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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.…
PC shipments went over a cliff in Q1, which may be only moderately terrifying
Dell only vendor to increase shipments as debate turns to impact of pent-up demand vs shifting spending priorities Global PC sales fell markedly in Q1 2020, but that may not be an entirely bad thing.…
Astroboffins suspect twin-star smash may be the culprit for most biggest and brightest supernova yet spotted
A rogue pulsational pair-instability nova from a heavy star measuring over 100 times the mass of the Sun Astronomers have spotted the biggest and brightest supernova explosion yet spotted and theorize it may have been sparked by two huge stars smashing together.…
India kicks off competition for home-grown video conferencing clone
Developers face three-month sprint to the finish line, with big government contract the prize India's government has kicked off a competition to develop a locally-developed video conferencing platform it hopes will put the country on the product development map.…
Zoom adds Choose Your Own Routing Adventure to keep chats out of China
As Microsoft gives Teams a Brady Bunch upgrade Zoom’s security catch-up sprint has seen it announce its users will soon be able to choose where their traffic goes.…
Yahoo! Japan! shares! user! location! data! with! government! to! track! coronavirus! clusters!
As LINE named nation's preferred telemedicine tool Yahoo!’s Japanese offshoot has signed a deal to share analysis of its users’ locations, to help the nation’s effort to detect coronavirus clusters.…
Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day
It's instrumentation. It must be instrumentation. It wasn't instrumentation. Final part of The Register's look at Apollo 13 Part two 55 hours, 52 minutes and 58 seconds into Apollo 13's mission, capsule communicator Charlie Duke asked the crew to stir the spacecraft's cryo tanks. Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert did so, and the "boring" mission became suddenly all too interesting.…
So how do the coronavirus smartphone tracking apps actually work and should you download one to help?
Bluetooth, GPS, cell towers, code scanning: what’s the best way? In an effort to fend off the coronavirus while getting economies restarted, the world has hit on the same idea: a smartphone app that alerts people if they have been close to someone who has the virus.…
We lost another good one: Mathematician John Conway loses Game of Life, taken by coronavirus at 82
British mathematician checks out Mathematician John Conway has died after suffering from COVID-19.…
You can wipe those smiley faces off: Unicode technical website is going to be out for 'a couple of weeks'
Data center snafu borks site because of...something The Unicode Consortium's technical documentation website went belly up on Friday, two days after the organization said the planned March 2021 release of Unicode 14.0 will be delayed six months due to COVID-19.…
ICANN suffers split-personality disorder as deadline for .org sale decision draws close
Staff trying to strike a deal; Board worried about corporate shell structure With just seven days left until it has to make a decision on the $1.13bn sale of the .org registry to a private equity firm, DNS overseer ICANN appears in chaos.…
All your jobs are belong to us... Amazon is hiring 75,000 people but if you want US home groceries, tough luck!
Nice to see Jeff Bezos catching a break Sure, the planet may be in the sort of crisis not seen in over a century, but it is a great time to be Amazon.…
How to make a stranger's insecure 3D printer halt-and-catch-fire – plus more alerts from infosec world
San Francisco Airport websites hacked, VMware patches emitted, etc Roundup We're one week further along, and we hope everyone is well out there. Time for another security roundup amid the coronavirus lockdown.…
Google Cloud's AI recog code 'biased' against black people – and more from ML land
Including: Yes, that nightmare smart toilet that photographs you mid... er, process Roundup Here's your latest summary of recent machine-learning developments.…
Suspicious senate stock sale spurt spurs scrutiny scheme: This website tracks which shares US senators are unloading mid-pandemic
Just in case any one else decides to do a Burr or Feinstein Well, if Congress won't do it, we, the geek people, will have to instead, it seems.…
Animal crossing? Nah! Farmyard frolics, courtesy of Novell and pals
Giving students network messaging in the '90s. What could possibly go wrong? MY EYES! Who, Me? Wipe that chocolate off your face and settle in for another story from the archives of The Register's Who, Me? collection of reader confessions.…
Taiwan may turn traffic advice app into massive tracking system
To offer social distancing advice when people head out to play on a looming long weekend Taiwan has floated the idea of adapting its traffic-monitoring app into a “don’t-go-there-you-won’t-be-able-to-social-distance-app.”…
Linux kernel technical advisory board asks if any maintainers need coronavirus relief
As Linus Torvalds relieves the USA of his favorite Finnish Easter dessert Linus Torvalds’ has announced version 5.7rc1 of the Linux kernel, and a shout-out from the Linux kernel technical advisory board in case any maintainers have hit coronavirus-related complications.…
BepiColombo probe swings by Earth on way to Mercury – the Solar System's must-visit coronavirus-free resort
Check out this plucky Euro-Japanese spacecraft and its seven-year trip to innermost planet BepiColombo, the first European-Japanese spacecraft to hopefully orbit Mercury, has swung by Earth for its first gravitational assist maneuver in its seven-year journey to the innermost planet of our Solar System.…
Apollo 13 set off into space 50 years ago today. An ignored change order ensured it did not make it to the Moon...
A liquid-oxygen tank, 65 volts across a 28-volt thermostat, and a two-inch tumble all led to this 'successful failure' Part one Apollo 13 was launched 50 years ago today. Now regarded as a "successful failure," the story of the aborted Moon landing began years earlier, with the design of mankind's then most advanced spacecraft.…
Guess what's heading to trial? IBM and its tactic of yoinking promised commissions after sales reps seal the deal
Paradoxical contract that isn't a contract fails to satisfy judge Updated IBM's practice of promising its sales reps commission rates it can lower at any time, particularly after a sale is finally inked, may soon face a jury.…
This machine-learning upstart trained software to snare online drug dealers. Now it's going after fake coronavirus test equipment peddlers
US govt-funded outfit hopes to kill off web quackery that puts us all at risk Machine-learning software to snare scammers hawking fake COVID-19 test kits on social media is being built by a tiny startup funded by the US National Institutes of Health.…
The pains – and pleasures? – of network security: Tell us exactly what you think about this corner of business IT
Love it or hate it, there’s no denying we all need it Reader survey Network security: love it or hate it, there’s no denying we all need it.…
Doom Eternal: Reboot sequel is cluttered but we're only here for the rippin' and the tearin'
In which case, it'll do The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. What a time to be childless, huh? You young, care-free things have stacks of box sets and video games to plough through while we're all stuck indoors fearing for our lives and those of our loved ones. Unfortunately, my lockdown has been busier than usual as childcare is closed too, which is why we're weeks late. But hey! A long weekend! Maybe it's the perfect time to check out Doom Eternal.…
OK brainiacs, we've got an IT cold case for you: Fatal disk errors on an Amiga 4000 with 600MB external SCSI unless the clock app is... just so
Only when the big hand reaches the little hand will the Amiga copy those files On Call Welcome to an unusual entry in The Register's On Call, where an Amiga mystery is never fully explained after the call for help is issued. Can you solve the mystery?…
French monopoly watchdog orders Google to talk payment terms with French publishers
Copying article snippets could get costly, if web giant doesn't ditch them altogether The French Competition Authority (FCA) has told Google to negotiate with French news companies to determine fees due for the re-use their content.…
Ransomware scumbags leak Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX documents after contractor refuses to pay
Anti-mortar system specs, legal paperwork, payment forms, and more, dumped online from infected PCs Internal confidential documents belonging to some of the largest aerospace companies in the world have been stolen from an industrial contractor and leaked online.…
RAND report finds that, like fusion power and Half Life 3, quantum computing is still 15 years away
Has anyone told the Chinese? Quantum computers pose an "urgent but manageable" threat to the security of modern communications systems, according to a report published Thursday by influential US RAND Corporation.…
Signal sends smoke, er, signal: If Congress cripples anonymous speech with EARN IT Act, we'll shut US ops
Secure messaging app says it could not continue operations in America under proposed law Secure messaging app developer Signal says its US operation hangs in the balance due to a proposed law in America.…
SAP slashes revenue, profit forecasts as virus outbreak bites into biz prospects
First quarter started off so well... ERP giant SAP has cut its annual revenue estimates by as much as €1.9bn in the face of COVID-19 disruption which saw a "significant amount of new business" postponed in the first quarter.…
Hi, Google Duplex here, trying to book a haircut for a socially inept human. Sorry, 'COVID-19'?... DOES NOT COMPUTE
Chocolate Factory's AI call assistant will soon be getting confused by Brit idioms at the worst time possible Almost one year after its flashy launch at Google I/O, the Chocolate Factory's AI call assistant, Google Duplex, is coming to the UK.…
AWS revamps Fargate serverless containers, but wait – where's Docker Engine? Ah, 'deemed unnecessary'
Bezos cloud crew chops 'bells and whistles' in favour of native support, adds shared storage Amazon Web Services has launched Fargate 1.4, an update to its serverless container platform that adds support for shared Elastic File System storage and removes use of Docker Engine.…
Still on-premises? Iron out your hybrid cloud plan with the help of Nutanix
Find out how to widen your cloud options while keeping control Webcast While it’s trendy to go entirely off-premises and hybridize your cloud, many will nod and smile at the suggestion while having no intention of actually doing it.…
Tekton Pipelines hits beta: 'Ragdoll Norby' to sort continuous integration for Kubernetes
And 'difficult to understand, hard to debug' PipelineResources have been deprecated Tekton Pipelines, the major component in an open-source project for CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) on Kubernetes, has reached the milestone of beta status.…
French pensioner ejected from fighter jet after accidentally grabbing bang seat* handle
That's a retirement day present he won't forget An elderly and reluctant Frenchman was ejected from a French Air Force fighter during a retirement day jolly – and narrowly missed taking the pilot with him, an investigation report littered with unintentional howlers has revealed.…
Consumer reviewer Which? finds CAN bus ports on Ford and VW, starts yelling 'Security! We have a problem...'
Spoiler: It found a tyre pressure sensor and a Wi-Fi password Modern connected cars contain security threats, consumer org Which? has said after commissioning analyses of two models, a Ford and a Volkswagen.…
Neo4j has this great IDE-a: How about we stuff all our graph workspace, database, algorithms and visualisation wizardry in one place?
Graph graph graph egg and graph; graph graph graph graph graph graph baked beans graph graph graph Graph database slinger Neo4j is putting out a suite of tools aimed at helping data scientists be more productive using graph analytics techniques.…
Self-driving car LIDAR stalwart Velodyne sued for sacking a third of its staff claiming coronavirus was the cause
Employees allege offshoring was reason behind next-day sacking of 140 staff A key maker of Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensors for self-driving cars unlawfully terminated more than 140 of its employees to shift jobs offshore, a lawsuit claims.…
Linux fans thrown a bone in one Windows 10 build while Peppa Pig may fly if another is ready in time for this year
No Neo in 2020? Never mind, The Matrix 4 is out in 2021 Microsoft emitted a fresh version of Windows 10 last night, featuring fun for Linux fans, as mutterings intensified over hardware delays.…
Europe calls for single app to track coronavirus. Meanwhile America pretends it isn’t trying to build one at all
Plus, what’s big tech doing to help? Not much it seems, Bill Gates excepted Comment With the rate of deaths from COVID-19 beginning to decline in Europe, the focus has turned to how to manage virus spread once lockdown orders are lifted. The proposed solutions say a lot about the planet's cultures.…
Poor semiconductor revenues can't catch a break: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the wafer – bam, coronavirus
Gartner predicts 2020 slump, but it'd be worse were it not for NAND flash Gartner, tech's equivalent of Mystic Meg, has predicted that the semiconductor sector will struggle in 2020, thanks to everyone's least-favourite pathogen: the novel coronavirus discovered late last year. Worldwide revenue will decline 0.9 per cent year-on-year to $415.4bn. That's a revision on previous forecasts, which expected 12.5 per cent growth.…
You in for a curl up and dye? Yeah, looks like the same for this screen in a hairdressers
A cunning cut won't save this bit of borkery Bork!Bork!Bork! While computers falling over in public may once have been a thing to be mocked, now they are reminders of days gone by and sometimes, just sometimes, have a message for the future.…
Upstart Americans brandish alligators at the almighty Reg Standards Soviet
Thou shalt respect the Osman and keep your distance, rebels An American local council has dared to challenge the almighty Vulture Central Standards Soviet by proposing alligators as a standard unit of measure for social distancing during the coronavirus lockdown.…
Low-orbit internet banking fraud claim alleged to be a load of space junk
This is what comes of mixing the International Space Station, a relationship breakdown, and banking records A case of alleged low-orbit internet banking fraud has taken another twist, with the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas filing an indictment in which it claimed the complainant in the case had lied.…
Watch out, everyone, here come the Coronavirus Cops, enjoying their little slice of power way too much
Brit cops turn to drones, now mobile tools to make everyone’s lives a misery There's a reason why the UK doesn't have a mandatory national ID card despite numerous efforts by the authorities to impose one: it's because Brits can't stand the use of petty power.…
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