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by Richard Speed on (#40YNG)
A message to you, Rudy. Or a call. Or maybe an email? Customer engagement outfit Twilio has confirmed its intent to snap up email marketing platform SendGrid in a deal worth around $2bn in stock.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40YG7)
Nixing 139k phishing sites is pretty good going to be fair Despite companies "hanging up" when GCHQ rings them to say they've been hacked (true story), "the UK has avoided a category 1 [infosec incident]", according to National Cyber Security Centre chief Ciaran Martin.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40YB2)
Cross-platform? Sure, but there's still no place like home IBM has trotted out tech it reckons will ease management of services over a variety of cloud infrastructures, including Microsoft and Amazon's as well its own.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40Y65)
Paperwork demands code from internet goliaths Analysis After Redis Labs relicensed the modules it developed to complement its open-source database, from AGPL to Apache v2.0 with a Commons Clause, the free-software community expressed dismay.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40Y67)
Need SSD RAID, i9 or a GPU? Join our Z Club, says Inky Microsoft's Surface has become a victim of its own success. This year’s iteration reuses the same case, maintaining compatibility with peripherals. Several PC rivals can boast better value in the premium professional segment with more interesting designs.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40Y2Y)
Users face hours without tunes as streaming service trips up mid-dance move In a reminder of a golden age when we still had physical media, Amazon Music decided to pop on its headphones and chill out to some Harold Budd this morning, leaving users unable to access the streaming service.…
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by Richard Currie on (#40XZN)
And we'll take your cat if you don't tidy up after it Like a weary mother laying down the law, London's Ecuadorian embassy has slapped WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with a nine-page memo of house rules to follow if he wants to see the internet again under their roof.…
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by Richard Currie on (#40YNJ)
And we'll take your cat if you don't tidy up after it Like a weary mother laying down the law, London's Ecuadorian embassy has slapped WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with a nine-page memo of house rules to follow if he wants to see the internet again under their roof.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40XX8)
Er, one-tenth of the human capital AWS is throwing at its public cloud Fujitsu may have given up the ghost on its own K5 cloud, but it is promising to throw a ton of human resources at selling and managing Microsoft Azure – its public cloud service of choice.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#40XTM)
Police forces have 'real anxieties' about incremental uptake, dodgy 4G coverage The Home Office has admitted a three-year delay to the rollout of the UK’s new 4G Emergency Services Network will cost £1.1bn – but insisted it will still demonstrate value for money.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40XTP)
Minecraft? In The Reg? Call the Brigadier! While the world may have been focused on the acid reflux of the Windows 10 October 2018 release, it wasn't the only news out of Redmond in the past 7 days. It's time for the Microsoft round-up.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40XNX)
IE, Edge, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, all planning to deprecate lousy old versions by 2020 Sysadmins and netizens, it's time to get serious about killing off old, buggy and insecure versions of Transport Layer Security (TLS) – the encryption used to secure connections to HTTPS websites like your bank, El Reg, and so on.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40XKQ)
X-ray probe could be awake by end of this week NASA's rough month is improving somewhat: the American space agency is spinning up a spare gyroscope to bring the orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory back online by the end of the week, and it reckons it can wake the Hubble Space Telescope soon.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40XHD)
EASA's writing rules for them after 'a number of requests' The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued a public consultation on how to regulate futuristic air taxis that take off and land vertically.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40XDB)
Like a little tiny ghost in the machine Video The Palm brand has returned with a bizarre concept: a tiny touchscreen "ghost" phone that mirrors the contents of your real smartphone – and won’t do much without one.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40XB7)
Two weeks after he went public with illness, philanthropist Alt-F4s from this simulation we call reality Obit Billionaire Paul Allen, who cofounded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975 and is credited with coining the company's name, has died of cancer aged 65.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40X6A)
Surprising nobody, survey finds investors think they're buying more than a slice of a startup Nearly 22 per cent of women tech biz founders surveyed by startup accelerator Y Combinator learned the hard way that venture-capital and angel investors can be creeps or worse.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40X6C)
'Unprecedented' fibre damage from deadly storm, says Verizon Verizon and AT&T are slowly bringing the Florida Panhandle, and surrounding areas in the US, back online after Hurricane Michael devastated its mobile and fiber networks.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40X3G)
Donald Daters application more insecure than the president A much-hyped dating site for Donald Trump supporters in the US is being blasted for shoddy security that may have exposed all of its users to eavesdropping and account theft.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40WZG)
Death from a-bug. Dr Strange-bug. Top Bug. We could do this all day... Computer security vulnerabilities are widespread in US military hardware, and the Pentagon is only beginning to understand how to fix them.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40WVF)
Gadgets taught to identify actions via always-on mics Boffins have devised a way to make eavesdropping smartwatches, computers, mobile devices, and speakers with endearing names like Alexa better aware of what's going on around them.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40WQK)
'I have no reason to believe at this point that it won't be on schedule' For reals, my dude? NASA boss Jim Bridenstine says he's confident the next Russian Soyuz rocket carrying crew and gear to the International Space Station will launch "on schedule."…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40WKN)
Travel details for thousands of citizens slip into hands of slippery scumbags Someone has reportedly siphoned personal information on 30,000 or more US Department of Defense workers.…
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by Chris Williams on (#40WF3)
Status: TITSUP – Total Inability To Support Users' Packets Updated Virgin Media, one of the UK's largest broadband and TV cable providers, is suffering an outage right now. If you can't access the internet or watch the telly, then it's not just you. It's quite a few of you.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40W64)
Undervalues tracker stock by $11bn, quips: 'Peace better than war but I still enjoy a good fight' Michael Dell could be about to lock horns again with Carl Icahn - the activist investor is opposed to Dell Technologies going public via VMware because he claims the move will rip off existing stockholders.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40W1X)
Hive, HP Inc sign up to refreshed code of practice GCHQ has managed to convince HP Inc and Centrica Hive to take its side in a relatively rare public intervention on the state of consumer IoT security.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40VWR)
Like a Psion without the keys Samsung has been granted a patent (PDF) for a foldable mobile device, giving important clues as to how it’s approaching the market with the new technology.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40VSC)
Chip rivals lock lips to make customers happy Intel on Monday joined hands with Arm, its occasional rival, in an attempt to make the notoriously dismal state of Internet-of-Things security less so.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40VP0)
Plucky Brit land speed record chaser fails to find £25m down the back of the sofa, calls in Administrators Twenty-one years to the day since Wing Commander Andy Green cracked the land-speed record with ThrustSSC, the UK outfit attempting to go one better with Bloodhound has entered administration.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40VP2)
Another old world vendor to rely on hyperscale beasties... in this instance, Azure Fujitsu has taken the K5 platform for a long walk off a short pier, sending the hybrid cloud service to a watery grave - to stretch the metaphor - just a year and a half after its UK launch.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40VKD)
But you're only in the pink if you're in China Microsoft’s chief product officer, Panos Panay, took to Twitter today to insist that the Surface line was positively in the pink. In China, at any rate.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40VKF)
Also: Juniper and the gang plus AI network research tools Roundup German internet exchange operator DE-CIX has again attempted to block the country's spy agency from tapping its network – this time by filing a constitutional complaint.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40VH3)
Probably because Microsoft has accidentally disabled your audio Somebody got a little trigger happy with the big red Windows Update button last week as a broken Intel audio driver was unleashed on users “by mistakeâ€.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40VH5)
'To team up with Amazon is like to team up with the devil' Canalys Channels Forum 2018 Pity the poor resellers, because Jeff Bezos and his Amazon Business business is coming for their business, and they'll play ball with him at their own peril, so an analyst claims.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#40VET)
Techie gets away with it by saying 'I Love You' Who, Me? Just like clockwork, another weekend is over and Monday is here again. To lighten the load, El Reg is offering you the latest instalment of Who, Me?, our weekly sysadmin confessional column.…
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by Team Register on (#40VEW)
And more than one place… Events Serverless computing might be the way of the future, but to some it can also look suspiciously like a whole new crop of walled gardens.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40VC5)
Digital government? Not sure how it is for you, but it's been great for us You may not have many functional digital government services to use here in the UK – but if you did, they would be the prettiest in the world.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40RPT)
Your two-minute guide to this week in machine-learning world Roundup Hello, here's a quick roundup of what's been happening in AI outside of the headlines.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40R4T)
The Live bookmarks, preview features, that is When Firefox 64 arrives in December, support for RSS, the once celebrated content syndication scheme, and its sibling, Atom, will be missing.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40QV1)
Also, Flash fakers seek out crypto marks Roundup This week we caught wind of another Facebook blunder, a dodgy Patch Tuesday bundle, and more China trouble.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40QS2)
A pulse-racing tale of biotech bug fixing The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising health professionals to keep an eye on some of the equipment they use to monitor pacemakers and other heart implants.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#40QKY)
Aging kit kicks into safe mode, 65,000+ miles away October is shaping up to be a lousy month for NASA. First, the Hubble space telescope went into hibernation. Then a Russian Soyuz rocket failed to get its astronauts and kit up to the orbiting International Space Station. And now the American agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory, tens of thousands of miles from Earth, is kaput – temporarily, we hope.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40QGH)
'Humans are going to be a lot less visible ... will be just one species of intelligent beings' The notion of deploying armed human soldiers on the ground to fight wars will disappear over time, according to one of America's top military scientists.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40QGK)
Tinder subdomain flaw turns into massive everybody flaw Bug-hunters have told how they uncovered a significant security flaw that affected the likes of Tinder, Yelp, Shopify, and Western Union – and potentially hundreds of millions of folks using these sites and apps.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40QD6)
Good news: 20m feared pwned are safe. Bad news: That's still 30m profiles snooped... Facebook users can relax and get back to interacting with quality content and authentic individuals on the social network.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40Q97)
Wait.... this wasn't in the script In a US Senate hearing that went little reported this month, America's antitrust chiefs warned that Europe's tough General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) had benefited the companies it was designed to tame.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40Q0A)
A lovely bit of open-source interop for the weekend Language interoperability efforts are underway at Microsoft in the form of the open-source xlang, which builds on the approach taken with WinRT.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40PQA)
Message for the fu-ture-ture-ture Canalys Channels Forum 2018 Microsoft is still going to ditch or spin off the Surface line in 2019, insists the analyst who first made the prediction a year ago, despite the line-up's annual refresh this month.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40PQC)
Come with me if you want to be ripped off Twenty years ago, the internet was promised to level the playing field allowing small fry to compete with the bigger, entrenched players. But online digital markets have tended towards monopoly, or a small number of dominant firms.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40PJ6)
Bigwigs report lots of progress in the cash-flinging department The UK's Department of Health and Social Care released a progress update this week on the hesitant efforts to deal with shonky NHS IT.…
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