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Don't panic: An asteroid larger than the Empire State Building is flying past Earth this weekend but we're just fine
2002 NN4 will visit us fairly frequently, and always miss - ignore the clickbait An asteroid described as larger than the Empire State Building will whizz past Earth, making its closest approach on 6 June.…
Moore's Law is deader than corduroy bell bottoms. But with a bit of smart coding it's not the end of the road
Don't aim for the bottom, go top down In his 1959 address to the American Physical Society at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture titled, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom," laying out the opportunity ahead to manipulate matter at the atomic scale.…
British Army pulls up its SOC: New regiment to do infosec work even civvies will recognise
That's Systems Operating Centre to you. Chuffed with that, says Royal Signals brigadier The British Army has raised a new regiment that will take charge of its in-house security operations centre, a move calculated to make cyber defence a more mainstream part of all things armed and camouflaged.…
It could be 'five to ten years' before the world finally drags itself away from IPv4
Happy 8th (or 9th) 'launch day' birthday, IPv6. Your daddy ain't dead yet IPv4 is here to stay with us for a good few years yet, reckons the the Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre's (RIPE NCC) public policy manager, eight years after IPv6 was supposed to replace it.…
Kind of goes without saying, but fix your admin passwords or risk getting borged by this brute-forcing botnet
Publishing platforms, hosts being targeted by Stealthworker malware Servers are being targeted with a malware attack that uses its infected hosts to brute-force other machines.…
Trump's Make Space Great Again video pulled after former 'naut says: Nope
How may I infringe thee? Let me count the ways... A funny thing happened overnight in the world of space and politics as a campaigning video featuring SpaceX's commercial crew launch and promoting US President Donald Trump was abruptly pulled from YouTube.…
UK govt publishes contracts granting Amazon, Microsoft, Google and AI firms access to COVID-19 health data
Questions linger over involvement of biz linked to Dominic Cummings and Vote Leave campaign UK government has published the contracts it holds with private tech firms and the NHS for the creation of a COVID-19 data store, just days after campaigners fired legal shots over a lack of transparency.…
TsoHost swings axe at 'legacy' DIY website builder MrSite, giving customers a month to find alternative arrangements
Celebrating two years of merged activities by hitting the Off button IP blacklist frequenter tsoHost has taken time out from borking emails to let customers know that its recent acquisition, website builder MrSite, is for the chop.…
Some Brits reckon broadband got worse after lockdown – but that's just what happens when you're online 12 hours straight
You perceive more faults, and they may not be faults in the first place A chunk of the UK's broadband users claim their connections worsened in the days following lockdown, according to a YouGov survey of 2,301 adults.…
Pipped to the post: Google Cloud nabs Salesforce exec to lead UK and Ireland business
Pip White among bunch of new EMEA hires at Chocolate Factory offshoot Pip White, senior veep and general manager of industry sales at Salesforce, has been nabbed by Google to head up its Cloud business in the UK and Ireland.…
'Direct from the software vendor': UK.gov goes window-shopping for standard ERP in £400m spree
Don't bother picking that tie for the Zoom session, resellers UK government procurement unit Crown Commercial Service is sizing up the market for new back-office systems for central government in deals that could be worth up to £400m.…
DB2 migration problems caused IBM to resurrect Netezza, according to analyst
Plenty of competition out there for Big Blue IBM brought its flagship data warehousing product Netezza back from the dead because customers were having trouble migrating to the IBM database DB2, according to an analyst blog published today.…
Looking for a fresh challenge or somewhere new to work? Here are some vacancies: Developers, developers and a digital architect
Places your job ads with us for free or take some time to browse the listings for suitable roles Job Alert The Register has got more jobs for readers to peruse this week as we continue efforts to keep techies in work during these testing times.…
Signal goes Gaussian to take privacy to the next level: All your faces don't belong to us
Blur tool brings privacy protection to images, in these troubled times Amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd, secure comms biz Signal has deployed a blur tool in its messaging and calling app to allow users to obscure faces in app-captured snapshots.…
Travel-sick Windows needing a Systemwiederherstellung would be in Germany, right? Austria? Not necessarily
Mein OS tut weh Bork!Bork!Bork! Willkommen to today's edition of Bork, The Register's glimpse at what digital signage does when it thinks nobody is looking.…
Apps get bit animated: Android Studio 4.0 released with new Motion Editor
Google's free IDE is high quality but doesn't remove all the annoyances of Android development Google has released Android Studio 4.0, a massive update to its IDE for mobile app development, with features like an upgraded Layout Inspector, and the brand new Build Analyzer and motion editor.…
OK Windows 10, we get it: You really do not want us to install this unsigned application. But 7 steps borders on ridiculous
Utility creator claims OTT security hoops are harmful to indie devs A developer of a Windows utility has protested that "Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers" because of the number of warnings and obstacles placed in front of users who download installers that are not signed or sufficiently well known.…
Amazon declined to sell a book so Elon Musk called for it to be broken up
That escalated quickly Elon Musk has called for Amazon.com to be broken up because it declined to sell a book.…
We're number... six. Analysis puts UK behind Switzerland and Kuwait in 5G adoption
There's Samsung to be said for having an in-house 5G vendor, right, Korea? A new report has put the UK sixth globally for 5G adoption – behind the usual heavyweights of South Korea and Switzerland, as well as the US, Kuwait, and Qatar.…
Video? That's so not what we care about, says Slack, as it signs video deal with AWS
All Amazon staff are slackers now as AWS chat backend Chime's in Slack has posted strong growth for the first quarter of FY 2021 and declined to measure its performance by comparing adoption rates with Microsoft Teams.…
If Daddy doesn't want me to touch the buttons, why did they make them so colourful?
The perils of 'bring your child to work' day On Call We have stepped into Friday, and the weekend is only a few short hours away. Take a break from wondering what a trip to the park might do to the "R" number and join us for another adventure of those Register readers cursed with the On Call phone.…
VMware delays vSphere 6.7 end of life by 11 months, because vAdmins have other things to worry about
And teases pay-by-credit-card options for its AWS service VMware has extended the supported life of vSphere 6.7 for 11 months.…
Google+ replacement ‘Currents’ to end beta and debut in G Suite on July 6th
Admins told ‘It will not be possible to opt out’ but also promised transition should be painless Google has advised G Suite administrators that its replacement for Google+, “Currents”, will debut on July 6th.…
Korean prosecutors seek arrest warrant for Samsung's heir apparent
Fraud allegations regarding health company transaction mean more strife for Lee Jae-yong South Korean prosecutors have requested an arrest warrant for Samsung Group heir, Lee Jae-yong, as part of a investigation into an alleged $3.9bn accounting fraud.…
Facebook to save US users from ads bought by foreign state-controlled media
Leaving more room for false ads bought by local politicians, which it still allows Facebook will hide ads bought by state-owned media outlets from its US-based users, as part of its plan “to provide an extra layer of protection against various types of foreign influence in the public debate ahead of the November 2020 election in the US.”…
Google India says Play store policy, not geopolitics, behind removal of Chinese-app-deleting app
And we’d do it anywhere else, anytime, says veep Google India has explained why it yanked an app called Remove China Apps from its “Play” digital souk.…
Hooray, space boffins have finally got InSight lander's heat probe back into Martian ground again
The beloved mole hasn't been able to dig into the Red Planet's regolith for ages NASA’s Insight lander is back in business after the agency reported that its "mole," a digging probe designed to burrow into the martian soil, is now back in action after suffering months of mishaps.…
Amazon warehouse workers sue over safety concerns as several contract COVID-19
One employee went on to infect her cousin, who later died Amazon.com employees have sued the e-commerce giant for failing to protect them against the coronavirus, after they contracted COVID-19 and infected their relatives or partners.…
VMware beefs up security chops with Lastline acquisition, reportedly drops 40 per cent of staff
Security firm's swallowing may leave many staff out in the cold VMware is acquiring antimalware company Lastline to boost its network security offerings.…
We have Huawei to make the internet more secure: Dump TCP/IP to make folks safer says Chinese mobe slinger
Chinese telecom companies and authorities want more network control to keep everyone...uh, safe online Chinese telecom companies and the Middle Kingdom government contend that the TCP/IP protocol stack is ill-suited for future networking needs and have proposed reworking the internet's technical architecture with new, more secure internet protocols.…
Have I Been Pwned breach report email pwned entire firm's helldesk ticket system
That's one way of making people check for updates A hapless IT bod found the Have I Been Pwned service (HIBP) answering its own question in a way he really didn’t want – after a breach report including a SQL string KO’d his company’s helpdesk ticket system.…
Is the speed and resilience of your storage up to scratch? We’d love to hear your thoughts
Fill out our questionnaire, and we’ll share the report once we’ve collated the data Reader survey Some company directors respond well when you wave a pie chart in their face to get what you want, and we’re offering you an opportunity – if you work in database storage and workloads – to help create that kind of budget-relocating study yourself.…
Brit MP demands answers from Fujitsu about Horizon IT system after Post Office staff jailed over accounting errors
Biz committee chairman asks whether firm accepts software had issues A senior Brit MP has written to Fujitsu demanding answers from the company over its role in the Horizon IT system scandal that has rocked the nation's Post Office.…
Astroboffins peering back in time with Hubble find stars may have been flickering into life even earlier than thought
We need to look further to glimpse Population III fireballs – where's that James Webb Telescope? European astronomers, using data from the veteran Hubble Space Telescope, have suggested the formation of the first stars and galaxies in the early universe happened earlier than thought.…
Legal complaint lodged with UK data watchdog over claims coronavirus Test and Trace programme flouts GDPR
'Government is moving too fast, and breaking things as a result' Open Rights Group has instructed lawyers to lodge a complaint with the UK's data watchdog over the rollout of the Test and Trace system because it says the system breaches the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…
Sophos puts 100 at risk of redundancy as future of Naked Security blog hangs in balance
Firm denies shutdown of marketing organ but heads may well roll Exclusive Sophos has placed 100 staff at risk of redundancy and is said to be shutting down its Naked Security blog, sources have told The Register - although the private equity-owned biz denied this.…
There's always a coronavirus angle these days: Honor intros new smartphone with built-in temperature sensor
Be the hero who carries a thermometer around in their mobe Niche, China-exclusive smartphones seldom get a nod in The Reg's pages, but allow us to make an exception for Honor's latest flagship, the Play4 Pro.…
Hey Mister Prime Minister ... Scott! Can you get off my lawn please, mate?
Aussie homeowner moves press conference off freshly seeded grass In these dark times, at least we still have the no-nonsense attitude of Australians to lift the mood – though the country's prime minister found himself at the pointy end of it this morning.…
Namesco email 'scripting error' has last bastion of Demon Internet holdouts scratching their heads
Let's play 'That's Not My Subdomain' There was another twist in the long-running Demon subdomain saga yesterday as Namesco accidentally mixed up some customers due to a "scripting error."…
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Hydrogen clouds in a far-away star system glowing from a supernova's last gasp
Exploding sun's shock wave may have sparked light from interstellar gas More than 20 years ago a huge wave of energized interstellar gas was detected passing through the Big Dipper – or The Plough as it's known in the UK. Now astrophysicists think they've figured out the cause of the cosmic commotion: a ripple from a massive supernova explosion passing through the Milky Way.…
Is a global crisis the right time to invest in some kind of data platform? If the boss isn't making cuts to all things IT, why not?
Forget Industry 4.0 – we're on Data 4.0 now, if Informatica is to believed Web 2.0, Analytics 3.0, Industry 4.0. A world-weary tech worker would be minded to add TotalBull 5.0 to the list. Tech industry vendors are prone to promote grand visions that on close examination turn out to be a mishmash of concepts and technologies congregating only to shift more units.…
Global bean-counting behemoth PWC tells vendors: Now would be a great time to audit your customers
A little more short-term revenue never hurt any.. er, well.. You know how it is: the economy is in meltdown; half the company is working from home and the other half is furloughed. What is there to look forward to? Software audits, that's what.…
Repair store faces hefty legal bill after losing David and Goliath fight with Apple over replacement iPhone screens
Top court rules iGiant's trademark infringed by components In a setback for the right-to-repair movement, Norway's Supreme Court has upheld a decision that a repair shop's use of unauthorized iPhone screens violated Apple's trademark.…
Creeps give away money to harass recipients with abusive transaction descriptions on bank statements
'Serious threats' and references to family violence as payment descriptors turned into virtual messaging service Creeps in Australia have given away money in order to harass people with abusive transaction descriptions that appear in online banking records.…
GSMA suggests mobile carriers bake contact-tracing into their own apps – if governments ask for it
Working group already probing Bluetooth performance on myriad devices to help developers The GSM Association, the body that represents mobile carriers and influences the development of standards, has suggested its members bake virus contact-tracing functionality into their own bundled software.…
Barmy ban on businesses, Brits based in Blighty bearing or buying .eu domains is back: Cut-off date is Jan 1, 2021
If you're not registered somewhere in the union, you can't use the TLD Any Brit based in the UK, and not in the EU, will have their .eu domain taken away from them on January 1, 2021, according to the latest iteration of rules published by the TLD's operator EURid.…
Keep it clean you lot: Samsung's created a hand-washing app for its wearables
Complete with nagware and wash-tracking features Users of Samsung’s wearable devices can now get their hands on a hand-washing app that runs on their wrists.…
No more installing Microsoft's Chromium-centered Edge by hand: Windows 10 will do it for you automatically
Something something pushing us over the Edge Microsoft warned late last year that it was making plans to distribute the Chromium-based version of its Edge browser in Windows 10 updates. It began doing so earlier this year, although manual installation was required, but now Redmond has taken the distribution of Edge via Windows Update a step further by initiating installation.…
IBM to power down Power-powered virtual private cloud, GPU-accelerated options
Customers given 80 days before instance deletion and the suggested replacement doesn't yet support Linux IBM has given users of its IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC on Power 80 days to find a new home.…
Update Firefox: Mozilla just patched three hijack-me holes and a bunch of other flaws
Plus: Zoom fixes code-execution security bugs Mozilla has emitted security updates for Firefox to address eight CVE-listed security flaws, five of them considered to be high-risk vulnerabilities.…
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