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by Rebecca Hill on (#4044M)
Co-founders chat to El Reg about liability, data silos and raw data pain Interview Ninety-nine per cent of companies are struggling to make a success of machine learning, according to execs at analytics biz Databricks.…
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by David Gordon on (#4041X)
Free, day-long event offers training, customer insights, and networking Promo Whether you're already taking your first steps toward the cloud, or just exploring the idea, AWS Transformation Day 2018 taking place in London on 30 October is a good place to start your journey.…
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by Chris Williams on (#403ZF)
Good news: It's 7nm. Sad news: It's shipping 2H 2019 XDF Xilinx has packed everything but the kitchen sink into its new Versal family of FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays).…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#403ZH)
It's so big that it's possible that it could have its own little moons Scientists have spotted what may be the first Moon to be discovered outside the Solar System, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#403XA)
Meet Wi-Fi 6, the protocol previously known as 802.11ax Wi-Fi, known for about two decades by its wonky Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers designation, IEEE 802.11, has adopted a new consumer-oriented naming scheme.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#403N1)
It's good news, but overall a wasted opportunity Anyone manufacturing an internet-connected device in California will, from 2020, have to give it a unique password in an effort to increase overall online security.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#403N3)
$5bn deal sends stock market Hadoop over heels The big data market became a little less competitive on Wednesday when two of the biggest players, Cloudera and Hortonworks, agreed to merge.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#403G5)
Chipzilla's security through obscurity withers under scrutiny In its ongoing exploration of Intel's Management Engine (ME), security biz Positive Technologies has reaffirmed the shortsightedness of security through obscurity and underscored the value of open source silicon.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4037W)
Astroboffins are Goblin up Solar System sightings There is still no sign of the elusive Planet X, although astronomers have stumbled across Goblin along the way.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4033Y)
Not covered: single-malt scotch and steak dinners The former CIO of the US federal government says companies looking to nab IT contracts with agencies need to bring more than just a sales pitch.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#40340)
Phantom Secure's Vincent Ramos faces 20 years in clink The CEO of a company that took Blackberry phones, stripped them of their cameras, microphones and GPS and then installed encryption software in order to create a secure phone, has pleaded guilty to conspiring with drug cartels.…
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by Richard Speed on (#402ZY)
Customers in it for the long term get parity with the flighty Semi-Annual Channel crowd After a lengthy gestation period, Windows Server 2019 has arrived loaded with goodies to ease the journey to a cloudier world.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#402VN)
Weakness not easy to leverage, but iDRAC exploit would mean game over for admins A pair of IT professionals have uncovered a potentially serious flaw in the hardware management tools for older Dell servers.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#402VQ)
It's just a test, we're told At 2:18 pm EDT on Wednesday (11:18 am PDT), most mobile subscribers in the US can expect a "Presidential Alert" to brighten their day.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#402JA)
Comms software flinger confesses to ultimate snafu, trigger still under investigation Cisco has confessed that the cause of the mega Webex outage last week – which it is still trying to clean up – was an automated script "which deleted the virtual machines hosting the service".…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#402DP)
Mirroring, Timeline come to Google mobes With no phone platform left, Microsoft has snuggled much closer to Android. The new version of Windows 10 – available on demand today to all users – introduces what Microsoft calls "app mirroring" into the Windows.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40294)
Clicked Check For Updates? Welcome to the Release Preview ring Windows 10 October 2018 update is here, having skipped past the Release Preview phase, and can be downloaded now if you can’t wait for it to make an automatic appearance.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4020J)
State-sponsored hacking meets financial acquisition with APT38 A new state-sponsored attack from North Korea is being seen as an effort by the cash-strapped dictatorship to raise funds by exploiting foreign banks.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4020K)
Upcoming update could bork on-prem logins, warns Redmond Microsoft has flung out an advisory for some of its on-premises Dynamics 365 customers. Integrated Skype? Turn it off. Turn it off now.…
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by Richard Speed on (#401X4)
16 hours of rocking and rolling before the power runs out Not content with unleashing a couple of robots to photograph the surface of asteroid Ryugu, JAXA probe Hyabusa2 successfully deployed the German MASCOT lander this morning.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#401X6)
Slow your roll... only Radford's hooked up for now Full-fibre broadband has reached Coventry, Openreach has declared – while adding that it had made 600k new FTTP connections.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#401V4)
One Kubernetes to rule them all Cisco's Container Platform, launched in January, is now certified to run SAP's year-old Data Hub management platform.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#401RH)
£9m up for grabs in latest digital health tech funding call UK firms are being asked to pitch digital solutions to "overcome privacy challenges" related to the increasing use of data in the health sector as part of a £9m competition to boost the NHS's use of technology.…
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by Richard Speed on (#401P3)
Nothing to do with jazz, everything to do with grains and silos Microsoft has updated its distributed high-scale applications platform Orleans, claiming a 30 per cent increase in performance.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#401M5)
And has just won a bizarre argument to let arbitrators read a public document If you thought the monster battle between Google and Uber over alleged theft of its self-driving technology was over, you'd be wrong.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#401J7)
Social network says SSO-slurping miscreants didn't reuse tokens on third-party apps Facebook has toned down its Friday warning that stolen credentials could be used to compromise third-party apps.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#401CT)
Giants join Australia's cryptowar Opposition to the Australian government's proposed crypto-busting legislation is gathering pace, with internet and telco giants deciding to speak with a single voice.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40199)
Wireless, noise-cancelling Surface headphones teased too At a media event in New York City on Tuesday, Microsoft refreshed its Surface hardware with the introduction of the Surface Pro 6, Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Studio 2 all-in-one PC.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4019B)
First woman in 55 years and the oldest recipient to date The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a trio of researchers for their work in developing powerful lasers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4016K)
All it takes is a few lines of code If you’ve been thinking about trying to learn deep learning, here’s a new software library that promises to make things easy.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#400Q0)
Singaporean funding will result in Singaporean offices Secure edge and cloud file services supplier CTERA Networks has trousered $30m in D-round funding to build out its infrastructure in South East Asia.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#400Q2)
At $15 an hour, 50,000 full-time and temp staffers will be livin' it up Bezos style - almost Amazon, the target of a recently introduced bill called the Stop BEZOS Act, on Tuesday said it would raise the minimum wage for all its US workers to $15 an hour.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#400DK)
Steven Serabian beats software company soundly SAP America has been ordered to pay a former salesman $662,200 for screwing him out of commissions and then firing him when he complained.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40033)
One may have said too much, one may have said too little UK communications regulator Ofcom has opened an investigation into Vodafone and EE for allegedly giving inaccurate data about mobile coverage areas.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#40035)
NVMe-FC, predictive analytics and roadmap away from VIMMs Violin Systems is making the most of being rescued by private equity, with new hardware and software, and a focus on tossing its hat into the all-flash array performance ring.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3ZZRB)
Slams Home Office's lack of engagement with privacy fears The UK Home Office's alleged indifference towards civil rights groups' concerns over the creation of a mammoth policing database has caused Liberty to ditch the government-run consultation group on the project.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3ZZRD)
With Nvidia CUDA 10 comes great AI power and VS compatibility Inhabitants of the Venn set overlap between Microsoft Visual Studio users and Nvidia CUDA developers, rejoice. CUDA 10 is once more compatible with Visual Studio.…
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by Team Register on (#3ZZKJ)
Serverless changes everything... 'cept for the things that stay the same Events Embracing Serverless isn’t just a question of writing a couple of functions, flicking a switch and keeping half an eye on your costs.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3ZZFM)
Intel's Grinch that stole Christmas might make for a softer end to the year The ongoing transition to Windows 10 by corporates offset weak consumer demand to keep PC sales ticking over with a modest 3 per cent increase over this time last year, according to figures released by channel box-counters Context.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3ZZFP)
Sucks up $4bn in Q2 alone Stats from analyst house IDC show that the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) server revenues are growing even as fewer units are shipped.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3ZZCM)
Does a review by an 'imagineer' in 2003 invalidate a patent filing? Take a guess A commercial rival of email virus-scanning software firm Glasswall has lost its High Court attempt to use a bulletin board post from 2003 written by a former MessageLabs "imagineer" to have a patent declared invalid.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3ZZCP)
Philip Hammond says US reforms slowing progress The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has blamed US tax reforms for slow progress towards an international levy on tech giants' revenues, and warned that the UK is considering going it alone.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3ZZ9X)
Internet architecture stalwart wants DNS Service Discovery rewritten to protect privacy Privacy consultant and former Internet Architecture Board president Christian Huitema has said he reckons hotspot users should be given better privacy protection.…
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by Team Register on (#3ZZ6M)
Can’t sleep out but still want to help? Donate direct You’ve got till Wednesday to sign up for Byte Night 2018, so if you want to help some of our country’s most disadvantaged youngsters by sleeping out with the cream of IT society, get clicking now.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3ZZ4K)
Someone's gotta service that embiggening backup burden HPE has beefed up its data protection product set, adding extra capacity and performance grunt, better Nimble array support and a fresh integration deal with Commvault.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3ZZ1Z)
Now fancies being struck off before data watchdog can collect A sweary Mancunian biz has been fined £150,000 for making almost 64,000 nuisance calls to people who had opted out of automated marketing.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3ZZ21)
GhostDNS in the machine A DNSchanger-like attack first spotted in August on D-Link routers in Brazil has expanded to affect more than 70 different devices and more than 100,000 individual piece of kit.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3ZZ04)
Acrobat, Reader get patched up against dozens of new holes Adobe has posted an update to address 85 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader for both Windows and macOS.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3ZYYF)
Security rules demand more from devs in the New Year Weary of dealing with malicious Chrome extensions and user complaints, Google is asking developers to lock down their accounts and tightening up security in its Chrome Web Store.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3ZYWG)
Carrying bits again, for now The troubled Sea-Me-We-3 cable is back online, for now.…
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