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by Rebecca Hill on (#45D4N)
Almost a third spent on outsourcing digital, legal skills The UK Information Commissioner's Office has spent almost £2.5m on its probe into the use of data analytics for political purposes – but has just two staff from its tech division working on the case.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#45D0V)
Suit claims Facebook misrepresented data-sharing, misled users with confusing privacy settings US capital Washington DC has sued Facebook, slamming the biz for lax oversight, misleading privacy settings and taking two years to 'fess up to mass data harvesting.…
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by Team Register on (#45CXH)
Save now, learn later Events If you’re the forward thinking sort, you’ll be considering what machine learning and artificial intelligence can do for you in the next couple of years - and what it’s all going to cost.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#45CTM)
Sightings continue to be reported as airport cites 'deliberate attempt to disrupt flights' Updated No flights have arrived or left London's Gatwick Airport since just before 21:00 UTC last night after drones were apparently spotted over the airspace.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#45CM3)
Euro court mulls whether site operators should share compliance responsibility with info-slurping giants In a case being considered by the European Court of Justice (CJEU), Advocate General Michal Bobek argued on Wednesday that website operators should share some responsibility with providers of embedded web widgets for ensuring that any data collection complies with legal requirements.…
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by Chris Williams on (#45CHJ)
Windows giant mulls gobbling up network kit maker, according to anon insiders Microsoft is considering buying Mellanox, according to a report on Wednesday by an Israeli financial newspaper.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#45C40)
No one likes a lying asshole Comment Let's get one thing straight right off the bat: Facebook, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and its COO Sheryl Sandberg, and its public relations people, and its engineers have lied. They have lied repeatedly. They have lied exhaustively. They have lied so much they've lost track of their lies, and then lied about them.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#45C16)
You know that Hub that we forced you to buy? Yeah, we've messed with that one, too Pity the poor users of Logitech's Harmony smart home system: last year they were told the manufacturer was going to brick its Link hub and forced them to buy the latest version. This year, just in time for Christmas, it has effectively bricked that new hub for anyone using it to connect to other devices.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#45BST)
If 2019 is the year you try AWS Lambda et al, then here are pitfalls to look out for Serverless computing, which does actually involve servers, has been touted as a way to reduce computing costs though its pay-per-use model and to free developers from operational concerns.…
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by Chris Williams on (#45BMX)
Update Internet Explorer now after Google detects attacks in the wild Microsoft today emitted an emergency security patch for a flaw in Internet Explorer that hackers are exploiting in the wild to hijack computers.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#45B6P)
If there isn't a name by 28 February – ooo, just you wait The US has been told once again to appoint a permanent ombudsperson to oversee the deal governing transatlantic data flows, but this time has been given a deadline.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#45B1Z)
Spotted by infosec startup Area 1, according to NYT The New York Times has published what it says are excerpts from hacked EU diplomatic cables that a cybersecurity company apparently made available to reporters.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#45AWA)
Facebook blasted by claims 150+ firms had special access to user data Facebook has found itself the subject of yet more shouty headlines as details of deals that gave more than 150 companies special access to user data were spilled.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#45AR9)
Someone get the Information Commissioner on the line Distracting and nagging text messages help smokers stop smoking, Chinese researchers have found.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#45AMP)
DRAM and NAND output to take a hit as demand slides Chip maker Micron has slammed the brakes on production and expenses entering calendar 2019 in anticipation of falling demand.…
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by Richard Speed on (#45AHV)
We've got buckets, spades and isolated apps Ever felt a bit sick when Windows whinges about a suspicious application, but you really need to run it? Worry no more, because Windows Sandbox is inbound.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#45AHX)
UK competition bods threaten action against 'loyalty penalty' The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has issued an urgent call for action against mobile providers that rip off loyal customers with high prices even once handsets are paid off.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#45AEQ)
Was it Agile's fault? Was it the billing? Sueball rolls on IBM has blamed ex-customer Co-Op Insurance for the crash of a £55m project centring on Agile software development, but admitted the systems it built "would not have" boosted the insurer's top or bottom line anyway.…
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by David Gordon on (#45A9R)
CyberArk checks your privileges Promo Back in 2008, San Francisco's IT infrastructure ground to a halt. An engineer called Terry Childs who managed the network had consolidated all the sysadmin credentials giving access to the system's privileged accounts, but after a dispute with the city government he refused to divulge these vital details.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#45A9T)
Policing customers is tough, censoring content would be worse, says lawyer Analysis Cloudflare found itself underfire this month for seemingly allowing officially designated foreign terrorists to use its website protection services. Which, under US law, would be a big no-no.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#45A5C)
Divers claimed biz knew of defective kit, failed to fix it As anyone who has gone scuba diving will understand, it is critical that you know how deep you are, how long you have been diving, the air pressure in your tank, and how much air you have left.…
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by Chris Williams on (#459M9)
Another leak, this time it's personal. Plus: Trump launches Space Force, er, Command A server containing personal information, including social security numbers, of current and former NASA workers may have been hacked, and its data stolen, it emerged today.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#459GW)
Google's doing to Microsoft what Microsoft did to everyone in the 1990s, allegedly Analysis In what can only be described as painfully ironic, Microsoft engineers are seemingly convinced that Google is making changes to its websites in order to break rival browsers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#459CD)
California traveler wants damages for allegedly being made to open mobe, miss flight A California man is suing the US government for civil rights violations after he was apparently detained and forced to unlock his phone at an American airport.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4598F)
Journos, politicos trolled, abused 'once every 30 secs' In March, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey promised to stem the tide of toxic content that has plagued his antisocial network for years.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4594M)
But spare a thought for 'nauts coming home in punctured Soyuz Roundup It's been a packed week to round out the year for rocket fans still giddy from Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo sub-orbital jaunt.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#45901)
We won't be having a word with local firms until then Germany's top cybersecurity official has said he hasn't seen any evidence for the espionage allegations against Huawei.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#458V4)
UK mobile networks had better open their wallets Ofcom has revealed plans to offer more of the airwaves to mobile networks, increasing capacity by around 22 per cent overall, and by 62 per cent in the more attractive sub-1GHz portion of the spectrum.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#458NV)
Bristol firm says it will 'triple' headcount AI chip startup Graphcore has managed to grab $200m from investors, part of which will be used to hire more engineers on the west coast...the west coast of Britain for the absence of doubt.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#458GE)
We're listening, insists company right before new chief exec takes post BT has belatedly given its shareholders a public pat on the head for not voting down departing chief exec Gavin Patterson's £1.3m bonus.…
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by Team Register on (#458GG)
Learn about DevOps, Containers, CD/CI and save £100s Events We're announcing the first tranche of speakers for Continuous Lifecycle London 2019 today, meaning you've got just a few hours left to grab our super bargain blind bird tickets.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#458BE)
Nation becomes the latest to go it alone as EU talks stall France will start levying charges on tech giants from 1 January 2019, making it the latest nation to go it alone on a digital sales tax.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4585X)
Robo-ride processor core acts a lot like Intel Hyper-Threading Arm will today announce its Cortex-A65AE processor core aimed at powering self-driving cars and in-vehicle entertainment. Somewhat buried in the bumph we glimpsed ahead of the launch, though, is something very curious.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4582B)
Hi! I'm a task scheduler! Nobody really knows what I do until I stop doing it... Another long-in-the-tooth Azure service was put on notice this week.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#457Z0)
A wearable crossed with a mobile? Sounds terrible, but it's lovely Review No phone in 2018 has attracted as much real-world interest, I have found – and it's invariably delight and amazement – as the credit-card sized Palm. By, er, ...Palm.…
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by Richard Speed on (#457VY)
It's panto season in this week's Microsoft roundup Roundup As Microsoft's Xmas elves toiled long into the night on Santa's Windows 10 upgrade, the software giant found time to unleash static Azure websites and an unfortunately worded blog in this week's Microsoft round-up.…
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by Richard Speed on (#457SK)
Student vending machine project comes to a close It is with great sadness that we must announce the passing of the Ohio Pork Council's bacon vending machine after an all-too-short sojourn at the Meat Sciences Department of Ohio State University.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#457PW)
For now, it's a business to be in... for everyone but Hitachi IDC numbers show Dell EMC's position at the top of the all-flash array (AFA) market weakened as it grew less than the market as a whole, giving chasing vendors hope – except Hitachi, which managed to fall back despite a growing market.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#457MG)
Well, if you pronounce it 'Vee' and not 'Five'... Anyway, instruction set to be touted under undisclosed license AI biz Wave Computing on Monday told the world it intends to open source the latest MIPS instruction set architecture (ISA) in the hope that fosters the development of more RISC-based custom chips.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#457GB)
Animated tear-jerker awaits man who illegally shot bucks An outlaw hunter will spend not only the next year or so behind bars, but also must face regular screenings of the Disney film Bambi.…
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Highlight: Ellison goes bananas over AWS Aurora noise Red Hat and Oracle both on Monday reported their latest financial figures. Let's take a look at how they fared.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4577Y)
Just slightly better than coal in your stocking Roundup We are now firmly into the holiday season, the Christmas parties are kicking off, and folks are swapping their Excel files for eggnog, or something cliched like that.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4574T)
May your days be merry and bright, and may you all go patch your SQLite Google and other software developers have patched the SQLite component of their code after it was discovered it could be potentially exploited to inject malware into vulnerable systems.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#456ZC)
Money in form of loans and grants – but will it work or be wasted? Analysis The US government has added another $600m to the pot of money that is supposed to expand broadband internet access to rural areas of America. But it remains far from clear how effective the program will be.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#456RA)
Kiwibot snack shuttle snuffed by thermal runaway A Kiwibot delivery robot unexpectedly self-immolated last week at the University of California, Berkeley, due a defective battery, the company said over the weekend, attributing the incident to human error.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#456RC)
Fresh Senate dossiers detail influence campaign, flag tech titans' obstructionism Instagram may have been the most effective social media network for Russian spies in their effort to sway America's 2016 presidential election toward Donald Trump.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#456KJ)
Third of market to evaporate by 2021. Only nearline, spycam drives to swell In brief Number-crunchers at IDC and Wells Fargo are predicting that global disk drive sales will crash from 424.7 million units in 2016 to an estimated 284.7 million in 2021. Ouch.…
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by Richard Speed on (#45679)
A preview of next year's .NET Framework also emitted The hardworking elves toiling in the corridors of Redmond loaded up Santa's sled with two more developer treats in the form of Python updates for Visual Studio Code and a fresh preview of the venerable .NET Framework.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4562C)
One-time Intel boffin Obit Friends of Timothy May have confirmed that the former Intel engineer and co-founder of the Cypherpunks mailing list died of natural causes at his home in California on Friday. He was 67. Bitcoin and blockchain, WikiLeaks, P2P software and information markets all owe a debt to the list.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#455XY)
Crouching monkey, hidden leader of the free world A pair of boffins are in hot water after the image of president Donald Trump made an unexpected cameo in a paper on how to gather animal DNA from their poop at scale.…
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