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by Gareth Corfield on (#51YCK)
Spoiler: It found a tyre pressure sensor and a Wi-Fi password Modern connected cars contain security threats, consumer org Which? has said after commissioning analyses of two models, a Ford and a Volkswagen.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#51Y39)
Graph graph graph egg and graph; graph graph graph graph graph graph baked beans graph graph graph Graph database slinger Neo4j is putting out a suite of tools aimed at helping data scientists be more productive using graph analytics techniques.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#51Y3B)
Employees allege offshoring was reason behind next-day sacking of 140 staff A key maker of Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensors for self-driving cars unlawfully terminated more than 140 of its employees to shift jobs offshore, a lawsuit claims.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51Y3C)
No Neo in 2020? Never mind, The Matrix 4 is out in 2021 Microsoft emitted a fresh version of Windows 10 last night, featuring fun for Linux fans, as mutterings intensified over hardware delays.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#51XWH)
Plus, what’s big tech doing to help? Not much it seems, Bill Gates excepted Comment With the rate of deaths from COVID-19 beginning to decline in Europe, the focus has turned to how to manage virus spread once lockdown orders are lifted. The proposed solutions say a lot about the planet's cultures.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#51XWJ)
Gartner predicts 2020 slump, but it'd be worse were it not for NAND flash Gartner, tech's equivalent of Mystic Meg, has predicted that the semiconductor sector will struggle in 2020, thanks to everyone's least-favourite pathogen: the novel coronavirus discovered late last year. Worldwide revenue will decline 0.9 per cent year-on-year to $415.4bn. That's a revision on previous forecasts, which expected 12.5 per cent growth.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51XWM)
A cunning cut won't save this bit of borkery Bork!Bork!Bork! While computers falling over in public may once have been a thing to be mocked, now they are reminders of days gone by and sometimes, just sometimes, have a message for the future.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#51XRA)
Thou shalt respect the Osman and keep your distance, rebels An American local council has dared to challenge the almighty Vulture Central Standards Soviet by proposing alligators as a standard unit of measure for social distancing during the coronavirus lockdown.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51XRB)
This is what comes of mixing the International Space Station, a relationship breakdown, and banking records A case of alleged low-orbit internet banking fraud has taken another twist, with the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas filing an indictment in which it claimed the complainant in the case had lied.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#51XRD)
Brit cops turn to drones, now mobile tools to make everyone’s lives a misery There's a reason why the UK doesn't have a mandatory national ID card despite numerous efforts by the authorities to impose one: it's because Brits can't stand the use of petty power.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51XRF)
Western Australia is enforcing internal borders now The Australian State of Western Australia has detailed the surveillance technology it will use to track residents during the coronavirus crisis.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#51XRH)
You want this service at Cloudflare's scale? Then maybe you might want to pay for it Cloudflare on Wednesday said it is ditching Google's reCAPTCHA bot detector for a similar service called hCaptcha out of concerns about privacy and availability, but mostly cost.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#51XMQ)
Alternative headline: Here's a bug report for cosmology The universe may not be expanding at the same rate in all directions according to a study backed by the European Space Agency – a possibility that has left cosmologists asking themselves some serious questions.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#51XMS)
Employee cuffed after forged contracts and dodgy documents discovered China's biggest e-learning company has admitted inflating its sales figures.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51XHG)
Only in one AZ of one region, but it's been working to add more hosts for two weeks and counting VMware’s cloudy “capacity constraint†incident has stretched into a third week.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#51XHJ)
Except you in Europe and UK, you still get to control over analytics fuel On Wednesday, Twitter users, except those in Europe and the UK, lost the ability to prevent the micro-blogging biz from sharing mobile ad measurement data with its analytics and advertising partners.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#51XHM)
Problems pile up for grounded craft Boeing is working on software patches for two bugs in its infamous 737 Max's flight controller – one that causes the autopilot to drop out during final approach, the other a loss of control and subsequent nosedive mid-flight.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#51XCH)
Aims to limit recessionary impacts, help global pandemic response First data was the new oil, then Google said data is more like sunlight. A flood of organisations proposing big data insight into the COVID-19 response would have anyone believe it is the new medicine.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#51X47)
Now focused on developers, firm wants its tools to be more universally useful. Keep it light(weight), though Docker has published the Compose specification, used for defining its own multi-container applications, and is asking contributors to help with its maintenance and evolution.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#51X49)
Former Facebook, Yahoo! CSO to advise CEO after weeks of soaring popularity and scrutiny Video-conferencing company du jour Zoom is desperately trying to head off a mass exodus of users by announcing a new advisory board – and hiring former Facebook and Yahoo! CSO Alex Stamos as a troubleshooter.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#51X4B)
Big words from co-CEO after Larry Ellison ribs vendor during earnings call Death, taxes and vendor feuds seem the only certainties to which the disheartened technology careerist can cling in these troubled times.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#51WV7)
'They have not reported an objective analysis' – now that's a zinger A newly published study into the start date for the Earth's magnetic field has provoked claims of foul play among rival academics.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#51WV9)
New leasing and rental options rolled out to tempt buyers stuck in a rut The bank of Hewlett Packard Enterprise - aka its Financial Services arm - is creating a Payment Relief Programme (PRP) to tempt tech buyers to refresh their infrastructure amid a global pandemic and pay later.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51WVB)
Also: Interim CEO Mitchell Baker drops the 'interim' part Mozilla has squeezed out version 75 of the Firefox browser, crediting "empathy" in its systems for an ability to continue emissions even as Microsoft and Google hit the pause button on their Chromium-based apps.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51WVD)
We'll have to wait until the US wakes up before we can answer that one In an impressively frank postmortem, Microsoft has admitted that at least part of its organisation was asleep at the wheel in a very real sense while its European DevOps tooling tottered.…
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by Team Freeform on (#51WHG)
We've got just a few Qs about automation, storage, AI Reader survey Like other parts of your business, the IT team is beginning to suffer as key people fall sick or need to self-isolate. At the same time, they have the added pressure of supporting many more users working from home, which has dramatically changed some established internal service dynamics.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#51WHJ)
Quiet legal word leads to blanket month-long delay Exclusive A UK tribunal halted 60 cases against the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) because the data watchdog's staff can't print documents or electronically organise them into hearing bundles, The Register has learned.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#51WHM)
Such a move could standardise deployment of new versions, rather than it being at the whim of OEMs Despite Google's better efforts, operating system updates on Android have long been a fragmented, disconnected mess. The launch of Android 11 will go some way to resolving that, with Google likely to force manufacturers to use the Virtual A/B partitioned updates system.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#51WHP)
Another reason to hate auto-play videos: they drain your power Brave has updated its Android web browser and claims a 5 per cent battery saving versus the previous release.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#51W97)
But outgoing Carphone Warehouse staff can't use government support scheme to defer redundancies Exclusive - updated Dixons Carphone CEO Alex Baldock and his fellow execs have agreed to a temporary pay cut as they prepare to furlough swathes of the workforce weeks after the UK government forced the closure of stores.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#51W99)
Focus to be 'evolving the technology to a Kubernetes-based platform' Cloud Foundry, home of open-source projects that simplify development and deployment of cloud-native applications, has named former CTO Chip Childers as exec director and VMware's Paul Fazzone as board chair.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51W9B)
Asking price to banish ghost of Active Directory admin past was $1.7m: Redmond paid 'undisclosed amount' Victims of early versions of Microsoft's Active Directory can breathe a sigh of relief: the software giant has snapped up the infamous corp.com domain.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#51W9D)
Xbox co-creator Rob Wyatt would like his $260,000 invoice paid, please The architect of a retro games console has sued Atari for allegedly failing to pay his invoices, amounting to $261,720.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#51W9F)
Kinsing malware infections surge – so please check your configurations Some Docker installations are getting hammered by malware skiddies hoping to mine digital cash using other people's CPU time.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#51W4B)
Changes may help, but big user requests are still missing Microsoft is rolling out improvements to its Teams collaboration software, while no doubt eyeing the success of Zoom in capturing millions of new video-conferencing users as much of the world endures lockdown.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#51W4D)
Only half the nation prefers digital radio to analogue, though Britain's airwaves are opening up to DAB versions of local radio stations, Ofcom has declared as it tries to shift more Brits away from AM and FM radio.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51W4E)
20 million of them coming soon as supply chain muscles flexed Apple has designed a face shield to help health workers stay safer when working around the novel coronavirus.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#51W4G)
Picked up xHelper 'matryoshka' trojan? Best to just nuke the site from orbit An Android malware package likened to a Russian matryoshka nesting doll has security researchers raising the alarm, since it appears it's almost impossible to get rid of.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51W0J)
But warns things probably aren’t great long term, which HPE has just done too Broadcom has told investors that its second quarter looks good, for reasons that may well be bad news in the longer term.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51W0M)
Government and local business told to buy local, but slum it with Google or Microsoft if you must A parliamentary order issued yesterday says the nation’s Department of Cyber Security (DCS) has decided that when government agencies, and some private entities, use videoconferencing: “The underlying video software to be used should not have associated security or privacy concerns, such as the Zoom video communication service.â€â€¦
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51VX9)
The spicy memes must flow even under new ‘circuit breaker’ corona-crackdown Singapore has explicitly singled out social media workers as essential contributors to the city state’s economy as it goes into a new phase of coronavirus-crimping precautions.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#51VQA)
Speedier license applications possible, uncertainty remains for many The White House has issued an executive order establishing a committee to help the Federal Communications Commission review the participation of foreign companies in US telecommunication services.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#51VQB)
Office 365 will finally get DNSSEC-based protection later this year Microsoft will add DNSSEC and DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) to its email systems by the end of the year, the software giant has announced. That'll be a big thumbs up for the pair of internet security technologies.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#51VEA)
Japanese giant defends decision, says trendy office rental biz didn't meet its terms WeWork sued SoftBank on Tuesday after the Tokyo-based holding company nixed its plan to purchase $3bn in shares of the struggling office-leasing biz from existing shareholders.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#51VEB)
iPhone 6S killer is no longer supported Four years after it hit shelves, Samsung is discontinuing security updates for the venerable Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge phones.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#51VED)
After claims of dodgy deals and rigged procedures, the contract is finally inked After a controversial rebidding process that provoked industry outrage, accusations of corruption, and resignation calls for a government minister, Colombia's .co contract has been returned to its current operator, Neustar.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#51VEE)
Jan and Feb contained bumper load of fake invoice emails Business email compromise (BEC) attempts were globally up by a quarter in the first two months of this year alone, according to research from threat intel firm Trend Micro.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#51VEG)
The project 'got kind of gangly and awkward for a while' dev relations veep tells The Reg Distributed NoSQL database slinger DataStax has launched an upgrade to its flagship product, DataStax Enterprise, adding new features aimed at improving speed, control and graph analytics.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#51V51)
Bug that let malicious site snoop on users squashed, so make sure you're on the most recent version Independent security researcher Ryan Pickren has revealed how a malicious website could hack Apple's Safari browser on iOS and macOS to spy on the user through the computer's camera without prompting for permission.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51V52)
Meanwhile, the Xbox gang spreads cloudy joystick joy to more countries Roundup Amid mutterings from the peanut gallery that at least a year's worth of events were ripe for "reimagining", it also looks like any musical numbers from 2020's batch of Microsoft interns will be strictly virtual.…
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