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by Matthew Hughes on (#5K6JS)
Apple CEO stays on message during interview while Epic case rumbles along Tim Cook has claimed that proposed reforms to the App Store are "not in the best interests of the user" and would "destroy the security of the iPhone."…
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by Richard Speed on (#5K6F7)
Ubuntu fans report 404 errors amid 'space issues' TITSUP* Microsoft demonstrated its deep and meaningful affection for all things penguin overnight by borking packages.microsoft.com and leaving some Linux fans bereft of the company's wares.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5K6C6)
New 60 vCPU VMs come with some bold price-performance claims, but AMD needs to stay on its toes Google's cloud arm has hooked up with AMD, tapping up its latest EPYC processors for a new family of virtual machines, Tau VMs, aimed at scale-out applications - but the company isn't keen on tying itself down to just one chip-slinger.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5K6C7)
Glitch leaves punters unable to pay for their goods and services Opayo, the payment processor formerly known as Sage Pay, has not been having a great Thursday, as an unknown systems failure took its systems offline - preventing customers from accepting any payments.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5K6A1)
Though it's mostly just looking to make its cars safer, rather than hide them A team of researchers have detailed a range of techniques which they suggest could one day lead to a genuine cloak of invisibility - although, thanks to Toyota's involvement, they're looking to start by making the windscreen pillars disappear from your next car.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5K679)
Prototype system designed to uncover, say, coordinated bot accounts with bogus profile pictures Computer scientists have built prototype software capable of not only detecting fake images forged by neural networks but also estimating the properties of the model used to generate these so-called deepfakes.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5K67A)
'I loved the idea of FrontPage, and learnt so much' confesses Utopia founder Looking for a design and coding tool for React? A new effort, Utopia, was released in alpha this week.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5K65G)
So the National Audit Office found in report on the Office of Product Safety and Standards, anyway A report into the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has highlighted “gaps in regulators' powers”, with major risks found in oversight of online marketplaces, “smart” Internet of Things devices — and, oddly, artificial intelligence.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5K63R)
Major banks, websites, gaming services, and more taken down A wide range of internet-connected services in Australia, including banking systems, are experiencing an outage – and it looks like a hiccup at Akamai was at the heart of the problem.…
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by Verity Stob on (#5K62B)
To boldly zoom Stob Exterior: model shot. The Enterprise is seen parked above the equator of a planet. As usual, it is at a peculiar, inward-shifting angle relative to its background. It gives the impression that, far from being captured by gravitational pull, it can only sustain its orbit by continually bearing hard to the left, as though the modelmakers were unaware of the comparative scale of planets and spaceships.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K60X)
Gates did both jobs, Ballmer didn’t. And of course there’s a handbrake in the form of a new lead independent director Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been appointed Chair of the company’s board.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K60Y)
Japan Supersonic Research wants to be in the air by 2030 Japan has a assembled a supergroup of aviation, industrial, and space organisations to build a supersonic passenger jet.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K5ZJ)
Putin to Biden: чушь! You already attack us way more than we attack you! US President Joe Biden and his Russian Federation counterpart Vladimir Putin have traded barbs over cyber-attacks at a summit meeting staged yesterday in Switzerland.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K5Y7)
Seeks extra decision-making bandwidth “to lead next phase of growth” by appointing two co-chief operating officers Dell has appointed a new member of its senior leadership team: former Bain & Company director Chuck Whitten.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K5WZ)
Big tech and local authorities are both far from helpful when victims try to delete unauthorised images or prosecute creeps International non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Wednesday describing digital sex crime in South Korea as rampant and pervasive, with the nation leading the world in use of spycams to capture women in vulnerable moments. The author calls on governments and companies to do more.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K5W3)
Report says robotic process automation to shrink headcount by 30 per cent and boost profits — yet the outsourcers keep talking about hiring sprees The Bank of America’s global research team has predicted that India’s IT outsourcers are planning three million job cuts by 2022, with "low-skill" humans to be replaced by robotic process automation.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5K5V7)
Just in case you travel back in time to 1998 The GEA/1 encryption algorithm used by GPRS phones in the 1990s was seemingly designed to be weaker than it appears to allow eavesdropping, according to European researchers.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5K5S0)
Won't someone else save us from our policies and our decision to forego editorial control? Amazon, which for years has struggled to curb fakery and fraud on its e-commerce platform, has blamed social media companies for undermining its integrity efforts.…
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by David Gordon on (#5K5Q4)
Fast forward your transition with this highly concentrated Nutanix Database Summit Promo If you are responsible for enterprise infrastructure, you should know that exploiting the hybrid cloud is not just an option but will very likely be a necessity over the next few years.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5K5NB)
Imagine the service ticket Computer scientists at NASA are trying to fix the Hubble Space Telescope’s payload computer after the hardware froze due to what's believed to be a degraded memory module.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5K5H4)
One of six guys charged over Infinera, Fortinet securities A teacher who knew too much about some of Silicon Valley's financial figures has been charged with insider dealing by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, along with five alleged accomplices.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5K5EN)
For those who like a bit of oomph under the bonnet Lenovo has spruced up a significant chunk of its workstation-class lineup with the ThinkPad P1, P15, and P17 all seeing significant upgrades.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5K5BR)
Jeff's younger brother and mystery hyper-rich paying passenger may end up as unfortunate collateral damage A campaign has been started on the Change.org petition website to prevent Amazon founder Jeff Bezos from returning to Earth after his upcoming jaunt into space on 20 July.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5K58Q)
Viasat's 'newfound environmentalism is belied by its actions at every turn' SpaceX has accused a satellite telecommunications rival of trying to a weaponise environmental legislation to hamper the expansion of its Starlink internet service.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5K58R)
Spreadsheet breaks down spend on staving off future badness An organisation whose network was infected by Ryuk ransomware has spent $8.1m over seven months recovering from it – and that’s still not the end of it, according to US news reports.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5K55F)
Like the massive ships with miniguns The UK is to splash £36m on 18 new vessels to help protect Royal Navy bases around Britain and Gibraltar.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5K51Y)
Scream if you wanna go raster: Vulnerability uncovered in unloved software As Microsoft preps the next version of Windows, a hole has been spotted in an earlier Great Hope for the company: MS Paint 3D.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5K4YJ)
Along with a slew of other new features Systemd maintainer Lennart Poettering has committed code for RC1 including a huge number of new features.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5K4YK)
Cobalt Strike and Flawedammyy RAT named as favoured tools Ukrainian police have arrested six people, alleged to be members of the notorious Clop* ransomware gang, seizing cash, cars – and a number of Apple Mac laptops and desktops.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5K4VD)
Lego ISS fans, look away now International Space Station (ISS) astronauts are venturing out of the orbiting outpost today to replace its ageing solar arrays.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5K4VE)
Project maintainers follow GCC in dropping copyright assignment requirement The GNU C Library (glibc) and GNU Portability Library (gnulib) are laying the groundwork to divorce themselves from the troubled Free Software Foundation by removing the requirement for copyright assignment.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5K4SF)
Papa John's falls foul of 'soft opt-in' exemption in PECR rules Pizza takeaway and delivery outfit Papa John's has been fined £10,000 by the UK's data watchdog for sending marketing fluff to punters without their say-so.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5K4QD)
Did health service's tech arm give a cut-off date for doctors to process forms? Apparently not The British Medical Association (BMA) has criticised NHS Digital for its lack of clear communication over the opt out deadline for its postponed mass extraction of 55 million people's GP data in England.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5K4QE)
Institution continues its digital makeover The University of Nottingham has begun a hunt for an IT services vendor, wafting between £50m and £80m to tempt them to the table.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5K4N5)
Why? Because the Mac has lost its way and modern OSes are too controlled and too complex, creator argues helloSystem, a project that gives FreeBSD a user interface reminiscent of macOS, hit the 0.5 landmark with a new build last week.…
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by David Gordon on (#5K4KF)
Oh, you want to know how to do that? Start here… Webcast Making the case for digital transformation is easy. Deciding where to begin? That’s the tricky part.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#5K4J3)
A lot of effort has gone into this release and it shows – everything 'just works' Hands on The Debian 11 is the venerable Debian Project's first new release in more than two years, nicknamed "Bullseye" after the Toy Story character and supplanting Debian 10 "Buster" (all Debian releases bear names from the kids' film).…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5K4GD)
Developers fed up with iGiant neglecting non-native software Apple's WebKit team has managed to break the popular IndexedDB JavaScript API in the latest version of Safari (14.1.1) on macOS 11.4 and iOS 14.6.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K4GE)
Plans four crewed missions to assemble “heavenly palace” China will on Thursday launch a crew of three on a mission to start assembling the nation’s first space station.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5K4EX)
Source code auction 'similar to selling an autograph copy of a book' Internet trailblazer Sir Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning off a link to his very early World Wide Web browser and server source code in the form of a non-fungible token.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5K4EY)
China’s fan economy is the new business model for artists and brands - and it sometimes gets ugly China is trying to make its cyberspace a bit kinder and is targeting a phenomenon appealing largely but not solely to female teenagers known as "fan quan", or fan clubs, to do so.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K4DJ)
New design leads the eye from the throne to the sewer, allegedly cost $1.5m LogoWatch Online scheduling service Calendly has updated its logo and attracted some criticism because it looks, well, a bit shit.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K4BT)
Services giant given a week’s notice of interrogation as e-tax service continues to splutter Infosys has been hauled in by India’s Ministry of Finance to explain the glitchy e-tax system it developed for the nation.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K4AM)
Shopping service Taobao scraped by affiliate marketer; developer and boss jailed Alibaba’s Chinese shopping operation Taobao has suffered a data breach of over a billion data points including usernames and mobile phone numbers. The info was lifted from the site by a crawler developed by an affiliate marketer.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5K49S)
Ampere gets more love and the Raspberry Pi gets some stability tweaks for you virtual adventurers out there VMware’s unsupported version of its ESXi hypervisor for Arm platforms has been updated with support for two-socket servers and Nvidia's Arm-flexing development boards.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5K493)
Promises to 'safeguard fair competition and protect consumers, workers, and honest businesses ... with vigor' US President Joe Biden has successfully installed Lina Khan, a top legal scholar and an outspoken critic of Big Tech, as the new chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5K47T)
Leak of glossy makeover turns hype up to ... you get the idea Microsoft's Windows 11, expected to debut at a company event scheduled for June 24, has leaked online and is now appearing in screenshots on various websites.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5K42P)
Then solves a longstanding extinction puzzle Scientists at the University of Michigan have celebrated an experiment where ultra-tiny computers were strapped to the backs of snails – solving a long-unanswered extinction mystery.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5K40F)
BC judge lengthens notice period The British Columbia Supreme Court has ordered Dell Canada to pay a former sales representative nearly C$500,000 in damages after ruling he had been wrongfully terminated.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5K40G)
Here we go again A US judge has denied HPE's motion for a summary judgement in its long-running Solaris operating system support squabble with Oracle.…
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