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.…
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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?*…
by Matthew Hughes on (#58HQ4)
So... totally seamless then Better late than never. Earlier today, the UK government released its long-awaited contact-tracing app to the general populace, called NHS COVID-19.…
by Tim Anderson on (#58HK3)
As I walk through this world... born-in-the-cloud companies have legacy problems too Amazon Web Services has changed its mind about ending support for the URLs originally used by S3 (Simple Storage Service), though it is delaying rather than ending its deprecation plans.…
by Richard Speed on (#58HK4)
Dinosaurs get one last roar Ignite Microsoft revealed plans at its virtual Ignite bash to roll out new versions of its venerable Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Project Server, as well as another perpetual release of its cash cow, Office.…
by Paul Kunert on (#58HHF)
Digital Growth Experts Ltd hit send on 16k+ messages. The fine? £3.70 per text Digital Growth Experts Ltd (DGEL) is nursing a £60,000 smackdown doled out by the UK’s data watchdog after it sent out thousands of nuisance marketing text messages about hand sanitisers during the coronavirus outbreak.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#58HG3)
The tiny X-ray bullets are only the size of a grain of sand. Pew! Pew! Pew! Perseverance, NASA's latest Martian rover, will extend its two-metre robotic arm and use an AI-powered control system to carefully aim X-ray beams at ancient rock samples that might contain fossilised microbes.…
by Paul Kunert on (#58HES)
Telco tells freelancers it 'isn't immune to the economic volatility and uncertainty' caused by pandemic Exclusive BT is slashing day rates for contractors and reducing their notice period by 50 per cent due to the unpredictable nature of the economy caused by the coronavirus.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#58HET)
Solution? A software update, natch An Ethernet failure aboard popular Swiss-made business jets could prompt the aircraft to move into an emergency descent as flight systems entered a "degraded" mode, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has warned.…
by Richard Speed on (#58HD8)
Sure, it's still wedged in the OS, but maybe you'd prefer something shiny and Chromier? Ignite Microsoft used the Ignite product singalong to reassure customers that its veteran Internet Explorer 11 browser would remain supported while also urging users to nuke the thing from orbit. It is, after all, the only way to be sure.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#58HC6)
High Court hears of offshore assets, tax fraud, and freezing orders The crumbling multinational empire of the distie once known as Entatech has come under scrutiny in the High Court again as liquidators working on behalf of the UK's taxman try to seize the assets of founder Jason Tsai and his family.…