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What the duck? Bloke keeps getting sent bathtime toys in the post – and Amazon won't say who's responsible
'I don't even have a bath' A chap from County Durham in northeast England is suffering a very specific mallardy – one of rubber ducks sent to his home address from Amazon with alarming regularity.…
Is that croaky voicemail of your CEO just a Fakey McFake Fake – or does he normally ask you to wire him $1m?
Plus: AI finance software house reportedly outsourced paperwork processing to... humans In brief An infosec biz has shared an audio clip of what may be a software-generated voicemail message, designed to impersonate a CEO to trick a company employee into unwittingly committing fraud.…
WTF is cloud-tethered compute? We're not sure either, but it just made a hype cycle for the first time
Edge and serverless about to slide into the trough of disillusionment Clouds have gone private, mutated into hybrids, gone virtual and/or private and attracted many other labels beside.…
UKIP blackmail, data breach sueball allegations were groundless, rules High Court
Tawdry political scuffle over database access binned for lack of evidence A lawsuit alleging that ex-UKIP leader Richard Braine took part in blackmail and data breaches has been all but thrown out of the High Court as a judge said it was "without any proper and sound evidential foundation".…
Google search trends used to calculate floating prophylactic prices
The more you worry about what's going on below the belt, the further the price drops. Now to short the market Australian personal protective equipment company Ansell has started pricing its condoms using a value calculated by analysing Google search trends.…
Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin. Hang on, the PDP 11/70 has dropped offline
Beware the wandering buttock Who, Me? As the weekend recedes and the workday begins, tarry a while with a beverage of your choice and today's entry in The Register's file of reader Who, Me? confessions.…
If you think you've got problems, pal, spare a thought for these boffins baffled by 'oddball' meteorites
Chondritic and achondritic? Back to the drawing board, then Meteorites discovered strewn across Earth after the 1960s may have broken off the same planetesimal body. What’s more, scientists have discovered signs this ancient body had a molten core, which turns some cosmological thinking on its head.…
No, boss, I'm not playing Minecraft. Minecraft is where I run VMs on the desktop now
Game mod pipes VirtualBox into virtual blockputers A developer who goes by "Delta2Force" has created a Minecraft mod that runs virtual machines on virtual computers built inside Minecraft.…
USA seeks Moon and Mars nuke power plant designs ready to fly in 2027
Wants 10kw delivering 120V DC because solar cells have limitations and we can’t schlep fuel up there The US Department of Energy has published an RFI for a lunar nuclear power plant.…
Australia sues Google over data collection practices that merged DoubleClick data to create single user profiles
Alleges opt-in that promised “more control” actually sent more data without informed consent. Google 'strongly disagrees' The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has hauled Google into the nation’s Federal Court for misleading local users “… to obtain their consent to expand the scope of personal information that Google could collect and combine about consumers’ internet activity, for use by Google, including for targeted advertising.”…
SAP to list Qualtrics, less than two years after convincing it not to list
Plans to retain sales and dev umbilical cord to CX outfit German software giant SAP will float its data analytics subsidiary Qualtrics, less than two years after convincing the firm not to list itself.…
We're not all about rockets, says NASA: Balloon tech is good enough for economical star scanning
Ahem, hey, any chance LOHAN can hitch a ride? NASA wants to lift a 2.5-metre-long, reusable far-infrared telescope into Earth’s stratosphere using a massive high-altitude balloon in 2023 to check out the heavens more economically.…
Psst.. You may want to patch this under-attack data-leaking Cisco bug – and these Ripple20 hijack flaws
Plus: US govt sounds the alarm on industrial equipment attacks In Brief Cisco this week emitted fixes for potentially serious vulnerabilities, one of which is already being exploited in the wild.…
It's a Meow-nixed system, I know this: Purr-fect storm of 3,000+ insecure databases – and a data-wiping bot
ProtoVPN IP range fingrered as source of destructive attacks Poorly secured databases are being wiped and vandalized by the thousands in a seemingly automated attack.…
Just what you want when stuck working from home: Microsoft domain mixup downs Remote Web Access
'Supported' Windows Server customers cut off from their subdomains Updated Microsoft's Windows Server Essentials' Remote Web Access service, which lets customers set up web access to their on-premises server through a .remotewebaccess.com subdomain, became inaccessible on Thursday after an unannounced DNS change.…
Mysterious supernova is blasting far-flung galaxy with flashes of UV light – and astroboffins don't know why
So many questions, but it's only the second time such a phenomenon has been observed Astrophysicists have spied an extremely rare type of supernova from an exploding and possibly radioactive white dwarf that emits mysterious flashes of UV light.…
Butterfingers who don't bother with phone cases, rejoice: New Gorilla Glass 'Victus' tipped to survive 6ft drops
Corning says it'll first appear in an upcoming Samsung device Aluminosilicate wrangler Corning has lifted the lid on its latest generation of its hardy Gorilla Glass.…
Not-so-paltry towers to float: Vodafone reveals IPO plans for mega European masts biz
Firm to list in Frankfurt, could net €10bn to €20bn Vodafone will IPO its towers business next year, it told the market this morning, with the global telecommunications giant planning a public offering for early next year on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.…
Xen upgrade brings open-source hypervisor to Azure, future AMD EPYCs, rPi 4, and even Nvidia AI development kit
Team suggests grabbing it now The Xen project has popped out a new version, 4.14, of its widely used open-source hypervisor.…
Cabinet Office takes over control of UK government data: Mundane machinery or Machiavellian manoeuvrings?
Argh! Dominic Cummings' department! Everybody panic! The UK Cabinet Office is to take control of government data from the Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport.…
Want to win $15,000? Enter Huawei's app development contest – and it could be yours
Create an innovative mobile application or game with AppsUp and you could win big Promo With Huawei mobile phones shifting to their own ecosystem and apps, Huawei Mobile Services, the company, is taking the opportunity to rethink the way app stores work entirely, priming its App Gallery as a destination for a plethora of new apps approached in a different way.…
UK govt finds £200,000 under sofa to kick off research into improving mobile connectivity on nation's crap railways
Do people still use trains? Anyway, wireless antennas on overhead line equipment looks like the solution Staying connected on a train in the UK is almost impossible thanks to excruciatingly slow speeds and frequent blackspots. The government hopes to make these gripes a thing of the past by committing £200,000 to research on new track-side antenna technology.…
Brit unis hit in Blackbaud hack inform students that their data was nicked, which has gone as well as you might expect
That cloudy CRM firm paid ransom doesn't fill anyone with confidence British universities are waking up to last week's ransomware attack on cloud CRM purveyor Blackbaud – though it appears some haven't realised the American software company paid the ransom.…
UK weather watcher will make it rain to the tune of $30m for support on new data platform
Met Office has taken a shine to data science UK weather watcher the Met Office is seeking early interest in a framework deal that could be worth up to £30m for IT services and software development supporting a new data platform and data science activities.…
Fresh astro-underwear, anyone? Orbital shenanigans as Progress freighter has last-minute ISS docking wobble
Resupply ship plies space station with food, fuel and fear Hot on the heels of what the US alleged was an in-orbit "satellite killer" trial, Russia demonstrated it can still worry space station inhabitants with an eventful docking of its uncrewed Progress freighter.…
Microsoft wants to show enterprises that Edge means business, rather than the thing you use to download Chrome
Roadmap, release schedule will tease fancy upcoming features in browser In an effort to woo businesses to its latest take on the browser, Microsoft has unveiled an enterprise roadmap and release schedule for the Beta and Stable channels of Edge.…
UK's NCSC reveals Premier League footie clubs to be ripe pickings for cybercrooks: One almost lost £1m to BEC attack
Switch on, urges GCHQ-backed public security agency Common cybersecurity threats also apply to Premier League football clubs, according to the National Cyber Security Centre, which said that one club nearly sent £1m to fraudsters after a business email compromise (BEC) attack.…
Raytheon techie who took home radar secrets gets 18 months in the clink in surprise time fraud probe twist
Be careful about bunking off when you're billing your hours to a government A now-former Raytheon systems engineer will spend the next year and a half behind bars for taking home secret US government blueprints and paperwork, against security procedures, all because he seemingly liked taking Fridays off.…
Less than six months after original release, Samsung reboots its Galaxy Z Flip pholdable for the 5G age
Great, more $1,500 kit to trash Pholdables remain a vanishingly small niche of the smartphone market, due to their high costs and endemic durability concerns. Nobody, it seems, told Samsung, which just announced an upgraded 5G version of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip.…
Bill Gates debunks 'coronavirus vaccine is my 5G mind control microchip implant' conspiracy theory
He would say that… because he's not an actual supervillain Philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates has denied that his support for coronavirus vaccine research is cover for his plans to dominate the world with 5G-activated mind control microchips.…
Inaugural Work From Anywhere Enterprise Conf is this month – and you can watch it from anywhere, too
New virtual summit covers endpoint management, digital experience monitoring and ITSM — save your seat now Promo COVID-19 has caused the fastest change to the way people work in living memory. Research published this week shows 46 million US knowledge workers have gone from being office-based to home-based. And the thing is, many people who have left the office aren't looking to return full-time. IT knows this, and they must start listening.…
Russia tested satellite-to-satellite shooter, say UK and USA
Moscow says offending bird is a mere maintenance drone The USA and UK have alleged that Russia last week trialled an in-orbit satellite-killer weapon.…
What evil lurks within the data centre, and why is it DDoS-ing the ever-loving pants off us?
When 'works OK on my machine' goes global On Call Welcome to another in The Register's series of stories from those receiving calls for help and slightly passive-aggressive helpdesk tickets. Start your Friday with a helping of On Call.…
VMware's flagship vSphere now in never-ending beta, if you're up for it
Go forth and test code that may never become a product if you dare VMware has announced that its flagship vSphere virtualization suite now offers a continuous beta.…
We told you remote working is quite good, says Citrix as its numbers head higher
Q2 revenue and subs surge, annual guidance boosted again Quarterly earnings calls for public companies usually start with the CEO and other officers spending fifteen minutes or more showing slides full of numbers that prove the business is in good shape.…
Wipro buys 4C worth of extra Salesforce expertise
Slurps quote-to-cash specialist to boost Cloud business unit that's already big with SAP and Oracle Indian services giant Wipro has acquired Salesforce specialist 4C as it eyes expanding its operations in Europe.…
Visa fraud charges: Uncle Sam accuses four Chinese eggheads of covering up their true ties to China's military
Three collared, one in hiding at San Francisco consulate Four Chinese academic researchers in the United States have been accused of failing to declare on their immigration paperwork their true involvement with China’s People’s Liberation Army.…
Intel's 7nm is busted, chips delayed, may have to use rival foundries to get GPUs out for US govt exascale super
CEO Bob Swan suggests his chips may some day be TSMC-flavored Intel on Thursday reported second quarter sales of $19.7bn, up 20 per cent year-over-year, and still investors distanced themselves from its stock, which was down around 10 per cent in after-hours trading following the manufacturer's earnings report.…
Congrats, First American Title Insurance, you've made technology history. For all the wrong reasons
Insurer is first biz to be charged in New York for data security negligence after exposing millions of records to the web A California-based insurer that inadvertently left tens of millions of private customer records open to the internet has become the first company to be charged by New York's Department of Financial Services (DFS) for cybersecurity rule violations.…
Amazon's auditing of Alexa Skills is so good, these boffins got all 200+ rule-breaking apps past the reviewers
Want your AI assistant to shout obscenities or hate speech at your child? There's a program for that Amazon claims it reviews the software created by third-party developers for its Alexa voice assistant platform, yet US academics were able to create more than 200 policy-violating Alexa Skills and get them certified.…
Google forced to defend new trademark foundation as Knative community takes umbrage at 'neutrality' claims
Two directors from Google, no other vendors represented. That's vendor-neutral? Google's open source director Chris DiBona has defended the web giant's motives in forming a new foundation to manage open-source trademarks during a Knative community meeting.…
NoSQL Cassandra developer community sets sights on JDK 11 as sped-up 4.0 beta finally hits the streets
'Most stable' release yet boosts scaling speed, data observability The beta version of Apache Cassandra 4.0, the most significant new release of column-oriented NoSQL database in years according to those involved, hit the downloads centre this week, with the promise of a 5x scaling speed improvement, new observability features and less "unnecessary garbage".…
HPE opens 5G kit-testing lab where vendors can play with the toys, see what works best
Tech emphasises interoperability, but here firms will find out if it's ready for the prime time Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has cut the ribbon on a new lab that will allow cellular vendors to test interoperable networking kit.…
Smoke on the Tyne: Blaze at BT exchange causes major outages across North East England
Flames contained – but expect slow 'staged restoration' of services Thousands of customers of BT's fixed-line broadband and telephone services are experiencing major disruption in North East England after an exchange in Newcastle caught fire.…
Fitness freaks flummoxed as massive global Garmin outage leaves them high and dry for hours
No Connect, Web Shop, call centres or customer support – users are worried Updated Garmin's Connect service has been down for more than seven hours today to the frustration of fitness enthusiasts keen to upload running times or synchronise with other services such as Strava. So, too, is the company's web shop and support forums.…
Twitter hack latest: Up to 36 compromised accounts had their private messages read – including a Dutch politician's
Waves subside for now as microblogging site faces tough questions Twitter has admitted that the naughty folk who hijacked verified accounts last week read a portion of hacked users' direct messages.…
UK tech spending in 2020 will be hit harder than in France or Germany with little prospect of growth next year – analysts
That's what a sluggish pandemic response and 'world-beating' testing programme gets you The UK is to see technology spending fall by 9.3 per cent in 2020 followed by a more modest 1.1 per cent decline in 2021, according to research by Forrester.…
If you want to design and make your own 5nm high-end system-on-chip, Marvell's offering ASIC-as-a-service
Yes, it's going to cost a bob or two, but the option's there Marvell will today formally open the doors of its bespoke tailor shop, though rather than cutting and sewing cloth, it's crafting custom 5nm semiconductors.…
Microsoft tells AMD-powered Insiders they're unblocked in new Windows 10 Dev Channel build: 'Oh no we're not!'
Panto season starts early in Redmond Microsoft celebrated the end of its Inspire conference and the release of its financials with a pantomime-like Windows 10 Insider update. At least as far as AMD-based PCs were concerned.…
Absolutely fabless: MediaTek lifts the lid on latest 5G 7nm Dimensity chipset family
Qualcomm rival aims SoC at mid-tier next gen 5G mobiles, doesn't appear to support mmWave Taiwanese Qualcomm rival MediaTek has lifted the lid on its latest 7nm-process chip, aimed at the mobile mid-range.…
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