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by Tim Anderson on (#4YV1V)
Option to securely carry your user profile with you in next release The systemd-homed service, which enables portable home directories, has been merged into the code for systemd and will be included in the forthcoming 245 release.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4YTRW)
He was also secretly filming in leisure centres A perv who reportedly hacked people's iCloud accounts to obtain sexual images before sharing them online has been sent to prison for nearly three years.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4YTRX)
Also: Latest Windows 10 Insider Build's new surprise feature, which rhymes with 'chug' and doesn't like penguins Roundup Welcome to the first Microsoft roundup of February 2020, the month after the plug was finally pulled on Windows 7. There remains, however, plenty left for Redmond to put the boot into, from Windows 10 Insider builds to poor old UWP.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4YTRZ)
Some assembly required. Just like the real thing The Register's resident brick botherer picked up Lego's new International Space Station (ISS). But is it any good?…
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by Richard Speed on (#4YTS1)
Partner webinar pours cold water on compute cartridge for boardroom behemoth Those hankering for a big bastard Surface Hub with a bit more horsepower could be in for disappointment as Microsoft appeared to confirm that the 2X won't be showing up any time soon.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4YTKN)
Tried not suing your customers when they make claims? FIC 2020 EU companies aren't taking out insurance against attacks on online assets because the companies selling coverage aren't organised enough – while Brits are more likely to pay off ransomware crooks than others.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4YTKQ)
Only extra special Clubcard holders entrusted with Media Player on the move We interrupt the McDonald's-based borkage to bring you news of a Windows desktop spotted in an unlikely place – the handheld device used by shoppers to scan their purchases at the Tesco store in Carlisle, UK.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4YTKS)
Top military officers talk about response thresholds at French shindig FIC 2020 Western military alliance NATO could have reacted with force to the 2017 WannaCry ransomware outbreak that locked up half of Britain's NHS, Germany's top cybergeneral has said.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4YTFG)
Starting from scratch. A really big scratch Who, Me? Welcome back to Who, Me?, The Register's regular ramble into the dark recesses of readers' memories where we prod consciences with a long, sharp stick.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4YTFH)
January's other AI news summarized for you... by a human... honest Roundup Let's catch you up on the latest goings on in the world of AI beyond what we've already written about.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4YTFK)
Also, Wawa data surfaces on dark markets after December's hack Roundup It has been a busy week in infosec, though here's a few more security news bites to mull over.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4YR2J)
6 March release date 'leaked' Samsung is yet to name, let alone announce, its next-generation flagship but that hasn't stopped it capitalising on the hype by opening pre-orders for pre-orders, giving the most enthusiastic users first dibs.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4YR2M)
Spring Hill NNP-I inference parts to live on, Spring Crest NNP-T is toast Intel has axed Nervana's in-development NNP-T AI training chip, code-named Spring Crest, as it goes full-steam ahead with Habana's technology.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4YR2P)
BT, Gamma, Nationwide, Tide, anyone else? Today was more Friday the 13th than Friday the 31st in the UK, it seems. Not only is it Brexit Day, marking Blighty's withdrawal from Europe, but a bunch of services and internet connectivity broke.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4YR2R)
DNS overseer gets letter demanding documents about controversial registry sale The California State Attorney General's Office (CA-OAG) sent a letter last week to DNS overlord ICANN asking for confidential information about the planned sale of the .org registry and a delay of the transaction.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4YQTE)
And it only took, er, four and a half months for people to see sense Criminal charges have been dropped against two infosec professionals who were arrested during a sanctioned physical penetration test gone wrong.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4YQTG)
Fight! Fight! Fight! The cloudy database world was plunged into drama at the close of this week, as Amazon Web Services locked horns with Microsoft in a spat over benchmarks.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4YQGW)
Glimmer of hope in OLED biz Shares in South Korean electronics firm LG Display spiked today after it posted a smaller-than-expected loss in the previous quarter and a better prognosis ahead for its OLED business.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4YQGY)
The one true Jesus mobe walks away with the Q4 phone market Apple was the biggest mobile phone seller on the block in Q4 – which is about the only positive thing that could be said for iPhone's trading in 2019.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4YQH0)
Astronomers wring hands as more small sats sent aloft Small-sat flinger Rocket Lab beat the winds to get the mysterious National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) payload off the New Zealand launchpad this morning.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4YQH2)
How about them Apples? The European Parliament has voted in favour of binding rules that would mandate the introduction of a bloc-wide common charging standard for mobile devices. The measure passed yesterday by 582 votes to 40, with 37 abstentions, and compels the European Commission to act by July 2020.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4YQ71)
Rockets, self-aggrandisement: Good. Cars: OK. Music: Make it stop Living meme Elon Musk has followed up his feelgood hit of 2019, "RIP Harambe", with "Don't Doubt ur Vibe", a saccharine slab of dreamy electropop that we're sure has nothing to do with rubbing Tesla's results in our collective face.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4YQ72)
With apologies to Joy Division The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. With the festivities behind us and the cold, grey light of January harshing everyone's buzz, it's time to sit down and escape reality. Not sure how I managed to complete this edition following the birth of my second son, but on the other hand I don't lactate so am of very little use to him*. In the meantime, video games.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4YQ74)
Supply-chain hackers now taking aim at kids fighting for democracy, say researchers A Chinese hacking crew which had previously been focusing on industrial and commercial attacks has now involved itself in efforts to suppress protests in Hong Kong.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4YPZG)
Would sir care for an Audi with that Jag? Nearly a year after Malta's Bank of Valletta (BOV) yanked itself from the internet amid a "cyber intrusion", Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) has made three arrests.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4YPZH)
Do you want Russia or China writing treaties on what's cool online? FIC 2020 International progress on state-level so-called cybersecurity "norms" is hopelessly bogged down in an explosion of NGOs and internal United Nations rivalries between two overlapping groups, a French security conference heard this week.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4YPZK)
‘Computer systems must do no harm’ ... Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... Something for the Weekend, Sir? Greetings from civilisation, for one more day at least. After tonight, I will no longer be a European citizen but an immigrant of indeterminate status.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4YPTN)
Getting a whiff of unsupported OS too Poor old McDonald's can't seem to catch a break. No sooner had it decided to rename the Blue Screen of Death to "a reboot", more imagery has come to our attention. This time the company's new kiosks were flashing their unmentionables.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4YPTQ)
It's Hammer Time On Call Welcome back to On Call, The Register's wall where readers inscribe the antics of users so those on the other end of the phone might consider their career choices.…
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by Team Register on (#4YPTS)
Not ready to speak yet? Grab a blind-bird ticket while you can Event Our MCubed 2020 conference call for papers is up and running – and we can’t wait to hear what your organisation has been doing with machine learning, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4YPNX)
'It earns money for freelancers and very small businesses in our rather poor country' says maker of catcher tool Hundreds of thousands of unwanted .uk domains are being dropped by their owners – and picked up by Europeans looking to profit from Blighty's registry system.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4YPHX)
Practice Fusion pocketed kickbacks for crafty alerts and drop-down menu A US software developer must cough up $145m in fines and settlements – for building an application that counseled doctors to prescribe highly addictive pain pills against medical guidelines after it was bribed by painkiller manufacturers to rig the system.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4YPHZ)
We'll stop here so you can browse the shelves for books and toys We used to joke Amazon is a cloud server giant with a gift shop in the parking lot. Well, we shall joke no more: two out of every three dollars the Jeff Bezos empire banked worldwide, over the final three months of 2019, came from Amazon Web Services and it has made Amazon a trillion-dollar company as the stock price shot up today.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4YPCX)
Shares up more than six per cent after-hours as Big Blue's Ballmer exits in surprise management shakeup In a surprise announcement on Thursday, IBM named a new CEO, Arvind Krishna.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4YPCZ)
Smart websites should be fine – if you're being scummy, beware Next week Google is scheduled to release Chrome 80 to its stable channel, and says only "a very modest amount of breakage" of websites is expected.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4YP4M)
That tech backlash in full: More and more are using the antisocial network Facebook will fork out more than a half-billion dollars to settle a class-action lawsuit against its facial recognition tech.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4YP4P)
A supercharged 2020 ahead? Or is the Electric Emperor a little short on threads? Tesla stocks jumped last night despite a vaguely disappointing set of financials for Q4 of the company's fiscal 2019.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4YNTF)
We love cheap thrills, don't we? Ming-Chi Kuo, the analyst regarded as one of the most accurate soothsayers when it comes to Apple's product direction, is predicting a busy 2020 for Cupertino, with major refreshes across its entire laptop lines, as well as a new budget-oriented iPhone, and a greater selection of accessories.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4YNTH)
Commerce platform should have a better time, right? Shopify, a commerce platform that claims over a million businesses as customers, is going "full steam ahead" in shifting all its mobile development to React Native.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4YNTJ)
'Hundreds' of staffers in marketing analytics subsidiary to be hit Avast will pull the plug on Jumpshot, its controversial data analytics business, after it was revealed the company was harvesting its users' data.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4YNH6)
Survey is thinly veiled marketing from Microsoft, but the issue is real A new survey published by Microsoft shows the extent of confusion in businesses about how to comply with data protection regulations in the cloud era.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4YNH8)
I didn't see that on the side of a bus Tomorrow, after nearly four years of excruciating debate and rancour, the UK will finally depart the European Union. What happens then? Not much.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4YN9Q)
I've been to the year 3000... Not much has changed, but they're still patching Linux Linux fans intent on holding back the years will be delighted to hear that the upcoming version 5.6 of the kernel should see 32-bit systems hanging on past the dread Y2038.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4YN9R)
Performance-focused release with a few new features The Document Foundation has updated its free and open-source LibreOffice suite to 6.4, which it describes as "performance focused", though there are also new features.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4YN9T)
And judging by today's Q3 numbers, that won't be welcome BT is factoring in a £500m financial cost over the next half decade in light of the UK government's decision to limit the amount of Huawei gear used in the building of the country's 5G and gigabit-capable networks.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4YN3P)
'We are focusing on defending systems over identifying and pursuing the person behind the cyber-crime' Enigma A plague of ignorance and misplaced priorities in government and law enforcement, from neighborhood cops all the way up to international bodies, is allowing cyber-crime to run rampant.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#4YN3R)
This is literally the whole point of standards Column A country torn apart by nationalism, corruption and warring factions becomes desperate for a commodity supplied by a distant power. The country's leaders try diplomacy, which is rebuffed. They legislate repeatedly to limit supply, but demand is so high that borders become completely porous.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4YN3S)
Around 0.5% of emails opened in the 'bird today, according to one analytics tracker survey Mozilla says it will move the Thunderbird email client to a new, wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, called MZLA Technologies Corporation, which would allow it to monetise the project.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4YN3V)
Most detailed close-ups of our star are in – and get a load of these plasma bubbles the size of Texas The first images from Earth's largest solar telescope are providing the most detailed, close up views of our Sun yet seen.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4YMYY)
Although Meena makes sense, most of the time, color us skeptical of a scoring system devised by web giant AI researchers at Google have trained a giant neural network using a whopping 341GB of discussions scraped from public social media to create what they believe is the most human-like chatbot ever.…
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