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by David Gordon on (#4M0F5)
Make security, compliance and analytics simple Webinar Cybersecurity company Sophos says it has the answer to the challenge so many businesses face when they move to the public cloud and struggle to manage their growing quantities of data.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M0F7)
Encryption, VPN and Android app support for Apple and Google refuseniks Jolla has updated Sailfish, the Linux-based mobile OS aimed at those who prefer a little less Android and Apple in their lives.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M05E)
Here - have a new Docking Adaptor. Sorry about that whole exploding rocket thing SpaceX dodged Florida storms to launch its 18th resupply mission to the International Space Station last night while the company's stumpy Starhopper vehicle accomplished its first big hop.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M007)
Choice? Yes, we've heard of it too Almost half of all the money spent on public cloud infrastructure is now divvied up between Amazon and Microsoft, according to stats from Synergy Research.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4KZV5)
Where else but San Francisco? Remember "clubbing"? You were young, slim, limber – not a care in the world. You thought you could dance. If you couldn't, it didn't matter. Now look at you. Flailing flabby limbs swinging from a corpulent, jiggling mass. Disgusting.…
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Adams joins the family of Fun, completing BoJo's politico shake-up One-time telco company co-founder Nigel Adams is Britain's new minister of digital, the latest appointment in newly hatched moptop PM Boris Johnson's ministerial reshuffle.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4KZJR)
Try to claim your birthright from eldritch horrors, but don't get attached to anyone The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. This month was sunny Christmas, better known as the Steam summer sale and, gosh, was it a doozy picking out some bargains. But we settled on a title known to us for some time and finally took the plunge... all the while watching our hardware lurch and swelter in this unnatural heat.…
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Seeking to wipe a bit of red ink off balance sheet ahead of €19bn Liberty Global swallow Vodafone is looking to flog off its towers in the next 18 months, the mobile operator revealed in first quarter results ended 30 June (PDF).…
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When UK and US said it was Russia, they weren't thinking of the litigators! Analysis The defining feature of cyberwarfare is the fact that both the weapon and the target is the network itself. In June 2017, the notorious file-scrambling software nasty NotPetya caused global havoc that affected government agencies, power suppliers, healthcare providers and big biz.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KZCM)
Ad Astra Tabernamque... but no, we can't dance The Register braved the mud of Bluedot 2019 to chat to Human Exploration Programme Manager at the UK Space Agency, Libby Jackson, and Professor of Planetary and Space Science at the Open University, Monica Grady.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4KZA8)
At last I feel infused with the write stuff Something for the Weekend, Sir? I'm drowning in ballpoint pens.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4KZ7W)
How would YOU make those evil fluffy bastards clear off? Vulture Central's scribes have known for years that our best – and most vocal – resource is you, the Reg reader. So with this in mind, this correspondent needs the 12th player on the pitch to help with a burning issue.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KZ4T)
'This report is taking ages to print, let me take a closer l-argh!' On Call Come join us in a celebration of System Administrator Appreciation Day with an On Call tale of bravery, courage and, er, hairdressing?…
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by David Gordon on (#4KYVV)
Here's a gentle introduction to off-prem security for SMBs Backgrounder Without in-house staffing to set up or manage their IT estates, many small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) have migrated to cloud-based business applications, email, messaging, file sharing, and file-storage services.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KYQV)
Here's a round-up from a bumper day of earnings Mega-financial-o-gasm Quarterly earnings season is again upon us this week, and here is a lightning run through the financial results from three of the biggest names in technology: Intel, Google, and Amazon.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KYEE)
Automaker loses money as software-as-a-service slinger's woes mount Ford says it took a hit on its $182m investment in cloudy biz Pivotal Software.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KYA8)
City says no data stolen in ransomware outbreak, some prepaid punters without 'leccy The city of Johannesburg in South Africa is battling to get electricity to some customers left in the dark by a ransomware infection.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4KYAA)
Give it a Wray, give it a Wray, give it a Wray now: Big Chris steps in to defend blowing a hole in personal crypto FBI head honcho Christopher Wray is rather peeved that you all think the US government is trying to weaken cryptography, privacy, and online security, by demanding backdoors in encryption software.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KY0E)
'Google? Who is Google? My name is Guy Incognito' An unnamed company is developing a data center campus in Lincoln, Nebraska, and all signs point to the Chocolate Factory as the party responsible.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4KXVV)
Boss bats away the idea deals were 'circular' to pump up revenues Autonomy trial As his marathon Autonomy-era cross-examination comes to an end, former CEO Mike Lynch has entered detailed denials to every allegation put to him by Hewlett Packard’s legal team – and appears to have the judge on his side.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KXS0)
Microsoft: Why pay Oracle when you can pay us for Big Data Clusters? Microsoft will be including free support for Java with SQL Server 2019 in a move that involves a little shade thrown at arch-rival Oracle.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KXKQ)
When the chips are down: trade tussle with Japan yet another reason for pessimism Memory manufacturers just can't catch a break this year. As if the ongoing memory oversupply and US-China trade war weren't enough, now they have to contend with an escalating trade conflict between Japan and South Korea, which is disrupting the flow of key silicon etching ingredients.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4KXED)
High Court judge reverses earlier toss-out decision London’s High Court has given the go-ahead for a Microsoft Azure consultant to sue Google because having the world's most widely used search engine caching images from his website - and hotlinking them to aggregator sites rather than his own - allegedly infringes his copyright.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KX90)
With its eye mostly on the domestic market Embattled Chinese electronics maker Huawei said it will plough ¥3bn ($436m) into Arm-based server chip development over the next five years.…
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But industry is sceptical hybrid network tech will cut it Virgin Media has promised speeds of 1Gbps to 15 million homes by the end of 2021 – although that won't be on full fibre.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4KX3V)
Infinity Display Flex extended 'beyond bezel' so users know not to peel it off Samsung reckons it has ironed out the death-inducing creases on its Galaxy Fold but is continuing to put the smartmobe through stress tests before a rescheduled September launch.…
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Just another 22,000 to go... BT's Openreach is trialling 15 electric vans – out of a fleet of 22,000 carbon-emitting vehicles.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4KWX4)
Amazon Web Services' work-in-progress beta talks... but does not listen Amazon Web Services' Chatbot, released in beta yesterday, will alert you to issues, but the most interesting feature – where you issue commands for further diagnostics via a virtual user in a chatroom – is yet to come.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KWX6)
Microsoft, you still have a problem Comment Microsoft has followed up its accidental Windows Insider emission with a grudging sort-of-explanation: something got changed and bad stuff happened. Soz.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4KWSV)
Patch your darn metal bird, sighs EU aviation agency Some models of Airbus A350 airliners still need to be hard rebooted after exactly 149 hours, despite warnings from the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) first issued two years ago.…
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Sticking with Ericsson and Nokia O2 has finally opened up on its Huawei-free 5G rollout plans: services will debut in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, London and Slough in October, with a further 20 cities to go live by the end of the year.…
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'How many times in a week can we change an app without it falling over?' Banks with mountains of legacy tech risk causing more outages as they race to catch up with their "agile" competitors, the Treasury Select Committee was told.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KWQ4)
A FRAND in need is a FRAND indeed, pair square up for infringement battle German patent licensing firm IPCom is taking British mobile operator Vodafone to High Court, over claims the telco infringed on its 4G/LTE patents.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4KWJB)
ZTF J1539+5027 - where a year lasts under seven minutes Astronomers have discovered the fastest-known eclipsing white dwarf pair yet, with the dead stars whizzing around each other every 6.91 minutes, according to a Nature paper published on Wednesday.…
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by David Gordon on (#4KWG3)
Derby City Council's head of tech will be on hand along with Nutanix and El Reg Webcast Moving to the cloud is not as simple as we have sometimes been led to believe. Many organisations are eager to benefit from the functionality and convenience that the cloud offers, though find themselves constrained by the past.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4KW1N)
Really? Johnny Cabs aren't that safe yet, eh? Quelle surprise GM Cruise, the General Motors-owned autonomous vehicle startup based in San Francisco, won’t be rolling out self-driving robotaxis in 2019 after all, as the technology isn't quite yet safe enough.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KVYC)
Zuck to Uncle Sam: Go ahead, regulate me, regulate me like the naughty little founder I am Facebook is stronger than ever, despite the best efforts of the US government to rein it in over privacy and legal violations.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KVJ3)
Group connected to election meddling now selling spy tools A Russian software developer, currently under American sanctions for its purported role in the Kremlin's interference with the 2016 US elections, is now selling spyware to governments.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KVEC)
Profits down, shares up Global silicon shipments might be falling off a cliff, but it's not all doom and gloom: American chipmaker Texas Instruments has just reported better-than-expected quarterly results off the back of fairly consistent analog component sales.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KV9Y)
Fund to be put on 'hiatus' after employee grumbles Microsoft's controversial Political Action Committee (MSPAC) appears to have hit the skids following vocal employee discontent over the group's activities.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4KV5C)
Commercial airliner customers fly away from beleaguered biz American aeroplane maker Boeing has swung to a $3.38bn loss from operations in its latest quarterly financial results following well-publicised woes over the 737 Max crashes and software failure.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4KV00)
Privacy Board to keep tabs on potential naughtiness at the antisocial network Evil empire Facebook's devil-may-care attitude to privacy has bitten it on the backside – the Federal Trade Commission has imposed a record $5bn penalty for "deceiving users" about their control over private data.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KTTS)
That's 20H1 for you, 20H1 for you and 20H1 for you Someone at Microsoft has accidentally parked a buttock on the big red button, emitting a surprise build of next year's Windows 10 to Insiders.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KTNA)
Now how to use that mini cash pile? R&D, more staff and wider support services Networking software upstart Arrcus has pocketed $30m in funding to pay for a hike in R&D, double its headcount to roughly 100 staff and expand support operations.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4KTGB)
25-year-old Bradfordian cuffed by NCA over '20k' records breach Cops have cuffed a 25-year-old man from Bradford on suspicion of committing Computer Misuse Act crimes after Lancaster University suffered a data breach affecting more than 12,000 students and applicants.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4KTD5)
FREE INSIDE: Your obscure keep-cool protips The mercury is rising, expected to hit a sizzling 32°C (89.6°F) this afternoon at Vulture Central, and The Register's elite unit of pasty basement-dwellers, otherwise known as editorial, have scurried into the office to make the most of its semi-functioning air conditioning.…
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Sharing is caring, guys Vodafone and O2 are to share their 5G radio antennas and joint network sites in an attempt to cut costs and speed up rollout.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KT9T)
Facebook-for-suits dons an Azure waistcoat Microsoft has rewarded LinkedIn - the social-media-for-suits and corporate one-upmanship platform - for its contribution to the Redmondian bottom line by booting the outfit into the public cloud.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4KT6N)
Mr Justice Hildyard questions mountains of old deal paperwork Autonomy Trial The judge presiding over HPE and Mike Lynch's titanic courtroom clash has told HPE's lawyer to get to the point of his marathon cross-examination of Autonomy's former CEO.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4KT6Q)
Visual Studio, ASP.NET Core and Linux: Some tension Hands On Microsoft loves Linux – but coding and deploying an ASP.NET Core application for the open-source OS comes with a bit of friction compared to using Windows.…
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