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by Gareth Corfield on (#50438)
High Court hears from delivery lead in high-stakes trial IBM's delivery lead on the collapsed £175m Co-Op Insurance IT platform project told a colleague the project was "hurting" Big Blue, the High Court has been told.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50439)
Unloved assistant to smarten up its act in Microsoft 365. US only, naturally Microsoft has jammed yet another knife into the consumer incarnation of its unloved electronic assistant, Cortana.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#5043A)
Hydro-Québec to take tech to market A Canadian utility company says it will try to commercialise 2019 Nobel Prize winner John Goodenough's controversial fast-charging, non-flammable glass battery.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#503XC)
And when you're too tired, you can lower it again. QUITTER! Back in my day, a Pro Plus was a tiny sugar-coated pill that dragged me through the ennui of a Computer Science degree. If I took enough of them, I thought, the dancing C++ syntax on my screen would start to make sense and I might – just might – scrape through my dissertation clutching a 2:1.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#503XE)
'Member the Apple II? Hobbyists' kit is where business IT begins Column The twin planets of business and consumer technologies have been locked in a game of Pong for decades. The Apple II was aimed at hobbyists, but catalysed the revolution that put a PC on every office desk.…
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by Chris Williams on (#503XG)
We want to share your hard-won advice and knowledge with the rest of world Podcast On the ball as ever, we here at The Register have decided a podcast is in order.…
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by Richard Speed on (#503XJ)
We're all Doomed Who, Me? Welcome to Monday. As the weekend recedes and workstations are fired up, pause a moment to travel with us to a time when an ill-judged bit of gaming took down an entire network and a Reg reader uttered "Who, Me?"…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#503SK)
Do not pass Go, do not collect garbage The Python programming language continues to find more fans, having tied Java as the second most popular programming language, according to analysis conducted by IT consultancy Redmonk.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5018B)
Science's civil rebel dies aged 96 Video Freeman Dyson, the eminent British-American physicist and mathematician best known for his theoretical work in quantum electrodynamics, died today. He was 96.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5018D)
Git outta here – has it been that long? The Apache Software Foundation has decreed this week to be the 20th anniversary of the source code management system, Subversion. So, happy birthday SVN!…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5018F)
How much you make, Randy? Wanna cough up, I dunno, twice that or something? America's communications watchdog on Friday suggested it may fine the nation's four major wireless carriers for selling subscribers location data without adequate safeguards to prevent misuse.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#500ZP)
Now one Donald-shaped signature away from dishing out $1bn to fund the big switch President Trump is expected to sign a bill that would allocate $1bn to US carriers to replace existing Huawei-built infrastructure after it was unanimously passed by the Senate yesterday.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#500ZR)
Or it would, if it were ever released Vivo has introduced the third generation of its APEX concept phones – the APEX 2020. This handset packs a bunch of new experimental features, largely centred around its display and camera technology, which might eventually make their way to production phones from Vivo and others.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#500ZT)
How many expansive ERP projects would that buy? One? Two? Answers on a postcard He may have left SAP in November last year but former CEO Bill McDermott still managed to net €15,176,900 for his work with the firm in 2019, making the American Germany’s highest earner, according to some calculations.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#500P6)
Client solutions to the rescue as infrastructure shrinks 7% After all those costly company takeovers, Dell has reported that yet again good old-fashioned PCs came to its rescue to offset the continued slump in its server and storage business.…
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by David Gordon on (#500P8)
Make things that work well, look good, and talk back, with help from interactive online training Promo Why code from scratch when you can assemble apps quickly and visually from a collection of parts? That’s perhaps an oversimplification of low-code, but building and deploying applications and services with this automated approach has a variety of benefits.…
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by Richard Currie on (#500PA)
Fun not required The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. For the first time we feature a multiplayer title, and not a particularly forgiving one at that. I don't know why, I'm not even good at video games despite dedicating a chunk of my scant free time to playing them. Want to squad up? Someone send help, please, because I'm still trying to Escape From Tarkov.…
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by Richard Speed on (#500CK)
UK utility biz suspends internet services British utility biz Southern Water was the victim of a phishing attack on Wednesday, resulting in a hurried shutdown of some of the company's systems.…
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by Richard Speed on (#500CM)
Edge Goes Surfing? How about Horace Goes Skiing? Having given admins the nod that the pre-release Windows 10 2004 was good to go for the Windows Server Update Service, Microsoft did what Microsoft does and changed it.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#500CP)
Hardware is hard Cisco has begun a new round of job cuts as the networking giant's traditional hardware business faces slowing sales.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#500CQ)
Microsoft Surface Duo in mind? Hands On Google has updated Android studio with support for multiple virtual displays, a new split view for the layout designer, and view binding to make it easier to interact with GUI components.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5006J)
May we present the BSOD on Wheels Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another instalment in The Register's irregular look at tech behaving badly in public. Today we present Bork on Wheels.…
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by John Oates on (#5006M)
Interim managers ready to go. £93m budget locked and loaded. No lets not talk about the size of the US National Quantum Initiative Program An interim management team for the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQQC) has been named with responsibility to get the centre built and sketch out its priorities.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#5006P)
Where do I see myself in five years' time? On parole with a bit of luck Something for the Weekend, Sir? We all have something to hide. But as I hinted last week, probably the worst way to keep it hidden is by uploading a video of it to social media.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5001D)
The heat was on, risin' to the top / Everybody's goin' strong, and that's when the SPARC got hot On Call Welcome to On Call, The Register's weekly dip into the big bag of woe unleashed by users on those responsible for picking up the telephone.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5001E)
Germans didn't think goofball film title was 'morally unacceptable', judges rule The phrase "fack ju" can be registered as a trademark, according to an EU court which overruled a group of offended trademark lawyers.…
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by John Oates on (#5001G)
They got it back – after reneging any claim against Uncle Sam for damages A Brighton-based ad agency is scratching its collective head after its website was effectively seized by US Homeland Security.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZZWV)
Sueball lobbed at OneAudience Data-driven ad biz Facebook filed a lawsuit in a San Francisco federal court on Thursday against another info-snarfing company for allegedly breaking the social network's rules for gathering personal details.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZZRN)
Any love for Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, WebAssembly? Bueller? Bueller? Microsoft's roadmap for developing Windows applications is opposed by some programmers who want to see a cross-platform solution, rather than just being Windows-only.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZZRQ)
Not OK Google: Android, Siri sink in SurfingAttack Video Voice commands encoded in ultrasonic waves can, best case scenario, silently activate a phone's digital assistant, and order it to do stuff like read out text messages and make phone calls, we're told.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZZGK)
Big names drop out of GDC, HP axes partner event, stock markets in free fall Growing concern over the spread of the novel Wuhan coronavirus has prompted Epic Games, Microsoft, and Unity to announce on Thursday that they are withdrawing from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next month. Facebook has also cancelled the meet-and-greet part of its F8 developer conference in May.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZZGN)
D-list cinematic eye-gouger catches heat for million-dollar funbucks bung Improbable Hollywood ninja Steven Seagal has been fined by America's financial watchdog for hiding details about a paid promotion he did for a crypto-coin investment upstart.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#4ZZ7F)
Google-funded think tanks need to sit back and, er, have a think Campaigners have reacted angrily to Oracle's decision to fund the Internet Accountability Project (IAP), a lobby group which has – surprisingly enough – supported Oracle's claim against Google in the US Supreme Court.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZYXG)
Soz contractors In a move that will surprise absolutely no one, Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will push ahead with controversial IR35 tax reforms to the disappointment of contractors that hoped the regulation would be halted.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZYXJ)
Hey – there's always Visual SourceSafe, right? Source shack GitHub has taken a tumble today with many users finding pretty much all of its services either degraded or borked beyond belief.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZYXM)
Boring! Where are teh 1337 h4x? We want 1337 h4x The Iranian cybercrime group that was expected to spearhead the rogue Middle East nation's revenge for the US assassination of General Qasem Soleimani has quite the arsenal at its digital fingertips.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZYXN)
Mission Extension Vehicle to the rescue Northrop Grumman's zombie satellite-slaying Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV) has docked to the Intelsat 901 satellite, potentially affording the latter a life extension.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZYXQ)
That US investment would sound pretty good right about now Nokia is reportedly exploring the possibility of a merger or acquisition in the face of intense pressures on profitability.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZYK7)
Wishing there was something new in the Fast Ring? How about a blocking bug? There was good news and bad news for Windows Insiders last night. The good? IT admins can now distribute 20H1 via Microsoft's Windows Server Update Services. The bad? No build for Fast Ringers.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZYK8)
Upvote or Like if 40 days of peace and quiet sounds good to you Pope Francis is calling on the faithful to log off for Lent – eschewing mobile phones and idle chit-chat for a nice quiet commune with God.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZYKA)
Big shiny's little sis sports Apple Pro Max-esque camera placement There are still several weeks until Huawei formally announces its upcoming P40 and P40 Pro flagship smartphones. As a taste of what's to come, the embattled Chinese tech giant has quietly revealed the first device in the lineup: the P40 Lite.…
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Is that Bullet for Me? Redundo clock is ticking for UK staff at both divisions of IBM's Services arm
by Paul Kunert on (#4ZYKC)
200 or more to go as both get 45-day consultations... GTS's will kick off on 4 March IBMers carving out a living in its Services arm are again preparing to enter a 45-day consultation process – meaning at least 100 UK heads will roll at Global Technology Services and a minimum of 100 will leave Global Business Services.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZYKD)
Due dil 101 Today was meant to be Brit security biz Sophos's last day on the London Stock Exchange following its £3bn purchase by a US venture capital company.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZYKE)
It's Amazon how much some people are making off cloud... about Jeffin' $40bn Google will pump more than $10bn into offices and data centres across the US this year as it gears up for a fight with rival clouds Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#4ZYDB)
Redmond no longer expects to meet quarter guidance for personal computing unit In response to the effect of the coronavirus outbreak on Chinese suppliers, Microsoft has cut its sales forecast for Surface tablets and Windows OEM licences.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZYDD)
Firm must pay HMRC's legal costs, rules judge The Court of Appeal has thrown out Aria Technology's efforts to squeeze out of a £300k tax bill after HMRC found £750k of the firm's input tax was not creditable*. Top judges have ordered the company to pay the UK tax collector's legal bills in the case.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZYDF)
Merging search and address bar means more data for the tech giants Microsoft Edge and Yandex are "much more worrisome" compared to Brave, Chrome, Firefox and Safari, according to a paper on browser privacy (PDF) published this week.…
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by Team Register on (#4ZY8G)
Last chance to save £100s on DevOps, containers, and CI/CD extravaganza Event If you want to join us at our Continuous Lifecycle London conference in May, and save a packet now, don't hang around – our early-bird ticket offer finishes this weekend.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZY8H)
Elon Musk confirms car-sized space rock isn't his Tesla Roadster Vid Earth has a mini-moon: a space rock close enough to be a near-Earth asteroid spotted this month orbiting our planet.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZY8K)
Driver gets a-weigh with Chromebook thefts and doesn't get away with it Gevorg Kevliyan, a resident of Decatur, Alabama, was sentenced earlier this month to a year in prison and three years of supervised release – for stealing 900 Acer Chromebook laptops from a truck he'd been hired to drive.…
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