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New VS Code release hits stable channel for everyone who's not on Apple Silicon after last-minute bug found
Electron 11, source control tweaks, plus general spit and polish Microsoft has pushed out another update to dev favourite Visual Studio Code, but opted to hold off on the Apple Silicon version after a last-minute bug reared its head.…
Chrome zero-day bug that is actively being abused by bad folks affects Edge, Vivaldi, and other Chromium-tinged browsers
Install your updates pronto If you use Google Chrome or a Chromium-based browser such as Microsoft Edge, update it immediately and/or check it for updates over the coming days: there is a zero-day bug being "actively exploited" in the older version of Chrome that will also affect other vendors' browsers.…
Teradata's strong cloud growth holds Snowflake avalanche at bay – for now
'We've effectively configured our transition to a subscription model' Teradata has beaten its own and the market's expectations for the fourth quarter of 2020, more than doubling its cloud revenue.…
No ports, no borders, no hope: Xiaomi's cool but impractical all-screen concept phone
In reality, eschewing cables remains a bad idea until wireless tech catches up What happens when you prioritise form over function? You get Xiaomi's latest futuristic concept phone, a port-less and borderless slab of glass and metal designed to give the appearance of a free-floating display.…
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All over the world... Job Alert We're doing our bit to keep techies tech'ing with free job listings for anyone looking to hire such skills in the midst of these testing times.…
Microsoft delays disabling Basic Authentication for several Exchange Online protocols 'until further notice'
Insists 'We're not backtracking' as tenants given longer to move to something more secure Microsoft has shifted gears on plans to disable Basic Authentication for five Exchange Online protocols this year, provided your tenant is actually using them.…
UK bus and rail giant FirstGroup looks to replace decade-old Cyborg system in £8m HR and payroll contract
Plus a mangle of other applications on track to be switched for cloud platform Brit transport giant FirstGroup, which runs rail and bus companies in the UK and US - including North America's Greyhounds - is looking to replace decade-old HR and payroll systems with a single cloud solution in a five-year contract.…
Big data: Study suggests even a moderate gambling habit is linked to increased mortality and other bad stuff
R, me hearties: Boffins sift through 6.5 million individual dataset Banking data from 6.5 million individuals over six years is providing evidence that even moderate gambling can be associated with financial distress, negative lifestyles, and an increased likelihood of death.…
Borkem ipsum: Supermarket gifts Thailand a tech fail that will echo down the millennia – and probably choke a turtle
Today's bork is brought to you by the keys ctrl, c and v Bork!Bork!Bork! Tesco, king of the High Street Bork, may have departed the Thai retail business, but it has left a little bit of borkery behind.…
My bad! So you're saying that redacting an on-screen PDF with Tipp-Ex won't work?
I tried calling all 27 countries for some help with Acrobat but their mums said they were out Something for the Weekend, Sir? I have never indecently exposed myself. On the contrary, I do it rather well.…
The Linux box that runs the exec carpark gate is down! A chance for PostgreSQL Man to show his quality
They still laid him off, though On Call This week's episode of On Call, as ever, comes with a warning: Be careful moving that beige box, for you may not realise what it does.…
Cisco reveals critical bug in small biz VPN routers when half the world is stuck working at home
And we all know how good small business are at patching... NOT Cisco has addressed a clutch of critical vulnerabilities in its small business and VPN routers that can be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as the root user. All the attacker needs to do is send a maliciously crafted HTTP request to the web-based management interface.…
Google’s Pixel phones to measure heart rate and breathing, other ‘Droids coming soon
Every breath you take, Google’s watching you - and offering an alternative to recently acquired Fitbit Google has announced that its own Pixel Android phones will soon gain the power to measure users heart rate and respiratory rate.…
Japan’s COVID-19 contact tracing app hasn't warned users of encounters with carriers since September 2020
Android edition just didn’t do the job and Health Ministry knew it. Now Japan is in its third and nastiest wave of infections Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has admitted that the Android version of its COVID-19 contact-tracing app has not informed users of contact with virus carriers since September 2020.…
Foxconn reports booming revenue – and a baby boom among staff
A whole new dimension of social responsibility as Taiwan’s population falls while demand for stuff it makes surges Hon Hai Precision Manufacturing – aka Foxconn – reported two sets of numbers this week: record revenue, and record birth-rate among staff.…
Vote machine biz Smartmatic sues Fox News and Trump chums for $2.7bn over bogus claims of rigged 2020 election
Turns out words have consequences Electronic voting machine maker Smartmatic has sued Fox News, three of its hosts, and two of Donald Trump’s loyalists – Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell – for an eye-popping $2.7bn in defamation damages over the false claims it stole the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden.…
Alphabet Workers Union hits Google data center contractor with labor complaint: We were banned from discussing wages, say staff
Modis also accused of suspending techie for criticizing working conditions The Alphabet Workers Union on Wednesday filed a labor complaint against Google contractor Modis, claiming that for the past six months the staffing firm has prevented workers from discussing wages and job conditions as allowed under US law.…
Amazon deploys AI cameras inside delivery vans, misspells 'surveillance' as 'safety' in reason why
Another day in the world of the Bezos-built worker's panopticon +Comment Amazon has installed AI cameras inside its delivery vans to nitpick its drivers for, we're told, safety reasons.…
Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police
New Jersey court says defendant must be able to challenge evidence A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a man accused of murder is entitled to review proprietary genetic testing software to challenge evidence presented against him.…
How do you fix a problem like open-source security? Google has an idea tho constraints may not go down well
'Try telling leaders of libpng, libjpeg-turbo, openssl, ffmpeg etc they can't make "unilateral" changes to their own projects' Google has proposed a framework for discussing and addressing open-source security based on factors like verified identity, code review, and trusted builds, but its approach may be at odds with open-source culture.…
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can do that: Microsoft unveils Custom Neural Voice – synthetic, but human-sounding speech
Out-of-work actors beware, Azure can take on voice-over duties Microsoft has pushed its Custom Neural Voice service to general availability, although you'll have to ask the company nicely if you want to use the vaguely unsettling text-to-speech service.…
BT Group: Enterprise sales dip continues, ditto roaming-smacked consumer revs... but UK happily eating its fibre
Openreach FTTP doing very well, thanks FTTP rollout numbers from the BT Group's "arm's-length" infrastructure arm, Openreach, were the bright spot in an otherwise difficult quarter, which saw consumer and enterprise revenue slump.…
EU infosec agency unveils 5G vendor security licensing scheme despite years of Huawei ambiguity
Plus: Parliament says UK was too hasty booting Chinese giant off networks EU infosec agency ENISA has announced that it will begin licensing 5G network equipment providers as Britain's Parliament issued a report criticising the way Huawei was kicked out of the UK's 5G networks.…
Apple offends devs by asking for Developer Transition Kits back early, then offering them a measly $200 off an M1 Mac
They also have to use the credit before 31 May or lose it Apple has provoked the ire of its Mac developer community by asking for the early return of its ARM-powered Developer Transition Kit loaner computers.…
$13m funding for Scratchpad – a data input startup whose sole strength is pointing out Salesforce's weaknesses
Huh, where's our $13m then? Scratchpad, a startup based around easing Salesforce data input, has snared $13m in new funding, apparently without even really wanting to.…
Smells like Teams spirit: New platform Viva builds in all the tools Microsoft thinks staff need to succeed
Hello lonely. Let's get you feeling productive Microsoft's latest take on employment engagement, Viva, is aimed at cheering those working remotely with only Office and Teams for company.…
Nearly 70 years after America made einsteinium in its first full-scale thermo-nuke experiment, mystery element yields secrets of its chemistry
Atom bond length of Es measured for the first time Chemists have measured a fundamental chemical property of einsteinium, a mysterious and radioactive element that was discovered in the debris of America's first full-scale thermonuclear device test – the Ivy Mike shot in 1952.…
LibreOffice 7.1 Community released with support for M1 ARM Mac and 'user interface variants'
Community? 'The software isn’t changing at all. This is a label on the name, nothing else' The Document Foundation (TDF) has released LibreOffice 7.1 Community, while continuing to complain about free-loading enterprises who do not pay for support. The "community" label is an effort to steer them away, though it is not a cut-down version.…
AI brain drain to Google and pals threatens public sector's ability to moderate machine-learning bias
With top research talent focused on commercial AI goals where do we go? Boffins from Denmark and the UK have measured the AI brain drain and found that private industry really is soaking up tech talent at the expense of academia and public organizations.…
Brit IBM veteran wins unfair dismissal case after 2018's Global Technology Services redundancy bloodbath
Represented himself, but judge denies last-minute attempt to make it an age discrimination claim A long-serving IBMer has won an unfair dismissal lawsuit after representing himself against a qualified barrister – although his related discrimination claim was struck out by the judge.…
New CloudBees boss Stephen DeWitt wants to up the SaaS factor, wouldn't say no to IPO
Time to grow up and smell the dollars as founder Sacha Labourey steps back February's game of musical CEO chairs continued today with the appointment of Stephen DeWitt as boss of DevOps darling CloudBees.…
Just four titans share almost two thirds of global cloud infrastructure spend, with AWS and Microsoft dominant
Google and Alibaba playing catchup Sixty five per cent of all the money customers spent globally on infrastructure clouds in Q4 went into the pocket of AWS, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba, according to the latest research by analyst house Canalys.…
Chromium cleans up its act and daily DNS root server queries drop by 50 billion
That’s a 41% traffic relief for all concerned The Google-sponsored Chromium project has cleaned up its act and the result is a marked decline in queries to DNS root servers.…
Is there a widening gulf between you and your remote workers? Yes – and it’s security shaped
Tune in online this month and learn how to mind the security gap Webcast It’s been almost a year since large parts of the workforce beat a hasty retreat from their offices, and began a mass experiment in working from home, often courtesy of Microsoft 365.…
Nespresso smart cards hacked to provide infinite coffee after someone wasn't too perky about security
Older commercial machines rely on insecure Mifare Classic payments Some commercial Nespresso machines in Europe that incorporate a smart card payment system can be manipulated to add unlimited funds to purchase coffee, thanks to reliance on technology that's been known to be insecure for more than a decade.…
Microsoft runs 179 admin portals, says sysadmin supergroup
New site lists the ‘bit of a sprawl issue’ that Redmond offers the faithful A sysadmin supergroup has created a site that tries to list all of the portals Microsoft offers its users.…
Oracle sweetens Java SE subscriptions with a spoonful of free ‘GraalVM’ runtime said to significantly speed Java
Pre-compilation tech means faster startup and lower memory overhead, to make Java cool for microservices Oracle has sweetened its Java SE subscriptions by tossing in a free entitlement to use GraalVM, a new universal virtual machine that Big Red says runs just about anything faster, anywhere.…
Qualcomm reports profits up 165%, strong revenues... and its stock price dives. What's a chip biz to do?
People still itching to get our Snapdragons, CEO swears Qualcomm suffered an after-hours share drop on Wednesday after missing Wall Street's sales expectations, albeit not by much.…
Ever wanted to own a piece of the internet? Now you can: $1 for a whole gTLD... or $2.8m if you want a decent one
Uniregistry announces auction of 20+ dot-words with no minimum for some Anyone will be able to bid for a piece of the internet’s domain-name landscape this April – and for just $1 you could bag one of the more unpopular parts.…
Myanmar’s new military government bans Facebook
Oh look, Cloudflare spots a sudden surge in use of other messaging apps The new self-appointed military government of Myanmar has temporarily banned Facebook.…
No, you're not imagining the tech drought: Lenovo PC stocks one third of normal amid pandemic demand
'From US to Europe to China to Asia-Pacific, our channel inventory has never been so low' In a blow to anyone fighting over the scraps in the laptop market, Lenovo says it is running at between one third to a half of normal stock levels because it can’t keep up with relentlessly high demand for PCs.…
More patches for SolarWinds Orion after researchers find flaw allowing low-priv users to execute code, among others
Probably not used by last year's US government-busting attackers, though As if that supply chain attack wasn't bad enough, SolarWinds has had to patch its Orion software again after eagle-eyed researchers discovered fresh vulnerabilities – including one that can be exploited to achieve remote code execution.…
Ring, Ring, why don't you give me a call? Amazon-owned doorbells aren’t answering after large-scale outage
Turning smart homes into dumb ones Updated Ring is suffering a major outage with many of its video doorbells effectively dead, turning smart homes into very dumb ones.…
Burning platform: Linux Foundation swallows Magma, open source software for mobile networking kit
Liquid hot Facebook project tucked under penguin's wing The Linux Foundation has said it will join forces with Facebook’s Magma project, with the intent of building an open source mobile core network platform based on the software project.…
Project Bicep: Microsoft muscles in on Terraform's territory to manage Azure resources with code
'We are using the word experimental right now' Microsoft's Project Bicep, first demoed at the Ignite event last year and still described as "experimental", lets users define a set of Azure resources in code by using a domain-specific language.…
If you really must have Edge on your Apple M1 silicon, there's a compatible stable build for Microsoft's browser
It works – but the more 'exciting' stuff is in the Dev and Canary Channels Microsoft has added new features to Edge and released a stable channel version for Mac M1 users as it strives to make the browser more than a tool to download Chrome.…
UK's Superfast Broadband programme delivered value for money, says report, just don't ask about rural deployments
Which are – you guessed it – behind schedule An independent review of the coalition-era Superfast Broadband programme published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) today argues Britain received value for money, although some rural areas are still waiting for the cable guy.…
UK Test and Trace chief Dido Harding tries to convince MPs that £14m for canned mobile app was money well spent
Not like every expert didn't warn it. Also: Queen of Carnage confirms consultants were paid average of £1.1k a day Baroness Harding, head of the UK's NHS Test and Trace programme, has defended the money spent on the app it scrapped in June last year, saying £14m was not wasted.…
Same old complexity beneath Windows 10 Cloud Config means it's unlikely to compete with the likes of Chrome OS
Modernisation that happens to be an upsell to premium cloudy plans Analysis Microsoft has introduced a cloud configuration for Windows 10 with the claim of "easy to manage cloud endpoints," but complex manual steps and interaction with InTune management means it is unlikely to match Google's Chrome OS for ease of deployment.…
UK internet providers told to mind their MANRS and start following Border Gateway Protocol best practices
Advice is nice. But what it isn't is binding, says Akamai Britain's National Cyber Security Centre has urged internet service providers to adopt its Border Gateway Protocol best practice guide following a number of routing blunders over the past few years.…
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