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We take a look at proposed Big Tech regulations in the UK: Heavy on possible fines, light on enforcement

woensdag 16 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Online Harms draft gets most things right, still gives Facebook and friends too much leeway Analysis  Tech giants face massive fines of up to 10 per cent of their annual revenue if they fail to follow new rules aimed at reducing the amount of harmfu…

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How to leak data via Wi-Fi when there's no Wi-Fi chip: Boffin turns memory bus into covert data transmitter

woensdag 16 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Another nail in the coffin of assuming that airgapped means secure Mordechai Guri, an Israeli cyber security researcher who focuses on covert side channel attacks, has devised yet another way to undermine air gapping – the practice of keeping comput…

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Australia sues Facebook for slurping user data from Onavo Protect VPN app

woensdag 16 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Promised it was free and safe, but Facebook’s promises about privacy aren’t worth the mouse you click ‘em with Australia’s competition and consumer commission (ACCC) has hauled Facebook into the nation’s Federal Court for alleged false, misleading o…

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CEO of China’s largest chipmaker ‘possibly’ resigns over hiring of Taiwanese rival’s production guru

woensdag 16 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

SMIC in turmoil as TCMS legend reportedly elevated beyond non-executive role China’s largest chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), has advised investors that its co-CEO has “possibly” resigned.…

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Google told BGP to forget its Euro-cloud, after first writing bad access control lists

woensdag 16 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

84-minute brownout and eight-hour VPN vanishment caused by update that left systems unable to access config files Google has explained how it took a big slab of its Euro-cloud offline last week, and as usual the problem was of its own making.…

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Top Chinese policy think tank’s new 15-year ‘smart economy’ plan admits US sanctions have hurt Huawei

woensdag 16 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Predicts massive data centre builds to add 50 million petabytes of capacity by 2025 as 60 percent of workloads run in clouds A key Chinese policy think tank has delivered its full vision for how the nation can build a “smart economy” by the year 203…

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Cloudflare, Dropbox, Reddit and friends launch Section 230 compromise coalition as change seems inevitable

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

De-FAAMG'd tech outfits fear being steamrolled The second tier of tech giants have formed a new coalition focused on making sure changes coming to platform liability don’t squash them.…

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Larry Ellison says he's not following Oracle to Texas, prefers his private Hawaii pad

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

It's great being king Last week, Larry Ellison wished staff well as his IT giant Oracle prepares to move its headquarters from Silicon Valley, California, to Austin, Texas... though he apparently will be going in the opposite direction, to Hawaii.…

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There's nothing AI and automation can't solve – except bias and inequality in the workplace, says report

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Nope, it just makes them worse RoTM  AI and automation in the workplace risk creating new forms of bias and unfairness, worsening inequalities in the world of work, according to a UK think tank report published today.…

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Rocky has competition as more CentOS alternatives step into the ring: Project Lenix, Oracle Linux vie for attention

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Big Red: This is not some gimmick so that you buy support from us In the wake of Red Hat's decision to end support for CentOS Linux comes a raft of alternatives to fill the void, including Project Lenix - an offshoot of Cloud Linux - and Oracle's fr…

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UK comms regulator: Could we interest sir in a bespoke broadband speed estimate?

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

New Ofcom rules require ISPs to give more personalised measures New Ofcom rules will require ISPs to provide prospective customers with personalised speed estimates specific to their premises, rather than guesses derived from properties with similar…

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Taiwanese manufacturer Wistron pegs damage from iPhone factory riot at $7m

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Down from original estimate of $60m, and Apple is investigating if supplier guidelines were breached On Saturday workers at an iPhone production facility in India rioted over a pay dispute, smashing windows and damaging equipment. The damage has sin…

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The first point release for Linux 5.10 came out barely a day later because storage bugs broke RAID6 partitions

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

We're not taking cues from Windows now, are we? Hopefully not shooting for parity with Windows, the Linux team followed the weekend release of version 5.10 of the kernel with... an update barely a day later.…

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Not just Microsoft: Auth turns out to be a point of failure for Google's cloud too

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Google has a better track record but the same issue: when authentication breaks, everything breaks Google has posted more details about its 50 minute outage yesterday, though promising a "full incident report" to follow. It was authentication that b…

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45 million medical scans from hospitals all over the world left exposed online for anyone to view – some servers were laced with malware

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

23,000 Britons' data was among unsecured info, finds research Two thousand servers containing 45 million images of X-rays and other medical scans were left online during the course of the past twelve months, freely accessible by anyone, with no secu…

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We got it! Japanese space agency confirms its probe has Ryugu asteroid samples

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Andromeda Strain anyone? Scientists at Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have confirmed they have samples from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu in the lab and may have more than they originally thought.…

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A flurry of data warehouse activity surrounds Snowflake's staggering $120bn valuation

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Firebolt says it can do it better while the cloud giants talk up services tweaks Analysis  Tech stock sailed through an era-defining moment last week as recently IPO'd cloud data warehouser Snowflake surpassed IBM in market capitalisation.…

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Leaked draft EU law reveals tech giants could face huge 6% turnover fines if they don't play by Europe's rules

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

As UK govt mulls eye-watering 10% penalties for goliaths that don't scrub away illegal content Tech giants Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple will face massive fines under proposed European Union rules, up to six per cent of annual turnover, if they…

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Huawei announces European winners of AppsUp developer contest

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Judges looked for innovative concepts, clear positioning and a feasible business plan Promo  Since kicking off a new life with its own mobile ecosystem and app store – App Gallery – Huawei has been searching for trailblazing app concepts it hopes wi…

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SolarWinds: Hey, only as many as 18,000 customers installed backdoored software linked to US govt hacks

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Orion networking monitoring users need to take action as we summarize what the hell is going on Analysis  As the debris from the explosive SolarWinds hack continues to fly, it has been a busy 48 hours as everyone scrambles to find out if, like vario…

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Right-to-repair warriors seek broader DMCA exemptions to bypass digital locks on the stuff we own

dinsdag 15 december 2020 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Every three years, people try to patch a poorly crafted copyright law Analysis  Right-to-repair advocates are arguing with the US government over what legal powers people have to fix or upgrade their own kit without paying manufacturers.…

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