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by Richard Speed on (#4JC0G)
Parachutes not included as the Launch Abort System gets a work-out NASA completed the Ascent Abort-2 test of its Orion spacecraft today, deliberately crashing a test version of the capsule into the ocean after successfully demonstrating the Launch Abort System (LAS) would do its thing.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4JBVA)
Excuse us, we mean 'Jasmine Development' Google has started building a new hyperscale data centre in Henderson, Nevada, expected to cost a cool $600m.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4JBPD)
It's a virtualized world and everyone's welcome. Even Citrix and VMware Microsoft's newly acquired FSLogix has been tasked with upping the speed of Office 365 ProPlus in virtual environments, including those of rivals Citrix and VMWare.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4JBJD)
Complains attraction was rigged We'd do anything for the fruit of our loins – like buying them not one, but two train sets at Pecorama and almost instantly regretting it – but a doting mum from Folkestone, Kent, has really taken the biscuit after shoving a hundred quid into an allegedly rigged claw machine.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4JBFA)
Also, happy Asteroid Day! Let's party like it's 1908 Roundup Beyond the crowd-pleasing Falcon Heavy landing antics there were other adventures in space last week that you might have missed.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4JBDC)
Another vendor mounts the crossbars South Korean DRAM and NAND fabber SK Hynix has been developing storage-class memory that will compete with 3D XPoint and which The Register understands is currently under R&D process.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4JBB5)
Mysteriously missing update finally arrives in preview form. World shrugs The next version of Windows 10, aka 19H2, finally arrived in the hands of testers last night to a collective "meh".…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4JB9M)
Static display jet last ran in 1983 Feature What do you do when your jet-powered speedboat restoration project grinds to a halt because of bureaucracy? Obviously, you find yourself a convenient Vulcan bomber and start restoring the engines to running condition, as the Bluebird Project is currently doing.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4JB7Q)
Forget about past technical decisions made by fiat, this time your thoughts matter Google on Monday released its robots.txt parsing and matching library as open source in the hope of its now public code will help encourage web developers to agree on a standard way to spell out the proper etiquette for web crawlers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4JB5A)
Stop, hammer time NASA engineers are trying to fix an instrument on the Mars Insight lander that was supposed to burrow five metres (16 feet) into the Red Planet's surface – and has instead tapped out at just 30 centimetres (one foot.)…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4JB2Z)
Sammy tries to slurp some of those app developer dollars Maintaining Bixby's reputation for being late and underwhelming, Samsung's digital assistant has finally got its own marketplace.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4JAX4)
This genie is definitely not going back in the bottle From the department of closing the barn door after the horse has warped away at light speed, comes this latest news. Although the creators of DeepNude have torn down their slimy software that removes clothes from women in photos, the code continues to spread all over the internet.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4JARY)
Patch, punch, it's the first of the month Google today posted a fresh round of Android security fixes.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4JAP3)
Miscreants grabbed sensitive footage belonging to officers in Miami, elsewhere, it is feared In yet another example of absent security controls, troves of police body camera footage were left open to the world for anyone to siphon off, according to an infosec biz.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4JAKC)
Postal package triggered test equipment, buildings evacuated, no one exposed Staff were evacuated today at Facebook's Silicon Valley headquarters after a package believed to contain the chemical weapon sarin was delivered to the antisocial network.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4JAGC)
Concerns snubbed as DNS overlord signs secretive deal, paves way for $$$ increases The price caps have been taken off .org domains, meaning that more than 10 million largely non-profit organizations will end up paying more for their online presence each year.…
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by John Oates on (#4JA83)
Move believed to be response to Seoul's stance on forced labour during WW2 Just a day after the G20 free trade summit ended, Japan has restricted exports of some mobile phone components to South Korea.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4JA85)
Data centre joint venture bankrolled by Singapore sets its sights on Europe Colocation giant Equinix is about to test a new business model - the company has entered a joint venture to build bit barns specifically for hyperscale customers.…
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by John Oates on (#4JA45)
Wikipedia co-founder calls for strike against Facebook et al The other Wikipedia co-founder has called for a 48-hour boycott of all social media platforms to demonstrate users' desire to regain control of their data and privacy.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4J9YX)
Another step towards self-reliance amid US trade tiff China-owned semiconductor giant Tsinghua Unigroup, which already manufactures flash memory, is about to try its luck at making DRAM – a much more complicated endeavour.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4J9T4)
Don't forget to swing by the nearest recycling bin Another milestone was reached today in the long, drawn-out death of Windows Phone: Microsoft has stopped distributing app updates to the dozen or so Windows Phone 8.x devices not already consigned to the recyclers.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4J9P1)
Says bye to Big Blue Infosec veteran Bruce Schneier has said he'll step down as a "special advisor" to IBM's security business to, in part, focus his time on teaching the next generation of security pros.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4J9HH)
Also: It wasn't only the toilets that were whiffy at Glastonbury last weekend Roundup Microsoft's future might be Chromium Edge, machine learning and Azure, but there was no escaping the Ghost of Windows Past this week.…
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by John Oates on (#4J9D6)
Case heads to Federal Claims Court in a little over a week Ahead of its first day in Federal Claims Court in Washington, Oracle has made a filing outlining its position against the Pentagon's award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract to Amazon Web Services.…
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by John Oates on (#4J9D8)
'Thou shalt not flame El Reg' not among them, sadly* The Archbishop of Canterbury has used a Facebook Live interview to launch a "digital charter" to provide guidelines for how Anglicans should use social media.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4J98X)
Staff twitchy about new corporate shell, but it's just serving a Suisse role, says firm DXC Technology has said it incorporated CXD Infrastructure Solutions to house a data centre asset acquired under a co-location agreement with Credit Suisse, and not - as many staff fear - to offload legacy ops.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4J98Y)
Launching every two weeks? Sure, so long as your satellites keep off the lard After a few days of frustration for small-sat flingers, Rocket Lab, the company's Electron rocket finally left its New Zealand launch-pad over the weekend.…
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by John Oates on (#4J960)
Can we get a translator in here? President Donald Trump said he plans to revoke the ban, or, er, grant some licences to American companies supplying components and services to Chinese telecoms giant Huawei.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4J93B)
Your quick guide to what's been happening in machine-learning world Roundup Here's your rapid-fire summary of AI-related news beyond what we've already covered lately.…
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Did someone say ID cards? Former British prime minister Tony Blair has once again stuck his head above the parapet - this time to call for "a proper identity system in the UK" to underpin digital government.…
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It's not me, it's you: 'Breaking up has never been easier' Fed up mobile customers can finally dump their providers by text from today, under new rules from Blighty's comms regulator, Ofcom.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4J8YR)
Terminate and do what? Who, me? Monday is here, and with it comes another tale of student hijinks in the computer room courtesy of our not-feeling-that-guilty Register readers in our weekly Who, Me? feature.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4J8T4)
We'll be over there bashing our head on the wall while you read this Roundup As June turns over to July, here are some additional bits of security news besides our regular infosec coverage.…
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by David Gordon on (#4J8RB)
Podcast series tackles hot topics from phishing and privacy to cloud services Promo Get up to speed with everything you need to know about keeping yourself and your business safe on the web, social media, and the cloud, without having to leave your desk, during the Sophos Security SOS Week from 8-12 July.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4J5YQ)
Seventeen years after Kylix, Embarcardero adds a complete Linux toolchain to Delphi Hands On Texas software house Embarcadero Technologies has said it will license FmxLinux for Delphi, allowing developers to compile desktop applications for 64-bit Linux.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4J5MR)
Getting dodgy batteries fixed can take up to THREE weeks As Apple's MacBook Pro recall is entering its second week, new details are starting to emerge about the extent of the danger posed by its notebook batteries – and just how irritating the repair process is proving to be.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4J5J9)
And sticking those stamps on packages, intercepted by the Feds, it is claimed Two suspected dark-web dealers allegedly shipped tens of thousands of meth packages across America using postage stamps... that could be traced to one of their home addresses.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4J5FP)
Not a particularly sweet ending to the week Health implant maker MedTronic is recalling some of its insulin pumps following the discovery of security vulnerabilities in the equipment that can be exploited over the air to hijack them.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4J5CF)
Rap for crap yakety-yak app chaps as chats zapped in hours-long nap Well, it's official: the weekend starts here.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4J58R)
Surrender your privacy if you don't want to be turned away as software Analysis Google's reCAPTCHA v3 system, designed to separate people from bots during website interactions, is more likely to give you the benefit of the doubt as a human if you happen to be signed in to your Google Account – and is more likely to deem you dubious if you're trying to protect your privacy, recent research suggests.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4J58T)
The major problem with anti-piracy DRM, part 1024 If you bought an ebook through Microsoft's online store, now's the time to give it a read, or reread, because it will stop working early July.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4J54H)
But just imagine Stuxnet: Consumer Edition Comment Iran claims that recent surges in electricity demand, leading to blackouts and brownouts, were caused by too many cryptocurrency miners’ power-hungry machines being hooked up to the national grid – though all may not be as it seems.…
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by John Oates on (#4J526)
Claims more than 200k Italians had data harvested after just 57 downloaded app The Italian data protection regulator has fined Facebook a cool €1m for alleged privacy offences connected to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4J4XJ)
Yeah - because hardware is better these days, we're going to need to charge you more. Much, much more... cPanel has dropped a bombshell on its customers with a price hike for its services that has left some running for the door marked exit.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4J4RK)
Western Digital 'fesses up to taking 6 exabyte hit, Toshiba still mum A power failure in Yokkaichi, Japan, has thrown Toshiba and Western Digital’s flash supply into chaos – and will have a significant knock-on effect on global supplies, say analysts.…
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by John Oates on (#4J4K9)
Massively devalued pound anyone? Oh, no... we'll draw post Brexit punters in with big data Yep-she's-still-the-UK-Prime-Minister Theresa May took time off from packing today to launch a strategy to increase tourist visitors to the fair islands.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4J4EG)
Popular smart bulbs get an interesting upgrade Philips is getting rid of the need for a specialized and proprietary hub in the latest version of its Hue smart bulbs, indicating that the days of conflicting and confusing smart home products may finally be coming to an end.…
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by John Oates on (#4J4EJ)
Not the murdery gangsters, a pair of together-forever gay penguins Microsoft isn't the only one hobnobbing with penguins this week. Visitors signing up for an evening tour of London Zoo next week will find it has had a few tweaks to celebrate Gay Pride month.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4J49X)
Next-gen 24GHz cellular broadband roll-out stalls amid 'personal animosity' claims Special report A growing inter-agency row over America's use of particular radio frequency bands for 5G phones has burst into the open – with a senior US Department of Commerce adviser fingered as the main source of problems.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4J466)
Buy our networking gear and get rid of vaping. Think of the children! Comment From the department of "Just what can't IoT do?" comes plans from Ruckus to both aid digital learning while also stamping out vaping.…
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