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President Biden selects Jessica Rosenworcel to head up FCC as acting chairwoman
President Joe Biden has made Democrat FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel acting chairwoman of America's communications regulator.…
LowKey cool: This web app will tweak your photos to flummox facial-recognition systems, apparently
A group of computer scientists has released a privacy-focused web application to poison people's online images so they confuse commercial facial recognition systems.…
Android 10 ported to homegrown multi-core RISC-V system-on-chip by Alibaba biz, source code released
Alibaba-owned T-Head Semiconductor says it has ported Android 10 to its own RISC-V chips, highlighting increased momentum for the open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) against proprietary alternatives.…
Laptops given to British schoolkids came preloaded with malware and talked to Russia when booted
A shipment of laptops supplied to British schoolkids by the Department for Education to help them learn under lockdown came preloaded with malware, The Register can reveal.…
Microsoft SolarWinds analysis: Attackers hid inside Windows systems by wearing the skins of legit processes
The SolarWinds hackers triggered one of their Cobalt Strike implants in the firm's network through a cunning VBScript that was activated by a routine system process, Microsoft has said.…
Got three weeks to spare? You could deploy the supercomputer you’ve always dreamed of
Webcast We all have problems, so wouldn’t it be great if we could all apply a supercomputer to cracking them?…
We turn away for a second and Corellium is already showing off Ubuntu on Apple Silicon
Things can move fast in the IT world, and Linux on Apple silicon has gone from "ooh look, text on a screen" to something considerably more usable in a matter of days.…
'We're storing how this material should behave': Boffins' 3cm 'm-bit' cubes demonstrate programmable wunderstuff
Engineers working in Switzerland say they have developed a method of writing data directly into materials, a process that changes the material's physical properties at the same time.…
Visual Studio 16.9 Preview 3 brings Chromium WebView debugging, noisy tests for visually impaired, and more
Preview 3 of Visual Studio 2019 16.9, the next big release of Microsoft's Windows IDE, features debugging for Chromium-based WebView, audio cues in tests, and updated C++ support.…
Loser Trump's last financial disclosure docs reveal Tim Cook gave him $5,999 Mac Pro, the 'first' made in Texas
President Trump's last financial disclosure form makes for interesting reading. In addition to listing his various property holdings and business interests, it also reveals a number of gifts received by business leaders, including a Mac Pro from Apple CEO Tim Cook.…
Bye-bye Bridenstine: Outgoing chief leaves NASA in good shape, though Boots on Moon by '24 goal looks doubtful
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine has left the US space agency with none of the drama associated with certain other American government handovers.…
Negative Trustpilot review of law firm Summerfield Browne cost aggrieved Briton £28k
A man who branded a Leicester law firm as "another scam solicitor" on review website Trustpilot has been ordered to pay it £28,500 in libel damages and legal costs.…
AWS has been doing things that are 'just NOT OK since 2015,' says Elastic as firm yanks Apache 2.0 licence
Elastic CEO and co-founder Shay Banon has attacked AWS for what he claims is unacceptable use of the open-source Elasticsearch product and trademark.…
UK Prime Minister Johnson knows not when 400k+ deleted records from police DB will be back
UK leader Boris Johnson has admitted he does not know how many live legal cases "will be frustrated" by the loss of 400,000+ records on the Police National Computer and cannot say when the data will be reinstated.…
Chip fab Intel said to be using better chip fab TSMC to make 5nm Core i3 processors, 20% of its non-CPU parts
Ahead of Intel publishing its latest quarterly financial results on Thursday, let's have a quick reminder of who is actually making chip manufacturer Intel's chips these days.…
Raspberry Pi Foundation moves into microcontrollers with the $4 Pi Pico
The Raspberry Pi team has announced its latest bit of hardware – the $4 microcontroller-class Raspberry Pi Pico.…
So what can we expect from a Joe Biden White House when it comes to tech? We'll try to answer that right now
It’s day one of President Biden's administration, prompting the question: what can we expect when it comes to technology over the next four years?…
Maker of crowd-sourced coronavirus spread tracker app sues Apple for 'arbitrary and capricious' iOS store snub
The maker of a disallowed iOS app called Coronavirus Reporter has sued Apple claiming the iPhone overlord's refusal to approve the software violates America's antitrust law.…
With depressing predictability, FCC boss leaves office with a list of his deeds... and a giant middle finger to America
Analysis Ajit Pai has left his position as head of the FCC – America's communications regulator – marking the end of an extraordinary four years where telecoms policy was dragged into the era of alternate facts. With sad inevitability, Pai has a list of his accomplishments in a similar fashion.…
On his way out, Trump emits exec order suggesting US cloud giants must verify ID of all foreign customers
On Tuesday, during his last full day as US President, Donald Trump issued an executive order seeking to curtail cyber attacks by directing the government to come up with rules requiring cloud service providers to better identify foreign customers.…