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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.…
SpaceX is about to launch its first Starlink internet satellite sporting a sun visor following complaints by astronomers
Star light, star bright, you're being blocked out by these satellites Updated After complaints from astroboffins, a SpaceX Starlink internet satellite is set to launch tonight with a deployable visor designed to stop sunlight reflecting off its metallic body.…
Anatomy of a business email scam: FBI dossier details how fraudster pocketed $500k+ by redirecting payments
Electrolux, construction biz fooled into handing over money funneled out of the US to South Africa A fraudster has admitted he tricked two suppliers into paying him more than $500,000 by impersonating staff at a subcontractor and a retail outlet via email.…
California emits fine-print of its GDPR-ish digital privacy law, complete with Google and Facebook-sized holes
Sure, companies will probably just ignore its most important component, but what you gonna do? The final rules for California’s digital privacy law have been published and they are… full of holes.…
Not just its VCS console that's MIA, Atari is a no-show in court, too: Reborn biz ignores hardware architect's lawsuit over unpaid wages
12,000 people waiting for hardware, 500 might get it this month. Might Atari is on track to lose by default in a lawsuit brought by the architect of its much-delayed VCS games console over unpaid wages.…
It's nice y'all like our chips but half our data-center sales are from cloud giants, FYI, says Nvidia's chief beancounter
Hyperscalers snap up GPUs for AI inference Sales to hyperscalers now account for half of all Nvidia’s data-center revenues, the graphics giant’s chief financial officer Colette Kress said during a speech at the Bank of America Securities 2020 Global Technology Conference.…
Smartphones, PCs, and now wearables... Coronavirus wrecks another corner of tech
17% growth pre-pandemic now a measly 5% Sales of wearable tech are estimated to slow in 2020 as consumers slam the brakes on non-essential spending. ABI Research is expecting 27 million fewer units sold against earlier forecasts, for a total of 254 million.…
$5bn+ sueball bounces into Google's court over claims it continues to track netizens in 'private browsing mode'
You've not heard this one before but it does sound familiar Google has been sued for billions of dollars in a proposed class action alleging the adtech company identified and tracked users who adopted its browser's incognito mode to avoid such tracking.…
Xiaomi has such Huawei with words: Our two new phones have 'easy access' to Google apps... unlike that other guy
Who's in China and not involved in the deployment of 5G, eh? We are! Xiaomi has formally launched its latest phones for the UK market, the Redmi Note 9 Series, with an interesting dig at fellow corporate citizen Huawei as it bids to become the successor to that company in the West.…
Google signs agreement to offer discounts on cloud services through UK govt's Digital Marketplace
Microsoft already at the trough, IBM and AWS said to be en route Google has joined Microsoft in signing a framework agreement, or Memorandum of Understanding, with the UK government's centralised procurement agency to set discounts on a range of cloud services.…
Amateur astroboffins spot young brown dwarf playing with planet-forming hula hoop just 102 parsecs from Earth
Closest example yet of substellar object Disk Detective-using researchers have spotted a brown dwarf, plus protoplanetary disk, 332 light years from home.…
Defending critical national infrastructure... hmm. Does Zoom count as critical now?
All the old lines are getting pretty darn blurred, say security experts at Euro online confab Infosec Europe Does your IT security model take into account things like pacemakers? According to Dr Victoria Baines, speaking at Infosec Europe, "we also perhaps neglect the idea that critical infrastructure might be inside people" as well as merely carried in their pockets.…
How many? 2.8 million fewer PCs and tablets to find a home in 2020
Factory closures, surge in remote working and weakened economy all fed into forecasting formula Seven is lucky for some, but maybe not PC and tab makers in 2020 if research house Canalys has got its forecasts right: manufacturers will ship 367.8 million of those boxes, 27.8 million fewer than the prior 12 months, and down - you guessed it - 7 per cent.…
Devuan Beowulf 3.0 release continues to resist the Debian fork's Grendel – systemd
Minimalist distro aims to be the go-to for systemd-free Linux installations The Devuan team has released Beowulf 3.0.0, based on Debian Buster, but with the systemd init system - now standard in Debian - removed.…
The UK's favourite lockdown cheese is Big and Red but doesn't require a stinking great audit after consumption
Curd is the word as bored Brits search options for cheese and wine nights in With National Cheese Day looming, turophiles have been stocking up, according to a fresh top 10 of searches for the UK's favourite lockdown cheeses.…
Hoverbikes, Hyperloops and sub-orbital hijinks: Yes, the '3rd, 4th and 5th Dimensions of Travel' are coming soon
And you thought getting from the sofa to the laptop was a challenge Bored of just two dimensions of travel? The third, fourth and fifth are on the way, according to a new report.…
We spent billions building atom smashers – and now boffins think nature's doing the same thing for free?
The universe is weird, we want a refund The cores of massive binary neutron stars are crushed under such immense gravitational pressures, the particles inside split apart to create a hot soup of quark matter, according to a study published in Nature Astronomy this month.…
The Edinburgh Fringe festival isn't happening this year, but that won't stop a digital sign doing its own comedy routine
Cowgate calamity befalls Windows-powered signage Bork!Bork!Bork! What to do in Edinburgh when there is no impending Fringe? The answer is obvious, at least to us – go hunting through streets normally thronged with tourists in search of bork.…
Spending watchdog doubts UK is capable of managing Brexit and coronavirus info campaigns at the same time
Yeah, you and the entire country The government that spaffed £46m on an ineffective "Get Ready For Brexit" campaign is ill-prepared for managing public information about COVID-19 and the UK's departure from the EU at the same time, according to a committee of MPs.…
Indian app that deleted Chinese apps from Androids deleted from Play Store
Consumer boycott clicktivism at a time of border tensions? There was, briefly, a million-download app for that Google has removed an app called "Remove China Apps" from its Android Play Store.…
'5G for Five Eyes!' US senator tells Parliamentarians the world would be better without Huawei
Same chap who wants to ban F-35 fighter jets from Britain American spy agencies may reduce their "ability to share the most sensitive types of intelligence" with the UK if Huawei continues to be a major presence in British telcos' networks, a US senator warned Parliament.…
DevOps from above! US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will run Kubernetes
Google staff who protested drone AI effort could be quite interested in this An assistant secretary of the United States Air Force appears to have revealed that its forthcoming B-21 stealth bomber will use container-orchestration tool Kubernetes.…
Tor soups up onion sites with bountiful browser bump: No more tears trying to find the secure sites you want
Latest Tor Browser iteration makes the dark web a bit more memorable The Tor Project this week rolled out an update to its browser that attempts to make the anonymity-protecting onion routing scheme more approachable.…
BBC voice assistant promises to summon streams even if you're just a little bit Brahms and Liszt
Would you Adam and Eve it? Your words will end up teaching Microsoft AI to speak proper English The BBC has launched a beta version of a Windows-only voice assistant that can only play the broadcaster's content – though it can understand strong British accents, we're told.…
Watch live online this week: Learn how to better manage your Office 365 licences
Find out more on optimizing your business – and stop bleeding cash Webcast How costly is poor Office 365 license management? We all suspect we either have too many licenses, or those Office 365 licenses are being underused. Either way, it’s the same problem: we’re wasting money. IT spending will go under the microscope in 2020, and Office 365 costs are a great place to start.…
The little CubeSat that could: Launched from space station, ASTERIA is smallest satellite to detect an exoplanet
Let's head that way. Doesn't matter if there's no intelligent life on it – there's none here, either The ASTERIA CubeSat, launched from the International Space Station into low-Earth orbit in 2017, has become the smallest satellite to successfully detect an exoplanet.…
Staff in a huff, personal call with Trump, picking fights with Twitter, upsetting civil-rights groups – a week in the life of Facebook's Zuckerberg
Social network's engineers are so cheesed off they're going to just keep on showing up for work Analysis On Monday, some Facebook employees, sheltering at home amid the persistent coronavirus lockdown, staged a virtual "walkout" to protest the internet giant's refusal to block President Trump's incendiary posts about the protests over the police killing of George Floyd.…
Lenovo certifies all desktop and mobile workstations for Linux – and will even upstream driver updates
Could this make 2020 the mythical year of the penguin on the desktop? Lenovo has decided to certify all of its workstations for Linux.…
Watchdog slams Pentagon for failing – for a third time – to migrate US military to IPv6
There’s four checkboxes, auditors point out, and you’ve ticked one of them The US Department of Defense (DoD) has been shamed for its appalling IPv6 migration efforts in a formal probe by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).…
Zealous Zoom's zesty zymotic zone zinger: Zestful zealots zip zillions
Video-conferencing upstart's sales soar 169 per cent mid-pandemic in quarter to May, funnily enough Videoconferencing upstart Zoom zipped past even the most optimistic projections for its fiscal quarter, thanks to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic forcing millions to stay at home.…
If you bought a CRT monitor, TV 13+ years ago, hold on a little longer, there may be a small check for you
Price-fixing scandal case rumbles on and on, and on and on, and on and on Nearly 13 years after the first court papers were submitted, a California class-action lawsuit over CRT monitor and TV pricing drags on.…
As Twitter blocks white supremacists posing as anti-fascists, FBI appeal is flooded with images of cop violence
The confusion of physical and online protests merge Comment Anyone who has ever been involved in a demo will know its key defining characteristic is confusion. With protests across America over the death of George Floyd, systemic racism, and police brutality moving into another day, the internet has become as much a battleground as the streets.…
Snapping at Canonical's Snap: Linux Mint team says no to Ubuntu store 'backdoor'
Version 20 will ship without any snap packages, snapd daemon The developers of Linux Mint have expressed concern with Canonical's Snap Store and the way it is forced on Ubuntu users who try to install popular packages like the Chromium web browser.…
You're 3 billion years too late to see Mars' impressive ring system. The next one will be along in 40 million years or so
Astroboffins say Deimos's wonky orbit suggests slow-burning ring-moon cycle Like the gas giants in the outer region of the Solar System, Mars may have been circled by a ring of debris over three billion years ago.…
No, it's just a Mirage: Lenovo's nerd-goggles-for-suits boasts 4K display but no need to be attached to powerful PC
ThinkReality? We'd prefer to think about anything but reality right now, thanks Lenovo has whipped the covers off its latest take on VR-for-biz in the form of the Android-powered Mirage VR S3 headset with ThinkReality.…
Office supplies biz owned by UK council shrugs off ransomware demand for 102 Bitcoin
Firm told customers they'd got a new Gmail address A Brit public sector-owned office supplies company shrugged off a ransomware demand for 102 Bitcoins after a staffer opened a phishing email.…
Choose your own adventure: HP's new Omen 15 gaming laptop offers choice between AMD and Intel processors
Are you Team Red or Team Blue? HP has refreshed its Omen 15 gaming laptop, and choice is the name of the game here. This effort emphasises customisation, extending to providing an option between Intel and AMD chips.…
Android 11 Beta 1 leaks on to handful of handsets days after official release postponed
Weird icon shapes, functionality tweaks, and notifications shaken up The Android 11 Beta has leaked to some Google Pixel users before its official release, revealing new details about the future of the world's most popular mobile operating system.…
Canonical pushes out MicroK8s installer for Mac and Windows, with Multipass VM tech lurking behind the scenes
Another option for Kubernetes fans not strictly on Linux Ubuntu daddy Canonical has emitted new MicroK8s installers for Windows and macOS developers using its Multipass technology.…
That's just Huawei it is: Ericsson lands O2 Germany's core 5G network deal
Chinese firm's loss is Swedish giant's gain Telco infrastructure builder Ericsson has landed a major win after Telefonica Deutschland named the Swedish biz as its 5G core network provider.…
Tech set responds in wake of American protests, police violence and civil unrest
Cisco cancels Live web conference, Google delays Android Beta, SAP boss voices support for Black Lives Matter Tech vendors and execs are sympathising with the ongoing protests across the US, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and other African Americans, by delaying conferences or launch events.…
All-electric plane makes first flight – while lugging 2 tons of batteries aloft
Nice R&D efforts. Are we paying attention in Blighty? An all-electric commercial aeroplane made its first test flight, heralding advances in propulsion and battery technology alike.…
'Beyond stupid': Linus Torvalds trashes 5.8 Linux kernel patch over opt-in Intel CPU bug mitigation
AWS engineers given a dressing-down after proposing fix for 'paranoid' tasks Linus Torvalds has removed a patch in the next release of the Linux kernel intended to provide additional opt-in mitigation of attacks against the L1 data (L1D) CPU cache.…
Boffins step into the Li-ion's den with sodium-ion battery that's potentially as good as a lithium cousin
Electrolyte breakthrough preserves charge capacity The world's mobile electronics, from phones to cars, largely run on batteries containing lithium, which is relatively expensive. Sodium-ion batteries are cheaper to make, but they rapidly wear out compared to their Li-ion cousins.…
Microsoft's carefully crafted Surfaces are having trouble with its carefully crafted Windows 10 May 2020 Update
Compatibility hold slapped on affected kit with fixes in 'upcoming release' It's only the second week of Windows 10's May 2020 Update and things are going... about as well as one might expect. Which, sadly for Microsoft hardware owners, is not ideal.…
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