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by Chris Mellor on (#3PSVX)
On-premises boost paired with public cloud blanket extension NetApp has announced a real biggie for storage wonks: support for Fibre Channel-based NVMe-over-Fabrics (FC-NVMe) access to all-flash ONTAP arrays using Brocade gear.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3PSRN)
UK watchdog to assess whether it breaches data protection rules The database London cops use to rank people's likelihood of gang-related violence is racially biased, a campaign group has said.…
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♬ And motherdoctors act like they forgot about Dre ♬ A long-running trademark dispute between rapper Dr Dre and Dr Drai, gynaecologist and author of 20 Things You May Not Know About A Vagina, has been dismissed by the the US trademark office.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3PSKD)
Stopped at a service station? Tough – your self-driving car's just been bricked AEV Bill The British government expects that most future software updates to driverless cars will be pushed into the vehicles over-the-air without any user involvement.…
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Meanwhile, corporate daddy Liberty Global flogs European assets to Vodafone for €18.4bn Virgin Media reported another quarter of low growth for its troubled £3bn fibre programme Project Lightning, adding just 111,000 premises in the first three months of 2018 – the lowest for the last four quarters.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3PSCY)
It's enough to make you pinky swear T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom is making legal threats against a small British business – on the grounds that the German company has an exclusive trademark on a shade of the colour magenta.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3PSD0)
Pull that Raspberry Pi out of the drawer and fire up the soldering iron A near perfect emulation of the 1541 floppy drive has been released, and you need only a Raspberry Pi and a soldering iron to rock the 1980s once again.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3PS9D)
Memory business deal could be sunk + Comment A delay in antitrust approval by Chinese regulators has stalled Toshiba's sale of its TMS flash business for $18bn to a Bain-led consortium - and analysts have said this might be best for the business.…
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by Billy MacInnes on (#3PS5V)
Remember when the US DoJ almost broke up Microsoft? No? The images from Mark Zuckerberg's recent appearances before two US Congressional hearings (here and here) tell a story about the drama of such occasions.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3PS4K)
US corp asked for extra time to file expert witness statements Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s civil lawsuit against former Autonomy chief exec Mike Lynch has been pushed back to next year, The Register has learned.…
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Common Platform Programme at 'greatest risk' – as previously revealed by El Reg Ambitions to slash court staff by 5,000 and chop physical cases held by 2.4 million per year via digitisation are at "serious risk" of not being delivered on time, according to the National Audit Office.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3PS1P)
Visual Studio previews a world without 32-bit emulation Qualcomm and Microsoft will finally let developers start building native 64-bit Windows applications for Snapdragon-based PCs.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3PS0H)
And what's on Krzanich's mind? Data. Your data. Petabytes of data Comment Intel declined to comment on industry whisperings that Qualcomm is mulling ending its Arm-powered server processor efforts.…
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Grab those patches while Chipzilla updates its manuals Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, and some implementations of Xen have a design flaw that could allow attackers to, at best, crash Intel and AMD-powered computers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3PRWV)
Annual gabfest's big news is brand refresh and non-disruptive disruption LOGOWATCH ServiceNow’s ramped up its efforts to excite buyers and users beyond the IT department, with a new logo and a pledge to deliver consumer-style experiences in the workplace to change the very nature of the mucky business of exchanging your labour for currency.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3PRWX)
Will that bacteria just make you a bit ill? Or do hospitals need to roll out their spare beds? A team of researchers have developed machine-learning software that can predict how dangerous a particular strain of Salmonella will be, according to a paper published in PLOS Genetics on Tuesday.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3PRTB)
You talkin' to me? Google IO Alphabet's self-driving car outfit Waymo has announced it will start an autonomous taxi service in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, later this year.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3PRTD)
2nm chips! Custom silicon in days! Software-as-chips! Chipzilla's funding it all Moore's Law ain't dead yet, but Intel needs startups to keep it alive.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3PRNK)
Intel needs more time and it could be Q3 before all the patches for OSes and VMs land The new bunch of Spectre-like flaws revealed last week won't be patched for at least 12 days.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3PRKD)
Researchers infected devices and totted up all the 'leccy and bandwidth they used Berkeley boffins reckon the Dyn-based Internet of Things attack that took down Brian Krebs' Website in 2016 cost device owners over $US320,000.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3PRJ7)
Plus a new limit of $10,000 on cash payments for anything - and cheaper craft beer! Australia’s government has tabled its proposed budget for financial year 2018/19 and as usual there’s lots of technology-related spending to contemplate.…
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by Chris Williams on (#3PRGN)
Scores of bugs, from Edge and Office to kernel code to Adobe Flash, need fixing ASAP Patch Tuesday Microsoft and Adobe have patched a bunch of security bugs in their products that can be exploited by hackers to commandeer vulnerable computers, siphon people's personal information, and so on.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3PRF8)
What happens when cabs go aerial next to an airport? They'll figure it out together NASA and Uber have signed an agreement to ensure safe development of flying taxis in urban environments.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3PRBM)
Look but don't touch... nor look too closely, either Google IO The latest iteration of Google’s custom-designed number-crunching chip, version three of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), will dramatically cut the time needed to train machine learning systems, the Chocolate Factory has claimed.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3PR82)
Also reveals plans to replace Atomic Host with CoreOS Linux Red Hat Summit Red Hat has revealed a plan to to work with CPU-makers so that its wares can take advantage of in-silicon security features such as secure enclaves.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3PR25)
Plus: Linux apps on Chrome OS start to emerge Google IO Google today opened its annual I/O developer bash with details of how it’s going to lob machine-learning software at everything you do online and offline, and it truly means everything.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3PR68)
So happy for you, Microsoft, \r\n Windows Notepad users, rejoice! Microsoft's text editing app, which has been shipping with Windows since version 1.0 in 1985, has finally been taught how to handle line endings in text files created on Linux, Unix, Mac OS, and macOS devices.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3PQQF)
So happy for you, Microsoft, \r\n Windows Notepad users, rejoice! Microsoft's text editing app, which has been shipping with Windows since version 1.0 in 1985, has finally been taught how to handle line endings in text files created on Linux, Unix, Mac OS, and macOS devices.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3PQJT)
As JavaScript is popped into Excel spreadsheets Build During the second day of its Build developer conference in Seattle, Washington, on Tuesday, Microsoft shined the spotlight on Microsoft 365, its year-old swirl of software and services made by whipping Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS) into a single confection – a suite.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3PQBP)
Embrace, extend, errr, what was the other one again? Red Hat Summit Red Hat and Microsoft today tore the wraps off a jointly managed public OpenShift service running on Azure.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3PQ8R)
This may not be the vendor you're looking for – explain yourself to get your funding A grenade in the form of an updated authorisation bill has been lobbed at the Pentagon's attempt to shift to commercial cloud.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#3PQ2H)
Plus: New tools for programming with your buddies Build Microsoft has used its Build developer shindig in Seattle to rip the wrapping off IntelliCode, an AI-assisted development for Visual Studio.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#3PPZX)
Power outages, automation, rollback... and more Analysis Back in the days of the mainframe, technology risk looked a lot different. You paid a lot of money for a big box in the corner, using software often written by the same supplier. If it went wrong, a nice techie came along and fixed it. Business moved slowly enough that the world didn’t come crashing down if you couldn’t process data for a few days.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3PPTD)
SideSync? Blend? We’ve heard of it Build Losing the smartphone war means Microsoft is taking PC-phone integration seriously again – including the never-quite-solved problem of getting desktops and mobiles to work nicely together.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3PPN3)
Calls for vote of no confidence in Afrinic board Special report The body responsible for allocating internet network addresses across Africa has been enveloped in yet another scandal, resulting in calls for the entire board to step down.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3PPN5)
The story of Frugal Dan, Flashy Dave and a $20,000 car budget If you're male, and splash your cash on fast cars and shiny things, then those around you likely think you're more interested in a short-term fling than something more romantic, according to a new study.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3PPGK)
Atlas Elektronik's ARCIMS demo vessel taken on by Her Maj's finest The Royal Navy has acquired a search-and-destroy robot boat intended for destroying mines.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3PPC5)
Punters want reliable calls most Interview If you can't measure something, does it actually exist?…
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Waves SIAM-nara to Leidos Exclusive The Ministry of Justice is abandoning its experiment of breaking up big IT contracts into a so-called "tower model" and will instead bring tech management back in-house, The Register can reveal.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3PP8E)
First night nerves for Elon’s revamped rocket SpaceX has opted to spend a few more days checking out its new Falcon 9 following a successful test fire of the rocket on 5 May, but its latest cargo ship enjoyed an uneventful return to Earth.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3PP4Y)
A week in storage mov(i)es... be happy we didn't name-check Failure To Launch It has been an eventful week in storage with the introduction of a "hardware-defined storage" platform, a blast of helium, another Gone Gartner moment and more. So slap on those 3D glasses, get your popcorn ready – and enjoy our rapid-fire shorts and entertaining trailers.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#3PP3C)
End user privacy controls? We'll get back to you on that Adobe Summit Business success today is about "data required to understand each person's context in every moment", with the intelligence to take the right action, said Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen in the opening keynote of the company's EMEA Summit in London.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3PP21)
No beer will be left unbothered British hip-hopsters The Streets memorably sang "It was supposed to be so easy", and that was our expectation when we approached the task of getting LESTER to "see" and trundle towards an object.…
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by Team Register on (#3PP0R)
CLL18 workshops also cover Agile, Serverless, Continuous Delivery If you want a steer on Kubernetes and containers, we've got three cracking workshops at Continuous Lifecycle later this month.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3PP0S)
Consultation responses reveal deep concerns about data, privacy and independent providers The UK's smut overlord has been told it isn't up to the mammoth challenge it faces in regulating age checks for online porn, and that its guidelines do little to offer users much-needed guarantees on privacy.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3PNZB)
App updates must use iOS 11 SDK and support iPhone X from July 2018 onwards iOS developers have a busy two months ahead of them after Apple announced a July deadline to build with the iOS 11 SDK and support the Super Retina display of iPhone X.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3PNZC)
It's made 11,111 of its Aibo 2.0 robot leg-lifters and can’t satisfy demand Here’s one for the “Robots taking over low-skilled jobs†file: Sony says it can’t handle demand for its second-generation robot dog.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#3PNXH)
Closing off researchers’ access to APIs in the name of ‘safety’ means we’ll never know how we’re being screwed
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3PNTS)
Arm-for-servers is a good idea that keeps going nowhere Analysis Servers powered by CPUs based on Arm Holdings IP sound like a good idea.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3PNTT)
New experiment will look for the tiny vibrations made by Weakly Interacting Massive Particles By the 2020s, boffins hope, a hockey-puck-shaped silicon and germanium crystal 2,000 metres below Canada will show a brief, tiny vibration, meaning a dark matter particle has collided with it.…
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