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by Richard Speed on (#4P1T0)
Also: Storage shenanigans and that Xbox fragrance gets its own ad Round Up The Microsoft gang continued their summer of software emissions with a SQL Server 2019 Release Candidate and yet more Windows 10 previews in this week's round-up.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4P1J1)
CEO makes commitment ahead of event's second-day news flurry VMworld Ahead of day-two of VMware's VMworld 2019 conference in San Francisco, CEO Pat Gelsinger promised to further overhaul the virtualization giant's reputation in the open-source world.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4P1J3)
That time we found those lovely old geysers on one of the icy giant's MOONS As the world took down the bunting from the Apollo 11 celebrations, another anniversary rolled around: this weekend marked 30 years since Voyager 2 had its final planetary encounter, with Neptune.…
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Why the EV market is stalling UK government efforts to offset carbon emissions via the adoption of electric cars were last week slammed by the Science and Technology Committee.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4P19X)
'Majority' of shipment expansion in Middle Kingdom – Gartner Huawei reported very little smartphone shipment growth outside Greater China in Q2 due to uncertainty over the US government's trade shenanigans, Gartner has claimed.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P17M)
About your data breach the other day, lads... Transport for London is looking at ways to improve its processes after a Register reader queried why he was being asked to write down his password on a paper form for railway staff to read.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4P162)
Presenters withdraw from the PHP Central Europe conference, show organizers call it quits Under the heading, "Diversity Matters!" the website for the PHP Central Europe developer conference (PHP.CE) says, "PHP Central Europe Conference is committed to creating a conference that is as inclusive as possible."…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4P0VS)
Audio books with closed captions? That's a lawsuit Book publishers are suing audio book specialist Audible for using machine learning technology that automatically transcribes audiobooks to text, claiming that this violates copyright law.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P0T6)
EA and ESA subscribers can get 12 free months of updates With Windows 7's official retirement less than five months away, Redmond is offering some business customers a way to squeeze a bit more life out of the beloved OS.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P0QH)
The fix for the fix is in Apple has issued an update to address a potentially serious security flaw it re-opened in the latest version of iOS.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4P0MN)
CEO says pressure is being applied on government officials behind the scenes VMworld Michael Dell sounded off against the China-US trade war today at VMware's VMworld 2019 conference in San Francisco, branding the ongoing row as "unproductive."…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4P0MQ)
Ninth Circuit approves partial stay on injunction Qualcomm won’t be obliged to license key patents to its competitors – for now – after it won a stay at the Ninth Circuit.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4P0E1)
25 complaints target Taiwan-based chipmaker and its manufacturing customers On Monday, Globalfoundries (GF), a chip maker based in Santa Clara, California, said it filed patent infringement claims in the US and Germany against 20 companies that use processors from rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4P0E2)
Legal argument reflects president’s refusal to follow rules of public office Donald Trump should be allowed to block people from his Twitter feed because it is not an official government account, the president’s lawyers have re-argued in a legal appeal.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P0E4)
NASA space ace accused of hacking ex-wife's bank account mid-orbit and mid-divorce A NASA astronaut has been accused of breaking into her wife's bank account while working aboard the International Space Station.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4P05Z)
Fleshbag crew spared from robotic companion for the moment by Kurs kerfuffle Russia's robotic Soyuz MS-14 test mission hit a glitch over the weekend after a botched attempt to dock with the ISS.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#4NZFR)
You got hurt, we get it. But you can't ignore your data-center's workhorse Comment If you mention Storage Area Network and Logical Unit Numbers to IT professionals of a certain vintage, you are likely to encounter eye rolling and invective. The least unprintable of the epithets you'll hear may include "outdated," "pain to manage," and "an impediment to getting real work done."…
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by Chris Williams on (#4NZ8A)
Wait, come back. Stop screaming. We're only reading out VMware's news VMworld It's that time of the year when VMware gets customers, analysts, and tech press under one roof to do a victory lap and brag about all the stuff it's been up to.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4NZ0B)
Including AV patches, VPN attacks, data leaks, and security cam holes Roundup Summer is winding down, although there are plenty of computer security news bits and bytes to go around.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4NYYS)
Lawsuit argues event bosses breached deal by failing to prevent audience hostility Crown Sterling, a Newport Beach, California-based biz that calls itself "a leading digital cryptographic firm," is suing UBM, the UK-based owner of the Black Hat USA conference, in America for allegedly violating its sponsorship agreement.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4NYX0)
I like trucking, I like trucking and I like to truck Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me?, The Register's weekly tale of reader misdeeds, accidental or otherwise.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4NYTZ)
Including another, larger GPT-2 reveal Roundup Let's kick off this week – a four-day week for the UK – with some recent AI-related news beyond what we've already covered.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4NYRT)
Including another round of 10th-gen Intel Cores Hot Chips Now that the Hot Chips conference is over until next year, let's bring you up to speed quickly on developments from and around the Silicon Valley event.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4NWB4)
FCC also moves, albeit glacially, on robocalls Three ISPs will be fined $25,000 apiece by America's broadband watchdog, the FCC, for interfering with weather signals in Puerto Rico.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4NVB0)
Chocolate Factory sees some benefits in a censorship model Google may be lax in policing policy violating videos on YouTube, but at least it's adding oversight where it's needed – to mute overly opinionated employees.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4NV7B)
Investors peeved Larry Ellison owned 40% of the biz he paid billions in Big Red cash to buy Three members of Oracle's board of directors say a class-action lawsuit, filed against Oracle in the US by Oracle shareholders over Oracle's 2016 acquisition of NetSuite, should go forward.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4NV3K)
It’s a class action agreement so guess who gets the $4m payout? If you guessed the plaintiffs, guess again The programmers behind augmented-reality pest-chasing Pokemon Go have settled a class-action lawsuit in the US brought by angry homeowners who claimed the video game encouraged people to trespass on their land.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4NV06)
Right to bear arms doesn't cover armed UAVs If you were wondering whether your right to bear arms extends to the right to bear an armed drone, we have bad news.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4NTWC)
Solution Centre WONTFIX amid EOL date shenanigans Not only has a vulnerability been found in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC), but the laptop maker fiddled with end-of-life dates to make it seem less important – and is now telling the world it EOL'd the vulnerable monitoring software before its final version was released.…
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by John Oates on (#4NTM9)
27-year-old also shipped weed, flogged 'how-to' fraud guides A hacker from Kent, England, has handed over almost a million quid in Bitcoin following a lengthy police investigation.…
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by David Gordon on (#4NTG6)
Make that the winning move, are we right? Webcast It feels as though everyone's talking about edge computing, and yet, once you've torn through all the hype and bluster, what are you left with? What actually is it?…
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Advice 'falls woefully short' The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed has said UK government guidance on private sector changes to off-payroll working falls "woefully short".…
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by John Oates on (#4NT6K)
Bawwww we don't have anything like Amazon bawwww The European Commission wants to set up a €100bn wealth fund to invest directly in local technology companies to help businesses fight international giants like Apple, Google and Alibaba.…
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11?!! This cost me 12! Do you want to ruin me?! Just like the market stall owner in the The Life of Brian, it turns out internet service providers want customers to haggle with them to cut better deals.…
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by John Oates on (#4NSZE)
New powers? No thanks The Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission have pushed back against US President Trump's proposal to put them in charge of policing social media firms he claims are biased against right-wingers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4NSWB)
Ow, ow, my forehead is on fire Hot Chips Now your humble Reg vulture is back from the Hot Chips conference in Silicon Valley, it seems right to briefly run this Microsoft development by you all.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4NST0)
It hasn't gone away, you know Autonomy trial Just how far has HPE come in proving its $5bn fraud allegations against former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch and co-defendant CFO Sushovan Hussain? While the world basks in the summer sun, we had a close look at the last three months of court hearings to decide.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4NSQS)
Standard enables more security key options with passwordless a future possibility GitHub has announced support for the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) security standard.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4NSNX)
That time a PA put the 'ass' into 'asset tag' On Call How's your Friday shaping up? Come join us for another dive into the piranha-infested waters of what we at The Register like to call On Call.…
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by Team Register on (#4NSM1)
Our practical no-hype conference on AI development Event Whether it’s fraudsters or system crashes that keep you awake at night, join us at the MCubed conference to find out how machine learning and AI can tackle both problems.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4NSHK)
What could possibly go wrong? Video The Russian national space agency has strapped a hefty humanoid robot weighing 160kg (353lb) to a rocket and launched it to the International Space Station.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4NS7X)
Meanwhile, Salesforce sees profits fall Imaginary computer specialist VMware boosted its security and cloud software lineup today when it confirmed Thursday the purchases of Carbon Black and Pivotal Software in deals totaling around $4.8bn.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4NS5N)
Wall Street miffed at flat Q3 earnings as printer boss set to take over in November HP Inc on Thursday reported sales of $14.6bn for its fiscal Q3 2019 financial results, up 0.1 per cent from the year-ago quarter and just shy of the $14.61bn average anticipated by Wall Street analysts.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4NS1N)
Security bod may be invited back into vuln reward program, Half-Life 3 still ain't happening Games giant Valve is attempting to make nice with the infosec bod who disclosed zero-day exploits for vulnerabilities in Steam after the corporation refused to pay out bug bounties for the flaws.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4NRVA)
Disclaimer: No advertisers were harmed in making this project On Thursday, Google reminded everyone who might have forgotten that "privacy is paramount to us" and announced an initiative called "Privacy Sandbox" that proposes paving over a few privacy pitfalls without suffocating its ad business.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4NRVB)
Resigns – or punished for telling the truth? Wake up, sheeple! Ten days after releasing a corporate press release that raved about the deep state, men in black, and confirmed his love affair with a now-jailed Russian spy, the CEO of Overstock has quit – in similarly colorful fashion.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4NRGN)
Could a simple automated scan have picked up open-source nasty? Hmm Android spyware – open-source spyware, no less – has found its way onto the Google Play store, according to researchers from ESET.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4NRBZ)
US sends up another GPS III spacecraft while Blighty ponders the Brexit Satellite United Launch Alliance's last Delta IV Medium+ rocket has left the launch pad to put another GPS satellite in orbit.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4NR6P)
Look at the troubles facing legacy vendors. We're not immune either Pure Storage has clipped forecasts for its current fiscal year due to fears over the slowdown in corporate spending that is gripping other infrastructure outfits and a sharp decline in NAND prices.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4NR1S)
Repairability score tumbles – good luck swapping that battery Samsung's latest and greatest Note10+ smartphone has been prodded and probed by the teardown twiddlers at iFixit. The verdict isn't great: repairing it could be worse but it could also be a whole lot better too.…
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