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Salesforce's Patterson blazes a trail for humble-braggers everywhere
UK & I shindig has everything: Olympians, Bake-Off stars, and the ever-rising former BT boss Gavin Patterson got his break in marketing by heading up Procter & Gamble’s promotion of its Pantene line of shampoos and conditioners and, just like his voluminous glossy hair, the Salesforce president’s proclivity for self-promotion has never really lost its shine.…
Galaxy quest: Yet another sub-£500 phone comes to trouble mobile big dogs in the form of Realme GT 5G
Big brand flagship performance, midrange price, 3.5mm earphone port Review Over the past five years or so, a trend has emerged in the Android space where devices priced towards the middle of the pack have specs that can compete with the most aspirational blowers.…
Dell bigwig: Expect another 6 months of supply woes. Oh, hello Windows 11
It's partly for a good reason, though: vaccines Semiconductor supply chain problems are set to continue for at least another six months, according to Dell UK senior vice president and GM, Dayne Turbitt, who pointed to a surprising culprit amid surging demand.…
In conversation with Gene Hoffman, co-creator of the internet's first ad blocker
El Reg revisits those early days of the internet and learns of the NSA tipping off Boeing about French spying Interview Gene Hoffman is one of the founders of PrivNet, which in 1996 developed Internet Fast Forward, the internet's first commercial ad blocking software. He helped found the company as a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with the help of fellow students Mark Elrod, Jeff Harrell, and James Howard.…
India under attack by rapidly-evolving advanced persistent threat actor SideCopy, says Cisco Talos
Gang is using custom RATs malware to target government employees, and has an interest in Pakistan, too Cisco’s Talos security unit says it has detected an increased rate of attacks on targets on the Indian subcontinent and named an advanced persistent threat actor named SideCopy as the source.…
Belgian boffins dump Starlink dish terminal's firmware, gain root access and a few ideas
Extra-terrestrial service probed Belgian boffins have published a teardown of the Starlink user terminal – also known as Dishy McFlatface – in which they managed to dump the device's firmware that was housed on a eMMC card upon the PCB.…
Huawei hits the highway as Volkswagen signs to put 4G in 30 million vehicles
A sport of patent revenue comes in handy when faced with US sanctions and 5G bans Huawei has announced that its wireless tech is going into 30 million Volkswagen vehicles, thanks to a deal with an unnamed supplier .…
White hats reported key Kaseya VSA flaw months ago. Ransomware outran the patch
So close, and yet so far One of the vulnerabilities in Kaseya's IT management software VSA that was exploited by miscreants to infect up to 1,500 businesses with ransomware was reported to the vendor in April – and the patch just wasn't ready in time.…
Not a baaa-d idea: Embracing the eunuch lifestyle slows ageing – for sheep anyway
Too big a price to pay for decelerating your epigenetic clock? If you're a gentleman looking to counteract the effects of ageing, a new study on sheep may have the answer – but you're going to have to say goodbye to your family jewels in return for a slowdown of your DNA's ageing process.…
Tencent uses facial recognition to enforce China’s curfew on gaming kids
Accounts held in grown-ups’ names targeted if they stay up late Chinese web giant Tencent has started using facial recognition tech to boot kids out of its games.…
The James Webb Space Telescope, a project dating back to the late 1900s, may launch this very century
Europeans still hoping for Halloween lift-off After years of delays, the James Webb Space Telescope may actually launch this year, having passed a "final mission analysis review," we're told.…
India takes on e-commerce giants with plan for a national platform
Hopes to integrate closed platforms into giant national marketplace and make the lot open-source India has taken aim at Amazon.com, e-commerce platforms like Shopify and even its homegrown e-tail success story Flipkart, by commencing an effort to create an “Open Network for Digital Commerce” that would offer an independent e-commerce platform spanning multiple providers.…
Three-dozen US states plus DC sue Google over Play Store's revenue cut, payment system, and more
Chocolate Factory rolls its eyes at 'meritless' antitrust lawsuit As expected, Google is facing a fresh legal assault regarding its Play Store, the 30 per cent cut it took from developers' revenues via the software souk, and other rules and restrictions.…
IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out
Behind the curtain: Server crashes, thumbs down on Slack, staff compared to shoemaker's kids, and more IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on Wednesday addressed the company's ongoing email woes in his monthly video message to employees.…
You've patched that critical Sage X3 ERP security hole, yeah? Not exposing the suite to the internet, either, yeah?
Details of flaws now public for miscreants to exploit Admins of on-premises Sage X3 ERP deployments should check they're not exposing the enterprise resource planning suite to the public internet in case they fall victim to an unauthenticated command execution vulnerability.…
Bogus Kaseya VSA patches circulate, booby-trapped with remote-access tool
Phishing campaign aims to capitalize on slow fix deployment, it seems This month's Kaseya VSA ransomware attack took a turn for the worse on Wednesday with word that miscreants have launched a phishing campaign to ensnare victims with a remote-control tool disguised as a VSA update.…
Prime Minister says national security advisor will probe Chinese acquisition of UK's top chip maker
Newport Wafer Fab sale to Wingtech goes under microscope UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised a national security investigation into a China-backed corporation’s takeover of Britain's largest producer of semiconductors.…
Amazon Lumberyard is dead, long live the permissively licensed Open 3D Engine
Company donates the whole shooting match to the newly formed foundation, joins as founding member Amazon is abandoning its Lumberyard 3D engine project before it even leaves beta, but in a way that means it could live on for years to come: it's donating it to the newly formed Open 3D Foundation for release and continued development under a permissive open-source licence.…
Florida Man sues Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for account ban
Golf fan has opinions on America's First Amendment and Section 230 A Florida man held a press conference at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Wednesday to announce the filing of lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and corresponding executives Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Sundar Pichai – who runs YouTube's parent company.…
Microsoft defends intrusive dialog in Visual Studio Code that asks if you really trust the code you've been working on
'All the subtlety of a GDPR cookie banner and the charm of Clippy' Visual Studio Code program manager Chris Dias has defended an intrusive new "Workspace Trust" dialog, saying it is to "raise awareness that there are many attack opportunities when you download code from the internet."…
Microsoft struggles to wake from its PrintNightmare: Latest print spooler patch can be bypassed, researchers say
I pity the spool Any celebrations that Microsoft's out-of-band patch had put a stop PrintNightmare shenanigans may have been premature.…
NASA readies commands to switch on Hubble's back-up hardware
Observatory might be able to spot distant stars, but it can't hear a bunch of engineers holding their breath NASA is preparing to have another crack at restoring the veteran Hubble telescope to service with a multi-day test of procedures to fire up back-up hardware aboard the spacecraft.…
Oi! Our British Airways data breach compo sueball is still going, shouts rival law firm
Yesterday's settlement was just one of the bigger firms The British Airways data breach not-quite-a-class-action hasn't ended after all, a rival to yesterday's law firm has told The Register.…
After 15 years and $500m, the US Navy decides it doesn't need shipboard railguns after all
Pentagon feels it can counter Chinese electromagnetic projectiles with stuff it already has or will have shortly After more than 15 years of R&D, and half a billion dollars of funding, the United States Navy has decided to give up on the prospect of mounting enormous railguns on its ships. For the moment, at least.…
Report shines light on REvil's depressingly simple tactics: Phishing, credential-stuffing RDP servers... the usual
And those multimillion-dollar payouts Palo Alto Networks' global threat intelligence team, Unit 42, has detailed the tactics ransomware group REvil has employed to great impact so far this year – along with an estimation of the multimillion-dollar payouts it's receiving.…
Boffins say they've improved on algorithm for dynamic load balancing of server workloads
Not too soon, either. Levels of internet traffic seen in 2017 will have tripled by 2022 Professor Mikkel Thorup of the University of Copenhagen claims his research team has vastly improved a dynamic load balancing algorithm for server workloads that is already used by tech giants like Google and Vimeo.…
Nvidia launches Cambridge-1, UK's most powerful supercomputer, in Arm's neighbourhood
Plus: free supercomputing for 5 healthcare partners. Charm offensive to support Arm takeover plans? Nvidia has launched its Cambridge-1 supercomputer, with a focus on AI for healthcare, as part of larger plans to boost AI research in the university city itself and more widely across the UK.…
Hoe yes he did: IT pro record-botherer balances garden tool on his head for 2.5 hours
Adds to soap-stacking, egg-catching, chess-setting, and many more titles A US techie is today raking in global adulation after balancing a garden hoe on his head for more than two and a half hours.…
UK's data watchdog probes use of private email to discuss government business at the Department of Health
Information Commissioner cites loss of transparency as reason for inquiry The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has opened an official inquiry into the misuse of private email accounts at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).…
Audacity fork maintainer quits after alleged harassment by 4chan losers who took issue with 'Tenacity' name
Pseudonymous engineer claims people were coming to his house Efforts to wrest control of the open-source Audacity audio editing project from corporate owner Muse Group have hit a stumbling block after the maintainer of one of the more popular forks stepped down over alleged physical harassment.…
Jackie 'You have no authority here' Weaver: We need more 50-somethings in UK tech
Lack of older workers probably means they need to reskill, says BCS survey Jackie Weaver – whose forthright handling of a local parish council planning meeting went viral earlier this year – has added her voice to concerns that there aren't enough "people of a certain age" in IT.…
Australian geoboffins have zoomed in and enhanced CSI-style soil analysis: Bung it in a machine, find the crime scene
New approach could lead to a system for geolocating dirt samples The University of Canberra and Australian Federal Police have detailed a new method for digging up dirt on crims – and it could mean an end to literally digging up dirt on crims.…
The black screen of BIOS borkage haunts Space Shuttle Discovery's new home
They can put a man on the Moon, but can't change the battery in this Dell? Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork takes to the skies, kind of, with a Dell Optiplex disgracing itself at one of America's hallowed halls of aerospace.…
Five consultancies with severe branding difficulties win spots on UK government's £580m 'transformation' services framework
Outsourcing the decision to outsource? The UK government has awarded £580m of a £2bn framework contract to five suppliers, partly in the hope they can assist in telling public sector buyers how and where taxpayers' cash should be spent on tech services.…
Robots still suck. It's all they can do to stand up – never mind rise up
Simultaneous localisation and mapping is hard so for the foreseeable future ’bots will remain bolted down Feature Just after lunch on a sweltering summer day in Brisbane, Australia, a dozen scientists and engineers gathered to watch a dog named Bingo stand up and trot gingerly towards a man-made tunnel. At the entrance, Bingo stopped to 'think' for a minute or so before turning its body to walk inside.…
Gov.UK vows to chop red tape in the digital sector. What could possibly go wrong?
Answers on a postcard below The UK government has published its latest pile of policy-related paperwork that it claims will help shape the UK's growing digital sector.…
Citing cross-border data transfer and privacy concerns, China promises security blitz on securities
Beijing wants tech companies that list offshore to get serious about compliance Infosec concerns have led China’s government to apply closer scrutiny to Chinese companies that list and send data offshore, according to a document written by China’s State Council cabinet and the Communist Party’s General Secretary.…
Kepler spots four rogue Earth-mass exoplanets floating in space, unbound to any star
Data from NASA's 'scope may be years old now though discoveries keep on coming Astronomers have discovered four faraway Earth-mass exoplanets that appear to be floating in space all by themselves without a parent star to orbit.…
Mega-distie SYNNEX attacked and Microsoft cloud accounts it tends tampered
Republican National Committee said to be a victim, with Cozy Bear in the frame for the attack Updated Technology distributor SYNNEX has admitted that its systems and Microsoft accounts it tends have been attacked, after the National Committee of the US Republican Party (RNC) named it as the source of a recent security incident.…
Microsoft patches PrintNightmare — even on Windows 7 — but the terror isn’t over
No fixes yet for Windows 10 version 1607, Windows Server 2016, or Windows Server 2012 Microsoft has issued out-of-band patches for the PrintNightmare print spooler bug that allows lets remote Windows users execute code as system on your domain controller.…
Kaseya’s VSA SaaS restart fails, service restoration delayed by at least ten hours
CEO comes out swinging, says 'people make the story and make the impact of this larger than what it is' Kaseya’s attempt to recover its SaaS services has failed, and its CEO has attempted to play down the significance of the incident that has seen its VSA services offline since July 2nd and over 1,000 ransomware infections.…
Evidence planted on laptops of jailed Indian activists, says forensics firm Arsenal Computing
NetWire malware used to deliver incriminating letters into obscure directories users could not see Evidence used to charge an Indian man with plotting to assassinate India’s Prime Minister and inciting violence at a 2018 protest was planted on his laptop, according to US digital forensics consultancy Arsenal Computing.…
Biden to sign exec order calling for right-to-repair rules for farmers, maybe rest of us
I've got a brand new combine harvester an' I'll give you the firmware update key President Joe Biden is expected this week to sign an executive order directing the formation of rules that ensure Americans have the right to repair ... their farming equipment, at least.…
Age discrimination case against IBM leaks emails, docs via bad redaction
Documents detail exec worried that failure to transfer some laid-off workers 'will blow a hole in our rhetoric' An IBM age discrimination lawsuit filed in Texas last year has become a bit less opaque after The Register found an inadequately redacted court document that discusses plans to present evidence obtained from company emails and documents.…
Kaspersky Password Manager's random password generator was about as random as your wall clock
Could be brute-forced due to design blunders, according to infosec outfit Last year, Kaspersky Password Manager (KPM) users got an alert telling them to update their weaker passwords. Now we've found out why that happened.…
China Aerospace Investment Holdings chairman in custody after two academics assaulted
Boffins in hospital, official goes to work as normal until social media blows up The head of China Aerospace Investment Holdings has been taken into police custody after a video showing two senior scientists being attacked went viral on China's microblogging site Weibo and TenCent's WeChat last week.…
Ransomware-hit law firm gets court order asking crooks not to publish the data they stole
Good luck with that, 4 New Square Chambers A barristers' chambers hit by a ransomware attack has responded by getting a court order demanding the criminals do not share stolen data.…
Infor offloads its asset management unit on Swedish 'digital reality' biz to focus on industry-specific cloud ERP
That's fancy talk for sensors, software, and autonomous technologies btw Infor has sold its asset management applications business to Hexagon AB, a Swedish industrial tech biz, in a deal valued at $2.75bn.…
Pentagon scraps $10bn JEDI winner-takes-all cloud contract
Y'know what, a single-vendor IT mega-deal probably isn't the best idea after all, says US military Updated The Pentagon has killed off the $10bn JEDI IT contract that Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, and others spent years fighting over.…
The most dangerous AI approach could be ‘wait and see’ – here’s why
Tune in and we'll help you decide when to make the jump Webcast It’s clear that the rapid advance of artificial intelligence will have a profound impact on businesses of all types. So what should you be doing to prepare your organisation to embrace AI?…
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