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by Chris Mellor on (#3SQNH)
Won't say who but we'll point with an elbow. *Cough* Intel *Cough* Micron rode strong demand for DRAM and flash to record revenues and profits for its third fiscal 2018 quarter (PDF), but XPoint chip sales to Intel collapsed.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3SQH9)
Hired to assess migration chaos, Big Blue suggests lack of rigorous go-live criteria Updated A report into the IT meltdown at TSB has suggested the British bank did not carry out rigorous enough testing and that the problems went beyond previously reported middleware issues.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3SQE5)
CEO puts on a happy face Dixons Carphone's annual pre-tax profits have taken a dive, falling 24 per cent to £382m.…
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by John Leyden on (#3SQBD)
PM pops in to brag about industry wins Israel Cyber Week Israel is planning to develop a "state-level cyber-shield" to improve its resilience against hacking and malware, the country's newly appointed cyberczar said on Wednesday.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3SQ9H)
Range extension encroaches on Dell's Isilon territory Scale-out clustered filer Qumulo has introduced a nearline archive product, the K-144T.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#3SQ73)
A worthy lesson in nifty programming and embracing standards HTML is the world's most common digital document file format. However, it's not the one everyone turns to when they want to create a precise document that looks, prints and behaves the same on any platform on any device. And it's hardly the format of choice for immediate offline reading, easy sharing or simple portability.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3SQ75)
Data breach at Flightradar24 scored some email addresses and hashed passwords Aviation professionals enthusiasts have been told to change their passwords after flight-tracking site flightradar24/ warned of a data breach.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3SQ4S)
We're so very sorry that we found the MP3. Sad Legendary games company Atari has accused a Register reporter of making stuff up and acting unprofessionally following an interview earlier this year in San Francisco at the launch of its new games console, the Atari VCS.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3SQ4V)
VMworld content catalogues are live and we’ve trawled ‘em VMware’s published the content catalogues for its VMworld gabfests in Las Vegas (August) and Barcelona (November) and as usual has leaked a few insights into what it’s working on.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3SQ2Q)
First America frets about aliens at its borders, now actual alien bodies turning up from space The US government has published a report detailing how to prepare for the danger of impacts from asteroids that stray too close to Earth in the next ten years.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3SQ0Q)
An easy way to create automated user-interface tests Microsoft has given Windows developers a helping hand by releasing a new UI recorder.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3SPX8)
Microsoft, SAP among app houses to 'validate' Edgeline HPE’s Edgeline family got some love from a bunch of software houses today: they have agreed to validate full-blown versions of their enterprise apps on its hardware.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3SPVB)
The June collection has some lovely fabric patches Get your ticket to the Cisco catwalk, sysadmins, and watch Switchzilla strut 24 FXOS and NX-OS software security advisories.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3SPS1)
Preview release arrives to entice devs who believe cross-platform code is a good idea On Wednesday, Google's cross-platform mobile framework Flutter reached Preview Release 1, a designation that places the code somewhere between buggy beta and less buggy 1.0.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3SPS3)
Fancy website, code emitted – Roku, Google, etc stuff at risk A technique for attacking computer networks, first disclosed more than a decade ago, has resurfaced as a way to manipulate Internet-of-Things gadgets, smart home equipment, and streaming entertainment gizmos.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3SPP4)
Old-school DNS attack messes up routers, streaming boxes An attack technique first disclosed more than a decade ago is resurfacing as a way to manipulate IoT and home network devices.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3SPP6)
Big Blue’s restored its backups and says A-V-as-a-service is serviceable again Updated IBM’s cloud experienced an “unplanned event†that caused its McAfee-as-a-service offering to operate with sub-par performance for nearly a day.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3SPGG)
US bloke gets 20 months for knackering city govt IT A 23-year-old Arizona man was thrown in the cooler this week after he admitted being the not-quite-infamous website-rattling "Bitcoin Baron".…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3SPGH)
...from Microsoft, which also just bought upstart Bons.ai Microsoft has thrown open the doors to its AI Lab, a suite of beginner projects to help developers learn machine learning.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3SPD1)
Fixing security issues in the face of standards gaps and vendor silence isn't easy Updated Earlier this year, Jake Archibald, developer advocate for Google Chrome, found a bug affecting Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge and had two very different experiences trying to get the problem fixed.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3SPD2)
Musk blames bad Tripp, drags fella into lawsuit Tesla has sued a bloke it claims was behind an effort to sabotage the electric car maker by leaking its confidential blueprints.…
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by John Leyden on (#3SP9G)
Sharing's caring, intone government bods Israel Cyber Week The UK's National Cyber Security Center, the information assurance division of GCHQ, may be getting a regulatory function or charging for its services before settling into the role of encouraging better cybersecurity.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3SP4N)
Eight platters serving up 1.5TB each for data-belching surveillance cameras Video surveillance is an insatiable monster, constantly needing more digital storage – and Western Digital is now feeding it 12TB drives.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3SNVE)
Ethics! Principles! But no talk of scrapping federal contract either Microsoft's continued efforts to distance itself from a clumsily worded blog post continued today with the publishing of an email from CEO Satya Nadella.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3SNPQ)
Bias-enabling algorithms and smart contract tech no one quite trusts now easier to secure Israel Cyber Week At the Cyber Week security conference in Israel on Tuesday, chip giant Intel plans to discuss how it is addressing threats to the overexposed tech celebrities known as AI and blockchain.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3SNPS)
Storage goes immutable as Redmond plays catch-up Microsoft emitted a preview of immutable storage for Azure Storage Blobs yesterday in an effort to win the hearts and minds of industries weighed down by regulation.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3SNHJ)
Claims German biz used ERP to 'lure' them into joint venture Data warehousing biz Teradata has flung a sueball (PDF) at SAP in the District Court for Northern California, alleging the German ERP giant undertook a "decade-long campaign of trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement and antitrust violations".…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3SNCB)
No, but not everyone's happy with the changes JURI, European Parliament's legal affairs committee, voted today to approve article 11 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which allows news publishers to seek payment for reuse of snippets of articles, in a narrow 13:12 vote.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3SN7Q)
Faster interface aims to replace 6Gbit/s dead end in servers Toshiba has sent in a SAS SSD hit team to assault SATA SSDs and their slower interface in the shape of its RM5 vSAS drive.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3SN7R)
It's Carry On Coding as Microsofties fiddle with knobs The spirit of Kenneth Williams* is alive and well in the corridors of Redmond, with staffer Raymond Chen detailing some internal Microsoft jargon in a euphemism-heavy MSDN posting.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3SN3K)
Wants to shut off access to Europol, security DBs The UK will only be able to get a data adequacy decision from the European Union once it has offered up its new legal framework – and won't get access to the bloc's policing and security databases, Michel Barnier has warned.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3SN3M)
Incumbent telco fined £77k for sending 5 million of the things Brit telco BT has been ordered to pay £77,000 for sending almost 5 million nuisance emails – equivalent to about 1.5p a mail.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3SN09)
Director insists collaboration will continue after Brexit The head of GCHQ has publicly called for security co-operation with Britain's EU allies to continue after Brexit.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3SMX1)
Harmonise with on-premises SQL for when, you know, the cloud falls out of the sky Microsoft announced general availability of its Azure Data Sync tool this week, which allows data to be synchronised between cloudy Azure SQL databases and on-premises servers.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3SMT3)
Mobe UX goodies for 2018 leak Samsung isn't the first name most people would associate with slick user interfaces – but its 2018 Android P overhaul could make rivals Apple and Google look shabby.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3SMT4)
File system contender makes a play for enterprise public cloud Analysis Hybrid cloud filer Elastifile's co-founder and CEO Amir Aharoni has stepped aside and the new incumbent of the stretchy hot seat, former Scality man Erwan Menard, has said the firm will offer cloud native product optimised for each public cloud.…
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by John Leyden on (#3SMT5)
It could happen, warns researcher BSides Tel Aviv Blockchain technologies might be abused to create a takedown-resistant infrastructure for botnets.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3SMQM)
Service is now available across three continents for machine-learning code eggheads AI developers can now rent Google’s Cloud TPU chips in the US, Asia, and Europe by the hour.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3SMQN)
Cites security risk of different security domains on one core as others hint at another bug drop next week OpenBSD has disabled Intel’s hyper-threading technology, citing security concerns.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3SMNG)
Unclear if Baidu's tech really is better than a human medic Baidu's AI researchers have built an algorithm that can spot cancerous tumors in breast tissue using a method that doesn’t rely solely on neural networks.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3SMNJ)
And agrees to do better or it'll have to hand over more board seats Mellanox has come to terms with the activist investor that's been stalking the company since 2017.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3SMK9)
Can't get a network connection? No problem, Google OS will still be able to check signatures Google says Android will no longer require an internet connection to check whether applications are legit or potentially malicious.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3SMH5)
Adds ‘System Insights’ to predict future capacity requirements, but Hyper-V 2019 remains mysterious Microsoft’s popped out another preview of Windows Server 2019, Build 17692 to be precise.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3SMF5)
Insecure connections will break after June 30th. And it's acquired Hyperwallet, too PayPal has reminded merchants that they must support TLS 1.2 and HTTP/1.1 by June 30.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3SMDF)
But growth is imminent as businesses buy and build VRs, and consumer kit improves Shipments of virtual reality kit have plunged, but growth is just around the corner.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3SMC0)
Tel-colossus to shed 8,000 jobs, create new infrastructure company Australia's dominant telco, Telstra, will cut 8,000 jobs, flatten its structure by slicing up to four layers of management, turn 1,800 consumer products into 20 (with a similar reduction in the number of enterprise products later), and put its infrastructure into a separate division that could be sold off in the future.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3SMC2)
Want a world with 'millions of clouds distributed everywhere'. Running HPE kit, natch Hewlett Packard Enterprise will make a US$4bn bet on edge computing, CEO Antonio Neri confirmed at the Discover CIO conference in Las Vegas today.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3SMA7)
'Autonomous' database cash haul just ramping up – Larry Oracle has capped off a solid fiscal year, and, let's be fair, you can forgive it for boasting that big things are coming for its database line in the coming 12 months.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3SM83)
Ellison says Autonomous DB cash haul just ramping up Oracle has capped off a solid fiscal year and is predicting big things to come for its database line in the coming 12 months.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3SM85)
Oh look it's 'tech startup advocacy group' CALinnovates again Analysis A group claiming to represent the interests of California's tech startups has argued that the US state should allow so-called zero rating services, despite the negative impact it would have on tech startups.…
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