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Cybersecurity threats aren't getting any smaller. Could big data help?
Spend a little time with our Tim and Nutanix’s Kong Yang – and learn how to crack the conundrum Webcast Upheaval always creates opportunity, and it’s often cyber criminals who are the first to exploit it.…
Microsoft celebrates Ignite by ramming 21H1 down the throats of Windows Insiders
Ready or not, here I come! The next version of Windows 10 is most definitely inbound after Microsoft began forcing the code onto its loyal band of unpaid testers last night as a "recommended update."…
Nvidia exec love-bombs Arm's licensing model, almost protests too much
'Their open licensing model is absolutely one of the greatest licensing models out there' Nvidia has no plans to dismantle Arm's licensing-based biz model, enterprise veep and CFO Colette Kress has said, touching on one of the key concerns voiced by industry as competition regulators probe the proposed $40bn buyout.…
Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version
Pitches pro-privacy platform with customizable results filter dubbed Goggles Brave, maker of the identically named privacy-focused web browser, has acquired its own search engine to offer as an alternative to Google Search and competing search engines that exist but aren't all that visible in Google's shadow.…
9 years after SpaceX strode into Texas village, Elon Musk floats name change for Boca Chica: 'Starbase'
If he said it on Twitter it must be all above board, right? Cryptocurrency enthusiast Elon Musk has attracted scorn after floating the idea of changing the name of Boca Chica, Texas, to "Starbase."…
Equinix prepping to unleash 128-core Ampere Arm silicon in its 'Metal' not-quite-cloud
For now, you get Dell and Pure Storage-as-a-service and more metallic locations Equinix is weeks away from unleashing Ampere’s 128-core Altra server CPUs in its “Metal” not-quite cloud service.…
The wrong guy: Backup outfit Spanning deleted my personal data, claims Cohesity field CTO
One warning email.... then three years of backup gone in a flash, says storage exec Cohesity exec Chris Colotti has said that Kaseya Spanning eradicated years of backup data belonging to him after he unwittingly breached a usage limit for an account that was supposed to have no pre-set limits, and then didn't upgrade his plan within a five-day period.…
It's not easy being green: EV HTTPS cert seller Sectigo questions Chrome's logic in burying EV HTTPS cert info
Seeing as Google thinks no one cares about location records, we'll remove street addresses from all our sites, says compliance chief Sectigo’s chief compliance officer has hit out at Google for minimizing the visibility of Extended Validation HTTPS certificates in Chrome.…
Hacking is not a crime – and the media should stop using 'hacker' as a pejorative
Hackers are friends not foes, says Alyssa Miller in this opening argument for our latest debate Register debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you – the reader – choose the winning argument. The format is simple: a motion is proposed, the argument for the motion is published today, and the argument against will be published on Friday.…
Telecoms shack in the middle of Scotland put up for auction at £7,500
No broadband or bedroom though, so you'll have to sign up for sats or build your own Stuck in a flat in London, Tokyo, New York or another less lovely urban area for the pandemic?…
IBM settles £36m Direct Line insurance platform project lawsuit, after claiming Teradata tried to usurp its spot
Terms of deal not disclosed as Big Blue insists it wasn't wrong, but merely didn't follow design standards British insurer Direct Line has settled a High Court case it brought against IBM for £36m after alleging Big Blue fatally bungled a far-reaching Agile methodology-based insurance platform IT project.…
Google has arranged special insurance for its cloud – if you share some data with Allianz and Munich Re
Pitches 'shared fate' scheme as an upgrade to current convention of cloud sec being your problem Google and insurance colossi Allianz and Munich Re have teamed on a special insurance policy tailored to the G-Cloud.…
TPG buys Thycotic, immediately merges it with Centrify to create ~$230m access management monster
Product consolidation roadmap? Not yet. But all involved say the combo will work out just fine Private equity group TPG has acquired security vendor Thycotic and announced it will merge it with another recent acquisition, Centrify.…
Microsoft promises end-to-end encrypted Teams calls for some, invites you to go passwordless with Azure AD
When there are passphrases, there is inherent risk, says Redmond Ignite Microsoft has said it will add end-to-end encryption for some one-to-one Teams calls later this year – and urged folks to move away from using passwords with Azure AD.…
Eugene Kaspersky says cyber-crooks coined it during COVID and will take a break to spend their loot
Not so fast, says infosec boffin, because crims know returning workers will be easy prey Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky has suggested that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic will bring a slowdown in cyber-crime.…
The classic hits keep coming from IBM: z/OS set for big update in September
Mainframe operating system to get more AI, hybrid cloud cred, expanded coprocessor support IBM has teased a significant update to its z/OS mainframe operating system.…
ASEAN bloc's five-year ICT Masterplan was too big to be a winner, says final report
Good tech policy vital as Asian states climb out of the COVID-19 crunch ASEAN, the trade and security bloc comprising ten Southeast Asia countries, has admitted its five-year ICT Masterplan could have been better-designed, didn't deliver on some goals, and lacked the policy underpinnings that would have improved its chances of success.…
Intel told by jury to pay $2.18bn to VLSI for ripping off two semiconductor patents
Chipzilla vows to appeal verdict Intel was told on Tuesday to cough up $2.18bn in damages after losing a patent-infringement court battle against VLSI Technology, a Silicon Valley veteran rejuvenated by an intellectual property fight.…
Microsoft fixes four zero-day flaws in Exchange Server exploited by China's ‘Hafnium’ spies to steal victims' data
Patch ASAP: Holes used to raid top-tier targets and stash info in Kim Dotcom's old cloud file locker Microsoft says Beijing-backed hackers are exploiting four zero-day vulnerabilities in Exchange Server to steal data from US-based defense contractors, law firms, and infectious disease researchers.…
Microsoft touts Azure Percept development kits to those toying with AI on the edge
Full stack means fully locked in – oh shoot, did we say that out loud? Ignite Microsoft on Tuesday launched Azure Percept – a full stack of technologies to run AI code at the network edge – during its annual Ignite conference.…
It’s back: America's net neutrality advocates begin push to return to pre-Trump internet protections
Lawmakers look to FCC to become a 'cop on the beat' The decade-long battle over net neutrality in America has returned. Again.…
Python Package Index nukes 3,653 malicious libraries uploaded soon after security shortcoming highlighted
Unauthorized versions of CuPy and other projects flood PyPI The Python Package Index, also known as PyPI, has removed 3,653 malicious packages uploaded days after a security weakness in the use of private and public registries was highlighted.…
Apple faces app store payments fight in Arizona, Throttlegate suit in Portugal
Beachheads open up on both sides of the Atlantic Apple is facing a fresh round of battles on both sides of the Atlantic over its App Store and iPhone policies.…
Excel-lent: Microsoft debuts low-code Power Fx language... but it is not really new
Citizen development platform where everything looks like Excel Ignite Microsoft today introduced Power Fx, a low-code language for its Power Platform, but it is not altogether new, being extracted from the existing formula language for what the company calls canvas apps.…
SAP tells investors it plans to make €5bn RISE up into its clouds with lift and shift push
You may be interested in tech, but backers want to know about revenue 'multipliers' SAP aims to convert €5bn in revenue from support and software licences into cloud subscriptions over the next five years, according to the German software giant's CFO.…
Reasons to be appy: Huawei flashes figures for its App Gallery platform
Ok, so you have 2.7 million developers.... one for every phone you might sell in 2025? Huawei's sales and shipments may be shrinking like a snowball in the Sahara, but armed with App Gallery platform stats, it is trying to put on a brave public showing.…
Microsoft previews Windows Server 2022: Someone took a spanner to core plumbing features
New Windows Server ahoy - but the company would rather talk about Azure Ignite Microsoft has released a preview of Windows Server 2022, with "secured core", improved Windows Containers, and MsQuic protocol support in the kernel.…
Homo sapiens: Hey you, Neanderthals! Neanderthals: We heard that
Neanderthal ear scans support idea they could hear us and had a 'type of human language' Computerised tomography scans and auditory bioengineering models of fossilised Neanderthals ears suggest our closest extinct cousins had a hearing range necessary to process human speech.…
That's a bit harsh: Lenovo adds 2 new toughened boxen to ThinkEdge edge computing line
Feeds growing market for edge kit with gear rated for temps below freezing Lenovo has updated its edge computing hardware portfolio, adding two rugged compact machines to its ThinkEdge line-up.…
The Great Borkish Breakfast: I'll have a cup of tea, a sausage roll and a side of bork, please
Microsoft's OS might be time-expired, but the pastry is, well, far too edible Bork!Bork!Bork! While the French may project their borkage as art onto the wall of a Lyon tunnel, Brits seem to prefer theirs glaring down balefully from a screen in a sausage roll emporium in Yateley.…
Linux Mint emits fix for memory-gobbling Cinnamon – and future version may insist on some updates
It's your computer, not ours – but we may go ahead and update it for you, says team The Linux Mint team has introduced a fix for a memory leak it does not fully understand: restarting the Cinnamon desktop.…
Gootkit malware crew using SEO to get pwned websites in front of unwitting marks
And they're getting into the ransomware game too, warns Sophos Gootkit financial malware has been resurrected to fling ransomware payloads at unwitting marks, according to Sophos.…
Perl.com theft blamed on social engineering attack: Registrar 'convinced' to alter DNS records by miscreants
Network Solutions hasn't confirmed what happened, though The short-lived theft of Perl.com in late January is believed to have been the result of a social engineering attack that convinced registrar Network Solutions to alter the domain's records without valid authorization.…
Pressure builds on Nominet as members demand to know leadership's contingency plans for when they’re fired
Special vote to sack UK internet registry's CEO and chairman coming later this month The board of .uk internet registry operator Nominet is again under pressure after support to fire the organisation’s CEO and chairman hit a critical milestone.…
Netflix reveals massive migration to new mix of microservices, asynchronous workflows and serverless functions
Goes deep on Docker and adopts ‘strangler fig’ pattern to replace legacy platform Netflix has revealed it’s built a new media ingestion and distribution platform and expects to spend much of 2021 on a migration from what it describes as a “large and complicated legacy system”.…
Boffins trap ultra-cold plasma-in-a-bottle, a move that may unlock secrets of exotic stars
Matter held not for long... but for long enough Video Physicists have trapped a sliver of the world’s coldest plasma in a magnetic "bottle" for the first time, taking the first tentative steps towards building increasingly realistic simulations of the interiors of stars.…
Azure and AWS expand their cloudy Asian boot-prints
Japan doubles up for AWS, Indonesia warms up for Microsoft as Alibaba and Google lie in wait AWS and Microsoft have expanded their Asian cloud presences.…
Flagship Chinese chipmaker collapses before it makes a single chip or opens a factory
Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor’s 7nm ambitions are dust One of China’s next-generation chipmakers appears to have collapsed, potentially hampering the nation’s march to silicon-self-sufficiency.…
Japanese bank botched data migration, which somehow turned its ATMs into card-eating monsters
Online banking and thousands of machines went offline while the mess was cleaned up Japan’s Mizuho Bank has apologised after data migration work turned its ATMs into card-eating monsters, prevented customers from withdrawing their cash and impacted online banking.…
President Biden weighs in on Amazon unionization efforts, warns giant to steer clear of threats, coercion
Stops well short of ordering govt action as fresh discrimination lawsuit filed President Joe Biden has weighed into a battle over unionization taking place at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, posting a video in which he warns that “it's not up to an employer to decide” if their workers’ unionize and that “there should be no intimidation, no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda.”…
'Incorrect software parameter' sends Formula E's Edoardo Mortara to hospital: Brakes' fail-safe system failed
Bug keeps Mercedes, Venturi teams out of qualifying race Swiss Formula E driver Edoardo Mortara ended up in hospital after a software error left him driving into a safety wall at the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in Diriyah, Saudia Arabia, on Saturday.…
Chinese businessman plotted with GE insider to steal transistor secrets, say Feds
Hong Kong-based suspect wanted to create rival startup using pilfered silicon carbide MOSFET blueprints – claim A Chinese businessman has been accused by the US government of trying to steal silicon secrets from General Electric (GE).…
Chin up, weary key workers: Google's pushing out a Workspace for frontliners
But the Chocolate Factory has workers' privacy at heart. No, really Google is nudging its G Suite Workspace tools further toward a hybrid workplace with the addition of services aimed at frontline workers, among other tweaks and enhancements.…
Would you Looker that: Google bakes in BigQuery caching layer to boost BI interactivity
'BigQuery is pretty fast anyway so you'd really need to value the extra speed' Google has introduced a caching layer in Big Query - its cloud data warehouse - designed to speed up responses to users as they explore and experiment with data.…
Jailbreaking app gets update to support iOS 14.3 and iPhone 12
Hmm. Fancy new phone you've got there... shame if nothing were to happen to it Fed up with Apple’s walled garden? Fancy running some unauthorised code on your shiny new iPhone? Unafraid of major security risks? The team behind iOS jailbreaking tool unc0ver just released version 6.0.0, bringing with it support for iOS versions 11 to 14.3.…
Rocket Lab goes large with Neutron – a big rocket for big constellations. Oh, and it confirms a merger proposal
Something for rocket fans and rocket financiers to chew on Small-satellite flinger Rocket Lab today confirmed a merger with Vector Acquisition Corporation, as well as plans for a considerably heftier launcher.…
Malware attack that crippled Mumbai's power system came from China, claims infosec intel outfit Recorded Future
The fun started at the same time as border skirmishes Security intelligence firm Recorded Future's Insikt Group has written a paper alleging China was behind attacks on India's electricity grid.…
IBM Cloud Satellite now available, 'rooted in Red Hat OpenShift,' says CTO
Big Blue extends its cloud to run anywhere - including competing public clouds Interview IBM's multi-cloud (and on-premise) Satellite service is now available, a managed Kubernetes product "rooted in Red Hat OpenShift," according to the company's Cloud CTO Jason McGee.…
After spending $45bn on 5G licences, Verizon tells customers to turn off 5G to save battery life
You've just got to have 5G... except when you don't US telco Verizon is advising customers to not access its 5G network – for the sake of their phone's battery life – mere days after spending $45bn on new radio spectrum.…
Google seeks to placate AI researchers complaining of Big Brother-like working conditions
Plus: Deepfake Tom Cruise has arrived on TikTok, and new ML algo that beats humans at classic Atari games In Brief Lawyers at Google have been criticised by the company’s AI researchers for watering down negative language in their academic papers.…
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