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Report commissioned by Google says Google isn't to blame for the death of print news
Blame Rightmove instead It would be fair to say that the recent decades have not been kind to the newspaper industry.…
Latest on iCloud storage 'outsourcing' lawsuit against Apple: Damages class certified
Plaintiffs say they would've gone elsewhere had they known iGiant was just using Amazon, Microsoft or Google A US judge has approved a limited class action against Apple for breach of contract following a complaint that its iCloud used third-party servers, including "cloud storage facilities belonging to Amazon, Microsoft, or Google," to host customers' data rather than using its own machines.…
Good news for pentesters and network admins: US issues ransomware guidance asking biz to skill up security teams
New approach against malware pushers mirrors how American authorities handle terrorism cases The White House has issued a communique to business leaders [PDF] urging them to take the threat of ransomware a bit more seriously.…
Facebook faces competition enquiry on two fronts as EU and UK officials scrutinise its ad data
Did the anti-social network use advertiser info to compete with rivals? Facebook is facing a twin investigation by UK and EU officials into allegations that it breached competition rules by using data gathered from advertisers on its social media network to compete with rivals.…
BMA and Royal College of GPs refuse to endorse NHS Digital's data grab from surgeries in England
BMA separately calls for a delay to the programme The British Medical Association and Royal College of GPs today told NHS Digital they do not endorse the UK government's imminent haul of English GP data – dubbed "the biggest data grab in the history" of the service.…
Twitter’s new subscription service costs the same as a cup of coffee, but is much less stimulating
Twitter Blue only works properly on iOS and just one feature is useful First Look Twitter has announced its first subscription service.…
openSUSE leaps to 15.3 - now built with 'same binary packages' as SUSE Enterprise
Latest version ups stablity but also makes it easier to migrate to commercial wares Version 15.3 of openSUSE Leap is out - this being the community version of SUSE Linux Enterprise and the first to be built with the same binary packages as its commercial cousin.…
Android banking malware sharply increased in the first chunk of 2021, reckons ESET
Claims Russia's FSB was poking around an Eastern European ministry While enterprises stagger under sustained ransomware attacks, Android users are increasingly being targeted by banking malware, with Slovakian infosec firm ESET reckoning it had seen a 159 per cent increase in such malicious software over the last few months.…
SAP's RISE 'yet to prove its worth in practice...' Key German user group offers giant a progress 'reality check'
Analysts say S/4HANA upgrades remain sluggish, and users want to see things RISE shine before committing Sapphire Now The 60,000 member-strong German-speaking SAP user group (DSAG) has issued a strongly worded statement in response to SAP’s lack of clarity on its RISE cloud upgrade at the annual Sapphire Now event.…
Tech scammer who fooled Cisco, Microsoft and Lenovo out of millions jailed for over seven years
Networking giant alone taken for $3.5m A scammer who convinced some of the world's biggest tech businesses to send him replacement kit has been sentenced to seven years and eight months in the US prison system.…
How many remote controls do you really need? Answer: about a bowl-ful
I don’t care if the football’s on, we’ll have to watch whatever the TV wants us to Something for the Weekend, Sir? My television wants me dead. It’s doing this by playing dead itself. Only one of us will get out of this alive.…
The policy of truth: As ransomware claims rise, what's a cyber insurer to do?
Never again is what you swore... the time before If you rely on your insurer to pay off crooks after a successful ransomware attack, you wouldn't be the only one.…
Brit retailer Furniture Village confirms 'cyber-attack' as systems outage rolls into Day 7
Sofa, not-so-good: Angry customers still can't access systems, phones, and deliveries delayed Furniture Village – the UK's largest independent furniture retailer with 54 stores nationwide – has been hit by a "cyber-attack", the company confirmed to The Register.…
Today I shall explain how dual monitors work using the medium of interpretive dance
You want the truth? You can't handle the truth! On Call What's worse than having to deal with an idiot over the phone? Having to drive thousands of miles to deal with the same idiot, face to face. Welcome to another Register reader's experience of helping those who won't help themselves in On Call.…
Snakes on a Plane meets The Simpsons as airline creates ‘whacker’ to scare reptiles away from parked A380s
It’s actually just a stick, but maintenance staff love ‘em Australian airline QANTAS has developed a piece of technology dubbed a “wheel whacker” to help stop snakes and scorpions boarding planes it has parked due to the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Holding back from the cloud – or can’t get there quick enough? We want to hear why
Tell us whether you’re ecstatic or exasperated, or somewhere in between Reader survey There is no doubt that more and more applications are being hosted in the cloud. Hyperscalers are seen as the example to follow when it comes to managing infrastructure, while cloud-native organisations dominate the agenda at industry conferences.…
Seagate finds sets of two heads are cheaper than one in its new and very fast MACH.2 dual-actuator hard disks
Looks forward to nicely lowered costs as production ramps up, but they're still hyperscaler-only for now For about three years, disk-making giant Seagate has been talking up tech called “MACH.2” – a conventional disk drive that offers considerable speed improvements. And now the disk giant has found that the tech also cuts its costs, raising the prospect that big, fast, hard disk drives might emerge at keen prices.…
Beijing gives Ant Group the blessing to operate a consumer finance company
After some heated exchanges, tensions seem to have cooled (for now) between Chinese government and Jack Ma’s empire Months after Beijing’s regulators stepped in and forced Alibaba's finance arm Ant Group to restructure its consumer loans business, China's Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission has granted the outfit permission to operate a consumer finance company.…
LG opens open-source licence compliance tool source
Shine chaebol's FOSSlight on your projects, careful what you find Korean mega-corp LG has open-sourced the in-house toolbox it uses identify and manage open-source software licences within its own business.…
How to use Google's new dependency mapping tool to find security flaws buried in your projects
Millions of Rust, JavaScript, Go, Maven repositories scanned and visualized Google has built an online tool that maps out all the dependencies in millions of open-source software libraries and flags up any unpatched vulnerabilities.…
FYI: Today's computer chips are so advanced, they are more 'mercurial' than precise – and here's the proof
Rarely seen miscalculations now crop up frequently at cloud hyperscale Computer chips have advanced to the point that they're no longer reliable: they've become "mercurial," as Google puts it, and may not perform their calculations in a predictable manner.…
Google's diversity strat lead who said Jews have 'insatiable appetite for war' is no longer diversity strat lead
Not a fan of homosexuality, either, judging from 2007 blog posts A Googler who was supposed to steer diversity efforts at the internet titan has been removed from his post – after netizens found a 2007 blog post in which he suggested Jewish people had an “insatiable appetite for war and killing" when acting in self-defense.…
Supreme Court narrows Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Misusing access not quite the same as breaking in
We'll explain everything for you The US Supreme Court on Thursday limited the scope of the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) in a ruling that found a former sergeant did not violate the law by misusing his access to a police database.…
Is your data safe in the cloud? Depends who you ask…
And if you ask your cloud provider, the answer might shock you Webcast What’s the biggest mistake you can make when it comes to protecting your data in the cloud? Probably assuming that it’s protected just because it’s in the cloud.…
Microsoft subsidiary makes $314.73bn profit and pays no tax in Ireland – despite registering there
Forget Seattle, Microsoft 'Round Island One' lives in Bermuda A subsidiary of Microsoft in Ireland has paid no corporation tax because it is "resident" in Bermuda for tax purposes – despite making a whopping $314.73bn in profit.…
Apple to summon staff back to the office in September
You don't spend $5bn on a shiny glass Ive-designed HQ and leave it empty Tim Cook has issued a memo to Apple staffers warning that their days of shirking-from-home in the pandemic are over. From early September, employees will be expected to spend at least three days a week in the office, with Wednesdays and Fridays open to remote working for some.…
Infrastructure SNAFU results in French public being unable to contact emergency services
Mobile provider Orange fingers 'technical issue' on a router A technical issue with French mobile provider Orange, fixed early this morning, resulted in members of the public being temporarily unable to contact the emergency services.…
Microsoft to unveil 'what's next for Windows' ... Rounded corners and what else?
June 24 event to preview Win Tech: The Next Generation Microsoft will reveal "what's next for Windows" at a virtual event on June 24th, rumoured to include a UI refresh codenamed "Sun Valley".…
Conservative Party fined one-third of a luxury food hamper by ICO for nuisance email campaign
For once, Boris Johnson ignored calls of PECR Britain’s ruling Conservative Party is facing a £10,000 fine from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for dispatching marketing emails to unwilling recipients, 51 of whom complained to the regulator.…
SAP pushes supply chain solution at COVID-hit market as Sapphire Now bash begins
Analyst: 'They need to blow up the obsolete Ariba engine first' Sapphire Now As customers, SIs and analysts demand more detail on SAP’s cloud lift-and-shift and transformation package, the German vendor came to the table at its Sapphire annual conference with a mixed spread of announcements.…
NASA doubles down on Venus missions, asking what made the planet uninhabitable
VERITAS and DAVINCI+ chosen and funded as part of agency's concept selection NASA announced yesterday that it will fund two new missions to Venus to study its atmosphere and topography, both chosen from the Discovery Program.…
FireEye sold to McAfee's new owners for $1.2bn as Mandiant split into standalone firm again
Another big name buyout by STG FireEye has been sold for $1.2bn to the same American private equity fund that bought McAfee’s enterprise security business, severing it from infosec stablemate Mandiant.…
Wyoming powers ahead with Bill Gates-backed sodium-cooled nuclear generation plant
We wanted to post a dad joke about sodium, but we thought: Na, people will groan... TerraPower – the Bill Gates-founded nuclear company – and Warren Buffett-owned PacifiCorp are hooking up to build a Natrium reactor at a decommissioned coal plant in Wyoming.…
This AI could save a firefighter's life
When it works well enough in the real world, that is Computer scientists have built an algorithm to predict deadly explosions within blazes before they occur in the hope it can one day serve as a warning system for firefighters tackling burning buildings.…
Hybrid working? Buckle in, there's no turning back as survey takers insist: You can't make us go back
No, literally, let's make illegal Four in five Brits wants to make it illegal to force employees to work from the office, according to an extensive survey, providing further evidence that a shift in working patterns may be permanent.…
Lack of clarity on RISE: Transformation, implementation and data management all roles for partners. 'So, what's SAP doing?'
As Sapphire Now kicks off, users, SIs and analysts see unanswered questions Five months after SAP launched its RISE plan, a half-loaf cloud lift-'n-shift + business transformation service, the German software company is still struggling with unanswered questions.…
Massive tech-for-British-schoolkids cash pot up for grabs as UK education buyers prep £140m agreement
It is Thursday and it's framework-tastic Pheonix Software, Deloitte and Computeam are among the 17 winners sticking their snouts into a £100m pork barrel framework for outsourcing in the UK’s education sector.…
European Parliament's data adequacy objection: Doubts cast on UK's commitment to data protection
Plus: Judgement in immigration exemption case makes things worse Comment Almost two weeks ago, the European Parliament took the step of objecting to the Commission decisions to grant the UK data adequacy.…
Huawei names first tablets, phones to run its Android-in-disguise HarmonyOS 2
Hello, my name is Mr Snrub, and I come from, uh ... someplace far away Analysis Huawei on Wednesday introduced its first tablets and smartphones running its HarmonyOS 2 software – and said 100 or so other devices will be able to upgrade to the totally-not-but-really-is-Android OS.…
Antivirus that mines Ethereum sounds a bit wrong, right? Norton has started selling it
Down continues to be the new up NortonLifeLock, the company that offers the consumer products Broadcom didn’t want when it bought Symantec, has started to offer Ethereum mining as a feature of its Norton 360 security suite.…
US slaps tariffs on countries that hit Big Tech with digital services taxes ... then pauses them immediately
Applies pressure as negotiations on harmonized global web levies near conclusion Countries whose digital services taxes disproportionately affect the US tech industry have been slapped with 25 per cent tariffs on up to US$2bn of their goods by the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR).…
China reveals plan to pump out positive news about itself. Let's see what happens when that lands with social media fact-checkers
Xi Jinping says it’s time the world learned Marxism works, socialism is good, and China is really nice Analysis Chinese state-controlled media has revealed the nation's rulers have decided it’s time for a charm offensive.…
Tencent Cloud adds second data centre in Germany, Thailand, and Japan, plus a third in Hong Kong
Plans to grow capacity in all 27 regions by 30 percent in 2021 Chinese web giant Tencent has announced its cloud service has expanded its presence in Germany, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Japan.…
Japan to dangle as many Yen as it takes to lure chipmakers to its shores, because everyone else is doing it too
National growth strategy also prioritises low power distributed data centres Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga has outlined a national growth strategy that will include doing whatever it takes to lure semiconductor manufacturers to the nation’s shores.…
Oracle accused of eating software maker's lunch with hostile hiring, trade secret theft
CentralSquare says Big Red raided it for key staff CentralSquare Technologies, a Florida-based maker of software for public safety officials, sued Oracle on Tuesday claiming that the database giant has been poaching key employees in an effort to build its business selling software to law enforcement and justice organizations.…
IBM Cloud messes up again: Customers sent same warning email 25 times in 40 minutes
Ironically, they’re all advance notice of maintenance that's promised to improve resilience IBM Cloud is having another challenging day, this time sending customers word of upcoming maintenance work 20 or more times – and even to those who don’t use the services that will soon be patched.…
Deadline draws near to avoid auto-joining Amazon's mesh network Sidewalk
'A stalker can abuse it to stalk people better. There are no mitigations mentioned' Owners of Amazon Echo assistants and Ring doorbells have until June 8 to avoid automatically opting into Sidewalk, the internet giant's mesh network that taps into people's broadband and may prove to be a privacy nightmare.…
The common factor in all your failed job applications: Your CV
Top tips from an insider in the tech recruitment game Comment It has been a decade since we first demonstrated that IT pros' resumes were a bit crap, and so here's an update to help you get real about how you present yourself in 2021.…
Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither)
Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource Prosus NV, a Netherlands-based consumer internet conglomerate, on Wednesday said it plans to acquire online Q&A community Stack Overflow for $1.8bn.…
Ahem, Huawei, your USB LTE stick has a vuln. I SAID AHEM, Huawei, are you listening?
Embarrassing flaw in E3372 device finally patched Huawei has belatedly fixed a mild vulnerability in a USB connectivity dongle spotted by Trustwave after The Register intervened.…
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