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Intel is offering more 14nm Skylake desktop processors, we repeat: More 14nm Skylake desktop processors
10th-generation Core additions land with up to 10 CPU cores, 5.3GHz max Intel this week unveiled the desktop processors in its 10th-generation Core series, the headline component being the 10-core i9-10900K that can run up to 5.3GHz.…
Atlassian to offensively price itself through the post-pandemic patch
Claims to be ‘unscathed’ last quarter, will keep hiring and maybe acquiring Atlassian has re-iterated that its business model is “playing offense in stormy weather” and will use the coronavirus crisis to acquire customers with freebies and maybe make some opportunistic acquisitions.…
Square peg of modem won't fit into round hole of PC? I saw to it, bloke tells horrified mate
In praise of helpful friends and handy tools On Call Welcome to another entry in The Register's series of stories extracted from those lucky individuals that find themselves On Call.…
Uber trials fixed-price hourly rentals for visits to the butcher, the baker and the candlestick-maker
Because if you have to go out in a plague, who wants multiple rides? Uber has started a pilot of pre-paid hourly rentals.…
Identify and act on high-risk devices – faster
Find out more at Forescout live virtual event on May 12 Promo Not so very long ago, an office network was just that – in an office, connected to a bunch of servers in the cupboard next to the team room.…
Dell to unleash hybrid server/storage boxen that can run virtual machines
Long-awaited storage consolidation to go hyperconverged lite so that workloads can run next to data Dell will next week announce a significant refresh and consolidation of its storage range and at the same time try to reinvent storage arrays as computing appliances for data-centric workloads.…
What's worse than an annoying internet filter? How about one with a pre-auth remote-command execution hole and there's no patch?
Bug can be exploited to hijack server, meddle with block lists Netsweeper's internet filter has a nasty security vulnerability that can be exploited to hijack the host server and tamper with lists of blocked websites. There are no known fixes right now.…
International space station connects 100Mbps symmetric space laser ethernet using Sony optical disc tech
As the Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group launches discussion of Solar System Internet The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has achieved a 100 Mbps ethernet connection from the International Space Station to earth, using lasers!…
ICANN finally halts $1.1bn sale of .org registry, says it's 'the right thing to do' after months of controversy
Questions linger over what is going on inside DNS overseer ICANN has vetoed the proposed $1.1bn sale of the .org registry to an unknown private equity firm, saying this was “the right thing to do.”…
Back when the huge shocking thing that felt like the end of the world was Australia on fire, it turns out telcos held up alright
Or as well as they could once the power went out - yet report says reliance on electricity isn't a resilience issue Back in January when Australia was on fire and the rest of the world wasn’t, locals in the burning zones were advised that the best source of information was emergency services apps. But they were unavailable because mobile networks had gone down.…
Apple on 2020 so far: OK, so iPhone sales are a bit glum. Wearables, music, apps, vids to the rescue... almost
Hope on the horizon, says Cook, but it will take some time to get there Apple's cash cow looks to be a bit unwell, as iPhone sales took a rare hit this coronavirus-ridden quarter. On the upside, the Cupertino idiot-tax operation banked billions from folks snapping up wearables, music, apps, video and more to kill their lockdown boredom.…
Jeff Bezos tells shareholders to buckle up: Amazon to blow this quarter's profits and more on coronavirus costs
Cloud-giant-with-a-gift-shop gearing up for the long game Amazon today reported $75.5bn in revenue for the first quarter of 2020, higher than expected though eroded by exceptional expenses. And it told investors to get used to its free spending ways during the coronavirus pandemic.…
Quibi, JetBlue, Wish, others accused of leaking millions of email addresses to ad orgs via HTTP referer headers
From URL to UR-Hell Short-video biz Quibi, airline JetBlue, shopping site Wish, and several other companies leaked million of people's email addresses to ad-tracking and analytics firms through HTTP request headers, it is claimed.…
Faster than reflection: Microsoft previews Source Generators for C#
.NET is getting faster but will not be as efficient as C++ or Go. Reason? Legacy code Microsoft is previewing a new C# compiler feature called a Source Generator that it said will automatically spit out new source code and compile it when you build a project.…
Couchbase goes cuckoo for Kubernetes with v2.0 release of Autonomous Operator
NoSQL or open source, databases cannot help but be drawn to Googly cloud container orchestration system The latest release from Couchbase finally includes support for Kubernetes, which is becoming something of a de facto standard among databases.…
More than one-fifth of smartphone sales evaporate in China as pandemic grips Middle Kingdom
Where's there a will, there Huawei! America's fave bogeyman does the biz at home, is the only handset maker to grow Huawei has emerged from China's COVID-19 ravaged smartphone sector in Q1 as the only handset maker to report a local sales bump - not a big one, but it's likely not complaining.…
Human intelligence may not be enough: US military turns to machine learning algos to predict food shortages
Supply chain issues will be hit hard as workers get sick Analysis The US Department of Defense is building machine learning tools to help predict critical food and medicine shortages as America grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.…
Tesla sued over Tokyo biker's death in 'dozing driver' Autopilot crash
Motorcyclist had stopped to help with a separate traffic accident, say court docs Tesla is being sued by the widow and daughter of a man killed when an allegedly dozing driver let his Model X’s Autopilot feature steer it into a group of people.…
We're not Finnished yet: Nokia chalks up €200m sales hit to 'COVID-19 issues'
Insists: It was the supply chain! We'll get the sales back later this year Nokia Oyj told the market this morning that it estimates the novel coronavirus has "had an approximately €200m negative impact" on its Q1 2020 sales, mostly due to "supply chain challenges" but insisted the sales would be "shifted to future periods", rather than being lost to the ledger entirely.…
Google is a 'publisher' says Aussie court as it hands £20k damages to gangland lawyer
Chocolate Factory held liable for words on its website An Australian court has declared that Google is a "publisher" and awarded an aggrieved lawyer £20,000 after searches on his name returned criminal allegations from his past.…
Sun shines on ServiceNow amid pandemic storm after belated spree of $1m+ deals
Always be closing, especially when the economy's in a tailspin Workflow wizard ServiceNow seems to have dodged the market glitch at the end of Q1 and secured deals sufficient to beat guidance with its results.…
Virtual meetings in Animal Crossing are so last month. Behold the virtual computer museum
Social simulation in an era of social distancing News reaches Vulture Central of more retro computing goodness courtesy of the hit game Animal Crossing and an enterprising member of staff at the currently shuttered Centre for Computing History.…
Microsoft unveils simpler, easier Windows Virtual Desktop: You no longer need to be a VDI expert to make this work
Also: what does the Windows giant have in common with the Boomtown Rats? Neither seems keen on Mondays Microsoft is having a crack at simplifying Windows Virtual Desktop while rolling out support for more operating systems.…
Process miner Celonis pushes out application tools to tighten up how they're used in anger
Better look into how users don't use software the way biz thinks they do Celonis has carved a niche by selling companies such as Siemens, 3M, Airbus and Vodafone the software and analytics techniques to "X-ray" their business processes in the hope of iroing out kinks to save time and money.…
Lars Ulrich makes veiled threats of another Metallica album during web chat with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
You know what, Lars? We're OK Lars Ulrich, drummer of corporate shlock rock merchants Metallica, has threatened that the thrash metal giants could make a new album despite the coronavirus lockdown as he wagged chins with Salesforce chief Marc Benioff.…
Salt peppered with holes? Automation tool vulnerable to auth bypass: Patch now
'The impact is full remote command execution as root on both master and all minions' The Salt configuration tool has patched two vulnerabilities whose combined effect was to expose Salt installations to complete control by an attacker. A patch for the issues was released last night, but systems that are not set to auto-update may still be vulnerable.…
Red Hat’s new CEO on surviving inside Blue Blue: 'We don’t participate in IBM's culture. It’s that simple'
Paul Cormier talks hybrid cloud growth and independence with El Reg Interview Red Hat’s new CEO is feeling confident. It’s a pretty good time to be the head of a company whose entire business is virtual: virtual machines, hybrid cloud, operating system support, Kubernetes containers. These are boom times.…
Facebook defers $3bn of infrastructure spend because it's hard to build bit barns when you're working from home
The Social Network™ is predictably busy but says that won't last Facebook will defer $3bn of spending on infrastructure because it's hard to build data centres while working from home.…
In the cloud, who can hear your developers scream?
Snyk wants to keep your software engineering teams safe in off-prem environments Webcast Like children flying the family nest, applications and services are leaving the on-premises corporate environment – and they’re not even coming back so you can do their washing.…
In trying times like these, it's reassuring to know you can still get pwned five different ways by Adobe Illustrator files
Make sure you update your software with these critical fixes Adobe has emitted fixes for multiple remote code execution holes in Illustrator and its Bridge code.…
Free-speech-loving Cloudflare hooks up with China’s biggest retailer JD
The spice must flow seems to be the gist of it, along with JD's cloudy ambitions Cloudflare, which has often taken a stance on freedom of speech issues, has now vastly extended its reach into China – where the government routinely censors its citizens.…
India to build contact-tracing app for feature phones that still use 2G, don't have Bluetooth and can't run apps
There's hundreds of millions in India alone The Indian government has signaled it will develop a COVID-19 contact-tracing that will work on the feature phones that comprise over half of the national mobile phone fleet.…
Past three months were a rollercoaster for Microsoft: Ad spending down, PCs and gaming flat, cloud climbing amid work-from-home demand
COVID-19 had 'minimal net impact' on sales, Windows giant claims Microsoft on Wednesday revealed its financial figures for the past three virus-addled months – and there was some up, and some down.…
Lyft dumps 17% of staff, furloughs 5%, cuts pay as people stay home, avoid rides in possibly virus-ridden cars
Uber is reportedly thinking about laying off 5,000-plus, too Lyft announced Wednesday it will lay off 17 per cent of staff, and furlough five per cent, as its business collapses amid coronavirus lockdowns and slowdowns. That amounts to roughly 980 people axed, and 290 on pause with no pay.…
Apple chucks $3 at iPhone users after killing FaceTime on iOS 6 because it didn't want to pay connectivity charges
Millions to go to lawyers after legal brouhaha ends in settlement Apple has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by folks upset the iGiant broke FaceTime overnight on millions of iPhones. The settlement amounts to a few bucks a device, meaning the Cupertino giant almost certainly made a net profit in the process.…
Who's still using Webex? Not even Cisco: Judge orders IT giant to use rival Zoom for virtual patent trial
It would be rather awkward if Switchzilla's own video-link app fell over mid-proceedings, wouldn't it? A judge has ordered Cisco to use arch-rival Zoom rather than its own video-conference offering Webex to virtually attend a patent-infringement trial.…
Ex-Cloud Foundry boss to pull strings at Puppet as CTO, says open-source software 'evolves faster, is more mature'
Abby Kearns says she will continue to foster OSS culture in new role Former Cloud Foundry exec director Abby Kearns has rocked up at Puppet as CTO, where she will direct "the company's current and future product portfolio."…
We need you, Reg IT pros: How are you modernizing your databases in a hybrid world?
Clue us in so we can better understanding the challenges and opportunities you face Reader survey Relational database systems are in many ways the workhorses of IT. But how are they holding up in the modern age?…
Three things in life are certain: Death, taxes, and cloud-based IoT gear bricked by vendors. Looking at you, Belkin
Ubiquitous consumer kit maker EOLs netcam. Oh, AND the cloud services that make it work Oh look, here's another cautionary tale about buying cloud-based IoT kit. On 29 May, global peripheral giant Belkin will flick the "off" switch on its Wemo NetCam IP cameras, turning the popular security devices into paperweights.…
Academics demand answers from NHS over potential data timebomb ticking inside new UK contact-tracing app
Slurp everyone's details and you create a hugely valuable hacker target A group of nearly 175 UK academics has criticised the NHS's planned COVID-19 contact-tracing app for a design choice they say could endanger users by creating a centralised store of sensitive health and travel data about them.…
RetroPie 4.6 brings forth an answer to 'What do I do with this Pi 4 I bought last year?'
Fans of creaky old hardware can relive their misspent IT youth Bought a Raspberry Pi 4 and left the poor thing mouldering in your gadget drawer? We have news – RetroPie has unleashed version 4.6 of its popular emulator suite.…
Arm dumps risk for CISC – Chip Indies Skip Costs: Early-stage startups can pay $0 to access CPU, GPU blueprints
Who said open-source alternatives? Haha, no one here said it, you must have imagined it Arm hopes to entice early-stage chip-designing startups into licensing its blueprints – by slashing the cost of entry to zero.…
Family meeting! Chocolate Factory makes its business-like video-chat service free to anyone with a Google account
Oh goody. Yet another tech support channel for relatives to abuse Google is making its Meet video-chat service free to anyone who wants it, as long as you have a Google account.…
Some big boots to Phil: HPE says bye to globo sales exec who is heading for a land down under
Davis ups sticks, takes new job that lets him emigrate to family in Australia In a seemingly abrupt departure, HPE has confirmed Phil Davis, who runs its Hybrid IT division and the ultimately the global sales team, is leaving at the end of the week for new pastures Down Under.…
Long after Linux, Windows Server Containers finally arrive on Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service
Generally available, but will never reach parity with Linux on Kubernetes Microsoft's Windows Server Containers is now generally available on its Azure Kubernetes Service, three years after AKS's launch.…
I'm doing this to stop humans ripping off brilliant ideas by computers and aliens, says guy unsuccessfully filing patents 'invented' by his AI
Bloke tells all to El Reg after US, Euro officials say only 'natural' people can be patent inventors AI systems cannot be listed as inventors in patent submissions, the US Patent and Trademark Office ruled this week.…
ProtonMail-run website boasting 'complete guide' to GDPR left credential-baring .git repo exposed online
Ooo, double irony! An EU-sponsored GDPR advice website run by Proton Technologies had a vulnerability that let anyone clone it and extract a MySQL database username and password.…
Sometimes one can go a little too far in search of isolation
Trapped between two screens. Forever borked Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another in The Register's surprisingly long-lived series of Borks and bugs from the UK, Europe and beyond.…
Google reveals how its Borg clusters have evolved yet still only use about 60 percent of resources (Alibaba might do better)
New dump of tracing data and pair of papers reveal plenty about ad giant’s internal operations Google has published a huge trove of new data describing the performance of the "Borg" clusters that deliver its services and the antecedent to Kubernetes.…
ATLAS flubbed: Comet heading our way takes one look at Earth, self-destructs into house-sized chunks
And who could blame it? Pics Stargazers hoping to glimpse a comet close to Earth next month are in for a disappointment: it fell apart en route.…
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