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by Richard Speed on (#4RGPR)
Place to be for multi-session Windows 10 and life support for Windows 7 Microsoft has released Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) while reminding users that Windows 7 is inching ever closer to the end of support.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4RGJA)
Look, it's CB3ROB – remember them? Cops have seized the physical premises and servers of the Dutch-German ISP that once hosted The Pirate Bay – after storming the hosting biz's ex-NATO bunker hideout with 600 gunmen.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4RGDQ)
Cryptocoin from selling hacking services, ppldeets online helps fund crimefighters British cops have raised £240,000 in their first ever UK-based auction of cryptocurrencies understood to have been seized from former TalkTalk hacker Elliot Gunton , who'd "earned" it selling hacking services and flogging people's stolen personal details online.…
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by John Oates on (#4RG96)
Survey warns of 'brain drain' A survey of UK freelancers has found that changes to IR35 tax rules mean some are considering moving to another client if their current client tries to push them into a permanent position.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4RG98)
Microsoft's motion for summary judgement granted Gears of War's Augustus "Cole Train" Cole is not Lenwood "Hard Rock" Hamilton, according to a Pennsylvania federal court.…
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by John Oates on (#4RG5S)
Asics confirms it was hacked A New Zealand plimsoll emporium has apologised for inadvertently playing smut on its promo screens for nine hours over the weekend.…
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by John Oates on (#4RG1P)
One day you may find yourself having to impress software A US firm is flogging facial-expression software to analyse job candidates' performance in video interviews and make initial selections for companies including Unilever.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4RG1Q)
Also: Azure, SQL Server and keeping the Windows 2008 R2 lights on Roundup As the faithful attempted to stir up excitement for this week's hardware event, Microsoft has continued its efforts to ship the next version of Windows while also flinging out updates for Azure and SQL Server.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4RFYX)
Mars, Moon and shiny steel is all well and good. But how about sending a crew to the ISS without anything exploding, hmm? SpaceX CEO Elon Musk braved the wind to give the faithful an update on the progress of the Starship and Super Heavy program from the company's Boca Chica facility in Texas.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4RFWW)
Also, is AI as good as doctors? Roundup Let's catch you up on recent AI news happenings.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4RFTP)
Which cost Lake District land seller £25,000 Your work email signature block can be used to form a binding and legal contract, the Manchester County Court has ruled – costing an unfortunate land seller £25,000 from her hoped-for sale price.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4RFTQ)
When boot messages go bad Who, Me? Welcome to The Register's weekly leap into the guilty, and not-so-guilty confessions of readers in our Who, Me? column.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4RFRD)
Plus, Baltimore's disastrous ransomware infection and worse IT practices Roundup Let's look at some of the latest security news you may have missed this week.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4RFP7)
Meanwhile: Trustworthy Accountability Group CEO dismisses ax-grinding critics Special report The Trustworthy Accountability Group, or TAG, was formed in 2015 to "eradicate digital advertising fraud, malware, ad-supported piracy, and to increase transparency across the digital advertising supply chain."…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4RFKZ)
The giant group of 12 galaxies formed when the universe was just 800 million years old The oldest protocluster of galaxies found to date began clumping together some 13 billion years ago, when the universe was just 6 per cent of its current age.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4RCEX)
El Reg brings you the hall of shame A bank paid a rapacious reseller more than £40 for a two-metre Ethernet cable that cost just 32 pence at trade price or retailed for £4 on a popular online store, in the latest survey of UK margin mugging.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4RC9Q)
But that didn't stop them arresting him for being drunk We all like to think that we generally try to do the right thing. However, sometimes doing the right thing is not doing anything at all.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4RBY3)
Ohm my God On Friday Oracle said it had invested $40m in Ampere Computing, a designer of 64-bit Arm server-class processors, run by Renée James, who coincidentally also holds a seat on Oracle's board of directors.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4RBS8)
Coder claims iThings older than two years can be unlocked from Apple's clutches A programmer claims to have found a way to execute arbitrary code on recent-ish iPhones and iPads, paving the way for full-blown tethered jailbreaks.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4RBK2)
Fragrance Direct discovers 'malicious code' that led to leakage of customer data Online merchant fragrancedirect.co.uk has confirmed a miscreant broke into its systems and made off with a raft of customers’ personal data, including payment card details.…
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by John Oates on (#4RBAQ)
Financial specialist picks up part of Big Blue that eyes up quants' models, trades and more Financial specialist SS&C is buying a bunch of IBM's risk algorithm assets as Big Blue continues to offload areas of the business it deems to be non-core.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4RB5Y)
Bigger case means we can use even more glue! Apple's new iPad is a magical machine, able to take a user back to 2016, the year of the iPhone 7. Screwdriver demons iFixit have ripped one apart to find out just how retro the thing really is.…
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by John Oates on (#4RB13)
Reg greybeards (whispered, stage left): We remember Google is celebrating its 21st birthday today – old enough to buy its own celebratory pint in many states in the US.…
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Now we're really scared Amazon is drafting proposals for the regulation of facial recognition technology.…
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But are landlords going to care about a template agreement? UK mobile networks could be able to shove their kit on more of the capital's rooftops following a draft agreement put together by the Mayor of London's office.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4RANP)
No new arrests, no idea what happened Sussex Police still have no clue what happened during the Gatwick drone fiasco of Christmas 2018 – though the force now claims witnesses saw two small unmanned craft over the London airport during its 30-hour shutdown.…
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by John Oates on (#4RAH2)
No word on rugby fans or armrest-hoggers Japan Airlines is reportedly adding a baby symbol to its online seat booking system, allowing passengers to pick a seat according to possible noise levels.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4RAC4)
But says customers at last chowing through memory stockpile Micron's revenues for its Q4 were dramatically affected by the US trade dispute with China – and Huawei in particular - as well as larger stockpiling and trade uncertainties.…
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by John Oates on (#4RAC5)
Cheer up, it might never happen. But it probably will Employee confidence in the UK has fallen for the third consecutive quarter and the number of workers actively looking for new jobs is down 8 per cent as people hunker down for the perceived storms ahead.…
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*grumble* Coming over here... hogging our internets *groan* Cisco has begun live trials of its OpenRoaming technology on the Orkney islands off the north coast of Scotland, intended to allow people to move more easily between Wi-Fi hotspots.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4RA84)
Oh, and there wasn't a refund policy until folk complained The AI hysteria has led to a rash of budding engineers hoping to land a cushy job somewhere in Silicon Valley.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4RA4Q)
Ghost ship intrigue in Return of the Obra Dinn, border bureaucracy in Papers, Please The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games. Five months in, the column has left me wondering why I've burned so many of my hard-earned Register tokens on stuffing my rig with powerful hardware. Darkest Dungeon is a 2D, side-scrolling roguelike and Kenshi's graphics are straight out of 2009 – neither take a high-end machine to run and enjoy but, sure, it helps.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4RA4S)
You Steer-ed into some potential trouble there Exclusive A British firm whose mobile apps monitor the mental state of 35,000 British schoolchildren is having to rewrite them after researchers found hardcoded login credentials within.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4RA1X)
Making sense of Microsoft's dev tool family Hands On Microsoft this week opened the gates on Visual Studio for Mac 2019 8.3, a flexible development environment for .NET, and The Reg can give you the lowdown on some of the new features.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4RA1Z)
Some people just like to take the p*ss Something for the Weekend, Sir? Excuse me while I have another slash. Aaaaaah, that's better.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4R9Z3)
The Reg fingers a pair of €5k sluggers from the land of clogs Oculus may be bringing hand tracking to the Quest, its standalone virtual reality (VR) platform, but haptic feedback is really where things are at.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4R9X7)
That time when a professional turned out to be somewhat amateur On Call Friday! At last! And with Friday comes the promise of the weekend and the reality of The Register's weekly dip into the big bag of On Call experiences.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4R9RH)
Microsoft gazes forlornly at the halcyon days of 2018, before that release happened Ad slingers AdDuplex celebrated the impending release of Windows 10 19H2 by reporting that, yup, the 10 May 2019 Update is quietly doing the business for Microsoft.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4R9NW)
Back to the drawing board folks A gas giant orbiting a tiny red dwarf star thirty light years away has left astronomers baffled because it's not supposed to exist, according to a study published in Science on Thursday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4R9D3)
You gotta fight for your right to paaaartake in a legal process to inform folks of snoop orders When it comes to valiant defenders of the people from American spies there are many names that spring to mind. Microsoft is perhaps not typically one of them – though Redmond, if you had forgotten, is still battling the US government in a fight over cloud subscriber privacy.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4R99P)
Profile info on 5 million users, including ordering history, hashed passwords, plus driver records, exposed to miscreants Gig-economy delivery app maker DoorDash is so, so sorry this Thursday after hackers gained access to nearly five million of its customer accounts.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4R956)
DEF CON dossier reveals: You are not as secure as you imagine The Unites States' electronic ballot boxes are as vulnerable as ever to physical tampering by hackers. So says this year's DEF CON Voting Village Report, which summarizes the findings of infosec experts who picked apart the various vote-casting computer systems in use today by cities and counties around the country.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4R958)
Finally, something actually exciting happening with this mobile broadband tech For over a year, savvy journalists and policymakers have been refusing to swallow the hype around 5G, aka ultra-fast mobile broadband, pointing out some unwelcome realities about the technology.…
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by David Gordon on (#4R93N)
And, crucially, how you can thwart these next-gen miscreants and protect your org Webcast We all know there are miscreants out there looking to break into our computer systems and steal our data – we even know how it's done.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4R93Q)
'Me encanta América... huh, so you're a terrorist?!' Google recommends that anyone using its translation technology add a disclaimer that translated text may not be accurate.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4R918)
President facing impeachment probe, Brexit off the rails... but more importantly, your Dunkies account was potentially pwned The US state of New York is suing food chain Dunkin Donuts for what is says is an illegal lapse in computer security.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4R8RY)
New, faster protocol becomes a reality The latest iteration of the ubiquitous HTTP internet protocol - version 3 - has hit the web.…
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by John Oates on (#4R8S0)
San Francisco copper learns the hard way A police chase came to an untimely end this week when the officer in pursuit realised his Tesla S was about to run out of juice.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4R8KT)
'We understand the concerns' says Dropbox (not enough to change how it works, though) A security engineer has complained that a feature of Dropbox Paper, a document collaboration tool, leaks email addresses by design.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4R8EC)
Chaos merchant's failure-as-a-service tests system resilience Chaos-engineering company Gremlin has launched Scenarios – "templates of real-world outages" that make it easier to wreck your applications.…
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