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Yeah, expect your bills to go up The government has finally published plans for how everyone in the UK will have a legal right to 10Mbps speeds by 2020 after rejecting a voluntary offer by BT.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3KARP)
Oh do beehive! Boffins at Sheffield University have discovered that colonies of honeybees follow the same laws as the human brain when making collective decisions.…
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Want more govt business, you say?* You're a riot, old chum Small businesses could be handed hundreds of millions in tax cuts out of the cash raised by forcing the likes of Google to cough up more to HMRC, MPs heard in a debate about digital tax yesterday.…
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Calling all the Basic twitchers... Hosting biz GoDaddy has been slammed by a Brit advertising regulator for "misleading" punters with the lure of cheap deals.…
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by Mark Whitehorn on (#3KAM1)
Ooo, pretty colours. But what if the data or interpretation sucks? UIs with buttons and sliders existed for years as a means of putting a slick gloss on the data jungle that is Excel. But Salesforce provided the breakthrough in presenting complex business data with the metaphor of the dashboard.…
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by Verity Stob on (#3KAJF)
Verity puts a Bragg in your shell-like Stob The podcast is the great civiliser of the modern journey to work: consume as you commune as you commute. The career-minded IT Pro, isolated and ear-shelled up like Mildred Montag in Fahrenheit 451, can simultaneously CPD up the latest tech while elbowing down the carriage to be near the woman who, having stowed her iPad in its iPouch, looks as though she might quit her seat to alight at the next station-stop-halt-stop-station-station.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3KAFZ)
Yours if you can afford it... and wait long for the fabs to make the chips GTC Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang flaunted a bunch of stuff, from bigger boxes of graphics chips to robot simulators, at its 2018 GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Silicon Valley on Tuesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3KAG1)
The Facebook Container add-on quarantines the social network to limit data harvesting Sensing an opportunity in Facebook's squandering of public trust through its previously unrestrained giveaway of user data, Mozilla on Tuesday unveiled a defense against the social ad biz in the form of an add-on for Firefox called Facebook Container.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3KAEE)
Been there, mitigated that, got the class actions, says Chipzilla Intel’s shrugged off two new allegations of design flaws that enable side-channel attacks.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3KAAZ)
Chris Wylie makes explosive allegations in session with MPs Working for Cambridge Analytica "felt very much like a privatised colonising operation," the former staffer at the centre of the scandal around Facebook data slurps and Vote Leave's alleged overspend has said.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3KA9N)
Adults-only Xbox games are OK but you can't tell Cortana to go screw itself Microsoft has advised users of upcoming changes to its services' terms-of-use agreement that will make it a potentially account-closing offence to use offensive language on Skype or in a Word document.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3KA7Y)
Open networking finally comes to Switchzilla as IOS XR, IOS XE, Nexus OS added to disaggregation strategy Cisco has taken a long, hard look at the biggest bullet in its kit, and bitten down: the company has announced it will separate its router and switch software from the hardware that hosts it.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3KA69)
'DANOS' code hoped to run 100,000 routers will go open source in H2 2018 AT&T has let its in-house-developed network operating system escape into the open source world via the Linux Foundation, with a code release due in the second half of this year.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3KA35)
No 'alien' megastructure, but lots of ongoing weirdness In January, boffins decided they'd settled the mystery of “Tabby's Starâ€, the far-off star that dimmed so rapidly it almost looked like something, or someone, was responsible. Scientists have since shrugged off the idea the dimming is caused by an "alien megastructure". Instead, they suggest there's just a lot of dust surrounding the star, which makes for many odd moments.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3K9ZH)
Narendra Modi's app may be a bit too slurpy India's ruling party is scrambling to defend its use of followers' data after a pseudonymous security researcher accused PM Narendra Modi of snooping on citizens with his personal app, which has been installed by around five million users.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3K9XY)
You'll want to install the March update. Like right now – if you can avoid broken networking Microsoft's January and February security fixes for Intel's Meltdown processor vulnerability opened up an even worse security hole on Windows 7 PCs and Server 2008 R2 boxes.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3K9VH)
You'll want to install the March update. Like right now – if you can avoid broken networking Microsoft's January and February security fixes for Intel's Meltdown processor vulnerability opened up an even worse security hole on Windows 7 PCs and Server 2008 R2 boxes.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3K9R7)
Miscreants go down to the wire meddling with emergency dispatch's server The US city of Baltimore suffered a brief outage on part of its 911 service at the weekend – and hackers are being blamed.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3K9PP)
Our tech support support group, On-Call Live, hits the harbour city on April 19th Every Friday, The Register publishes On-Call, a Reg-reading IT Pro’s tale of woe when called upon to provide tech support.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3K9GF)
Official report blows lid on behind-the-scenes Analysis On December 2, 2015 Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik attended a holiday party at Farook's workplace – the non-profit Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California – and without warning started indiscriminately shooting at employees.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3K9DS)
Someone call Scotty – he'd know how to fix this thing The launch date for the James Webb Space Telescope has been kicked back a year to 2020, NASA confirmed during a press conference on Tuesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3K9B0)
You thought this was over? You thought wrong, laughs Larry The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington DC has revived Oracle's bid to bill Google for billions over its use of copyrighted Java APIs in its Android mobile operating system.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3K988)
0.5 PFLOPS FP32, 0.5 PB of effective flash storage Pure Storage and Nvidia have produced a converged machine-learning system to train AI models using millions of data points.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3K92P)
WSL blueprint open-sourced to tempt distro makers Microsoft quietly open-sourced a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) sample last night in an effort to persuade Linux distribution maintainers to add their distros to the Windows Store.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3K8ZP)
It comes with a pencil! You kids remember what a 'pencil' is? Apple is trying to reclaim is status as the cool kid in class with a fresh round of products aimed at the education market.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3K8S9)
To be fair, the camera will take some beating It's a long while since I heard some whalesong at ear-splitting volume. It takes me back to Nokia's final years as the world's No. 1. Back then you couldn't tell whether it was trying to be a New Age NGO or a phone company. The whalesong was deafening.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3K8N0)
App biz refuses to comment – but it DID write the software Uber reportedly disabled safety systems on the autonomous Volvo XC90 that killed a pedestrian Stateside last week, according to the makers of the car's sensors.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3K8N1)
Cambridge Analytica Deep Throat says ICO needs to gen up on technical terminology The UK's data protection watchdog needs to hire more staff that "understand how databases work", according to whistleblower Chris Wylie.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#3K8DX)
Cloudy marketing tools get AI powers... what do you mean, bad timing? Adobe Summit "We've emerged beyond just the company that’s known for Photoshop," claimed Adobe's Cody Crnkovich, head of platform, partners and strategy, today as he introduced AI and profiling features designed to enable marketers to deliver more creepy personalised advertising and comms.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3K8AP)
P20 and P20 Pro: The Notch that wants to be a Nokia Lumia 1020 Hands On Over the years, very few phone makers other than Samsung have produced a phone that might tempt an iPhone stalwart to switch to Android, but Huawei may have just joined the elite.…
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by John Leyden on (#3K872)
Coinkidink? Nah. Crooks are switching tactics There was a big drop in exploit kit development last year, and experts have equated this to the phasing out of Adobe Flash.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3K83Z)
Less Hindenburg, more fuel cells Alongside its electric vehicle ambitions, the British government is also pouring a few millions of pounds into hydrogen fuel cell-powered car tech trials.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3K7Y3)
As 16% of UK tech support services bods prepare to leave, obvious questions are raised IBM is to lay off more than one in 10 workers across the UK Technology Support Services (TSS) division, with insiders telling us that some areas will be hit so severely that clients will inevitably feel the pinch.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3K7S6)
Servers were over capacity, Kerslake review finds Vodafone has come in for criticism for the "catastrophic failure" of its National Mutual Aid Telephony system (NMAT) in today's review of the deadly suicide bombing at the Manchester Arena last year.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3K7PT)
The 'last thing you want' when selling up, sighs neighbour Dumping boats on streets may just be a thing after an another example showed up, this time on the streets of Southampton and filled with all sorts of garbage.…
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Won't someone please think of the children? Without the distraction of pissing around online, you'd think kids might stand a better chance of doing their homework. But it seems some parents blame their darlings' performance at school on crap broadband speeds.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3K7JE)
But we should be honoured. He'll actually *personally* ask an exec to come Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has once again declined to cross the Atlantic to give evidence to British MPs as part of their inquiry into social media and the spread of fake news.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3K7GS)
Four-piece suite coming for IT wallets A flurry of array related activity came out of Infinidat today. Well, it is a Tuesday so why the hell not.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3K7EZ)
Checking in on how IMAP could help folk throw off Zuck's yoke Once upon a time the internet ran on open protocols, and anyone could host servers that ran these protocols. Your first dial-up internet connection probably came with a bundle of tools for groups and chat. If you weren't happy with the service from your ISP you'd point the client at another. The internet was open and federated, with tons of innovation at the client end.…
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by John Leyden on (#3K7DF)
That's the National Cyber Security Centre when it's at home Efforts to improve the UK.gov's secure server setup are being ramped up through an expansion of a scheme from the National Cyber Security Centre, the infosec folk at British crypto and intel agency GCHQ.…
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by Team Register on (#3K7BQ)
April, May talks span levitation and existential risk Tractor beams and dangerous technology are two stalwarts of science fiction, but if you want the facts, join us at two fascinating Register Lectures over the next couple of months.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3K7AA)
Network strategy head reveals more in interview +Comment Vodafone's 4G drone tracking system is not a full control platform but it can help serve up "connectivity, command and control, and telemetry," the mobile operator's Santiago Tenorio Sanz told The Register.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3K7AB)
Bod accused of masterminding malware attacks on banks around the world European cyber-cops have felt the collar of a bloke suspected of running a network of crims that used malware to pinch €1bn (£874.8m, $1.24bn) from cash machines and other banking systems.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3K781)
CEO Jim Whitehurst damns Docker with faint praise, as you would after buying CoreOS Red Hat’s posted a strong end to its 2018 financial, crossed the US$3bn-a-year-run-rate barrier and reported growth in its key products.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3K782)
Miscreants can spoof URL with potentially nasty results A security researcher based in Germany has identified a flaw in the way Apple's iOS 11 handles QR codes in its Camera app.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3K750)
ViperCard takes a bite out of old-style programming Video Apple fans with a bent for nostalgia have some to wallow in after a HyperCard clone debuted on Monday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3K752)
Death notice offers refunds, if you agree not to sue Exclusive SAP has begun the process of shutting down its cloud-based SAP Anywhere suite for small businesses.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3K73E)
Acer turns Chrome OS into a fondleslab so you don’t give teacher an Apple Google and Acer have given the world its first Chromebook Tablet.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3K70K)
Linksys, Wemo brands come along for the ride Hon Hai Precision Industry's Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT) subsidiary has announced a deal to slurp Belkin International for US$866 million in cash.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3K6Z6)
Kepler data thought to be glitchy reveals two-week wonder When a star goes supernova, it gets very, very bright, very, very quickly, then spends a good few months fading away. But boffins have now reported that an object named KSN 2015K faded away in just a fortnight.…
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