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If your iPhone doesn't impress any more, Sammy thinks you'll flip for luxury Changed banks lately? Samsung thinks you're more likely to have done that than to have changed from iOS to Android.…

Also: A hat-trick of Windows previews, new Azure emissions, and researching HoloLens 2 In brief While Microsoft has yet to release official figures, the latest incarnation of Windows 10 has picked up steam. The May 2020 update is now on 24.1 per cent of PCs, going by the 150,000 systems surveyed by AdDuplex.…

Transaction 'disturbed the order of the capital market', claim Seoul prosecutors South Korea has indicted Samsung Group vice chairman Lee Jae-yong over his role in a 2015 merger that made him heir apparent to the multinational's empire.…

Outsourcer's employees 'would like to work in a more flexible way' In what could be seen as a traditionally British two fingers towards the government's plea for employees to return to their places of work, UK outsourcing firm Capita appears set to close a third of its office space permanently.…

I didn't get rich by signing checks Amazon is famous for its extreme efficiency yet behind the curtain is a crippling culture of surveillance and stress, according to a study by the Open Markets Institute.…

You may have one or two, dare we say Epic, thoughts to share Apple on Monday said changes to its App Store review process, outlined at its Worldwide Developer Conference in June, have now been implemented.…

Felled by an upside-down student card, apparently Bork!Bork!Bork! Summer time, and the borking is easy. Particularly if you're a Windows 10 IoT-powered ticket machine in Dublin.…

Contain your enthusiasm, because ‘Bottlerocket’ is for containers and containers only Amazon Web Services has created a second Linux distribution.…

At registry operator, money talks and everyone else is ignored Analysis Nominet has backtracked on a plan to give itself control of .uk's multi-million-pound domain-name-expiration market following an outcry by its members.…

TikTok TikTok … the sound of a sale slipping away? ByteDance, the Chinese owner of controversial social network TikTok, has signalled it will comply with China's new technology export control laws.…

That's certainly one way to get around COVID-19 travel restrictions A British citizen has been extradited to the US to face charges he oversaw a series of business email compromise attacks to steal over $2m from unwary accounts departments and individuals.…

Calls for more moderation to stop video nasties reaching local eyeballs Pakistan has asked YouTube and TikTok to impose tighter censorship on content it deems "vulgar, indecent and immoral", including nudity and hate speech.…

The toys are maintaining a constant horizontal velocity from the pram +Comment Facebook has announced it will "reluctantly stop allowing publishers and people in Australia from sharing local and international news on Facebook and Instagram" if Australia's pay-for-news plan becomes reality.…

Innocuous images deemed a threat, netizens silenced until twitterings terminated Netizens are being locked out of their Twitter accounts for tweeting innocuous posts and images, such as math equations, that trigger the social network's system that prevents the sharing of private personal information.…

NASA's OGO-1 dies a natural death after reentering Earth's atmosphere NASA’s first Orbiting Geophysical Observatory satellite, launched in 1964, plunged into Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated into pieces over the Pacific Ocean over the weekend.…

Imagine everyone placing 30-minute orders for stuff all day. In fact, let's turn to those who have lived under it Amazon has won approval to deliver packages by drone across the United States, meaning that customers could soon receive lightweight orders within 30 minutes but at a cost: drone delivery bots soaring overhead.…

Uni bod accused of destroying evidence by agents investigating possible visa fraud, transfer of 'sensitive' data to Beijing A Chinese academic working as a university researcher in America has been charged with destroying evidence while under investigation for possible visa fraud and potentially leaking "sensitive" software and data to Beijing.…

Chat app chaps, Electron security, Microsoft Teams under fire A critical remote-code-execution vulnerability affecting past versions of the Slack desktop app was disclosed on Friday after the software maker fixed its app.…

Plus: Time to dump that old backdoored ZTE mobile hotspot In brief Cisco has warned hackers are crashing or crippling its networking kit out in the field by black-holing all available memory via specially crafted IGMP packets.…

Signals imminent automotive RAM cram, but first it’ll focus on premium smartmobes Samsung has flicked the 'on' switch for a new production line at its Pyeongtaek facility and set it to work cranking out what it says is the first 16-gigabit (Gb) LPDDR5 mobile DRAM module.…

Wait! What? Aaah ... legacy systems strike again, but won't get another bite Microsoft has published a new security baseline for Microsoft Edge and one of the new rules is titled “Allow certificates signed using SHA-1 when issued by local trust anchors.”…

Plus: Apple's new machine-learning residency program In brief What’s the best way to chop up a banana so that each piece will perfectly fit onto a slice of bread that has been spread with peanut butter to make a classic sandwich?…

Beware the three options of the apocalypse Who, Me? Remember when September seemed so far away? Those of you still working from your bedroom since March should probably have changed your pyjamas by now. We'll wait. When you're ready, enjoy a tale from the Who, Me? vault courtesy of a reader who knows all about unplanned undergarment changes.…

‘Computer games are a new trend, however most have foreign themes’ says PM as he calls for change “Our country is so rich in ideas and concepts, with a glorious past,” he added, before asking: “Can we make games based on them?”…

Won’t somebody think of Microsoft and Oracle? Or Huawei, which says it’s too poor to sponsor an Australian football team China has added new technologies to its export control list and by doing so could derail the sale of Tiktok’s US operations.…

There be dragons, say US authorities, so first planned US-HK cable darkens its last leg Google and Facebook have dumped plans to build an undersea cable between the US and Hong Kong after after US security agencies warned that Beijing could use the link to infiltrate American networks.…

Cloudflare fingers intertwined BGP and Flowspec SNAFUs Internet backbone operator CenturyLink has experienced an outage that degraded performance of major web companies around the world.…

So sorry this keeps happening. Best out of three, er, four, er ten? Stop us if you've heard this one before – or not because you have absolutely heard this one before – but Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is sorry he helped make society a little worse.…

'The future's going to be weird' says startup's founder Elon Video In a late Friday evening reveal, Elon Musk updated the world on his Neuralink brain-to-computer interface startup, with the help of three little piggies. Specifically, his team revealed it has implanted a mind-reading gadget in a live pig's brain.…

Perl clutching time again Stop us if you've heard this one before: a remote-code execution vulnerability needs patching in Pulse Secure VPNs.…

Vacuuming up data? That's our job! Facebook on Thursday said it had filed two separate lawsuits in the US and UK to prevent unsanctioned snarfing of people's personal data and the inflation of likes on posts.…

We're apart but never more together – tune in to make your remote infrastructure sing Webcast As remote and dispersed working continues – and is likely to continue to do so until a COVID-19 virus vaccine is fully deployed, and then some – the IT industry is responding with a number of viable ways of keep business as usual.…

Is this some Apple marketing? Oh no, Intel still hasn't sorted its s*** out The scarcity of PC components – specifically CPUs and screen panels – are threatening to limit availability in the run-up to the Christmas holiday quarter as orders for notebooks keep coming thick and fast, HP execs have warned.…

Firm not the only SaaS-y outfit to enjoy bumper results during pandemic In what has been a bumper week for SaaS slingers, cloudy HR and finance application specialist Workday has shovelled 20 per cent more sales onto its top line and slashed losses.…

Please don't wax philosophical, please don't... Argh: 'Work is something you do, an outcome, not a place or a time' In and amongst Dell Technologies workplace existentialism and talk of "human transformation" in a pandemic, chief operating officer Jeff Clarke last night claimed the majority of his 165,000-strong workforce will not return to the office again on a regular basis.…

Trudging through PC port of 2019 console title in 2020 is weird The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column back once again with some triple-A, PlayStation-adjacent "content" albeit this time on PC. Ah, it's good to be home. Promise we'll get back to something a little more indie once the lamestream stops churning out games we actually want to play.…

What happened? No info. *Total Inability To Support Users with the Particulars Updated It's Friday at month's end just before a Bank Holiday – Pay and Bills Day – and users of Santander's UK arm have been unable to use online banking and apps since 9:49 AM BST. Thousands of companies use the bank to process UK payroll.…

A quick lesson in how not to deploy Sharepoint as a 'my account' file retrieval system Southern Water - British supplier of the liquid of life - botched its internal Sharepoint implementation so badly that a customer was able to view other people’s account details.…

Brushing away the cobwebs of decades-old code like Indiana Jones On Call What's that coming over the hill, could it be Friday? Hurrah! Time to settle down for a reminder about the dangers of over-modifying a system past its prime in today's instalment of On Call.…

The 'ideas factory' falls victim to latest round of corporate penny-pinching NetApp has confirmed it is closing down the standalone Advanced Technology Group (ATG) – an incubation unit that was part of the office of the CTO and once described as the "ideas factory".…

Bosses broke law to punish staffer who raised working practice fears IBM has been ordered to pay £22,000 in compensation and two years' salary to a Brit staffer who blew the whistle on unlawful working practices within the company – only for infuriated managers to lash out at her.…

Developers told to hurry up and get features stable as support for other features extends to help slow upgraders The Kubernetes project has decided the time has come to stop existing in a state of permanent beta.…

New $750m investment from Bain and strong revenue means he reckons the time is right +Comment Nutanix has announced co-founder Dheeraj Pandey will retire from his chief executive role once a replacement has been found.…

All that's necessary is willingness to abuse server keys exposed in apps and some technical know-how Ten days ago, Abhishek Dharani, a Bengaluru, India-based bug hunter who goes by the name Abss online, recounted how he received a reward from Google for reporting a vulnerability in Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) service.…

AI-backed gizmo, app will predict your future body if you don't start training, analyzes your voice for unhappiness Amazon has teased a smartphone app and wireless wristband that employ sensors and machine-learning algorithms to depict how fat you'll get unless you do some exercise – and tell you to relax if you sound stressed. All for your own good, of course.…

Well, halo, halo Andromeda sports a ginormous halo of gas with a mass greater than 100 billion Suns that stretches from its outer edges up to two million light-years – a distance that reaches more than halfway to our own Milky Way galaxy.…

More capable cameras, less new plastic. Same opportunity for a warm inner glow Ethical smartphone mmaker Fairphone, the Amsterdam-based social enterprise that designs sustainable phones made in exploitation-free factories, will release a new model of its flagship unit in September.…

But Ireland’s helping with $4.9bn tax benefit from IP shift VMware has posted another pandemic-defying quarter and said it would have better if its customers had been able to go to their offices, especially in the Americas.…

...read the article, of course North Korean government hackers dubbed the BeagleBoyz are trying to electronically rob banks, the United States warned this week.…

Tune in online to find out how to plug security gaps in your own dev projects Webcast It’s always a great idea to put together your own enterprise applications. This software can be finely tuned to your needs, complement your platforms and systems, and be built in-house, keeping it closer to your initial vision.…