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by Shaun Nichols on (#4HY5K)
Meanwhile, staff face cuts – and doesnotexist.com may not exist by next year Oracle is sharpening its ax for the Dyn networking biz it acquired in 2016, with plans to slash jobs and switch off services.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4HY2D)
Happy to admit I did a great job, says alleged firefighter-arsonist. Um, nope, says judge A programmer facing up to 10 years in the cooler, and as much as $250,000 in fines, blew his guilty plea deal on Monday – after he tried to avoid admitting full blame for his actions.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4HXXY)
Feds are asking Huawei too much from us, complains shipping giant upset it has to police every package FedEx is suing the US government to escape the burden of policing packages (cough, cough, tech materials) sent abroad (ahem, ahem, China).…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4HXNW)
SIEMless pitch, amirite? Amazon Web Services has wheeled out its Security Hub – a SIEM aggregator product – in an effort to snaffle some of the lucrative cloud SIEM market for itself.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4HXB1)
Can I swap out the card? Then fsck the upgrade A dip in the Chinese economy and consumers exploiting lower-priced GPUs to upgrade rather than replace their desktop rigs has led to slowdown in sales of gaming systems.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4HX60)
Best before end? Who reads those things anyway? Date formatting is one of the many banes of a programmer's existence. Pity, therefore, the Tesco customer presented with a date in the Julian format.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4HX1S)
Complaint claims rival Tanium's hires took deal data with them McAfee is suing former senior salespeople whom it alleges stole company trade secrets when they moved to a rival security vendor.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4HWX7)
Over in proprietary land, musical chairs a thing at Microsoft too as former Windows Insider-in-chief quits To lose one board member may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness, but to lose three?…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4HWSP)
Heartbeat rhythms could be the next biometric authentication method Biometric systems could use the unique patterns from a person's ECG reading for biometric sign-ons.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4HWP1)
Handy features in the Store applications, but the underlying infrastructure changes matter more Hands On Microsoft's new terminal app is now available in the Windows Store - so naturally your Vultures took it for a spin.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4HWJZ)
Although third time unlucky as the centre stage enjoys an explosive landing SpaceX's Falcon Heavy turned night into day this morning as the monster rocket successfully hauled itself from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A.…
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by John Oates on (#4HWG3)
Long delayed Emergency Services Network probably not helping UK police might not agree on how to measure the success of technology used on the beat, but three-quarters of them want better mobile kit - and more of it.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4HWE5)
Even govt rules have knock-on effects, warns Andrew Sullivan Interview Andrew Sullivan, chief exec of the Internet Society, has condemned governments that "interfere in underlying technologies that people are allowed to build," as regulators increasingly target net infrastructure to enforce their visions of how the online world ought to be.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4HWBV)
Meanwhile in the home, it's all Google, Amazon, Apple… Analysis The smart home and internet-of-things market has long suffered from a plethora of protocols and standards: from X10 and ZigBee, to LightwaveRF, Z-Wave, Bluetooth, HomeKit, Weave, and Brillo. This month, however, we may finally have found a winner. Or, at least, a co-winner.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4HW9W)
May mean humans can travel to and infect alien worlds using cryotanks of reproductive cells Humans may be able to colonize space after all, as a new study shows frozen sperm seems to be unaffected by the effects of microgravity.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4HW50)
Revealed: Long-running espionage campaign targets phone carriers to snoop on VIPs' location, call records Hackers infiltrated the networks of at least ten cellular telcos around the world, and remained hidden for years, as part of a long-running tightly targeted surveillance operation, The Register has learned. This espionage campaign is still ongoing, it is claimed.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4HVZV)
So claims this Ernst & Young probe report Gerald Cotten, the late Quadriga CEO, created a string of accounts on his Canadian cryptocurrency exchange, each under an alias and containing bogus dollar balances, according to Ernst & Young auditors. He then used those accounts, it's claimed, to buy his customers' cryptocurrency with those digitally conjured dollars that didn't actually exist, and then moved the ill-gotten Bitcoin and Ethereum to his accounts at other cryptocurrency trading sites.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4HVTE)
Accuses both companies of withholding essential information, claims multiple conflicts of interest A cray cray Cray investor is attempting to scupper the supercomputer builder's pending $1.3bn acquisition by HPE, by proposing a class-action lawsuit.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4HVQD)
It's all in a lucrative day's work for Red Mosquito A Scottish managed services provider is running a lucrative sideline in ransomware decryption – however, a sting operation by a security firm appears to show that “decryption†merely means paying off the malware's masterminds.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4HVKR)
Top court undoes snub for provocatively named clothing brand When Erik Brunetti in 2011 first tried to obtain a trademark for his clothing company FUCT, the US Patent and Trademark Office blocked his application.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4HVG0)
Tehran's hackers are 'wiping' infected machines as tensions spike, fresh sanctions approved Hackers operating on behalf of the Iranian government have turned destructive, the US Department of Homeland Security has claimed.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4HVBQ)
'Normally you'd filter it out if some small provider said they own the internet' Updated Verizon sent a big chunk of the internet down a black hole this morning – and caused outages at Cloudflare, Facebook, Amazon, and others – after it wrongly accepted a network misconfiguration from a small ISP in Pennsylvania, USA.…
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by John Oates on (#4HV21)
Insurers and family fling sueballs at Cupertino giant Apple is being sued Stateside over allegations that a faulty iPad battery caused a fire which resulted in a New Jersey man's death.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4HTWZ)
Small machines with feeble CPUs are becoming interesting again In an act of technological voodoo, bare metal cloud provider Packet has resurrected the IT trend that was last in the headlines circa 2015 - the microserver.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4HTQR)
A trio of heavy lifters in rocket boffinry Roundup There was European joy, Russian frustration and a bit of a tease from the Falcon Heavy last week. And while the Pi 4 is the new shiny, spare a thought for the computers on the ISS.…
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by John Oates on (#4HTKE)
Nope: It was not giving Android a run for its money... Bill Gates has said his biggest management miscalculation was failing to position Microsoft's Windows Phone as the primary rival mobile operating system to Apple's iOS.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4HTF2)
Ghost in the machine conspires to ruin CDN biz's 10th birthday, it seems Updated US network services provider Cloudflare has been celebrating its impending tenth birthday with a good, old-fashioned TITSUP*, er, knees-up.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4HTF3)
Pestered folk to 'download my EE app' and 'upgrade your phone' EE, the mobile operator arm of BT, is nursing a six-figure fine for texting more than 2.5 million pain-in-the-ass direct marketing messages to customers without their consent.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4HTB4)
i386 binaries will still run, says Canonical, but it may not be good enough for key apps Updated Canonical's decision to effectively ditch official support for 32-bit x86 in Ubuntu 19.10, codenamed Eoan, means the Steam gaming runtime is likely to run aground on the Linux operating system – and devs say the Wine compatibility layer for running Windows apps will be of little use.…
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by John Oates on (#4HT8B)
He who smelt it dealt it? The Mars Curiosity Rover has found unexpectedly high levels of methane on the red planet.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4HT8C)
Also: Azure backup for SQL dinosaurs and Machine Learning hits Windows Update Windows 10 19H2 may still be MIA, but Azure is alive and well in the UAE.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4HT5N)
Your quick guide to what else has been happening in computer security lately Roundup Here's a quick Monday summary of recent infosec news, beyond what we've already reported.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4HT3K)
Fasthosts registers all its customers' .uk domain names – just for safekeeping, you understand Analysis For a £100m windfall that apparently doesn't exist, the release of millions of valuable .uk domain names is stirring a lot of activity in the UK's internet name space.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4HT23)
50 roles shifted off to India DXC Technology is sending hundreds of security personnel from the America's division down the redundancy chute and offshoring some of those roles to low-cost centres, insiders are telling us.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4HSZX)
It was acceptable in the Eighties Who, Me? Sunday is gone and Monday is here. To ring in the week, please join us in welcoming the latest addition to the shedload of shame that is The Register's Who, Me? column.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4HSXD)
...And more, including dual 4K monitor outputs that you'll need new cables for The Raspberry Pi Foundation has multiplied 3 by 3 and come up with 4: today a new Pi, the Raspberry Pi 4, officially launches with three times the grunt of the previous generation, the Raspberry Pi 3.…
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by Team Register on (#4HSXF)
Discount offer expires tonight so hurry, hurry, hurry Event If you want to learn how organisations like Lego, Well pharmacy and Bayer are putting AWS Lambda, Function as a Service (FaaS), and Azure Functions to work, you should join us at Serverless Computing London this coming November.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4HQA0)
Also Waymo is releasing a data set for you self-driving car nerds Roundup If you wanna know what's been happening in AI this week beyond what we've already covered, here's a quick roundup...…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4HPH4)
Canary channel will let programmers experience tough new limits on extensions Analysis An early version of Manifest v3 – Google's controversial revision of Chrome's extensions system that will affect ad and content blockers – should appear in about a month.…
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by John Oates on (#4HPCS)
Yes, we too would lose our mind over *checks notes* page caches and storage IO Linux kernel chieftain Linus Torvalds owes the swear jar a few quid this week, although by his standards this most recent rant of his is relatively restrained.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4HP5Q)
Plus: Chinese supercomputer maker Sugon, related orgs added to trade blacklist Patent attorneys are hopping mad at another effort by US lawmakers to undermine Chinese giant Huawei – this time by excluding it from the American patent system.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4HNXS)
Still said to be worth around $66.9bn in 2019 IDC has clipped 2019 sales forecasts for the infrastructure kit used to power hyperscalers' cloud services – the one area of the market that helped to prop up old world vendors' hardware revenues.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4HNSR)
Eye-opening VP evidence sheds light on state of post-buyout biz Autonomy Trial Autonomy staff were so paranoid under Mike Lynch's leadership that they feared their offices had been bugged, former head of HP Software Robert Youngjohns told London's High Court – adding that JP Morgan's CIO reportedly told him: "Autonomy is a shit show."…
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Never mind the robotics and AI bullsh*t Government plans to throw money at automation and AI to develop public services risk "magnifying" problems around data quality residing in its own legacy systems, the National Audit Office has warned.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4HNFB)
IF (DateTime.Now > Spring) { WHILE (Windows != Done) Spring++; } Microsoft enlivened an otherwise deadly dull Windows 10 Insider build by revealing the corporation now defines its own seasons.…
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by John Oates on (#4HNAN)
Chief points to strain on global supply chains as earnings miss analyst estimates Welsh chip and wafer maker IQE's shares fell by almost a third this morning when it warned that the impact of the United States' Huawei ban is likely to be worse than expected.…
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by John Oates on (#4HN60)
Dios mÃo, eso es nuestro buitre! An, er, eagle-eyed Reg reader holidaying in Spain has spotted an uncanny resemblance between this organ's beloved mascot and an equally vulturine logo being used by a peninsular paragliding concern.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4HN2V)
Only the Chinese now to OK $34.5bn slurp With the EU tipped to approve IBM's $34bn slurp of Red Hat next week, the open-source software house started Q1 of fiscal '20 with double-digit hikes in sales and profit, though its top line fell short of analyst estimates.…
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Hello Moto! UK Home Office shoves comms giant another £82m to stay on Emergency Services Network gig
More delays ahead for troubled programme The UK Home Office has extended its Emergency Services Network contract with Motorola, intended to shift blue-light services to 4G.…
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by John Oates on (#4HMZT)
Cough. I believe you have my stapler People spend an average of two bloody weeks a year just looking for a frigging desk to work at, thanks to hot-desking.…
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