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Apple clinches Q4 smartphone shipments top spot as US sanctions elbow Huawei out of the major league
Canalys stats also show Samsung knocked to 2nd in a shrinking market It is official: Huawei is no longer a major smartphone maker after it fell out of the top five line-up of the biggest sellers in Q4. As for Apple? It is again at the summit, at least according to Canalys.…
Project Ticino: Microsoft's Erich Gamma on Visual Studio Code past, present, and future
'We decided to not use any UI frameworks ... we want to be fully in control of our own destiny' Visual Studio Code only succeeded because a failed online editor was pivoted to become a desktop product, according to Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Erich Gamma.…
Workflow biz ServiceNow ServiceWows itself by beating Q4 guidance and posting hefty top line growth of 31% for FY2020
'It's all about people, empathy at mass scale,' says Big McD IT helpdesk vendor ServiceNow has beat its own forecasts for calendar Q4 revenue and posted 2020 growth of 31 per cent.…
Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur: Expect an ad, get a bork
Bork bork acka-lacka bork bork Bork!Bork!Bork! While New Zealand might have cut itself off from much of the outside world in a physical sense, we were surprised to find its isolation extends to the occasional internet connection.…
Samsung Galaxy S21: Lots of little downgrades, but this phone is more than the sum of its parts
Freshest flagship delivers, and looks good doing it Review The Samsung Galaxy S21 is not a particularly ambitious phone. There’s nothing novel or provocative about it. It’s a flagship, yes. But it’s also a fairly conservative one, faithfully sticking to the paths trodden by its predecessors.…
Tab minimalists look away: Vivaldi introduces two-level tab stacks
My god, it's full of tabs Browser maker Vivaldi is tackling the issue of tab overload by adding a second row of the things via two-level tab stacks.…
SAP: Come to the cloud with us, we promise there's total accountability and lower TCO with lift-and-shift ERP package
SaaS pick 'n' mix might appeal more than standard processes for S/4HANA upgrade, though SAP has launched a lift-and-shift-to-the-cloud service for customers' on-premises ERP systems, taking accountability for performance and promising lower costs.…
We've got some really bad news about Apple's privacy measures, Google tells iOS app devs: It'll hurt your Google ad revenue
Chocolate Factory insists it's working on its own info usage labels, too Google on Wednesday warned iOS developers who use Google ad technology that they may see less revenue as Apple implements its privacy clampdown.…
Cisco intros desktop switches, one with USB-C to power your laptop
Fibre-to-the-desk is the driver because it allows longer connections and fewer physical frames Cisco reckons it has invented "a whole new category of switches" called "micro-switches".…
Facebook finally finds something it thinks is truly objectionable and needs to be taken offline: Apple
Devotes earnings announcement to trashing Cupertino over privacy as both post mega-profits Facebook has allowed misinformation to circulate, pandered to bigots, and generally turned a blind eye to all manner of horrible behaviour that has spilled out into real-world consequences including attempted genocide. But now The Social Network™ has found something so scary it has decided the world needs to know that Bad Things Are About To Happen.…
India makes China app ban permanent, forces TikTok to hose out local office
But China's Xiaomi again tops booming smartphone market which just hit record of 100m sales in six months India appears to have permanently banned the 59 Chinese apps it first barred from local use in June 2020.…
What happens when the internet realizes the stock market is basically a casino? They go shopping at the Mall
GameStop shares soaring to $350 from $5 last year?! WTF is going on? Analysis So it seems 2021 is going to be the year that internet culture finally reaches the deepest and most protected pockets of society.…
If you want to leg it through China's Great Firewall, don't forget to pull on your newly darned Shadowsocks
Censorship-busting tool updated, advice on how to use it to evade blockades published China's recent upgrades to its content-blocking Great Firewall can be circumvented, according to censorship fighters from the Great Firewall Report.…
AMD, Nvidia, HPE tapped to triple the speed of US weather super with $35m upgrade
Scientists will focus on modelling hurricanes, wildfires, solar storms with Milan Epycs and Nv A100s HPE will upgrade the US National Center for Atmospheric Research’s supercomputer using AMD and Nvidia’s latest CPUs and GPUs, creating a machine roughly three times as powerful as its current Intel-based beast.…
Hey, AT&T, you ripped off our smartwatch-phone group call tech – and we want our $1bn, say entrepreneur pair
Seattle duo go back to court demanding promised royalties AT&T has been sued by two Seattle entrepreneurs who accused the telecoms giant of stealing their technology and launching a rip-off version to avoid paying massive royalty fees.…
Knock, knock. Who's there? NAT. Nat who? A NAT URL-borne killer
Last year's slipstream technique revived to pierce vulnerable firewalls – browsers patched to thwart bypass attempts Video Ben Seri and Gregory Vishnepolsky, threat researchers at Armis, have found a way to expand upon the NAT Slipstream attack disclosed last year by Samy Kamkar, CSO of Openpath Security.…
Stack Overflow 2019 hack was guided by advice from none other than... Stack Overflow
Vulnerabilities in build systems, secrets in source code: developer environments are an attack target Developer site Stack Overflow has published details of a breach dating back to May 2019, finding evidence that an intruder in its systems made extensive use of Stack Overflow itself to determine how to make the next move.…
Time to haul DBaaS: Neo4j joins the fully managed club as doubts linger about its cloudiness
It was a first mover for graph DBs, but cloud is full of rivals Graph database swashbuckler Neo4j has joined a throng of NoSQL vendors in selling its technology core as a fully managed cloud database.…
Command 'n' control botnet of notorious Emotet Windows ransomware shut down in multinational police raid
Europol-led op knocks offline 700 servers used to infect 'millions of computers' EU police agency Europol has boasted of taking down the main botnet powering the Emotet trojan-cum-malware dropper, as part of a multinational police operation that included raids on the alleged operators’ homes in the Ukraine.…
Get off my lawn: UK.Gov looks to reform land access laws for network operators weeks after PAC savages full-fibre gigabit targets for 2025
What do we want? Better coverage! How do we want it? Without actual infrastructure The UK government is looking to reform the laws governing how communications equipment is deployed and managed, in an effort to speed up the rollout of gigabit-capable connections.…
Today's 'sophisticated cyber attack' victim is the Woodland Trust: Pre-Xmas breach under investigation
Potentially 250,000 reasons UK nature conservation charity was targeted The Woodland Trust, a peaceful British charity that looks after trees, was struck by a “cyber attack” before Christmas.…
Four cold calling marketing firms fined almost £500k by ICO
That's 20 pence a pop for the 2.4 million calls made, many to Telephone Preference Service users The UK’s data watchdog has issued £480,000 in financial penalties to four businesses that illegally made 2.4 million marketing calls to members of the public registered with the Telephone Preference Services (TPS).…
We regret to inform you the professor teaching your online course is already dead
Canadian uni educator apparently was an excellent teacher Anyone with sufficient memory to recall their college days may remember suspecting some of the staff behind the lectern were barely breathing. One student in Canada however was rather surprised to learn a professor offering the gift of knowledge had, in fact, passed away two years earlier.…
GitLab removes its 'starter' tier: Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
Customer: 'It feels like a bit of a kick in the teeth' Cloudy DevOps company GitLab has removed its $4.00 user/month Bronze/Starter tier, giving users the choice between paying for Premium at $19.00 or downgrading to the free tier and losing some features.…
The UK's first industrial contribution to the ISS: An end to sneakernet for spacefarers
Also: First all-commercial crew named, Boeing readies Starliner again and NASA's ex-boss is off to private equity In Brief The UK will be making its first major industrial contribution to the International Space Station (ISS) with the Columbus Ka-band Terminal (ColKa), which will be fitted to the Columbus laboratory module during a spacewalk by flight engineers Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover.…
Europe promises all-out assault on batteries to counter China’s lithium-ion domination
EU puts 2.9bn euro ($3.5bn) behind European Battery Innovation project, expects companies to triple that The European Union has announced a €2.9bn ($3.5bn, £2.57bn) state aid program to build a full production chain for battery tech, from the extraction of raw materials to the design and manufacturing of battery cells, and their recycling and disposal.…
Chaos is good for you, says first 'state of chaos engineering' report
Spend more on resilence, get more resilience: who whould've thunk it? The 2021 State of Chaos Engineering report from Gremlin, based on a survey of 400 companies, has shown a correlation between high availability and frequent use of chaos engineering.…
University of Nottingham looks for new HR and finance software just 18 months after massive Unit4 system upgrade
Time to make some ch-ch-changes The University of Nottingham is on the lookout for a new HR and finance system in a deal which could be worth £35m, barely a year after updating its current provider's system.…
BeyondCorp Enterprise: Google's Chrome-shaped approach to 'cloud-native zero trust computing'
New security features in Chrome but can businesses do everything they need through the browser? Google has introduced BeyondCorp Enterprise, for secure access to browser-based applications, using new security features in the Chrome browser.…
Europe considers making it law that your boss can’t bug you outside of office hours
I’d love to sort out that issue for you, Steve, but it’s Saturday and I'd rather not commit a crime Europe has had enough of the blurring between work and personal time – where your boss calls you in the evening or colleagues email at the weekend – and is mulling introducing legislation that would provide a “right to disconnect.”…
Intel reveals US$475m investment in Vietnam as Communist Party says it loves high-tech industry
What a co-incidence this news has emerged in the same week as a five-yearly party congress! Intel has revealed that it pumped an extra US$475m into its facilities in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.…
Soon, no more blood tests or probing for prostate cancer? AI claims 99% success rate using more relaxing methods
Small-scale test involving biosensor and trained algorithms shows early promise Scientists say they have devised a way to screen for prostate cancer using a drop of urine, a sensor, and AI algorithms. And the test takes just twenty minutes, and is 99 per cent accurate, according to results from a small-scale test.…
Firefox 85 crumbles cache-abusing supercookies with potent partitioning powers
Scorches Flash for the very last time, too The Mozilla Foundation has scorched a pair of monstrosities in the new version 85 of its Firefox browser.…
The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software goes offline for good
You probably remember it as Tucows.com, an essential source of shareware downloads for the early Web One of the web’s early software download bazaars, Tucows.com, has closed.…
AMD's Lisa Su: Our processor sales are Ryzen faster than the PC market is growing
Chip designer records bumper final quarter and full year, predicts more of the same to come, says supply flow will increase Sometimes, things just go right. AMD on Tuesday reported record full-year and fourth-quarter financial figures, all due to interest in its chips across the board, from microprocessors in PCs and servers to GPUs in games consoles, and all during a pandemic.…
Dear team: Please work hard in 2021. I’d help, but I’m in jail. Yours, the boss of Samsung
Management masterclass as locked-up Lee Jae-Yong apologises for his absence Samsung’s vice chairman and de facto boss Lee Jae-Yong has reportedly sent staff motivational messages from inside prison.…
Microsoft smashes Wall Street's expectations with $43bn sales bonanza
FY21 Q2 results buoyed by cloud demand, pandemic-driven IT focus Microsoft far exceeded expectations for its second-quarter fiscal 2021 financial results, posting $43.1bn in revenue, an increase of 17 per cent.…
US cyber intelligence officer given 11 years for kidnapping her kid, trying to hawk top secrets to Russia in Mexico
How's your year going? A US Air Force intelligence officer who kidnapped her daughter to Mexico and attempted to defect to Russia with information labelled top secret has been jailed for 11 years.…
Google, Apple sued for failing to give Telegram chat app the Parler put-down treatment
Messaging wunderkind said to be haven for extremists – and Silicon Valley gave it a pass, ex-ambassador complains Marc Ginsberg, a former US ambassador who oversees a non-profit called Coalition for a Safer Web (CSW), sued Alphabet's Google subsidiary on Monday for failing to remove the Telegram Messenger app from its Google Play store.…
Decade-old bug in Linux world's sudo can be abused by any logged-in user to gain root privileges
Sudo, make me a heap overflow! Done, this system is now yours Security researchers from Qualys have identified a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in sudo that can be exploited by rogue users to take over the host system.…
Apple emits emergency iOS security updates while warning holes may have been exploited in wild by hackers
Plus fixes for iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, XCode, iCloud for Windows – and a day after Google disclosed Nork op Apple today released software updates to patch vulnerabilities in iPhones and iPads that may have been exploited by miscreants to silently snoop on victims from afar.…
Dynamic Data do-over denied: Judge upholds $7m patent infringement claim against Microsoft
Shenanigans called on ASP.NET scaffolding tech A New York judge has denied Microsoft a new trial after the software giant attempted to overturn a 2020 judgement over its infringement of a database interface patent.…
A Twitter world-improvement plan that doesn't involve deleting Twitter? Unleash the boffins, says microblogging biz
Academics can apply for free access to historic Twitter data, so there is a use for the well of human misery after all Twitter is making public tweet data freely available to academic researchers in the hope the boffins can use it to make the world a better place.…
Google's Git commits point to project on pared-back Android for virtualized environments
Meet MicroDroid, a base image for on-device VMs that might never see light of day Google is working on a stripped-down version of Android for virtualized environments, judging by source code commits made to the AOSP repository.…
Got Surface Hubs? Better get cracking: Windows 10 for Whiteboards to resume rolling out in February
Windows 10 Team Creators Update due for support axe in March - yes, two months from now Microsoft is set to resume rolling out the Windows 10 Team 2020 Update, although some administrators will have only a few short weeks before the previous version drops out of support.…
Drone smashes through helicopter's windscreen and injures passenger
Two feet sideways and it could have been the pilot: report A drone crashed into the windscreen of a helicopter being flown at low altitude and injured a passenger aboard the aircraft.…
Huawei has been Biden its time, but there's no sign new US president will reverse American sanctions
Press secretary won't say nay or yea on Entity List, but prez says 'we need to play a better defense' It has been six days since Joe Biden became president of the United States. Since then, he has wasted no time in reversing policy decisions made by his predecessor with a series of executive actions on LGBT rights, the environment, and race relations.…
A new take on programming trends: You know what's not a bunch of JS? Devs learning Python and Java ahead of JavaScript
O'Reilly's opinionated survey says low-code on the up and modern web dev is 'chilling' A report from an online learning platform presents a different take on programming language and devops trends, showing Python and Java ahead of the usual survey winner JavaScript.…
No cards, thanks, we're contactless-less: UK supermarket giants hit by card payment TITSUP*
Money talks in Morrisons and Co-Op Shoppers keen to avoid that personal touch have been faced with multi-day card payment problems at UK grocery giants Morrisons and the Co-Op.…
I was targeted by North Korean 0-day hackers using a Visual Studio project, vuln hunter tells El Reg
Hyperion Gray founder relates 'holy f**k' moment when he realised A zero-day hunter has told The Register of the “holy f**k” moment when he realised he'd been targeted by a North Korean campaign aimed at stealing Western researchers' vulns.…
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