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University of the Highlands and Islands shuts down campuses as it deals with 'ongoing cyber incident'
The University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) in Scotland is fending off "an ongoing cyber incident" that has shut down its campuses.…
Capgemini awarded towering £600m deal to run London cops' IT infrastructure
Capgemini has won a £600m IT infrastructure deal from the UK's Metropolitan Police to run a service desk, data centres, and services management including the integration of other suppliers.…
Name True, iCloud access false: Exceptional problem locks online storage account, stumps Apple customer service
An iCloud customer says she spent more than six hours on the phone to Apple after being locked out of the service because her name is apparently incompatible with the application code.…
SolarWinds just keeps getting worse: New strain of malware found infecting victims
In brief Another form of malware installed in servers made vulnerable by flaws in SolarWinds' Orion management software has been spotted in the wild.…
Remember <i>that</i> day in March 2020 when you were asked to get the business working from home – tomorrow, if possible? Here's how that worked out
Covid Logfile Brianna Haley was given one day to be ready to roll out Zoom for 13,000 users at over 1,000 sites.…
Delayed, overbudget and broken. Of course Microsoft's finest would be found in NASA's Orion
BORK!BORK!BORK! Getting astronauts to the Moon or Mars is the least of NASA's problems. Persuading Microsoft Windows not to fall over along the way is apparently a far greater challenge.…
The torture garden of Microsoft Exchange: Grant us the serenity to accept what they cannot EOL
Column It is the monster which corrupts all it touches. It is an energy-sucking vampire that thrives on the pain it promotes. It cannot be killed, but grows afresh as each manifestation outdoes the last in awfulness and horror. It is Microsoft Exchange and its drooling minion, Outlook.…
Keeping up the PECR: ICO fines two marketing text pests £330k for sending 2.6 million messages
Two businesses that dispatched more than 2.6 million nuisance text messages seeking to exploit lower household incomes during Britain’s first lockdown are nursing a combined financial penalty of £330,000 from the UK’s data watchdog.…
Just when you thought it was safe to enjoy a beer: Beware the downloaded patch applied in haste
Who, Me? The weekend is over and Monday is here. Celebrate your IT prowess with another there-but-for-the-grace confession from the Who, Me? archives.…
NASA shows Mars that humans can drive a remote control space tank at .01 km/h
NASA’s Perseverance rover trekked across Mars for the first time last Thursday, March 4, 2021.…
Oppo takes China’s smartphone sales crown as former leader’s sales dive Huawei down
Oppo has become China’s top smartphone brand for the first time, according to analyst house Counterpoint.…
US National Security Council urges review of Exchange Servers in wake of Hafnium attack
The Biden administration has urged users of Microsoft's Exchange mail and messaging server to ensure they have not fallen victim to the recently-detected "Hafnium" attack on Exchange Server that Microsoft says originated in China.…
Microsoft goes large with fifth Azure region in China
Microsoft has revealed it plans to open a fifth Azure region in China.…
Intel CPU interconnects can be exploited by malware to leak encryption keys and other info, academic study finds
Chip-busting boffins in America have devised yet another way to filch sensitive data by exploiting Intel's processor design choices.…
Linus Torvalds issues early Linux Kernel update to fix swapfile SNAFU
Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has rushed out a new release candidate of Linux 5.12 after the first in the new series was found to include a ‘subtle and very nasty bug’ that was so serious he marked rc1 as unsuitable for use.…
Facebook uses one billion Instagram photos to build massive object-recognition AI that partly trained itself
Facebook has trained its most advanced semi-supervised computer vision system yet on a dataset of a billion public images taken from Instagram, its other social network.…
You only need pen and paper to fool this OpenAI computer vision code. Just write down what you want it to see
OpenAI researchers believe they have discovered a shockingly easy way to hoodwink their object-recognition software, and it requires just pen and paper to carry out.…
EFF urges Google to ground its FLoC: 'Pro-privacy' third-party cookie replacement not actually great for privacy
With the arrival of Google Chrome v89 on Tuesday, Google is preparing to test a technology called Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC, that it hopes will replace increasingly shunned, privacy-denying third-party cookies.…
First Verizon, now T-Mobile: US carrier suggests users use 2G to save battery
US telco Verizon recently splashed $45bn on 5G spectrum and then advised its customers to use LTE to save device battery life. Not to be outdone, rival carrier T-Mobile is recommending battery-anxious punters use 2G instead of the latest-and-greatest in cellular connectivity.…
Hacked LinkedIn post puts further pressure on Salesforce over attitudes to race in the workplace
Near ubiquitous SaaS CRM pusher Salesforce got a rude awakening this week when its carefully curated image of a business addressing racial equality was shattered by its clearly hacked LinkedIn page.…