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University of Minnesota thought it would be cool to try to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it backfired badly 'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman

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Google is updating Meet so at least you won't have to look at your hollow, careworn face

AI exposure fiddling and a party video background to remind you of the fun you aren't having

6 Comments

Microsoft renews cloud contracts with UK.gov amid ongoing legal spat with on-prem licence reseller

Lawyers, say hello to the Digital Transformation Agreement 2021

1 Comments

Microsoft revokes MVP status of developer who tweeted complaint about request to promote SQL-on-Azure

Programme members were asked to make noise ahead of Amazon Web Services conference

52 Comments

The Future Of Remote Work: Securing A Distributed Workforce eBook

Beyond The Dotted Line. How e-signatures improve digital workflows.

Offbeat

From book shop to tat bazaar to cloud behemoth to grocer, what's Amazon up to now? Augmented-reality hairstyles

Curl up and dye, anyone?

6 Comments

Lego's Space Shuttle Discovery: No trouble with Hubble, but the stickers will drive a grown man to insanity

The Reg once again shoves its talons into bags of spiky bricks for latest website-breaking set

29 Comments

China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft

Send more money to help us protect our space toys, military tells Congress

79 Comments

Huawei Industrial Digital Transformation Conference highlights innovation and applied scenarios of technologies The Register takes you through the event’s keynotes

Optimizing the PC Lifecycle Dell PC as a Service

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Foxconn's showcase Wisconsin LCD factory becomes aspirational 'manufacturing ecosystem'

$10bn investment now $672m, jobs promised now 1,454 instead of 13,000

21 Comments

UK Telecoms Diversification Taskforce says Ofcom should take lead to ensure telcos don't rely on too few suppliers

Finding Huawei out of this mess

4 Comments

Toshiba rejects private equity buyout offer on grounds it was scarcely credible

Tells CVC and other would-be buyers to get serious and read Japanese regulations, or go home

1 Comments

Chinese officials declare intention to become network superpower, tout glorious 5G rollout that's smaller than local carriers' claims

Great Leap Forward sees broadband speeds surge, 99 per cent of villages hooked up, all for $6/month

10 Comments

Considérations Clés En Matière De Stockage Pour Déterminer Le Placement Optimal Des Charges Applicatives

IDC Technology Spotlight

Security

Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with a booby-trapped file

More a declaration of war than turning the tables

3 Comments

Apple supplier Quanta Computer confirms it's fallen victim to ransomware attack

REvil gang starts publishing designs of what appear to be unreleased products

4 Comments

UK.gov wants mobile makers to declare death dates for their new devices from launch

IoT security plan suddenly thrusts into the mainstream

34 Comments

Half of Q1's malware traffic observed by Sophos was TLS encrypted, hiding inside legit requests to legit services

Brit infosec outfit points to nefarious deeds within Discord, Google systems

9 Comments

REvil ransomware gang claims it stole top-secret tech designs – including Apple lappies – from Quanta Computer

Threatens to release designs and data if not paid. But dangles 2005-vintage ThinkPad as proof it's serious

6 Comments

Your cloud security is static – and you’re open to more risk than you realize

Make your move before the cyber-crims make theirs, says Sysdig

Japan accuses Chinese military of cyber-attacks on its space agency

200 other companies also targeted, but no data lost

4 Comments

Software

University of Minnesota thought it would be cool to try to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it backfired badly

'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman

21 Comments

You only love me for my cache: New modules try to make NoSQL Redis more of a general-purpose database

7.0 out second half of the year

Someone has to pay to keep the lights so data-viz outfit Grafana switches licence regime to AGPLv3

AWS dodges the finger of blame as another open-sourcer tightens things up

7 Comments

Anyone for Palantir? UK.gov names gaggle of vendors to fight for contracts in £1.2bn back office application framework

It's time to crack open the public sector pork barrel.... like it was ever close

3 Comments

Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet'

CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack

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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

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To have one floppy failure is unlucky. To have 20 implies evil magic or a very silly user [Mon Apr 19 2021]

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NSA helps out Microsoft with critical Exchange Server vulnerability disclosures in an April shower of patches [Wed Apr 14 2021]

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

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A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do? [Tue Apr 6 2021]

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University of Minnesota thought it would be cool to try to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it backfired badly [Thu Apr 22 2021]

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University of Minnesota thought it would be cool to try to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it backfired badly

Off-Prem

Google is updating Meet so at least you won't have to look at your hollow, careworn face

Microsoft renews cloud contracts with UK.gov amid ongoing legal spat with on-prem licence reseller

Microsoft revokes MVP status of developer who tweeted complaint about request to promote SQL-on-Azure

The Future Of Remote Work: Securing A Distributed Workforce

Beyond The Dotted Line.

Offbeat

From book shop to tat bazaar to cloud behemoth to grocer, what's Amazon up to now? Augmented-reality hairstyles

Lego's Space Shuttle Discovery: No trouble with Hubble, but the stickers will drive a grown man to insanity

China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft

Huawei Industrial Digital Transformation Conference highlights innovation and applied scenarios of technologies

Optimizing the PC Lifecycle

On-Prem

Foxconn's showcase Wisconsin LCD factory becomes aspirational 'manufacturing ecosystem'

UK Telecoms Diversification Taskforce says Ofcom should take lead to ensure telcos don't rely on too few suppliers

Toshiba rejects private equity buyout offer on grounds it was scarcely credible

Chinese officials declare intention to become network superpower, tout glorious 5G rollout that's smaller than local carriers' claims

Considérations Clés En Matière De Stockage Pour Déterminer Le Placement Optimal Des Charges Applicatives

Security

Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with a booby-trapped file

Apple supplier Quanta Computer confirms it's fallen victim to ransomware attack

UK.gov wants mobile makers to declare death dates for their new devices from launch

Half of Q1's malware traffic observed by Sophos was TLS encrypted, hiding inside legit requests to legit services

REvil ransomware gang claims it stole top-secret tech designs – including Apple lappies – from Quanta Computer

Your cloud security is static – and you’re open to more risk than you realize

Japan accuses Chinese military of cyber-attacks on its space agency

Software

University of Minnesota thought it would be cool to try to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it backfired badly

You only love me for my cache: New modules try to make NoSQL Redis more of a general-purpose database

Someone has to pay to keep the lights so data-viz outfit Grafana switches licence regime to AGPLv3

Anyone for Palantir? UK.gov names gaggle of vendors to fight for contracts in £1.2bn back office application framework

Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet'

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