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by Richard Speed on (#46SV8)
The 1930s called. They'd like their silver Starship back SpaceX launched its first mission of 2019, fulfilling its Iridium contract, while the Falcon 9 due to loft the company's Crew Dragon demo mission remained resolutely attached to Florida.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#46SGV)
Q3 '18 it hit 50.9% of of total IT turnover, according to analyst Abacus-strummer IDC has clocked that quarterly revenues of IT infrastructure (that's servers, storage, and Ethernet switches) for the cloud have officially squeezed past sales into traditional environments.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#46SBS)
Juliet Bauer to join Livi in April NHS England's chief digital officer has reportedly told staff she is leaving the organisation just days after the government launched its tech-focused long-term plan for the body.…
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by Richard Speed on (#46SBT)
Virty OS's latest version rolls up the best bits of 2018 Invisible Things Lab pushed out a point release of Qubes OS this week in the form of version 4.0.1…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#46S41)
Did he really blow the whistle on security fears? tribunal asked A former vice president of medical app Your.MD has claimed "false information could be fed into the diagnostic system" as a result of security failings in the software's backend.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#46RZY)
Former Polish security agency exec also under arrest Polish authorities have reportedly arrested Huawei's sales director and an ex-security agency staffer on allegations of spying.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#46S00)
Or Jillin' off, for the ladies UK-based smut viewers seem to be filling their boots before the government's age check kicks in as traffic to xHamster rose 6 per cent in 2018.…
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by Richard Speed on (#46RWM)
Activation server fiddling on day of monthly update... really? Microsoft has said that activation errors seen by Windows 7 users should not be chalked up to Tuesday's patch, but rather were an entirely different cockup.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#46RWP)
Shareholders' suit alleges there was a 'pattern' Another day, another anti-Google lawsuit – this time over claims Alphabet, adtech monolith Google's holding company, "failed to take meaningful steps to address a pervasive culture of harassment and discrimination".…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#46RST)
It was still going? Exclusive Vodafone has confirmed it will shutter Demon Broadband, the pioneering Iron Age ISP, as part of its network upgrade plans.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#46RQ6)
It's not the messiah, it's just very naughty metadata Something for the Weekend, Sir? Withdrawal at the last moment isn't the most reliable method of avoiding trouble or embarrassment. This was certainly the experience at CES this year when judges very suddenly rescinded an Innovation Award it had given for Lora DiCarlo's Osé Robotic Massager.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#46RMG)
Healthcare networks pummeled amid drama over teen girl's custody Five months after he was found guilty of orchestrating a distributed denial-of-service attack against US healthcare providers, the self-styled Anonymous hacker Martin Gottesfeld has been sentenced to 121 months in prison.…
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by Chris Williams on (#46RMJ)
Why? For science! Within hours of announcing that he and his wife are divorcing, what's alleged to be Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos' steamy texts to his new girlfriend were leaked online.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#46RFT)
Because this comp is counting down to something... On Call Friday has come around, reliable as ever, to mark the end of that most dreaded thing, the first full week after New Year.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#46RCY)
50-year theory finally confirmed by European space craft A scan of the heavens has shown space is littered with the crystallized remains of stars, and our own sun is expected to go the same way, too. Yes, turning into a crystal ball.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#46R92)
Database intrusion should not have succeeded, probe finds, but... The theft of 1.5 million patient records, including those of Singapore's Prime Minister, from the city state's SingHealth hospital group by hackers could probably have been stopped had the IT department not been so useless, an inquiry has found.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#46R6A)
The younger generation leads the fight against face matching Surprise, surprise, most Americans believe the US government shouldn't limit the use of facial recognition technology, particularly if it's convenient for them or used for their protection.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#46R3V)
Hackers may be rubbing their hands with glee The IT impact of the ongoing partial US federal government shutdown has begun to show up in the form of degraded computer security. According to internet services biz Netcraft, more than 80 TLS certificates used on .gov websites have expired and have not been renewed.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#46R18)
Snack company client disagrees, sues for $100m US snack food giant Mondelez is suing its insurance company for $100m after its claim for cleaning up a massive NotPetya ransomware infection was rejected – for being "an act of war" and therefore not covered under its policy.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#46QXT)
If you're not Lenovo, HP or Dell it has been a year of shrinkage Global PC shipments slumped 4.3 per cent in the final quarter of the year as computer manufacturers had a very unhappy festive season.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#46QTP)
Game over for Brit-based maker of real-time online gaming platform? Updated Improbable, the UK-based maker of the SpatialOS Game Development Kit (GDK) for the Unity game engine, on Thursday warned that all Unity-based titles integrating its GDK are now violating Unity's Terms of Service.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#46QK4)
End of fast processing upsets the Apple cart (and workers at other Silicon Valley giants) Restrictions placed on US work visas by the Trump administration are upsetting employees in one of America's most profitable industries: technology.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#46QAK)
Forum admin blames recycled credentials for 'security concern' Some Redditors have been locked out of their accounts over a mysterious security problem that the internet forum's admins have blamed on people reusing old passwords.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#46Q5B)
This is the age of the SSD Disk drive shipments sank from 104.8 million in Q4 of 2017 to 88-89 million in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to a preliminary report from research house TrendFocus.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#46Q0C)
You can’t stop the change: Chalk one up to AWS as judge agrees with Big Red's rival Oracle's in-house counsel has been denied access to sealed information in its legal battle over the Pentagon's $10bn cloud contract after a judge sided with AWS in what will be one of many smaller battles in the case.…
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by Richard Speed on (#46PTZ)
The cloud giveth and the cloud taketh away Microsoft Azure's UK South storage region developed a distinct wobble today.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#46PPK)
Move comes after database upstart mooted new licence to stop cloud giants ripping off its tech Amazon has sent a shot across the bow of MongoDB today as it announced a document database with Mongo compatibility.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#46PJ5)
'Almost unprecedented' attacks use the old man-in-the-middle diddle – infoseccers Infosec biz FireEye has suggested Iran may be responsible for what it claims are DNS hijacking attacks aimed at snooping on the contents of Middle Eastern governments' email inboxes.…
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by David Gordon on (#46PJ7)
Unshackle your data from slow disks eBook Promo If you are trying to find the best way to boost the performance of your top-tier applications, look no further than Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe).…
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by Richard Speed on (#46PEF)
It's dangerous to go alone, take these WSL tweaks too Microsoft dropped a fresh Windows 10 Insider Build last night, which brought some welcome tweaks to the Windows Subsystem for Linux and enabled Reserved Storage.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#46PAQ)
Top court receives advice paraphrasing M People* European Right To Be Forgotten (RTBF) rulings should not apply globally, but block results across all EU states, the bloc's top court has been told.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#46P7X)
What Captain Cook can do next for Cupertino Comment Like a comedy sketch Lord Nelson, Apple CEO Tim Cook held the telescope to his eyepatch this week and told investors he couldn't see any enemy ships.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#46P57)
Happy New Year from the Gin Palace Juniper Networks has had its first big bug day in months, with 19 patches announced covering everything from third-party package catchups to critical errors in password handling.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#46P0N)
Donald's wall tantrum has out-of-this-world consequences The Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA’s beloved Hubble Space Telescope is right now out of order due to a hardware glitch, the space agency confirmed this week.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#46NYH)
Patches pending for distros to deal with threat of local privilege escalation to root Security biz Qualys has revealed three vulnerabilities in a component of systemd, a system and service manager used in most major Linux distributions.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#46NV8)
Plod hope to snare DHL blackmailer with a penchant for homemade explosives German police investigating a blackmailer's parcel bombing campaign reckon they know the MAC address of a device used by the scumbag, and hope network logs can help unmask the perp.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#46NRN)
Canada CHIMES into search with new 'scope and lots of iron Canada's new radio telescope, built to explore the early universe, has turned out to be a handy hunter for the mysterious phenomena called Fast Radio Bursts (FRB).…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#46NF2)
And we're only halfway through the week CES 2019 It's this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week – and you know what that means……
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#46NF3)
Process data, crash, restart, process data, crash, restart... Cisco's security team's holiday season has ended with a bang: 18 patches, but thankfully only one of them rated “criticalâ€.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#46N8E)
Oldies should stick to handing out Werther's Originals, not headlines, study suggests Senior Americans aged 65 and older shared more fake news on Facebook during the 2016 US Presidential election than any other age group, according to a study published on Wednesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#46N8G)
Advertising giant insists annoying banners are rare... and killable by Chrome Come July 9, Google Chrome will take its online advertising controls global as it begins worldwide enforcement of the Better Ads Standards, guidelines developed to discourage truly disruptive online ads.…
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Who cracked El Chapo's encrypted chats and brought down the Mexican drug kingpin? Er, his IT manager
by Kieren McCarthy on (#46N4W)
Feds flipped techie and recorded hundreds of calls In an extraordinary twist, it was revealed on Tuesday that the man most likely responsible for bringing drug kingpin "El Chapo" Joaquin Guzman to justice was none other than his sysadmin.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#46MZT)
Laid-off Big Blue sales ace suing over 'age discrimination' demands end to stonewalling IBM is still refusing to turn over documents in a bombshell age-discrimination lawsuit that attorneys representing plaintiff Jonathan Langley believe will show Big Blue has deliberately and systematically shed older workers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#46MPK)
I have to celebrate you baby, I have to praise you like I should It's all about "Firstline Workers" in three new updates to Microsoft's cloudy collaboration platform.…
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by Richard Speed on (#46MBV)
Quality Assurance? We've heard of it Microsoft has doubled down on efforts to persuade users to migrate to Windows 10 by breaking Windows 7 networking for some.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#46M6N)
Otherwise it's just another glossy, scripted PR op Comment After the year he's had, Mark Zuckerberg probably felt he deserved a bit of a laugh.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#46M6P)
How did these get through the net? Malware made it past Google's detection systems and infected some 9 million Android users, analyst Trend Micro has found. Google has removed 85 apps from the Google Play Store as a result.…
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by Richard Currie on (#46M1H)
And the beast was given a mouth uttering blasphemous words: 'We value your privacy' Just as well we've hit peak smartphone – the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church has warned that people's dependence on the ubiquitous gizmos will herald the coming of the Antichrist.…
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by Richard Speed on (#46KXT)
Alternative headline: Redmond smashes windows to bits Microsoft has announced that it is time to simply tear stuff down and rebuild anew.…
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by Team Register on (#46KXW)
K8s in production? We’ve got a workshop on that We're very pleased to announce that Joe Beda, one of the founders of Kubernetes, will be delivering a keynote at Continuous Lifecycle London in May.…
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