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Kepler telescope is dead but the data lives on: Earth-sized habitable zone planet found after boffins check for errors
300 light years away but hey, why not? Astronomers have uncovered a new exoplanet that's roughly the same size as Earth and lies within its star's habitable zone 300 light years away after checking for software errors.…
Cloudflare outage caused by techie pulling out the wrong cables
Single point of failure, imprecise instructions and not enough labels are a bad, bad, mix Cloudflare has admitted that a four-and-a-bit-hour outage today was caused by someone pulling out cables that should have been left in place, but which were yanked because techies were given unhelpfully imprecise instructions.…
United Nations reportedly tears up Tencent’s invite to its big 75th birthday bash
Deal announced two weeks ago would have seen shiny new VooV vid chat tool used around the world The United Nations has reportedly dissolved a deal that would have seen its 75th birthday celebrations conducted using video chat tech from Chinese web giant Tencent.…
Stuck inside with time on your hands? The US govt would like to remind you it's paying $5m for Nork hacking scalps
US-Cert issues new report on misdeeds of North Korean groups The US government's Computer Emergency Response Team (US-Cert) has posted a new report on the latest exploits of North Korea's Hidden Cobra hacking crews.…
ICANN’s founding CEO and chair accuse biz of abandoning principles in push for billion-dollar .org sale
Daming letter sent to California attorney general asks for six-month delay Exclusive ICANN has been accused by its founding CEO and original chair of abandoning the organization’s core principles and accepting commitments it knows it cannot enforce in order to push through the sale of the .org registry later this week.…
IBM age discrimination lawsuit suddenly ends, suggests Big Blue was willing to pay to avoid discovery process
Dismissal by both parties almost certainly means a settlement The judge overseeing Jonathan Langley's age discrimination lawsuit against IBM has dismissed the case, which was scheduled to go to trial later this year.…
Why cloud-managed Wi-Fi demand will surge with next enterprise tech refreshes
And why causing a Ruckus is a good thing Sponsored Pervasive virtualisation and cloud adoption have moved more apps to the cloud and made edge connectivity more prominent and wireless. The advent of new and more efficient Wi-Fi such as 802.11ax or Wi-Fi 6 is expected to prompt a new wave of refresh cycles for enterprises.…
Pentagon watchdog sets phasers to none, clears $10bn JEDI contract process but leaves door open for lawsuits
Collective amnesia over claimed 'screw Amazon' comment There is no evidence of wrongdoing or undue influence in the Pentagon’s controversial $10bn JEDI cloud contract award to Microsoft, the Defense Department’s internal watchdog has concluded.…
As Amazon's stock price soars and Bezos adds to his billions, affiliates face massive cuts in their commissions
Times are hard...for you at least On Tuesday, Amazon told members of its affiliate marketing program that it will reduce the commissions it pays them to promote products on their websites.…
Linksys forces password reset for Smart Wi-Fi accounts after router DNS hack pointed users at COVID-19 malware
Firm blames successful cred-stuffing attack for customer pwnage Router biz Linksys has reset all its customers' Smart Wi-Fi account passwords after cybercrims accessed a bunch and redirected hapless users to COVID-19 themed malware.…
The 'IoT' in Microsoft IoT Hub means Internet of Trying-to-kill-off-whiffy-crypto-protocol: TLS 1.0/1.1 spared axe again
Stay of execution granted after customer 'feedback' Microsoft has indefinitely postponed the deprecation of Transport Level Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 in its IoT Hub.…
SE's baaaack: Apple flings out iPhone SE 2020, priced at £419
iPhone's 'budget' midget gem revival is out You have to give Apple credit for timing. It just announced the iPhone SE 2020. Priced at £419, it's the company's cheapest phone in years and lands at a time when nobody has any money, thanks to everyone's least favourite pathogen: Coronavirus.…
OnePlus 8 equals buttery-smooth refresh rates, water and dust resistance, but an inflating price tag
Another impressive (and iterative) update to smartphone lineup More of the same isn't always a bad thing, as demonstrated by the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro. These devices follow the same path as their older siblings, offering an iterative improvement at a reasonable price.…
Think before filling in that convenient flight refund form with all your delicious details – there's a scam going about
Email ruse preying on COVID-19 fears sends data to crims, warns Mimecast Email security biz Mimecast has warned of a flight refund scam doing the rounds amid a general uptick in coronavirus-related online crime.…
SAP looks to offload multi-channel messaging division during market meltdown
Options being explored for Digital Interconnect division Enterprise software vendor SAP may jettison its SMS platform to focus on core application business.…
Oh ... Fudge This Pandemic! Google walks back on decision to switch off FTP in Chrome 81
Deprecation of venerable protocol postponed 'in light of the current crisis' Google has switched File Transfer Protocol (FTP) back on in Chrome 81 in response to the COVID-19 situation. The change was made "via server-side configuration."…
Vodafone chief speaks out after 5G conspiracy nuts torch phone mast serving Nightingale Hospital in Brum
Will someone rid us of these mast-er idiots? Vodafone CEO Nick Jeffrey has spoken out after arsonists targeted a phone mast serving the NHS Nightingale Hospital in Birmingham.…
How generous of GitHub to slash prices and make all its core features free. So what gives? Oh right, GitLab
No coincidence that new offer closely matches that from smaller rival GitHub is giving away its core services for free and has slashed the price of its paid Team plan by more than half – from $9 per user to $4.…
Choose your own thrill ride: A Florida slidewire or catching a rocket by helicopter
Starlink slips, Soyuz arrives and StriX-α sat heads to New Zealand Roundup Catching rockets by helicopter, three more 'nauts arriving at the ISS and COVID-19 causing schedule shuffles - it's been busy in the realm of rockets during this past week.…
Microsoft throws extended support lifeline for folk stuck on car-crash Windows 10 1809
Also: 2010 server products to survive into 2021 as overstretched admins given more breathing space Reports of the death of The Update Of The Damned (aka Windows 10 1809) appear to have been premature as Microsoft flung a lifeline to those with a little too much on their plate.…
Oh Hell. Remember the glory days of Demon Internet? Well, now would be a good time to pick a new email address
Sub-domain on the move – you have until 29 May to pick a new one Pondering how to fill your days? Fear not – if you're still using the Demon sub-domain for your email address, you'd best start telling your contact book that changes are afoot.…
It's official! Space travel increases the brain size of astronauts, even when they're back on Mother Earth
That might sound like good news, but it's not. Size isn't everything Prolonged periods in space increases brain mass by as much as 6 per cent, according to a new study, but that's not good news.…
VMware finally delivers its K8s and vSphere combo
And tosses in a new cloudy manager for good measure VMware has finally delivered on its vision to integrate Kubernetes and vSphere, by making Cloud Foundation 4.0 generally available.…
Feeling hot, hot, hot... in British Columbia? In December?
Overheating HP hardware disrupts festive ad flinging Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another in The Register's series of computers getting hot under the collar and flinging bundles of bork at passersby.…
NASA dons red and blue cardboard 3D glasses to drive Curiosity rover because its GPUs are stuck in the office
Can: Send rover to Mars and operate it from home. Can't: Remote in to mission PCs or replicate them in the cloud NASA has reverted to using old-school red and blue 3D glasses to direct the Curiosity rover around Mars.…
50,000 5G base stations built. 4.4 million to upgrade. 935 million customers to upsell
Welcome to the world of China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile carrier China Mobile today published its 2019 annual report, revealing the extraordinary scale of the business and its ambition to do better beyond China’s borders and in the cloud.…
Another day, another Google cull: Chocolate Factory axes 49 malicious Chrome extensions from web store
Ongoing Chrome Web Store security saga deftly straddles tragedy and farce Google has ousted 49 Chrome extensions from its Chrome Web Store because they contained malicious code, a ritual that should be familiar after a decade of purges.…
Apple: We respect your privacy so much we've revealed a little about what we can track when you use Maps
But we've only done it to help governments understand that virus thing you may have heard about lately Apple has released a set of "Mobility Trends Reports" – a trove of anonymised and aggregated data that describes how people have moved around the world in the three months from 13 January to 13 April.…
Taiwan to develop military exoskeleton because it's not like these things are open-sourced or one-size-fits-all
Shall we call it the Termin-Acer? Or maybe the ASUS-inator? BenQ for coming – we're here all week Taiwan's going to take a shot at developing military exoskeletons.…
Indian city floats camera-packing surveillance balloon to zoom in on quarantine-quitters
As Prime Minister calls on citizens to inspire adoption of contact-tracing app The Indian city of Vadodara has taken a novel technological approach to coronavirus quarantine surveillance by floating a balloon equipped with cameras and a public address system.…
Philippine government demands telcos deliver a continuity plan by the end of the week
The Philippine government has demanded the nation's telcos submit continuity plans by the end of this week to ensure that the country maintains uninterrupted internet service during the coronavirus lockdown.…
ASEAN economic bloc calls for regional fake news crushing co-operation
And help to take small business digital because of y’know that virus thing we keep hearing about The Association of South-East Asian Nations ASEAN has made a regional fake news crackdown and e-commerce enablement a part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.…
At least someone's making out like a bandit: Scammers have pocketed $13m in Coronavirus fraud from the US this year
FTC tallies the cost of pandemic rip-offs Fraud related to the coronavirus has cost Americans $13m and so far counting, according to the US government.…
GrubHub, DoorDash, Postmates and Uber Eats sued by hangry, overcharged coronavirus customers
As online grocery shopping gets harder as Amazon moves to invite-only The big four food delivery apps - GrubHub, DoorDash, Postmates and Uber Eats - are abusing their market power to force restaurants to charge the same for online and in-person order, according to a new lawsuit.…
Stack Overflow banishes belligerent blather with bespoke bot - but will it work?
'The mean police, they live inside of my head, the mean police, they come to me in my bed...' Online Q&A site Stack Overflow aspires to be "a welcoming and friendly place," and to make that so, the biz has deployed sentiment-sniffing code to catch unkind commentary lest it drive members of its online community away.…
April 2020 and - rest assured - your Windows PC can still be pwned by something so innocuous as an unruly font
Adobe and Intel add their woes Microsoft has delivered another epic Patch Tuesday, dropping fixes for more than 100 security bugs, and Adobe and Intel have added their dose of misery and security too.…
'Come 75,000 workers, join us!' says Amazon. Just don't dare complain about the boss or you're out on your ear
“Repeatedly violated internal policies” means go to the door Updated Amazon has fired another three employees who have been critical of the biz, including two tech workers in Seattle and a warehouse worker in Minnesota. All three have raised concerns about the working conditions at the online giant’s warehouses during the coronavirus outbreak.…
Integrate all the things: OpenText would like to knit together application data from across company boundaries
ERP, warehousing, sales, accounts, supply chain all working together Canada's OpenText has claimed its data-integration platform can bring together information from applications both inside and outside company boundaries.…
Second-wave dotcom Uber-investor Softbank forecasts gargantuan losses as world economy faces slump
Oh it can't be that baaa.... $16.7 BEEELLION?! One of Softbank's slogans is that it "invests in human progress." If its latest forecasts are anything to go by, the returns are disappointing, to say the least.…
Started from the bottom, now we're near: 16 years on, open-source vector graphics editor Inkscape draws close to v1.0
'It was really a long process because it's just volunteer work' Interview Inkscape, a popular open-source vector graphics application, is heading for its 1.0 release more than 16 years after its first appearance in November 2003.…
From Brit telly presenter Eamonn Holmes to burning 5G towers in the Netherlands: Stupid week turns into stupid fortnight for radio standard
Amazingly, contractor for massive UK TV channels differentiates himself from 'mainstream media' Sleepy ITV daytime show This Morning isn't typically the venue for conspiratorial chatter. It's more Loose Women than Loose Change. Still, that didn't prevent Eamonn Holmes* from espousing the belief that the "mainstream media" is participating in a cover-up about the dangers of 5G.…
Microsoft's Teams clocks 2.7 billion minutes of meetings in a single day as April starts to run out for Windows 10 2004
Plus: New Edge build, more Office 365 branding snuffed Roundup Though there may be no Neo this year, a new Windows is almost upon us as The Register rounds up the emissions from Redmond that you might have missed.…
UK MPs fume after Huawei posts open letter stating: 'Disrupting our involvement in the 5G rollout would do Britain a disservice'
Conservative politicos including IDS voice anger over 'untimely special pleading' An open letter from Huawei about the UK's 5G strategy in light of COVID-19 has provoked outrage among several key politicians in the country's ruling Conservative Party, who have denounced it as "hubristic" and "arrogant".…
AMD takes another crack at Intel's server stronghold with more Epyc silicon
All 'the working from home and virtual desktops' might make you think about data center rebuilds, hmm? AMD is once again hoping to muscle in on Intel's bread and butter with a new line of second-generation Epyc processors aimed squarely at the HPC, cloud, and enterprise markets.…
Reg readers have not one, but TWO teams in Folding@home top 1,000 as virus-bothering network hits 2.4 exa-FLOPS
Distributed computing project sails past anticipated raw power of El Capitan – and you folks are at the forefront Give yourselves a pat on the back, ladies and gents – two teams made up of Register readers are in the top 1,000 out of more than 250,000 in the Folding@home distributed computing project for disease research.…
Let's authenticate: Beyond Identity pitches app-wrapped certificate authority
Enclave-bound service aims to be another nail in the password coffin Hoping to actually make the long foretold end of passwords happen, a startup called Beyond Identity believes it can hasten the demise of the memory-taxing access ritual by embedding a personal certificate authority into mobile devices.…
Wanted: An exit strategy from the overt surveillance of smartphone contact tracing
It’s open source. It will be abused. So we need to design a way out before we dive in Comment The world seems set to adopt smartphone-driven contact tracing to help detect COVID-19 carriers but regulators need to plot an exit strategy from this new form of deeply personal and intensive surveillance.…
A chief technology officer in a time of COVID-19: Keep calm and make the most of the whole business suddenly realising how important IT is
Time to break ties with historic corporate inertia Column The suddenness and scale of the COVID-19 pandemic took many CTOs and CIOs by surprise as worries over the impact on a supply chain in China flipped, seemingly overnight, into a fight for corporate survival.…
Stop worrying – Larry Ellison and Prez Trump will have this whole coronavirus thing licked shortly with the power of data
Revealed: Oracle founder's plan for global wellness Comment Larry Ellison is not one to let anything get him down, least of all gravity. Grave though the global COVID-19 pandemic may be, the Oracle founder, CTO and chairman is a man who produces. And, as intrepid Forbes reporter Angel Au-Yeung found out, the product is "wellness".…
Google extends e-commerce platform to help people in India find nearby food during lockdown
Google Pay is about to get really useful in India's biggest cities Google's India operation has launched a new feature that enables users to find and transact with essential stores during the novel coronavirus lockdown.…
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