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Ofcom gets new CTO as UK regulator welcomes Amazon Alexa Smart Home exec
Let's hope Sachin Jogia sticks around longer than his predecessor Ofcom is to get a new full-time CTO this autumn in Sachin Jogia, who has spent the last nine years at Amazon and is currently GM of the Alexa Smart Home product management and business teams.…
No change control? Without suitable planning, a change can be as good as an arrest
How to make software ch-ch-ch-changes easier Feature Anyone who has worked in medium or large organisations will know that there are three levels of change control when it comes to code: (a) the organisation doesn’t have any, (b) the organisation has change control but does it sub-optimally, and (c) change is managed well.…
Student Loans Company splashes out on 20,000 cybersecurity training courses – for just 3,300 employees
FoI request details £76,800 in training fees, most of which went to staff security-specific departments The Student Loans Company (SLC) spent £76,800 on cybersecurity training over its previous two fiscal years – including a sudden and unsurprising interest in security in a work-from-home environment.…
Wine 6.0.1: For that one weird app on that one weird Mac
Wine64 support arrives for the Apple M1 Fans of Apple's M1 silicon have some more code to play with as the Wine team emitted version 6.0.1 of the Windows-running platform with support for wine64 on the new chippery.…
An anti-drone system that sneezes targets to death? Would that be a DARPA project? You betcha
Hotshot snotbot shows grotty terror plot buzzbots what's what Until recently, the variously camouflaged, partially stealthed and fully invisibility-cloaked boffins at DARPA – Uncle Sam's most famous left-field military research institute – had a problem.…
UK.gov's new single enforcement body does not cover rogue umbrella companies, contractor campaigners complain
Why does it always... That's why. That's why it's raining on you UK government proposals to create a workers' watchdog have been slammed by campaigners for not adequately covering umbrella companies, some of which have been accused of sharp practices as the IR35 off-payroll tax revamp expands their usage among contractors.…
Hong Kong to explore its own digital currency and keep testing China’s Digital Yuan
Plans fintech infusion for local banking sector, plus data-sharing infrastructure Hong Kong has revealed a strategy to give its financial services sector a fintech infusion.…
'Ring of fire' headed to northern UK – a partial solar eclipse, not the sensation you get after a potent vindaloo
Russia, Greenland, northern Canada will get the Full Monty Dust off your funky eclipse sunglasses and your homemade pinhole projector – a partial solar eclipse is set to cast a blurry shadow across parts of the UK on Thursday.…
South Korea’s data watchdog barks warnings at Microsoft and five local firms
Fines, fines, everywhere there's fines Microsoft and five other companies have received fines totaling US$75K from South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), for running afoul of local data protection laws.…
Ransomware-skewered meat producer JBS confesses to paying $11m for its freedom
Company also says large and well-funded IT department sorted recovery swiftly JBS Foods, one of the world’s largest meat producers, has revealed it handed over “the equivalent of $11 million” to resolve a ransomware infection that disrupted operations in Australia, the USA, and Canada.…
NTT slashes top execs’ pay as punishment for paying more than their share of $500-a-head meals with government officials
None were illegal, but they did put civil servants in awkward ethical territory and execs knew it Japanese tech and telecoms giant NTT has temporarily slashed the pay of several top executives, to reprimand them for paying too much of the bill at $500-a-head lunches with government officials.…
Y'all ready to get back to the office this October, Facebook tells staff in the US
Sure, you can apply to work from home in the middle of nowhere, just don't expect Silicon Valley pay Facebook, like other Silicon Valley mega-corps, is ready to get its workers back in the office, setting October as the time when business returns somewhat to normal.…
'Condolences on the death of your conscience' says card from Indonesian delivery drivers to local Uber clone after payments slashed
Also sent lovely flowers as US$22bn GoTo Group cut driver bonuses Drivers who work for Indonesia’s Uber equivalent, Gojek, have gone on strike for three days in response to some of the payments they receive being halved.…
Would-be AWS bomber pleads guilty, faces 5 to 20 years behind bars for plot to take out government servers
FBI reveals undercover employee sold him fake explosives before arrest Seth Aaron Pendley, the 28-year-old Texas man accused of planning to blow up an Amazon Web Services data centre, admitted on Wednesday he planned to destroy a building with an explosive.…
Biden cancels Trump's bans on TikTok, WeChat, other Chinese apps
But executive order expands on supply chain security initiative with call for evidence-based vetting of technology The White House on Tuesday revoked stalled Trump-era orders that sought to ban social media apps TikTok, WeChat, and others in the United States as national security threats.…
ALPACA gnaws through TLS protection to snarf cookies and steal data
Boffins find flaw in web security that enables certificate confusion Academics from three German universities have found a vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that under limited circumstances allows the theft of session cookies and enables cross-site scripting attacks.…
Huawei flings open the doors of its third privacy and security transparency centre
The first based in China Huawei has opened another cyber security centre and, despite facing a crisis of trust in the West, has chosen to do so for the first time in its Chinese heartland.…
Baby Space Shuttle biz chases dreams at Spaceport Cornwall
Sierra Nevada Corporation eyes a landing site in the UK Sierra Nevada Corporation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Spaceport Cornwall aimed at landing its Dream Chaser spacecraft on a strip in the southwest county of England.…
It is with a heavy heart that we must tell you America's richest continue to pay not quite as much tax as you do
Have you tried simply being more powerful and wealthy? The leak of US federal tax returns filed by the world's richest tycoons sent shock waves this week. To put it simply, the headlines stemming from the ProPublica report appear damning.…
Risk and reward: Nefilim ransomware gang mainly targets fewer, richer companies and that strategy is paying off, warns Trend Micro
Criminal operators emerged from woodwork just as COVID hit the West The Nefilim ransomware gang might not be the best known or most prolific online extortion crew but their penchant for attacking small numbers of $1bn+ turnover firms is paying off, according to latest research.…
Microsoft's bricks-and-mortar retail operation set to return from the grave? Not quite
From July you'll be able to swipe credit card for kit at 'Experience Centers' Microsoft is set to reopen some of its stores for sales to the general public.…
The Newton lives, kinda: Boffin turns Apple eMate 300 into Raspberry Pi laptop
Impressive working computer from the corpse of a rarity Video Faced with dwindling sales to education customers in the late 1990s, Apple introduced the eMate 300.…
PrivacyMic looks to keep your home smart without Google, Alexa, Siri and pals listening in
Raspberry Pi-powered prototype proves 95% accurate, 100% private, claim boffins Researchers at the University of Michigan have proposed a way to have your privacy cake and eat your home automation too. They've found a means of using a voice-activated smart speaker system without it having to listen to everything you say – and no, it's not "pressing a button."…
'Universal Processor' startup Tachyum unveils full-system Prodigy emulator ahead of sampling later this year
FPGA-driven prototypes yet to prove the company's bold performance and power-draw claims Tachyum, which has been promising a "universal processor" dubbed Prodigy for the past three years, said it was one step closer to delivering on that pledge with the development of a motherboard for its FPGA emulator that allows customers to test a complete Prodigy system.…
'I put the interests of the country first': Colonial Pipeline CEO on why oil biz paid off ransomware crooks
Mandiant investigation says crims gained access through legacy VPN The boss of Colonial Pipeline has appeared before a Senate Committee to explain the events which led to US East Coast fuel supplies running dry last month and some $5m being handed over in ransom.…
Mysterious Gelsemium APT was behind February compromise of NoxPlayer, says ESET
Malicious crew targets ME and Asia but also tries evading Chinese AV suites ESET has published details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) crew that appears to have deployed recent supply chain attack methods against targets including "electronics manufacturers," although it didn't specify which.…
Google says its artificial intelligence is faster and better than humans at laying out chips for artificial intelligence
OK, we see where this is going Google claims not only has it made an AI that's faster and as good as if not better than humans at designing chips, the web giant is using it to design chips for faster and better AI.…
UK online spending up 48%, hits £113bn as nation puts curtains in its sheds, empties supermarket shelves
Regulator airs country's muddy laundry - including fact it rarely unplugs The UK is a nation of online shoppers who – when not spending a whopping £113bn over the past 12 months – spent more time online than any other grown-ups across Europe last year.…
UK launches consultation on forcing landlords to allow gigabit broadband upgrades
We want to give your property better internets for free, pls respond The UK's Department of Fun – aka Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) – has opened a consultation on legislation designed to improve access to gigabit broadband in apartment blocks.…
In this round of 'Real life or Black Mirror episode', drones that hunt down humans by listening to their screams
Plus: UAVs that can smell your poop – both for benign purposes, mind Researchers at Fraunhofer FKIE have unveiled a system that teaches drones to hunt down humans by listening to their screams.…
Intel's latest patch set plugs some serious holes in CPU, Bluetooth, server, and – ironically – security lines
Reports through Chipzilla's bug bounty scheme growing, but still in the minority Intel has pushed out a raft of security advisories for June, bringing its total discovered "potential vulnerabilities" for the year to date to 132, only a quarter of which were reported by external contributors and the company's bug bounty programme.…
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The best time to build a semiconductor foundry is 5 years ago
The history of computing is all change, all the time. Yet silicon-slingers let the chips fail where they may Column Unless you've been hiding under a (non-silicate) rock, you know there's a massive global shortage of semiconductors. Automobile production lines have stalled. New computers are launched late. Gamers can't get their hands on the latest bits of kit. And we're told that this won't clear up until 2023. If we're lucky.…
Hate to break it to you, but football's not coming home if this AI pundit is to be believed
Delayed Euro 2020 championship will be won by the Czech Republic, and England will drop out in semi-finals (sounds legit) The Czech Republic footie team is set to be crowned champions next month, beating fellow underdogs Denmark 3-2 in the Euros in what pundits claim will prove to be a "thrilling final".…
EE and Three mobe mast surveyors might 'upload some virus' to London Tube control centre, TfL told judge
Unimpressed beak orders Transport for London to let them onto Southwark roof Transport for London tried to block engineers and surveyors from EE and Three carrying out a survey for a new mobile phone mast by telling a judge they “might insert a USB stick into a computer” or “upload some virus”.…
'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary
A day before THAT delay, Matt Hancock told MPs that 'citizens' own the data he'd instructed the health department to take by default Comment Against a strong field, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has come out as a winner in the prize for stomach-churning political double-speak while addressing NHS Digital's shameless grab for patient data held by GP surgeries in England.…
That thing you were utterly sure would never happen? Yeah, well, guess what …
Never. Test. In. Production. Who, Me? A Who, Me? moment last week introduced a much-needed laugh into the lives of at least a few end users, after a bit of testing in production had all too familiar consequences.…
No digital equivalent to the impulse aisle found as online grocery shoppers buy fewer sweet treats than in real life
Supermarkets presumably working on a solution to this 'problem' right now There's no digital equivalent to the love-it-or-hate-it impulse aisle of the supermarket, with shoppers spending noticeably less on sweets, cookies, and other tasty treats online than in the real world.…
Fastly 'fesses up to breaking the internet with an 'an undiscovered software bug' triggered by a customer
Promises it won't happen again, expresses remorse … all the usual stuff that clouds (and Zuck) say after they stumble around making messes Fastly has explained how it managed to black-hole big chunks of the internet yesterday: a customer triggered a bug.…
Six years in the making, Vivaldi Mail arrives alongside version 4.0 of the company's browser
Nú með þýðingarmöguleika Vivaldi has released version 4.0 of its eponymous browser, adding translation capabilities and dragging the long-awaited mail and calendar functionality out of tech preview.…
Security researcher says attacks on Russian government have Chinese fingerprints – and typos, too
Malware was too loose to have come from a Western nation, according to Sentinel Labs An advanced persistent threat that Russia found inside government systems was too crude to have been the work of a Western nation, says security researcher Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade of Sentinel Labs, before suggesting the malware came from a Chinese entity.…
Indian Finance Minister throws Infosys under the bus as new e-tax portal fails on first day
Minister moved from celebrating new facility to complaining about it in a handful of hours India’s new tax e-filing portal went live Monday night, and was down less than 24 hours later, leading union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to jump onto Twitter with some pointed questions for the site's developer, Indian services giant Infosys.…
USA finds $52B to keep chipmakers working, $195B for tech R&D
Innovation and Competition Act aims to keep America ahead of China and passes with unusual bipartisan support The United States Senate has passed the Innovation and Competition Act of 2021, a sweeping stimulus program that seeks to secure supply chains and stimulate industry — especially high-technology industries — to ensure America remains ahead of China.…
Ohio Attorney General asks courts to declare Google a public utility
Yup, just a Republican wanting a private business to be subjected to more government regulation Dave Yost, Ohio's top government legal eagle, has filed a lawsuit that asks the courts to declare Google Search a public utility and the company as a whole a common carrier — ie: more subject to government regulation.…
SK Hynix admits to DRAM defects, smacks down rumour it botched big batches
Admits 'potential losses' may result, says they won’t be significant South Korean chip maker SK Hynix has admitted some of its DRAM components included defects, though it says accounts of the issue are overblown.…
Extra urgency in June's Patch Tuesday: Microsoft warns six more bugs are being exploited
Adobe, Intel, SAP, Android emit vulnerability fixes, too Patch Tuesday Microsoft's traditional Patch Tuesday saw the software giant release fixes for 50 flaws, and a reminder to apply updates as soon as possible because six of them are being exploited in the wild by miscreants.…
FBI paid renegade developer $180k for backdoored AN0M chat app that brought down drug underworld
From hidden master keys to pineapples stuffed with Bolivian marching powder — this story has it all The FBI has revealed how it managed to hoodwink the criminal underworld with its secretly backdoored AN0M encrypted chat app, leading to hundreds of arrests, the seizure of 32 tons of drugs, 250 firearms, 55 luxury cars, more than $148M, and even cocaine-filled pineapples.…
It's completely unsupportable. Yes, we mean your brand new system
The problem started when those ridiculous users ... oh, hang on. It started in the IT department Feature The concept of "shadow IT" is a familiar one. One of my favourite descriptions of it comes from security vendor Forcepoint, which says shadow IT is "the use of information technology systems, devices, software, applications, and services without explicit IT department approval."…
With incoming iOS 15, update refuseniks will be given choice to stay where they are while still receiving security patches
Departure from Apple's usual iron-fist approach to iPhone software With the launch of iOS 15, Apple will give users the option to upgrade to the latest software or stick with iOS 14 while continuing to receive crucial security updates.…
China's ISCAS to build 2,000 RISC-V laptops by the end of 2022 as nation seeks to cut reliance on Arm, Intel chips
Software porting efforts aim to make sure Android, Linux, Firefox, and Chrome work well ahead of time The Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) is working to build 2,000 laptops using the free and open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture by the end of next year, as the nation looks to reduce its reliance on foreign technology giants like Arm and Intel.…
Door-opening insect mega-swarm emerges in Eastern US, descends on Washington DC
We're gonna need a bigger rolled-up newspaper Threats to humanity's dominance on Earth are oft-featured here at The Register, with aspiring usurpers ranging from dancing robots to peckish rats.…
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