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by Richard Chirgwin on (#47NSP)
Still afraid of no ghost? You didn't read the script Google Project Zero bug-hunter Tavis Ormandy took a "random look at the new release" of Ghostscript, and found a partly addressed vulnerability that works in all versions up to 9.26.…
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by Richard Speed on (#47NNT)
Redmond's search engine finally achieves parity with Google. Yep: it also doesn’t work in China Chinese internet users have today found themselves unable to access Microsoft's search engine, Bing.…
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by Richard Speed on (#47NNW)
Integration don't LIVI here any more A Discovery Report from NHS Digital has given video GP provider LIVI a kick in the integrations.…
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by Richard Speed on (#47NJJ)
2018's greatest hits on repeat in 2019 for some lucky Microsoft punters Office 365 is enjoying a Thursday wobble this morning, at least as far as users in the UK and much of Europe are concerned.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#47NFZ)
Rather than binning them and starting again Comment An alliance of Australia's tech and industry advocacy groups hopes, yet again, to have the country's encryption-busting legislation tweaked before the government goes to an election no later than May.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#47NG1)
Offshore, don't care? Reader poll Nothing splits The Reg readers, or the UK, quite like a discussion on where to put the jam in its scone, so we decided to ask you what, indeed, you would do if you were a tech billionaire on the eve of a potentially, er, disorderly Brexit.…
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by Team Register on (#47NCV)
Functions as a conference... Serverless Computing London returns in November, and we want you to be there, on stage.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#47NAK)
Cut-price unit takes WD's heatsink-toting SSD to the cleaners too Samsung has updated its 970 EVO SSD gumstick SSD to boast numbers that beat Western Digital's fancy heatsink-sporting SN750.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#47N8J)
Attacks on distributed frameworks on the rise, it is claimed by infosec biz Hadoop databases haven't been getting much interest from hackers so far, compared to other data silos, but that's changing, according to a new study.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#47N5G)
Smartish system has a good stab at prioritizing patients, has problems deciding what's critical, tho Artificially intelligent software can help slash the wait times for patients anxious to see the results of their X-ray scans, it is claimed.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#47N36)
Pantsdown vulnerability affects various BMC stacks as well as OpenBMC on systems using two particular Aspeed chips An oversight in the firmware for various baseband management controllers (BMCs) can be exploited by miscreants to bury spyware deep inside a server, potentially poisoning it for the next owner.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#47MW8)
Jeff 1 - 0 Elon Vid + Pic Jeff Bezos' rocket biz Blue Origin successfully launched its New Shepard rocket from US soil on Wednesday, with NASA science gear aboard.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#47MQH)
Yes. Killing effort to seize voice-controlled pal technology now A coalition of tech giants has successfully convinced a US court to invalidate three patents covering tech at the heart of voice-controlled digital assistants like Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant. The fight, however, isn't over yet.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#47MDD)
Advertising giant insists it's all still on drawing board – as plugin devs face code rewrites Analysis Following uproar from developers and netizens over proposed changes to Chrome that threaten to break content and ad blockers, and knacker other browser extensions, Google software engineer Devlin Cronin has offered reassurance that the plans aren't set in stone.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#47MDF)
A tale of Twitter fraudsters, an infosec biz boss, and a quest for one honeypot hit Fraudsters masquerading as ISP support agents to phish payment card details have been unmasked – after they tried to scam a Brit infosec biz cofounder.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47M4Q)
Gimme, gimme, gimme your data after midnight... Swedish watchdogs cry, Mamma Mia! over location slurping Google's slurping of people's location data and web browsing histories is being probed by Swedish privacy watchdog.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#47M4S)
Hookup app maker dishes out super-likes and $25 in cash to settle lawsuit Young people may have better skin, but old people seemingly have better lawyers.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47KP0)
All our Five Eyes mates have shown them the door The British government has been asked to confirm that national telecommunications infrastructure is secure amid growing concerns about Chinese supplier Huawei.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#47KGK)
Cost-cutting effort to see sites close, staffers shifted Vodafone is rationalising real estate in the UK to cut costs and – in its words – "unite teams", with the lion's share of its Technology heads to be based at Newbury HQ. Redundancies seem inevitable as staff will be asked to relocate, in some cases, hundreds of miles.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#47KGN)
Incompetence or malice? Pick one The Ministry of Justice has said a data centre outage was responsible for the widespread collapse of the UK's civil and criminal court IT infrastructure over the past few days.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47KBQ)
Urges it to chuck Big Red's request to depose former Pentagon staffers, too Oracle's lawsuit over the Pentagon's $10bn cloud contract is cherry-picked "spin", AWS has said in a submission (PDF) aiming to stop Big Red accessing internal documents and deposing two former government staffers.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#47K6T)
We're just a humble reseller, eller, eller, eh, eh, eh Amid talk of Brexit uncertainty, Computacenter has issued a pre-close trading update that showed the sales dials for calendar '18 pointing upwards. And it was boring old tech reselling that helped it get there.…
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by Richard Currie on (#47K6W)
Pretty f***ing metal tbh Christians enjoy reminding the heathens, atheists and sinners who share this world that they're all going to Hell. Whether it's by peppering conversation with Bible quotes or just a little smug smile, we know what they're thinking.…
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by Richard Speed on (#47K2V)
While others fidget awkwardly, silicon slinger hits 'pay equity' Intel took time out from its hardware woes to buff its inclusivity halo and announce it had reached gender "pay equity" globally.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#47K2X)
Also reckons Russian hackers go quiet over the Christmas holidays FIC2019 According to Eugene Kaspersky, founder of the eponymous antivirus company, black-hat hackers are increasingly likely to speak Portuguese and Spanish as well as the traditional English, Russian and Chinese.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#47JZN)
Nope, never. We think buying nothing cost us AU$34m, but nobody's sure How much IT can you buy for AU$34m (£18m, $24m)? None at all, if you're the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission in the market for a biometric system.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#47JWC)
Looks like the final act in the grubby Vega+ saga Just as readers thought the saga of dodgy Sinclair reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd had ended, the High Court has ruled that its current and former directors owe £38,000 in legal costs to two of its founders.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#47JWE)
3,000 sites on list In one of its first major wins in the enterprise market, NBN Co** has confirmed it will pull fibre to Woolworths' properties in support of a Telstra contract with the supermarket giant.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#47JWG)
Lessons from LHC – the world’s largest scientific machine Reg Lectures The Higgs Boson particle was first predicted by scientists in 1964 but it wasn't until 2012 that the existence of this fundamental of physics could finally be proven. That was thanks to CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47JSQ)
Mark Hurd eyes up half the world's app market Analysis All too aware database sales alone won't sustain it, Oracle's execs are seeking to push Big Red as a one-stop shop for cloudy apps.…
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by Verity Stob on (#47JQG)
Chronicles of Delphi scribe podcasts, er, scribbles her musings
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by Shaun Nichols on (#47JQJ)
Dev fears sub-domain abuse – Plus, unofficial patches for trio of Windows zero-days Microsoft has been accused of ignoring an IT security risk that could be exploited to create legit-looking malware-laden webpages that sport seemingly trusted Azure and Office 365 domain names. Alternatively, the domains potentially could be used to stealthily leak stolen data from networks.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#47JK1)
FTC case continues as chipmaker starts defense Analysis Qualcomm has launched its rebuttal of antitrust charges by claiming it's just too damn good at its job.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#47JK3)
Plus: Potential meteoroid snapped crashing into surface during total lunar eclipse Pic Within the next six years, the European Space Agency hopes to drill into the Moon and extract oxygen and water, paving the way for folks to eventually live on the rocky satellite.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#47JK5)
Lucrative govt IT contracts at risk in discrim legal battle The US Department of Labor has doubled-down on Oracle, accusing the IT giant of “stark patterns of discrimination†against women and minorities since 2013.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#47JC2)
Anyone still at their posts, please stop these address takeovers... please, helloo? Anyone there? America's Homeland Security has urged US government departments and federal agencies to shore up their DNS control panels after hackers successfully stormed the barricades.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#47J4B)
Talk about Jersey Whirl... Flying gizmos disrupt ops this evening It seems the UK's latest pain-in-the-ass craze has made its way stateside again, as alleged sightings of rogue drones brought Newark Liberty International Airport to a halt Tuesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#47J4D)
Pay no attention to Watson's lackluster performance – look, the share price is up! IBM on Tuesday delivered its third consecutive quarter of declining revenue, and its shares still surged in after-hours trading.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#47J12)
Open the door, get on the floor – not so fast if you've an iPhone 4 Apple has emitted a handful of software patches to address security vulnerabilities in iOS, macOS, and various peripherals.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#47J14)
Egghead faces criminal rap after Beijing tells of banned experiment Babies were genetically engineered in test tubes using the CRISPR DNA-editing tool as part of an illegal experiment led by disgraced scientist He Jiankui, the Chinese government confirmed this week.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#47HXK)
How many ad blocks could an ad slinger block if an ad slinger could block blocks? Google engineers have proposed changes to the open-source Chromium browser that will break content-blocking extensions, including various ad blockers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#47HSV)
Disable redirects before applying update The Debian Project has patched a security flaw in its software manager Apt that can be exploited by network snoops to execute commands as root on victims' boxes as they update or install packages.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#47HNR)
Chip giant can't shake off US class-action lawsuit over Bulldozer advertising A class-action lawsuit against AMD claiming false advertising over its "eight core" FX processors has been given the go-ahead by a California judge.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#47HNT)
At least we hope so – 'cos here are some 'infinite' cloudy backup repositories Veeam has added a Cloud element to its Availability Suite, tiering off old data to object storage in AWS and Azure or on-premises.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#47HGB)
Parly-vous cyber-security? No plan to surrender, military bug bounty coming FIC2019 France’s defence secretary Florence Parly today declared “Cyber war has begun.â€â€¦
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by Richard Speed on (#47HGD)
Pursuit of ever skinnier laptops blamed as some post-2016 displays start failing Apple's Macbook Pro has yet another "fatal flaw" in the form of a flex cable fingered as being the root of a host of display problems.…
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by Richard Speed on (#47HBP)
You can make your own Yank joke here NSFW links Recent statistics indicate that not is only the US government shutdown lengthening, so too is the amount of time spent in the Washington DC area on, ahem, adult pursuits.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#47H74)
Pragmatic chap looks at reality of international relations FIC2019 A French diplomat has suggested that future global regulation of cyberspace could exempt spying from regulation "as long as some specific sectors are preserved".…
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by Richard Speed on (#47H1H)
Look, the platform is dead. Will you just move on already? Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to honour the memory of yet another Windows mobile technology. The rabidly unpopular Microsoft Wallet for the much beloved Windows Phone is for the chop.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47H1K)
White House to nominate former DocuSign boss The US may have finally complied with the European Commission's repeated requests to name a permanent Privacy Shield ombudsperson, The Register understands.…
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