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An Ocean's 11 of exploitation involving guessable random numbers and hostname shenanigans Google Compute Engine virtual machines can be hijacked and made to hand over root shell access via a cunning DHCP attack, according to security researcher Imre Rad.…

NewsBlur RSS tracker accidentally left MongoDB store facing public internet during migration to containers NewsBlur, an RSS news reading app for the web and mobile devices, recently had one of its databases deleted thanks to an insecure default setting that has dogged developers using Docker since 2014.…

Impressive, but it's still no Apple Samsung today committed to provide its enterprise-edition flagships with half a decade's worth of security updates.…

Only academics, researchers, nonprofits need apply to AIER initiative AMD has rolled out a programme that it hopes will tempt scientific computing types away from Nvidia and the CUDA ecosystem and onto its own Instinct accelerator range and ROCm run-anywhere software platform: the AMD Instinct Education and Research (AIER) initiative.…

Localised brain sleeping behind wakeful forgetfulness and poor atten Neuroscientists have developed a method for predicting when your mind might go blank or completely forget whatever it was we were talking about.…

Plus: 10nm Sapphire Rapids Xeon chips delayed to Q1 2022 Intel has officially sounded the death knell for Transactional Synchronisation Extensions (TSX) on a selection of processors from Skylake to Coffee Lake – a security-enhancing move which will have an oversized performance impact on certain workloads.…

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Plus great news for all seven of you: An ARM64 build of its software suite Amid the unveiling of Windows 11 and the backlash over the frankly pisspoor way Microsoft handled the operating system's hardware requirements, the software behemoth quietly emitted a native ARM64 build of its Office cash cow.…

Companies rely on estimates that are often wrong, says Finops Foundation A report on Kubernetes expenditure from the Finops Foundation, in association with CNCF, shows that costs are rising and companies struggle to predict them accurately.…

No indication any of it went on preventing theft of CCTV footage, though, eh Matt? The Cabinet Office spaffed almost £300,000 on cybersecurity-related training for its staff in the last year – an eye-popping increase of almost 500 per cent on the year before.…

Double-digit LTE coverage increases projected for low-population areas Far-flung parts of Scotland and Wales have been promised a major boost in mobile connectivity by 2025, according to a roadmap for the Shared Rural Network that UK government published today.…

'Smart Fund' would be redistributed among creators and performers Leading lights in the world of "the arts" have called for a techy tax on mobiles, laptops, and PCs to help finance creative industries they claim have been ravaged by lack of revenue and funding.…

Rugged fondleslab ideal for field work starts at £2,218 with lots to configure Panasonic's Toughbook G2 tablet will feature 10-finger touch even with gloves on and full Windows 11 compatibility.…

Amazon boss's Blue Origin New Shepard launch currently scheduled for 20 July A pair of rich white men look set to duke it out at the edge of space after Virgin Galactic was given the green light by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly customers to space.…

Nice work if you can get it Fujitsu has been awarded a £9.2m contract extension by the Northern Ireland Education Authority for changes to the implementation of an Oracle HR and payroll system that is already nearly three years late.…

'All software must be safely and securely deployed within guidelines provided to us,' says outsourcer French outsourcer Atos has been charging NHS England between £6,000 and £8,000 for packing up popular free and open-source software requested by workers in the non-departmental government body.…

But Brits can seemingly keep using the website The UK's financial watchdog has fired a warning shot across the bow of Binance, and ordered it to place a notice on binance.com scaring off Brit crypto fans.…

If you'd like to restart and try ag- Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft Windows is notable for its ability to fall over pretty much anywhere, but this is, we think, the first time it has disgraced itself over the side of a hotel.…

Clawed critters less depressed as human drugs pollute their freshwater homes A study by freshwater crustacean boffins in Florida has revealed that feeding antidepressants to crayfish can make them more outgoing and adventurous — which is more or less a definition of how antidepressants are supposed to work. On humans, at least.…

You'll need two hubs and about £300 The M1 MacBook Pro is like that brilliant colleague who insists on microwaving fish in the office kitchenette. Good at its job, certainly, but also deeply annoying.…

Even non-x86 sales grew and SPARC is still selling — but storage sales slipped Indian businesses went on a server-shopping spree in the first quarter of 2021, says analyst firm IDC.…

Three teams stand to win US$37,000 and fifteen teams get mentorship and Sandbox toys Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have become a hot topic for governments around the world, and Singapore has come up with a novel way of planning its own effort: a crowdsourced competition.…

One team says DF2 is 72m LY away, another disagrees – we speak to both sides Never mind memory errors from radiation. Another deteriorating part of the decades-old Hubble Space Telescope has found itself in a jam. This time its camera unit is once again in the middle of a clash between scientists over whether or not the galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 contains any dark matter.…

UK, Australia, Russia ranked in second tier. North Korea and Iran are a step down but feisty The United States is comfortably the world’s most powerful nation when measured on “cyber capabilities that make the greatest difference to national power,” according to British think tank The International Institute for Strategic Studies.…

US thus doesn’t need a central bank digital currency, says bigwig The United States doesn't need a central bank digital currency (CBDC) because such a thing will not notably improve the nation's financial system. And also, the US dollar isn't threatened by digital currencies nor other nations' CBDCs, so what's the point?…

Watchdog has 30 days to try again or let it go A US federal court on Monday threw out an antitrust complaint that threatened to break up Facebook.…

Says its PC Health Check app didn't provide 'the level of detail or accuracy you expected from us' Microsoft on Monday released its first Windows 11 Insider Preview build (22000.51) to its Dev channel. It also took the opportunity to tackle head on the criticism it faced over the operating system's tough hardware requirements.…

Chinese space agency emits footage of Red Planet bot Videos The China National Space Administration has released videos and pictures of its first Mars rover scooting around on the surface of the Red Planet.…

Redmond's legendary QA strikes again Microsoft on Friday admitted it had signed malicious third-party driver code submitted for certification through its Windows Hardware Compatibility Program.…

Possible west coast/east coast beef brewing over deliberate misinterpretation of 'Big Apple' Apple may be considering increasing the size of the iPad Pro’s display, with potential stretches including 14-inch and 16-inch versions, according to reports.…

Gas giant's atmosphere has the right concentration of water and temperature Astroboffins from Queen's University Belfast reckon the clouds that swirl around Jupiter might contain enough water to support life.…

Why can't Ingenuity use its blades to clear panels? It's 2,145 miles away Amid reports of declining power levels, NASA's InSight lander looks set to keep its science instruments running for most of summer.…

Apparently Eastenders' Phil Mitchell is in charge these days - it sounds fighty The head of the UK's competition regulator said the body planned to "come down like a ton of bricks" on anyone attempting to stifle the country's economic recovery.…

It just works, until it unexpectedly and disastrously doesn't If you have a pacemaker, it’s probably not a good idea to hug your Apple kit. The company has warned about potential interference with implanted medical devices from virtually every product it sells.…

Windows App SDK, Android, Arm64, micro-interactions, and two new fonts Microsoft has been hyping the versatility of Windows 11 for developers, from Android to Linux to Progressive Web Applications and the new Win UI 3, though much of what it showed last week also applies to Windows 10.…

It's like an animal farm / That's the rural charm in the country BT is looking to the heavens to help connect homes and businesses in the UK's rural areas to the internet – inking a deal with none other than partly state-owned OneWeb, the telco has confirmed.…

Look who's having a good pandemic Serco has been awarded a £322m contract to continue its work on the COVID-19 Test and Trace system in England and Northern Ireland.…

UK International Trade Secretary and Singaporean Minister of Trade Relations will also meet digitally Singapore and the United Kingdom begin negotiations today for a trade agreement in the hope of removing barriers related to exporting digital content and services.…

Different hardware, same problem NASA has fired up the Hubble Space Telescope's backup payload computer to find that the spacecraft still has problems.…

Uni of Edinburgh buys in with new supercomputer based on HGX platform Mobile World Congress Nvidia has decided to bet on both Arm and x86 platforms for the 5G edge, with a new data processing unit – aka SmartNIC – that packs 16 Arm cores.…

Borkage haunts one of the oldest station buildings in the world Bork!Bork!Bork! Take a break from Microsoft's relentless plugging of the new with a glimpse of one of its operating systems of yesteryear doing what it does best: falling over into a heap.…

Introducing 'Core Web Vitals' Feature Google stopped prioritising Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) format in its Top News carousel last month. This means website owners no longer need to publish an extra set of pages written in the AMP format. Instead sites need to meet what Google calls "Core Web Vitals."…

She worked for mini umbrella biz, not Serco itself, tribunal judge rules A British coronavirus contact tracer who has said she was sacked from Serco for blowing the whistle on a data breach had part of her legal case thrown out because she was working for a mini umbrella company and not Serco itself, a judge has ruled.…

That which is born of the hack is hard to kill Column As these words are written, the Hubble SpaceTelescope is out of commission, victim of a computer fault yet to be diagnosed. It still orbits 550km up, still automatically aiming itself at targets in this galaxy and others. But it is a zombie dance. Its instruments are blind and deaf, waiting for instructions from an onboard controller that lies silent.…

Garden hose + handy tap = bad times Who, Me? Feeling the burn? Stress getting to you? Today's edition of Who, Me? concerns pressure of a different sort as a Reg reader experiences a most unexpected deluge.…

Exabyte-tending cloud storage outfit’s new data centre was built on Dell storage servers, but its own kit will live on Cloud storage outfit Backblaze, which for years has rolled its own hardware, has turned to Dell for its storage needs in a new Amsterdam bit barn.…

Here’s how to build a digital culture Webcast Digital transformation isn’t just about technology and products, it’s about people. So, how do you think your people feel about being transformed, even disrupted?…

Staff Q&A sees workers ask about supply chain troubles. The answer was ‘figure it out’ — and do the same for shabby cloud storage CPU utilisation rates Huawei CEO and founder Ren Zhengfei has urged the company’s employees to learn from the USA and not narrow their thinking, despite decrying the US bans that have hurt his company.…

Manufacturers’ marketing reflects good intentions and the realities of challenged supply chains and tightening laws The world has a shortage of plastics, and the ensuing challenges — rather than a desire to protect the planet — may well be the reason you’ve recently heard about recycled plastic working its way into laptops and other gadgetry.…

Brief account shutdown due to DMCA request interpreted as sign of avian network’s lawless intentions The Indian Government’s dispute with Twitter took a new turn over the weekend with IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad accusing the micro-blogging service of breaking Indian law by following US law.…