by Robbie Harb on (#546PW)
Internet Society also weighs in with worries about vague definition of 'open' Mozilla has cautioned that the Indian government's plan to develop a national GovTech framework risks "open-washing".…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#546NR)
Maybe hitting Intel's year-old Project Athena spec counts? Fujitsu’s PC unit has announced a new range of laptops it says are "optimized for remote work".…
As the US maybe gets serious about coronavirus-tracking apps, Congress wakes up to the privacy risks
by Kieren McCarthy on (#546KR)
Just what will happen to all that tasty location and contact data? A bi-partisan group of US senators are preparing a new bill that would ensure privacy protections in coronavirus tracking apps, as legislative interest grows in what contact-tracing will entail.…
Watch an oblivious Tesla Model 3 smash into an overturned truck on a highway 'while under Autopilot'
by Katyanna Quach on (#546JK)
Driver braked but it was too late Video A Tesla Model 3 plowed straight into the side of an overturned truck lying across a highway in Taiwan, sparking fears the driver trusted the car's Autopilot a little too much.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#546H5)
Yeah, we know 'just' is doing a lot of hard work, we're being flippant Security researcher Bhavuk Jain has landed a $100,000 payday after he reported a critical flaw in Apple’s sign-in system that could be exploited to access countless accounts on sites from Dropbox and Spotify to Airbnb.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#546FS)
And, oh look, Anonymous returns. Completely forgot all about them As US cities saw cops fly off the handle at those protesting police brutality and systemic racism over the weekend, drama inevitably spilled into the electronic world, although in unusual ways.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#546DN)
Copyright infringement claim 'not in anyone’s interest' responds org Several of the world’s largest publishers have sued the Internet Archive for its “emergency library” of 1.3 million books, claiming the organization is engaging in “willful digital piracy on an industrial scale.”…
by Thomas Claburn on (#546B9)
Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces – other IRS that can ruin your day Wireless networking researchers have proposed a way to jam wireless signals without power.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5463G)
Integration with Azure suits both sides Microsoft was prominent at the virtual Dockercon event last week as the companies extended their agreement to work together on integration between Docker and the Azure cloud.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5460X)
Chinese giant slips out superslim - 7.49mm - flagship and pals Chinese smartphone brand Vivo - one of several from the BBK stable - has lifted the lid on its latest flagship phones, whose gimmick is that they are super-slim, although the focus is on photography.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#545Y5)
Cybercrooks take revenge after planned heist failed The REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware gang has just published what it claimed were files stolen from UK power grid middleman Elexon.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#545V3)
It's too long a retention period, say digital rights campaigners Privacy rights campaigners are to legally challenge the British government's decision to retain for two decades the data of people that test positive for COVID-19 under the test-and-trace system.…
by Tim Anderson on (#545R5)
Windows bod acknowledges project's influence on WinGet Microsoft's Andrew Clinick, a group program manager in the Windows team who is involved with the development of the WinGet package manager, has tried to make good with the open-source community by publishing an acknowledgement of what was borrowed from the existing AppGet project.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#545R6)
But that's exactly what will happen if you decorate Androids with pretty mountain scene A picturesque Android wallpaper image is exhibiting some unwelcome side effects on most Android phones, effectively "soft-bricking" them until the user manages to perform a factory reset.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#545NQ)
Too bad, Craig. Now, about those court costs? A self-described "blockchain expert" claiming to be the inventor of Bitcoin has had his attempt to sue a YouTuber, who made a video rubbishing that claim, laughed out of the UK High Court.…
by Richard Speed on (#545K4)
Also: Rocket Lab reschedules, ESA probe eats comet exhaust, China shares space station plans Roundup As well as that launch and docking, there was plenty to amuse rocket fans last week as China unveiled space station plans, ESA aimed for more bonus science and Rocket Lab named the date. Again.…
by Richard Speed on (#545K5)
First financial TITSUP* of June goes to... Updated UK retail banking giant Lloyds Banking Group's online services have rung in June with a wobble.…
by Richard Speed on (#545HF)
Also: Multi-window Teams, Skype does the Blankety Blank dance, and more Roundup It has been a busy seven days in Redmond. In addition to the Windows 10 May 2020 Update finally being released, we also saw Skype flashing nine tired lockdown faces at once, some Azure database tweaks and more.…
by Richard Speed on (#545HG)
You say fintech, they say findom, let's call the whole thing BOFH Bork!Bork!Bork! There is a cautionary tale in today's edition of finest bork as a digital sign does exactly as instructed, but perhaps not quite as intended.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#545FV)
Here's hoping the winner does a better job than Sopra Steria The UK Home Office is set to begin talking to tech and outsourcing services suppliers to assess how the Visas and Citizenship (V&C) Directorate can hand over large chunks of its operations to the private sector in deals that could be worth up to £1bn.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#545E9)
And if you win, we'll make it into a kitemark British companies have been offered access to a £400k pot of cash to design a UK-specific "kitemark" assurance scheme for Internet of Things products.…
75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain
by Matthew Hughes on (#545EA)
There are perks to starting out as online-only, says Gartner Most smartphone vendors unsurprisingly experienced precipitous sales declines in the first quarter of 2020. Most, that is, except Xiaomi, which improbably managed to beat the odds by upping shipments to grab market share.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#545D4)
Even the aircon worked in the Muskmobile SpaceX and NASA have finished a fine weekend's work after the Crew Dragon capsule successfully made it into orbit and docked at the International Space Station…
by Richard Speed on (#545C5)
Beware the forgotten bit of test text lurking in the application Who, Me? Surprise! It's Monday again! The weekend has evaporated once more, so pour a coffee, steal one of the expensive executive biscuits and tuck in for another tale of reader woe in The Register's Who, Me? feature.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#545C6)
Workstation has one job: running VMs. And now it can do it on Windows with Hyper-V enabled Microsoft and VMware have ended an ancient grudge that made the latter's Workstation desktop hypervisor behave badly on Windows.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#545C7)
As he gives us version 5.7 with support for Apple power tech and better exFAT Linux kernel overlord Linus Torvalds has railed against 80-character-lines as a de facto programming standard and has moved to make reminders to keep things short a thing of the past.…
by David Gordon on (#545B5)
They’re not very sophisticated, but they’re working: Watch and learn how to fight back Webcast You’ve probably had the COVID-19 coronavirus social-engineering scams quietly filtering into, hopefully, your junk folder by now. Featuring anything from bogus medical research with malware-laden URLs to one-to-one approaches offering fake vaccines, it’s not taken very long.…
Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots
by Katyanna Quach on (#545B6)
Plus: Amazon mulls snapping up self-driving startup Roundup Let's catch up on recent bits and bytes from the world of machine-learning.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5457M)
New agency will hustle small retailers onto digital payments and teach seniors how to Internet Singapore has crated a new “SG Digital Office” to “drive the Government’s initiatives to accelerate digital adoption in our community, as we embark on a phased recovery post COVID-19.”…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5456S)
May well have been killer algorithm, too Australia will refund more than AU$720m (US$480M) to residents adjudged to owe the Federal government a debt that did not exist.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#544MY)
Plus other news from infosec land this week Roundup Six Cisco-operated servers were hacked via SaltStack security vulnerabilities, the networking giant revealed this week.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5449Q)
Bob and Doug are first humans launched into orbit by Elon's Muskteers Video NASA has successfully launched two American astronauts aboard an American-made rocket from American soil for the first time in nearly a decade, sending them off toward the International Space Station. It also marks SpaceX's first launch of humans into orbit.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#543S5)
There's a starship waiting for the sky, he'd like to come meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds Video In yet another setback for Elon Musk's beloved steel spaceship, a SpaceX Starship prototype has exploded on the pad during a rocket test burn.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#543K6)
There's a starship waiting for the sky, he'd like to come meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds Video In yet another setback for Elon Musk's beloved steel spaceship, a SpaceX Starship prototype has exploded on the pad during a rocket test burn.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#543S6)
'No evidence of damage to network or computers, no evidence of theft, damage, or loss of data' On November 4th, 2018, now-Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp announced an investigation into his rival Democratic party, accusing the organization of trying to hack the US state's voter registration system.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#543J6)
'No evidence of damage to network or computers, no evidence of theft, damage, or loss of data' On November 4th, 2018, now-Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp announced an investigation into his rival Democratic party, accusing the organization of trying to hack the US state's voter registration system.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#543S7)
Land Of The Free to List All The Websites You Use Twitter, Reddit, and the Internet Association on Thursday filed a legal brief in support of a challenge to the US State Department's policy of requiring visa applicants to disclose their social media handles and profiles.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#543GE)
Land Of The Free to List All The Websites You Use Twitter, Reddit, and the Internet Association on Thursday filed a legal brief in support of a challenge to the US State Department's policy of requiring visa applicants to disclose their social media handles and profiles.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#543S8)
Probing by El Reg's Chris Mellor highlighted in class-action complaint A US law firm is seeking owners of certain shingled Western Digital drives to join a class-action suit against the storage slinger, alleging the manufacturer didn't document its use of shingled magnetic recording (SMR) in kit aimed at RAID arrays.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#543CK)
Probing by El Reg's Chris Mellor highlighted in class-action complaint A US law firm is seeking owners of certain shingled Western Digital drives to join a class-action suit against the storage slinger, alleging the manufacturer didn't document its use of shingled magnetic recording (SMR) in kit aimed at RAID arrays.…
by David Gordon on (#543S9)
SaaS is no replacement for disaster recovery as we're about to find out next month Webcast While moving into cloud working environments often meets a fair degree of push-back, the other side of the coin is that businesses believe throwing everything into the cloud makes them suddenly immune to any of the previous, established occupational hazards of networking technology.…
by David Gordon on (#54322)
SaaS is no replacement for disaster recovery as we're about to find out next month Webcast While moving into cloud working environments often meets a fair degree of push-back, the other side of the coin is that businesses believe throwing everything into the cloud makes them suddenly immune to any of the previous, established occupational hazards of networking technology.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#543SA)
Chief beancounter for cloud quits for pastures new The departure could not have come at a worse time for SAP, but Todd McElhatton, veep and chief beancounter for the Cloud Business Group, is the latest person to hang up their hat at the German database giant.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#542YW)
Chief beancounter for cloud quits for pastures new The departure could not have come at a worse time for SAP, but Todd McElhatton, veep and chief beancounter for the Cloud Business Group, is the latest person to hang up their hat at the German database giant.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#543SB)
No Wi-Fi, no newsfeeds – just you, 2G, and your awful music taste The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic was the primary tormentor of late-2000s commuters*. With a powerful built-in speaker and room for a micro SD card, shellsuit-sporting hoodlums could serenade weary bus-goers with the latest computer-generated noise from the Ministry of Sound.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#542VX)
No Wi-Fi, no newsfeeds – just you, 2G, and your awful music taste The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic was the primary tormentor of late-2000s commuters*. With a powerful built-in speaker and room for a micro SD card, shellsuit-sporting hoodlums could serenade weary bus-goers with the latest computer-generated noise from the Ministry of Sound.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#543SC)
'In Ihrem Budget fehlen sechs Nullen' warned MP Austria's parliament came within moments of slashing its annual spending limit to peanuts after someone omitted the key words "figures in millions" from its national budget bill.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#542RH)
'In Ihrem Budget fehlen sechs Nullen' warned MP Austria's parliament came within moments of slashing its annual spending limit to peanuts after someone omitted the key words "figures in millions" from its national budget bill.…
by Richard Speed on (#542RJ)
'Keeping all of the best elements from the G1'... and none of the bad, please HP has given the moribund Windows Mixed Reality market a shot in the arm by opening pre-orders for its long-teased HP Reverb G2 headset.…
by Richard Speed on (#542N8)
Now you can program like a native with your £899 Surface Pro X – keyboard not included Good news for those who have splashed the cash on Microsoft's flagship Surface Pro X – the software behemoth has emitted an ARM64 build of Visual Studio Code.…