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Most of it to go on new internet infrastructure to keep citizens working and learning remotely The Philippines's Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has sought approval of a PHP46.6bn ($942m) budget for fiscal 2021 to help the country adapt to the "new normal" during the COVID-19 pandemic - a lazy 750 percent higher than the PHP6bn budget it's working with this year.…

You've got less than 42 hours to regenerate your certs DigiCert says, come Saturday, July 11, it will revoke tens of thousands of encryption certificates issued by intermediaries that were not properly audited.…

Investigation follows Canada's decision to give image-scraping biz the boot Following Canada's lead earlier this week, privacy watchdogs in Britain and Australia today launched a joint investigation into how Clearview AI harvests and uses billions of images it scraped from the internet to train its facial-recognition algorithms.…

Hackers hit honeypots hours after CISO downplays risk, proof-of-concept exploit code emerges VIdeo This week Citrix tried to reassure everyone the 11 security flaws it just patched in its network perimeter products weren't all that bad. Well, we hope they're right because someone's scanning the internet looking for vulnerable installations.…

Tap-tap-tapping on lander's scoop Engineers have hit pause on attempts make the Mars InSight lander's self-hammering mole dig into the red planet as boffins admit "the task is not likely to become easier."…

Finnish firm might do best with telco clouds, says analyst From enterprise behemoths to those desperately home-schooling, the appetite for cloud-based services shows no sign of faltering. Behind the scenes sit vendors like Nokia, which today unveiled its latest network operating system (NOS), which aims to simplify the process of automating and scaling data centre fabrics.…

What's in the box? Not mains charger, sources say Samsung is reportedly considering unbundling mains chargers from some of its upcoming smartphones — supposedly because customers have enough of the things lying around already.…

Tune in this month to hear from Anomali – and get a handle on separating good data from clutter Webcast The advantages of having decent threat intelligence in place are many and various, as the threat landscape continues to widen year-on-year.…

Deep upset at what is perceived as broken commitments Google's creation of an Open Usage Commons organisation to manage trademarks including those of Istio – a key open-source project for many users of Kubernetes – has drawn harsh criticism from other tech giants unhappy with the new approach.…

Print it out, pop a stamp on it, stick it in a pillar box. Might have been quicker Axe-happy Tsohost has found another way to upset its customers this week. Email, it appears, has taken a bit of a totter.…

Are these the O-RAN-compliant goods you were looking for? Samsung has made its open, virtualized 5G radio access network (RAN) platform commercially available, allowing carriers to run the external components of a 5G network on off-the-shelf x86-based hardware.…

Oracle nemesis will be focusing on SkySQL cloud product MySQL cousin MariaDB has grabbed $25m in funding in what represents something of a mini fight-back for good ol' relational databases against the NoSQL family of systems, according to the CEO.…

CEO reckons team 'navigated a very challenging environment' Typically when businesses release financial results ahead of schedule it means one of two things: that the numbers were far worse than forecast or better. In the case of SAP it is the latter - not that all that glitters is gold.…

Sorry we missed you. Been binging on Netflix in the delivery van Got an idea on how to use 5G for something useful? ESA and the UK Space Agency want to hear from you.…

Getting to be a real PAN in the OS Palo Alto Networks has emitted its second software update in as many weeks to address a potentially serious security vulnerability in its products.…

Making .NET cross-platform was a radical step but not enough for broad appeal Comment Key people working on the .NET platform at Microsoft are concerned about the continuing perception that it is tied to one company.…

Served up with a steaming side of buttered Bork Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another in our series of systems suffering from iffy coding or dirty data in the form of a Bork left hanging out for all to see.…

Thunderbolt 4.0 is nearly upon us and those are apparently its big selling points Intel has revealed the specs for Thunderbolt 4.0 and spruiked its ability to power really impressive dongles connected by long cables.…

With air travel in a horrible hole it’s ahead of its time in a weirdly viral way The beardy-Branson backed company attempting to build a new supersonic airliner will reveal its tech to the world in October.…

Trundle bot must dodge sand dunes in quest to find evidence of life on Red Planet NASA’s hardy Curiosity rover is on the move again: this time, a little road trip to avoid getting bogged down in Martian sand dunes.…

OpenShift and Tanzu get a familiar-looking competitor SUSE has decided to buy Kubernetes-wrangler Rancher Labs.…

Foul play not suspected The CEO of computer hardware and motherboard maker MSI has died after falling from his company's headquarters in New Taipei, Taiwan.…

But only on one AWS, one Spotify and one Netflix - and zero Microsofts Indonesia has made good on its promise to introduce a digital services tax by including four tech titans – but six entities – in its value added tax (VAT) scheme.…

They're more than happy to take Uncle Sam's coin no matter the protests from some corners of Silicon Valley Despite all those protests, internal and external, by tech workers against their employers' selling AI to the US military, the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JIAC) this week said the biggest names in IT are lining up to supply Uncle Sam.…

About three /8’s worth is a decent chunk of the total pool and locals unready to go all-in on IPv6 are hungry APNIC, the regional internet address registry for India, China, and 54 other Asia-Pacific nations, has found about fifty million unused IPv4 addresses under the couch.…

Doesn't want to follow Azure and AWS by working with locals Google has scrapped plans to offer cloud services in China.…

Report slams antisocial network's 'vexing and heartbreaking decisions' Facebook on Wednesday published an independent-ish report by civil-rights experts into how it deals with misinformation and hate speech on its platform. The dossier wasn't exactly flattering, and the antisocial network immediately tried to undercut it with an announcement about how it had banned four groups from its site.…

A very busy six months for Redmond's Digital Crimes Unit Microsoft has taken legal action to seize web domains being used to launch coronavirus-themed phishing attacks.…

If you have to play by Redmond's strict rules, people are likely to go elsewhere Video In an attempt to regain market share from Zoom in the pandemic-driven world of video conferencing, Microsoft today launched a “Together” mode for its Teams software.…

Marks for Angular and Gerrit also handled by org designed to provide 'guidance' to industry Google has set up an organization dubbed the Open Usage Commons to manage three open-source projects' trademarks – and provide developers advice on handling and using brands.…

Not for your titchy workloads, Reg sources say Oracle's new on-premises cloud product has prompted concern among commentators, who've said it requires a strong financial commitment and could shift customers to higher cost deals.…

And there is – check out our latest survey findings Reader survey With anyone who can work from home actually doing so during the pandemic, networking – and therefore network security – has become more business-critical than it was before.…

Dark web dwellers can pick and choose from billions - billions - of logins Stolen domain admin login credentials can be resold by dark web criminals for up to £95,000 and a total of 15 billion purloined credentials are traded on illicit marketplaces.…

Right-to-repair movements blows in from US Europeans and Canadians with busted iPhones will soon be able to swerve the Genius Bar and associated lengthy waiting lists, as Apple expands its Independent Repair Provider (IRP) program to third party technicians.…

App framework extends its reach to Canonical's Snap Store Google has hauled in Canonical to help extend the search giant's Flutter development framework to support Linux desktop applications.…

Claims 'restrictions by the US will take months to fully understand' Embattled Chinese tech bogeyman Huawei has decried the UK government's mooted plan to ban it from domestic 5G networks over reliability concerns caused by the imposition of punishing US sanctions.…

£9 a month mumble mumble, terms and conditions apply The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has put O2 on the naughty step after it deemed two of its print adverts for the iPad and Surface Pro tablets misled customers about the overall cost.…

Keeping up in performance stakes vital as data science sector explodes, says analyst Exasol, the company behind a distributed in-memory database namesake, has pushed out its latest upgrade, touting support for GPUs and semi-structured data.…

End of milk-based monstrosity... or overpriced harmless fun? You be the judge The hipster entrepreneur in all of us died a little bit today with confirmation that Cereal Killer Cafe, the best place in London Town for overpriced bowls of breakfast foodstuffs and milk, is not going to re-open its doors.…

Eleven flaws cleaned up including one that may be exploited to sling malware downloads Citrix has issued patches for 11 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in its various networking products.…

Ban, no ban, trade war, 'useful idiots'... it's a big pie and everyone's grabbing a slice Britain is all a-tizzy about Huawei again as talk swirls over the imminent release of an unofficial report into the Chinese company’s influence over prominent Britons and a ban on its telco equipment.…

Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another in The Register's series of public whoopsies by customer-facing IT. Today it is the turn of perennial favourite, British Airways.…

No, not the Nottingham-born designer of natty suits, the former Proctor & Gamble chap who also spent time in the channel Salesforce exec veep and UK GM Paul Smith has quit to join cloud platform rival ServiceNow in the same role but for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.…

Neural network trained to spot emigrated suns in our Milky Way uncovers mysterious Nyx collective Deep-learning software has singled out a group of 250 stars in the Milky Way that appear to have been born outside our galaxy. That's according to a research paper published this week in Nature Astronomy.…

Watch live online this week – and turn that existential threat into a competitive advantage Webcast It’s been a challenging decade in the financial services sector to say the least. From the global financial crisis to environmental, social, and governance regulation, with digital transformation on top. Now the COVID-19 virus outbreak has provided the impetus to accelerate those digital transformation plans.…

Peggy Johnson will take over after she approached ailing upstart Augmented-reality flop Magic Leap has received an unexpected credibility boost: a top Microsoft exec has jumped ship, and will take over as CEO in August.…

All eyes were instead on SpaceX and its newer programming techniques At a press conference on Tuesday, NASA confirmed why Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spaceship failed to hook up with the International Space Station last year. The answer: as expected, buggy code.…

The last thing America needs right now is a brain drain Science and tech leaders, and immigration lawyers, have reacted with alarm to a Trump administration diktat that foreign university students in the US must return to their home countries if their college course is online-only mid-pandemic.…

Jeepers, Keeper The payment-card-skimming Magecart malware has turned up on yet more websites, this time 570 spanning 55 countries, it emerged this week.…

Exec admits launching racist tirade at family in restaurant Updated Another day and another racist rant in America has gone viral. This time the perpetrator appears to be a British founder of a cloud computing consulting company based in San Francisco.…