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by Gareth Corfield on (#3WGGD)
Plenty of work for the Z14 plumbers Down Under IBM has scored itself a AU$481m ($357m, £277m) mainframe contract with the Australian Department of Human Services. The revelation that half of a larger mega-deal rests solely on mainframes sheds more light on what's holding up Big Blue's financial position.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3WGAW)
Chipzilla has a few flash drives for the data centre as well Intel has launched two QLC (4bits/cell) SSDs – one for consumers and one for data centre use.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3WGAY)
Mind you, they're doing all right on basic B2B phone lines Virgin Media's operating income slid 17 per cent over the past year despite the Brit telco growing its Q2 2018 revenues to £1.275bn, creating interesting conditions for its newly acquired chief operating officer.…
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by David Gordon on (#3WG68)
Invitation to lunch, workshops and talks Promo Cybersecurity software firm Sophos is inviting IT professionals to "See the Future" at The Brewery, near the Barbican in London, on Tuesday 9 October.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3WG0Y)
He'll help AWS to 'transform' international governments Exclusive The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has today confirmed the resignation of Liam Maxwell, though the UK government’s top tech advisor will work his notice period and not leave until October.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3WG0Z)
Waiter, there's a bug in my Pie Android P may have been the smoothest and most public beta the world’s dominant phone OS has yet enjoyed, but it isn't without its issues.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3WFW0)
NAND that... is how you get skin in the flash game Seagate has announced Nytro 1000 and 5020 SSDs based on OEM'd Toshiba/Western Digital flash chips.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3WFR5)
Marketing biz sold info to political campaign via Experian Updated Data-brokering biz Lifecycle Marketing (Mother & Baby) has been fined £140,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for illegally collating and flogging personal information of more than a million people.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3WFR7)
Nostalgia warp now almost complete Of all the intellectual property rights on which our future prosperity depends, perhaps trademarks are the most undervalued. The deep emotional power of a brand endures, long after its parent has expired.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WFNA)
Countdown to ancient IE a telltale sign of malice A honeypot project operated by Japanese comms company NTT has turned up a bunch of new approaches to malware obfuscation.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3WFNC)
Uncomfortable to hold, crap buttons – oh dear Review The ZX Spectrum Vega+ is running open-source Spectrum emulator software FUSE, The Register has confirmed while carrying out a hands-on review of the handheld console.…
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by John Leyden on (#3WFJV)
Legal eagles drill into the issue with El Reg What are the implications under GDPR of a previous owner retaining access to data and control of a connected car after it is sold on?…
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by Team Register on (#3WFJX)
Save now with Serverless Computing early bird tickets Events Whether you’re looking at tweaking your infrastructure or contemplating a wholescale transformation, Serverless is likely to figure in your planning.…
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by John Leyden on (#3WFJY)
You could put words in people's mouths, claim researchers Researchers have uncovered security shortcomings in WhatsApp that create a means for hackers to intercept and manipulate messages sent in both private and group conversations.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3WFG5)
NVMe rules the interconnect roost Flash Memory Summit At the Flash Memory Summit this week in Santa Clara, California, Toshiba claimed it's possible to get NVMe-over-Fabrics access speed on bog-standard Ethernet, Attala flashed its shared flash cache, the crowd oo'd and ah'd at PCI gen 4.0, and the industry meditated on enhanced 3D NAND layer counts and disk drive cannibalisation.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3WFE5)
Easyleads chief failed to pay fine – now he can't run a UK biz A company boss whose business was fined £260,000 for making 16.7 million automated marketing calls has been banned from holding directorships for six years.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3WFC2)
How does it work? Nobody really knows what goes on in the black box Black Hat Here's perhaps a novel use of a neural network: proof-of-concept malware that uses AI to decide whether or not to attack a victim.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3WFC4)
Panel spills beans on beans spilled Black Hat Next time you leave things to the last minute, remember this well.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3WFAB)
Press record, make some noise into your mic, press play, voila – all in your browser Vid AI can now beatbox for you for hours on end using your voice, if you're into that kind of thing.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WF3Y)
Patch wpa_supplicant and/or kill off key protocol, thanks It’s been a mildly rough week for Wi-Fi security: hard on the heels of a WPA2 weakness comes a programming cockup in the wpa_supplicant configuration tool used on Linux, Android, and other operating systems.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WF29)
GLB Director keeps those packets humming even when new servers are added to pools If you’ve got a big bare-metal data center, or if you’re just BM-curious, head on over to GitHub, where there’s a new load balancer on offer by, um, GitHub.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3WF0B)
Prove us wrong, kids, and bag $250,000 Black Hat Not that many moons ago, Microsoft was seemingly reluctant to open a bug bounty program. It also once described Linux as a cancer. Now it claims to love Linux, and is offering bounties on bugs. How times change.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3WEYG)
Self-medicating with booze is no answer, hackers warned at conference Black Hat In a personal and powerful presentation, a computer security veteran has warned that too many infosec bods are fighting a losing battle with the bottle.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3WEVW)
Economist sheds light on US broadband rivalries Analysis If Americans want fast internet access, they need to tighten the screws on Big Cable, not give it yet more power.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3WER0)
Optane DC persistent memory ships to Google, Xeon roadmap, and more revealed At Intel's Data-Centric Innovation Summit today in Santa Clara, California, Chipzilla reiterated its commitment to deliver 10nm Xeon processors in 2020, to maintain its market leadership, and to adapt its silicon to AI-oriented workloads.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3WEMK)
Parisa Tabriz talks Chrome, HTTPS, and more Black Hat Parisa Tabriz, a director of engineering at Google and head of the web giant's Project Zero bug-hunting squad, today opened this year's Black Hat USA conference with a reminder that partying is key to securing software.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3WEH4)
Why not waste it on some not-very-good Magic Leap techno-goggles? The day has finally arrived! After years of delays and endless over-hyping, Magic Leap has launched its augmented-reality goggles.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3WE07)
Internet underground outside the West takes a different tone The concept of the "dark web" in Asia is way different to what peeps in Europe and the Americas are used to.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3WE08)
Data biz trumpets international sales and IBM partnership Hortonworks, once criticised for burning through cash, has reported a fair second 2018 quarter, with revenues up 40 per cent and net losses down 27 per cent.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3WDW2)
Only losers pay, er, sell retail Analysis Samsung has pledged to splurge $160bn on technology investment over three years, as the global smartphone market matures.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3WDQ6)
Frankenfirm sets up 'integrated practice' with AWS to eat its lunch before others do DXC Technology, fed up with the cloud brigade eating into its own IT outsourcing (ITO) business, has set up an "integrated practice" with AWS to get in on the action itself.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3WDQ8)
Room for another ego at the top, Benioff? Salesforce chief operating officer Keith Block is to become co-CEO with Mark Benioff, in a move echoing their former employer Oracle's setup.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3WDJ2)
Shhh, little VMware, go back to sleep Dell is wooing investors with the promise of profits leaping by more than two-thirds if they back Big Mickey D's plans to take the eponymous tech group public again.…
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by John Leyden on (#3WDJ3)
Cunning plan to push top staff out? Firm keeps schtum Symantec is cancelling an Employee Share Purchase (ESP) programme, angering some workers in the process.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3WDEC)
Schools can't do it alone, says education secretary The British government has admitted teachers need help tackling lesson workloads and admin burdens – but wants tech firms to fix the problem.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3WDB6)
Rewrites storage server rules with 32 of Chipzilla's rulers Supermicro has crammed 1PB of Intel flash rulers into the slimmest possible 1U rack storage server.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3WDB8)
Less disruptive and accessible, with added Clippy Analysis So little has changed in the latest annual update to Android, 9.0 Pie, you may be forgiven for thinking "8.2" is a far more appropriate release number.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WDBA)
Viptela vManage comes to boxen running IOS XE Cisco has made the next move in its integration of 2017 acquisition Viptela, prepping an SD-WAN upgrade it is going to ship to a million routers.…
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by Team Register on (#3WD90)
Save on MCubed tickets while you still can Events You’ve got just over a week to grab early bird tickets for MCubed and ensure cut-price, front row spots for three days of prime machine learning, AI and analytics goodness.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WD91)
'Kid, take a nap, I have a project to save' The popular Homebrew macOS package installer has moved to plug a serious vulnerability – it accidentally left a GitHub token visible to the public. Luckily, a team member on paternity leave had a moment while their child napped to fix it.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#3WD6A)
Adoption is inevitable, and yet we all keep putting it off It has been twenty years since the publication of the first draft of the IPv6 standard, in response to the growing realisation that the IPv4 address space would sooner or later be entirely filled. Fast-forward to today, and amazingly the world is clinging stubbornly to IPv4, with the rate of adoption of IPv6 possibly slowing.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3WD6C)
Meanwhile, fakes fill the banana-shaped void HMD Global insists its much-delayed Nokia 8110 4G "banana phone" will officially hit UK shelves this month, half a year after it was announced and Amazon began to take orders. In the meantime, imported models and outright fakes have flooded the market.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3WD1X)
Seems obvious but this case is messier than you'd imagine The European Court of Justice has determined that a website must get permission from the copyright owner of an image before it use the picture itself – even if that photo or illustration is readily available elsewhere.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3WD1Z)
When will I, will I be internet famous? When will I see my picture in the 'pedia pages? Boffin-loving bots are penning potential new Wikipedia pages to recognize the work of notable scientists who are missing from the online encyclopedia.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3WCZY)
Redmond blames user error, invites further feedback to improve its service Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) was launched to world+dog in June, however, a few disgruntled customers say the managed container confection isn't fully baked yet.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3WCY0)
We apologize in advance for this machine-learning basketball player pun Skynet is getting closer. Ish. Artificially intelligent software has now picked up a devastating new skill after observing humans. It can now, er, dribble a basketball. Boomshakalaka!…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WCVN)
Also: Juniper jumps on its stack Hard on the heels of the Linux kernel's packets-of-death attack dubbed SegmentSmack, a similar vulnerability has been disclosed and fixed in FreeBSD.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3WCSQ)
Ffw-dumm... Ffw-dumm... Ffw-dumm... Ffw-dumm... IBM this week introduced a 16-socket Power9 server monster.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3WCQS)
Data herding upstart stamps foot on the gas, bags another $100m in funding Four years after picking up a $100m E-round, data wrangling biz Actifio has picked up another $100m in an F-round.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3WCNX)
Touts storage boxes, dreams of code-composable infrastructure Western Digital is setting out to go beyond hyper-converged kit, and create a software composable server, storage, and networking infrastructure, starting with new flash and disk boxes.…
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