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Risky and annoying? Microsoft has a new app store coming to both Windows 10 and 11, but some applications will use their own update mechanisms, raising security and user experience concerns.…

Operator shall talk unto operator or the big stick will be wielded UK telecommunications regulator Ofcom has kicked off a consultation process regarding licence applications for non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) systems such as Starlink and OneWeb.…

Commercial EUV LPDDR4 modules in the works now, but the 1anm node is still being treated as a test-bed Memory maker SK Hynix has boasted of its best sales quarter since prior to the pandemic, and confirmed the start of volume production on its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) product line.…

Accoutancy software goes TITSUP* as biz users can't invoice customers nor see who's paid their bills Hundreds of thousands of small businesses are having trouble raising invoices and sorting out their monthly payroll following an outage at accounting software-as-a-service outfit Xero.…

Competition in celebration of the BBC Micro's 40th anniversary The UK's National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is running a competition aimed at recreating the bleeps, whistles, and flatulent squawks of video game music from years gone by.…

First-timer wins maximum payout through HackerOne programme Shopify has forked out $50,000 (£36,150) in a bug bounty payment to computer science student Augusto Zanellato following the discovery of a publicly available access token which gave world+dog read-and-write access to the company's source code repositories.…

Hints at new Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip models too A Samsung rep has confirmed the Korean giant won't deliver a new Note phablet this year, but has disclosed a pair of new folding phones and the company's first S Pen for foldables, which will debut in August.…

Force still stinging after CGI fiasco ended up costing more than hoped for North Wales Police is tendering for new workplace, data centre, and network support contracts in deals potentially worth up to £40m after a five-year agreement with CGI offered opaque results.…

The silicon is weak, but the iron is strong Bork!Bork!Bork! "Steam powered" is occasionally used in an unkind fashion to describe computer hardware past its best. Today's entry in the bork archives takes the phrase to a whole other place.…

Right-to-repair activists welcome policy wins with caution Feature It was the middle of harvest, and Sarah Rachor wasn't happy. Rachor, who runs a farm with her father in Sidney, Montana, was baling hay in the field when the tractor she was using shut down without warning. The culprit was a sensor that detected the tractor was overheating. In reality, it wasn't.…

Decentralised comms is where it's at As Microsoft doubles down on efforts to kill Skype persuade users to chat with Teams, former Skype developer Jaan Tallinn has dropped some cash into the latest funding round for open-source IM client Element.…

Customers are afraid of commitment, so new rules for enterprise APIs promise to stick around until you ride off into the sunset Google has acknowledged that it makes life hard for users when killing off little-loved products, by announcing an API policy that will keep its cloudy interfaces alive for as long as customers are using them.…

Try the SANS DFIR-ence in Berlin this October Promo Whether it’s hunting for threats, tracking down security breaches, or gathering evidence, intuition helps though a thorough grounding in the latest techniques and tools for the platform in question is essential.…

Reveals tech roadmap that contains some real change, some renaming Intel has announced that Amazon Web Services has become the first customer for its foundry services packaging solutions, and that Qualcomm has become a partner of sorts in a silicon manufacturing process said to represent a step change beyond current Intel tech.…

We speak to the scientists involved Plumes of water vapor on Ganymede have been spotted for the first time in the atmosphere of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.…

'Avatars' that roam around space station, or do work with high performance hands, to be controllable from the ground The International Space Station is getting mobile robot “space avatars” controllable by the public from Earth, courtesy of a joint project between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and ANA Holdings’ telepresence start-up avatarin.…

Has since been recovered, and Scaleway now ships disks with GPS trackers It sounds like a "dog ate my homework" excuse for the cloud age, but Euro-cloud Scaleway says one of its solid-state disks was stolen from a truck, turned up in the hands of a YouTuber, and has now made its way back home.…

But the idea of blockchain-powered money is worth government consideration The International Monetary Fund has called on nations to consider using blockchain tech to improve financial services, but warned that dabbling with private cryptocurrencies is vastly risky.…

Characteristically mum about details Apple on Monday patched a zero-day vulnerability in its iOS, iPadOS, and macOS operating systems, only a week after issuing a set of OS updates addressing about three dozen other flaws.…

It's not a bribe when it's a payment waiver Blue Origins supremo Jeff Bezos has offered NASA a $2bn discount to keep his dream alive of transporting the next American man and first woman to the Moon's surface.…

Energy efficiency rules appears to be limiting the availability of gaming rigs Dell is no longer shipping energy-hungry gaming PCs to certain states in America because they demand more energy than local standards allow.…

Microsoft offers some mitigations for thwarting PetitPotam attacks Microsoft completed a vulnerability hat-trick this month as yet another security weakness was uncovered in its operating systems. And this one doesn't even need authentication to work its magic.…

'The W3C doesn't get to be the boss of anyone, the decisions are going to be made at each of the browsers' Google has updated the schedule for its introduction of "Privacy Sandbox" browser technology and the phasing out of third-party cookies.…

Learn how to democratise storage with this revolutionary webcast Promo The laws of data are pretty universal. Every organisation needs advanced security, performance, and management features that improve over time.…

Fear not! Issue is at the 'highest level of escalation,' says ISP A broadband customer from Leatherhead, Surrey, who was told to "speak to your MP" after his ISP failed to resolve repeated line disconnections has now been informed he can leave his contract without penalty after Openreach failed to resolve the problem.…

Makes sense really Newly released data suggests South Korea is having a silicon and instant noodle renaissance, both thanks to COVID-19.…

End of March for ValueLicensing's jurisdictional defence British software licence reseller ValueLicensing has a trial date for the first part of a £270m legal showdown against Microsoft after accusing the US behemoth of breaking UK and EU competition laws.…

v11 set for mid-August release The Debian Project has set a release date of 14 August for Debian 11, also known as Bullseye.…

Plus: Facial-recognition upstart Clearview raises $30m In brief Deepmind and the European Bioinformatics Institute released a database of more than 350,000 3D protein structures predicted by the biz's AI model AlphaFold.…

Litre of the office essential costs as much as £2,410 – up from £1,700 in 2003, finds Which? Printer ink continues to rank as one of the most expensive liquids around with a litre of the home office essential costing the same as a very high-end bottle of bubbly or an oak-aged Cognac.…

The three horsemen of the borkpocalypse: CMOS error, XP and... death BORK!BORK!BORK! Windows XP is coming up to a 20th birthday yet it is heartening to see that the OS can still be guaranteed to take its place as one of the three horsemen of the borkpocalypse.…

Promise of 'efficiencies' may be appealing to authority facing £100m COVID black hole Kent County Council is inviting IT services companies and BPO specialists to bid for places on a £500m framework agreement set to offer a range of outsourcing services to the English public authority.…

You may know it better as Teams. Giddy up Column You can spot a veteran of the Browser Wars a mile off. These fearsome conflicts, fought across the desktops of the world not 20 years ago, left deep scars. Just whisper "Best viewed in IE6" in any crowd of Generation 95'ers, and watch grown men and women weep like babies as their hands grasp for an invisible mouse to click on that long-gone Close Window.…

You don't mind if we record this, do you? Feature Having shown you some top tips on how people screw up their CVs and interviews, we now move to the weakest link: the interviewer. This article draws on my own experiences from grunt programmer, CTO to headhunter with many years in the recruitment game. Names have been obscured to protect the guilty.…

Troubled Nauka might actually make it after four orbit corrections – since we left work Friday Russia's space agency spent the weekend trying to get one module to the International Space Station and deciding to ditch another.…

Praise be for Firewalls Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me?, where hallowed ground gets trampled as a reader inadvertently cleans up the collective act of the senior staff.…

Tom Corn heads to Open Systems as Virtzilla hints its SmartNIC push has borne fruit Video VMware's security products boss has bailed.…

Plus: Microsoft responds to another NTLM relay attack technique, and more In brief DEF CON's "Spot the Fed" game is going to be a little easier than usual this year: the head of the US government's Homeland Security is giving a keynote.…

Someone seems to have leaked a draft document that represented a radical reversal The United States Department of Defence (DoD) has reiterated that it thinks drones made by Chinese firm DJI represent a security risk after an internal document suggesting the opposite leaked to the press.…

All levels of industry and government told to get moving, consumers encouraged to buy new Wi-Fi routers China's Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission and Cyberspace Administration have set out a plan for massive adoption of IPv6.…

Lower your prices and play nicer, CDN goliath suggests Cloudflare on Friday accused competitor Amazon Web Services of massive markups and hindering customer data portability, even as it invited the cloud services giant to join its discount data initiative known as the Bandwidth Alliance.…

Google parent hopes to inject AI into factory machines Alphabet today launched its latest tech startup, Intrinsic, which aims to build commercial software that will power industrial robots.…

Programming blunder is the second such snafu this month Bug of the week Google has fixed a bug in Chrome OS version 91.0.4472.165 that surfaced on Monday and prevented some users from being able to login to their systems.…

85% of those jobs will be rehired, just in cheaper countries Updated Around 10 per cent of Rackspace staff, predominantly in the US it seems, got an unwelcome email this week informing them they were being let go.…

An unexpectedly vehicular collection of chaos and confusion for your consideration Welcome back for another compendium of tomfoolery from this week for those who enjoy a bit of light-hearted piffle. And let's face it, who doesn't?…

What else is round? Oh yes, holes While the Windows of today may have more holes in it than a 20-year-old pair of underpants, Microsoft has continued plugging away at previews for the upcoming iteration, Windows 11.…

Of course kids are allowed. Whatever gave you the impression they weren't? Open-source audio editor Audacity this week posted an apology on GitHub in response to the entirely predictable furore over the platform's privacy policy.…

We endured enormous cruelty and abuse and feared for our lives, say couple A couple from the US who run a small ecommerce publication have launched legal action against eBay accusing the company of a "coordinated effort to intimidate, threaten to kill, torture, terrorize, stalk and silence" them to muzzle their coverage.…

Reg reader reveals colossal 821-item collection of Amazon trademarks tucked away on its site Recently, a Reg reader* contacted us at Vulture (virtual) Towers with something odd they'd found online – a page tucked away in the little-visited “Legal Policies” section of Amazon's website containing a "non-exhaustive" list of all the trademarks held by the company.…

Main contractor J McCann insists it takes its obligations 'very seriously' Contractors helping to lay fibre cables under streets in Derby have threatened to scrap their work and "rip up tarmac" they've laid – unless they get paid.…