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That's authorised push payment – where they get the mark to make the transfer Police have issued an urgent warning after an elderly man was scammed out of £30,000 by phone fraudsters pretending to be from BT.…

Meanwhile, Nirvana baby unchuffed about being Nirvana baby Poor Spencer Elden. Not only does the chap have to live with his "unauthorised" baby pic on the cover of Nirvana's breakthrough record Nevermind – the image has now been immortalised on the streets of Adelaide via GPS exercise tracker Strava.…

Big Blue UK and Ireland cloud man hired as 'interim' CTO, tasked with creating fellowship of the cloud IBM UK and Ireland exec Dan Bailey has been seconded to the Cabinet Office for a six-month contract as interim chief technology officer. His tasks are to include the creation of a pan-government CTO council for the cloud, raising questions of a conflict of interest.…

Now sing with us: Agile, agile, agile... Exclusive Metro Bank has put "less than 90" IT employees at risk of redundancy as it endeavours to "support our new agile way of working" – agile being that nebulous yet overused term that can be heard in certain circles.…

Dear John, I'm leaving you for a robot Feature High-performance computing (HPC) has a very different dynamic to the mainstream. It enables classes of computation of strategic importance to nation states and their agencies, and so it attracts investment and innovation that is to some extent decoupled from market forces.…

'Where are the k8s kids?' ask corporates as they can't pay, won't pay Opinion The tiniest hint of butthurt tinged the Linux Foundation and edX's latest annual Open Source Jobs Report. For the first time, pure Linux skillz were not number one, slipping to second place behind Kubernetes. Container herding is up by 455 per cent, but you just can't get the help.…

An unexpected round of Just A Minute for a unsuspecting Weather Presenter Who, Me? A story from the world of television in this week's edition of Who, Me? as a weather presenter sweats while panic reigns supreme in the backroom.…

Commercial partner's ad-funded expedition plans the ultimate pop-up in 2022 Airbus and the Mexican Space Agency (MSA) have agreed to collaborate on tech to extract resources on the Moon.…

1.6 million people sat teaching eligibility test, chasing 40,000 jobs The Indian state of Rajasthan yesterday cut off internet access to millions of citizens, in order to prevent cheating in an exam.…

Change to universal licenses coming sometime in 2022, says backup vendor, but won't be forced Backup vendor Veeam is almost certainly going to ditch per-socket licensing.…

USA, India, Australia, and Japan pledge to build own 5G tech, share space data, secure rare earth supply chains, and more The Quad group of nations – the USA, India, Australia, and Japan – has announced several joint initiatives to share technology and spur its development, among them a plan to set new global security standards for the technology industry.…

US puts charges on ice, extradition attempt halted Updated Huawei finance chief Meng Wanzhou has reached a deal with the US Justice Department to drop the fraud and conspiracy charges against her in exchange for admitting that she made false statements about her company's business dealings with Iran.…

Coin prices drop after People's Bank reiterates crackdown China has once again banned cryptocurrencies.…

Security Bounty program slammed over 'broken promises' Upset with Apple's handling of its Security Bounty program, a bug researcher has released proof-of-concept exploit code for three zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple's newly released iOS 15 mobile operating system.…

Hopes to lure users with promise of relieving operational burden Distributed relational database Yugabyte has launched a database-as-a-service product following a rush of inspiration from Facebook, Google and the world of FOSS.…

All said to conduct lithium atoms, may be useful for electric car batteries Chemists have discovered four new materials based on ideas generated from a neural network, according to research published in Nature.…

'Microfliers' could carry sensors to monitor air pollution and more Video As autumn arrives in the northern hemisphere, scientists have shown how tiny connected semiconductors can be distributed on the wind in a similar way to the seasonal spreading of airborne seeds.…

What's that coming over the hill? Is it new hardware? Is it new hardware? Microsoft has followed up a lacklustre Surface hardware event with a Windows 11 Release Preview for Windows Insiders.…

Biodiversity increasing, endangered species gradually returning despite radioactive terror pig presence Studies of biodiversity around the former Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan have shown that a decade after the nuclear incident there in March 2011, the local wildlife, at least, is mostly thriving.…

Join us in October for the next MCubed webcast in which you'll learn all about deploying real-life machine learning in a DevOps world Special series After a great first episode, the MCubed webcast will be back on October 7, 2021 to tackle a whole other beast: Continuous Delivery in Machine Learning.…

Because HPE does not do public cloud? No, no, it is 'for the good' Comment Hewlett Packard Enterprise has posted a "UK Public Sector Manifesto" with nine themes, alongside a campaign hyping the value of hybrid cloud.…

Technical difficulties, please stand by Giant Pay – an umbrella company used by contractors across the UK – has confirmed "suspicious activity" on its platform is behind a days-long ongoing outage that has left folk fretting about whether they'll get paid this month.…

Activate Windows and put up a parking lot Bork!Bork!Bork! Sometimes only the freshest of borks will do, and sometimes the best laid plans of administrators can go awry.…

Twisting and turning like a twisty-turny thing Boatnotes II As HMS Severn continues hosting the Royal Navy's Fleet Navigating Officer's course, The Register has taken a closer look at the precision demanded of naval officers conning their ships in and out of one of the most cramped ports where the Navy routinely operates.…

Also a range of homegrown apps. Still in beta, so plenty of rough edges, though Review One of the reasons Linux has never caught on as a desktop operating system, as Linux fans know, is that Linux isn't a desktop operating system, it's a kernel. And assembling it into a coherent package users can install is the job of a distribution.…

It'll all come out in the wash Something for the Weekend, Sir? Something is out of place; it does not quite fit. I reach down and give it a gentle tug. Ah, that's better.…

New guys can't do a worse job than Capita, right? Right? The UK Armed Forces are looking to restart a £1.7bn procurement for recruitment and onboarding of personnel to cover extensive IT investments as well as process outsourcing.…

Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace is a bit miffed its 'Don't attack the internet core' norm is misunderstood The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) is worried its guidance on preventing the internet and all it connects becoming a casualty of war is being misinterpreted.…

Symbol shenanigans turned out to be the least of the government's problems On Call Fire up the Cossie*! We're going back to the '80s with an On Call tale that combines the drama of a fast Ford motor with the eldritch horror of Unix serial port settings.…

Don’t be a Kubernetes dummy, download this ebook Promo Kubernetes has made developing and managing cloud native applications at scale a far less complex undertaking. The result has been increased agility and flexibility for devs, a productivity boost and lowered risk for ops, and happy C-level execs as time to market for new apps and services is slashed.…

Polymers can transmit at 53Gbps without error correction overheads, and could be just the thing for electric cars Boffins at Japan's Keio University reckon they've built viable optical fibers from plastics.…

Remember iPods? The same bug can bite them, and plenty of older iPhones and iPads too Apple has warned iPhone and Mac users that it's aware of a zero-day bug that's being actively exploited.…

'Broadband' is defined as 512kbps – for now – and just 24 million current connections are wired India's Telecoms Regulatory Authority has revealed that the nation has over 800 million active broadband subscribers.…

NA CEO predicts takeoff in 18 months max Folks in the US will see the transformative effects of 5G first in the areas of online gaming and fixed wireless broadband internet connections, Ericsson North America CEO Niklas Heuveldop said on Thursday.…

AB 701 takes aim at Amazon and other warehouse operators that prioritize productivity over health California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed Assembly Bill 701, establishing new protections for workers at warehouse distribution centers.…

Tech trade groups argue prohibition on moderation is unconstitutional Two IT trade groups on Wednesday challenged the constitutionality of Texas' new social media law, arguing that it compels companies to host speech they disagree with in violation of their First Amendment rights.…

Partnerships are our future, says tycoon Dell CEO Michael Dell once loved big-ticket acquisitions, but not anymore.…

US company equips cybernetic pooch to help in building inspections, post-disaster assessments Boston Dynamics' creepy robot dog Spot has found another new employer for its unique skillset.…

Cupertino thinks EU plan 'stifles innovation rather than encouraging it' Smartphones, tablets, and cameras sold within the European Union could be forced to adopt a single standard charging port by the middle of the decade if the latest plans from the European Commission get the go-ahead.…

A whole lot of ███ in documents which finger Peter Thiel and execs Facebook is remaining silent over two explosive lawsuits unsealed this week which contain allegations that board members "authorized" the overpayment of an FTC fine by up to $4.9bn in order to protect CEO Mark Zuckerberg.…

It'll take time for desktop environment to make its way into Linux distros anyway The GNOME Foundation has released GNOME 41 - six months after GNOME 40, which was the first to be based on the GTK4 toolkit.…

The Great Gig in the Sky, or a new plan on GigSky? Mobile tech outfit GigSky is to add a data plan to its mobile app, using the Citizen's Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) small cell infrastructure deployed by the Helium blockchain community.…

Mountain View still ducking questions over whether it'll reimburse that Google has again refused to say whether it will reimburse the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for all the money it has spent warning consumers about dodgy financial ads carried on the tech giant’s platform.…

Prosecutors considering evidence for a number of offences Northern Irish prosecutors are pondering whether to charge two police officers with Computer Misuse Act offences after what local reports described as a Twitter trolling campaign.…

But local providers slip in favour of US tech - even at home GAIA-X, Europe's long awaited federated data infrastructure, got a fresh bulding block this week in the shape of the Eclipse Dataspace Connector, an open-source framework for multi-cloud, policy-based B2B data sharing.…

Brit telco says buyout will mean less competition, higher prices, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria BT has spelled out its opposition to the proposed takeover of Hutchison’s mobile phone masts and towers in the UK by Spanish towerco Cellnex following the publication of legal documents yesterday.…

This time affecting candidates for potential relocation A second leak of personal data was reportedly committed by the Ministry of Defence, raising further questions about the ministry's commitment to the safety of people in Afghanistan, some of whom are its own former employees.…

Or is it that they're just more inclined to complete surveys about themselves? A report from DORA, that's the Devops Research and Assessment sponsored by Google and other DevOps vendors, says 26 per cent of surveyed technology workers consider themselves "elite performers."…

High Court and Employment Tribunal cases to be heard soon A former IBM general manager who was posted to the United Arab Emirates is being sued by the company for £290,000 after filing an employment tribunal case claiming unfair dismissal.…

Hardware capabilities, latest feature updates? You'll get what you pay for Intel's vision of the computing architecture of autonomous vehicles is similar to that of PCs, with pricey models getting better hardware and the latest software, and cheaper self-driving cars getting the bare minimum.…