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Tune in to hear from Veracode on how to stay secure Webcast What is DevSecOps? Simply put, it is the merging of DevOps and security processes to ensure code is secure from development through to testing and deployment.…

Too bad the Republicans aren't going to agree with her Comment It's troubling how in the past few years some countries have, with increasing zeal, blocked off their own citizens from the internet for gross authoritarian reasons.…

'We finished 2019 very strongly – but that is on the strength of the product portfolio' says CEO Lisa Su AMD is touting record quarterly numbers as the chip designer closed out a solid fiscal 2019.…

Hundreds or more said to be chopped worldwide VMware today laid off staff across the globe in various roles and departments.…

And yes, Facebook is involved, as ever Smart-home biz Ring sends its users’ personal app data to a range of analytics and marketing companies, according to an analysis carried out by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).…

Cache(me)Out(side), how 'bout dat? Intel on Monday issued a processor data leakage advisory, describing two chip architecture flaws, one of which it tried to fix twice before.…

How about that antivirus now, huh? DEF CON is cancelled. For real this time. DEF CON China, that is.…

Well, at least it's beefier and cheaper than Motorola's throwback effort Samsung is expected to go public with its next foldable flagship, the Galaxy Z Flip, early next month at its Unpacked event in San Francisco.…

Terms for open-source C++ toolkit tweaked to encourage contribution The Qt Group is making changes to the terms under which its popular open-source Qt library is available to encourage more commercial licensees and a higher level of contribution from users.…

Only Insiders need apply for now A fresh version of the Windows take on DTrace will allow developers to chase down those pesky low-level bugs without exposing the posterior of their systems to miscreants.…

Still seeking some general intelligent action The UK government's procurement arm has floated the creation of a framework to allow public sector techies to buy something that hasn't been invented yet: artificial general intelligence, er... general artificial intelligence.…

Department of Fun straps on a holster, strides into the wild west of online gadget users The British government has finally woken up to the relatively lax security of IoT devices, and is lurching forward with legislation to make gadgets connected to the web more secure.…

Well, in our non-core networks and sporting a 'high-risk' nametag The British government is set to severely restrict the use of Huawei's cheap kit to a fraction of non-core networks across the UK due to worries about the Chinese vendor's link to China.…

'Magical,' says Steven Sinofsky on 10th birthday of Apple's fondleslab Former Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has spoken his mind about the launch of Apple's iPad (now celebrating 10 years) and its impact on Microsoft.…

It's all Boeing to go wrong unless everyone gets to come to the party NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has dribbled a little something from the scorn bucket over last week's Authorization Bill, which both postpones boots on the Moon and turns the Lunar Gateway into a "Gateway to Mars."…

Azure Functions 3.0 goes live, Microsoft Search learns some new acronyms, and more Roundup Welcome to another roundup of the Microsoft news you might have missed over the last week, from acronym excitement to Windows 10 updates and Teams-wielding rowers allowing Redmond to stick its oar in.…

Now patched, but yikes. For our next meeting, let's dial in from a phone box Video-conferencing outfit Zoom had a major vulnerability in its URL scheme that miscreants could exploit to eavesdrop on private meetings.…

Also reckons that it should 'accurately document the data recovery procedure' for metadata corruption. Y'think? Hosting outfit Gandi has published its postmortem regarding this month's outage and concluded that while it still has "no clear explanation", the main problem was "the duration".…

Drinking the Kool-Aid outside the box Stob Did you catch the recent TV version of The War of the Worlds?…

Scheduled for summer 2020 Zorin, which provides a Linux distro designed to look familiar for migrating Windows and Mac users, has announced a subscription-based management tool for Linux desktops.…

Cryptic tweets and likely deets as late May dates revealed Analysis At its upcoming I/O event, Google will almost certainly lift the lid on the latest version of Android – which will most likely be called Android 11 after Mountain View called time on its dessert-themed nomenclature last year.…

Don’t worry: The PM's only going to let the best boffins in... honest British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced an unlimited immigration program just days after signing Blighty's agreement to withdraw from Europe.…

If printers and nuclear reactors on the internet are fair game, so's the gizmo on your face, we'll concede Enigma You'd think virtual reality's biggest problems right now are breaking into meaningful mainstream adoption, and not making wearers of the headsets look utterly ridiculous. But no, it's possible you are wrong.…

As Chinese cities go into quarantine, investors get nervous over the lockdown of the world's workshop Stocks in a bunch of semiconductor companies dipped by four to five per cent on Monday – after China banned travel in and out of the manufacturing hub of Wuhan to isolate the new coronavirus that has already killed more than eighty people.…

'We all use other people's code' Enigma In a chilly conference room at the San Francisco's Hyatt Regency on Monday, legal and digital security pros convened at USENIX's Enigma conference to hold forth on security, privacy, and related matters.…

Dun-dun-dun, another one bites the dust Google App Maker, which lets people build simple web-based applications using a graphical user interface, will be axed early next year.…

We'll laugh at today's mandated holes in the same way we laugh at those from 25 years ago Enigma More than a quarter century after its introduction, the failed rollout of hardware deliberately backdoored by the NSA is still having an impact on the modern encryption debate.…

They’ve got money, explains American watchdog that just can’t help itself The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is under fire from lawmakers, and one of its own commissioners, for excluding New York State from a $16bn rural broadband fund that is supposed to cover every corner of the US.…

Meanwhile, probe reveals how Avast's 'anonymized' user data can be, er, deanonymized On Saturday, Google temporarily disabled the ability to publish paid Chrome apps, extensions, and themes in the Chrome Web Store due to a surge in fraud.…

It's not you, it's G An issue with Google’s online storage system, Google Drive, booted users out of the web giant’s online word processing and spreadsheets services on Monday morning, US west coast time.…

Hardened cybercrooks must be shaking in their boots A US state that was struck by a ransomware attack last year is now proposing a local law that would ban possession of malicious software.…

Though we might not hear about it straight away Huawei or another way? The British government is expected to decide tomorrow whether to include the Chinese tech giant's kit in the core of the UK's 5G networks at a meeting with the National Security Council.…

Mind you, he was instructed by HPE Autonomy trial HPE's accounting expert told the High Court that making "significant sales of hardware" and burying them in its accounts meant Mike Lynch's Autonomy may have given "the impression" sales growth "was in its core software business".…

Now all safely under BT's wing Smart phonebox firm InLinkUK went bust in December. Now, thanks to a statement of financials issued by administrators Duff & Phelps, we can peer into the troubled firm's accounts.…

Patched vuln was 'in active use', firm reveals Cisco has confessed to a vulnerability in its Webex Meetings Suite sites and Webex Meetings Online sites that allowed an "unauthenticated" attendee sitting on a workstation far, far away to join a "password-protected meeting without providing the meeting password".…

Wallpaper-stripping bug will be fixed Microsoft has quietly admitted that it will be fixing the final Windows 7 patch that left some stretched wallpapers borked.…

Photo subjects fling class-action sueball A class-action lawsuit filed late last week has accused IBM of using photos of millions of people in Illinois without informing them to build a facial-recognition dataset.…

Looks like Lucy might move the ball again There is every chance that Lucy is about to whip the football from Charlie Brown once again as a fresh NASA Authorization Bill was introduced with some significant changes to the infamous 2024 boots-on-Moon goal.…

And more waffle from the World Economic Forum Never one to hide its light under a bushel, Google came out swinging with some seriously inflated technology claims at the World Economic Forum last week.…

You want fries with that BSOD? You know how it is, you're innocently waiting for a bag of hot and delicious greasy goodness when you get unexpectedly slapped around the face with the wet fish of a Blue Screen of Death.…

'Within the next decade we'll either have it or we won't,' prof tells The Reg A new type of memory that could make computers and smartphones far more energy-efficient, if it ever reaches production, has been developed at the UK's University of Lancaster.…

40 million British pounds goes to one brave supplier of replacement Surrey County Council is shopping around for a new £40m ERP platform as the existing SAP system has been running on in-house servers for so long it is in danger of falling over.…

El Reg visits Westcott and the Isle of Wight in search of more of Britain's forgotten rocket centres Geek's Guide to Britain It is difficult to trump the long-defunct Blue Streak missile development and test facility at RAF Spadeadam for a sense of historical ennui and lost opportunity. The sheer number and scale of the remains, their dilapidated nature and isolated location make it a place unique, depressing and awe-inspiring in equal measure.…

Behold the Frankenworkstation Who, Me? As the weekend recedes, be glad you didn't find yourself in need of a fresh change of clothes like the contributor of today's entry into the Who, Me? hall of shame.…

Hey, if it's good enough for AutoCAD... Code corner Like us, you may have heard a lot recent about WebAssembly. Today, freelance software engineer Ben James walks us through its creation, its current state, and the role it will play in the future of cross-platform development.…

Derided app framework ready for broader acceptance Analysis About 150 developers gathered at the headquarters of Slack on Friday to learn about Electron.js, the open-source, cross-platform desktop app framework upon which the IRC-for-hipsters client is built.…

Also, the most detailed brain map yet took 12 years, $40m to build Roundup Hello, welcome to this week's AI roundup of news that's beyond what we've already covered, and it's mostly all about facial recognition.…

Also, Cisco, Citrix emit patches, US army advises using Signal Roundup Here comes a summary of this week's computer security news beyond what we've already covered.…

DNS overseer accepts 35,000-signature petition... and then runs away It was only going to be one rogue member, then it wasn’t happening at all, and then the entire board of DNS overseer ICANN emerged from the organization’s headquarters into Los Angeles, blinking in the bright sun, to accept a 35,000-signature petition from those opposed the sale of the .org registry.…

Virtualization giant hit with massive tech blueprint verdict VMware is set to find itself a little lighter in the wallet after losing a nearly quarter-billion dollar patent-infringement case.…