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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4QFBN)
Researchers debunk tax-fraud imposter theory Russian claims that the world's oldest-ever human on record actually had her identity stolen by her daughter have been trashed by a paper published today in The Journals of Gerontology.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4QF5S)
So much for the public deterrence value of attribution Australian snoops concluded that China was to blame for a series of hacks on its parliament and leading political parties – but kept it quiet for fear of angering the Middle Kingdom, according to reports.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4QF1J)
Oh, and you have four weeks to comply, says US antitrust probe The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has written to the big four tech giants – Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google – demanding comprehensive information on its financial structures and 10 years' worth of emails between top executives.…
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by John Oates on (#4QEX5)
New validity rules in event of no deal for Brits travelling to EU The UK Home Office will send a million text messages reminding people that the rules for travelling to the European Union will change in the event of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.…
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by John Oates on (#4QETC)
Creator denies it's a prank Blenheim Palace was forced to close its doors on Saturday following the theft of a solid-gold loo – a piece of art called "America".…
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Prepare Reg readers, it is time to enter an alternate reality where up is down, black is white and Capita is cuddly The outsourcing of government IT projects has largely worked, according to a cornflake-spluttering report by the Institute for Government.…
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COBOL: Five little letters that if put on a CV would ensure stable income for many a greybeard coder
by Richard Speed on (#4QENF)
EVALUATE COBOL-AGE WHEN 60 CONTINUE COBOL is celebrating 60 years since its specifications were signed off. Darling of Y2K consultants, the language is rapidly approaching pensionable age, but many a greybeard owes their career to it.…
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Broken ID system isn't going to track you. No one's using it! Analysis The Government Digital Service's troubled identity system Verify has been at the heart of a controversial plan to supposedly track users online in the run-up to Brexit. However, its unlikely role in Brexit preparations may be more about GDS finding an excuse to save the moribund platform than anything more sinister.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4QEGB)
A handover or handcuffs? Take your pick, eh? Who, Me? Bid farewell to the weekend and a cheery hello to work with a tale of a near-cuffing in our regular Who, Me? column.…
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by David Gordon on (#4QEGD)
AWS spills the beans Promo You know it makes sense to go to the cloud, and you know it makes sense to encrypt your data. But just what should you be encrypting - and where? And what’s the most efficient way of carrying it out, and managing your encryption strategy in the future?…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4QEDC)
... And they’re not happy Colin McDermott was surprised this week to receive an invoice from the UK’s largest domain name registrar, 123-Reg, auto-billing him £11.99 for a domain name he never ordered.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4QCXH)
Further investigation suggests she may actually have a point While Kenyan politicians discussed possible amendments to safety protocols on commercial flights this week, one delivered an impassioned plea.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4QBD5)
This year's theme was 'habits' and they were baaaaad The Annals of Improbable Research held its annual award-giving ceremony – the Ig Nobel Prize – on Thursday night at Harvard's Sanders Theatre, and the entries were as worthy as ever.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4QBAN)
Mine's a pint of oolong, please, love Researchers from the National University of Singapore have found that drinking tea regularly really is good for you, especially your brain. They say they have also discovered why.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4QB88)
Star-spangled luxury EV trips the light fantastic In the same week that the motoring industry discovered the Tesla Model 3 was the UK's third most popular car purchase, Mercedes-Benz unveiled an electric supercar at the Frankfurt Motor Show with high expectations, and probably no little relief.…
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by Gerard Thompson on (#4QAWD)
An argument in favor of a single source of truth in your organization Opinion One of the tech industry’s longest running quests is developing the notion of a single source of truth within organizations. That is, no matter who or where you are within a business, when it comes to running the numbers or making a decision, your applications are accessing the same information as everybody else internally. No out of date, duplicated, or otherwise imperfect copies.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4QANS)
It's like, how much more black could this be and the answer is none. None more black Carbon nanotubes have peculiar properties. Not only do they have the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any known substance they can also absorb the most light, making them the blackest material yet.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4QAES)
Reaches agreement with US government over Labor rights Google has agreed to settle two complaints filed with the National Labor Relations Board by former employees who claim the company fired them from engaging in lawfully protected workplace speech.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4QAB6)
Section 230 has legal eagles split over censorship Malwarebytes will have to head back to court to justify a decision to block its rival’s antivirus services after an appeals court threw out the security shop's legal justification.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4QA2R)
The future is automated, says Trend Micro bod Infosec techies should prepare to both fend off AI attacks and welcome the technology into their armoury of tools, reckons Trend Micro's director of cybercrime research.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Q9Y6)
D'ya hear that, cybercrooks? $50k up for grabs. Fire, theft, flood – and now cyber attack. Customers of a Californian biz offering payouts of up to $50,000 in case your cat videos get Wannacry’d but experts worry it could make the problem worse.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Q9KS)
Boffins spot a possible follow up to 'Oumuamua ESA scientists are studying an object that has all the hallmarks of being another entity from outside our Solar System, making it the second to be spotted after 2017's cigar-shaped interstellar comet.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4Q9KV)
Supplies no longer HP Ink's licence to, er, print money A respected Wall Street analyst has downgraded HP Inc's share rating on the back of worries that its PC division won't be able to sustain the growth numbers it has been banking, which paper over the cracks in the print supplies business.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4Q9E3)
Brewed with ice cream ... and no meat at all! Beer o'clock starts at 4pm today at Leeds-based North Brewing Co's tap room where it will be launching a sour beer that "pushes the boundaries of taste, flavour and colour".…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4Q98G)
Aye, son, I remember when this was all industrial estates... Capital equipment will outlive the working life of the engineers who service it, self-healing systems will do away with everyday maintenance, and call centres will be replaced by automated dispatch notification.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4Q945)
Rainbow Nation site was running on Magento Updated GPS and wearables maker Garmin has warned customers in South Africa that their personal info and payment data were pinched after they shopped on the shop.garmin.co.za portal.…
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Comms kit vendor in talks with videoconferencing outfit about possible joint venture Troubled telecoms provider Avaya has hit pause on plans to find a buyer amid reports it may enter into a joint venture with videoconferencing provider RingCentral instead.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Q90S)
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't let you drink that The Vultures asked, and the always creative Register readership answered. Now we have a name for Microsoft and Mackmyra's new AI-designed whisky blend.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Q8WX)
Users find PCs silenced while Microsoft looks into search fix Microsoft seems unable to catch a break with its Windows 10 updates. No sooner than it acknowledged that its CPU usage fix borked desktop search for some, users complained that the patch has also caused audio issues.…
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Now there's a surprise! The £1bn modernisation of UK courts is behind schedule due to delays with its digital programme, the National Audit Office said today.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Q8T6)
Electronics and hot drinks don't mix A Condor flight to Mexico was forced to turn back over the Atlantic after a spilled coffee caused one of its radios to start melting.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4Q8QH)
Stop asking difficult questions and stick to the script, pal Something for the Weekend, Sir? Hmm, we seem to be having a problem with this page at the moment. You might like to try again later.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#4Q8N7)
How much do I trust Mozilla with my data? You just can't keep a good idea down. At least that's what Mozilla will be hoping as it resurrects its Firefox Test Pilot programme once again.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Q8JX)
A magical journey into the brave new world of Start Menus and Recycle Bins On Call As the weekend looms, spare a thought for those unfortunates forced to, you know, deal with actual users. Perhaps buy one a beer after spending a moment with our regular On Call column.…
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by David Gordon on (#4Q8G1)
Gain the skills you need to fend off miscreants this October in the UK capital Promo The internet is full of powerful, fast-changing hacking tools and malicious actors who know how to use them. That makes the regular training events held by IT security specialist SANS Institute an essential destination for technology professionals keen to sharpen their defensive skills and protect their organisation against today’s ever-more ingenious attackers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4Q8D0)
'We've never seen it eat so much in over 20 years!' Video The behemoth black hole lurking at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy is hungrier than it's ever been, and is currently feasting on the largest meal that has ever been observed in almost a quarter of a century.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Q83K)
Blokes left in legal limbo amid electronic records audit Updated Two men hired to assess a court record system's computer security were arrested Wednesday – after they were caught physically sneaking into a courthouse.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Q815)
Bug-hunter says Cupertino won't even pay $1 reward for security hole Video Apple's very latest version of iOS appears to have the same sort of lock-screen bypass that plagued previous versions of the iThing firmware.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4Q7XQ)
But Trump Administration seemingly unbothered After months of speculation about who exactly was behind a series of eavesdropping fake cell towers in Washington DC, it appears the answer is Israel.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Q7HW)
Digital dosh scorned as a threat to national sovereignty On Thursday Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency has received a Gallic dismissal courtesy of France's finance minister.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4Q7HX)
Five nabbed over conspiracy to commit a public nuisance Five people have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police for threatening to fly drones around London’s Heathrow airport this Friday to protest climate change.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4Q7DB)
The amber DNA in Jurassic Park? That's you, that is Stamping your footprints on the Moon's surface remains an impossible bucket-list ambition for practically all of us over the age of two. But for $99 you might still be able to leave a DNA footprint there.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4Q6WX)
Thanks to social media, that's at least more transparent now... Some 42 per cent of Brit MPs reckon social media has damaged their policy-making processes, which is in turn having a negative affect on members of the public.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4Q6WY)
Will it be enough to boost Big Blue's cloud? CF Summit IBM has demonstrated Cloud Foundry running on Red Hat OpenShift, a Kubernetes (K8s) container platform, at an event in the Netherlands.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Q6P5)
Trials might be done before SpaceX's Starship hop NASA's enormous mobile launcher is back at Pad 39B after worried engineers stashed it in the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to ride out Hurricane Dorian.…
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Deloitte, PA Consulting, PwC et al making a killing from crisis "Excessive secrecy" surrounds departmental spending on Brexit consultants, though 96 per cent of the £97m spaffed to date has gone to just six firms, according to the UK government's spending watchdog.…
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BT clears throat, gestures wildly at its new full-fibre targets BT's Openreach is pausing its hybrid G.fast fibre investment as it mulls the product's future in light of its recent conversion to full fibre.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Q67T)
New shiny for Fast Ringers. Oh, and Cortana Microsoft has updated the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 to support Arm64 devices for the wafer-thin slice of Windows Insiders using the things.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4Q643)
Multicloud, Spring framework, and how K8s will become a universal API for infrastructure Interview Pivotal's current alpha release of the Pivotal Application Service (PAS) for Kubernetes has a dependency on VMware, but that will be removed in the final release, senior veep of products Ian Andrews told The Reg.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Q616)
What Mark Shuttleworth would have wanted? Updated As eagle-eyed readers may have noted, Vulture Central UK is on the move. Our migratory path has led us to London's Grays Inn Road and, well, you can see what was waiting for us.…
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