by Matthew Hughes on (#55N8X)
Still won't be as big as Texas Instruments Analog Devices has confirmed an intent to buy rival Maxim Integrated, saying it'll fork out a whopping $20.9bn in an all-stock deal.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#55N5Y)
Torvalds worries about compiler bugs: 'Very rare, but incredibly hard to debug' Rust language team lead Josh Triplett has promised to support its use in the Linux kernel, saying: "I'd be happy to have the Linux kernel feeding into Rust language development priorities. If building Rustic interfaces within the kernel requires some additional language features, we should see what enhancements to the language would best serve those requirements."…
by Katyanna Quach on (#55N5Z)
Plus: IB students kick up a stink over algorithm grading, and more In brief A man was charged after he was mistakenly identified as a thief by facial-recognition software used by the Detroit Police Department.…
by Richard Speed on (#55N31)
To SD or not SD-WAN is the question? Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is to wolf down Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) outfit Silver Peak for $925m.…
by Richard Speed on (#55MZR)
Company 'aware and reviewing' the lawsuit, not your clipboard. Honest Microsoft's social-media-for-suits tentacle, LinkedIn, has attracted legal fire for allegedly peering at the clipboard of iOS devices.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#55MZS)
Hope is to ease procurement while saving cash University of Manchester has dished out a contract worth up to £50m to a handful of integrators to provision cloud services from the big three providers and build a tool for "consolidated and managed billing".…
by Matthew Hughes on (#55MX4)
There's a 0.1mm tolerance and OS has built-in tools for managing peep hole If you've ever been to a tech trade show, chances are you willingly exchanged personal details for a webcam cover. The plastic strips are loved by cheapskate vendors everywhere, but a new advisory from Apple warns against leaving them attached while closing your MacBook lest it utterly bugger your display.…
by Iain Thomson on (#55MTJ)
Plus: Kazakh man charged with corporate mega-hack, and more In brief With world+dog on Zoom these days, news of a zero-day attack against the videoconferencing app would cause a stir, but relax – it's only if you're on Windows 7 or older.…
by Richard Speed on (#55MTK)
Redmond will retain stake in popular chatbot service Microsoft has kicked a five-year-old out onto the cold, hard Chinese streets by spinning off its Xiaobing (or Xiaoice) business.…
by Tim Anderson on (#55MRC)
Plus: New availability report highlights database issues GitHub marked the start of the week with more than four hours of downtime, as GitHub Issues, Actions, Pages, Packages and API requests all reported "degraded performance."…
by Richard Speed on (#55MPP)
(No don't. Don't do that. - Ed) Technology might be transient, but paint on bricks is forever Bork!Bork!Bork! In the battle of new versus old in today's example of signage silage, the only winner appears to be Bork.…
by Tim Anderson on (#55MPQ)
'Higher fidelity local debugging experience' than debugging on Windows and deploying to Linux Hands On Microsoft has pushed out an extension for Visual Studio 2019 that lets developers run and debug a .NET Core application on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2).…
by Paul Kunert on (#55MMZ)
Don't even get started on 2021.... please In a world full of surprises where everything subject to change based on humanity’s ability to combat an invisible killer, Gartner has calculated IT spending will crash this year and experience a “swoop” recovery next.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55MKQ)
Maybe Donald isn’t in love with Vlad after all – but he did just give Russia attribution and maybe a peek at tradecraft US president Donald Trump has revealed that in 2018 he authorized an attack on suspected-to-be-state-sponsored Russian internet trolls intent on disrupting the electoral process during Congressional elections.…
by Richard Speed on (#55MKR)
Confessions of a student Who, Me? Bid a fond farewell to the weekend and buckle up for the new week with a slightly NSFW example of the breed we like to call Who, Me?…
by Robbie Harb on (#55MJC)
CMS behind gov.uk and plenty more government sites worldwide promises easy upgrade from current code to new version 9.0 Open-source CMS software Drupal has unveiled its first major update in five years by launching a new version 9.0.…
by David Gordon on (#55MGM)
Embrace the future – because it’s already here Webcast The IT department's evolution from controller to advisor is accelerating as more of us work flexibly, work from home, and collaborate online.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55MFJ)
Oracle rules on-prem, but Alibaba owns the cloud ... and here comes Huawei IDC has had a look at China’s database market and found vendors within the Middle Kingdom are on the rise.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55ME7)
Other job ads make similar mistakes, and candidates do worse IBM's Global Technology Services has posted a job ad calling for candidates with a “minimum 12+ years’ experience in Kubernetes administration and management”.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55MCK)
As a colossal commit count crashes into Linux 5.8-rc5 Linux overlord overseer principal developer Linus Torvalds has signed off on a new policy to adopt inclusive language across the project.…
by David Gordon on (#55M9K)
Okta to highlight zero-trust security later this month Webcast So-called zero-trust security architecture is essentially a real-life version of what everybody fails to get right in spy thrillers. While agents carefully check their perimeter, they forget the enemy could be right alongside them the whole time, working within their team for years.…
by Team Register on (#55K0H)
We've brought together experts across the DevOps field to bring you practical advice and answer your Qs Event Our annual Continuous Lifecycle London conference is online for 2020 – but that doesn’t mean it’s lacking whatsoever, and will be packed with the high-quality content you’ve come to expect.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#55K0J)
At 65 million miles away, that's what we call social distancing A two-pronged comet with billowing tails of gas and dust will streak across the sky this month.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#55K0K)
Shock TikTok block clocked, unblocked as poppycock amid media aftershock Amazon today said an internal email banning its staff from using TikTok on smartphones connected to their corporate inboxes was sent in "error." The admission – or climb down, depending on how skeptical you are – came after the memo was obtained and leaked by journalists.…
by Iain Thomson on (#55JHD)
Private equity looks to cash in on managed cloud services biz Almost six years after going private, Rackspace is once again dipping its toes into the public market by filing for an IPO in the US.…
by Richard Speed on (#55JE4)
ESA emits a guide to picking up Slow Scan TV from the orbiting outpost Got plans for the weekend? No? How about pulling that Pi out of the drawer or dusting off an old laptop and getting ready to grab some images from the ISS, courtesy of locked-down European Space Agency (ESA) boffins.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#55JCW)
Users will be able to 'override ... restrictions' on phones and other kit, says engineering team Android 11 Beta 2, out this week, is a fairly modest update, focusing primarily on stability and bug fixes. But behind the scenes there are strong indications that a broader shift is afoot, with Google trying to address overall ecosystem inconsistencies that have formed since its initial release.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#55JBK)
Not sure they spent that much on 'high risk' kit from ZTE and Huawei, coughs analyst Analysis The caution couldn't be more stark. In a meeting with the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee yesterday, execs from BT and Vodafone warned UK lawmakers that a deadline of 2023 to remove Huawei-made equipment from their networks will result in multi-day mobile signal losses for some customers.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#55JBM)
Just what Vladimir Putin's favourite bank wanted to hear, no doubt Former UK prime minister Tony Blair has declared that governments can't "take 10 years to catch up” with cyber crims – while speaking at an infosec conference organised by Vladimir Putin’s favourite Russian bank.…
by Richard Speed on (#55J96)
You're unlikely to hear someone inflicting their iOS Spotify playlist on the bus today Those using Facebook to log into services such as Spotify on their iOS devices are having a bad Friday, as something has gone awry with Zuckerberg's ad-slinging platform.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#55J7F)
Good news if you're a fan of Topre switches Fujitsu has refreshed its line of iconic developer-oriented Happy Hacking mechanical keyboards.…
by Richard Speed on (#55J5N)
No support 'in any capacity' for PHP for Windows for v8 and beyond, but Windows users not to worry, says release manager Born-again open-source fan Microsoft is celebrating 25 years of PHP by, er, pulling its support for the scripting language that is beloved (or dreaded) by server operators the world over.…
by Paul Kunert on (#55J4E)
The artist formerly known as Advanced Computer Software Group confirms redundancies Brit-based software biz Advanced has confirmed to The Register it is trimming the workforce in response to the commercial impact of COVID-19, with 150 people understood to be leaving the organisation.…
TomTom bill bomb: Why am I being charged for infotainment? I sold my car last year, rages Reg reader
by Gareth Corfield on (#55J3A)
Mazda shrugs off ex-owner's bizarre involuntary data retention story A UK man who woke up one morning to discover his bank account being charged for satnav services linked to a car he'd sold months previously has expressed his frustration at Mazda and TomTom over the strange affair.…
by Paul Kunert on (#55J20)
Tech team still 'investigating,' no ETA of fix If a digital bank is unable to regularly provide online banking services, at what point does it cease to be a digital bank? Some disgruntled customers of Smile, a trading division of the Co-Operative Bank, may be posing this very question after five full days of woe.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#55J0P)
Nationwide network operator gets into tizzy with chimney owners IoT biz Sigfox’s British network operator WND-UK has stopped paying people who host its network aerials on their roofs because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, WND-UK has pledged to make its near 2,000 base station hosts whole once the economy stabilises.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55HZW)
President chooses chip factory to expands program aimed at reducing dependence on Japan South Korea has become the latest nation to decide that it should become more self-sufficient in key technologies and by doing so turn itself into an exporter.…
by Robbie Harb on (#55HZX)
Supply chains are working again Global PC shipments climbed back into recovery mode for the second quarter thanks to increased demand from the surge of home working.…
by Richard Speed on (#55HZ9)
Hope for web success, but plan for every possible (and impossible) failure On Call Everyone's favourite day of the week, Friday, has waddled into view. Grab a steaming mug of schadenfreude and settle down with another tale from those Register readers saddled with the On Call phone.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55HZA)
Revenue fell eight percent but company thinks it can win on new virus-scoured terrain Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has become the first of the big Indian technology services companies to report a quarter’s results and while revenue was down the company found many bright spots that suggest better times lie ahead.…
The us-versus-them mentality between dev and ops is still alive and well, we see Reader survey In an online survey, we asked Register readers for their thoughts on workplace automation and self-service within on-prem environments. That survey is still open, though we took a sneak peek at the data collected so far, and whoa, there are some strong feelings out there.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#55HXN)
There may be a small black hole on the edge of our Solar System? 2020, please stop The suggestion that the Solar System's hypothesized Planet Nine is actually a small black hole could be solved by searching for outbursts of energy using the Vera Rubin Observatory, scientists say.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#55HX1)
Which sounds just like what you’d do if future x86 supply looked a bit iffy KylinOS, the Linux distribution that China’s government has encouraged to become a national OS for desktops and services, has pointed out that it’s clocked up a Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) benchmark running on Huawei’s Arm silicon.…
by Robbie Harb on (#55HW1)
Most of it to go on new internet infrastructure to keep citizens working and learning remotely The Philippines's Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has sought approval of a PHP46.6bn ($942m) budget for fiscal 2021 to help the country adapt to the "new normal" during the COVID-19 pandemic - a lazy 750 percent higher than the PHP6bn budget it's working with this year.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#55HVF)
You've got less than 42 hours to regenerate your certs DigiCert says, come Saturday, July 11, it will revoke tens of thousands of encryption certificates issued by intermediaries that were not properly audited.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#55HSH)
Investigation follows Canada's decision to give image-scraping biz the boot Following Canada's lead earlier this week, privacy watchdogs in Britain and Australia today launched a joint investigation into how Clearview AI harvests and uses billions of images it scraped from the internet to train its facial-recognition algorithms.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#55HQA)
Hackers hit honeypots hours after CISO downplays risk, proof-of-concept exploit code emerges VIdeo This week Citrix tried to reassure everyone the 11 security flaws it just patched in its network perimeter products weren't all that bad. Well, we hope they're right because someone's scanning the internet looking for vulnerable installations.…
by Richard Speed on (#55HJZ)
Tap-tap-tapping on lander's scoop Engineers have hit pause on attempts make the Mars InSight lander's self-hammering mole dig into the red planet as boffins admit "the task is not likely to become easier."…
by Matthew Hughes on (#55HHH)
Finnish firm might do best with telco clouds, says analyst From enterprise behemoths to those desperately home-schooling, the appetite for cloud-based services shows no sign of faltering. Behind the scenes sit vendors like Nokia, which today unveiled its latest network operating system (NOS), which aims to simplify the process of automating and scaling data centre fabrics.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#55HHJ)
What's in the box? Not mains charger, sources say Samsung is reportedly considering unbundling mains chargers from some of its upcoming smartphones — supposedly because customers have enough of the things lying around already.…