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by Rebecca Hill on (#41ERG)
As in, Big Red: Database giant says this offering is a worldwide first OpenWorld Oracle today insisted it is the first public cloud vendor to offer bare-metal servers powered by AMD’s Epyc processors.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41EGG)
It's all about location, location, location Facebook and Google are being sued in two proposed class-action lawsuits for allegedly deceptively gathering location data on netizens who thought they had opted out of such cyber-stalking.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41EDJ)
Boutique PC for middle managers, subscription hardware for creative pros As the Microsoft Surface juggernaut rolls on, there's added urgency to flogging premium PCs this autumn, with Intel's chip shortage affecting the lower end of the market, making premium sales more hotly contested.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41EDM)
Language is still free, it's the support that will cost you plenty CodeOne The perennial Oracle OpenWorld sideshow previously known as JavaOne flowered again on Monday under a new name, Oracle Code One. The rebranding, as Stephen Chin, director of the Oracle developer community team, said in April, represents an effort to create a "bigger event that’s inclusive to more languages, technologies, and developer communities."…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41EDP)
These are not the vendors you're looking for, republicans suggest in demand for probe A pair of US congressmen are calling for an investigation into the Pentagon's $10bn single-vendor IT contract dubbed JEDI – aka the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41EAN)
Oh, and many of the stereotypes of Gen Z are wrong A new survey of teenagers reveals that children from poorer households use the internet more than those from richer homes, upending a common assumption about our online lives.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41E7Y)
Cancer claims life of the poster child for computing excess Charles Wang, the cofounder of Computer Associates – latterly CA Technologies – has died of lung cancer at the age of 74, an attorney representing his family has confirmed.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41EAQ)
Three urgent changes Redmond must make to stop the QA crisis Comment Windows isn't working – and Microsoft urgently needs to change how it develops the platform, and jettison three filthy practices it has acquired in recent years.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41E80)
Three urgent changes Microsoft must make to stop the QA crisis Comment Windows isn't working – and Microsoft urgently needs to change how it develops the platform, and jettison three filthy practices it has acquired in recent years.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41DRB)
Yeah, probably not, but dev previews are available now "Exodus" may be a fair description of HTC's customer base in recent years – once the reviewers' darling, it has fallen a long way. Earnings for the first half of 2018 were almost half the same period last year (PDF).…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41DRD)
All the node movers and shakers in Gartner's paranormal polygon Eight object and distributed file storage suppliers have shuffled positions in Gartner's annually updated Magic Quadrant for the sector – two new entrants, three promotions, two demotions and an exit.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41DED)
Vote to sell DVMT or swap the stock for a newly public Dell set for 11 December A fortnight before Christmas, investors in Dell Technologies tracking stock will finally get the opportunity to vote on whether to cash them in or swap them for a piece of the company when it goes public again.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41D9R)
So fonts are funny and archives aren't ace but, hey, at least it isn't deleting files, right? The problems with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update just keep on rolling in as users complain of borked zip file extraction, broken fonts and iffy brightness controls.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41D6C)
Chaebol says development is done and dusted Samsung Mobile (or at least a fan blog) has claimed development of its graphene battery technology is, er, all wrapped up, raising hopes of finding them in products soon.…
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by Richard Currie on (#41D2N)
Carbon dating places it as oldest complete wreck A bunch of maritime archaeologists, scientists and surveyors have discovered at the bottom of the Black Sea what is thought to be the oldest intact shipwreck – at a whopping 2,400 years.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41D2Q)
Brit grocer says it shouldn't be held responsible for criminal actions of worker Morrisons has vowed to take its hack liability fight to the UK Supreme Court after failing to convince Court of Appeal judges it should not be held responsible for the actions of a rogue employee who leaked the supermarket's entire payroll via Tor.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41CZM)
Can those who need lookup privacy afford architectural purism? The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has formally adopted DNS-over-HTTPS as a standard, and reignited a debate over whether it's a danger to the web's infrastructure.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41CZP)
The week in spaaaaaace Roundup A mission to Mercury, a mission to save Apollo and a mission to save face?…
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by Richard Speed on (#41CX1)
Original Arm operating system relicensed under Apache 2.0 Not to be outdone by the open sourcing of an early version of MS-DOS for Intel chippery, version 5 of RISC OS – arguably the original commercially successful Arm operating system – is going fully open source.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41CRM)
Seagate ships more units, WD more capacity – it's a wash IDC has sent its analytical read-write heads skipping across the surface of the disk storage market and found Seagate shipped more drives than Western Digital in the third quarter.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41CPQ)
One out of three correct dosages ain't bad, right? Right? Experts hope an artificially intelligent software system will help doctors tackle the deadly menace of sepsis in humans.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41CMN)
New method could settle the question of how fast the universe is expanding Scientists agree that the universe is expanding at an increasing rate, but by exactly how much is still an enigma.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41CJG)
Days since last TITSUP (Total Inability To Support Users' Pulls) reset to zero Programmers, your snow day is well and truly over: GitHub's website has finally cleared its 24-hour outage, and reckons everything is operating normally again.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41CDP)
Does he mean some farm boy with just womp rat experience can destroy the whole thing? OpenWorld Oracle reckons it has “fundamentally†rebuilt its cloud architecture to boost security, promising full separation of customer software and cloud control code.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41CBR)
Just don't let it restart to install updates... The classic “turn it off and turn it back on†strategy has worked once again for NASA, in that it may return the Hubble Space Telescope to active duty.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41C9Q)
And the updated code of conduct is now live, too Woke Linus Torvalds has returned from a four-week exile to once again steer the Linux kernel, the widely used software project he founded nearly 30 years ago.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41C6V)
Flaw present for the past eight years, easy to exploit, and there are thousands of forks A serious vulnerability in a widely used, and widely forked, jQuery file upload plugin may have been exploited for years by hackers to seize control of websites – and is only now patched.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41C3X)
Well, application revenues did rise a whopping six per cent, after all OpenWorld Oracle has kicked off the first day of its annual OpenWorld gabfest with a hard sell on applications – the chunk of the business that is, according to the latest figures, struggling the least.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#41C3Z)
No sex, please, we're the Chocolate Factory Googlers must clean up their language at work as the ads giant is being anal about references to, ahem, carnal knowledge in internal web links and documents.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41C0P)
Database creator explains Christian-based rules to El Reg Open-source database SQLite has told its developers it expects them to follow Christ, love chastity, clothe the naked, and not murder, steal, nor sleep with their colleagues' spouses.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41BWF)
AWS-stewarded net-connected platform has multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities Serious security flaws in FreeRTOS – an operating system kernel used in countless internet-connected devices and embedded electronics – can be potentially exploited over the network to commandeer kit.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41C6X)
Server maker drags Bloomberg in note to customers, watchdog, still checking its motherboards The computer server maker at the center of a dramatic secret Chinese spy-chip story has again insisted the yarn is wrong, and called the whole thing "technically implausible."…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41BWH)
Server maker drags Bloomberg in note to customers, watchdog, still checking its motherboards The computer server maker at the center of a dramatic secret Chinese spy-chip story has again insisted the yarn is wrong, and called the whole thing "technically implausible."…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41BFP)
The power's in the phone, not the cloud If you've been amazed by Amazon's Alexa, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Assistant, you might think continuous speech recognition is done and dusted – and that there are no mountains left to climb. However, a young British company has developed a radical new approach with spectacular results, based on low-level signal processing.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41BB3)
Competition regulator: Yeah, no More than a third of British businesses apparently don’t think it’s a crime to set up a price-rigging cartel, according to the Competition and Markets Authority.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41B73)
And you know what? The judge agreed with them A British smart meter company that missed a series of VAT payments to the taxman insisted in a Leeds court that a Chinese typhoon and Apple's iPhone 7 delivery schedule was to blame.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41AZN)
Boop beep boop beep boop, your flight's cancelled Roundup While the drama of the aborted Windows 10 October update continued to unfold last week and excited buyers received their shiny Surface devices, Microsoft kept itself busy flinging out new development tools and battling buggy CPUs.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41AWE)
Fee offset if Search and Chrome included alongside Play Store, of course Google will charge Android smartphone makers wishing to include its Play Store as much as $40 in Europe, according to documents purportedly seen by The Verge.…
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by Richard Currie on (#41AWG)
Mounties remind residents to lock their doors O Canada, great northern land of milk in bags, merciless winters, maple syrup and leaving your front door unlocked, at least according to firebrand filmmaker Michael Moore. However, Mounties have warned residents of Nova Scotia against the latter after two women entered a home uninvited – and cleaned it.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41ASM)
Financial messaging to get a bit more, er, agile Microsoft and money-message flinger SWIFT have announced a proof of concept aimed at demonstrating that Azure could be a good fit for the financial network's infrastructure.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41ANR)
Can Chinese cloudy crowd check rise of AWS? Alibaba Cloud has launched in the UK, the Chinese cloud purveyor has declared, as it prepares to take on dominant player AWS and the other also-rans.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41AKP)
Tennis for Two prepares to collect its bus pass The forerunner of today's video games celebrated its 60th birthday last week as the anniversary of William Higinbotham's Tennis for Two rolled around.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41AHM)
Dirty Den escapes with a slapped wrist Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? The Register's weekly column featuring readers' tales of the things they'd rather forget having done.…
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We need your help in understanding how software issues are solved in production environments Reader study Even the best software goes wrong from time to time. So, what exactly happens when it throws a wobbly, especially when it's a key component in a production environment?…
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by Chris Williams on (#41AA4)
TITSUP: Total Inability To Support Users' Pushes GitHub's website remains broken after a data storage system failed several hours ago.…
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by Chris Williams on (#41AKR)
TITSUP: Total Inability To Support Users' Pushes GitHub's website remains broken after a data storage system failed hours ago.…
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by Chris Williams on (#41A4R)
That's how much it costs to license the blueprints (and don't forget the royalties) In 2018, a crack commando CPU was sent to an ASIC by a military court for a crime it didn't commit. This processor core promptly escaped from a maximum-security system-on-chip to the Los Angeles underground.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#417RD)
Also applications are now open for OpenAI's Scholars programme Roundup Hello, here's a quick roundup of interesting or useful bits of AI news that happened this week.…
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Apple boss demands Bloomberg Super Micro U-turn, Russian troll charged, NSA hands out cash, and more
by Shaun Nichols on (#417FN)
Plus, hackers find a safe haven in West Haven Roundup After we encountered a libssh security blunder, a leaky Tea Party, and a dodgy Redmond sports marketer, another week is in the book.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41709)
El Reg listened to the whole depressing folly so you don't have to Comment Tech vendors: don't worry about Australian law enforcement demanding you decrypt user messages. It's OK, because we're not a communist regime.…
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