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by Chris Mellor on (#3VX0S)
The latest out of WD, Datrium and many, many more Over the past week in storage, Gartner shifted the disaster recovery goalposts, Datrium realised its salespeople were in the wrong places, JetStream pressed eject and was spun out of Western Digital, there were some needful updates and refreshes ... and more. A heck of a lot more. So buckle up.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3VWYQ)
Blue crystals hidden in space rocks open hidden secrets An analysis of hibonite, thought to be among the oldest minerals in the Solar System, has shown the turbulent and violent early history of our sun.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VWM6)
Thought having your call center in India was a good idea? Maybe not so much now India is following Europe down the data protection path, with draft legislation criticized as a mixed bag of good and bad laws being proposed on Friday.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VWG9)
OAIC releases data breach notification report Take a bow, Australians: we may have had 242 breaches sent to the information commissioner this quarter, but almost nobody fell victim to ransomware attacks.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3VWDR)
Turns out replacing humans isn't that easy after all Vid Human hands are surprisingly dexterous: they can knit clothes, stuff delivery packages with things, play the piano, and so on, albeit with practice.…
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by John Leyden on (#3VWAJ)
Your files are someone else's files, too, thanks to storage bug SoftNAS has plugged a serious vulnerability in its cloud storage management tool that can be exploited to execute malicious code on a victim's server.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3VWAK)
ICANN holds .islam, .halal in limbo despite losing case Internet overseer ICANN has insisted it has the authority to maintain a six-year online Muslim ban, despite being told otherwise by its own independent oversight panel.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3VW7G)
Yes, let's try to force the social media genie back in the bottle US Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has a plan to save democracy from technology, including making social media platforms liable for what their users post.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3VWNX)
Protect and survive, or old-fashioned protectionism – we'll let you decide The US military is drawing up a list of overseas organizations – primarily in Russia and China, funnily enough – that the Pentagon and its contractors shouldn't buy software from, citing security concerns.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3VW7H)
Protect and survive, or old-fashioned protectionism – we'll let you decide The US military is drawing up a list of overseas organizations – primarily in Russia and China, funnily enough – that the Pentagon and its contractors shouldn't buy software from, citing security concerns.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3VW3Z)
Breaking news: President sticks oar into complicated saga Controversy over a proposed $4bn merger of Sinclair Broadcasting and Tribune Media in the US has blown up again – after a commissioner on America's media watchdog, the FCC, blasted President Trump's public backing of the deal.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3VW00)
Plus: Splashes profits on dividends and share buy-backs, according to latest figures It's a good time to be in the enterprise drive-pushing business, judging by Seagate's solid sales and profit uptick.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3VVKH)
Customers will just have to grin and Paddington Bear it (sorry) Updated Cinema chain Vue's wobbly website frustrated customers for a second day today as would-be film-goers found themselves dumped into a queuing system in order to buy tickets.…
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by John Leyden on (#3VVF2)
Crooks exploited legit web ad ecosystem – researchers Security researchers at Check Point have lifted the lid on the infrastructure and methods of an enormous "malvertising" and banking trojan campaign.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3VV9Z)
Social media firms neither publisher nor platform, we need new term – MPs British lawmakers have been told to create tougher rules for social media giants claiming to be neutral platforms, establish a code of ethics for tech firms, and plump up the UK's self-styled "data sheriff"*.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3VV3Y)
Absurd hardware requirements and compatibility problems aplenty. Sound familiar? Windows NT has hit an important milestone. Its launch is now closer to the first Moon landing than it is to today.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3VVWD)
Outgoing boss: 'Good start' to year as revs down, profits up BT Group enjoyed a minor tick upwards in share price as the British telco published slightly better than expected figures for first FY19 quarter ended 30 June.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3VV17)
Outgoing boss: 'Good start' to year as revs down, profits up BT Group enjoyed a minor tick upwards in share price as the telco published slightly better than expected figures for first FY19 quarter ended 30 June.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3VV18)
Jury rules voucher biz wilfully infringed patents from pre-internet era IBM has won $82.5m in a legal battle against Groupon over e-commerce patent infringement.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3VTYM)
Still the biggest, despite the massive losses ... Even in its darkest hours, Capita still clung to its status as the top UK supplier of software and IT services (SITS) for 2017 – though largely because its next nearest rivals played a stinker.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3VTWS)
Calls? Check. Texts? Check. Internet? Check. Notch? Mostly. Camera? Check I call it the "Phone Season". It's the glut of new smartphones that begins with splashy launches at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and ends in late spring. Phone Season defines what phones look like each year.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3VTTT)
'So if I pressed Send now, it would go to all of them?' asks trigger-happy tech Who, me? It's Monday morning and we've all been buried under the avalanche of emails we abandoned at pub o'clock last week. Take solace in the latest instalment of Who, Me?, where Reg readers confess their past blunders.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3VS2F)
Server and cloud outfit aims to float by October if tech market evades Brexit jitters UKFast, a British web hosting provider and bringer of clouds, is planning to float on the London Stock Exchange with the aim of raising a £350m war chest, The Register can exclusively reveal.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3VR7D)
Machines aren't really better than us at much Roundup Hello, here's a short roundup of this week's news and announcements in AI, including worrying news for cancer sufferers, good news for human linguists and some new job opportunities.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3VR49)
The good, the bad, and the ugly from infosec Roundup There has been a bumper crop of security news this week, including another shipping giant getting taken down by ransomware, Russian hackers apparently completely pwning US power grids and a sane request from Senator Wyden (D-OR) for the US government to dump Flash. But there has been other news bubbling under.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3VQMP)
But uh-oh! Is that NetApp creeping up on Pure? How is everyone doing in the all-flash array-flinging stakes? Well, you can call Pure Storage Mr Hugo because it's still the victor. Gartner's box-fillers have once again jammed seven of the makers into the top right-hand square in its yearly analysis.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VQBJ)
AWS load balancer gets redirects, CableLabs SNAPs to Kubernetes, and more Security just got a little easier for AWS Elastic Load Balancing customers: the platform now supports redirects and fixed responses.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3VQBK)
We must sell more! Western Digital's final fiscal 2018 quarter delivered strong results that were let down by disappointing enterprise SSD sales.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3VQ3Y)
Has never spoken to WikiLeaker, apparently It would appear that the president of Ecuador is not a fan of Julian Assange.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3VQ3Z)
Perfect for the EU's domestic supercomputer... ready by 2020. No really Silicon design startup Tachyum has appointed the original designer of the Arm CPU to its advisory board and chucked its hat in the ring to be the domestic exascale supercomputer chip inside the EU's home-grown super.…
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by John Leyden on (#3VPZM)
Hackers clone supplier's cloud servers to push tainted MSI files Crooks mounted a crypto-mining scam after hacking into a supplier of an unnamed PDF editor software vendor.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3VPVX)
And doesn't get a look-in on top 10 most cyber-conscious nations The UK has fallen off its perch at the top of the UN’s biennial e-government ranking, dropping three places.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3VPQ0)
On-premises and cloud users, prepare to be adjusted Microsoft has announced tweaks to its Volume Licensing programmes from 1 October, under which existing plans will be renamed, discounts removed and prices "changed".…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3VPQ1)
Pre-tax loss of £107m pinned on meltdown IT meltdown bank TSB has today admitted that the week-long outage and its aftermath have cost it almost £200m.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3VPJ7)
The sun is sunny and the dark fibre access is virtual Openreach claims it is now more independent of BT than ever before, adding that the UK's fibre rollout is going just fine and all ISPs are now very happy with the BT-owned telecoms infrastructure company.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3VPE8)
Single-award contract could run for up to a decade, worth a possible $10bn The Pentagon has finally opened the bidding for its major cloud contract, which could be worth some $10bn – and is to be awarded to one vendor.…
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by John Leyden on (#3VPB3)
Secondhand owners who didn't sell at JLR dealer can call us, says firm Both data and the online controls on "connected cars" from Jaguar Land Rover remain available to previous owners, according to security experts and owners of the upmarket vehicles. The car maker has defended its privacy safeguards and security of its InControl tech.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3VPB4)
It's been three months and 16% have their heels firmly planted The charge of the Windows 10 April 2018 Update continued into July with 84 per cent of lucky, lucky users seeing their desktops upgraded, according to AdDuplex.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VP8B)
$1.2bn revs beat guidance, routers lumpy, software, security strong Juniper Networks' Q3 revenue is 8 per cent lower than last year, but at $1.2bn it came in ahead of the company's previous guidance, and CEO Rami Rahim now expects Juniper to return to year-on-year growth by the December quarter.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#3VP60)
Take it off! Cover it up! I don't know what I want any more! Something for the Weekend, Sir? If I give you some money, would you take your clothes off? Now that's what I call premium service.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3VP42)
Branding, real estate need sorting out Analysis Western Digital is chewing on agglomeration antacids as it continues to digest the 14 acquisitions made by the firm itself and its various business unit family members over the past decade or so.…
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by Team Register on (#3VP44)
Save now, join us in October Events If you’re wondering how your organisation can cut through the hype and actually benefit from AI and machine learning, you should join us at MCubed in London this October.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3VP23)
'Our motivation for such a task wasn't exactly high' On-Call Why look at the calendar – it's Friday! Which can mean only one thing, namely the return of On-Call, your weekly instalment of tech support drama from El Reg's dear readers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3VP07)
Dutch court goes easy on Coinvault duo Two men who masterminded various Coinvault ransomware infections will carry out 240 hours of community service as punishment for screwing over 1,200 computers and banking around €10,000 (£9k, $12k) in profit.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VNY1)
Lower Saxony says 'auf wiedersehen, pinguin' The German state of Lower Saxony plans to follow Munich's example, and migrate a reported 13,000 users from Linux back to Windows.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3VNPQ)
Chips not ready until 2H 2019, Epyc headache looms Despite record-breaking earnings, Intel's shares took a modest dip on Thursday when the semiconductor behemoth reveal its financial results for the second quarter of this year.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VNMB)
'Screaming Channels', a side-channel baked into off-the-shelf Wi-Fi, Bluetooth silicon Side-channel radio attacks just got a whole lot worse: a group of researchers from Eurecom's Software and Systems Security Group has extracted crypto keys from the noise generated by ordinary communications chips.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3VNMD)
Get it, like Barnes and No– oh, just gimme that beer. It's been 5 o'clock somewhere for hours Amazon, a cloud computing monster with a gift shop tacked on the side, watched its sales surpass $52bn during its latest quarter.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3VP24)
Slack swallows Atlassian's blueprints for biz apps – which now face the axe Oz enterprise software biz Atlassian is discontinuing its chat apps Stride and Hipchat – and handing the tech blueprints over to Slack.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3VNJ6)
Slack swallows Atlassian's blueprints for biz apps – which now face the axe Oz enterprise software biz Atlassian is discontinuing its chat apps Stride and Hipchat – and handing the tech blueprints over to Slack.…
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