Belgian boffins dump Starlink dish terminal's firmware, gain root access and a few ideas [Fri Jul 9 2021]

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Belgian boffins dump Starlink dish terminal's firmware, gain root access and a few ideas

Extra-terrestrial service probed

 
 

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Salesforce's Patterson blazes a trail for humble-braggers everywhere

UK & I shindig has everything: Olympians, Bake-Off stars, and the ever-rising former BT boss

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India takes on e-commerce giants with plan for a national platform

Hopes to integrate closed platforms into giant national marketplace and make the lot open-source

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Okta Brings Zero Trust Identity and Access to Defense Department Networks

Zero Trust and Identity Management: A Game Changer for DoD Network Security

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11-year-old graduate announces plans to achieve immortality by 'replacing body parts with mechanical parts'

Walking sci-fi horror movie plot wants to look inside boffin brains to find way to help ailing grandparents

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Ex-IBM whistleblower's suit back in court, 8 years after he alleged irregularities in $265m IRS software deal

Judges revive some of the claims

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Massive 3D catzilla gets crowds purring in busy Shinjuku district of Tokyo

We'd hate to see the litter tray

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Not a baaa-d idea: Embracing the eunuch lifestyle slows ageing – for sheep anyway

Too big a price to pay for decelerating your epigenetic clock?

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The James Webb Space Telescope, a project dating back to the late 1900s, may launch this very century

Europeans still hoping for Halloween lift-off

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Fool me OnePlus, shame on me: Chinese phone firm fingered for fiddling with performance figures – again

Company caught throttling everyday apps but leaving benchmarks, selected games alone

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UK competition watchdog sniffing around Motorola profits after delay to replace company's Airwave service

Blue-light radio network drags on, adding excess £1.2bn to telco's coffers

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Mobile carrier Telenor quits Myanmar, says coup makes doing business its way impossible

Firm tries to stand up for customers, human rights, sells to M1 and takes a bath

BT and Communication Workers Union draw up 'principles' to guide future planning on pay and redundancies

Threat of national industrial ballot in May forced telco back around negotiating table

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Intel's Foveros tech hits a speedbump as Lakefield gets canned – one year after launch

Innovative multi-process-node chip sandwich perhaps a little too innovative for its customers

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Galaxy quest: Yet another sub-£500 phone comes to trouble mobile big dogs in the form of Realme GT 5G

Big brand flagship performance, midrange price, 3.5mm earphone port

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Dell bigwig: Expect another 6 months of supply woes. Oh, hello Windows 11

It's partly for a good reason, though: vaccines

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Belgian boffins dump Starlink dish terminal's firmware, gain root access and a few ideas

Extra-terrestrial service probed

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Huawei hits the highway as Volkswagen signs to put 4G in 30 million vehicles

A sport of patent revenue comes in handy when faced with US sanctions and 5G bans

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US offers Julian Assange time in Australian prison instead of American supermax if he loses London extradition fight

Appeal against January decision to be heard by High Court

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ICO survey on data flouters: 50% say they receive more unwanted calls than before pandemic

Plus: Fewer people proportion agree 'current laws' sufficiently protect personal information

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Criminals prefer to WFH too: Singapore infosec agency says 43% of all crimes in the city-state happened online in 2020

The times they are a-changin'

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In conversation with Gene Hoffman, co-creator of the internet's first ad blocker

El Reg revisits those early days of the internet and learns of the NSA tipping off Boeing about French spying

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India under attack by rapidly-evolving advanced persistent threat actor SideCopy, says Cisco Talos

Gang is using custom RATs malware to target government employees, and has an interest in Pakistan, too

White hats reported key Kaseya VSA flaw months ago. Ransomware outran the patch

So close, and yet so far

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Software

If you've mastered Python 101, you're probably better at programming than OpenAI's prototype Codex

10 PRINT "ML won't take my job ";: GOTO 10

Google herds FLoC back to the lab for undisclosed post-third-party-cookie ad tech modifications

Privacy advocates say surgery on bird-themed system must happen in public

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Linux Foundation celebrates 30 years of Torvalds' kernel with a dry T-shirt contest

Artistic types invited to submit their designs – under very specific guidelines

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OpenUK's latest report paints a rosy picture of open source adoption

Might be nice if a few more of those adopters turned to contributors, though

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YouTube's recommendation engine is pretty naff, Mozilla study finds

It even pushes videos that break the site's own content policies

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Tencent uses facial recognition to enforce China’s curfew on gaming kids

Accounts held in grown-ups’ names targeted if they stay up late

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Three-dozen US states plus DC sue Google over Play Store's revenue cut, payment system, and more

Chocolate Factory rolls its eyes at 'meritless' antitrust lawsuit

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