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10 September, $1,399 After months of teasing the faithful with smug pics of its latest blower in the hands of various veeps, Microsoft whipped the covers off the Surface Duo and confirmed the date and price of the folding fancyphone.…

Parallels desktop upgrade enables nested virtualization and adds a dash of automation Parallels has released a new version of its macOS desktop hypervisor and added a few handy things that developers and virtualization wonks will likely appreciate.…

Full details of security vuln plus proof-of-concept exploits revealed We hope you've patched CVE-2020-6262, aka note 2835979, that affects SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP, because the folks who found and reported the vulnerability are going public with the details.…

HR boss warns staff Big Blue will 'suspend' salary reviews, moving rises to 2021 Exclusive IBM has told staff across the world in all divisions it is scrapping pay rise reviews until the first half of next year due to the "considerable uncertainty" caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis.…

Voters need to know who they are being targeted by, says MP The UK government is setting out its efforts to create more transparent rules for political campaigning online.…

And smartphone that shows you its innards if required Chinese consumer goods manufacturer Xiaomi has celebrated its tenth birthday with the release of a transparent television.…

Wi-Fi 7 had us on 'Extremely High Throughput,' the latency improvements sound nice, too As the IEEE 802.11 project, forebearer of Wi-Fi, marks its 30th anniversary next month, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) gear is just beginning to appear in the market, even as the spec awaits final ratification later this year.…

Plans to ‘disengage from the corrupt social platform’ that ‘is screwing with our election’ Ageing and angry rock icon Neil Young will scour Facebook and Google from his online archive.…

Cash-strapped privacy devs face determined miscreants who keep coming back for more The Tor Project has confirmed someone, or some group, is in control of a large number of Bitcoin-snaffling exit nodes in its anonymizing network, and it's battling to boot them off.…

Might float chip-designer, sell it all or sell chunks. Whatever happens, server CPU sales are the upside SoftBank has bounced back from a historic loss to post profits of $12bn as the company confirms that it is in negotiations to sell British chip designer Arm.…

Verifying wandering voters in the world’s largest and most complex elections is the aim India has pondered how blockchain might enhance its elections with a high-level online gabfest concluding that the technology might have a role in making it possible for more voters to cast their ballot in more places around the nation.…

Which would leave it about four percent of neighboring India’s exports Pakistan has given itself a new target for IT services exports, hoping that within three years it can win $5bn of revenue.…

Expect Citrix Endpoint Management gear to come under attack soon With the world+dog releasing patches today, Citrix has another serious security situation it needs users’ help to smother.…

Chip designer ruled not a monopolistic strangler after all An appeals court has reversed an earlier ruling that Qualcomm broke America's antitrust laws, dealing a blow to the FTC, which brought the case.…

Please, thanks, good show, cheers, ta Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday used to be Microsoft's day to release patches. Now Adobe, Intel, and SAP are routinely joining the fun – with special guest star Red Hat this month.…

The Ying to Steve Jobs' Yang celebrates another orbit around the Sun Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and star engineer of the computer revolution, turns 70 today. How do you sum up such a storied career, which continues to touch facets of our daily lives? We should start at the beginning.…

250 'true Mozillians' laid off, Taiwan office completely shuttered Firefox maker Mozilla has axed 250 employees, or a quarter of its workforce, claiming the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is to blame after hitting it in the wallet. The organization also vowed to "ship new products faster and develop new revenue streams."…

Phone maker to plough cash into 5G, cracking US market, and diversification Nokia licensor HMD Global is quids in after securing $230m in funding from a bevy of biz "partners" including Google, Qualcomm, and Nokia Technologies.…

It’s the best way to lead your cloud migration. Watch our next RegCast to learn more Webcast As your staff continue to work from home, likely well into 2021, there’s never been a more pressing moment to consider the different ways you can make your business work better with a remote workforce.…

Also: Scottish rocketeers to launch from Iceland, and SpaceX lobs more Starlinks In brief California-based Rocket Lab is to resume launches within the month after an Electron payload failed to reach orbit in July.…

'Obviously a critical brand' says CEO Benioff as he calls off online occasion Salesforce's 170,000-attendee annual uber-conference that the world knows as Dreamforce looks set to be no more - not even in digital form - at least as far as the 2020 version is concerned.…

Another chapter in the sorry Emergency Services Network saga Capita's contract to hook up emergency services control rooms under the UK's troubled Emergency Services Network (ESN) is being renewed for £6.5m without competition.…

'Inhouse crt rigs to solve... book before ur exam' as firm claims 'some' of the content wasn't theirs Exclusive British infosec biz NCC Group has admitted to The Register that its internal training materials were leaked on GitHub – after folders purporting to help people pass the CREST pentest certification exams appeared in a couple of repositories.…

Spudger-flingers rate it 4 out of 10, note an 'artificially short lifespan' The 2020 27-inch iMac is almost certainly Cupertino’s final Intel swan song before it departs into the uncharted waters of Apple Silicon.…

Also: TypeScript 4.0 goes RC, Azure Functions support for PowerShell goes GA and DoH gets easier for Insiders In brief Behold, Microsoft has dropped the black veil on a new Windows 10 build and some Android fun for Insiders.…

While remote-working adults adhere to 'business in the front, party in the back' As the mercury hits tropical levels in the UK, Vulture Central continues to deliver enterprise tech news in various states of undress.…

Judges went out of their way not to set a nationwide precedent, though In a shock ruling today, the UK Court of Appeal has declared that South Wales Police broke the law with an indiscriminate deployment of automated facial-recognition technology in Cardiff city centre.…

Eat out to BSOD?* Bork!Bork!Bork! A return to form for burger-botherers McDonald's with a summertime BSOD in today's entry in The Register's diary of distressed digital signage.…

Dawn probe's last data shows surprising results from asteroid belt Data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft orbiting Ceres has shown that the largest object in the Solar System's asteroid belt has sub-surface oceans and recent volcanic activity, according to a group of papers published in Nature journals.…

Just how 'digital' does an HO supplier have to be? Thames Water has turned on the project taps, awarding contracts that could be worth up to £100m to a group of 13 IT consultancies in the UK.…

Which might help convince your stingy purchase manager Review The 2020 Huawei Matebook X Pro faithfully follows its predecessors in form and function. At its heart, it's a well-rounded but pricey ultrabook. No new ground is broken, but the Matebook X Pro gets the fundamentals right.…

Catching up on elastic and hybrid options, but not for cloudy first-timers Nutanix has struck a deal with Amazon Web Services to have its hyperconverged stack run in the Amazonian cloud, as revealed by our sister publication Blocks and Files yesterday.…

Deep-learning model pinpoints the pain in your AES DEF CON Convolutional neural networks can reveal which parts of an AES implementation are vulnerable to snooping, according to research by Googlers.…

And needs a very blunt instrument to do the job, because the protocol works as planned China is now blocking encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 with ESNI enabled, according to observers at the Great Firewall Report (GFR).…

Traffic among tenants in financial capital looks to be as tasty as renting racks Equinix has entered the Indian market by acquiring two data centres operated by GPX.…

And so will TikTok and Disney, with more to come Indonesia has found more tech companies willing to become collectors of the nation’s 10 percent digital services tax.…

But others live on colossal military bases that extend the range of India’s armed forces India has inaugurated a submarine cable between the mainland and the Andaman and Nicobar islands, an archipelago 1350km from the nation’s east coast.…

Don't panic... still in the testing phase The US Army Research Laboratory says it is experimenting with reinforcement learning algorithms to control swarms of drones and autonomous vehicles to overwhelm and dominate America's enemies.…

Computer glitch followed by senior public health resignation in Golden State A system crash and subsequent bungling of a digital certificate caused California to fall behind in reporting the results of around 300,000 COVID-19 coronavirus tests last week.…

Safari links redirected by default into Cupertino's walled garden If you click on a link to an article in Safari, you may find Apple's News app pops up and opens the page rather than the browser.…

In-depth dive into protocols exposing countless gadgets to miscreants DEF CON More than 3.7 million. That's the latest number of surveillance cameras, baby monitors, doorbells with webcams, and other internet-connected devices found left open to hijackers via two insecure communications protocols globally, we're told.…

Gutted Sears, JC Penney locations could become 'fulfillment centers' Amazon is reportedly in talks with realtors to buy and remake the US locations of bankrupt Sears and JC Penney into Amazon fulfillment centers.…

Now that's a stretch: 'Work Yoga' memo tells folks to ignore calls, emails to 'stay in the zone' The British offices of Barclays Bank are under investigation over allegations that managers spied upon their own staff as part of a workplace productivity improvement drive.…

Add a little hyperconverged infrastructure, and you’re on to a winner. We'll explain all this month Webcast Guess what? Ransomware’s not going away any time soon. Infections are still happening all the time, sparking reputation-ending headlines, and derailing business plans.…

4G connectivity in bonny Glencoe, but clock on project deadline is ticking Britain's troubled Emergency Services Network (ESN) hit a major milestone today with the completion of its 500th base station.…

Industry binning old aircraft is an opportunity for aviation infosec DEF CON Boeing 747-400s still use floppy disks for loading critical navigation databases, Pen Test Partners has revealed to the infosec community after poking about one of the recently abandoned aircraft.…

For that and other work, hard-pressed integrator cops 5-year £355m contract. What the worst that could happen? Capita has scored a hefty contract with Transport for London that includes sending the body's on-prem IT systems for the Congestion Charge, and the Low and Ultra Low Emission Zones (ULEZ), into the cloud.…

It's all in the 'right-angled leaf', people As well as being Cockney rhyming slang for stairs, "apples and pears" is a phrase in many European countries meaning to compare two items that have little to no practical relation. The trillion-dollar tech corporation Apple, however, would appear to disagree.…

Plus: Sec wizard shows another way to pwn Mac users In brief A city in Colorado, USA, has swallowed its pride and paid off a malware gang after deciding the cost of a network nuke-and-pave was too high.…

The. Defining. Enterprise. Software. Company. Of. The. 21st. Century For those who can't operate a taxi app on their phone, ServiceNow has linked arms with Uber to bring the world a "Book Uber" feature via its Workplace Safety Management app to solve the "biggest problem businesses face".…