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China cracks down on web infomercials, which means more compliance chores for Alibaba
Proper customer protections now required, local authorities urged to make new rules stick China has issued a new code governing “livestreaming” – an emerging marketing practice that has gone big, fast, in China and will be familiar to The Register readers around the world as infomercials for the digital age.…
Volunteer-run pirate Manga website attacked, loses hashed passwords, has ‘nobody’ to fix the mess
Dot-org has been offline for a month, says ‘people who have ill intentions’ behind crack A “scanlation” website for Manga has admitted that its members credentials have been stolen and are now being shared online.…
As Linux 5.12 released, Linus Torvalds warns next version will probably be rather large
New version adds Hyper-V fun, more support for ACRN IoT hypervisor, support for PlayStation controllers and ‘novelty port’ to ancient Nintendo Linus Torvalds has emitted version 5.12 of the Linux kernel, and warned the next version looks like a whopper.…
Spotlight on Apple, Google app stores: What happened to Tile, Spotify, Match – and that proposed law in Arizona
Guidelines, privacy, security all a smokescreen for monopoly abuse, lawmakers told Special report Apple and Google were blasted by app developers this week during a US Senate hearing over the tech giant's software souks. Here we summarize that meeting – and take a closer look at why a proposed law in Arizona to tackle the duo's behavior failed to pass.…
Computer security world in mourning over death of Dan Kaminsky, aged 42
DEF CON hails 'an icon in all the positive ways' Obit Celebrated information security researcher Dan Kaminsky, known not just for his technical ability but also for his compassion and support for those in his industry, has died. He was 42.…
Banks across America test facial recognition cameras 'to spy on staff, customers'
Plus: Enormo AI chip gets an upgrade, and more In brief Banks in America are reportedly rolling out cameras with machine-learning software to surveil people, claiming it’ll help reduce fraud, provide a better service to reduce wait times, and monitor homeless people sleeping near ATMs.…
US Supreme Court puts a stop to FTC extracting big bucks from crooks to refund victims
Oops, watchdog doesn't actually have the power to do so, panel unanimously point out The US government's consumer watchdog cannot force scammers to return the money they cheated out of their victims, the Supreme Court declared unanimously this week.…
British IT teacher gets three-year ban after boozing with students at strip club during school trip to Costa Rica
Watchdog deemed Richard Glenn's conduct 'unacceptable' An IT teacher at an English private school has been banned from teaching for 36 months for "unacceptable professional conduct" that included getting drunk and visiting a strip club with one or more pupils.…
Maybe high-speed internet is infrastructure after all, say US Republicans in proposal to spend $65bn over five years
Our plan is better than President Biden's, they claim, with few details A cadre of Republican senators have proposed allocating $65bn to developing broadband infrastructure in America as part of a $568bn five-year spending plan.…
OK, so we don't have a flying car yet, but this is possibly even better: The Internet of Beer
Killer IoT app finally arrives: Keg-tracking tech to tackle light-fingered miscreants Forget all those interminable IoT gadgets gathering dust in the drawers of the world. Brewers may soon be able to breathe easier after signing up to what we're going to call the Internet of Beer.…
iFixit wants you to be legally able to break software locks to repair gizmos. Unsurprisingly, manufacturers are less keen
US Copyright Office asked to add DMCA amendment Repairs specialist iFixit has urged the US Copyright Office to add exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would allow individuals to legally circumvent digital restrictions in the process of repairing hardware.…
Salesforce beats banks to top UK exec salary survey while Microsoft drops out of league
Come for the 'ohana', stay for the massive piles of cash Salesforce has topped a survey of UK executive salaries with median earnings of around £100,000 per annum, beating investment bank Man Group and consultancy Kearney to the top spot.…
39 Post Office convictions quashed after Fujitsu evidence about Horizon IT platform called into question
Japanese firm has a reckoning to face Post Office employees were wrongly prosecuted by the company as a direct result of it covering up software bugs in its Horizon IT system, the Court of Appeal in England has said as it quashed 39 convictions this morning.…
NASSCOM shakeup: Accenture's Rehka Menon becomes first woman to chair Indian IT trade org
Also, Dell and HP miss out on expanded board positions Indian IT trade association and advocacy group National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has appointed Rehka Menon of Accenture as chairperson – the first woman to take the position in the organisation's history.…
SpaceX flings another bunch of humans into orbit in reused capsule atop reused booster
Second jaunt to the International Space Station for Endeavour SpaceX has launched the second operational Crew Dragon mission, sending another four astronauts to the International Space Station.…
We've finally hit Peak Bork: Microsoft man reveals home-grown welcome back BSOD at Redmond HQ
A treat for returning workers as meeting cancelled due to roomful of bork Updated Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft is famed for eating its own dogfood and this week chowed down on a bowl of fresh bork as its consulting boss encountered what we can only assume is the company's latest attempt to deal with Meeting Culture.…
Penguin takeover: We tried running some GUI Linux apps on Windows the official way – and nothing exploded
Microsoft's own distro lurks under the covers and applications magically appear in the Start menu Hands on Microsoft has released the first public preview of Linux GUI applications on Windows 10 – so we wasted no time in taking it for a spin around the block.…
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Get with the disruptive app design, granddad: meaningless errors are cool Something for the Weekend, Sir? An error has occurred… Of course it did – I'm in a hurry and the login is sensing my urgency. Big mistake. Let's try again, more casually. An error has occurred……
From pregnancy tests to obscure industrial kitchen appliances, Doom really will run on almost anything
As long as the technical nous is there If you've ever worked in a commercial kitchen, you probably know what a "bump bar" is. These plank-like computerised boards are the organisational force behind every restaurant, enabling sweat-drenched chefs to see pending orders and ensure a steady flow of food to the front of house.…
George Clooney of IT: Dribbling disaster and damp disk warnings scare the life out of innocent user
Practical jokes: just don't On Call Welcome to another entry in The Register's On Call files, where we learn that the hilarious pranks of an IT joker can be enjoyed as much as millionaire actor George Clooney's "fun" leg-pulling.…
Starlink creates risk of internet investment doom cycle, says APNIC researcher
Early users get speed, so policy-makers may stop building, but more users means slower speeds ... Elon Musk's Starlink project has copped more criticism, this time from a researcher at APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia-Pacific region.…
We admire your MOXIE, Earthlings: Perseverance rover gizmo produces oxygen for first time on Mars
First, COVID vaccinations, now atmosphere generators for an alien world? We're really cooking on gas now Earthlings have succeeded in creating oxygen away from their lush home world and on the unforgiving dust planet Mars for the first time, using equipment on a robot they have lovingly dubbed Perseverance.…
Happy news: Apple again extends fee waiver for online real time experiences
Sad news: Cupertino seems to think you won’t be comfortable going out until at least the end of the year COVID-19 vaccinations have been administered to hundreds of millions of people, but Apple seems to think that you'll be safest if you don't go out until at least the end of year.…
China’s highest-ranked university creates school dedicated to integrated circuits
Expects breakthroughs in design, materials and more. No pressure: Xi Jinping dropped in ahead of launch China's highest-ranked university has opened a new school dedicated to integrated circuits and given it the job of achieving breakthroughs and creating a generation of tech talent for the nation.…
India seeks locally developed open source CRM and ERP for government users
#FOSS4GOV challenge will fund and mentor devs and startups to create govtech code India has challenged local developers to create open-source customer relationship management and enterprise resource management software worthy of use by its government agencies.…
Watchdog 'enables Tesla Autopilot' with string, some weight, a seat belt ... and no actual human at the wheel
'The system not only failed to make sure the driver was paying attention, but it also couldn’t tell if there was a driver there at all' Tesla vehicles can be tricked into driving in Autopilot mode when no one is sitting on the driver seat nor controlling the steering wheel – as required by the software – according to Consumer Reports.…
You've got it down Pat: Intel boss says 2020 was so strong, a 20% drop in data center sales now is to be expected
Server chip business doldrums blamed on 'digestion' Intel on Thursday reported first-quarter 2021 revenue of $19.7bn, which was better than analysts expected though not enough to prevent Chipzilla's share price slipping, the stock closed down 1.77 per cent and slipped still further in after-hours trading.…
If you have a QNAP NAS, stop what you're doing right now and install latest updates. Do it before Qlocker gets you
Storage box maker puts customers on red alert after outbreak in ransomware infections QNAP has urged its customers to install and run its latest firmware and malware removal tools on their NAS boxes amid a surge in ransomware infections.…
Exam-monitoring biz Proctorio tried to silence a critic using copyright law. Now EFF sues to put an end to this tactic
Tweets linking to source code were fair use, say digital-rights warriors The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Wednesday sued Proctorio, a maker of academic surveillance software, to obtain judgement that a Miami University student's tweets linking to portions of Proctorio source code on Pastebin do not violate copyright law.…
US aviation regulator warns of mid-air collision risk if Garmin TCAS boxes are not updated
Software fixes available, says FAA American aviation regulators have ordered private jet operators to install software updates for Garmin collision avoidance units after multiple reports of false alarms – raising the risk of a mid-air crash.…
Canonical and Microsoft get cosier with Active Directory integration in Ubuntu 21.04
SQL Server optimisations on way too, but 'Hirsute Hippo' not an LTS release so take-up may be tepid Canonical's love-in with Microsoft has continued apace with the arrival of Ubuntu 21.04, replete with Active Directory integration. Optimisations for Microsoft's SQL Server are also inbound.…
Yes, you can bring your legacy apps to the cloud, but don’t bring their technical debt, too
Find out how OutSystems and AWS can help you clean up your legacy Promo Moving your applications and data to the cloud give you the opportunity to revamp your existing software and enable you to reach new customers, drive efficiencies and enhance productivity. If you do it right.…
Adobe shareholders sign-off on exec raises, with CEO Shantanu Narayen winning a plush $7m pay rise
Once again, the cloud makes it rain Adobe shareholders have approved an executive compensation package that handed CEO Shantanu Narayen a $7m pay bump during fiscal 2020, according to SEC documents.…
Greener Windows? Microsoft previews EcoQoS and Task Manager Eco Mode for would-be power-sipping devs
Noble aim to curb energy-hungry apps, but needs willing souls to trade performance for efficiency Microsoft is previewing a new Windows developer feature called EcoQoS for reducing power consumption, as well as adding Eco Mode to Task Manager.…
Qualtrics posts revenue, subscription rise after leaving SAP's bosom
Plus: UiPath and Teradata give investors reason for cheer. Yes, plenty of the wrong people happy on a Thursday in lockdown Former SAP biz Qualtrics has beat expectations by posting a substantial revenue and subscriptions rise amongst three bits of upbeat tech-stock news that indicate fair winds for the market, putting smug smiles on the faces of investors.…
Origami... in spaaaaace: Inflatable folded objects discovery brings new meaning to blowing up buildings
Space-saving structures could work well in 'space missions' An applied maths professor and her team have dreamed up inflatable origami structures they say could save time and energy in erecting emergency shelters, such as those vital to refugee camps.…
MI5 wants to shed its cocktail-guzzling posho image – so it's opened an Instagram account
Lockdown's getting to everyone – even the social media monkeys British domestic spy agency MI5 wants to dispel the idea it is staffed by martini-quaffing layabouts who spend implausible amounts of time lounging around top-end bars and hotels. It has therefore opened an Instagram account.…
What links AMD CPU guru Jim Keller, an AI chip upstart, and SiFive? This vector-crunching 64-bit RISC-V processor
Stressing the ex in x86 Canadian AI chip startup Tenstorrent, which is headed by former top AMD engineers, has picked one of SiFive's latest RISC-V CPU designs for its unconventional machine-learning processors.…
10 years later, Chrome OS starts to look like a proper OS with hardware diagnostics and the ability to scan documents
Are you really going to replace that battery, though, kids? Whether it's a chilling situation or a welcome one is up for debate, but what started as an attempt to pare down an operating system to just the browser has become something more fully fledged, as the latest update to 10-year-old* Chrome OS demonstrates.…
Capgemini scores £150m contract to help Student Loan Company overcome its IT problems 5 years after £50m superfail
Fragmented, inflexible estate? Reach for French outsourcers Capgemini has won a £150m contract with the Student Loan Company (SLC) as the non-profit looks to write the next chapter in a troubled history with information technology.…
Sucks to be you, any aliens living anywhere near Proxima Centauri's record-smashing solar flare
Our stellar neighbor's biggest-ever belch would frazzle us Earthlings Astronomers have described the most energetic solar flare yet detected from Proxima Centauri, the Sun's closest stellar neighbor.…
Sure, your app is crap, but Windows won't tell. Promise
One billboard outside Blairsville, Georgia Bork!Bork!Bork! Windows for Billboards appears to be a thing and, judging by this example of the breed, it is a little under the weather.…
But can it run Avid? The Reg hands shiny new M1 MacBook to video production pro, who beats it with Bender, Handbrake, and ... Hypercard?
He was there the day Steve Jobs moved off Power PC to Intel, and says the Arm transition looks better Review I was three-quarters of the way through the third rewrite of this review before I remembered I was actually at Apple's WorldWide Developer Conference in 2005 when Steve Jobs got up and said: "Yep, we're going to Intel."…
Apple, you've AirDrop'd the ball: Academics detail ways to leak contact info of nearby iThings for spear-phishing
Too bad there's no suggested solution... oh, wait Apple's AirDrop has a couple of potentially annoying privacy weaknesses that Cupertino is so far refusing to address even though a solution has been offered.…
In 2020, VMware said its remote work kit was brilliant. Now it says you need its new stuff to do it right
Improves integration and maturity, not quite the new-buzzword-worthy step-change Virtzilla wants Throughout 2020, VMware told anyone who would listen that its end-user compute products enabled work from anywhere, on any device, with marvellous security, and were therefore just the thing to keep your organisation operating safely during lockdowns and whatever came next.…
Microsoft loves Linux – as in, it loves Linux users running Linux desktop apps on Windows PCs
Come inside, penguinistas, install that WSL GUI preview, yes, open source is totally winning here Video Microsoft this week released a preview version of Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI, or WSLg, which provides a way to run Linux applications with graphic interfaces on Windows devices.…
Asian buyers set for security spending spree to catch up on shabby strategies
China already growing even faster than 13% regional acceleration Asian businesses are set for a security spending spree, according to analyst firm IDC.…
Huawei wins big intellectual property case in Europe – against fashion house Chanel
Court finds linked 'U' used on Smart Home app can't be confused with linked 'C' used on overpriced tat Logowatch Huawei has had a big intellectual property win in Europe, defeating an action brought by fashion house Chanel over a new logo it introduced in 2017.…
Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world
Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed Russia's space agency hopes to launch its own orbiting science lab by 2030 after entering talks with NASA to pull out of the International Space Station in the coming years.…
Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with booby-trapped file
More a declaration of war than turning the tables Updated It is possible to hijack and manipulate Cellebrite's phone-probing software tools by placing a specially crafted file on your handset, it is claimed.…
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