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by Gareth Corfield on (#4KH7Q)
Defence ministry gets with the Apollo vibes Roundup As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon mission, the UK's Ministry of Defence has gone a bit wacky – not only does it have fresh space plans, but it also wants to strap laser zappers to stuff too.…
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by John Oates on (#4KH4C)
America. Fsck yeah US firm Throwflame is selling – you guessed it – a flamethrower attachment for drones.…
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by John Oates on (#4KGZS)
'Aliens' The French army has said it is looking to recruit four or five sci-fi writers and futurologists to staff a "Red Team" that predicts future threats and how to disrupt or defend against them.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4KGVP)
After report claimed its sales pitches boasted of doing that Israeli spyware firm NSO Group has denied it developed malware that can steal user data from cloud services run by Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.…
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Look, we're all of out ideas! Fresh out of ideas on how to crack the problem of digital identity, the UK government has put out a consultation asking what the hell it should do next.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KGHT)
Appeal from competitor who fought Apple application fails to stop project Recently established data centre developer Echelon has received permission to build a massive bit barn campus in County Wicklow, Ireland.…
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by John Oates on (#4KGD2)
Fined £80,000 under Data Protection Act – could have been a lot more under new EU rules A London estate agent has been fined £80,000 for losing thousands of clients' personal data when it was handed over to a third party.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KG8M)
Virty GPU upstart joins the fold Crusty old VMware is attempting to keep up with the youngsters by acquiring Bitfusion, a startup that claims to enable machine learning on any VM via the magic of network-attached GPUs.…
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by Maxwell Cooter on (#4KG8P)
Or Sam connecting a vulnerable dev box to production. Here's your gentle guide to risks and threats menacing your IT Backgrounder The good news for enterprise security is that the number of reported cyberattacks is going down, in the UK at least.…
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A decision must be made as a 'matter of urgency', says Intelligence and Security Committee Excluding Huawei from the UK's 5G network infrastructure would harm resilience and "lower security standards", the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) warned today.…
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People Framework strikes again: 'Employees feel worse off and demoted' A number of female staff at BT that take maternity leave could be disproportionately affected by plans to remove car allowances from certain employees.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KG1K)
1969 and all that, or why NASA shouldn't be all about lunar footprints Tomorrow it will be a full 50 years since humans first set foot on the Moon, and nearly 50 years since the annual hand-wringing began over why none have gone back after Apollo 17.…
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by John Oates on (#4KG1N)
Transport for London missed the train for 2019 deadline Transport for London is to trial 4G services on the eastern half of the Jubilee line, and is looking to work with a firm that wants to run a Underground-wide network by the mid-2020s.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4KFYD)
Of course the ticket's real: it says 'Pan Am' at the top, doesn't it? Something for the Weekend, Sir? My mother won a ticket to the Moon.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4KFVF)
Makes you proud to be British The Ministry of Defence has slipped £10m of British taxpayers' money into Serco's back pocket to settle a legal challenge over the award of a £525m Fire and Rescue services contract to rival outsourcer Capita.…
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Watchdog casts doubt on testbeds and trials scheme The UK's £217m 5G testbed trials have already hit a major speed bump due to a lack of available equipment, according to an official report.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KFPZ)
How our sysadmin learned to fear vSphere On Call Welcome to Friday. The weekend is almost upon us so put down that bacon sarnie and pick up today's On Call, The Register's weekly column of tales from the tipping point.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KFQ1)
Yak app still cleaning up after four-year-old cyber-break-in Slack says a 2015 database theft is to blame for a large-scale reset of stolen passwords.…
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by Team Register on (#4KFMW)
Get your early-bird tickets for talks ranging from technical deep-dives to advice on ethics and the law Event Your early experiments in machine learning or AI can be tough. Getting them to work in production will be tougher still.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4KFJH)
93% of onanistic orgs tracking you despite battened-down browsing Google, Facebook, and, surprisingly, Oracle are among the top ten third-party companies that frequently track your personal sexual interests every time you watch porn, according to new research.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4KFAJ)
15 months of wrangling and Orlando couldn't even begin testing AI cloud tech for population surveillance Orlando cops have given up using Amazon’s controversial cloud-based facial recognition to monitor CCTV cameras dotted around the Florida city – after a nightmare year of technical breakdowns.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4KF5N)
Record revenue reaches Redmond, the result of a booming as-a-service business Microsoft on Thursday reported record revenue for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2019 and for its full fiscal year, predictably pushing its stock higher in after-hours trading.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4KF24)
Martha Blackburn's bill is everything wrong with 2019 in 13 pages Comment A bi-partisan law bill that promises to give internet users far greater control over their privacy made another appearance in US Congress on Thursday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KEYM)
Ukrainian civil war a bonanza for dodgy malware hosting firms A growing crop of so-called bulletproof hosting companies are using the ongoing civil war in Ukraine to host Magecart malware without fear of the police coming knocking.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4KET6)
Co-founder and chief data officer at NPM Inc, moves on Laurie Voss, the co-founder and chief data officer of widely used JavaScript package registry NPM Inc, today announced in a blog post that he left the company on July 1.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4KEP0)
You can monitor your child – and their bowels - 24 hours a day! Which is… great? What's that unpleasant whiff? No, it's not little Johnny's sticky bowel movement but the new "smart diaper" containing his special effort.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4KEJ1)
'Empowering' if you've got $$$ Microsoft introduced new licensing plans for its PowerApps platform at the Inspire partner conference this week to accommodate the increasing capabilities available.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KED0)
'Alamo Mission LLC' to splash $600m on city of Red Oak Google has identified a parcel of land for its second bit barn in Ellis County, Texas, even though the first one is still months away from completion.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KE74)
Device numbers growing, but manufacturers are using fewer/cheaper chips per device With average prices for semiconductor components going down dramatically in 2019, especially DRAM and NAND, major chipmakers have been forced to reduce their production output. As a result, the silicon market is expected to shrink by 12 per cent year-on-year.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4KE2E)
Bosses stick up for suspect, claim he's being framed for pinching 5m folks' data A 20-year-old infosec bod has been arrested in Bulgaria after most of the country's population had their personal and financial details stolen.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4KE2G)
8% cloud biz growth in 12 months. Where is Red Hat when you need it? IBM notched up its fourth straight quarter of revenue decline as the areas it deems strategic – hybrid cloud, AI and blockchain – couldn't paper over cracks in the legacy operations of big iron and outsourcing.…
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Plus: Delivery on 9 more projects at 'major risk' A raft of major government IT projects are in serious trouble, including flagship programmes such as HMRC's Making Tax Digital and its Customs Declaration Service.…
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Latest call to halt creepy tech likely to fall on deaf ears Updated The UK government should slap a "moratorium on the current use of facial recognition technology, with "no further trials" until there is legal framework in place, a Parliamentary committee has warned today.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KDSX)
Too late for chip flinger, but a win for the EU taxpayer The European Commission has issued American chip maker Qualcomm with a hefty €242m fine for anti-competitive practices.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4KDNS)
Kioku (memory) + axia (value) = $$$ Logowatch Toshiba Memory Corporation has emerged, reborn, from the depths of the strategy boutique, as Kioxia.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4KDNV)
'Defending democracy' initiative to resist nation-state attacks Microsoft has demonstrated its ElectionGuard electronic vote system at the Aspen Security Forum under way in Colorado and warned that nearly 10,000 of its customers have been targeted by nation-state attacks.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4KDJN)
Click your mouse three times... there's no place like a back door to your machine - ESET An old-school shadowy malware group believed to operate out of China has been targeting diplomats with what infosec researchers say is a previously undocumented backdoor.…
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*Digital identity crisis intensifies* Exclusive The UK government's troubled £154m digital identity project Verify is to be flagged red by Whitehall's major projects watchdog, meaning delivery looks unachievable - according to sources.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4KDG2)
We ask top boffins if the plan is good enough for skull drilling Analysis Silicon Valley bad boy Elon Musk's grand plan to build brain-machine interfaces to "achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence" is obviously more science fiction than fact at the moment.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4KDDW)
Redmond engineer hints at taking super-lang for a spin Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is waxing lyrical about the risks inherent in C and C++ coding, arguing it may be time to dump "unsafe legacy languages" and shift to more modern, safer ones.…
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MPs hear how financial services are trying to improve stability in wake of TSB's meltdown Shifting financial services to the public cloud risks creating an over-reliance on the "dominant" service providers, banking heads told MPs yesterday during an inquiry into IT outages in the sector.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KD8R)
Accused bloke cuffed after plod swoop on home A 20-year-old man from the Netherlands accused of building and selling Office macro malware was arrested Wednesday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KD6Z)
130,000 have already downloaded creepware Seven new stalkerware apps have been spotted for sale on the Android Play Store, despite Google's policy against the invasive monitoring tools.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4KD70)
Instead of enriching Google, try making a market for click work Analysis Internet companies depend on free labor. Companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google rely upon content creators who give their work away for the sake of platform participation or perhaps naive altruism.…
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by David Gordon on (#4KD4Q)
All-day event covers every angle, from workloads to security – register today Promo Every day the cloud continues to transform organisations, industries and the world around us.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KCWM)
Bad news for AWS and Microsoft, who are vying for US govt's winner-takes-all IT super-contract The Pentagon's $10bn JEDI mega-cloud contract may be put on hold once again, this time because President Trump has ordered a probe into the massive single-vendor deal.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4KCQD)
Software testing just ain't that special, sniff immigration bods Software engineers have long been treated, in Silicon Valley at least, as special, worthy of massive salaries, and deserving of cozy work conditions and top-of-the-range benefits.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4KCKF)
Judge green-lights $113m from Samsung, Sony, and others – but $34m in legal fees?! A long-running legal battle over the alleged price-fixing of lithium-ion batteries involving Samsung, Sony, LG, Hitachi, and NEC, has finally been settled [PDF] for $113m.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4KCFF)
'No safeguards' on QA accounts, and suddenly this guy gets a Tesla and $1.6m home, say prosecutors A former Microsoft software engineer was arrested on Tuesday and charged with mail fraud for allegedly attempting to steal $10m in digital currency from his former employee, US prosecutors said today.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KCBV)
In a cloud war, the US telco opts for the Swiss model, stays neutral AT&T has announced “strategic alliances†with both IBM and Microsoft, as it looks to capitalize on cloud computing without getting its hands dirty.…
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