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by Richard Speed on (#4F31N)
Cloudy accounting service takes an extended morning tea break Updated Accounting software giant Sage has been having a few irritating interruptions this morning as users encountered difficulty counting beans with the company's services.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4F31Q)
'Wouldn't it be ironic if all paths used by open-source developers lead to Microsoft?' Anyone still worry about the Microsoft monopoly? Executive director of the Eclipse Foundation Mike Milinkovich does.…
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by David Gordon on (#4F2Z2)
SANS brings three immersive training events to London Promo IT security training specialist SANS Institute is bringing three major training events to London this summer and autumn, each offering a bumper programme of intensive courses designed to arm security professionals with the skills they need to defend against data breaches and malicious attacks.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4F2WR)
In space no one can hear you complete form P6719 in triplicate for astro-mandarins Japanese space agency JAXA has been given the all clear from eggheads to attempt a landing on Mars' largest moon, drill into it, and bring a sample back to Earth without an Andromeda Strain incident.…
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Cloud giant's structure, staff practices revealed Deep dive Companies inside and out of Silicon Valley have found their own ways to rapidly develop and deploy features and functionality.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4F2QQ)
What did you think we meant? Our Moon is getting cooler, causing it to shrink. Now, research published in Nature Geoscience on Monday suggests that shrinkage is leading to a whole lot of shaking going on, with a little help from Earth too.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4F2G7)
Rap for surveillanceware chaps in chat app voice yap trap flap – now everyone patch A security flaw in WhatsApp can be, and has been, exploited to inject spyware into victims' smartphones: all a snoop needs to do is make a booby-trapped voice call to a target's number, and they're in. The victim doesn't need to do a thing other than leave their phone on.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4F292)
That's how you pronounce 😾😾😾: A means to bury spyware deep inside pwned networking gear Security weaknesses at the heart of some of Cisco's network routers, switches, and firewalls can be exploited by hackers to hide spyware deep inside compromised equipment.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4F265)
I'm going to hold a summit, says Pai. Just get on with it, demands fellow commissioner Faced with growing political and legal anger, Ajit Pai, the chairman of America's communications watchdog, has again promised to do something about robocalls – and again left critics fuming over his foot-dragging antics.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4F238)
330 PoPs and counting Network, cloud, and hosting provider BSO has gobbled up British enterprise connectivity specialist IX Reach, creating, it claims, "the largest privately owned telecom operator in the world."…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4F1Z8)
Legal action over 30% cut iGiant takes from software sales allowed to continue Folks can sue Apple in the US for forcing app developers to pay the iGiant a 30 per cent commission, America's Supreme Court has decided.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4F1DN)
Robot overlords making robot overlords A Cambridge-based chip design upstart led by former Arm executives has secured $5m (£3.84m) in venture capital to expand its engineering team and generate more sales.…
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by John Oates on (#4F1DQ)
Plus: Investigators granted access to Jules' room in Ecuadorian embassy A woman accusing Julian Assange of sexual assault has welcomed the decision to reopen an investigation into the WikiLeaks founder.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4F191)
Need something older than the last two major updates? Tough – get on the update treadmill Adobe has left customers reeling after bringing an axe down on old versions of its Creative Cloud line-up.…
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by John Oates on (#4F193)
But an even faster Maglev method is also in the works The East Japan Railway Company (JR East) began testing a 10-carriage 400kph (249mph) bullet train on Friday night.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4F13Q)
Yep, PowerToys is back ... well, the open-sourcey reboot is, anyway Roundup Bored of Build? Suffering from cloud cramping? It wasn't all Azure, Azure, Azure from Microsoft last week.…
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by John Oates on (#4F0Z5)
One of 20 firms to receive fail badge UK tech reseller Computacenter has had a big red warning slapped on it for not having enough women on its board of directors.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4F0Z7)
Watch your back, Larry E: New tech's hitting Beijing on Wednesday Huawei is about to make life more complicated: it is gearing up to launch its own database product, featuring machine learning and compatible with Arm-based processors.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4F0VQ)
Department to appeal High Court ruling over ministerial powers UK Home Office ministers are to appeal against a High Court judgment, handed down a few weeks ago, that prevents them from ordering regulators like Ofcom to stop carrying out their statutory duties.…
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by John Oates on (#4F0VR)
Hackers got in via offsite machine used for cloud performance testing A customer email from biz automation outfit ConnectWise has revealed that a ransomware attack was to blame for an outage which crashed its systems for a whole day earlier this month.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4F0S2)
Mind the fap Commuters on London's Wandsworth-Clapham service last Friday morning had yet another reason to awkwardly avoid each others' gazes as grunts and groans from what sounded like a pornographic film oozed out of the train's Tannoy system.…
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by John Oates on (#4F0PT)
Applies for European Arrest Warrant Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions Eva-Marie Persson is reopening the rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.…
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by John Oates on (#4F0PW)
Out of 25 million? Cripes The Office of the Australian Data Information Commissioner's quarterly report has revealed that more than 10.5 million Ozzies – about 40 per cent of the lot of them – had their personal data slurped in one single incident in the first three months of 2019.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4F0MR)
'No side agreements' Autonomy Trial With the Autonomy Trial in full swing over HPE's allegations that the British software company fiddled its accounts to inflate its buy price, what exactly were the corporation's internal rules on recognising revenue? An internal presentation from its general counsel, obtained by The Register, sheds some light.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#4F0K5)
Live code-breaking and beer A curse follows Enigma, the cryptography device deployed by Adolf Hitler's military during the WWII to protect their Morse communications from the Allies. That curse? Invisibility.…
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by Team Register on (#4F0GZ)
Engineer reveals departmental porkies, gets told never to leave his desk again Who, Me? Monday has once again reared its head, and with that we welcome you back to Who, Me?, El Reg's weekly column where techies tell us about incidents from days of yore.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4F0ED)
Plus, Diachenko strikes again with Indian data find Roundup Last week, a Symantec boss stepped down, a Chinese hacker was called out, and an AirBnB hidden camera creep was cuffed.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4EZDR)
Nobody likes monopolies Northern Virginia is the most important data centre market on the planet, with more than a gigawatt of colocation capacity, and even more servers hidden in cloud data centres.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4EZ5M)
What a d*ck move! Singapore criminalizes unsolicited nude pics A little wood could soon get you the cane (or at least some time behind bars), thanks to a recently-passed law in Singapore that criminalizes sending unwelcome nude photos.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4EY2A)
Bits and bobs from the week's AI news Roundup Hello, this week's AI roundup is short and sweet. If you've been waiting to play with OpenAI's GPT-2 model, here's your chance. Also, Waymo and Lyft are working together to bring self-driving taxis on the road.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4EXM5)
Simple hack turns them into super secret spying tool A GPS tracker used by elderly people and young kids has a security hole that could allow others to track and secretly record their wearers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4EX8E)
Wow, cool, they look free to use... *checks invoice the next day* ...They most certainly were not free If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. There appears to be a bug in the Google Cloud Platform online user interface that may lead engineers into thinking they're renting GPU-accelerated virtual machines for free, when, really, they're not.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4EX4A)
Probe found dangerous levels of lead, cadmium in stuff sold via web souk Amazon on Thursday agreed to pay $700,000 and stop selling toxic children's school supplies and jewelry – after a probe found dangerous levels of lead and cadmium in some of the e-commerce site's wares.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4EX1X)
It's the art of the deal, folks New tariffs imposed today by the US government on Chinese imports will hit the tech industry hard, with everything from semiconductors to networking equipment now taxed at 25 per cent.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4EWY4)
Debut skids off the road as people reluctantly admit they hoped everyone else's stupidity would help them cash out It couldn't have happened to a nastier company.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4EWY6)
GitHub Package Registry provides libraries and other bits and bytes for Java, JavaScript, Ruby, .NET and more GitHub today will introduce the GitHub Package Registry, a service to allow software developers to publish and manage public or private software packages for a variety of programming languages.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4EWTT)
This is your IT on steroids A reinforced IT rack able to accommodate up to 4,500lbs (more than 2 metric tonnes) of hardware – even in transit – has been built by contract manufacturer Sanmina.…
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by John Oates on (#4EWQ5)
Court filing warns: Welcome to the jungle Aged rockers Guns N' Roses are suing a Colorado brewery which has been flogging Guns N' Rosé beer.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4EWKB)
You know the drill: Patch and stop using C Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered an SQLite use-after-free() vulnerability that could allow an attacker to, in theory, remotely execute code on an affected device.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4EWF8)
CEO Bob Swan sees NAND as a ugly duckling, apparently Analysis Intel has SSDs in its data centre strategy but has not committed to technology investments - and analysts have said they suspect a supply partnership deal is in the offing.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4EWBD)
It's X-ray men: Rise of the machines – as units deploy AI for NHS GPU near-monopoly Nvidia will be working alongside King's College London to put machine learning algorithms to work on NHS datasets.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4EW5Y)
Troubled security house keeps up trend of sudden resignations Greg Clark, CEO and president of Symantec, has "stepped down" suddenly and with no permanent replacement lined up, just as his predecessor did.…
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by John Oates on (#4EW11)
Cue shares diving 16% for Santa Clara-based contact centre tech outfit Troubled call centre and telecoms provider Avaya has confirmed it is up for sale following a rollercoaster couple of years and a poor set of results for its latest quarter, Q2 '19.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4EVX2)
Awwigh daahlin', I FINK you'll find Contrary to popular belief, Brits really don't all sound like the Queen or Hollywood villains and according to Big 7 Travel, there are no less than 56 accents recognised within our tiny corner of the world (though there are likely a lot more). So what's the logical next step?…
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by John Oates on (#4EVX4)
More like Blue BALLS amirite? lolol I'm 11 At an event in Washington DC, Blue Origin boss Jeff Bezos yesterday showed world+dog the company's Moon lander – Blue Moon – and promised manned missions to the lunar surface by 2024.…
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by John Oates on (#4EVSA)
Might be back inside soon Chelsea Manning has been released from prison after 62 days for refusing to testify to an American grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4EVSC)
Plus: Barrister's questions 'abuse of process', rages opponent Autonomy Trial While he agreed that Autonomy’s ex-CFO was a "highly ethical person", Stouffer Egan couldn't quite bring himself to tell the High Court that Sushovan Hussain had never fiddled Autonomy's accounts.…
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by Team Register on (#4EVSD)
Doors open at Continuous Lifecycle London on Tuesday Events The doors open at Continuous Lifecycle London on Tuesday, and there's still time for you to join us, and 40 of the finest speakers in DevOps, containers, serverless and CI/CD.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4EVP2)
Unnamed security shops said to have lost source code A Russian hacking outfit says it has stolen confidential data from a trio of US antivirus companies.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4EVP3)
It's all about the enterprise, dummy The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 was one of the bigger surprises of Microsoft's developer love-in, Build. The Register had a chat with the team behind Pengwin to find out what the changes mean for devs on the platform.…
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