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Samsung rolls out new Galaxy S21 range, including extra-lux Ultra
Just your Stylus? Pen support moves to latest flagship models It's flagship Thursday at Samsung, which for the better part of a decade has squatted over the premium sector of the Android market.…
Coming in at number 5, it's a blast from the past! Tenable's 2020 security flaw chart show features hits of yesteryear
You know that update thing? JFDI Out of the top five vulnerabilities for 2020 three dated back to 2019 or earlier, according to infosec firm Tenable's annual threat report.…
Attack of the cryptidiots: One wants Bitcoin-flush hard drive he threw out in 2013 back, the other lost USB stick password
A combined total of $575m deleted... and counting A couple of news items about what we'll call "cryptidiots" wriggled into the mainstream media this week, momentarily shedding light on the important topics of e-waste and password hygiene for the masses.…
Admit it: Your legacy backup is actually making you less resilient
Join us later this month to see what modern data management looks like Webcast There’s been a lot of talk about resilience lately. But while it’s one thing working through mid-pandemic self-care and wellness prescriptions for the individual, what does resilience mean when it comes to your company and its data?…
SpaceX cargo ship splashes down off Florida with science in tow – but what we want to know is how space wine tastes
It's been sloshing around the International Space Station for a while SpaceX hit another milestone overnight with the return of the upgraded cargo Dragon capsule from the International Space Station (ISS), which splashed down off the Florida coast.…
Debian 'Bullseye' enters final phase before release as team debates whether it will be last to work on i386 architecture
Security, lack of suitable hardware for testing makes full 32-bit support hard Debian 11, codenamed "Bullseye", has entered the first freeze stage, meaning no large or disruptive changes, or new package transitions (merging, splitting, renaming or removing) are allowed. The 32-bit i386 architecture is part of the release but may not be in Debian 12, codenamed "Bookworm".…
Ministry of Defence's cyber warfare drive is helping burn a hole through its budget, warns UK's National Audit Office
All that counter-China stuff costs a pretty penny, y'know The Ministry of Defence's multibillion budget overrun has been caused in part because of its spending splurge on flashy new "cyber" capabilities, according to the National Audit Office.…
JavaScript survey: React everywhere, Jest, Webpack on the up... if only it had static typing, sigh developers
The world's favourite language has complex ecosystem in which build tools are now fundamental The 2020 State of JavaScript report, a survey of over 23,000 developers globally, has revealed growing use of WebPack and Jest, continuing high use of React, Express and TypeScript, and that top of the wishlist is no longer better browser compatibility, but rather static typing.…
Flash in the pan: Raspberry Pi OS is the latest platform to carve out vulnerable tech
Meanwhile, hello Epson drivers? The Raspberry Pi OS plunged another knife into the dark heart of Flash this week while adding drivers for Epson printers.…
Semiconductor-flinger SK Hynix raises $1bn to green up its act
Toxic wastewater and resource hungry - wafer-fabbing's a mucky biz South Korean memory biz SK Hynix has issued a $1 billion “green bond” with the funds intended for pay for projects designed to reduce the ecological impact of its manufacturing activities.…
Cor, get a load of moneybags Northamptonshire: Eight resellers win places on £5bn police framework
Before you choke on your tea, authority likely won't splash anything near that Eight resellers have been awarded places on a £5bn framework contract led by the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire, a county in England's East Midlands.…
Another Rust-y OS: Theseus joins Redox in pursuit of safer, more resilient systems
This one is not just written in Rust – its design is based on Rust features Rust, a modern system programming language focused on performance, safety and concurrency, seems an ideal choice for creating a new operating system, and several such projects already exist. Now there is a new one, Theseus, described by creator Kevin Boos as "an Experiment in Operating System Structure and State Management."…
Gloucestershire IT pro faces court over £30k Amazon voucher theft allegations
Accused pinched them from employer, sold them on eBay, prosecutors claim A 23-year-old Gloucester IT worker is to stand trial after allegedly stealing more than £30,000 worth of Amazon vouchers before selling them on eBay.…
Fujitsu opens door, invites '200 to 250' staff from UK Delivery team to walk out
Juicier payoff for those who do, but employees fear process will become compulsory if numbers aren't met Exclusive Fujitsu is looking for hundreds of volunteers in its UK Delivery organisation to leave with an enhanced payoff, though only employees with at least five years' service can currently apply. At the same time it is running a small redundancy process in other areas of the business where contracts are running off.…
Offshoring is kind of over, says Wipro, as financials surge thanks to offshoring
Working from home means lots of us might as well be offshore now, suggests CEO Wipro has both celebrated customers’ use of offshoring for its positive impact on its finances and suggested the concept may have been made obsolete by the pandemic-induced surge in working from home.…
Beagleboard peeps tease dual-core 64-bit RISC-V computer with GPU, AI acceleration, more for under 100 quid
UnArmed to the teeth: Early versions to ship in April, more to follow in September If you’re looking for a modest RISC-V computer capable of running Linux, with AI and other acceleration thrown in, to evaluate the architecture, the people behind the BeagleBoard have teased such a thing: the BeagleV board, starting from $119 (£87).…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says Trump ban means the service has failed
‘I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump’ says @Jack Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey has posted a long thread in which he laments having to permanently suspend US president Donald Trump’s personal twitter account.…
Is a remote workforce making your organisation less secure?
And can SASE save us? Webcast Last year your bosses embraced remote working because, let’s face it, none of us had a choice.…
Pirate Bay co-founder criticises Parler for its lack of resilience
Torrent search engine is still up after years of whack-a-mole with copyright cops One of the co-creators of notorious BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay has criticised free speech social network Parler for the lack of resilience that saw it go dark after Amazon Web Services booted it out of its cloud.…
Qualcomm pays $1.4bn to acquire ex-Apple and AMD Arm server chip engineers (and the biz they set up)
Purchase of Nuvia raises eyebrows Qualcomm has announced it will pay $1.4bn for Arm data-center chip design biz Nuvia, a startup only established in 2019.…
India’s top techies form digital foundation to fight Apple and Google
App store fees and ‘privacy’ arrangements under fire India’s tech self-reliance push has spawned a new group that aims to fight big US tech companies,…
It's been a day or so and nope, we still can't wrap our head around why GitHub would fire someone for saying Nazis were storming the US Capitol
Questions go unanswered as CEO, COO launch probe GitHub is under fire for apparently sacking an employee two days after warning colleagues in Washington DC that “Nazis are about” during the ransacking of the US Capitol last week.…
VMware has the strategy and culture to thrive after CEO Pat Gelsinger's exit to Intel
Virtzilla’s next boss has container-centric challenges tho nothing as hard as the task of making Intel great again Analysis A VMware employee of my acquaintance once told me a story about a customer meeting he attended alongside departing CEO Pat Gelsinger, who has just been revealed as the new CEO of Intel.…
Four women seek release from forced arbitration to sue Infosys for widespread gender discrimination
IT consultancy favors male and Indian workers, watchdog told in complaint Four female former employees of IT consultancy Infosys on Wednesday filed a claim with the US Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging that they were subject to pervasive discrimination at the company.…
Want to let an AI-powered doctor loose on patients? Try slapping a food-label-like sticker on it, says Uncle Sam
Action plan to regulate machine-learning software in 2021 revealed The US Food and Drug Administration wants manufacturers to specifically label AI-powered medical devices to help patients understand the technology, and to test them on real-world data to see how they perform in the wild beyond clinical environments.…
Airbnb, or not to be, if you're headed to Washington DC: Biz cancels bookings over fears of inauguration insurrection
Hosts, guests paid off to 'ensure hate group members are not part of the Airbnb community' In preparation for the upcoming inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, room rental biz Airbnb said it is cancelling reservations in the Washington DC, metropolitan area for the entire week and will block any attempts to make new reservations in the vicinity during that time.…
Dropbox basically decimates workforce, COO logs off: Cloud biz promises to be 'more efficient and nimble'
CEO says he is 'truly sorry for painful but necessary' cuts Dropbox is close to decimating its workforce, firing 11 per cent of staff in an effort to become “a more efficient and nimble” company, its CEO announced on Wednesday.…
VMware completes first year of Tanzu with Advanced Edition GA, announces magic tool for app modernization
Enterprise customers 'are struggling with the implementation of Kubernetes at scale' says virty cloud giant VMware has completed the first phase of its Kubernetes-based Tanzu project by making the Advanced Edition generally available, and has a new (but delayed) tool in the works which promises to simplify application modernization.…
We didn't collude with Twitter to throw Parler off our servers, says AWS in court filing
They signed our terms of service and broke them, notes hosting behemoth Amazon Web Services has denied that is engaged in a "conspiracy to restrain trade" after summarily pulling the plug on social network Parler.…
Boss behind 'reset' of delayed, overbudget Emergency Services Network shifts to new 'digital' Cabinet Office role
Three years at ESN would have been three years too many for most Joanna Davinson, who in her role at the Home Office spent the last three years overseeing the Emergency Services Network project – currently incurring £550m in additional annual costs because of delays – has been appointed executive director of the UK government's new Central Digital and Data Office.…
Are you managing your data in the cloud? Or is it managing you?
There’s more to it than just backups Webcast Are you using the cloud to manage your data? No, we don’t mean are you backing up to the cloud, we mean actually managing your data to ensure it’s safe and, as importantly, delivering value for your organisation.…
Intel CEO Bob Swan is stepping down to be replaced by VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger
Someone with technical nous could be good for Chipzilla – the markets certainly think so Intel CEO Bob Swan's time at the head of Chipzilla is coming to an end and Intel's first CTO, Pat Gelsinger, is to replace him.…
Motorola stung for £838k after Chinese digital mobile radio biz Hytera wins appeal against UK asset-freezing order
Appeal judges say lower court stumbled with ruling over 'without prejudice' negotiations Motorola must pay a Chinese mobile network radio maker more than £800,000 after losing a Court of Appeal case over claims its rival threatened to "retreat to China" and evade a previous judgment.…
100GB doesn't always cut it in these remote-working times so Microsoft has upped OneDrive file size upload limit to 250GB
Fewer files now needed before additional storage purchase is required Microsoft is to cut the number of files needed to fill the increasingly limited space available to OneDrive users by upping the file size limit to 250GB.…
NHS COVID-19 app is trying to tell Android users something but buggy notification appears stuck on 'Loading...' screen
The suspense could quite literally be killing us The UK's NHS COVID-19 app developed a case of the borks overnight as Android users were presented with mystery notifications that never seemed to finish loading.…
The CIA's 'entire' collection of UFO records has been made available for you to sigh at
Is that The X-Files theme we hear? Everyone needs a hobby, and for one John Greenewald Jr that's archiving declassified US government documents on his website, The Black Vault, which has this week published what the CIA claims is everything it has on UFOs.…
Look, we've sent space probes to Jupiter and Mars – makes sense to keep them going a while longer, says NASA
Jupiter and Mars machines get new life NASA is extending the missions of the Juno spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter and its moons and the Martian InSight lander probing for marsquakes until 2025 and 2022 respectively.…
UK network Three hikes pay-as-you-go rates by 400% to push punters to buy 'bundles'
It's expensive to be poor Three has announced plans to hike the price of its pay-as-you-go mobile service, with SMS and data prices set to soar by 400 per cent from 16 February. The per-minute cost of making a call, meanwhile, will more than triple.…
Backers of Planet Computers' Astro Slide 5G phone furious after shock specs downgrade
'We have been sold a lemon here' Supporters of Planet Computers' Astro Slide 5G phone are fuming after the niche UK mobile firm announced a downgrade in the crowdfunded device's processor and battery.…
Union warns Openreach that engineers are ready to vote for industrial action over new grading structure
BT-owned broadband plumbing biz says it's 'surprised and saddened' The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has told Openreach it is to ballot members on industrial action following what it claims is the company's decision to ignore consultation and instead hire engineers on a different grade and structure.…
World’s largest dark-web marketplace shuttered after Euro cybercops cuff Aussie
20 DarkMarket servers siezed and probed in international raids Europol cops have taken down dark-web souk DarkMarket, after arresting an Australian citizen living in Germany who they claim was operating the world's biggest online bazaar of its kind.…
What's that you got there, AMD? More Ryzen chips? Yeah, OK, we could do with some of those
Assuming we can get our hands on these 7nm Zen 3 parts. Plus: Epyc and Nvidia teases CES AMD on Tuesday launched its Ryzen 5000 series of microprocessors at this year’s virtual CES trade show.…
First Oracle said it powered Zoom. Then AWS claimed it. Now Zoom says it uses co-located kit
Plus a bit of Azure, and it all costs so much it’s selling $1.5bn more shares Videoconferencing darling Zoom has issued a prospectus it hopes will raise $1.5bn, and which also reveals that it may be less dependent on the cloud than its suppliers have trumpeted. The document also reveals that it’s struggling to buy the servers it needs and that free Zoom sessions have – surprise! – cost the company plenty while eroding margins.…
What’s that in CES heaven, is it a star? Or is it that damned elusive flying car?
For 20 years now, El Reg has been looking for proof – is this finally it? CES It was almost exactly 20 years ago – January 6, 2001 – that Reg reader Erik Trent wrote to us bemoaning the tendency of tech journalists to repeat futuristic nonsense.…
Pandemic? Check. World in peril? Check. CES is on? Check. So of course Bluetooth Smart Masks are now a thing
What a time to be alive CES The world is in the grip of a lethal viral pandemic. The technology industry’s response?…
Boeing confirms last 747 to roll off production line in 2022
Last four built will be freighters. And mighty freighters at that Boeing has confirmed that production of its 747 aircraft will end in 2022.…
China showing signs of brewing IPv6 eruption
China Telecom, world’s largest carrier, and China’s premier ISP, has accelerated - hard APNIC, the Asia-Pacific’s regional Internet address registry, has noticed a sharp uptick in IPv6 use by China Telecom, the nation’s top provider of internet services.…
Privacy pilfering project punished by FTC purge penalty: AI upstart told to delete data and algorithms
Face-recognition biz hammered after harvesting people's pics, videos without permission A California-based facial recognition biz has been directed by the US Federal Trade Commission to delete the AI models and algorithms that it developed by harvesting people's photos and videos without permission, a remedy that suggests privacy violators may no longer be allowed to benefit from ill-gotten data.…
Trump tries one more time to limit H-1B work visas with new minimum salary requirements
With just a week left of the administration, here we go again The Trump Administration has tried yet again to change the fine print around H-1B work visas, with the Department of Labor issuing a new rule on Tuesday that it said would “help protect the wages and job opportunities of American workers.”…
Microsoft emits 83 security fixes – and miscreants are already exploiting one of the vulns in Windows Defender
Redmond keeps us hanging with on-premises Exchange flaw still to be fixed Patch Tuesday Microsoft on Tuesday released updates addressing 83 vulnerabilities in its software, which doesn't include the 13 flaws fixed in its Edge browser last week.…
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