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The Register Kettle

By: Chris Williams The Register Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Tobias Mann Iain Thomson Brandon Vigliarolo Tom Claburn
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  • What's a kettle, you ask? Why a group of vultures in flight, of course. News, insights, analysis, and overall chatter around what's happening in the broader world of IT. With hosts Iain Thomson, Chris Williams, Brandon Vigliarolo, Nicole Hemsoth Prickett, and more....
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  • Admins warn that Crowdstrike's kerfuffle could take weeks to fix

    Admins warn that Crowdstrike's kerfuffle could take weeks to fix
    Jul 19 2024

    In fact it was a tale of two outages. There was a minor Azure snafu but that was pretty much sorted by the time alerts to go out around the world after Crowdstrike pushed out what looks like a poorly coded and insufficiently tested update.

    While Apple and Linux users aren't directly effected, admins have been telling us all is not automatically well, since many networks have been taken down, meaning evn if your personal machine is working, it won't be able to do much without corporate data links. You can hear the whole story below.

    On this week's Kettle episode, we have Richard Speed in (a very hot) UK, plus our security expert Jessica Lyons and Brandon Vigliarolo who's been tracking the outage's global reach, and your host Iain Thomson.
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    16 mins
  • Snowflake still causing a blizzard of security problems with no thaw in sight

    Snowflake still causing a blizzard of security problems with no thaw in sight
    Jul 12 2024
    With the continuing fallout from Snowflake now hitting over 100 million AT&T customers we discuss quite what is to be done. Constant vigilance is a given, but there's always the himan factor that ensures even the best security systems can be rolled over due to a single slip up. Then there's the promise of AI, or possibly the lack of promise. Machine learning was touted as a possible savior of the security industry, but - as with so much AI hype - the reality is looking somewhat less rosy. You can see the full discussion below. On this week's show we have Tobias Mann, Brandon Vigliarolo, The Register's security editor Jessica Lyons and your host Iain Thomson.
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    15 mins
  • Trouble in space as Boeing's not going, and China's back from the Moon

    Trouble in space as Boeing's not going, and China's back from the Moon
    Jul 1 2024
    It's been a busy week in space, with Boeing's test pilots still stuck on the International Space Station thanks to their faulty capsule, and then being forced to take shelter from space debris. The debris came from RESURS-P1, a decommissioned Russian satellite launched in 2013, which broke up this week into over 100 observable pieces, all traveling at around 17,000mph. As the debris field approached the ISS astronauts were forced to take cover in a hardened safety chamber. Not that the station has long left, as NASA awarded a contract this week to deorbit the platform in 2030. By then there may be a replacement, and there'll almost certainly be a rival in the form of China, which is building its own space station. It's also been a good week for the Middle Kingdom, with the Chang'e-6 re-entry capsule bringing back the first samples from the far side of the Moon. You can see the full discussion below.
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    17 mins
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