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Backlog not helped by spike in applications to dodge fee hike An IT glitch has contributed to a backlog in the number of UK probate applications, with users still reporting huge delays in the processing of their wills and probate grants.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4TDM4)
Just don't ask how many actually use it Atlassian-owned list-maker Trello is in celebratory mood as it trumpets the 50 millionth user registration as well as the advent of more templates, automation and the dead hand of AI.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4TDM6)
Chief Linux maintainer job is all about reading many, many, many emails, and 'saying no' Linux inventor (and chief maintainer) Linus Torvalds says that the kernel is getting more reliable, and he is not anxious about it being used in safety-critical systems.…
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by John Oates on (#4TDB8)
Acquisition cracks Europe for US data centre giant US data centre biz Digital Realty is proposing a takeover of Dutch colocation flogger Interxion for an eye-popping $8.4bn.…
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by John Oates on (#4TDB9)
Unsurprisingly, commish thought that, in fact, they could do better The European Commission has published its first year of reports from platforms including Google, Microsoft, Twitter and seven European trade associations on how they are countering disinformation.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4TDBA)
>>>FREE STUFF HERE<<< Amazon has been rapped by Britain's advertising watchdog after its baffling online payments page duped customers into signing up for an Prime subscription as they tried to pay for goods.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4TD5W)
The hero that drives 62% uptick in wearables to *squints* $52bn, according to Gartner The wearables market is popping, if you believe the latest report from entrail prodders at Gartner: the sector will might be worth an impressive $52bn by 2020, up from $32bn in 2018.…
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by Team Register on (#4TD5Y)
Still tickets left, still time to book – check out our line-up of experts and workshops Event Our Serverless Computing London conference opens in a week, which means you’ve got plenty of time to secure your spot.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4TD5Z)
ExplicitKeyTrustEvaluator... True, false? Who cares, just accept it anyway Security flaws have been found in the European Union's electronic identity system that could have been exploited by miscreants to impersonate member states' citizens online.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TCRQ)
Strong Ryzen, Epyc performance hampered by slow sales for semi-custom AMD saw strong desktop and server processor sales tempered by a dip in its trade of semi-custom games console chips.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TCRS)
Please don't forget to HONK deserialize your data safely HONK Fans of Untitled Goose Game should update their copy of the indie smash-hit following the discovery of a bug that can lead to malicious save files hijacking players' systems.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4TCRV)
1,400 folks, including human-rights bods, unlawfully spied on it is claimed Updated Facebook and its WhatsApp subsidiary on Tuesday sued NSO Group alleging the Israel-based spyware maker unlawfully hacked smartphones using a vulnerability in the popular chat app.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TCFN)
Pentests, audits, and RAM-only servers part of lockdown plan 2019 has been a bad year for NordVPN on the security front.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4TCFQ)
Crawler bots to snub animated content starting this year Google plans to help Adobe's Flash exercise its right to be forgotten – by gradually stripping the animated content from its search index, starting some time later this year.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4TCFS)
A whole new spin on facial recognition Proving that satire is truly dead, the Australian government hopes to use facial recognition technology to check Aussies are over 18 before ogling online smut.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4TCFV)
Well, their version of it won't, they claim Chrome devs have had a little rant about "misinformation", repeating that DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) will be supported but won't necessarily be automatically used in upcoming builds of the browser.…
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by David Gordon on (#4TCFX)
Join us and Qumulo next month to explore and discuss digital strategy to data practicality Webcast Let’s keep this simple. You’re looking to move to the cloud because you know just how powerful the model can be. You’ve seen what's possible when you harness the wealth of data now available to your applications. You’re looking to deliver on your digital transformation goals, respond to new business opportunities, and disrupt your entire market.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4TCFZ)
Redmond hauls management software cloudwards Microsoft has rolled out the cloud-based version of its venerable project management software, Project, along with a new basic subscription option.…
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by John Oates on (#4TCG1)
With your hands Workers at Thames Water have shifted a 40-tonne fatberg – slightly more than three double-decker buses – from a sewer in south London.…
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Meanwhile, Nicky Morgan hints at imminent decision on Huawei in UK's 5G infrastructure UK mobile operators will be fined up to 10 per cent of their annual turnover if they fail to meet the coverage obligations of the £1bn Shared Rural Network plans, digital secretary Nicky Morgan has claimed.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4TBVP)
Speculative execution bugs will be with us for a very long time Linux kernel dev Greg Kroah-Hartman reckons Intel Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) - also known as hyper-threading - should be disabled for security due to MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling) bugs.…
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by John Oates on (#4TBVR)
In two months? That was quick Just two months after GlobalFoundries started legal action against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the pair have reached a 10-year patent-sharing agreement.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4TBVS)
The first two letters sent that day were 'L' and 'O' – what should the third have been? It is 50 years today since the first message was sent on the ARPANET, a precursor of the internet as we know it today.…
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by John Oates on (#4TBVV)
ZTE also on hit list Ajit Pai, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has devised a two-part scheme to erase Chinese hardware from American telecoms networks.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4TBVX)
No pressure to don sweatband and suddenly start jogging Unlike the seeming majority of wearables (including those from Apple, Fitbit, and Huawei), the resurrected Moto 360 smartwatch isn't targeted at fitness enthusiasts.…
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by John Oates on (#4TBK4)
The case certainly rings a bell back in Europe Australia's consumer watchdog is pursuing Google over claims the megacorp has misled people about what data it collects and processes via its mobile operating system, Android.…
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by John Oates on (#4TBK6)
Probing contraband mobes to reduce prison crimes The UK Ministry of Justice is setting up a digital forensics lab to probe mobile phones seized from prisoners.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4TBK7)
Happy Halloween, folks! Round Up While the past seven days were light on launches, space fans had plenty to enjoy, with the Air Force's mystery mini Space Shuttle finally returning from space and the James Webb Space Telescope inching closer to blast-off.…
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by John Oates on (#4TBK9)
Hauliers thin on the ground, apparently Plans to restore an aged IBM mainframe found in a disused building in Germany are on hold because of struggles to find a way to haul the hardware to the UK.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4TBKB)
Multinational poking of bear HMS Queen Elizabeth is still on track to deploy to the Far East in 2021 – although whether it will actually sail through the South China Sea is yet to be explicitly confirmed – with escorting warships from the US and the Netherlands, according to reports.…
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The solution: create a regulator with teeth and deeper pockets An independent watchdog capable of imposing fines should be set up to tackle the billions of pounds wasted by purchasing departments in the UK public sector, according to the Reform think tank.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4TBEA)
The self-hammering heat probe suddenly popped out from the ground over the weekend The heat probe aboard NASA’s InSight lander is having trouble digging into the surface of Mars due to “unusual soil conditions,†the space agency announced on Sunday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4TBEC)
Shade-throwing bot bedevils human opponents in boffins' strategy simulation People need no help doing violence to machines; reports of humans abusing machines have become a common occurrence.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TB9C)
Now why would Russian hackers want to compromise anti-doping agencies? The Russian hacking crew known as Fancy Bear is thought to be actively targeting anti-doping sports agencies.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TB0W)
There's rich, and then there's 'shrug off 24% profit drop' rich Google execs are upbeat for the future of the Chocolate Factory even as its quarterly haul took a hit in the profits department.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4TB0Y)
Spherical shape kicks asteroid into new role PIC There may be a new dinky dwarf planet that’s even tinier than Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt that currently holds the title as the smallest dwarf planet in our Solar System.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TARG)
Winners and losers speak out after $10bn contract award Late on Friday, word broke that the US Department of Defense had decided to award the massive 10-year, $10bn Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative contract to Microsoft.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4TARH)
Phone biz refers to crash as 'early soft landing' On Saturday, a phone-toting high-altitude balloon launched by Samsung to promote its Galaxy S10 5G phone crashed into the front yard of the home of Nancy and Dan Welke in Gratiot County, Michigan.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4TARK)
Looks like some security staff were asleep at the switch Amazon has still not provided any useful information or insights into the DDoS attack that took down swathes of websites last week, so let’s turn to others that were watching.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4TARN)
We're unlocking productivity! Microsoft has defended a policy decision for its "Power platform" – part of Office 365 – to let end users bypass Office 365 admins and make their own licence purchases.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4TAF7)
Hayi wena! Jozi officials claim they'll have 80% of systems back online as deadline expires Several hours past the payment deadline, Johannesburg has vowed not to give in to criminal hackers who demanded £29,000 (4 bitcoins) not to publish its data, four days after the South African city shut down its public sector networks in response to the breach.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4TAF9)
America's regional internet registry slammed by critics, snubbed by ISPs Analysis A key internet infrastructure organization is undercutting efforts to make the internet more secure by insisting ISPs accept a legal agreement before using a security framework, critics charge.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4TAFB)
Stop, collaborate and listen "We have six or seven projects which are doing kernel testing, so much so that we're getting really annoyed," kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman told a crowd today.…
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In other words, you're waiting 26 seconds for that movie to download A first and limited look into the UK rollout of 5G has revealed punters enjoying median speeds up to four times faster than standard 4G, with EE coming out on top and Vodafone managing to be just twice as fast.…
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That's the idea behind £34m investment in autonomous care for elderly research Rise of the Machines A nightmarish vision of our future dotage awaits: government-built "care robots".…
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by Richard Speed on (#4TA59)
Also: Android integration pays off and recent crack at BASIC turns 11 Roundup While Microsoft basked in the warmth of soaring digits last week, former technical evangelist and engineer James Whittaker was there to tip an icy scorn bucket over Windows and the culture lurking behind it.…
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by John Oates on (#4TA5B)
The case of the disappearing ATMs, shonky backends and Total Sh*tshows of Banking The Treasury Committee has told UK bank regulators they must do more to force banks to improve their woeful record on IT.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4T9W9)
Let's bring you up to speed on the latest misuses of machine-learning tech Roundup Here's our latest summary of AI news beyond what we've already covered. It’s all about two favourite topics in machine learning today: facial recognition and deepfakes.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T9WB)
CEO Evan Goldberg on Big Red migration and the Suite smell of Success Oracle-owned NetSuite has plugged cookie-cutter SuiteSuccess tooling at its London SuiteConnect shindig as customers face up to a migration to Big Red's cloud.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4T9WD)
And we invite you to grab your easel and brush A competition to produce stock pictures of infosec that does not involve hoodies or waterfalls of 0s and 1s has yielded a mixed bag of images to illustrate the industry's digital doings for the world's consumption.…
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