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HP loses attempt to deny colossal commission to star sales staffer
Contract was clear and trying to backdate changes was naughty, rules Australian court HP’s Australia tentacle has lost an appeal in which it sought to deny a top salesperson a colossal commission.…
Alexa, swap out this code that Amazon approved for malware... Installed Skills can double-cross their users
Boffins find those developing apps for the chatty AI assistant can bypass security measures Computer security bods based in Germany and the US have analyzed the security measures protecting Amazon's Alexa voice assistant ecosystem and found them wanting.…
NTT boffins reckon they’ve out-randomed current quantum random number generators
And managed to pull it at speed, despite the menace of quantum noise Researchers at the Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) claim they've invented the first high-speed quantum random number generator built on realistic quantum devices.…
GPUs for gaming, data-center servers continue to drive up Nvidia's revenues despite chip shortages everywhere
CEO Jensen Huang admitted his wunder-biz is 'constrained' Nvidia continues to grow and beat Wall Street's expectations amid a global chip shortage. On Wednesday, it revealed bumper figures for the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2021, the three months to January 31, and full-year results.…
China, Thailand, UAE team up to test cross-border crypto-payments
Just the sort of thing you’d do if you want your national cryptocurrency to be broadly accepted China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates have signed up yo participate in a a “Multiple Central Bank Digital Currency Bridge” (m-CBDC Bridge) to explore how they might conduct cross-border transactions using cryptocurrencies.…
With computer brains in short supply, President Biden orders 100-day probe into semiconductor drought
And pledges to 'push' for $37bn in funding to increase chip manufacturing capacity President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday to do something about the semiconductor supply-chain woes that have left folks unable to obtain computer parts, system builders unable to ship PCs and game consoles, and automakers unable to manufacture vehicles.…
Singapore, Dell do a pandemic-era elbow bump, open IT giant's first-of-its-kind 'innovation hub' outside US
Island nation may become tech goliath's destination for 5G and edge research Dell has opened what it says is its first innovation hub of its kind outside of America, in Singapore.…
India dangles billion-dollar incentive scheme for server, PC makers willing to open up shop on the sub-continent
Tablets also sought with call for top builders to diversify operations India has added servers, laptops, tablets, and all-in-one PCs to the list of kit it is willing to pay to have made on its soil.…
So, bye-bye mighty nerd haven Fry’s, took Silicon to the Valley... and now you must die
End of an era for iconic electronics shop chain Store chain Fry’s Electronics announced on Wednesday it was shutting down for good, saying the internet and the coronavirus pandemic together sounded the death knell for the Silicon Valley institution.…
California’s net neutrality rules finally good to go after judge boots Big Cable’s lawsuit
Judge Mendez also suggests trying to use 1934 law in 2021 is... sub-optimal California’s net neutrality rules will finally kick in this year after a judge rejected an effort by the cable industry to stop it.…
Federal Reserve falls over in massive hours-long tech outage, knocks down US inter-bank transfer system
Few details beyond 'operational error' The US Federal Reserve's money-transfer systems failed on Wednesday for a number of hours, likely halting the electronic movement of billions of dollars.…
Revealed: The military radar system swiped from aerospace biz, leaked online by Clop ransomware gang
Not a great day for Bombardier, Leonardo and Seaspray customers A CAD drawing of a radar antenna stolen and leaked online by criminals is of a military radar system produced by defense contractor Leonardo and fitted to a number of US and UAE aircraft, The Register has learned.…
No fair! Space Launch System gets cool stickers even though monster rocket failed test
They say 'NASA' and 'ESA', not 'You tried' NASA took its mind off ongoing problems with the testing of its monster Space Launch System by slapping stickers on the fairings.…
HPE dips toe into OpenRAN 5G with a software platform and new iron to run it
Should be with carriers in the second quarter HPE is getting into the OpenRAN game, with the newly minted Communications Technology Group today launching the OpenRAN Solution Stack, which combines network functionality with a suite of management tools.…
Thirsty work: TSMC starts trucking in water amid Taiwan drought to keep chip production lines chugging
Yet more woes for embattled industry As Taiwan grapples with a major drought, local chipmaker TSMC has started ordering water by the truckload to supply its fabrication plants.…
Chill out, lockdown ain't over yet – perhaps FUZIX on the Pi Pico could feature in your weekend shed projects
Tiny $4 computer meets tiny OS Those pondering what to do with the latest Raspberry Pi gizmo, the $4 Pico, have a new option in the form of a FUZIX port.…
'We're finding bugs way faster than we can fix them': Google sponsors 2 full-time devs to improve Linux security
Plus: Why the Chocolate Factory only uses code it builds from source Interview Worried about the security of Linux and open-source code, Google is sponsoring a pair of full-time developers to work on the kernel's security.…
Scottish rocketeers Orbex commission Europe's largest industrial 3D printer to crank out 35 engines a year
Single-piece blend of metals to help get company into Prime time A 12 metric tonne 3D printer - one of the largest in Europe - has been commissioned by Orbex, intended to allow the Scottish space launch biz to "print" 35 rocket engines each year.…
Campaigners demand judicial review of NHS deal with Peter Thiel's AI firm Palantir
Report says CEO sipped watermelon cocktails with NHS England chief at cosy party Campaign groups are seeking a judicial review of the UK government's decision to award a £23m NHS contract to controversial AI company Palantir.…
Lenovo's ThinkPad line goes under the knife: X13 models look a bit taller but worry not, the 'nipples' are still intact
AMD or Intel flavours, Wi-Fi 6, and... an antimicrobial component? Lenovo is refreshing a large chunk of its ThinkPad line, upgrading specs for its mobile workstations-class devices and redesigning the X13 and X13 Yoga portables.…
UKFast founder and ex-CEO Lawrence Jones denies rape and sexual assault charges
Trial date set for February 2022 The multimillionaire former boss of UKFast, Britain's largest homegrown web hosting business, has denied allegations of rape and sexual assault.…
Microsoft unveils swappable SSDs for Surface Pro 7+ but 'strongly discourages' users from upping their capacity
Opted for 128GB? Better hope that software bloat doesn't bite you Microsoft has dashed fanboy hopes that the swappable SSD in its new Surface Pro 7+ might lead to an upgrade or two in the future.…
Pyrrhic victory: Co-Op wins £13m from IBM over collapse of £175m Project Cobalt insurance platform contract
It wanted £128m in wasted spending – but customer wasn't blameless for debacle, rules UK High Court Co-Op Insurance has won £13m from IBM in a High Court lawsuit brought over a £175m Agile software platform contract which collapsed in 2017 after a litany of failures by Big Blue and its subcontractor 1insurer.…
Tata Consultancy Services wins £4m deal to carry out Oracle 'reimplementation' for University of Manchester
That's an expensive reimplementation Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has won a £4m contract to bump up the University of Manchester from Oracle Financials version 12.1.3 to 12.2.8 or later.…
Microsoft spearheads a whole new genre with installation on the side of a Lyon tunnel
Ah oui, mais est-ce de l'art? Bork!Bork!Bork! While a number of factors may be preventing the average tourist from enjoying European travels, bork appears to know no borders.…
Robots that take out your garbage? Oh What A Feeling, says Toyota as it opens its very own smart city
In 'Woven City' human-driven cars aren't allowed, 'personal mobility devices' get their own roads, and sensors tell robots when you need help Toyota on Tuesday broke ground on "Woven City", a smart city project in Japan that doesn't permit private cars and where your robot might stock your fridge.…
Think you know all about security pen-testing in the cloud? Here’s how to prove it
New GIAC qual shows you can put the Sec into DevSecOps and quantify the risk in SRE Promo On the face of it, cloud penetration testing might appear a complex undertaking involving very different architectures, such as containers and Kubernetes, to those found in traditional on-prem infrastructure.…
macOS Big Sur muscles onto Amazon's cloudy Macs
AWS flicks the switch on EFS too for those who fancy sharing cloudy volumes Amazon Web Services has levelled up its cloudy macOS offering.…
Mozilla Firefox keeps cookies kosher with quarantine scheme, 86s third-party cookies in new browser build
Hey man, are your cookies trackin' me? Take 'em out. You gotta keep 'em separated Mozilla has revised the way the latest build of the Firefox browser handles HTTP cookies to prevent third-parties from using them to track people online, as part of improvements in build 86 of the code.…
What's CNAME of your game? This DNS-based tracking defies your browser privacy defenses
Study sees increasing adoption of cloaking to bypass cookie barriers Boffins based in Belgium have found that a DNS-based technique for bypassing defenses against online tracking has become increasingly common and represents a growing threat to both privacy and security.…
Wave of AMD Epycs and updated Xeons wash up at DigitalOcean
Adds ‘Premium’ tier to ‘You can have any CPU so long as it’s a slightly old Xeon’ cloud Cloud contender DigitalOcean has upgraded its cloud, adding AMD CPUs, and adopting Intel's latest Xeon Scalable silicon.…
IBM teases new AIX release – the first since 2015
And guess what? Version 7.3 will emphasise hybrid cloud in line with new CEO Arvind Krishna's wishes IBM has formally announced a new version of its AIX operating system.…
Indian Railways suffers unspecified security ‘breaches in various IT applications’
13m passengers a day, a million tickets bought on digital platforms, and yet few details offered on what went wrong Indian Railways has revealed it has suffered “a number of incidents … regarding breaches in various IT applications” and appears to have blamed some of them on sloppy infosec practices among staff working from home due to the COVID-10 pandemic.…
Robocall bagmen admit they collected millions of dollars from victims scammed by bogus IRS officials, lenders
Duo picked up sacks of cash sent via FedEx, UPS, USPS etc Two bagmen who collected cash from thousands of victims of robocall scams have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges.…
Microsoft president asks Congress to force private-sector orgs to publicly admit when they've been hacked
Senate intelligence committee hears ideas in light of SolarWinds disaster The private sector should be legally obliged to disclose any major hacks of their systems, says Microsoft’s president and top lawyer Brad Smith.…
VMware warns of critical remote code execution flaw in vSphere HTML5 client
If you don’t patch, the hosts driving all your virty servers are at risk. So maybe your to-do list needs a tickle? VMware has revealed a critical-rated bug in the HTML5 client for its flagship vSphere hybrid cloud suite.…
They break into your network but do nothing themselves: 'Initial access brokers' resell stolen creds for $7k a pop
So says Digital Shadows as it puts a price on illicit access methods A growing category of cyber-crime consists of breaking into corporate networks and doing nothing else – except selling that illicit access to others for about $7,000 a go, says infosec biz Digital Shadows.…
US government jobs report predicts pandemic will lead to boom times for IT industry
Along with epidemiologists. As for the hospitality industry… not so much The IT industry is heading into boom times, according to the US government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics which has revised its annual jobs report in the face of the pandemic.…
Clop ransomware gang leaks online what looks like stolen Bombardier blueprints of GlobalEye radar snoop jet
And what may be CAD drawing of a military radar antenna The Clop ransomware gang claims to have stolen documents from aerospace giant Bombardier’s defense division – and has leaked what appears to be a CAD drawing of one of its military aircraft products, raising fears over what else they’ve got.…
Spotify to introduce lossless audio streaming: Better sound or inefficient gimmick?
'More about branding than it is quality,' reckons analyst Spotify will introduce CD-quality lossless audio streaming, in a new service for premium subscribers to be rolled out in selected markets later this year.…
Samsung shows off next-generation big-pixel camera sensor tech, coming to an Android phone near you
Good chance a phone you buy this year will use this photography tech Samsung today announced its latest smartphone sensor tech, the ISOCELL GN2. Already in production, this image sensor promises improved low-light performance over its predecessors, despite supporting a high (50MP) megapixel count.…
SD card slot, HDMI port could return to the MacBook Pro this year, says Apple analyst
An end to dongle hell in sight? This year's crop of MacBook Pro laptops are expected to include dedicated HDMI ports and an integrated SD card reader, says an analyst with the inside track on the twists and turns in Apple's roadmap.…
UK might still be in lockdown but tech jobs rise above pre-pandemic levels and beyond, according to ONS
More women in tech workforce too, and salaries staying firm or going up The number of UK tech jobs has surpassed pre-pandemic levels and the sector now employs more individuals than at any time in its history, according to official data released today.…
SpaceX small print on Starlink insists no Earth government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities
Isn't this a subplot from those James S A Corey novels? SpaceX has ambitions for its Starlink constellation beyond annoying stargazers if the pre-order agreement for its satellite-based internet service is anything to go by.…
Xilinx pops a 16-core 64-bit Arm system-on-chip from NXP into its latest FPGA-based 100Gbps smart NIC
Gate array for data plane, CPU cores for control plane Xilinx will today launch a network card that not only offloads acceleration to an FPGA but also to an on-board NXP chip containing 16 Arm CPU cores.…
Linux Mint users in hot water for being slow with security updates, running old versions
Automatic updates? 'We have ideas on how to improve this,' says founder Linux Mint founder Clem Lefebvre has complained that too many users are slow to apply updates or run unsupported versions of the operating system.…
UK's Health Department desperately seeking service provider to run IT after 'cloud-first' shift
Service desks, end user computing, networks... you know the drill. Tens of millions of pounds up for grabs The UK's Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) needs first aid with IT service management as it implements the cloud-first technology programme, and has £25m set aside to pay to bring in external help.…
IT contractor caught charging Uncle Sam expert rates for newbies, agrees to pay back $6m in settlement
Triple-I worked on Homeland Security and ICE systems An IT contractor has agreed to pay back $6m to the US federal government for charging expert IT rates while sending newbies.…
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's just a very unhappy Windows installation
The last attempt to resume your country failed. Would you like to try again? Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork is back with a bang this week as Windows disgraces itself not on a mere kiosk, but on a billboard glaring balefully out over Manchester Piccadilly.…
DataStax 'pauses' AIOps database project to figure out exactly what AIOps is
Some enterprise folk less keen on cloudy machine learning Cassandra database slinger DataStax has "paused" its AIops project, Vector, while it figures out what exactly AIops is.…
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