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Scottish cops dangle £6m for help understanding 160TB treasure trove of structured and unstructured data
Improved metadata management and easier compliance also required The Scottish Police Authority is on the hunt for virtual data warehouse and data lake providers as part of a £6m tender intended to help the public body derive some value from the huge volumes of data it is sat on.…
The only way is bork for the UK's embattled rail travellers
Destination 'Preinst aborted' Bork!Bork!Bork! Come join your friends at The Register on a train journey to Bork. Or at least one to destination Aborted.…
Germany to fund development of edge CPUs as part of 'tech you can trust' plan to home-brew more kit
€400m for starters, after recent ban on 'untrustworthy' suppliers that sounded a lot like it was directed at Huawei The German government has begun a fund to support locally brewed electronics as the country tries to reduce its reliance on imported kit.…
Server and storage sales sickened in Q1 and not just because of you know what
IBM's server revenue grew rather nicely, but Lenovo's in a more-shipments-less-revenue trap Analyst firm IDC has published its assessment of the server and storage markets for 2020’s first quarter and the numbers are nasty.…
GnuTLS patches huge security hole that hung around for two years – worse than Heartbleed, says Google cryptoboffin
Maybe it's time to get it gone GnuTLS, a widely used open source library implementing Transport Layer Security, last week fixed a bug that had been hiding in the code for almost two years that made resumed TLS 1.3 sessions vulnerable to attack.…
Malaysia using digital MaGIC to join the spend-on-tech-to-defeat-viral-slump club
$8bn for all things innovative and economically restorative Malaysia has decided to splash cash on tech as part of its post-pandemic economic stimulus plan.…
Rackspace changes name to – drum-roll please – ‘Rackspace Technology’
Are company naming consultants paid by the word? Logowatch Rackspace has changed its name to “Rackspace Technology”.…
Sponge code borks square AI brains, sucking up compute power in novel attack against machine-learning systems
The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma A novel adversarial attack that can jam machine-learning systems with dodgy inputs to increase processing time and cause mischief or even physical harm has been mooted.…
Remind us again, why work for AWS? Petty Amazon sues marketing veep after he defects to Google Cloud
Hyperscalers spar in non-compete, NDA spat Amazon has kicked off a legal challenge to prevent a former AWS product marketing veep from taking a senior role at rival Google Cloud.…
From off-prem to just off: IBM Cloud goes down planet-wide so hard even the status page didn't work
Widespread outage rolled for two-plus hours, incident report mentions 'broad network incident that is impacting many cloud services' Updated IBM’s cloud has gone down hard across the world.…
Yeah, great start after sacking human hacks: Microsoft's AI-powered news portal mixes up photos of women-of-color in article about racism
Blame Reg Bot 9000 for any blunders in this story, by the way Microsoft's online news service mixed up a singer from the British girl group Little Mix for another mixed-race member of the pop band in an article about racism – after the Windows giant dumped dozens of human editors for AI software.…
June's Patch Tuesday reveals 23 ways to remotely pwn Windows – and over 100 more bugs that could ruin your day
Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, SAP emit fixes in security synchronicity Patch Tuesday Microsoft has given IT admins and folks another busy Patch Tuesday with 129 security vulnerabilities to address.…
Thought you'd addressed those data-leaking Spectre holes on Linux? Guess again. The patches aren't perfect
Google engineer flags bugs in speculative-execution exploit defenses Linux kernel developers are fixing up a trio of weaknesses in the open-source project – after a Google engineer reported that defenses implemented to stop speculative-execution snooping do not work as intended.…
Big Tech trade association warns Uncle Sam against knee-jerk national security measures that harm industry
There'll be 'unintended negative consequences' if we continue like this The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) has delivered a light slapping to the US administration as it urged lawmakers to think a little harder about policies aimed at improving national security.…
MacOS on Arm talk intensifies: Just weeks from now, Apple to serve up quarantini with Kalamata golive, reportedly
'People familiar' have been running their mouths, it seems Apple is reportedly inching closer towards unveiling its first Arm-based Macs, with official confirmation expected to take place at this month's WWDC conference.…
Researchers unmask Indian 'infosec' firm to reveal hacker-for-hire op that targeted pretty much anyone clients wanted
And we would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for that meddling Citizen Lab Canada's Citizen Lab laboratory has uncovered a hacks-for-hire phishing operation targeting anyone from political activists and oligarchs to lawyers and CEOs that hit more than 10,000 email inboxes over seven years.…
As UK Parliament heads back to in-person voting, select committees are told they can continue working via Zoom
Critics worry mass return to House of Commons is unsafe UK Parliament select committees will continue in a "virtual" format until mid-September, House of Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has confirmed.…
MongoDB 4.4 aims to be a dev crowd-pleaser, but analysts say it's still short of 'general-purpose' database territory
New features for core product as well as enhancements to Atlas DBaaS Against a backdrop of mounting losses, NoSQL document store database MongoDB has pushed out its 4.4 iteration with a slew of new features that it expects to improve analytics, ease scaling and smooth performance.…
Hospital-busting hacker crew may be behind ransomware attack that made Honda halt car factories, say researchers
Snake / Ekans nasty fingered Updated Japanese car maker Honda has been hit by ransomware that disrupted its production of vehicles and also affected internal communications, according to reports.…
Brave soz about coding snafu that sent search queries to affiliate links but insists practice is 'industry-standard'
Sustainable revenue is hard for privacy-focused browser Privacy-focused browser maker Brave has responded to complaints about affiliate links by apologising for a coding error but also stating that adding affiliate links to search queries is standard practice.…
Tune in and watch online today: Busting the myths around cloud data protection
Find the savings and security you need when working remotely Webcast Working remotely using cloud apps – it’s the new normal, and it’s time to revisit data protection. You need to protect your business data when your users aren’t on-prem, and you need confidence you’ve got continuity if the worst happens.…
Windoze 10: New levels of tedium reached with latest Insider build while 'stable' release still a bit wonky
Plus: When Microsoft found breaking up hard to do, and much more Roundup Welcome to another look at recent happenings in Redmond, starring Visual Studio, Windows 10, Azure bots and that 20 year anniversary of the anti-trust case when Microsoft realised that breaking up was hard to do.…
Ex-Dell distributor in Lebanon ignored ban on suing US tech giant. Now four directors have been sentenced to prison in the UK
18- and 9-month terms dished out for contempt of court A group of Lebanese IT distributors have been handed prison sentences for contempt of court after running afoul of Dell and breaching an anti-lawsuit order.…
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes: UK man gets 3 years for torching 4G phone mast over 5G fears
Vodafone confirms to The Reg: Misled Merseyside chap missed his target A Merseyside man has been sentenced to three years in jail by a beak in Liverpool Crown Court after torching a Vodafone-owned phone mast.…
The FETT seeks to defeat SSITH defenses as US military goes hard on bug bounties and its Star Wars issues
DARPA seeks a few good hackers Two years ago, the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency introduced a hardware security program called System Security Integration Through Hardware and Firmware, or SSITH.…
Logitech G915 TKL: Numpad-free mechanical keyboard clicks all the right boxes
Yes, clicks. You can feel it, says Vulture who got his claws on one Review Regular readers will know this correspondent is rather partial to mechanical keyboards. The latest to join my collection is Logitech's G915 TKL, launched by the Swiss peripherals makers just last month.…
Civica bags £25m deal to handle web portal for UK National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme
How many speeding Brit drivers does contract value equate to? 250,000 based on minmum fine possible IT services outfit Civica has bagged a £25m contract to provide a managed service to support bespoke software and data integration for the UK National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS).…
When open source isn't enough: Fancy a de-Googled Chromium? How about some Microsoft-free VS Code?
Escaping telemetry might seem attractive, but there are downsides too Open-source Chromium web browser and Visual Studio Code editor not free enough for you? Some developers, wary of the big corporate sponsors behind these projects, have taken the code and removed any branding, tracking and links to services to create independent alternatives.…
Singapore to distribute wearable contact-tracing device and won't rule out making it compulsory
Because not everyone has a smartphone and Apple devices remain problematic Singapore will introduce a wearable device to assist with COVID-19 contact tracing and the minister responsible won't rule out making it compulsory.…
Saturn's largest satellite, Titan, is drifting away from its planet 100 times faster than previously thought
Atmospheric moon taking a wander Titan, the only known moon in the Solar System with an atmosphere, is drifting away from Saturn at a rate a hundred times faster than previous estimates, according to the latest research published in Nature Astronomy on Monday.…
IBM quits facial recognition tech because Black Lives Matter
CEO Arvind Krishna tells Congress it’s time to debate law enforcement reform, including access to AI IBM has discontinued its facial recognition or analysis software.…
Japan to test self-destructing satellite to shrink space junk with string and an inanimate carbon blob
Now that launches and cubesats are cheap, ‘post-mission disposal’ has become more important Japan’s space agency (JAXA) has announced plans to test a self-destructing satellite in the hope of commercialising the technology so the proliferating fleet of low-orbit kit doesn’t become junk.…
Singapore government boosts tech spend by 30% to pump post-pandemic economy
Contact-tracing and building logins hailed as COVID-crimpers, so gov wants more The government of Singapore has decided spending more on technology is a fine way to help its economy recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, so has increased its tech spending by S$800m (US$575m) for FY 2020.…
China's silicon-self-sufficiency plan likely to miss targets due to Factories Not Present error
Plan for 70% of home-baked chips by 2025 won't be met. And probably not by 2030 either China's aim of satisfying 70 per cent of its own semiconductor with home-baked product by the year 2025 will fall well short of that target according to analyst outfit IC insights.…
Samsung heir remains free as judge rules putting him inside would be detention without trial
Financial contortions will be considered, but not with Lee Jae-yong under arrest A South Korean court has rejected prosecutors' request to arrest Samsung's de facto leader, Lee Jae-yong, in a case surrounding an alleged $3.9bn accounting fraud.…
US Air Force wants to pit AI-powered drone against its dogfighting hotshots in battle of the skies next year
Fliers v fine-tuned code, who will win? The US Air Force wants to pit an autonomous aircraft against another fighter jet controlled by a human pilot in July 2021.…
City of Los Angeles sued for tracking rental scooter rides - that's the rideshare company's job says EFF and ACLU
Maybe they were just baffled to see people getting around without cars The city of Los Angeles is the target of a lawsuit from civil rights groups angry over its tracking of rental scooter rides.…
Developers renew push to get rid of objectionable code terms to make 'the world a tiny bit more welcoming'
'Blacklist' and 'master' keep getting removed from source code Amid the protests over the death of George Floyd, activists in the software community have taken the opportunity to remind people that they're trying to do away with terminology tied to racial oppression.…
Because things aren't bad enough already: COVID-19 is going to mess up election security assumptions too
Socially isolated officials will be fair game for meddling hackers The social distancing measures brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic will weaken election security in the US, according to a non-profit's security check.…
25 years of PHP: The personal web tools that ended up everywhere
'PHP is not very exciting and there is not much to it' = the secret of success? Feature On 8th June 1995 programmer Rasmus Lerdorf announced the birth of "Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools)".…
Ericsson warns of £85.7m inventory hit for Q2 due to carrier handouts in China
One-off cost won't derail financial targets Ericsson has warned investors that its Q2 results will be dented by SEK 1bn (around £85.7m) in costs after it wrote down the value of its inventory held in mainland China.…
Huawei launches UK charm offensive: We've provided 2G, 3G and 4G for 20 years, and you're worried about 5G?
'High-risk' comms vendor says Blighty will be sorry if it limits firm's involvement Chinese comms bogeyman Huawei has embarked on a UK-wide ad blitz in the wake of reports its telco kit would be ripped out of the country by 2023 to "commemorate 20 years in the British market".…
Must not be the season of the switch: Someone flipped the you-know-what in global ethernet switch and router supply chain
Customers pulling purse strings didn't help much either, say analysts Disrupted supply chains and falling customer spending caused a bloodbath in the global ethernet switch and router markets in Q1, with Juniper and HPE the only top five players to report any sales progress.…
BoJo looks to jumpstart UK economy with £6k taxpayer-funded incentive for Brits to buy electric cars – report
Ditch your diesel or petrol motor for something more Musk-shaped Updated Mop-haired Brit Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering ways to jumpstart the UK economy, including a scheme to hand £6,000 of taxpayers' cash to every driver who permanently parks their petrol or diesel guzzler and buys an electric car.…
Mortal wombat: 4 generations of women fight for their lives against murderous marsupial
Mauled mum receives the wisdom of Steve Irwin to immobilise frenzied beast Australia has become the gift that keeps giving for quirky news items while western civilisation is on hold. If it's not a house-proud bloke casually telling the prime minister to get off his lawn, it's a homicidal wombat brutally attacking four generations of women.…
UK council dodges £100k hosting bill, opts for £6.5 million ERP migration
You must be Barking and Dagenham, the east London borough The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is tendering for a new £6.5m ERP system after balking at the £100,000 annual price hike for continuing to run its hosted Oracle E-Business Suite solution.…
Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro: £250 mobe still able to deliver value in a brutally competitive niche
A capable bargain-bin blower, just beware the bloatware Hands On The Redmi Note 9 Pro is Xiaomi's latest blower for the UK market. At £250, it occupies a frightfully competitive sector of the smartphone world. Can it compete with similar efforts from Nokia, Samsung, Honor, and Realme?…
Why would someone want to hack Germany's PPE supply chain? We're glad you masked
IBM says phishing operation could be effort to get upper hand in negotiations Hackers are targeting German companies tasked with replenishing the nation's supply of personal protective equipment.…
Yet another beefy BSOD spotted lurking within the walls of US patty pusher
Remember when an error message at McDonald's was all we had to worry about? Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork goes back to its roots in today's edition of problematic panels, with a seriously distressed McDonald's order screen from back when we were allowed in such places.…
Smart fridges are cool, but after a few short years you could be stuck with a big frosty brick in the kitchen
You should check how long a vendor intends to support the kit, says Which? A report from consumer advocates Which? highlights the shockingly short lifespan of "smart" appliances, with some losing software support after just a few years, despite costing vastly more than "dumb" alternatives.…
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