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Another reprieve for exhausted IT admins: Looks like there are no whizzbangers in Windows 10 21H1

woensdag 17 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Still Missing In Action for Windows Insiders Windows 10 21H1 is on its way, and seemingly without the major new features we've come to expect in a Microsoft spring rollout, if a post on Redmond's Windows Hardware Certification blog is anything to go…

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Uncle Sam's Department of Justice isn't Slacking over $28bn Salesforce merger

woensdag 17 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Hold up, just a few more questions... The US Department of Justice has written to Salesforce and Slack to ask a few questions about December's $28bn merger announcement.…

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Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's exhibits auction

woensdag 17 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

James Bond? Inspector Gadget? Yup, all here A Soviet equivalent of Nazi Germany's Enigma cipher machine has sold for more than double its auction asking price – while a secret camera disguised as a pack of cigarettes went for nearly $20,000.…

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Palo Alto Networks drops $156m to absorb DevSecOps firm Bridgecrew

woensdag 17 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Open-source stuff stays for now, company promises Palo Alto Networks (PAN) has described its $156m buy of cloudy DevSecOps biz Bridgecrew as a "key bet" at a time when the world has never been more reliant on off-premises computing.…

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UK tax collector won't probe businesses for compliance with IR35 rules unless there's reason to suspect naughtiness

woensdag 17 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

No penalties for contractor oopsies in first year, but you'll still have to pay what HMRC thinks you owe An IR35 snooper squad sniffing out contractors won't be coming to a town near you anytime soon unless there is a strong reason to suspect "crimi…

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Fujitsu scrapping fuel card benefit to cut costs, threatens dissenters with fire and rehire

woensdag 17 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Going green or just plain mean? Exclusive  Fujitsu wants to tighten the group's corporate belt by removing the benefit fuel card afforded to hundreds of UK staff, and anyone resisting could potentially be fired and rehired on new contractual terms.…

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Texas blacks out, freezes, and even stops sending juice to semiconductor plants. During a global silicon shortage

woensdag 17 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Do y'all think Samsung might rethink plans to spend $20bn down there? As winter storms cause power outages across the United States, a lack of juice in Texas has led Austin’s fabs to shut down.…

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Nominet claims effort to replace its board with 'safe hands' is invalid, refuses to put it to member vote

woensdag 17 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Having apparently lost, UK registry operator tries desperate legal gambit The UK’s internet registry operator Nominet has claimed that an effort to remove members of its board and replace them with two caretaker directors is not legal and is refusin…

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UK dev loses ownership claim on forensic software he said he wrote in spare time and licensed to employer

woensdag 17 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Ex-copper signed over copyright to bosses, judge rules A British developer has lost his fight to claim ownership over software he wrote while working for digital forensics firm MD5.…

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Pat Gelsinger promises Intel can go back to the future – in memo to staff shared with world+dog

woensdag 17 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

New CEO pledges 'aggressive targets' to regain market share and leadership After completing nine years as CEO of VMware last week, Pat Gelsinger on Tuesday started work in the same job at Intel and prioritized delivering on promises and innovating q…

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Google Cloud forges new passage to India with Tata Communications

woensdag 17 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Azure and AWS already have same cloud deal, but hey - new friends! Google and Tata Communications have teamed to spread the G-Cloud further inside India.…

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Co-founder of coronavirus vaccine biz holds in-person tech event... 20+ attendees later test positive for COVID-19

woensdag 17 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Serial entrepreneur regrets the error Attendees of the Abundance 360 Summit in January paid $15,000 or more to attend an in-person event that arguably shouldn't have happened under California's December 5, 2020, stay at home order. And for that pric…

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LastPass to limit fans of free password manager to one device type only – computer or mobile – from next month

dinsdag 16 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Cough up if you want to use it with your laptop and phone Password manager LastPass has changed its terms and conditions to limit the free version of its code work on a single device type only per user, seemingly in an effort to force free folks int…

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SHAREit app for Android said to share way too much: Billion-download code with holes no one wants to fix

dinsdag 16 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Trend Micro claims software is full of security flaws that allow data out and malware in Trend Micro has published a report claiming that data-sharing Android app SHAREit, which has over a billion downloads, contains multiple vulnerabilities after t…

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Bill Gates on climate change: Planting trees is not the answer, emissions need to be zeroed out to avoid disaster

dinsdag 16 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'Every country will need to change its ways' says Microsoft billionaire Review  Bill Gates' book How to avoid a climate disaster is a sombre but informative read.…

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Virgin Media adds 200% to its new broadband contracts in 2020, slips back in black (just)

dinsdag 16 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

But the growth can't last forever... The pandemic has been relatively kind to the UK arm of Virgin Media, which reported [PDF] growth in its broadband and contract mobile business units during 2020.…

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People actually write novels about DevOps – and an author spoke about his take at Dynatrace's Perform event

dinsdag 16 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Be honest, what's YOUR 'bus factor'? DevOps writer Gene Kim spoke at the Dynatrace Perform event last week, saying not a word about Dynatrace but focusing on technical debt and developer productivity.…

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No egrets: Ardent twitchers fined for breaking lockdown after bloke spots northern mockingbird in his garden

dinsdag 16 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'Don't give out the location!!' Everyone has a quirky personal interest or two, but few have pursuits that would move us to drive to Exmouth amid a national lockdown that dishes out fines for non-essential travel.…

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Watch this space: Apple offers free repairs for the self-bricking Apple Watch SE and Series 5 wearables

dinsdag 16 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage: Wearable Brick Apple Watch Series 5 or Apple Watch SE owners can now send their devices for a free service after multiple units of the fancy wristwear refused to charge once entering Power Reserve m…

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Now there's another thing on Earth that be can seen from space: UK lappy sales in pandemic-struck 2020

dinsdag 16 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Shipments up a whopping 90+% in Q4 despite industry-wide shortages The one-device-per-person trend caused by the pandemic fuelled a boom in notebook sales across Britain in Q4 that resulted in a near year-on-year doubling of shipment growth.…

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Iron in the kinks, say boffins: Wrinkly graphene could one day make computer chips 'smaller and faster'

dinsdag 16 februari 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

All these use cases, not much action Wrinkles and bubbles in wonder substance graphene are showing electronic properties researchers say could one day help solve limits on current microprocessor designs.…

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