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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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by Chris Mellor on (#3VGPN)
AWS'n'Azure cheerleader with $65m US military cloud contract snapped up Hitachi Vantara is gobbling up Rean Cloud – a public cloud systems integrator, managed service provider, and AWS pusher that comes with a $65m five-year US military contract in its back pocket.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3VGK6)
Cloud Services Platform debuts, mixing containers, monitoring, AI, management, etc Amid ongoing renovations at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center, Google Cloud Next '18 opened on Tuesday, the scent of new carpeting and paint still lingering in the air.…
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by Chris Williams on (#3VGBW)
High Sierra patch reduces performance throttling for this year's tardy laptops If your 2018 MacBook Pro laptop is slowing down unexpectedly, then download and install today's macOS 10.13.6 Supplemental Update, and cross your fingers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3VG2F)
Last century called. They want their UI back, please Open-source Windows wannabe ReactOS took another tentative step towards usability with a 0.4.9 release aimed at stability and self-hosting.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3VFY5)
Adds Nimble InfoSight sw, more containerisation middleware support HPE has planted a Nimble InfoSight brain into its 3PAR system management and extended its DevOps middleware coverage to make 3PAR more container-friendly.…
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by John Leyden on (#3VFKS)
Privilege escalation bug was still sitting there 11 years later A vulnerability first detected and "resolved" years ago in Oracle's Unix OS, Solaris, has resurfaced, necessitating a fix in Big Red's latest quarterly patch batch.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3VFFF)
Now-patched vulnerability let attackers overwrite code IBM has patched a critical vulnerability in its Cloud Functions platform that would have allowed miscreants to remotely overwrite customers' code – and execute malicious commands to hijack services.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3VFBV)
Sorry to disappoint It has been a good week for Microsoft. While beancounters counted their cloudy cash, the rest of the Redmond kept itself busy.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VFBW)
Red flags: Hunt and Helme pick out sites that can load without crypto How's that migration to "HTTPS everywhere" going? With some Chrome browsers* now flagging insecure sites, there's a lot of work still to do, according to security bods Troy Hunt and Scott Helme.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3VFBY)
Incumbent 'committed' to give it greater 'strategic independence' BT Group today said it has started consultation with 31,000 staff that are bound for Openreach in October, according to a statement filed with the London Stock Exchange.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3VF89)
We node we can stuff just one more SoC in here Ready to unzip this densely packed storage news suitcase? We've got a bulging information-fest with all that's worth knowing from the past week, ranging from SSDs through disks to public and private clouds.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3VF5F)
Trustbusters R us Analysis Europe's Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, faced two very different questions from the media after announcing a record fine for Google last week.…
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by Team Register on (#3VF3D)
Earlybird tickets due to expire in one week - act now If you want to get to grip with the key theories and tools behind machine learning and AI, and see how your peers have them into practice in real businesses, you should grab an early bird ticket for MCubed now.…
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by John E Dunn on (#3VF1D)
Testing giant LabCorp still recovering Analysis One of the largest clinical testing specialists in the US, LabCorp Diagnostics, is coming out of recovery mode a week after being hit with ransomware – reportedly SamSam, the same malware that brought the US city of Atlanta to a standstill earlier this year.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3VF00)
DeepMind tries to train a neural network on classical piano Neural networks are neat at spotting and reproducing patterns in images and text – yet they still struggle when spitting out audio.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3VEXX)
Earth's satellite may have been habitable billions of years ago The Moon may not have been as desolate as it is today – and could have supported life on its surface after its formation some four billion years ago.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VEXZ)
'Hundreds' of intrusions, switch could be pulled anytime, where have we heard this before? The US Department of Homeland Security is once again accusing Russian government hackers of penetrating America's critical infrastructure.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VEVZ)
Oh, and Intel's modems are garbage, claims chip-slinger waving around speed test data Pic Qualcomm is getting ready to ship one of the relatively boring bits of the 5G puzzle – well, perhaps boring for you, but fascinating for electronics geeks: a compact transceiver/antenna combo that fits inside phones to provide 5G millimetre-wave communications.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VERJ)
Crypto cockup lets middle-people spy on connections after snooping on device pairing With a bunch of security fixes released and more on the way, details have been made public of a Bluetooth bug that potentially allows miscreants to commandeer nearby devices.…
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