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Chaos is good for you, says first 'state of chaos engineering' report
Spend more on resilence, get more resilience: who whould've thunk it? The 2021 State of Chaos Engineering report from Gremlin, based on a survey of 400 companies, has shown a correlation between high availability and frequent use of chaos engineering.…
University of Nottingham looks for new HR and finance software just 18 months after massive Unit4 system upgrade
Time to make some ch-ch-changes The University of Nottingham is on the lookout for a new HR and finance system in a deal which could be worth £35m, barely a year after updating its current provider's system.…
BeyondCorp Enterprise: Google's Chrome-shaped approach to 'cloud-native zero trust computing'
New security features in Chrome but can businesses do everything they need through the browser? Google has introduced BeyondCorp Enterprise, for secure access to browser-based applications, using new security features in the Chrome browser.…
Europe considers making it law that your boss can’t bug you outside of office hours
I’d love to sort out that issue for you, Steve, but it’s Saturday and I'd rather not commit a crime Europe has had enough of the blurring between work and personal time – where your boss calls you in the evening or colleagues email at the weekend – and is mulling introducing legislation that would provide a “right to disconnect.”…
Intel reveals US$475m investment in Vietnam as Communist Party says it loves high-tech industry
What a co-incidence this news has emerged in the same week as a five-yearly party congress! Intel has revealed that it pumped an extra US$475m into its facilities in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.…
Soon, no more blood tests or probing for prostate cancer? AI claims 99% success rate using more relaxing methods
Small-scale test involving biosensor and trained algorithms shows early promise Scientists say they have devised a way to screen for prostate cancer using a drop of urine, a sensor, and AI algorithms. And the test takes just twenty minutes, and is 99 per cent accurate, according to results from a small-scale test.…
Firefox 85 crumbles cache-abusing supercookies with potent partitioning powers
Scorches Flash for the very last time, too The Mozilla Foundation has scorched a pair of monstrosities in the new version 85 of its Firefox browser.…
The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software goes offline for good
You probably remember it as Tucows.com, an essential source of shareware downloads for the early Web One of the web’s early software download bazaars, Tucows.com, has closed.…
AMD's Lisa Su: Our processor sales are Ryzen faster than the PC market is growing
Chip designer records bumper final quarter and full year, predicts more of the same to come, says supply flow will increase Sometimes, things just go right. AMD on Tuesday reported record full-year and fourth-quarter financial figures, all due to interest in its chips across the board, from microprocessors in PCs and servers to GPUs in games consoles, and all during a pandemic.…
Dear team: Please work hard in 2021. I’d help, but I’m in jail. Yours, the boss of Samsung
Management masterclass as locked-up Lee Jae-Yong apologises for his absence Samsung’s vice chairman and de facto boss Lee Jae-Yong has reportedly sent staff motivational messages from inside prison.…
Microsoft smashes Wall Street's expectations with $43bn sales bonanza
FY21 Q2 results buoyed by cloud demand, pandemic-driven IT focus Microsoft far exceeded expectations for its second-quarter fiscal 2021 financial results, posting $43.1bn in revenue, an increase of 17 per cent.…
US cyber intelligence officer given 11 years for kidnapping her kid, trying to hawk top secrets to Russia in Mexico
How's your year going? A US Air Force intelligence officer who kidnapped her daughter to Mexico and attempted to defect to Russia with information labelled top secret has been jailed for 11 years.…
Google, Apple sued for failing to give Telegram chat app the Parler put-down treatment
Messaging wunderkind said to be haven for extremists – and Silicon Valley gave it a pass, ex-ambassador complains Marc Ginsberg, a former US ambassador who oversees a non-profit called Coalition for a Safer Web (CSW), sued Alphabet's Google subsidiary on Monday for failing to remove the Telegram Messenger app from its Google Play store.…
Decade-old bug in Linux world's sudo can be abused by any logged-in user to gain root privileges
Sudo, make me a heap overflow! Done, this system is now yours Security researchers from Qualys have identified a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in sudo that can be exploited by rogue users to take over the host system.…
Apple emits emergency iOS security updates while warning holes may have been exploited in wild by hackers
Plus fixes for iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, XCode, iCloud for Windows – and a day after Google disclosed Nork op Apple today released software updates to patch vulnerabilities in iPhones and iPads that may have been exploited by miscreants to silently snoop on victims from afar.…
Dynamic Data do-over denied: Judge upholds $7m patent infringement claim against Microsoft
Shenanigans called on ASP.NET scaffolding tech A New York judge has denied Microsoft a new trial after the software giant attempted to overturn a 2020 judgement over its infringement of a database interface patent.…
A Twitter world-improvement plan that doesn't involve deleting Twitter? Unleash the boffins, says microblogging biz
Academics can apply for free access to historic Twitter data, so there is a use for the well of human misery after all Twitter is making public tweet data freely available to academic researchers in the hope the boffins can use it to make the world a better place.…
Google's Git commits point to project on pared-back Android for virtualized environments
Meet MicroDroid, a base image for on-device VMs that might never see light of day Google is working on a stripped-down version of Android for virtualized environments, judging by source code commits made to the AOSP repository.…
Got Surface Hubs? Better get cracking: Windows 10 for Whiteboards to resume rolling out in February
Windows 10 Team Creators Update due for support axe in March - yes, two months from now Microsoft is set to resume rolling out the Windows 10 Team 2020 Update, although some administrators will have only a few short weeks before the previous version drops out of support.…
Drone smashes through helicopter's windscreen and injures passenger
Two feet sideways and it could have been the pilot: report A drone crashed into the windscreen of a helicopter being flown at low altitude and injured a passenger aboard the aircraft.…
Huawei has been Biden its time, but there's no sign new US president will reverse American sanctions
Press secretary won't say nay or yea on Entity List, but prez says 'we need to play a better defense' It has been six days since Joe Biden became president of the United States. Since then, he has wasted no time in reversing policy decisions made by his predecessor with a series of executive actions on LGBT rights, the environment, and race relations.…
A new take on programming trends: You know what's not a bunch of JS? Devs learning Python and Java ahead of JavaScript
O'Reilly's opinionated survey says low-code on the up and modern web dev is 'chilling' A report from an online learning platform presents a different take on programming language and devops trends, showing Python and Java ahead of the usual survey winner JavaScript.…
No cards, thanks, we're contactless-less: UK supermarket giants hit by card payment TITSUP*
Money talks in Morrisons and Co-Op Shoppers keen to avoid that personal touch have been faced with multi-day card payment problems at UK grocery giants Morrisons and the Co-Op.…
I was targeted by North Korean 0-day hackers using a Visual Studio project, vuln hunter tells El Reg
Hyperion Gray founder relates 'holy f**k' moment when he realised A zero-day hunter has told The Register of the “holy f**k” moment when he realised he'd been targeted by a North Korean campaign aimed at stealing Western researchers' vulns.…
UKFast ex-boss Lawrence Jones appears in court to face rape and sexual assault charges
Multi-millionaire granted unconditional bail, case moving to Manchester Crown Court The multi-millionaire former boss of Britain’s largest privately owned hosting provider has appeared in court to face allegations of rape and sexual assault.…
East London council breaks off 20-year Oracle relationship to shack up with cloud ERP nobodies by year's end
From one of the world's largest software suppliers to... who? The clock is ticking for Barking and Dagenham Council as the East London authority plans to ditch Oracle e-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 and go live with cloud-based software from MHR and Advanced by the end of the year.…
One careful driver: Make room in the garage... Bloodhound jet-powered car is up for sale
Price negotiable, but if you've got £8m to spare then the land speed record is up for grabs The Bloodhound Land Speed Record project is looking for a new owner after its chief exec, Ian Warhurst, confirmed the vehicle is up for sale.…
The killing of CentOS Linux: 'The CentOS board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do'
Brian Exelbierd, Red Hat Liaison and CentOS board member, gives the company perspective Interview Brian Exelbierd, responsible for Red Hat liaison with the CentOS project and a board member of that project, has told The Register that CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat simply refused to invest in it.…
UK Cabinet Office spokesman tells House of Lords: We're not being complacent about impact of SolarWinds hack
Lib Dem blows raspberry at Sir Humphrey-style non-answer The British government has denied being "complacent" over the Solarwinds hack as a fed-up peer of the realm urged a minister to "answer the question".…
You may be heading for the cloud with K8s and microservices... but what about your storage?
Tune in next month to learn a raft of cloud-native storage knowledge Webcast Containers and Kubernetes are the future, giving you a way to move away from monolithic applications and their assorted drudgery, and make a break for the sunlit uplands of microservices, composability and continuous delivery. All in the cloud or clouds of your choice.…
Apple slapped with €60m lawsuit from Italian consumer rights org for slowing down CPUs in old iPhones
Third time's a charm? Suebell number three filed by Euroconsumers members Apple may have to cough up €60m ($73m, £53m) after Altroconsumo, an Italian consumers rights group, filed a class-action lawsuit railing against Cupertino's practice of throttling the performance of its older smartphones.…
AI clocks first-known 'binary sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system'. Another AI will be along shortly to tell us how to pronounce that properly
The cosmic ballet goes on Astronomers have discovered the first-known “sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system,” after a neural network flagged it up in data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).…
North Korea infected infosec bods with backdoors via dodgy blog pages, Visual Studio files – Google
Security eggheads discover their PCs chatting with Kim Jong Un's hackers North Korea's hackers homed in on specific infosec researchers and infected their systems with a backdoor after luring them to a suspicious website, Google revealed on Monday.…
Google, Microsoft pitch in some spare change to keep Mozilla's Web Docs online bible alive
Turns out having coherent API documentation is useful for, well, everyone Google, Microsoft, and friends have pitched in about half a million bucks to create a project seemingly designed to prop up the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) Web Docs.…
What's a COVID-19 outbreak? Amazon gets all Trumpy over Alabama warehouse workers' mail-in vote to form a union
Meanwhile, staff get unexpected backing from football players Amazon has taken a leaf out of a certain former president's playbook, insisting that mail-in voting will result in a false result. This time, however, it’s a vote by Amazon’s Alabama warehouse staff on whether to unionize.…
In a trial run, Google Chrome to corral netizens into groups for tailored web ads rather than target individuals
The third-party advertising cookie: Barely tolerated anymore. We can rebuild it, internet titan insists, we have the technology. Analysis Google on Monday said it will make some of its Privacy Sandbox proposals available for testing with the release of Chrome 89 in March as part of its effort to rewire the technical infrastructure of online advertising.…
Biden said to be assembling cyber dream team to sort out US govt computer security
With a little $10bn package proposed to help them on their way President Biden is preparing to assemble a crack US government cybersecurity team, and has pledged $10bn in funding to shore up the defenses of Uncle Sam's computer networks.…
Digital burglars break into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Miscreant fingered server that held docs related to credit applications down under The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has admitted one of its servers was accessed without sanction and may have been digitally pawed by miscreants.…
Smartphones are becoming like white goods, says analyst, with users only upgrading when their handsets break
Upgrades? It's a bit of a Hotpoint The smartphone trade is beginning to resemble the market for white goods with punters increasingly likely to wait until their device is broken before seeking a replacement.…
Going, going, gone... until March: UK comms regulator delays 5G spectrum auction over pandemic logistics
Some things can wait, even if it is central to the 'economy's recovery' The UK's telecoms regulator has said it will delay the upcoming auction of the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz radio bands as result of difficulties caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.…
Restructuring causing trouble with your Microsoft 365 tenancy? Here's a trio who can help you out
Tune in here to find out how to smooth those tricky tenant-to-tenant migrations Webcast Setting yourself up on Microsoft 365 with a tenancy makes perfect business sense – until other business decisions mean you have to move that tenancy to another domain.…
The API that will not die: Microsoft opens crypt to unleash Win32 on Rust
Going low-level with C# and more The Win32 API is being opened up to more languages by Microsoft via the win32metadata project.…
12 tech merchants win slices of £504m NHS framework without competition because everything is terrible
Ain't nobody got time for that Twelve resellers have been awarded places on an NHS hardware contract for northern England in deals worth a total of £504m.…
Man arrested after UK school reports wiped hard drives on devices connected to network
Police pull out classic 'sophisticated cyber attack' line A 28-year-old has been arrested after allegedly carrying out what police have labelled a "sophisticated cyber attack" on a school.…
Apple: Magsafe on the iPhone 12 may interfere with pacemakers and cardiac defibrilators
No, no, this shocker isn't related to the price of the hardware Apple fanboys will readily admit the iPhone sits close to their heart, such is the level of affection they hold. That said, if they've got a pacemaker or implanted defibrillator, you'd best hope they're speaking figuratively.…
Fedora's Chromium maintainer suggests switching to Firefox as Google yanks features in favour of Chrome
'They're not closing a security hole, they're just requiring that everyone use Chrome' Fedora's maintainer for the open-source Chromium browser package is recommending users consider switching to Firefox following Google's decision to remove functionality and make it exclusive to its proprietary Chrome browser.…
UK government's cloud ERP strategy seems to be in stasis following top civil servant's move to COVID-19 task force
Or maybe it's that no one wants to touch this complex SaaS migration The UK government has delayed the award of contracts worth £115m to power the migration from an on-premises platform for ERP to a cloud-based software-as-a-service model.…
Showering malware-laced laptops on UK schoolchildren is the wrong way to teach them about cybersecurity
The Department for Education needs to learn its lesson too Column It is not good form to ruin people's online privacy. It is especially bad form if you're in a position of authority when you do this. It goes beyond bad form altogether if you're the Department for Education and you are potentially exposing schoolchildren to online attacks. That is criminal neglect.…
Freezing in Newcastle? You're not alone: For one lonesome creature, the world stopped on 31 Dec 2020
The Natwest ATM of woe says no, bleats a plaintive: Børk! Bork!Bork!Bork! A chill wind from the North greets today's entry in The Register's pantheon of Bork. A hidden (and frozen) cashpoint awaits visitors to Newcastle station.…
You would expect a qualified electrician to wire a building to spec, right? Trust... but verify
What could be wrong when two UPSes commit seppuku? Who, Me? Welcome to an electrifying edition of The Register's regular Who, Me? feature in which a reader rues the day he decided to trust the electrician.…
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