We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS [Wed Sep 22 2021]

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We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS

El Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course

 
 

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JEDI contract might be no more, but case should live on, says Oracle: DoD only wants Amazon, Microsoft for new cloud deal

Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the courtroom

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Edge computing has a bright future, even if nobody's sure quite what that looks like

Making sense of blurry lines

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Amazon Web Services set to support more Asia-Pacific currencies for customer bills

Australian users told first of plans to create 'Seller of Record' subject to regulatory approval

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Fighting back and recovering from ransomware

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Now America's financial watchdog probes 'frat house' Activision Blizzard

Plus: Chief Legal Officer exits as court battles loom

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Fivetran snags $565m funding round as Snowflake attempts to eat its lunch with in-house data integration tools

Also buys data replication company HVR for $700m

Raspberry Pi's trading arm snags £33m investment as flotation rumours sink

Cash courtesy of Lansdowne Partners and the Ezrah Charitable Trust, focused on 'the poorest of the poor'

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Over 9 months late, England's highways agency launches contract to buy £1bn in IT

Rebranded org now calling itself National Highways

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We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS

El Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course

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3.4 billion people live within range of a mobile network but lack a device to make the connection

ITU and UN think inclusivity may now trump connectivity; Vodafone agrees but fancies more 4G

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Chips'n'China on the agenda as the Quad – Japan, India, Oz, US – prepares to meet

Not that the Middle Kingdom is singled out directly

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Engineering metrics that matter

Why is it so hard for engineering teams to measure their value?

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Webcast Slide Deck | Remote and branch office and edge IT

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Break out your emergency change process and patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware

File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server

Database containing personal info on 106m people who traveled to Thailand found open to the internet – report

Misconfigured Elasticsearch server blamed

Suex to be you: Feds sanction cryptocurrency exchange for handling payments from 8+ ransomware variants

Russia-based biz targeted in Uncle Sam's crack down on cyber-extortion

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Fix network printing or keep Windows secure? Admins would rather disable PrintNightmare patch

'Our >3,000 customers had to print again'

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UK Ministry of Defence apologises after Afghan interpreters' personal data exposed in email blunder

We joke about lethal consequences of failure but this isn't funny

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Mafia works remotely, too, it seems: 100+ people suspected of phishing, SIM swapping, email fraud cuffed

Dare we say, these Euro cops ran mobprobe

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Managing-JSON

Managing JSON workloads at scale without heavy lifting

The advantages of Amazon DocumentDB

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Canonical gives administrators the chance to drag their feet a bit more on Ubuntu upgrades

Two more years! Two more years!

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Open Source Jobs Report: Explosive cloud growth knocks Linux off top spot for desired skillsets

455% hike in demand for Kubernetes qualifications causes a stir

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UK's Surveillance Commissioner warns of 'ethically fraught' facial recognition tech concerns

How about being an anonymous face in a crowd? Is that not allowed anymore?

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This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins

No more pandemic-inspired extensions to exam dates or certs, warns Linux-slinging giant

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SEC takes legal action after crowdfunded marijuana investment scheme appears to go up in smoke

Platform and individuals charged in first case of its kind

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US Congress ponders setting up permanent UFO investigation office

Nothing to do with little green men, mind, unless they can be defined as state or non-state actors

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China discloses new space tech: Coloured cargo labels to replace beige ones taikonauts found fiddly

Slaps 'em on six tonnes of kit – enough to sustain space station crew for six months – and successfully sends it to Tianhe

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Macmillan best-biscuit list unexpectedly promotes breakfast cereal to treat status

Inclusion of Weetabix in charity coffee accompaniment tweet creates predictable brewhaha

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NASA hopes VIPER rover will search for water in Moon's Nobile crater in 2023

Machine could help unlock natural resources for future lunar base dwellers

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