by Simon Sharwood on (#5AQG4)
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.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5AP8A)
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
by Richard Speed on (#5AP1N)
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.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5ANRM)
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.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5ANPA)
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.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5ANHV)
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.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5ANFZ)
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.…
by Chris Mellor on (#5AND9)
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.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5ANDA)
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.…
by Richard Speed on (#5ANAK)
Skype? We've heard of it Microsoft has previewed some more consumer-friendly features in its Slack-for-suits platform, Teams.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5AN7C)
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.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5AN3M)
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.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5AN0J)
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.…
by Richard Speed on (#5AMXK)
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.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5AMTK)
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.…
by Richard Speed on (#5AMQZ)
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
by Gareth Corfield on (#5AMNM)
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.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5AMMS)
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.…
by Alistair Dabbs on (#5AMK4)
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.…
by Richard Speed on (#5AMHG)
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.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5AMG7)
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.…
by David Gordon on (#5AMEP)
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.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5AMEQ)
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.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5AMD7)
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.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5AMD8)
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.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5AMB9)
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.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5AM9E)
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.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5AM8D)
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.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5AM74)
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.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5AM3H)
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.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5AKYQ)
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.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5AKWA)
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.…
by Team Register on (#5AKS5)
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.…
by David Gordon on (#5AKHT)
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.…
by Richard Speed on (#5AKHV)
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.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5AKF7)
'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
by Gareth Corfield on (#5AKBC)
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.…
by Chris Williams on (#5AK85)
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.…
by Richard Currie on (#5AK86)
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.…
by Chris Mellor on (#5AK5D)
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.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5AK2X)
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.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5AK2Y)
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.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5AK0V)
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.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5AJZ3)
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.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5AJXR)
'Like any good family, you're going to have fights,' says dev relations bloke The team behind the NoSQL database DataStax, which is built on Apache Cassandra, has emitted a distribution designed specifically for Kubernetes and supports stateful workloads – and it's called K8ssandra.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5AJWP)
Posts sharp Q3 data centre growth and nice gaming numbers but has nothing to say about Arm Nvidia believes another wave of growth lies ahead of it as microservices create demand for faster data centre networks and therefore a need to offload security and networking chores from hard-pressed CPUs.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5AJWQ)
DKIM 'makes us all more vulnerable to extortion, blackmail,' argues Green Matthew Green, associate professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University in the US, wants Google and other email providers to make it possible for people to deny they've written old email messages.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5AJV6)
Second failure in last three missions doesn't inspire confidence The European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianspace have commissioned an inquiry into the failure of a Vega rocket that crashed on Tuesday, destroying a pair of Earth monitoring satellites built by French and Spanish researchers.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5AJV7)
Gather ‘round, Blockheads, so we can explain this thing called a ‘virtual machine’ and why it matters Blockheads are about to get a new appreciation of private clouds and application packaging, after VMware launched a Blockchain product.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5AJSX)
But Red Hat points out its code-base is so big that mastery of inclusivity will take time A new group called the “Inclusive Naming Initiative” has revealed its existence and mission “to help companies and projects remove all harmful and unclear language of any kind and replace it with an agreed-upon set of neutral terms.”…