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by Rebecca Hill on (#49GXS)
Marketing biz decides 'GD PR' was getting it noticed in all the wrong ways Almost a year after the General Data Protection Regulation came into effect, the European Union's stricter privacy law has claimed another victim.…
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by Chris Williams on (#49GRW)
First-ever pure-64-bit-only Armv8-A SMT server processor brains may lure chip designers If your humble Reg hack had a dollar for every Arm server processor pre-launch, launch, and car-crash failure he's witnessed, he'd be able to treat himself to a round of San Francisco's finest avocado on toast and a quad-espresso latte this morning. In other words, about 15 bucks.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49GRY)
Whoops! Oh gosh +Comment Google has apologised for not telling Nest smart home kit owners there was a microphone in their gear.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49GRZ)
Nefarious activity of cyber villains continues, but don't fret: AccountGuard will save you American tech giant Microsoft revealed this morning it has detected a wave of attacks against European democratic institutions as miscreants continue malware insertion attempts.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49GME)
ERP biz reportedly ringfencing jobs of machine learning and analytics types German ERP biz SAP’s €950m restructuring, which will see 4,400 staffers given the boot, will hit Germany and the US hardest – but those in areas like machine learning reportedly won’t be in the firing line.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#49GMG)
Staff told: 'Do not come to work tomorrow. Do not attempt to re-enter the store for any reason' Updated Apple's community of third party sellers shrunk slightly this week when retail chain Solutions Inc shuttered stores and called in an administrative receiver FRP Advisory.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49GGV)
Not exactly... But we might be seeing a toe twitching Text messaging volumes have been in decline for the past decade as smartphones, bundled data plans and the ubiquity of Wi-Fi allowed people to bypass telco charges and use OTT (over-the-top) messaging apps like WhatsApp.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49GDW)
Aloogle? Goolooma? Take your pick Google has hoovered up data pipeline pusher Alooma for an undisclosed amount as the ad slinger continues its efforts to clamber up the cloud charts.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49GDX)
Nigerian and Brit augmented boffinry could save billions Rejoice, Brexit Galileo worriers! Your hand-wringing is at an end thanks to research by Brighton-based Professor Chris Chatwin and Dr Lasisi S Lawal of Nigeria's Obasanjo Space Center. Kind of.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49GB2)
Because it'll be fiiiiine... probably Hands On Hot on the heels of Oppo, Chinese phone maker AGM is the second newcomer to launch in the UK in 2019 hoping to turn a niche into a much more mainstream habitat.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49G8S)
NHSX: UK.gov's new tech, data and digital quango The UK government has plans for another health quango that will not only oversee data, digital and tech procurement but have an "open door" policy with the IT industry.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#49G5S)
Procurement heads fail to finalise specs for replacement deal, extend current agreement with DXC Technology The Ministry of Defence is set to prolong the British armed forces' payroll, HR, and pensions admin contract with DXC Technology by half a year – because the military's procurement team has run out of time to find a replacement.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#49G32)
The alternative being memorizing a bunch of really long unique passphrases A bunch of infosec bods are taking some of the most popular password managers to task after an audit revealed some mildly annoying, non-world-ending security shortcomings.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49G33)
J0207 is estimated to be a mere three-billion years old and just 145 light years away Pic An amateur astronomer has discovered the oldest-known white dwarf star, sitting 145 light years away from Earth in the Capricornus constellation.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49FZP)
As ICO goes on fact-finding missions over 'concerns' about security, transparency Privacy warriors have filed fresh evidence in their ongoing battle against real-time web ad exchange systems, which campaigners claim trample over Europe's data protection laws.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49FXG)
15 gallons of uranium ore left in the visitors' center for 18 years Grand Canyon visitors may have been exposed to tiny amounts of bonus radiation from buckets of uranium ore bafflingly placed in the National Park’s museum for nearly 20 years.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#49FS8)
Oracle's legal warship drops out of warp, on impulse power for now A fierce legal battle over the Pentagon's $10bn Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud IT deal was put on ice by a judge Tuesday – after the Department of Defense (DoD) vowed to probe itself regarding the contract.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#49FQ0)
Fresh harassment allegations hit biz that insists diversity numbers are trade secret Oracle, facing US government charges that it discriminated against women by paying them less than male colleagues, has been sued yet again for gender and age discrimination by a former sales rep.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#49FM1)
Meanwhile: Commissioner celebrates forcing ISP to remove abusive content ban A bipartisan group of US senators are trying to force the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to face up to the reality that its statistics for broadband speeds across America aren't worth squat.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#49FGZ)
Sm... ck m... glitch up: Coprocess... has nasty... USB ...oun... outp... rruption... roblem Audio professionals are complaining that the T2 security coprocessor in new Apple Mac models causes annoying audible glitches when using USB-connected recording gear.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#49FD0)
Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb code can't handle much, but hey, it now runs in a browser In preparation for next month's 30th anniversary of the proposal that gave us the world wide web, boffins at the behest of CERN have recreated the world's first web browser, and made it accessible as a modern web page.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#49FD2)
Europeans can't find any evidence of Chinese spying German is expected to snub US pressure to cut Huawei out of its next-generation 5G networks, rejecting claims that the Chinese manufacturer is a security risk.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#49F8R)
ReRAM seeks artificial help Crossbar, developer of Resistive RAM (ReRAM) chips, is setting up an AI consortium to help counter, er, resistance to the technology, speed up its adoption, and hopefully outrun Intel's Optane.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#49EZQ)
Go on, flash storage bandits – spill your guts Pure Storage will introduce a shiny new backup box - dubbed ObjectEngine - from as early as next month to pinch sales from veterans including EMC-owned sectoral kingpin Data Domain.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#49ETK)
Bounty bonanza balloons and beguiles Social code storage biz GitHub, now a ward of Microsoft, on Tuesday divulged plans to make itself more attractive to hackers by flashing larger sums of cash and offering better indemnity.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49EHG)
Who do you think you are? Paris-based code botherer CAST Software said today it would buddy up with Software Heritage to tackle the sometimes tricky task of identifying the provenance of open-source code in modern projects.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#49ECY)
Newly funded firm competes with NetApp, other on-premises filers Wannabe killer of on-premises NAS boxen Nasuni has just wolfed down $25m in funding to spread its message and open up new offices.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49E85)
Spared court costs as he reveals £120-a-week income "Mr Love, you're not the victim in this. You brought this on yourself; you're the victim of your own decisions," District Judge Margot Coleman told accused hacker Lauri Love in court today as she refused to return computers seized from him by the National Crime Agency.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#49E3R)
Global sales up 4% but North America element down 25% Eugene Kaspersky's security biz saw turnover crash by a quarter in North America following the US government's decision to remove the antivirus software from federal systems.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49E3S)
Ð‘Ñ‹Ð»Ð°Ì Ð½Ðµ Ð±Ñ‹Ð»Ð°Ì Big data analytics outfit Splunk will no longer be big in Russia after the company confirmed plans to stop selling its wares there.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49E0E)
Optimised function wrangling aims to make AWS's Lambda look like a Lada Interview Israel-based serverless specialist Nuweba has slurped $4.8m of seed funding from investors keen on the company's bold claims that its tech runs at 10 times the speed of the competition.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49E0G)
We need to get our house in order first, prez tells press Samsung has launched TV ads featuring its foldable phone – but its rival chaebol isn't so keen.…
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by Richard Currie on (#49DXK)
And it's still a better love story than Twilight Conundrum. You're working on a burning trash pile of a '90s TV show and need some spooky, mysterious language to lorem ipsum into a book of supposedly occult nature. Which tongue has a suitable enough clusterfuck of vowels to make the prop look like it's about to summon Yog-Sothoth?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49DTX)
Christopher Egan has had enough of giving evidence Ill-fated British software company Autonomy's one-time US sales chief is reluctant to testify in person against former CEO Mike Lynch, the High Court in London heard yesterday morning.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49DTY)
Anyone here keen to build tool to get 'right support' for sick, disabled? The UK's Department for Work and Pensions is drawing up plans for an internal service that allows it to automate slurps of medical data on claimants to dole out health-related benefits.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49CGG)
Isn't it ironic, don't you think? It is ironic that Oracle, which normally tries to make class-action suits "disappear into arbitration", is now taking an anti-arbitration stance in a pay dispute, a judge in San Francisco said late last week.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49CCP)
If only Slack would go down too, we could get some work done Updated Microsoft's collaborative Slack-alike, Teams, is having a difficult start to the week, with users unable to log in to share their hopes, dreams and Word documents with their co-workers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49CCR)
UK Space spends £18m on internet sat tech Roundup While NASA finally gave up on the Opportunity Rover, a UK-built space harpoon was fired last week, much to the annoyance of one ex-Shuttle bigwig... and earlier today, the UK agreed to fling money at satellite tech.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49C8S)
The combined might of Reg readers can do better than SAPpy McSAPface German ERP giant SAP has finally latched on to the name-our-thing stunt commonly used to drum up interest in gritters, offering punters the chance to brand Munich's new sports arena.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49C5A)
UK court told firm wants Sushovan Hussain on stand in case he's handed jail time HPE wants Sushovan Hussain, convicted ex-CFO of infamous British software company Autonomy, to give evidence in HPE's UK lawsuit against former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch before his own potential US prison sentence.…
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by Richard Currie on (#49C2B)
How is there so much villainy wrapped up in one generation? When was the last time you appreciated a sundial? I'll give you a mo...…
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by Richard Speed on (#49C2D)
Monero? When is this – 2017? Roundup Yet more Linux love seeped into Windows 10 over the past week, while admins buffed their rings in readiness for servicing changes and miscreants crept around the Microsoft Store.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49C2F)
Second time lucky? Readers, we asked you what materials we should use to construct homebrew gadget Project Alias – which deafens smart speakers – and a whopping 40 per cent of you demanded Lego.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49BVQ)
China, Russia, Israel and the US floated as potential culprits Australia's prime minister has blamed a "sophisticated state actor" for a hack on the country's parliament and some of its prominent political parties.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49BVS)
Born in a storm of snow, killed off in a blizzard of TCP/IP: The Bulletin Board System While large chunks of the US used this year's Snowmageddon to binge on streaming TV or tweet selfies with snowmen, take a moment to remember the Great Blizzard of 1978, which led to the first Bulletin Board Service (BBS) taking to the phone lines 41 years ago.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49BVV)
Na-nana-nana-nana-nana..nanana...nanana.... nana nana* Tech titans like Facebook, itself described as a "digital gangster", continually fail to address the risks their platforms pose to democracy – so the British government should regulate, MPs have said.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49BN4)
Seems to us like you would remember an incident like that... Who, Me? Gather round, dear readers, for a priceless story in this week's column for techies' mishaps.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#49BJC)
While browsers have got their act together, any other apps interpreting user-supplied code need to be aware of this Google security researchers have analyzed the impact of the data-leaking Spectre vulnerabilities afflicting today's processor cores, and concluded software alone cannot prevent exploitation.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49BJE)
Don't panic, we're not all doomed – well, except Nvidia, perhaps Roundup Here's a summary of what's been going on in the world of machine-learning, beyond what we've already covered, to kick start your week...…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#49BF0)
Standby for a 'we woz haxx0ed' email from one of these sites this week... Roundup Let's kickstart your Monday with some lovely juicy computer security and screwups news, beyond what we reported last week.…
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