22nd September 2021 Archive • The Register

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Break out your emergency change process and patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware

File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server - and is being exploited in the wild

22 Sep 2021 | 8

Japan, Singapore, perhaps the whole world.... Get ready for robot waiters from Softbank and Keenon

Automation is the answer to labor shortages, social distancing, apparently

22 Sep 2021 | 25

Philippines approves digital services tax on streaming services, apps, even SaaS

Digital imports aren't currently taxed at all, and COVID means the government is keen to find new revenue sources

22 Sep 2021 | 5

Swift 5.5 unleashed with async keyword to fix 'pyramid of doom', plus other changes in 'massive release'

Full concurrency model at last

22 Sep 2021 | 19

Court of Appeal says AI software cannot be listed as patent inventor

'A patent is a statutory right and it can only be granted to a person'

22 Sep 2021 | 45

Nutanix says cloud is a concept, not a place – and guess who it reckons has nailed the concept?

Adds security and networking to platform, hoping you use it to repatriate apps

UK's Civil Aviation Authority hashing out rules for crash-proof cargo pods on drones

Project wins £50k from government

22 Sep 2021 | 23

An easier way to Flutter? Custom functions improve visual code builder but devs may still be frustrated

FlutterFlow is a visual application builder for the popular framework

22 Sep 2021 | 6

Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship

Meaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response

22 Sep 2021 | 91

UK civil courts award £10m contract to Version 1 Solutions for end-to-end online processing

Digitisation of the justice system still delivering value for money

22 Sep 2021 | 2

Google experiments with user-choice-defying Android search box

Apple-flavored approach running as test 'for a small percentage of users'

22 Sep 2021 | 41

'Large-scale computing' needs a government team driving it, says UK.gov

Report from the Government Office for Science lays out the hurdles to supercomputing relevance

22 Sep 2021 | 13

Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition

Mozilla, Apple register dismay as worries surface over privacy, potential crypto mining behind user's back

22 Sep 2021 | 37

Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol found leaking hundreds of thousands of credentials

Email clients fail over to unexpected domains if they can't find the right resources

22 Sep 2021 | 58

Thatcher-era ICL mainframe fingered for failure to pay out over £1bn in UK pensions

Three or four unconnected systems required for casework leading – unsurprisingly – to errors

22 Sep 2021 | 41

First RISC-V computer chip lands at the European Processor Initiative

EPAC accelerator runs its first 'Hello, World!' in-silico

22 Sep 2021 | 24

Ubuntu-on-a-phone folks UBports emit OTA-19, warn some devices face the chop in future

This could very well be the last release based on 16.04

22 Sep 2021 | 2

Ofcom swears at the general public for five days during obscenity survey

'Warning: this report contains highly offensive language and discussion of content which may cause offence'

22 Sep 2021 | 80

Mobile mobile museum looks to chart the history of portable phones

25-year-strong collection of 2,000 handsets covers 1984 to the present day

22 Sep 2021 | 14

Nvidia cosies up to Open Robotics for hardware-accelerated ROS

Hopes to tempt roboticists over to its Jetson platform with new simulation features, drop-in acceleration code

22 Sep 2021 | 2

Hellfire and damnation: Two French monks charged over 5G mast arson attack

What in the blazes?

22 Sep 2021 | 66

More than three years after last release, X.Org Server 21.1.0 RC1 appears

Back from the brink with new features

22 Sep 2021 | 48

Lithuania tells its citizens to throw Xiaomi mobile devices in the bin

Baltic state's cyber security centre uncovers remote censorship blocklist function in Mi 10T handset

22 Sep 2021 | 64

Britain publishes 10-year National Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Aw, look. It wants to be a 'global science superpower'

22 Sep 2021 | 18

Salesforce should rename its Dreamforce conference to Feverdreamforce because this is getting ridiculous

Apropos of nothing, here's Lionel Ritchie

22 Sep 2021 | 7

Apple tried to patch this security hole in macOS Finder but didn't consider upper and lowercase characters

file:// is blocked? Oh OK, we'll just use File:// or fiLE://...

22 Sep 2021 | 38

Zoom's $15bn merger with Five9 probed by Uncle Sam for national security risks

Vid-chat giant's ties to China under the microscope by AG-led panel

22 Sep 2021 | 7

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