Episode 21
BOFH: What if International Bad Actors designed the vaccine to make us watch more Steven Seagal movies?
Pipe down – Nicolas Cage could be listening
Bootnotes
Desktop bust and custom iPhone 13 Pro made from melted-down Tesla car for the Elon Musk dork in your life
Just $8,300!
On Call
Swooping in to claim the glory while the On Call engineer stands baffled
Backups or crack-ups? Welcome to the world of the IBM System/3
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
You forced me to use this fancypants app and now you're asking for a printout?
'Just take the meds, Mr Sloper, and enjoy your holiday'
Applications
Chat among yourselves: New EU law may force the big IM platforms to open up
Send an iMessage to Facebook, and we'll talk
26 Nov 20:36 | 6
Networks
Sweden asks EU to ban Bitcoin mining because while hydroelectric power is cheap, they need it for other stuff
Lighting and warming homes in winter, or ransoming encrypted files and buying drugs? Hmmm
26 Nov 19:32 | 58
Paid Feature
Device-as-a-service is the next pandemic-accelerated trend
This is a good thing. Lenovo explains why
26 Nov 18:30 |
Analysis
The rocky road to better Linux software installation: Containers, containers, containers
Let's be real: Everyone is trying to catch up with Apple
26 Nov 17:25 | 22
Security
EU needs more cybersecurity graduates, says ENISA infosec agency – pointing at growing list of master's degree courses
Skills gap needs filling somehow
26 Nov 16:37 | 3
Science
Nuclear fusion firm Pulsar fires up a UK-built hybrid rocket engine
A win in the rocketry world: 'Flames came out of the right end'
26 Nov 15:20 | 34
Applications
Bad news for Tencent: Chinese companies steer employees away from Weixin or WeChat
Middle Kingdom's internet giant: It's a switch to enterprise apps. Try ours?
26 Nov 14:27 | 13
Security
Privacy Sandbox saga continues: UK watchdog extracts more commitments from Google over ad tech
Roll up, roll up. Come and be the CMA-approved trustee to keep an eye on the Chocolate Factory's antics
26 Nov 13:33 | 9
Security
Government-favoured child safety app warned it could violate the UK's Investigatory Powers Act with message-scanning tech
Redesigned SafeToNet feature highlights tech law mess
26 Nov 12:23 | 34
Personal Tech
Reviving a classic: ThinkPad modder rattles tin to fund new motherboard for 2008's T60 and T61 series of laptops
When vendors don't update old models, someone must step up
26 Nov 11:28 | 29
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
You forced me to use this fancypants app and now you're asking for a printout?
'Just take the meds, Mr Sloper, and enjoy your holiday'
26 Nov 10:25 | 94
Episode 21
BOFH: What if International Bad Actors designed the vaccine to make us watch more Steven Seagal movies?
Pipe down – Nicolas Cage could be listening
26 Nov 09:30 | 105
On Call
Swooping in to claim the glory while the On Call engineer stands baffled
Backups or crack-ups? Welcome to the world of the IBM System/3
26 Nov 08:31 | 131
Legal
India backs away from digital services tax after US pressure
Will keep taxing, but consider payments as credits for future global tax regime
26 Nov 04:01 | 11
Personal Tech
LG Electronics anoints new CEO, elevates exec who grew laptop biz too
M&A department elevated in importance, gets more resources
26 Nov 00:58 | 1
Personal Tech
Seaberry carrier board turns a Raspberry Pi into a desktop PC with 11 PCIe slots
It's a bit pricey, though
Security
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint laid low. Not by malware, but by another buggy Windows patch
Only affects Windows Server Core, so that's alright then
Security
It’s about the survival of the fittest – CISOs must be brave enough to throw away their security playbook, or suffer the consequences
Advertorial The Vectra Masked CISO series gives security leaders a place to expose the biggest issues in security and advise peers on how to overcome them.
Software
Alpine Linux 3.15 bids a fond farewell to MIPS64 support
LTS Linux kernel – check. Once proud RISC contender? Nope
25 Nov 15:29 | 7
Bootnotes
Desktop bust and custom iPhone 13 Pro made from melted-down Tesla car for the Elon Musk dork in your life
Just $8,300!
25 Nov 14:34 | 52
Off-Prem
AWS chops data transfer fees by massive extension of free tier – 2 months after rival previewed R2 Storage
Customer: 'I should send Cloudflare a Christmas card to say thanks'
25 Nov 13:29 | 6
Software
Academics tell Brit MPs to check the software used when considering reproducibility in science and tech research
It's seldom subject to the same rigour as conventional apparatus
25 Nov 12:33 | 82
Legal
Autonomy accounts whistleblowers may testify at founder Mike Lynch's US criminal trial
Recent legal wranglings sliced, diced, and dished up for your reading pleasure
25 Nov 11:28 | 7
Interview
ESA's Solar Orbiter will swing past Earth this week – sure hope nobody created a big cloud of space junk up there
Oh wait
25 Nov 10:33 | 30
Security
UK.gov emits draft IoT and smartphone security law for Parliamentary scrutiny
Mandatory vuln reporting, hefty fines for non-compliance
25 Nov 09:30 | 49
Poll
Robotaxis freed to charge across 60km2 of Beijing
Baidu's Apollo tech exits testing phase, so punters must now pay the machine for a ride. Would you?
25 Nov 07:56 | 49
Security
Google advises passwords are good, spear phishing is bad, and free clouds get attacked
Ad giant's first stab at providing the 'world's premier security advisory' starts with the obvious
Software
Giant Japanese corporations to launch bank-backed digital currency
Central bank and government to observe effort run by railways, telcos, industrial titans, and private banks
Security
Huawei's AppGallery riddled with malware-infected games
Updated Cynos.7 trojan found its way into 9.3 million downloads
Break point: Lens, Kong Mesh, Spring Boot, Git Tower, and Amazon AppStream
PHP 8.1 presents web developers with the gift of enums, Fibers, and readonly props
JetBrains updates data-related tooling with support for versioning efforts, Zeppelin and remote notebook use
Feeling safe yet? GitLab 14.5 introduces security scanning for infra as code config files
Security
US bans Chinese firms – including one linked to HPE’s China JV – for feeding tech to Beijing's military
Other additions to Entity List are accused of helping Pakistan, North Korea make nukes, missiles
25 Nov 01:11 | 30
Personal Tech
Kremlin names the internet giants it will kidnap the Russian staff of if they don't play ball in future
Nice employees you have, be a shame if something were to happen to them
25 Nov 00:44 | 127
Science
Theranos' Holmes admits she slapped Big Pharma logos on lab reports to boost her biz
'I wish I had done it differently' she tells jury in fraud trial
24 Nov 23:10 | 48
Systems Approach
SmartNICs, IPUs, DPUs de-hyped: Why and how cloud giants are offloading work from server CPUs
Where this technology grew from, and what it offers you
24 Nov 21:09 | 4
PaaS + IaaS
Microsoft extends 'outage mode' for Azure Active Directory to bake more resilience into cloudy services
But Redmond has bigger questions to answer regarding Azure architecture
24 Nov 19:08 | 12
Networks
AWS claims 'monumental step forward' with optional IPv6-only networks
10 quintillion IP addresses per subnet but expect some pain
24 Nov 18:04 | 7
Webinar
Five data centers, 150TB images downloaded weekly, 1m+ cores – Now, that’s a storage challenge
Find out exactly how Workday and Red Hat cracked it
24 Nov 17:00 |
Personal Tech
Dell: We and our customers understand the supply constraints now. The 'wildcard is logistics'
Over at rival HP, the story is more about building too many Chromebooks and watching demand for them ebb away
24 Nov 16:32 | 7
Popular
On Call
Swooping in to claim the glory while the On Call engineer stands baffled
Backups or crack-ups? Welcome to the world of the IBM System/3
Episode 21
BOFH: What if International Bad Actors designed the vaccine to make us watch more Steven Seagal movies?
Pipe down – Nicolas Cage could be listening
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
You forced me to use this fancypants app and now you're asking for a printout?
'Just take the meds, Mr Sloper, and enjoy your holiday'
Networks
Sweden asks EU to ban Bitcoin mining because while hydroelectric power is cheap, they need it for other stuff
Lighting and warming homes in winter, or ransoming encrypted files and buying drugs? Hmmm
Personal Tech
Reviving a classic: ThinkPad modder rattles tin to fund new motherboard for 2008's T60 and T61 series of laptops
When vendors don't update old models, someone must step up
Science
Nuclear fusion firm Pulsar fires up a UK-built hybrid rocket engine
A win in the rocketry world: 'Flames came out of the right end'
Analysis
The rocky road to better Linux software installation: Containers, containers, containers
Let's be real: Everyone is trying to catch up with Apple
Personal Tech
LG Electronics anoints new CEO, elevates exec who grew laptop biz too
M&A department elevated in importance, gets more resources
Security
Government-favoured child safety app warned it could violate the UK's Investigatory Powers Act with message-scanning tech
Redesigned SafeToNet feature highlights tech law mess
Security
Privacy Sandbox saga continues: UK watchdog extracts more commitments from Google over ad tech
Roll up, roll up. Come and be the CMA-approved trustee to keep an eye on the Chocolate Factory's antics
STORIES
Storage
Hyperconverged infrastructure provider Nutanix reports bigger loss than turnover
Hardware supply chain issues? Somebody else's problem, guv
Security
Max Schrems hits Irish Data Protection Commissioner with corruption complaint
Watchdog argues 'fairness' in process should keep some documents confidential
Software
Microsoft restores Remote Assistance to Intune – this time as a premium feature
Customers accuse Redmond of making standard functionality a pricey extra
Security
Apple's Pegasus lawsuit a 'declaration of war' against offensive software developers, says Kaspersky director
Regional exec says Apple wants offensive researchers out of the field because they are harmful to the reputation of the company
24 Nov 13:12 | 74
Science
NASA boffins seem to think we're worth saving from fiery asteroid death so they're shooting a spaceship at one
Bruce Willis not required
24 Nov 12:28 | 71
Analysis
European carriers push for more OpenRAN support... but it might not end in a win
'Many appear to placing huge bets on it as a replacement for Huawei'
24 Nov 11:44 | 3
Security
How a malicious Android app could covertly turn the DSP in your MediaTek-powered phone into an eavesdropping bug
Millions of devices potentially vulnerable, we're told
24 Nov 11:00 | 21
Review
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s: Impressively average, which is how corporate buyers like it
This is likely what the IT dept would chuck the regular user
24 Nov 10:15 | 121
Science
LoRa to the Moon and back: Messages bounced off lunar surface using off-the-shelf hardware
... and a damn big radio telescope
24 Nov 09:30 | 49
Personal Tech
Apple, Amazon fined to the tune of €200m for colluding over Beats headphones sales
Trillion-dollar giants vow to appeal against penalties that amount to just a few hours of profit
24 Nov 08:29 | 33
Virtualization
VMware waiting for Tanzu take-off, tops guidance as customers kick tyres
Clouds and hardware types queueing up to talk now Virtzilla is free of Dell
24 Nov 07:53 | 1
Software
India to ban private cryptocurrency, create official version instead
Description of new 'Official Digital Currency Bill' appears to allow general use of blockchain
24 Nov 06:45 | 4
Networks
Mature networking vendor seeks flexible commitment from software suitors
Cisco’s new software license agreement means one payment can cover code and services
24 Nov 05:57 | 3
On-Prem
Yeehaw, y'all! Texas done got itself a honkin' new Samsung semiconductor plant
$17B worth of chip factory will go nicely with the big BBQ joints in the town of Taylor
24 Nov 04:58 | 25
Security
China trying to export its Great Firewall and governance model
Beware of Communists bearing internet governance proposals, says Australian Strategic Policy Institute
24 Nov 02:56 | 28
Networks
Should be easy to win the rights to .tv when you're name-checked in the contract's tech reqs – right, Afilias?
Funny how this has happened again
23 Nov 23:40 | 25
Security
Apple sues 'amoral 21st century mercenaries' NSO for infecting iPhones with Pegasus spyware
iGiant pledges any damages plus $10m to anti-cybersurveillance groups
23 Nov 20:58 | 83
Security
Zero-day proof-of-concept exploit lands for Windows make-me-admin vulnerability
InstallerFileTakeOver code pops up on GitHub
23 Nov 20:21 | 9
Science
Genetically modified E coli bacteria produce ink for 3D printing programmable objects
Drug delivery, environmental clean up, building in space among possible applications
23 Nov 19:35 | 12
Security
Crypto for cryptographers! Infosec types revolt against use of ancient abbreviation by Bitcoin and NFT devotees
Poll Complaints abound that yoof use it to mean 'digital currency'
HPC
Think exascale isn’t for you? It’s going to hit your enterprise sooner than you think
Webinar Find out how by joining us online next month
Software
PHP Foundation formed to fund core developers, vows to pay 'market salaries'
Scripting language's dependency on two contributors sparks worries about its future
PAID FEATURES
When digital transformation is the goal, network renovation isn’t good enough
Keeping secure with iomart in the second wave of SD-WAN
Carbon negative supercomputing is closer than it appears
Lenovo: Carbon neutral energy sources and green recycled energy are the key
Machine learning can improve your public services. Are you ready to take the red pill?
This briefing takes you through the matrix and steers you past the dark side
Putting security into DevOps is tougher than it looks
Cultural issues are the first thing to overcome, says Red Hat
Security
Alleged Brit SIM-swapper will kill himself if extradited to US for trial, London court told
'Exceptional' case involves 100 BTC payoff, judge told
23 Nov 16:10 | 71
Updated
Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say
Welcome to 'The First Rust Governance Crisis'
23 Nov 15:24 | 149
PaaS + IaaS
A bug introduced 6 months ago brought Google's Cloud Load Balancer to its knees
Another 30 minutes and there would have been nothing to see
23 Nov 14:21 | 14
AI + ML
UK data guardian challenges government proposals on automated decision-making
Plans to change UK regulations could mean a 'significant departure' from EU law, watchdog says
23 Nov 13:33 | 34
Bootnotes
Joint venture: Uber Eats to offer weed orders in Ontario
O Cannabis! Meanwhile, ride biz back to court in the UK over driver contracts
23 Nov 12:37 | 17
Off-Prem
Economy class: AWS points set-your-own-cap Fleets service at cloudy desktop apps
Do users dream of Elastic fleets?
23 Nov 11:45 | 2
OSes
Patching Windows Server without needing to reboot is a handy feature – but it's only available on Azure
Trampolines and Retpoline: Applying patches at the function level
23 Nov 11:01 | 15
Security
UK Ministry of Justice secures HVAC systems 'protected' by passwordless Wi-Fi after Register tipoff
There's a default admin password online too
23 Nov 10:15 | 35
