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Try to avoid thinking of the internet as a flashy new battlefield, warns former NCSC chief
Plus: Naming 'n' shaming doesn't stop hostile countries having a pop the UK The former head of the National Cyber Security Centre has warned that some British government figures have a “profound lack of understanding” of cyberspace, online warfare and information security.…
Stop worrying and learn to love COVID-driven digital transformation, says Gartner
Survey sees CIOs loosening purse-strings, execs feeling mushy about IT crowd (but there are caveats) As the nights draw in, COVID-19 lockdown restrictions tighten across Europe, and the number of cases in the US accelerates, techies who despair may turn to Gartner - the omniscient overseer of IT trends - for a bit of light relief.…
Intel is over GPUs and CPUs – it's all about 'XPUs' now that OneAPI code-abstraction tool is golden
And why not have a server-grade GPU dedicated to game-streaming to test the new abstraction tool Intel would prefer developers stop talking about CPUs and GPUs and instead target "XPUs".…
Transport for London dangles £1.1bn carrot in pursuit of suppliers for new revenue collection deal
Project includes shifting back office IT and replacing thousands of devices Transport for London, the body responsible for public transport and infrastructure in Europe’s largest city*, is set to begin talks with suppliers over a potential £1.1bn deal for collecting money for travel.…
Now-patched Ubuntu desktop vulnerability allows privilege escalation
'Unusual for a vulnerability on a modern operating system to be this easy to exploit,' says bughunter GitHub security researcher Kevin Backhouse found bugs in Ubuntu 20.04 (a long-term support release) which enabled any desktop user to get root access. The vulnerabilities have now been patched.…
Halt don't catch fire: Amazon recalls hundreds of thousands of Ring doorbells over exploding battery fears
What happens when you mix up the wood and metal screws provided for installation? Heeeeat Updated Amazon’s home security brand Ring is recalling roughly 360,000 of its Wi-Fi enabled video doorbells over concerns they may catch fire when incorrectly installed.…
123 Bork? Six-day DNS record-edit outage at domain name flinger 123 Reg enrages users
It's not DNS. It can't be DNS. It's actually a TITSUP* Customers of the UK's self-professed #1 provider of domain names, GoDaddy-owned 123 Reg, have had a frustrating few days after finding DNS records disappearing from their dashboards.…
Cutting the ties: European hosting provider OVHCloud to offer Google Anthos, no Google account needed
Full Euro data sovereignty, promises cloud company Google's "first partnership of this kind" with an independent hosting provider sees its Anthos Kubernetes platform offered without ties to Google Cloud, according to the third-party cloud company selling the service.…
Ericsson warns investors: This Biden fellow coming into the White House may look to resolve China trade dispute...
And that might be bad news for our sales expectations Swedish telco and network provider Ericsson has warned investors that a potential thawing in relations between the US and China caused by a change of regime in Washington could hurt its bottom line.…
Samsung asks New Jersey court to sink class action suit about Galaxy S7 waterproofing woes
Make it swim with the fishes The US branch of Samsung’s mobile division has asked a New Jersey court to dismiss a proposed class action suit which alleges the business misled customers about the waterproofing on its Samsung Galaxy S7 lines.…
The evolution of C#: Lead designer describes modernization journey, breaks it down about getting func-y
As C# 9.0 is released, a look back at functional programming adoption, what the language is for, and what was a mistake Interview C# Lead Designer Mads Torgersen cracked open a window into the evolution of the language during his spot at the virtual QCon Plus developer conference last week, and was quite frank about what has worked and what has not.…
Brace yourselves: Google Cloud preps server firmware upgrade to fix GPU glitches
If you run a physical graphics accelerator and SSD in the G-cloud, pay attention Google Cloud has warned that some of its servers will soon have their firmware upgraded, an event that will likely disrupt workloads.…
Mr President? Donald?! Any chance you can actually decide if Oracle can buy us or do we have to leave?
TikTok asks court to intervene as administration fails to rule on forced sale ahead of deadline for shutdown TikTok says the Trump administration has gone quiet on whether it will allow the sale of its US operations to Oracle and Walmart.…
Europe clamps down on cybersurveillance exports, pushes human rights focus
No selling to evil folks albeit with a few big loopholes for some The European Union has tightened up export rules on cybersurveillance tools in an effort to limit their spread to repressive regimes.…
Forgotten what your data infrastructure looks like? It’s time to move to the cloud
Scale the Data Cloud Summit takes place this November Promo There’s probably never been a more appropriate time to move your data to the cloud. Let’s face it, there’s a good chance you haven’t even seen your on-prem infrastructure for months.…
Your Microsoft reseller can now predict when you’re ready to buy more stuff or dump Redmond
And also – gulp! – figure out when it’s time for a chat about licensing anomalies Microsoft has merrily revealed that it has just given its resellers new tools designed to help them sell you more stuff, more often.…
US-EU project to bring Mars samples back to Earth needs two more years, extra $4bn, watchdog warns
First stage already on its way to the Red Planet, full steam ahead A joint American-European effort to bring Martian soil back to Earth will need an extra two years and cost about $4bn more than anticipated, an independent review board (IRB) has warned in a report.…
Amazon makes big bet on New Zealand to crack Indian market
This one's all about putting cricket behind a paywall for nine-figure audiences of ardent fans Amazon has made a big bet on cricket played on New Zealand as a vehicle to help it crack the Indian market.…
China’s competition agency floats Internet-age anti-monopoly law upgrade
Share prices of China’s internet giants slump in wake of call for comment China’s State Administration for Market Regulation has opened a discussion on a revised anti-monopoly law for the Internet age.…
Soyuz later! SpaceX gets NASA green light to lob astronauts to the International Space Station full time
Russian rockets are Putin on the back burner, except for emergencies NASA on Tuesday officially certified SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule as vehicles capable of flying astronauts to and from the International Space Station, making it the first ever commercial spacecraft system to be approved by the American agency.…
Microsoft emits 112 security hole fixes – including the cure for a Google-disclosed kernel vuln exploited in the wild
Android, Adobe, SAP, Red Hat join the bug-busting party Patch Tuesday Microsoft published fixes for 112 software vulnerabilities for its November Patch Tuesday, 17 of which have been rated critical.…
Police chopper chasing a crim near an airport? Ideal time to use my laser pointer, says Texas idiot now behind bars
Man jailed for 51 months after pilot temporarily blinded by the light An idiot who directed a laser at a police helicopter, temporarily blinding the pilot while he was searching for a shooting suspect, has been sent down for four-and-a-quarter years.…
Apple now Arm'd to the teeth: MacBook Air and Pro, Mac mini to be powered by custom M1 chips rather than Intel
ARM64 5nm TSMC-made silicon to ship next week, Cupertino claims apps are ready Apple on Tuesday unveiled three computers based on homegrown Apple Silicon processors, marking the start of a two-year transition that will replace Intel microprocessors with Cupertino-designed chips compatible with the Arm microarchitecture.…
Californians OK'd Prop 22, Uber and Lyft tell appeals court. So how about we let gig workers be gig workers?
They have a point Uber and Lyft have asked a California court to scrap an injunction that forces them to treat their drivers as employees given that the US state's voters backed Proposition 22.…
Radio Frequency fingerprinting of aircraft ADS-B transmitters? Boffins reckon they've cracked it
More data points needed, says academic, but technique could give governments a spoofin' bad headache A group of academics reckon they've found a way to uniquely fingerprint aeroplanes’ Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) tracking transmitters – though an aviation infosec boffin says more research is needed to verify the new technique.…
All Day DevOps is sending 180 DevOps pros to your home this Thursday. Where will they all sit?
Pull up a chair with 30,000 of your closest DevOps friends for a free day of learning Promo It’s been a hell of a year. Just as IT pros have been forced to work from home, and DevOps work has shifted into cloud, corporations are learning to scale the education of their employees.…
One more reason for Apple to dump Intel processors: Another SGX, kernel data-leak flaw unearthed by experts
Obscure interface lets you monitor chip activity with code as if you were physically plugged into it Updated Boffins based in Austria, Germany, and the UK have identified yet another data-leaking side-channel flaw affecting Intel processors, and potentially other chips, that exposes cryptographic secrets in memory.…
Not fade Huawei: Hard pressed Chinese tech biz to flog Honor mobile unit for $15bn
Offloaded to local Shenzhen government and Digital China Huawei reportedly intends to sell the Honor mobile unit to a consortium consisting of long-time supplier Digital China and the Shenzhen government, in a deal valued at 100 billion yuan (roughly £11.4bn/ $15.2bn).…
EA Games' Origin client contained privilege escalation vuln that anyone with user-grade access could exploit
Fancy getting system privs? Swap out a DLL and you're in A British infosec outfit spotted a privilege escalation vulnerability in EA Games’ Origin client after discovering the software was hunting for an absent DLL file when users opened it.…
MediaTek's latest chip promises 5G for the proles: Destined for those not-so-high end smartmobes
Pops head around door into party: Oh Qualcomm, you're here too? Taiwanese fabless chipmaker MediaTek today introduced its latest 5G platform for mass-market (affordable) devices: the Dimensity 700.…
Capita still wants to offload education software unit, sale talks ongoing
Perhaps if you didn't price it higher than the market cap of the entire Group, you'd have sold it before now Capita is still hopeful of finding a buyer for its education software biz despite financial offers reportedly coming in below the expected range of £500m to £700m in mid-October - which at the time was higher than the entire group's market cap.…
European Commission to take a closer look at how Amazon uses business data of third-party sellers using its platform
Preliminary view is that antitrust rules have been breached After a year of gentle probing, the European Commission has fired off a Statement of Objections to Amazon about the way it accesses sales data generated by third parties on its online marketplace.…
Compute Express Link glue that binds processors and accelerators hits spec version 2.0... so, uh, rejoice?
Interconnect tech likely to improve data center operations The CXL Consortium, a standards body focused on interconnect technology, released the 2.0 version of its Compute Express Link specification today.…
Former Microsoft tester sent down for 9 years after $10m gift card fraud
Flipping gift cards for cash = fast cars, nice houses and, er, jailtime An ex-Microsoft staffer has been sentenced to nine years in prison after defrauding the Windows giant of more than $10m.…
Banking software firm tiptoes off to the cloud with MariaDB after $2m Oracle licence shocker
Licence to float... Financial services software specialist FNI has dodged a $2m licensing bullet by jumping off Oracle databases and lifting its MariaDB environment to the cloud.…
What's that about Apple hardware? Pfft, says Intel as it intros magical self-healing PC
No cure for self-inflicted manufacturing wounds though, sadly Intel's battle to remain relevant continued overnight as it noted the shift to remote working and trumpeted the ways it might assist IT departments dealing with a suddenly remote workforce.…
£8bn digitisation strategy for UK's health service doesn't count as a strategy, says spending watchdog
'It does not set out how the NHS will deliver its ambitions in practice'. As for that paperless NHS? Strategy watered down and deadline dates moved Two years after it began, the NHS digitisation strategy still has no implementation plan and risks repeating the UK health services' legendary IT failures, according to a report by MPs.…
You can now pepper your Windows 10 desktop with Android apps... if you have a Samsung phone, that is
Also: A new Visual Studio Code and back to black for some Dev Channel Insiders In Brief Microsoft's Your Phone has enhanced its Android functionality with a jump from single app support to the considerably more useful ability to launch and run multiple apps on the Windows 10 desktop.…
UK tax dept's IT savings created 'significant risk', technical debt as it faces difficult conversation with Chancellor
Pry open that weird little red suitcase and give us a few quid, would you? Cost-cutting at UK tax ministry HMRC has resulted in IT systems that “constitute a significant risk to the department”, according to national spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO).…
Tim Berners-Lee asks everyone to do new biz a Solid and let him have another crack at fixing the Web's privacy
Lauches enterprise server trying to make 'pod' data a thing at scale Inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, is having another crack at fixing the internet’s biggest problems with the launch of a new enterprise server.…
Hyundai announces its own OS for NVIDIA-powered smart-ish cars
Will come as standard from 2022, but other auto-makers have worked on the same kit and code so could catch up fast Hyundai Motor Group has announced an extensive collaboration with NVIDIA that will see the GPU-slinger’s DRIVE platform pull up inside around seven million vehicles each year starting in 2022. But the team-up won’t be hard for rivals in both the car and silicon market to replicate.…
India launches Google antitrust probe and Google mostly shrugs it off
The usual stuff in the spotlight: Google Pay crowding out rivals, search algo bias India’s Competition Commission has launched an antitrust case against Google over its bundling of Google Pay with Android.…
Missing Alan Turing memorabilia to be returned to Blighty from the US, 36 years after it went walkabout
A win for 2020: Polymath's posessions headed back to Sherborne School Missing Alan Turing memorabilia is to be returned to the UK from the US, after it went missing from his old boarding school.…
China’s government-anointed Git operator says it will become a Linux Foundation mirror
Starting with just two projects - Baetyl and EdgeX - but eventually all code will be shared behind Great Firewall A Chinese Git-as-a-service outfit named “Gitee” claims it has struck a deal with the Linux Foundation to mirror its projects behind the great firewall.…
Sony launches ‘Airpeak’ drone division
Hints at fun to come in 2021, for photographers and industry alike Sony has announced a drone division called “Airpeak”.…
Curse of Arecibo strikes again: Now another cable breaks, smashes into America's largest radio telescope
*Hums the GoldenEye theme* America’s largest radio telescope, at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, has suffered yet more damage after another cable above the reflector dish snapped and came crashing down last week.…
Laptop mega-manufacturer Compal hit by DoppelPaymer ransomware – same one that hit German hospital
Crooks want $17m for decryption key Compal, the world’s second-largest white-label laptop manufacturer, has been hit by the file-scrambling DoppelPaymer ransomware gang – and the hackers want $17m in cryptocurrency before they'll hand over the decryption key.…
Zoom strong-armed by US watchdog to beef up security after boasting of end-to-end encryption that didn't exist
Vid-chat giant promises never again to make 'misrepresentations about its privacy and security practices' Zoom has been forced to agree to a range of security improvements in a settlement with America's consumer watchdog, the Federal Trade Commission, as a result of earlier wrongly claiming it offered true 256-bit end-to-end encryption.…
You like Jira that much? Atlassian goes full Service Management with platform, promises Service Desk is fine
We've heard that one before... Atlassian has unveiled plans to give IT Service Management a whacking with the Jira stick in the form of Jira Service Management.…
RansomEXX trojan variant is being deployed against Linux systems, warns Kaspersky
Inoculation is simple: MFA, regular timely patching A trojan targeting Linux and deployed by a known ransomware gang has been discovered by Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky.…
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