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by Richard Currie on (#52477)
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.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#52479)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5247A)
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.…
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by Jevern Partridge, CTO on (#5247C)
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.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#52429)
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".…
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by Robbie Harb on (#5242A)
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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by Simon Sharwood on (#5242C)
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.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5242E)
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.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#523YX)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#523YZ)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#523VS)
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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#523VV)
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.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#523VX)
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.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#523VY)
British mathematician checks out Mathematician John Conway has died after suffering from COVID-19.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#523W0)
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.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#523FG)
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.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#523FJ)
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.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#52301)
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.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#52302)
Including: Yes, that nightmare smart toilet that photographs you mid... er, process Roundup Here's your latest summary of recent machine-learning developments.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#522RJ)
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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#522M4)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#522M6)
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.â€â€¦
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by Simon Sharwood on (#522M8)
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.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#522H3)
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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#521A2)
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.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#520BF)
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.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#520BG)
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.…
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by Bryan Betts on (#51ZTD)
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.…
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by Richard Currie on (#51ZKV)
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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51ZF2)
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?…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#51ZB5)
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.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#51YYQ)
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.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#51YNQ)
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.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#51YNS)
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.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#51YNT)
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.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#51YCD)
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.…
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by David Gordon on (#51YCE)
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.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#51YCF)
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.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#51YCH)
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.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#51YCK)
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.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#51Y39)
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.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#51Y3B)
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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51Y3C)
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.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#51XWH)
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.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#51XWJ)
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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51XWM)
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.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#51XRA)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51XRB)
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.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#51XRD)
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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