by Simon Sharwood on (#55XPG)
At least it’s a better excuse than Switchzilla’s ‘cosmic radiation errors’ Cisco watchers may recall that the company is infamous for two particularly odd bug reports.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#55XN3)
At under £30, it'll do as a burner or mp3 player. Also, Snake Review Nostalgia's a weird thing. If you're a techie, things have never been better. For less than £500, you can get a tiny battery-powered computer that's faster than the workstation your boss spent £2,000 kitting you out with just 15 years prior. Yet there's always the nagging temptation to take a stroll down memory lane.…
by Robbie Harb on (#55XN4)
Domestic companies to be mashed together in the service of digital transformation, 5G and cloud Fujitsu will relaunch several of its domestic business services units under a new company called Fujitsu Japan.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55XKV)
Aimed at VFX creators working on shows it has commissioned, not the rest of us sadly Netflix has teased a desktop-as-service (DaaS) offering.…
by Richard Speed on (#55XKW)
Each one unique, and they'll keep coming till there's no paper left... or someone kills the power Who, Me? Another week means another tale of reader misdeeds in The Register's ongoing Who, Me? series.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55XJH)
Perps tried to sell high-profile usernames after possibly perusing private data Twitter has revealed more about the July 15 attack that saw several prominent accounts hijacked to promote a Bitcoin scam.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#55XJJ)
You can thank GDPR for that Violating Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules is a costly mistake that is only getting more expensive, according to lawyers totaling up fines from the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55XGT)
‘Hope’ mission is first interplanetary effort from Arab world, aims to sniff Martian atmosphere The United Arab Emirates has successfully launched a Mars probe.…
by Robbie Harb on (#55XFA)
To help plague time working and learning, even though schools are to remain closed until a vaccine is found The Philippines has revealed plans to install 23,100 free WiFi sites to help adapt the country to remote work and education during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55XEE)
Land of the bureaucratic stamp wants to be ready if plague and natural disasters coincide Japan has announced a policy to modernise its government with a massive new program of digitisation, because the nation has decided it needs better information infrastructure to cope with both the current pandemic and other future challenges.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#55WSX)
You're gonna need something to secure those Doordash orders over Morse code A Second World War cryptography artifact – a 1944 Enigma M4 machine – has sold at auction for £347,250 ($436,000).…
by Thomas Claburn on (#55W3Z)
Network-connected gear stuck in boot loop needs replacing Analysis Since the middle of last month, thousands of Samsung customers found their older internet-connected Blu-ray players had stopped working.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#55W1S)
'Just totally unheard of and really mind-boggling' says MIT assistant prof High-energy X-rays emanating from a gigantic black hole rapidly petered out before it roared back to life again, leaving astronomers bewildered.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#55VW2)
Pentagon can't wait to do some 'experimentation and testing' in space The Pentagon wants an unmanned military outpost in orbit one day – and this week hired the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) to build a prototype.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#55VQX)
DNS provider goes dark amid bad routing, world+dog goes through nine minutes of terror Updated Global internet glue Cloudflare experienced a brief network outage on Friday that broke multiple apps and websites, including your humble Register.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#55VPD)
Maybe it was the old Lionel Hutz play: 'No-logging VPN? I meant, No! Logging VPN!' A string of "zero logging" VPN providers have some explaining to do after more than a terabyte of user logs were found on their servers unprotected and facing the public internet.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#55VJD)
Legal discovery team could turn up some very interesting, and possibly embarrassing details Facebook won a significant legal victory on Thursday when the judge hearing the lawsuit against Israeli spyware maker NSO Group declined to dismiss the case – and allowed the crucial discovery process to move forward.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#55VDH)
Just a coincidence it put out a statement amid the Twitter mega-hack Blackbaud, a cloud software provider specializing in fundraising suites for charities and educational institutions, quietly paid off a ransomware attacker – and then got around to telling customers about it a full two months later.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#55VB3)
XSS vuln could hijack websites so update your All in One pack A popular WordPress search engine optimisation plugin with around two million installs could have been abused to hijack a target website, according to a threat intel firm.…
by Richard Speed on (#55V8A)
What's inside the mystery tube? It is 45 years since US astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts first shook hands in space. The Register presents "When Apollo met Soyuz".…
by Matthew Hughes on (#55V5W)
Repairability score good? Well, yes actually Infamous tech vivisectors iFixit have dug into the innards of Dell's latest XPS 15 ultrabook. And what did they find? Philips screws, user-serviceable components, and very little adhesive.…
by Richard Speed on (#55V39)
COVID-19 downturn only hastened Boeing aircraft's inevitable demise British Airways has revealed that it probably won't be flying the Boeing 747 anymore.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#55V3A)
Which, let's be real, is a fancy way to say 'we got phished' Twitter has said that around 130 accounts were targeted by miscreants this week as high-profile individuals and businesses had their accounts hijacked to promote a Bitcoin scam.…
by Paul Kunert on (#55TYZ)
Tata Consultancy Services to run application and infrastructure support - oh, and security Exclusive The tech function is being consolidated across The Co-operative Group with redundancies "inevitable", the company has told staff. At the same time, the management of certain areas including application support is to be outsourced to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) along with the TUPE transfer of some staff.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#55TZ0)
Drones and satellite imagery probably better than sending out four helicopters at a time – or counting poop Herbivores may not be the first things that spring to mind when devising the latest application of the technology world's overflowing toolbox, but there it is.…
by Richard Speed on (#55TX4)
A big, red triangle on your screen? A security issue, not a foreign film alert Bork!Bork!Bork! UK broadcaster ITV came under the baleful gaze of bork over the weekend as an unexpected expiration left its online player shorn of those precious advertisements.…
by Richard Speed on (#55TVE)
Letter to Brit-based workers talks of 'new uncertainties for business' caused by pandemic Wipro has warned UK staff that some of them may be laid off due to "uncertainties" caused by the COVID-19 pandemic – even though the chairman claimed at an AGM that no jobs would be shed during the global crisis.…
by Paul Kunert on (#55TT0)
UK portable sales-out (the stuff shipped to customers) more than double in lockdown buying frenzy Businesses and consumers emptied distributors’ warehouses of notebooks across the UK during Q2 as lockdown kicked in, even buying stock that had been sat on the shelves for 12 months gathering dust.…
by David Gordon on (#55TT1)
Systems dev, technical product manager, and more Job Alert It's Friday again, and we're back with another list of opportunities for roles in the big and beautiful world of tech.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55TRQ)
Damn you coronavirus, and save some anger for the technical challenges plaguing heir-to-Hubble NASA has announed a seven-month delay to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the thirty-year-old Hubble Space Telescope.…
by Richard Speed on (#55TQ5)
Up from the depths / Thirty stories high / Breathing fire / Its head in the sky / IT'S EMAIL! On Call The week is almost done, and Friday sees the start of the delightful tumble that ends in the weekend. Start your roll with a tale from those unfortunates forced to deal with the foolishness of others in The Register's On Call feature.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55TQ6)
Helped by product business growing well and staff not being keen on new jobs right now Indian services outfit HCL says the worst of the COVID-19-induced economic downturn is behind it. And we should all wish that our worst is as bad as HCL’s because the company just posted strong results for Q1 2021.…
by Robbie Harb on (#55TQ7)
Seemingly offers Huawei alternative and challenges old-school telco vendors. Now to prove its chops by building an Indian 5G net for Jio Platforms Indian industrial conglomerate Reliance Industries has announced that it has developed its own 5G network infrastructure and hopes to offer it as a manged service to carriers worldwide.…
Aggrieved ad tech types decry Google dominance in W3C standards – who writes the rules and for whom?
by Thomas Claburn on (#55TNV)
World Wide Web Consortium urged to get its governance act together Earlier this week, 20 web advertising companies wrote to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Advisory Board to ask that the standards organization revise its governance process to prevent ad tech giants like Google from running roughshod over the concerns of others with an interest in the web.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#55TMX)
We've heard of a code freeze but this is ridiculous: Microsoft finishes burying repos in Norwegian archipelago Microsoft's GitHub on Thursday said that earlier this month it successfully deposited a snapshot of recently active GitHub public code repositories to an underground vault on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55TKX)
New rules define allow lists and deny lists, send masters and slaves to the Trash Apple has issued a new style guide that deprecates what it calls “non-inclusive language”, and has started to apply it to Xcode, platform APIs, documentation, and open source projects.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55TJ9)
ASEAN to throw big sale on August 8th – a super-lucky day according to Chinese numerology The ten-state Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) trade bloc has decided that a regional internet splurge can help the region rise from plague-induced economic torpor.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#55TE9)
Chairman Mark Liu is carefully abiding by Uncle Sam's new rules Super-duper chip maker TSMC told investors it will stop exporting supplies to its number-two customer Chinese telecoms manufacturer Huawei from mid-September.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#55TCB)
Make sure your iThing installs these patches Apple has released a fresh batch of software security updates for its flagship devices.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#55T9R)
Power-sipping, phat bandwidth and dope density Great news for anyone who wants to use Slack and Google Chrome simultaneously: The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has formalised the spec for DDR5 SDRAM, expected to become the standard memory for most computing devices.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#55T4T)
'Completely unacceptable' spouts British Foreign Secretary Russian hackers at the state's FSB spy agency have been caught breaking into Western institutions working on potential vaccines for the COVID-19 coronavirus in hope of stealing said research. That's according to the British National Cyber Security Centre and America's NSA today.…
by Richard Speed on (#55T4V)
Chat and Meet rolled into the inbox along with other bells and whistles Google is to shovel yet more bells and whistles into its Gmail client in an effort to demonstrate its collaborative chops in an increasingly crowded marketplace.…
by Richard Speed on (#55T1F)
But don't try roasting a marshmallow over these hotspots ESA and NASA's Solar Orbiter probe has sent back images showing omnipresent miniature solar flares near the surface of the Sun, dubbed "campfires" by astroboffins.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#55SYM)
Ugggghhhhh, it's so unfair! Vodafone has urged the UK government to cancel Ofcom's upcoming 5G spectrum auction, where carriers can bid for access to the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz bands.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#55SVT)
Shouty social network hopes external coders can make it a better place For the first time in eight years, Twitter plans to introduce a major revision to its API that describes how developers can access the platform's data.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#55SVV)
The spice data must flow (and it will – just through SCCs) The EU Court of Justice has struck down the so-called Privacy Shield data protection arrangements between the political bloc and the US, triggering a fresh wave of legal confusion over the transfer of EU subjects' data to America.…
by Richard Speed on (#55SN3)
Calm down, Intel. It'll be fixed Microsoft teased a future that Intel could only dream of as it unleashed a new Dev Channel build of Windows 10 that was deemed unsuitable for AMD CPU-equipped PCs.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#55SHX)
Will drive investment inwards as trade war continues Shares in SMIC — mainland China’s answer to Taiwanese silicon fabricator TSMC — soared nearly 202 per cent in their first day of trading, after the chipmaker debuted its public listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Board.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#55SFT)
Colossus Mk2 boasts of even more transistors than the top GPU Video British AI chipmaker Graphcore has announced a new series of hardware products based on its latest second-generation Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) known as the Colossus Mk2 GC200.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#55SFV)
They're still more popular in America... even 7 years after shopping spree Although proximal to the global application giant SAP, German-speaking users have yet to significantly take up its line-of-business applications, which arrived via acquisitions made during the nine-year tenure of former CEO Bill McDermott.…