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French president Macron insists new regulations needed to protect us all from Facebook's claws
While announcing new pilot project with antisocial network French president Emmanuel Macron has insisted that new laws are needed to limit and protect online content and the internet itself.…
YouTube supremo says vid-streaming-slash-piracy giant can't afford EU's copyright overhaul
Editorial oversight contemplated by article 13 creates too much financial risk YouTube, a company "completely sustained by pirated content" according to Google executives prior to its 2006 acquisition, is warning that a proposed revision of Europe's copyright directive could spell the end of online video sharing as we know it.…
'Frontline workers' of the world, unite! And grab yourselves a Surface Go White Van Man edition
4G version of Microsoft's budget fondleslab road-ready Microsoft has confirmed that a 4G version of its budget fondleslab, the Surface Go, will ship this month.…
Sudden Windows 10 licence downgrades to forced Xcode upgrades: The week at Microsoft
Plus: Warehouse security, Alexa for all, and more Roundup Aside from the hoo-ha around Windows 10 licences suddenly being downgraded amid an Insider build update, last week brought Row-Level Security to Azure warehouses, Alexa's tanks rolled onto Cortana's lawn and Microsoft prepared to drop support for old versions of Xcode.…
When you play the game of storage arrays, you win or you – where are the visionaries?
Gartner's magical square: NetApp, HPE still winning, Infinidat joins leader's box NetApp has replaced HPE as the leading vendor in Gartner's general purpose drive array magic quadrant as Infinidat makes its first appearance in the top dog square.…
Stay classy: Amazon's Jassy gets sassy with Larry
AWS boss claims consumer division has switched off Oracle data warehouse Amazon’s consumer business has switched off its Oracle data warehouse and will be almost Big Red-free by Christmas – at least according to AWS boss Andy Jassy.…
Cathay Pacific hack: Airline admits techies fought off cyber-siege for months
Initial 'suspicious activity' was full-scale data theft, it tells local lawmakers Fresh from belatedly admitting that 9.4 million passengers’ personal data was stolen by hackers, Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific has now admitted that it was under attack for three solid months before it took half a year to tell anyone.…
Yikes. UK military looking into building 'fully autonomous' killer drone tech – report
MoD insists there will always be a human at the wheel The UK's Ministry of Defence is "actively" trying to create fully autonomous killer drones, according to a report (PDF) by a campaign group.…
Palliative care for Windows 10 Mobile like a Crimean field hospital, but with even less effort
Dying OS abandoned by carers Comment Although Microsoft officially supports Windows 10 Mobile, each update breaks new things – and it has reached comical proportions. Or tragic, if you're still using it.…
Western Digital: And when I pull the covers off, behold as NAND becomes virtual DRAM
Faces off with Intel's Optane, says product bod Western Digital has been using software to turn SSDs into virtual memory so applications are accelerated without having to deploy DRAM or be constrained by memory capacity.…
SAP slurps up Qualtrics for a cool $8bn, persuades firm not to IPO
As UK and Ireland user survey suggests awareness of 4-year-old S/4HANA finally on the up German giant SAP has slurped up "experience management" biz Qualtrics for a cool €8bn cash after reportedly persuading the firm not to IPO.…
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CLL19 blind bird ticket offer expires soon Do you want to tap into the most up to date knowledge on DevOps, Containers, Agile and Continuous Delivery, and do it in the most cost-effective way you can. Well it sounds like what you really need is a blind bird ticket for Continuous Lifecycle London 2019.…
UK.gov fishes for likes as it prepares to go solo on digital sales tax
Critics warn it's complex and off-putting for international firms Critics have complained that the UK government's proposed digital services tax is complex, confusing and off-putting for international business.…
Dell Corp UK makes 1.46% net profit margin on £1.556bn in sales – 'satisfactory' apparently
Damn, your expectations for fiscal '18 were that low? Dell Corporation's UK wing has reported a net profit of £22.77m on a turnover of £1.556bn, according to Profit and Loss accounts (PDF) for fiscal '18 filed with Companies House.…
Huawei Mate 20 Pro: If you can stomach the nagware and price, it may be Droid of the Year
Scrap the HiCrap and UI, and we'd have a winner Review When, four years ago, I predicted Huawei was coming to eat Apple and Samsung's lunch, derision swiftly followed. Either it couldn't, or it would take a very long time. For years, Japanese and Korean cars were nasty little tin cans, jokes on wheels, remember?…
Junior dev decides to clear space for brewing boss, doesn't know what 'LDF' is, sooo...
Probably the best database recovery in the world Who, Me? The days are drawing in and the mornings are getting darker – so why not take a dose of Who, Me? to help lighten up your day.…
Brit boffins build quantum compass, say goodbye to GPS
But don't expect one in your mobile phone any time soon British boffins have developed a self-contained and tamper-proof compass that doesn't rely on GPS signals to provide a highly accurate measure of where it is in the world.…
Eye eye! AI could stop blindness, Facebook's after math, and how to get started in the ML biz
The week's other news in machine learning Roundup Hello, here is a very quick roundup of this week's AI goodies you may have missed.…
Irony meters explode as WordPress GDPR tool hacked, cell network hack shenanigans, crypto-backdoors, etc...
Loads of bonus infosec news for your weekend Roundup This week we had broken promises in China, broken keys in Steam, and broken ..err, everything in Apache Struts.…
Thank $deity that week's over. Look, here's some trippy music generated from pixels of a Martian sunrise to play us out
So there is fife on Mars? Video Scientists in England have documented the five thousandth sunrise spied by NASA’s Opportunity rover in the form of interpretive dance music.…
Bloke jailed for trying to blow up UK crypto-cash biz after it failed to reset his account password
Would-be bomber thrown in the cooler for six and a half years A 43-year-old fella has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for attempted murder – after sending a bomb to a British cryptocoin firm over its failure to reset his account password.…
I found a security hole in Steam that gave me every game's license keys and all I got was this... oh nice: $20,000
Sorry kids, it was patched weeks ago by Valve A bloke has told how he discovered a bug in Valve's Steam marketplace that could have been exploited by thieves to steal game license keys and play pirated titles.…
An Oracle botherer always pays its debts: Rimini Street reports $48.4m net losses
Big Red sends its regards Support biz Rimini Street's net losses have skyrocketed to $48.4m in the latest quarter as a result of debt payoffs.…
Two fool for school: Headmaster, vice principal busted for mining crypto-coins in dorms, classrooms
We don't need no server cluster, we don't need no power controls The headmaster in China is in hot water after being caught using his school to house a crypto-mining operation.…
FCC Commissioner slams San Jose mayor for not approving 5G cells… then slams him for approving them
I'm best, you're worst, cries telecoms watchdog man If you ever had any doubt that the triumvirate of FCC Commissioners – the Pai Men – who decide America's federal telecoms policy are always right, it was confirmed Friday.…
That amazing Microsoft software quality, part 97: Windows Phone update kills Outlook, Calendar
Tens of users inconvenienced Microsoft has thrown gasoline on its quality-assurance dumpster fire by disabling the Mail and Calendar apps on some of its Lumia Windows 10 Phone devices.…
Google's secret to a healthy phone? Remote-controlling your apps
Look Ma, no not much malware! Google has claimed to have cut Android malware by half.…
Upgraders rejoice! The 2018 Mac Mini heralds a return to memory slots!
Aw heck. Put away the party poppers. The storage is soldered to the board The once humble Mac Mini has received the iFixit treatment following its long overdue 2018 refresh, and the verdict? The dinky box might just be the most repairable machine in the whole line-up.…
Arm kit vendors snuggle up around the Windows 10 Autumnwatch bonfire awaiting supported OS
Plus: Burned by licence issues? ReactOS promises a retro world with no activation servers Windows 10 Autumnwatch continued this week as licences got tossed on the bonfire and then hastily retrieved while Santa’s elves wondered what to install on their Arm laptops.…
Diss drive: Seagate and IBM bring blockchain sledgehammer to compliance nuts
Electronic fingerprints put in verifiable ledger Seagate and IBM are using IBM's blockchain tech to verify a disk drive's authenticity using its electronic fingerprint.…
One UI to end gropes: Samsung facelift crowns your thumb the king
Everything within reach on oversized phones Samsung has embarked on a tasteful overhaul of how its phones look and work.…
Tasty news bytes from networking land: Route security, Cisco cert death, ETSI and more
Oh, and IETF standards got sloshed this week Roundup Cisco admins, you thought your week was over, right? Sorry: if you have kit that runs Adaptive Security Appliance software or the Firepower Extensible Operating System, there's one more item on the task list: updating your certificate.…
NHS*IT: Welsh system outages put patients at risk
Physicians call for increased use of tech for outpatients in England The pressures the NHS in England and Wales is under, with creaking IT systems that aren't fit for purpose but which are facing the increasing tightening of purse-strings, have been laid bare in two reports.…
ZX Spectrum reboot scandal firm's original directors rejoin
And the chairman is Not Happy At All about that The times, they are a-changin’ at flailing ZX Spectrum reboot biz Retro Computers Ltd as two of the firm’s original directors have rejoined it – with a furious chairman insisting this is “illegal”.…
Learn the tricks of the cyber criminals' trade at SANS Dublin training event
Strengthen your defences against marauding data thieves Promo The internet is full of powerful hacking tools and the cyber criminals are devising ever more ingenious ways of using them. Keeping abreast of their latest tactics and techniques is more vital than ever for those defending their organisations against ever-present threats.…
In the cloud, Mumbai is a long way from Asia
Net metrics collectors ping performance pain points in a multi-cloud world Sending packets from Singapore to Mumbai over AWS? Fetch a coffee, the latency is horrible – according to cloud performance data released yesterday.…
Townsfolk left deeply unsatisfied by Bury St Edmunds' 'twig' of a Christmas tree
'Size isn't everything, it's how you decorate it' Yeah, yeah, "It's November, I don't want to hear the C word until the 24th of December" and so on – tell that to the denizens of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, who have been left feeling cold after the arguably premature erection of the town's Christmas tree.…
Windows XP? Pfff! Parts of the Royal Navy are running Win ME
Fear not, Apple fanbois, they're also running Macintosh Boatnotes The Royal Navy is running Windows ME – and XP, and even an early version of Apple Macintosh. But all is not as alarmingly obsolete as it may appear.…
Skimming cash off UK police budget for tech projects probably not the best idea, say MPs
Particularly when those projects overrun and overspend Slicing police funding to inject cash into national programmes – a big chunk of which is funnelled into tech – might not be an effective use of public cash, and some projects face a cliff edge when funding runs out.…
Bruce Schneier: You want real IoT security? Have Uncle Sam start putting boots to asses
Infosec's cool uncle says to hell with the carrot Any sort of lasting security standard in IoT devices may only happen if governments start doling out stiff penalties.…
Berners-Lee takes flak for 'hippie manifesto' that only Google and Facebook could love
Together, let us help the wolves regulate the sheep Sir Tim Berners-Lee is doing the dirty work of giant internet companies, according to critics who want to see governments lay down effective regulation – and not what they regard as a wishy-washy "Magna Carta".…
My hoard of obsolete hardware might be useful… one day
But no more Bradford Exchange collector plates, I beg you Something for the Weekend, Sir? Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Internal hard drives with dust, fluff and shit on. Bundles of CAT5 all tangled like string. These are some of my least favourite things.…
How one programmer's efforts to stop checking in buggy code changed the DevOps world
Father of Jenkins, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, talks Sun, software and secret sauce Interview The father of popular code pipeline Jenkins has big plans for its future while admitting that it owes its existence to his habit of introducing bugs to code.…
Can your rival fix it as fast? turns out to be ten-million-dollar question for plucky support guy
Wins biz the contract, and earns bottle of wine to boot On Call Have you got that Friday feeling? Well, you should, because it's just hours away from the weekend and we've got another great Reg reader story in this week's On Call.…
Hybrid cloud’s growing pains – and how to beat them: A guide to raising a good platform, so you can raise a glass later
Our gentle introduction to mixing on- and off-prem kit Backgrounder Where once it was public, now hybrid cloud is the future – and by hybrid, we mean a mix of public and private. Virtualised, elastic, and on-demand resources hosted by someone else combined with on-premises infrastructure.…
Chinese teen braniacs are being trained to build new AI weapons
Beijing Institute of Technology launches a new programme to further defense interests A top Chinese university has recruited a select group of whizkids straight from high school to develop new AI weapons.…
I've got the key, I've got the secret. I've got the key to another person's DJI drone account: Vids, info left open to theft
Luckily no one else spotted flaw before we did, say infosec bods who reported vuln Chinese drone giant DJI has fixed a critical security hole that left its customer account data and quadcopter videos potentially up for grabs.…
Bloodbath as Broadcom slashes through CA Technologies personnel
I liked it so much, I bought the company – and fired 40 per cent, 2,000, of its US staff Broadcom has confirmed to The Register that staff have been axed in its just-acquired CA Technologies business, though declined to reveal numbers.…
Monster mash: Spectra Logic's tape library now twice the beast it was
IBM's latest tape drives make 2EB-plus library feasible Spectra Logic's TFinity ExaScale tape library can store more than 2EB of compressed data, 2,000 petabytes-plus, using IBM's latest TS1160 tape drives and JE cartridges, double what it could store before.…
Guess who's back, back again? China's back, hacking your friends: Beijing targets American biz amid tech tariff tiff
Everything little thing Xi does is magic, everything Xi do just turns me intrusion alarms on Three years after the governments of America and China agreed not to hack corporations in each other's countries, experts say Beijing is now back to its old ways.…
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