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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZK0W)
Dot-com is all the rage, yo Updated British customers of High Street banking brand Natwest are being advised not to use the domain natwest.co.uk – by none other than Natwest itself.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZK0X)
PARC, Apple and Amazon – computing pioneer dies at 74 Obit Larry Tesler – self-described "primary inventor of modeless editing and cut, copy, paste" – has died at the age of 74.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZK0Z)
We read through reams of releases to give you the skinny on plans for: AI, 100Mbps min. broadband, data-sharing ... and what's this about a Euro-cloud? The European Commission, under its newly elected president Ursula von der Leyen, this morning emitted a sweeping digital strategy for the member states over the next five years. There's a lot to get through, but it focuses on three pillars: digital enablement and protection for individuals (including AI regulation and broadband availability), fair competition, and sustainability.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZK10)
Yeah, don't break this one either iFixit has gone all Spanish inquisition on the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, taking a sharp scalpel to the pricey foldable's innards and posting the pics online. What did it find? Not heresy, but somewhat of a mixed bag when it comes to repairability.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZJQ7)
World turns to Twitter for reasoned discussion and cat memes Pit of the internet Reddit is TITSUP* just in time to ruin the lunchtime surfing of Europeans and the morning smoothie-quaffing of Americans.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZJQ9)
Split me once, shame on you. Split me twice, shame on, er, you again? Screens on Microsoft's Surface Laptop 3 have appeared to develop a crack habit, with one of the latest complaints claiming this happened even after repair.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZJQB)
What was it Burns said? Something about plans, mice and men Private equity biz Leonne International has snapped up 20 per cent of Shetland Space Centre for a hair over £2m, with the cash set to grow the company ahead of launches from the northernmost British isle.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZJQD)
A comfortable, pleasant non-mechanical keyboard Review Keyboards are essential so it's no surprise people are particular about the ones they use. And though mechanical keyboards command the majority of the mouth-foaming geek lust, there's still a home for the humble scissor-switch, as demonstrated by the delightfully functional Bakker Elkhuizen UltraBoard 950 Wireless.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZJHQ)
To be fair, all UK cities could benefit from such a scheme... Sheffield authorities have enlisted four companies to help improve rubbish collection and road maintenance in the northern English city through a network of sensors.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZJHR)
In some of UK's worst flood-hit areas IT failures in emergency fire control rooms are creating dangerous delays, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has warned.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZJHT)
MyPr0nStash might not have been the wisest name for that file server after all Seeking to improve its pisspoor customer service rating, UK telecoms giant Vodafone has clarified just how much information it slurps from customer networks. You might want to rename those servers, m'kay?…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZJD5)
Are we doing panic about software updates again? Really? OK Some of the biggest names in the technology world still ship hardware that can be possibly hijacked by well-placed miscreants, thanks to poor or non-existent checks for firmware updates.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ZJD6)
Would-be buyer Ethos attempts closed-room meeting to push deal through The Internet Society's own members are now opposing its sale of the .org internet registry to an unknown private equity firm.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ZJD7)
Smart-home kit slinger does the right thing... under commercial duress Ring will make two-factor authentication mandatory for all its customers, forcing them to enter a six-digit code before they can access their accounts, the Amazon-owned outfit announced on Tuesday.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ZJ4V)
There's always a tech angle The former CEO of education software business Symplicity was pardoned by President Donald Trump this week, almost six years after the suit admitted hacking into two rivals’ computer systems.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZJ4W)
President slams his own administration's 'ridiculous' China crackdown President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he wants America's semiconductor industry to be able to do business around the globe, calling into question a reported trade rule change targeting Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZHYS)
Meanwhile: Chip fabs still running just fine in China, FYI, says analyst Google has added rentable virtual machines powered by AMD's second-generation Epyc Rome server processors to its cloud platform line-up – as a beta, we note.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZHYT)
If you need to ask the price, you definitely can't afford it Updated SpaceX has pledged to carry up to four passengers into Earth orbit aboard its autonomous Crew Dragon capsule – its first crewed mission for private space tourism – as early as 2021.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZHPA)
Japanese supplier's biz model, like its products, were straight as a spring Two former sales executives at NHK Spring Ltd, Hitoshi Hashimoto and Hiroyuki Tamura, were indicted in America last week for alleged participation in a worldwide conspiracy to fix the prices of hard disk components.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZHPC)
Following this? An Instagram/YouTube ad horse has carried out a cunning meta-Marshall McLuhan-style spoof by faking an influencer holiday in Bali photographed entirely in her local Ikea.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZHPE)
Look over here! Mmmmm, tax breaks In an effort to counter the influence and spread of Chinese-built kit, the Japanese government has approved a draft bill that will offer low-cost finance to firms looking to develop 5G and drone technologies.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZHCY)
Texan tech giant hacks off part of security real estate, sells to consortium Dell Technologies is flogging its infosec business RSA for $2.075bn as it tries to reduce its longstanding debt.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZHD0)
Not many stranger things happen at sea Penetration testers looking at commercial shipping and oil rigs discovered a litany of security blunders and vulnerabilities – including one set that would have let them take full control of a rig at sea.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZHD1)
OPPOrtunity knocks etc You can count the number of phone manufacturers who design their own silicon on one hand – Huawei, Samsung and Apple. But soon you'll be able to add OPPO to that list.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZH3Q)
French telco pairs up with Telxius on backhaul links, co-lo services Orange and Telxius are hooking up to provide backhaul links and co-lo services for Google's fibre-optic transatlantic cable, due to go live later this year.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZH3S)
Support ends May 26. Users fretting over Fedora CoreOS's limitations might want to jump into Flatcar Red Hat is set to fling a flaming arrow at Red Hat CoreOS Container Linux*, the software firm said as it laid out the details of the end of life timeline for the distro it acquired in January 2018.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZH3V)
Then goes and opens rocket engine factory Very wealthy bloke Jeff Bezos announced he would be spending billions on fighting climate change the same day his space rocket venture, Blue Origin, opened its Huntsville production facility.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZH3X)
Yet another financial institution only wants freelancers on its own terms Deutsche Bank is set to lose contractors from key UK teams as it tries to force freelancers to take pay cuts in line with looming IR35 tax reforms.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZH3Y)
Factories 'ramping more slowly than anticipated' Apple said the COVID-19 epidemic in China has disrupted iPhone production to the point that it will lead to global shortages of the handset – and likely miss already widened revenue forecasts it set in January.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZGWP)
ElectionGuard guards real-life election Microsoft is in Fulton, Wisconsin, today to try its ElectionGuard electronic vote system in the primary election for the US state's Supreme Court candidates.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZGWR)
Microsoft previews its efforts to bring complexity of on-prem IT to the cloud Microsoft has slung out a limited sneak peek at Azure Shared Disks, which enable on-premises applications that run on clustered storage to be migrated cloudwards.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZGWT)
Just what is it you lot actually do anyway? Comment Headlining the recent Oracle OpenWorld Europe gabfest in London, Big Red's CEO Safra Catz says big chages are afoot at the company, though the shadow of its colourful chairman continues to loom large.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZGWW)
Ah Larry, you're all heart. Virtually While the faithful were gathered for Oracle's OpenWorld Europe (OOW) knees-up at London's Excel centre, boffins using the company's cloud have been busy creating a virtual human.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZGRD)
If only there was some way of organising the space Bork!Bork!Bork! Considering the origins of the word "bork!", we were delighted when news reached Vulture Central of IKEA getting in on the act.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZFY2)
Move over, there's plenty of room on Putin's naughty step Fresh from last week's controversy with a US telco, German secure email biz Tutanota has declared today that the Russian authorities have pulled the plug on its services.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZFY3)
As in, it's easy to damage despite spiel Early adopters of Samsung's foldable Galaxy Z Flip have shed doubt on the phone's hardiness despite claims from the tech giant about its flexible glass display.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZFPF)
'Web apps should be able to do anything native apps can' Google's Chrome 81 is now in beta, bringing Web NFC support to the browser and extensions to the WebXR implementation to enable Augmented Reality (AR).…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4ZFPH)
Just edible gold rather than briefcases filled with the actual stuff A plate of oysters, followed by genuine Japanese Wagyu sirloin? Washed down with a bottle or two of Screaming Eagle Cabernet '92? These are just some of the levers Xerox may pull to convince HP Inc shareholders to cash out when it wines and dines them this week.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZFPK)
Remote attackers were able create their own admin accounts A vulnerability in a popular WordPress user role plugin lets any random person create an admin-level account on targeted websites.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZFPN)
Also: No HoloLens 2 at Barcelona Roundup While Windows wobbled under the weight of patches, the Microsoft gang updated development tools and buffed up a lure for startups among other shenanigans in this past week.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZFF6)
Chaebol switching even more production out of Middle Kingdom The coronavirus epidemic continues to disrupt China's manufacturing and logistics sectors, forcing smartphone manufacturers to adapt. Among them this is South Korean tech giant Samsung, which has begun shipping smartphone components to Vietnam by air and sea, where two-thirds of its handsets are now being assembled.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZFF7)
Spindly thing claimed to stay airborne for a year with 15kg payload A BAE Systems pseudo-satellite drone has made its maiden flight in Australia, just under two years after being announced as a marketing concept.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZFF9)
'Horrible news' for invested devs Microsoft is shutting down its Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), part of App Center, to the dismay of developers using it.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZFFB)
Plus: Did NASA just accidentally give the game away? Roundup Cygnus flies, SpaceX stands down, Rocket Lab is going to the Moon and New Horizons drops a massive dump (of new data) in this week's roundup. A heck of a way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a view of Earth from really, really far away.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZFBB)
Plus: Trump budget favors AI, 'patent troll' backs down, and CEO quits amid sex pest claims Roundup It's a long weekend in the US, though sadly not in Blighty. So, for those of you starting your week, here's some bite-sized machine-learning news, beyond what we've recently covered, if that's your jam.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#4ZFBD)
Good hook if you're already all-in. Oh, and there's an elephant in the room: full Hadoop implementation Analysis After securing a lofty position in enterprise applications and databases, Oracle has fixed its eyes on data science. And though analysts have expressed doubt about whether Big Red is producing technologies new to the field, its shiny Cloud Data Science Platform might appeal to those already heavily invested in Oracle's software.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZFBF)
Now, where was I? [tappity tap] ... BALLS! Who, Me? Hey hey hey, it's Monday! The new week is but a caffeinated beverage away. Come join us in celebrating another Register reader's flirtation with career-ending disaster with a morning dose of Who, Me?…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZF7Q)
Plus: Iranians accused of hacking IT service providers to get at their customers Roundup Everything is insecure and everything is broken, exhibits A through Z:…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZF7S)
And also, crucial point, the software may be wrong and we'll never be released by these angels of death A neural network has identified eleven asteroids once thought to be benign that may actually come close enough to hit Earth.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZEY2)
'A combination of losing Huawei and slower than anticipated ramp in 5G' A small round of layoffs at Silicon Valley's Xilinx was the result of the US government's ongoing war on Huawei, one of the FPGA designer's top customers.…
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