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by Richard Speed on (#4248Q)
So we're ok to launch a crew in December, right? Er, guys? The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has completed its investigation into October’s Soyuz mishap in record time, pointing the finger of blame at problems during assembly.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#42448)
100TB by 2025/26? Bring it on Seagate has set a course to deliver a 48TB disk drive in 2023 using its HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording) technology, doubling areal density every 30 months, meaning 100TB could be possible by 2025/26.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4244A)
Just 11.52% on pretax profit. Virtualization juggernaut doing well in the distie stakes Trendy social media firms and ad slingers often come under attack for hiring beanies to minimise their tax contribution, something they see as sensible commercial practice. VMware UK may fall into that bracket too.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#423ZA)
Thanks, Apple. Seriously Well, that didn't take long. Owners of new iPhones can now download an app and stick some data and minutes on the second SIM that Apple has thoughtfully included, allowing cheap calls and roaming data that your main SIM provider might not include.…
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by Richard Speed on (#423ZB)
Will arrival of Hare accelerate tortoise-like performance? With its year-end results looming, Sage Group has confirmed the ascension of chief bean-counter, Steve Hare, to the lofty heights of chief executive officer.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#423W5)
Carl takes his chances in Delaware chancery In a move that probably caught nobody by surprise, corporate raider Carl Icahn has launched a lawsuit to block Dell's proposed purchase of V-class shares – stock known by the ticker DVMT.…
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by Team Register on (#423W7)
Wherever you’re at, we’ve got you covered Events Serverless computing can mean anything from triggering simple functions to deal with sudden spikes in demand to building complex applications which are core to the whole business.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#423W9)
IETF hackathoners point the 'die-die-die' gun at another buggy cipher A hackathon next week will see 'net developers get to work consigning more insecure cryptography to the /dev/null of history.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#423SB)
As department names Simon McKinnon acting CIO, external competition coming soon Departing digital boss at the UK's Department for Work and Pensions Mayank Prakash is moving to energy giant Centrica.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#423SC)
And hey – where's that new CEO? It's been 5 months ... Data protection and management biz Commvault squeezed out just 1 per cent revenue growth in its second quarter of fiscal 2019 as it transitions to subscription pricing as part of the Elliott Management driven makeover.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#423Q2)
Fear not, IT support will bust that problem in this Halloween On Call special On Call Welcome to the latest issue of On Call, where readers share their tech support crises and triumphs. And, since it's DÃa de Muertos and we've just passed Halloween, El Reg thought we'd pick out a few tales for a spooky special.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#423Q4)
We're one of 7,000 victims here, firm insists Educational electronics outlet Kitronik has suffered a data breach which its data controller suspects was caused by the same strain of malware that ransacked British Airways' website.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#423MC)
A scientist on a banknote? Stick that up your Darcy Something for the Weekend, Sir? There is a house in old Belgrade that has male and female private parts. If you were tempted to sing that last sentence, I suppose you could call it the House of the Rising Bum.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#423JK)
Its creators see this shape-shifter droid as more like Big Hero 6 than cheesy Autobots Mechanical engineering brainiacs at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania in the US have demonstrated how autonomous, modular robots can reconfigure themselves to accomplish specific tasks in an unknown place.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#423JN)
The pros and cons of using internal and external talent, or a mix of both Comment You’re a small or mid-sized business and have a growing sense of unease that you aren’t doing enough on cyber security. Must be all those headlines about ransomware infections and databases ransacked. Or – perhaps – you’re experiencing an upsurge in phishing attempts.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#423GH)
Chrome Labs experiment adds another option for building website-ish applications Developers looking for a way to write JavaScript apps without the Electron framework or NW.js now have another option called Carlo.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#423E6)
Screening system would scan faces, flag 'suspicious' reactions for immigration cops The EU is readying an AI-based screening system designed to catch travelers who lie about their reasons for visiting the Continent.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#423BR)
Popular desktop Linux environment due for deprecation in RHEL - by 2024 While everyone was distracted by IBM's $34bn takeover bid, Red Hat quietly wrote a death-note for KDE – within Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to be precise.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4233Y)
But it has nothing to do with shipments being down. Honest Cupertino tastemaker Apple Inc has logged yet another record quarter, though investors are worried that sales may be starting to slow.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42340)
Denial-of-service flaw exploited by miscreants in the wild, networking kit giant warns Cisco says miscreants are actively exploiting a SIP vulnerability in its networking gear that it disclosed on Wednesday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#422YH)
A Chen, a Ho, and a Wang walk into a bar... or so prosecutors allege The US Department of Justice has unveiled charges against two companies and three individuals it says have been stealing trade secrets from American memory chipmaker Micron.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#422V5)
We went along to CEO-approved demo in San Francisco Pics Thousands of Google employees across the globe marched out of their offices today upset that the advertising giant has paid millions of dollars in exit packages to male executives accused of sexual harassment.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#422JT)
Reinforcement learning toolkit open-sourced for devs Facebook has unveiled a software toolkit to help programmers plug AI – in the form of reinforcement-learning models – into their applications.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#422E9)
The firm everyone loves to fear sets new all-flash record Chinese array and IT systems supplier Huawei has set a new SPC-1 performance record, snagging it five out of the top six results.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#422EB)
Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc, bashed by Sir Timothy OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS Worldwide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has had enough of internet giants Google, Facebook and friends, and reckons the time has come to look at breaking them up.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4229P)
It's a triple A-rated keynote: Azure, AI and Accessibility Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took to the stage at Microsoft's Future Decoded shindig today in London. As has become the norm these days in events when the chief is not dispensing bonzer financials, much was made of the three As: Azure, AI and Accessibility.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4223Y)
Kids can be so cruel when you're a racist homophobe There's no question that fatherhood brings immense responsibility. From the moment they come into the world, children think you are immortal, an aeons-old genius – nay, a god.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#42240)
Need to up dem data rates Hutchison's UK network Three has upgraded 2,700 urban sites to support faster 4G data.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#421ZB)
Labour minister slams attitude that reaching an adequacy agreement is assured The UK has reportedly moved closer to agreeing the terms for data transfers with the European Union post-Brexit amid concerns about the impact it will have on business.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#421ZD)
Tech giants do urbanism? Of course they're watching you Locals have objected to Apple building a store in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården (Kungsan) park. Protestors said the intrusion of a tasteful glass temple of overpriced consumer electronics encroaches into the public space, ruining the character of the park.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#421T6)
Firmware security patches hit to fix critical holes in enterprise network access points On Thursday, network equipment makers Aruba, Cisco, and Cisco-owned Meraki plan to patch two flaws in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips made by Texas Instruments (TI) that power their respective enterprise Wi-Fi access points.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#421T8)
Storage news and views website ready for the coming zettabyte era Several years ago, The Register absorbed the storage-focused Blocks and Files website because storage news was becoming mainstream IT industry news. The bits and bytes making up blocks, files and objects were becoming so large in number that developing storage arrays to hold them was a complex business and getting more so.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#421P5)
'Internal issue' blamed for morning's outage Clydesdale and Yorkshire bank users have been unable to log in to their accounts or see transactions today, thanks to a non-specific “technical issueâ€.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#421P7)
Oh, and look at our lovely figures! No, ignore the cost cutting, sales declines. Shareholders are happy! BT has got Brexit licked, it told the stock market today – the former state telco said it has modelled for the worst outcome and is stockpiling products in case the UK exits with no trade deal in place and supply chains falter.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#421HW)
Firm plans to stuff a sizeable chunk into AI, naturally Graph database-flinger Neo4J has doubled its total funding after bagging $80m in E-round funding.…
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by Richard Speed on (#421HX)
Thales boldly goes where, er, NASA went in the 1960s Thales Alenia Space has bucked the Brexit blues by announcing the first all-electric satellite propulsion module to be designed and built in the UK.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#421E7)
We'll just take this one away Apple has withdrawn a faulty update that has left Apple Watch 4 owners with bricked bling.…
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Welcome back, 'ping of death', it has been... a few months. Now it's Apple's turn to do the patching
by Richard Chirgwin on (#421B9)
Kernel-level ICMP buffer overrun quietly fixed as all eyes on this week's launchfest When Apple took to the stage for its latest slew of product announcements, there were a bunch of security fixes disclosed at the same time with far less fanfare.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#421BB)
And competition regulator sees 5G clouds on the horizon The company building Australia's National Broadband Network turned in what was mostly a dull but worthy set of financials, and it's put something of a squeeze on its executive bonuses.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4218Q)
Phew, someone didn't get the plug-all-useful-holes memo Analysis The world's fourth biggest PC company sells three desktop PC lines, but it hadn't updated one of those three for four years. Maybe Apple had forgotten that the humble and unassuming Mac mini was there at all. But it fixed that this week.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4216A)
Cold-calling home security firms slammed in watchdog's cooler The UK's data watchdog has slapped a £220,000 fine on two firms that collectively made hundreds of thousands of nuisance calls to flog home security services.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#42144)
Code to help those managing lots of servers unleashed, designated by jumbles of letters After years of making the world more open and connected – to everyone's delight – Facebook recently moved on to bringing the world closer together.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#420Z9)
Top GOP man threatens retaliation One of the top Republicans in the US House of Representatives had harsh words Wednesday for the UK government's plan to impose additional taxes on tech giants.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#420J6)
Low power, low latency, backwards-compatible PHY interfaces, all the buzzwords Cisco has made its long-awaited entry into the 400G space, today announcing four switches pitched at webscale, high-end enterprise, and service provider customers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#420J8)
Justices question whether money should go to lawyers and their old universities The US Supreme Court is distinctly unimpressed with a cozy deal cooked up by Google's lawyers after the ad giant lost an $8.5m class action lawsuit for violating user privacy.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#420JA)
Russian space agency schedules ISS crew launch for early December A crew crisis at the International Space Station could be averted, with Russia's Roscosmos saying this month's Soyuz launch incident was caused by a sensor failure.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#420FK)
Secret API leaves door open for remote commands from other gadgets sharing its Wi-Fi Updated A security researcher says an undocumented API in the Google Home Hub assistant can be exploited to kick the gizmo off its own wireless network.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#42089)
Troll preserve's images can be used to distribute code, PDFs and other stuff A picture turns out to be worth much more than a thousand words, at least on Twitter. For security researcher David Buchanan, it amounts at least 884,000, roughly the number words in the complete works of William Shakespeare.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#42046)
As it turns out, crime pays incredibly well for some The infamous GandCrab malware infection has netted its operators an estimated nine-figure payout from targeting large, high-value corporate systems.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#42004)
China says case is full of hot air The US Justice Department has charged two Chinese spies with stealing jet engine blueprints through a series of online hacks over the course of five years.…
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