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by Paul Kunert on (#50N7Y)
We can't even go to the pub and wait for this to all blow over BT Group has confirmed its CEO has been diagnosed with COVID-19 just days after meeting fellow telco top brass at a gathering organised by the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50MZD)
Code interpreter ran with admin-level access, not sand-boxed, potentially open to remote-code execution Avast has disabled a component in its Windows anti-malware suite that posed, ironically enough, a significant security risk.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50MTX)
Oracle grows cloud, beats Wall St expectations, slams SAP, Workday Oracle on Thursday reported $9.8bn in revenue for Q3 of its 2020 fiscal year, a two per cent year-over-year gain and enough to lift the database giant's stock in after-hours trading despite a dismal day on Wall Street.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50MTZ)
Not like anyone is looking for medical advice right now As the world tackles the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, ransomware creeps have knocked offline a public health agency's website that served nearly a quarter of a million people in the US.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50MV1)
All your face are belong to US The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing Uncle Sam's Homeland Security, and multiple government agencies, claiming the g-men stonewalled on what they are doing with people's faces scanned at US airports. The civil-rights warriors hope to extract information from the organizations via the courts.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50MJG)
Bloke takes auto-vac firm to court in wrongful termination gripe A former iRobot employee is suing the manufacturer for firing him after he highlighted alleged failures to comply with regulations.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50MJH)
The mystery of manipulating nuclear spins with electric fields could make it easier to build quantum computers in the future A group of scientists have accidentally proven a near 60-year old theory correct, thanks to a botched lab experiment.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50MJK)
Anyone able to reach a vulnerable machine can get system-level access, no login needed Microsoft has released an out-of-band emergency patch for a wormable remote-code execution hole in SMBv3, the Windows network file system protocol.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#50MJM)
Xen, KVM muscling in, meanwhile Despite earlier assertions, VMware has no immediate plans to turn ESXi on Arm into a supported product – and may never do it – because it’s yet to figure out why.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50M97)
But you should really be looking at migrating to C# Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away as the Windows giant announced support for Visual Basic in its upcoming .NET 5.0…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#50M99)
Yep, it's NSA Groundhog Day again Despite recent revelations that the process by which the FBI and NSA gain approval for spying on US citizens is open to abuse, the US Congress is again planning to reauthorize the USA Freedom Act that gives those measures their legal foundation.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50M9A)
Hated keyboard to be replaced with ye olde scissor switch in new models We're in the twilight of the lifecycle of the loathed butterfly keyboard, according to famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a recent investment note, Kuo said Apple would release new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models with conventional scissor keyboards by Q2 2020.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#50M9C)
Prompt to install enhanced extension is the first thing you'll see The first thing users will see after updating to Mozilla's latest browser, Firefox 74, is a prompt to install the Facebook Container add-on.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#50KZH)
Emulated OS for Microsoft's upcoming Surface Neo has lots of rough edges The new Windows 10X build, 19578, has been pushed to Microsoft's emulator with many updates – including a beta of a new File Manager and the ability to run on released (as opposed to Insider) builds of Windows 10, provided you have at least version 10.0.17763.0 (October 2018 update).…
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by Richard Speed on (#50KZK)
Absolute mad lads The European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos Space Corporation (RSC) have blinked and postponed the planned 2020 launch of the ExoMars rover Rosalind Franklin.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50KZM)
Helpful announcement in Bologna station Bork!Bork!Bork! We're going topical in today's instalment of computers behaving badly because here's an Italian display that developed the blues just before the country sent everyone home.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#50KNS)
Tech companies are loving the attention while keeping schtum on outages With more and more companies across the world telling employees to work from home in an effort to limit, or slow, the spread of COVID-19 – which was last night declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization – outages on common remote-working tools have started to increase.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50KNV)
No, really, don't try to get the real-deal $1,980 version for $350 The latest flashy gold smartphone touted by Escobar Inc, the company set up by Roberto Escobar, brother of infamous Colombian drug baron Pablo, appears to be a Samsung Galaxy Fold in disguise.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50KNW)
Ireland's Taoiseach closes country's schools and colleges from tomorrow until 29 March Updated Last night, Donald Trump made the second presidential address of his premiership to announce drastic steps to combat COVID-19 — including a ban on travel to the US from all 26 Schengen-area countries.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50KNY)
Previously unseen nasty spotted lurking in Armenian government websites Russia's infamous Turla hacking crew looks to be gearing up for a new offensive, according to researchers with ESET.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#50KG8)
SSDs, laptops, servers all hit in the struggle for stock The virus that causes COVID-19 continues to hit technology supply chains as vendors struggle to produce and ship stock following a slowdown in China, where the illness was first detected.…
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by John Oates on (#50KGA)
What about my iPhone? The European Commission has introduced ambitious reforms to back the "right to repair" by forcing electronics manufacturers to improve the design, durability and recycling and reuse possibilities of devices they sell.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#50K2H)
What are Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft et al supposed to do? We have some ideas Faced with a growing barrage of criticism over how it has handled the outbreak of the coronavirus, the White House has turned to tech giants to help it tackle the pandemic.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#50K2K)
... a bigger severance package to Lores, that is HP Inc's chief exec will be paid 50 per cent more if he is fired in a hostile takeover, according to the company's SEC filings last week.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#50JTN)
Takedown should (in theory) see spam volumes shrink rapidly Microsoft has bragged of downing a nine million-strong Russian botnet responsible for vast quantities of email spam.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#50JTQ)
Handy for capturing multi-disk VMs but limited restoration capabilities Google Cloud Platform already has the ability to store custom images, which you can configure with pre-installed applications. A custom image is just a disk image, though, whereas its new Machine Images - a feature now in beta - also include all the configuration metadata including permissions.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#50JHJ)
Testimony claims search engine giant favours own products and services, even when they're rubbish For years, Yelp's senior VP of public policy, Luther Lowe, has been complaining on Twitter about how every minute of every day Google screws his company by inserting its own listings instead of Yelp's when people use its search engine – even when Google's version is minimal.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50JHM)
Raining irooooon, from a lacerated sky The weather is very strange on WASP-76b. Liquid iron rains down on one side of the exoplanet, every night.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#50JHP)
But a 2% digital services tax may rankle giants across the pond The UK government has announced a multibillion-pound package of measures designed to boost investment in computing, digital services and science.…
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by David Gordon on (#50JHR)
Draw together disparate systems and spread your infosec skills wider with Open Systems Webcast While a prevention layer around your network is important, don't forget you need detection and response practices to deal with threats once they’re in your systems – and to mitigate their effects quickly and thoroughly.…
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by John Oates on (#50JHS)
What could go wrong? Capita has won a contract to ensure existing Airwave emergency radios can work with the UK's Emergency Services Network (ESN), should the 4G pipe dream ever get switched on.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#50J7K)
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do... British IT services provider Allvotec will cut "up to 300" jobs from the UK, offshoring some to Bulgaria in a push to reduce costs.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50J7M)
Here's some advice that should come naturally to gamers: Stop going outside The organisers of video gaming expo E3 are expected to cancel this year's edition later today over coronavirus concerns.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50J7P)
Stop us if you'd heard this one before The NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) has pulled on the hobnailed boots to deliver an almighty kicking to the US space agency over its Space Launch System (SLS).…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50J7Q)
900 million records detailing country, interests and more left in full view Whisper, a mobile app for sharing those thoughts you'd rather not make public, turns out to be better at sharing secrets than keeping them, spilling a whopping 90 metadata fields associated with users in an exposed database.…
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by John Oates on (#50HYB)
Right to be forgotten? We forgot... Google is to appeal against a €7m fine from Sweden for failing to follow Europe's General Data Protection Regulation.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50HYC)
Microsoft and others take steps to handle remote staffer crunch With the COVID-19 outbreak pushing many companies to keep workers at home, admins are finding themselves having to deal with a crunch of traffic on VPNs and network appliances suddenly overwhelmed with remote connections.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#50HYD)
Rust and dual-partition sets for security, efficiency, and automated updates Amazon Web Services has begun previewing Bottlerocket, a new open-source Linux distribution designed for running containers.…
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by John Oates on (#50HYF)
It's clearly not a pressing issue – this is the fourth time now The United States Department of Commerce has granted yet another extension – the fourth – to telcos using Huawei kit to run their networks.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50HS4)
Neural Magic claims algos in social network's open-source compiler on GitHub look awfully familiar An AI startup is suing Facebook and one of its employees for allegedly stealing proprietary software that allows machine learning workloads to run faster on standard processors, eliminating the need for more expensive custom hardware.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#50HS6)
Plus thousands of laptops on unloved Windows OS used by Ministry of Justice, it admits Exclusive A critical crown court IT system and thousands of laptops used by the UK's Ministry of Justice run on Microsoft's obsolete and unsupported Windows XP operating system, The Register can reveal.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50HS8)
Chocolate Factory clarifies its header for monitoring browser field trials following The Register report Google has stopped claiming that an identifier it uses internally to track experimental features and variations in its Chrome browser contains no personally identifiable information.…
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by Team Register on (#50HMN)
But those early bird tickets will be gone on Monday night... Event Whether you need a grounding in DevOps basics, or need to dive deep into Kubernetes, MLOps or serverless, you should join us at Continuous Lifecycle London 2020 this May.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#50HMP)
And the best part of it? Hospitals are most at risk No less than 98 per cent of traffic sent by internet-of-things (IoT) devices is unencrypted, exposing huge quantities of personal and confidential data to potential attackers, fresh analysis has revealed.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50HGX)
Hefty Patch Tuesday covers critical Word, Dynamics bugs, and more Microsoft has emitted more than 100 fixes in its March batch of security updates.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50HBZ)
Monthly batch of updates covers FPGAs, graphics drivers, and more Intel has posted a fresh crop of firmware updates for security flaws in its chipsets.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#50HC1)
No need to be an also-RAN HPE is entering the 5G game with a new 5G core network software stack that aims at wooing telcos away from the large network equipment providers, such as Huawei, Nokia, and Ericsson.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50H41)
Recovery might be easier than fixing the UK's retail sector Bork!Bork!Bork! We take a break from crashed cashpoints in today's instalment of The Register's occasional series of unhappy computers to bring you the latest from fashion sensation Superdry.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50H43)
Hopefully more memorable than the Men In Black gizmo Japanese imaging specialist Ricoh has spun off its 360° camera team into a new company called Vecnos.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#50H45)
NASA also struck, more conferences cancelled, WISPA is moving ahead Updated The deadly novel coronavirus has reached California’s tech sector with the news that an engineer who attended the RSA Conference in San Francisco last month has now tested positive for COVID-19 – and is in a serious condition.…
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