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by Thomas Claburn on (#41KBX)
Keep an eye out for filters chomping away at non-adverts. Just sayin' The maintainer of uBlock Origin – arguably the most well-respected content blocking browser extension – has removed a set of filtering rules because they took a political stance. It's a development that underscores the vulnerability of trust-based community projects.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41K7R)
And fails to penetrate the jungle of local politics Amazon offered the governments of Brazil and Peru millions of dollars' worth of Kindles and AWS hosting if they would stopped blocking its effort to get hold of the .amazon top-level domain.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41K3N)
Builders warned over Telecrane remote control radio vuln US-CERT is advising some customers of Telecrane construction cranes to patch their control systems – following the disclosure of a security bug that could allow a nearby attacker to wirelessly hijack the equipment.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41JZA)
15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 targets hyperscale crowd Western Digital has claimed its shingled 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 is the highest capacity disk drive in the world.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41JT3)
And you thought 640KB was enough for everyone Ahead of the company's impending UK launch, Xiaomi has broken new ground with the first 10GB RAM smartphone in China.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41JN9)
Hyperconverged kid takes a cash injection Scale Computing has announced a $34.8m F-series round, in which new partner Lenovo is the biggest investor. New and existing financial investors also participated and total known funding stands at $104m.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41JGW)
You don't want fixes. You really want a shiny new Windows Search. Of course you do Microsoft has confirmed that, yes, that whole zip-file thing is indeed a bug and, er, no. It won’t be fixing it until November. But hey, how about a new Windows Search?…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41JGY)
We are in the dark period (before our Q2 results are released) – outsourcing titan DXC has responded to our report yesterday about the CEO ousting his Americas leader by, er, not really responding – after our scoop caused its share price to crash almost 19 per cent.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41JCB)
Engineers too busy looking for missing-in-action SD-WAN 10.1.1? Using Citrix Cloud in the EU? You might want to consider taking a longer lunchbreak as the virtualisation service is having a bit of a moment.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41J79)
Former Worldpay chief to start January next year BT has hired former Worldpay boss Philip Jansen as its CEO, handing him an annual pay packet worth £3.9m for his first year of service – if he lasts longer, his compensation will swell further.…
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by Richard Currie on (#41J7B)
Siriusly, though Granger things have happened What can identity and class rights as seen in the enslavement of house elves or the marginalisation of werewolves, giants and centaurs possibly teach India's future legal eagles? One institution believes it has the answer.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41J3E)
Atlassian's code shack goes TITSUP*, has a coffee and feels much better now, thanks Hey developers! Thinking of stomping off in a huff to Bitbucket when Microsoft finally closes the GitHub deal? Well...…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41J02)
£500k legal max penalty under old Data Protection Act Updated The UK's Information Commissioner has formally fined Facebook £500,000 – the maximum available – over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41J04)
Passport numbers, credit card info etc – combo of stuff leaked 'varies for each' poor sod Cathay Pacific has admitted that personal data on up to 9.4 million passengers, including their passport numbers, has been accessed by unauthorised personnel in the latest security screw-up to hit the airline industry.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41HXJ)
Aisles of Wal-Mart will be changed forever if $267bn toll hits, says HP Inc CEO US consumers and businesses shopping for tech in Europe? The rise of manufacturing in Vietnam or the Philippines? The tech industry is braced for the potential consequences of another, wider reaching round of trade tariffs on components or finished goods that are imported to the US from China.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41HTY)
Insists it wasn't chased off following protest and occupation by locals After months of protests centring around a local anarchist bookshop, Google has left the disused Berlin electrical substation building – where the international ad-tech behemoth had planned to open a Google Campus branch.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41HRK)
Vote for what you hate is a sure-fire winner, right? It looks like Australia's proposed expansion to piracy-blocking will become law, with the opposition Labor party deciding to support the bill.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41HPB)
Survey results: Bad news for the poor, overweight, old The question of the infamous trolley problem for self-driving cars has finally been answered.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41HPD)
Patch your vid conferencing software to stop malware, users nabbing admin rights Sorry to spoil your day, Cisco admins and users, but it's time to patch Webex, again.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41HM1)
We'll just tack that on your .uk domain bill. You're welcome! Analysis UK domain name holders are furious with registrar 123-Reg for automatically charging them an additional £6 a year for a service few of them want or even need.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41HM3)
On the 6th day, God created humans. And on the 8th day, they created a bot to rewrite the Bible six ways from Sunday Software has been trained by academics to produce different styles of biblical text, after swotting up on the original sacred texts.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41HHS)
Oz boffins swivel light to cram up to x100 more data in fiber One of light's stranger characteristics – the ability to give its wave propagation a “twist†– has taken a step closer to practical application, and could be used to increase fiber-optic network speeds a hundredfold.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41H8T)
Redmond runs rampant, reaps ridiculous record revenues If Microsoft is sweating from the heat it's taking on Windows 10 release quality, its financial figures certainly aren't showing it.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41H6N)
Disinterest in GPU gear spurs selloff, but x86 biz insists all's well, nothing to see here AMD stock plunged following the release of the chip designer's third-quarter financial figures – which showed sales at Intel's antitrust shield suffered due to sluggish interest in its GPU hardware.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41H3T)
Smartmobe-borking updates make Italians see red Apple and Samsung have been fined a relatively sod-all amount – just a few million dollars – by Italy's antitrust watchdog for purposefully slowing down old phones.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41H05)
Privacy 'a fundamental right' – see terms and conditions, national restrictions may apply Analysis At a European conference for privacy watchdogs on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook praised EU data protection supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli for defending privacy and warned that technology, for all its utility, can do harm rather than good.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41GW1)
'I think all of us would agree that cyber space is the new battle space' OpenWorld Former intelligence leaders have called for international terms of engagement in cyber warfare and greater collaboration between the public and private sectors to defend critical infrastructure.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41GR8)
Zero-day crash'n'pwn exploit for Microsoft's latest OS disclosed, no official patch available (yet) A skilled Microsoft bug hunter with a penchant for public disclosures via Twitter has openly floated a new Windows 10 zero-day flaw.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#41GRA)
Christies sets up 'giants of science' memorabilia sell off The family of the late Professor Stephen Hawking is auctioning off some of his possessions – including an early version of his motorized wheelchair – to raise money for the charitable foundation that bears his name.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41GKV)
Would madam care for native support for SAM in madam's pipeline? As the march to the cloud continues, the Jenkins project has tossed developers a bone in the form of a plugin for AWS serverless functions.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41GEZ)
Offers a no-details flash performance guarantee NetApp has a new version of ONTAP which supports server persistent memory caching, a flash-accelerated object storage system, and its containerised storage provisioner supports NetApp cloud storage in AWS and GCP.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41GA5)
Kohsuke Kawaguchi takes a swing at rampaging Jenkinsteins Jenkins, er, DevOps World kicked off in Nice this week as CloudBees took to the stage in front of 800 fans of the pipeline to show off some of the toys available to lucky devs.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41G5W)
Switkowski: Write-downs are a financial, not political, decision Australia's National Broadband Network co-chairman, Ziggy Switkowski, has told a Senate Estimates hearing at the country's parliament in Canberra that he doesn't endorse a write-down of the company.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41G0W)
Flashes AWS and Azure cloudification, ONTAP as cloud abstraction layer At its Las Vegas Insight event, NetApp was quick to assure customers they could have the public cloud and NetApp products both – and that indeed, the two are better together.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41G0Y)
That's right, the Lords' AI report was written by people with skin in the game Comment Unlike some of the people who invented it, the House of Lords AI Committee has "no doubts" AI will bring "tangible and practical deliverables" to the UK – if only the right sort of people use it.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41FVZ)
Snarking at vendors: Priceless An Australian government agency given AU$700,000 (just shy of US$500,000 or £380,000) to research applications of the blockchain has delivered its answer: don't bother. Anything you want to do with blockchain, you can already do better with existing technology.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41FQN)
Preps mainframes, mid-range arrays, tape and cloud... and that's just to offload all this data IBM has fired a broadside of announcements at the storage world. The gist? Flash arrays get more capacity and NVMe-over-fabrics has been added to a slew of arrays using Fibre Channel to speed data access.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41FM0)
Full fibre deployment shifts up a gear Privately-owned broadband biz CityFibre declared this morning that it would spend £2.5bn on building out full-fibre connections to British homes.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41FH4)
Karan Puri just one of 36,000 staff to leave broken outsourcing biz in 18 months The boss of DXC Americas has been elbowed out of the door, an internal memo seen by The Register can confirm. The reason for his exit is believed to be a double-digit drop in the region's sales.…
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by David Gordon on (#41FH6)
Blind Bird tickets available NOW! If you want to get together with 40 of the smartest brains in modern software development, and save £100s into the bargain, you should grab a blind bird ticket for Continuous Lifecycle London 2019 before they expire.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41FH8)
First mobe maker to sell DIY repair tools A 2014 Eurobarometer survey (PDF) found that 77 per cent of EU citizens would prefer to repair their electronics rather than buy new ones, but were put off by the cost quoted, and ended up replacing them anyway.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41FEB)
Open sourcing BASIC for the kool kids Microsoft’s Small Basic broke out the jelly and ice cream today as the language celebrated its 10th birthday.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41FB5)
'Zero touch' setup, Mac@IBM, lands at GitHub IBM wants to save Apple sysadmins from wearing out too much shoe leather visiting user desks so it's published its Mac@IBM system provisioning code at GitHub under the GNU Public Licence 3.0.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41FB7)
English-mangle-word-zels – fresh from Reg whippernapper's garden Flame of the Week Have you ever uttered the sound "erm" while speaking? More to the point, have you ever erm'd when answering politicians' questions during a scrutiny panel session? If you have, says one Reg commentard, you are bastardising the English language. Oh yes.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41F74)
'Brexit and the election of Donald might be largely due to the use of data analytics' Not long after the US presidential election in November 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was "crazy" to think that Facebook ads swayed the vote. He was right, but only for supporters of Hillary Clinton.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41F76)
Let's hope this doesn't accidentally kick off a war AI can translate between languages in real time as people speak, according to fresh research from Chinese search giant Baidu and Oregon State University in the US.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41F4P)
FireEye reckons it's fingered the operating behind nasty cyber-infection at industrial complex A malware infection at a Saudi petrochemical plant last year was likely the work of a Moscow-based research operation backed by the Russian government.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41F2T)
Astroboffins baffled by mysterious repeat visitor 3200 Phaethon, a weird object that sends cosmic debris streaking through Earth's night skies during the Geminid meteor shower, is more puzzling than previously thought.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41EYZ)
Updates urged for serious web services vulnerabilities Companies running Arcserve Unified Data Protection to manage their backups and archives are being advised to update their software after bug hunters discovered four remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41EWT)
Meanwhile: Q3 sales slid downwards, profits pointing up Juniper Networks has confirmed its margins will be squeezed in 2019 by US President Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese electronics and components coming into America.…
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