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by Shaun Nichols on (#481YK)
Expect trolls, cyber attacks, and even deep fakes in next election Attacks intended to sway the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election are probably already underway, according to the nation's head of intelligence.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#481SM)
Not so much crying wolf as taking wolf out for all-expenses paid dinner Analysis Facebook has cut off independent reviewers of political ads that run on its platform, citing security concerns. That's a claim the reviewers have rejected.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#481P0)
Startups getting squeezed as market settles into maturity Exclusive Hyper-converged infrastructure startup Maxta is closing its doors – after being unable to obtain funding and make progress in the face of a solidifying HCI market.…
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by Chris Williams on (#481P2)
Total Inability To Support Users' Passwords Updated The day of week ends in "day" so, of course, Microsoft's Office 365 has fallen over, and Azure portal is having a wobble, too.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#481HV)
Banks, folks can sue – but businesses have to show harm A US judge has given the go-ahead for a set of consolidated lawsuits against credit agency Equifax regarding its 2017 mega-hack.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#481DX)
Claims it redesigned around VirnetX IP. That obviously worked well then... Apple has filed its fifth appeal against a half-billion award, claiming that it redesigned its FaceTime system to avoid infringing VirnetX's network security patents.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4819J)
Meanwhile, one in five polled coders complain they were denied US work visas JavaScript, arguably the most polarizing programming language at the moment, also happens to be the most popular among developers, at least for a fairly large group of coders.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4814H)
$35m for attorney fees? Judge Lucy says Koh, hell no! A US court has nixed Yahoo!'s attempt to settle a class-action lawsuit over the 2013 megahack, saying it's fatally flawed.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#480ZA)
Staff 'given the chance' to retire early, overall headcount won't fall SAP is embarking on a €950m restructuring project to update internal skills, move on some of the old guard, and "simplify" the org chart.…
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by Richard Speed on (#480TR)
Affected customers will be able to view their bills. Rejoice! Plusnet customers suffering from the "White Screen of Death" need fret no more as the Brit broadband pusher has told The Register that its member orifice will be fine and dandy by the end of today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#480TS)
Optane in the membrane caching, FPGA card for added v4.0 grunt Cisco has added performance features to its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), with all-NVMe systems, Optane SSD caching and FPGA acceleration. It has also extended HyperFlex out to ROBO* sites with central management.…
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by Richard Speed on (#480P1)
I'll eat my hat if leaving is not a success. Also my pants. And those socks look tasty too As the UK continues to fret over dire warnings of supermarket shelves emptying as a side effect of Brexit, North Korea has a solution for the alleged impending crisis.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#480HB)
If hackers and nerds played together nicely, security would benefit, reckons compsci boffin Academics and grey-hat bug-hunters are a lot more alike than they care to admit.…
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by Richard Speed on (#480CD)
Windows Server 2012 admins should crank it up to 11 Microsoft has warned that it isn't only Windows 7 for the chop in 2020. Unloved Internet Explorer 10 will be joining it. Finally.…
by Richard Chirgwin on (#480CE)
Accuses suspect of other stuff too, such as faking HIV status to get a work permit. Wait, what? The government of Singapore is once again apologising for a serious breach of citizens' privacy: this time, the personal details of 14,200 individuals who tested positive for HIV, and 2,400 of their contacts, have been published online.…
by Rebecca Hill on (#4808E)
You Canuck be serious: All elk is breaking loose in battle over largest antler-bearer A Canadian city is not a-moosed that Norwegians have erected a bigger, shinier monument – and its residents are raising money to fund a possible antler extension.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#48055)
Firefox maker sets out dodgy practices the browser will block The Mozilla Foundation has announced its intent to reduce the ability of websites and other online services to track users of its Firefox browser around the internet.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#48056)
Plan to integrate platforms raises regulators' hackles Facebook has been warned it can only borg its three messaging platforms in the European Union if it meets data protection rules. There are widespread concerns about the plan's impact.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4802H)
Plus: Chinese buyers may turn on firm, warns analyst Never mind the car crash financials that Apple is expected to file tonight, an estimated glut of iPhones taking up warehouse space in the tech channel could point to worse things to come this year.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#48001)
From one little pill to impersonating a cat-owning site admin Long read “How do you eat an elephant? Nibble at it, nibble at it, a lot of little bites.†That was how Special Agent Jared Der-Yeghiayan infiltrated notorious dark web market the Silk Road and helped unmask site operator Dread Pirate Roberts, aka Ross Ulbricht.…
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by Richard Speed on (#47ZXT)
India and China keep chucking out satellites Roundup As NASA continued to listen for its stricken Mars rover and SpaceX moved closer to a first crewed launch from US soil, rocket fans had plenty to occupy them last week.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#47ZVM)
'We don't allow lead paint ... There should be some uses of information we just don't abide' Monday, January 28, was Data Privacy Day and you won't get another for a year.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#47ZQ7)
It doesn't help that we try to give kids grown-up protections, like memorizing long passphrases Usenix Engima Protecting students' privacy – from securing their personal information to safeguarding their schoolwork – is a challenge for schools and software developers, apparently.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#47ZF5)
And spy through your video camera if they hit the power button You might want to disable FaceTime on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac until Apple patches this bonkers bug.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#47ZD9)
Chinese telco box maker also accused of stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile USA Huawei and its chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou were charged with fraud on Monday by US prosecutors over their alleged sanction-busting dealings with an Iranian subsidiary.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#47ZAZ)
Only veteran 'nauts should think about going to Mars, judging by this research Floating silently among the stars may sound idyllic, but the longer you stay in space, the worse it is for your immune system, according to this latest research.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#47Z7T)
We're like a building contractor, explains Cupertino. More like vampires, thinks rest of world Apple is like a building contractor you hire to redo your kitchen, the tech giant has argued in an attempt to explain why it shouldn't have to pay customers for slowing down their iPhones.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#47Z0S)
It's not up there with looming food, medicine shortages, but it's still rather annoying An already iffy plan to deal with .eu domain ownership when the UK crashes out of the European Union has taken a turn for the worst.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#47YX5)
Supplier's substandard sauce will hit processor manufacturing Taiwan-based chip maker TSMC said on Monday that its chip production has been adversely affected by a bad batch of chemicals at a manufacturing facility that provides components for other chip makers.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47YMJ)
Advocacy groups: Force 'em to 'disgorge' data slurped up from Instagram, WhatsApp America's Federal Trade Commission has resumed work today, including its probe into Facebook, and is being urged by advocacy groups to hand the organisation a $2bn fine and break up the social networking empire.…
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by Richard Speed on (#47YF6)
Flash storage embiggened, CPU clock speed less so The Rasperry Pi Foundation has updated its Compute Module with better thermals, an updated application processor and bucketloads of flash memory (in Pi terms, at least).…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#47YF8)
Good news if you're in London or Salford (or Glasgow or Manchester) BT Openreach has declared it is installing yet more full-fibre broadband connections around the country. In an ingenious move, the infraco is putting these into the most media-heavy spots in the nation: London and Salford.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#47YAW)
Cloud backup bod Backblaze: Failure rates fell for high-cap spinners Just 139 out of 10,000 12TB Seagate drives fail a year, and Western Digital's HGST brand has an even better rate of 51 in 10,000, according to cloud backup service provider Backblaze, which has 104,778 drives spinning in its data centre.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47Y6N)
Regulators asked to tackle 'systemic' GDPR breaches A series of challenges to the practices used by the likes of Google in online behavioural advertising have been filed in the UK, Ireland and Poland, alleging that information slurped up on internet users is not only "highly intimate" but also improperly protected.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#47Y22)
Despite, er, you know the drill... Neither Britain's exit from the European Union, nor a trade tariff standoff between China and the US, nor uncertainty caused by talk of recession shall stymie tech spending this year, so say the tea-leaf readers at Gartner.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47XXQ)
UK.gov warned businesses are not prepared for 'burdensome' contract changes The lack of agreement on data flows in a no-deal Brexit is a "significant" concern and possible solutions are "burdensome and costly" to already underprepared businesses, MPs have said.…
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by Richard Speed on (#47XTF)
There's also another Windows 10 Insider build out Roundup Microsoft continued its grand tradition of delivering developer tools and snapping up tech firms last week.…
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by Richard Currie on (#47XTH)
Don't take grenades to lunch Oh, Florida man. Will your hijinks ever cease?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#47XMY)
We're taking it seriously, says chief architect Arm has declared that it feels the "weight of our responsibility" as it jumps on board with UK.gov's £70m plans to influence "hardware and chip designs" to enhance security.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#47XMZ)
Plus more of the week's networking nuggets Roundup Relative newcomer Arrcus wants to help networking upstarts follow the industry's juggernauts into the 400Gbps Ethernet world with the latest update to its year-old ArcOS network operating system.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47XG4)
Drunk confessional two years later failed to impress Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me?, El Reg's weekly confessional column for readers with technical mishaps weighing on their minds.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#47XE8)
A. Bad things from 2008 we can't seem to shake A piece of banking malware that first debuted more than a decade ago is once again wrecking havoc.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#47W02)
...while Apple cuts 200 jobs from its car project, and more from the AI world Roundup Hello, here’s this week’s roundup of all things robot and AI-related. We’re talking delivery robots, self-driving cars, and a new natural language dataset to play with.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#47TBM)
...PHP's PEAR sabotaged for months, and more from the world of infosec Roundup This week we saw Hadoop hacks, Exchange exploits, and Deadpool besting scammers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#47T6B)
Still, not bad for hardware that was supposed to last 90 days NASA scientists this week celebrated the fact their robot buddy Opportunity has spent the past fifteen years on Mars.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#47ST0)
Nothing to see here, etc etc Analysis Apple has, over the past few years, quietly and successfully patented, in the US at least, various aspects of Swift.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#47SGM)
Takeover leads to consolidation? Unfathomable (adjusted for sarcasm) Analysis In an unprecedented decision that has left tech observers struggling to contain their shock, Facebook has decided to create a common software architecture for its three main apps: Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#47SGP)
Moving to high-density DRAM and delaying 96-layer flash DRAM shortages that boosted the coffers of memory makers in recent times looks to be over - at least for now - and the impact can be seen in SK Hynix's top and bottom lines judging by its calendar Q4 financials.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#47SGR)
Theme park's attempt to shoot down lawsuit snubbed by top judges Analysis The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday ruled a family's lawsuit that claims downmarket-Disneyland Six Flags broke the US state's Biometric Privacy Act can proceed.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#47SCR)
House Commerce committee says it has inside knowledge of dodgy regulator antics US telecoms regulator the FCC has been accused of colluding with companies it is supposed to oversee in order to protect a controversial decision over new 5G networks.…
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