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Rapid7 found Apple’s Safari browser, as well as the Opera Mini and Yandex browsers, were vulnerable to JavaScript-based address bar spoofing.…
Posted on 24 October 2020 | 7:14 am
GitHub has hidden from view the source code and downloads of YouTube-DL, a popular open-source tool used for saving YouTube videos to disk, at the request of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 11:23 pm
Updated Many Mac users today found, to their surprise, they are unable to print to their HP Inc printers.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 8:42 pm
US sanctions are starting to have a pronounced impact on Huawei’s financials, with the embattled Chinese telco reporting just single digit year-on-year growth for the first three quarters of 2020.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 8:04 pm
Six years after it considered putting itself up for sale, dotcom era data wrangler Tibco is set to buy Information Builders, a privately held data management biz with a 45-year history.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 7:03 pm
Palo Alto Networks has threatened a startup with legal action after the smaller biz published a comparison review of one of its products.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 5:58 pm
If you thought things couldn’t get any more weird right about now, then this may be the nadir of an already odd 2020: COVID-19; Trump being Trump; a likely hard Brexit; and now someone working in tech rapping about SQL Server has just released some sounds.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 5:10 pm
The European Union has imposed sanctions on a Russian military malware developer and the commander of Russia’s MI6 equivalent, a mere five years after the two targeted Germany's parliament with a cyberattack.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 4:20 pm
Ubuntu 20.10 is out, with Canonical highlighting its Raspberry Pi support, including not only desktop support but also micro clouds based on MicroK8s, the company's lightweight Kubernetes distribution.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 3:15 pm
Remote working is the gift that keeps on giving, as Microsoft's workforce reacted glumly to the Windows giant's plan to push back the reopening of its US offices.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 2:20 pm
The NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app for England and Wales* has a major flaw. Yes, another one. People told to self-isolate by the app are unable to access a code required to claim a £500 financial support grant.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 1:25 pm
Forrester has offered its contribution to the pantheon of failed predictions gathering smart-dust in the broom cupboard of IT history with its assertion that blockchain is coming to polish up AI's tarnished image.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 12:30 pm
Interview Patent assertion entities: do not pick a fight with open source. It won't end well for you. This is the message from GNOME Foundation executive director Neil McGovern, who will speak on the subject at the Open Source Summit Europe next week.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 11:23 am
Six months after OnePlus released a flagship, it followed with a slightly upgraded refresh of the same device. You can distinguish these souped-up variants from their predecessors by the "T" in the name. One such device is the OnePlus 8T — an affordable 5G powerhouse.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 10:28 am
Something for the Weekend, Sir? People say I don’t care but I do. I care a lot.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 9:28 am
Bork!Bork!Bork! The best borks are the simplest, and today's is no exception. A black screen, a plaintive message, and a nugget of the Colonel's menu for the hungry masses has been lost.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 8:30 am
Machine-learning algorithms analyzing human communication can predict whether someone will develop Alzheimer’s disease more accurately than standard biomedical screening, say IBM and Pfizer.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 7:54 am
On Call One of the hardest tasks in IT is giving a user what they need, while also persuading them it's what they want. Join us for another tale from our weekly On Call column where a Register reader achieved the seemingly impossible.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 7:15 am
Russia has apparently given super-leaker and former NSA sysadmin Edward Snowden de facto permanent residence.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 6:34 am
Promo Data scientists like to think of themselves as doing the sexiest job of the 21st century, but it’s only because data engineers let them think that way.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 6:00 am
Donald Trump's Twitter password was easily guessed, and he still isn't using multi-factor authentication, claims a Dutch hacker who on Thursday bragged he broke into the President's account last week. Twitter says it has "no evidence" this claim is true.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 5:36 am
Facebook wants to host some of your customer data, an offer that hurts its own partner community.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 5:15 am
Through most of 2020 bans on Chinese apps have meant geopolitical strife, but China yesterday revealed it has started banning some of its own apps.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 4:27 am
Taiwanese chip-maker United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) will plead guilty to theft of trade secrets from Micron Technologies and pay a $60m fine to the USA.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 2:58 am
Intel shares dived today after it revealed a steep slump in enterprise and government sales of its server chips – and delays to its latest Xeons.…
Posted on 23 October 2020 | 1:35 am
The FBI and the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Thursday issued a joint warning that a Kremlin hacking crew is probing or breaking into systems belonging to the US government and aviation industry.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 11:39 pm
With the inevitability of death and taxes, Microsoft-owned Mojang is to require players have a Microsoft account for all its games, including the Java Edition of Minecraft.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 7:28 pm
Rise of the Machines Boeing has successfully taxied its Loyal Wingman robot fighter jet around an airfield, a key milestone for the aircraft to operate fully autonomously.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 6:09 pm
Amid grumbling from lawmakers, Microsoft has pushed out a fresh diversity report, sprinkling the odd "must try harder" among the corporate back slappery.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 5:01 pm
Beleaguered mobile biz Huawei’s Consumer Business Group has rolled out its newest flagship devices: the Mate 40 and Mate 40 Pro.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 4:23 pm
Fresh from nudging the October 2020 Update out of the door, Microsoft has emitted an update to next year's Windows 10 in the form of a fresh Insider Dev Channel build.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 3:19 pm
French-headquartered IT outsourcer Sopra Steria has been struck by a “cyberattack,” reportedly linked to the Ryuk ransomware gang.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 2:37 pm
The OpenTelemetry community has taken another step toward General Availability with the first release candidate of the tracing specification.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 1:55 pm
Jony Ive’s design firm LoveFrom has inked a deal with the app-that-takes-a-cut-of-users'-holiday-rentals Airbnb in a multi-year “special relationship,” the short-term gig economy rental platform said today.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 1:13 pm
Microsoft co-founder and long-serving ex-CEO Bill Gates has admitted naivety in his dealings with Washington around the software giant’s fabled antitrust case with the US Department of Justice (DoJ).…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 12:53 pm
Samsung phones will soon come with automatic spam call blocking. The feature, which is part of Samsung Smart Call, will debut on the Galaxy Note20 and will roll out to all new devices released after 2020.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 11:44 am
In Brief There was good news for International Space Station (ISS) residents this week as the crew managed to plug a leak in the orbiting laboratory. While never an immediate threat to the crew's safety, nobody likes knowing that air is escaping overboard.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 10:55 am
NHS Shared Business Services, the joint venture between the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care and French outsourcing firm Sopra Steria, has awarded a £500m framework to an army of resellers and technology firms.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 10:10 am
You’ve got the TV. You splashed out on the sound system. But do you have the paint? That’s the question posed by Samsung, which just introduced LivingColour — a range of paint designed to cover the wall behind your pricey flat-screen idiot box.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 9:25 am
The value of Bitcoin spiked on Wednesday after PayPal said it would soon start accepting cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin, through its online payment system.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 8:39 am
Video NASA on Wednesday released images and video footage of the moment this week when its OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft scooped some dirt from the asteroid Bennu, some 200 million miles away. The plan is to send the sample back to Earth for boffins to study.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 7:48 am
HPE will build a Cray EX supercomputer for scientific and AI research in Europe, using AMD Epyc processors and GPUs, it announced on Wednesday.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 7:04 am
Analysis When OpenStack announced itself on July 19, 2010, it gave itself a mission “to produce the ubiquitous OpenSource Cloud Computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private clouds regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.”…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 6:27 am
Microsoft has announced yet another cloud region, this time in Austria.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 4:16 am
Updated Menacing emails to Democratic voters, telling them to vote for Donald Trump in the upcoming US elections or else, were sent by Iran, US intelligence claimed on Wednesday night.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 2:03 am
Video-streaming upstart Quibi, which tried to differentiate itself from the likes of Netflix by offering episodes that only ran for 10 minutes max, will close its doors.…
Posted on 22 October 2020 | 12:22 am
Never mind the Feds. American police forces routinely "circumvent most security features" in smartphones to extract mountains of personal information, according to a report that details the massive, ubiquitous cracking of devices by cops.…
Posted on 21 October 2020 | 11:34 pm
Analysis The powerful US telco lobby has come out fighting against an outsider and its efforts to snaffle tens of billions of dollars worth of much-needed 5G spectrum.…
Posted on 21 October 2020 | 9:53 pm
Hackers are breaking into online loyalty card accounts using stolen credentials or easily obtainable information, and then not only ransacking the profiles' balances but also harvesting victims' personal data for subsequent identity theft, Akamai has warned.…
Posted on 21 October 2020 | 8:25 pm
Oracle has released its final quarterly batch of patches for the year for security flaws in its products. The total this time? 402 fixes, the bulk of which are rated critical in terms of severity.…
Posted on 21 October 2020 | 6:32 pm