by Shaun Nichols on (#58Q2K)
Big blow to big whistleblower The US government's Department of Justice has won its multi-million-dollar claim to Edward Snowden's Permanent Record book royalties as well as any future related earnings.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#58Q1V)
He masterminded $7m scam from halfway house, Feds claim A convicted fraudster was out on parole when he allegedly conned victims into giving him millions of dollars to place surefire sports bets on their behalf using special software that didn't actually exist.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#58Q1A)
Fujtisu kit on the floor tho bourse takes the blame for day-long dead zone Tokyo’s Stock Exchange (TSE) went offline for most of Thursday, its longest-ever outage and a very unwelcome one as it is the world’s third-largest bourse, when measured by market capitalisation.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#58Q0G)
Earlier ban on H-1B, H-2B, J and L passes ruled an overstep of presidential power, middle-finger to Congress President Trump's proclamation in June that barred companies and other organizations from bringing in foreign workers into the US under various visas like the H-1B has been temporarily, partially blocked.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#58PXS)
'We are on a mission to create as much understanding about algorithms as possible' The City of Helsinki, Finland, and the City of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, have introduced online AI registries that offer a glimpse into the workings of the algorithms and machine-learning systems used for municipal governance.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#58PTF)
The same lot who bought off crooks in May but kept quiet till July +Comment Blackbaud, the cloud CRM provider whose execs bought off ransomware crooks in exchange for a pinky promise that stolen data would not be misused, has now confessed that customers' bank account information may have been taken from its servers by the criminals.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#58PS9)
Rewarding pointless patches with free swag leads to 'DDoS' against projects Updated Hosting biz Digital Ocean kicked off its seventh Hacktoberfest on Thursday – and managed to seriously annoy the very developers the event aims to celebrate.…
by Richard Speed on (#58PQP)
You may need to look elsewhere if you want more bang for your buck As well as the updated and costly Surface Pro X, Microsoft has unveiled a cheaper way for users to dip a toe into its hardware waters with the Surface Laptop Go.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#58PPE)
Users fear hack – really the 'processing infrastructure was running behind' Amazon-owned smart home appliance maker Ring has won the world record for biggest game of "ding dong ditch" after a software glitch broadcast erroneous doorbell chimes to countless users yesterday.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#58PPF)
... which Deloitte helped build Salesforce has teamed up with sprawling consultancy Deloitte to peddle COVID-19 contact-tracing software to UK local authorities.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#58PK6)
Online grocer shrugs: We'll see when we actually receive the papers Updated AutoStore, a Norwegian manufacturer of robotic warehouse storage and retrieval systems, says it is suing UK online retailer and tech outfit Ocado.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#58PHJ)
This is what you wanted, right? The UK will take a multibillion-pound blow to productivity and economic prosperity should the 5G rollout be held up further, a new report from the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) claims.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#58PHK)
'We've made a deliberate attempt to build something that can share source code across all these environments' Interview Google's cross-platform app development framework Flutter marked another quarterly release on Thursday with the debut of Flutter 1.22. The Register had the opportunity to speak with Tim Sneath, product lead at Flutter, about the project's state and ambitions.…
by Richard Speed on (#58PFD)
Upgrade will soon come up against Apple's take on the post-Intel world A year after the release of its fan-serving Surface Pro X, Microsoft and new pal Qualcomm have given the Arm-powered fondleslab's chippery a good buffing.…
by Richard Speed on (#58PFE)
£5m pot opened to biz and academics who fancy projects with foreign flavour The UK Space Agency has opened a new lunch fund designed foster to "international space collaborations".…
by Gareth Corfield on (#58PDS)
Last year telcos scrambled to plug 'critical user-facing vulns' in network kit UK.gov security researchers examining Huawei source code have so far verified just eight firmware binaries out of more than 60 used across Britain's mobile phone networks, according to the GCHQ-backed agency's annual report.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#58PCS)
Brit firm Bamboo scores cash that can convert to equity. Yup, the government could become a server vendor! The UK's Coronavirus Future Fund has made a biggish bet on Arm server vendor Bamboo.…
by Richard Speed on (#58PAX)
Better improve its coverage then Mobile network O2, notable for its occasional outages, has opened the UK's first commercial lab for connected, driverless cars.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#58PAY)
Sounds a bit like what Salesforce denies it worked on Online supermarket Ocado Group has chosen Oracle Fusion Cloud as its main ERP system to help it grow into international markets.…
by Richard Speed on (#58P99)
That's the second Redmondian outage this week Updated Microsoft's Exchange Online service fell over in the early hours of this morning.…
by David Gordon on (#58P9A)
Meet the panel who’ll allocate the $200K prize fund to European winners Promo Huawei’s AppsUp developer contest is now in full swing with a deadline of October 8, 2020, to get your app submitted in hope of taking home a slice of a $1m prize fund.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#58P7J)
Apropos of nothing, what's French for 'Get me the hell away from Nvidia'? The mid-range smartphone world is enjoying a period of sustained growth, as price-sensitive customers swerve expensive flagships and pick something more modest. Hoping to exploit this market is chip designer MediaTek, which will bring its 5G-capable Dimensity 800 silicon to Europe following its Chinese introduction earlier this year.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#58P7K)
NHS Digital: 'Matter of public health importance to encourage people to download the app' Exclusive The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has confirmed it is investigating grumbles about heavy-handed marketing emails and texts promoting the NHS COVID-19 contact-tracing app in England.…
by Richard Speed on (#58P2X)
Under 3 minutes? Not today Bork!Bork!Bork! A return to the hue of blue today, with a cautionary tale of keeping your keys safe and sound when Windows is around.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#58P2Y)
Yep, plugs. The things that pick up electrickery from the wall Smart plugs could set your house on fire and let hackers gaze upon your private data, according to consumer champion company Which?…
by Simon Sharwood on (#58P2Z)
Buyers aren't super-keen to jump through geopolitical hoops VMworld The US-China trade war has made more trouble for VMware's business in Asia than the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Duncan Hewett, Virtzilla's senior vice president and general manager for Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ).…
by Shaun Nichols on (#58P30)
Brit financial watchdogs foxed by not guilty verdict A Russian ex-banker has been found not guilty of destroying potential evidence after he deleted a copy of WhatsApp from his phone before handing it over to police.…
by Robbie Harb on (#58P31)
And then mentions China 18 times and calls for dedicated agency to regulate international data links One of the four commissioners of America's communications regulator has called for more scrutiny of submarine cables between the Land of the Free and "adversary countries".…
by Katyanna Quach on (#58P32)
You, over there, rustle up a warp drive while we're finding a new galactic pad Video If you’re tired of sitting in your PJs in front of the computer screen all day indoors, and need a new purpose to get you through the COVID-19 virus pandemic, consider helping NASA look for previously unseen exoplanets.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#58P33)
Consumer tech security rating scheme to launch next week, will be offered to rest of world The assistant chief executive of Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency, Brigadier General Gaurav Keerthi, says the island nation now considers providing a secure environment to citizens and businesses the equivalent of providing fresh water and sewerage services, and will next week improve digital hygiene with a voluntary scheme that will rate the security consumer broadband gateways.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#58P34)
And not just any citizens, but folks stranded overseas and in dire need of assistance Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has just exposed personal details of over 1,000 citizens in an email.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#58MEE)
We've switched to back-up offline procedures, says Universal Health Services Universal Health Services, which operates over 400 hospitals and healthcare facilities in the US, Puerto Rico, and the UK, said on Monday that its IT network was offline due to an unspecified cybersecurity issue.…
by Tim Anderson on (#58MEF)
Multi-platform not cross-platform, says company – enough to increase interest in the language? Apple has open-sourced Swift System, a library designed to improve the experience of calling the operating system API from Swift on supported platforms, including a new Linux implementation.…
by David Gordon on (#58MEG)
Think your old tools can’t cut it? Here’s the proof Promo Incident response and detection is a critical part of your security operation – it’s hard to defend against what you can’t see, particularly when your attack surface now extends from on-prem and into the cloud.…
by Paul Kunert on (#58M0A)
Blames market volatility caused by pandemic and US controls over Huawei Kioxia, the flash and SSD fabrication artist formerly known as Toshiba Memory Corp, has called off its initial public offering due next month, citing stock market volatility and the coronavirus outbreak.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#58M0B)
Shaky start out of the gates and still some issues, but at least it's here England and Wales finally have a contact-tracing app. Released last Thursday, NHS COVID-19 allows public health authorities to identify potential disease carriers and stem the spread of coronavirus. But in the days since its release, some bugs have showed up.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#58M0C)
Leading to AU$540m in late invoice payments Invoices worth AU$540m were paid late after a finance and supply chain system built on SAP S/4HANA went live at Australia's Queensland Health.…
by Tim Anderson on (#58M0D)
Unexpected item in bagging area? AWS has introduced Cost Anomaly Detection, a new feature now in beta driven by machine learning that pledges to notify admins of "unexpected or unusual spend".…
by Richard Speed on (#58M0E)
'I didn't expect this kind of work from Apple.' Sorry, did you see Catalina? Apple is apparently so skint that it has had to resort to freebie versions of machine-based translation services for its Dutch legalese.…
by Paul Kunert on (#58M0F)
Length of operator's licence or related conditions yet to be determined Uber has won an appeal against Transport for London's decision not to renew the ride-hailing app biz's licence for the English capital, ending a three-year tussle between the pair.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#58M0G)
Also, Brazilian teen spots odd Instagram bug and nets $25K In Brief Foreign-backed disinformation campaigns will spread fake news about the results of the upcoming US election in an effort to sow doubt and outrage among the American public.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#58M0H)
Ever seen a Trello board you thought you shouldn't? If you're in UK or US, you're not alone Around 40 per cent of staff in British and American corporations have access to sensitive data that they don't need to complete their jobs, according to recent research.…
by Tim Anderson on (#58JD4)
Starts trying to make fetch happen... build your own models to parse corporate content Ignite Microsoft's SharePoint Syntex is a new feature of SharePoint online that promises to extract metadata from documents automatically, making it easier to find and categorise information.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#58JD5)
Coffee giant brews UK customers a double shot of cock-up Starbucks' UK rewards card app went down for a prolonged period earlier this week, and a bunch of caffeine fiends are still reporting problems.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#58JD6)
Contesting decision of General Court that Irish set-up was kosher European Commission executive vice-president Margrethe Vestager is set to fight to have Apple's tax benefit in Ireland ruled as state aid.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#58JD7)
Beta means fully operational? Haha! Good one! A UK government system to avoid miles of road traffic congestion in the county of Kent as the Brexit transition period comes to an end will rely on software which is not yet in its beta version.…
by David Gordon on (#58JD8)
And if you're keen to place an ad, get in touch – it's free Job Alert Looks like the summer's over and everyone is growing their tech team, judging by the bundle of openings we have this week.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#58JD9)
Hacker had set up shop on network using stolen Office 365 accounts An unspecified US government agency was hacked by a miscreant who appears to have made off with archives of information.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#58JDA)
Dress rehearsals done, nice shingly crater chosen – it's go time Video NASA intends to scoop up material from the surface of the Bennu asteroid on 20 October, and has planned up to three retrieval attempts before returning any samples back to Earth.…
by Richard Currie on (#58JDB)
It's the 'gaming funk' edition, also starring Wasteland 3, Crusader Kings 3, and Among Us The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column – the "funk" edition. Maybe you've experienced the sensation, maybe you haven't, but after finishing our last subject, Death Stranding (which was great by the way), we found ourselves in a quandary. WTF do we play next? And can we bring ourselves to write about it?*…