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The GIMP turns 25 and promises to carry on being the FOSS not-Photoshop
Image Manipulation Program spawned GTK, which begat GNOME The General Image Manipulation Program, GIMP, has turned 25.…
Pretty fly for a SharkEye: Salesforce sponsors AI drones to spot sharks before they attack California swimmers
Plus: A new web app from Google to generate AI monsters Drones and machine learning algorithms are helping beachgoers get live updates to alert them whenever sharks are in the water.…
Head thumping, heart racing? Here’s how not to panic when you’re under cyber attack
No incident response plan? We can help you there… Promo You know the symptoms – a sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach, tingling in the fingers, blood thumping in the temples as time slows to a crawl. Realizing you’re facing a full-on cyber attack can feel horribly visceral, even if the attackers are virtual.…
USA and Taiwan make semiconductors their top trade priority at first-ever 'Economic Prosperity Dialogue'
Do you see what I TSMC? The USA and Taiwan have emerged from their first "Economic Prosperity Partnership Dialogue" with an agreement that co-operation around semiconductors is their top priority.…
China offers world its COVID QR Code movement passport at G20 Leaders' Meeting
Declaration puts a handbrake on global digital currencies, includes usual 'let's use the internet and AI to make the world a better place' stuff Chinese president Xi Jinping appears to have offered the world the QR code-powered system used to determine movement rights inside his nation during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Linus Torvalds worried Linux kernel might get messy around Christmas
LTS release 5.10 is currently unruly and looks like colliding with the holiday season Linus Torvalds has expressed some worries about progress of version 5.10 of the Linux kernel.…
‘Unmute’ named one of Oxford Dictionary’s words of the year
Stop doomscrolling through Blursday and take a Workation Oxford Languages, publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, has made “unmute” one of its words of the year for 2020.…
Manchester United working with infosec experts to 'minimize ongoing IT disruption' caused by 'cyber attack'
No data leaked, says football club Manchester United is working with infosec pros to “minimize the ongoing IT disruption” that it says was caused by an assault on its tech systems.…
Bloated middle age beckons: Windows 1.0 turns 35 and is dealing with its mid-life crisis, just about
Red trousers and a Porsche or respectable middle age for Windows? What do Cristiano Ronaldo, Bruno Mars and Windows have in common? They're all 35 years old. It is three and a half decades since Microsoft Windows 1.0 was unleashed upon an unsuspecting world.…
Hundreds of Facebook moderators complain: AI content moderation isn't working and we're paying for it
Human contractors battling COVID-19 stress and psychological trauma Facebook’s AI algorithms aren’t effective enough to automatically screen for violent images or child abuse, leaving the job to human moderators who are complaining about having to come into an office to screen harmful content during the coronavirus pandemic.…
Machine learning text-generating models can write like humans, but they don't have common sense
Humans live in the real world, machines don't, study finds AI-powered machines may be able to generate text that is grammatically correct and very human-like, but when it comes to common sense they’re still lagging severely behind us meatbags.…
IBM Power9 processors beset by Cardiac Osprey data-leaking flaw as Spectre still haunts speculative chips
Patch if you can: Fix available Updated IBM Power9 processors, intended for data centers and mainframes, are potentially vulnerable to abuse of their speculative execution capability. The security shortcoming could allow a local user to access privileged information.…
EU says Boeing 737 Max won't fly over the Continent just yet: The US can make its own choices over pilot training
Safety first, politics second Software updates alone are not enough to make the controversial Boeing 737 Max safe enough for EU-regulated skies, the political bloc’s aviation safety regulator has decreed.…
Dell joins the 'fast object storage revolution'
Huge performance jump from disk Dell Technologies has unveiled its first all-flash object storage appliance - as good an indication as any that flash object storage has hit the mainstream.…
End to end encryption? In Android's default messaging app? Don't worry, nobody else noticed either
RCS throws the dice Analysis Google is rolling out end-to-end encryption in the unloved and unwanted Android Rich Communication Services, as part of a renewed hope people might use messaging services controlled by the Chocolate Factory.…
Teams seeks 24-hour party people for consumer chat
Skype? We've heard of it Microsoft has previewed some more consumer-friendly features in its Slack-for-suits platform, Teams.…
One does not simply shove elephants on a ballet shoe point and call it an acceptable measure of pressure
Thou shalt not devise thine own cursed metrics, we decree Reg Standards Bureau A bizarre American website has come up with a new way of measuring pressure by referring to the weight of elephants delivered through the area of a ballet shoe. Frankly we're baffled.…
UK Court of Appeal rebukes Home Office for exceeding its powers with bunkum 'national security' GSM gateway ban
Legal saga that began with dodgy prosecution ends in vindication Updated The Home Office cannot order Ofcom to ignore its legal duties even when a government minister wants to shut something down because of unspecified "national security" concerns, the Court of Appeal has said, ruling that ministers acted outside their legal powers when banning GSM gateways.…
Cool stuff: MacBook Air and Pro teardowns show thermal changes and missing T2 chip
Plus: Lots of dead space in the new Mac Mini The first teardowns of the MacBook Pro and Air reveal few surprises. iFixit got its hands on the inaugural Apple Silicon machines and tenderly disassembled them, with the results largely affirming what we learned during this month's keynote.…
We see what you did there: First-stage booster from Rocket Lab's Return to Sender mission floats back to Earth
Electron celebrates a parachute party and is successfully recovered Rocket Lab has joined SpaceX in a very exclusive club of orbital booster recovery-capable companies after it parachuted an Electron first stage back to Earth.…
Workday beat expectations in Q3 but remains loss-making
COVID-19 could slow customer wins, warns analyst Cloud HR and finance application biz Workday is bouncing along happily amid a global pandemic as it outstripped market expectations and posted an 18 per cent annual increase in revenue for Q3 of its fiscal 2021.…
Software running on demo licence? At least one patty pusher is Lovin' It
The last time we saw one of these was in February. Things haven't gone well since then Bork!Bork!Bork! Software licensing is the bane of IT pros. Some spend hours poring over byzantine rules and regulations while others throw in the towel and roll things themselves. Then there are those that simply ignore the pleas for a production licence.…
NCSC's London HQ was chosen because GCHQ spies panicked at the prospect of grubby Shoreditch offices
Tech hipsters? On our doorstep? The Silicon what? The National Cyber Security Centre picked its London HQ building not because it was the best or most cost-efficient location – but because the agency "prioritised image over cost", a Parliamentary committee has said.…
The Nord N10 is OnePlus's cheapest 5G handset and, boy, does it show
Doesn't mean it's terrible, you just have to manage your expectations Review With a price tag of £329, OnePlus's latest 5G phone is also its cheapest. From the polished design to the solid day-to-day performance, there's some things to rave about with the Nord N10. And yet we're not going to do that. Not yet.…
Not sunshine, moonlight or good times – blame it on the buggy
The system's playing up again. Infamy! Infamy! Something for the Weekend, Sir? No, I didn't get it wrong. I had a… er, computer glitch. There, everyone will believe that.…
When even a power-cycle fandango cannot save your Windows desktop
In steps our hero: Have you tried turning it off and on again? On Call It's Friday! Come board the On Call bus to a time when Program Manager was king and Windows was a mere teenager.…
UK reveals new 'National Cyber Force', announces Space Command and mysterious AI agency
Combined Ministry of Defence and GCHQ team has worked since April to 'transform cyber capabilities' The United Kingdom has announced £16.5 billion ($22bn) of new defence spending, some of which has gone towards a newly revealed National Cyber Force and some earmarked to create a Space Command and agency dedicated to AI.…
You can protect the company from hackers, but can you protect the company from the CEO?
Spear-phishers love the executive suite. Here’s how to stop them getting in Webcast If you’ve ever wondered what the CEO does all day, you’re not the only one. Cyber-attackers give the matter a lot of thought, which is why a well-crafted spear-phishing attack can be so hard to defend against.…
Police warn of bad Apples that fell off the back of a truck after highway robbery
Driver and security guard tied up and 48 pallets stacked with Cupertino kit stolen Northamptonshire Police in the UK have warned locals to be on the lookout for suspiciously well-priced Apple products after a literal highway robbery saw 48 pallets loaded with Cupertino kit stolen.…
Internet Archive to preserve Flash content for posterity with Ruffle emulator
WebAssembly-powered sandbox promised to be safer than the notorious plugin The Internet Archive says it's found a way to preserve content created with Adobe's notoriously insecure Flash tool without risking user safety.…
India PM calls on nation's youth to 'vaccinate digital products against cyber-attacks and viruses'
And hints at new local data governance push Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on the nation's technology industry to start designing products for the world, and for youth to create new digital defences.…
VMware reveals critical hypervisor bugs found at Chinese white hat hacking comp. One lets guests run code on hosts
ESXi, Cloud Foundation, and desktop hypervisor users should get patching VMware has revealed and repaired the flaws in its hypervisor discovered at China’s Tianfu Cup white hat hacking competition.…
In 2016 Australia’s online census failed. Preparations for the 2021 edition have been rated ‘partly effective’
Devs can make unauthorised changes, data integrity is a work in progress, security is not there yet ... and there's just nine months to go In 2016 Australia’s online census crashed and burned after legitimate attempts to complete the survey were mistaken for a DDOS attack, the routers funneling traffic failed and disaster recovery plans did likewise.…
Facebook sues to shut down alleged Instagram clone maker over scraping and sharing personal info for cash
Developer in Turkey accused of using 30,000 accounts to nab Instagram files Facebook on Thursday sued Ensar Sahinturk, a software developer based in Istanbul, Turkey, who is alleged to have built a network of sites that scrape data from Instagram to create Insta-clones.…
YouTube is going to splash adverts all over your videos, and won't pay creators unless there's a big enough audience
Also bans devs from scraping the site for facial recognition fodder YouTube has started rolling out adverts on all videos uploaded on its content-sharing platform, and won’t give creators any ad revenue until they get popular enough.…
Adiós Arecibo Observatory: America's largest radio telescope faces explosive end after over 50 years of service
The aging structure is too hazardous to repair, engineers say The Arecibo Observatory, America’s largest radio telescope, is to be blown up after the National Science Foundation decided recent damage has left it too dangerous to repair.…
US Senate approves deepfake bill to defend against manipulated media
Proposed legislation calls for research to detect synthetic shams online On Wednesday, proposed US legislation to fund defenses against realistic computer-generated media known as deepfakes was approved by the US Senate and the bill now awaits consideration in the US House of Representatives.…
AWS includes open-source Suricata for stateful inspection with Network Firewall service
Enhanced network security for AWS virtual private cloud – while Microsoft previews Azure Firewall Premium AWS has announced Network Firewall, a new service drawing on the open-source Suricata project.…
UK's Space Command to be 'capable of launching our first rocket in 2022'
Also: Skyrora aims for 2023 for its XL, ISS gets ready for Nauka, and HALO moves forward In Brief British rocketeer Skyrora has been testing the third-stage engine for its Skyrora XL rocket with launch planned for 2023.…
OK, let’s nail down this whole Kubernetes storage thing…
What time is it? It’s Hammerspace live demo time Promo Using Kubernetes across on-prem and the cloud is a tantalizing idea, but it’s sometimes difficult to put your finger on exactly where data is supposed to live while you’re doing this, and how you should serve it up wherever it is needed.…
CodeWeavers' CrossOver ran 32-bit Windows Intel binary on macOS on Arm CPU emulating x86 – and nobody died
Trying to get that one weird app working on new Mac silicon? Anyone pondering how to get Intel-based Windows apps onto shiny new Apple M1 devices have been thrown a lifebelt by CodeWeavers.…
Uncle Sam passes comms act that sets aside $750m for the development of OpenRAN
'There are no American vendors for the network equipment that fuels our wireless economy' The US House of Representatives has unanimously passed the Utilizing Strategic Allied Telecommunications Act of 2020, which earmarks $750m in grants to support the domestic development of OpenRAN.…
Cyberup campaign: 80% of infosec pros fear they might fall foul of UK's outdated Computer Misuse Act
Creaky old law holds back global competitiveness, says group A majority of British infosec professionals worry about accidentally breaking the UK's antiquated Computer Misuse Act, according to an industry campaign group that hopes to reform the law.…
BBC picks SiFive RISC-V chip for Doctor Who programming-for-kids kit – with Jodie Whittaker narrating
Time Lord tapped to introduce youngsters to hardware and coding The BBC has created a Doctor Who-themed miniature computer, powered by a SiFive RISC-V system-on-chip, to help teach children how to program.…
Billionaire's Pagani Pa-gone-i after teen son takes hypercar out for a drive, trashes it
These things cost over $3m new Ah, kids. Who'd have them, right? Well, for many the biological imperative proves strong and this is why we can't have nice things. However, some people – like Dallas TX-based real estate billionaire Tim Gillean – can afford to have both nice things and children.…
How Apple's M1 uses high-bandwidth memory to run like the clappers
Expandability traded for performance Apple last week set the cat among Intel's pigeons with the launch of its first PCs incorporating silicon designed in-house.…
Docker finally enforces pull rate limits, but reckons only 1.5% of users are affected
Amnesty period ends, time to control those 'runaway processes' or pay up Container crew Docker has completed rolling out new pull limits for non-paying users, but claimed that only 1.5 per cent of users are affected.…
Google tells Chrome extension devs to declare their code's usage of personal data
Ad biz is serious about making others disclose information collection Hot on the heels of Apple slapping privacy "nutrition labels" on app listing pages in its App Store, Google says it plans to require similar privacy disclosures from those offering Chrome extensions in its Chrome Web Store.…
Microsoft emits Preview 3 of next-gen WinUI framework, says Linux support 'is not off our roadmap'
One framework to rule them all? Or yet another one to add to the confusion? Microsoft has released Preview 3 of WinUI 3, its next-generation framework for Windows desktop applications.…
Ordnance Survey recruits AR developer to build 'geolocated quests' to help get Brit couch potatoes exercising outdoors
Yes, our current girth would welcome some age-appropriate Pokémon GO Updated UK mapping agency the Ordnance Survey has awarded a contract to develop an augmented-reality game it hopes will bring some 21st-century tech to the great British outdoors.…
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