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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VDAZ)
Are you for real? splutters surveyor Sophos Half of UK public sector IT chiefs think the data they're responsible for protecting is less valuable than private sector information, according to a survey by antivirus firm Sophos.…
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ACK! London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has published its first procurement notice to consolidate its IT "towers" in a contract worth £600m over five years.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4VD43)
People person CEO urges staff 'if you like the One DXC logo, tell others' LogoWatch Words are cheap and what better way for the new man in charge of DXC to convince his troops that a more caring regime has taken over than by scrapping its current corporate colours and logo to something more daring.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VD45)
Lock the front door, you chumps A British video-editing startup exposed what is claimed to be "thousands" of user-uploaded videos, including family films and home-made pornography, in an unsecured Amazon AWS bucket.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4VD47)
Ailing services integrator pulls in more cash from backers to pay off debts, rebrands US MSP arm Cash-strapped IT services integrator Getronics has finally confirmed its split with group CEO Nana Baffour and is getting an injection of capital following its cash-flow issues.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4VCYX)
C# and XAML devs get path to what UWP promised but never delivered At Microsoft's recent Ignite conference, the company promoted WinUI as the best path for desktop developers, and pointed towards the third-party Uno platform as an option for Windows 7 or web deployment.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VCYZ)
Haven't gotten around to patching since last Spring? Now would be a good time Thousands of Oracle E-Business Suite customers are vulnerable a security bug that can be exploited for bank fraud.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VCZ0)
Businessman gets 18 months for bogus cryptocoin sales A 39 year-old man from New York has been ordered to spend the next 18 months in prison after being convicted of cryptocurrency-based securities fraud.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4VCT8)
Linux was a 'cancer' but Microsoft is now defending it IBM, Microsoft and the Linux Foundation have partnered with the Open Invention Network (OIN), a company formed to protect Linux from patent threats, to take on "Patent Assertion Entities", also known as patent trolls.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VCNT)
Coalition aims to help users spot and remove covert trackers A collection of security, privacy, and digital rights groups have joined up to push a campaign against stalking software.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4VCFB)
You win some, you lose… 75 per cent of your share value The shares of satellite operators continued to plummet today after it became clear that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was going to seize valuable spectrum off them and resell it to mobile phone companies.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4VCFD)
But the big money's in Huawei's new (invite only) program Mozilla has decided to celebrate the 15th anniversary of its Firefox browser by expanding its bug bounty program to cover a range of new sites and services and - get this - triple its maximum payout.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4VC6X)
'Magic Leap has moved from being an IF company to a WHEN company,' claims outgoing director Augmented reality hype-machine Magic Leap has lost its chief financial officer (CFO) and creative director, putting yet more question marks over the company’s future.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VC6Z)
Magecart making life difficult yet again for shopping website US retailer Macy's says that hackers planted a card-stealing malware script on its site and harvested customer details for eight days last month.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VC70)
And the fake news merry-go-round is already in full swing Brexit-supporting businessman Arron Banks has had his Twitter account hijacked and his private messages dumped online by person or persons unknown – and random script kiddies are trying to claim the credit for it.…
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Poor testing and supplier oversight to blame for 'unprecedented' cockup TSB's disastrous migration of its core banking data and payment records of five million customers has today been slammed by an independent report from London City law firm Slaughter and May.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4VBXM)
As well as managed nodes for K8s and new FireLens container logging service Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hauled in Java 11 support to its Lambda serverless platform, along with other upgrades and a new service for container log management.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VBK0)
US Dept of Justice books one-way plane ticket in his name A rape investigation involving everyone's favourite cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaker, Julian Assange, has been dropped, Swedish prosecutors told the world's press today.…
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Two high-level engineers and one managing director accused of stealing from Switchzilla Cisco has filed a complaint against three former employees in the district court of Northern California, having accused them of stealing its intellectual property before jumping ship to a competitor.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4VBK4)
Bare metal or run on any cloud thanks to, er, EPIC BlueData acquisition HPE has announced its Kubernetes-based Container Platform, which can be deployed on bare metal, any public cloud or virtualized infrastructure. Availability is promised for early 2020.…
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Over 60% access better than anything found in US and SK 5G in London is so far lagging behind Birmingham and Cardiff, according to research into the tech's early deployment.…
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by John Oates on (#4VBAA)
Analyst says firms insuring against hard exit by the UK Figures from tech industry analyst Context show a remarkable jump in server, storage and networking sales in the Republic of Ireland through the last two quarters, pointing to companies continuing to invest in insurance against a hard Brexit.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4VBAC)
CEO insists firm can compete with big rivals on cloud DXC is broken but fixable, the beleaguered outsourcing provider's new chief exec has assured the 130,000 employees still on its payroll.…
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Freelance techies claim they face 20% pay cut Exclusive IT contractors with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) are mulling legal action following a decision to get rid of all freelancers ahead of controversial changes to UK off-payroll worker tax legislation next year.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VB5T)
Mind where you're pointing that thing, Al Part 2 Welcome to the second part of our Apollo 12 retrospective, where we look at the breaking of cameras and the (almost) breaking of the lunar module pilot. You can read about the eventful launch in Part 1, here.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4VB5W)
Some concerned it hands too much power to too few Microsoft has put its weight behind the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) security protocol, greatly increasing the likelihood of it becoming a default internet standard.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4VB1H)
Pool of companies itching for a slice of the $2.6bn contracts has now grown to 14 A total of 14 companies have now entered the race to develop landers to deliver goodies to the Moon as NASA plans to send the first woman and the next man to our nearest rocky companion by 2024.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4VASE)
Country offline for third day in response to protests Iran has been offline for three days after the government responded to widespread protests by killing the internet.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VASG)
US Department of Commerce relents-ish on blockade plans US telcos will be able to continue doing business with Huawei for the time being.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4VAJD)
Terminator it ain't, but should prove useful and a little lovable The US Army has is building a new 248-strong robot regiment to help defuse or detonate explosives and has just spent $109m on the new hardware, which bears an unfortunate similarity to the beloved cartoon character WALL-E.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VA9F)
Will take the GDPR hit for all cloud biz so you don't have to Microsoft says it will be making a data protection deal it struck with the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security into a global policy for its cloud services.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VA9H)
Multinational cop agency reportedly set to issue statement Multinational police agency Interpol is due to say that tech companies deploying strong encryption helps paedophiles – unless they build backdoors for police workers.…
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by John Oates on (#4V9ZE)
It's Magic! The MacBook keyboard nightmare is over – Apple's latest attempt reverts back to something remarkably similar to the key design it was using up until 2016. The one that worked.…
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by John Oates on (#4V9ZG)
You have four days left to nab what you need Intel is removing drivers and BIOS for its old desktop boards so anyone running an old Pentium-based PC has four days to get hold of anything they might need.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4V9ZJ)
High Court throws out Nathan Wyatt's extradition appeal A Briton once suspected of hacking Pippa Middleton's iCloud account – although he was cleared after a police probe in 2016 – now faces deportation to America.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4V9ZM)
Plus: That time the first American in space gave 'nauts an on-air telling off Roundup Last week SpaceX proved its Crew Dragon abort engines can work, ISS 'nauts embarked on an EVA to fix their particle physics detector, and Searching for Skylab got a director's cut of sorts.…
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by John Oates on (#4V9N8)
Lexus of speakers fails to address months of complaints, say users Firmware updates to Bose TV soundbars don't seem to have fixed the problems for everyone and have even managed to add some new issues.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4V9NA)
Today you toil. Who knows what tomorrow brings? A former Unix sysadmin has been elected the new president of Sri Lanka, giving hope to all those IT workers who fear they are trapped in a role where the smallest of decisions can have catastrophic consequences if it goes wrong.…
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Continues big old offload of 'non-core' assets UK accounting software biz Sage is flogging its payments arm to US firm Elavon for £230m, the latest asset offload of its "non-core" businesses in favour of those with a cloudier flavour.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4V9NE)
Missed your deadlines? Here, have some more taxpayer dosh Auditors minced no words in their assessment (PDF) of NASA's Commercial Crew providers: overdue, overbudget and overpaid.…
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by John Oates on (#4V9FX)
Supersonic air detected Bloodhound LSR hit 628mph (1,010kph) in high-speed testing over the weekend, as fast as its current rocket will propel it.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4V9FZ)
All the Microsoft excitement you missed while installing 19H2 Roundup As Microsoft luxuriated in the Ignite afterglow, the hardworking Reg gnomes deep within the Windows mines managed to unearth a nugget or two of news you may have missed.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4V9G1)
You didn't work 2 weeks straight so you couldn't have been whistleblowing, tribunal rules A Capita accountant who turned down a £10,000 bung to leave the firm only to be sacked anyway has lost her appeal against a rejected Employment Tribunal case.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4V9BE)
... thanks to today's entrant in the Who, Me? hall of shame Who, Me? Bid farewell to the weekend and a cheery hello to the week with another seepage from The Register's confessional in the form of our Who, Me? column.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4V9BG)
Plus, 1Password gets a boatload of cash It's time for another Register security roundup of the week's smaller stories you may have missed.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4V9BJ)
Plus a deepfake video that will freak you out Roundup Here's this week's collection of AI-related news that we found interesting. Read on to find out more about a new chip coming to Microsoft Azure and how Twitter hopes to deal with deepfakes.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4V92H)
Board keeps door open... HPOX not a total impossibility, at least not if Carl Icahn has his way HP’s board has spurned the advances of Xerox, saying the $33.5bn opening bid “significantly undervalues†the business.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4V92K)
If at first you don't succeed, Phi Phi again SC19 Intel today confirmed the identity of the GPU-based math-accelerator chip it will offer to supercomputer builders.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4V79G)
The meatball that shook the world has investors salivating At the second annual Cultured Meat Symposium in San Francisco on Friday, donuts featured prominently on the breakfast menu and lunch involved only plant-based options. Attendees the day before had the opportunity to sample mechanically prepared beef burgers, courtesy of robo-restaurateur Creator, but lab-fabbed meat didn't make an appearance. Give it about five years – that was a guestimate from one attendee.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4V705)
Trust your hardware? Pah, you oughta trust nobody Claims that 5G offers “better security†for IoT may not ring true – with the technology remaining vulnerable to SIM-jacking attacks within private Industry 4.0-style deployments, according to infosec biz Trend Micro.…
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