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by Thomas Claburn on (#3VNFP)
Billions of devices potentially at risk – but Intel isn't worried Computer security researchers have devised a way to exploit the speculative-execution design flaws in modern processor chips over a network connection – a possibility that sounds rather more serious but may be something less than that.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3VNCA)
Everyone jokes congressfolk are crims but... sheesh, take it easy, Rekognition Amazon’s online facial recognition system incorrectly matched pictures of US Congress members to mugshots of suspected criminals in a study by the American Civil Liberties Union.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3VN84)
Devs can have Dockerfiles in GH trigger Google Cloud Build At its Google Cloud Next 18 extravaganza in San Francisco on Thursday, Google took a moment to address developers directly.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3VN4H)
We'd be more confident in the tech if others were touting this Lightbits Labs and Solarflare are promoting the idea of NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) using TCP-over-bog-standard Ethernet, instead of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) via data centre-class Ethernet, iWARP, InfiniBand or Fibre Channel.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3VN4J)
Shipping giant locks down US network infected by file-scrambling software nasty International shipping giant Cosco says it is recovering from an apparent ransomware infection on its American computer network.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3VMWX)
Otherwise all is well, insists corporate headshed You win some, you lose some. Citrix has embiggened its quarterly revenues – while at the same time shrinking profits by a couple of million dollars. How did they manage that?…
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by Richard Speed on (#3VMRR)
Burning cash to keep the lights on in Finland as profits wobble Fallen mobile phone giant Nokia posted financial results today that did not make happy reading for investors.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3VMG2)
Issues 'too severe' to launch this summer Oracle has pushed back the express edition of its 18c database until October.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3VMAW)
One sec, we need to limber up for this one... The UK government's efforts to improve digital services, boost staff's tech skills and prepare for cyber attacks and the extra burden of Brexit are to be probed by MPs.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3VM6A)
Big jump in write speed As the world and their dogs' data centres continue to accelerate their take-up of SSDs, WD/HGST has fired a dual-port SAS SSD at them.…
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by John Leyden on (#3VM6C)
Demand massively outstrips supply, researchers find The market for cyber criminal services on the dark web continues to thrive – demand for malware is running at around three times greater than the supply.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3VN11)
Farewell Redstone. Hello, er, 19H1? Microsoft gave Windows Insiders a double treat last night and threw a bone to the dedicated crowd of Windows Mixed Reality users.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3VM2V)
Farewell Redstone. Hello, er, 19H1? Microsoft gave Windows Insiders a double treat last night and threw a bone to the dedicated crowd of Windows Mixed Reality users.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3VM06)
Court asked to grant permission for judicial review of 'inaccurate' snooping tech A campaign group has issued a legal challenge against the London Metropolitan Police's use of facial recognition technology.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VM08)
MIT Lincoln metalheads broke big iron so you don't have to… oh, you still have to, don't you? HPC admin? Feeling slighted that all the good Spectre/Meltdown mitigation benchmarks ignore big iron? Fear not, a bunch of MIT boffins are on your side.…
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by Team Register on (#3VKXE)
Tired of trolls? You won't win by controlling the internet, argues senior lecturer Paul Bernal Remember when the internet was a thing of beauty – connecting us to long-lost friends, the innocent pleasure of buying books using “e-commerceâ€, of sharing photos of cats?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3VKXG)
Auntie's outage comes on predicted hottest day of the year The entire BBC website (less iPlayer) went down briefly this morning.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VKVC)
You too can have your very own network-as-a-service What's missing from Virtual Private Clouds? According to Big Switch Networks, it's an on-premises implementation.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3VKSH)
Success hinges on the answers, says analyst Analysis Semiconductor analyst David Kanter has identified six areas of ignorance about Intel's Optane DIMMs where clarity will dictate whether they become popular or not.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3VKQH)
Walmart had trouble getting its iOS and Android devs to embrace the web Facebook's cross-platform open-source mobile framework React Native lived up to its marketing hype for Walmart Labs as the US shopping giant deployed the software last year.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3VKNA)
No rad hardening so even HPE is 'pleasantly surprised' HPE’s mini supercomputer launched into space last year has survived the harsh conditions of zero gravity and radiation for almost a year.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3VKJW)
Idea was first speculated more than 30 years ago – now hidden lake detected Scientists have discovered a lake of liquid water on Mars hidden beneath multiple layers of dust and ice, according to a paper published in Science on Wednesday.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VKC1)
Techno-dem urges DHS, NSA and NIST to rid sites of buggy legacy media player content It's bug-ridden, eternally insecure, and on death row – yet Adobe Flash persists on too many US government webpages.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3VK9G)
Radeon and notebook surge brings best quarter in seven years AMD is crediting the continued success of Ryzen processors and Radeon graphics chips in fueling its best quarter since 2011.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VK9J)
Shareholders, here's thirty billion dollars so you feel better on double whammy Wednesday Qualcomm has abandoned its long-planned, long-stalled $44bn acquisition of Dutch chip maker NXP Semiconductors – and in its place, Qualy today announced a $30bn share buyback.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VK6N)
Shareholders, here's $30 BEEELLION so you feel better Qualcomm is abandon its long-planned, long-stalled, $44bn acquisition of Dutch chip vendor NXP Semiconductors, and in its place, the company today announced a $30bn share buy-back.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VK6P)
Even the Parliamentary Library doesn't agree with minister The rollout of Australia's MyHealth Record e-health system is moving from “troubled†towards “shamblesâ€.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3VK6Q)
Two-factor authentication keys, cloud defenses, G Suite protections, and more It's day two of Google's Cloud Next 2018 conference in San Francisco – and the Chocolate Factory has been unveiling its defenses to thwart hackers and malware.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3VK09)
App-ademic's lawsuit demands jury trial, damages, etc etc etc for alleged infringement Lyft is the target of a lawsuit filed by a former Georgia Tech professor who alleges the dial-a-ride upstart ripped off his patented idea.…
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by Chris Williams on (#3VJVW)
Custom ASICs make decisions on sensors as developers get hooked on ad giant's cloud Google has designed a low-power version of its homegrown AI math accelerator, dubbed it the Edge TPU, and promised to ship it to developers by October.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3VJVY)
Attacks on SAP, Oracle platforms incoming Hackers are increasingly looking to target enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to disrupt and steal data from large companies.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3VJQS)
At Node Summit, coders served some humble pie Software developers have been lionized in recent years for their influence over the information economy. At the Node Summit in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, Guy Podjarny, CEO and cofounder of security biz Snyk, reminded an audience full of devs that they've become a popular vector for malware distribution.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3VJA2)
Blacker than the heart of a Register hack Goths of the world rejoice! Outlook.com's Dark Mode is here, turning mailboxes into blacks and shades of grey such that Lego Batman would shed a tear of joy. If Lego Batman cried. Which he doesn't.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3VJ4X)
Oh, and Windows, but cool kids don't use that Oracle Database 18 is now available for on-prem download on Linux, according to a talkative senior Oracle chap.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3VHZ8)
Redmond smiles: We want to support customers in journey to cloud Microsoft threw a commercial preview bone to cloud-phobes* this week in the form of on-premises versions of its Server and Office applications.…
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by John E Dunn on (#3VHV9)
Plus: Appetite for internal pen-testing appears to be growing Few companies bother to secure employee accounts with simple protections like two-factor authentication (2FA) and lockouts, an analysis by security company Rapid 7 has found.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3VHR0)
Meanwhile, Pointnext chief Ana Pinczuk goes for a long walk HPE has appointed a permanent president to its new hybrid IT business group, in the form of Phil Davis, who is currently the firm's global sales chief.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3VHR1)
Third bunch of fixes aimed at pleasing business types Running Windows 10 in the enterprise? Took the advice of Microsoft when it said the April 2018 Update was ready for the big leagues? You probably want to install last night's "quality improvements".…
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by John Leyden on (#3VHN2)
Etherscan XSS snafu could have been much, much worse Ethereum-tracking website Etherscan has resolved a cross-site scripting issue on its domain.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3VHHY)
Departing head talks 'lumpy' deals and channel dreams Data protection outfit Commvault has revealed a deepening net loss of $8.6m on revenues of $176.2m, in Q1 FY'19 results described by Wells Fargo senior analyst Aaron Rakers as "underwhelming".…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#3VHFF)
Plus: Did you know 'shadow IoT' was a thing? It is Analysis What exactly is the Internet of Things? According to Gartner and IDC, it's a network of endpoints capable of interacting with each other and the world via IP connectivity.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3VHDE)
When outsourcing goes bad! NHS England and Capita blamed NHS England must re-evaluate the way it outsources work to the private sector in the wake of "continued squabbles" with Capita over the mismanaged £700m Primary Support Care (PSC) contract.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VHBB)
And Denon+Marantz, too The European Commission has sent a slightly belated message to the consumer electronics industry that it frowns upon price fixing, this week fining four manufacturers a total of €111m (US$130m, £99m) for breaking European rules as long as seven years ago.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VHBC)
The story behind the quietly patched CVE-2018-3652 Ex-Intel security dragons have breathed fresh fire into the old maxim: if someone has physical access to your machine, you're pwned.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3VH98)
'OG of serverless' gets modern makeover Google App Engine will support two additional programming language runtimes in its standard environment in the next 30 days: Python 3.7 and PHP 7.2.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3VH6N)
Impress pals at the pub by telling them about the creepy-sounding Medusae Fossae Have you ever wondered where Mars got all that striking iron-rich rust-colored dust from?…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VH6Q)
We're not here to fsck spiders – prove you care by getting busy with RADIUS and EAP Can we overcome the SOHOpeless security of the Internet of Things at the home and small business level? An Internet-Draft from Ericsson engineer Mohit Sethi suggests so.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VGYW)
Pwn web publishing tools, HTTP servers on Linux and Windows and earn a nice bonus A bunch of new bug bounty rewards are up for grabs from the Zero Day Initiative, in a first-come, best-dressed program kicking off on August 1.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VGX0)
And it's clutching a roadmap that charts first shipments before end of 2018 The next round of bonkers-fast upgrades to data center networks is going to be 400Gbps Ethernet – and Juniper Networks has joined the party with a suitable roadmap.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3VGTP)
Without any detail, it's another online cloud service Analysis Google is thundering on with its mission to "democratize AI" with its Cloud AutoML platform – even though it doesn’t quite live up to the hype.…
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