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Amazon sues NY Attorney General in preemptive strike: Web giant faces claim it did not fully protect workers in COVID-19 pandemic
Subsidize public bus service and slow down production? No thanks, says Bezos Bunch Amazon on Friday sued New York Attorney General Letitia James to prevent her office from bringing legal action that would punish the behemoth computing biz for alleged worker health and safety violations.…
Supermicro spy chips, the sequel: It really, really happened, and with bad BIOS and more, insists Bloomberg
Server maker says latest article is 'a mishmash of disparate allegations' Following up on a disputed 2018 claim in its BusinessWeek publication that tiny spy chips were found on Supermicro server motherboards in 2015, Bloomberg on Friday doubled down by asserting that Supermicro's products were targeted by Chinese operatives for over a decade, that US intelligence officials have been aware of this, and that authorities kept this information quiet while crafting defenses in order to study the attack.…
Huawei invokes 140-year-old law at England's High Court in latest bid to thwart CFO's US-Canada extradition
Lawyers say they need HSBC UK Powerpoint slides to undo Uncle Sam's case against Meng Wanzhou Huawei today turned to the British courts in its fight to keep CFO Meng Wanzhou out of American prosecutors’ hands.…
New Jersey blames Microsoft for weeks of outages, glitches plaguing coronavirus vaccine sign-up website
Promised software may never work as specified, it is feared New Jersey's Microsoft-powered coronavirus vaccine-registration system has not worked properly for the past five weeks, according to officials, and may never work as specified.…
How many low-code products does an enterprise software biz need? Ask SAP, it's just swallowed another one
AppGyver disappears inside juggernaut's attempts to nurture more modern image SAP has dipped its hand into the corporate loose change to snap up no-code app development firm AppGyver.…
Footfallcam kerfuffle: Firm apologises, promises to fix product after viral Twitter thread, infoseccer backlash
Accusations of grey hat infosec consultancy extortion ring drop away after El Reg intervenes A cautionary tale about the dangers posed by affordable Internet of Things devices turned into a much more sinister story after a company threatened an infosec bod with a police report (since retracted) unless he deleted a Twitter thread highlighting shortcomings in one of its products.…
Looking for a new IT job? This week's list includes roles for software engineers, DC managers, cloud experts and support specialists
If you're keen to place an ad, contact us – it's free Job alert During these difficult times of pandemic induced restrictions and economic turmoil, we're running free job ads to try and keep techies in gainful employment.…
Looking for the perfect Valentine's gift? How about a week of retro gaming BBC Microlympics?
Chuckie Egg and Elite? Oh you shouldn't have! Parents staring down the barrel of half term or computer fans with a fondness for the good old days, rejoice! The National Museum of Computing is marking the 40th anniversary of the BBC Micro with a week of retro gaming, including Chuckie Egg and Elite.…
Court witness describes how Autonomy founder Lynch would wash his rear-end in US prison showers and dorms
When people called the Brit software biz a s*** show... ah, never mind Autonomy founder Mike Lynch's extradition hearing took a strange turn on Thursday as an American prison reform campaigner described in excruciating detail how the former CEO would wash himself in a US prison shower.…
O2 UK overcharged exiting customers by £40.7m over 7+ years: Ofcom slams senior managers, fines it £10.5m
Nearly 8 years of extra fees after it 'initially identified issues' with billing in 2011... but nothing came of it Britain's comms regulator has dished out a £10.5m fine to O2 UK, after it found the mobile operator overcharged exiting pay monthly customers by a whopping £40.7m between 2011 and 2019.…
helloSystem: Pre-alpha FreeBSD project chases simplicity and elegance by taking cues from macOS
Rethinking the desktop with reference to Apple's early UI guidelines Updated A pre-alpha project to make a new FreeBSD-based desktop operating system has adopted a minimalist design intended to appeal to Mac defectors.…
Dept of If I'd Known 20 Years Ago: Call centres, roosting chickens, and Bitcoin
Getting it half-right means you got it half-wrong Something for the Weekend, Sir? Give me a moment, I'm on another call. Hello? Hello? … Oh, it's just a recorded message assuring me that my call is important to them. Of course it is: it's a premium-rate helpline.…
We know it's hard to get your kicks at work – just do it away from a wall switch powering anything important
Does your office have a singing swinger? On Call It seems that hardly anyone is flying these days. Handy because in today's On Call, one false move interrupts the monitoring of air traffic.…
Machine-learning model creates creepiest Doctor Who images yet – by scanning the brain of a super fan
Oodkind look even more terryfing AI researchers have attempted to reconstruct scenes from Doctor Who by using machine-learning algorithms to convert brain scans into images.…
Myanmar Junta delivers harsh cyber law and more IP blocking orders
Gives itself power to snoop and block anything, anytime – but at least it’s also consulted with industry Myanmar’s military Junta, which seized power in a coup last week, has drafted new laws that compel local carriers to collect customers’ data and make it available to authorities.…
Microsoft issues emergency fix for Wi-Fi foul-up delivered hot and fresh on Patch Tuesday
WPA3 access may cause Blue Screen of Death Microsoft has issued an out-of-band Windows 10 patch to fix a self-inflicted error that can crash devices that attempt to access Wi-Fi networks secured with Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) standard.…
Biden administration pauses pursuit of TikTok and WeChat
Chinese New Year gift for Beijing, maybe for Oracle too The Biden administration has paused the United States’ attempts to run TikTok and WeChat out of the country.…
Microsoft tells Biden administration to adopt Australia’s pay-for-news plan
Making Google and Facebook cough up could help USA’s currently fragile democracy, argues Pres Brad Smith Microsoft has said the USA should copy Australia’s plan to force Google and Facebook to pay for links to news content and suggested that doing so will help improve social cohesion and strengthen democracy.…
Apple iOS 14.5 will hide Safari users' IP addresses from Google's Safe Browsing
Another privacy improvement from Cupertino, just a small one Apple's forthcoming iOS 14.5 release, currently in beta, will conceal the IP address of Safari web surfers from Google's Safe Browsing service, integrated into Safari to spot fraudulent websites.…
Manhunt: 'Armed and dangerous' MIT AI scientist sought by cops probing grad student's gun murder
Victim shot dead a week after he got engaged to fiancée An MIT AI researcher is wanted by police in connection with the murder of a Yale graduate student, who was shot dead last weekend in Connecticut.…
Phishing awareness gone wrong: Facebook tries to seize websites set up for staff security training
Antisocial network sued by Proofpoint in scrap over domain names Security biz Proofpoint and its subsidiary Wombat Security Technologies have sued Facebook and its Instagram subsidiary to prevent the seizure of internet domain names used for security testing.…
HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 slips off the shelf – and off the planet: Boxen heading to ISS
Just don't hit that big, red button Hewlett Packard Enterprise has taken another crack at the ultimate in edge computing with a second launch of hardware to the International Space Station (ISS) in the form of Spaceborne Computer 2.…
Better buckle up: Volkswagen puts Microsoft in driver's seat to deliver 'automated' platform
German car giant looks to Azure for AI smarts as Ford opts for Google's cloud Volkswagen and Microsoft will build an "Automated Driving Platform" powered by AI services on the Azure cloud, according to an announcement from the two giants today.…
Microsoft's underwhelming, underpowered dual-screen Surface Duo phone arrives in the UK this month for £1,349
'Teams and Skype video conferencing up to 1080p at 30fps' – sign us up! Lucky UK shoppers will at last be able to get their hands on Microsoft's magical folding phone, the Surface Duo, next week for a bargain-basement price of… £1,349.…
48-hour strike action: Openreach repayment project engineers confirm it's on
18 months after dispute emerged, techies say enough is enough Exclusive Openreach repayment project engineers (RPE) are set to strike for 48 hours later this month in protest at parent company BT Group's overhaul of the grading structure, the Communication Workers Union has told members.…
Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep
I always feel like somebody's watching me An Azure customer was outraged after finding himself on the receiving end of an unexpected LinkedIn message from Ubuntu maker Canonical last night.…
Criminal charges against Autonomy's Lynch will never be dropped, even if extradition bid fails, says lawyer
Plus: All his former Deloitte auditors can be made to testify against him The US government will never drop its criminal charges against Autonomy founder Mike Lynch "even if extradition were refused," his US attorney has told a British court.…
Forget about an AI stealing your job, even pigs can be trained to use computers
No one can save your bacon now Cute, intelligent and delicious with a tendency for totalitarianism, pigs have a lot going for them. But they're also capable of grasping video games – of a sort.…
British owners of .eu domains given an extra three months to find a European address
Brexit bonus for EU, it's losing millions after endless rule changes The British owners of 74,000 suspended .eu domain names have been given an additional three months to change their registration details to an address in Europe before they are permanently taken away.…
Habitable-zone exoplanet potentially spotted just around the corner in Alpha Centauri using latest telescope technique
Space is about to looking a lot clearer, thanks to adaptive optics Astronomers who devised a technique to capture direct images of nearby potentially habitable exoplanets have found what could be a world orbiting a star a mere 4.3 light years away from Earth in the Alpha Centauri group.…
C#/WinRT authoring: Yo dawg, we heard you like components so we made a component that makes components
Now in preview, says Microsoft Microsoft has nudged out an update to the C#/WinRT NuGet package and added a preview of C#/WinRT authoring to an otherwise relatively humdrum release.…
UK.gov awards seats on £2bn 'digital outcomes' framework to suppliers – one of which doesn't even have a website
'We cannot guarantee to suppliers any business through this Commercial Agreement' The UK government has made a £2bn contract award for "Digital Outcomes and Specialists" as part of a one-year framework agreement.…
Open Source Vulnerabilities database: Nice idea but too many Google-shaped hoops to jump through at present
Google Cloud Platform account required, API key comes with Ts&Cs Hands On Google has big ambitions for its new Open Source Vulnerabilities database, but getting started requires a Google Cloud Platform account and there are other obstacles that may add friction to adoption.…
Nominet vows to freeze wages and prices, boost donations, and be more open. For many members, it’s too little, too late
Board of dot-UK registry operator scrambles to save itself Analysis The board of .uk registry operator Nominet has offered a series of concessions to its members in an effort to win back their support in advance of an extraordinary meeting that could see most of them fired.…
Think Kubernetes and persistent storage is complex? Here’s the truth – and trust us, you can handle the truth
Tune in next week and you’ll be able to talk storage like a cloud native Webcast If you haven’t already adopted containers and Kubernetes, they’re probably on your agenda for this year.…
VMware very strongly suggests TPM for all servers in tightened vSphere security guide
Upgrades to version 7.0 are going to require your full attention, especially if you’re fond of VGA output VMware has published new and tighter security configuration guidance for its flagship vSphere private cloud suite.…
Euro privacy watchdog calls for end of targeted advertising plus a squeeze on the processing of personal info
Could the lucrative era of light-touch regulation finally be over for Google and Facebook? On Wednesday, Wojciech Wiewiorówski, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), opined that Europe's Digital Services Act proposal should go further in its effort to promote online transparency and safety by eliminating targeted advertising.…
Samsung floats autonomous ships as ready to sail in 2022
Test on tricky route planned for later in 2021, followed by productisation Samsung has floated the prospect of soon selling autonomous ships, if it can sail one successfully in August 2021.…
India on track for crewed space mission, says first test flight to launch in late 2021
Plans week-long orbital mission, with Chicken Korma already pencilled in on the menu India’s space program will test a vehicle it expects will soon carry a crew into space in December 2021.…
This scumbag stole and traded victims' nude pics and vids after guessing their passwords, security answers
Nicholas Faber joins accomplice Michael Fish in admitting he raided university portal for sensitive info A college graduate has admitted hacking into the email and online accounts of female students, stealing their nude photos and videos, and trading them with others.…
No joy for Julian Assange as Uncle Sam confirms it will keep pushing for WikiLeaker's extradition to America
Biden-era Dept of Justice forced to make call after UK judge blocks on mental health grounds The US Dept of Justice will continue pushing for the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday.…
US Air Force boots up not one but two AMD-powered supercomputers after five years of Intel Haswell CPUs
Fawbush and Miller supers will crank away at weather-forecasting models HPE has built two supercomputers focused on weather forecasting for the US Air Force that, when combined, are said to be six times more powerful than their predecessor.…
The hottest destination for 2021: China probe follows UAE's into Martian orbit
Also: NASA to use SpaceX's Falcon Heavy for the Lunar Gateway while eyeing another seat in a Soyuz In Brief Typical. You wait years for missions to Mars and then a whole bunch come along at once. Less than a day after the Emirates Mars Mission dropped into Martian orbit, China's Tianwen-1 has followed suit and NASA will be arriving shortly.…
Apple, Microsoft, PayPal among 35 organizations compromised by evil twin dependencies attack
Security researcher finds it's easy to confuse build systems with malicious versions of private software libraries Bug hunter Alex Birsan last year managed to compromise the software supply chain of 35 companies by exploiting packaging mechanisms used by JavaScript, Python, and Ruby developers.…
After first trying to use federal COVID-19 relief aid, State of Iowa comes up with funds to pay for Workday project
And the cost of hitching their HR and finance system to the cloud? $52.5m over half a decade The good people of Iowa can breathe a sigh of relief as their state government has found a more conventional way of funding a new Workday-based HR and finance project than raiding coronavirus federal aid funds.…
Eight Brits arrested after probe into SIM-swapping scam targeting US celebs
National Crime Agency nabbed network that stole money, Bitcoin, personal data Brit cops have cuffed eight men in England and Scotland amid a probe into SIM-swapping attacks on high-profile US targets – including sports stars, musicians, and "influencers" – that had money and personal data stolen.…
In case there was any doubt about using legacy Edge, Microsoft 365 throws its weight behind WebView2
New dependencies will rely on runtime from March The death march of legacy Edge and Internet Explorer 11 continued today with an addition to the Microsoft 365 roadmap warning that new features would likely rely on WebView2.…
We imagine this maths professor's lecture was fascinating – sadly he was muted for two hours
And more gaffes from the world of lockdown videoconferencing Yes, we're still in the thick of a pandemic. No, we haven't seen anyone outside our immediate family for months. Yes, we're working from home. Bit boring, isn't it?…
Salesforce: Forget the ping-pong and snacks, the 9-to-5 working day is just so 2019, it's over and done with
54k staffers can WFH permanently, come in 1-3 days a week for meetings - or if they must - use vendor's 'immersive workspaces' Global CRM SaaS pusher Salesforce has told its staff and the wider world that the 9-to-5 workday is dead.…
Popular open-source library SDL moving development to GitHub despite 'calamitous design choices' in git
'I don't have the energy to be a server admin for something that's held together with scotch tape and prayers' The Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL) project is moving development to GitHub today despite what a core developer calls "calamitous design choices" in git, for the sake of familiarity and wide tool support.…
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