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by Rupert Goodwins on (#4ZP1R)
It's a hard job... why not outsource it? Column Our favourite controller of UK media, Ofcom, is being given new powers to regulate the internet. Or censor it, depending on your preferred spin. It's all a bit fuzzy at the moment: with illegal content, the regulator will watch for the usual monsters of terrorism and child abuse and act swiftly to close them down and keep them down.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4ZP1S)
Crash, bang, wallop Intel is losing ground to AMD in every corner of the European PC industry serviced by the channel, according to official sales stats from distributors.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4ZP1V)
The inevitable return of Norbert Spankmonkey Something for the Weekend, Sir? Where's my free promo tat? Fellow convention attendees have no such problem being showered with promotional gifts from all sides as they totter up and down the rows of booths.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZNWT)
I'll take a Big Mac, large fries and... um, are you OK? Bork!Bork!Bork! There is a saying about networking fails: "It's not DNS. It can't be DNS. It was DNS." So far for The Register's column of retail calamity, it's McDonald's. It's nearly always McDonald's.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZNWW)
Yet another reason to never do things by halves On Call The weekend is a day away, but before you swan off, please join us for another episode of ticketing system terror with The Register's regular On Call.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZNWX)
Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday to me... Astronomers have discovered a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet with the shortest orbital period yet: a year on this large puffy world lasts just 18 hours.…
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by David Gordon on (#4ZNWZ)
Discover which developments lie ahead: 16 - 17 June, Frankfurt Promo “Digital transformation†in practice still basically boils down to hybrid cloud, and while more and more of us are bolting public and private cloud infrastructure together, it’s no less important to keep looking for new inspiration as we put new technology and skills in place within the enterprise.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZNQX)
Meet halicin, picked by a neural network and whimsically named after the HAL 9000 bot Although new strains of antibiotics are increasingly difficult to develop, scientists have done just that, with the help of a neural network.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ZNM4)
US regulator tries to hide embarrassment behind series of sudden announcements Comment The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking the American public to tell it if its decision in 2017 to scrap net neutrality regulations was dumb or not.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZNM6)
Before he was arrested, Googler appealed to internet, newspaper for help finding his spouse Sonam Saxena, 43, a product manager at Google Cloud, was arrested in Hawaii this week on suspicion of second-degree murder.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZNM8)
Purge is the latest in a series of similar store scourings On Thursday Google confirmed it has removed nearly 600 Android apps from the Google Play Store and banned them from its ad services for violating its policies on disruptive advertising and interstitials.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZNDY)
Keep your crypto below 398 days after September 1 and you're all good Safari will, later this year, no longer accept new HTTPS certificates that expire more than 13 months from their creation date.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZNDZ)
Security biz clocked 55 million malicious login attempts on a client Financial services firms' public APIs are becoming the target du jour for internet ne'er-do-wells, reckons Akamai, which also said that one of its customers was firehosed with 55 million malicious login attempts last summer.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZNE0)
Unfortunate timing – the Obama admin also supported the database giant The US solicitor general Noel Francisco on Wednesday filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Oracle in its Java API copyright lawsuit against Google, scheduled to be argued before the US Supreme Court next month.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZN5N)
Alternative headline: Killer bio-nasty linked to former alien vault and cyber-hacker gathering RSA Yet another big brand has pulled out of RSA Conference, due to take place next week, amid the ongoing novel coronavirus panic.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZN5Q)
Introducing Project Operations Microsoft has announced a new application, Dynamics 365 Project Operations, as well as additional AI-driven features for its Dynamics 365 range.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZN5S)
Cloud giant aims to attract developers with code-oriented deployment automation Google's new Application Manager, now in beta, is geared toward simplifying setting up GitOps with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as the target platform.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZN5V)
What happens in Vegas... gets leaked on the internet Casino and hotel chain MGM Resorts lost almost 10.7 million guest records last summer, including the data of Jack Dorsey and Justin Bieber, which was duly posted to hacker forums.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZMW0)
Relax, you won't feel a thing Google's UK users will see their data shifted to a US-based data controller from the end of next month with the ad giant blaming Brexit for the move.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZMW2)
Updated cocaine straws will be much harder to forge and hopefully vegan The Bank of England has started sending out new polymer £20 notes but the old paper ones remain legal tender for now.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZMW3)
This is not a test The Metropolitan Police are using live facial recognition (LFR) in various locations in central London today after spending two years testing the technology.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZMW5)
And that's one hell of a privacy agreement Microsoft's all-in-one mobile Office app combining Word, Excel and Powerpoint into a single application for iOS and Android is here, but you'll need an Office 365 subscription to use the "premium features."…
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by John Oates on (#4ZMW7)
Rural trials will not use equipment 'from high risk vendors' says Ministry of Fun The UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS, aka the Ministry of Fun) has barred Huawei gear from rural 5G trials.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZMKP)
It's APT28 again! Public attribution names and shames state-backed crew The same Russian state hackers who unleashed NotPetya on the world's computers were behind destructive cyberattacks on Georgia during 2019, the governments of Britain and the US have said – echoing a similar attribution a decade ago.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZMKQ)
Before you remove the mote from thy hacker's eye, remove the beam from the eyes of your, er, Teams RSA As IBM's crew cancels their hotel rooms, Microsoft's infosec staffers are still set to attend the decades-old RSA conference and pulled the covers off a raft of security releases and previews for the event today.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZMKS)
Taylor Swift of apps or ultimate ironic hipster shout-out? In 2014, the world was graced with yet another social network. This one was special. While Facebook and Twitter were grotesquely stodgy beasts, this app stood out with its almost Scandinavian simplicity. It would allow you to message your friends with the word "Yo!" – and that's it.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZMKV)
It's looking rather ominous to us Following a mysterious "Find my Mobile" push notification this morning, questions are swirling around Samsung after customers found other users's login details being shown to them while trying to change their passwords.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZMKX)
You'd hope it would know 85mph speed limits aren't exactly routine Vid A single piece of electrical tape stuck to a 35mph (56kph) road sign is enough to trick the autopilot software in Tesla's vehicles into speeding up to 85mph (136kph).…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZMBN)
The web is 'optimised for Chrome, not for independent browsers' Interview Mozilla's head of EU public policy, Raegan MacDonald, reckons effective regulation to protect privacy and enable fair competition is an "issue of survival" for Mozilla and other independent companies.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZMBQ)
Not the sort of 'digital transformation' you want to be part of A bloke has copped to operating a £115m ($149m) scam that managed to encompass physical mining of gems and the virtual mining of cryptocoins.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZMBS)
Now Ru? The Russian government, via mouthpiece RIA Novosti, has claimed Korean tech giant Samsung will comply with a controversial Russian law passed in November that forces smartphones and computers to come pre-installed with domestic-made shovelware.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZM72)
Xiaomi the way to the sale rack, would you? Smartwatch sales have been steadily increasing in recent years, thanks to Apple's efforts, as well as downward pricing pressure from Chinese firms like Xiaomi. And, according to entrail prodders at analyst haus CCS Insight, those who buy them are fairly content.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZM74)
And forget SaaS-y upstarts: These machine-learning darlings are more like traditional service outfits Despite all the hype around artificial intelligence, trendy startups built upon the tech are said to have lower margins than funding-magnet software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZM76)
Linux Foundation hears your gripes about naming schemes, legacy code, and more With modern applications now composed of 80 to 90 per cent Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), the Linux Foundation and Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard University (LISH) on Wednesday published their second open-source census to promote better security and code management practices.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZM2F)
The 1990s spacecraft, that is Jupiter contains more water than a previous study suggested, according to recordings from NASA's Juno probe, which were published in Nature Astronomy this month.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZKTX)
It's not a bug, it's a feature, explains the Chocolate Factory Google has implemented a browser capability in Chrome called ScrollToTextFragment that enables deep links to web documents, but it has done so despite unresolved privacy concerns and lack of support from other browser makers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ZKTZ)
That ain't the way life should be, Maine responds The US state of Maine is violating internet broadband providers' free speech by forcing them to ask for their customers’ permission to sell their browser history, according to a new lawsuit.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZKV1)
Critical fix for static credential headlines latest patch rollout Cisco has released fixes to address 17 vulnerabilities across its networking and unified communications lines.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ZKKE)
IRS wants Zuckerberg's empire to cough up $9bn in back taxes Facebook has told a court the reason it valued itself at just $6.5bn back in 2010 is not because it was seeking to avoid paying billions in extra tax, but because people had started using their mobile phones more. At the time, the antisocial goliath was reliant on ads on its desktop site.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZKKG)
America wanted a cover-up of Kremlin ties to DNC intrusion, court told Julian Assange was offered a pardon by the White House only if he publicly said Russia did not hack the Democratic National Committee, according to the WikiLeaks supremo's lawyer.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZKB9)
Mystery facility hit by 'commodity' infection thought to be Ryuk America's Homeland Security this week disclosed it recently responded to a ransomware infection at an unnamed natural gas plant.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZKBB)
Firm told: Contracting with Uncle Sam is a privilege, not a right An American court has rejected Huawei's constitutional challenge to a US law that bans federal agencies and contractors from buying and using the Chinese firm's telecoms equipment.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZKBC)
But will you see your phone bills decreasing? Ofcom must repay £218m to the UK's four main mobile network operators (MNOs) after overcharging them for spectrum access, the Court of Appeal ruled today.…
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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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