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by Katyanna Quach on (#4P626)
Let's hope the sunshield doesn't get ripped off again, eh? The long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope has finally been assembled, NASA announced on Wednesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4P5TE)
Save the family joules, urge Apple's WebKit developers Apple WebKit engineers Benjamin Poulain and Simon Fraser have offered advice to web developers about how to design power-efficient web pages, to preserve the life of mobile device batteries and give users move time interacting with web content.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P5QS)
Small governments make up two-thirds of infection victims observed by infosec bods Ransomware criminals have taken a particular shine to US city and state governments, infecting them with file-scrambling extorionware in hope of quick payouts.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4P5HH)
Uncle Sam sued by rights warriors probing claims of silent snooping on suspicious rides The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has sued [PDF] the US Department of Homeland Security to find out more about a program where, it is claimed, officers secretly stick GPS trackers on vehicles they are suspicious of as they come through the border.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4P5EA)
Of course it's Craig Wright The man who claims to have invented Bitcoin has been ordered by a Florida court to hand over half of his stash of the cyber-money, worth an estimated $5bn, to the estate of his dead business partner.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P5EC)
Thousands of dollars and new kit up for grabs if you can blow a hole in Zuck's video-conf gear Facebook is opening its Portal videoconferencing hardware to hackers for the first time at the upcoming Pwn2Own Tokyo competition.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4P5A8)
Wright State University broke rules by loaning out software engineers via solutions biz IT staffing outfit Web Yoga pleaded guilty on Wednesday to knowing about – and failing to report – employment visa fraud that the Ohio-based biz benefited from at the nearby Wright State University.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4P51C)
Kills roaming settings, makes HTML copy 'incontrovertible' You can now get a Windows Terminal preview without the roam-tastic settings after 0.4 appeared in the Microsoft Store in Windows 10, replacing version 0.3 which it kicked out just a few weeks ago.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4P4PH)
exFAT heading towards Open Invention Network's Linux System Definition Microsoft has published the technical specification for exFAT, a file system widely used for removable storage devices.…
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by John Oates on (#4P4H5)
Competition Commish Margrethe Vestager confirms latest piercing The European Commission is investigating Google for illegally favouring its own job ads service over rivals.…
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Programme to shine a light on elections lacks transparency Researchers studying the influence Facebook has on democracy are threatening to quit over a lack of access to the antisocial network's data.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4P4BN)
Release the GIMP: Glimpse project founded to avoid branding that some find offensive Interview Glimpse is a fork of the popular open source image editor, GIMP, created primarily to offer the software under an alternative name.…
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by Team Register on (#4P4BQ)
Book now – Serverless Computing London early-bird offer expires soon Event If you’re thinking about saving money by going serverless, you should start by going to Serverless Computing London AND some money.…
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by John Oates on (#4P46Y)
This will end well UK PM Boris Johnson will attempt to close Parliament in order to push through a no-deal Brexit without interference from pesky voters' representatives in the form of MPs.…
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by John Oates on (#4P42E)
Out of options we are running Oracle is having one last shake of the dice by going back to court to try to force the Pentagon to reconsider kicking it out of the running for the $10bn contract to run cloud services for the US Department of Defense.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P3Z4)
IoT botnets move into the home theater market in search of low-hanging fruit Set-top tuner boxes have become the infection vector in the spread of Internet of Things malware.…
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by John Oates on (#4P3Z5)
Government dept finally called out... by Britain's ad watchdog. We guess everyone else was busy UK ad watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has told the Home Office to pull a radio advert aimed at encouraging Europeans living in the UK to apply for "settled" status, because it is misleading.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4P3VG)
The second generation 300e for when your little darling simply must have Windows 10 Hands On With a new school term fast approaching, The Register has got its claws on Lenovo's second generation 300e laptop, a device aimed fairly and squarely at students.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P3SA)
And that's why we flirted with your nemesis Symantec, Brit retailer claims Brit retailer Dixons has lashed back at McAfee's £30m High Court broadside, saying it was entitled to promote rival antivirus (AV) tech from Symantec if McAfee's software wouldn't work on Windows 10S devices.…
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by John Oates on (#4P3PZ)
What's the worst subject line for an email CC'd to world+dog? Car heating tech biz Webasto's cunning plan to get all its resellers to sign up to say they consented to having their data accessed, as required under GDPR regs, went a bit wrong when the German company accidentally CC'd a large number of people in its UK dealer network.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4P3MT)
Problem is, the scientists don't understand how it's doing it Neural networks can predict your biological age and sex just by analysing the pattern of your heart beats, according to new research published on Tuesday.…
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by David Gordon on (#4P3JA)
Sharpen your IT negotiation tactics at this year's IT Sourcing, Procurement, Vendor and Asset Management Summit Promo Are you an IT sourcing and procurement leader, finance manager, asset manager or vendor management leader facing the ever steeper challenge of enhancing business performance while also optimising costs?…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P3JB)
Scram CamScanner, says Kaspersky An Android PDF maker with more than 100 million downloads from the official Play Store has been caught silently installing malware on victims' phones.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4P37R)
Hybrid IT and Intelligent Services are slightly on the low, too, compared to last year HPE announced its fiscal third quarter results for this year on Tuesday, reporting mixed results with an overall dip in sales and growth in gross margins compared to the previous year. However, the enterprise giant couldn't do the biggest job – actually turning a profit.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4P2YW)
A Palestinian living in Lebanon and his friends don’t love America? Bye bye visa An already controversial policy of searching people’s mobile phones and laptops at the US border has returned to the spotlight after a 17-year-old student claimed his visa was revoked in response to social media posts written by other people that appeared on his feeds.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4P2VN)
Reputation matters more than code correctness, boffins claim Git, distributed version control software used by developers to manage source code, includes a command to generate what's known as a pull request, which provides developers with a way to share changes they've made to their copy of a project with the upstream version.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P2Q9)
Former Waymo bigwig in way mo' trouble The former Uber exec at the center of the ride-broker's battle with Google over self-driving car tech has been hit with more than 30 criminal charges.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4P2JR)
A great deal or were consumers Bulldozed by the chip giant? AMD has agreed to pay purchasers of its FX Bulldozer processors a total of $12.1m to settle a four-year false advertising lawsuit.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4P28M)
'A more ethical, reliable and sustainable phone' – but is anyone buying? Fairphone, whose devices are designed to be sustainable and made in exploitation-free factories, will kick out its third unit in mid-September, priced at €450.00 including VAT.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P22M)
Starting a war over stopped trams? Unlikely, says intelligence boffin NATO's secretary-general has once again declared that members of the alliance will respond with force to cyber-attacks, in line with Article 5 of its founding treaty.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4P1Z1)
Security plus Linux application support – enough to tempt enterprises? Google has rolled out its "first Chromebook Enterprise devices," these being a couple of Dell Latitude laptops launched at the VMWorld shindig currently under way in San Francisco.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4P1T0)
Also: Storage shenanigans and that Xbox fragrance gets its own ad Round Up The Microsoft gang continued their summer of software emissions with a SQL Server 2019 Release Candidate and yet more Windows 10 previews in this week's round-up.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4P1J1)
CEO makes commitment ahead of event's second-day news flurry VMworld Ahead of day-two of VMware's VMworld 2019 conference in San Francisco, CEO Pat Gelsinger promised to further overhaul the virtualization giant's reputation in the open-source world.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4P1J3)
That time we found those lovely old geysers on one of the icy giant's MOONS As the world took down the bunting from the Apollo 11 celebrations, another anniversary rolled around: this weekend marked 30 years since Voyager 2 had its final planetary encounter, with Neptune.…
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Why the EV market is stalling UK government efforts to offset carbon emissions via the adoption of electric cars were last week slammed by the Science and Technology Committee.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4P19X)
'Majority' of shipment expansion in Middle Kingdom – Gartner Huawei reported very little smartphone shipment growth outside Greater China in Q2 due to uncertainty over the US government's trade shenanigans, Gartner has claimed.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P17M)
About your data breach the other day, lads... Transport for London is looking at ways to improve its processes after a Register reader queried why he was being asked to write down his password on a paper form for railway staff to read.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4P162)
Presenters withdraw from the PHP Central Europe conference, show organizers call it quits Under the heading, "Diversity Matters!" the website for the PHP Central Europe developer conference (PHP.CE) says, "PHP Central Europe Conference is committed to creating a conference that is as inclusive as possible."…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4P0VS)
Audio books with closed captions? That's a lawsuit Book publishers are suing audio book specialist Audible for using machine learning technology that automatically transcribes audiobooks to text, claiming that this violates copyright law.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P0T6)
EA and ESA subscribers can get 12 free months of updates With Windows 7's official retirement less than five months away, Redmond is offering some business customers a way to squeeze a bit more life out of the beloved OS.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P0QH)
The fix for the fix is in Apple has issued an update to address a potentially serious security flaw it re-opened in the latest version of iOS.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4P0MN)
CEO says pressure is being applied on government officials behind the scenes VMworld Michael Dell sounded off against the China-US trade war today at VMware's VMworld 2019 conference in San Francisco, branding the ongoing row as "unproductive."…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4P0MQ)
Ninth Circuit approves partial stay on injunction Qualcomm won’t be obliged to license key patents to its competitors – for now – after it won a stay at the Ninth Circuit.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4P0E1)
25 complaints target Taiwan-based chipmaker and its manufacturing customers On Monday, Globalfoundries (GF), a chip maker based in Santa Clara, California, said it filed patent infringement claims in the US and Germany against 20 companies that use processors from rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4P0E2)
Legal argument reflects president’s refusal to follow rules of public office Donald Trump should be allowed to block people from his Twitter feed because it is not an official government account, the president’s lawyers have re-argued in a legal appeal.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P0E4)
NASA space ace accused of hacking ex-wife's bank account mid-orbit and mid-divorce A NASA astronaut has been accused of breaking into her wife's bank account while working aboard the International Space Station.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4P05Z)
Fleshbag crew spared from robotic companion for the moment by Kurs kerfuffle Russia's robotic Soyuz MS-14 test mission hit a glitch over the weekend after a botched attempt to dock with the ISS.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#4NZFR)
You got hurt, we get it. But you can't ignore your data-center's workhorse Comment If you mention Storage Area Network and Logical Unit Numbers to IT professionals of a certain vintage, you are likely to encounter eye rolling and invective. The least unprintable of the epithets you'll hear may include "outdated," "pain to manage," and "an impediment to getting real work done."…
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by Chris Williams on (#4NZ8A)
Wait, come back. Stop screaming. We're only reading out VMware's news VMworld It's that time of the year when VMware gets customers, analysts, and tech press under one roof to do a victory lap and brag about all the stuff it's been up to.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4NZ0B)
Including AV patches, VPN attacks, data leaks, and security cam holes Roundup Summer is winding down, although there are plenty of computer security news bits and bytes to go around.…
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