by Shaun Nichols on (#589DC)
Extortionware is bad but it never killed anyo... never mind A woman in Germany died after a ransomware infection prevented her hospital from giving emergency treatment.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#589C8)
As Mozilla kills off secure file transfer tool because – shock! – it was being abused Mozilla's mail reader, Thunderbird, has implemented a feature first requested 21 years ago.…
by Robbie Harb on (#589A7)
Floats industry plan that requires ramp-up of locally made components and complete tech transfer Pakistan has proposed that foreign smartphone-makers entering the country will have to help it build a domestic smartphone industry.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5898E)
Three days remain before definition of prohibited transactions drops The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has revealed that the Trump administration has not yet decided exactly what sort of ban it wants to impose on Tencent-operated messaging service WeChat, but that users of the service won’t be subject to any penalties.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#5895D)
It starts with a backpack of $200 of electronics and poor Wi-Fi security The US Department of the Interior (DoI) spectacularly failed its latest computer security assessment, mostly for a lack of Wi-Fi defenses.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5893Y)
And Cloudflare customers get way better availability The Internet Archive, repository for some 468bn webpages, has become a fail-over service for Cloudflare customers, which could improve website availability for everyone.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#58922)
Plus: Strange $12m sale rumors surround top domain name Analysis The man who claims he was screwed out of ownership of one of the internet’s most valuable addresses – invest.com – has lost a critical appeals court ruling. He reckons the battle’s not over yet, though.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#588X3)
Disclosed tracking, helicopter parenting programs are still kosher In an update to its Android Developer Program Policy, Google on Wednesday said stalkerware apps in its app store can no longer be used to stalk non-consenting adults.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#588SS)
Telecom kit maker points finger in the general direction of Middle Kingdom's complicated supply chain Hardware video encoders from multiple suppliers contain several critical security bugs that allow a remote unauthenticated miscreant to run arbitrary code on the equipment.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#588Q4)
Another facet of its data platform vision thing Analysis For a data company, Cloudera appears to be short on answers. Amid a raft of technology releases, it seems to be trying to insert its muzzle into two well-established markets while questions still remain over its Enterprise Data Cloud, announced more than a year ago.…
Ah yes, Sony, that major player in the smartphone space, has a new flagship inbound: The Xperia 5 II
by Matthew Hughes on (#588KS)
Snapdragon 865-powered, 120Hz tall boy focuses on fun and games Hoping to regain ground lost to competitors in China and South Korea, Sony today unveiled its latest flagship smartphone: the €899 Xperia 5 II.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#588FX)
End of the line for Adobe's multimedia nightmare on iGiant's browser Ahead of the macOS Big Sur launch, Apple has released Safari 14 to the general public, granting Mojave and Catalina users access to the company's latest browser.…
by Tim Anderson on (#588C3)
Cloud connection with the performance of 12G-SDI - as long as VMs are physically close together Amazon Web Services has said its new Cloud Digital Interface (CDI) will enable cloud-based video production across multiple virtual machines for the first time.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#588C4)
Never mind real-world viruses, get your networks into lockdown ASAP GCHQ offshoot the National Cyber Security Centre has warned Further and Higher Education institutions in the UK to be on their guard against ransomware attacks as the new academic year (sort of) gets under way.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5888Q)
Oh, and Smart Freight System software in beta by April... will be used from December. WCGW? The UK government has enlisted controversial US AI biz Palantir in a bid to "mitigate and manage potential disruption at the border" as the country's departure from the EU comes into force.…
by Chris Williams on (#58855)
Vector-math processor core for high-perf computing promised, too Ex-Qualcomm exec Patrick Little will today take over as CEO and president of Arm-wrestling RISC-V chip design upstart SiFive.…
by Jude Karabus on (#58856)
Agreement puts a stop to Feds' audit, but isn't an admission of wrongdoing Updated Microsoft has agreed to fork out $3,000,000 in back pay and interest to resolve an investigation by a US federal agency looking into allegations it unlawfully passed over qualified Asian, African American, and Hispanic applicants who were looking for work.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5882F)
Two audits also hit with combined £750k of personal fines by accountacy regulator Deloitte has been fined £15m by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) for “serious and serial failures” in its auditing of British software company Autonomy prior to the latter’s acquisition by HP for $11bn.…
by Richard Currie on (#5882G)
Alexa-derived chatbot tech allegedly understands 'the British accent', but fails to recognise that there are many It's only taken three years, but the conversational interface tech underlying Amazon's Alexa assistant is now capable of the world's lingua franca in its purest form – "British English".…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#58806)
Errors had no material effect on the outcome, promises the, er, board chairman Nominet has been forced to admit it wrongly calculated election results for its board of directors in 2018 and 2019.…
by Richard Speed on (#58807)
Shopping paradise forgot to pay for more support Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft has many operating systems that simply refuse to die. MS-DOS can be found here and there. Windows XP continues to hang around like a toxic airborne emission. And Windows 7? Despite the software maker's best efforts, it lingers on.…
by Richard Speed on (#587VW)
Also: Cygnus named for Columbia 'naut, and Space Shuttle Endeavour dressed up for launch In brief "As we've always said, we expect it to take three flights to make it to orbit," upstart launch vehicle outfit Astra bravely said as its imaginatively named Rocket 3.1 went *phut* shortly after lift-off last week.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#587VX)
F-Secure gives its take on the first half of 2020 in internet scumminess Coronavirus-themed malicious emails were the standout feature of online naughtiness in the first half of 2020, according to infosec firm F-Secure – though overall volumes of phishing did decrease a touch.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#587T7)
iOS 14's new MAC scrambling could stop upgraded devices from connecting, Android 10 also a mess Cisco promotes its Identity Services Engine (ISE) as “intuitive network security for the digital age.” But Switchzilla has just explained that it’s not very good at handling the growing practice of MAC address randomization by mobile devices.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#587T8)
Fasthosts made a mistake, this exhibit is closed The perilous state of the UK's internet space has been exposed once again, as the second largest seller of .uk domain names admitted last night it wrongly sold dozens of valuable internet addresses.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#587RQ)
Biz is not going to make any impact in core areas – but there's much more to life than HR, supply chains, accounting, analyst tells us ServiceNow, the workflow company home to humble-bragging CEO Bill McDermott, on Wednesday launched a package of tools to help organizations scratch an itch incumbent management software suites may not be able to reach.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#587RR)
Data-harvesting test pilots to roam the streets wearing AR glasses and little lanyards explaining that you’re being recorded By permitting conspiracies and blatant falsehoods to circulate unchallenged, Facebook made denial of reality a nasty feature of actual reality. And now the Silicon Valley juggernaut has decided it wants to figure out how to build a digital layer that overlays the real world.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#587QE)
And fancies giving mobile carriers a kicking to bust cosy triumvirate and make number-porting less of a nightmare Japan has three dominant mobile carriers and when consumers want to move from one to another and keep their current phone number, they must fill out a paper form, pay about US$30 and wait for delivery of a new SIM.…
by Robbie Harb on (#587MC)
Phishers claimed to be from 'National Health Commission', which exists in mainland China but not Taiwan Taiwan's CERT detected cyber-crooks impersonating medical authorities to attack the country's tech industry during the early stages of the COVID pandemic.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#587J7)
HCI hit, security slugged, UXers axed, solutions peeps’ jobs dissolved Dell has made a new round of layoffs.…
by Richard Speed on (#587GH)
Give that tagging finger a rest While Microsoft has added audio transcription to the premium edition of Word Online, cloud arch-rival Amazon has switched on the ability to identify languages in audio.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#587F0)
Reality TV has now come to international business deals Comment In a business dance oddly reminiscent of reality TV twists and turns, it appears an offer by Oracle to handle TikTok in the US may have tipped the scales and tentatively gained White House approval.…
by Richard Speed on (#587F1)
Ad giant takes aim at the meeting room – even though nobody's there Keen to remind everyone that Google Meet is still a thing in a world seemingly obsessed with Zoom, the Chocolate Factory has announced hardware for anyone trying to run its video conferencing service.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#587B1)
Doesn't matter if a computer was in control, responsibility rests with the human, says prosecutor The safety driver who was behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber car when it hit and killed a pedestrian has been charged with negligent homicide.…
Apple takes another swing at Epic, says Unreal Engine could be a 'trojan horse' threatening security
by Tim Anderson on (#5877E)
Taking away the ability to impose rules on developers 'hugely damaging to the public.' claims iThing slinger Apple has responded to an attempt by Epic Games to get its games back in Cupertino's App Store, as the two tech giants contest the fairness of compelling developers to hand over 30 per cent of revenue for applications in the software souk.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5874B)
Disappeared databases since returned with no memory of what happened, speculation of bug abounds Several versions of Amazon Web Services' Aurora PostgreSQL went missing earlier this week, prompting concern among AWS customers.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#5874C)
Ugly: And it's all about video game robberies at this stage Two people have been arrested in Malaysia as part of America's crackdown on the Chinese government's hackers.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5871D)
Please just patch your infrastructure, begs US-CISA Where Chinese hackers exploit, Iranians aren’t far behind. So says the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is warning that malicious persons from Iran are exploiting a slew of vulns in VPN products from Citrix, F5 Networks and Pulse Secure.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#586XX)
And let me tell you why in three words: Developers! Developers! Developers! Register Debate Welcome to The Register Debate in which we pitch our writers against each other on contentious topics in IT and enterprise tech, and you – the reader – decide the winning side. The format is simple: a motion is proposed, for and against arguments are published today, then another round of arguments on Wednesday, and a concluding piece on Friday summarizing the brouhaha and the best reader comments.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#586XY)
Fortunately, it looks like Perseverance rover will start digging in the right place Evidence of ancient microbial life in Martian soil will not be easy to find, and some of it may have been destroyed by the flow of liquid acid, according to research published in Scientific Reports.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#586T8)
Cupertino's subscription bundle favours its own products, says choons slinger Spotify has claimed Apple's new subscription bundle, Apple One, will "disadvantage competitors" and "threaten our collective freedoms to listen, learn, create, and connect".…
by Paul Kunert on (#586PR)
The new normal is all right for some Disruptions caused by COVID-19 continue to play into Adobe's hands with company execs last night toasting doubles all round as sales went up 14 per cent to $3.23bn year-on-year and pre-tax profit leaped 26.5 per cent to $1.06bn.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#586K5)
Plenty of time to get your apps through Cupertino's rigorous testing Apple is expected to release the 14th version of its iOS mobile operating system later today, alongside major system updates for the iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#586K6)
The price? 'ridiculous for a company that is still loss-making' - analyst Cloud data warehouse slinger Snowflake has set an IPO price valuing the company at $33bn, making it nominally worth more than US retailer Best Buy or UK supermarket chain Tesco.…
by Chris Mellor on (#586FJ)
You can bring a horse to water but you can't turn it into a fish Register Debate Welcome to The Register Debate in which we pitch our writers against each other on contentious topics in IT and enterprise tech, and you – the reader – decide the winning side. The format is simple: a motion is proposed, for and against arguments are published today, then another round of arguments on Wednesday, and a concluding piece on Friday summarizing the brouhaha and the best reader comments.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#586C9)
£150k up for grabs if you can help create the dystopian future of warfare The UK's Ministry of Defence has £900,000 for any companies willing to supply it with weaponised drones capable of flitting around “urban environments” and even poking their electronic noses inside shopping centres and private houses.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5869G)
The arrival of .NET 5.0 brings yet another twist Microsoft .NET program manager Immo Landwerth has set out the latest summary of how to write code that targets more than one version of the platform.…
by Richard Speed on (#5869H)
Blighty didn't miss out on ESA award like with Copernicus, it's just more worried about space junk than Hera The European Space Agency (ESA) has let people know where €129.4m of work for its Hera mission will go. The UK is, unsurprisingly, not on the list.…
by Jude Karabus on (#5866S)
After wrangling the small print over countless Skype for Business meetings (yes really) The High Court of England and Wales has said insurers should pay up on a raft of key "test" clauses in a ruling affecting hundreds of thousands of UK businesses forced to close during the UK's COVID-19 lockdown.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5864R)
Customers clearly looking to simplify buying into supply chains – but the market is tougher than it looks Workday's boss got a chance to flex his jaw muscles this week at Deutsche Bank's 2020 Global Technology Conference, using that platform to talk up his interest in the market for procurement software.…