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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4NWB4)
FCC also moves, albeit glacially, on robocalls Three ISPs will be fined $25,000 apiece by America's broadband watchdog, the FCC, for interfering with weather signals in Puerto Rico.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4NVB0)
Chocolate Factory sees some benefits in a censorship model Google may be lax in policing policy violating videos on YouTube, but at least it's adding oversight where it's needed – to mute overly opinionated employees.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4NV7B)
Investors peeved Larry Ellison owned 40% of the biz he paid billions in Big Red cash to buy Three members of Oracle's board of directors say a class-action lawsuit, filed against Oracle in the US by Oracle shareholders over Oracle's 2016 acquisition of NetSuite, should go forward.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4NV3K)
It’s a class action agreement so guess who gets the $4m payout? If you guessed the plaintiffs, guess again The programmers behind augmented-reality pest-chasing Pokemon Go have settled a class-action lawsuit in the US brought by angry homeowners who claimed the video game encouraged people to trespass on their land.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4NV06)
Right to bear arms doesn't cover armed UAVs If you were wondering whether your right to bear arms extends to the right to bear an armed drone, we have bad news.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4NTWC)
Solution Centre WONTFIX amid EOL date shenanigans Not only has a vulnerability been found in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC), but the laptop maker fiddled with end-of-life dates to make it seem less important – and is now telling the world it EOL'd the vulnerable monitoring software before its final version was released.…
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by John Oates on (#4NTM9)
27-year-old also shipped weed, flogged 'how-to' fraud guides A hacker from Kent, England, has handed over almost a million quid in Bitcoin following a lengthy police investigation.…
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by David Gordon on (#4NTG6)
Make that the winning move, are we right? Webcast It feels as though everyone's talking about edge computing, and yet, once you've torn through all the hype and bluster, what are you left with? What actually is it?…
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Advice 'falls woefully short' The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed has said UK government guidance on private sector changes to off-payroll working falls "woefully short".…
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by John Oates on (#4NT6K)
Bawwww we don't have anything like Amazon bawwww The European Commission wants to set up a €100bn wealth fund to invest directly in local technology companies to help businesses fight international giants like Apple, Google and Alibaba.…
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11?!! This cost me 12! Do you want to ruin me?! Just like the market stall owner in the The Life of Brian, it turns out internet service providers want customers to haggle with them to cut better deals.…
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by John Oates on (#4NSZE)
New powers? No thanks The Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission have pushed back against US President Trump's proposal to put them in charge of policing social media firms he claims are biased against right-wingers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4NSWB)
Ow, ow, my forehead is on fire Hot Chips Now your humble Reg vulture is back from the Hot Chips conference in Silicon Valley, it seems right to briefly run this Microsoft development by you all.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4NST0)
It hasn't gone away, you know Autonomy trial Just how far has HPE come in proving its $5bn fraud allegations against former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch and co-defendant CFO Sushovan Hussain? While the world basks in the summer sun, we had a close look at the last three months of court hearings to decide.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4NSQS)
Standard enables more security key options with passwordless a future possibility GitHub has announced support for the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) security standard.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4NSNX)
That time a PA put the 'ass' into 'asset tag' On Call How's your Friday shaping up? Come join us for another dive into the piranha-infested waters of what we at The Register like to call On Call.…
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by Team Register on (#4NSM1)
Our practical no-hype conference on AI development Event Whether it’s fraudsters or system crashes that keep you awake at night, join us at the MCubed conference to find out how machine learning and AI can tackle both problems.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4NSHK)
What could possibly go wrong? Video The Russian national space agency has strapped a hefty humanoid robot weighing 160kg (353lb) to a rocket and launched it to the International Space Station.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4NS7X)
Meanwhile, Salesforce sees profits fall Imaginary computer specialist VMware boosted its security and cloud software lineup today when it confirmed Thursday the purchases of Carbon Black and Pivotal Software in deals totaling around $4.8bn.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4NS5N)
Wall Street miffed at flat Q3 earnings as printer boss set to take over in November HP Inc on Thursday reported sales of $14.6bn for its fiscal Q3 2019 financial results, up 0.1 per cent from the year-ago quarter and just shy of the $14.61bn average anticipated by Wall Street analysts.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4NS1N)
Security bod may be invited back into vuln reward program, Half-Life 3 still ain't happening Games giant Valve is attempting to make nice with the infosec bod who disclosed zero-day exploits for vulnerabilities in Steam after the corporation refused to pay out bug bounties for the flaws.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4NRVA)
Disclaimer: No advertisers were harmed in making this project On Thursday, Google reminded everyone who might have forgotten that "privacy is paramount to us" and announced an initiative called "Privacy Sandbox" that proposes paving over a few privacy pitfalls without suffocating its ad business.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4NRVB)
Resigns – or punished for telling the truth? Wake up, sheeple! Ten days after releasing a corporate press release that raved about the deep state, men in black, and confirmed his love affair with a now-jailed Russian spy, the CEO of Overstock has quit – in similarly colorful fashion.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4NRGN)
Could a simple automated scan have picked up open-source nasty? Hmm Android spyware – open-source spyware, no less – has found its way onto the Google Play store, according to researchers from ESET.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4NRBZ)
US sends up another GPS III spacecraft while Blighty ponders the Brexit Satellite United Launch Alliance's last Delta IV Medium+ rocket has left the launch pad to put another GPS satellite in orbit.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4NR6P)
Look at the troubles facing legacy vendors. We're not immune either Pure Storage has clipped forecasts for its current fiscal year due to fears over the slowdown in corporate spending that is gripping other infrastructure outfits and a sharp decline in NAND prices.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4NR1S)
Repairability score tumbles – good luck swapping that battery Samsung's latest and greatest Note10+ smartphone has been prodded and probed by the teardown twiddlers at iFixit. The verdict isn't great: repairing it could be worse but it could also be a whole lot better too.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4NQW0)
Email issues dog the company formerly known as 1&1 Ionos, the hosting company formerly known as 1&1, has found itself on Microsoft's naughty list as emails from its servers won't reach Outlook.com accounts.…
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by David Gordon on (#4NQW1)
Learn about all hyperconvergence, multi cloud, and more Promo Nutanix invites you to its summertime Cloud Shack – an eight-part series of videos on hot topics such as hyperconvergence, business application management, storage, virtualization, networking, and multi-cloud deployments.…
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Blighty not even on track for legally binding 2023-2032 levels Electronic cars will not help the UK government meet its carbon emissions target, with MPs warning people will have to ditch their cars entirely.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4NQKC)
You can make your own joke about foxes and hen houses... The Linux Foundation has signed up the likes of Microsoft and Google for its Confidential Computing Consortium, a group with the laudable goal of securing sensitive data.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4NQKD)
An offer you can refuse? Google has come up with a neat idea to promote its serverless container service, Cloud Run, by asking developers to incorporate a "Run on Google Cloud" button into their git repositories.…
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Mere threat of time on naughty step has ISP redrafting An advert for TalkTalk broadband has been taken down for promoting incorrect speeds, The Register can confirm.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4NQCV)
El Reg speaks to small-sat upstart in Edinburgh Interview With two launches of the SkyLark Nano under its belt, Skyrora aim to go orbital in the coming years - assuming UK Parliament keeps up. The Register had a chat with the Brit rocketeer at its Edinburgh HQ to learn more.…
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It has been foretold! IT prophesier Gartner has performed its ritual reading of market omens to foretell next year's global 5G network infrastructure revenue. The hype wizards reckon that in 2020 the market will hit $4.2bn, an 89 per cent increase from 2019 revenue of $2.2bn.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4NQ7W)
Google's little-known Auto Update Expiration D-Day leaves users bereft of auto software refreshes and more – here's how to check yours It is unlikely to be printed on the box, but every Chromebook has an "Auto Update Expiration (AUE) Date" after which the operating system is unsupported by Google.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4NQ5W)
It's not about the money, it's about the identifiers Analysis Facebook's proposed digital currency Libra, and its accompanying digital wallet Calibra, should be scrutinized not only by financial regulators – as lawmakers in the US and Europe have already started to do – but by national entities concerned with law, public safety and defense.…
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by Team Register on (#4NQ3M)
Book now: Serverless Computing London early-bird ticket offer ends soon Event When you're getting to grips with new technology, there’s nothing like learning from experts who’ve done it before. And when those folks hail from some of the most well-known companies in the world, all the better.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4NQ3N)
EoP bug now free for the world to see after bounty was rejected A security bod angry at Valve's handling of bug reports has released a zero-day vulnerability affecting the games giant's flagship Steam app.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4NPS3)
Plus UCS and other gear need updates Cisco has emitted a fresh round of software updates to address security holes in its network switches and controllers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4NPKN)
Computing giant labeled 'ungenerous' for fighting lawsuit Apple has lost its bid to dismiss a former employee's lawsuit over claims he invented services like Find My iPhone and Passbook but was not included on patents subsequently filed by the tech giant.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4NPKQ)
* Terms and conditions apply. Offer not valid outside Kazakhstan. Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up payments On Wednesday, Google, Apple, and Mozilla said their web browsers will block the Kazakhstan root Certificate Authority (CA) certificate – following reports that ISPs in the country have required customers to install a government-issued certificate that enables online spying.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4NPDJ)
Feds claim John Pierre Dupont created fundraising websites supposedly for Beto O'Rourke, others, then nicked the dosh A man facing criminal charges for bilking US voters out of $250,000 by accepting donations for politicians, including Beto O'Rourke, is on the run.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4NP91)
Better to be aggressive and safe than sorry IT admins could go a long way towards protecting their users from malware and other dodgy stuff on the internet if they ban access to any web domain less than a month old.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4NP3T)
Supermarket biz wants them torn out at Musk firm's expense American supermarket chain Walmart is suing Tesla over claims that solar panels supplied by Elon Musk's company keep setting its shops on fire.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4NP10)
60-mile Virginia roadtrip thankfully ended peacefully A US Army officer who "borrowed" an armoured vehicle to go on a joyride has been cleared of wrongdoing by a military court – by "reason of insanity".…
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by Richard Speed on (#4NNV1)
Now, about those parachutes... While ESA continues to grapple with balky parachutes ahead of the ExoMars 2020 mission, the cameras for the Rosalind Franklin rover have been fitted to the British-built trundlebot.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4NNNG)
Portable Linux with fully open-source hardware in the CutiePi A team of Taiwanese engineers is planning to release an eight-inch tablet based on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4NNG5)
Doors on the Edge Insider Bounty Program flung open Having finally pushed out the first Beta preview of its Chromium-based browser, Microsoft has launched a bounty programme aimed at getting researchers to kick the tyres on its latest and greatest.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4NNBF)
So much for Beto O'Rourke's cow-related capers The youthful doings of US presidential wannabe Beto O'Rourke are in sharp decline, according to threat intel biz Recorded Future, which reckons folk have fallen out of love with hacktivism.…
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