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Under that pile of spare keys and obsolete cables is an IoT device: Samsung pushes useful retirement project for older phones
Er, we mean 'distinguished', 'seasoned', 'battle-tested' Smartphones have a finite usefulness before they’re stuffed in a drawer, or shipped to a recycling facility where they’re disassembled and melted down for raw materials. Hoping to extend that short lifespan is Samsung, which was pushing a program called “Galaxy Upcycling at Home” at CES 2021 earlier this week.…
Cockroach Labs scuttles its way to $160m funding, $2bn valuation thanks to the database that doesn't die
Upstart hopes to do for transactional databases what Snowflake did for data warehousing Even database companies you've never heard of might be worth a billion or two. Take Cockroach Labs, the firm behind the distributed RDMS CockroachDB, for example, which has hit gold in a $160m funding round.…
Netherlands minnow Red Kubes releases open-source Community Edition of its Otomi Kubernetes wrangler
Easy to use with no big vendor lock-in? Nice idea but it's still early days Red Kubes, a small company based in the Netherlands, has released a free Community Edition of its Otomi Container Platform with the goal of making Kubernetes both easier to use and more portable between cloud providers or on-premises.…
Apologies for the wait, we're overwhelmed. Yes, this is the hospital. You need to what?! Do a software licence audit?
Vendors slammed for 'lack of proper judgement' during the pandemic Software vendors have been targeting hospitals with licence audits while medical units find themselves overstretched with patients due to a surge in global coronavirus cases.…
Microsoft's beefed-up take on Linux server security has hit general availability
Endpoint Detection and Response added. For servers, not standalone Linux desktops, mind After a few months in preview, Microsoft has made Defender Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) generally available for Linux servers.…
Sweet! Your boss is going to get you a plush new headset, says Gartner as wearable spending to soar almost 20%
Analysts predict market to grow to $81.5bn from $68.9bn in 2021 Spending on wearable kit is forecast to jump this year by roughly 18 per cent to $81.5bn, if analyst house Gartner is to be believed.…
Boffins store text message inside E. coli bacteria using electromagnetic signal – and you'll never guess what it says
Just kidding, you'll totally guess US scientists claim to have developed a method for storing data directly in the DNA of living bacteria cells by using a new electromagnetic technique.…
Decades-old UK government papers show that they tried to roll out a 'Cab-E-Net' system in the '90s. It was crap
The more things change, the more they stay the same A batch of UK government Cabinet records from late last century has revealed that difficulties in getting users to accept new systems is nothing new.…
Waterloo! Windows defeated, your sign is screwed. Waterloo! Promise to bork you forevermore
Microsoft's finest suffers decisive defeat Bork!Bork!Bork! You are never far from Windows doing a whoopsie, particularly in a digital-signage heavy hub such as the UK's London Waterloo station.…
International Space Station scores powerup with solar panels that 'roll out like a tape measure'
Still needs three launches and a dozen spacewalks to install 55kW capacity upgrade NASA and Boeing have announced that humanity's celestial outpost will soon install six new solar panels, each capable of producing 20kW.…
Study: AI designed to detect diabetic eye disease blinks in the real world, makes more work for doctors
Some software errs on the side of caution too often, it is claimed A number of AI programs trained to detect diabetic eye damage struggle to perform consistently in the real world despite apparently excelling in clinical tests, say scientists in the US.…
Your 60-second guide to what Intel announced at CES. Or in 5 seconds: New laptop chips
And some desktop parts, from 14nm and eight cores to 10nm and four cores CES Intel announced at this year’s virtual CES tech trade show on Monday new clans of x86-64 processors for desktop and laptops.…
All it took was a pandemic to revive PCs: Canalys proclaims sales up 25% in Q4 as world+dog stays home
The PC is dead, says no one any longer, unless it's a desktop The do-everything-from-home revolution – work, study and play – led to a record 90.3 million personal computers being shipped into the channel in the fourth quarter of last year, up a whopping 25.4 per cent compared to the pre-pandemic final quarter of 2019.…
Kaspersky Lab autopsies evidence on SolarWinds hack
In a brave move, Russian firm fingers its own govt as one possible source of cyber badness Kaspersky Lab reckons the SolarWinds hackers may have hailed from the Turla malware group, itself linked to Russia’s FSB security service.…
Extreme Networks misses death-of-Flash deadline, suggests winding back PC clocks to keep its GUI alive
Promises new client ‘within days’ but had years to make the fix Extreme Networks missed the deadline to expunge Adobe Flash from its management tools and is advising users they’ll therefore need to fiddle with their PC clocks to manage their networks.…
How I found a bug in YouTube that let me watch private videos I wasn't allowed to, says compsci student
Theft-by-a-thousand-cuts flaw fixed Until early last year, Google's YouTube had a security flaw that made private videos visible at reduced resolution, though not audible, to anyone who knew or guessed the video identifier and possessed the technical knowledge to take advantage of the snafu.…
Pork-tracking website problems add extra crackling to US-Taiwan-China tensions
Data describing controversial supplement ractopamine didn’t render online A website that was supposed to offer real time tracking of pork imports to Taiwan has highlighted regional tensions.…
Theranos destroyed crucial subpoenaed SQL blood test database, can't unlock backups, prosecutors say
CEO Holmes also accused of funding extravagant lifestyle through fraud Failed blood-testing unicorn Theranos trashed vital incriminating evidence of its fraud, prosecutors said on Monday.…
Ubiquiti iniquity: Wi-Fi box slinger warns hackers may have peeked at customers' personal information
Salted password hashes, addresses, phone numbers may have been exposed in cloud security snafu Networking vendor Ubiquiti has written to its customers to advise them of a possible leak of their personal information.…
That's it. It's over. It's really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We're free. We can just leave
Post-Flashpocalypse, we stumble outside, hoping no one ever creates software as insecure as that ever again Adobe has finally and formally killed Flash.…
Dems to ISPs: You're not gonna hike broadband prices, slap restrictions on folks in a pandemic, are you?
Now wouldn't be the time to exploit millions stuck at home, yeah? Maybe restrain the profiteering a little? America’s largest internet providers have been asked to provide details of any price hikes or broadband restrictions they have placed on captive internet users during the pandemic.…
Trump's gone quiet, Parler nuked, Twitter protest never happened: There's an eerie calm – but at what cost?
Tech giants leap between positions, leave policy makers uncomfortable Comment There was supposed to be a protest at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco on Monday organized by supporters of President Trump furious at the web giant's decision to permanently ban his personal account. It never happened.…
Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting
And no, Parler wasn't hacked either. Its public posts were simply scraped Updated Parler, which advertised itself as a place where you can "speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being 'deplatformed' for your views," sued Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday for deplatforming the site.…
ZIP folders were originally a Microsoft engineer's side hustle until bosses figured out he worked for Microsoft
Also: Edge on Apple arrives in the Dev Channel, HealthBot goes to the cloud, and Chile to get an Azure Region In brief Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer uploaded another Windows war story to his YouTube channel over the weekend, this time concerning the history of the handy zip folder functionality that has been a feature of the Windows shell over recent decades.…
Last stop before MAUI: Xamarin Forms 5.0 released for cross-platform mobile, new features, new bugs
Microsoft's cross-platform .NET tools get a refresh, but with a relatively short life before newer tools sweep it away Microsoft has flung open the doors to Xamarin Forms 5.0, a major new version of its cross-platform framework targeting iOS, Android, and Windows 10.…
Better battery, LTE and a removable SSD in Microsoft's Surface Pro 7+
More RAM also on offer for those with deep pockets As the faithful await new hardware in 2021, Microsoft has quietly updated its Surface Pro 7 with a removable SSD and beefier battery life.…
Linux developers get ready to wield the secateurs against elderly microprocessors
Use it or lose it With 5.10 under its belt, the Linux community is discussing swinging the axe on some elderly platforms and CPUs, including a bunch that are ARM-based. Even the poor old 80486DX/SX has come in for scrutiny.…
Thou shalt not hack indiscriminately, High Court of England tells Britain's spy agencies
Choke chain tightened on 'general warrants' after Privacy International wins judicial review A landmark High Court ruling has struck down Britain's ability to hack millions of people at a time through so-called "general warrants" in what privacy campaigners are hailing as a major victory.…
SpaceX wins UK regulator Ofcom's approval for its Starlink mobile broadband base stations
New, expensive option for nation's notspots Ofcom has given the thumbs-up to SpaceX's Starlink broadband user terminals, opening the door to a UK launch of Elon Musk's satellite-based broadband service.…
Unauthorised RAC staffer harvested customer details then sold them to accident claims management company
8-month suspended sentence for conspiracy to secure unauthorised access to computer data An employee at emergency roadside rescue biz RAC has received an eight-month suspended prison sentence for unsanctioned access to computer systems that saw her sell customers' data to an accident claims management company.…
Fearing she had stumbled across a body, dogwalker reports pota-toe to police
At last, King Edward's remains found The game is... a potato? That's how it turned out to be for a dogwalker from the Tyne and Wear town of Gateshead in North East England.…
Linux Mint sticks by Snap decision – meaning store is still disabled by default in 20.1
A few improvements and a handy web app utility, but older kernel causes problems for some hardware The Linux Mint team has released version 20.1 - codenamed Ulyssa - with long-term support to 2025 and the usual three variants: Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce.…
SolarWinds takes a leaf out of Zoom's book, hires A-Team of Stamos and Krebs to sort out its security woes
The week's other security news In Brief Embattled and embarrassed network management shop SolarWinds has reportedly hired two of the highest profile security bods in the biz to sort out its woes.…
Paperless what? Pah! UK government looks to ink £900m in printer deals
Crown Commercal Services must be rubbing hands together Many expected an increase in paperwork after the UK left the EU, but £900m on printers seems bit much.…
Facial recog biz denies its software identified 'antifa members' among mob that stormed Capitol Hill
Plus: US ban on selling AI code to China renewed for 2021, and Jim Keller hired by Canadian AI chip startup In brief The facial recognition company said to have identified antifa members among rioters who ransacked Capitol Hill last week denied that its technology had ever done such a thing.…
Dusty passports, smart tops and tracksuit bottoms: Are virtual events better or worse than the real thing?
Event sponsors: 'They got rinsed' in 2020, says analyst Feature Virtual events are cheaper and more accessible, but fall short in interactivity and networking opportunities, and have limited scope for sponsors to reach their audience. Content can be duller and shallower too - but virtual is here to stay, even when some face-to-face activity returns.…
Developers! These 3 weird tricks will make you a global hero
Good for users and good for you Column As you slide into the driver's seat of your century-old Cadillac Type 53 automobile you'll almost certainly miss something hugely significant: that model's major innovation.…
Pop quiz: You've got a roomful of electrical equipment. How do you put out a fire?
Careful with that rack, Eugene Who, Me? A reminder to take care when fiddling with the top shelf in today's edition of Who, Me? Especially when "good" has taken a backseat to "cheap".…
Faster optic fibers and superior laser sensors set to descend from space
Boffins to get express delivery as SpaceX Dragon capsule returning from ISS will be first science payload to splash down near Florida SpaceX will on Monday retrieve the Dragon capsule it sent to the international space station on December 8th, 2020, an event NASA says will bring “significantly more science back to Earth than possible in previous Dragon capsules and is the first space station cargo capsule to splash down off the coast of Florida.”…
Social network Parler dumped by AWS, says it prepared for this by only using bare metal
Says it'll rebuild in a week, but evidence of DR plan is scant Amazon Web Services (AWS) will shut down servers run by Parler, whose apps have also been removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play. The social network has advised users it will therefore be offline for up to a week while it rebuilds its service and accused big tech of conspiring to shut it down.…
Lenovo reveals smart specs that let you eyeball five virtual displays, with strings attached
USB-C cable ties electro-glasses to PCs or those Motorola phones everyone is mostly ignoring Lenovo has introduced “enterprise smart glasses” that it says can project up to five 1080p windows onto your eyeballs.…
Linus Torvalds rates his own words 'incoherent ramblings of a crazy old man'
Defying expectations, kernel devs roared back to work Linux lead Linus Torvalds has labelled his last pronouncement on the state of the kernel "the incoherent ramblings of a crazy old man."…
Buggy code, fragile legacy systems, ill-conceived projects cost US businesses $2 trillion in 2020
Software quality crisis made worse by developer shortage, report claims Shoddy software cost the US an estimated $2.08tr in 2020, according to the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ). That's down slightly from a revised 2018 total of $2.1tr but still isn't anything to brag about.…
UK watchdog sniffs around Google Chrome's Privacy Sandbox as it may give Choc Factory all the sweeties
Ad giant's cookie replacement plan runs into resistance Google's plan to rewire online advertising by phasing out third-party cookies and building a so-called Privacy Sandbox has come under scrutiny from the UK Competition and Markets Authority.…
Loser Trump is no longer useful to Twitter, entire account deleted over fears he'll whip up more mayhem
Don't worry, Mr President, we've found another platform for you: /dev/null Twitter on Friday permanently deleted President Trump's personal account, @realDonaldTrump, over fears the election loser's tweets could incite further mayhem in America.…
Cisco drags Acacia toward court to keep stalled $2.6bn acquisition on track
Smaller biz terminates deal after Chinese watchdogs dither Optical networking biz Acacia Communications announced today it has pulled out of a $2.6bn merger agreement with Cisco.…
F5 snags edge-as-a-service biz Volterra in $500m deal
App delivery networking firm wants to solve customers' 'biggest pain points' Seattle-based application delivery networking biz F5 is planning to snaffle edge-as-a-service platform upstart Volterra for $500m.…
US courts system fears SolarWinds snafu could have let state hackers poke about in sealed case documents
Problems for charging spies in future? Probably not, says ex-NCSC chief The SolarWinds hack exposed sealed US court documents – which could have a serious effect on Western sanctions against state-backed hackers.…
Samsung profits – and shares – soar despite challenges in memory and mobile markets
Stock prices sitting pretty at an all-time high of $2,020 after earnings guidance Despite missing analysts' forecasts, Samsung Electronics' guidance for its final quarter of 2020 paint a rosy picture, with profits likely up by a quarter year-on-year to ₩9 trillion ($8.22bn/ £6.06bn).…
ESA signs on the dotted line for ESPRIT, Europe's Lunar Gateway module
Also: Another One Leaves the Crust, SLS gets ready to rumble, and SpaceX sets off the 2021 fireworks In brief The European System Providing Refueling, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (ESPRIT) took another step closer to reality this week as the European Space Agency (ESA) inked a €296.5m contract with Thales Alenia Space to build the module for the Lunar Gateway.…
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