by Lindsay Clark on (#5FBNY)
HMRC shuffles the pork barrel again UK tax collector Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs is looking to have a friendly chat with tech vendors as part of its plan to contract £23.1bn in "mobility services".…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5FBKK)
Plus: Verkada flaw finder cuffed and Apple boss may have leaked secrets In brief It's looking like the exploitation of critical Exchange flaws that Microsoft revealed at the start of the month could be much worse than folks first suspected.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5FBHS)
Judge rules 'Communist Chinese Military Company' designation 'arbitrary and capricious' Stocks in Beijing-based electronics outfit Xiaomi leapt today after the firm was given a preliminary injunction removing it from a Trump-era US blacklist targeting "Communist Chinese Military Companies" (CCMC).…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5FBHT)
Org was originally supposed to launch in 2022 – then a pandemic happened The UK's £158m Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (VMIC) has an "urgent requirement" for a £7m SaaS ERP system as the facility's launch is being accelerated due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.…
by Robbie Harb on (#5FBFW)
Can they pull it off? They sure know how to code. Straddling the agnostic position of consultants with the ardor of a vendor may be harder Feature India’s outsourcers grew and grew by working on other peoples’ software.…
by Rupert Goodwins on (#5FBE0)
The politics of a global decentralised high-speed public internet service Column 2020 was, by general consent, a bit naff. Everyone moped around not doing much. Everyone except Elon Musk, who pushed some 800 radiating routers into low-earth orbit (LEO) atop his personal fleet of reusable space rockets. As you do.…
by Richard Speed on (#5FBCH)
Behold, the amazing bullsh*tting man Who, Me? Today's edition of Who, Me? is a sorry tale of credit where it most certainly is not due.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5FBBA)
New reconstruction based on more evidence finds ancient mechanical computer could track planets, moon, eclipses, even the seasons and stars Academics from University College London and The Cyprus Institute assert that they’ve built the most accurate model of the Antikythera Mechanism, the one-of-a-kind ancient Greek machine made of meshed gears.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5FB9R)
Only for Google cloud customers, and The Chocolate Factory will need 'deep familiarity with your workloads’ Google Cloud has turned the company’s famed site reliability engineering methodology into a consulting service.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5FB8S)
Plans include replicating Singapore’s consumer tech security ratings scheme The Biden administration has outlined its plan to address US government security in the wake of attacks on SolarWinds' Orion platform and Microsoft Exchange, with closer private sector collaboration the centerpiece of its response.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5FB5F)
Data centres are on track for restoration from March 22nd and more than 3,500 new servers already secured There’s good news and bad news for customers of French cloud operator OVH.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5FB23)
'Quad' group wants alternatives to China. Also freedom and governance that reflects shared values The first “Quad summit” of leaders from Australia, India, Japan, and the USA has announced the group will create a “Critical and Emerging Technology Working Group”.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5F9SJ)
Open source project shows Apple has done some funky stuff with M1 The Asahi Linux project has published the first progress report detailing its effort to port Linux to the Apple Silicon platform.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5F9K2)
Plus: Google Ethical AI team firings backlash worsens In brief Facebook this week revealed an internal project to create machine-learning models that can understand visual, audio, and written content from videos publicly uploaded to its social network.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5F9AV)
Weapons-grade hypocrisy on one side, opportunistic hand-wringing about the press on the other Video Google and Microsoft were locked in a rare public war of words on Friday as the US House subcommittee on antitrust held a hearing to discuss how Big Tech has impacted the media.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5F9A4)
Boffin who invented ANS encoding and made it public domain worries Microsoft will come rent-seeking Analysis In June, 2019, Microsoft applied for a US patent covering enhancements to a data encoding method known as rANS, one of several variants in the Asymmetric Numeral System (ANS) family that form the foundation of data compression schemes used by Apple, Facebook, Google, various other companies, and open source projects.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5F97A)
Gross? Maybe, but at least your Fitbit is still working Imagine you are out for a run with tunes fuelling your stride. Suddenly, your earbuds run out of juice and your good vibes come to a screeching halt. "Ugh," you groan as you look to your activity tracker for encouragement, only to realise it's dead too.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5F95E)
I don't believe it, I had to see it, I came back, I came back haunted Google on Friday released proof-of-concept code for conducting a Spectre-based attack against its Chrome browser to show how web developers can take steps to mitigate browser-based side-channel attacks.…
Gummy bears as a unit of measure? The Reg Standards Soviet will not stand for this sort of silliness
by Gareth Corfield on (#5F95F)
Less than a fifth of a linguine, for goodness' sake – come on now Reg Standards Bureau A new potential contribution to the world's sole source of approved units of measure has emerged – the Haribo gummy bear.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5F90V)
Nice to see politicos agree on something, even if it is 'bipartisan dislike' of China A change in occupancy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue hasn't done much for Huawei's fortunes as the Biden administration looks set to toughen restrictions against the battered Chinese telecoms outfit.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5F8Y0)
GCHQ offshoot points orgs at Microsoft advice and tools The UK's National Cyber Security Centre has reminded Brits to patch their Microsoft Exchange Server deployments against Hafnium attacks, 10 days after the US and wider infosec industry shouted the house down saying the same thing.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5F8V8)
iFixit's flagship autopsy finds glue. Lots of glue iFixit – an organisation with a toddler-like proclivity for breaking phones – today published its teardown of Samsung's latest and greatest: the Galaxy S21 Ultra.…
by Richard Speed on (#5F8RD)
Writing to forbidden memory and not closing the door cause headaches for custodians of restored spacecraft The Hubble Space Telescope resumed science operations this morning after a software error knocked the veteran spacecraft offline.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5F8N8)
Industry will pick up the rest of bill... yep, this old chestnut again The UK government is set to release £500m of funding for the Shared Rural Network to improve mobile access in far-flung areas by adding new infrastructure and convincing operators to share their antennas with rivals.…
by Richard Speed on (#5F8J9)
So how's that UWP thing working out for you? Axe-happy Redmond has set the clock ticking on paid apps from its moribund Microsoft Store for Business and Education.…
by David Gordon on (#5F8JA)
Come on in and take a look at this week's opportunities – and keep those free ads coming if you need tech talent Job Alert With the pandemic still in full swing, The Reg is publishing free job ads to help keep tech professionals in gainful employment during these unusual times.…
by Alistair Dabbs on (#5F8DS)
The circle is complete. Now I am the master… er, I mean 'the source' Something for the Weekend, Sir? "Let me be absolutely clear about this…" As soon as you hear these words, you know the rest of the sentence will be evasive, meandering, and vague.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5F8BR)
'They're dictating how to monitor networks, without fully understanding the impact on the sector' Introduced last year by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the UK's Telecommunications Security Bill aims to change how mobile and fixed-line communications systems are built and operated.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5F89T)
Similar attempt was made in London, where it failed Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou's legal team has begun proceedings against HSBC in Hong Kong to obtain documents they believe will support her defence against extradition from Canada to the US.…
by Paul Kunert on (#5F876)
37 years later and fomer state-owned telco might be facing its own Black Monday For the first time since 1987, the Communication Workers Union is to run a national ballot of unionised workers at BT Group to test their appetite for strike action over job losses, office closures and more.…
by Richard Speed on (#5F85K)
The foulest stench is in the air, the funk of forty thousand... cigarettes? On Call A reader's brush with filth is retold in today's episode of On Call in which the dirtier side of IT is laid bare.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5F841)
Less pew, pew, pew and more click, click, click NASA released this week the first audio recordings captured by its six-wheeled nuclear-powered rover Perseverance in action, zapping rock samples as the Martian wind eerily whispers in the background..…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5F842)
Works just fine on ancient low-end Androids, so now The Social Network™ can monopolise developing nations too! Facebook has unveiled a new weapon in its world domination plan: a two-megabyte version of its Instagram app.…
OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction
by Simon Sharwood on (#5F82X)
Cloud company offers slightly confused roadmap to restoration French cloud provider OVH has suggested a UPS could be the cause of the fire that destroyed one of its data centres and took another three offline.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5F82Y)
How can we put this? Imagine beanie babies were screenshots that needed their own power plant NFTs – or non-fungible tokens, a newfangled way to trade virtual assets – truly exploded into the mainstream on Thursday when Christie’s auctioned off its first-ever NFT digital artwork for $69,346,250. Not a typo.…
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5F81N)
US industry groups still want Biden administration cash for local manufacturing The Semiconductor Industry Association of China (SIAC) and its United States counterpart the Semiconductor Industry Association have announced the establishment of a biannual chatfest to address technical and trade-related issues.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5F7ZX)
Regulator keen to know how Android Choice works in the EU, what makes the Google/Apple relationship tick, and if Salesforce buying Slack is a problem Australia is going after Big Tech again, this time with research on “the impact of default settings and pre-installation of search services and web browsers on consumer choice and competition.”…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5F7WJ)
Cops probe vice chairman Samsung's appropriately ranked vice-chairman Lee Jae-Yong, right now behind bars for bribery, concealment of criminal proceeds, and embezzlement, is being investigated for illegal drug use.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5F7V3)
Funny how code that targets Redmond vanishes while tons of others menacing other vendors remain On Wednesday, shortly after security researcher Nguyen Jang posted a proof-of-concept exploit on GitHub that abuses a Microsoft Exchange vulnerability revealed earlier this month, GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, removed code, to the alarm of security researchers.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5F7MT)
Mozillians formulate 'prime' directive for browser's comeback following psychological study Mozilla has found a way to make its Firefox browser feel faster without any engineering effort: tell people that it's faster than the competition.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5F7CF)
But questions remain over its enterprise app credentials ServiceNow, the IT helpdesk vendor with a yearning for world domination, has launched its latest platform upgrade, Quebec, which features new AI, low-code app development tools and a bit of process mining thrown in for good measure.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5F7AG)
One of them is a critical RCE bug Netgear has released a swathe of security and firmware updates for its JGS516PE Ethernet switch after researchers from NCC Group discovered 15 vulnerabilities in the device – including an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5F789)
'It's something that we, as an industry, invented' but all customers wanted were end-to-end business processes Middleweight enterprise application provider IFS is launching a cloud platform and rebuilding its applications. Just don't expect to find a standalone ERP product in there.…
by Richard Speed on (#5F78A)
Microsoft's rigorous testing at work Microsoft's near-legendary approach to quality in Windows has struck again, with customers complaining of blue screens rather than print-outs following a recent patch.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5F75H)
But relies on integrated graphics, and what's the serial port for? Perhaps the only element of Huawei's consumer business that's emerged unscathed from US sanctions has been its PC line. With the Chinese tech giant's computer supply chain intact, it has been business as usual, and the company just introduced its first desktop PC beyond mainland China.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5F72X)
Especially if you're routinely handling RAR files Malware-peddling spammers are using a curious variation on the old custom file-extension dodge to evade scanning tools, according to Trustwave.…
by Richard Speed on (#5F709)
Only for new projects, but beware the hardcoded references One-stop DevOps shop GitLab has joined the movement to change the default name for an initial branch in a Git repository in favour of something less historically problematic.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5F6YA)
Plus: Ellison ramps up SAP trash-talking. At least some things are the same in 2021 Updated Oracle has underwhelmed the market with its Q3 results – shares took a minor tumble yesterday. But true to form its island-owning founder and CTO did his best to distract from matters at hand by talking up wins against its arch-rival and hyping technology it is yet to launch.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#5F6YB)
'Predator' sent down for eight years after pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars A man who conned four women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by falsely claiming they were investing in a software biz was this week sentenced to eight years behind bars.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5F6W6)
But there's a lot more to worry about in new Bill, say campaigners A new UK law will explicitly authorise the "voluntary" slurping of data from mobile phones of crime suspects and witnesses.…