by Iain Thomson on (#5HQBV)
Zuck gets tough just as Germany blocks privacy policy roll-out WhatsApp users who refuse to accept its new privacy policy will slowly but surely be cut off from the chat app, the social network has confirmed.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5HQ8V)
'This can happen to anybody. There's always learning in any crisis. And we were no exception' CyberUK 21 SolarWinds’ chief exec has described the 18,000 customers who downloaded backdoored versions of its Orion software as a “very small” number while giving a speech to an infosec event.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5HQ7H)
Plus: Grab your updates for Adobe, SAP, Android, Intel Patch Tuesday Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday brought a lighter-than-usual load of 55 fixes for 32 of the Windows giant's applications and services, which is about half what was served up in April.…
by Richard Speed on (#5HQ5M)
AI here, there and everywhere Think IBM's latest attempt at relevance in the cloud world continued at its Think conference by giving its Cloud Pak for Data another beating with the AI stick and unleashing Watson on IT pros.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5HQ3J)
Sorry, there's no nuclear missile inbound. You have to go to work Birds chirping, the gentle burbling of coffee brewing – these are the sounds we typically associate with the dawn hours.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5HQ0S)
Priti Patel doesn't say a word about encryption, though CyberUK 21 Priti Patel has promised a government review of the UK's 30-year-old Computer Misuse Act "this year" as well as condemning companies that buy off ransomware criminals.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5HPYJ)
Big Brother Watch warns app contains too much sensitive medical information Folks in England can from next week use the NHS App to confer their vaccination status, in the face of warnings that the technology could lead to identifiable medical information being exposed.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5HPYK)
You can't buy this kind of service. No, literally BT-owned infrastructure provider Openreach has confirmed plans to stop sales of copper-based phone and broadband services in 77 exchange locations across the UK, affecting roughly 700,000 premises.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5HPWD)
The data is in: most users do not opt in to third-party tracking Mobile app analytics company Flurry is measuring how many users of iOS 14.5 are opting in to allow apps to request to track them - and so far only 15 per cent worldwide have done so.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5HPTC)
Spent money in the walled garden since October 2015? The day ends with "y" so Apple is facing fresh legal scrutiny of its App Store policies. This time the battleground is the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal, where a potential collective action is being launched on behalf of circa 20 million users over claims Apple's 30 per cent "tax" is excessive and unjustified.…
by Richard Speed on (#5HPRG)
Probable cause of accident and fire still under investigation The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has published a preliminary report into last month's fatal crash involving a 2019 Tesla Model S in Texas.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5HPRH)
11th-gen Core H has nice new touches, but pitch is usual 'a new PC will be faster and smaller and lighter than an old PC' promise Intel is talking up a new generation of laptop and mobile workstation CPUs that it says will deliver modest performance gains and lighten laptops for power users.…
by Richard Speed on (#5HPPR)
What is Geordie for bork? Bork!Bork!Bork! It's a blessed respite for Microsoft's wares today as it appears that it is Java's turn to disgrace itself on platform 1 of Newcastle upon Tyne's Central Station.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5HPMQ)
Gazing into the void for at least a few more years yet Nearly nine years after leaving the solar system, and decades beyond its original mission, Voyager 1 is still gathering valuable data, providing plasma readings to continuously sample the density of the interstellar medium.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5HPKA)
Patch your devi... oh, hang on a sec A computer science professor from Sweden has discovered an arbitrary code execution vuln in the Universal Turing Machine, one of the earliest computer designs in history – though he admits it has "no real-world implications".…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5HPKB)
Launches open tender for new £60m deal Northern Ireland Libraries is launching a formal procurement of a £60m IT contract to replace incumbent supplier Fujitsu following a two-year delay costing taxpayers some £12m.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5HPHZ)
Someone at West Midlands Trains approved nasty cybersecurity drill UK rail operator West Midlands Trains sent an email to 2,500 employees to thank them for hard work during COVID and promised a one-time bonus as a reward, but that lovely news turned out to be phishing training. Needless to say, it did not go over well.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5HPJ0)
This early-stage project is not a fork, Redmond insists Microsoft on Monday launched an open source project to make a Linux kernel tool known as eBPF, short for Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, work on Windows.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5HPGN)
Suggests terabyte-packing servers that move data at astounding speed aren’t far off Samsung has shown off a picture of what it says is the first DDR5 DRAM-based memory module that can talk the language of Compute Express Link (CXL).…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5HPFH)
And just like that, the Digital Yuan has its route into the mainstream Alibaba’s controversial financial services arm, the Ant Group, has been welcomed into trials of China’s digital currency.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5HPEH)
No breakthroughs left to make in electronics, says CEO as company eyes off IPO-by-SPAC Vietnam's largest industry conglomerate, Vingroup, has announced it will no longer develop televisions and smartphones under its VinSmart brand and instead redirect resources toward its electric vehicle unit, VinFast.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5HPD9)
Another auto-exploit saw rPi push Telegram messages over CAN bus to brick a car Black Hat Asia Researchers have used the Black Hat Asia conference to demonstrate the awesome power of the Raspberry Pi as a car-p0wning platform.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5HPCJ)
But won’t reveal who it wants banned from social media over less obvious disinformation As COVID-19 continues to ravage India, the nation’s government has told it populace that 5G signals have nothing to do with the spread of the virus – if only because no 5G networks operate in India.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5HPB4)
Blames spam filters for brownout, warns fix could be 'disruptive' Trend Micro’s hosted email security product is experiencing a global brownout.…
by Iain Thomson on (#5HPB5)
Internet souk said it only approved 6% of new sellers Amazon's latest brand protection report states it destroyed more than two million pieces of counterfeit goods last year and denied most would-be sellers from setting up shop in its online souk.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5HP86)
Boffins will have to wait until September 2023 to get their hands on the goodies OSIRIS-REx, the spacecraft carrying NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample, has started its two-year journey back to Earth, the space agency confirmed on Monday.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5HP6R)
Freely available to use, from the hardware schematics to RISC-V cores on an FPGA, to the firmware on top The OpenPOWER Foundation, formed to promote IBM's open-source POWER instruction set architecture (ISA), on Monday said it is putting together a new working group to develop LibreBMC, claimed to be the first baseboard management controller (BMC) designed with open source software and hardware.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5HP33)
But we heard the message loud and clear – it's pretty much the standard runtime platform now Kubecon A session on how to hack into a Kubernetes cluster was among the highlights of a Kubecon where the main events were generally bland and corporate affairs, perhaps indicative of the technology now being a de facto infrastructure standard among enterprises.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5HP03)
Plus: Google boffin who resigned over AI ethics controversy, joins Apple In Brief What do you know? The US Postal Service uses AI technology and have GPU servers running computer vision algorithms to track items being delivered across the country.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5HP04)
Really, three years should be the bare minimum at this point Analysis Almost seven months after the brand splashed down in the UK market, mobile maker Vivo is making some bold promises about the longevity of its upcoming phones.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5HNX1)
5.10 lifespan also extended to six years, up from two Linus Torvalds has closed the merge window for Linux 5.13 with the first release candidate, which includes initial support for Apple's M1 processor along with "a fair amount of stuff, all over the place."…
by Richard Speed on (#5HNT1)
Should cover the cost of the air leaking out of the Russian segment Fancy a stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS)? It is about to get a lot pricier for future private astronaut missions.…
by Richard Speed on (#5HNQ9)
Rust/WinRT moniker consigned to the garbage collection Microsoft has released an update for Rust for Windows (formerly Rust/WinRT) with completed support for Win32 and COM APIs.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5HNMA)
Securities advisor passes note setting potential date for snipping of Snapdragons to investors Nearly two years after Apple swallowed Chipzilla’s smartphone modem business for a cool $1bn, the company is reportedly set to start using its own home-grown baseband chips, starting with 2023’s iPhone.…
by Richard Speed on (#5HNHE)
Rocket marks 10th successful launch and landing, though Dogecoin's descent was a little rougher Elon Musk has announced a SpaceX mission to the Moon paid for in Dogecoin, just a day after the cryptocurrency tumbled in response to the multibillionare calling it a "hustle" while he hosted Saturday Night Live.…
by Paul Kunert on (#5HNEX)
Will deal make goods, services less competitive? Regulator wants to hear from interested parties Britain’s competition regulator has belatedly stuck a probe in AMD’s $35bn all-stock proposal to purchase Xilinx, more than a month after investors in both businesses gave the transaction their seal of approval.…
by Iain Thomson on (#5HNEY)
Plus: Student cripples EU bio lab and IRS goes after cryptocurrency In brief The United States' Department of Defense has opened up all of its publicly facing systems and apps to investigation under a bug bounty program.…
by Danny Bradbury on (#5HNCT)
Much of the OSS world is critically underfunded yet critically important It's been nearly five months since the SolarWinds hack came to light, causing lots of chin-scratching about vulnerabilities in the software supply chain.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5HNAX)
Top dog Neo4j just wouldn't scale, says car giant's data boss Car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover rejected leading graph database Neo4j over scalability concerns, according to its head of data and analytics.…
by Rupert Goodwins on (#5HN9A)
It'll do great things in the future, just don't impose timeframes on when Column It is said that the more you know about a subject, the less you trust newspapers about it. This is said because it is true.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5HN7V)
Also we fixed SS7 use by British telcos. How? Why? Not saying Domains'n'hosting outfit Namecheap harboured more than a quarter of all known phishing sites that falsely posed as UK government web presences during 2020, according to the National Cyber Security Centre today.…
by Richard Speed on (#5HN6N)
It soothed this raging roomful of wannabe lawyers anyway Who, Me? The oversized rear of Monday is obstructing our view of the receding weekend. Never mind, pour yourself a beverage, select a pastry and settle in for a morning with the Regomiser and another edition of Who, Me?…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5HN6P)
Azure icon gets the Fluid Design treatment Logowatch Microsoft has given Azure’s logo a tweak for the second time in four years.…
by David Gordon on (#5HN6Q)
Register now for Pure//Accelerate Digital 2021 Promo First you need to identify and unblock the data bottlenecks in your infrastructure, minimize complexity, and ensure your data is always safe – whether that’s safe from ransomware or careless staffers.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5HN59)
Dev team doesn’t have necessary hardware, and even if they could afford it eBay is empty OpenSolaris ‘spork’ Illumos has decided to deprecate support for SPARC CPUs.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5HN3W)
At least you won’t have to check in with a QR Code China has revealed that it will enforce its border on the peak of Mount Everest, as a precaution against climbers transmitting the Coronavirus when they reach the summit.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5HN2M)
Long March 5B lands 45km from the Maldives Bits of China's Long March 5B rocket have returned to Earth without inconveniencing anyone, but did irritate NASA enough for the agency to issue a sternly-worded statement.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5HN19)
Trump-era Executive Order gets China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile kicked off bourse China’s top three telcos – China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom – have warned investors they are about to be delisted by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5HMZG)
Oil transport by road allowed after Colonial Pipeline goes down, operator says recovery is under way but offers no recovery date One of the USA’s largest oil pipelines has been shut by ransomware, leading the nation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to issue an regional emergency declaration permitting the transport of fuel by road.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5HKEZ)
NASA records, shares sound of Ingenuity drone on Mars, like we're in some kind of sci-fi flick Video One of the microphones on Perseverance, NASA’s latest and greatest Mars rover, has recorded the sounds of its autonomous helicopter Ingenuity flying on the Red Planet, providing scientists with the first ever audio samples of an aircraft operating on another planet.…