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What an IDORable Giggle: AI-powered 'female only' app gets in Twitter kerfuffle over breach notification
Doing the right thing - after trying all the wrong things first A “female social network” called Giggle whose operators left its user database unsecured has triggered a wave of Twitter controversy after its founder threatened to sue a UK infosec firm who pointed out the vulnerability.…
Is today's AI yesterday's software routines with better PR? We argued over it, you voted on it. And the winner is...
Spoiler alert: Not that machine-learning salesperson Register Debate How does that saying go? I'm not a cynic, I'm a realist. That's pretty much how I'd sum up our first-ever Register Debate, which ran this week.…
The one before Harmony? Huawei pushes out EMUI 11, running on Android 10
Android skin has some worthwhile updates, despite software lag Huawei has claimed to be prepping its Android-challenging homegrown mobile operating system, but still has to look after its existing smartphone customers.…
Crash, bang, wallop: External storage systems still sliding in Europe as customers' budgets stay frozen
Supply chain woes also fingered after second quarter of pain in Europe Western Europe led a decline in the value of EMEA external storage systems sales in Q3 with a recovery in the remainder of the year obviously hinging on whether a second wave of infections leads to further lockdowns.…
Adtech's bogeymen are tracking everything - even your web visits to mental health charities, claim campaigners
So says Pro Privacy after automatedly gazing at 82,000 sites British charities are sharing information about people visiting their websites with adtech data brokers, according to a report.…
Entity list? Pah! Huawei rolls out updated laptops, including a pricey i7 ultrabook
And there you were thinking the annual developer conference was all about software It wasn't just software that hogged the limelight at Huawei's annual developer conference, the embattled Chinese company's PC hardware got a fresh lick of paint too.…
You're all wet: Drippy chips to help slash data centre power consumption and carbon costs
Fab: Boffins etch cooling into chip design Researchers in Switzerland demonstrated an approach that may have gone some way to addressing the sweltering heat and worrying carbon emissions from large computer systems: by integrating liquid cooling into microprocessor fabrication.…
Three middle-aged Dutch hackers slipped into Donald Trump's Twitter account days before 2016 US election
The Orange One was using a password breached four years previously Three “grumpy old hackers” in the Netherlands managed to access Donald Trump’s Twitter account in 2016 by extracting his password from the 2012 Linkedin hack.…
IBM repays millions to staff after messing up its own payroll
$9m already coughed up with more to come, plus 'contrition payments’ to Australian government IBM’s Australian limb underpaid 1,647 staff and has been forced to pay them AU$12.3m in back pay (US$8.97m or £6.98m) and make “contrition payments” to Australia’s government.…
Billions of Bluetooth gadgets bothered by ‘BLURtooth’ miscreant-in-the-middle bug
BORKlife! Flaw allows overwriting of keys by the habitual voyeur The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has admitted some previous iterations of its technology had a flaw that could be exploited to hijack or eavesdrop on nearby connections.…
The power of Bill compels you: A server room possessed by a Microsoft-hating, Linux-loving Demon
Luckily, earthly pleasures dished out by the exorcist On Call Those of a religious bent might want to look away now, or be regaled by the story of a server room seemingly haunted by a demon that really didn't like Windows in this week's On Call column.…
Oracle customers clamor for its hardware. Yup, hardware. It can't make Exadata fast enough
Q1 revenue climbs a couple of points, led by cloud and apps, as COVID fails to bite Oracle this week reported two per cent revenue growth for the first quarter of its 2021 financial year, along with strong demand for its hardware that caused a backlog of orders for Exadata and other equipment.…
China makes treatment of its 5G vendors an issue to rank with climate change or disarmament
'No government should politicize 5G' says position paper published to mark United Nations’ 75th birthday China has made treatment of its 5G vendors an issue of the same rank as its aspirations on issues like climate change and trade liberalisation.…
India makes buying a used cow easier than buying a used car
Aadhaar-adjacent app will put beasts' full history in farmers' hands India has launched a new app to help farmers access information about livestock and expects it will cut the cost of cattle and make farms more efficient.…
Something to look forward to: Being told your child or parent was radicalized by an AI bot into believing a bonkers antisemitic conspiracy theory
OpenAI's GPT-3 can go from zero to QAnon stan in 60 seconds... or however long it takes to ask it a couple of questions OpenAI’s powerful text generator GPT-3 can, with a little coaxing, conjure up fake political conspiracies or violent manifestos to fool or radicalize netizens, according to fresh research.…
What a time to be alive: Floating Apple store bobs up in Singapore
Only accessible through underwater tunnel attached to Casino (and a few years behind the back-blocks of Cambodia) Apple has opened a store housed in a floating glass dome in Singapore's Marina Bay.…
China, Russia and Iran all attacking US elections and using some nasty new tactics, says Microsoft
UK political parties probed, too, reckons Redmond as it wades into debate with call for extra election security funding Microsoft believes there have been extensive “cyberattacks targeting people and organizations involved in the upcoming presidential election,” and that foreign government hackers responsible for attacks ahead of the 2016 vote are back with new and nastier tactics.…
Desperately seeking regolith: NASA seeks proposals for collecting Moon dirt
Hand-over to happen on the lunar surface. Legally speaking Got a Moon rocket handy? NASA is looking for proposals from the private sector for scraping bits off the surface of the Moon.…
Forget Terminators, says US military, the next-gen AI battles will hinge upon net infrastructure, not killer robots
Databases, info pipelines, software... 'that is where the fight of 20 years will be won' The nation to dominate modern warfare with AI will not have necessarily built the most deadly killer robot or algorithm – it’ll be the one that has the best infrastructure to support and quickly deploy new technologies in the battlefield, according to US military experts.…
Drone firm DJI promises 'local data mode' to fend off US government's mooted ban
Protectionist public policy prompts fresh focus on infosec fears Chinese drone maker DJI has commissioned yet another security audit with FTI Consulting that's given it a clean bill of health, as the US government reportedly prepares to ban its remote controlled aircraft from American skies.…
How to talk vulnerability management with the C-suite – and make them care
Here’s an ebook just for you, courtesy of Rapid7 Promo When you’re running security, it can be hard not to feel you’re slogging away in the trenches, saving your organisation on a daily basis, but getting precious little in the way of recognition and even less in terms of budget.…
Xiaomi what you're working with: Chinese mobe maker starts Android 11 rollout
Ladling out custom brew to its devices Android 11 is coming to Xiaomi’s flagship Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro smartphones, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer has confirmed.…
No, it's not the trailer for the new Dune, it's the potential view from the 'Super Hi-Vision Camera' on Japan's 2024 mission to Mars
Hayabusa's heading home, but 8K's going to Mars The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) are planning to pop a "Super Hi-Vision Camera" with 4K and 8K capabilities onboard JAXA's 2024 mission to Mars.…
Go Huawei, Android: Chinese telco biz claims it will spread Harmony OS for smartphone to devs come December
Homegrown system – previously a 'lightweight' OS for IoT – punted onto smartphones After years of speculation, Huawei has confirmed it will release the homegrown Harmony operating system for smartphones, theoretically posing a direct challenge to the enduring Android and iOS duopoly.…
Pension scheme cold caller fined £130,000 by UK data watchdog
Swansea-based CPS Advisory hit dial 106,987 times in 80 days, says ICO Britain’s data watchdog says it has snared Swansea-based business CPS Advisory for making more than 100,000 “unauthorised direct marketing calls” to people about their pensions, and subsequently fined the company £130,000.…
Unexpected risks of using Apple ID: 'Sign in with Apple' will be blocked for Epic Games
Games dev pleads with users to set up a password before they get locked out Epic Games, which is currently in a tit-for-tat litigation spat with Apple regarding the in-app payment system on iOS, has warned its users that they will lose the ability to log into an Epic Games account via "Sign in with Apple" from tomorrow: 11 September.…
Bork, Beer and Breweries: Three of our favourite things
The pubs may be problematic, but the bork is bountiful at Tennent's Bork!Bork!Bork! While we may now be allowed to visit a pub and enjoy a cooling beer, 2020 has not been kind to the hospitality industry, as evidenced by a screen of purest blue stuck on the side of a Tennent's brewery.…
DPL: Debian project has plenty of money but not enough developers
Project leader Jonathan Carter explains problems facing this key Linux distro Debian Project Leader (DPL) Jonathan Carter has described the key problems in the Debian community as not a lack of funds, but rather a shortage of developers.…
Ireland unfriends Facebook: Oh Zucky Boy, the pipes, the pipes are closing…from glen to US, and through the EU-side
Anti-social network asked to stop piping Irish uncles' mutterings to America Facebook has been reportedly asked to stop sending data from Ireland to the US, on orders from the EU.…
Microsoft to charge $200 for 32 GPU cores, a sliver of CPU clockspeed, 6GB RAM, 512GB SSD and a Blu-Ray player
That’s the price and specs difference between the full XBOX X and its new smaller XBOX S sibling Microsoft has announced a new cut-down and teeny-weeny XBOX.…
Shine on you crazy diamond: We don't know who needs to hear it but NASA's explained the weird shape of the Bennu asteroid
Something that doesn't involve viruses, politics and wildfires Speckles of dirt kicked up from Bennu’s surface can stay suspended in space and sometimes they even orbit the asteroid, only to come crashing back down onto its equator, giving it its spinning-top or diamond-like shape.…
I AM ERROR: Tired of chewing up your RAM? Razer tells gamers where to stick its special gum for the RGB crowd
The taste of failure ... You fool. You absolute fool. Do you think you’re special? Do you think you’re hot? Your mind is a foggy Louisiana swamp. You’ve got all the focus of the 2019 Labour manifesto. And that is why you ... always ...lose. Fortunately, laptop brand Razr has the cure for what ails you.…
Server buyers ask Lenovo for made-in-Mexico models instead of Chinese kit
Indian Customs delays and security suspicions behind odd purchasing preference Some server-buyers are asking Lenovo to provide product made in Mexico, rather than made in China.…
Equinix warns it's infected with ransomware, promises it can carry on regardless
Insists your kit there is safe because the isolation you'd expect from a rack-renter has worked Equinix has warned customers it has been infected with ransomware.…
Open access journals are vanishing from the web, Internet Archive stands ready to fill in the gaps
Diamonds are forever, scholarly articles not so much, it seems Academics studying the longevity of online scholarship say that 176 digital open-access journals have vanished from the internet over the past two decades.…
China’s UK embassy calls for probe into 'hack of Ambassador’s Twitter account'
‘Anti-China elements viciously attacked’ with links to racy personal service provider and propaganda China’s UK embassy has lashed out after the Twitter account of its ambassador Liu Xiaoming was apparently hacked.…
Now that's a somewhat unexpected insider threat: Zoombombings mostly blamed on rogue participants, unique solution offered
'Particularly students in high school and college classes' Researchers have published the first detailed look into what makes people troll Zoom calls and other video-conferencing meetings – and found the vast majority are inside jobs, and unique per-person access codes could end the practice.…
Q: How does hydrogen turn into a metal? A: Hang on a second, I need to train my AI supercomputer first
Since we can't build a planet Scientists have trained a neural network on a supercomputer to simulate how hydrogen turns into a metal, an experiment impossible to reproduce physically on Earth.…
Microsoft reveals slow, staccato, disruptive auto-patching service for some Windows VMs on Azure
Not for all patches, not ASAP, not all at once, not for production workloads and maybe not worth it yet? Microsoft has started a preview of automatic guest VM patching on Azure.…
Don't be BlindSided: Watch speculative memory probing bypass kernel defenses, give malware root control
Silently side-step software safeguards Video Boffins in America, the Netherlands, and Switzerland have devised a Spectre-style attack on modern processors that can defeat defenses that are supposed to stop malicious software from hijacking a computer's operating system. The end result is exploit code able to bypass a crucial protection mechanism and take over a device to hand over root access.…
Indonesia starts taxing Minecraft, Skype, Zoom and Twitter
Regional video streaming companies added to list of entities required to pay Digital Services Tax Indonesia has again extended the list of companies it will require to gather the nation’s digital services tax.…
US senators propose yet another problematic Section 230 shakeup: As long as someone says it on the web, you can't hide it away
Three Republicans take stab at 'objective reasonableness' Analysis With studied ignorance, yet another piece of proposed legislation targeting social media, and invoking Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, has emerged this week.…
AT&T’s CEO has a solution to US broadband woes despite billions sunk into the problem. You’ll never guess what it is
There is no good money after bad if you’re the person receiving it Comment In an extraordinary piece of advocacy, the CEO of AT&T has not only highlighted the persistent problem of broadband provision in the US but also offered a solution: giving billions of taxpayer dollars to his company to fund its rollout.…
South Korea bods open source NVMe storage controller to save academics, non-profits a bundle
OpenExpress does away with intellectual property licensing burdens Electrical engineering boffins from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have released NVMe controller technology called OpenExpress to help academic researchers develop faster storage devices without rapidly depleting their budgets.…
Accenture dares to enter site of US Air Force mega ERP-project disaster
The incentive? $89.5m to build a 'cloud-based common infrastructure' for existing ERP systems Not many companies would be willing to walk into a house haunted by one of the world’s biggest ERP disasters, but Accenture is happy to give it a go for a thick wodge of greenbacks.…
Microsoft's Fluid Framework is now open source on GitHub
Distributed state in the browser made easy but there are snags for real-world use Microsoft has published the code for its Fluid Framework on Github - the framework is a Typescript library for real-time collaborative web applications.…
When Huawei leaves, the UK doesn't lead in 5G, says new report commissioned by... er... Huawei
Telcos wary of new tech spend anyway, say analysts New research from analyst house Assembly suggests the UK faces a £18.2bn hit to its economy as a result of the decision to ban Huawei from the nation’s network. It’s a stark figure, vastly surpassing the one provided by the British govenrment, which estimated the cost to carriers at the £2bn mark.…
Customers defecting to Oracle? Not according to our research, says SAP chief number cruncher
Must be Larry trash talking again SAP's chief bean counter Luka Mucic has belatedly rubbished claims by arch rival Oracle that it is poaching some of the German software maker's largest customers.…
Northrop Grumman wins $13.3bn contract with US Air Force to kick off Minuteman III ICBM replacement
Last one standing after Boeing's 2019 bail Northrop Grumman has won an eye-watering $13.3bn deal to update the US's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system.…
AI in the Enterprise: How can we make analytics and stats sound less scary? Let's call it AI!
New names for old recipes Register Debate Welcome back to the inaugural Register Debate in which we pitch our writers against each other on contentious topics in IT and enterprise tech, and you – the reader – decide the winning side. The format is simple: a motion was proposed, for and against arguments were published on Monday, another round of arguments today, and a concluding piece on Friday summarizing the brouhaha and the best reader comments.…
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