by Richard Speed on (#5B2ZG)
Speech patterns consistent with boredom?! Minus 10 points! The slightly creepy "Productivity Score" may not be all that's in store for Microsoft 365 users, judging by a trawl of Redmond's patents.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5B2W9)
Meanwhile, landlord reckons he's found a loophole in coronavirus restrictions by naming beer 'Substantial Meal' Ideally, government regulations should not be open to interpretation, but the UK's wishy-washy response to the coronavirus pandemic has only left people scratching their heads – or, worse, thinking of ways they can bend the rules.…
by Richard Speed on (#5B2WA)
Windows Feature Experience Pack attempts to make beast more modular The modularisation of Windows 10 continued this week as Microsoft popped a batch of potentially standalone components into a seperate Windows Feature Experience Pack.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#5B2SV)
America's outdated Computer Fraud and Abuse Act gets a roasting Analysis There’s a growing problem with computer laws written in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They were produced just as PCs began entering widespread personal usage but they failed to account for what electronic devices would soon be used for most of the time: accessing information over the internet.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5B2QP)
Blank share certificates, passport scans, you name it Exclusive A Cayman Islands-based investment fund has exposed its entire backups to the internet after failing to properly configure a secure Microsoft Azure blob.…
Yes, we’re all going to be at home for the foreseeable future. Does that leave you feeling insecure?
by David Gordon on (#5B2NX)
Or is it time to get SASE? Webcast After more than six months, the shine is wearing off working from home – not just for the workers, but for the security teams who need to rethink pretty much everything about how to protect them and their companies.…
by Paul Kunert on (#5B2NY)
Volunteers sought to join the COVID-ravaged jobs market IBM has revealed that hundreds of UK staff working in the Global Technology Services division will be in line for the chop under the latest wave of redundancy action.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5B2MJ)
The Reg talks to Software Engineering veep Sha Ma Interview GitHub has described efforts to break down its monolithic application architecture into microservices – and revealed that it still runs some services on AWS, even after the 2018 acquisition by Microsoft.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5B2K2)
Though these days it's the darling of the tech shopping cart British chip designer Arm turned 30 last Friday. This is an auspicious occasion. The microprocessor technology drafted by this Cambridge-headquartered outfit forms the basis of nearly all smartphones and tablets in circulation, dominates the Internet-of-Things and embedded electronics space, and is appearing in an increasing number of computers, in the shape of laptops and server gear.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5B2HJ)
Big Red said it was picked for its 'superior' cloud, but marketing minutiae and conference-eve thunder stealing have intruded Amazon Web Services has announced it is now videoconferencing darling Zoom’s “preferred” cloud.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5B2HK)
Boffins see more interference with domain-name look-up system, wonder why DNSSEC is taking so long Boffins from the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute have crunched six years and four months of data, and found that DNS spoofing, while uncommon, has doubled during that time.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5B2FW)
The satellites are up there, Qualcomm has silicon on the ground, government wants more India’s tech self-sufficiency drive has extended into satellite navigation, as the nation seeks manufacturers to help drive adoption of its own system.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5B2E6)
Mac Minis in the cloud, still with the SmartNIC-powered Nitro isolation subsystem AWS has announced that it is now offering bare-metal Macs in its cloud.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5B2AY)
Wobbly NAS tended by Fujitsu crashed trading – and automatic failover failed Miyahara Koichiro, the CEO of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), has resigned in the wake of its October outage. The exchange’s operator, Japan Exchange Group, accepted his request to stand down.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5B2A6)
We don't need no education... IT department may need some Students in Baltimore, Maryland, were on Sunday warned against connecting their Windows PCs to the county’s public school IT system after it was hit by ransomware.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#5B29C)
Lab hopes improved tool will be used to craft new medicines faster DeepMind says its AlphaFold machine-learning software can now rapidly predict the structure of proteins with high accuracy, and could one day help us develop drugs faster.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5B21C)
Someone needs to make a 'Best viewed with anything but IE' badge for websites As of today, the Microsoft Teams web app no longer supports Internet Explorer 11, as the Windows giant foretold in August.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#5B1YH)
FCC boss tells telco industry he's available for lobbying work in January Analysis FCC head Ajit Pai has announced he will step down on Inauguration Day in January, bringing an end to a tumultuous four-year reign in charge of the US telecoms regulator.…
by Tim Anderson on (#5B1VS)
New API has same name but little integration with existing service AWS has added a messaging service to its Chime SDK, used by developers to build real-time conferencing features into applications.…
by Richard Speed on (#5B1RW)
Chang'e-5 set for a lunar touchdown, Japan aims for Australia An exciting week is in the offing for space fans as China's Chang'e 5 prepares for a lunar landing and Japan's Hayabusa2 is set to return its precious cargo to Earth.…
by David Gordon on (#5B1RX)
Join us to learn how to save execs from themselves Webcast You have to hand it to the cyber-criminals. They really know how to mix a perfectly balanced cocktail of software engineering and human insight when it comes to crafting the perfect spear-phishing attack.…
by Richard Speed on (#5B1NM)
Plus: Insider fixes and support extensions for old versions of Win 10 In Brief An odd thing has happened in the Windows 10 market-share figures published by ad slinger Ad Duplex. While the most recent release, the October 2020 Update (aka 20H2), crept closer to double digits, an older version also registered a gain.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5B1HR)
We said they were water-resistant, counters iGiant, as unhappy customers return from the beach The Italian competition authority (AGCM, or Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato) has fined Apple €10m (£8.97m/ $12m) over allegations it misled customers about the waterproofing qualities of its iMobes.…
by Chris Mellor on (#5B1EX)
Healthy block work paves the way IBM says it has managed to coax TLC-class endurance and performance from cheaper QLC flash chips, with customers of the company's FlashSystem 9200 all-flash arrays getting the benefits.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5B1C1)
Nothing from Chinese bogeyman allowed in core network by early 2023 The UK's Ministry of Fun* has published its roadmap for the removal of so-called high-risk vendors from UK telecoms networks as part of the second parliamentary reading of the Telecoms Security Bill.…
by Richard Speed on (#5B197)
Legacy Business accounts to be axed from 4 January 2021 There is an early Christmas present for customers of TalkTalk Business as the company prepares to swing the axe on a legacy email service.…
by Richard Currie on (#5B16V)
What a spoon Infamous spoon-wrecking genius Uri Geller has lifted a 20-year ban on Nintendo from publishing Pokémon trading cards he claimed appropriated his likeness.…
by Paul Kunert on (#5B16W)
Around 30% of premium notebooks sent by plane during pandemic, expect price rises on devices that are available to buy in January PC makers will be forced to compete for air freight space toward the end of this year as vaccines for COVID-19 are distributed around the world, both Dell and HP have warned.…
by Richard Speed on (#5B14T)
You didn't want fries with that, did you? Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another in our series of digital signage behaving poorly. Today, the revelation through the medium of Windows that "chips" is, of course, the correct word for delicious bits of fried potato.…
by Rupert Goodwins on (#5B12X)
A digital dial tone might have helped to keep the lights on for many Column Serverless is the new hotness. Like so much corporate IT, it's a complete misnomer. There are just as many servers as before, but your tasks – or microservices, if you need four more syllables – have no idea which ones they're using. Same meat, different stew.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5B11A)
Modestly updating old phones won't work beyond Q4, says analyst Although shipments of smartphones to the channel recovered somewhat in the third quarter of 2020, that hasn't necessarily translated into sales.…
by Richard Speed on (#5B0Z7)
The Cassandra of 1980s tech: Doomed to warn, but never be heeded Who, Me? This Monday's Who, Me? is a reminder that for every ludicrous bit of company branding, there is always somebody behind the scenes yelling "No!"…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5B0XS)
‘Removed by an unknown party’ says Bureau of Land Management POLL The mysterious monolith found in a remote corner of Utah last week has mysteriously disappeared.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5B0WA)
Hailed as visionary pioneer who changed both India and the software industry Mr Faqir Chand Kohl, the founder of India’s largest IT services company Tata Consulting Services and a pioneer of the nation’s IT industry, passed away last week aged 96.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5B0RF)
First solution: run on bigger servers to reduce chatter in the Kinesis fleet Amazon Web Services has revealed that adding capacity to an already complex system was the reason its US-EAST-1 region took an unplanned and rather inconvenient break last week.…
by Richard Speed on (#5AY9R)
Also: New Zealand owl watching with Rocket Lab and ExoMars 'chute test In Brief Elon Musk's SpaceX demonstrated that a long-dormant pad could be reactivated with seemingly little effort after it launched the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite from Space Launch Complex 4 at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5AY73)
UK data watchdog has been told and 'forensic' probe is ongoing Players' managers looking to lift salaries by a couple of million pounds or so better check their email read receipts: a full week after Manchester United was hit by hackers, many of its systems remain offline, with at least one report claiming the club is being shaken down for ransom.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5AY74)
Budget sub-brand selloff will save jobs of workers, says founder, and avoid 'dragging innocent people' down Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has bid farewell to the company's budget sub-brand Honor, saying that selling the business will safeguard it from forces in America he believes are seeking to destroy Huawei.…
by David Gordon on (#5AY4E)
Here’s some information that will really help Promo You know you’ve got lots of data resting in your systems. But how much of it is usable information, that your colleagues can actually put to work?…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5AY1Z)
Sign up and make your voice heard A UK infosec bod has launched a petition asking the government if it would please drop its plans to install backdoors in end-to-end encryption.…
by Paul Kunert on (#5AXZQ)
Must have lowered the asking price to one that isn't higher than entire group's market cap Capita has opened talks with a new suitor for its Education Software Solutions business, the one it tried to offload earlier in the year at a price reported to be higher than the entire group's market capitalisation on the London Stock Exchange.…
by Richard Speed on (#5AXZR)
But Parliament seems a bit busy at the moment to legislate The UK government has announced plans to set up a Digital Markets Unit (DMU) to level the advertising playing field currently dominated by the likes of Google and Facebook.…
by Alistair Dabbs on (#5AXY7)
When I dreamt of a sci-fi future, I'm pretty sure this wasn't it Something for the Weekend, Sir? Help me up, would you, luvvie?…
by Richard Currie on (#5AXVY)
Can we start a petition to abandon the whole 'lol jk ur in a simulation' arc too? The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. We've continued to put the Xbox Series S through its paces [read: played it a lot] with one of the titles available on the console from launch on 10 November, Assassin's Creed Valhalla.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5AXT2)
'Progress' report shows nobody's really paying attention any more How is Britain's £1.3bn National Cyber Security Strategy going? Nobody really cares any more – even the Cabinet Office, judging by its latest progress report.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5AXQW)
A grand uddertaking Irish computer vision and AI agriculture specialist Cainthus hopes to raise $50m after launching a facial recognition tool for cows.…
by Richard Speed on (#5AXP8)
Another fine mess On Call Friday is upon us so take a moment from glumly hitting refresh on your government website of choice and join us for a story of abbreviations and adult filters in today's edition of On Call.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5AXKM)
Cloud giant has a lust for Rust so needs top minds and wants them to advance the language Amazon Web Services has quietly revealed that it has hired Rust compiler co-lead Felix Klock.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5AXHG)
No, really. It has signed a contract to make this happen in 2025 The European Space Agency has formalised its plan to dispose of space junk by using an orbiting claw to grab an old bit of rocket before dragging both the claw and the junk to a fiery doom.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5AXFT)
Alibaba in front with Huawei and Tencent on a second tier China's clouds grew by 65 per cent in 2020's third quarter, collectively hauling in $5bn of revenue in the period.…