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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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by Thomas Claburn on (#4JXJS)
Evil hypervisors can work out what apps are running, extract data from encrypted guests Five boffins from four US universities have explored AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology – and found its defenses can be, in certain circumstances, bypassed with a bit of effort.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4JXG2)
Pension fund files lively lawsuit hate-letter after 500,000 people's deets put at risk Google has been accused by one of its investors of trying to cover up and downplay a security blunder in Google+ could have caused the leak of half-a-million netizens' data.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4JXD0)
You could be in line for a slice of $12m from PC slinger Asus is set to pay gamers in America up to $320 each and cover the cost of new motherboards and power adapters for a couple of its defective laptops.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4JX9W)
Power, infrastructure, factory gear can be hijacked without any password check at all Industrial control software vulnerabilities, which would be perfect for next-gen Stuxnet-style worms to exploit, are as prevalent as ever, apparently.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4JX6K)
Netlify dodges the blockers by going to the source Netlify this week whipped the covers off its take on dealing with the rise of ad blockers in analytics – do it on the server.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4JX6M)
Serverless auto-scales on demand, may cost more than provisioned Analysis Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of PostgreSQL on its Aurora Serverless platform.…
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by John Oates on (#4JX2V)
Namesake vessel cuts sea trials short, returns to Portsmouth HMS Queen Elizabeth is back in Pompey harbour having sprung yet another leak.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4JWYS)
Azure fans can put off the grim reaper for three more years Microsoft SQL Server 2008 hold-outs took their first, tentative steps into an unsupported future today as the Windows giant finally pulled the plug on support for the venerable relational database.…
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by John Oates on (#4JWT4)
If you had made a decision in 2013, we wouldn't all be here The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) copped the blame from witnesses in the European Court of Justice yesterday over its role in the Facebook case concerning the transfer of data to the US from its Irish subsidiary.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4JWMH)
Networks and phone builder joins compatriots Huawei in insisting it has nothing to hide Chinese network surveillance equipment vendor ZTE has opened a cybersecurity lab in Brussels, where it will offer interested parties a chance to verify the security of its products, services and processes.…
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They'll never be so low again. Ask Marriott and British Airways The Information Commissioner's Office issued £3m worth of fines for data breaches in the year to April 2018 – a mere fraction of its recent proposed GDPR-enabled penalties on British Airways and Marriott.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4JWFV)
Long term release with enhanced controls for IT managers Mozilla's new Firefox, 68, is out, and among other things it fixes an annoyance in the "Dark mode" theme where the toolbar in Reader mode retained a "light" appearance.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4JWA7)
A year before THAT ill-fated buyout Autonomy Trial A senior finance department worker at Autonomy blew the whistle a year before it was purchased in 2011 by HP, saying the Brit software house was recognising revenue on deals before contracts were even signed.…
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Suggests: Er, why don't you find out where legacy systems are, come up with a 'plan' Failure to tackle mountains of legacy tech, a lack of leadership and woolly definitions of digital have led to the Government Digital Service role becoming "increasingly unclear," a Parliamentary report has found.…
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by John Oates on (#4JW5J)
Almost half software engineering department walks after Musk's timing commitment - reports Tesla's Autopilot department – developing the software for the ‘leccy car maker's autonomous driving systems – has lost about 10 per cent of its staff, according to reports.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4JW26)
All aboard for 'siliconisation of optical interconnect' Network overlord Cisco has had its own Victor Kiam moment and is set to slurp one of its suppliers, optical interconnect specialist Acacia Communications, for $2.6bn in cash.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4JW28)
No more cloud-based DLL Hell or libraries snafus, vows Redmond beastie Microsoft's new code libraries for programming its Azure cloud address a significant problem for developers: the inconsistency between the huge numbers of supporting libraries.…
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by John Oates on (#4JVYD)
Suggested reading: Making Your Last Will and Testament Patients in the UK will be able to use Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant to search for information from the National Health Service's website.…
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UK ISP claimed signal 'couldn't be beaten.' Regulator disagreed Low-rent UK ISP TalkTalk has been told to stop claiming its Wi-Fi signal "can't be beaten by any of the other big providers" after fellow telco BT whinged to the UK's Advertising Standards Agency (ASA).…
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by Richard Speed on (#4JVVR)
For want of a closer look at the USB-C spec, a resistor was lost. For want of a resistor, the power was lost Mere weeks after launch, it appears that the hot (in more than one way) new Raspberry Pi 4 is a bit finnicky when it comes to power cables.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4JVS5)
Acquiring Red Hat: $34bn. Not knowing what 'hybrid cloud' means: Priceless. For everything else, there's IBM Exclusive It's been an oft-heard refrain at tech conferences that IBM "doesn't know what it's bought" with regard to Red Hat. Usually meant positively, it seems it might be a bit closer to the truth than anyone thought; at least, for Big Blue's marketing department.…
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by SA Mathieson on (#4JVPS)
Price, bug-patching, security, control ... so many factors to consider Chinese telecoms giant Huawei may well be the world's most controversial technology company. It's also probably one of the most well-known names on the US government's "entity list", where it was placed in May this year.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4JVPT)
Interconnects, never sexy but very useful for Chipzilla's plans With Moore's so-called Law pretty much dead for now, and the shrinking of transistors proving more difficult, the name of the game today is packing multiple dies into chip packages rather than cramming more and more smaller transistors into more of less the same area of silicon.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4JVMH)
Not growing quite as fast as your Reg vulture's student debt, though Scientists think they've made a major leap towards nailing the expansion rate of the universe, known as Hubble's Constant, thanks to gravitational wave data.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4JVJ1)
Claims nomination was 'light hearted' so they can laugh off this light-hearted article, too The brain-dead Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has backtracked on its nomination of Mozilla as an "internet villain" for 2019 after online outcry.…
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by David Gordon on (#4JVF8)
There's gold in your mountains of information Sponsored webcast It is not unusual for organisations to amass such large volumes of data that they struggle to examine it for real-time operational insights that will help them resolve issues and grow their business.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4JV9A)
Maker of Firefox fires fox from hen house guard duty Mozilla on Tuesday added digital certificates belonging to security biz DarkMatter and its subsidiaries to Firefox's OneCRL blocklist, based on concerns that the UAE-based company will misuse its power as a certificate authority (CA) to intercept online communications.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4JV7E)
Meanwhile, Adobe gives Flash the month off. SAP emits fixes, though Patch Tuesday Summer is now firmly upon us, and depending on where you are, the weather could be just about anything from stupidly hot to unbearably wet and cold right now given the state of the climate.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4JV4E)
Lawyer in the cooler for five years for operating notorious smut piracy honeypot scam One of the former attorneys behind dodgy copyright-demand factory Prenda Law has been sentenced to 60 months in prison. Yes, the same Prenda Law that seeded file-sharing networks with smut flicks it owned the rights to in order to extract eye-watering copyright infringement settlements from downloaders.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4JV1P)
Plucky Brit Land Speed Record hopeful bankrolled for South Africa test runs in October Brit sonic boom botherers Bloodhound are back and ready for a jaunt to South Africa (SA).…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4JV1R)
Including one of El Reg's Discord accounts. Oops! GitHub has deleted a repository containing partial blueprints of DeepNude, the notorious AI-powered app that stripped clothes from women in photos to generate fake naked pics.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4JTYX)
Under-fire carrier insists on forcing privacy-trashed punters into out-of-court arbitration T-Mobile US has finally responded to a lawsuit filed in May that accuses it of trashing its customers' privacy by selling off their location data.…
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