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by Simon Sharwood on (#52T7Q)
New dump of tracing data and pair of papers reveal plenty about ad giant’s internal operations Google has published a huge trove of new data describing the performance of the "Borg" clusters that deliver its services and the antecedent to Kubernetes.…
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ATLAS flubbed: Comet heading our way takes one look at Earth, self-destructs into house-sized chunks
by Katyanna Quach on (#52T7S)
And who could blame it? Pics Stargazers hoping to glimpse a comet close to Earth next month are in for a disappointment: it fell apart en route.…
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Mystery cloud added 10,000 new AMD Epyc servers in under ten days to handle demand for you know what
by Simon Sharwood on (#52T7V)
Chip challenger announces 40 percent Q1 growth, lowers guidance Chip challenger AMD has posted a strong set of Q1 results, and made the now-rare decision to provide guidance for the remainder of the year – though also lowered that guidance for the period.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#52T49)
Korean giant's Q1 held up, but full 2020 outlook looks like worse than the Cats movie trailer Samsung Electronics has posted Q1 2020 results that tell a viral tale.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#52T4B)
After 18 months, they can just fall over. The fix is asking Borgzilla for a new one Resistors, which cost a few cents apiece, are bricking pricey Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASAs).…
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by Iain Thomson on (#52T00)
Does anything really matter when you have $100bn in the bank and pocketing nearly $7bn a quarter in profit? Google parent Alphabet’s financial figures for its first quarter of 2020 were a mixed bag. Two months of business as usual, if not better than usual, then a miserable March as advertisers shut their wallets amid the coronavirus pandemic.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#52T02)
World crosses fingers One man’s effort to sue HP Inc for preventing his printers from working and forcing him to use its own branded, and more expensive, ink cartridges can move forward in California.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#52SRX)
Case that has rumbled on since 2016 may have to be started again from scratch The man accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox and the Formspring Q&A forum, and later selling the stolen data of hundreds of millions of users, has seen his trial disrupted a third time by the coronavirus pandemic.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#52SRZ)
No wonder Larry Ellison went on YouTube to heap praise on the web-conferencing upstart A few weeks ago a baseball-capped Larry Ellison stuck a short video on YouTube praising Zoom to the skies, calling it "an essential service." Now we have an idea why.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#52SGA)
Linux distro giant gets cosy with Microsoft among other announcements Red Hat Summit The Red Hat (virtual) Summit is under way, and the Linux distro giant has announced the release of OpenShift 4.4, new deals with Microsoft, and the unboxing of Fedora 32.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#52SGC)
Totally reliable and worked really well last time The son of British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood wants accused US government hacker Julian Assange "furloughed" from Belmarsh prison in southeast London, UK.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#52SGD)
'I move that we merge this RFC,' says Moz's Nico Matsakis An alternative compiler front-end called rust-analyzer has been proposed for official adoption to improve IDE support for Rust developers, and has won backing from the programming language's core team.…
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by Richard Currie on (#52SGF)
Even Nobel Prize-winning boffins need to take the edge off sometimes For a country of habitual boozers where alcohol sales have leapt recently, Brits won't be surprised to hear that Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate Professor Peter Doherty was sitting at his computer yesterday when he felt the urge for a stiff drink.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#52S71)
'Not caused by a spike in usage or a lack of network capacity,' says Brit ISP Broadband outages have soared since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, per data from US network intelligence firm ThousandEyes. Among the most recent victims is Virgin Media, which suffered intermittent failures across the UK and Ireland starting yesterday early evening, and continuing into the early hours of the morning.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#52S73)
Lucky old Pixel owners, eh? Google has released its second-stab at the hearable market — the AirPod-style, earplug-looking Pixel Buds wireless earphones.…
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by Richard Speed on (#52S75)
Also: Java 8 support? Linux? Ah yes – that would be the new Microsoft Microsoft has slung a Kafka Extension for Azure Functions out to preview as well as sneaking in Java 8 support for Linux hosting.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#52RY3)
On the plus side, fears about revenue losses and meeting payroll have subsided If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail. If Benjamin Franklin's aphorism proves to be true, businesses should be worried by the latest research from Gartner.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#52RY4)
Legacy data warhouse wheezing? It could be an option Parallel processing and hardware optimisation biz Swarm64 has pushed out PostgreSQL acceleration software in the hopes this will set it up to compete against proprietary products.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#52RY6)
Google shores up security for biz users Google has upped security for business customers using its G Suite package, including Windows 10 administration, data loss prevention rules, and access rules based on where you are and what device you are using.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#52RY8)
Going to bed earlier? Getting more exercise? Don't be ridiculous. It's 'the adoption of cloud technologies' Feeling refreshed, revved up and raring to go? No? Well, the chances are you did not get enough sleep. Among the throngs of IT professionals, it would appear you are not alone.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#52RQS)
Democratising mass surveillance, one snafu at a time Exclusive In a blunder described as "astonishing and worrying," Sheffield City Council's automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) system exposed to the internet 8.6 million records of road journeys made by thousands of people, The Register can reveal.…
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by Richard Speed on (#52RQV)
Also: Russia sends another freighter filled with astro goodies to ISS Roundup Hello, Starlink. SpaceX launched and landed another Falcon 9, Russia sent its next freighter to the ISS and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk celebrated failing to explode the latest Starship in the latest space-tastic news roundup.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#52RQW)
'Take legal action' he told the firm. So it (sort of) did "I thought we [could] change one letter of a big brand and make a business and it [would be] alright," wailed a photographer who tried to blag £1m from Snapchat before Nominet stripped him of his ripoff domain name.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#52RKQ)
'The average Windows 10 PC has 14 weaponized bugs' A study of vulnerabilities - bugs that can be a gateway for malware or allow privilege escalation by an intruder - shows that Windows platforms have the most by far, but that they also tend to be fixed quickly, compared to Linux systems or appliances like routers, printers and scanners.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#52RKS)
New rules let Beijing review purchases after pondering 'political, diplomatic, and trade factors' for up to three months China has implemented new rules for buying tech equipment in a move to bolster the country's cybersecurity.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#52RKV)
Good option for locals and lowest latency for Austria, Bulgaria and Greece too AWS has opened a new region in Milan, Italy.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#52RKW)
Some shine, come rain Vid The interstellar comet 2I/Borisov shed nearly 230 million litres of water as it whizzed through our Solar System during its visit last year, according to measurements gathered by NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#52RKX)
As Azure adds Intel's much-probed SGX to its confidential zone Google has made its Shielded VMs the default option in its cloud.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#52RKY)
Why do it at all? Easier to audit and adapt, apparently Analysis The UK has decided to break with growing international consensus and insist its upcoming coronavirus contact-tracing app is run through centralised British servers – rather than follow the decentralized Apple-Google approach.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#52RGD)
Speech recognition purveyor Otter.ai makes a choice to chase Zoom-ing dollars Speech recognition purveyor Otter.ai has added the ability to offer realtime transcription of Zoom meetings, at the expense of some elements out of its free plan.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#52RGE)
COO says plague-time productivity has improved so clients don’t see see WfH as a WtF Indian technology services giant Tata Consultancy Services will increase its use of remote working in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#52RGG)
Phone model recorded, unique ID infrequently refreshed – but Atlassian's Mike Cannnon-Brookes says use it and two million peeps agree The design of Australia’s COVIDSafe contact-tracing app creates some unintended surveillance opportunities, according to a group of four security pros who unpacked its .APK file.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#52RBY)
Will literally argue anything to tie up VirnetX lawyers for a bit longer Apple’s decade-long refusal to accept it was wrong has hit absurd depths.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#52RC0)
It's pin-everything-on-China season America's communications watchdog will ban four Chinese telcos from operating in the Land of the Free from next month, citing a vague national security threat.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#52R58)
Dust up after sales money vanishes from bank account, it is claimed Escobar, the smartphone peddler fronted by the older brother of the late Colombian pharmaceuticals executive Pablo Escobar, is suing its chief operations officer for allegedly embezzling cash and hijacking its YouTube account.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#52R59)
Rock and roll at 30,000 ft at hypersonic speeds Videos The US Department of Defense today officially released three short videos of "unidentified aerial phenomena" – aka unidentified flying objects – that it still apparently doesn't have an explanation for.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#52QXZ)
Wake us up when September ends... Production of the iPhone 12 is reportedly running behind schedule, as Apple wrestles with supply chain issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a travel ban imposed by the Chinese government.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#52QMY)
When does it end? Roundup Folks, we regret to inform you it's still 5G silly season.…
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by Richard Speed on (#52QMZ)
Somewhere in your phone, something is blowing out candles on a cake Video Did the reminder on your smartphone go off over the weekend? It's been 35 years since the first Arm processor was powered up.…
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by Richard Speed on (#52QN0)
Four more years! Four more years! Outsourcing giant Capita is to continue administering the British Teacher's Pension Scheme for a good few years after the Department of Education extended its contract.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#52QCB)
Cross-platform software acceleration API should be easier to jump on The Khronos Group has pushed out the Open CL 3.0 provisional specification, a major update to the cross-platform API used for accelerating software performance by using the concurrent programming capabilities of GPUs and CPUs.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#52QCD)
There's little 'new' here, but that's a good thing for repairability Serial phone abusers at iFixit have discovered that the iPhone SE 2020 is effectively a specced-up version of 2017's iPhone 8, meaning many of its components are interchangeable with its older brother.…
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Lords: New IR35 off-payroll tax rules 'riddled with problems, unfairnesses, unintended consequences'
by Lindsay Clark on (#52QCF)
Peers urge review during delay as witnesses call themselves 'zero-rights employees' The UK's House of Lords has produced a damning report into the government's delayed changes to the IR35 off payroll tax regime, saying they require a complete rethink.…
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by Richard Speed on (#52QCG)
Also: new .NET previews, 365 rebrando-tanks roll on, and more Roundup Welcome to another rundown of the news you might have missed from the Windows mines deep beneath Microsoft's Redmond campus.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#52Q6F)
But they came away with a keg-sized 2.5MW generator, and Rolls will complete terra firma test schedule Airbus and Rolls-Royce have ended a joint venture to produce a hybrid-electric airliner testbed that could have paved the way for electric aircraft of the future.…
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by Richard Speed on (#52Q6H)
An empty station, illuminated by the soft, blue hue of Bork Bork!Bork!Bork! "What does digital signage show when humans aren't around?"…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#52Q6K)
Planet Computers' gizmo builds a bridge between two worlds, but it's not without limits Hands on It must be stressed right off the bat that a "phone" like Planet Computers' Cosmo Communicator is an incredibly niche device.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#52Q6N)
The fruits of labour for world's largest tech firm to be revealed on 30 April Apple is now staring down the barrel of a "second recession of the iPhone era" with handset shipments in China calculated to have fallen off a cliff due to country-specific demand and production issues caused by the coronavirus.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#52Q24)
Proof-of-concept vuln patched a week ago A vulnerability existed in Microsoft's Slack for Suits tool, Teams, that could have let a remote attacker take over accounts by simply sending a malicious GIF, infosec researchers claim.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#52Q26)
As European nations back decentralised plan that leaves data on the device until users call in sick Apple and Google have revealed a little more about their plans to support COVID-19 contact-tracing apps and changed up some of their security plans.…
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