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by Thomas Claburn on (#49ETK)
Bounty bonanza balloons and beguiles Social code storage biz GitHub, now a ward of Microsoft, on Tuesday divulged plans to make itself more attractive to hackers by flashing larger sums of cash and offering better indemnity.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49EHG)
Who do you think you are? Paris-based code botherer CAST Software said today it would buddy up with Software Heritage to tackle the sometimes tricky task of identifying the provenance of open-source code in modern projects.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#49ECY)
Newly funded firm competes with NetApp, other on-premises filers Wannabe killer of on-premises NAS boxen Nasuni has just wolfed down $25m in funding to spread its message and open up new offices.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49E85)
Spared court costs as he reveals £120-a-week income "Mr Love, you're not the victim in this. You brought this on yourself; you're the victim of your own decisions," District Judge Margot Coleman told accused hacker Lauri Love in court today as she refused to return computers seized from him by the National Crime Agency.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#49E3R)
Global sales up 4% but North America element down 25% Eugene Kaspersky's security biz saw turnover crash by a quarter in North America following the US government's decision to remove the antivirus software from federal systems.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49E3S)
Ð‘Ñ‹Ð»Ð°Ì Ð½Ðµ Ð±Ñ‹Ð»Ð°Ì Big data analytics outfit Splunk will no longer be big in Russia after the company confirmed plans to stop selling its wares there.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49E0E)
Optimised function wrangling aims to make AWS's Lambda look like a Lada Interview Israel-based serverless specialist Nuweba has slurped $4.8m of seed funding from investors keen on the company's bold claims that its tech runs at 10 times the speed of the competition.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49E0G)
We need to get our house in order first, prez tells press Samsung has launched TV ads featuring its foldable phone – but its rival chaebol isn't so keen.…
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by Richard Currie on (#49DXK)
And it's still a better love story than Twilight Conundrum. You're working on a burning trash pile of a '90s TV show and need some spooky, mysterious language to lorem ipsum into a book of supposedly occult nature. Which tongue has a suitable enough clusterfuck of vowels to make the prop look like it's about to summon Yog-Sothoth?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49DTX)
Christopher Egan has had enough of giving evidence Ill-fated British software company Autonomy's one-time US sales chief is reluctant to testify in person against former CEO Mike Lynch, the High Court in London heard yesterday morning.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49DTY)
Anyone here keen to build tool to get 'right support' for sick, disabled? The UK's Department for Work and Pensions is drawing up plans for an internal service that allows it to automate slurps of medical data on claimants to dole out health-related benefits.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49CGG)
Isn't it ironic, don't you think? It is ironic that Oracle, which normally tries to make class-action suits "disappear into arbitration", is now taking an anti-arbitration stance in a pay dispute, a judge in San Francisco said late last week.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49CCP)
If only Slack would go down too, we could get some work done Updated Microsoft's collaborative Slack-alike, Teams, is having a difficult start to the week, with users unable to log in to share their hopes, dreams and Word documents with their co-workers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49CCR)
UK Space spends £18m on internet sat tech Roundup While NASA finally gave up on the Opportunity Rover, a UK-built space harpoon was fired last week, much to the annoyance of one ex-Shuttle bigwig... and earlier today, the UK agreed to fling money at satellite tech.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49C8S)
The combined might of Reg readers can do better than SAPpy McSAPface German ERP giant SAP has finally latched on to the name-our-thing stunt commonly used to drum up interest in gritters, offering punters the chance to brand Munich's new sports arena.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49C5A)
UK court told firm wants Sushovan Hussain on stand in case he's handed jail time HPE wants Sushovan Hussain, convicted ex-CFO of infamous British software company Autonomy, to give evidence in HPE's UK lawsuit against former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch before his own potential US prison sentence.…
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by Richard Currie on (#49C2B)
How is there so much villainy wrapped up in one generation? When was the last time you appreciated a sundial? I'll give you a mo...…
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by Richard Speed on (#49C2D)
Monero? When is this – 2017? Roundup Yet more Linux love seeped into Windows 10 over the past week, while admins buffed their rings in readiness for servicing changes and miscreants crept around the Microsoft Store.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49C2F)
Second time lucky? Readers, we asked you what materials we should use to construct homebrew gadget Project Alias – which deafens smart speakers – and a whopping 40 per cent of you demanded Lego.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49BVQ)
China, Russia, Israel and the US floated as potential culprits Australia's prime minister has blamed a "sophisticated state actor" for a hack on the country's parliament and some of its prominent political parties.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49BVS)
Born in a storm of snow, killed off in a blizzard of TCP/IP: The Bulletin Board System While large chunks of the US used this year's Snowmageddon to binge on streaming TV or tweet selfies with snowmen, take a moment to remember the Great Blizzard of 1978, which led to the first Bulletin Board Service (BBS) taking to the phone lines 41 years ago.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49BVV)
Na-nana-nana-nana-nana..nanana...nanana.... nana nana* Tech titans like Facebook, itself described as a "digital gangster", continually fail to address the risks their platforms pose to democracy – so the British government should regulate, MPs have said.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49BN4)
Seems to us like you would remember an incident like that... Who, Me? Gather round, dear readers, for a priceless story in this week's column for techies' mishaps.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#49BJC)
While browsers have got their act together, any other apps interpreting user-supplied code need to be aware of this Google security researchers have analyzed the impact of the data-leaking Spectre vulnerabilities afflicting today's processor cores, and concluded software alone cannot prevent exploitation.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49BJE)
Don't panic, we're not all doomed – well, except Nvidia, perhaps Roundup Here's a summary of what's been going on in the world of machine-learning, beyond what we've already covered, to kick start your week...…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#49BF0)
Standby for a 'we woz haxx0ed' email from one of these sites this week... Roundup Let's kickstart your Monday with some lovely juicy computer security and screwups news, beyond what we reported last week.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4987P)
Revised proposals attempt to address worries over Manifest v3 API changes Google has proposed changes to its Chrome Extension renovation plan that answer some but not all of the concerns its Manifest v3 technical specification.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4985M)
And said lifeforms include us humans on Earth If you’re living in Earth's southern hemisphere, chances are you may be able to see some of the stars in a newly identified cosmic river that's flowed through the Milky Way for hundreds of millions of years.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#497X9)
Lawyers clean up after games biz settles with homeowners sick of zombie players Pokemon Go will soon let people ban its virtual pets from around their houses following a legal settlement with homeowners fed up with zombie kids.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#497XB)
'I didn’t buy a gun, I built the gun'... Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+P lands Texas man in the slammer A Texas fella banned from owning firearms is now behind bars for trying to 3D print a gun for himself.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#497RV)
Yet it's still whining that New York City didn't offer enough for HQ2 Amazon's pre-tax profits more than tripled last year to an extraordinary $11.2bn but, for a second year running, the web giant has paid not a single cent in US federal taxes.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#497G8)
Address gate criteria, conflicts of interest – then we can play Oracle is pushing America's Court of Federal Claims to rule in its favour and issue a judgment saying the Pentagon erred in its decision to offer its $10bn cloud contract to a single vendor.…
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by Richard Speed on (#497BP)
Romantic Redmondians pick 14 February to announce April go date for the code wrangler Devs seeking the perfect gift for that special someone were thrown a lifeline yesterday, with the announcement of Visual Studio 2019's launch date and a fresh preview of the development toolset.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49779)
Dead probe swinging around Ceres wins Swigert Award Less than a year after NASA's Dawn mission sent its last squawk back to Earth, the probe is to receive the Space Foundation's 2019 John L "Jack" Swigert Jr. Award for Space Exploration.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4972K)
WannaCry? You will do BBC "sister" medical drama shows Holby City and the venerable Casualty from which it sprang have announced that they are teaming up for a two-part "cyberattack special". NHS techies, stop sniggering at the back!…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4972N)
Bill Gates' bridge chum's firm buys Red Hat stock Oracle's share prices took a buffeting last night after it was revealed billionaire Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway had ditched its $2.1bn stake in Big Red.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#496XZ)
TITSUP* bank gets thumbs up from personal banking users In a baffling turn of events, more than half of IT chaos bank TSB's customers said they would recommend its online and mobile banking services – y'know, the ones that were crippled for huge chunks of last year – to friends and family.…
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by Richard Currie on (#496RD)
Not because he has anything to do with Newhaven British council halls are about the least hip places on the planet, full of fusty old folks umming and erring over whether the introduction of a Lidl branch will forever shatter the "street scene".…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#496RF)
Do you have a funky makeover horror story? We'd like to know Reg Appeal Design director Christie Lenneville tells a story that may be familiar to Reg readers. A design expert was called in to modernise some XP-era enterprise software used by call centre staff: their control panel.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#496MF)
Countries urged to consider regulating subliminal tech evil Human rights org the Council of Europe has warned that, without member states taking action, people may not be able to make decisions independently of automated systems because of sophisticated micro-targeting techniques.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#496MH)
Revs down 25% y-o-y, op profit sinks 79%. Miners? Gamers? Hyperscalers? Anyone? Guys? Bueller? You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, so found Nvidia's management team last night as they reported a pig of a quarter that saw revenues and profit crash.…
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by Richard Speed on (#496HC)
Lovely screen, shame about the price Hands On El Reg has spent some time talking Surface Studio with Mark Rowland, Microsoft's category lead for Surface UK, and we also pawed at the pricey box of tricks itself so we could give you the real skinny on what's under the hood.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#496ET)
Stop making 'sexy noises' and 'get real', conference told Blockchain-fanciers have been told to stop the "sexy noises" about its use in fintech and get real – though others remain hopeful the tech can hitch its cart to the techlash bandwagon.…
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by Richard Speed on (#496CH)
Windows 10 Insiders sent screaming into a future where, er, nothing much has changed right now Microsoft fired up the speculation machine last night by issuing a fresh build of Windows 10 to lucky skip-ahead testers: and it contains code from 2020s Windows.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#496AE)
JR Hartley is my bitch Something for the Weekend, Sir? The Ripper has returned.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49680)
It was an easy solve, says techie, once we put our heads together On Call Well done, Reg readers, you’ve once again triumphed in the battle with the 9-5 and made it to Friday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4965D)
Execs, experts hope this cooperation continues to hold for the next big bug A panel of eggheads from Intel, the US government, and academia held court this week to figure how they can keep the likes of El Reg from spoiling their next major bug reveal.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4965F)
Ex-Googler reveals study and, yes, we're lookin' at you, WordAds If the web seems slow, blame third-party advertising and analytics scripts.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4962D)
There's only been one so far, so 49 more to go Cosmologists need gravitational wave measurements from 50 binary neutron star mergers to work out just how fast our universe is really expanding, according to new research.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#495ZY)
They're dropping like flies: First Opportunity, now NASA's Van Allen craft NASA’s twin probes studying Earth’s radiation belts are in the last stages of their mission – and will end their lives by nosediving into our planet’s atmosphere, the US space agency announced Thursday.…
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