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Ah, the old lost disk scenario... Despite the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) recently slapping record megafines on British Airways and Marriott for data leakage, it's actually the UK's public sector that racked up the biggest volume of breaches in the last eight years.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T9Q7)
Disturbing omissions in 747 documentation Who, Me? We're back again with Who, Me?, The Register's Monday morning crowdsourced tale of reader misdeeds and close calls.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4T9Q9)
Plus, Kaspersky opens doors on its intelligence portal Here's your Reg roundup of security news beyond all the bits and bytes we've already covered.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4T9K7)
New language model can think in both directions, fingers crossed Google has updated its search algorithms to tap into an AI language model that is better at understanding netizens' queries than previous systems.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4T7JR)
A bird on the band is worth more than your entire research budget MegaFon, the second largest mobile phone operator in Russia, has offered to pay the messaging charges accrued by a group of cell-strapped eagles after a crowdfunding campaign raised part of the funds.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4T7BH)
Congratulations, America, the home of Clippy (and Azure) is now running the US military's IT Microsoft has been awarded the $10bn decade-long US Department of Defense JEDI IT supply contract that will see the nation's military switch to the cloud.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4T7BJ)
It's yes-way, Huawei for at least another generation Chip designer Arm says it will be able to continue licensing its blueprints to Huawei five months after it would have had to stop working with the Chinese comms equipment giant.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4T77A)
Developers! Developers! Developers! Oh, wait, that's a different company Google is still working on a much-needed and overdue revision to its Chrome Extensions platform known as Manifest v3, but extension developers complain that the ad-slinger doesn't do enough to support them.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4T6ZC)
No passwords, banking details, but enough info to convincingly phish someone Adobe has pulled offline a public-facing poorly secured Elasticsearch database containing information on 7.5 million Creative Cloud customers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T6ZE)
Release Candidate drops just in time for Microsoft's Ignite As its Florida Ignite shindig looms large, Microsoft has settled on a Release Candidate for TypeScript 3.7 ahead of an imminent launch.…
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by John Oates on (#4T6NA)
We really needed to take a look before you published The US government has gone back to court in a bid to get a summary judgment against whistleblower Edward Snowden and Macmillan – the publisher of his memoir, Permanent Record.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4T6NC)
Engine maker Pratt & Whitney says it's working on a fix Software alterations have been fingered as the cause of Airbus A220 airliner problems that led to at least three emergency landings after excessive vibration caused engines to fail, according to reports.…
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by Matthew Hughes and John Oates on (#4T6NE)
Verdict of two halves Amazon has failed to stop high-flying salesman Philip Moyer, who once flogged its cloud services to the financial services industry, from moving to Google's cloud division, although its efforts were partly upheld by a Seattle court.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T6NG)
It's 2019 and government sites still require Internet Explorer Companies using the Australian Border Force's (ABF) Integrated Cargo System (ICS) are having problems connecting to the portal using Internet Explorer.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4T6B1)
Snap-happy sorts will still support the One mobe Iconic camera company Red has upped sticks and quit the smartphone biz following the retirement of its founder Jim Jannard and mobe-fondlers' dismal reception of the firm's first effort, the Hydrogen One.…
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Never mind the AI, Hancock. I just want to turn my sodding computer on, mutters another Fancy a new job and a pay packet of upwards of £131k per year? Well, if you don't mind working with the ever-beaming Matt Hancock, the health service's newly formed digital quango, NHSX, is looking for a full-time chief technology officer.…
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by John Oates on (#4T6B5)
He's got the key, he's got the secret – allegedly Apple's head of corporate law, Gene Levoff, has been indicted on charges of (PDF) insider trading.…
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by Team Register on (#4T6B7)
Our speakers are here to help, whatever your platform Event Whatever platform you rely on for your serverless strategy, you can guarantee the speakers at Serverless Computing London will help you get the most out of it.…
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by John Oates on (#4T62W)
Finally, a government decision we can all get behind We're not getting an extra bank holiday for the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, but we will get a couple of extra hours in the pub.…
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Coverage in the back of beyond The UK's mobile operators have pledged to stump up half the cash for a £1bn "Shared Rural Network" (SRN) to tackle 4G notspots.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4T630)
Postmortem report emerges for last week's partial downtime Microsoft says last week's multi-factor authentication (MFA) partial outage, which hit its cloud-based services, was due to a dodgy network route between its servers and Apple's backend.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4T632)
All we know is hate and machinery Something for the Weekend, Sir? My pants are on fire. Would you like to take a look?…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4T634)
Also: a few surprise chips and a lot of adhesive Google's Pixel 4XL may still be wet behind its ears, but it couldn't escape the indignity of a teardown by spudger-brandishing folk at iFixit, who came away unimpressed after some tinkering with the screwdrivers.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4T5XH)
Another piece of kit for youngsters to tussle over in the form of Robo Wunderkind As the global focus on computing curricula intensifies and parents continue to push their kids towards STEM subjects in the hopes that leads to better opportunities later on in life, the proliferation of "coding kits" aimed at kids is keeping pace.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T5XK)
Everybody's gone quaffin', quaffin' USA On Call Welcome back to On Call, The Register's weekly womble into the sometimes sticky situations readers find themselves in when responding to a user's plea for help.…
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by David Gordon on (#4T5RD)
Grab your favorite browser, tune in from the comfort of your desk, cafe, bar... Promo As the workforce becomes increasingly mobile, and business applications proliferate across devices and locations, the soaring volume of internet traffic puts pressure on organisations' security systems and policies – and introduces new risks.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4T5RE)
Boffins pour, er, cold liquid on theories of melting water The mountains and ridges on Mars – which some believe are carved from melting ice – can also be formed by landslides, according to a paper published in Nature Communications on Thursday.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4T5RG)
But the damage is already done Plans to prevent UK citizens from owning .eu domains are on ice following the latest Brexit madness from the British Parliament.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4T5KE)
Profit crunch looks to carry on into the holiday season Amazon, a cloud giant with a supplementary online souk, saw a rare drop in profits in its latest financial results, published Thursday.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4T546)
Device, server... something with electricity in it, possibly, blamed by US cellular giant Some AT&T customers are locked out of their voicemails due to a buggy software upgrade.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4T51V)
And tears wraps off yet another alleged Arm killer: this time, low-power x86 Tremont cores Intel on Thursday reported $19.2bn in sales for its third quarter 2019 earnings, a quarterly record for the company.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4T4ZN)
Web giant insists 'small number' of voice-controlled gizmos killed by firmware bug Google has somehow managed to brick some of its own smart Home and Home Mini devices, leaving an unknown number completely unresponsive after an automated update.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4T4WH)
Dev may not have known code was being used for scam traffic The iOS App Store is 18 applications lighter today after the software was caught harboring malware that secretly clicked on ads, signed up punters for premium services, or deliberately overloaded websites.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4T4SK)
Amazon dismisses duo as opportunistic publicity hounds On Thursday, US Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) asked the US Federal Trade Commission to examine whether Amazon Web Services may have broken the law by renting defective servers.…
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by John Oates on (#4T4P2)
Revenue up 6% on the quarter ... down 40% on a year ago South Korean memory chip maker SK Hynix suffered a fall in profits despite a small improvement in sales during its third quarter, which ended 30 September.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4T4P3)
'More changes than any version since years' in Tor-touting OS Tails has released version 4.0 of the privacy-focused Linux distro, based on Debian 10, with numerous feature and usability improvements.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T4JZ)
Who are you and what have you done with Microsoft? As well as a fresh PowerShell peek, Microsoft sent an update of its Windows Terminal out into the world last night.…
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by John Oates on (#4T4FG)
Soft-shoe shuffle Bill McDermott is joining cloud-wrangler ServiceNow as president and CEO in the new year following his handover period at SAP.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4T4B8)
Detailed info wound up in quarantine Just one of Britain's 43 police forces treats online crime as a priority – while the Action Fraud organisation managed to withhold 9,000 so-called cyber-crime reports from cops thanks to badly configured antivirus on its reporting portal, according to a government watchdog.…
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by John Oates on (#4T4BA)
Plus a class action sueball – it's been a busy 24 hours for Indian outsourcer India-based outsourcer Infosys has confirmed it is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington, which will probe recent allegations of fiscal impropriety made by employees.…
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I'll take the National Trust and Capita for 100, Alex The National Trust, one of the UK's largest charities and beloved of many a middle-class day-tripper, has handed a £46m contract to everyone's favourite outsourcer, Capita.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4T43M)
You'll have to tag those for cross-site use from February Google is asking developers to get ready for more secure cookie settings to be implemented in Chrome 80 that is planned for release in February 2020.…
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Soz shareholders, no dividend for you Nokia – one of the so-called "Big Three" 5G kitmakers – has downgraded profit forecasts for the year and cancelled dividends, saying investments in next-generation services have not yet yielded expected returns.…
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by John Oates on (#4T403)
Remains exhumed and relocated to Madrid The remains of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco have been exhumed from the civil war monument Valle de los CaÃdos and are being transported to a cemetery just north of Madrid.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4T404)
Can it run Crysi... we mean, er, Fortnite? Yes, kids Hands On This morning, at a launch event in Amsterdam, Honor formally unveiled its latest handset: the 9X. Typically, the release of a mid-range handset from an explicitly youth-focused brand wouldn't elicit much attention from these pages, but this is different.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T3XH)
Commands in (conditional) Chains – the latest Seattle rock sensation? Preview 5 of Microsoft's PowerShell 7 dropped last night, which means that final release is lumbering ever closer.…
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by John Oates on (#4T3TG)
Shares jump by a fifth Tesla shares are up almost a fifth in after-hours trading after the 'leccy car maker posted a surprising profit for the third quarter.…
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Censor-dodging news for those sat in ban-happy countries The BBC has launched a .onion version of its news website on the Tor anonymising network aimed at readers based in countries that ban its services.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T3QZ)
Microsoft's new baby takes big step forward in servicing stakes Microsoft has made much of its return to the days when hardware could be upgraded, but it still has a little way to go – as screwdriver-botherers at iFixit appear to have discovered with the Surface Laptop 3.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4T3NN)
Plus: Its plans on the security market Elastic presented Elasticsearch for Kubernetes at an event in London this week, as well as explaining why it has acquired Endgame, an endpoint security specialist.…
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