SCC11 We spent a few minutes talking to Team China before they submitted their final results for the 2011 Student Cluster Competition. They're happy and had a good time, but it's hard to figure out how they gauge their chances. We'll find out soon....
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Quality control, Soviet style: Here's another fine message you've gotten me into
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Stuxnet sibling theory surges after Iran says nuke facility shut down by electrical fault
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FCC urges Americans to run internet speed app to counter Big Cable's broadband data fudging
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Nominet chooses civil war over compromise by rejecting ex-BBC Trust chairman
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Bless you: Yep, it's IBM's new name for tech services spinoff and totally not a hayfever medicine
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In the enterprise, Kubernetes has to play by the same rules as other platforms
Shortcuts? What shortcuts!Continue readingSponsored Without a doubt, Kubernetes is the most important thing that has happened in enterprise computing in the past two decades, rivalling the transformation that swept over the datacenter with server virtualization, first in the early 2000s on RISC/Unix platforms and then during the Great Recession when commercial-grade server virtualization became available on X86 platforms at precisely the moment it was most needed.
All things being equal, the industry would have probably preferred to go straight to containers, which are lighter weight than server virtualization and which are designed explicitly for service-oriented architectures – now called microservices – but it is the same idea of chopping code into smaller chunks so it can be maintained, extended, or replaced piecemeal.
This is precisely why Google spent so much time in the middle 2000s creating what are now seen as relatively rudimentary Linux containers and the Borg cluster and container controllers. Seven years ago, as it was unclear what the future platform might look like; OpenStack, which came out of NASA and Rackspace Hosting, was a contender, and so was Mesos, which came out of Twitter, but Kubernetes, inspired by Borg and adopting a universal container format derived from Docker, has won.
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Cracked copies of Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop steal your session cookies, browser history, crypto-coins
It's like the 2000s all over again, sighs BitdefenderContinue readingCracked copies of Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop are stealing browser session cookies and Monero cryptocurrency wallets from tightwads who install the pirated software, Bitdefender has warned.
As many Reg readers will no doubt be aware, cracked software is a legitimate application that has had its registration or licensing features removed. Often distributed through BitTorrent in the days of yore, cracked software (also known as warez) appeal mainly to freeloaders who are happy to use a particular suite without paying for a licence.
With Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop being two of the most popular software suites in their niches, cracked versions were always going to be popular.
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Microsoft's Surface Laptop 4 now includes AMD options for biz customers, boasts up to 19 hours of battery life
Surface Headphones 2+ also available and a range of 'Modern' kit coming in the next few monthsContinue readingMicrosoft has opened the order books on the fourth generation of its Surface Laptop, replete with Intel-baiting AMD chippery in the line-up.
Blessedly free of an overexcited Microsoft bigwig describing himself as "pumped" at the sight of some relatively pedestrian hardware, Microsoft's Surface Laptop 4 has arrived in 13.5 and 15-inch guise with a variety of Intel and AMD silicon to choose from.
The new AMD chips are an important update; previously, consumers could select a Surface Laptop 3 not powered by Intel, but businesses were directed Chipzilla's way. This time around a range of updated Intel and AMD silicon is on offer to both customer types.
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You know what? Fork this: AWS renames its take on Elasticsearch to OpenSearch following trademark fight
Beta expected in a matter of weeks, production release planned for summerContinue readingAWS has introduced the OpenSearch project, the new name for its open-source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana.
OpenSearch is "the new home for our previous distribution of Elasticsearch (Open Distro for Elasticsearch)," according to a post yesterday, and the code is licensed under Apache 2.0. The Kibana fork is called OpenSearch Dashboards.
The projects are on GitHub, where they are described as "in alpha state." The contributors said: "We've been removing non-Apache 2.0 compliant code and doing a full rename of the project."
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Northrop Grumman's MEV-2 gives Intelsat satellite a new lease on life until the next rescue in another five years
After 17 years into a 13-year mission, that's not badContinue readingNorthrop Grumman's second Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV) has docked with Intelsat's IS-10-02 satellite, potentially extending the life of the latter by five years.
Launched in 2004, IS-10-02 delivers broadband and media services over Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South America. Half of its Ku band payload is owned by Telenor Satellite, which contributed to the MEV mission.
Dubbed MEV-2, the spacecraft's mission differed from last year's successful demonstration with Intelsat's IS-901 satellite. This time around the docking occurred directly in the satellite's operational GEO orbit location, a first for the MEV fleet.
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Unity devs warned of breaking changes ahead in video game engine as team gets to grips with mutating face of .NET
Support has fallen behind and fixing it is a challengeContinue readingUnity software developer Josh Peterson has spoken about the future of .NET support in the widely used game development engine.
Use in game development is one of the bright spots for C# popularity, according to a survey late last year, but its use in Unity is somewhat messy.
The C# scripting engine is based on Mono but developers may also use .NET Framework when running on Windows. Mono is the old open-source implementation of .NET, from before Microsoft itself came out with .NET Core. Microsoft acquired the stewardship of Mono with Xamarin in 2016, and Mono now shares substantial code with .NET Core, but it remains distinct and the runtime is still used in some scenarios.
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Salesforce's get-back-to-work strategy starts with 'Volunteer Vaccinated Cohorts' on designated floors
Sounds kind of like a vaccination passport for California officesContinue readingSalesforce has waded into the heated debate over vaccine passports, suggesting they may be a means of getting employees back into the office. Just don't call them vaccine passports.
According to the SaaSy CRM vendor, Volunteer Vaccinated Cohorts of protected employees will be able to join groups of 100 or fewer people to work on designated floors in certain offices, starting with San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Irvine from next month.
In the US and Europe, debate rages about vaccine passports or any means of restricting access to events or services according to an individual's vaccination status. New York State created its own digital pass while Florida and Texas attempted to outlaw them, for example.
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Key Perl Core developer quits, says he was bullied for daring to suggest programming language contained 'cruft'
'After saying this, I immediately received hostile messages' says pumpking of version 5.xContinue readingOn Monday, the Perl Core developer known as Sawyer X announced his intention to leave the three-person Perl Steering Committee, or Council, and the Perl Core group because of what he described as community hostility.
Sawyer X, who became "pumpking" – manager of the core Perl 5 language – in 2016 when he took over that role from Ricardo Signes, explained his rationale for departing in a post to a Perl discussion list.
"Due to the continuous abusive behavior by prominent Perl community members and just about anyone else who also feels entitled to harass me (and unfortunately, other Core developers), I am stepping down from the Steering Council, from the Perl security list, and from the Perl Core," Sawyer said, adding that he is stepping down from the Perl Foundation's Grants Committee and that he will not be speaking at or attending the next Perl conference.
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UK government opens vaccine floodgates to over-45s, NHS website predictably falls over
Looks like classic case of failing to scale to meet inevitable demandContinue readingThe UK's National Health Service is now offering COVID-19 vaccines to those aged 45 and above however the volume of interest has made the appointment-booking website prone to wobbles.
Despite an impressive take-up by the over-50s, it appears healthcare bigwigs did not anticipate the demand once the over-45s were permitted to join in. If only there was some record of just how many there are in that age group.
The brakes were taken off last night as the vaccines became available to "all adults over 50, the clinically vulnerable and health and social care workers," although some might quibble with the definition of "clinically vulnerable."
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Joint UK government procurement seeks supplier to support controversial Clean Air Zone system
A hot £22m for a bit of CAZ-ual software supportContinue readingThe UK government is on the hunt for a supplier to support and maintain the software behind its controversial Clean Air Zone (CAZ) policy in a tender that could result in a £22m contract.
In February 2016, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department of Transport formed a Joint Air Quality Unit (JAQU) to help tackle NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) pollution in UK cities.
NO2 pollution resulting from the diesel exhaust of cars, trucks, buses, and vans in cities can trigger and exacerbate existing asthma symptoms, or may lead to the development of asthma over longer periods of time. Additionally, it reacts with sunlight to form ozone, which is also damaging to the lungs.
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Average British computer criminal is young, male and not highly skilled, researcher finds
Analysis of Computer Misuse Act cases also draws heavily on El Reg archivesContinue readingAn academic researcher has analysed more than 100 Computer Misuse Act cases to paint a picture of the sort of computer-enabled criminals who plague Great Britain’s digital doings in the 21st Century.
The average Computer Misuse Act convict is likely to be a semi- or low-skilled individual, mostly working alone and more likely than not to have no knowledge of his or her victim, James Crawford of Royal Holloway, University of London, found.
In a “technical report” analysing a decade of publicly reported cases, Crawford looked at the apparent skillsets of crooks convicted under the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) before examining their motivations and demographics.
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