by Kieren McCarthy on (#5DDQR)
GameStop shares soaring to $350 from $5 last year?! WTF is going on? Analysis So it seems 2021 is going to be the year that internet culture finally reaches the deepest and most protected pockets of society.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5DDPN)
Censorship-busting tool updated, advice on how to use it to evade blockades published China's recent upgrades to its content-blocking Great Firewall can be circumvented, according to censorship fighters from the Great Firewall Report.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5DDKG)
Scientists will focus on modelling hurricanes, wildfires, solar storms with Milan Epycs and Nv A100s HPE will upgrade the US National Center for Atmospheric Research’s supercomputer using AMD and Nvidia’s latest CPUs and GPUs, creating a machine roughly three times as powerful as its current Intel-based beast.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#5DDEQ)
Seattle duo go back to court demanding promised royalties AT&T has been sued by two Seattle entrepreneurs who accused the telecoms giant of stealing their technology and launching a rip-off version to avoid paying massive royalty fees.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5DD8V)
Last year's slipstream technique revived to pierce vulnerable firewalls – browsers patched to thwart bypass attempts Video Ben Seri and Gregory Vishnepolsky, threat researchers at Armis, have found a way to expand upon the NAT Slipstream attack disclosed last year by Samy Kamkar, CSO of Openpath Security.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5DD5C)
Vulnerabilities in build systems, secrets in source code: developer environments are an attack target Developer site Stack Overflow has published details of a breach dating back to May 2019, finding evidence that an intruder in its systems made extensive use of Stack Overflow itself to determine how to make the next move.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5DD5D)
It was a first mover for graph DBs, but cloud is full of rivals Graph database swashbuckler Neo4j has joined a throng of NoSQL vendors in selling its technology core as a fully managed cloud database.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5DCZC)
Europol-led op knocks offline 700 servers used to infect 'millions of computers' EU police agency Europol has boasted of taking down the main botnet powering the Emotet trojan-cum-malware dropper, as part of a multinational police operation that included raids on the alleged operators’ homes in the Ukraine.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5DCVJ)
What do we want? Better coverage! How do we want it? Without actual infrastructure The UK government is looking to reform the laws governing how communications equipment is deployed and managed, in an effort to speed up the rollout of gigabit-capable connections.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5DCR3)
Potentially 250,000 reasons UK nature conservation charity was targeted The Woodland Trust, a peaceful British charity that looks after trees, was struck by a “cyber attack” before Christmas.…
by Paul Kunert on (#5DCMK)
That's 20 pence a pop for the 2.4 million calls made, many to Telephone Preference Service users The UK’s data watchdog has issued £480,000 in financial penalties to four businesses that illegally made 2.4 million marketing calls to members of the public registered with the Telephone Preference Services (TPS).…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5DCMM)
Canadian uni educator apparently was an excellent teacher Anyone with sufficient memory to recall their college days may remember suspecting some of the staff behind the lectern were barely breathing. One student in Canada however was rather surprised to learn a professor offering the gift of knowledge had, in fact, passed away two years earlier.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5DCH6)
Customer: 'It feels like a bit of a kick in the teeth' Cloudy DevOps company GitLab has removed its $4.00 user/month Bronze/Starter tier, giving users the choice between paying for Premium at $19.00 or downgrading to the free tier and losing some features.…
by Richard Speed on (#5DCF6)
Also: First all-commercial crew named, Boeing readies Starliner again and NASA's ex-boss is off to private equity In Brief The UK will be making its first major industrial contribution to the International Space Station (ISS) with the Columbus Ka-band Terminal (ColKa), which will be fitted to the Columbus laboratory module during a spacewalk by flight engineers Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#5DCD4)
EU puts 2.9bn euro ($3.5bn) behind European Battery Innovation project, expects companies to triple that The European Union has announced a €2.9bn ($3.5bn, £2.57bn) state aid program to build a full production chain for battery tech, from the extraction of raw materials to the design and manufacturing of battery cells, and their recycling and disposal.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5DCB1)
Spend more on resilence, get more resilience: who whould've thunk it? The 2021 State of Chaos Engineering report from Gremlin, based on a survey of 400 companies, has shown a correlation between high availability and frequent use of chaos engineering.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5DC9D)
Time to make some ch-ch-changes The University of Nottingham is on the lookout for a new HR and finance system in a deal which could be worth £35m, barely a year after updating its current provider's system.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5DC8C)
New security features in Chrome but can businesses do everything they need through the browser? Google has introduced BeyondCorp Enterprise, for secure access to browser-based applications, using new security features in the Chrome browser.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#5DC8D)
I’d love to sort out that issue for you, Steve, but it’s Saturday and I'd rather not commit a crime Europe has had enough of the blurring between work and personal time – where your boss calls you in the evening or colleagues email at the weekend – and is mulling introducing legislation that would provide a “right to disconnect.”…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5DC6T)
What a co-incidence this news has emerged in the same week as a five-yearly party congress! Intel has revealed that it pumped an extra US$475m into its facilities in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5DC6V)
Small-scale test involving biosensor and trained algorithms shows early promise Scientists say they have devised a way to screen for prostate cancer using a drop of urine, a sensor, and AI algorithms. And the test takes just twenty minutes, and is 99 per cent accurate, according to results from a small-scale test.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5DC50)
Scorches Flash for the very last time, too The Mozilla Foundation has scorched a pair of monstrosities in the new version 85 of its Firefox browser.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5DC3G)
You probably remember it as Tucows.com, an essential source of shareware downloads for the early Web One of the web’s early software download bazaars, Tucows.com, has closed.…
by Chris Williams on (#5DC1Q)
Chip designer records bumper final quarter and full year, predicts more of the same to come, says supply flow will increase Sometimes, things just go right. AMD on Tuesday reported record full-year and fourth-quarter financial figures, all due to interest in its chips across the board, from microprocessors in PCs and servers to GPUs in games consoles, and all during a pandemic.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5DC0Y)
Management masterclass as locked-up Lee Jae-Yong apologises for his absence Samsung’s vice chairman and de facto boss Lee Jae-Yong has reportedly sent staff motivational messages from inside prison.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5DBXZ)
FY21 Q2 results buoyed by cloud demand, pandemic-driven IT focus Microsoft far exceeded expectations for its second-quarter fiscal 2021 financial results, posting $43.1bn in revenue, an increase of 17 per cent.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#5DBW2)
How's your year going? A US Air Force intelligence officer who kidnapped her daughter to Mexico and attempted to defect to Russia with information labelled top secret has been jailed for 11 years.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5DBSV)
Messaging wunderkind said to be haven for extremists – and Silicon Valley gave it a pass, ex-ambassador complains Marc Ginsberg, a former US ambassador who oversees a non-profit called Coalition for a Safer Web (CSW), sued Alphabet's Google subsidiary on Monday for failing to remove the Telegram Messenger app from its Google Play store.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5DBQM)
Sudo, make me a heap overflow! Done, this system is now yours Security researchers from Qualys have identified a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in sudo that can be exploited by rogue users to take over the host system.…
by Chris Williams on (#5DBMQ)
Plus fixes for iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, XCode, iCloud for Windows – and a day after Google disclosed Nork op Apple today released software updates to patch vulnerabilities in iPhones and iPads that may have been exploited by miscreants to silently snoop on victims from afar.…
by Richard Speed on (#5DBMR)
Shenanigans called on ASP.NET scaffolding tech A New York judge has denied Microsoft a new trial after the software giant attempted to overturn a 2020 judgement over its infringement of a database interface patent.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5DBH9)
Academics can apply for free access to historic Twitter data, so there is a use for the well of human misery after all Twitter is making public tweet data freely available to academic researchers in the hope the boffins can use it to make the world a better place.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5DBEC)
Meet MicroDroid, a base image for on-device VMs that might never see light of day Google is working on a stripped-down version of Android for virtualized environments, judging by source code commits made to the AOSP repository.…
by Richard Speed on (#5DBB4)
Windows 10 Team Creators Update due for support axe in March - yes, two months from now Microsoft is set to resume rolling out the Windows 10 Team 2020 Update, although some administrators will have only a few short weeks before the previous version drops out of support.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5DB7P)
Two feet sideways and it could have been the pilot: report A drone crashed into the windscreen of a helicopter being flown at low altitude and injured a passenger aboard the aircraft.…
Huawei has been Biden its time, but there's no sign new US president will reverse American sanctions
by Matthew Hughes on (#5DB3W)
Press secretary won't say nay or yea on Entity List, but prez says 'we need to play a better defense' It has been six days since Joe Biden became president of the United States. Since then, he has wasted no time in reversing policy decisions made by his predecessor with a series of executive actions on LGBT rights, the environment, and race relations.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5DB3X)
O'Reilly's opinionated survey says low-code on the up and modern web dev is 'chilling' A report from an online learning platform presents a different take on programming language and devops trends, showing Python and Java ahead of the usual survey winner JavaScript.…
by Richard Speed on (#5DB0G)
Money talks in Morrisons and Co-Op Shoppers keen to avoid that personal touch have been faced with multi-day card payment problems at UK grocery giants Morrisons and the Co-Op.…
I was targeted by North Korean 0-day hackers using a Visual Studio project, vuln hunter tells El Reg
by Gareth Corfield on (#5DAX5)
Hyperion Gray founder relates 'holy f**k' moment when he realised A zero-day hunter has told The Register of the “holy f**k” moment when he realised he'd been targeted by a North Korean campaign aimed at stealing Western researchers' vulns.…
by Rachel Smith on (#5DAX6)
Multi-millionaire granted unconditional bail, case moving to Manchester Crown Court The multi-millionaire former boss of Britain’s largest privately owned hosting provider has appeared in court to face allegations of rape and sexual assault.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5DATE)
From one of the world's largest software suppliers to... who? The clock is ticking for Barking and Dagenham Council as the East London authority plans to ditch Oracle e-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 and go live with cloud-based software from MHR and Advanced by the end of the year.…
by Richard Speed on (#5DARA)
Price negotiable, but if you've got £8m to spare then the land speed record is up for grabs The Bloodhound Land Speed Record project is looking for a new owner after its chief exec, Ian Warhurst, confirmed the vehicle is up for sale.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5DAP9)
Brian Exelbierd, Red Hat Liaison and CentOS board member, gives the company perspective Interview Brian Exelbierd, responsible for Red Hat liaison with the CentOS project and a board member of that project, has told The Register that CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat simply refused to invest in it.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5DAM3)
Lib Dem blows raspberry at Sir Humphrey-style non-answer The British government has denied being "complacent" over the Solarwinds hack as a fed-up peer of the realm urged a minister to "answer the question".…
by David Gordon on (#5DAJR)
Tune in next month to learn a raft of cloud-native storage knowledge Webcast Containers and Kubernetes are the future, giving you a way to move away from monolithic applications and their assorted drudgery, and make a break for the sunlit uplands of microservices, composability and continuous delivery. All in the cloud or clouds of your choice.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5DAH2)
Third time's a charm? Suebell number three filed by Euroconsumers members Apple may have to cough up €60m ($73m, £53m) after Altroconsumo, an Italian consumers rights group, filed a class-action lawsuit railing against Cupertino's practice of throttling the performance of its older smartphones.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5DAFN)
The cosmic ballet goes on Astronomers have discovered the first-known “sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system,” after a neural network flagged it up in data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).…
by Iain Thomson on (#5DACG)
Security eggheads discover their PCs chatting with Kim Jong Un's hackers North Korea's hackers homed in on specific infosec researchers and infected their systems with a backdoor after luring them to a suspicious website, Google revealed on Monday.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#5DABJ)
Turns out having coherent API documentation is useful for, well, everyone Google, Microsoft, and friends have pitched in about half a million bucks to create a project seemingly designed to prop up the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) Web Docs.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#5DA8A)
Meanwhile, staff get unexpected backing from football players Amazon has taken a leaf out of a certain former president's playbook, insisting that mail-in voting will result in a false result. This time, however, it’s a vote by Amazon’s Alabama warehouse staff on whether to unionize.…