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Get 'em while they're hot Job Alert As the month draws to a close and with the pandemic still biting, we're back again with our free list of job opportunities in the big and beautiful world of tech.…

Couldn't come at a better time as Cambridge museum remains closed Spotify is to music what Steam is to video games – sometimes you just want to spin some classic vinyl while picking through the liner notes, feel the gatefold between your fingers.…

COVID-19 ravages former state monopoly as nearly all divisions shrink While the cloud businesses at Google and AWS are shovelling cash under their mattress and Apple is making bank, back in Britain BT has been left to count the cost of the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Inflammatory findings from deadly serious investigation Some 3D printers can be flashed with firmware updates downloaded directly from the internet – and an infosec research firm says it has discovered a way to spoof those updates and potentially make the printer catch fire.…

Join us and find out more with Box in this German-language online broadcast Webcast As the coronavirus crisis has gripped the world for the past few months, it’s become increasingly obvious that remote working can work extremely well with a good many advantages. Collaboration can, in fact, be boosted, with a greater number of remote workers able to work together digitally on projects that may have been, in the past, executed only in an office environment.…

Cow about that? A bit of computing history has been inadvertently unearthed in the Netherlands after a refit of a shop revealed signage for long-forgotten computer brand Gateway.…

That means no security updates, which puts users at risk of compromise An investigation by consumer watchdog Which? has found that nearly a third of all phones sold on second-hand sites are no longer supported by the vendor, leaving punters at risk of being hacked.…

Russian, Chinese, Nork groups named in bank asset freeze The European Union has, for the first time ever, slapped sanctions on hacking crews.…

Three big upgrades since 2018 suggests it's far from terminal Cult text editor GNU Nano has released a major update, taking the terminal-based program to its fifth version in twenty years.…

Careless autoreplies cripple email at the heart of local government On Call The week is drawing to a close and the weekend awaits. Is there a better way to kick things off than with an episode of Register reader experiences in our regular On Call feature? Probably, yes...…

20 light hours from Earth and still sending home data Voyager 1, the first human-created object to leave our Solar System, has quietly knocked off another milestone: it’s now more than 150 Astronomical Units from our Sun.…

Story behind a hasty teardown, fixing of a brute-force vulnerability Zoom has confirmed it fixed a vulnerability that could have been exploited by miscreants to crack the passcodes needed to access strangers' private chin-wagging.…

Attack came in waves that probed for staff with access to the creds crims craved Twitter has offered further explanation of the celebrity account hijack hack that saw 130 users’ timelines polluted with a Bitcoin scam.…

Won't degrade. Won't catch fire. Will be a fine fit for electric vehicles South Korean battery-maker SK Innovation will team up with 2019 Nobel Prize-winner John Goodenough to develop a new solid-state gel battery.…

And is willing to fine them hundreds of millions if they don't play nice Australian regulators have proposed to compel web giants to divulge forthcoming changes to the algorithms they use choose the content their users see, and to submit to binding arbitration when publisher seek payment for their content.…

Chocolate Factory's as-a-service stuff grows as advertising, profit takes a tumble Google-parent Alphabet saw its bottom line take a tumble this past quarter as the coronavirus pandemic cut into its lucrative advertising business.…

And stuff that Cupertino just banked billions from Apple is weathering the COVID-19 storm well so far: on Thursday, it reported a surge in sales from its online souks, and maintained iPhone revenues despite temporarily shuttering stores during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.…

When the economy's tanking, who ya gonna call? Jeff Bezos! Amazon on Thursday reported $88.9bn in revenue for its second quarter of 2020, a 40 per cent increase year-on-year that exceeded expectations and lifted the web goliath's already buoyant stock in after-hours trading.…

Proof-of-concept algorithm-matching system paves way for more complex recommendation engine Intel engineers, and academics from MIT and Georgia Tech, have built a neural network that predicts whether two snippets of code intend to achieve the same aim even if they're written differently.…

Brush up on your RESTful, gRPC, container development skills with us online Webcast Building an application from the ground up for your business has never been quicker or easier. With REST for web services leading to the RESTful architectural style, and containers proving the perfect delivery model, the combination of DevOps, microservices, and automation means an organization can create almost anything, instantly.…

Warnings either not new or need more study, reckons open-source dev team Neal Krawetz, a computer forensics expert, has published details on how to detect Tor bridge network traffic that he characterizes as "zero-day exploits"... which the Tor Project insists are nothing of the sort.…

Some argument over exact numbers affected Dell is laying off staff though there is some dispute over the numbers involved.…

'The concept of paying for monitoring per host has not aged well' Application Performance monitoring (APM) biz New Relic has trimmed its offerings to three core products and is moving away from host-based pricing to a per-user-per-month subscription and pay-as-you-go for data ingested and events processed.…

Larry, stop giving Bill ideas Bill McDermott – the former SAP CEO right now plying his trade at the top of workflow whizkid ServiceNow – has competed hard against Oracle for so long that he seems to have borrowed more than a few lines from Larry Ellison’s playbook.…

Reverse tabnapping is no more Mozilla's Firefox 79 is here, but general users shouldn't get too excited – almost all the new features are aimed at developers.…

Or maybe you want a List. Or a Task. Or a Planner. Just bung it into Teams Microsoft has shared more details about Dataflex, its low-code/no-code app platform that will be embedded into Teams - something it should have done much earlier to help demystify things.…

Folk outside London cry: Why doesn't Alexa understand me? To those of us born here, Britain is a wondrous cornucopia of accents and dialects. To visitors, like US-bred AI assistants, people outside of London may as well not speak English.…

And its lightweight virtualized RAM and CPU project, Napoca, too Security vendor Bitdefender has open-sourced its hypervisor introspection technology, which the Xen Project will adopt as a sub-project.…

Despite America but because of China, vendor came out on top It almost seemed like a mission impossible but Huawei has defied all expectations – including its own – by outshipping rival handset maker Samsung to become the world's biggest shifter of smartphones.…

23 cameras, microphones and a helicopter on the rover to see and hear the Red Planet in living technicolor Perseverance, the heaviest and most complex Martian rover yet, is on its way to the Red Planet aboard an Atlas V rocket that blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday.…

Now just AWS waiting in the wings under One Government Cloud policy As predicted by El Reg, IBM has joined the growing band of mostly American vendors to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK government that defines discounts for public cloud sales to public sector buyers.…

That's one way of speeding up the tech refresh cycle Netgear has quietly decided not to patch more than 40 home routers to plug a remote code execution vulnerability – despite security researchers having published proof-of-concept exploit code.…

Full-fibre connections coming to (some of) the UK's 'final third' by 2026 Openreach has confirmed an intent to bring FTTP "full-fibre" connectivity to part of the so-called "final third" of the UK – representing rural and isolated areas typically underserved by network providers.…

Prospects of cursed ESN project still murky for customers-to-be As if the UK's emergency services didn't have enough on their plate, the troubled plan to replace their communication network appears to be hitting choppy waters once more.…

Between football, new gaming consoles, Indian low-end-handsets and cloud computing, life is complex for Korean giant right now Samsung Electronics has reported droopy results for its second quarter and has been beaten out by Huawei in the global handset shipments stakes for the first time.…

No data loss or evidence of extended intrusions, but standalone limb Xchanging did suffer DXC has recovered from a ransomware attack that hit its independent services-for-insurers operation Xchanging.…

A neural net takes to heart the old, silly saying: 'On the internet, men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents' The creators of a controversial tool that attempted to use AI to predict people's gender from their internet handle or email address have shut down their service after a huge backlash.…

10Gbps upgrade from challenger ISP backed by private equity London-based ISP Community Fibre has said it will invest £400m to extend its 10Gbps FTTP connections to more premises in the English capital, aiming to reach one million households and businesses by 2023.…

Commercial business slumps but troubled 737 MAX could be back in the skies late this year Boeing has announced it will stop making 747s, probably in the year 2022.…

The cash will come in handy after COVID kicked a colossal hole in Q3 revenue Huawei has agreed to pay US chipmaker Qualcomm $1.8bn to settle a long-standing dispute over infringement of the American firm’s patents.…

Also adds Windows Virtual Desktop support and two-factor authentication Microsoft’s upgraded its Remote Desktop app for Android with features that mean sysadmins can now control desktops that run just about anywhere from just about anything.…

We watched six hours of congressional hearings so you didn’t have to Analysis For six hours on Wednesday, the Western world’s most powerful tech CEOs – whose businesses have become household names and touch every part of our daily digital lives – were grilled by US lawmakers regarding their market dominance.…

Current and former bods fear cloud work is doomed, IT titan disagrees Over the past two weeks, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise has axed roughly 150 positions in the US, including Azure Stack Hub engineering roles and at least part of its SimpliVity team.…

Ancient ball of suns smeared across space by our galaxy two billion years ago The Milky Way galaxy ripped apart an ancient star cluster born in the early universe and stole its suns two billion years ago, according to a study published in Nature on Wednesday.…

Because no one likes to install spoof system files Microsoft is preparing to once and for all drop support for the SHA-1 hash algorithm.…

Chipzilla faces potential class-action headache after stock price plunge On Tuesday this week, five days after Intel acknowledged that its plan to produce 7nm processors had gone off the rails, a shareholder lawsuit was filed against the chip maker.…

We're gonna keeping punning this until someone pays us $5m An annoying vulnerability in the widely used GRUB2 bootloader can be potentially exploited by malware or a rogue insider already on a machine to thoroughly compromise the operating system or hypervisor while evading detection by users and security tools.…

System Roles another key ingredient in six-monthly update Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.3 has hit beta, with security and production stability pointed to as key goals for the update.…

What do we all need? Next-gen masts. When do we need them? Sooner than they'll be ready Most UK cities now have some degree of 5G coverage, promising those with capable devices faster internet connections. But how much of a game change is it really? New data from RootMetrics highlight consistently nimble connections, albeit with some major differences between networks.…

Surprise pledge catches company on the hop: 'We have announced no change to our strategy' China's ambassador to Britain has threatened to withdraw Huawei and several billions in investment following the government's decision to ban the manufacturer's products from 5G mobile networks.…