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by Shaun Nichols on (#4BN9H)
Org does to privacy what hurricanes did to your house Disaster relief org FEMA has admitted, conveniently on a Friday night, to accidentally leaking banking details and other personal information of 2.3 million hurricane and wildfire survivors.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4BN9J)
What interesting timing US prosecutors have slapped three more criminal charges on ex-Autonomy chief exec Mike Lynch, accusing him of securities and wire fraud regarding HP's acquisition of his company.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4BN1M)
Vuln hunters warn malicious applets can bust through protections, snoop on or hijack access gizmos Bug hunters say Oracle's Java Card platform is host to a dozen and a half security flaws that could place smart-cards and similar embedded devices using the tech at risk of hijacking.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4BMXC)
Someone get that old FDIV-bugged Pentium out of web giant's servers What's that old saying? Ah, yes, it's right here in Google's corporate handbook: never apologize, never explain.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4BMS9)
Asks judge to toss sueball from branching-plot book publisher Netflix is adamant that the path of its Bandersnatch trademark lawsuit should be for the judge to throw the case out. How does El Reg respond?…
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by Richard Speed on (#4BMN1)
Mummy, why is Gramps talking to that tree? Ontario oldsters were left dazed and confused after munching their way through a succulent platter of cannabis-laced chocolate brownies.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4BMN2)
No lie, says Zuck and co, it was a separate data thing that we forgot to mention Comment Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica's dodgy data-gathering practices at least four months before they was exposed in news reports, according to internal FB emails.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#4BMGJ)
Flash! Servant of the universe The great NAND flash price slump will accelerate the uptake of SSD storage, industry sources have predicted, with PCIe/NVMe SSDs possibly accounting for half of the market by the end of the year.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4BMBW)
Digital secretary responds to Commons Science and Technology Committee, sort of Considering the state of political discourse in Britain, it comes as little surprise that the government has no idea whether it should follow allies and start banning certain foreign firms – most notably Huawei – from national telecommunications infrastructure projects.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4BMBY)
Using private info for funding decisions branded 'toxic' "Rich" and "granular" patient data from hospital and GP records could be shared with policymakers and researchers under new plans from NHS Digital.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4BM6R)
We'll keep an Excel in the hillside, we'll keep on coding in the Vales The best part of half a million students in Wales will be able to get their hands on a free copy of Office 365 ProPlus as the Welsh Assembly lobs cash Redmond's way.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4BM2C)
Illegal streaming gang served up sports from 800 channels A taskforce led by Spanish cops has dealt TV piracy a heavy blow after shuttering a network of illegal sports streaming sites operating across Spain, the UK, Denmark, Latvia, the Netherlands and Cyprus.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4BKXQ)
You can't assume active participation from someone who didn't untick something Requiring someone to uncheck a pre-ticked box doesn't count as valid cookie consent under EU law, the adviser to the bloc's top court has said.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4BKRP)
Flat Holm island holm to foolish trio for one long, cold morning Ah, the sea! The salty spray, the sunlight sparkling off the bay... but three foolhardy Russian sailors anchored near Minehead, southwest England, clearly fancied a change of scenery – to their misfortune.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4BKRR)
Big Red in net debt for first time in over a decade – reports Amid stalling growth, analysts have warned that Oracle can't indefinitely repurchase stock to maintain its share price.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4BKMY)
Hire was rubber-stamped by sleeping watchdog The general overseeing British Army recruitment joined Capita shortly after the company won its "disastrous" Recruiting Partnership Programme (RPP) with the Ministry of Defence.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4BKN0)
Voice services go TITSUP* to round out the week Updated The UK's O2 mobile network knocked off early for the week today as some customers found themselves unable to use voice services.…
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by David Gordon on (#4BKJ0)
Cisco says assurance solution will be just the ticket Promo Infrastructure failure is a major cause of concern for enterprises, incurring huge costs in troubleshooting and a multiplicity of monitoring tools.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4BKJ1)
An entire data centre the size of a sugar cube? Sweet! Scientists in the US, working alongside Microsoft, have managed to encode "hello" into a readable strand of synthetic DNA, using a fully automated data storage system.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4BKF3)
We might not have signed up users, but at least we created a standard. It only cost £154m... UK.gov has admitted it was slow to intervene as it failed to meet “overambitious” targets for the adoption of Verify, and has been accused of splashing £154m on creating an open standard for the identity service.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4BKDG)
Views from the morning after the night before Special Report 5G is like an all-night drunken brainstorm in which the world's brainiest telecoms boffins went wild, and really let rip. The morning after is a real headache.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4BKBK)
But he did get a $50 cheque, a piece of acrylic and a fuzzy glow that lasted for years On Call Reading On Call, El Reg's weekly instalment of readers' tale of support triumphs large and small, is the best way to start your Friday.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4BKBN)
Even when it had a copy, it still couldn't stop 300,000 copies from appearing on its site Facebook admitted, at best nonchalantly, on Thursday that its super-soaraway AI algorithms failed to automatically detect the live-streamed video of last week's Christchurch mass murders.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4BK9X)
Maker insists the privacy cock-up has been fixed, mostly An undisclosed number of Nokia 7 Plus smartphones have been caught sending their identification numbers to a domain owned by a Chinese telecom firm.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4BK82)
Rift S adds some technology... but not enough Hands-On It's the annual Games Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, where the great and the good from the games industry converge to show off their new products.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4BJZB)
Peak US govt bureaucracy locks investigators out of files covering '180' vulnerabilities Least you think working for Uncle Sam in Washington DC is glamorous or in any way enviable, behold this stunning achievement in bureaucratic cock-up, or perhaps conspiracy.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4BJX0)
US govt sounds alarm over wireless comms, caveats apply Medical gear maker Medtronic is once again at the center of a hacker panic storm. This time, a number of its heart defibrillators, implanted in patients' chests, can, in certain circumstances, be wirelessly hijacked and reprogrammed, perhaps to lethal effect.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4BJTC)
Study finds Android software slinging deets all over the place Folks using healthcare-related Android apps: after you've handed over your private details to that software, do you know where it is sending your data? If you don't, nobody should blame you. It turns out it can be a complicated and obfuscated affair.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4BJC3)
Figuratively speaking... Source code for cruise-control system allegedly uploaded to iCloud Tesla today sued ex-employee Guangzhi Cao for allegedly stealing the source code for the leccy car maker's Autopilot software.…
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Super-crook admits he nicked $122m from Facebook, Google by sending staff fake invoices for tech kit
by Kieren McCarthy on (#4BJC5)
Evaldas Rimasauskas will pay back $50m, faces years in clink for phony hardware bill scam A Lithuanian citizen extradited the US has admitted bilking $122m from Facebook and Google by sending the tech giant's staff bogus invoices for computer gear.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4BJ2N)
Credentials logged for years is antisocial network's latest Zuck-up Facebook today admitted it stored "some" of its addicts' account passwords in a plaintext readable format. For "some", read hundreds of millions.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4BHYC)
Store policy removed key features, alleges complaint Antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab has lodged a complaint about Apple with the Russian competition authority.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4BHYE)
A rising tide lifts all boats – Samsung, SK Hynix saw increases too US chip slinger Micron has said that the end of memory oversupply issues is in sight, and demand for DRAM silicon will begin growing again later this year, especially in the cloud and data centre markets.…
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by David Gordon on (#4BHSK)
The balancing act of strategy and tactics revealed Promo What does it take to reach a leading role in the security field? There are different paths to take to get there: some go directly from analyst to leadership, others have a more technical background in general IT, or excellent tactical skills acquired in a consultancy or vendor role.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4BHSM)
Sort-of union for bobbies has triggered criminal investigation The Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW), a sort-of trade union for police workers, has been battling to contain a ransomware strike on the group's computer systems, it confessed this afternoon.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4BHN0)
New entry in network attack hit parade: That 2017 Cisco WebEx flaw you patched already (right?) Attacks targeting a years-old – and patched – vulnerability in a Chrome extension for Cisco's WebEx are on the increase, according to security outfit WatchGuard.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4BHGQ)
Pint-sized Scottish squawker wins tribunal appeal over £1.2m tax bill Obsequious breakfast TV host Lorraine Kelly has become an unlikely champion for the UK's freelance techies battling IR35 legislation – after a tribunal ruled she did not owe a £1.2m tax bill because she was not in fact an ITV employee.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4BHCF)
Never mind, we've got a fistful of spectrum and 5G's a-coming... Hutchison's Three UK network lost 44,000 active customers last year, but saw its revenue increase slightly to £2.439bn from £2.425bn.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4BHCG)
Sometimes life is pretty A-OK "I need a beer" is a phrase often uttered universally after a hard day's slog. But having cool, crisp refreshment fall into your lap as if by magic is something most of us can only dream of.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4BH8K)
Conspiracy theories abound as UK petitions website enjoys a Thursday TITSUP* When will lawmakers ever learn? Whenever the electorate is given a choice, they are bound to do something silly. In this case, overloading the UK Parliament's petition site with signatures on a Brexit-stopping suggestion.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4BH5H)
CMO talks post-merger relationships, open-source spats Interview Cloudera said it plans to become the darling of Wall Street in 18 months, in part by breaking into the $1bn turnover club. This promise comes a week after the company reported widening losses and sales that missed analysts forecasts, sending its share price down by almost a fifth.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4BH5J)
AI doesn't always work as well as you'd expect in real life GTC AI systems have superior abilities at recognising faces in theory, but when they're deployed in practice they often fail miserably.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4BH2S)
Reg talks to Microsoft as it finally pulls covers from new virty toy, reveals Win 10, apps and, er, 7? Windows Virtual Desktop has finally arrived, in preview form that is, and three months after the public preview was supposed to have begun.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4BGZT)
Redmond's anti-malware now coming to a Mac near you Microsoft nudged the Windows brand further out of the limelight today by thwacking its anti-malware package with the rebranding stick. Behold, Microsoft Defender ATP.…
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by David Gordon on (#4BGXV)
Training classes will cover all security angles Promo As data thieves and hackers become more inventive, and more destructive, learning how to protect networks from attack and threats is zooming up organizations' lists of priorities.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4BGVH)
Devs point finger at Beijing for framing pastime as an illness – and how the West could follow At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, representatives of the International Game Developer Association (IGDA) warned that the World Health Organization (WHO) decision to treat computer gaming as a disorder on par with gambling and drug addiction represents a threat to free speech protections.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4BGRD)
410GB/s per package. We repeat, 410GB/s per package Samsung has unveiled a new generation of high-bandwidth DRAM chips called Flashbolt.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4BGHC)
You're free to bash the Bishap A man has pleaded guilty in America to a single felony count for his role in a $3m tech support scam operation.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4BGEZ)
Aussie media claims Silicon Valley giant used surveillance tool to torpedo competitor Uber has once again been accused of using spyware tools to help it undermine a competing ride-share business.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4BGCZ)
No joke, that's what they've genuinely named a 'fighter-like' military drone project Rise of the Machines The American government is trying to buy military drones in a programme it has named Skyborg, with a US govt spokesman comparing the madcap project to both Star Wars’ R2-D2 and IBM Watson.…
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