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VMware gets into apps with Bluetooth-pinging COVID-safe-office tools

I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault

China slams ‘dirty’ America's ‘clean network’ plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden

Frosty the plaintiff: Yeti Data flings surprise trademark sueball at Snowflake

Angular framework support brings Microsoft's Visual Studio into line with its way cooler little brother, VS Code

Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft, Samsung preview Android on Windows via Your Phone app

UK insurance biz Direct Line drops 'misrepresentation' claims against IBM in £36m database platform lawsuit

Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus

Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Lockbox'

So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk

Chrome Web Store slammed again after 295 ad-injecting, spammy extensions downloaded 80 million times

Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both

Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

New Relic streamlines app monitoring tools, shifts to per-user, pay-as-you-go pricing, adds free tier to lure you in

Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer

Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment

European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy

You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing

That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative

Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge

Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

OnePlus Nord is surprisingly fixable compared to earlier stablemates, but common repairs require disassembly

Geek's Guide

Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating crucial data

The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant

Austria astroboffins shed a little light on how we might track orbital junk hurtling at spacecraft during daytime

Self-driving car supremo Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in the clink for stealing trade secrets from Google's Waymo

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

If you're on invite-only tech-testing scheme, take care with Amazon's Alexa-powered answer to Google's Glass

Microsoft to Cortana: you’re not going out dressed in iOS or Android, young lady!

Verity Stob

Search for 'things of value' in a bank: Iowa cops allege this bloke broke into one and decided on ... hand sanitiser

First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures

The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*

An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day

Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Lockbox'

These are the class-action-suit-joining 'droids lawyers are looking for. (We'll get our coats)

07 Aug 12:23 |

Search for 'things of value' in a bank: Iowa cops allege this bloke broke into one and decided on ... hand sanitiser

Plus: CDC still telling folks not to drink it

07 Aug 11:30 | 1

Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance

I always feel like ... somebody's watching me (and they're doing it continuously)

07 Aug 10:55 |

Angular framework support brings Microsoft's Visual Studio into line with its way cooler little brother, VS Code

Keep up, old-timer

07 Aug 10:10 |

That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative

Doesn't matter if design was perfected at dawn of humankind, you still have to pay Cupertino tax

07 Aug 09:24 | 27

First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures

Reg Standards BureauYou know this, guys: 7.14 linguine. Get with the programme!

07 Aug 08:47 | 17

So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk

DEF CONDemirkapi shows how drivers can be misused for deep pwnage

07 Aug 08:15 |

VMware gets into apps with Bluetooth-pinging COVID-safe-office tools

And expands its Horizons VDI into new clouds

07 Aug 07:38 |

I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault

On CallStiffened sinews and floppy disks

07 Aug 07:15 | 48

Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars

Boffins find atmospheric oddities that make the planet blink in Spring and Autumn

07 Aug 06:53 | 7

Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge

The Middle Kingdom is thought to be a few months further down the road to economic recovery and smartmobes are discretionary purchases

07 Aug 06:29 | 3

Chrome Web Store slammed again after 295 ad-injecting, spammy extensions downloaded 80 million times

Not exactly the first time this has happened, by a very long chalk

07 Aug 06:02 | 6

Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

Last Dynabook shares shuffled off to new owner Sharp

07 Aug 05:05 | 12

Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both

On grounds that they can track users, conduct corporate espionage and oppress Chinese-Americans

07 Aug 03:32 | 39

China slams ‘dirty’ America's ‘clean network’ plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden

‘Everyone can see that the US goal is to keep its monopoly in science and technology’ says Chinese foreign minister

07 Aug 02:40 | 16

Capital One fined $80m for shoddy public cloud security. Yeah, same bank in that 106m customer-record hack

All that money must be wired to the US Treasury immediately

07 Aug 01:22 | 2

Foreshadow returns to the foreground: Secrets-spilling speculative-execution Intel flaw lives on, say boffins

A misunderstanding about the vulnerability means defenses fall short

07 Aug 00:00 | 3

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating crucial data

Spreadsheet woes spanning 16+ years force official update

06 Aug 22:58 | 134

When it comes to hacking societies, Russia remains the master at sowing discord and disinformation online

Black HatChina can't hold a candle to GRU's shenanigans, says expert

06 Aug 21:49 | 30

Intel NDA blueprints – 20GB of source code, schematics, specs, docs – spill onto web from partners-only vault

UpdatedLeaker only 'a bit concerned' about getting sued

06 Aug 19:31 | 17

OnePlus Nord is surprisingly fixable compared to earlier stablemates, but common repairs require disassembly

Drop the heat gun, pal: minimal glue means there's hope for brave butterfingers among you

06 Aug 16:00 | 11

Frosty the plaintiff: Yeti Data flings surprise trademark sueball at Snowflake

Blizzard of litigation ahead of purported $20bn IPO

06 Aug 15:15 | 1

Well, that was quick: Google brutally culls Pixel 4 and 4 XL before successor hits market

They didn't even make it a year

06 Aug 14:35 | 13

Think carefully about cyber insurance, says NCSC. But don't worry about buying off ransomware crooks

Should your policy cover that? Well that's up to you

06 Aug 14:00 | 9

Work-from-home shift trickles down to Western Digital as cloud builders stuff storage in bit barns to meet demand

How to survive a pandemic

06 Aug 13:25 | 1

CSI GitHub: That big outage last month? It's always DNS. Or it was Kubernetes. Maybe it was a heady blend of both

'Impact was increased when a redeploy was triggered in an attempt to mitigate'

06 Aug 12:50 | 2

Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft, Samsung preview Android on Windows via Your Phone app

Continuum reborn? Not quite, and some features are Sammy-only for now

06 Aug 12:15 | 19

Call of duty, modem warfare: Taiwanese Qualcomm rival MediaTek teams up with Intel for first stab at 5G laptop chipset

Reminding Chipzilla of days gone by...

06 Aug 11:47 | 9

EY to outsource compute function, sending 800 staff into the loving arms of... IBM

ExclusiveGlobal Service Delivery Centres in Poland, Argentina, India, China and the Philippines all impacted, as are staff in UK and US

06 Aug 11:15 | 21

Data warehouse firm hopes more will follow Yellowbrick road for real-time analytics, speedy cloud data transfer

But the competition is fierce

06 Aug 10:38 | 1

Oppo Find X2 Neo: We're not getting any slimmer through lockdown, but phones are

ReviewLovely-to-hold blower sadly missing some features for the price

06 Aug 09:54 | 9

National Crime Agency says Brit teen accused of Twitter hack has not been arrested

Bognor Regis man still faces 20 years in clink, though

06 Aug 09:10 | 25

UK insurance biz Direct Line drops 'misrepresentation' claims against IBM in £36m database platform lawsuit

Case continues over failed Project Emerald

06 Aug 08:30 | 19

Arm, Vodafone flex their muscles to show Cisco they’re fighting fit on the edge

Telcos won't give up on the dream of becoming enterprise app stores instead of dumb data pipes

06 Aug 07:58 | 3

TikTok to splurge €420m on Ireland data centre to get Euro-data into Europe by 2022

Nothing but love for regulators, but nothing for hyperscalers despite previous Google Cloud entanglement

06 Aug 07:24 | 12

Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus

UK govt portal among those borked

06 Aug 07:03 | 28

China re-shapes its silicon industry to boost production

The smaller the manufacturing process, the bigger the subsidies

06 Aug 06:32 | 15

The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant

PicOr maybe a spleen? Stomach? Snot bubble? You decide

06 Aug 06:07 | 35

Google creates secure file locker for countries where people often share smartphones

Handy service for India and Nigeria, or feature creep that constricts competition?

06 Aug 05:09 | 7

We Kana believe it! Raspberry Pi Foundation launches Japanese keyboard

Hiragana love this new peripheral after it created all sorts of firmware fun

06 Aug 04:15 | 22

USA decides to cleanse local networks of anything Chinese under new five-point national data security plan

‘Clean Network’ initiative bans use of Chinese clouds, names Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent as compromised

06 Aug 03:31 | 133

Canon not firing on all cylinders: Fledgling cloud loses people's pics'n'vids, then 'Maze ransomware' hits

'We are investigating the situation'

06 Aug 02:18 | 16

US voting hardware maker's shock discovery: Security improves when you actually work with the community

Black HatES&S takes the bold step of not ignoring vulnerability reports

06 Aug 01:09 | 16

Ever wonder how a pentest turns into felony charges? Coalfire duo explain Iowa courthouse arrest debacle

Black HatGet. The. Terms. Of. The. Audit. In. Writing

05 Aug 23:08 | 32

America was getting on top of its electronic voting machine security – then suddenly... A wild pandemic appears

Black Hat'We need to prepare for a number of scenarios that may not come to fruition' says Prof Blaze

05 Aug 21:06 | 12

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Interview'Customers are trying to use Istio and having a hard time, we see this from the support ticket volume'

05 Aug 20:03 | 1

Google reports 80% spike of Flutter-built apps in Play Store as 1.20 is released

Autofill arrives for mobile forms, plus new viewer widget, performance and tooling updates

05 Aug 17:12 | 1

Dogged by sickly supply chain, Arista cats warn of networking gear shortages until the end of 2020

CEO bemoans looming recession and 'trade wars', but hey, we're halfway through the week

05 Aug 15:51 |

Intel, VMware collaborate on virtualized RAN platform

Helpful as Huawei is increasingly swept aside for 5G infrastructure

05 Aug 14:48 | 1

Clue's in the name: Samsung's next Galaxy Note line captures scrawls with responsive stylus then punts them over to a PC

It's good at taking notes. Plus: Tablet-sized foldable, ear beans, and more

05 Aug 14:01 | 12

Network sniffers find COVID-19 did not break the internet – though it was behind a massive jump in outages

Disruptions leapt 63% as lockdowns came into force after February

05 Aug 13:20 | 8

Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer

'Not the most glorious of returns to public market' says analyst

05 Aug 12:45 | 5

Google to pull plug on Play Music, its streaming service that couldn't beat Spotify, in favour of YouTube Music

Phased shutdown ends December, and subs will be shunted to other platform

05 Aug 12:15 | 81

UK data watchdog having a hard time making GDPR fines stick: Marriott scores another extension, BA prepares to pay 11% of £183m penalty threat

UpdatedCOVID-battered businesses win reprieve from Information Commissioner's Office

05 Aug 11:25 | 41

Google catches up to AWS and steals a march on Azure with introduction of cloudy Certificate Authority Service

Underdog gives Redmond something to think about

05 Aug 10:43 | 3

TriggerMesh hooks up with AWS EventBridge to connect 'virtually any application' with cloudy service

Welcome to the SMOKEstack, we've got fun and games

05 Aug 10:00 | 2

Austria astroboffins shed a little light on how we might track orbital junk hurtling at spacecraft during daytime

Study reckons observation window would be increased from 6 to 22 hours

05 Aug 09:15 | 2

Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment

Public and voluntary sector welcome to buy from framework agreement winners

05 Aug 08:30 | 4

Apple re-arms the iMac with 10th-gen Intel Core silicon

Now with $500 option for very special glass that makes monitors sparkle, but no home-grown CPUs

05 Aug 08:00 | 56

NSA warns that mobile device location services constantly compromise snoops and soldiers

It might be best not to ask how the NSA knows this and why it advises most mitigations don’t help

05 Aug 07:29 | 79

What a good eye-dea: Battery-less, grain-of-sand-sized 2.4GHz transmitter to help save your eyesight

Wireless sensor to show 'how the body is responding in real-time' to treatment

05 Aug 07:02 | 25

China slams President Trump's TikTok banned-or-be-bought plan in the US

Beijing accuses America of working to destroy businesses it doesn't like

05 Aug 06:27 | 72

There’s no going back. We have entered the age of digital-first. Now we need to secure it

WebcastTune in and hear all about new research into the benefits of safe remote collaboration – auf Deutsch

05 Aug 06:00 |

Alibaba Cloud reduces RAM, disk size and price of some cloud servers

Tiniest instance type gets price hike and spec shrinkage

05 Aug 04:58 | 2

HPE slashes Windows Server 2019 licence costs – if you buy direct for its AMD Epyc Rome-powered servers

UPDATETwo cores for the price of one, under eleven-month ‘pilot’ scheme that Dell's also dangling

05 Aug 04:03 | 4

Chinese debt collectors jailed for cyberbullying under ‘soft violence’ laws

Threatening and insulting WeChat messages and worse earn time inside

05 Aug 02:31 | 12

Self-driving car supremo Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in the clink for stealing trade secrets from Google's Waymo

Yes, you read that right, an American exec is actually going to serve time... eventually. When he chooses

05 Aug 01:02 | 31

Microsoft forked out $13.7m in bug bounties. The reward program's architect thinks the money could be better spent

'A secure dev lifecycle has a much higher ROI than letting the public do the bug detection work for you'

04 Aug 23:43 | 20

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe – because we used astrometry: A Saturn-like world hugging its star

Mexico, US boffins used technique 'for the first time' with ground-based radio 'scopes to spot exoplanet

04 Aug 22:46 | 4

Mozilla doubles down on anti-tracking tech: It'll be tougher for wily ad-biz cookie monsters to track Firefox

Apple still leading in anti-cookie diet, Google – predictably – in the rearguard

04 Aug 20:58 | 35

As the world descends into madness, it's good to see some things never change: Monthly Android patches

Qualcomm bugs among the worst – including a critical hole in wireless networking

04 Aug 20:15 | 16

European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy

'New investigation casts fresh uncertainty over the deal,' says analyst

04 Aug 17:47 | 10

They say the tooth will set you free... so Brit dentist trade union tells members: 'Bad news – we've been hacked'

Bank account numbers and sort codes may have been accessed by intruders

04 Aug 16:32 | 8

Wrap it before you tap it? No, say Linux developers: 'GPL condom' for Nvidia driver is laughed out of the kernel

Facebook's man told: 'OK, now you are just trolling us'

04 Aug 15:45 | 83

Virgin Media CEO says Brit broadband biz 'performed well' in Q2, which is a weird way to say losses almost tripled

More customers, more coverage, but profit proves elusive

04 Aug 15:00 | 16

Uncle Sam blames best pal China as Taidoor crew's dirty RAT takes aim at Western orgs, some have their doubts

Hello, 2009 called, they said they've got an email for you

04 Aug 14:06 | 1

You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing

Modelling suggests massive second wave without major improvements

04 Aug 13:00 | 160

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: Fondleslab sales shoot up to festive season levels as folk work from home

Sorry, it's a bit early for Crimbo singalongs, isn't it?

04 Aug 12:17 | 8

University of Cambridge to decommission its homegrown email service Hermes in favour of Microsoft Exchange Online

Institute says the knowledge needed to run it is fading, but the move wasn't without opposition

04 Aug 11:48 | 146

Workplace Technology latest division to be jettisoned from Capita – back into the hands of its original owner

Outsourcing giant's boss Jon Lewis continues to swing the axe

04 Aug 11:19 | 4

Maker of SonarQube defends DevOps product's security after source code leaks blamed on bad configurations

'Most companies' want to make code 'completely transparent' SonarSource claims – but not outside the firewall

04 Aug 09:26 | 1

Bored binge-watchers bork beleaguered broadband by blasting bandwidth: Global average speeds down 6.31%

You can guess why – but in some places internet actually got faster

04 Aug 08:30 | 30

Aviation regulator outlines fixes that will get the 737 MAX flying again

Software upgrade to deliver less lethally-stubborn automation

04 Aug 07:56 | 110

China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to frag-tastic IDs

Gotta catch 'em all

04 Aug 07:32 | 35

Doctor, doctor, got some sad news, there's been a bad case of hacking you: UK govt investigates email fail

Former trade minister Dr. Liam Fox named as source of leaked trade docs

04 Aug 07:01 | 79

Is securing Office 365 still a future project for your business? Better act now – the future is already here

WebcastNo excuses left – we'll help you on the fast road to compliance

04 Aug 06:00 |

Google reveals washable phone case, plus the new midrange Pixel 4a that goes inside it

Also teases 5G handsets, but says they won't reach India or Singapore

04 Aug 05:04 | 15

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

Bluetooth and GPS widget will be used to enforce home COVID quarantine

04 Aug 03:57 | 15

Trump bans Feds from contracting H-1B workers and makes telehealth the new normal

Also touts scheme to have USA to pocket finder’s fee for allowing TikTok sale

04 Aug 02:59 | 26

Leaky AWS S3 buckets are so common, they're being found by the thousands now – with lots of buried secrets

When will this madness end?

03 Aug 23:47 | 45

Assimilation completed! HPE says it has finished the merger with Cray and unveils combo supercomputing lineup

All aboard the exascale express

03 Aug 23:23 | 13

Days after President Trump suggests pausing election over security, US House passes $500m for states to shore up election security

Chances of it getting enacted in time for November – slim to almost nil

03 Aug 20:51 | 35

Apple's big trouble in not-so-little China – culls 30,000 apps from its Middle Kingdom App Store in legal crackdown

Game developers face local license law that could 'devastate' iOS revenues

03 Aug 19:39 | 8

UK Defence Committee chair muses treating TikTok like Huawei: So eyeball its code then ban it from the country?

Chinese-owned vid app reportedly moving HQ to London

03 Aug 17:36 | 9

If you're on invite-only tech-testing scheme, take care with Amazon's Alexa-powered answer to Google's Glass

iFixit reveals repair won't be trivial

03 Aug 17:00 | 24

Alarming news: ADT to flog Nest smart home kit after Google ploughs $450m into corporate security dinosaur

Resell agreement set up amid plans to build next gen of home automation and security gear

03 Aug 16:15 | 5

Linux Foundation rolls bunch of overlapping groups into one to tackle growing number of open-source security vulns

OpenSSF to take projects from CII and OSSC under its umbrella

03 Aug 15:44 | 11

Psst, free advice: You need a hybrid multi-cloud – and here are three reasons why

WebcastWe'll show you how to build that one platform to rule them all

03 Aug 15:00 |

'We stopped ransomware' boasts Blackbaud CEO. And by 'stopped' he means 'got insurance to pay off crooks'

CRM biz doesn't 'anticipate any kind of material financial impact' but can't say same for those whose data was nicked

03 Aug 14:02 | 30

Virgin Galactic pals up with Rolls-Royce to work on Mach 3 Concorde-style private jet that can carry up to 19 people

Same height, bit faster, same wing layout as iconic 1960s airliner

03 Aug 12:59 | 92

In the halcyon days before Brexit, takeover attempts, and COVID-19, HP made 1.3% pre-tax profit on sales at UK limb

PC giant blames restructure costs

03 Aug 12:40 | 6

Struggling company pleads with landlords to slash rents as COVID-19 batters UK high street. The firm's name? Apple

Yes, the one with a $193.8bn cash pile

03 Aug 11:08 | 69

Dynabook Portégé X30L-G: So light, you might even forget about its terrible keyboard

ReviewBut otherwise a capable machine for the road warrior

03 Aug 09:24 | 24

Brit local authority appoints a systems integrator in leap to Oracle cloud, but support time-bomb is already ticking

This should have been started a year ago, Solihull council docs say

03 Aug 08:30 | 5

Microsoft to Cortana: you’re not going out dressed in iOS or Android, young lady!

Third-party skills and smart speaker incarnations also discontinued

03 Aug 08:02 | 33

US drugstore chain installed anti-shoplifter facial-recognition cameras in 200 locations – for eight years

In briefPlus: Latest hardware results from MLPerf and why so-called text deepfakes are dangerous

02 Aug 13:15 | 34

Lizards for lunch? Crazy tech? Aliens?! Dana Dash: First Girl on the Moon is perfect for the little boffin-to-be in your life

Book reviewBook tries to sell science to girls, so our nine year-old Reg reviewer gives her opinion

02 Aug 10:01 | 27

So many stars, so little time: Machine learning helps astroboffins spot the most oxygen-starved galaxy yet

Don't bother packing your bags for HSC J1631+4426 just yet, it's 430 million light years away

02 Aug 01:58 | 10

Amazon gets green-light to blow $10bn on 3,000+ internet satellites. All so Americans can shop more on Amazon

Jeff knows you've gotta spend money to make money

01 Aug 01:43 | 74

IT giant CSC coughs up $2m after helping New York City bill Medicaid for child therapy rather than insurance cos

Biz and city officials 'frequently ignored' invoice rules, prosecutors said

01 Aug 00:13 | 14