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by Shaun Nichols on (#51RY1)
Plus: SystemD has a privilege escalation flaw that needs patching, and more bits and bytes Roundup Kaspersky has detailed its takedown of a massive so-called watering-hole attack appearing to target dissidents in China, in the top story in The Reg's infosec roundup that looks at issues of the past week beyond our own detailed coverage.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#51RY3)
Plus more news from the world of machine learning Roundup Here's your quick-fire summary of recent artificial intelligence news.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51RY4)
Though Statcounter puts Moz's finest second. Chrome still top dog It's official that Edge is number two. At least according to NetMarketShare.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51RY6)
Remember when we went outside and used cash machines? Haha, good times Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft Windows is everywhere. Everywhere. And sometimes it can catch out the unwary, as the administrator behind this ATM has hopefully discovered.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#51RSF)
May and June are new due dates and neither firm is going down quietly The UK Information Commissioner's Office has yet again postponed its £280m in fines against British Airways and Marriott Hotels for data leaks.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51RSG)
Commanding & Conquering when nobody is looking Who, Me? Another week is upon us, and while April continues to be an uncertain beast, we will always have Who, Me?, and another story from the more sinful niche of The Register's readership.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51RSH)
Looks like Michael Gove has decided to listen to the experts for a change UK Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has used a daily briefing to slam those advancing baseless theories that 5G radios are in some way responsible for the coronavirus.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#51RNV)
But reverses its policy on downgrades anyway, to quiet noisome critics Bose has hit back at critics who say that the firm's latest headphone firmware intentionally broke its active noise cancellation feature.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51RNX)
The Perseverance rover gets its grousers ahead of planned July/August launch NASA has revealed the wheels it’s just bolted onto the Perseverance Rover, the new Mars assault robot it plans to send to the red planet in July as part of the Mars 2020 mission.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51RJZ)
As India joins the list of nations offering Bluetooth-enabled virus-visit-visualisers A European consortium based in Switzerland plans to this week launch an opt-in location-detecting app to expedite contact-tracing those who have encountered coronavirus carriers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51QT6)
Huge surge in applications for financial assistance show Governor Phil Murphy the ugly side of technical debt The governor of New Jersey has asked COBOL-capable coders to volunteer their skills as the State’s mainframe computers have struggled to cope with a surge of requests for benefits to help citizens through the coronavirus crisis.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#51PWZ)
A glimpse of life at Whaddon Hall Vid An astonishingly rare film documenting British intelligence personnel, linked to the code-breakers at Bletchley Park, has been released by the park's trust, offering a glimpse of unsung heroes who helped win the Second World War.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#51PHQ)
Video calls also routed through China, probe discovers Updated Zoom has faced increased scrutiny and criticism as its usage soared from 10 million users a day to 200 million in a matter of months, all thanks to coronavirus pandemic lockdowns.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#51PHS)
Antisocial network sought surveillance tech to boost its creepy Onavo Protect app, it is claimed NSO Group – sued by Facebook for developing Pegasus spyware that targeted WhatsApp users – this week claimed Facebook tried to license the very same surveillance software to snoop on its own social-media addicts.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#51PHV)
'Low cost of ownership'? This must be an April Fools Oracle has chosen this week of all weeks to foist on the world an update of its application server WebLogic, festooned with new features addressing Java EE 8, Kubernetes and JSON.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51P99)
Testing times for SpaceX as another Starship prototype implodes Video Yet another of SpaceX's Starship prototypes, SN3, was left in pieces last night following tank testing.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#51P9B)
Mobile compatibility issue fixed and working with data in grids made easier Microsoft has updated its "citizen developer" platform, Power Apps, adding Mixed Reality support, fixing a compatibility issue with the mobile app, and improving options for working with data in grids.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#51P0J)
Teachers trek high and low to uncover cola geyser secrets Did you know that the popular Diet Coke and Mentos soda geyser experiment works better at higher altitudes? Or that the average size of the bubbles formed on the scotch mints is about 6μm? Now you do, thanks to the wonders of science and those with a bubbling passion for it.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51P0M)
Meanwhile, three-quarters of NASA staff now staying at home ESA's mission operations centre in Germany has got back to doing interplanetary science after a short stand-down due to COVID-19.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#51NP6)
No MWC, no problem Hello again, Moto. In the past month, the Lenovo-owned mobile maker has announced three new smartphones for the UK market. The latest is the Moto G8 Power Lite, which retails at £149.99, and offers a surprising amount of battery life for your buck.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#51NP8)
But it's still playing catch-up with big boys SAP and Oracle ERP flinger IFS is inflicting more augmented reality on the unsuspecting world of repair and maintenance as it strives to catch up with Oracle and SAP.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#51NPA)
Project 'SOP2SaaS'... it just rolls off the tongue The Cabinet Office is offering a £15m contract for a consultancy to help it shift central government enterprise applications to an as software-as-a-service delivery model, part of an ambitious refresh programme.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#51NE6)
Tough choice for adtech monolith in Foundem case Google must either show its "crown jewels" to a man it described to the High Court as a search engine optimisation expert or give up parts of its defence in a long-running competition lawsuit, the UK High Court has ruled.…
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by Team Register on (#51NE8)
Our free job ad offer continues and vacancies keep rolling in Job Alert Welcome to this week's jobs list, a rundown of vacancies El Reg is advertising for free to keep tech people in work amid the coronavirus pandemic.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#51N9F)
CEO talks of measures to combat expected sales slide due to pandemic Allvotec – the rebranded Daisy Partner Services business – is responding to the coronavirus crisis by furloughing a number of staff and asking all that remain to take a pay cut to avoid potential redundancies.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51N9H)
This season's colours are blue, white and bork Bork!Bork!Bork! Chicago! A town famed for what some might regard as a jumped-up quiche masquerading as pizza and home of the first skyscraper. Could there be a better venue for today's bork?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51N9K)
Passwords-by-default feature may be faulty. But hey, who else just went from 10 to 200 million daily users? Video-conferencing app maker Zoom has promised to do better at security after a bruising week in which it was found to be unpleasantly leaky in several ways.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51N9N)
Saving Sales from a self-inflicted dirty deed On Call Phew, March is over. Everything will be OK now, right? Right? Oh well... join us in nervously welcoming April with another tale from that special breed tasked with answering the phone, even when the subject matter is perhaps less than savoury.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51N9Q)
University lecturer and half of Duckworth-Lewis passes, aged 78 Eminent British mathematician Tony Lewis has died, aged 78.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#51N4M)
EFF raises alarm over increasing reliance on shoddy automation Analysis The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday warned that the consequences of the novel coronavirus pandemic – staff cuts, budget cuts, and lack of access to on-site content review systems, among others – have led tech companies to focus even more resources on barely functional moderation systems.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51N4P)
New line-up includes first i9 part in this latest generation Intel has announced its tenth-generation Core i5, i7, and i9 H-series microprocessors for laptops, which max out at 5.3GHz.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51N4R)
A new use for App Exchange, with that slightly greasy Ronald McDonald vibe Salesforce has decided to offer some help to parents who are trying to balance working from home with keeping kids entertained.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#51N03)
Privacy perspective: President has also threatened quarantine-breaking troublemakers may be shot The Philippines has started planning an app to help the government track the movements and contacts of people who carry the novel coronavirus.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51N05)
Uncle Sam's crackdown sparks 'force majeure event that cannot be overcome' One of Huawei’s flagship projects in Australia has been called off because, as the state government put it, “trade restrictions imposed by the US government create a force majeure event that cannot be overcome.â€â€¦
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by Katyanna Quach on (#51N07)
Should boffins keep it old-school space-race era – or embrace the, er, future of the 1970s? NASA has brought back its sleek iconic logo, lovingly named the worm for its curvy red font, in time for its first crewed spaceflight using American rockets in almost a decade.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#51MTN)
HTTP header ends in own goal Twitter on Thursday warned of an esoteric bug that, in limited circumstances, allowed users' non-public profile information to potentially fall into the hands of other users.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#51MTP)
American young adults are easiest marks for criminals, study reckons Want to know why ransomware is still rampant? One in three surveyed folks in North Americans said they would be willing to pay up to unscramble their files once their personal systems were infected.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#51MHW)
Developers rejoice, there may be (eventually) a store-agnostic way to sell in-application items Google has decided to try to openly standardize one of its own APIs for handling in-app purchases in web apps rather than pursuing a previously proposed proprietary plan.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#51M8A)
Non-military tech rule exception plus other tweaks mulled The US government is reportedly close to introducing stringent new rules that would stop Chinese companies from buying certain high-technology components, including semiconductors and optical materials.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#51M8B)
Alleges anticompetitive behaviour in the walled garden. There's no party like a third party, eh? Channeling their inner Kevin Patterson, Tile this week bemoaned Apple's unfairness to a US congressional panel in Colorado investigating the iPhone maker's stewardship of its app ecosystem.…
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by David Gordon on (#51M8D)
Get the latest advice and insight on scale, resiliency and intelligence Promo Business continuity is another of those aspects of IT that, before, was always pitched on a rather "what if" basis. What if your global cloud comms provider goes down? What if a squirrel chews through one of your server room’s insulation cables?…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#51M8F)
£899 and no social media? That's going to be a big ask There are few surprises around UK pricing and availability for Huawei's latest P40 handsets, which are more or less consistent with previous P-series models – but they are missing a few things punters may not be too, er, appy about.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#51KY2)
US air safety bods call it 'potentially catastrophic' if reboot directive not implemented The US Federal Aviation Administration has ordered Boeing 787 operators to switch their aircraft off and on every 51 days to prevent what it called "several potentially catastrophic failure scenarios" – including the crashing of onboard network switches.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#51KY4)
'A whole bunch of tunnels': Mesh networking with per-node permissions and OAuth security Interview WireGuard, a new VPN protocol with both strong performance and easy setup, has been adopted by startup Tailscale as the basis of a peer-to-peer remote networking system that is both secure and quick to configure.…
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by Richard Speed on (#51KY6)
Lose yourself in a relic of simpler times Got some unexpected time on your hands and a yearning for simpler times? May we present an original prototype ROM of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, courtesy of The Centre for Computing History, for your tinkering pleasure.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#51KP1)
But first, you get a taste of it with host lifecycle management, and more waiting for K8s integration VMware plans to give its flagship vSphere product the power to patch all the software inside a virtual machine.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#51KP2)
That's a pretty expensive gap in S4/HANA When Precision Drilling, a global company that serves the oil and gas industry, upgraded its asset management application to SAP S/4HANA two years ago, it was expecting the software to handle data going into its supply chain systems. But it soon discovered that was not the case.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#51KP4)
Cramped conditions? Not being able to see friends and family? Sounds familiar If the current coronavirus pandemic has got you wanting to leave Planet Earth, you’re not alone. More than 12,000 people answered NASA’s latest call for astronauts to explore the Moon and Mars.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#51KP5)
Chinese giant plays nice with open source Huawei has become a licensee member of the Open Invention Network (OIN), which agrees to cross-license Linux patents to one another royalty free and to any organisation that agrees not to assert its patents against Linux.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#51KFY)
Track your jogs around the block – while those are still allowed The gyms are shut. The government wants you to stay indoors. You can only leave your home once per day. And nobody, it seems, told Fitbit, which this week announced its latest calorie-counting, timber-trimming wearable – the Fitbit Charge 4.…
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