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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4K2B4)
The culprit? .*(?:.*=.*) Cloudflare has published a detailed and refreshingly honest report into precisely what went wrong earlier this month when its systems fell over and took a big wedge of the internet with it.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4K27A)
ML Perf could do with more entrants' results Analysis Nvidia and Google continue to dominate in AI hardware, according to the latest benchmarking results from the ML Perf project published this week.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4K27C)
Scrambling addresses can't always hide you from stalkers, say eggheads A team of US academics have proposed a simple method to defeat the Bluetooth LE standard's anti-tracking measures.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4K23K)
He also said they're working with the CIA Infosec company ESET is reportedly suing a member of the Slovakian Parliament for insulting it over social media.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4K23N)
Good news for Amazon, Microsoft. Meanwhile: A lawmaker offers new hope to database giant Oracle today lost its bid to be considered for the US Department of Defense's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract, leaving either Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure as the likely winner of the $10bn, decade-long deal.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4K1Z0)
Apple's latest entry-level lappy gets the teardown treatment Apple doesn't think you need function keys in its two-port 13" MacBook Pro. But the delight of the butterfly keyboard continues to linger like a noxious emission in an elevator.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4K1TZ)
And yet his pre-HP buyout allegations got UK finance watchdogs sniffing Autonomy Trial Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch has accused the financial director who brought an internal accounting scandal to his attention of trying to blackmail the software company – and denied suggestions he tried to find a pretext for sacking the beancounter.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4K1NW)
Yep, Usenet is still around Remember Usenet, the 1980s distributed messaging and file-sharing service that predates the web? Turns out the old-school network is still popular in some parts of mainland Europe as a method of file exchange, and thus remains a pain in the ass for copyright holders.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4K1NX)
Software-snatcher backs down on licence plans Faced with continued rumbles of discontent from its reseller network on the eve of its Inspire conference, Microsoft has climbed down from plans to pull free software licences from its channel chums.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4K1HE)
Second successful excursion for JAXA boffins Japan's Hayabusa2 probe returned to its home position above the asteroid Ryugu today after conducting a second touch-and-go operation.…
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How you holding up, Mozilla? Fresh from wiping egg off face after its unfortunate nomination of Mozilla as "internet villain" for 2019, the Internet Services Providers Association (ISPA) has doled out other awards to, er, BT and Openreach.…
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1984 is not an instruction manual, and yet here we are As if further indication was needed of Britain's slide into a surveillance state, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has backed highly flawed police trials of facial recognition cameras.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4K11S)
Big three only got bigger after snaffling remaining Intel CPUs Global PC sales are back in the black with almost 63 million computers finding a temporary home in warehouses owned by distributors or retailers, preliminary figures reported by Gartner claim.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4K0XE)
Hopefully the bacon was brought home safely A road in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, briefly became unsuitable for vegetarians yesterday when a truck carrying pig intestines spilled its load.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4K0XG)
How dare they. There are shareholders to consider The US has declared that it is investigating French plans to impose a 3 per cent tax on tech firms' top line, not the bottom.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4K0TF)
Can we interest you in some unwashed gym gear instead? If you needed a manual for your Apple-1, you've missed your chance. Some other well-heeled fanboi is 12 pages richer and nearly $13k poorer.…
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A pittance compared to the near-£1m she is due to take home at John Lewis Outgoing Ofcom chief exec Sharon White pocketed £459,623 last year heading up the comms regulator, according to its annual accounts (PDF).…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4K0Q2)
Big iron systems servin' all over the world with new deals GPU giant Nvidia has recruited another 10 data centre operators to provide a home for its DGX-series AI boxes.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4K0MF)
Service Blocks float across the Pond 9 months after landing in US Bit barn landlord Rackspace is hoping Euro users will opt to inhale its managed public cloud via subscription packages called Service Blocks.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4K0JC)
While I’m at it, another punch at Bitcoin Something for the Weekend, Sir? My uncle has an airship.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4K0FX)
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means On Call Join us in closing out the week with another tale from those brave souls charged with taking that call in our weekly feature, On Call.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4K0DC)
Not named after the French couturier but the Greek god of trade, roads, and thieves Facebook on Thursday released a JavaScript engine called Hermes under an open source MIT license to improve the performance of React Native apps.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4K07Z)
This code doesn't need coolers to win: Two-core machine used to outplay world-beating elites Analysis Artificially intelligent software can comfortably outmatch human poker pros and amateurs in one-on-one matches, that much is known.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4K03T)
Good luck ever finding this guy again after, dare we say, his life jumped the tracks A software developer fled to China from America with vital train transportation system computer code, US prosecutors have alleged.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4K015)
Card-slurping malware hits thousands upon thousands of unprotected cloud storage silos If you're in charge of your organization's Amazon Web Services S3 buckets, here's some fresh motivation to check your security settings: the notorious payment-card-stealing Magecart malware is romping through unprotected storage silos.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4JZYG)
Just when you thought things couldn't get more intrusive Facebook, whose CEO in April declared, "The future is private," has applied to patent a system of coordinated finger-affixed cameras that allow wearers to live stream a panoramic view of their surroundings.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4JZYJ)
George Orwell's got nothing on this lot with doublespeak Analysis America's communications watchdog, the FCC, has come good on its promise to boost broadband adoption through competition by… blocking a law that ensures broadband competition.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4JZVW)
Proposed legislation would force Homeland Security to sound alarm on voting system intrusions Two US lawmakers are pushing a bipartisan bill that would force the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to alert the public of hacking attempts on election computer systems.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4JZRZ)
Make life hell for cloud giants hiding behind Section 230 – oh sh... did we say that out loud, says Big Blue Analysis IBM has broken ranks with the tech industry – and advocated for changes to a US law that shields websites from legal headaches regarding the stuff their users post online.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4JZN5)
Partners also getting Azure Lighthouse, a new portal and API for Azure resources Inspire Microsoft is set to launch something called the Business Applications ISV Connect Program at its Inspire conference in Las Vegas next week.…
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by Team Register on (#4JZN7)
App, dot-com go TITSUP globally (Total Inability To Share Usual Poppycock) Updated Twitter.com is down worldwide along with its mobile and tablet apps. Yes, we know this must be a difficult time for you all.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4JZGS)
Just in time for event kick-off: MS Teams overtakes Slack in daily active users Inspire Microsoft's ironically named Inspire conference kicks off next week in Las Vegas, with the Windows giant hoping to persuade wounded channel middlemen that there remains reasons to be cheerful.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4JZCH)
Cloud giant's blunt instrument clobbers loyal resellers too Microsoft's Toby Richards, General Manager of programmes within the Commercial Partner organisation, has explained the company's removal of free licences from the benefits assigned to resellers.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4JZ7F)
Belgian journos find hundreds of recordings from so-called smart speakers triggered without command A bunch of Belgian investigative journalists have discovered that Google workers really are listening in on people who use its voice-activated Google Assistant product.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4JZ1D)
'Let's see them aliens' Even though your nan's on Facebook now posting "minions" memes, it's still the internet. And the internet is a big dumb place.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4JYVG)
Oxford Circus ... on a weekday... in the summer... Microsoft finally opened the doors on its flagship store at London shopping mecca Oxford Circus today, leaving all but the most breathless fanboys wondering what exactly the company had spent the last few years actually doing.…
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We consulted. We decided to do it anyway The British government is steaming ahead with plans to extend its controversial off-payroll working rules to the private sector in draft legislation published today.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4JYJ3)
And now he's a convicted criminal – but still in uniform A serving Metropolitan police officer who illegally accessed a police database to monitor a criminal investigation into his own conduct has pleaded guilty to crimes under the UK's Computer Misuse Act.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4JYDZ)
iGiant acts to protect users Apple has pushed a silent update to Macs, disabling the hidden web server installed by the popular Zoom web-conferencing software.…
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EE, Sky and O2 also face probes from comms regulator Budget MVNO Gifgaff faces a fresh challenge from Ofcom over claims it provided the regulator "inaccurate information" during a probe into its billing cock-up.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4JYAQ)
Vega or bust. Bust then Arianespace's Vega rocket suffered its first failure last night and dumped its United Arab Emirates payload into the Atlantic Ocean.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4JY7X)
Highest offer £573m so not pocket change for Hull broadband and cloud biz The bidding war for East Yorkshire-based broadband provider KCOM is heating up as suitors increase their offers by a penny here and half a penny there.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4JY7Z)
Privacy, what privacy? You can save our lives but you'll never take our data. Oh, damn, you already have Exclusive NHS Inform, Scotland’s answer to the NHS 111 Online health symptom checker website, is calling user tracking elements from Google and Facebook.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4JY57)
Which means we're nearly there The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has released guidelines for engineers who will have to implement Wi-Fi 6, meaning the advent of the 802.11ax standard is truly upon us – despite the fact it is not expected to be officially ratified until late 2019.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4JY2K)
Dictators, er, er, freedom-loving leaders' spyware choice gets upgrade, claims Kaspersky A nasty new variant of the FinSpy snoopware tool that infects and slurps data from Android and iOS phones and tablets is being peddled, we're told.…
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by David Gordon on (#4JXZZ)
Where to go and what to do next: We speak to experts at Quadrotech Sponsored webcast Office 365 is the solution many organisations gravitate towards when they are looking to move from legacy office applications to a more flexible, mobile-friendly solution for sharing documents and collaborating with colleagues and clients.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4JXXM)
How the Sun and a delayed Space Shuttle led to the crash landing of Skylab in Oz 40 years ago today, nearly 10 years after Neil Armstrong plonked a boot on the Moon, another bit of Apollo leftovers came screaming back to Earth: the Skylab space station.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4JXV9)
Chance to hack Hellenic targets better than a bottle of Metaxa Miscreants notorious for hijacking traffic to victims' servers by changing their DNS records have been accused of hacking a top domain-name registrar in Greece.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4JXP9)
Lawmakers told: 'We don’t run the scans against any other databases' A Homeland Security official on Wednesday stressed the US government department would not use facial-recognition technology to monitor American citizens.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4JXMR)
Big Red up in court yet again A software sales manager hired by Oracle last June and fired three months later has filed a lawsuit against the database giant.…
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