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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3V484)
Happy now? For realsies? The great British tradition of huffing, tutting and whinging is in grave peril. Regulator Ofcom has reported a decline in complaints across telecoms, mobile and TV services.…
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by John Leyden on (#3V486)
App security firm sanctioned in US over ties with Russia Oracle fixed 17 flaws in its products found by ERPScan researchers without acknowledging the application security firm, which was recently and controversially sanctioned in the US.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3V432)
Dell EMC and HPE help fuel record quarterly revenue High-speed Ethernet biz Mellanox has posted record revenues for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018, driven in part by Dell EMC and HPE's seeming insatiable appetite for Ethernet switches.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3V3XY)
Breach identified potential victims taking part in probe The UK's data watchdog today issued the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) a £200,000 penalty after it sent a bulk email to participants that identified possible victims of historical crimes.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3V3XZ)
New CEO prepares company for new direction Israeli storage startup Reduxio, with its shiny new CEO, is going to sell only via channel middlemen and has waved bye to another exec.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3V3T3)
Vows to appeal as Euro competition commissioner says: Stop it now Analysis What convinced the European Commission that it had a Microsoft-scale competition problem on its hands with Google isn't a mystery. Google engaged in a carbon copy of '90s Microsoft-style tactics.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V3P3)
Inspire attendees paw at not-quite-a-Surface-Hub kit Lovers of big screens in boardrooms, rejoice! The first of Microsoft's Ginormonitors (aka Windows Collaboration Displays) has arrived at Redmond's partner shindig in Las Vegas.…
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by John Leyden on (#3V3P5)
Enumeration bug potentially allowed users to peek at each others' details Telefonica Spain has inadvertently exposed the personal details of customers of its Movistar division.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3V3HQ)
Taller, narrower, and (some) notchier The shape of the smartphone is changing as a fad turns into a long-term trend, a business analyst has noted.…
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by Team Register on (#3V3ES)
Who do we want on stage? You of course Events Continuous Lifecycle London returns in May 2019, and we want to hear your proposals for conference sessions and all-day workshops, spanning the full range of agile, DevOps, application lifecycle management, CD, and container technologies and methodologies.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3V3C5)
Breakup lays bare Chipzilla's failures Comment Micron's commercial discussions with Intel over 3D XPoint have concluded that the tech partnership will be dissolved once second-gen development is completed next year.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3V3A9)
When dumb is usually smart enough Analysis Imagine if Intel had decided in the 1980s that all of its CPUs henceforth would have a vast parallel processing unit worthy of a Cray supercomputer, integrated into every chip. This would quadruple the price of an Intel microprocessor, but "future-proof" its PCs.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3V3AB)
DeX Pad doesn’t have an obvious role, but finding one will be fun Hands-On I’m typing this story on a phone – a Galaxy S9+ to be precise, lodged in Samsung’s new “DeX Pad†not-a-dock that turns its high-end handsets into passable desktops when connected to a monitor or tellie over HDMI.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3V38H)
200 million transactions visible to all, inc. the inside dope on a cannabis seller's annual sales PayPal-owned digital wallet Venmo shares way too much data via its public API, according to Berlin-based researcher Hang Do Thi Duc.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3V38J)
If ye can board Microsoft accounts, Azure AD or even OpenID without the skipper knowing, loot be your reward Microsoft’s launched a new bug bounty program, this time for identity services.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3V36M)
Chip ships 6,400 Mbps, cuts power consumption Samsung has shown off the first prototype of a somewhat-bonkers DRAM chip: at 8 Gbits, it's not news in terms of scale, but the LPDDR5 silicon pushes bits out the door at 6,400 megabits per second.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3V36P)
Especially sysadmins who want to get off the fix-this-PC-now treadmill Google thinks the time has come for widespread adoption of PCs-as-a-service, so has offered up its own experience as an exemplar how to get it done.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3V34R)
Which should help neurologists to map the brain Video AI can help neurologists automatically map the connections between different neurons in brain scans, a tedious task that can take hundreds and thousands of hours.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3V32Q)
Access points gets WPA3, OFDMA, Bluetooth LE, Zigbee and more Ruckus Wireless has focussed on high-density outdoor environments with its entry into the 802.11ax Wi-Fi market.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3V30W)
Chairman Rich Templeton will return to CEO role Former Texas Instruments CEO Rich Templeton will return to the role after a six-week break, because his replacement has been dumped for breaching the company's code of conduct.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3V2ZK)
Bandwidth is better, down where it's wetter, take it from me! Google has announced its first private trans-Atlantic cable, with landings at Virginia Beach in the US and on the French Atlantic coast.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3V2XK)
They’ll run on the Snowball Edge data transfer device, which packs a Xeon D In a major departure from its usual cloud-only stance, Amazon Web Services has announced it’s now possible to run EC2 instances with on-premises hardware – but only its own Snowball Edge devices.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V2TX)
US medical testing giant says no evidence of data theft after alarms triggered Medical biz LabCorp shut down some of its systems last week after it detected "suspicious activity" on its network.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3V2QN)
Nabla Containers promises reduced attack surface through fewer system calls IBM researchers have developed a new flavor of software container in an effort to create code that's more secure than Docker and similar shared kernel container systems.…
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by David Gordon on (#3V2QP)
Health regime for your Windows 10 devices Promo Windows Analytics is a cloud-based suite of solutions that provides proactive insights into the current state of a Windows environment.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V2QQ)
Man admits to selling remote access malware used by morons for spying A US software developer has admitted to selling and supporting spyware after originally claiming his remote access tool was legitimate admin software.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3V2J1)
Now it has 79 satellites, and one is a tiny 'oddball' Jupiter already had the most moons in the Solar System, but now scientists have discovered twelve new ones bringing the total up to 79.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3V2QR)
Expect this one to be argued all the way to the Supremes In a victory for those supporting open access to technical specifications, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday vacated injunctions [PDF] that prohibited Public.Resource.Org (PRO) from publishing copyrighted technical standards online.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3V2J2)
Expect this one to be argued all the way to the Supremes In a victory for those supporting open access to technical specifications, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday vacated injunctions [PDF] that prohibited Public.Resource.Org (PRO) from publishing copyrighted technical standards online.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V2E4)
ES&S admits a handful of systems were shipped with PCAnywhere tool Updated A US voting machine manufacturer has admitted some of its systems sold in the early 2000s had a remote access tool installed.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3V2E5)
Positive outcome from activist investor involvement Just three months after activist investor Elliott Management invaded Commvault’s board-level considerations, the company has announced a radical simplification of its product strategy, shoehorning 20 individual products into four master ones and pumping improvements into its channel program.…
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by John Leyden on (#3V260)
Temporary file during update shuffled off to quarantine A Windows operating system library was wrongly identified as malware by Sophos's antivirus scanner for some users on Tuesday.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V21K)
Or: How I learned to stop worrying about infrastructure and love the cloud From the department of "things punted to public preview before they're totally ready" comes Azure Service Fabric Mesh.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3V21N)
Seized servers, 'disappointing' offers, stolen laptops – it ain't easy being CA's administrator Administrators dealing with the group of firms affiliated with Cambridge Analytica were offered a pound for the now infamous brand – but didn't accept.…
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by John Leyden on (#3V1WK)
By design, though, not... er, general rubbishness Russia's vulnerability database is much thinner than its US or Chinese counterparts – but it does contain a surprisingly high percentage of security bugs exploited by its cyber-spies.…
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by Team Register on (#3V1QK)
Back in black UK comms provider TalkTalk grew its customer base by a net 80,000 in the first quarter of FY19, the company said in a trading update today. 2.1 million subscribers are now on fixed-price plans.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V1JS)
First they came for your cars. Now they're coming for your beers Denmark-based brewing giant Carlsberg has reported good progress in its attempts to turn Microsoft's Azure AI into a robot beer sniffer.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V1DZ)
Business accounts worth their weight in gold to scammers Business email accounts remain a lucrative way for scammers to get into companies and turn a quick buck.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3V1E1)
Techies told to patch: ICO probes error that let pupils link to the wrong parents Updated Capita has admitted a bug in an information management system used by 21,000 UK schools could have incorrectly linked contact details to the wrong pupils – an incident with huge implications for pupils' data protection.…
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by John Leyden on (#3V1A1)
Thanks for Putin that out there Security experts have poured scorn on plans by US president Donald Trump to work more closely with Russia on cybersecurity.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3V1A2)
Big Red brags bank backing for blockchain biz Oracle confirmed a bunch of firms in financial services - traditionally a conservative sector - were among the first to test its blockchain platform that today was made generally available to all and sundry.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V16S)
You will learn to love version 8, whether you like it or not Windows users still clinging onto to the halcyon days of Skype 7 (aka "Classic") were warned last night to move to version 8 or face the service dying from September 1.…
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by Chris Williams on (#3V145)
We're switching up how the site looks – and we need your feedback Here at El Reg towers, our backroom boffins have been toiling away improving our proudly Perl-based homegrown online publishing system.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3V11Y)
Plus: Guess how much it costs.... oh, go on - have a guess! Review Samsung's giant rival for 50 years, LG, has gone toe-to-toe with the bigger chaebol throughout the smartphone era. Three years ago, LG was firing all cylinders. Its 2014 flagship had introduced the first QHD+ panel; and its successor offered great design (custom leatherbacks) while retaining the removable battery Samsung discarded as it tried to emulate the clean glass lines of the iPhone.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3V0ZD)
Consortium possibly looking to flex Arm muscle, too Analysis The European Union's consortium to develop European microprocessors for future supercomputers has taken a few more steps towards its goal of delivering a locally made exascale chip by 2025.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3V0ZE)
Changes to add ‘more of the skills that you actually need to be successful’ Microsoft has admitted that the certifications it created for Azure admins aren’t very good.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3V0X9)
Alternative proposed to sending server names in cleartext Over the weekend, at the IETF Hackathon in Montreal, Canada, software engineers from Apple, Cloudflare, Fastly and Mozilla made some progress toward closing a privacy gap affecting network communications.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3V0XB)
Adobe-spawn feels 'more tangible and credible' for government crusties The UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) has revealed it’s working on a tool that will export its web pages as PDFs.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3V0V3)
‘USENET was a pretty clear warning’ of things to come, says new draft IETF standard A new Internet Engineering Task Force draft proposes to apologise for social media.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3V0V4)
Singaporeans boffins offer Spectre-protector as Fortinet ponders Android inoculation Black hats haven't yet found a way to mass-exploit the Spectre vulnerability – but mitigations are already arriving.…
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