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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZC9F)
Russia denies claims from well-informed broadcaster that it was homegrown Turla malware baddies Austria's foreign ministry has said a weeks-long cyber attack from a "state actor" against its systems has ended – amid local reports that pin the blame on a Russian hacking crew and its initial four-byte payload.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZC9H)
Buy to boost cloud, automation and visibility chops Arista has beaten several rival suitors to snap up software-defined networking (SDN) specialist Big Switch after months of negotiations.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZC9K)
As 1809 is nudged toward the darkness, the Baron of Bork has plans for 1903 and 1909 There are three certainties in life: death, taxes and duff patches from Microsoft. So, yes, some Windows 10 users have found their PC unhappy following Tuesday's patch shenanigans.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZC9N)
Sold out in China, no word when it arrives in the West Chinese tat bazaar Xiaomi just peeled the wraps off its latest flagship smartphones – MWC or no MWC.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZC0P)
Productivity or performance? Hey, why not both? On this day 25 years ago, Borland Software trotted out version 1.0 of the Delphi application development product, making the announcement at the Software Development '95 event in San Francisco.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZC0R)
Maybe stick to walking the beat instead of infosec advice, eh? The National Crime Agency has publicly distanced itself from a poster urging parents to call police if their child has installed Kali Linux, Tor or – brace yourself – Discord.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4ZC0T)
The days of spinning rust in lappies looks numbered and deskops will be next, says analyst Dearly beloved, let us take a moment to remember the spinning rust featured in PCs for the last four decades. This year "no new laptops" will have an HDD inside, and desktops' innards will go the same way in 2020.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZC0V)
The Register talks to Carolyn Porco, Garry Hunt and Alan Stern about the picture that almost wasn't Thirty years ago, the Voyager Project celebrated 14 February not with a card, but with a family portrait of the Solar System, which would give rise to the celebrated "Pale Blue Dot" concept. The Register spoke to the scientists involved, as well as those who might snap a future image.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4ZBTY)
The ball's in your park and I'm just happy for the team Something for the Weekend, Sir? Call me paranoid, call me suspicious, call me an ambulance [slaps thigh], but I'm not sure I'm seeing things in the way I'm supposed to.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZBV0)
Windows XP – the gift that keeps on giving (until you need it to actually do something) Bork!Bork!Bork! Like that ageing celebrity you thought kicked the bucket years ago, Windows XP keeps popping up on screens to wheeze the IT equivalent of "I'm not dead yet!"…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZBV2)
Come, let us gaze into the black pit of desktop support On Call Hurrah! It's Friday, which means it's time for another recollection from readers lucky enough to have support tickets assigned to them. Welcome to On Call.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ZBV4)
Final bill for My Online Business Education? More than £230m An Australian fella who made bank from thousands of military veterans and retirees through a 21-step “proven system†of internet marketing must cough up £13m ($17m) in settlements – and is banned from selling any similar programs in future.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZBPE)
Monster telco says it's working to resolve whatever's going on Encrypted email service Tutanota on Thursday accused US mega-telco AT&T of blocking its service in some parts of America, and cited the service interruption, ongoing for more than two weeks, as evidence for the need for net neutrality.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZBK8)
Now that's toke'n ring networking: Code of America happy to pass around its tools to scrub cases under US state law More than 60,000 cannabis convictions in Los Angeles County are set to be overturned, thanks to computer algorithms.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZBF9)
The past twelve months have not been good for GPU giant Nvidia talked up its data center AI sales and strong just-past quarter to keep everyone's eyes distracted from an otherwise lukewarm financial year.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZBFA)
Pentagon's $10bn winner-takes-all cloud super-contract in stasis as Starship Bezos opens fire A US federal court today slammed the brakes on the Pentagon's decision to award Microsoft the JEDI cloud mega-contract.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ZB7J)
California Supreme Court skewers iGiant for stiffing loyal drones Apple will have to pay its retail store workers back wages after the California Supreme Court ruled staff should be compensated for the time they spend every day having their bags checked by security.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZB7M)
Shoddy code allegations are just FUD, software maker insists Only a week after the mobile app meltdown in Iowa's Democratic Caucus, computer scientists at MIT have revealed their analysis of the Voatz app used in West Virginia's 2018 midterm election.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZB7P)
CFO – and daughter of founder Ren Zhengfei – Meng Wanzhou named in fresh criminal indictment Updated Huawei has been charged by the US government with 16 counts ranging from fraud to conspiring to launder money and steal trade secrets to racketeering.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZAYS)
Limited functionality and cloud only, but improvements are on the way A beta of GitHub's command-line interface for managing issues and pull requests is available to download for macOS, Windows and Linux.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZAYV)
Apparently the UK's CMA has never heard of Amazon Google Cloud has completed its $2.6bn acquisition of data analytics and machine learning outfit Looker after getting the thumbs-up from the UK's competition authorities.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZAMW)
Repairs require complete disassembly The Motorola Razr is back and while the 2000s stalwart had a reputation for toughness, you'll probably want to be careful with the refreshed version. A recent teardown from the T3-wielding terrors at iFixit has proven it to be nigh-on impossible to repair.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZAMY)
Surface Neo is the most interesting new Windows device in years, but will weary devs support it? Microsoft's dual-screen Surface devices for Windows (Neo) and Android (Duo) come out later this year, but how will devs write or re-write their apps to support them?…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZAN0)
Misnomer of the century Essential Products, the troubled handset manufacturer from Android daddy Andy Rubin, has ceased operations.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZAAV)
GPU shenanigans and Linux love also headline a Fast Ring build with… wait for it… new stuff Microsoft finally flinched last night and acquiesced to the demands of Fast Ring Windows Insiders with a fresh Windows 10 build that at long last contained some new toys.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZAAW)
Letter delivered to chancellor demanding tax reform be halted Sign-waving contractors and freelancers accumulated outside the Houses of Parliament in London's Westminster yesterday morning to protest against the UK government's controversial IR35 tax reforms.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4ZAAY)
Should they be allowed to grab our stuff just cos it's 'popular' and it works? Not to be outdone by Google in ominous warnings over the future of software, Oracle has declared to American Supreme Court justices that no company would make an "enormous investment" like it did in Java SE if rivals get a free pass to copy code simply because it is "popular" and "functional".…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZAB0)
Over the air? More like over the aarrrggghhh A trio of boffins at Singapore University this week disclosed 12 security vulnerabilities affecting the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) SDKs offered by seven system-on-a-chip (SoC) vendors.…
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by Team Register on (#4ZA4F)
Plus: Clock is ticking on early-bird ticket offer Event We’re thrilled to announce that Charity Majors will be delivering a keynote at our Continuous Lifecycle London conference this May.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZA4H)
That's enough time for all Nickelback's albums in one sitting! Samsung Unwrapped wasn't all shiny flagships and foldable phones – the South Korean tech giant also tore the wrapping paper off its latest wireless earbuds.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#4ZA4K)
I'll miss the MWC muggers, not the marketeers Column One of the biggest experiments in algorithmic price management is currently underway, as the GSMA, the mobile industry's lobby body, has scrapped this year’s Mobile World Congress gabfest.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#4ZA4N)
Bots are getting themselves in trouble – who gets the blame? Tech firms have a history of getting in legal hot water over antitrust issues – being probed or dragged through the courts for collusion or for acting anti-competitively.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZA05)
After panel urges halt to live matching, top brass says it would only be 'used in an intelligence-led, targeted way' A Scottish Parliamentary panel has urged police to not invest in live facial-recognition technology, and the plod seem to agree.…
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by David Gordon on (#4ZA07)
Infosec biz offers to guide you, step-by-step, in eliminating vulnerabilities Webcast Cyber-attacks have more than doubled in the past 12 months. Whoever you work for, your organisation is now being probed more than once every minute.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ZA09)
Online security process stalled by offline security screw-up The organization that keeps the internet running behind-the-scenes was forced to delay an important update to the global network – because it was locked out of one of its own safes.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4Z9VS)
You'll need a STEM degree and the ability to be a steely-eyed rocket person You knew this day would come, and hopefully you’ve made some smart choices along the way, because it is time to apply to become an astronaut. Yes, a real-life astronaut.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z9QF)
The aristocrats! The aristocrats! As feared, Cisco saw its sales slip slightly from last quarter as customers held off on buying new network and comms gear.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z9QH)
Now let us never speak of this again Microsoft has confirmed that the ill-fated Windows 10 1809 update has just three months left to live.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4Z9GS)
Technologieverzögerung? Uh, Kommunikationsbürokratie? Switzerland has stalled the rollout of next-gen 5G mobile networks over health concerns.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Z9GV)
Parent of Kraken wants to know who's daring to speak their mind The Electronic Frontier Foundation has teamed up with Glassdoor to fight off a cryptocurrency exchange that is trying to discover which of its ex-employees may have dissed the firm online.…
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Mobile World Congress now none of those things as 2020 industry megashow axed over coronavirus fears
by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z9GW)
Mass drop-outs prove too costly for European comms conference MWC Good news for anyone who fancies a cheap vacation in Spain at the end of the month: this year's MWC Barcelona has been officially cancelled.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z97P)
I'll show you my customers if you show me yours Oracle has continued its attempt to gain ground on cloud rivals by expanding its data centres and extending last year's love-in with Microsoft.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4Z8X9)
Barring a blip, still set for Valentine's ship date Samsung has unfolded its Galaxy Z Flip, its second stab at the nascent foldable phone market – which the vendor will be hoping goes better than the previous model that fell apart in the hands of multiple reviewers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z8XB)
Hey kids, put down those folding fondleslabs and get on Slow Ring with Grandpa Windows As if to remind a Microsoft world engorged with excitement at the new and shiny Windows 10X, the Insider team emitted an update last night to point out that vanilla Windows 10 is still a thing.…
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by Laurie Clarke on (#4Z8XD)
Ofcom awarded powers to police harmful content on social media – because the pr0n block went so well UK comms watchdog Ofcom is to be handed new powers to police social media's handling of harmful content.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4Z8XF)
Samsung and Huawei still in, for now Another day, another bunch of wary vendors have dropped out of MWC over fears of the novel coronavirus. This time it's Nokia, BT, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom that are withdrawing.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4Z8MN)
Huge changes for how apps run but will it win over users? Microsoft has made some bold claims about its forthcoming Windows 10X operating system, which will run on the dual-screen Surface Neo device.…
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by Laurie Clarke on (#4Z8MQ)
Ya think? A new report from the Committee for Standards in Public life has criticised the UK government's stance on transparency in AI governance and called for ethics to be "embedded" in the frameworks.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Z8MS)
And the company reaction is: not even 'meh' An infosec researcher has published a JavaScript-based proof of concept for the Netgear routerlogin.com vulnerability revealed at the end of January.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4Z8MV)
Goosey goosey gander, whither shall I wander? Wherever the f*** I want Geese are a crowd favourite at petting zoos for tot-flattening abilities rivalled only by the goat. This also means they are not to be trifled with, as a small Pennsylvanian town has discovered.…
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