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by Shaun Nichols on (#44AKS)
NRCC says it was hit in run-up to 2018 elections The National Republican Congressional Committee, the Republican Party's campaigning arm, has confirmed it has fallen victim to a major compromise of its email system.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44AG3)
Apple CEO decries the sins and moral turpitude of all tech companies but his own Comment It was on the third day of December in the year two thousand and eighteen that He arose and led the masses against the corruption and moral turpitude of the tech giants. For when He spoke, they heard. Yea, Tim Cook had come and cleansed us of our digital sins.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#44ACK)
DevOps can look forward to packaging their distributed apps Write once, run anywhere. You've perhaps heard that before in the context of Java, Flash, or Xamarin, among other cross-platform technologies. It's been more or less possible for a while, though seldom to everyone's satisfaction. But with the widespread adoption of cloud services and containers, operating across platforms has become more complicated.…
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by Chris Williams on (#44A8D)
AI acceleration, 5G next-gen mobe broadband, all the usual boxes ticked The next top-end addition to Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor family, which powers millions upon millions of Android smartphones, will be the 855.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44A8F)
Redmond warns that the malware tool doesn't play nice with the latest upgrade Companies relying on Cisco's Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) software will have to hold off on installing the latest edition of Windows 10.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44A4X)
And AI, DevOps and, of course, the edge Connect(); Because it wouldn't be a Microsoft event without the Azure drum being banged loudly and often, there were a slew of reveals related to Redmond's cloudy product line at today's Connect();.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44A0S)
Plus: Visual Studio 2019 gets collaborative and IntelliCode gets smarter Connect(); With weeks to spare, Microsoft has emitted preview versions of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac and PC as well as its open-sourced .NET Core 3.0.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#449TP)
Dr Shifro pays ransom, gets discount and adds its own margin, says Check Point A ransomware decryption service has turned out to be – quelle surprise – a Belarusian middleman who simply pays the ransom and adds his own profit margin to the hapless victim's bill.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#449TR)
First look at drive controller core after firm moves to open chip spec Western Digital today finally flashed the results of its vow to move a billion controller cores to RISC-V designs.…
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by Richard Speed on (#449NG)
.NET Foundation to become engorged, ONNX for all, and check out our bundles Connect(); Microsoft today continued its efforts to show that it really has bought into the whole open-source thing by flinging much of its client user experience tech at the GitHub wall and seeing what sticks.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#449NJ)
Contractor lobby seizes on report as indictment of IR35 HMRC was today slammed for failing to distinguish between genuine tax avoidance and innocent mistakes when wielding "broad, disproportionate powers" like the retrospective loan charges devastating some tech freelancers.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#449GS)
Chocolate Factory starts chasing Apple Last week Google took its virtual global MVNO, formerly known as Project Fi, out of beta and began supporting the service on third-party handsets, even Apple's iPhone. It's now called Google Fi.…
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by Richard Currie on (#449B9)
'We won't go too close with the chainsaws and whatnot' Lazy perverts of all genders, get in here. Australia has the household service for you.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#449BB)
Users locked out of emails for almost a day due to data centre upgrade – reports Accenture is reportedly facing major financial penalties after a failed upgrade took down the email system used by about 1.2 million staffers at the UK's National Health Service this weekend.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#44975)
Court of Appeal nixes telco's £14bn deficit reduction effort Updated BT has lost its legal bid to cut its £14bn pension deficit by slashing interest rates for 83,000 members of its post-privatisation pension scheme.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44930)
Former Which? man Richard Lloyd takes case to Court of Appeal after High Court refusal Brit consumer rights advocates have appealed against the High Court's decision to block a multibillion-pound lawsuit aimed at Google over iPhone tracking.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#44932)
MESO tech uses magnetic spin for ones and zeroes, instead of olde-worlde electrons With silicon near its development headroom, Intel has been putting its boffins to work on replacements, and one potential technology revealed in a Nature paper uses room-temperature quantum materials.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44901)
When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes into you. Or is that just Windows Hello? Microsoft could be preparing to ditch the EdgeHTML layout engine of its unloved Edge browser in Windows 10 in favour of Chromium, according to reports surfacing on the eve of the company's developer event Connect();.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#44903)
Back in 2021 with even more inverse femtobarns* Upgrade time already? It would seem so: three years since its last refit, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is taking a two-year break so boffins can embark on another.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#448X1)
Is this copyright battle worth it? Members of the European Parliament have condemned Google's role in encouraging children to pester their parents about EU copyright legislation that the corporation fears will hurt its profits.…
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by David Gordon on (#448TC)
Tune in to our Reg webinar for tips from infosec experts Promo Better, faster, cheaper… these are the promises of DevOps. The future of software development and operations is all about speeding up development and deployment through cloud-based infrastructure and open source software.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#448TE)
'I have my doubts' says Lord Chief Justice The Lord Chief Justice (LCJ) of England and Wales thinks there is a place for articifial intelligence in the judicial process but isn't losing any sleep over the security of his job just yet.…
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by Richard Speed on (#448QY)
Help on minding your PowerPoint language in this week's MS round-up As its services tottered once more last week, the gang at Redmond kept themselves busy tinkering with Office while Intel announced some changes to graphics drivers in the post Windows 10 October 2018 Update world.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#448NC)
How to work on encrypted data without having to decrypt it first Microsoft wants to accelerate the standardisation of homomorphic encryption, so it's open sourced its “Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library†under an MIT licence.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#448JX)
Passwords should be safe, but reset just in case Someone's taken a wander through the systems of question-and-answer website Quora, pilfering account details of 100 million users.…
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by Richard Speed on (#448GK)
Startling news: Users find sticking a smartphone over their eyes a bit rubbish Wearable watchers, CCS Insight, had good news and bad news for the virtual and augmented reality industry today. Sales are tanking but look! New hardware!…
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by Richard Speed on (#448EA)
Russia's back in the crewed spaceflight game with a bang Russia returned to crewed spaceflight today, sending a fresh complement of crew to the International Space Station (ISS) following a successful launch of the venerable Soyuz-FG booster.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#4487T)
Meanwhile: Another kernel dev is 'unfscking' the source code, with predictable results Linus Torvalds has stuck to his “no swearing†resolution with his regular Sunday night Linux kernel release candidate announcement.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4485J)
And a ten-grand fine after bribing city official for tech deals with cash-stuffed envelopes The CEO of a Detroit-area IT firm will be spending the next 12 months behind bars for bribery.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4485M)
GPU biz also open sources PhysX and teases beefy graphics card In conjunction with opening of AI conference NeurIPS, until recently known as NIPS, chip biz Nvidia has demonstrated a system that generates 3D environments using neural networks, open sourced its PhysX physics engine, and announced its Titan RTX GPU.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4485P)
Off-planet manic miner reaches orbit around its prey: Bennu NASA's mission to send a probe to an asteroid, dig up a chunk, and send the material back to Earth is now half-way complete. The agency says its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has reached its hunk-of-rock target after a trip lasting two years and two billion miles.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4485R)
No reason to panic, apparently: Redoing login details to become a regular thing Citrix says there is no reason to panic after it asked customers to reset their passwords on its Sharefile service.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#447WG)
Jury hears biz pressured ASML staff to hand over blueprints Silicon Valley semiconductor outfit XTAL has been ordered by a court to fork out $223m in damages for stealing trade secrets from rival ASML.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#447S5)
Critical bug brings bevy of patches The keepers of Kubernetes, the rather popular software container orchestration system, have pushed out three new releases that patch a critical flaw.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#447S7)
Cops trick Autopilot into letting them make arrest, save lives In an exciting first, the autopilot feature in a Tesla car managed to save rather than kill its occupant.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#447NH)
Report claims that from 2016-2017 the FSB was reading agency's emails The Czech Republic says that Russian government hackers were intercepting and snooping on communications for one of its agencies for more than a year.…
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by Richard Speed on (#447H7)
Not so mysterious, say users, it was the update wot dunnit If you’re running a Surface Book 2, you might want to hold off on the latest cumulative update that is making some in the line quite poorly and their owners quite irate.…
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by Richard Speed on (#447CD)
Cash to be splashed over 10 years on software sporting a Microsoft badge The US Department of Defense has signed up for an estimated $3.17bn worth of Microsoft software via a classic procurement framework.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4478C)
Plans to drop it like it's hot in 2019... Seagate has been testing a 16TB HAMR hot bit writing disk drive, with 20TB models in its sights.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4478D)
Plus: Boffins find kit struggles in low light, crowds The UK's data protection watchdog is investigating cops' use of facial recognition technology amid growing concerns about efficacy and ethics.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4473H)
As OECD strikes positive note on prospect of global consensus Hopes that European countries will imminently agree on measures for a digital services tax are foundering – but G20 nations have been told a global consensus is still possible by 2020.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#446YE)
Data centre, edge computing: yep – business applications IBM has said it is possible to train deep learning models with 8-bit precision rather than 16-bit with no loss in model accuracy for image classification, speech recognition and language translation. The firm claimed today this work will help "hardware to rapidly train and deploy broad AI at the data center and the edge".…
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by Richard Currie on (#446YG)
D!ck the halls with 'offensive' symbols, fa-lala-lala-la-la-la-la You've heard of the e-penis – the measure of an individual's power and stance on the internet – but have you considered the street penis? Yes, 'tis the season to overcompensate by spewing the most garish Chrimbo lights display possible all over your home to let your neighbours know that you are indeed the big man.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#446SV)
NCC Group discovers network-saving quirk during worm tests An infosec firm has unleashed a NotPetya-style worm onto a customer’s network – and discovered that a simple Windows Active Directory tweak has a surprising effect on self-spreading malware.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#446PK)
If you think you have a full-fibre connection, you probably don't The UK's fibre industry wants European regulators, who meet in Brussels today, to get tougher on misleading broadband claims. Topping its complaints is "fake fibre" – the practice of calling broadband connections digital "fibre" when they contain plain old copper.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#446K4)
Too late Xi cried, waving dead semiconductor deal in the air President Trump's White House has said China would be "open to approving the previously unapproved" deal for US chipmaker Qualcomm to acquire Dutch semiconductor maker NXP "should it again be presented" – but the firm reportedly said it "considers the matter closed".…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#446K6)
'Twas 3 nights after Xmas and all through the house, shareholders mulled sending the deal south Cloudera and Hortonworks shareholders will be asked to sign off on the companies' uneven merger on 28 December.…
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by Richard Speed on (#446E7)
You need spectrum – and find something better to spend £92m on, will ya? Interview Space policy expert Dr Bleddyn Bowen, of the University of Leicester, has told The Register that the UK faces considerably more hurdles replacing Galileo than just coughing £92m of "Brexit readiness" readies for a feasibility study on a homegrown version.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#446C7)
Beancounter scores partial victory in employment case Offering disgruntled workers a fat cheque to quit is not blackmail, a court has told Capita.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#446A1)
Escapes from wrath of the boss with ingenious fix Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me?, the column for Reg readers to get their worst deeds off their chest.…
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