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by Robbie Harb on (#50SKA)
We'll be OK, says former incumbent telco Brit telco BT is talking tough, saying it is confident its broadband network will not buckle under the increased strain of extra people using broadband as they work from home to avoid catching the coronairus.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50SKC)
Also: Python 3.8 comes to Azure Functions, .NET Core uninstallation made easy and happy Brazilian chatbots in Azure Roundup While Azure wobbled and Windows was updated, the Microsoft gang continued toiling away with Python, Portuguese and Private Link for its cloud and an altogether more down to earth way uninstalling .NET.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#50S9N)
Claims 'don't stand up to serious scrutiny' retorts Google Browser-flinger Brave's chief privacy and industrial relations officer, Dr Johnny Ryan, has written to five European data protection commissions to complain of claimed breaches of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by Google.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#50S9Q)
And HR folks aren't far behind, says Proofpoint strategist Interview Nurses are among the groups most heavily targeted by email scammers because of the value of the data they can access, according to email security biz Proofpoint's Adenike Cosgrove.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50S9S)
Sadly, no room for a ZX Spectrum on the way to the Moon Flinger of small satellites Rocket Lab has made a move to tighten up its supply chain with the acquisition of Toronto-based Sinclair Interplanetary.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50S9V)
Respect mah Autorité. You too, Tech Data, and Ingram Micro The French competition watchdog, Autorité de la Concurrence, has slapped Apple with a stonking €1.1bn fine over claims the Californian fruit farm had artificially limited supply of its kit to wholesalers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50S9X)
Windows Update for the Linux kernel? No wonder Gates stepped down Microsoft has crept closer to the next version of Windows 10, 2004, and revealed the thankful news that the dev-friendly Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 will not require a full-on OS update for those all important kernel tweaks.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#50RZX)
A lack of liquidity is going to cause complicated problems, analysts warn Analysis If The Register's readers are anything like its writers, Monday is not the most cheerful morning of the week. We might console ourselves with the thought that if the weekend was a blur, perhaps last week was a dream. Sadly, it was not.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50RZY)
Hello? Is this thing on? (message failed to send) As those able to do so begin a seemingly indefinite period of working from home, Microsoft's Slack for Suits platform, Teams, began tottering.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#50S00)
Graph database vendor gets graphical and promises slick extraction from relational data stores Graph database upgrades are like buses. First Neo4j updated its wares, and now TigerGraph has pushed out new features it hopes will appeal to a broader range of enterprise folk.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#50RV0)
Spintronics is/was cool Columnist The four horsemen of disaster in IT decision-making are fear, uncertainty, doubt – and hype. FUD famously first pranced forth when IBM ran the world and its salespeople ladled them out over any upstart which had a chance of taking market share. But hype – ah, hype. The salesman-on-uppers to FUD's downer street preacher, it wants your investment of hope so it can bolster those of others. It's a pyramid scheme of promises.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50RV2)
Pop quiz: you're hosting your first tech conference and a pandemic is declared. What do you do? Microsoft celebrated the conclusion of a successful - and suddenly virtual - Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) conference by switching the forthcoming Build event to a digital affair as well. The Register spoke to those behind the first WSLConf about hitting the big red button with mere days to go.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50RV4)
Stop that van! Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me?, The Register's timid delve into the dark past and dastardly deeds of our readers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50RQ7)
Plus: Machine-learning software scans ancient texts Roundup Here's a handy little roundup of all the bits of AI news that you may have missed.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#50RM5)
No virus-fragging fun unless you’re actually fragging viruses – and no universal developer fee waiver either Apple has proclaimed it won’t let COVID-19-related games into its app store, because it’s the responsible thing to do.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#50RM7)
Crushed rollers sent rack into the red until castor thousands solved wheely obscure problem Google has revealed that the wheels almost literally fell off some of its servers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#50RGD)
VMs went down but the lights are back on, and someone's home to fix it all As if the world doesn't have enough to worry about right now, Azure users with resources running in the Microsoft cloud's Central West USA region have just enjoyed an outage.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#50RGF)
Infosys closed office on suspicion, swabbed it out, but open for business again today The Indian city of Bengaluru has advised the IT industry to let its people work from home as part of its response to COVID-19, as at least two cases strike the city.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50PGZ)
There'll be a website, at some point, that will work in some way, maybe In a Friday press conference, US President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus... with the help of Google, which was news to Google.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#50PH1)
You look like you have coronavirus, can I help you with that? Nearly 45 years to the day after founding Microsoft, Bill Gates today finally stepped down from the board to devote his time to dealing with global health issues and climate change.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50P9A)
Microsoft Build also pulls plug on physical conference Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June will become a World Wide Web-only event due to health concerns raised by the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#50P9B)
Just call us Florida man cos we're going to Orlando As is the way with the 21st century, IT companies are apt to get meta and ServiceNow is no exception.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50P9D)
Too bad they are likely uninhabitable Astronomers have discovered 139 minor planets lurking at the edge of the Solar System after examining a dataset collected to study dark energy in the universe.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50P01)
And nothing to do with stock-market crash, nope, no way Citing concerns for the safety of its employees amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Xerox announced on Friday it is putting its hostile takeover of HP Inc on ice for now.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#50P03)
Bezos' juggernaut still not happy Updated The US government has filed a motion [PDF] to the Court of Federal Claims asking for 120 days to "reconsider certain aspects" of the Pentagon's decision to hand Microsoft the JEDI super-cloud contract – yet Amazon Web Services will oppose the motion.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#50P05)
Well that's one way of putting it Hackers have slurped biz comms customers' data from a database run by one of O2's largest UK partners.…
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by John Oates on (#50P06)
Deadline for multi-factor authentication in UK banking looms Saturday is the delayed deadline for UK banks and financial institutions to have implemented two-factor authentication for payment transactions.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50NNM)
Not headphones. Earbuds Hands on The past few years have borne witness to a new category of audio tech: the totally wireless earphones. Initially popularised by Apple's AirPods, we've since seen a wide range of alternatives crop up, ranging from bargain basement to unapologetically aspirational. Sennheiser's Momentum True Wireless 2 earbuds fall into the latter category.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#50NNP)
Protecting innocent drivers from nasty old cash tips... and your sneezes Food delivery service Deliveroo will create an option for no-contact deliveries in the UK in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#50NNR)
Microsoft's convoluted Power Apps freebie shows shortcomings of platform As millions of businesses adopt hasty remote-working policies, Microsoft has posted a "Crisis communications" solution for its Power Apps platform – the idea being that with just a few (hundred) steps, users will be able to show their whereabouts, request help and more.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50NNT)
Uneasy Broadcom withdraws annual guidance Adobe and Slack reported quarterly revenues last night, but the former's earnings suffered at the sticky hands of COVID-19 while the latter pondered the impact of the virus.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50NCZ)
Time to get your eyeballs rolling, you've been staring at the screen long enough While its employees adjusted to life complaining about working from home rather than working in open-plan offices, Microsoft emitted a fresh build of Windows 10 for Fast Ring Insiders and tweaked Your Phone for Samsung owners.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50ND1)
Yes, shame about the rest of the world In a rare bit of positive COVID-19 news, Apple has reopened all of its 42 retail outlets in Mainland China.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#50ND3)
It's environmentally friendlier, you see Something for the Weekend, Sir? If there's something I can't stand, it's those stupid columns people write for IT news websites.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50N7P)
Yes, here's another one Bork!Bork!Bork! Barclays, the McDonald's of banking bork, has put its hands up. Yes, there was a problem with some ATMs. A problem that The Register has been more than happy to share.…
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by John Oates on (#50N7R)
'Up 50%' looks good, less so when it's 520,000 out of 15.3 million Electric and fuel-cell vehicle sales in Europe jumped by over 50 per cent in the last quarter of 2019, but still make up only 4.4 per cent of total sales.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50N7T)
A Hoover-dunnit for your Friday morning On Call Welcome to On Call, The Register's reminder of happier times, when the only panic was the one coming out of the easily ignored telephone.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50N7W)
Can't fix flaws if you don't look for them The number of vulnerabilities in open source projects surged almost 50 per cent in 2019, according to security biz WhiteSource, which can be seen as good news in the sense that you don't find what you're not looking for.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#50N7Y)
We can't even go to the pub and wait for this to all blow over BT Group has confirmed its CEO has been diagnosed with COVID-19 just days after meeting fellow telco top brass at a gathering organised by the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50MZD)
Code interpreter ran with admin-level access, not sand-boxed, potentially open to remote-code execution Avast has disabled a component in its Windows anti-malware suite that posed, ironically enough, a significant security risk.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50MTX)
Oracle grows cloud, beats Wall St expectations, slams SAP, Workday Oracle on Thursday reported $9.8bn in revenue for Q3 of its 2020 fiscal year, a two per cent year-over-year gain and enough to lift the database giant's stock in after-hours trading despite a dismal day on Wall Street.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50MTZ)
Not like anyone is looking for medical advice right now As the world tackles the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, ransomware creeps have knocked offline a public health agency's website that served nearly a quarter of a million people in the US.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50MV1)
All your face are belong to US The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing Uncle Sam's Homeland Security, and multiple government agencies, claiming the g-men stonewalled on what they are doing with people's faces scanned at US airports. The civil-rights warriors hope to extract information from the organizations via the courts.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50MJG)
Bloke takes auto-vac firm to court in wrongful termination gripe A former iRobot employee is suing the manufacturer for firing him after he highlighted alleged failures to comply with regulations.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50MJH)
The mystery of manipulating nuclear spins with electric fields could make it easier to build quantum computers in the future A group of scientists have accidentally proven a near 60-year old theory correct, thanks to a botched lab experiment.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50MJK)
Anyone able to reach a vulnerable machine can get system-level access, no login needed Microsoft has released an out-of-band emergency patch for a wormable remote-code execution hole in SMBv3, the Windows network file system protocol.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#50MJM)
Xen, KVM muscling in, meanwhile Despite earlier assertions, VMware has no immediate plans to turn ESXi on Arm into a supported product – and may never do it – because it’s yet to figure out why.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50M97)
But you should really be looking at migrating to C# Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away as the Windows giant announced support for Visual Basic in its upcoming .NET 5.0…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#50M99)
Yep, it's NSA Groundhog Day again Despite recent revelations that the process by which the FBI and NSA gain approval for spying on US citizens is open to abuse, the US Congress is again planning to reauthorize the USA Freedom Act that gives those measures their legal foundation.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50M9A)
Hated keyboard to be replaced with ye olde scissor switch in new models We're in the twilight of the lifecycle of the loathed butterfly keyboard, according to famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a recent investment note, Kuo said Apple would release new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models with conventional scissor keyboards by Q2 2020.…
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