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by John Leyden on (#3V6X6)
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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by Richard Speed on (#3V6M2)
Venerable PC maker emits bunch of graphics powerhouses Demonstrating that there is still life in the old dog, HP Inc has ripped the covers off a line-up of workstations aimed squarely at users seeking a lot more oomph from a smaller form-factor.…
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by John Leyden on (#3V6FH)
We're even short 'moderately specialist' types ... A cross-sector alliance incorporating leading UK organisations has been created in response to government plans to develop a national professional body for cybersecurity.…
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by John Leyden on (#3V6AN)
Researcher: Well, I think you'll find.... Adobe has attempted to play down the significance of a vulnerability in its internal systems.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3V662)
Switchzilla's share price dipped following rumor of direct rivalry Network hardware makers can rest easy: the tech titan that is Amazon Web Services isn't going to be selling switches any time soon, which will likely be music to the ears of current AWS supplier Cisco.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V61H)
Sky, TalkTalk and M24Seven all withered in the heat this week As the big red ball in the sky continued to shine on the UK, internet providers decided to have a bit of a lie-down, with Sky, TalkTalk and leased line specialist M24Seven all taking a turn on the sun-lounger.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3V5YK)
Unpaid former staff will get something... eventually Liquidators were today appointed to squeeze Tintri UK for whatever cash they can get out of the fallen business.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V5YM)
Stop me if you've heard this one before There are rumblings that Azure is having capacity issues once again, with customers in the UK South region reporting problems getting new VMs provisioned.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3V5VE)
Stuck on the ground awaiting a load sheet? Here's why Exclusive The British Airways IT system failure that caused the grounding of flights around the world yesterday was caused by an outage at third-party travel tech supplier Amadeus.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3V5VG)
Phew! Water shortage scare not so, er, scary now it is? The water wells across parts of England* may be running dry but Southern Water has kept the taps running on its long running managed service deal with Capita, extending the contacts initially by five years for £30m.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3V5VJ)
Networks the wind beneath Börje Ekholm's wings Ericsson has dodged a loss for the first time in two years, after 18 months under the strict regime imposed by CEO Börje Ekholm, who took the reins at the vendor at the start of 2017.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V5RW)
Auto-failover for Azure SQL Database when things wobble Microsoft continued its drive to encourage SQL Server customers to move their precious data to its cloudy towers with the announcement that long-term retention and automatic failover had finally hit the big time.…
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by Team Register on (#3V5RY)
Earlybird tickets take off in August If you like simplifying your infrastructure, saving money, and beating deadlines, you’ll want to know that you’ve got just one month to save hundreds of pounds on tickets for Serverless Computing London.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3V5RZ)
Has loss-making UK arm plumbed its final network? Dimension Data Advanced Infrastructure (DDAI) will not be providing network plumbing to the construction industry again – at least in its current guise – because the business is in administration.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3V5P5)
Says firm's airliners designed with security foremost in mind Airbus's UK infosec chief, Ian Goslin, has said that cyber-attack attribution is a matter for "nation states" – and has questioned whether some critical national infrastructure companies are taking the infosec threat seriously.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V5P7)
Venerable Linux distro still keeping it clean, after all these years Slackware, the oldest Linux distribution still being maintained, has turned 25 this week, making many an enthusiast wonder where all those years went.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3V5J5)
Leap seconds issue solved, but without segmented smearing Microsoft Windows Server 2019, coming later this year, will include UTC-compliant leap second support, both for added and subtracted time. But there will be no smearing.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3V5G7)
Thousands of researchers sign pledge to not develop lethal AI Hundreds of organisations and thousands of techies, including Elon Musk, Demis Hassabis from Google's DeepMind, and the head of the Chocolate Factory's AI lab Jeff Dean have promised never to support the development of autonomous weapons.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3V5AX)
Brass hats seek more control over technology and research Australia’s research and university communities have united against what they see as Department of Defence overreach: the brass-hats want greater powers to control international collaboration.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3V5AZ)
Twenty-five bugs writhing on the netops floor this week Cisco has emitted 25 product security advisories – with four critical bugs flattened in its service provider-oriented Cisco Policy Suite.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3V57G)
Check your OEMs for patches In case you missed it, Chipzilla has gone public with more patches for the Intel Management Engine.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V57H)
Cloud and security big winners in Q2 while Cognitive sags IBM is touting the growth in its "strategic imperatives" business lineup with helping its revenues once again gain over the year-ago quarter.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V55P)
Cloud and security big winners in Q2, while Cognitive sags IBM is touting the growth in its 'strategic imperatives' business lineup with helping its revenues once again gain over the year-ago quarter.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3V55Q)
Punch up at Cali startup An engineer is suing Pinscreen, a startup that supposedly uses AI to generate cartoon avatars of people, claiming he was illegally fired and assaulted after confronting the CEO about its allegedly faked technology.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V52V)
Chinese broker faces prison, if he's ever found in Uncle Sam's jurisdiction and convicted A Chinese investor has been charged in America with insider trading after allegedly using Lattice Semiconductor secrets to turn a massive profit on Wall Street.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3V4VZ)
Hundreds of thousands of voter records and contact info spilled Security biz Kromtech has unearthed two more embarrassing – and potentially dangerous – cases of groups leaving mass data caches unguarded on the public internet.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3V4ZW)
Chocolate Factory apologizes for overzealous bots as service wobbles offline With no mention of Tuesday's Cloud Platform service troubles, Google on Wednesday heralded the arrival of click-to-deploy Kubernetes apps in the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3V4RN)
Chocolate Factory apologizes for trigger-happy AI With no mention of Tuesday's Cloud Platform service troubles, Google on Wednesday heralded the arrival of click-to-deploy Kubernetes apps in the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace.…
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by John Leyden on (#3V4RQ)
Tens of thousands of Canadian medical files, healthcare worker details snatched Hackers say they will leak patient and employee records stolen from a Canadian healthcare provider unless they are paid off.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3V4N7)
Gizmos gain control over Windows 10 updates - at a price Be still your beating hearts, Microsoft’s Windows 10 IoT Core Services has hit public preview and the software giant has indicated just how much it is all going to cost.…
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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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