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by Richard Speed on (#4VMGX)
How to query the telemetry from 1 trillion queries a day You may recall that Azure SQL Data Warehouse got a blasting with the Redmond rebrandogun at the company's Ignite event earlier this month. The Reg caught up with corporate veep for Azure Data, Rohan Kumar, at the recent Big Data event in London to find out more.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VMGY)
Bet that won't have been cheap IBM has paid off 281 people who brought age discrimination claims against it in UK Employment Tribunals – leaving four more cases outstanding.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4VMBT)
Backlog of how many weeks worth of support tickets? Ouch! DXC Technology has Workplace contracts to "shore up" before it offloads the business, the newly installed CEO at the IT outsourcing (ITO) giant has admitted as he took staff through some related war stories.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VMBW)
ASCII control codes, Teletext and BBC Model B micros – it's a 1980s Who, Me? Who, Me? Monday has arrived once more, and with it a Model B Who, Me? as Acorn's finest takes centre stage.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4VMBY)
Including: AI exercises in Safety Gym Roundup If you can't get enough of machine learning news then here's a roundup of extra tidbits to keep your addiction ticking away. Read on to learn more about how DeepMind is helping Google's Play Store, and a new virtual environment to train agents safely from OpenAI.…
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by David Gordon on (#4VM6V)
Keep up with the latest threats – and learn how to stop them Promo The IT security landscape changes by the second, as organisations move to new technologies and data thieves devise increasingly ingenious ways to penetrate systems. It’s no surprise that IT security leaders feel the constant need to shore up their defenses.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VJCG)
...OnePlus also compromised, and much more Roundup Time for another roundup of all the security news that's fit to print and that we haven't covered yet.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4VJ3H)
New law calls for pre-in-Stalin nationally mandated code The Russian State Duma has approved legislation that forbids the sale of unspecified devices unless they contain certain pre-installed government-authorized applications.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VHZ2)
BlueKeep isn't the only bug in town, plenty to go round VNC remote desktop software has no shortage of potentially serious memory-corruption vulnerabilities, you'll no doubt be shocked to hear.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4VHZ4)
Wings, heads, Big Foot – or just rocks. You decide Pics An entomologist in the US claims to have discovered extraterrestrial insects living on Mars after spending years poring over photos of the Red Planet's surface.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VHQC)
Regulator will cut providers from Universal Service Fund dollars America's broadband watchdog has told telcos they cannot use government subsidies to buy any more Huawei or ZTE equipment.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4VHQE)
The Dictator leading man says web giants would run 'Final Solution' ads for Hitler Updated On Thursday, in New York City, actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen eviscerated Facebook, Google, and Twitter for facilitating the spread of hate and violence and threatening democracy.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VHED)
Also: Two very different autopilots show up for tech's San Diego shindig Kubecon 2019 If one were looking for an indicator that Kubernetes is maturing (other than the sheer numbers that turned out for Kubecon San Diego), it is the plethora of backup solutions emerging for the orchestration technology.…
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by John Oates on (#4VHEF)
But doesn't stop Commerce Secretary saying he's still 'frightened' of Chinese tech biz The US Department of Commerce has decided to grant Microsoft a licence to flog its software to Huawei – America's fave bogeyman – despite the Commerce Secretary describing the Chinese company as "frightening".…
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by Richard Currie on (#4VHEH)
'It didn't go through, that's the plus side' So we know Elon Musk believes we're "probably" living in a simulation. He might well be right because the big reveal at the LA Tesla Design Center last night refused to render properly.…
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by David Gordon on (#4VHEK)
Take your rightful place around 451 Alliance, the global tech watercooler Promo Do you feel like those working on the coalface of enterprise IT are routinely ignored, particularly when it comes to the direction of their industry?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VH44)
That'll be £750 for us to take a look, ta very much – £3,000 if you don't like the answer Fresh from banking a £100m windfall through its controversial dot-UK cash grab, Nominet is now making more money – from firms forced to defend trademarks via the UK registry's domain name dispute resolution service.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4VH46)
Brexit UK and Japan 'more difficult trading environments' A price war led by Dell has clipped the wings of Pure Storage, as a wider slowdown in enterprise spending and uncertainty caused by the protracted US and China trade war continue to hurt the storage sector.…
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by John Oates on (#4VH47)
Chaebol blames 'popularity' for 'slight delay' of 2.5 months Samsung is getting flak from punters waiting an age for delivery of bundle deals offered on Galaxy phones back in September.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4VGV4)
Has learned from its mistakes... again TSB has again managed to capture the ire of thousands of customers after a technical glitch meant delays to payments into some accounts - just days after a damning report heavily criticised the bank for last year's IT meltdown.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4VGV6)
I dream of wires Something for the Weekend, Sir? Guess what I'm doing with my hands right now.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VGNW)
Windows giant continues its quest for developer approval Kubecon 2019 Microsoft had a quiet Kubecon, with technology such as Azure Arc conspicuous by its absence as the company continued its efforts to be a good open source citizen.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VGNY)
Or their marketing dept is talking utter hoop Halfords is telling potential DAB radio buyers that the digital radio tech is "super-fast" compared to analogue AM radio, which might come as a surprise to the laws of physics.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VGP0)
You left your landline number in an error message, you doughnut On Call Welcome back to On Call, The Register's weekly peer into the dungeon of despair inhabited by those who twitch uncontrollably at the trill of a telephone.…
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by David Gordon on (#4VGH4)
You're not alone. Head to Google Cloud's Global Cloud Digital Conference and find out how to ramp up productivity Promo Is the way your business works actually working? Are the members of your organization collaborating together to achieve goals? Are the tools intended to improve security actually being used?…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4VGH6)
More evidence that building blocks for life on our home world replicable in outer space Scientists have detected alien sugars in Earth-bound meteorites for the first time, providing further evidence that some of the ingredients needed to kick start life on our planet may have been delivered from elsewhere in space.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4VGCE)
While there's still a rainforest left, that is Loon, an Alphabet-owned subsidiary, is collaborating with an internet service provider in Peru to set up wireless broadband internet over the Amazon rainforest using the Chocolate Factory's balloon fleet.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4VGCG)
Whale becomes an albatross around the neck of the container community In 2017, DevOps darling Docker decided to start calling the Docker open-source project by a new name, Moby – a decision the containerization upstart knew would be confusing and in fact baffled many developers at the time.…
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After 10 years, Google Cloud Print will finally be out of beta... straight into ad giant's graveyard
by Shaun Nichols on (#4VG84)
Not so much 'going gold' as 'growing cold' Google has announced plans to close down its Cloud Print service over the coming year.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VG86)
Did you copy that? Xerox is escalating its takeover efforts against HP Inc with an explicit threat that it could soon begin a hostile takeover.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4VG10)
Ad-tech arms race continues: DNS system exploited to silently follow folks around the web Developers working on open-source ad-blocker uBlock Origin have uncovered a mechanism for tracking web browsers around the internet that defies today's blocking techniques.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VG12)
About 20% of employees worldwide look for new jobs Millennial daycare provider WeWork says it will lay off about one fifth of its workforce – 2,400 employees – as it tries to get its finances in order.…
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by Team Register on (#4VFQN)
Save £££s on DevOps, container, continuous delivery, serverless advice and info Event The program committee for our Continuous Lifecycle London 2020 conference meets this week – which means the clock is ticking loudly on our blind-bird ticket offer.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VFDM)
Good news? They're not paying the ransom A French hospital has suffered a ransomware attack that reportedly caused the lockdown of 6,000 computers.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4VFDN)
Beyond the spill chucker in G Suite docs - and Google Assistant too Google is adding AI features to its G Suite for business, using neural network processing for grammar-checking, spelling autocorrect driven by Google Search, and spelling suggestions tailored by words used in your organisation.…
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'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by' After five years at Vulture Central, mainly covering government technology and telecoms, I'm off.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VF3H)
Free software credits not for you? How about a free tier instead? Kubecon 2019 CI/CD darling Codefresh took to the high seas of Kubecon to announce that it would be flinging $100m at the open-source ecosystem, as well as adding a free tier for its Kube-friendly pipeline tech.…
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by David Gordon on (#4VF3K)
From digital strategy to data practicality with the clever folks at Qumulo Webcast Let’s keep this simple. You’re looking to move to the cloud because you know just how powerful the model can be. You’ve seen what you can make possible, if you harness the wealth of data now available to your applications. You’re looking to deliver on your digital transformation goals, respond to new business opportunities and disrupt your entire market.…
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Reminds us of a small island nation's attempt to leave a certain political union The US Department of Commerce has agreed to grant several exemptions to its ban on Huawei, in what appears to be the Chinese kit maker's second reprieve this week.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VF3Q)
Makes you think pen and paper would be a better alternative British Airways suffered yet another IT failure, causing knock-on flight delays and cancellations for thousands of unhappy travellers*.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VEXZ)
A new office for Blighty 'wherever Brexit lands' Devops pipeline outfit CircleCI has ignored Britain's looming withdrawl from the EU to set up a European beachhead in London, headed up by a freshly poached Facebook exec.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VEY1)
Epyc apology, Chipzilla Intel has issued an open letter apologizing to punters and partners alike for its inability to meet demand for processors.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VEY3)
Chroots maneuver Miscreants can potentially hijack Docker users' computers by tricking them into running malicious containers and waiting for them to kick off a simple copy command – thanks to a critical flaw.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4VES3)
Bettåma than nöthurihag For many of us, assembling IKEA furniture is proof that while Scandinavians are no longer vikings, they can still ruin your day.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4VES5)
Self-assessment phishing and phone scam alert raised The UK’s tax authorities have issued an official warning to contractors to watch out for self-assessment scams - and they don’t mean IR35 for a change.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VES7)
Fraudster oversaw operation with contraband phone A convicted fraudster housed in a maximum security prison in Nigeria managed to pull off a $1m (£775,000) online scam from behind bars.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4VEMQ)
Yes, more energetic than a pedantic Trekkie correcting you Scientists have detected the most-energetic photons yet seen from a gamma ray burst, with energies nearing a trillion electron volts.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4VEFM)
Spare a thought for the lives of the creative accountants It can be tough in the repair industry, and no one knows that better than struggling corporation Apple.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4VEFP)
Rights warriors want governments to actually, y'know, do something – anything Amnesty International says the "pervasive surveillance" practiced by Facebook and Google represents a threat to human rights, a claim the two companies dispute.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VEFR)
Better to iron out these flaws now before Musk fills these crates with people Video The Mk1 prototype of Elon Musk's Starship suffered what we're betting SpaceX will call an "anomaly" during a fuel tank test today.…
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