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by Tim Richardson on (#5MC03)
It's working now and they're very sorry Lloyds Banking Group – which includes Halifax and Bank of Scotland among its stable of financial operators – is back up and running after online and mobile banking services took a tumble earlier today.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5MC04)
And US indicts four Chinese spies on suspicion of the hacks The Microsoft Exchange Server attacks earlier this year were "systemic cyber sabotage" carried out by Chinese state hacking crews including private contractors working for a spy agency, the British government has said.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5MBX3)
Coronavirus restrictions lifting, but to what cost? Police and anti-lockdown protesters are clashing outside the Houses of Parliament with tempers boiling over in Westminster just as "Freedom Day" in England hits the half-day mark. And according to the ONS, their concerns seem to be shared by those less likely to chuck a bottle too.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5MBV6)
Pandemic smiles on Unified-Comms-as-a-Service biz Zoom is making a full-blown entry into the cloudy Unified Comms business by hoovering up Contact-Centre-as-a-Service (CCaaS) outfit Five9 in an all-share transaction valued at a whopping $14.7bn.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5MBV7)
System compatible with existing infra. No you can't eat it now, kids, it's for later, for upcoming 5G backbone Japanese researchers have broken the world record for the fastest internet speed by transmitting data at 319 terabits per second (Tbps) using modern day compatible fibre optical cable, according to the country's primary comms research institute.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5MBS9)
Torvalds: 'At some point somebody just needs to actually submit it' The latest release candidate of the 5.14 Linux kernel is a hefty beast, Linus Torvald remarked yesterday, seemingly impatient over how long it is taking Paragon to send in its long-awaited and much-reviewed NTFS driver.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5MBR6)
Bid to build the most stable iteration of the columnar database has its price Cassandra 4.0 – the open-source distributed NoSQL database used by Apple, Netflix, and Spotify – has been delayed at the 11th hour after a developer spotted a bug in the code.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5MBR7)
Gamify all the things! UK map maker Ordnance Survey is bringing a new concept to the mobile gaming market: not looking at your phone.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5MBPH)
These are a few of our favourite things Bork!Bork!Bork! Beer and bork: two of our favourite things here at Vulture Central. And also, it seems, at the Co-Op.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#5MBMP)
RTFM: Read the [fine] manual Review Traditionally the Darktable project only releases one update a year, with a new version arriving on Christmas day. But the developers behind Darktable have been adding new features and improving existing ones so quickly that one a year is no longer enough.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#5MBKF)
That's the way uh-huh uh-huh, I hype it Column Gartner is an odd fish. A very big odd fish, making some $4bn a year out of its 16,000 souls beavering away in its shiny belly. It acts as soothsayer to the troubled monarchs of industry and whichever of their courtiers can afford a subscription to its reports.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5MBJ3)
Salesmen suffer after suspicious surfing Who, Me? Start your week with a trip back to the early days of the World Wide Web with a tale of imaging peril and malware malarky from the files of Who, Me?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5MBJ4)
Three-way crash harms no humans but shutters fulfilment centre and sees orders galore cancelled The Ocado Group, an operator and purveyor of automated warehouse tech for e-tailers, has admitted that three of its robots collided and caused a fire last Friday at its Customer Fulfilment Centre (CFC) in Erith, south-east London.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5MBGW)
The Social Network fires back after President Biden accuses it of 'killing people' US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy publicly doubled down on criticism of Facebook for spreading vaccine misinformation, after The Social Network™ rejected his previous criticism and President Joe Biden's assertion it is "killing people".…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5MBFY)
Hong Kong authorities 'alarmed by unsubstantiated remarks' Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam has slammed a US government advisory that warns business of warrantless surveillance and the potential for forced surrender of corporate and customer data in the Special Administrative Region (SAR).…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5MBDQ)
Heads of State, academics, diplomats, journalists, and others targeted, iPhones vulnerable Amnesty International and French journalism advocacy organisation Forbidden Stories say they've acquired a leaked list of individuals targeted by users of Israeli spyware-for-law-enforcement operator NSO Group, and that Heads of State, academics, diplomats, human rights advocates, and media figures are among those targeted.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5MBBN)
Because in Miri District, that's how they roll Police in the Malaysian district of Miri have used a steamroller to crush 1069 computers allegedly used to mine Bitcoin.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5MAKP)
Plus: People creeped out that TV chef Bourdain's voice has been faked In brief OpenAI has disbanded its AI robotics team and is no longer trying to apply machine learning to physical machines.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5M9NK)
Hardware gremlins plagued orbiting observatory for over a month NASA’s beloved Hubble Space Telescope is able to snap the heavens again after overcoming a hardware issue that had plagued it for more than a month.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5M9MH)
Lots of time for legacy users Reminding the world that there's more to life than Windows 11, Microsoft has promised a feature update for Windows 10 in the form of 21H2.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5M9JT)
Microsoft reins in some of its excesses with a visual tidy-up Microsoft's much-trumpeted "visual refresh" for its suite of Office applications has begun making its way out to users enrolled in the Insider programme, last night slithering onto both the Windows 11 Intel and ARM test setups at Vulture Central.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5M9GQ)
Have we been smoking something? Queen Maxima of the Netherlands enlisted the help of a small robot to open a 12m (40ft) 3D-printed steel bridge across a canal in Amsterdam's red-light district earlier this week.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5M9EV)
PrintNightmare? More like Groundhog Day for admins Microsoft has shared guidance revealing yet another vulnerability connected to its Windows Print Spooler service, saying it is "developing a security update."…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5M9B7)
Cops and dobbers: Uncle Sam dangles cash incentive for tattletales The US is offering a $10m reward to anyone who dobs in digital outlaws responsible for foreign government-backed cyberattacks on critical national infrastructure such as pipelines, power grids, and communication networks.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5M98R)
Back to an era when 'cloud' meant 'it's probably going to rain' Microsoft got back to its roots this week with another go – this time cloud-enabled – at an Altair 8800 running on Azure Sphere hardware.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5M98S)
British competition watchdog publishes details of why it approved AMD/Xilinx merger The UK’s competition regulator has finally published its reasons why it has decided not to stand in the way of the $35bn merger between AMD and Xilinx.…
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by David Gordon on (#5M96F)
Find out how enterprises save millions with cloud tiering done right Promo Learn how pharma giant Pfizer saved millions with the right storage tiering plan.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5M94M)
Devs across the world reveal their tools, language choices, and more A survey of nearly 32,000 developers has confirmed the dominance of JavaScript, showing a remarkable 91 per cent using GitHub, and growth in use of AWS despite the efforts of Microsoft and Google.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5M927)
Surplus stock specialist finds out the hard way how that kind of thing can happen A UK businessman hoping to create merchandise to sell to fans of singer Britney Spears has found himself instead lumbered with 10,000 misspelled T-shirts advertising a nationalist breakaway for a region of northern France.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5M928)
Scale would need to be cranked way up to have an impact, however Google has demonstrated a significant step forward in the error correction in quantum computing – although the method described in a paper this week remains some way off a practical application.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5M906)
Software claimed it was 97% sure A Black teenager in the US was barred from entering a roller rink after a facial-recognition system wrongly identified her as a person who had been previously banned for starting a fight there.…
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They're not self-driving cars, did you know that? Comment The UK government said in April that "the first types of self-driving cars could be on UK roads this year" but this is not entirely accurate.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#5M8WQ)
It might be because technicians maintain an open-door policy Something for the Weekend, Sir? Bzzz. The number of the incoming call is "Unknown". I reject it, obviously. While I am intrigued by the idea of receiving mystery calls from The Unknown, they are disappointing to answer.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5M8V4)
CEO predicts ‘many vicious and fierce battles coming, bulks R&D budget by 30 percent and hires 5,000 engineers to chase top slot Analyst firm Canalys has, for the first time, found Chinese firm Xiaomi the world’s second-ranked smartphone vendor, as measured by unit shipments.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5M8V5)
Actually, no. Don't do this On Call The week is over once again. Celebrate with a watery On Call tale involving a cathode ray tube, a pot plant, and an absent-minded user.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5M8RD)
Bezos and his bro on rocket jaunt A Dutch 18-year-old is set to be the youngest person to go into space after securing at the last minute a seat on Blue Origin’s first commercial spaceflight.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5M8RE)
Steam just announced one for gamers on the go, but it can also behave like any other PC Gaming house Steam has just revealed a rather intriguing portable PC.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5M8QA)
Does charging for Ping pong? Maybe not in this case, as Microsoft's plan covers 'Standard Ping tests' that are quite advanced Microsoft has done two very characteristic things: create a new type of Ping and signalled it will charge to use it.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5M8P6)
Meanwhile Intel reportedly eyes off buying Global Foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) has posted typically robust results, and revealed how it hopes to cope with the twin challenges of COVID-19 and simmering geopolitical tensions.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5M8MS)
Prepares to enact its anti-doxxing laws – without amendments requested by Big Tech Hong Kong’s Customs and Excise Department yesterday arrested four men over alleged money-laundering using cryptocurrency.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5M8M1)
100+ dissidents, politicians, journos targeted by Israeli espionage toolkit Analysis Software patches from Microsoft this week closed two vulnerabilities exploited by spyware said to have been sold to governments by Israeli developer Candiru.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5M8E2)
Buckle up, the great switchover starts today Good news, Hubble fans – NASA reckons it may have worked out what has upset the orbiting observatory: an iffy Power Control Unit (PCU).…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5M8B8)
Machines will function more as colleagues than tools, and we're spending $1.5bn to get there The world is entering a new stage of AI and the race to get there is between China and the United States, US defense secretary Lloyd Austin has said.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5M8B9)
Fancy a spot of weekend tinkering? Amid the puffery over Windows 365, Microsoft also released the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 with some intriguing features for Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 users.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5M899)
24-page complaint lists thousands of products deemed to be unsafe Amazon is facing legal action in the US from a consumer protection group over the sale of allegedly faulty goods including carbon monoxide detectors and hairdryers.…
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by Gareth Halfacree on (#5M83F)
Rostec throws rubles on the table for a possible 60,000 units a year Russia's Yadro and subsidiary Syntacore have announced an effort to develop homegrown processors based on the free and open RISC-V architecture.…
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by Matt Dupuy on (#5M7ZW)
'It's only for building rockets, what's it got to do with you?' pouts stroppy interplanetary aspirant biz The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has warned SpaceX it has not completed an environmental review of a new tower currently under construction at its launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, indicating the tower might have to be demolished.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5M7ZX)
ICO raids homes, seizes computers after UK Department of Health leak Two homes in South England have been searched by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) today after pictures of former health secretary Matt Hancock kissing a colleague appeared in a Brit newspaper.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5M7X4)
Linux wrangler's post-$500m Rancher acquisition numbers otherwise 'in line with expectations' Veteran Linux wrangler SUSE has swung into the red largely due to shares-based payments related to its lacklustre IPO in May.…
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by Tim Richardson on (#5M7SB)
House Committee on the Judiciary told until there is a proper regime, there will be 'misuse, and mistrust' of the tech The role of facial-recognition technology (FRT) was put under the microscope earlier this week after the US House Committee on the Judiciary heard evidence about how it's used by law enforcement agencies.…
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