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India's Big Four services champions want to become software vendors
Can they pull it off? They sure know how to code. Straddling the agnostic position of consultants with the ardor of a vendor may be harder Feature India’s outsourcers grew and grew by working on other peoples’ software.…
Starlink's latent China crisis could spark a whole new world of warcraft
The politics of a global decentralised high-speed public internet service Column 2020 was, by general consent, a bit naff. Everyone moped around not doing much. Everyone except Elon Musk, who pushed some 800 radiating routers into low-earth orbit (LEO) atop his personal fleet of reusable space rockets. As you do.…
Why yes, I'll take that commendation for fixing the thing I broke
Behold, the amazing bullsh*tting man Who, Me? Today's edition of Who, Me? is a sorry tale of credit where it most certainly is not due.…
Boffins revisit the Antikythera Mechanism and assert it’s no longer Greek to them
New reconstruction based on more evidence finds ancient mechanical computer could track planets, moon, eclipses, even the seasons and stars Academics from University College London and The Cyprus Institute assert that they’ve built the most accurate model of the Antikythera Mechanism, the one-of-a-kind ancient Greek machine made of meshed gears.…
Google’s site reliability senseis offer to train you in their mystical ways
Only for Google cloud customers, and The Chocolate Factory will need 'deep familiarity with your workloads’ Google Cloud has turned the company’s famed site reliability engineering methodology into a consulting service.…
Biden administration reveals probe into government security has found holes, wants more private sector collaboration as the cure
Plans include replicating Singapore’s consumer tech security ratings scheme The Biden administration has outlined its plan to address US government security in the wake of attacks on SolarWinds' Orion platform and Microsoft Exchange, with closer private sector collaboration the centerpiece of its response.…
OVH says some customer data and configs can’t be recovered after fire, some seems to be OK, plenty is safe
Data centres are on track for restoration from March 22nd and more than 3,500 new servers already secured There’s good news and bad news for customers of French cloud operator OVH.…
Australia, India, Japan, and USA create joint critical tech working group
'Quad' group wants alternatives to China. Also freedom and governance that reflects shared values The first “Quad summit” of leaders from Australia, India, Japan, and the USA has announced the group will create a “Critical and Emerging Technology Working Group”.…
Asahi's plan for Linux on Apple's new silicon shows Cupertino has gone back to basics with iOS booting
Open source project shows Apple has done some funky stuff with M1 The Asahi Linux project has published the first progress report detailing its effort to port Linux to the Apple Silicon platform.…
How Facebook uses public videos to train, deploy machine-learning models and harvest those eyeballs
Plus: Google Ethical AI team firings backlash worsens In brief Facebook this week revealed an internal project to create machine-learning models that can understand visual, audio, and written content from videos publicly uploaded to its social network.…
Google and Microsoft's public squabble over who's the worst is giving us life right now, not gonna lie
Weapons-grade hypocrisy on one side, opportunistic hand-wringing about the press on the other Video Google and Microsoft were locked in a rare public war of words on Friday as the US House subcommittee on antitrust held a hearing to discuss how Big Tech has impacted the media.…
Third time's a harm? Microsoft tries to get twice-rejected compression patent past skeptical examiners
Boffin who invented ANS encoding and made it public domain worries Microsoft will come rent-seeking Analysis In June, 2019, Microsoft applied for a US patent covering enhancements to a data encoding method known as rANS, one of several variants in the Asymmetric Numeral System (ANS) family that form the foundation of data compression schemes used by Apple, Facebook, Google, various other companies, and open source projects.…
The stench of progress: Sweat may power your personal tech in the not-so-distant future
Gross? Maybe, but at least your Fitbit is still working Imagine you are out for a run with tunes fuelling your stride. Suddenly, your earbuds run out of juice and your good vibes come to a screeching halt. "Ugh," you groan as you look to your activity tracker for encouragement, only to realise it's dead too.…
Google emits data-leaking proof-of-concept Spectre exploit for Intel CPUs to really get everyone's attention
I don't believe it, I had to see it, I came back, I came back haunted Google on Friday released proof-of-concept code for conducting a Spectre-based attack against its Chrome browser to show how web developers can take steps to mitigate browser-based side-channel attacks.…
Gummy bears as a unit of measure? The Reg Standards Soviet will not stand for this sort of silliness
Less than a fifth of a linguine, for goodness' sake – come on now Reg Standards Bureau A new potential contribution to the world's sole source of approved units of measure has emerged – the Haribo gummy bear.…
A lot of things will have changed with Biden as US president, but an easier ride for Huawei is not one of them
Nice to see politicos agree on something, even if it is 'bipartisan dislike' of China A change in occupancy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue hasn't done much for Huawei's fortunes as the Biden administration looks set to toughen restrictions against the battered Chinese telecoms outfit.…
No sign of Exchange-related ransomware hitting UK orgs, claims NCSC as it urges admins to scan for compromises
GCHQ offshoot points orgs at Microsoft advice and tools The UK's National Cyber Security Centre has reminded Brits to patch their Microsoft Exchange Server deployments against Hafnium attacks, 10 days after the US and wider infosec industry shouted the house down saying the same thing.…
There was hope Samsung had turned a corner in repairability, but the Galaxy S21 Ultra is a step backwards
iFixit's flagship autopsy finds glue. Lots of glue iFixit – an organisation with a toddler-like proclivity for breaking phones – today published its teardown of Samsung's latest and greatest: the Galaxy S21 Ultra.…
A borked bit of code sent the Hubble Space Telescope into safe mode, revealing a bunch of other glitches
Writing to forbidden memory and not closing the door cause headaches for custodians of restored spacecraft The Hubble Space Telescope resumed science operations this morning after a software error knocked the veteran spacecraft offline.…
UK.gov about to release £500m funding for Shared Rural Network targeting countryside 4G notspots
Industry will pick up the rest of bill... yep, this old chestnut again The UK government is set to release £500m of funding for the Shared Rural Network to improve mobile access in far-flung areas by adding new infrastructure and convincing operators to share their antennas with rivals.…
The great Microsoft cull continues as paid content set to be stripped from Business and Education Store
So how's that UWP thing working out for you? Axe-happy Redmond has set the clock ticking on paid apps from its moribund Microsoft Store for Business and Education.…
Think it's about time for the next challenge? Check out these software vacancies on both sides of the pond
Come on in and take a look at this week's opportunities – and keep those free ads coming if you need tech talent Job Alert With the pandemic still in full swing, The Reg is publishing free job ads to help keep tech professionals in gainful employment during these unusual times.…
'No' does not mean 'yes'... unless you are a scriptwriter for software user interfaces
The circle is complete. Now I am the master… er, I mean 'the source' Something for the Weekend, Sir? "Let me be absolutely clear about this…" As soon as you hear these words, you know the rest of the sentence will be evasive, meandering, and vague.…
ISP industry blasts UK Telecoms Security Bill for vague requirements, high costs of compliance
'They're dictating how to monitor networks, without fully understanding the impact on the sector' Introduced last year by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the UK's Telecommunications Security Bill aims to change how mobile and fixed-line communications systems are built and operated.…
Huawei CFO's legal eagles take HSBC to court in Hong Kong to obtain evidence against US extradition
Similar attempt was made in London, where it failed Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou's legal team has begun proceedings against HSBC in Hong Kong to obtain documents they believe will support her defence against extradition from Canada to the US.…
Communication Workers Union to hold national ballot for members at BT, Openreach and EE over strike action
37 years later and fomer state-owned telco might be facing its own Black Monday For the first time since 1987, the Communication Workers Union is to run a national ballot of unionised workers at BT Group to test their appetite for strike action over job losses, office closures and more.…
Don't be a fool, cover your tool: How IBM's mighty XT keyboard was felled by toxic atmosphere of the '80s
The foulest stench is in the air, the funk of forty thousand... cigarettes? On Call A reader's brush with filth is retold in today's episode of On Call in which the dirtier side of IT is laid bare.…
Out of this world: Listen to Perseverance rover fire its laser at Mars rocks as the wind whips around it
Less pew, pew, pew and more click, click, click NASA released this week the first audio recordings captured by its six-wheeled nuclear-powered rover Perseverance in action, zapping rock samples as the Martian wind eerily whispers in the background..…
Facebook’s new world domination ploy is a two-megabyte Instagram app tested in India and Brazil
Works just fine on ancient low-end Androids, so now The Social Network™ can monopolise developing nations too! Facebook has unveiled a new weapon in its world domination plan: a two-megabyte version of its Instagram app.…
OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction
Cloud company offers slightly confused roadmap to restoration French cloud provider OVH has suggested a UPS could be the cause of the fire that destroyed one of its data centres and took another three offline.…
We can't avoid it any longer. Here's a story about the NFT mania... aka someone bought a JPEG for $69m in Ether
How can we put this? Imagine beanie babies were screenshots that needed their own power plant NFTs – or non-fungible tokens, a newfangled way to trade virtual assets – truly exploded into the mainstream on Thursday when Christie’s auctioned off its first-ever NFT digital artwork for $69,346,250. Not a typo.…
Chinese and American chipmakers establish regular chatfests to talk tech, trade, supply chain security
US industry groups still want Biden administration cash for local manufacturing The Semiconductor Industry Association of China (SIAC) and its United States counterpart the Semiconductor Industry Association have announced the establishment of a biannual chatfest to address technical and trade-related issues.…
Australia picks third fight with Big Tech, this time over browser and search on mobile devices
Regulator keen to know how Android Choice works in the EU, what makes the Google/Apple relationship tick, and if Salesforce buying Slack is a problem Australia is going after Big Tech again, this time with research on “the impact of default settings and pre-installation of search services and web browsers on consumer choice and competition.”…
Jailed Samsung boss accused of abusing Propofol aka ‘the milk of amnesia’ or 'the drug that killed Michael Jackson'
Cops probe vice chairman Samsung's appropriately ranked vice-chairman Lee Jae-Yong, right now behind bars for bribery, concealment of criminal proceeds, and embezzlement, is being investigated for illegal drug use.…
Microsoft's GitHub under fire after disappearing proof-of-concept exploit for critical Microsoft Exchange vuln
Funny how code that targets Redmond vanishes while tons of others menacing other vendors remain On Wednesday, shortly after security researcher Nguyen Jang posted a proof-of-concept exploit on GitHub that abuses a Microsoft Exchange vulnerability revealed earlier this month, GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, removed code, to the alarm of security researchers.…
Huge if true: If you show people articles saying that Firefox is faster than Chrome, they'll believe it
Mozillians formulate 'prime' directive for browser's comeback following psychological study Mozilla has found a way to make its Firefox browser feel faster without any engineering effort: tell people that it's faster than the competition.…
ServiceNow bakes more ML, low code into Quebec release to push itself as all-encompassing workflow layer
But questions remain over its enterprise app credentials ServiceNow, the IT helpdesk vendor with a yearning for world domination, has launched its latest platform upgrade, Quebec, which features new AI, low-code app development tools and a bit of process mining thrown in for good measure.…
This Netgear SOHO switch has 15 – count 'em! – vulns, which means you need to upgrade the firmware... now
One of them is a critical RCE bug Netgear has released a swathe of security and firmware updates for its JGS516PE Ethernet switch after researchers from NCC Group discovered 15 vulnerabilities in the device – including an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw.…
The first rule of ERP? Don't talk about ERP: App-maker IFS reckons market has moved on
'It's something that we, as an industry, invented' but all customers wanted were end-to-end business processes Middleweight enterprise application provider IFS is launching a cloud platform and rebuilding its applications. Just don't expect to find a standalone ERP product in there.…
Another Windows 10 patch that breaks printers ups ante to full-on Blue Screen of Death
Microsoft's rigorous testing at work Microsoft's near-legendary approach to quality in Windows has struck again, with customers complaining of blue screens rather than print-outs following a recent patch.…
Huawei's first desktop PC to be sold outside China is a sleek business machine with optional 'smart' keyboard
But relies on integrated graphics, and what's the serial port for? Perhaps the only element of Huawei's consumer business that's emerged unscathed from US sanctions has been its PC line. With the Chinese tech giant's computer supply chain intact, it has been business as usual, and the company just introduced its first desktop PC beyond mainland China.…
ZIPX files that aren't: Keep a weather eye out for disguised malware in email attachments
Especially if you're routinely handling RAR files Malware-peddling spammers are using a curious variation on the old custom file-extension dodge to evade scanning tools, according to Trustwave.…
GitLab latest to ditch 'master' as default initial branch name: It's now simply called 'main'
Only for new projects, but beware the hardcoded references One-stop DevOps shop GitLab has joined the movement to change the default name for an initial branch in a Git repository in favour of something less historically problematic.…
You wouldn’t know my new database, she goes to another school: Oracle boasts of earthshattering tech the outside world cannot see
Plus: Ellison ramps up SAP trash-talking. At least some things are the same in 2021 Updated Oracle has underwhelmed the market with its Q3 results – shares took a minor tumble yesterday. But true to form its island-owning founder and CTO did his best to distract from matters at hand by talking up wins against its arch-rival and hyping technology it is yet to launch.…
Four women, including TV star, thought they were investing in a software business. It was a scam. Now the perp's going to jail
'Predator' sent down for eight years after pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars A man who conned four women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by falsely claiming they were investing in a software biz was this week sentenced to eight years behind bars.…
UK to introduce new laws and a code of practice for police wanting to rifle through mobile phone messages
But there's a lot more to worry about in new Bill, say campaigners A new UK law will explicitly authorise the "voluntary" slurping of data from mobile phones of crime suspects and witnesses.…
UK Space Agency will pay a new CEO £125,000 to run non-existent space programme
Also: NASA to send another astronaut up in a Soyuz, Mars Express has its head in the clouds In brief Fancy a career change? Be quick, and the chief exec's desk at the UK Space Agency could be yours. The permanent full-time position with a salary of £125,000 is likely to be challenging as the UK seeks to maintain its position as a space-based international leader in the wake of ructions such as the country's departure from the EU.…
Å nei! Norway's Stortinget struck by Microsoft Exchange malware
'Data has been extracted' as Swiss-cheese servers are exploited Norway's Parliament has joined the growing list of organisations hit by vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Exchange Server.…
Embedded tech specialist Advantech warns component shortage will slow growth
It's not just car-makers slowing down: Advantech supplies the likes of Cisco and IBM COVID-related silicon supply chain issues have impacted core information technology products, according to Taiwanese industrial tech specialist Advantech.…
Working hard to secure your network perimeter? The cybercrims will be pleased…
Because that’s not where the threat is anymore Webcast If you’re currently running your company’s cyber security operation from home, ask yourself, where exactly is the “perimeter” you’re supposed to be protecting?…
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