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by Matthew Hughes on (#50TQY)
Kickstarter caveats apply Oh, how we'd love to be a fly on the wall at the offices of Chinese phone maker Unihertz. The company has a reputation for producing incredibly niche phones that cater to demographics that are otherwise ignored by most others. Take the Unihertz Titan, for example, which was a rugged homage to the Blackberry Passport.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#50TJ2)
Advice for devops? Don't do 'wagile', says Dun & Bradstreet The market of graph databases, which structures data according to a network of relationships, is tiny. Strong growth might see it hit $2.4bn in 2023.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50TJ4)
Come on, builders - who doesn't like subsidies? The UK government has promised to introduce new laws to force developers to ensure new-build properties are capable of gigabit-speed broadband.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#50TJ5)
Normal precautions should suffice, ultraviolet hand cream can light the way Data centres are warm places full of fans designed to efficiently circulate air. Commercial data centres are visited by many people every day. Some of those people could be COVID-19 carriers. The virus doesn’t mind warmth and can be spread by airborne droplets that may well have a better chance of floating free in a well-ventilated bit barn.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50TJ6)
Please develop machine-learning algos to analyse this text for a vaccine A dataset of more than 29,000 scientific papers focused on COVID-19, and the coronavirus family as a whole, has been publicly shared to ultimately help the medical world thwart the bio-nasties.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50TDW)
Temperatures can soar over 400C on the rocky world, and yet... Video Mercury, the innermost planet in the Solar System, reaches searing temperatures. Yet ice still manages to exist on its rocky surface. How?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#50TDY)
What took you so long, eh? Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter and YouTube have issued a joint statement in which they promise to disinfect their platforms of contagiously incorrect COVID-19 content.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#50TDZ)
Online hackfest designed to help government response, provided entries arrive in 12-point Arial India has turned to its national crowdsourcing platform to find ideas that might crimp COVID-19.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50T9R)
Including: COVID-19-hit cruise giant admits it was hacked Roundup We hope everyone is staying healthy and safe. It's time for another Reg roundup of security news you may have missed.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50T4N)
Finally, something that isn't coronavirus related [delete this – ed.] VMware has released security patches for a trio of bugs in its desktop-class virtualization products.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#50T4Q)
Loss of Face time Apple has finally coughed up the $454m it owes VirnetX for infringing its video-conferencing patents, nearly a decade after Cupertino first lost the lawsuit.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50T4S)
Just the San Francisco Bay Area goes to 3-week near-lockdown The coronavirus website built by Google-stablemate Verily and vaunted by President Trump on Friday, is up and running – and is proving to be not nearly as useful as the Command-in-Chief suggested.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#50SW8)
Tesla Delaware lawsuit also delayed The ten-year monster battle between Google and Oracle over the use of Java APIs will be delayed until further notice – after the US Supreme Court announced it was suspending oral arguments over coronavirus fears.…
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US Health and Human Services targeted by DDoS scum at just the time it's needed to be up and running
by Shaun Nichols on (#50SWA)
Miscreants also hammer Euro websites as well, because why not? In an impeccable instance of horrible timing, the US government's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it fended off a cyberattack by online scumbags.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50SWC)
Developers! Developers! Developers! And all their infrastructure! On Monday GitHub announced it plans to buy NPM Inc, which operates the npm repository relied upon by 12 million JavaScript developers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#50SK8)
And that’s before you even get to microphone and video settings They knew it was coming and have been desperately building capacity – yet the flood of workers to video conferencing software has proved too much for companies like Zoom and Microsoft.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#50SKA)
We'll be OK, says former incumbent telco Brit telco BT is talking tough, saying it is confident its broadband network will not buckle under the increased strain of extra people using broadband as they work from home to avoid catching the coronairus.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50SKC)
Also: Python 3.8 comes to Azure Functions, .NET Core uninstallation made easy and happy Brazilian chatbots in Azure Roundup While Azure wobbled and Windows was updated, the Microsoft gang continued toiling away with Python, Portuguese and Private Link for its cloud and an altogether more down to earth way uninstalling .NET.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#50S9N)
Claims 'don't stand up to serious scrutiny' retorts Google Browser-flinger Brave's chief privacy and industrial relations officer, Dr Johnny Ryan, has written to five European data protection commissions to complain of claimed breaches of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by Google.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#50S9Q)
And HR folks aren't far behind, says Proofpoint strategist Interview Nurses are among the groups most heavily targeted by email scammers because of the value of the data they can access, according to email security biz Proofpoint's Adenike Cosgrove.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50S9S)
Sadly, no room for a ZX Spectrum on the way to the Moon Flinger of small satellites Rocket Lab has made a move to tighten up its supply chain with the acquisition of Toronto-based Sinclair Interplanetary.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50S9V)
Respect mah Autorité. You too, Tech Data, and Ingram Micro The French competition watchdog, Autorité de la Concurrence, has slapped Apple with a stonking €1.1bn fine over claims the Californian fruit farm had artificially limited supply of its kit to wholesalers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50S9X)
Windows Update for the Linux kernel? No wonder Gates stepped down Microsoft has crept closer to the next version of Windows 10, 2004, and revealed the thankful news that the dev-friendly Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 will not require a full-on OS update for those all important kernel tweaks.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#50RZX)
A lack of liquidity is going to cause complicated problems, analysts warn Analysis If The Register's readers are anything like its writers, Monday is not the most cheerful morning of the week. We might console ourselves with the thought that if the weekend was a blur, perhaps last week was a dream. Sadly, it was not.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50RZY)
Hello? Is this thing on? (message failed to send) As those able to do so begin a seemingly indefinite period of working from home, Microsoft's Slack for Suits platform, Teams, began tottering.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#50S00)
Graph database vendor gets graphical and promises slick extraction from relational data stores Graph database upgrades are like buses. First Neo4j updated its wares, and now TigerGraph has pushed out new features it hopes will appeal to a broader range of enterprise folk.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#50RV0)
Spintronics is/was cool Columnist The four horsemen of disaster in IT decision-making are fear, uncertainty, doubt – and hype. FUD famously first pranced forth when IBM ran the world and its salespeople ladled them out over any upstart which had a chance of taking market share. But hype – ah, hype. The salesman-on-uppers to FUD's downer street preacher, it wants your investment of hope so it can bolster those of others. It's a pyramid scheme of promises.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50RV2)
Pop quiz: you're hosting your first tech conference and a pandemic is declared. What do you do? Microsoft celebrated the conclusion of a successful - and suddenly virtual - Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) conference by switching the forthcoming Build event to a digital affair as well. The Register spoke to those behind the first WSLConf about hitting the big red button with mere days to go.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50RV4)
Stop that van! Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me?, The Register's timid delve into the dark past and dastardly deeds of our readers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50RQ7)
Plus: Machine-learning software scans ancient texts Roundup Here's a handy little roundup of all the bits of AI news that you may have missed.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#50RM5)
No virus-fragging fun unless you’re actually fragging viruses – and no universal developer fee waiver either Apple has proclaimed it won’t let COVID-19-related games into its app store, because it’s the responsible thing to do.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#50RM7)
Crushed rollers sent rack into the red until castor thousands solved wheely obscure problem Google has revealed that the wheels almost literally fell off some of its servers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#50RGD)
VMs went down but the lights are back on, and someone's home to fix it all As if the world doesn't have enough to worry about right now, Azure users with resources running in the Microsoft cloud's Central West USA region have just enjoyed an outage.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#50RGF)
Infosys closed office on suspicion, swabbed it out, but open for business again today The Indian city of Bengaluru has advised the IT industry to let its people work from home as part of its response to COVID-19, as at least two cases strike the city.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50PGZ)
There'll be a website, at some point, that will work in some way, maybe In a Friday press conference, US President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus... with the help of Google, which was news to Google.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#50PH1)
You look like you have coronavirus, can I help you with that? Nearly 45 years to the day after founding Microsoft, Bill Gates today finally stepped down from the board to devote his time to dealing with global health issues and climate change.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50P9A)
Microsoft Build also pulls plug on physical conference Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June will become a World Wide Web-only event due to health concerns raised by the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#50P9B)
Just call us Florida man cos we're going to Orlando As is the way with the 21st century, IT companies are apt to get meta and ServiceNow is no exception.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50P9D)
Too bad they are likely uninhabitable Astronomers have discovered 139 minor planets lurking at the edge of the Solar System after examining a dataset collected to study dark energy in the universe.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50P01)
And nothing to do with stock-market crash, nope, no way Citing concerns for the safety of its employees amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Xerox announced on Friday it is putting its hostile takeover of HP Inc on ice for now.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#50P03)
Bezos' juggernaut still not happy Updated The US government has filed a motion [PDF] to the Court of Federal Claims asking for 120 days to "reconsider certain aspects" of the Pentagon's decision to hand Microsoft the JEDI super-cloud contract – yet Amazon Web Services will oppose the motion.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#50P05)
Well that's one way of putting it Hackers have slurped biz comms customers' data from a database run by one of O2's largest UK partners.…
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by John Oates on (#50P06)
Deadline for multi-factor authentication in UK banking looms Saturday is the delayed deadline for UK banks and financial institutions to have implemented two-factor authentication for payment transactions.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50NNM)
Not headphones. Earbuds Hands on The past few years have borne witness to a new category of audio tech: the totally wireless earphones. Initially popularised by Apple's AirPods, we've since seen a wide range of alternatives crop up, ranging from bargain basement to unapologetically aspirational. Sennheiser's Momentum True Wireless 2 earbuds fall into the latter category.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#50NNP)
Protecting innocent drivers from nasty old cash tips... and your sneezes Food delivery service Deliveroo will create an option for no-contact deliveries in the UK in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#50NNR)
Microsoft's convoluted Power Apps freebie shows shortcomings of platform As millions of businesses adopt hasty remote-working policies, Microsoft has posted a "Crisis communications" solution for its Power Apps platform – the idea being that with just a few (hundred) steps, users will be able to show their whereabouts, request help and more.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50NNT)
Uneasy Broadcom withdraws annual guidance Adobe and Slack reported quarterly revenues last night, but the former's earnings suffered at the sticky hands of COVID-19 while the latter pondered the impact of the virus.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50NCZ)
Time to get your eyeballs rolling, you've been staring at the screen long enough While its employees adjusted to life complaining about working from home rather than working in open-plan offices, Microsoft emitted a fresh build of Windows 10 for Fast Ring Insiders and tweaked Your Phone for Samsung owners.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50ND1)
Yes, shame about the rest of the world In a rare bit of positive COVID-19 news, Apple has reopened all of its 42 retail outlets in Mainland China.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#50ND3)
It's environmentally friendlier, you see Something for the Weekend, Sir? If there's something I can't stand, it's those stupid columns people write for IT news websites.…
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