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Pentagon grounds own report that said China's DJI drones are safe
Someone seems to have leaked a draft document that represented a radical reversal The United States Department of Defence (DoD) has reiterated that it thinks drones made by Chinese firm DJI represent a security risk after an internal document suggesting the opposite leaked to the press.…
China sets goal of running single-stack IPv6 network by 2030, orders upgrade blitz
All levels of industry and government told to get moving, consumers encouraged to buy new Wi-Fi routers China's Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission and Cyberspace Administration have set out a plan for massive adoption of IPv6.…
Cloudflare slams AWS egress fees to convince web giant to join its discount data club
Lower your prices and play nicer, CDN goliath suggests Cloudflare on Friday accused competitor Amazon Web Services of massive markups and hindering customer data portability, even as it invited the cloud services giant to join its discount data initiative known as the Bandwidth Alliance.…
With Alphabet's legendary commitment to products, we can't wait to see what its robotics biz Intrinsic achieves
Google parent hopes to inject AI into factory machines Alphabet today launched its latest tech startup, Intrinsic, which aims to build commercial software that will power industrial robots.…
Google fixes 'Chromebork' one-character code typo that prevented Chrome OS logins
Programming blunder is the second such snafu this month Bug of the week Google has fixed a bug in Chrome OS version 91.0.4472.165 that surfaced on Monday and prevented some users from being able to login to their systems.…
Rackspace literally decimates workforce: One in ten staffers let go this week
85% of those jobs will be rehired, just in cheaper countries Updated Around 10 per cent of Rackspace staff, predominantly in the US it seems, got an unwelcome email this week informing them they were being let go.…
Punchy Italian kartist gets 15-year ban for trackside rampage... and other stories
An unexpectedly vehicular collection of chaos and confusion for your consideration Welcome back for another compendium of tomfoolery from this week for those who enjoy a bit of light-hearted piffle. And let's face it, who doesn't?…
Latest Windows 11 Preview a well-rounded update – literally
What else is round? Oh yes, holes While the Windows of today may have more holes in it than a 20-year-old pair of underpants, Microsoft has continued plugging away at previews for the upcoming iteration, Windows 11.…
Apologetic Audacity rewrites privacy policy after 'significant lapse in communication'
Of course kids are allowed. Whatever gave you the impression they weren't? Open-source audio editor Audacity this week posted an apology on GitHub in response to the entirely predictable furore over the platform's privacy policy.…
eBay cyberstalking victims sue internet tat bazaar over former staff members' campaign of harassment
We endured enormous cruelty and abuse and feared for our lives, say couple A couple from the US who run a small ecommerce publication have launched legal action against eBay accusing the company of a "coordinated effort to intimidate, threaten to kill, torture, terrorize, stalk and silence" them to muzzle their coverage.…
Anyone fancy a Snowmobile full of Bags O'Crap? It'll be on the list somewhere
Reg reader reveals colossal 821-item collection of Amazon trademarks tucked away on its site Recently, a Reg reader* contacted us at Vulture (virtual) Towers with something odd they'd found online – a page tucked away in the little-visited “Legal Policies” section of Amazon's website containing a "non-exhaustive" list of all the trademarks held by the company.…
Subcontractors working on CityFibre's £45m Derby rollout threaten to 'rip up tarmac' in dispute over payments
Main contractor J McCann insists it takes its obligations 'very seriously' Contractors helping to lay fibre cables under streets in Derby have threatened to scrap their work and "rip up tarmac" they've laid – unless they get paid.…
Reserve Bank of India official suggests country may soon have a digital currency pilot
CBDC would be released in phases to prevent volatility India may be launching a digital currency, an official from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said today.…
Intel: 'Another one to two years before the industry is able to completely catch up with demand'
CEO reassures punters that $40bn foundry spending will pay off Intel boss Pat Gelsinger reckons global semiconductor shortages that continue to disrupt tech industry supply chains could last until 2023, around the time Chipzilla will at last release its first 7nm process CPU, Meteor Lake.…
In the Navy, we want to share data with some ease. In the Navy, can someone help us with this please?
Palantir potentially in line for £50m contract with Brit maritime force The Royal Navy is on the hunt, not for enemy submarines in this instance, but for a technology supplier to provide a data integration platform in return for a bounty of £50m.…
We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. An exoplanet building its own moons
400 light-years away, satellites are forming Pic Astronomers have for the first time spotted what appears to be a moon-forming ring of matter around a young exoplanet, and described their findings in a paper published on Thursday.…
SAP's home crowd fails to RISE to the bait with lift-and-shift-to-the-cloud offer
German-speaking user group takes dismal view of scheme's value The German-speaking SAP user group (DSAG) has published a decidedly downbeat survey revealing attitudes to RISE with SAP, the application company's big sell to get its entrenched customer base to the cloud.…
Hole blasted in Guntrader: UK firearms sales website's CRM database breached, 111,000 users' info spilled online
One of the worst things that could happen to privacy-focused community Criminals have hacked into a Gumtree-style website used for buying and selling firearms, making off with a 111,000-entry database containing partial information from a CRM product used by gun shops across the UK.…
UKRI denies pulling funding from Newport Wafer Fab over Chinese ownership concerns
'Funding continues,' despite media reports to the contrary Updated UK Research and Investment (UKRI) has rejected reports it had, on instruction of UK government, cut financial support for Newport Wafer Fab over concerns about its acquisition by Nexperia, offering a simple statement: "funding continues."…
UK celebrates 25 years of wasteful, 'underperforming' government IT projects
National Audit Office's scathing report blames fails on lack of experience Government IT projects are poorly thought out, often fail to achieve what they're designed to do, and are a waste of taxpayers' money.…
Is it broken yet? Is it? Is it? Ooh that means I can buy a sparkly, new but otherwise hard-to-justify replacement!
I may consider offering you cash to break it for me Something for the Weekend, Sir? Something is wrong with my eyes. Hang on, no, it's my display that's gone smeary. This is great news.…
Tech support scams subside somewhat, but Millennials and Gen Z think they're bulletproof and suffer
Microsoft study says India is most susceptible, other studies suggest the USA cops it most Tech support scam attempts dropped in frequency over the past two years, but remain a threat. And Millennials and Gen Z – not Boomers – fall prey most frequently, according to Microsoft in its 2021 Global Tech Support Scam Research report, released Thursday.…
Exsparko-destructus! What happens when wand waving meets extremely poor wiring
You killed my data centre, prepare to die On Call Welcome to another edition of On Call in which a contractor's shonky job and a guard's Jedi-like abilities result in an impromptu pager party.…
Even Facebook struggles: Zuck's titanic database upgrade hits numerous legacy software bergs
The Social Network™ has spent years trying to hop from MySQL 5.6 to 8.0 and still isn’t done Facebook has had all sorts of no fun trying to migrate from MySQL 5.6 to version 8.0.…
Struggling to define the best metric system for your engineering team?
Boost your morale, business and velocity with this exclusive broadcast Webcast What’s the most important metric for your engineering team? Is it the number of application deployments they make, or the overall failure rate?…
BT tries to crack cyber crime, grabs stake in Safe Security
Spends £££ on Silicon Valley cyber risk management firm BT is looking to cash in on ever-growing global concerns over digital crime, and has confirmed making a multi million pound investment in US-based cyber risk management firm Safe Security.…
Alan Turing Institute to spend £60m from UK.gov on AI for air traffic control and banking
Turns out the skies can be the limit for machine learning The UK government will, to the tune of £60m, bankroll two major research projects led by the country’s national institute for AI, the Alan Turing Institute: one to automate air traffic control, and the other for banking services.…
India changes tack and tenders for public-private partnerships to complete national broadband rollout
Tender issued to wire 361,000 thousand more villages, with $2.5bn subsidies dangled India has issued tenders for a public-private partnership intended to connect another 361,000 villages to the nation's BharatNet fibre optic network.…
Kaseya obtains REvil decryptor, starts sharing it with afflicted customers
Users sent two further updates – one fixing an issue that prevented installation of antivirus software Software-for-services providers business Kaseya has obtained a "universal decryptor key" for the REvil ransomware and is delivering it to clients.…
Never mind the trolls, Discord hosts 'significant volumes of malware' in its CDN
Biz insists it's trying as hard as possible to scrub clean its IRC-for-the-2020s Sophos on Thursday warned that internet instant-chat service Discord is becoming an increasingly popular malware distribution channel.…
Activision Blizzard accused by California watchdog of fostering 'frat boy' culture, fatally toxic atmosphere
Games giant pushes back on claims of poor pay, harassment, and more in discrimination lawsuit California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing on Thursday sued Activision Blizzard and its subsidiaries, alleging the company fostered a "frat boy" culture that led to lower pay for female employees, sex and race discrimination, and sexual harassment.…
Be careful what you inline: Defunct video-hosting domain used to inject smut flicks into news articles, more
From vid.me to f&*% me?! The domain name of a now-defunct website used by news publishers and others to inline videos in articles has been configured to inject porn into those pages.…
Cyber-attacks really ramp up after Halloween – so why not start preparing now?
Learn tricks of the trade at SANS Singapore 2021 – and treat yourself to a discount Promo Whisper it softly, but we’re fast forwarding through the second half of 2021, which means the holiday shopping season – and accompanying hacking season – is not far behind.…
Facebook gardening group triumphs over slapdash Zuck censorbots
Giant news org megaphone persuades dim algos they're talking about the other sort of hoes A Facebook group dedicated to gardening in western New York state is celebrating a victory over the company's algorithms after having been repeatedly threatened with censure and deletion due to use of the word "hoe".…
Survey of astronomers and geophysicists shines a light on 'bleak' systemic bullying
'We need to hold each other to account when we're talking through these issues' A survey of astronomers and geophysicists has unveiled a "systemic bullying problem" which is "disproportionately worse" for women and members of minority groups, already under-represented in the field.…
Jira Data Center user? Here's a critical Ehcache vulnerability to spoil your day
Update now – and maybe firewall the thing off while you're at it Atlassian has warned Jira Data Center users of a critical vulnerability, offering attackers the opportunity for arbitrary remote code execution – and they're easily exploited over the network.…
Microsoft has a workaround for 'HiveNightmare' flaw: Nuke your shadow copies from orbit
It's the only way to be sure After setting the "days since a security cock-up" counter back to zero, Microsoft has published an official workaround for its Access Control Lists (ACLs) vulnerability (CVE-2021-36934).…
Akamai Edge DNS goes down, takes a chunk of the internet with it
If you're wondering why some websites disappeared today Updated Akamai's Edge DNS service went down on Thursday morning, US West Coast time, knocking over its customers' websites as it fell.…
Securing the cloud while Windows burns: Microsoft pops CloudKnox in trolley
At least Redmond is taking some security seriously Microsoft has snapped up cloud security outfit CloudKnox while researchers continue to poke holes in its down-to-earth Windows operating system.…
Russia's ISS Multipurpose Laboratory Module launches after years sitting on a shelf, immediately runs into issues
Nauka? More like 'Borka!' Geddit? Russia's latest contribution to the International Space Station (ISS), successfully launched yesterday, but appears to have run into problems on orbit.…
Respect in Security initiative aims to build reporting lines for infosec bods suffering harassment at work, conferences and online
Some of the stuff going on in the industry is completely out of order A new initiative aims to make it easier to report personal abuse and harassment within the information security industry – without the involvement of social media mobs.…
Your data is your future. So why trust it to yesterday’s technology?
Learn how to thrive with modern file storage – check out Nasuni CloudBound21 Promo 2020 was an impactful year for file storage. Almost overnight, companies were forced to rethink how they manage, access, and derive value from data, casting a bright light on the advantages of cloud-based technologies. After navigating unforeseen business challenges, including ransomware attacks, remote work environments, and more, it is time to discover how to apply those lessons learned.…
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch loses first stage in fight against extradition to US
UK Home Sec must now sign it off and then it's a High Court matter Mike Lynch, former chief exec of Autonomy, has reportedly lost his US extradition fight at its earliest stage in London's Westminster Magistrates' Court.…
Cranes soar over Lone Star State as Texas Instruments pushes to get new fabs online
Head start from pre-pandemic guesswork running out, and mass production potentially years ago Texas Instruments is flexing its chip-making muscles, boasting of impressive foresight in avoiding the worst of the component shortages and its progress in bringing two new fabs online – but admits it could be years before either begin producing in volume.…
Financial Ombudsman Service to ditch tech heads as it open arms to Workday and outside service provider
Not just the legacy HR and finance systems being booted The UK’s consumer guardian for the financial services sector looks set to chop 38 jobs from its IT department in favour of buying Workday cloud-based HR and hiring an external service provider to support its compute plans.…
Dang vaccines dented our bottom line in the connected home sector, says Netgear
Swings and roundabouts: They also drove a 58% boost to business revenue Netgear has blamed a noticeable slump in one market sector on a surprising cause: the COVID-19 vaccination programme in the UK and US.…
Cut us some Slack: $27bn+ later, collab tool officially belongs to Salesforce
Cloud apps giant sets off to invent the future of work and beat Microsoft Teams Salesforce has completed its long-awaited mega-slurp of Slack Technologies, Inc for an eye-watering $27.7bn.…
Ably blog claims company doesn't need Kubernetes to scale, surge in traffic takes down entire website
'Well that went well' A post on why using Kubernetes to scale would mean "doing mostly the same things but in a more complicated way" was so popular that the site hosting the article went down due to the sheer volume of traffic.…
Everyone cites that 'bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production' research, but the study might not even exist
It's probably still true, though, says formal methods expert "Software research is a train wreck," says Hillel Wayne, a Chicago-based software consultant who specialises in formal methods, instancing the received wisdom that bugs are way more expensive to fix once software is deployed.…
In the '80s, satellite comms showed promise – soon it'll be a viable means to punt internet services at anyone anywhere
We've come a long way from Terry Wogan's celeb interviews Feature Terry Wogan has a lot to answer for. From 1982 to 1992, he presented an eponymous chat show on BBC1 where he would often interview celebrities via satellite in front of an unconvincing backdrop of the Hollywood sign.…
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