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Director's account hijacked in what biz believes to be an attempted ransomware attack GP online services app Evergreen Life has been the target of a cyber-attack attempting to access the firm's corporate email accounts.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4T3KA)
Inside 629k machines, up from 355k last year AMD is dramatically beefing up its share of PCs sold via distributors in Western Europe as Intel continues to flounder amid protracted production issues that are still limiting availability.…
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by Team Register on (#4T3HA)
The call-for-papers closes soon – and we'd love to hear from you Event The call for papers for our Continuous Lifecycle London 2020 conference closes this Friday – and we’re waiting to hear how you’ve transformed your organisation’s software development and deployment pipeline.…
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by David Gordon on (#4T3FB)
Join colleagues and peers at CloudBees' conference in Portugal this December Promo Executives, continuous delivery practitioners, and Jenkins users are set to descend on DevOps World | Jenkins World, the essential annual gathering for IT leaders wanting to learn, network, and help shape the next evolution of CloudBees Jenkins solutions for DevOps.…
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Wondering where the strontium in your old CRT monitor came from? Two colliding neutron stars show us
by Katyanna Quach on (#4T3D6)
First time heavy elements spotted in neutron star collision For the first time astroboffins have discovered strontium, a heavy element nestled near the bottom left hand side of the periodic table, being created in space by the collision of two neutron stars.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4T38K)
Nadella says 'accelerating our innovation', we say... Microsoft on Wednesday reported $33.1bn in revenue for its fiscal 2020 Q1, representing a 14 per cent increase over the same period last year, and profits of $10.7bn, up 21 per cent.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4T36H)
Who wants to stop Russians from hacking Americans' votes? Not us, thank you The US Senate on Wednesday blocked a trio of law bills that aimed to make America's elections more secure and transparent.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4T2ZT)
Quanta was the last one standing... and now kneeling HP on Tuesday won a six-year court case against suppliers that it accused of price-fixing, with a jury in Texas awarding $176m to the US computer giant.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4T2X1)
Delivery may be slow: US lawmakers, NIST still figuring it all out Assuming US lawmakers can set aside differences long enough to vote on actual legislation – not at all a foregone conclusion – users of large online communications platforms may be able to look forward better data portability and interoperability between services, eventually.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4T2T6)
Whois to become Whoisn't Like a bad horror movie in which the vampire keeps coming back from certain death, the Whois protocol – which provides information on who owns specific internet addresses – has endured far longer than anyone wanted or expected. But the final act is nigh and the wooden stake is being sharpened.…
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by John Oates on (#4T2KS)
Hey, growth is still growth Gartner analysts at its annual IT Symposium/Xpo shindig in Florida reckon IT spending is on the way up next year, despite dire predictions for the rest of this year.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4T2GT)
Move to bin? Or cancel? There are more options on this version of macOS, but it's still a PITA Users who download and attempt to run LibreOffice on the new macOS Catalina are presented with two options – "Move to bin" or "Cancel".…
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by John Oates on (#4T2CK)
The US could do more, but it's like pulling teeth The European Commission's (EC) third review of Privacy Shield – the legal fig leaf through which EU citizens' data can be sent to US companies for storage and processing – has found some improvements since last year, but deems the whole agreement as still resoundingly "adequate".…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4T2CN)
Roomba for improvement? 2,000 pascals' worth is the claim from vacuum-maker Eufy If you've ever bought a phone charger or cable from Amazon, there's a decent chance it came from Anker, a fast-growing Chinese consumer electronics firm whose products regularly occupy the top-selling spots in their respective categories.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4T28E)
Latest Java-friendly move after Amazon's Corretto OpenJDK distro Amazon has made another effort to be a good Java citizen by joining brewmasters at the Java Community Process (JCP), the group which develops specifications for the Java platform.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T24F)
Cute, says rival Slack, polishing its library of 1,800 apps and an updated developer toolkit Microsoft has released its Azure Repos app for Teams in a bid to entice developers to its collaboration platform a day after competitor Slack upgraded its app developer toolkit.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T21E)
Situation normal, says Microsoft as it runs rings round Insiders Having declared 18363.418 the final build for the Windows 10 November 2019 Update, the Windows Insider team has surprised no one at all by issuing patches ahead of release.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4T1YZ)
And rest of the world? When it comes, you'll likely need to Play Huawei for apps Almost eight months after its initial debut at Mobile World Conference, Huawei's long-awaited Mate X foldable handset finally has a launch date.…
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National Cyber Security Centre handled 658 incidents last year The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said in its annual review (here) that Russia, China, Iran and North Korea "continue to pose strategic national security threats to the UK".…
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by John Oates on (#4T1W5)
Chipzilla invokes Sherman and Clayton Acts in attempt to have contracts declared void Intel is taking legal action against a spider's web of patent holders from SoftBank-owned Fortress Investment Group and its network of subsidiaries.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T1SN)
Blue Origin and industry vets eye a slice of NASA's lunar lander largesse Richest person in the world, Jeff Bezos, yesterday pitched NASA a team mostly made up of the usual suspects to build a lunar lander for the agency's ambitious 2024 boots-on-Moon goal.…
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by John Oates on (#4T1QA)
Firm £1m in arrears with single creditor and owes HMRC £886k Documents filed at Companies House reveal the scale of Gaia Technologies' debt burden, which led a major creditor to push the Bangor-based school tech supplier into administration.…
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by John Oates on (#4T1QC)
It's a tale as old as time Epson is facing a class-action suit from disgruntled US punters sick of being told what sort of ink cartridges to put in their machines.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4T1NB)
... it's a consequence of production use of containerised apps Interview Thanks to your local DevOps team, containerised applications are heading for production environments. However, this can be the beginning of a world of hurt for storage admins.…
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by David Gordon on (#4T1JZ)
We’d love to hear from you at our Nuance-powered morning briefing Promo When it comes to voice-powered systems in the enterprise, there’s one surefire way to work out if it’s for you: talking through the benefits and challenges with a room full of your peers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4T1H4)
Creators tried to stop us looking through it. We saw a copy anyway. Now it's being scrubbed clean Special report ImageNet – a data set used to train AI systems around the world – contains photos of naked children, families on the beach, college parties, porn actresses, and more, scraped from the web to train computers without those individuals' explicit consent.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4T1CW)
We sat through this 90-minute committee hearing so you didn't have to Vid The US House Committee on Homeland Security grilled a panel of experts to understand how foreign adversaries could weaponise emerging technologies like AI and quantum computing in cybersecurity.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4T16E)
Details of military personnel and trips leak online from poorly secured AWS service A security team for review site vpnMentor, led by Israeli researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, recently found a publicly accessible AWS-hosted database owned by Autoclerk, a reservation system recently acquired by Best Western Hotels and Resorts Group.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4T13J)
Top brass beams aboard from $10bn IT brouhaha as it emerges son works for IBM The US military’s controversial JEDI cloud contract has seen another strange twist: the US Secretary of Defense has stepped back from the project as it emerged his son works for one of the bidders for the $10bn winner-takes-all deal.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4T113)
Distributed assault hampering connectivity for websites, apps, customers are warned Updated Parts of Amazon Web Services were effectively shoved off the internet today – at times breaking some customers' websites – after the cloud giant came under attack.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4T0W4)
Rather than settle and make pain just go away, project wants to send a message instead After being hit with a patent-infringement lawsuit last month, the GNOME Foundation has fired back with a counterclaim – and urged the courts to dismiss the case.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T0S3)
Yeah, it's not us Firefox turned 70 today, at least in terms of version, with an update focused on – surprise, surprise – security and privacy.…
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by John Oates on (#4T0P8)
Look what happens when you bend for Beijing Apple chief exec Tim Cook has been promoted to chairman of the board of advisors at a management and leadership university in Beijing.…
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by John Oates on (#4T0J9)
Can we at least turn the thing around before we... y'know? Japanese hotel chain HIS Group has apologised for ignoring warnings that its in-room robots were hackable to allow pervs to remotely view video footage from the devices.…
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by John Oates on (#4T0EH)
Here's how to sim that with RAM and hard drive space The esoteric world of quantum computing is all aquiver following a robust blog post from IBM essentially rubbishing claims from Google that it has achieved "quantum supremacy".…
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Well, it's more of a dash really The UK government has a cunning plan to help meet its carbon emissions targets: green number plates.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T09Q)
Javier Soltero looks forward to making a 'profound impact' on people's lives Former Cortana boss and Acompli co-founder Javier Soltero has popped up at Google to helm the G-Suite team, nearly a year after his departure from Microsoft.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T09S)
Another step towards affordable space access for Brit boffins Brit rocket outfit Reaction Engines has demonstrated its precooler chilling air in Mach 5 conditions in less than 1/20th of a second.…
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by John Oates on (#4T062)
Outlet says it's been ordered to cease trading under name Larry Ellison's database behemoth is threatening serious legal consequences for a blockchain and cryptocurrency news service called "OracleTimes".…
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by Richard Speed on (#4T064)
Any cloud you like, so long as it rhymes with bee fix hive On the eve of its FY20 Q1 earnings and with the Ignite shindig around the corner, Microsoft has announced the purchase of cloud migration outfit Mover.…
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Digitisation across primary and secondary providers is the bigger challenge Analysis Plans for a "fully paperless" National Health Service have been announced and re-announced countless times – most recently they promised we'd be paper-free "within the decade".…
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by John Oates on (#4SZYM)
Ex-Trump advisor goes through the looking glass, round the corner and down the drainpipe Steve Bannon – former Trump adviser and long-term rattler of sabres against China – has produced a piece of propaganda thinly disguised look at recent events at America's favourite bogeyman, Huawei.…
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by John Oates on (#4SZYP)
Whistleblowers claim to have email and audio evidence Infosys shares dropped almost 15 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange yesterday on news that regulators are investigating serious allegations of false accounting at the organisation.…
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Could drop further, depending on how zealously it's enforced After a boom in IT contractors over the last decade, the number of freelance techies working in the UK dropped last year in the wake of public sector off-payroll working reforms.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4SZVQ)
Users will be able to buy own licences and administrators cannot prevent it Microsoft will allow "self-service purchase and license management capabilities" for Office 365 users, initially for its Power Platform low-code services, PowerApps, PowerBI and Flow.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SZRW)
Also: ESA hopes for parachute joy, NASA veteran is put out to orbital pasture Roundup Last week the International Space Station celebrated its first all-woman spacewalk, ESA politely asked NASA for some help with parachutes and boffins said "goodnight, sweet prince" to the last Van Allen Probe.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4SZPV)
Bossman helps the poor saps who can't see the wood for the trees Canalys Channels Forum The reputation printing has built over the decades is all wrong. It is actually good for the natural world – just ask the boss of HP, the planet's largest maker of print products.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SZM1)
Admin rights needed to fire up the malware and – hey presto! Security researchers at ESET have published details of a backdoor into Microsoft's SQL Server via hooks and the splendidly named "magic passwords".…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4SZJK)
Windows code armors its arse Pointing to a five-fold increase in firmware vulnerabilities over the last three years and not saying much about the growing number of Windows vulnerabilities, Microsoft on Monday said it has been working with PC-selling and silicon-making partners to ship kit that implements protection from malicious low-level device code.…
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by David Gordon on (#4SZG5)
Join us this lunchtime with experts from Google Cloud and Trax to discuss costs, tools, and more Webcast Whether you run your business on-premises or in the cloud, you probably wish your developers and admins could deploy and manage applications without having to learn different environments and APIs every time.…
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