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by Richard Chirgwin on (#433MY)
Also: Huawei cloud lands in Africa, Nokia OpenStack, Cisco Nexus BIOS bugs Riverbed made two announcements covering its SteelHead SD-WAN solution this week – a bunch of enhancements, and subscription pricing options.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#433G6)
Sells 'intelligent' chassis, removable drive magazine, StorNext base station Quantum has stepped sideways into the autonomous vehicle testing market with a data logging system integrated with its StorNext multi-tiered workflow file management product.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#433BM)
Hold on Redmond, don't light those fireworks yet, the dominance will be shortlived Microsoft's Surface line leapfrogged Apple's iPad Pro as the detachable tablet of choice for tech distributors in Western Europe but that top spot definitely won't be sustained, or so IDC says.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#43370)
As shareholders sign off on Big Red's big pay packet for first time in seven years Oracle is to slurp up software-defined WAN provider Talari Networks for an undisclosed sum.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4331Z)
Even Softbank balked at these tethered terrors Google's parent company Alphabet has closed down its biped robot maker Schaft after failing to find a buyer.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#43321)
Routine file about accused crim suddenly mentions WikiLeaker's name An apparent cut-and-paste error has revealed that American prosecutors may have already filed criminal charges against cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaks fugitive Julian Assange.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#432XH)
$1.4bn match made in heaven BlackBerry has made its biggest acquisition ever, spending over half of its cash pile to bolster its threat detection unit.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#432SP)
Gangs Matrix led to 'multiple and serious' breaches of data protection rules, says watchdog London cops have broken data protection rules by using a controversial database that ranks people's likelihood of gang-related violence but fails to distinguish between victims and perps, and low and high-risk people.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#432SR)
Guess what happens? Stockholders thaw to idea of cashing in Dell Technologies has upped the buy price for Class V stock to win support from shareholders that threatened to block the proposed transaction and hinder the company’s return to the US stock market.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#432PP)
First UK conviction for reckless UAV flying A Russian-speaking man from Cambridgeshire has become the first person in the UK to be convicted of illegally flying a drone beneath a police helicopter during a search operation.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#432PQ)
EE: We're sorry, Ofcom. Virgin: Why, that's... unjustified and disproportionate! The UK's comms watchdog claims to have slapped a £13.3m penalty on EE and Virgin Media for fleecing customers who wanted to exit their broadband or mobile phone contracts before they were due to expire.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#432KZ)
Not the best at anything, but a solid, great value performer Review What if Huawei used OnePlus's Oxygen UI, I found myself musing recently. Wouldn't it be the perfect package? Huawei's amazing RF performance, and bleeding-edge tech, with a UI that didn't actually suck?…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#432M1)
Swipe – open toilet door – and swipe again Something for the Weekend, Sir? "Work out loud," my prospective new employer tells me, adding that "we are a team, not a family". Sister Sledge need not apply.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#432HC)
Chinese fabber YMTC has cunning tech catch-up plan China's Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC) aims to leapfrog 96-layer NAND and move straight to the production of 128-layer flash in 2020, according to a report.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#432HE)
Says company that sells switching services Millions of Britons unwilling to be parted from their urban broadband and not-too-shabby mobile phone reception are shunning rural living, according to a survey.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#432CA)
Dusts off unused 'paperweights' to save data entry program On Call Dust yourselves off, dear readers, it’s Friday once more and time for On Call, our weekly column of reader’s technical triumphs.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4329X)
Six weeks after first release of build 1809, and Redmond still can't get it right The 1809 build of Windows 10 and Windows Server is fast becoming infamous, after Redmond pulled it shortly after release when it started deleting people's files and stumbling in other ways. Redmond reissued the software on Tuesday, and today it's clear you shouldn't rush into deploying it, if installing it at all, in its present state.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#4327A)
Mislabelled signal raised rover fans' hopes, just for a while Space-fans pricked up their Twitter-ears today, when just for a few minutes it looked like the little lost rover Opportunity had woken up.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#4320C)
I see the red team and I want it painted black Australia's government's crypto-busting legislation risks blocking security research, a leading Internet policy boffin has warned.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#431Y9)
Ongoing Bitcoin woes left the channel holding all the cards, and that's not a good thing Nvidia has turned in growth in revenue and profit, but has been punished for missing its guidance in the third quarter of its fiscal 2019, all amid a continuing sharp drop in demand from crypto-currency miners.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#431VC)
Sudden changes to FCC document raise eyebrows Analysis There's a new battle brewing in Washington DC and for once it's not between Democrats and Republicans, but over who gets to decide the policies for a new trillion-dollar market: The internet in space.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#431RD)
CEO insists Chinese spy chip bombshell 'impossible' Super Micro Computer on Thursday reported net sales in the range of $952m to $962m for the first quarter of its fiscal 2019, which ended September 30, 2018. That's higher than company guidance of $810m to $870m, and up roughly 40 per cent on the year-ago period.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#431MR)
Mark promises independent oversight and AI as Sheryl leans far, far away Analysis Facebook on Thursday (again) reiterated its commitment to fighting misinformation, following a report that the data gathering biz hired a public relations firm, Definers Public Affairs, to promote content that undermine company critics.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#431HC)
Gadgets can be hacked to spy on, find youngsters – claim Parents could be unwittingly putting their children's safety and privacy at risk, thanks to security vulnerabilities in potentially millions of kids' GPS-tracker watches.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#431CR)
FCC signs off on broadband-in-space plans, plus connections to Europe's GPS America's broadband and telly regulator, the FCC, today approved a vast expansion in satellite networks around Earth.…
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by Richard Speed on (#431CT)
Allows updating user space without breaking everything Hot on the heels of its OpenStack Platform 14, Red Hat has announced the beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4317Q)
Default judgement for one-time antivirus bad boy Infosec personality John McAfee has been found legally "liable" via a default judgment for the death of his neighbour, who was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in his Belize home in 2012.…
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by Richard Speed on (#43134)
Just don't mention those three Big Blue letters, OK? Red Hat used this week's OpenStack Summit to announce the impending arrival of its OpenStack Platform 14. We had a chat with Red Hat's Nick Barcet about cadence, Kubernetes, and most definitely not IBM.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#43136)
Facebook boss delays, denies and deflects more invitations to international committee "Delay, deny and deflect." Turns out Facebook's strategy for dealing with major threats works pretty well for small fry too because Mark Zuckerberg has once again turned down MPs' advances.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#430YM)
Of course they've crammed some AI in there too HPE Aruba today released a line of wireless hotspots supporting next year's 802.11ax/Wi-Fi 6 standard – and then immediately sullied them by applying the AI marketing buzzword.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#430TH)
It's all about hyperconverged – no we're not breaking out those numbers With one eye on uncertain currency movements and the developing US/ China trade war, NetApp reported a solid set of Q2 numbers, albeit figures that highlighted a slowdown in its monumental all-flash array sales growth.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#430NJ)
Now go away, we’re saving the world Analysis Google’s DeepMind operation insists UK patients have nothing to worry about now that Google has absorbed the subsidiary - but lawyers and privacy campaigners have raised doubts.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#430NK)
Commission will 'endeavour' to make an adequacy decision during transition period The UK will be locked out of European Union databases once the Brexit transition period ends – but the UK is hoping a data adequacy decision will be adopted by the end of 2020.…
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by Richard Currie on (#430FT)
23-year-old fined $4,000, volunteers services for Perth Zoo, zoo says thanks but nah Ever found yourself overcome by cuteness while gawping at sad, caged animals that you just had to take one home with you? Us neither, but that's exactly what 23-year-old Jesse Hooker did on a trip to Perth Zoo in Australia.…
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by Richard Speed on (#430FW)
No need to learn Mandarin, we collaborate in English OpenStack Summit The OpenStack Foundation took to the stage in Berlin this week to talk infrastructure because, heck, everyone loves infrastructure, right? Especially open infrastructure.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#430AY)
Xiaomi your underpants: When will the UK market get its branded undies? Prospective phone buyers may want to wait before plumping for a new Xiaomi. The newcomer’s flagship ships with MUIU 9 firmware, which is stuck on 2017’s Android Oreo.…
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by Richard Currie on (#43074)
Never uses computers because his peons do everything for him In Blighty, we have former home secretary Amber "Necessary Hashtags" Rudd, but shockingly politicians' failure to grasp basic aspects of their brief is not limited to the UK.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#43049)
'Tis the season to be tracked by your connected water bottle The FREDI baby monitor has been ranked creepiest connected home gadget on offer this festive season in a survey by Mozilla.…
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by Richard Speed on (#43014)
Did we mention the worse battery? Real world review While the XR may be the best value notched iPhone that Apple is making today, some of its compromises may be too much for the target market of customers hanging on to their dated but perfectly functional hardware.…
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by David Gordon on (#43016)
Beware the trusted insider Webcast If you like true crime stories, you already know that at the end the criminal is usually revealed to be someone the victim knew well.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42ZYD)
'Trump tariff' question hangs over immediate future A week after announcing hundreds of layoffs, Cisco has turned in a set of financials for Q1 of fiscal 2019 that are ahead of analyst expectations.…
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by Richard Speed on (#42ZYE)
A $10 saving cuts ports and memory from the Pi 3 Model A+ but keeps that quad core CPU Like the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ but feel that the RAM is just a bit too big, the price too high or the ports too numerous? Fear not, for the spiritual successor to the original Model A+ is here.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#42ZW1)
Court of Appeal rules it's wrong to assume regulator should pony up for cases it loses The Court of Appeal has ruled that legal costs from BT Openreach's dark fibre bunfight against UK telcos will be reconsidered by the Competition Appeal Tribunal.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42ZSE)
5G, IoT, and tech supply chains should go under spotlight Another US government panel has warned of the dangers of over-reliance on Chinese tech vendors: the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#42ZSG)
Post boasts cloud host's utmost roast Amazon may be working to rid itself of Oracle database software, but the box-and-bit shifting biz can't get enough of Oracle's coffee-themed programming technology, Java.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#42ZQ1)
Icy planet within cosmic spitting distance of humanity A planet three times the size of Earth has been spotted orbiting Barnard's Star, one of the closest suns to our Solar System.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#42Z8Z)
CISA heads off for Trump's signature – no, not that CISA, the good one The US House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bipartisan bill that would create a new agency to lead the federal government's cybersecurity efforts.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#42Z5Z)
Federation snubs Larry Ellison's bid to break up $10bn winner-takes-all contract Oracle's bid to halt the Pentagon's JEDI $10bn winner-takes-all cloud IT contract has been turned down.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#42Z2C)
Ok, we have Amazon. Anyone else? Analysis If regulators ever do get around to reining in the ecommerce steamroller that is Amazon, this week's announcement of his new headquarters may be the spark.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#42YZ0)
CPU slingers insist existing defenses will stop attacks – but eggheads disagree Computer security researchers have uncovered yet another set of transient execution attacks on modern CPUs that allow a local attacker to gain access to privileged data, fulfilling predictions made when the Spectre and Meltdown flaws were reported at the beginning of the year.…
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