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Oh cool, more Cisco patches to apply. Happy Monday
Meanwhile, Linux KDE desktops can be pwned by evil archives In Brief Cisco customers once again find themselves needing to patch critical vulnerabilities in Switchzilla's gear.…
AWS adds database on-ramp to its Arm-powered instances
Automation tool RDS can now push MySQL and PostgreSQL onto Arm, MariaDB coming soon Amazon Web Services has made instances powered by its home-baked Arm servers more approachable by starting a preview of its Relational Database Service (RDS) on the hardware.…
World takes tablets during COVID lockdowns, with shipments spiking 18 percent
Apple leads in shipments, but also records the slowest growth among branded fondleslab-flingers Tablet computer shipments have grown by 18.6 percent thanks to the COVID-19 crisis.…
Linus Torvalds pines for header file fix but releases Linux 5.8 anyway
Lots of love for AMD and POWER 10 and a hint of some Google's operational code making it into future releases Linus Torvalds has released a new version of the Linux kernel.…
Microsoft confirms pursuit of TikTok after Satya Nadella chats to Donald Trump
‘Appreciates President Trump’s personal involvement’ and promises so much security, you’ll be tired of securing Microsoft has confirmed it is considering the purchase of made-in-China social network TikTok and that its CEO Satya Nadella has spoken with US president Donald Trump to re-assure him about the security and taxation implications of the putative purchase.…
US drugstore chain installed anti-shoplifter facial-recognition cameras in 200 locations – for eight years
Plus: Latest hardware results from MLPerf and why so-called text deepfakes are dangerous In brief Rite Aid, an American drugstore chain, secretly deployed facial recognition cameras to spy on its shoppers across 200 stores for eight years.…
Lizards for lunch? Crazy tech? Aliens?! Dana Dash: First Girl on the Moon is perfect for the little boffin-to-be in your life
Book tries to sell science to girls, so our nine year-old Reg reviewer gives her opinion Book review In Dana Dash: First Girl on the Moon, it shouldn't be surprising that Dana Dash, a 10-year-old science-obsessed girl, makes it to and walks on the Moon – but that doesn't make it any less exciting.…
So many stars, so little time: Machine learning helps astroboffins spot the most oxygen-starved galaxy yet
Don't bother packing your bags for HSC J1631+4426 just yet, it's 430 million light years away Astronomers have spied a tiny galaxy with the lowest oxygen levels yet observed, a discovery made possible thanks to a machine-learning algorithm.…
Amazon gets green-light to blow $10bn on 3,000+ internet satellites. All so Americans can shop more on Amazon
Jeff knows you've gotta spend money to make money Amazon got the stamp of approval this week from America's communications watchdog to operate thousands of internet-relaying satellites into low Earth orbit.…
IT giant CSC coughs up $2m after helping New York City bill Medicaid for child therapy rather than insurance cos
Biz and city officials 'frequently ignored' invoice rules, prosecutors said An IT provider has settled with the US government regarding a row over medical billing in New York City.…
Who was behind that stunning Twitter hack? State spies? Probably this Florida kid, say US prosecutors
Alleged 17-year-old mastermind among trio charged over account mass hijackings Three individuals were charged on Friday for allegedly hijacking a string of high-profile Twitter accounts after hoodwinking the social network's staff.…
We give up, Progressive Web Apps can track you, says W3C: After 5 years, it decides privacy is too much bother
You lot sort it out In 2015, as part of a privacy review conducted under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Nick Doty flagged a potential problem with web applications.…
The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*
*If you have a PlayStation 4 The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column back for the first time with an exclusive PlayStation 4 title. This was a big release surrounded by needless controversy and immense expectations that needed some time sunk into it. Does it stand up now the dust has settled? Absolutely.…
How to democratise IT: Tech big four hoover 63% of global cloudy infrastructure spending
No, we have not used the term 'digital transformation'... oh bugger Continuing to democratise IT, the big four scooped up 63 per cent of the whopping $34.6bn that customers spent globally on cloudy infrastructure services in Q2.…
All the way to Reno: Oppo's latest mid-ranger going global but lacks 5G compared to similarly specced models
It'll be a tough sell against the OnePluses and Motorolas around Another day, another middle-of-the-road phone. This time it's the turn of Oppo, which just announced the international release of the Reno 4 Pro after an early debut in China. The latest handset from the BKK-owned firm comes with a price tag of (roughly) £355/ $470.…
An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day
Don't worry if one's loitering in your garden, it'll buzz off in a while It is the balmy midsummer day when they grow wings, fly about in the hot sun, and get stuck to every kind of food and beverage. Yes, today is SysAdmin Day.…
For Apple's latest trick, the iCockroach – allowing it to survive while the smartphone sector faces a nuclear winter
Total vendor shipments down 88.5 million year-on-year in first half of 2020 Apple was the sole top five smartphone brand to report any growth in calendar Q2 – for everyone else, sales were in free fall as shipments plummeted across the sector by an astonishing 14 per cent.…
First rule of Ransomware Club is do not pay the ransom, but it looks like Carlson Wagonlit Travel didn't get the memo
$4.5m may have gone into crims' pockets after bookings biz hit by Ragnar Locker nasty Exclusive US corporate travel management firm Carlson Wagonlit Travel has suffered an intrusion and it is believed the company paid a $4.5m ransom to get its data back.…
Seeking that perfect role? Come inside and peruse vacancies for developers, testers and DataOps Leaders
Get 'em while they're hot Job Alert As the month draws to a close and with the pandemic still biting, we're back again with our free list of job opportunities in the big and beautiful world of tech.…
Elite name on Brit scene sponsors retro video games preservation project at the Centre for Computing History
Couldn't come at a better time as Cambridge museum remains closed Spotify is to music what Steam is to video games – sometimes you just want to spin some classic vinyl while picking through the liner notes, feel the gatefold between your fingers.…
13 – lucky for some, but not BT because that's how hard pre-tax profits crashed in Q1
COVID-19 ravages former state monopoly as nearly all divisions shrink While the cloud businesses at Google and AWS are shovelling cash under their mattress and Apple is making bank, back in Britain BT has been left to count the cost of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Burn baby burn, plastic inferno! Infosec researchers turn 3D printers into self-immolating suicide machines
Inflammatory findings from deadly serious investigation Some 3D printers can be flashed with firmware updates downloaded directly from the internet – and an infosec research firm says it has discovered a way to spoof those updates and potentially make the printer catch fire.…
The future of work is digital-first – but how do you make the very best of that?
Join us and find out more with Box in this German-language online broadcast Webcast As the coronavirus crisis has gripped the world for the past few months, it’s become increasingly obvious that remote working can work extremely well with a good many advantages. Collaboration can, in fact, be boosted, with a greater number of remote workers able to work together digitally on projects that may have been, in the past, executed only in an office environment.…
Dutch Gateway store was kept udder wraps for centuries until refit dug up computing history
Cow about that? A bit of computing history has been inadvertently unearthed in the Netherlands after a refit of a shop revealed signage for long-forgotten computer brand Gateway.…
In the market for a second-hand phone? Check it's still supported by the vendor – almost a third sold are not
That means no security updates, which puts users at risk of compromise An investigation by consumer watchdog Which? has found that nearly a third of all phones sold on second-hand sites are no longer supported by the vendor, leaving punters at risk of being hacked.…
EU tries to get serious on cybercrime with first sanctions against Wannacry, NotPetya, CloudHopper crews
Russian, Chinese, Nork groups named in bank asset freeze The European Union has, for the first time ever, slapped sanctions on hacking crews.…
Venerable text editor GNU Nano reaches version 5.0 and adds the modern frippery that is scrollbars
Three big upgrades since 2018 suggests it's far from terminal Cult text editor GNU Nano has released a major update, taking the terminal-based program to its fifth version in twenty years.…
'I'm telling you, I haven't got an iPad!' – Sent from my iPad
Careless autoreplies cripple email at the heart of local government On Call The week is drawing to a close and the weekend awaits. Is there a better way to kick things off than with an episode of Register reader experiences in our regular On Call feature? Probably, yes...…
Voyager 1 cracks yet another barrier: Now 150 Astronomical Units from Sol
20 light hours from Earth and still sending home data Voyager 1, the first human-created object to leave our Solar System, has quietly knocked off another milestone: it’s now more than 150 Astronomical Units from our Sun.…
Fun fact: If you noticed a while ago Zoom's web client going AWOL for a week, it's because someone found a passcode-cracking hole
Story behind a hasty teardown, fixing of a brute-force vulnerability Zoom has confirmed it fixed a vulnerability that could have been exploited by miscreants to crack the passcodes needed to access strangers' private chin-wagging.…
Twitter says spear-phishing attack hooked its staff and led to celebrity account hijack
Attack came in waves that probed for staff with access to the creds crims craved Twitter has offered further explanation of the celebrity account hijack hack that saw 130 users’ timelines polluted with a Bitcoin scam.…
Legendary Li-ion battery boffin John Goodenough to develop gel power packs with South Korea's SK Innovation
Won't degrade. Won't catch fire. Will be a fine fit for electric vehicles South Korean battery-maker SK Innovation will team up with 2019 Nobel Prize-winner John Goodenough to develop a new solid-state gel battery.…
Australia to force Google and Facebook to pay for news and reveal algorithm changes before they whack web traffic
And is willing to fine them hundreds of millions if they don't play nice Australian regulators have proposed to compel web giants to divulge forthcoming changes to the algorithms they use choose the content their users see, and to submit to binding arbitration when publisher seek payment for their content.…
Glum Alphabet execs look up from red-ink ad figures. What will we do, they ask. Ahem, coughs Google Cloud
Chocolate Factory's as-a-service stuff grows as advertising, profit takes a tumble Google-parent Alphabet saw its bottom line take a tumble this past quarter as the coronavirus pandemic cut into its lucrative advertising business.…
When you're stuck at home in a pandemic, what do you do? Watch TV, play music, use apps, buy laptops, gadgets... Stuff that Apple touts
And stuff that Cupertino just banked billions from Apple is weathering the COVID-19 storm well so far: on Thursday, it reported a surge in sales from its online souks, and maintained iPhone revenues despite temporarily shuttering stores during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.…
Amazon's coronavirus symptoms: Swelling of the profit, large sales deposits, insatiable demand
When the economy's tanking, who ya gonna call? Jeff Bezos! Amazon on Thursday reported $88.9bn in revenue for its second quarter of 2020, a 40 per cent increase year-on-year that exceeded expectations and lifted the web goliath's already buoyant stock in after-hours trading.…
Intel, boffins invent an AI Clippy for code: Hi, I see you're writing another lock-free bloom filter. Can I help?
Proof-of-concept algorithm-matching system paves way for more complex recommendation engine Intel engineers, and academics from MIT and Georgia Tech, have built a neural network that predicts whether two snippets of code intend to achieve the same aim even if they're written differently.…
Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?
Brush up on your RESTful, gRPC, container development skills with us online Webcast Building an application from the ground up for your business has never been quicker or easier. With REST for web services leading to the RESTful architectural style, and containers proving the perfect delivery model, the combination of DevOps, microservices, and automation means an organization can create almost anything, instantly.…
Infosec bod: I've found zero-day flaws in Tor's bridge relay defenses. Tor Project: Only the zero part is right
Warnings either not new or need more study, reckons open-source dev team Neal Krawetz, a computer forensics expert, has published details on how to detect Tor bridge network traffic that he characterizes as "zero-day exploits"... which the Tor Project insists are nothing of the sort.…
Dell trims workforce, says it's taking 'proactive steps to prepare for uncertainties' mid-pandemic
Some argument over exact numbers affected Dell is laying off staff though there is some dispute over the numbers involved.…
New Relic streamlines app monitoring tools, shifts to per-user, pay-as-you-go pricing, adds free tier to lure you in
'The concept of paying for monitoring per host has not aged well' Application Performance monitoring (APM) biz New Relic has trimmed its offerings to three core products and is moving away from host-based pricing to a per-user-per-month subscription and pay-as-you-go for data ingested and events processed.…
Humble-bragging ServiceNow CEO tells anyone who listens: 'Our destiny is to become the defining enterprise software biz of 21st century'
Larry, stop giving Bill ideas Bill McDermott – the former SAP CEO right now plying his trade at the top of workflow whizkid ServiceNow – has competed hard against Oracle for so long that he seems to have borrowed more than a few lines from Larry Ellison’s playbook.…
Firefox 79: A thin release for regular users, but plenty for developers to devour
Reverse tabnapping is no more Mozilla's Firefox 79 is here, but general users shouldn't get too excited – almost all the new features are aimed at developers.…
Microsoft finally spills the beans on everything you need to know about its low-code platform, Dataflex for Teams
Or maybe you want a List. Or a Task. Or a Planner. Just bung it into Teams Microsoft has shared more details about Dataflex, its low-code/no-code app platform that will be embedded into Teams - something it should have done much earlier to help demystify things.…
AI assistants work perfectly in the UK – unless you're from Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham, Belfast...
Folk outside London cry: Why doesn't Alexa understand me? To those of us born here, Britain is a wondrous cornucopia of accents and dialects. To visitors, like US-bred AI assistants, people outside of London may as well not speak English.…
Xen and the art of hypervisor introspection: Bitdefender donates meditative tech to open-source virty outfit
And its lightweight virtualized RAM and CPU project, Napoca, too Security vendor Bitdefender has open-sourced its hypervisor introspection technology, which the Xen Project will adopt as a sub-project.…
No Google Play, no problem: Huawei pinches global phone sales crown off Samsung
Despite America but because of China, vendor came out on top It almost seemed like a mission impossible but Huawei has defied all expectations – including its own – by outshipping rival handset maker Samsung to become the world's biggest shifter of smartphones.…
And it's off! NASA launches nuke-powered, laser-shooting, tank Perseverance to Mars to search for signs of life
23 cameras, microphones and a helicopter on the rover to see and hear the Red Planet in living technicolor Perseverance, the heaviest and most complex Martian rover yet, is on its way to the Red Planet aboard an Atlas V rocket that blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday.…
IBM talks up open cloud, downplays vendor lock-in as it signs public cloud framework with UK.gov
Now just AWS waiting in the wings under One Government Cloud policy As predicted by El Reg, IBM has joined the growing band of mostly American vendors to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK government that defines discounts for public cloud sales to public sector buyers.…
If you own one of these 45 Netgear devices, replace it: Gear maker won't patch vulnerable gear despite live proof-of-concept code
That's one way of speeding up the tech refresh cycle Netgear has quietly decided not to patch more than 40 home routers to plug a remote code execution vulnerability – despite security researchers having published proof-of-concept exploit code.…
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