by Richard Currie on (#56VSH)
Stealing nudists' laptops? An appetite for cocaine? They're evolving! Video Footage from northern Germany appears to document an alarming development in the arsenal of wild boars – amphibious assaults.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#56VQG)
Get off my grass! ... And onto my WFH desktop Ink-tank printers flew off distributors' shelves in the first half of this year and onto the desks of work-from-home employees, providing one of the brighter spots for printer land in the first half of 2020.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#56VP6)
Finally, a digital transformation that really matters Charles Darwin's legacy lives not just in the idea of evolution by natural selection, but also in the samples he collected.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#56VN5)
Big Red: Everything's fine A bunch of Oracle developers supporting its Commerce systems are being let go as Big Red seeks to downsize the struggling platform.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56VM5)
Lenovo says online sales soared in Q1 and has new hyper-plan for its data center unit Lenovo's long-suffering data centre group has posted considerably increased revenue and a modest loss, thanks to increased engagements with hyperscale clients.…
ZX Spectrum reboot promising – steady now – 28MHz of sizzling Speccy speed now boasts improved Wi-Fi
by Simon Sharwood on (#56VM6)
Heir to 2017’s successful Spectrum Next hits target in minutes The team behind 2017’s successful re-imagining of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum is back with another new cut of the classic British Micro.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#56VJY)
Three little words: Patches, passwords, policies The continued inability of organizations to patch security vulnerabilities in a timely manner, combined with guessable passwords and the spread of automated hacking tools, is making it pretty easy for miscreants, professionals, and thrill-seekers to break into corporate networks.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56VHZ)
Also hosed out many Datrium staff on day one VMware has made a round of layoffs that appear to be one of its regular consolidations but The Register has learned coincided with some internal re-organisation.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56VH1)
Files 'Please explain' memo to Washington as revenue jumps 29 percent and profit pops even higher Chinese web giant Tencent has reported strong growth and brushed off the potential impact of the USA’s proposed ban on its WeChat service and cloud operation.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56VFH)
But only to bits that aren’t conflict hot spots India has taken a small step towards restoring meaningful internet access to the disputed states of Jammu and Kashmir, by ordering a trial restoration of 4G services in select areas.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56VER)
Q4 revenue took a nasty kick in the COVIDs, but profit bounced anyway Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says his IT giant is considering an as-a-service offering for its core networking hardware.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#56VB5)
Venerable Arecibo Observatory showing its age Pic America's largest radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, has been forced to shut down after a falling cable slashed a 100-foot rent in its 1,000-foot reflector dish.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#56V60)
CEO says making cyber-cabbies employees would be a bridge too far Uber's CEO today threatened to suspend all of its dial-a-ride services in California should a judge not grant an emergency appeal to let it continue classifying its app's drivers as contract workers.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#56V1H)
UK sales chief treated her unequally, rules Employment Tribunal A Splunk saleswoman who brought in eight-figure deals has won a sex discrimination lawsuit against the data analytics 'n' SIEM vendor after she was "pushed aside for the old boys' network".…
by Richard Speed on (#56TWN)
'A more productive way to get things done' – in the States only Microsoft has followed the Surface Duo price and ship date with some detailed specs that will leave all but the company's most determined fans struggling to say much more than: "Is that it?"…
by Matthew Hughes on (#56TTY)
US consumer nonprofit alleges it was false advertising What's that barging into Zoom's socially distanced virtual family reunion? It's a lawsuit from US nonprofit Consumer Watchdog alleging the videoconferencing giant misled the public over its purported use of end-to-end encryption.…
by Jude Karabus on (#56TS8)
Famed IP holder pops champers as Cupertino plots appeal A jury in Texas yesterday agreed that Apple should cough up $506.2m in FRAND royalties for including 4G LTE capability on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch without buying a licence from a group of IP holders.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#56TQG)
Tipped to appear on upcoming Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G Samsung has lifted the lid on its new Adaptive Frequency screen tech, which dynamically adjusts a display's refresh rate based on the app being used. The firm says the tech is already commercially available, with plans to debut it on the Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G flagship blower.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#56TP1)
Names, email addresses, phone numbers, job titles, company names, country of residence etc. pinched Updated Cybersecurity training organisation the SANS Institute suffered the loss of 28,000 items of personally identifiable information (PII) after a staffer's email account was accessed by malicious people.…
by Richard Speed on (#56TP2)
Easing users into the world of Windows 10 IoT Enterprises eyeing their crusty old Windows CE apps with alarm as Microsoft yanks the plug on its legacy operating systems will be relieved to see the company making good on its promised CE container technology.…
by Paul Kunert on (#56TKZ)
So it's working really well As US President Trump pats himself on the back for disrupting Huawei's business outside of China, he may be interested to discover more and more smartphones purchased in the US are made in the Middle Kingdom.…
by Richard Speed on (#56TJA)
Careful with that Patch, Eugene Bork!Bork!Bork! As displays become ever more complex, one constant remains. Windows will need care and attention and is liable to let the world know if it doesn't get it. Welcome to another in The Register's pantheon of Bork.…
by Richard Speed on (#56TG0)
10 September, $1,399 After months of teasing the faithful with smug pics of its latest blower in the hands of various veeps, Microsoft whipped the covers off the Surface Duo and confirmed the date and price of the folding fancyphone.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56TG1)
Parallels desktop upgrade enables nested virtualization and adds a dash of automation Parallels has released a new version of its macOS desktop hypervisor and added a few handy things that developers and virtualization wonks will likely appreciate.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#56TEB)
Full details of security vuln plus proof-of-concept exploits revealed We hope you've patched CVE-2020-6262, aka note 2835979, that affects SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP, because the folks who found and reported the vulnerability are going public with the details.…
by Paul Kunert on (#56TCD)
HR boss warns staff Big Blue will 'suspend' salary reviews, moving rises to 2021 Exclusive IBM has told staff across the world in all divisions it is scrapping pay rise reviews until the first half of next year due to the "considerable uncertainty" caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#56TCE)
Voters need to know who they are being targeted by, says MP The UK government is setting out its efforts to create more transparent rules for political campaigning online.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56TB6)
And smartphone that shows you its innards if required Chinese consumer goods manufacturer Xiaomi has celebrated its tenth birthday with the release of a transparent television.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#56T9M)
Wi-Fi 7 had us on 'Extremely High Throughput,' the latency improvements sound nice, too As the IEEE 802.11 project, forebearer of Wi-Fi, marks its 30th anniversary next month, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) gear is just beginning to appear in the market, even as the spec awaits final ratification later this year.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56T9N)
Plans to ‘disengage from the corrupt social platform’ that ‘is screwing with our election’ Ageing and angry rock icon Neil Young will scour Facebook and Google from his online archive.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#56T87)
Cash-strapped privacy devs face determined miscreants who keep coming back for more The Tor Project has confirmed someone, or some group, is in control of a large number of Bitcoin-snaffling exit nodes in its anonymizing network, and it's battling to boot them off.…
by Robbie Harb on (#56T6V)
Might float chip-designer, sell it all or sell chunks. Whatever happens, server CPU sales are the upside SoftBank has bounced back from a historic loss to post profits of $12bn as the company confirms that it is in negotiations to sell British chip designer Arm.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56T5G)
Verifying wandering voters in the world’s largest and most complex elections is the aim India has pondered how blockchain might enhance its elections with a high-level online gabfest concluding that the technology might have a role in making it possible for more voters to cast their ballot in more places around the nation.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56T4P)
Which would leave it about four percent of neighboring India’s exports Pakistan has given itself a new target for IT services exports, hoping that within three years it can win $5bn of revenue.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56T3T)
Expect Citrix Endpoint Management gear to come under attack soon With the world+dog releasing patches today, Citrix has another serious security situation it needs users’ help to smother.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#56T2R)
Chip designer ruled not a monopolistic strangler after all An appeals court has reversed an earlier ruling that Qualcomm broke America's antitrust laws, dealing a blow to the FTC, which brought the case.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#56T1V)
Please, thanks, good show, cheers, ta Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday used to be Microsoft's day to release patches. Now Adobe, Intel, and SAP are routinely joining the fun – with special guest star Red Hat this month.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#56SYS)
The Ying to Steve Jobs' Yang celebrates another orbit around the Sun Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and star engineer of the computer revolution, turns 70 today. How do you sum up such a storied career, which continues to touch facets of our daily lives? We should start at the beginning.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#56SXA)
250 'true Mozillians' laid off, Taiwan office completely shuttered Firefox maker Mozilla has axed 250 employees, or a quarter of its workforce, claiming the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is to blame after hitting it in the wallet. The organization also vowed to "ship new products faster and develop new revenue streams."…
by Matthew Hughes on (#56SSQ)
Phone maker to plough cash into 5G, cracking US market, and diversification Nokia licensor HMD Global is quids in after securing $230m in funding from a bevy of biz "partners" including Google, Qualcomm, and Nokia Technologies.…
by David Gordon on (#56SQD)
It’s the best way to lead your cloud migration. Watch our next RegCast to learn more Webcast As your staff continue to work from home, likely well into 2021, there’s never been a more pressing moment to consider the different ways you can make your business work better with a remote workforce.…
by Richard Speed on (#56SQE)
Also: Scottish rocketeers to launch from Iceland, and SpaceX lobs more Starlinks In brief California-based Rocket Lab is to resume launches within the month after an Electron payload failed to reach orbit in July.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#56SMW)
'Obviously a critical brand' says CEO Benioff as he calls off online occasion Salesforce's 170,000-attendee annual uber-conference that the world knows as Dreamforce looks set to be no more - not even in digital form - at least as far as the 2020 version is concerned.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#56SJB)
Another chapter in the sorry Emergency Services Network saga Capita's contract to hook up emergency services control rooms under the UK's troubled Emergency Services Network (ESN) is being renewed for £6.5m without competition.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#56SG0)
'Inhouse crt rigs to solve... book before ur exam' as firm claims 'some' of the content wasn't theirs Exclusive British infosec biz NCC Group has admitted to The Register that its internal training materials were leaked on GitHub – after folders purporting to help people pass the CREST pentest certification exams appeared in a couple of repositories.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#56SG1)
Spudger-flingers rate it 4 out of 10, note an 'artificially short lifespan' The 2020 27-inch iMac is almost certainly Cupertino’s final Intel swan song before it departs into the uncharted waters of Apple Silicon.…
by Richard Speed on (#56S88)
Also: TypeScript 4.0 goes RC, Azure Functions support for PowerShell goes GA and DoH gets easier for Insiders In brief Behold, Microsoft has dropped the black veil on a new Windows 10 build and some Android fun for Insiders.…
by Richard Currie on (#56S67)
While remote-working adults adhere to 'business in the front, party in the back' As the mercury hits tropical levels in the UK, Vulture Central continues to deliver enterprise tech news in various states of undress.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#56S4A)
Judges went out of their way not to set a nationwide precedent, though In a shock ruling today, the UK Court of Appeal has declared that South Wales Police broke the law with an indiscriminate deployment of automated facial-recognition technology in Cardiff city centre.…
by Richard Speed on (#56S2F)
Eat out to BSOD?* Bork!Bork!Bork! A return to form for burger-botherers McDonald's with a summertime BSOD in today's entry in The Register's diary of distressed digital signage.…