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by Richard Speed on (#4PEZ8)
Spoiler: Yes, it was SpaceX's Starlink The European Space Agency (ESA) accomplished a first today: moving one of its satellites away from a potential collision with a "mega constellation".…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4PER0)
Get your grandparents to book with someone else Teletext Holidays managed to leave more than 200,000 customer phone call recordings exposed on an unsecured AWS server, according to reports.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4PEKY)
Also: Second time lucky for Russia and onward to Mars for ESA (via Toulouse) Roundup As NASA nervously eyed Hurricane Dorian, Roscosmos finally persuaded Soyuz MS-14 to dock with the ISS and India's Chandrayaan-2 enjoyed an amicable separation above the Moon.…
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by John Oates on (#4PEFR)
S'OK though, network promises to fix 'as quickly as possible' Virgin Mobile customers are struggling to get new SIM cards to work or be recognised by the network, leaving them unable to make or receive calls or use data services.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4PECQ)
Walled-garden Android platform security easily copied Facebook has insisted that losing control of the private key used to sign its Facebook Basics app is no biggie despite totally unrelated apps from other vendors, signed with the same key, popping up in unofficial repositories.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4PE9Z)
Got a Series 2 or 3 in aluminium with a borked screen? Things might be looking up for you Good news for owners of certain Apple Watches – the vendor has initiated a free-of-charge repair service for those afflicted with a design defect that can cause the screen to crack.…
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by John Oates on (#4PE7G)
Job sharing, part-time work rights for contractors too The UK's Trades Union Congress (TUC) is backing a campaign to extend flexible working rights to everyone from their first day in the job regardless of the type of contract they sign.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4PE54)
Also: Hololens 2 peekaboo and the not-so-mysterious decline of 1803 Roundup Feeling a little befuddled and out of sorts as your summer holiday comes to an end? That's nothing compared to confusion spilling from the Windows Insider team in this week's roundup of Microsoft news.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4PE37)
What will $165m buy? Brands, ops, workers, IP, channel stocks and OEM deals Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation (TMHC) is buying LITE-ON's SSD business for $165m.…
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Apple unlocks NFC chip just in time for Brexit EU citizens living in the UK will finally be able to use the settled status app on iPhones from October - the same month the UK is due to leave the European Union.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4PDZ8)
Always check the roof – you never know what might (not) be lurking there Who, Me? August is now just a memory, but hey – console yourself that Christmas is just around the corner. Or simply grab a caffeinated Monday beverage and take delight in another's pain courtesy of The Register's regular Who, Me? column.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4PDX4)
It's all the AI news you might have missed Roundup Hello, here's a quick roundup of news from the world of machine learning.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4PB50)
Plus a Cisco bug, dentists bitten by malware, and France takes down a worm Roundup This week ended with a bang, thanks to some Twitter hackers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4PAMQ)
Cryptocurrency crooks look to siphon cycles from enterprise kit Exclusive A coin-mining malware infection previously only seen on Arm-powered IoT devices has made the jump to Intel systems.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4PAHT)
Effort to help fund open source projects proves too much Software developer Feross Aboukhadijeh has decided to discontinue a funding experiment that brought text ads to the command line and criticism from detractors.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4PAER)
First world problems, with a big scoop of utter stupidity Shock, horror: Young men, who are either drunk, high or both are more likely to get into electric scooter accidents, according to a new study.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4PAET)
We love our employees, sorry, contractors, so much we’ll spend a small fortune stopping them from getting overtime, workers’ comp etc Gig-economy giants Uber, Lyft and Doordash have put $30m apiece into a new fund to push a new California ballot measure that would prevent their workers get ordinary benefits like a minimum wage, overtime, workers’ compensation and so on.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4PA6P)
And another $262,000 to figure out who he was A former Tesla employee who leaked information about its production problems cost the electric car biz $167m, Musk's crew claims.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4PA1V)
Channel partners flying customers for holidays in Russia and China, that's fine! Juniper Networks has agreed to pay $11.7m in penalties to the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) to settle charges that its subsidiaries violated bribery laws by paying for trips taken by customers and foreign officials in Russia and China.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4PA1W)
Project Zero dissects years-long surveillance campaign Updated Google's Project Zero says more than a dozen iOS flaws that Apple patched back in February had been under attack for years.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P9S3)
And they're imposing a 20-character limit on new ones Users of software house Foxit's free and paid-for products, including its popular PhantomPDF editor, may have fallen victim to a data breach – with stolen data including users' website passwords.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4P9MH)
Computers bring home the bacon for US biz in Q2 Good old fashioned sales of business PCs is keeping growth at Dell Technologies chugging along, more than compensating for crappy sales of server and networking gear.…
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Tunnels, bridges, lights and other route constipation hardness to be eased by laxative of software goodness Transport for London (TfL) has signed a £6.5m deal for a new control system with outsourcer Sopra Steria.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P9AB)
Ransomware strain was top customer call-out title in 2018 Kaspersky Lab reckons the number one reason its customers call them for emergency help is because of ransomware – with Wannacry still playing a large part in detections picked up by the Russian company.…
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No it's not Russell Brand's new cult, it's Microsoft's Office crew rolling out their Save Experience
by Tim Anderson on (#4P969)
Not one, not two, but three Save dialogs in updated Office 365 desktop applications In an effort to help users "save files to the cloud more easily," Microsoft has added an additional save dialog to desktop Office 365 applications, including Word, Excel and Powerpoint.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4P92T)
And it's probably better for it The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. Since the last one, not only did we play and complete Bioshock for the first time, but also Batman: Arkham Knight. And a lot of Kenshi.…
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Roles to be outsourced to HCL Exclusive Energy and broadband provider SSE is set to shed 115 roles within its IT infrastructure division in Britain, and will instead outsource some functions to Indian software supplier HCL.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P8X0)
You can't patch stupid Despite years of corporate awareness training, warning articles in The Reg and regular bollockings by frustrated IT admins, human error is still behind most personal data leaks, a newly released study says.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P8X2)
As resilient as a bullet-riddled piece of, er, video game artwork An intensely dreary Little Red Book of media quotes from Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei uses photos to boast of the company's grit and resilience to damage – illustrating the concept with what looks remarkably like a screenshot from computer game Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4P8RV)
You shall not PaaS? An Ask Me Anything reveals common gripes Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), an Azure-hosted VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), plugs an obvious gap in the company's cloud offerings, but comes with its fair share of annoyances too, many of which came up in a recent Ask Me Anything laid on by the team.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4P8PQ)
How's that Boris Johnson impression working out for you? On Call Welcome to On Call, The Register's weekly dive into the mailbag of woe from those faced with recalcitrant users or, occasionally, an overly helpful operator.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4P8KZ)
Insane in the brain Video Tiny brain cells grown in a petri dish can be induced to emit electrical waves similar to the ones coming from humans, scientists have discovered for the first time.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4P85D)
First Gim, er, Glimpse – now our web vultures' favorite coding lingo Earlier this month, Elizabeth Mattijsen, a Dutch software developer and contributor to the open-source Perl programming language, opened an issue in the GitHub Perl 6 repository seeking to rename the project because having "Perl" in the name is "confusing and irritating."…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4P824)
Chinese mobe maker says screw you, we'll build our own Google has confirmed that Huawei’s new smartphone, the Mate 30, will not include some of the world’s most popular apps - Google Maps, YouTube and Gmail - as a result of US sanctions, .…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P7Z5)
Payouts extended to anything with more than 100m installs Google is expanding its Android bug-bounty program to cover not just holes in the web giant's apps but also vulnerabilities in third-party software – as long as they have more than 100 million installs.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4P7Z7)
The clock is ticking to find replacement, he's off by Xmas Chris Beard announced today he will be stepping down as CEO of Mozilla at the end of this year.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4P7V1)
Planned obsolescence and big profits be damned, we're going to let you fix your kit On Thursday, Apple introduced a program that will allow independent computer repair shops access to the same resources available to Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASP), a significant policy shift that could help level a market the company has been deterring unauthorized battery replacements and lobbying against right to repair legislation.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4P7Q6)
Ex-Amazon techie accused of cyber-looting other storage buckets, mining crypto-coins on hacked servers The ex-Amazon engineer who allegedly stole 100 million Capital One credit applicants' personal details from AWS cloud buckets has been formally accused of swiping data from 30 other organizations.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4P7EE)
Plus: Intel slips first 10nm Agilex FPGAs to select lucky customers Here are a couple of chip-related news bytes for you.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4P74A)
Five years' history not enough to get a meaningful human response Canadian developer Mathieu Méa has gone public about his experience with Google's Play team after they abruptly terminated his publisher account at the end of last week.…
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Claims loosening BT's price cap will cost businesses £230m Updated Vodafone has lobbed a sueball at UK comms regulator Ofcom for relaxing regulation of BT's wholesale fibre leases - a move it claims could cost British businesses £230m.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4P6T1)
Slowing economy blamed for customers delaying software buys as storm clouds gather The share price of Micro Focus is taking a battering on the London Stock Exchange, plunging 30 per cent this morning after the home of ageing software brands lowered revenue guidance.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4P6T2)
Devises three-point plan to up its privacy game Sorry seems to be the hardest word for some - Apple has finally apologised to customer weeks after it emerged contractors had been asked by the company to listen to recordings of people using the Siri digital assistant.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P6NN)
'Network censorship will only accelerate the loss of HK to competing cities' The Hong Kong ISP Association (HKISPA) reckons any moves by China to shut off the semi-autonomous territory's uncensored internet connection, African dictator-style, "would immediately and permanently deter international businesses" from staying in the one-time British colony.…
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Just months before 'Brexit day' Just months before the omnishambles deal-or-no-deal uncertainty of Britain's exit from the European Union, the government has a cunning plan to help businesses prepare: information packs!…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P6DQ)
Live footage of runway and grass verge more compelling than actual flight instruments The latest British Army Watchkeeper drone crash happened because its crew became fixated on live footage from an onboard camera instead of their instruments, a Ministry of Defence report has revealed.…
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Bad news for Nimbys and 5G health cranks, good news for 4G The British government has raised the spectre of giant mobile masts looming large over the English countryside in its 5G consultation review paper as a further loosening of planning regulations is considered.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P69D)
Claims to have made nearly €800k from ad clicks A Maltese "browser-based gaming" company that claimed to have made nearly €800,000 from ad clicks in one month is suing Google after the ad tech monolith kicked it out of the Adsense program.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4P677)
MIT, Analog get into some RISC-y business “Hello, World! I am RV16XNano, made from CNTs.†That’s the friendly message emitted by a RISC-V-based chip made entirely out of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and revealed on Wednesday.…
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by David Gordon on (#4P64Y)
Tune into expert-led eight-part video series and bag fear gear Promo Nutanix will dispense valuable advice on ways to modernize your data centre in an eight-part series of videos that you can view throughout August, in what the California-based cloud computing software company calls its Cloud Shack.…
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