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WTF? Microsoft makes fixing deadly OMIGOD flaws on Azure your job
Clouds usually fix this sort of thing before bugs go public. This time it's best to assume you need to do this yourself Microsoft Azure users running Linux VMs in the IT giant's Azure cloud need to take action to protect themselves against the four "OMIGOD" bugs in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) framework, because Microsoft hasn't raced to do it for them.…
Businesses put robots to work when human workers are hard to find, argue econo-boffins
The lure of shiny new tech isn't a motivator, although in the USA bots are used to cut costs Researchers have found that business adoption of robots and other forms of automation is largely driven by labor shortages.…
After eight years, SPEC delivers a new virtualisation benchmark
Jumps from single-server tests to four hosts – but only for vSphere and RHV The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has released its first new virtualisation benchmark in eight years.…
South Korea surfs silicon shortage to record tech exports
42.4 per cent increase in chip sales, and smartphone shipments did even better Exports of South Korean ICT products reached an all-time high in August, thanks to global demand for silicon chips, reported the country's Ministry of Science and ICT on Tuesday.…
Forget that Loon's balloon burst, we just fired 700TB of laser broadband between two cities, says Google
Up to 20Gbps link sustained over the Congo in comms experiment Engineers at Google’s technology moonshot lab X say they used lasers to beam 700TB of internet traffic between two cities separated by the Congo River.…
Apple's M1 MacBook screens are stunning – stunningly fragile and defective, that is, lawsuits allege
Latest laptops prone to cracking, distortions, owners complain Aggrieved MacBook owners in two separate lawsuits claim Apple's latest laptops with its M1 chips have defective screens that break easily and malfunction.…
Microsoft's Azure Virtual Desktop now works without Active Directory – but there are caveats
General availability of Azure AD-joined VMs Microsoft has declared general availability for Azure Virtual Desktop with the VMs joined to Azure AD rather than Active Directory, but the initial release has many limitations.…
It's bizarre we're at a point where reports are written on how human rights trump AI rights
But that's what UN group has done The protection of human rights should be front and centre of any decision to implement AI-based systems regardless of whether they're used as corporate tools such as recruitment or in areas such as law enforcement.…
Aviation-themed phishing campaign pushed off-the-shelf RATs into inboxes for 5 years
Not all promises of international flight itineraries are real, warns Cisco Talos A phishing campaign that mostly targeted the global aviation industry may be connected to Nigeria, according to Cisco Talos.…
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81
From pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond Sir Clive Sinclair died on Thursday at home in London after a long illness, his family said today. He was 81.…
The age of the Service Pack is over. The time of the Modern Servicing Model has come
It's CUs and GDRs here on out for Microsoft's SQL Server It's the end of an era. Microsoft has finally released its very last SQL Server service pack.…
CityFibre scores extra £1bn+ of funding to plumb in up to eight million British homes by 2025
Ikea parent Interogo Holding among the investors Full-fibre network operator CityFibre has grabbed £1.125bn in financing to help support its plan to wire up to eight million homes in the UK.…
Bepanted shovel-toting farmer wins privacy payout from France TV
Unwitting star of #Slipgate viral images awarded reduced damages, tempts Streisand effect A French farmer who was filmed setting about bird conservationists with a shovel while in his underpants has won damages from a TV company that filmed the incident for violating his privacy.…
OpenSilver throws Microsoft Silverlight devs a lifeline as end of support looms – or you could forget it ever happened
Open-source project migrates deprecated apps to WebAssembly Microsoft Silverlight, now only supported in the legacy Internet Explorer, goes completely end of life on 12 October – but an open-source project called OpenSilver has appeared to convert Silverlight projects to WebAssembly.…
Ransomware-hit law firm secures High Court judgment against unknown criminals
You tell 'em, 4 New Square chambers The London law firm which secured a court injunction forbidding ransomware criminals from publishing data stolen from them has now gone a step further – by securing a default judgment from the High Court.…
Dowden out, Dorries in: Is UK data protection in safe hands?
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life... for Dorries Comment Nadine Dorries is the latest government minister charged with steering the data protection law through the choppy straits between the UK's desire to unleash "data's power across the economy and society for the benefit of British citizens and British businesses", and the boring need to comply with EU data protection law.…
If it were possible to evade facial-recognition systems using just subtle makeup, it might look something like this
Interested in poking away at machine-learning models? This academic study could be a good start Makeup carefully applied to the forehead, cheeks, and nose may help you evade facial recognition systems, judging from these computer scientists' experimental work.…
What have the Romans ever done for us? In ServiceNow's new Rome release, replaced intranets, for one
Adds Teams integration for new ‘Employee Centre’, automated automation for service desk ServiceNow has loosed the new "Rome" release of its SaaS workflow platform on a waiting world.…
Computer and data scientists should be as highly regarded as 'warriors' says top UK cybergeneral
Translation: Skills shortage here! DSEI 2021 Military computer scientists ought to be treated with the same regard as pilots and warship captains, the head of the Army's cyber command has said.…
UK funds hydrogen-powered cargo submarine to torpedo maritime emissions by 2050
Green machine will also suck up microplastics between Glasgow and Belfast A hydrogen-powered cargo-carrying submarine has received taxpayer funding as part of the UK government's goal to slash maritime emissions by 2050.…
Technology doesn’t widen the education divide. People do that
And no, we don’t want a generation of early-years coders Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you – the reader – choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular. It's up to our writers to convince you to vote for their side.…
UK Cabinet Office calls off its search for a 'partner' in Whitehall SaaS ERP migration
'This is not the outcome you were hoping for,' bidders told The UK's Cabinet Office has cancelled a procurement to move a group of central government departments off Oracle's wares to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ERP systems.…
Turing Award winner Barbara Liskov on CLU and why programming is still cool
Error handling and encapsulation remain the name of the game Interview It has been 13 years since Barbara Liskov won a Turing Award for her contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, and these days the creator of the CLU programming language continues to work on some interesting problems.…
De-identify, re-identify: Anonymised data's dirty little secret
Jeffrey Singh, stamp-collecting bachelor (35) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin – is that you? Feature Publishing data of all kinds offers big benefits for government, academic, and business users. Regulators demand that we make that data anonymous to deliver its benefits while protecting personal privacy. But what happens when people read between the lines?…
Myanmar junta demanded telcos activate phone interception tools – and we refused, says Telenor
Norwegian carrier insists it's quitting Asian nation to defend human rights – but the buyer it lined up is accused of shady dealings Norwegian mobile carrier Telenor has revealed one reason it is quitting Myanmar is that the nation's ruling junta wanted it to intercept calls carried on its network.…
Oracle sets its own JDK free, sort of, for a while
Welcome to the No-Fee Terms and Conditions, which makes the Java dev kit a bit more appealing Analysis Oracle this week made Oracle JDK "available for free," for personal, commercial and production use, including quarterly security updates, for a limited time.…
It's time to delete that hunter2 password from your Microsoft account, says IT giant
And go passwordless, use auth app, keys, Windows Hello, or codes to login From this week, Microsoft won't require you, or your password manager, to come up with strings of letters, numbers, and special characters forming a silly sentence or a reconfiguration of an ex’s name and birthday to access the Windows giant's services.…
India changes telco tax laws to help carriers avoid hitting the wall
Moratorium offered to ease burden of $22B debts India has re-written some of its telecommunications laws to make foreign investment easier and reduce enormous retrospective tax bills that threatened to send some carriers to the wall.…
This is AUKUS for China – US, UK, Australia reveal defence tech-sharing pact
Will build nuke-powered subs together and share cyber, AI, quantum and mysterious 'undersea capabilities' tech Australia, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom have signed a new defence and technology-sharing pact.…
SpaceX successfully sends four amateurs into orbit for three-day tour
Vision from window seats didn't stream, everything else worked SpaceX has successfully launched its first all-civilian crew into space.…
Huawei CEO hopes to woo foreign boffins to work on 6G in Shanghai campus that feels just like home
Staff also told to 'seize the patent position' on sixth-gen mobile networks Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei told an internal company meeting his mega-corp must focus early on 6G to avoid being restrained by patents – and it will seek international talent to achieve that.…
Travis CI quietly fixed a bug that exposed secret keys
For at least a week, cloning a public repo made upstream environmental variables accessible From at least September 3 through September 10, public open-source code repositories that used Travis CI exposed their sensitive keys, credentials, and tokens to potential theft.…
DARPA plans thousands-strong satellite constellation Space-BACN sandwich
Mmmm... BACN. Is there anything it can't do? DARPA, the famously scattershot defence research agency of people's hearts, has turned its attention to recent announcements of planned and actual communications satellite constellation launches, asking: "Why can't these things all just talk to each other?"…
Feeling saucy? Wave of Microsoft releases includes go-live licence for .NET 6
On track for November release, but why is ASP.NET more loved than wanted? Microsoft has released another wave of previews for its .NET technology stack, but this time including a go-live licence for .NET 6 that enables brave users to deploy to production.…
Microfluidic processor brings us one step closer to a future of squishy DNA computing
'Our hope is that DNA-based CPUs will replace electronic CPUs in the future' Boffins at the Incheon National University have made what they claim to be a breakthrough in computing: a programmable processor which uses DNA, rather than electronics, to perform its computation.…
SpaceX prepares to launch four civilians and a glass dome into space
Musk to demonstrate his is mightier than Bezos or Branson's The first orbital spaceflight crewed completely by civilians, Inspiration4, is due to launch tonight from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A atop a SpaceX Falcon 9.…
Speciality electronics outfit boasts of 64-fold density increase for its latest space-ready MRAM parts
Takes Avalanche's latest STT-MRAM tech and packs it into rad-hard ceramic squares Electronics outfit Micross has announced the launch of a 1 gigabit magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) component, its highest-density part yet - and a device it hopes will prove the future of spintronics for high-reliability computing in harsh environments.…
New release of SweRVolf RISC-V SoC project aims for lower barrier to entry
FOSSi Foundation's Olof Kindgren on the origins, future, and success of the RISC-V ISA The SweRVolf project, a fully open system-on-chip designed as a reference platform for Western Digital's RISC-V SweRV cores, has announced a major new release promising lower barriers to entry for those looking to experiment.…
BT Wholesale wants the channel to give SMBs a nudge before copper sunset in 2025
New products launched to help shift oblivious or straggler firms over ahead of PSTN switch-off Small businesses in the UK are still woefully unprepared for the 2025 PSTN switch-off, when the plug will be pulled on the copper phone network.…
Vector database Pinecone promises to bring ML data management under control with 2.0 release
Hybrid disk and RAM system should slash costs, firm says Pinecone has upgraded its vector database, aiming at enterprises that are looking to boost productivity in machine learning projects.…
App Annie fined $10m by the SEC for deceptive practices around how it presented data
Analytics firm will neither admit nor deny the findings The US Securities and Exchange Commission has fined mobile data analytics biz App Annie $10m for engaging in deceptive practices and making material misrepresentations about how its alternative data was derived.…
Catch of the day... for Google, anyway: Transatlantic Cornwall cable hauled ashore
Grace Hopper landed Google's newest transatlantic subsea cable has finally been hauled ashore in Cornwall, more than a year after the megacorp revealed plans to connect the UK and US.…
Linux kernel minimum compiler raised to GCC 5.1, allowing potential C11 use
Change also has handy side effect of fixing some warnings as errors Linux creator and maintainer Linus Torvalds has merged a late change to the forthcoming 5.15 kernel code that raises the minimum compiler from GCC 4.9 to 5.1 – which may in future enable use of an updated version of the C programming language, C11.…
HPE finds second new CTO in 16 months with Fidelma Russo
In-demand exec poached from VMware after Virtzilla poached her from Iron Mountain HPE has confirmed an executive remix, putting Fidelma Russo – formerly of VMware – into the role of chief technology officer, just 16 months after previous incumbent Kumar Sreekanti was appointed.…
Ransomware crims saying 'We'll burn your data if you get a negotiator' can't be legally paid off anyway
Grief Corp are already under US sanctions, says Emsisoft A couple of ransomware gangs have threatened to start deleting files if targeted companies call in professional negotiators to help lower prices for decryption tools.…
Technology does widen the education divide. But not always in the way you expect
The pandemic has turned children away from tech, says early-years teacher Maria Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you – the reader – choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…
Ex-DJI veep: There was no drone at Gatwick during 2018's hysterical shutdown
Bold words from Boston Dynamics' new man There was never a rogue drone at Gatwick Airport that caused planes to be grounded over the 2018 Christmas holidays, an outgoing exec at Chinese drone-maker DJI has claimed.…
The Register speaks to one of the designers behind the latest Lego Ideas marvel: A clockwork solar system
Who needs a 3,000-piece orrery? We do, of course A clockwork model of the solar system has turned up in Lego Ideas*, combining some impressive Technic work with artistic whimsy.…
Met Police prepare £300m procurement for integrators and resellers
London cops on track to spend £1bn on IT contracting over couple of years The Mayor of London's Office for Policing and Crime is looking to talk to suppliers as it prepares for an IT procurement worth up to £300m.…
China to push RISC-V to global prominence – but maybe into a corner, too, says analyst
Which may not be a good thing for Arm, or anyone Attempts to restrict technology transfer to China could see the RISC-V architecture become more prominent, but also reduce the diversity of development around the platform.…
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