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IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say Thousands struggle with intermittent failure of multiple messaging services

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Lockdown-induced gadgetry rush sent Dixons Carphone's online sales skywards – and repaid £73m of furlough wages

But mobile biz continues to wane

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Singapore's migration to cloud continues, and expect more SaaS once we secure it, says GovTech

Shifts strategy to work more closely with industry on digital projects

Cloud Security Blind Spots Detecting And Fixing Cloud Misconfigurations

Okta Brings Zero Trust Identity and Access to Defense Department Networks Zero Trust and Identity Management: A Game Changer for DoD Network Security

Offbeat

Former NASA astronaut and Shuttle boss weigh in on fixing Hubble Space Telescope

We're still keeping everything crossed that the engineers extract a rabbit from a hat once again

Record-breaking Kuwaiti heatwave triggers inadvisable TikTok expletive outburst

Desert storm of entirely the wrong kind lands unfortunate Egyptian national in very hot water

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New Yorkers react to strikingly indifferent statue of Elon Musk with cheerful hostility

Well-travelled billionaire's likeness very likely to follow recent examples of other questionable public art

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Always-on culture >ping!< is awful. >ping!< How >ping!< do we >ping!< stop it? >ping!<

Turn off. Tune out. Relax

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Cross-discipline boffin dream team issues social media warning: FIX IT NOW!

Concerned researchers suggest some form of subtle regulation to prevent end of humanity as we know it

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You wait ages for a neutron star and black hole to collide, then two pairs come along at once

Well, that was a busy month for gravitational wave boffins

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

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

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Robinhood hit with record $70m bill by financial watchdog for outages, misleading investors

FINRA cites suicide of man who was 'inaccurately' told by the app he was $750k in debt

IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say

Thousands struggle with intermittent failure of multiple messaging services

26 Comments

Leaked Apple memo tells employees that they'll be coming into the office at least 3 days a week from September

Cupertino insists it works best when they're all together

15 Comments

Financial watchdog says Google's clampdown on scam ads might not be enough to prevent stricter laws in Britain

That's tough talk – especially after the amazing reversal on £680k it spent on anti-fraud ads with search giant

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‘Fasten your seat belts, raise your tray table, and disconnect your Bluetooth headsets from the entertainment unit’

United Airlines buys 200 planes — plans to give ’em ten inches of entertainment and a double dose of wireless

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Migrating to AWS databases

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Security

Microsoft hooks up with MITRE to map Azure's ATT&CK surface for 'proactive security'

Amazon's AWS next cloud platform in line for adversarial tactics framework

International law enforcement op nukes Russian-language DoubleVPN service allegedly favoured by cybercriminals

Vendor claimed not to log user data – we'll see

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Microsoft faces up to an old foe with out-of-band patch for PDF weirdness

Internet Explorer 11 and the Adobe Reader plug-in? Is this bork bingo?

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Leaked print spooler exploit lets Windows users remotely execute code as system on your domain controller

Kill this service immediately

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8-month suspended sentence for script kiddie who DDoS'd Labour candidate in runup to 2019 UK general election

Now banned from using Tor or VPNs – and 'vanity' handles on social media

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UK arm of international charity the Salvation Army hit by ransomware attack

Christian org becomes latest victim of latter-day IT scourge

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America tops ITU's Global Cyber Security Index, UK in tie for second with Saudi Arabia

Global median score jumped by ten per cent in two years — and just as well

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Subdomain security is substandard, say security researchers

Admins tend to forget that subdomains don’t inherit security controls, leaving the likes of CNN, Harvard, Cisco, and US health authorities with vulnerabilities

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Software

Who in America is standing up to privacy-bothering facial-recognition tech? Well, let's start with Maine...

'This technology is too dangerous to be regulated, it shouldn’t be used at all'

Microsoft wasn't joking about the Dev Channel not enforcing hardware checks: Windows 11 pops up on Pi, mobile phone

So what's with the TPM malarky?

13 Comments

System76 releases Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS 21.04 with auto-tiling COSMIC desktop

New take on GNOME designed for productivity

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KVM flaw on AMD servers gave malicious VMs a route to take over the host

Vuln thankfully patched following Google Project Zero disclosure

Revealed: Why Windows Task Manager took a cuddlier approach to (process) death and destruction

Won't someone think of the children

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Google tweaks Android Messages app to auto-classify or auto-delete messages

But only in India, and only in English … for now at least

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India to open-source its Co-WIN national vaccination booking platform

An eager queue has already formed in Asia, Latin America, and Africa — but do those nations know about the glitches, or the digital divide issues?

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GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work

Maybe call it backseat programming for now?

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IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say

Off-Prem

Lockdown-induced gadgetry rush sent Dixons Carphone's online sales skywards – and repaid £73m of furlough wages

Singapore's migration to cloud continues, and expect more SaaS once we secure it, says GovTech

Cloud Security Blind Spots

Okta Brings Zero Trust Identity and Access to Defense Department Networks

Offbeat

Former NASA astronaut and Shuttle boss weigh in on fixing Hubble Space Telescope

Record-breaking Kuwaiti heatwave triggers inadvisable TikTok expletive outburst

New Yorkers react to strikingly indifferent statue of Elon Musk with cheerful hostility

Always-on culture >ping!< is awful. >ping!< How >ping!< do we >ping!< stop it? >ping!<

Cross-discipline boffin dream team issues social media warning: FIX IT NOW!

You wait ages for a neutron star and black hole to collide, then two pairs come along at once

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

Protect and recover your NAS and unstructured data

On-Prem

Robinhood hit with record $70m bill by financial watchdog for outages, misleading investors

IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say

Leaked Apple memo tells employees that they'll be coming into the office at least 3 days a week from September

Financial watchdog says Google's clampdown on scam ads might not be enough to prevent stricter laws in Britain

‘Fasten your seat belts, raise your tray table, and disconnect your Bluetooth headsets from the entertainment unit’

Migrating to AWS databases

Security

Microsoft hooks up with MITRE to map Azure's ATT&CK surface for 'proactive security'

International law enforcement op nukes Russian-language DoubleVPN service allegedly favoured by cybercriminals

Microsoft faces up to an old foe with out-of-band patch for PDF weirdness

Leaked print spooler exploit lets Windows users remotely execute code as system on your domain controller

8-month suspended sentence for script kiddie who DDoS'd Labour candidate in runup to 2019 UK general election

UK arm of international charity the Salvation Army hit by ransomware attack

America tops ITU's Global Cyber Security Index, UK in tie for second with Saudi Arabia

Subdomain security is substandard, say security researchers

Software

Who in America is standing up to privacy-bothering facial-recognition tech? Well, let's start with Maine...

Microsoft wasn't joking about the Dev Channel not enforcing hardware checks: Windows 11 pops up on Pi, mobile phone

System76 releases Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS 21.04 with auto-tiling COSMIC desktop

KVM flaw on AMD servers gave malicious VMs a route to take over the host

Revealed: Why Windows Task Manager took a cuddlier approach to (process) death and destruction

Google tweaks Android Messages app to auto-classify or auto-delete messages

India to open-source its Co-WIN national vaccination booking platform

GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work

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