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Apple's new WidgetKit: Windows Phone Live Tiles done right?
Separating widgets from App Icons is how Apple will avoid Microsoft's mistake WWDC Apple introduced WidgetKit during day two of its WWDC developer event yesterday, describing it as "the best way to bring your app's most useful information to the home screen."…
Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks: Information Builders declares itself 'the new ibi', touts AI data tools
Rebrand accompanies tech launches as CEO hits 18 months in job Information Builders, that 45-year-old data management biz, has rolled out automated analytics wares and a corporate rebranding with a view to profiting off a burgeoning market for ML-powered enterprise data tools.…
Chime after chime: Apple restores iconic Mac boot sound removed in 2016
Triumphant F#-major to return with upcoming macOS Big Sur As the saying goes: Out with the old, in with the… old. After temporarily ditching the iconic Mac "chime" in 2016, Apple is finally bringing it back with the upcoming release of macOS Big Sur.…
Laws on police facial recognition aren't tough enough, UK data watchdog barrister tells Court of Appeal
Top judge replies: Don't understand what you're on about A top judge told a barrister for the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) today that his legal arguments against police facial-recognition technology face "a great difficulty" as he wondered whether they were even relevant to the case.…
TikTok boom: Brits spent a quarter of their waking hours in lockdown online – Ofcom
A quarter? That's pretty weak Brits are spending more time than ever online, according to comms watchdog Ofcom's latest Online Nation report, and it's all thanks - surprise, surprise - to coronavirus. In April, at the height of lockdown, the average person was online for four hours and two minutes each day.…
Former UK Labour deputy leader wants to know how the NHS's contact-tracing app will ensure user privacy
This is the Apple-Google API one, not the 'world-beating' one Harriet Harman MP, chair of Britain's Commons Human Rights Committee, has written to UK health secretary Matt Hancock seeking clarity on privacy aspects of the government's latest coronavirus contact-tracing app.…
GO on then: Facebook's Oculus to axe its entry-level VR headset
3DoF bad, 6DoF good Updated Facebook-owned Oculus has bowed to the seemingly inevitable and told the world about the demise of its entry-level Oculus Go VR headset.…
Once again, racial biases show up in AI image databases, this time turning Barack Obama white
Researchers used a pretrained off-the-shelf model from Nvidia A new computer vision technique that helps convert blurry photos of people into fake, realistic images has come under fire for being racially biased towards white people.…
Pandemic has a silver lining for Brit automation merchant Blue Prism: Revenue up 70% for first half of fiscal 2020
Makes sense while enterprises wrestle with new ways of working The hackneyed saying that revenue is vanity, profit is sanity and cash is reality might easily be applied to Blue Prism, the vendor of software robots and automation tools.…
Things that make you go foom: Destruction derby as NASA and SpaceX test rocket components to failure
Tanks put through their paces SpaceX popped another Starship tank yesterday as NASA prepared to conduct a final structural test of its SLS rocket.…
Maze ransomware gang threatens to publish sensitive stolen data after US aerospace biz sensibly refuses to pay
Bungling cybercrooks throw toys out of the pram as negotiations shut down The Maze ransomware gang has threatened to publish information stolen from an American firm that overhauls airliners and installs flight control software upgrades – because its victim refused to pay a demanded ransom.…
Skype for Windows 10 and Skype for Desktop duke it out: Only Electron left standing
I just can't quit you, Skype. Oh maybe I can... they've tweaked the close function Hot on the heels of Teams getting personal comes a shake-up for Skype that will see Skype for Windows 10 and Skype for Desktop becoming one.…
Grav wave boffins are unsure if they just spotted the smallest black hole or the biggest neutron star seen yet
Mysterious object's mass has challenged astrophysics models Astronomers have detected what could be either the tiniest black hole or the largest neutron star found to date.…
Eclipse Foundation releases Jakarta EE 9 preview, adopts AdoptOpenJDK
The big release with nothing in it. Thanks Oracle! Interview The Eclipse Foundation has released a preview of Jakarta EE 9, the next major version of what used to be called Java Enterprise Edition.…
Carbon-based vuln hunters will always be better at infosec than AI, insist puny humans
No intelligent pentesting systems were available to comment on this assertion Puny humans still think they're superior to AI when it comes to infosec – and a significant number still don't venture into meatspace or get enough sunlight.…
CSI: Xiaomi. Snappy Redmi Note 9 Pro shows every fingerprint, but at least you get bang for your buck
High-spec £249 blower – but can it play Crysis Call of Duty? Review Bargain-basement phones like the Redmi Note 9 Pro helped establish Xiaomi. And, having spent time with the Chinese firm's latest blower for the UK market, it's really not hard to see why.…
When you bork... through a storm: Liverpool do all they can to take advantage of summer transfer, er, Windows
Bork on, bork on... with hope in your heart.. And you'll never bork alone Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork returns to Blighty today, with the proud people of Liverpool contributing their own entry into the annals of Windows being a bit sad.…
Three words do you not want to hear regarding a 'secure browser' called SafePay: Remote. Code. Execution
How Bitdefender's security software was caught napping by ad-block bod Folks running Bitdefender's Total Security 2020 package should check they have the latest version installed following the disclosure of a remote code execution bug.…
China's internet watchdog freezes 10 too-trashy online video services before they undermine socialism
Scantily-clad presenters and vulgar language 'corrupt the social atmosphere' and 'endanger the healthy growth of young people' China's internet watchdog has called out several live-streaming channels for showing trash TV amid Beijing's crackdown on "unhealthy content".…
Maybe there is hope for 2020: AI that 'predicts criminality' from faces with '80% accuracy, no bias' gets in the sea
Springer ditches paper from research tome after mass protest by boffins over junk science Springer Nature has reversed its decision to publish a paper describing a neural network supposedly capable of detecting criminals from their faces alone – after top boffins signed a letter branding the study harmful junk science.…
Indonesia’s capital city is literally sinking. Google just opened a new cloud region there anyway
Jakarta region is live now. And hopefully high and dry Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta, is literally sinking. But Google has just opened a cloud region there anyway.…
Apple launches incredible features everyone else had more than a year ago – this time for the 'smart home'
HomeKit still playing catch-up though facial rec and better automation still a step in the right direction WWDC Apple has added facial recognition and new automation features to its smart home products, edging its HomeKit system forward while still playing catch-up in the market.…
Ex-CEO of fintech biz Wirecard arrested over missing money: Vanished €1.9bn may not have existed in the first place
Founder posts bail as German investigators probe accounting scandal Markus Braun, who resigned as CEO of financial services firm Wirecard AG last week, was arrested by police in Munich, Germany, on Monday and released after posting €5m ($5.7m) bail.…
Dell reportedly considers new VMware-related financial contortions
We’re not buying the idea it could buy Virtzilla, but selling a stake could work Dell and VMware are talking to finance folks about some sort of transaction, according to The Wall Street Journal.…
Foxconn signals Indian expansion to make ... something it will reveal eventually
Seems sensible to assume it's going after India's new electronics investment incentives Electronics manufacturer to the stars Foxconn has signaled it will make further investments in India.…
Segway to Heaven: Mega-hyped wonder-scooter that was going to remake city transport to cease production
It's frolicking with the Sinclair C5 at a puffed-up press conference in the sky In yet another reminder that the heady days of the noughties are but a distant memory, the classic Segway is set to officially end production after a near-twenty-year run.…
The state of OpenPGP key servers: Kristian, can you renew my certificate? A month later: Kristian? Ten days later: Too late, it’s expired
Sorry, I was busy, came the reply There was a time when there was a certain amount of pride in the fact internet engineers all knew one another, that systems critical to the internet’s functioning were run in the back of other facilities, and a single person was often in charge of whole services.…
Here's a headline we never thought we'd write 20 years ago: Microsoft readies antivirus for Linux, Android
Redmond knows a thing or two about tackling malware – amirite, Windows fans?! Microsoft has extended its antivirus package for servers – better known the Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for servers suite – to Linux as a general availability release.…
Apple says if developers are unhappy with its App Store decisions, it will entertain appeals against its rulings – and even its own rules
The Lord of the iThings will see you now WWDC Apple on Monday promised to reform its app review process this summer with a way to appeal app rejections and to challenge rule legitimacy, and to allow bug fixes through without review.…
Wired: China's Beidou satnav system, 35th bird in orbit. Tired: America's GPS. Expired: Britain's dreams of its own
Middle Kingdom completes its third-generation positioning system The delayed launch of China's 35th and final third-gen Beidou satellite today gives the Middle Kingdom a completed advanced global positioning network.…
Coming live from Next@Acer in Taipei: Hardware refreshes, new ruggedised line – and, er, an energy drink
A plan to inject life into the flagging PC industry? Meet the Predator Shot: putting the spin in spinach Carving a living in the cut-throat world of PCs sales is a tough business, just ask Taiwanese vendor Acer. Perhaps in the hope of injecting more fizz into its upcoming line-up, the business has rolled out an energy drink alongside a slew of brand spanking new computers.…
None shall pass: Yet another layer to protect hapless users, employers from dodgy docs added to Microsoft 365
Clicking through Protected View is why we can't have nice things, so here's 'Safe Documents' Feeling a bit uncertain about things? Never fear, kind old Microsoft has made Safe Documents generally available (assuming you're a Microsoft 365 E5 subscriber).…
Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me: Teradata talks up cloud integrations in bid to fend off native competition
Would you like it in a box? Would you like it with a fox? Teradata, the enterprise data warehouse provider with customers including HSBC and Unilever, has pushed out a list of cloud platform integrations and enhancements in an effort to keep up with cloud-native rivals.…
UK police's face recognition tech breaks human rights laws. Outlaw it, civil rights group urges Court of Appeal
Appeal starts over Cardiff creepycam deployment Automated facial recognition (AFR) use by British police forces breaches human rights laws, according to lawyers for a man whose face was scanned by the creepycam tech in Cardiff.…
HashiCorp Cloud Platform unveiled – but in private beta for AWS only
Kubernetes? 'A huge set of workloads get excluded' by it, says HashiCorp HashiCorp unveiled the widely anticipated HashiCorp Cloud Platform at its virtual HashiConf event under way this week, as well as updates to all its core products.…
HPE's GreenLake remade with fresh set of cloud services as biz starts move to aaS future
'Ezmeral' brand added to container platform and machine learning stuff HPE is going public with a series of enhancements for its GreenLake Cloud Services, an on-premises managed computing service.…
iPadOS 14: Apple's attempt to pry fondleslab from toddlers' mitts and make it more businesslike
Is it a real computer yet? WWDC The iPad initially struggled to shake the perception that it was merely a bigger iPhone, good for bedtime Netflix binges and not much else. It was only later, with the development of a peripheral ecosystem and the release of iPadOS, that the image started to shift.…
Microsoft loosens Teams' necktie as platform courts your forensic accountant relatives
Just look at the time. Looks like I can't attend the family meeting about our calendar! Microsoft's Teams is getting personal in a preview of the Slack-for-suits platform that is aimed more at consumers than companies.…
Ampere smacks the ball over the net, back at Marvell: Our Altra Max cloud processor will have 128 Arm cores
That's 32 more than you... when it ships... next year Ampere said today it hopes to bring a 128-core data-center-grade microprocessor to the market next year.…
Machine learning models trained on pre-COVID data are now completely out of whack, says Gartner
That AI-powered product and price recommendation engine? Useless now Machine learning models built for doing business prior to the COVID-19 pandemic will no longer be valid as economies emerge from lockdowns, presenting companies with new challenges in machine learning and enterprise data management, according to Gartner.…
US starts sniffing around UK spaceports – though none capable of vertical launches actually exist right now
Plus: SLS boosters arrive at Kennedy, Rocket Lab to go back-to-back with NRO In brief Lawmakers have signed off on a deal that will permit American companies to launch from a British spaceport, although the UK has yet to build one.…
While eyes are fixed on Apple announcements, Microsoft's streaming service Mixer goes the way of the Windows Phone
Facebook laps up the leftovers Mixer has been consigned to the Microsoft graveyard to rot alongside other abortive stablemates like Windows Phone, Zune and Clippy to name just a few.…
Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process
Antisocial network floods registrars with unjustified data requests Facebook is accused of attempting to bypass Europe's hard-line privacy legislation and access personal data on domain name holders through an obscure policy process with the Whois registry.…
Ancient Arm server outfit Kaleao resprouts as Bamboo with CPU offload plan and electricity-saving power play
PANDA architecture said to be ideal microservices-muncher Arm server vendor Kaleao, which The Register covered way back in 2016, has re-emerged with a new name – Bamboo – and what it reckons is a fresh approach to building servers.…
Ex-barrister reckons he has a privacy-preserving solution to Britain's smut ban plans
Content tagging – and I'll give the tech away for free, says Safecast Global chief Interview A British firm says it has developed a tech proposal for preventing children from watching unsuitable internet videos – and doing so without needing age verification or other privacy-busting features.…
Windows fails to reach the Finnish line as Helsinki signage pleads for help
Please update me, let me load... Bork!Bork!Bork! Windows is everywhere and can be found pleading for attention all over the world, including signage lurking in the Finnish capital of Helsinki.…
VMware bungled bundling blurt blaring Bitfusion bringing new GPU-and-AI powers to vSphere
Bitfusion integration will require an add-on licence after all, rather than being tossed into vSphere Enterprise Plus VMware has taken the unusual step of retracting and replacing a press release because it got its own licencing details wrong.…
Samsung combines 5G, AI, drones and cloud in conspiracy ... to ease network maintenance costs
To save telco workers from climbing the greasy pole as networks get denser The current febrile information climate might not be the best time to combine AI, 5G, cloud and drones, but Samsung has done it because the company is conspiring to ease network management chores.…
What did it take for stubborn IBM to fix flaws in its Data Risk Manager security software? Someone dropping zero-days
The other kind of DRM strikes: Bod baffled after attempt to raise alarm over vulnerabilities is ignored IBM is under fire for refusing to patch critical vulnerabilities in its Data Risk Manager product until exploit code was publicly disclosed.…
Grappling with mixed infra, containers, service meshes? Join Continuous Lifecycle Online for practical help
Stay up to date on DevOps, CI/CD and containerization while working from home Event Things start slowly going back to normal, but yeah, it might take a while until bringing people together again becomes a good idea. However, if you are responsible for keeping tech infrastructure in shape or if container tech is your cup of tea, we might have just the thing to (safely) switch things up a bit.…
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