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by Simon Sharwood on (#3P0P3)
The data-slurpingest, ad-slingiest exec of them all says he’s on your side Google co-founder Sergey Brin has used his annual founder’s letter to raise the issue of ethics in AI.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3P134)
Security researcher says WebLogic fix can be bypassed, posts proof-of-concept Earlier this month, Oracle patched a critical vulnerability in its WebLogic server – but someone identifying himself as an Alibaba security researcher reckons Big Red botched the patch.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3P0MT)
Security researcher says WebLogic fix can be bypassed, posts proof-of-concept Earlier this month, Oracle patched a critical vulnerability in its WebLogic server – but someone identifying himself as an Alibaba security researcher reckons Big Red botched the patch.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3P0H2)
Get off your ASCII if you want seminal adventure game to stay alive on legacy platforms Roguelike ASCII adventure game NetHack has just received its second upgrade in 12 years.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3P0F8)
Unauthorised leak of non-proposal referred to the Feds. Wait, what? The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says it's investigating the leak of sensitive government documents outlining a plan the government says doesn't exist and won't be implemented.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3P0F9)
It's technically an acquisition, but the headline fit so perfectly we couldn't resist T-Mobile US will acquire rival Sprint for US$26.5 billion in stock, a transaction both mobile carriers hope will give them a lead in 5G.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3P0D9)
Technology Support Services has no global follow-the-sun support model, rates lack of one a ‘serious problem’ in Oz IBM’s Technology Support Services operation will “officially†end on-shore software support on June 30th in Australia and New Zealand, The Register has learned.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3P0AG)
Bill Morrow says what Australia's been thinking for about a decade On his way out the door, nbn™ CEO Bill Morrow has written that at least some of the problems plaguing the National Broadband Network (NBN) can be attributed to its use of copper wires as a connection medium.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3NXDF)
All we need now is a robo-news-reader (quick, bring back Ananova) Roundup Here's your roundup of machine-learning news from this week, beyond what we've already covered.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3NX18)
Your weekend guide to computer security cockups Roundup Here's your summary of infosec news – from router holes to Windows crashes – beyond what we've already covered this week.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3NWJ4)
Disks down overall and SSDs slide Western Digital shipped a whole load of spinning bits into enterprise and hyperscale data centres in its third fiscal 2018 quarter, although overall disk units sold dropped 15.5 per cent on the year.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3NWC5)
Isn't science wonderful? There was good news and bad news for interplanetary exploration today.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3NW51)
It's a $460bn business with a free service… what did you think was going on? Facebook has confirmed what many of us have known for years: Cambridge Analytica was far from the only organization engaging in the wholesale hoarding of netizens' personal data via the social network.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3NW0M)
Lotus Notes man has a plan... and a patent Analysis Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, particularly if forgetfulness promises profit.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3NVYZ)
Instead of booting out Brexit Britain, domain-name registry will be opened to everyone A plan to kill off 300,000 British-owned .eu web domains has itself been killed off by European bureaucrats in yet another baffling Brexit backtrack.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3NVX8)
Terminal. It's outta runway. We're winging it with these puns Apple is officially getting out of the home networking business.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3NVV9)
Not too dissimilar to lighting a firework indoors – and then legging it to the nearest exit Britain has finally signed up to Europe's unified patent court (UPC) – a long-planned simplification of the continent's patent system – but big questions still remain thanks to Brexit and a federal court challenge in Germany.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3NVQ0)
Russia and China light blue touch-paper, stand well back Russia and China celebrated a pair of successful launches this week, with a Rockot booster placing Sentinel-3B into orbit while China's Long March 11 lobbed five imaging sats into space.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3NVJ8)
Data breach cost biz $70m this quarter alone The Equifax mega-hack has cost the credit reporting agency well north of $200m to date, according to a financial filing for calendar Q1.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3NVCS)
Redmond kit has the bends Microsoft's work on "bendable or flexible" display technology is far more advanced than anyone realised. A new patent application from Redmond indicates it's inspired by a very familiar technology: the paperback book.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3NV4A)
Language tweak makes internet giants safer than ever, say rights groups Exclusive The European Union looks poised to strengthen large internet platforms' position against online liabilities, according to a leak of the latest copyright directive draft dated 23 April. The most recent publicly available draft (PDF) is dated 13 April.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3NV1M)
Releases two 32Gbit/s switches to boost AFA networking Cisco is releasing two auto-zoning 48 and 96-port Fibre Channel switches to speed up networking in data centres with all-flash arrays.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3NTYK)
Doesn't comply with EU rules, say judges, but you knew that The UK government's surveillance regime has been dealt another blow as the High Court in England today ruled the Snooper's Charter unlawful – and gave the government six months to fix it.…
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It's really high profile, you know An exciting job advert has mysteriously appeared that is seeking a techie to head up infrastructure at TSB, just days after the bank's monumental and ongoing IT cockup began.…
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Director Mark Collins on becoming a key challenger in full fibre Broadband minnow CityFibre's acquisition by Connect Infrastructure Bidco for a staggering £537m has positioned it centre stage to take on industry goliath BT/Openreach, company director Mark Collins has said.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3NTMS)
El Reg has a fiddle with new toys for the Psion-inspired PDA The plucky little PDA that could is getting some upgrades.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3NTJX)
While keeping things safe Sleuthing has revealed more details about Google's project to allow its locked-down Chrome OS to run Linux applications – and well-informed speculation on its architecture.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#3NTH7)
What's new, Ubuntu? 18.04 has dropped and you may not like what you find Canonical has released Ubuntu 18.04, Bionic Beaver, as this one is nicknamed. The Beaver is a long-term support (LTS) release, which means it'll be supported until 2023.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3NTF1)
Just what are you measured on Ginni? Wall Street analysts says things gotta change IBM lost $28bn in revenues in the past six years but that made not one jot of difference the salary and bonuses the top execs got paid. The message from Wall Street? Ever-shrinking sales are not sustainable.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3NTDD)
Boardroom coup at where's-my-console biz Retro Computers Ltd A majority of shareholders in ailing ZX Spectrum reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd – including Sir Clive Sinclair's corporate presence – are calling a shareholders' meeting to replace its current directors.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#3NTDE)
Ten minutes of your life could be mine if you read this slooooowwwly Something for the Weekend, Sir? I am a time-waster. And I hate people who waste my time.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3NT8B)
Zuck's CTO adds to PR apologies in Parliament Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer was not British MPs' first choice of witness, but they certainly made the most of his appearance in Parliament, grilling him on why his firm is a "morality free zone".…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3NT4Y)
Dum dum dum dede dum dum, under pressure A team of physicists have attempted to recreate the internal conditions of a ‘super-Earth’ planet in a lab, by shooting laser beams at iron samples.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3NT50)
How do we say this nicely? You need help Special report On March 26 – two months before new privacy protections come into effect in Europe – Goran Marby, CEO of DNS overlord ICANN, sent a letter [PDF] to each of Europe's 28 data protection authorities (DPAs) asking them to hold off punishing it over Whois.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3NT1M)
Nobody told me it needed electricity, honest ON-CALL Why look at that! The end of the working week is upon us, which means it’s time to dip into the mailbag to bring you another instalment of On-Call, The Register’s reader-contributed tales of tech support trauma.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3NSWE)
IXPs mind their MANRS, plus as much multicloud as you can handle It's roundup time again, with ISOC working to protect the routing infrastructure, and announcements from Big Switch, F5, and Juniper.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3NSSN)
Boffins: 'infinitely precise' measurements feasible Gravitational wave measurements, and quantum computing and communications are just two applications of an international experiment that created entanglement between objects large enough to be visible to humans.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3NSPY)
Database replication SNAFU took down three out of five PostgreSQL servers In a classic example of the genre, GitLab yesterday dented its performance by accidentally triggering a database failover.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3NSNJ)
Process node stalled again over manufacturing nightmares – but hey, money's still pouring in Meltdown? What meltdown? Intel's 50th birthday in July should be a hell of a bash as the chipmaker is flush with cash and reckons 2018 might well be a record-breaking year.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3NSKX)
Rest of industry warned to check its PBD practices In March, Telstra acquiesced to allegations from Australia's competition regulator that it was helping scammers load up unwanted services on customers' mobile bills.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3NSGR)
It's pretty much a cloud provider with a gift shop on the side Amazon.com on Thursday reported $51bn in sales for its Q1 2018, an increase of 43 per cent from $35.7bn in the year-ago quarter.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3NSCX)
Satya's on several cloud nines – as in, billions of dollars Microsoft's boss Satya Nadella march into the cloud seems to be paying off for the Windows 10 and Office 365 giant: on Thursday, the biz announced its sales for Q3 2018 jumped 16 per cent.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3NS96)
Amazon fixes up app security hole affecting always-listening Echo assistants Amazon has shored up a security weakness in its technology to stop apps for Alexa-powered Echo personal assistants from secretly eavesdropping on folks.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3NRXJ)
Think Java code-completion on steriods Code boffins at Rice University in Texas have developed a system called Bayou to partially automate the writing of Java code with the help of deep-learning algorithms and training data sampled from GitHub.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3NRPR)
British computer case crafter dies after cancer battle Rick Dickinson, designer of Britain's iconic ZX Spectrum and ZX81 personal computers, has died following a lengthy battle with cancer.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3NRPT)
Gravitational lensing may help NASA kit see some real golden oldies Researchers hope that NASA's budgetary-challenged James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may score some good fortune with a boost from galactic alignment.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3NRGQ)
Chinese whispers suggest a big Patch Tuesday download Windows 10 Springwatch is headed for a fourth week, with the troubled update rumoured to have a name and possibly a release date.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3NRDV)
But analysts say ditch your stock as opex set to blow up Edison Research analyst Richard Windsor thinks you should sell Facebook stock – despite the social media octopus posting record numbers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3NR5B)
Software-defined storage meets single SKU-ery Open-source software house Red Hat has jumped into bed with Supermicro to produce a single system combining its storage software with the server maker's hardware.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3NR2Z)
MacBook owners demand recall over cruddy keyboard Mac laptop owners are experiencing frequent failures with the delicate "butterfly switch" keyboards introduced three years ago and included on its "TouchBar" MacBook Pro models two years ago.…
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