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by Rebecca Hill on (#4AX5T)
Lawsuit accuses Page, Brin et al of harassment cover-up Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin allegedly signed off multimillion-dollar payouts to senior execs accused of sexual misconduct, according to freshly unsealed court submissions.…
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by Team Register on (#4AX5W)
The benefits of pragmatism Promo With companies of all sizes anxious to protect themselves from the growing danger of cyberattacks, what does it take to reach a leading role in the security field?…
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by Richard Speed on (#4AX5X)
Open-source debugger takes to the stage in OS's next release Windows 10 has been tweaked to let devs enjoy the delights of DTrace while chasing down pesky bugs.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4AX0R)
Yep, over half a bill for second most-popular web server US application delivery specialist F5 Networks has bought Nginx, the company responsible for commercialising the eponymous open-source software toolkit beloved by web administrators.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4AWVN)
Tough talk as calls for evidence of China naughtiness grow Uncle Sam has reportedly threatened Germany with a reduction in intelligence sharing if it allows Huawei equipment to be installed on its 5G networks.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4AWVQ)
Windows 10 workplace and data centre refreshes come good Proof, if proof were needed, that the world is not shifting wholesale to the cloud came this morning as unashamed product reseller Computacenter reported a bumper crop – so to speak – for calendar '18.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4AWQG)
Running fancy new NVMe fabric over boring old Ethernet TCP Israeli startup Lightbits Labs has launched storage software to run NVMe over TCP with optional hardware acceleration.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4AWQJ)
Manual backup plans will be slow, burdensome and error-prone, sighs report The UK government has moved so slowly to prepare for a no-deal Brexit that backup plans for IT systems will be burdensome and more error-prone, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4AWKX)
Install. Uninstall. Boot. Repeat Microsoft has quietly updated a support document to let us know that Windows 10 will have a crack at uninstalling borked updates – just in time for patch Tuesday.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4AWKZ)
That's a lot of racks to stack The 20 largest cloud and internet providers splurged almost $120bn in capital expenditure last year with most of the funds going towards furnishing racks in their vast data centres.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4AWH3)
Govt reminded it should only care about law being observed, 'not in victory or defeat' The US government has been warned about its tone and evasiveness in a long-running suit against Oracle, with a judge describing the manner in which it tried to file another complaint in the case as "troubling".…
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by Richard Speed on (#4AWEB)
Plus: C# editor for Mac fans, Chredge browser news, and more Roundup New builds, new cadence, new code editors and a new browser (for some) defined much of last week at Microsoft.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4AWBB)
What did you think we meant? Astronomers have discovered the closest and most massive binary star pair yet to Earth, according to the latest research.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4AW15)
This is not a split, insists rent-a-server biz, but time will tell In an effort to keep code for the Elasticsearch project untainted by proprietary bits, Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday released a downstream distribution called Open Distro for Elasticsearch that the company promises is "100 per cent open source" under the Apache 2.0 license.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4AVYT)
Victim says she woke to feel dial-a-ride creep groping her in back seat, phone missing An Uber driver has admitted kidnapping and wire fraud charges after he drove a sleeping passenger at least 60 miles from her destination in order to, seemingly, increase his fare.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4AVRQ)
Talk about thinking outside the Box... File silos just like poorly secured AWS S3 buckets Various Box Enterprise customers have inadvertently shared, and probably still are sharing, sensitive corporate data on the public internet. And that included Box itself.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4AVN2)
By coincidence Chocolate Factory pulls Canberra drone trial Video Google has just completed a year-long test program for a drone delivery system in Australia – and has applied to launch the world's first commercial delivery drone operation this summer, Down Under. However, the locals aren't pleased.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4AVGV)
Servers-for-hire shop takes nap for repairs Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has been under the weather today, failing to respond to developers for several hours and counting.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4AVD0)
Dystopian forced pregnancy scenarios likely a figment of Western media biases An unprotected MongoDB database of 1.8 million women in China has been taken offline after drawing media attention for the inclusion of a data field designating whether the women are "BreedReady."…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4AV83)
Software may have played a grim role in both fatal accidents China has grounded all Boeing 737 Max 8s on its civil aircraft register after one of the US-made airliners crashed yesterday near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Operators in other countries, including South Africa and Thailand, have followed suit.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ATY1)
Inspectors not happy with stagnant security practices NASA's Office of the Inspector General has once again concluded the American space agency's tech security practices are "not consistently implemented".…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ATS2)
Infosec skills are useful. But so are locked doors Journalists were able to bimble into a UK cable landing station almost completely unchallenged after security gates were left open and unlocked.…
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Small Brit firms beg for 'light touch' as only half are ready for digital tax reforms due next month
by Rebecca Hill on (#4ATM1)
We also have Brexit to be utterly unprepared for, yo A half of VAT-registered small biz don't have the software needed to comply with the British government's digital tax reforms - due for launch next month - with each facing bills of almost £600 to bring it in.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4ATM2)
Consolidation in the chip industry as the geepie giant eyes new markets GPU giant Nvidia is to cough $6.9bn for chipmaker Mellanox, known for its data centre networking kit and InfiniBand interconnect tech widely used in HPC.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4ATFF)
He was landing. Marsupials have not yet developed flight As if we needed another reminder that everything in Australia wants to kill you, the ongoing turf war between kangaroos and people has claimed another victim.…
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by Team Register on (#4ATFH)
Start by snapping up a CLL19 early bird ticket today There’s just a few days left to grab your early bird tickets for Continuous Lifecycle, and join us in May for three days of serverless, containers, CI/CD and DevOps.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ATFJ)
Moxa boxes caught using plain text passwords and insecure web apps Bug hunters have discovered yet another set of flaws in industrial control systems used by electric utilities, oil and gas companies, and shipping and transportation providers.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4ATAY)
Oh, compute, not commute. Got it. Version 1.0 of spec ratified, available shortly Big-name tech companies will together unveil yet another interconnect, this one dubbed Compute Express Link or CXL, which is aimed at plugging data-center CPUs into accelerator chips.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ATB0)
Put away the glue and duct tape, and luxuriate in virtualised goodness A funny thing has happened on the way to 19H1: an Azure OS kernel engineer tweaked Windows 10 to make the operating system considerably more KVM-friendly.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4AT7G)
All fine now, insists telco after Total Inability ToTalkTalk to Server Upsets Pipex peeps* TalkTalk is back in the spotlight over its email services after ageing Pipex mail addresses stopped working abruptly on Saturday.…
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UK Ministry of Fun seeks deputy director for IT as it edges away from Cabinet Office shared services
by Rebecca Hill on (#4AT7J)
DCMS wants to quintuple in-house IT staffers... that'll take it to 10 The Ministry of Fun is creating a position for a deputy director of IT to expand the department’s internal tech team and wean itself off the Cabinet Office’s shared services programme.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4AT4V)
GPU powerhouse reportedly throws down $7bn for networker Ethernet and InfiniBand networker Mellanox has reportedly received a $7bn acquisition bid from GPU powerhouse Nvidia.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4AT2M)
Industry and free software folk alike condemn proposals EU plans to ban the sale of user-moddable radio frequency devices – like phones and routers – have provoked widespread condemnation from across the political bloc.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4AT0Z)
Businesses slow to detect, report data leaks pre-GDPR Businesses waited an average of three weeks after discovering a data breach to report it to the watchdog before GDPR came into force, with many waiting until the end of week to 'fess up.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4ASZB)
Techie's 'oops' moment goes unnoticed due to massive bills Who, Me? Our warmest of wishes to you all on this fine Monday. Let us provide you with some of El Reg’s finest word sustenance, with this week’s Who, Me?…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ASXT)
BS as in 'behavior sequenced', or 'bland speech'... If you were terrified by the news that "Elon Musk-backed scientists created an AI text generator that was too dangerous to release" then here’s something that may soothe your fears.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ASW1)
Boffins find pros-for-hire no better at writing secure code than compsci beginners Freelance developers hired to implement password-based security systems do so about as effectively as computer science students, which is to say not very well at all.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ARRB)
...and AI worker quits over killer robot plans Roundup Hello, here's a quick recap on all the latest AI-related news beyond what we've already reported this week.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ARFS)
And they may be injected into your body one day Video Millions of tiny moving robots, each as small as the width of an average human hair, can be crafted from a four-inch silicon wafer, according to new research.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4APS6)
Tired: Booth babes. Wired: Floof babes. Expired: Conference hall carpets Roundup This week we had an NSA reverse-engineering toolkit released at the RSA Conference, a buffer bashed aboard British Airways, big trouble brewing for Citrix, plus much more.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4APAH)
Sum of a ditch! Bloke demands $75,000 after road prang Installing broadband fiber is a complex and expensive activity, though it may have got a little bit more so, for Google at least, following a lawsuit in America.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4AP7A)
Another quango? Really? 'It's deliberately not that,' says Lord The world's tech titans have been warned that none are too big nor too international to be regulated on UK soil – though, Blighty's government must stop taking a piecemeal approach and ensure existing laws are effectively enforced.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4AP1M)
'They’ve bulldozed rivals, used our private info for profit' ... yes, yes, but could she actually tackle giants as prez? Analysis US presidential contender Elizabeth Warren has vowed that if elected she would break up Amazon, Google, and Facebook, accusing the internet giants of abusing their market power.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4AP1P)
'This is a gigantic amalgamation of data all in one place' expert tells El Reg An unprotected MongoDB database belonging to a marketing tech company exposed up to 809 million email addresses, phone numbers, business leads, and bits of personal information to the public internet, it emerged yesterday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ANN1)
Remote-desktop giant 'among more than 200 govt agencies, oil, gas, tech corps' hit by gang Updated Citrix today warned its customers that foreign hackers romped through its internal company network and stole corporate secrets.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ANGR)
3D glasses required... or you can try squinting at the screen The New Horizons scientists have released a fresh 3D image of the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 – also known as Ultima Thule.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ANBK)
Canonical will keep Trusty Tahr fixes flowing... for a fee Canonical has made good on its promise to keep on patching the venerable 14.04 Long Term Support (LTS) version of the Ubuntu operating system as it emitted updated installation media.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4AN6V)
Latest storage tracker's out The latest quarterly storage systems tracker from industry analyst IDC revealed that hyperconverged uptake did not dent SAN and filer sales, although overall revenue for the sector saw a decent uptick.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4AN1Y)
And you don't need to know what we're spending your billions on. Got that? The British government has rejected Parliamentary calls for greater ministerial control over the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), an arm of secretive spy agency GCHQ.…
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by Robin Birtstone on (#4AN20)
...As NetApp is all too happy to explain Sponsored AI is perhaps more important to the financial services sector than any other. As an industry built on data, where the right information at the right time can potentially make or lose millions, any extra analytical edge that a bank, insurance or investment company can gain is highly valuable.…
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