by Richard Speed on (#578NJ)
Remember when the only interference was electromagnetic? Who, Me? Monday has arrived, and with it a tale of election predictions past courtesy of The Register's Who, Me?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#578M3)
Pushes back against accusation of misinformation with argument its only option is to stop indexing almost everything Google’s Australian limb has continued its campaign against the nation’s pay-for-content "News Media Bargaining Code" with a more detailed dive into the reasons it opposes the plan.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#578M4)
Plus: Formula One teamed up with AWS to rank top 20 race car drivers since 1983 In brief The US Department of Energy has set aside $21m (£16m) to fund the use of machine learning to advance fusion power.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#578JD)
Plans 35 job losses and even a reduction in IT spend The Bletchley Park Trust, the host of Britain’s National Museum of Computing and the site of critical feats of wartime code-cracking, has hit financial strife and expects to lay off around a third of its staff.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#578F9)
Users who opt-in will share COVID encounter info with the boss, in the name of returning the economy to a more normal footing India has created an API service that allows third-parties like employers to access information about their staff gathered by its Aarogya Setu COVID-19-contact-tracing app.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#578EB)
On grounds that Trump administration hasn't allowed proper discussions about security or a sale Made-in-China social network TikTok has decided to challenge the Trump administration’s looming ban on its service by taking the matter to the USA’s courts.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#578C3)
You broke it, you pay for it A new study of the ice shell encrusting Europa, Jupiter’s sixth-closest moon, suggests it is free floating and shifted 70 degrees after a major geologic event rotated the surface several millions of years ago.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#576N1)
Web security? We've got that totally under control Google's Chromium team has proposed a way to allow web apps to establish direct TCP and UDP network connections, a powerful capability that could complicate web security.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#576MD)
What's a monopoly? asks iGiant Apple has filed a scathing response to Epic's lawsuit regarding the ongoing spat over the iOS App Store taking a 30 per cent cut of sales.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#576HQ)
Well, Maverick, you've lost that lovin' feeling and it's gone, gone, gone Video An AI bot defeated a human pilot in a series of virtual dogfights that unfolded in skies albeit within a flight simulator during a competition held by the US military research arm DARPA.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#576G1)
Detecting ISP shenanigans has led to a constant deluge of packets The Google Chromium team's effort to detect when ISPs are trying to hijack domain name typos has led to a lot of network load: the browser's query response testing routine now accounts for about half of all DNS root server traffic according to a new study.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#576EE)
'After careful consideration' uni decided to pay up using its insurance policy The University of Utah has admitted to handing over a six-figure pile of cash to scumbags to undo a ransomware infection during which student and staff information was stolen by hackers.…
by Richard Currie on (#5768Y)
Don't. Leave. Your. Laptop. Signed. In. Where. Children. Can. Reach. It We've heard it all before – tot addicted to crappy freemium game on Daddy's iPad runs up £3,000 bill from in-app purchases, Dad whinges to local newspaper.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5766C)
Plus: Sources showed us some of what was in that Dropbox leak British infosec accreditation body CREST has appointed an ex-police officer to investigate the NCC Group exam cheat-sheet scandal as its chairman temporarily steps aside.…
by Richard Speed on (#5763S)
Meaning general availability can't be too far behind Updated Windows 10 20H2 has arrived for commercial customers to start prodding for pre-release validation.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#5761J)
Lack of protections around trace facility gives local users read and write access A bug-hunter has uncovered a vulnerability in IBM's popular enterprise database which, if left unpatched, could allow a local user to access data and kick off a denial-of-service attack.…
by Paul Kunert on (#5760H)
Brits speak their brains for comms regulator Ofcom's customer audit What do TalkTalk, Three, and Virgin Media all have in common? They've each won a gong for sating the lowest proportion of customers in broadband, mobile, and landline services respectively.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#5760J)
Or 16.9 NHS budgets, in financial terms Reg Standards Converter British national debt has topped £2tn – meaning the country is now collectively in hock for 16.9831 yearly NHS Budgets, just under 22,442 Paul Pogbas, or, if you're really smart and original, close to 1.46 Apple Incs.…
by Richard Speed on (#575YX)
1903 and 1909 holdouts get their hands on 2004's newest toy Microsoft has backported the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 to last year's Windows 10 – 1903 and 1909.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#575WW)
Mysterious behavior spotted at the Milky Way's center The Milky Way is shooting blobs of never-before-seen cold, dense gas from its center – and astronomers have no idea how or why, according to a paper published in Nature.…
by Tim Anderson on (#575VF)
On the other hand, security of cloud-controlled locks 'quite horrifying' say 'cyber-physical' engineers A computer scientist at the National University of Singapore claims to have demonstrated how recording the sound of a lock turning can be sufficient to make working replica keys.…
by Tim Anderson on (#575VG)
Brendan Burns looks forward to 'Visual Basic for the cloud'. Really? Kubecon Europe Two of the early developers of Kubernetes, Brendan Burns and Tim Hockin, took part in (separate) "Ask me anything" events at virtual Kubecon Europe, offering insights into the past and future of the world's favourite container orchestrator.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#575RK)
Fusion and Workstation just got rather more useful for containerised CI/CD pipelines - and also rather cheaper VMware has announced new versions of its desktop hypervisors Workstation and Fusion.…
by Richard Speed on (#575RM)
The Christmas when your teenage kicks were fixing next door's Amiga On Call Friday signals the end of the week, a well-deserved adult beverage or eight, and The Register's On Call visit to those who must suffer the slings and arrows of user incompetence.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#575Q1)
‘Washington's endeavors to suppress Chinese progress may not be as successful as anticipated’ says China Daily China’s national cut of Linux – KylinOS - has emerged in a major new release and one of its important new functions is a symbol of the nation’s ability to get ahead despite US trade bans.…
by Kieren McCarthy on (#575Q2)
Marketing is getting weird in 2020 Comment While the number of so-called "influencers" on Instagram has rocketed a new trend may leave you scratching your head even harder: the arrival of "robot" or "virtual" influencers.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#575NJ)
Sorry we nuked your data with a bad update, here's another update to fix it! Adobe is offering its condolences to customers after an update to its Lightroom photo manager permanently deleted troves of snaps on people's iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches.…
by Robbie Harb on (#575NK)
Alappuzha's Techgentsia Software has a golden ticket for government work India's tech ministry has named Vconsol as the winner of its competition to find a home-grown video conferencing product the nation's government can use in preference to products sourced from overseas.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#575JV)
Japan’s iSpace has put itself in the second column but also plans lunar landers of its own Ventures that plan to get stuff into space at low prices are not hard to find. But service providers for those cut-price launchers are a new to El Reg.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#575HW)
‘Fluid situation’ with USA not overly worrying CEO, who says company will comply with any new rules Alibaba has reported another rampaging quarter in which it recorded US$21.76bn revenue and net income of $5.59bn, a 34 percent and 28 percent jump respectively, but while its cloud unit also posted strong growth the company can’t yet say when it will turn a profit.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#575GW)
Terror at 1,340,000 feet – if this was anything to truly worry about right now Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will attempt to find and patch the source of a tiny air leak first detected last year.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#575F0)
Big Blue insists commission 'adjustments' aren't caps Yet another IBM salesperson has sued the venerable computing biz for allegedly capping their sales commissions after agreeing not to do that.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#575F1)
Say it ain't Joe? As Uber's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan broke the law by hushing up the theft of millions of people's details from the app maker's databases by hackers, prosecutors say.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#575BR)
Homeland Security swoops on quad who allegedly committed worst US crime of all: Defrauding Big Business Four brothers accused of ripping off Amazon to the tune of $19m were this week charged with fraud.…
by Iain Thomson on (#57596)
Fight over driver employment rights to rumble into October amid threats to pull plug on Golden State An California appeals court judge has granted a down-to-the-wire emergency stay on an injunction ordering Uber and Lyft to reclassify their ride-hailing app drivers as employees.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#5756D)
Normally, Windows has plenty of bugs. This bug has plenty of windows Talk about software floors... The world's second tallest skyscraper can be found in Fawkner, Australia, according to Microsoft.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#5750T)
Something to consider if you splash out on Samsung's new hotness The Galaxy Note20 is Samsung's most ambitious phone in recent memory, with impressive optics and a redeveloped S-Pen experience. But is it easy to repair? The latest teardown from iFixit suggests not, thanks to liberal use of adhesive.…
by Richard Speed on (#574SW)
Alright! Variadic tuple types The TypeScript team has released version 4 of the JavaScript superset to General Availability.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#574NN)
Credit giant admits to handing over info after 'fraudulent data enquiry' Credit reference agency Experian has suffered what it somewhat understatedly described as a "data breach" after the firm itself transferred the details of 24 million South Africans to one individual.…
by Richard Speed on (#574NP)
You're only billed for what you use, so keep an eye on those numbers, OK? Microsoft has continued attempts to lure developers to its Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL service with the arrival of consumption-based billing.…
by Richard Currie on (#574HH)
Highways England seems to be losing the war Right, we know this pandemic has gone on quite long enough, but the boredom-busting activities are getting ridiculous. Can someone explain "crockery bombing" to us?…
by Matthew Hughes on (#574E4)
Seal of approval handed out for supply chain security in various tech sectors SoftBank's Japanese 5G network has been awarded "clean status" by the US government.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#574C3)
I get knocked down, but I get up again... eventually A UK cloud-based warehouse management software provider was struck by ransomware earlier this week.…
by Richard Speed on (#574A7)
Behold the stability and efficiency of a switch to Linux Bork!Bork!Bork! Switch to Linux, they said. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot, if today's edition of The Register's Bork diary is anything to go by.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#57489)
IBM's X-Force Red X-reveals X-flaw in Thales X-wireless X-module X-thing A vulnerability in Thales' Cinterion EHS8 M2M module, a Java-powered embedded 3G system used in millions of Internet-of-Things devices for connectivity, was revealed yesterday by IBM's X-Force Red.…
by Jude Karabus on (#5748A)
Not all users affected, but it's not a great start. Oh and Slack's out too. Good morning everyone Updated Google cloud services across the world are having a nap, with multiple GCP products including App Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Logging and BigQuery down since 06:45 UTC (07:45 UK time).…
by Jude Karabus on (#5746P)
We asked hundreds of IT decision makers where their priorities lie – here are the results Reader research We expect more than half of our office seats to go remote in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, a slim majority of Register-reading tech pros told us.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#57459)
We’re talking about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg here, so the crackdown has cracks Facebook has followed Twitter and decided that QAnon’s Qnonsense represents sufficient risk that it should be turfed out. Or at least some of it.…
by Richard Speed on (#5743J)
Outraged outage-struck Equinix customer billed for dead rack check Equinix has doubled down on efforts to irritate customers following a lengthy bit of unplanned downtime at its LD8 London data centre.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#5743K)
Network boffin finds packets headed into China go AWOL yet packets coming out do just fine 79 percent of internet traffic flows into China struggle to flow faster than 1Mbps, but the Great Firewall is probably not to blame.…