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by Chris Mellor on (#3TPG7)
QLC will take SSD capacity to another level Samsung has added another regiment to its fast disk destruction army, announcing 90+ layer 3D-NAND chip manufacturing, with 1Tbit and QLC (4-level cell) chips coming.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3TPC9)
Or, if you will, an arthritic stagger around the park Azure Dev Spaces is one of those technologies that looks great in demonstrations, but can end up being infuriating when introduced to real life.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3TPCB)
UK techie's tests reveal half-dozen daily fails, infrastructure bods vow to look into it An irritated techie from Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England, has hit out at Openreach after what he claimed was a year-long series of daily micro-outages that make it "often impossible" to work from home.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3TP9J)
Crypto lush HTC claims gizmo will be an 'agent of decentralization' Strategy Boutique So it wasn't a joke. HTC today vowed to launch its "Blockchain Phone", which it calls an "agent of decentralization".…
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by Richard Speed on (#3TP9M)
You can paint a cloudy face on it, but it's still a legacy app Though Citrix may see its future in the cloud, some users of the service have complained that its promises may be a little too vapoury for comfort.…
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by John Leyden on (#3TP9N)
Curl request with 29 As and it's lights out for iLO 4 HPE servers running unpatched enterprise software are trivially easy to exploit with just one line of code, it has emerged.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3TP71)
And it'll only take five days Fujitsu has launched a fast-track blockchain consultancy service for companies to see whether their distributed ledger plans are pie in the sky or might actually be of some commercial benefit.…
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by David Gordon on (#3TP4T)
Build up your network defences, prep for certs Promo Keeping pace with a fast-changing security landscape is becoming an often baffling challenge for many organisations.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3TP4W)
Big Blue, what's wrong with Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp or Pure? IBM's Evaluator Group has knocked up sales briefing battlecards that aim to kill off competition from Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp and Pure for its new FlashSystem 9100 flash arrays.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3TP2B)
Full fibre diet to cost $33bn over 30 years The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has told UK.gov it should allow for copper-based phone networks to be switched off by 2025, as well as recommending a host of other expensive broadband-based ideas.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3TP2C)
Cloudy analytics as an experience aggregator to the rescue? Maybe The security industry’s supply chain is currently inferior to that of its attackers, says Carbon Black CEO Patrick Morley, but he thinks the industry is finding ways to fight back.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3TNZS)
US, Russian, Ukrainians make big bank with pre-public info Two former investment bankers, one of whom is also a priest, have been found guilty of an elaborate scam – hacking newswires to read press releases prior to publication, and trade millions using this insider information.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3TNZV)
Native to ordinary interfaces, Big Red reckons bonded channels are needed for RDMA Oracle reckons Linux remote direct memory access (RDMA) implementations need features like high availability and load balancing, and hopes to sling code into the kernel to do exactly that.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3TNXS)
‘Minimal Ubuntu’ is optimised for KVM, containers, AWS’ new hypervisor and Google Cloud Canonical has released a new cut of Ubuntu it recommends for use in the cloud and containers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3TNVR)
Trust nobody: abandoned code was adopted by a miscreant Arch Linux has pulled a user-provided AUR (Arch User Repository) package, because it contained malware.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3TNSQ)
Outfit called Bitcanal didn't just camp on addresses, it leased them to spammers A year-long effort to stop an accused “bad actor†who hijacked border gateway protocol (BGP) routes has borne fruit, with giant Hurricane Electric and Portugal's IPTelecom joining in cutting off an organisation called Bitcanal.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3TNR3)
Group named 'TEMP.Periscope' releasing RATs says FireEye AUS-based security researcher has accused China of interfering in Cambodia's forthcoming national election.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3TNPH)
Take some paravirtualization, add hardware extensions and – voila – QEMU flies away The Xen Project has released version 4.11 of its hypervisor.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3TNMA)
Needs the ability to cope with Microsoft docs without breaking The US Department of Defense is exploring whether or not it's worth using artificially intelligent software to suggest levels of classification for information – and control who gets access to it.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3TNMC)
Massive patch dump with 112 fixes... and that's just for the Photoshop giant IT admins face a busy week ahead as Microsoft, Intel, and Adobe have issued bundles of scheduled security fixes addressing more than 150 CVE-listed vulnerabilities.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3TNMD)
Wow, Mark Zuckerberg must be really, really terrified Facebook faces a £500,000 ($665,000) fine from the UK’s data protection watchdog, the ICO, for failing to protect netizens' info nor tell them how their data would be harvested by apps.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3TNHV)
Just over 13 minutes of profit - Zuck must be terrified Facebook has received a £500,000 fine from the UK’s data protection watchdog for failing to protect users’ info or tell them how their data will be harvested.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3TNEM)
Grainy to clear pixels within milliseconds Video Don’t worry if the lighting is a bit off in your photos – artificially intelligent software can fix that.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3TNEP)
It's time national security agencies bring facts to the table Comment Huawei has won another sizeable contract, this time in Australia, and with it come the all-too-common accusations that the company is a national security risk.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3TNER)
è’‚å§†ï¼Œæˆ‘ä»¬å‘Šè¯‰ä½ è°¨æ…Žï¼ Apple's attempt to filter out text on its iPhones to appease the Chinese government would crash iOS – and now that bug, or feature, has been fixed.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3TN8K)
Follow the money: Florida judge signs off on new IP attack PayPal and Google have been hit with court injunctions telling them to freeze accounts associated with websites hosting pirated content.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3TN4Y)
Don't panic: The Open Threat Exchange is still online AT&T has agreed to acquire security intel specialist AlienVault for an unspecified pile of cash.…
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by Chris Williams on (#3TN0W)
Underhand tactic of slagging off the competition backfires Arm has taken offline its website attacking rival processor architecture RISC-V within days of it going live – after its own staff objected to the underhand tactic.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3TN0Y)
Spending survey highlights shift to new-world tech vendors Oracle is among the legacy tech losers in a Goldman Sachs spending report that quizzed chief information officers on the procurement areas they consider to be top priorities over the next six months.…
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by John Leyden on (#3TN10)
Decides not to report code blunder despite Europe's new GDPR privacy rules Holidaymakers who used Thomas Cook Airlines had their personal information spilled onto the internet no thanks to basic coding cockups.…
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by Chris Williams on (#3TMR7)
Chipzilla preps for quarterly public patch updates Exclusive Intel will today emit a dozen security alerts for its products – including details of another vulnerability within the family of Spectre CPU flaws.…
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by John Leyden on (#3TMFD)
Firm smacks back: We 'did not manage Heartland's information security' Security services firm Trustwave has been sued by insurers in America over the 2008 hacking of US payment processing biz Heartland.…
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by David Gordon on (#3TMFE)
Sophos webinar looks on the bright side of regulations that echoed around the world Promo Nobody can have have failed to notice a sudden flood of ingratiating emails at the end of May. It signalled the arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), two years in the making and finally coming into effect.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3TMFF)
♫ If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall ♫ Fresh from fighting content filters in the EU, Google is working on the ultimate content filter– which seals the user off in a spam-free bubble.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3TM99)
Customer support to be saved, roadmap assurances delivered Exclusive DataDirect Networks (DDN) has come to the rescue of Tintri just hours after the array maker filed for bankruptcy in the US under Chapter 11.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3TM9A)
IET phone home. Just don't email... A decision by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) to axe an ageing email alias service has left some of its members a-quiver with indignation.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3TM4X)
Pen test bods probe about a dozen orgs – all fail Companies are still leaving basic security flaws and points of entry wide open for hackers to exploit.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3TM4Y)
It's not looking good for array-flinger The noose around Tintri's neck tightened today as Nasdaq confirmed it will delist the company's stock on Thursday July 12.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3TM0F)
Jeremy Wright fourth MP to lead DCMS since 2016 Today's reshuffle of UK politicos sees Jeremy Wright – a man whose parody account has seen more activity in 12 hours than his real one has in the past three years – appointed Secretary of Fun.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3TM0G)
Sysadmins seeking help with remote control software find something quite different Users taking to Twitter to moan about TeamViewer have received a bit of a shock when attempting to use the eponymous hashtag.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3TKXG)
That would be all of it then The US tax authority – the Internal Revenue Service – is looking at how AI can secure and protect taxpayers’ data held on its servers.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3TKXH)
Creepy? Nah. Selling peace of mind to hyper anxious parents The best thing in two new consumer wearables Vodafone launched today is not mentioned by the firm itself: each does away with the need for a smartphone.…
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by John Leyden on (#3TKVB)
Of course researchers added machine learning to the mix too Smartphone hackers can glean secrets by analysing touchscreen user interactions, according to new research.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3TKRE)
Customers report Terribly Slow Banking Updated A UK bank's website and mobile app have flatlined this morning – and there are no prizes for guessing which embattled financial firm is struggling.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3TKRG)
Don't have a cow, but taxman test disappears MOO HMRC has attracted further ire from contractors affected by plans to squeeze them for a bit more tax under IR35 rules.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3TKRH)
Down four places to 35th – and beaten by Madagascar Britain's place in global broadband speed rankings has slipped four places to 35th, according to a survey.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3TKP8)
Amazon’s own auto-scaler now available for third-party apps AWS has announced that “Application Auto Scaling can be used to add scaling to any services that you build on AWSâ€, and Netflix has revealed the new feature started life as a custom job for the vid-streaming company.…
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by Chris Williams on (#3TKKT)
We answer your questions in five minutes Watercooler Hey El Reg, over the past few days I've seen news that Chinese chip biz Hygon is producing server-grade processors virtually identical to AMD Epyc processors. I'm kinda getting deja vu – you, too?…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3TKKW)
How it all happened (clue: unsigned library loaded) Programmers at videoconferencing software house BlueJeans have been living through a developer's nightmare the past month or so – antivirus packages falsely labeling their code as malware.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3TKHE)
Researcher says routes are leaking because ISP giants aren't filtering route info The Internet's fundamental routing infrastructure, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), is so fragile that errors in one to four per cent of ISP route filters can propagate bad routes.…
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