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by John Leyden on (#3V8NW)
MoneyTaker lives up to its name Hackers stole almost $1m from a Russian bank earlier this month after breaching its network via an outdated router.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3V8H8)
Most of their core apps were already in the cloud anyway Financial software flinger Intuit is binning its biggest data centre and plonking its corporate backends onto AWS – in another win for the public cloud's biggest player.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3V8D8)
He who controls supplies controls... eh, not much Four years ago at the height of smartwatch hype, it was the most desirable mineral in the world. The tech superpowers jostled to obtain supplies of the material, just as the superpowers jostled to secure their nitrate supplies* ahead of the First World War.…
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by John Leyden on (#3V89S)
'Limited assurance' that there is no risk to national security A UK government-run oversight board has expressed misgivings about the security of telecoms kit from Chinese firm Huawei.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3V89V)
That's not my department say, er... Intel, Apple and Dell ♫ Owners of laptops fitted with Intel's Core i9 high-performance processor, including computers made by Apple and Dell, are finding that the machines slow down compared to the pace of older models.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3V89W)
Fewer desktop versions shifted but industrial devices fly There was a lull after the 3D printer sales storm in 2017 as shipments of personal/desktop boxes declined in the first quarter of this year for the first time, according to distributor stats.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3V864)
If you're expecting Tizens, Fires or alt-droids to flower, don't hold your breath Comment The European Commission wants to see a thousand Android forks bloom as the result of its decision yesterday to demand remedies from Google for its anti-competitive conduct on mobile.…
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by Team Register on (#3V866)
How to get in free – or for cheap – at the Great British Beer Festival Competition The fine people at CAMRA are also fans of The Register, and are giving away both free and half-price tickets for possibly one of the greatest show on Earth: the incredible Great British Beer Festival at Olympia next month.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#3V838)
Devising complex new passwords is character-building Something for the Weekend, Sir? Try as I might, it won't go in.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3V80C)
Concerns whether legal system will be fair after reforms UK Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has told HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) that it has "much to learn" as it ploughs on with its ambitious £1.2bn court digitisation project.…
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by Team Register on (#3V80D)
Find out at Mcubed...and save cash now Events If you’re looking for practical advice on what machine learning and AI can do for businesses like yours, you should secure your place at MCubed, our three-day exploration of all of the above, in October.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3V7YC)
Dirty doctor’s dodgy diagnosis defeated. Plus a new chapter for On-Call On-Call Welcome once more to On-Call, in which Register readers share their stories of silly tech support incidents.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3V7TQ)
First case of solar suckage Scientists believe they have captured direct evidence of a star feasting on its own planets for the first time.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3V7H8)
Earn $$$s reporting flaws even if you're too busy or bored Do you love Firefox, Linux, and the internet? Are you interested in earning money from the comfort of your own home? Are you OK with a special flavor of Firefox quietly gobbling up memory in a hunt for exploitable security bugs?…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V7EZ)
Satya's got sunshine on a cloudy day Microsoft has closed out a massive fiscal 2018 that saw the Redmond giant lay claim to more than $110bn in total revenue.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3V7BY)
Faster than human boffins, and hopefully more reliable Machine learning can help robots perform chemistry experiments faster than fleshy boffins, according to research published in Nature.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3V795)
Enterprise is the new green among programming retreats Galvanize – a for-profit tech training biz headquartered in Denver, USA – said today it plans to acquire Hack Reactor, a San Francisco-based code bootcamp provider, for an undisclosed sum.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V70S)
Smooth body with a perky top note and a hint of cesium-137 for post-2011 vintages Savants reckon radiation released by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear kerfuffle has made its way into California's wine.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3V70V)
No one can agree on how it's calculated Analysis What do data durability numbers mean? Azure brags 12 and even 16 nines durability, while Amazon S3, Google Cloud Platform and Backblaze tout 11 nines. What does this mean?…
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by John Leyden on (#3V70W)
Moscow's agents used one-time pads, er, two times – ой! Efforts by British boffins to thwart Russian cryptographic cyphers in the 1920s and 1930s have been declassified, providing fascinating insights into an obscure part of the history of code breaking.…
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by John Leyden on (#3V6X6)
Moscow's agents used one-time pads, er, two times – ой! Efforts by British boffins to thwart Russian cryptographic cyphers in the 1920s and 1930s have been declassified, providing fascinating insights into an obscure part of the history of code breaking.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V6M2)
Venerable PC maker emits bunch of graphics powerhouses Demonstrating that there is still life in the old dog, HP Inc has ripped the covers off a line-up of workstations aimed squarely at users seeking a lot more oomph from a smaller form-factor.…
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by John Leyden on (#3V6FH)
We're even short 'moderately specialist' types ... A cross-sector alliance incorporating leading UK organisations has been created in response to government plans to develop a national professional body for cybersecurity.…
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by John Leyden on (#3V6AN)
Researcher: Well, I think you'll find.... Adobe has attempted to play down the significance of a vulnerability in its internal systems.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3V662)
Switchzilla's share price dipped following rumor of direct rivalry Network hardware makers can rest easy: the tech titan that is Amazon Web Services isn't going to be selling switches any time soon, which will likely be music to the ears of current AWS supplier Cisco.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V61H)
Sky, TalkTalk and M24Seven all withered in the heat this week As the big red ball in the sky continued to shine on the UK, internet providers decided to have a bit of a lie-down, with Sky, TalkTalk and leased line specialist M24Seven all taking a turn on the sun-lounger.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3V5YK)
Unpaid former staff will get something... eventually Liquidators were today appointed to squeeze Tintri UK for whatever cash they can get out of the fallen business.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V5YM)
Stop me if you've heard this one before There are rumblings that Azure is having capacity issues once again, with customers in the UK South region reporting problems getting new VMs provisioned.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3V5VE)
Stuck on the ground awaiting a load sheet? Here's why Exclusive The British Airways IT system failure that caused the grounding of flights around the world yesterday was caused by an outage at third-party travel tech supplier Amadeus.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3V5VG)
Phew! Water shortage scare not so, er, scary now it is? The water wells across parts of England* may be running dry but Southern Water has kept the taps running on its long running managed service deal with Capita, extending the contacts initially by five years for £30m.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3V5VJ)
Networks the wind beneath Börje Ekholm's wings Ericsson has dodged a loss for the first time in two years, after 18 months under the strict regime imposed by CEO Börje Ekholm, who took the reins at the vendor at the start of 2017.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V5RW)
Auto-failover for Azure SQL Database when things wobble Microsoft continued its drive to encourage SQL Server customers to move their precious data to its cloudy towers with the announcement that long-term retention and automatic failover had finally hit the big time.…
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by Team Register on (#3V5RY)
Earlybird tickets take off in August If you like simplifying your infrastructure, saving money, and beating deadlines, you’ll want to know that you’ve got just one month to save hundreds of pounds on tickets for Serverless Computing London.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3V5RZ)
Has loss-making UK arm plumbed its final network? Dimension Data Advanced Infrastructure (DDAI) will not be providing network plumbing to the construction industry again – at least in its current guise – because the business is in administration.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3V5P5)
Says firm's airliners designed with security foremost in mind Airbus's UK infosec chief, Ian Goslin, has said that cyber-attack attribution is a matter for "nation states" – and has questioned whether some critical national infrastructure companies are taking the infosec threat seriously.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V5P7)
Venerable Linux distro still keeping it clean, after all these years Slackware, the oldest Linux distribution still being maintained, has turned 25 this week, making many an enthusiast wonder where all those years went.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3V5J5)
Leap seconds issue solved, but without segmented smearing Microsoft Windows Server 2019, coming later this year, will include UTC-compliant leap second support, both for added and subtracted time. But there will be no smearing.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3V5G7)
Thousands of researchers sign pledge to not develop lethal AI Hundreds of organisations and thousands of techies, including Elon Musk, Demis Hassabis from Google's DeepMind, and the head of the Chocolate Factory's AI lab Jeff Dean have promised never to support the development of autonomous weapons.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3V5AX)
Brass hats seek more control over technology and research Australia’s research and university communities have united against what they see as Department of Defence overreach: the brass-hats want greater powers to control international collaboration.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3V5AZ)
Twenty-five bugs writhing on the netops floor this week Cisco has emitted 25 product security advisories – with four critical bugs flattened in its service provider-oriented Cisco Policy Suite.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3V57G)
Check your OEMs for patches In case you missed it, Chipzilla has gone public with more patches for the Intel Management Engine.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V57H)
Cloud and security big winners in Q2 while Cognitive sags IBM is touting the growth in its "strategic imperatives" business lineup with helping its revenues once again gain over the year-ago quarter.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V55P)
Cloud and security big winners in Q2, while Cognitive sags IBM is touting the growth in its 'strategic imperatives' business lineup with helping its revenues once again gain over the year-ago quarter.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3V55Q)
Punch up at Cali startup An engineer is suing Pinscreen, a startup that supposedly uses AI to generate cartoon avatars of people, claiming he was illegally fired and assaulted after confronting the CEO about its allegedly faked technology.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V52V)
Chinese broker faces prison, if he's ever found in Uncle Sam's jurisdiction and convicted A Chinese investor has been charged in America with insider trading after allegedly using Lattice Semiconductor secrets to turn a massive profit on Wall Street.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V4VZ)
Hundreds of thousands of voter records and contact info spilled Security biz Kromtech has unearthed two more embarrassing – and potentially dangerous – cases of groups leaving mass data caches unguarded on the public internet.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3V4ZW)
Chocolate Factory apologizes for overzealous bots as service wobbles offline With no mention of Tuesday's Cloud Platform service troubles, Google on Wednesday heralded the arrival of click-to-deploy Kubernetes apps in the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3V4RN)
Chocolate Factory apologizes for trigger-happy AI With no mention of Tuesday's Cloud Platform service troubles, Google on Wednesday heralded the arrival of click-to-deploy Kubernetes apps in the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace.…
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by John Leyden on (#3V4RQ)
Tens of thousands of Canadian medical files, healthcare worker details snatched Hackers say they will leak patient and employee records stolen from a Canadian healthcare provider unless they are paid off.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V4N7)
Gizmos gain control over Windows 10 updates - at a price Be still your beating hearts, Microsoft’s Windows 10 IoT Core Services has hit public preview and the software giant has indicated just how much it is all going to cost.…
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