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by Katyanna Quach on (#443CQ)
Oxford uni gets a wad of cash to study AI and law, Qualcomm invests in startups, etc Roundup Hello, welcome back to The Register's weekly AI roundup. There is news who is funding who for AI projects, but things have also got a little weird as popstars start making AI-inspired hits. Listen below!…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4436S)
Plus, South Carolina convicts go catfishing Roundup November ended with a week of medical mishaps, near disaster at Dell, and the introduction of Pesky Pepper.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#442JR)
Malicious code can spy on OpenSSL, Apple CoreTLS, etc Crypto boffins have found a way to exploit side-channel information to downgrade most of the current TLS implementations, thanks to ongoing support for outmoded RSA key exchanges.…
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by Richard Speed on (#442JT)
Boffins promise to return 'nauts to the lunar surface, too. No, really NASA adminstrator Jim Bridenstine on Friday announced the companies the US space agency plans to pay to send its next science experiments to the Moon.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#442JV)
Yeah, we don’t know WTF is going on either Did your work printer produce a strange call to action this week, urging you to follow a tasteless twerp on YouTube, and then offer you a "bro fist" made up of punctuation marks?…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#442G5)
Japanese boffins argue for a new spin on astrophysics Black holes aren’t shaped like donuts after all, and actually look like water fountains instead, according to new research.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#442D4)
Googlers sought patent on tech described during job chat Jie Qi, cofounder of edu-tech electronics biz Chibitronics, marked the launch of patent education site PatentPandas.org with her account of how Google tried to patent her research after inviting her to meet with company executives.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#442D6)
Appeals judges shoot down Russian vendor's plea Kaspersky Lab won't be getting its day in court after all, as the Washington DC Court of Appeals rejected its case against Uncle Sam.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44262)
Researchers find head-slapping backdoors in lab equipment Administrators overseeing lab environments would be well advised to double-check their network setups following the disclosure of serious flaws in a line of oscilloscopes.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44264)
Strike fund hits $200K as engineers prepare for action Internal employee revolt at Google over its secretive plans to rollout a censored search engine in China continues to grow, with one employee publicly building a strike fund to support those opposed to the plan.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#44266)
Takes second place in IO-500 10 Node Challenge WekaIO has served up 95 per cent of the Summit supercomputer's 40 storage racks IO using just half a rack's worth of its Matrix scale-out fast filer software.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44222)
BigInt and .NET Core 2.2 support? Oh Microsoft, you spoil us! On the eve of Microsoft's big developer shindig, or rather virtual developer shindig, Connect(); a fresh version of TypeScript has been released, along with an update for Visual Studio users who like their OS Apple-flavoured.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#441Y1)
And Sundar Pichai heads to griling on Chocolate Factory's data slurping Execs from Oracle, Microsoft and Google are reportedly to meet US president Donald Trump next week amid strained relations between tech giants and lawmakers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#441SG)
Plus standards news from ETSI, 3GPP Roundup Juniper Networks has announced it wants to bolster its Contrail enterprise multicloud solutions by chugging down software vendor HTBASE.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#441NC)
If you shopped with 'em since March 2017, consider your deets in the haul Toff tat bazaar Sotheby's Home website has become the latest casualty of Magecart after a breach saw card-skimming code deployed by infosec rotters.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#441NE)
Not just the gang at No 10 Downing St who'll be sweating Dell has reported results for Q3 of fiscal '19, ended 2 November, ahead of its December 11 shareholder vote on going public – now likely to be a shoo-in, if you go by what execs said on the call.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#441H7)
EMIS upgrade will punt GP system into the fluffy stuff One of the NHS's major suppliers is upgrading its GP records system and moving millions of patient data to Amazon's cloud.…
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by Richard Currie on (#441H8)
Ashamed owner now trying to replace their soiled cases Residents of Auckland's North Shore in New Zealand who have found their pillows scattered with dog toffee can rest a little easier now – the master of the mystery pooper has owned up.…
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by Richard Speed on (#441CF)
Chat platform chap: 'Probably not us' Interview The controversial cloud filesharing functionality trumpeted by Microsoft for its chat platform, Skype, quietly moved from Insider-only to the big time this week, rolling out the day before OneDrive, er, rolled over.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4417P)
Subscribers using wireless calls wide open to attack Boffins from Michigan State University in the US and National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan have found that the Wi-Fi calling services offered by AT&T, T-Mobile US, and Verizon suffer from four security flaws that can be exploited to attack mobile phone users, leaking private information, harassing them, or interfering with service.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4417R)
'Minimal' effect on biz, boss bravely predicts HPE Discover The ongoing US-China trade squabble will have little effect on HPE, chief exec Antonio Neri boldly predicted to the world's tech press.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4413C)
Depressing Xmas Comms which employees have whole holiday to think about With Christmas around the corner, DXC Technology have warned yet more frontline techies - the feet on the street that support customers - they might not have a job in the New Year.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4413E)
One of, but not the worst, in history US hotel chain Marriott has admitted that a breach of its Starwood subsidiary's guest reservation network has exposed the entire database – all 500 million guest bookings over four years, making this one of the biggest hacks of an individual org ever.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4410D)
Where is your distributed ledger technology now? Though Blockchain has been touted as the answer to everything, a study of 43 solutions advanced in the international development sector has found exactly no evidence of success.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4410F)
Soon every vendor will want to be a SCMbag Exclusive The Register can reveal that Dell EMC is looking to add storage-class memory (SCM) and NVMe drives and fabric across its storage portfolio and that HPE's Nimble arrays will get SCM support in 2019.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#440X2)
Bored secretary at GP fined for sneaky look at medical records A bored trainee secretary at a GP practice has been fined for snooping on the health records of colleagues, friends and strangers.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#440TA)
Let the Blue Peter vs Magpie wars recommence! Something for the Weekend, Sir? Keep me in a cupboard. When the fancy takes you, let me out and I'll do your bidding. I won't mind as long as you make it worth my while.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#440R5)
Does 'mommy' clean up after you? teases trash-talking notice Rubbish activists have reportedly put anti-littering signs up in the West Midlands calling trash bandits "fools" whose parents still tidy up after them.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#440NW)
Nope, no new computer for you. Move along On Call Welcome once more to On Call, our weekly column where Reg readers share their tales of tech support problems solved.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#440KT)
Once upon a time it was Windows 10. Now it's Chipzilla's turn HP Inc is flying high after netting a year of double-digit revenue gains, but execs are worried that a looming CPU shortage will hurt its sales in the coming months.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#440HF)
American criminal prosecutors demand $815m from former CEO, throw book at the pair Updated Former Autonomy CEO Michael Lynch and company beancounter Stephen Chamberlain have been formally charged with fraud in America, in what Lynch's lawyer has called a “travesty of justice.â€â€¦
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#440B7)
Plus: Pat Gelsinger reckons tech will do well in 2020, even if the US economy tanks VMware has attributed a good third financial quarter to continuing strong interest in hybrid cloud services, payoffs from its AWS partnership, and an economy that remains friendly to technology spending even when there are headwinds elsewhere.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#4409A)
It's 2018 and UPnP is still opening up networks - this time to leaked SMB cyber-weapons Earlier this year, Akamai warned that vulnerabilities in Universal Plug'N'Play (UPnP) had been exploited by scumbags to hijack 65,000 home routers. In follow-up research released this week, it revealed little has changed.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4406R)
Class-action lawsuit payouts adds another $7.3m to bill for software slip-up Lenovo will pay $7.3m to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from its bone-headed decision to cram some of its laptops with Superfish adware.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44044)
Well at least someone's interested in buying Hololens Microsoft has signed a $480m contract to supply 100,000 HoloLens augmented reality headsets to the US military – literally doubling the number of HoloLenses that have been sold since its launch more than three years ago.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4400M)
Sliding into your DMs unnoticed, literally Analysis Britain's surveillance nerve-center GCHQ is trying a different tack in its effort to introduce backdoors into encrypted apps: reasonableness.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#43ZWK)
Endorsement could come back to bite Evander Holyfield The CEO of AriseBank, a Texas-based upstart that billed itself as the world’s “first decentralized banking platform,†has been arrested by the FBI and charged with securities and wire fraud.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#43ZR8)
Buffer overflow flaw could lead to privilege escalation IBM is advising folks this week to check if they should update their Db2 database installations following the discovery of a potentially serious security vulnerability.…
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by Richard Currie on (#43ZRA)
Short-term renters? More like short-term raiders Picture the scene, if you will. You and your partner have just rolled in through the front door after a rare and welcome night out on the lash. You might put the coffee on, maybe swipe a cheeky nightcap, before falling into bed and quickly deciding you're both too hammered to do what lovers do and drift off into deep, interminable sleep.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#43ZRC)
Pay dirt: Owners of knackered kit drag iGiant into court Apple was sued in the US this week over claims that design flaws in its iMac desktop and MacBook laptop computers allow dust into the machines, causing the screens, fans, and circuitry to fail.…
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Ex-Intel engineer tried to make off with 3D XPoint secret sauce on his way to Micron, says Chipzilla
by Richard Speed on (#43ZKX)
USB stick shenanigans alleged in lawsuit against former hardware bod Intel has unleashed its legal dogs upon one of its former hardware engineers, alleging the bloke tried to steal confidential chip blueprints to potentially pass on to Micron.…
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by Richard Speed on (#43ZFF)
Build 18290 is here to save the day. Now with extra Fluent Design While getting a release of a wobble-free Windows 10 is proving an impossible mission for Microsoft, the Windows Insider team are at pains to warn its army of unpaid testers that older preview builds will soon self-destruct.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#43ZAF)
FSx off on-premises guys Amazon is in on-premises application landgrab mode and has released two fully managed services that lift and shift Windows File Server and Lustre workloads to AWS.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#43Z5Q)
Civil rights group given all-clear to launch judicial review at bulk surveillance regime Civil rights group Liberty has been granted permission to launch a full legal challenge at the UK government's bulk surveillance regime in the High Court.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#43Z1A)
Through failure comes success! Or more failure. Take your pick Hope springs eternal for wearables, despite the biz losing billions of dollars over the past five years. And few forecasts can be more hopeful than Gartner's prediction that the market will treble in value over the next three years.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#43YW7)
Names, addresses, social security numbers exposed Miscreants gained access to US healthcare billing vendor AccuDoc Solutions' database for about a week in September, exposing the data of at least 2.65 million people.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#43YW8)
Plus: State-backed hacks now need permission from a judge On the same day that certain types of British state-backed hacking now need a judge-issued warrant to carry out, GCHQ has lifted the veil and given the infosec world a glimpse inside its vuln-hoarding policies.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#43YQD)
Obscurity hides margin, so we called in the CMA – comparison bods Business mobile plans are notorious for their complexity and obscurity, so if you're a UK SME, how do you know if you're being ripped off?…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#43YK2)
Clock's ticking on Ellison's smack talk re:Invent AWS boss Andy Jassy has doubled down on claims Amazon will "be done" with Oracle databases by 2019, and used his Re:Invent keynote to throw shade at Big Red.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#43YFN)
American Civil Liberties Union wants to know what govt asked for, and why court refused The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a motion to find out what went on in a court case in which the US Department of Justice allegedly tried to make Facebook give it unencrypted access to Messenger calls.…
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