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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3VEMV)
Human rights commish weighs in as Aussies opt out Australia's Human Rights Commissioner has weighed into the country's troubled electronic health records rollout.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3VEJZ)
Assembly line 'droid builder latest to be accused of leaving rsync wide open on the internet Yet another organization has allegedly been caught accidentally exposing more than 100GB of sensitive corporate data to the open internet.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3VEH3)
Net income for Q2 slashed by $5bn Android antitrust fine Dusting off a $5bn European monopoly abuse fine over Google's Android business, parent company Alphabet delivered better than expected Q2 2018 earnings – lifting its shares in after-hours trading.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3VEDR)
VBScript hole 'fixed' in May actually left open for months A remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows VBScript engine was left open for exploitation for two months after it was supposedly patched.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3VEAC)
Seemingly invincible ghost in the machine may also continue to haunt AMD, Arm chips Spectre, a class of vulnerabilities in the speculative execution mechanism employed in modern processor chips, is living up to its name by proving to be unkillable.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3VE6X)
Backer charged in connection with alleged $4.1m corporate fraud scandal An investor in an IT biz has coughed up $456,000 after America's financial watchdog accused him of looking the other way while executives at the consultancy he backed allegedly embezzled millions of dollars.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3VDVH)
Full-fibre diet for all by the year 2033, vows Ministry of Fun The Ministry of Fun* is wheeling out a new national telecoms strategy (PDF) that aims to slather the UK in healthy full-fat broadband fibre by 2033.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3VDQA)
That sound you're hearing is eyebrows raised into orbit Amazon's UK chief Doug Gurr has claimed Britain will descend into "civil unrest" in weeks if it leaves the EU with no trade deal in place.…
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by John Leyden on (#3VDQB)
Command injection and stack buffer overflow flaws bedevil cam range Security researchers at Cisco Talos have found two serious flaws with Sony's network-facing surveillance kit, the IPELA E Series Network Camera.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3VDJS)
Some chips have more bits than others, though Tosh and WD's flash foundry joint venture has begun to pump out 96-layer 3D NAND chips and the two partners are using them to produce quad-level cell (QLC) products. TLC Tosh has a 1TB SSD with 3 bits/cell while it and QLC Western Dig have a 1.33 Tbit chip with 4 bits/cell.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3VDEX)
Buy bolsters firm's banking, finance and insurance bits Atos has diverted attention from some cracks in its North American ops by making public its intention to spend lots of cash – a cool $3.4bn to be precise – to buy US-HQ'd tech services outfit Syntel.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3VD9Z)
Appeal against my latest judgment? Oh wait, you can't! The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has reruled that GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 engaged in indiscriminate and illegal bulk cable-tapping surveillance for 15 years – and has once again refused to do anything about it.…
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by John Leyden on (#3VDA0)
On Tues, you lose... if you're not encrypted with a TLS cert (which are free, by the way) Google Chrome users who visit unencrypted websites will be confronted with warnings from tomorrow.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3VD6B)
Huawei to slam the door after today The European Commission made the phrase "Android forks" a household word last week. But developers who wish to create and popularise their Android forks have just found the job got harder.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3VD3G)
Steve Hilton exit suddenly confirmed on 21 July, new boss in situ on 23 July Exclusive Frankenfirm DXC Technologies over the weekend abruptly announced the immediate departure of Steve Hilton, the exec veep that ran the Global Delivery Organisation, and confirmed his temporary replacement.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3VD1G)
But Wall St thinks mainframe is what's perking up numbers The latest financial headlines emitted by the faltering enterprise juggernaut that is IBM indicate that its years-long efforts to turn a corner might be paying off, though not everyone on Wall Street agrees.…
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by Team Register on (#3VCYW)
And saving on it… Our earlybird ticket offer for Serverless Computing expires in just a few weeks, so if you want to get on top of the next generation of cloud, and keep a few hundred quid in your pocket to boot, the time to act is now.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3VCYY)
He's set to headline networking kit firm's CIO golf-a-thon Fearless scarperer-in-chief David Cameron is all set to dispense nuggets of Brexit wisdom to Cisco's October CIO conference – making us wonder how much he's earning for the stunt.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3VCWQ)
Tried to blame it on a bug, but logs don't lie Who, me? Welcome to another glimpse inside the dark-curtained (in)box that is "Who, me?" – El Reg's confessional column in which readers seek penance for sins of the past.…
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by Cori Crider on (#3VCV1)
Grunts already refer to drone kills as 'bugsplats' – machine learning cares less Comment Debate has raged for months over various internet giants' forays into providing next-generation technology for war.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3VA7V)
Plus: New Dota challenge for OpenAI Roundup Hello, welcome to this week's roundup in AI. The machines have been sending us spooky messages on Google Translate, Facebook is hiring more academics to start new labs and some prat decided to step on a self-driving car in California.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V9ZA)
Plus a new worry for enterprises over DNS flaws Roundup This was the week of blunders by Venmo, million-dollar bank heists, and beefier bug bounties.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3V9M8)
Python Language Server an option for those that code Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, the company's Electron-based source code editor for Linux, macOS and Windows, has been bestowed with the company's Python Language Server, making it more fluent in the popular programming language.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3V9FW)
Send nudes plz... for the purposes of training this machine-learning software NSFW Artificially intelligent software is used more and more to automatically detect and ban nude images on social networks and similar sites. However, today's algorithms and models aren't perfect at clocking racy snaps, and a lot of content moderation still falls to humans.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V9CS)
Russia's Fancy Bear crew caught gearing up for mid-terms Microsoft says it has already uncovered evidence of Russian government-backed hacking gangs attempting to interfere in the 2018 US mid-term elections.…
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by John E Dunn on (#3V9CT)
Credential stuffing is rampant – so try not to reuse the same password on every site, eh? Up to 90 per cent of the average online retailer's login traffic is generated by cybercriminals trying their luck with credential stuffing attacks, Shape Security estimated in its latest Credential Spill Report.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3V99P)
GDPR put a gun to their heads Allowing developers to siphon millions of netizens' personal information didn't work out so well for Facebook, given the Cambridge Analytica affair.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V96E)
In detail: The threats facing America's computer networks The US Department of Justice (DOJ) this week released the first report from its Cyber Digital Task Force – which was set up in February to advise the government on strengthening its online defenses.…
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by John Leyden on (#3V8YB)
Snooping on the built-in cam? Remotely controlling it? Well, that sucks *ba-dum tsh* Vulnerabilities in a range of robot vacuum cleaners allow miscreants to access the gadgets' camera, and remote-control the gizmos.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3V8T0)
It's make-your-mind-up time Comment Two contradictory ideas run through statements by Microsoft executives this week.…
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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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