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by Iain Thomson on (#40NC2)
SpaceX, Boeing running behind schedule, and don't get me started on SLS Comment Thursday's failed Soyuz launch, carrying kit and astronauts to the International Space Station means NASA is fast running out of options for shipping stuff into orbit. Especially since its homespun solutions aren't living up to their earlier promise.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40N8F)
Patched server, or working server. Pick one... IBM has withdrawn a patch for a significant security vulnerability in its WebSphere Application Server after the code knackered some systems.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40N0V)
Auto-updates come with a sting Updated Microsoft on Tuesday posted KB4464330 (Windows 10 1809 Build 17763.55) in an effort to halt the damage done by last week's Windows 10 version 1809 update, but it hasn't quite worked.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40N0X)
Pinedo avoids serious time after spilling beans to Mueller on account sales A California man who provided bank accounts to Russian online trolls seeking to monkey with America's 2016 elections will spend the next six months or so behind bars.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40MVM)
Incremental titbits aimed at time-poor techies Google Cloud Next Google has released another handful of networking features for its cloud, including Cloud NAT, which lets devs build cloud-based services that do not have public IP addresses.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40MVP)
Chaebol charges back against Chinese SIM-only onslaught Hands On Samsung has launched the Galaxy A9 – its most comprehensive offensive against the twin threats of SIM-only subscribers and Chinese giant Huawei. The fightback involves a stronger mid-range, trade-ins, and promises better turnaround for faults and repairs.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40MPY)
Staff snapped up and IP licensed by iPhone giant Apple has agreed to hand $600m over to Dialog Semiconductor in return for a slice of the chipmaker's business and brains.…
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by John Leyden on (#40MHD)
Crouching tiger, hidden APT The UK's National Cyber Security Centre and its western intel pals have today put out a report spotlighting the most commonly wielded hacking utilities.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40MDM)
New bits from Amsterdam Config management and automation outfit Puppet rolled out a slew of updates to its DevOps toolset in front of a crowd of excitable engineers at its Puppetize Live event in Amsterdam this week, with an eye on security and automation.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#40M8F)
Startup now valued at $3.5bn Cloud data warehouser Snowflake has raised nearly half a billion dollars in its latest tranche, taking total funding to $923m.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40M8H)
UK operators this summer look much like they did last year Monitoring biz OpenSignal has found no major gains in mobile broadband performance since spring in its latest quarterly UK survey [PDF] as network operators focus their investments more carefully ahead of the upcoming 5G spectrum auction.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40M49)
Pixel Slate: Nero for a Day Comment Common sense says you can't make a Veblen good out of a dumb computer terminal – but that isn't going to stop Google trying.…
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by John Leyden on (#40KZV)
DNS infrastructures still vulnerable to attacks The majority (72 per cent) of FTSE 100 firms are vulnerable to DNS attacks, nearly two years after the major Dyn outage.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40KZX)
Take your foot off the accelerator, admins told VMware has warned users about an "important" denial-of-service vuln in ESXi, Workstation and Fusion that hinges on a problem with 3D rendering.…
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by John Leyden on (#40KWA)
Delay 'in the overall best interest' of Firefox users Mozilla has postponed its plans to distrust all legacy digital certificates from Symantec, spreading dismay in security circles.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40KS7)
'Nauts safe, but the ISS may have to be abandoned The post-Space Shuttle era of reliability spearheaded by Russian space agency Roskosmos came to an abrupt end this morning as the booster carrying the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft to the International Space Station failed a few minutes after launch.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40KNJ)
Middle Kingdom is a rising threat once again – research Infosec pros might have already noticed some familiar IP address ranges in their system logs – China has returned to the cyber-attack arena.…
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by Team Register on (#40KNM)
Getting practical with machine learning and AI There are many ways machines can learn, but for humans nothing beats getting together with like-minded souls who’ve trodden a similar path.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40KK6)
Fondleslabs continue to be borked by flaky firmware Unhappy Surface Pro 4 owners continue to fill Microsoft's support forums with complaints over an update that is leaving the touchscreen untouchable.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#40KGS)
Runs SPEC SFS 2014 software builds 25% faster than E8 Optane system Enterprise HPC storage vendor DDN has run the SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark 25 per cent faster than an E8 NVMe storage system using Intel Optane 3D XPoint drives.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40KED)
The spikey satellite is not for the faint hearted Exploring Jupiter’s moon, Europa, will be a treacherous task after scientists discovered its surface is covered in sharp icy daggers towering at almost 15 metres tall.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40KGV)
The spikey satellite is not for the faint hearted, it appears Exploring Jupiter’s moon Europa will be a treacherous task, it seems: scientists reckon its surface is covered in sharp towering icy daggers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40KBV)
Oh, and there are 21 other vulns to patch It's time for Juniper Networks' semi-regular bugfest, with 22 fixes announced today, two of which carry a “critical†rating and should be applied immediately.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#40K9K)
The tech that is, not this made-up mystery Backgrounder IT infrastructure has become more complex as virtualization and private clouds have added more cream and sponge to the technology layer cake within businesses.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40K5A)
The bad news: PC sales went down a little, says IDC It's time for the quarterly PC market predictions from analyst houses Gartner and IDC and, as usual, they disagree on the state of the trade.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40K39)
MikroTik. Stupid name. Stupid bugs. Get those fixes If you haven't installed a batch of patches for bugs in your MikroTik routers – and two thirds of owners apparently haven't – then stiffen the sinews and summon up the blood: you really need to update your firmware.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40K16)
Xu can play at this espionage game, Feds allege US prosecutors have unsealed charges against a collared Chinese national, accusing him of stealing trade secrets from American aerospace companies.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40JYP)
Deal or no deal – what's in the bot? Artificially intelligent bots are notoriously bad at communicating with, well, anything. Conversations with the code, whether it's between themselves or with people, often go awry, and veer off topic. Grammar goes out the window, and sentences become nonsensical.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40JVG)
Open-source suite defies doomsayers with millions of downloads Analysis Last year Brett Porter, then chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, contemplated whether a proposed official blog post on the state of Apache OpenOffice (AOO) might discourage people from downloading the software due to lack of activity in the project.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40JR6)
Hack to thaw account freezes reported, fixed, hopefully never exploited Experian's website exposed to world-plus-dog the PINs needed to unlock frozen accounts, allowing crooks to potentially apply for loans and credit cards as their victims.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40JMF)
Likely state hackers make do with 'living off the land' and going after tardy Office patchers A newly discovered spy gang is eschewing boutique attack tools to instead use publicly available exploits against unpatched systems.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#40JGN)
But Oracle shot first IBM has officially griped to a top US government watchdog about JEDI – the Pentagon's proposed 10-year $10bn single-vendor IT system for America’s Green Machine.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40JBS)
350-year monkish mystery could be down to a merger Astrophysicists have finally solved a mystery lasting almost 350 years to uncover the first documented merger between a white and brown dwarf star.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40J6P)
Finally, Jeff Bezos can sleep easy on his cash pillow Canalys Channels Forum 2018 The billions of dollars in ad revenue that Amazon is turning over each quarter will bankroll the capital expenditure of new data centre builds at AWS for years to come, sustaining the business model.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#40J20)
Membership of WD's OpenFlex club has its perks Western Digital has invested in all-flash array supplier Kaminario, which supports WD's composable systems technology.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40HX0)
That 60,000 patents in your pocket or are you just pleased to see us? Who would have thought it? Not content with signing with LOT Network, Microsoft has taken the next step in patent cuddling and joined the Open Innovation Network.…
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Microsoft has signed up to the Open Invention Network. We repeat. Microsoft has signed up to the OIN
by Richard Speed on (#40JBV)
That 60,000 patents in your pocket or are you just pleased to see us? Who would have thought it? Not content with signing with LOT Network, Microsoft has taken the next step in patent cuddling and joined the Open Invention Network.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40HX2)
Hopes to lure new cloud-sniffers with location lockdown feature Google Cloud Next At the Google Cloud Next conference in London today the adtech company's enterprise tech arm declared that business clients would soon enjoy location restriction policies and other new tools of control freakery on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).…
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by Richard Speed on (#40HX4)
Microsoft tweaks firmware for kiosks and users that love the power cord In news that will make Surface Pro 3 owners twitch involuntarily, Microsoft is fiddling with Surface battery settings yet again.…
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by John Leyden on (#40HRX)
Comparing Middle Kingdom's hacker forums to Russia's? Apples and pears Underground hacker forums in China and Russia are as different as each country's regular shopping bazaars, according to research from Recorded Future.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40HMJ)
RIP Verify. Finally It's official: the UK state's expensive-but-comatose digital identity system Verify has been taken off life support.…
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by Team Register on (#40HMM)
Choosing your platform is just the first step If you're considering moving to a serverless architecture you might think the first step is easy, but the real challenges come with ensuring enterprise-grade discipline once you move into production.…
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by Team Register on (#40J22)
Choosing your platform is just the first step Event If you're considering moving to a serverless architecture you might think the first step is easy, but the real challenges come with ensuring enterprise-grade discipline once you move into production.…
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by John Leyden on (#40HFP)
UK information commish is investigating Employee benefits firm Sodexo has suffered a data breach exposing personal info believed to include names, email addresses and home addresses after its UK Engage unit’s internal IT systems were hit by malware.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40HFR)
If it's not one DRAM thing, it's another As Intel battles to get on top of CPU shortages that have plagued its business in recent times, the world's largest computer makers are hunkering down for six months of tight supply.…
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by Richard Currie on (#40HBM)
And Brussels sprout... Give it a chai, says Sainsbury's It's common knowledge that the British are a nation of tea drinkers but – yikes – Sainsbury's launch of pigs in blankets and Brussels sprout-flavoured teas ahead of the Christmas mania are a little beyond the pale brown water.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40H8W)
Two Redmond wranglers sitting in a tree... Switzerland-based flinger of Microsoft licences SoftwareONE has announced plans to snap up IT services provider Comparex in a deal that will create a licensing giant.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40H5Q)
Sysdig's container runtime security project gets solid foundation Falco, Sysdig's open source project for monitoring container runtimes, is slated to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation on Wednesday, becoming the first runtime security tool to be added to the Cloud Native Sandbox project, a home for early stage projects.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40H35)
Internet Engineering Task Force doc examines how to better protect authentication tokens Google and Microsoft engineers have pooled their efforts to propose a protection against what are known as "replay attacks".…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40H37)
IT shifts from a back office to core of operations, says survey Half of senior IT bods across Europe agree that their departments are struggling to cope with new tech while keeping core gear running, according a recent survey.…
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