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UK MoD bungs Boeing £500m to plug gap left by a system it should have provided under £800m contract from 2010
'Fragile and ageing legacy systems' need to be replaced – now The UK's Ministry of Defence has awarded Boeing Defence UK a £500m contract without external competition to replace "fragile and ageing legacy systems" it had already been charged with swapping out as part of a 2010 contract.…
Subway email weirdness: Suspicion grows over apparent Trickbot trojan delivery campaign
If you got an unexpected message from the not-footlong guys, don't click links Updated Subway patrons in the UK received suspicious emails this morning and infosec researchers fear this is linked to the theft of customer details – and a Trickbot malware campaign.…
CEST la vie: HMRC admits controversial IR35 status checker returns undecided verdict in nearly 20% of cases
What a useless tool, say folk in freelance community, with months to go before tax reforms introduced to private sector UK.gov's controversial tool used by contractors to determine their tax liability under IR35 legislation is still proving less than reliable just months before tax reforms are introduced to the private sector.…
UK competition watchdog fast-tracks investigation into mega-merger of O2 and Virgin Media
American cable guy Liberty Global and Spanish multinational Telefónica ask CMA to hurry up and marry their kids The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will subject the proposed merger of Virgin Media and O2 to an investigation to decide whether the combined mega-entity will hurt the market for certain telecommunications-related products.…
You've got to be shipping me: KatherineRyan.co.uk suggests the comedian has diversified into freight forwarding
We know 2020 has been hard on the standup circuit, but really? Comedian Katherine Ryan has found her eponymous website redirected to an Australian shipping company following a domain expiry.…
Don't give up on Planet Nine yet: Hubble 'scope finds just such a world a mere 336 light-years away
Massive planets at far out distances from their stars are possible after all The Hubble Space Telescope has spied a previously unknown exoplanet with similar properties as our Solar System's hypothetical object Planet Nine. This newly spotted body is living on the outskirts of another solar system 336 light-years away.…
What does my neighbour's Tesla have in common with a stairlift?
Both are driving me up the wall Something for the Weekend, Sir? Do not park in front of my house.…
Oh, no one knows what goes on behind locked doors... so don't leave your UPS in there
Company safe... telephone gear... Is this the cleaner's cupboard? On Call The weekend is almost within touching distance, so break out the beverages and enjoy another tale of On Call shenanigans from The Register's put-upon readership.…
New Nutanix CEO and Azure HCI debut reboot the hyperconverged infrastructure market
VMware’s Rajiv Ramaswami gets Dheeraj Pandey’s job, and the task of fending off Microsoft’s new contender Over the last five years, hyperconverged infrastructure went from being a slightly outré software-defined concept to an infrastructure option that earned a place on almost every infrastructure shopping list.…
France fines Google, Amazon €135m total for slipping ad cookies into people's computers without permission
We're sure these websites will find some way to rebound from this incredible punishment Google and Amazon have been slapped with €100m and €35m fines respectively after France’s data privacy watchdog declared both companies had placed advertising cookies on people’s computers without their consent.…
Oracle’s ERP and cloud surged in Q2. Hardware grew super-fast. So why was Larry Ellison a tad frustrated?
Because the balance sheet showed only muted growth while subscription cash starts to flow Oracle has posted modest growth for its second quarter, with SaaS-y ERP a notable exception. But founder Larry Ellison says the numbers don’t reflect its bright new cloudy reality.…
AWS is fed up with tech that wasn’t built for clouds because it has a big 'blast radius' when things go awry
Which is why it's built its own UPS, from the firmware up. And also why Graviton ignores Intel's and AMD's best tricks Amazon Web Services is tired of tech that wasn’t purpose built for clouds and hopes that the stuff it’s now building from scratch will be more appealing to you, too.…
SAP, Cloudflare, Google, and pals warn Pakistan its new content-blocking laws will hurt economic growth
Good luck with your digital transformation without us on board, says Asia Internet Coalition Big Tech’s Asian lobby group has warned Pakistan that the nation's recent content-blocking rules will hurt its economy.…
FCC mulls booting China Telecom from US networks over its ties with Beijing
And repeats that there's no Huawei that Chinese manufacturer is getting its hardware in, either The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday began proceedings to determine whether to revoke China Telecom's ability to operate in America.…
Ad-scamming, login-stealing Windows malware is hitting Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Yandex browsers, says Microsoft
Sophisticated campaign has been going on for months, we're told On Thursday Microsoft warned that there's an ongoing campaign to distribute malware that modifies web browsers to conduct credential theft and ad fraud.…
'Malwareless' ransomware campaign operators pwned 83k victims' MySQL servers, 250k databases up for sale
$500 a pop, $25k 'earned' and not much of a trace left, says Guardicore A “malwareless” ransomware campaign delivered from UK IP addresses targeting weak security controls around internet-facing SQL servers successfully pwned 83,000 victims, according to Israeli infosec biz Guardicore.…
The patch that wasn't: Cisco emits fresh fixes for NTLM hash-spilling vuln and XSS-RCE combo in Jabber app
Wormable nasty still doesn't need any user input to pwn target devices A previous patch for Cisco's Jabber chat product did not in fact fix four vulnerabilities – including one remote code execution (RCE) flaw that would allow malicious people to hijack targeted devices by sending a carefully crafted message.…
It's not 'Door to Heaven', it's 'Stargate': DataStax reaches out to front-end devs with support for GraphQL
Open-source API framework aims to make Cassandra a bit easier DataStax, chief commercial cheerleader of Cassandra, has released an open-source API framework for data aimed at easing developer access to the NoSQL columnar database.…
Rocky Linux is go: CentOS founder's new project aims to be 100% compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Rocking the Red Hat boat with an alternative distro designed for production use Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of the CentOS project, has kicked off a new venture called Rocky Linux, the aim being to build "a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100 per cent bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)".…
Google Cloud (over)Run: How a free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight
Billing budget? Free plan? All useless when buggy code went into overdrive Sudeep Chauhan, founder of startup Milkie Way, suffered a bad case of bill shock when a test with a $7.00 billing budget and a free database plan on Google Cloud platform (GCP) generated a $72,000 invoice overnight.…
UK union pens letter to data watchdog on icky workplace monitoring systems like Microsoft's Productivity Score
The Pandora's Box that won't stay closed UK trade union Prospect has chimed in with the chorus of disapproval at technologies such as Microsoft's Productivity Score being used on the nation's workers.…
Oracle Database 21c bridges NoSQL gap with native JSON support, plays catch-up with relational rivals
Take those claimed performance gains with a pinch of salt, though Oracle has announced the general availability, at least in the cloud, of Database 21c.…
Twitter, Mozilla, Vimeo slam Europe’s one-size-fits-all internet content policing plan
Blanket deletions will smother internet, EU tech chief told Twitter, Mozilla, Automattic, and Vimeo have signed an open letter aimed at EU tech chief Margrethe Vestager taking issue with new digital rules due to be announced later this month and asking for a more flexible approach when it comes to internet content.…
UK Ministry of Defence: We won't prosecute bug bounty hunters – oh btw, we now have one of those
'Better late than never' opines industry bod The UK's Ministry of Defence has launched a bug bounty scheme, promising privateer pentesters they won't be prosecuted if they stick to the published script.…
Back to the Fuchsia, part IV: Google's in-development OS now open to community contributions
New shiny has governance, mailing lists, public repository... but how will Google use it? Google has opened its forthcoming operating system, Fuchsia, to community contributions, but has not addressed the question hanging over it: how will it be used?…
Google Chrome's crackdown on ad blockers and browser extensions, Manifest v3, is now available in beta
Web advertising giant says it has been working with filter makers, others to 'evolve the platform' Google, which makes most of its money from online ads, insists it wants ad blockers to continue working under the latest, more locked-down iteration of its Chrome browser extension platform, known as Manifest v3.…
China bans 105 apps, eight app stores, and says it’ll swing the hammer again
TripAdvisor caught in sweep of software deemed too nasty for local consumption China has banned 105 apps from reaching local users and says it’ll ban more in future.…
AMD, Arm, and non-Intel servers soar as overall market stalls
Dell and HPE in stasis as mid-range and high-end markets slide The world’s server market stalled in the year’s third quarter, says analyst firm IDC.…
Lenovo seeks to render Nokia's H.264 patents unenforceable, claims it misled standards bodies
IP arm of Finnish firm should have spoken up sooner... or so the lawsuit claims The American wing of Lenovo has sued Nokia in a California federal court in an attempt to stop the telecoms equipment biz from enforcing its 19 patents pertaining to video decoding.…
SpaceX Starship blows up on landing, but Elon Musk says it's the data that matters and that landed just fine
Test flight took candidate Mars trip rocket to new heights Videos SpaceX has conducted a test of the Starship it plans to use for flights to Mars, and while the experiment ended badly the flight was judged a success.…
South Korea kills ActiveX-based government digital certificate service
Service was so unpopular, getting rid of it was an election policy South Korea on Thursday shuttered a government-run digital certificate service that required the use of Microsoft’s ancient ActiveX technology.…
India to spend up big on submarine cable to sparsely-populated but strategically-placed remote island group
Population of 64,000 needs better access to e-government services, and there's also four navy bases to consider India has announced a new submarine cable connecting its mainland to the Lakshadweep Islands.…
Megabucks in funding, 28 years of research, and Boston Dynamics is to be 'sold to Hyundai' for 1/40th of an Arm
So what does that make it, a leg? A toe? Boston Dynamics, the Softbank-owned robotics biz, is reportedly being sold to South Korean automotive giant Hyundai for $921m in a deal expected to be announced shortly.…
AMD's latest top-end RX 6900 XT GPUs vacuumed up in minutes... maybe even by some actual gamers
Ready Player None Geeks hoping to grab AMD’s latest and most powerful gaming graphics card the RX 6900 XT were left in the dust after available stocks were sucked dry from online stores minutes after the gear was launched on Tuesday.…
When it comes to privacy, everyone says America needs a new federal law ASAP. As for mass spying, well, um… huh what’s that over there?
Congressional hearing on Privacy Shield oddly productive affair Analysis Everyone is in agreement: the United States needs a new federal privacy law, and it needs to be put in place in 2021.…
Amazon continues its tsunami of announcements, now with AI in mind. We spoke to an AWS lead to decode it all
Inference can be expensive but the cloud giant's working on that, we're told re:Invent Amazon Web Services is in the second week of its three-week re:Invent run, and the show's announcement deluge continues, now with an emphasis on AI-oriented services.…
Facebook crushed rivals to maintain an illegal monopoly, the entire United States yells in Zuckerberg’s face
Multi-AG, FTC antitrust lawsuits focus on 'the wrath of Mark', potential break-up of social media giant Facebook illegally crushed its competition and continues to do so to this day to maintain its monopoly, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday by the attorneys general of no fewer than 46 US states plus Guam and DC.…
EU Medicines Agency hacked, BioNTech-Pfizer coronavirus vaccine paperwork stolen, probe launched
Regulatory submissions for COVID-19 jab candidate 'unlawfully accessed' The EU Medicines Agency today revealed it was hacked, just a week after infosec eggheads said foreign state hackers have been targeting European institutions.…
GitHub Codespaces preview version still has some glaring omissions, CEO insists it will be ready when it's ready
Rival GitPod sees perfect opportunity to say: Pssst, we've got that stuff GitHub CEO Nat Friedman showed off Codespaces at the virtual Universe event, though the thing remains in limited preview and key features are still missing. Meanwhile, rival GitPod has added support for Visual Studio Code and the ability to run commands with root permissions in its similar workspace service.…
Apple appears to be charging Brits £309 to replace AirPods Max batteries, while Americans need only stump up $79
Typo? We've asked, but... well, y'know If you've got any money left over from your purchase of AirPods Max, you might want to save it. Battery replacements won't come cheap, with Apple charging £309 in the UK – or roughly 56 per cent of the original headphones.…
Delay upgrading the UK's legacy border systems has added £336m to taxpayers' bill
Spending watchdog report retells sad history of Home Office IT failings The UK Home Office has added £336m to the cost of running its border management IT systems as delays and uncertainty continue to dog the programme, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).…
HPE sees itself 'delivering supercomputing-as-a-service to the masses' as it chucks HPC chops into GreenLake
Hardware infrastructure vendors' obsession with consumption-based tech continues Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is to send high-performance computing (HPC) into its everything-as-a-service portfolio, GreenLake.…
Useful quantum computers will be impossible without error correction. Good thing these folks are working on it
What if the cat in the box could come back to life? Boffins from America's standards-setting body NIST, the University of Maryland (UMD), and the California Institute of Technology believe there's a way to make quantum computers correct many of their own errors – which would help overcome one of the major design challenges for such devices.…
OnePlus founder scores $7m from iPod inventor and other investors for audio startup
'Nothing' yet to speak of in terms of products, though OnePlus founder Carl Pei has raised $7m in seed funding for his new hardware startup based in London and focused on the audio sector.…
Software contractor accused of favoring foreigners on work visas over Americans agrees to cough up $42,000
IT biz sued by US Dept of Justice on behalf of dev pays out fine, damages A Texas-based software contractor has settled a lawsuit that accused it of illegally discriminating against American programmers by favoring foreigner workers to keep wages low.…
Reading El Reg while working from home? Here's a pleasant thought: Kaspersky says 1 in 10 of you are naked right now
Those daily Zoom calls just got worse One in ten employees forced to work from home like to do so in the buff while some 8 per cent say they are showering less during lockdown – meaning those sweaty office chairs are positively teeming with with microbial life.…
Expect to work between Christmas and New Year as Brexit uncertainty continues, UK SAP users told
T minus 23 days and there will very likely be last minute export/import changes As-yet undefined rules regarding the cross-border transportation of goods between the UK and the EU mean IT professionals supporting SAP installations in the UK can expect to be working between Christmas and New Year as the Brexit deadline approaches with no deal yet agreed.…
Bitter war of words erupts between UK cops and web security expert over alleged flaws in Cyberalarm monitoring tool
Pervade Software's product isn't perfect but neither is the police response to security concerns A war of words has erupted between the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) and a British web security pro after a senior cop declared it would be "a waste of public money" to keep discussing security flaws in the body's Cyberalarm product.…
CentOS project changes focus, no more rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux – you'll have to flow with the Stream
Founder talks of plans for independent distro 'rebuild' The CentOS project, a non-commercial Linux distribution that tracks Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), is changing to become only CentOS Stream, based on a development branch of RHEL and therefore less suitable for production workloads.…
Australia mostly sticks to its guns in final plan to make Google and Facebook pay news publishers
YouTube and Instagram exempted, Bill kicked into committee for a while Australia has revealed the legislation with which it plans to force Google and Facebook to pay local news publishers for linking to their content, a plan the nation hatched to funnel more revenue to news outlets whose business models didn't evolve fast enough to remain viable in the internet age.…
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