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15 March 2021

A borked bit of code sent the Hubble Space Telescope into safe mode, revealing a bunch of other glitches Writing to forbidden memory and not closing the door cause headaches for custodians of restored spacecraft

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Google and Microsoft's public squabble over who's the worst is giving us life right now, not gonna lie

Weapons-grade hypocrisy on one side, opportunistic hand-wringing about the press on the other

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OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction

Cloud company offers slightly confused roadmap to restoration

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Gartner: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations Delivers Improved Business Outcomes Whitepaper

Protect and recover your NAS and unstructured data Faster, more reliable, more compatible

Offbeat

The stench of progress: Sweat may power your personal tech in the not-so-distant future

Gross? Maybe, but at least your Fitbit is still working

11 Comments

Gummy bears as a unit of measure? The Reg Standards Soviet will not stand for this sort of silliness

Less than a fifth of a linguine, for goodness' sake – come on now

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A borked bit of code sent the Hubble Space Telescope into safe mode, revealing a bunch of other glitches

Writing to forbidden memory and not closing the door cause headaches for custodians of restored spacecraft

41 Comments

Huawei CFO's legal eagles take HSBC to court in Hong Kong to obtain evidence against US extradition

Similar attempt was made in London, where it failed

20 Comments

Out of this world: Listen to Perseverance rover fire its laser at Mars rocks as the wind whips around it

Less pew, pew, pew and more click, click, click

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Chinese and American chipmakers establish regular chatfests to talk tech, trade, supply chain security

US industry groups still want Biden administration cash for local manufacturing

2 Comments

Australia picks third fight with Big Tech, this time over browser and search on mobile devices

Regulator keen to know how Android Choice works in the EU, what makes the Google/Apple relationship tick, and if Salesforce buying Slack is a problem

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Jailed Samsung boss accused of abusing Propofol aka ‘the milk of amnesia’ or 'the drug that killed Michael Jackson'

Cops probe vice chairman

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IBM Watson AIOps An AI-powered IT incident resolution application, fueled by your own data.

Webcast Slide Deck \| Protect and recover your NAS and unstructured data Faster, more reliable, more compatible

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A lot of things will have changed with Biden as US president, but an easier ride for Huawei is not one of them

Nice to see politicos agree on something, even if it is 'bipartisan dislike' of China

8 Comments

There was hope Samsung had turned a corner in repairability, but the Galaxy S21 Ultra is a step backwards

iFixit's flagship autopsy finds glue. Lots of glue

8 Comments

UK.gov about to release £500m funding for Shared Rural Network targeting countryside 4G notspots

Industry will pick up the rest of bill... yep, this old chestnut again

12 Comments

ISP industry blasts UK Telecoms Security Bill for vague requirements, high costs of compliance

'They're dictating how to monitor networks, without fully understanding the impact on the sector'

19 Comments

Communication Workers Union to hold national ballot for members at BT, Openreach and EE over strike action

37 years later and former state-owned telco might be facing its own Black Monday

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Don't be a fool, cover your tool: How IBM's mighty XT keyboard was felled by toxic atmosphere of the '80s

The foulest stench is in the air, the funk of forty thousand... cigarettes?

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The Google Cloud Adoption Framework

A unified approach to the cloud

Security

Australia, India, Japan, and USA create joint critical tech working group

'Quad' group wants alternatives to China. Also freedom and governance that reflects shared values

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Google emits data-leaking proof-of-concept Spectre exploit for Intel CPUs to really get everyone's attention

I don't believe it, I had to see it, I came back, I came back haunted

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No sign of Exchange-related ransomware hitting UK orgs, claims NCSC as it urges admins to scan for compromises

GCHQ offshoot points orgs at Microsoft advice and tools

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Think it's about time for the next challenge? Check out these software vacancies on both sides of the pond

Come on in and take a look at this week's opportunities – and keep those free ads coming if you need tech talent

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Software

Asahi's plan for Linux on Apple's new silicon shows Cupertino has gone back to basics with iOS booting

Open source project shows Apple has done some funky stuff with M1

37 Comments

How Facebook uses public videos to train, deploy machine-learning models and harvest those eyeballs

Plus: Google Ethical AI team firings backlash worsens

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Third time's a harm? Microsoft tries to get twice-rejected compression patent past skeptical examiners

Boffin who invented ANS encoding and made it public domain worries Microsoft will come rent-seeking

37 Comments

The great Microsoft cull continues as paid content set to be stripped from Business and Education Store

So how's that UWP thing working out for you?

5 Comments

'No' does not mean 'yes'... unless you are a scriptwriter for software user interfaces

The circle is complete. Now I am the master… er, I mean 'the source'

144 Comments

Facebook’s new world domination ploy is a two-megabyte Instagram app tested in India and Brazil

Works just fine on ancient low-end Androids, so now The Social Network™ can monopolise developing nations too!

20 Comments

We can't avoid it any longer. Here's a story about the NFT mania... aka someone bought a JPEG for $69m in Ether

How can we put this? Imagine beanie babies were screenshots that needed their own power plant

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A borked bit of code sent the Hubble Space Telescope into safe mode, revealing a bunch of other glitches [Mon Mar 15 2021]

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A borked bit of code sent the Hubble Space Telescope into safe mode, revealing a bunch of other glitches

Off-Prem

Google and Microsoft's public squabble over who's the worst is giving us life right now, not gonna lie

OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction

Gartner: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations Delivers Improved Business Outcomes

Protect and recover your NAS and unstructured data

Offbeat

The stench of progress: Sweat may power your personal tech in the not-so-distant future

Gummy bears as a unit of measure? The Reg Standards Soviet will not stand for this sort of silliness

A borked bit of code sent the Hubble Space Telescope into safe mode, revealing a bunch of other glitches

Huawei CFO's legal eagles take HSBC to court in Hong Kong to obtain evidence against US extradition

Out of this world: Listen to Perseverance rover fire its laser at Mars rocks as the wind whips around it

Chinese and American chipmakers establish regular chatfests to talk tech, trade, supply chain security

Australia picks third fight with Big Tech, this time over browser and search on mobile devices

Jailed Samsung boss accused of abusing Propofol aka ‘the milk of amnesia’ or 'the drug that killed Michael Jackson'

IBM Watson AIOps

Webcast Slide Deck | Protect and recover your NAS and unstructured data

On-Prem

A lot of things will have changed with Biden as US president, but an easier ride for Huawei is not one of them

There was hope Samsung had turned a corner in repairability, but the Galaxy S21 Ultra is a step backwards

UK.gov about to release £500m funding for Shared Rural Network targeting countryside 4G notspots

ISP industry blasts UK Telecoms Security Bill for vague requirements, high costs of compliance

Communication Workers Union to hold national ballot for members at BT, Openreach and EE over strike action

Don't be a fool, cover your tool: How IBM's mighty XT keyboard was felled by toxic atmosphere of the '80s

The Google Cloud Adoption Framework

Security

Australia, India, Japan, and USA create joint critical tech working group

Google emits data-leaking proof-of-concept Spectre exploit for Intel CPUs to really get everyone's attention

No sign of Exchange-related ransomware hitting UK orgs, claims NCSC as it urges admins to scan for compromises

Site News

Think it's about time for the next challenge? Check out these software vacancies on both sides of the pond

Software

Asahi's plan for Linux on Apple's new silicon shows Cupertino has gone back to basics with iOS booting

How Facebook uses public videos to train, deploy machine-learning models and harvest those eyeballs

Third time's a harm? Microsoft tries to get twice-rejected compression patent past skeptical examiners

The great Microsoft cull continues as paid content set to be stripped from Business and Education Store

'No' does not mean 'yes'... unless you are a scriptwriter for software user interfaces

Facebook’s new world domination ploy is a two-megabyte Instagram app tested in India and Brazil

We can't avoid it any longer. Here's a story about the NFT mania... aka someone bought a JPEG for $69m in Ether

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