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Springer ditches paper from research tome after mass protest by boffins over junk science Springer Nature has reversed its decision to publish a paper describing a neural network supposedly capable of detecting criminals from their faces alone – after top boffins signed a letter branding the study harmful junk science.…

Jakarta region is live now. And hopefully high and dry Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta, is literally sinking. But Google has just opened a cloud region there anyway.…

HomeKit still playing catch-up though facial rec and better automation still a step in the right direction WWDC Apple has added facial recognition and new automation features to its smart home products, edging its HomeKit system forward while still playing catch-up in the market.…

Founder posts bail as German investigators probe accounting scandal Markus Braun, who resigned as CEO of financial services firm Wirecard AG last week, was arrested by police in Munich, Germany, on Monday and released after posting €5m ($5.7m) bail.…

We’re not buying the idea it could buy Virtzilla, but selling a stake could work Dell and VMware are talking to finance folks about some sort of transaction, according to The Wall Street Journal.…

Seems sensible to assume it's going after India's new electronics investment incentives Electronics manufacturer to the stars Foxconn has signaled it will make further investments in India.…

It's frolicking with the Sinclair C5 at a puffed-up press conference in the sky In yet another reminder that the heady days of the noughties are but a distant memory, the classic Segway is set to officially end production after a near-twenty-year run.…

Sorry, I was busy, came the reply There was a time when there was a certain amount of pride in the fact internet engineers all knew one another, that systems critical to the internet’s functioning were run in the back of other facilities, and a single person was often in charge of whole services.…

Redmond knows a thing or two about tackling malware – amirite, Windows fans?! Microsoft has extended its antivirus package for servers – better known the Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for servers suite – to Linux as a general availability release.…

The Lord of the iThings will see you now WWDC Apple on Monday promised to reform its app review process this summer with a way to appeal app rejections and to challenge rule legitimacy, and to allow bug fixes through without review.…

Middle Kingdom completes its third-generation positioning system The delayed launch of China's 35th and final third-gen Beidou satellite today gives the Middle Kingdom a completed advanced global positioning network.…

A plan to inject life into the flagging PC industry? Meet the Predator Shot: putting the spin in spinach Carving a living in the cut-throat world of PCs sales is a tough business, just ask Taiwanese vendor Acer. Perhaps in the hope of injecting more fizz into its upcoming line-up, the business has rolled out an energy drink alongside a slew of brand spanking new computers.…

Clicking through Protected View is why we can't have nice things, so here's 'Safe Documents' Feeling a bit uncertain about things? Never fear, kind old Microsoft has made Safe Documents generally available (assuming you're a Microsoft 365 E5 subscriber).…

Would you like it in a box? Would you like it with a fox? Teradata, the enterprise data warehouse provider with customers including HSBC and Unilever, has pushed out a list of cloud platform integrations and enhancements in an effort to keep up with cloud-native rivals.…

Appeal starts over Cardiff creepycam deployment Automated facial recognition (AFR) use by British police forces breaches human rights laws, according to lawyers for a man whose face was scanned by the creepycam tech in Cardiff.…

Kubernetes? 'A huge set of workloads get excluded' by it, says HashiCorp HashiCorp unveiled the widely anticipated HashiCorp Cloud Platform at its virtual HashiConf event under way this week, as well as updates to all its core products.…

'Ezmeral' brand added to container platform and machine learning stuff HPE is going public with a series of enhancements for its GreenLake Cloud Services, an on-premises managed computing service.…

Is it a real computer yet? WWDC The iPad initially struggled to shake the perception that it was merely a bigger iPhone, good for bedtime Netflix binges and not much else. It was only later, with the development of a peripheral ecosystem and the release of iPadOS, that the image started to shift.…

Just look at the time. Looks like I can't attend the family meeting about our calendar! Microsoft's Teams is getting personal in a preview of the Slack-for-suits platform that is aimed more at consumers than companies.…

That's 32 more than you... when it ships... next year Ampere said today it hopes to bring a 128-core data-center-grade microprocessor to the market next year.…

That AI-powered product and price recommendation engine? Useless now Machine learning models built for doing business prior to the COVID-19 pandemic will no longer be valid as economies emerge from lockdowns, presenting companies with new challenges in machine learning and enterprise data management, according to Gartner.…

Plus: SLS boosters arrive at Kennedy, Rocket Lab to go back-to-back with NRO In brief Lawmakers have signed off on a deal that will permit American companies to launch from a British spaceport, although the UK has yet to build one.…

Facebook laps up the leftovers Mixer has been consigned to the Microsoft graveyard to rot alongside other abortive stablemates like Windows Phone, Zune and Clippy to name just a few.…

Antisocial network floods registrars with unjustified data requests Facebook is accused of attempting to bypass Europe's hard-line privacy legislation and access personal data on domain name holders through an obscure policy process with the Whois registry.…

PANDA architecture said to be ideal microservices-muncher Arm server vendor Kaleao, which The Register covered way back in 2016, has re-emerged with a new name – Bamboo – and what it reckons is a fresh approach to building servers.…

Content tagging – and I'll give the tech away for free, says Safecast Global chief Interview A British firm says it has developed a tech proposal for preventing children from watching unsuitable internet videos – and doing so without needing age verification or other privacy-busting features.…

Please update me, let me load... Bork!Bork!Bork! Windows is everywhere and can be found pleading for attention all over the world, including signage lurking in the Finnish capital of Helsinki.…

Bitfusion integration will require an add-on licence after all, rather than being tossed into vSphere Enterprise Plus VMware has taken the unusual step of retracting and replacing a press release because it got its own licencing details wrong.…

To save telco workers from climbing the greasy pole as networks get denser The current febrile information climate might not be the best time to combine AI, 5G, cloud and drones, but Samsung has done it because the company is conspiring to ease network management chores.…

The other kind of DRM strikes: Bod baffled after attempt to raise alarm over vulnerabilities is ignored IBM is under fire for refusing to patch critical vulnerabilities in its Data Risk Manager product until exploit code was publicly disclosed.…

Stay up to date on DevOps, CI/CD and containerization while working from home Event Things start slowly going back to normal, but yeah, it might take a while until bringing people together again becomes a good idea. However, if you are responsible for keeping tech infrastructure in shape or if container tech is your cup of tea, we might have just the thing to (safely) switch things up a bit.…

Yes, this will help health pros. But after seeing it thrust a swab into your schnoz, you may want to avoid testing by humans or robots VIDEO The South Korean Institute of Machinery and Materials has developed a robotic rig capable of shoving a COVID-19-sputum-sampling-swab right up your hooter, so that medicos don’t have to come into contact with possibly-contagious patients.…

Hopes to educate 200,000 people in villages and smaller cities The Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has won a $3.3m grant from Google’s philanthropic Google.org limb and will use it to educate locals in all things digital as part of the region’s COVID-19 escape plan.…

Latest sat launch was postponed but China's GPS alternative network is nearly finished China has signalled it anticipates further collaboration with Pakistan around Beidou, the middle kingdom’s satellite navigation constellation.…

US freezes visa applications until the end of the year, cites COVID-19-sparked unemployment President Donald Trump has signed an executive order suspending the processing of various immigration visas, including H-1Bs for skilled workers and J-1s for academics, for the remainder of the year.…

We take a look at Cupertino's one-Arm bandit gambit Analysis Apple on Monday said it plans to shift its macOS line from Intel chips to its own homegrown Arm-compatible processors, an initiative called Apple Silicon that will put all Cupertino's products on a common hardware architecture.…

'BlueLeaks' data lifted after web host biz pwned, we're told Some 269GB of data stolen from police and the Feds in America has been shared online by miscreants.…

That big Arm news you were all expecting today, right? Japan's Arm-based 415-PFLOPS, 28MW Fugaku monster was today crowned the world’s most-powerful publicly known supercomputer.…

Stop! In the name of tax! Before you break my bank! Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and a host of other tech giants will have to pay billions of dollars in extra tax after the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal on a stock-option case.…

Fixing scrolling issues and CSS flexbox but fears of browser monoculture remain A software engineer in the Google Chrome team has spoken about inconsistency in feature support across different web browsers, promising a "more compatible 2021".…

Three-quarters claim pandemic didn't trigger big changes to corporate security settings Nearly three-quarters of IT professionals haven't increased their company's security posture during the COVID-19 pandemic – while 90 per cent highlighted remote working as a security risk, according to a survey.…

We did what we think you want, now let it through A truce is being threatened in the standoff between Apple's App Store and email imagineer Hey.…

Five years since the last update, the team celebrates 50 years of the language with more architectures Great news, Pascal fans. After a lengthy hiatus, the cross-platform Free Pascal has emerged with an array of new features and new targets.…

Ironic, because new tech is supposed to solve the micro-burst issue Psychologists from Northumbria University have published a research paper examining the connection between beliefs in 5G COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and the willingness to act violently upon them. Surprise surprise, if you believe 5G is part of a Soros-backed depopulation plan, you might be tempted to take up a Super Soaker in arms.…

That subsurface ocean scientists think the dwarf has? It may have formed 'early', claims paper Pluto, the icy dwarf planet hanging out in the Kuiper Belt, may well have been hot when it formed and could have supported a subsurface liquid ocean early in its development.…

Also: Money for Excel hits US, Teams readies new toys for next academic year, and more Roundup As Microsoft continues to fling fixes at the world and its dog, the firm has also expanded Teams grid to allow teachers to gaze upon 49 little faces and despair as well as tweaking Edge to provide, er, heaps better memory munching.…

Somebody else will have to provide the rocket, though Virgin Galactic, the company that has yet to send a paying passenger on a sub-orbital lob, let alone trouble anything more challenging, has opened the door to "Private Orbital Spaceflight".…

We'll find out as WWDC rolls on WWDC Apple will confirm its transition to Arm this week at the virtual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), says Ming-Chi Kuo – the analyst widely regarded to be the most accurate when it comes to Cupertino's movements.…

Plus: Nigeria-based entrepreneur accused of fraud, and more Roundup It was another week of furious firefighting in the security space, including the curious tale of a Forbes "most promising" entrepreneur indicted over alleged phishing attacks, new privacy laws in the US, software flaws and more.…

10% of the world's pagers are in use by Britain's health service The digital arm of England's health service, NHSX, is tendering for a replacement to ageing pager technologies in an effort to modernise hospital communications systems.…