by Lindsay Clark on (#5D0VB)
Nice work if you can get it BT has been awarded a £20m contract extension, without competition, on a project that has already ballooned in value by 138 per cent.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5D0SV)
Burglary took place 3 months before biz discovered unauthorised entry Updated Anyvan, the European online marketplace that lets users buy delivery, transport or removal services from a network of providers, has confirmed it was the victim of a digital burglary that involved the theft of customers' personal data.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5D062)
Open source users warn adoption of copyleft licence could make use of Elasticsearch, Kibana a business risk Elastic, whose products include Elasticsearch and Kibana, has adopted a new licence called SSPL (Server Side Public License), as used by MongoDB. The aim is "to restrict cloud service providers from offering our software as a service," but others warn this could make the products risky to use unless a paid-for licence is adopted.…
by Paul Kunert on (#5D03Q)
Which is exactly what you should do Scotland's environmental watchdog has confirmed it is dealing with an "ongoing ransomware attack" likely masterminded by international "serious and organised" criminals during the last week of 2020.…
by Richard Speed on (#5D03R)
This is why we test The Moon moved a little further from NASA over the weekend as the first firing of the Space Launch System's core stage came to an abrupt halt after only 67.2 seconds.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5D019)
And them good ol' boys revokin' sanction to buy, singin', 'Soon will come the day that we fly' As parting gifts go, this one ranks pretty low. With less than three days until the inauguration of Joe Biden, the Trump Administration has reportedly revoked several licences that would allow Huawei to buy US-made tech, and plans to deny over 150 pending requests.…
by David Gordon on (#5CZYB)
Tune in and we'll take you from benchmarking to insight Webcast You keep hearing that DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery are the key to overhauling your software development organisation.…
by Paul Kunert on (#5CZW0)
Just 16% of cloud spending in Q3 went to local tech services shops, says analyst European cloud giants are finding themselves teetering on the brink of relevancy in their own backyards as they fail to ward off encroachment by US rivals, or so data from Synergy Research Group (SRG) has indicated.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5CZST)
No documentation yet, but big ambitions for UI components tailored for AWS services Amazon Web Services has released AWS UI, which the cloud services biz describes as "the first step in a larger process of creating a new open source design system."…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5CZSV)
Only been out 2 years Seoul's High Court has sentenced Samsung vice chairman Lee Jae-Yong to 30 months behind bars for bribery, concealment of criminal proceeds, and embezzlement.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5CZQP)
That technical issue the department said it had fixed? It didn't exist Estimates detailing the loss of criminal evidence records by the UK Home Office and the police show the figure leaping from 150,000 to 400,000.…
by Richard Speed on (#5CZP1)
Also: Departures from Redmond, going big with Surface Hub, and celebrating third place In brief Build 21292 of Windows 10 arrived for Dev Channel Windows Insiders last week and while there was little of interest, the team was delighted to note that it had continued to work on the x64 emulation in the Arm edition of the operating system.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5CZMB)
Zoom is great for status update meetings, says big cheese, but as for inspiring a workforce... To some of us, the work-from-home revolution provides a welcome opportunity to spend time with family members, even though working and studying shoulder-to-shoulder might not be a frictionless process.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5CZJJ)
Plus: Google trains 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model, popular software used for job screenings scraps facial-recognition feature In brief Just days before President Trump is due to leave office, the White House created its National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office, which will sit under the Office of Science and Technology Policy.…
by Rupert Goodwins on (#5CZGT)
Pat Gelsinger returning to Chipzilla as CEO is another extraordinary stroke of luck for the company Column Intel has been many things. It has been a struggling startup, surfing the sudden successes and near-death experiences of 1970s Silicon Valley. It's been a relentless powerhouse, ruthlessly exploiting its dominance as personal computing rode Moore's Law to commercial and social revolution. Now it's in danger of seeing its supremacy crumble as rivals grab markets and mindshare with better manufacturing and marketing as Moore's Law itself turns to sand.…
by Richard Speed on (#5CZFT)
Oh good, you fixed it. Now, if you could just put your head on that plate... Who, Me? Beware the perils of being too helpful as we kick the working week off with a Who, Me? starring both DNS and the need of management to put someone's – anyone's – head on a spike.…
by Iain Thomson on (#5CZE4)
Plus: Watch out for NTFS-corrupting folder, Mimecast hack, and more In brief Last week ended with news that the venerable infosec mailing list Bugtraq was being shutdown at the end of the month.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5CYES)
Not a machine-generated headline, we swear Facebook and its Irish subsidiary on Thursday announced the filing of a lawsuit in Portugal against two people for allegedly scraping Facebook profile data and other browser info using malicious Chrome extensions.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5CXHY)
Idiot faces up to a year in the cooler after FBI tracks him down from SD card found in prang wreckage A man in California faces up to a year behind bars and a fine for crashing his drone into a police helicopter, forcing an emergency landing.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5CX6P)
While the Touch Bar is to be banished Renowned Apple soothsayer Ming-Chi Kuo reckons the iGiant is bringing back its beloved MagSafe charging standard with the next generation of MacBook Pro machines.…
by Richard Speed on (#5CX4Q)
We'll drink to that The compatibility layer for Windows applications, Wine, has celebrated the start of 2021 in the traditional manner – with a substantial update.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5CX2A)
Parting shot by Trump – but 'bi-partisan' push against China will continue, says analyst With five days left before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, the Trump administration has delivered a parting blow to China's tech industry by designating Xiaomi as a "Communist Chinese military company" and placing it on a financial ban list.…
by Richard Speed on (#5CX0D)
A blue day on the Red Planet Hot on the heels of a mission extension comes news that scientists have now given up on attempts to persuade the NASA InSight lander's "mole" to burrow more than a few centimetres beneath the Martian surface.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5CWXM)
Install base explodes following WhatsApp 'privacy' update, Musk endorsement Updated Signal is experiencing a partial outage as tens of millions of netizens flood the free secure messaging service.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5CWTQ)
Commercial involvement in open source is essential, says CMS boss Interview Content management system Drupal is 20 years old, prompting its founder to talk to about its evolving role, why it shifted from a policy of breaking compatibility with each release, and concerns about JavaScript bloat causing issues for those with poor connectivity.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5CWQG)
Epic by name, epic (lawsuit) by nature Epic Games intends to file a competition lawsuit against Google in the UK as part of the ongoing Fortnite-kicked-off-platforms saga, according to documents lodged with the Competition Appeal Tribunal.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5CWM2)
Uphill battle shifting business applications to the cloud laid bare SAP today reported preliminary results for 2020, showing the German enterprise software vendor serving up flat revenue and slightly improving profits, along with a worryingly notable drop in licence sales.…
by Richard Speed on (#5CWAN)
Spoiler: It's quantum. And who knew? 5G isn't for the peasants Dell's global chief technology officer, John Roese, shared his thoughts on where technology will go in 2021 at a roundtable event this week. Short version? Anywhere it likes – so long as it's on Dell kit.…
by Richard Speed on (#5CW89)
Hybrid? Multi-cloud? Big Blue has a consultant for that IBM is to snaffle San Jose-based consulting outfit Taos as it seeks to bolster its cloud biz.…
by Chris Mellor and Lindsay Clark on (#5CW5Q)
This has got to be the Who Me? story of all time... An "error" in a "standard housekeeping process" on the UK’s controversial Police National Computer (PNC) database has led to the deletion of more than 150,000 DNA, fingerprint and other records, the Home Office has confirmed.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5CW5R)
'Long and complex' saga shifts into next phase as new heroes enter battlefield Games Workshop, the fantasy model maker and table-top wargames retailer, has ingested a dose of reality as it delays its high-risk ERP project and appoints a new integrator.…
by Richard Speed on (#5CW3M)
But maybe Foveros finest should have been a Duplo kit... *cough* 7nm We can exclusively reveal that any grumbles regarding Intel's Lakefield chippery might be down to it being made out of plastic Lego parts. At least, that's if the marketing kit is anything to go by.…
by Alistair Dabbs on (#5CW1X)
Have you finished that sandwich? If not, it’s classified as contraband Something for the Weekend, Sir? What was the big story of 2020? With the luxury of two weeks' hindsight, I think we can all agree: it was, of course, the year autonomous vehicles failed to go mainstream again.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5CW0D)
Record low onshore work as pandemic teaches clients they need not fear off-site workers Infosys has revealed “dramatic growth” of its workforce in Mexico and Canada, which are being used as “near-shore bases” for its US operations despite the company last year announcing 12,000 hires in the Land of the Free.…
by Richard Speed on (#5CVYT)
IT staff can be so... spiky sometimes On Call A seemingly innocent uplighter looms large in today's On Call tale of NetWare nefariousness in which a reader takes observability to new lengths.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5CVXJ)
Anti-money-laundering agency says it mis-interpreted info, leading to allegations of unexplained $1.8bn transfer to Australia The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), a government agency tasked with detecting and preventing financial crimes, has admitted that software errors led it to allege that the Vatican had inexplicably shipped AU$2.3bn to Australia.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5CVVV)
Extreme Networks flings flaky Flash-free fix and Cisco all-but-sighs as it reminds users to upgrade Extreme Networks has updated the WiNG-Man software that left some users unable to manage their networks with a GUI after it failed to deliver an upgrade before Adobe’s Flash plug-in reached end of life.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5CVRV)
Outlines $25bn of capex plus plans to expand in China Taiwan’s silicon manufacturing titan TSMC has revealed it should be ready to produce chips using a three-nanometre process in 2022.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5CVPF)
Academic also charged with hiding foreign assets, false tax statements An MIT professor has been arrested and charged with federal grant fraud and failing to disclose contacts with the Chinese government, the US Attorney’s Office of Massachusetts said on Thursday.…
Whatever 4D chess Acacia was playing has worked: Cisco merger back on after ante upped 64% to $4.5bn
by Katyanna Quach on (#5CVN3)
Switchzilla's enlarged offer accepted after smaller biz tried to stall acquisition Cisco’s merger with Acacia Communications is set to go ahead after the Silicon Valley giant raised its offer to $4.5bn, an increase of nearly $2bn or 64 per cent.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5CVJT)
Firmware updates aren't enough to tackle worn-out memory The US Department of Transport has recommended Tesla recall 158,000 Model S and Model X vehicles after an investigation found worn-out NAND flash memory can cause the cars’ rearview cameras to fail.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5CVGC)
The Reg speaks to Stanford boffin behind decade-long push for SI prefix In 2010, Austin Sendek, then a physics student at UC Davis, created a petition seeking recognition for prefix "hella-" as an official International System of Units (SI) measurement representing 10.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5CVBC)
One more thing to, er, look forward to when the pandemic ends Around the world, office blocks sit empty. Official government guidance says if you can work remotely, you should. However, it seems like nobody told Logitech, which just expanded its B2B video conferencing portfolio with three new devices aimed at the workplace.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5CVBD)
Great to know they 'remain committed' SAP is trying to tease the market with new features headed to the core database underpinning its enterprise applications.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5CV8N)
Just your Stylus? Pen support moves to latest flagship models It's flagship Thursday at Samsung, which for the better part of a decade has squatted over the premium sector of the Android market.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5CV5K)
You know that update thing? JFDI Out of the top five vulnerabilities for 2020 three dated back to 2019 or earlier, according to infosec firm Tenable's annual threat report.…
by Richard Currie on (#5CV2H)
A combined total of $575m deleted... and counting A couple of news items about what we'll call "cryptidiots" wriggled into the mainstream media this week, momentarily shedding light on the important topics of e-waste and password hygiene for the masses.…
by David Gordon on (#5CTYJ)
Join us later this month to see what modern data management looks like Webcast There’s been a lot of talk about resilience lately. But while it’s one thing working through mid-pandemic self-care and wellness prescriptions for the individual, what does resilience mean when it comes to your company and its data?…
by Richard Speed on (#5CTYK)
It's been sloshing around the International Space Station for a while SpaceX hit another milestone overnight with the return of the upgraded cargo Dragon capsule from the International Space Station (ISS), which splashed down off the Florida coast.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5CTVR)
Security, lack of suitable hardware for testing makes full 32-bit support hard Debian 11, codenamed "Bullseye", has entered the first freeze stage, meaning no large or disruptive changes, or new package transitions (merging, splitting, renaming or removing) are allowed. The 32-bit i386 architecture is part of the release but may not be in Debian 12, codenamed "Bookworm".…