily configured VPN protocol, is getting a native port from Linux to the Windows kernel, and the code has been published as experimental work in progress.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5MXHF)
Small steps could lead to bigger strides The Ministry of Defence has paid out the first bug bounties to ethical computer hackers who probed web-accessible systems for vulnerabilities, according to a cheery missive from HackerOne.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5MXEJ)
Replacing swivel-chair integration is not a market that independent vendors will get to themselves Salesforce-owned application integration biz Mulesoft has gobbled up Servicetrace, a robotic process automation vendor.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5MXB7)
Look at what hanging around the water cooler did for me, says son-in-law of billionaire Infosys founder Getting back into the office after a pandemic spent home working and on video calls would be "really beneficial" to young people's careers, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer has said.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5MX8F)
Top three no surprise but users offer some sharp comments Gartner has published its latest Magic Quadrant report on public cloud providers, reporting that customers are facing "unexpected pressure from AWS Sales" and that Microsoft still has reliability challenges.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5MX8G)
Head techie for Chocolate Factory's search ad biz departs Mountain View Identity-as-a-service slinger Okta has poached Google veep of engineering Sagnik Nandy to become its president and chief tech officer.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5MX68)
The kid went on to work for IBM. Awks Wealthy people continue to assign inordinate value to items associated with the rich and/or famous so here's yet another auction of relics touched by our lord and saviour Steve Jobs (peace be upon him).…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5MX47)
When do we get avant-garde ERP? Leeds City Council is huntig down a replacement for its SAP HR and finance system in a bid to leap onto the SaaSy bandwagon.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5MX2J)
We reckon it'd snatch it in extra time thanks to camera Review As England made it way to the final of the Euro 2020 footie tournament, fans of the beautiful game could hardly have failed to notice adverts for Vivo flashing up during matches. The company's X60 Pro phone is in play but is it any good?…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5MX0Y)
Big tech gets busy in New Zealand as LoTR TV show wraps filming the same day Google opens Auckland office Amazon Studios, Jeff Bezos' filmed entertainment outfit, said its much-anticipated Lord of the Rings television series will debut on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, September 2, 2022.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5MX0Z)
Only one Megapack went up, adjacent containers mostly kept their cool The fire in a large battery using Tesla kit in Australia is out – four days after it started.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5MWZR)
Similar problem hit over the weekend, and Google has also had severe recent wobbles IBM cloud has experienced a significant Severity One outage – the rating Big Blue uses to denote the most serious incidents that make resources in its cloud unavailable to customers.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5MWYB)
Reports record Q1 sales and advances plans for SPAC-ulative IPO Singapore-based mega-app Grab has revealed that it generates 40TB of data a day, meaning each of its 23.8 million users can put their names to around 1.7MB every 24 hours. All that data is clearly valuable: Grab has also announced record profits.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5MWV7)
Handy way to keep tabs on 'activists, politicians, business leaders, and more' Attack protection specialist Cybereason has fingered threat actors working on behalf of "Chinese state interests" as being behind attacks on telcos operating in Southeast Asia – with some having been prowling the penetrated networks for information on high-value targets since 2017.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5MWV8)
We tried 'em on Windows, iOS and Android, and can't say they're very exciting First Look Microsoft has revealed the full range of options and pricing for its Windows 365 Cloud PCs, and The Register is not impressed – on price or performance.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5MWM1)
Hit us up next time you're free, though SpaceX is clear to build a lander with NASA to put the first woman and another man on the Moon – after Uncle Sam dismissed complaints that the $2.94bn contract was awarded unfairly.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5MWK7)
For now, tedious Apple-grade teasing Google today said the latest iteration of its Android smartphones, the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, are coming this fall.…
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by Chris Williams on (#5MWG3)
Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more In brief Malicious libraries capable of lifting credit card numbers and opening backdoors on infected machines have been found in PyPI, the official third-party software repository for Python.…
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by David Gordon on (#5MWEX)
Cast off your chains with this webcast Webcast Even the smallest organisation knows its data is precious. Unlocking the value of your data is crucial to future growth, while protecting it is central to your very survival.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5MWAY)
Also: Why new OS looks this way, and easier install for Linux subsystem Microsoft has added Windows 11 to the Beta channel of its Insider preview scheme and issued a new build which replaces flashing taskbar icons - indicating attention is required - with what it calls a "red pill."…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5MW8Y)
Irony, thy name is Yes Consumer Solutions Ltd A firm that sells nuisance call-blocking systems is itself nursing a £170,000 fine from the UK's data watchdog, ironically for cold calling almost 200,000 people registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS).…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5MW65)
Colour us surprised PC makers are starting to prioritise production lines in favour of more profitable Windows PCs at the expense of Chromebooks, or so warns IDC.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5MW3D)
Also: 5.14 rc4 is out, with Linus saying 'nothing to see here' Paragon Software, in response to a nudge from Linux Torvalds, said it will submit a pull request for its NTFS driver for Linux.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5MW1A)
Hardcoded passwords, unencrypted connections and unauthenticated firmware updates... patches released Security specialist Armis has discovered vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed PwnedPiper, in pneumatic tube control systems used in thousands of hospitals worldwide – including 80 per cent of the major hospitals found in the US.…
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