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During this stay-at-home virus pandemic, you need to lock down the home office – and AI can help you
Find out how to build a WFH security policy without resorting to wielding an iron fist Webcast You’ve finally worked out how to make a latte at least almost on par with the coffee shop opposite the office. However, no matter how in control you’re starting to feel during this pandemic lockdown, your 9am is still a mess of access rights conflicts, broken connections, and emails fired into the void of an overworked, remote IT help desk.…
Hana-hana-hana: No it's not your dad trying to start a motorboat... It's Northern Gas, renewing its SAP software
No competitive tenders for northern pipeline company, and here's why In a classic tale of vendor lock-in, Northern Gas Networks (NGN) has invested so heavily in SAP that it make little sense to purchasing heads to do anything other than sign off on a new £6m software license.…
20 years deep into a '2-year' mission: How ESA keeps Cluster flying
Growing extra instruments, reducing fuel spend and those clever, clever hacks Space Extenders ESA's Cluster mission is heading into its third decade of operations. The Register spoke to some of the people behind the four spacecraft about how the team turned a five-year nominal lifetime into 20 years and beyond.…
Ministry of Defence lowers supplier infosec standards thanks to COVID-19 outbreak
Can't get assessors on-site to check SMEs' antivirus updates Security standards for defence contractors have been lowered thanks to the coronavirus outbreak, the Ministry of Defence has told its suppliers.…
Contact-tracing or contact sport? Defections and accusations emerge among European COVID-chasing app efforts
Debate seems to centre over where data needs to reside to get the job done European efforts to define a contact-tracing protocol aimed at making it easier for authorities to detect cases of COVID-19 appear to be having a rather vivid disagreement.…
Getting a pizza the action, AS/400 style
It looks like you need some pepperoni and cheese. Do you want some help with that? Who, Me? Monday has shuffled into view once more and brought with it another Register reader confession in the form of our regular Who, Me? column.…
XCP-ng celebrates six-figure download milestone
Now incubated as part of Xen project and has plenty of plans for hyperconverged and storage fun XCP-ng, the crowdfunded effort to deliver an open-source version of XenServer, has passed the 100,000-download mark.…
Who knows the secret of the black magic box? Boffins seek the secrets of AI learning by mapping digital neurons
And Zoox setlles with Elon's Musketeers over purloined IP Roundup OpenAI Microscope: Neural networks, often described as “black boxes”, are complicated; it’s difficult to understand how all the neurons in the different layers interact with one another. As a result, machine learning engineers have a hard time trying to interpret their models.…
UK government to take equity in struggling startups with £250m 'Future fund'
Borrowers can score between £500k and £5m if they have a track record, co-investors, and can afford eight percent interest The UK government will throw £1.25bn at startups and R&D firms that are struggling to survive in the coronavirus lockdown and are willing to pay well-above-market interest rates and give away equity in exchange for a fiscal lifeline.…
Tata Consultancy Services predicts hot viral mess for the next nine months
CEO says ‘pandemic completely reversed the positive momentum’ but at least its healthcare biz is strong Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has posted slow growth and warned that it will be doing well to match that performance in its new financial year.…
Australia to make Google and Facebook disclose ranking algorithms and pay for local content
Months of negotiation on voluntary code of conduct didn’t make progress Australia will force social media companies to pay for content shared on their networks and disclose details of the algorithms that determine what their users see.…
This hurts a ton-80: British darts champ knocked out of home tourney by lousy internet connection
Bet you thought the rural internet gap wouldn't cause this kind of disruption Former darts world champion Gary Anderson says he cannot compete in upcoming remote tournaments due to his slow home internet connection.…
Google calls a halt on Chrome 82, but the version 83 beta has arrived early - so it's coding and bug finding time ahead
Plus some interesting new side-channel attack possibilities for crims to play with With Silicon Valley under lockdown Chrome 82 has been abandoned by Google, but the Chocolate Factory boffins haven't been slacking and on Thursday released the beta build of Chrome 83 ahead of schedule.…
Intelsat orbital comms satellite is back online after first robo-recovery mounting and tug job gets it back into position
No fuel, no problem! Older space kit to gets new lease of life with extentions The first mission that flew a spacecraft out to save an old telecoms satellite running low on fuel has been successful.…
Grab your Bitcoin while you can because Purse.io is shutting up shop in June and you could lose the lot
Amazon, the government, economics? Startup schtum on sudden closure Pulse.io is advising its customers to withdraw all digital funds from the site "as soon as possible," after announcing it'll shut down completely on June 26.…
NASA makes May 27 its US independence day from Russian rockets - America's back in the astronaut business after nearly nine years
Thanks to a South African immigrant NASA has set a launch date for the first mission by US astronauts to the International Space Station, using a locally-made rocket taking off from an American launch site, since July 8, 2011.…
That critical VMware vuln allowed anyone on your network to create new admin users, no creds needed
Reason behind murky CVSS 10 score revealed by Guardicore A critical vulnerability in VMware's vCenter management product allowed any old bod on the same network to remotely create an admin-level user, research by Guardicore Labs has revealed.…
Paranoid Android reboots itself with new Android 10 builds
It's baaaaaack: Devs polishing off Quartz Once upon a time, Paranoid Android was a towering force in the custom ROM world. Then it just… disappeared, allowing rivals like LineageOS to take its place. But, like Lt Commander Data in the final episode of Star Trek: Picard (sorry, spoiler alert), it's back, bringing with it a custom Android 10 image for nine phones.…
Iran military manages to keep a straight face while waggling miracle widget that 'can detect coronavirus from 100m away'
Nothing says serious engineering like a collapsible radio aerial Video Spare a thought for Iran's long-suffering scientists today, who had to read the news along with the rest of us that the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims to have "developed" a gizmo capable of detecting coronavirus... in five seconds. At distances of up to 100 metres.…
Open letter to Internet Engineering Task Force: Back off Cisco, not all members want to 'play to your tune'
A mini revolution against Switchzilla takes form in a corner of industry group There is growing unrest at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) due to the power that some accuse Cisco of wielding over the global community of network designers, operators, vendors and academics.…
Don't Zoom off elsewhere: Google plugs video-chat service Meet into Gmail as user eyes start wandering
G Suite boss promises gallery view on the way for cyber-meeting platform Google is plugging its Meet service into Gmail as the Chocolate Factory rolls out the G Suite tanks in response to the threat posed by rival services.…
As nice as Pai: FCC chairman comes out in favour of Ligado Networks' 5G proposal, despite criticism from airlines and military
Backing for use of L-Band spectrum for 5G Ligado Networks, which is currently seeking approval for a terrestrial low-power 5G network, has won a powerful friend: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chief Ajit Pai.…
Mayday! Mayday! The next Windows 10 update is finally on approach to a PC near you
New version of Microsoft's OS shuffles into the Release Preview spotlight Microsoft has finally nudged the next version of Windows 10 into Release Preview and given it a name: The Windows 10 May 2020 Update.…
Looking for a tech job? Have a browse – there are plenty of roles in our biggest listing yet
Employers seek devs, support, and engineers all over the world Job Alert Welcome to the third edition of our barn-storming, ever-growing jobs list. We're publishing jobs every week for free to help keep techies in work during these tough times.…
Google: We've blocked 126 million COVID-19 phishing scams in the last week
240 million daily virus themed spams as 'bad actors' feed on people's fear In the past week, some 18 million COVID-19 phishing emails were sent via Gmail to unsuspecting marks, according to Google.…
Data science alliance in talks with UK Cabinet Office to help ease economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic
IBM and Google join the Rolls-Royce programme A cross-industry group started by Rolls-Royce – now including Google and IBM – is in talks with the UK government to use data and analytics to guide policy makers and biz leaders towards the green shoots of economic recovery in the face of the devastating impact of COVID-19.…
Google's cross-platform UI toolkit has a Flutter on 'social development' with CodePen
Online editing support for Chocolate Factory's open-source dev framework "Social development environment" CodePen has unfurled support for Flutter, Google's open-source cross-platform framework for mobile and web.…
Amazon assembles team of boffins, devs, project managers and more to figure out mass coronavirus testing
Jeff Bezos imagines the negatives can go out to work and spend, the infected can watch more Amazon Prime Video at home Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has called for a coronavirus testing blitz to help the global economy reopen and has assembled a team to try to make it happen.…
A paper clip, a spool of phone wire and a recalcitrant RS-232 line: Going MacGyver in the wonderful world of hotel IT
Part 1: No one expects the construction crew On Call Come with us to the 1980s, when computers cost proper money and RS-232 ruled the roost in another edition of Register reader recollections courtesy of On Call.…
Europe publishes draft rules for coronavirus contact-tracing app development, on a relaxed schedule
No phone numbers needed – but you’ll need Notifications and Bluetooth on all the time The European Commission (EC) has published a document describing how it thinks member nations can best built a contact-tracing smartphone app to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Star's rosette orbit around our supermassive black hole proves Einstein's Theory of General Relativity correct
27 years of watching the Milky Way's core – that's how proper science is done Astronomers have observed a star tracing a rosette shape in its orbit around a supermassive black hole for the first time, an effect that provides further proof of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.…
Nvidia's $6.9bn Mellanox munch gets closer after Chinese regulators sign off
On track to do the deed towards the end of the month Nvidia's $6.9bn deal to networking kit maker Mellanox has been approved by China's competition watchdog.…
Activist investor Elliot Management departs Citrix’s board
Turnaround mission accomplished? Looks like it Citrix has announced the departure of a director and in so doing signified the business has probably turned a corner.…
India says ‘Zoom is a not a safe platform’ and bans government users
Holey vid chat service reveals ‘re-architect’ of bug bounty program to ‘get overall security house in order’ India has effectively banned videoconferencing service Zoom for government users and repeated warnings that consumers need to be careful when using the tool.…
ICANN delays .org sell off after California’s attorney general intervenes at last minute, tears non-profit a new one over sale
DNS overseer accused of ignoring the very people it is supposed to represent ICANN has again delayed a decision on the sale of the .org registry, pushing the issue off for another month multiple sources with knowledge of Thursday's meeting, have told The Register.…
Cloudflare goes retro with COBOL delivery service - Older coders: Who's laughing now? Turns out we're still vital
Dust off your COBOL code and give it new life in WebAssembly Network infrastructure biz Cloudflare has implemented a way to run COBOL code on its serverless platform Cloudflare Workers.…
ESA's exoplanet hunter Cheops gets the green light to start checking out future spots mankind could settle on
Not boldly seaking out new worlds, mostly checking out the ones we know The European Space Agency’s latest telescope, known as Cheops, has passed its preliminary in-flight tests and will embark on its mission to study exoplanets at the end of April.…
You're a botnet, you;ve got a zero-day, so where do you go? After fiber, because that's where the bandwidth is
Two-step attack seen on core systems Researchers are warning owners of fiber routers to keep a close eye on their gear and check for firmware updates following the discovery an in-the-wild zero-day attack.…
Facebook's Libra Association tries again at this digi-cash game, with more modest ambitions after global flop
Zuck's bucks have no luck, for now The Facebook-founded Libra Association has revised its planned digital currency after regulatory concerns and public backlash made the project's initial vision untenable.…
Tick tick Zoom, is this thing on? US comms giant Verizon pulls on BlueJeans for 'undisclosed amount'
Video chat for the work-at-home world It's as good a time as any to buy a video conferencing and cloud comms firm. Just ask the business arm of US comms behemoth Verizon, which today confirmed it is acquiring BlueJeans Network for an undisclosed (but presumably substantial) sum.…
FPGA biz Xilinx pops ACAP in Samsung's 5G network gear
That's the Versal Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform btw US FPGA manufacturer Xilinx has inked a deal allowing electronics giant Samsung to use its Versal ACAP (Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform) in 5G infrastructure products.…
Ex-TalkTalk infosec exec's equal pay and unfair dismissal claims tossed out at tribunal
Job role was scaled back after 2015 hack, rules employment judge A former Talktalk infosec exec has lost her unfair dismissal and equal pay claims against the UK telco after an employment tribunal rejected her case.…
DRAM, son. Semiconductor revenue fell 12% last year. At least 2020 will be better, right? Right?
DRAM and NAND struggle with swollen inventories and low demand – Gartner Famed entrails poker Gartner has pegged revenue decline in the 2019 semiconductor market at 12 per cent to $419.14bn (£335.2bn), thanks to a supply glut of DRAM chips and turmoil in the NAND flash sector.…
The bane of Spain comes mainly on the plane. Good luck Barcelona: You've bagged the MWC contract again
Mobile industry cats at GSMA extend congress deal with Spanish city There's some good news for Barcelona's tech-hungry pickpockets: the GSMA has extended its contract to hold annual industry shindig Mobile World Congress in the city until 2024.…
Now GitHub has gulped down NPM Inc, what's next for the JS package registry? Well, some stability will be nice
CTO Ahmad Nassri announces intention to bow out GitHub has completed its acquisition of JavaScript package registry NPM Inc, leading CTO Ahmad Nassri to announce his departure "in the near future".…
Bad news: So much of your personal data has been hacked that lesson manuals on how to use it are the latest hot property
Cyber-crims bone up on methods for fun and profit, but mainly profit With more people looking to get into the online crime racket and huge caches of personal information cheap and easy to come by, documents describing the process of committing (and getting away with) online fraud are becoming hot commodities.…
Pleeease release me: Patch Tuesday has been and gone, but Windows 10 2004 has yet to emerge
Have a pair of Insider builds instead and an exciting Your Phone innovation: file transfer Microsoft treated Windows Insiders to a pair of emissions this week but sadly not the one that many were hoping for as Patch Tuesday came and went.…
Quantum computing heats up down under as researchers reckon they know how to cut costs and improve stability
Boffins claim to have found path to 'real-world applications' by running hot Scientists in Australia are claiming to have made a breakthrough in the field of quantum computing which could ease the technology's progress to affordability and mass production.…
Trello! It is me... you locked the door? User warns of single sign-on risk after barring self from own account
Atlassian awards personal account to bloke's former employer An issue where Trello user Shashank Tomar was locked out of his personal account because of a secondary email belonging to a company he left five years ago has drawn criticism from users.…
Is this an ASP.NET Core I see before me? Where to next for Microsoft's confusing web framework...
Too many choices? Microsoft's ASP.NET Core, a web application framework (or more accurately, a family of frameworks), has made strides in performance and innovation, but its rapid development has resulted in a bewildering range of choices facing developers.…
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