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by Simon Sharwood on (#3PCFZ)
Dust off your definitions of free speech and censorship in the digital age, people GoDaddy has decided it will have no part in keeping a site called altright.com on the web. The site promoted white supremacist views.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3PCB4)
Shifts Hadoop clusters and their 300PB of data, not the stuff that lets you Tweet Twitter’s announced that it’s moving a lot of stuff to Google’s cloud, but it’s not all good news for Google.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3PC6B)
Cisco's buys real-time CEO profiler, OPNFV advances and thin client fun ROUNDUP What happened in networking this week? One of the more interesting happenings concerns Cisco buying some data.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3PC2Y)
Redmond, Google and Intel are desperately hunting for a fix Microsoft says it's looking into reports that apps including "Hey Cortana" and Google Chrome hang or freeze for those who have installed the recent Windows 10 April 2018 Update.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3PC13)
Chipzilla checking fresh set of CVEs in chip side-channel flaw Researchers have unearthed a fresh new set of ways attackers could potentially exploit data-leaking Spectre CPU vulnerabilities in Intel chips.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3PC15)
Frequently change your one random password – that's the ticket It's World Password Day! And you know what that means: all the effort you've put into trying to persuade people to rethink how they do passwords turns to mush because some company sees a PR opportunity and floods social media with terrible advice.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3PC17)
US Justice Department seeks to punish diesel deceivers Martin Winterkorn, the former CEO of Volkswagen AG, has been indicted on charges of conspiracy and wire fraud by the US Department of Justice.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3PBZF)
US Justice Department seeks to punish diesel deceivers Martin Winterkorn, the former CEO of Volkswagen AG, has been indicted on charges of conspiracy and wire fraud by the US Department of Justice.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3PC18)
[Insert peals of laughter and guffawing here] In a further sign that punching your way out of a paper bag is much harder than people assume, America's consumer rights watchdog the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ended up with one commissioner too many.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3PBSG)
[Insert peals of laughter and guffawing here] In a further sign that punching your way out of a paper bag is much harder than people assume, America's consumer rights watchdog the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ended up with one commissioner too many.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3PBQJ)
It's fun to kick entangled photons into spaaaace The European Space Agency is looking to build a communications satellite to send data securely using quantum key distribution.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3PBMY)
Biz does a GitHub, downplays security blunder as log file of credentials left unencrypted Twitter is ringing in World Password Day by notifying its users, all 330 million of them, that their login credentials were left unencrypted in an internal log file and should be changed.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3PBJH)
Honeypots swarmed on within three hours of patch release Security experts are advising administrators to hurry up installing Oracle patches after finding that attackers are quick to target their vulnerabilities.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3PBG3)
Discrimination is unethical, developer declares Rafael Avila de Espindola, one of the top contributors to the LLVM compiler toolset, has cut ties with the open source project over what he perceives as code of conduct hypocrisy and support for ethnic favoritism.…
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Cheech and Chong wouldn't bother, though Budget supermarket chain Lidl, best known for giving shoppers greater bhang for their buck, is offering a more... high-end product.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3PATJ)
Bigger and slightly faster, but not yet ready for mainstream Intel has tuned its Optane gaming drives with the 905P upgrade on the 900P, broadly doubling capacity and slightly boosting topline performance.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3PAR0)
Off the mortuary Fondleslab Few people remarked on it this week, but Apple has reversed the declining fortunes of the iPad, achieving modest growth for the fourth successive quarter in a market that continues to slide.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3PANK)
BAE-backed Brit upstart makes eye-catching UAV claim Defence kit megalith BAE Systems is working on a drone that "has the potential to fly for up to a year before needing maintenance", in a challenge to Airbus' Zephyr being trialled by the Ministry of Defence.…
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by David Gordon on (#3PAJK)
Learn about the AWS Well-Architected Framework Promo Here's a fact we cannot doubt: Amazon Web Services (AWS) has spent years working with thousands of companies across all industries to create the most comprehensive collection of best-practices and guidance known as the Well-Architected Framework.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3PAGA)
Remote code execution vuln found lurking in Microsoft's open-sourced shim Microsoft has emitted a patch to fix a critical vulnerability in a wrapper used to launch Windows Server Containers from Go.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3PADT)
Costs mount, SpaceX boss cuts off analysts' questions Tesla CEO Elon Musk flamed Wall St analysts last night that dared to question his firm's finances, after his leccy car biz reported another set of record quarterly losses, burning through more of the cash pile.…
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Waterway to have a good time The good folk of Houston, Texas have started naming their adopted drains, as part of a community project seeking sponsorship of the city's water discharge system.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3PA36)
Didn't you know it's panacea to all corporate woes, bro?! Blockchain is overhyped, CIOs aren't using it and many don't plan to either, according to the latest research from Gartner.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3P9ZX)
G7ThinQ. You don't make it easy to get an audiophile treat, LG It's a sign of the times that of the big four UK operators, only O2 will stock LG's flagship, which launches this week: the "G7 ThinQ".…
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by Team Register on (#3P9ZZ)
FaaS? Lambda? Functions? Tell us all about it The call for papers for Serverless Computing Conference London shuts tonight, so you need to act FaaSt if you want to share your experiences with us.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3P9W5)
MPs slam bosses for failure to grasp reputational damage to UK online banking The boss of TSB has insisted it carried out rigorous testing ahead of a systems migration that saw thousands without access to their accounts for over a week - but revealed he won't be getting a chunk of his bonus.…
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Who was crowned worst ISP? You get one guess British people are increasingly unhappy with their broadband services, and once again TalkTalk is the most whinged about provider, according to a comprehensive annual survey by Ofcom.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3P9SD)
Got electrodes in your head? Invest in a surge protector A report published in the Journal of Neurosurgery documented the alarming experience of a patient who got a little too close for comfort to a lightning storm while undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS).…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3P9R3)
Kilopower experiment looks good for 10 kilowatts on the Moon, Mars or beyond NASA has announced successful tests of a small fission reactor capable of producing about 10 kilowatts of power, and hopes the technology will prove suitable for use on the Moon or Mars.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3P9PY)
The world needs fewer men like Amazon's CEO Comment Poor, poor Jeff Bezos.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3P9N7)
‘Dynamic Security Feature’ ruled Dodgy Sales FUD by Australian regulator HP Inc’s Australian tentacle will compensate Australian printer buyers for not disclosing that its products would not accept third-party ink supplies.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3P9JA)
Because devices on massive networks need services, says Linux Foundation orchestration guru Arpit Joshipura Over the next couple of quarters, a team of developers will start fleshing out the roadmap of a Linux Foundation effort A&T ignited in February, when the telco giant donated code to the Akraino project.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3P9FQ)
'Hang on, we're selling what? In our stores? To our people? America's Department of Defense has banned all Huawei and ZTE devices from sale in all Defense Exchanges - the shops offered to military personnel and veterans.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3P9CQ)
Private company conducting search says ocean survey looks great, just doesn’t show plane The probably-final attempt at finding MH370, the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 missing since March 2014, has commenced.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3P991)
Cisco's Prime and Secure Access Control also have critical-rated bugs to squash It's time for Cisco's Midweek Misery, netadmins, with four critical vulns to patch and a slew of others to look over if you have time.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3P969)
Life is not like the movies - you can’t plug in a tape and expect to see data ANALYSIS “Australia's Largest Bank Lost The Personal Financial Histories Of 12 Million Customers†screams the headline at Buzzfeed. It’s a great story: the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) can’t say with 100 per cent certainty that two tapes containing millions of unencrypted customer records were securely destroyed. The Bank told the relevant authorities about the leak in 2016, and they were okay for it to remain secret.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3P96A)
Roll-up! Roll-up! You've never seen anything like this! Pay up front while you still can! You've played the PlayStation, you've crossed paths with the Xbox but now prepare yourselves for the world's greatest ever games console!…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3P96C)
Despite transparency push, the social network still scorns ad data aggregators Analysis Facebook says it intends to make its advertising more transparent, but its efforts to prevent other companies from doing as much is keeping its ad ecosystem opaque.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3P9H2)
Security tool can be gamed to let any old riffraff into data A security vulnerability in Oracle Access Manager leaves the network authentication tool leaning more toward "access" than "manager."…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3P957)
Security tool can be gamed to let any old riffraff into data A security vulnerability in Oracle Access Manager leaves the network authentication tool leaning more toward "access" than "manager."…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3P958)
The second most abundant element has proven surprisingly hard to detect Astronomers have detected helium floating around in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time, according to a paper published in Nature on Wednesday.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3P8YV)
New project to compare the dizzying number of AI chips and models available A new competition to set benchmarks to test the numerous hardware and software platforms used in AI has been backed by leading technology companies and universities.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3P8R7)
Shock shutdown – THE TRUTH The company formerly known as Cambridge Analytica shocked the media today when it announced an immediate shutdown and liquidation of its business.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3P8M0)
THE TRUTH: it's more like a rebrand for shady data dealer The company formerly known as Cambridge Analytica shocked the media Wednesday when it announced an immediate shutdown and liquidation of its business.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3P8M1)
'Bicoastal effort' adds to the mess that is internet rules New York has introduced net neutrality legislation copied directly from California in an effort to bypass a federal effort to kill America's net neutrality.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3P8V2)
Stolen PC locator plays double agent, say researchers LoJack for Laptops, a software tool designed to rat on computer thieves, appears to be serving a double purpose – by seemingly working with a Russian state-sponsored hacking team.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3P8HS)
Computer recovery code plays double agent on users LoJack software, designed to rat on computer thieves, appears to be serving a double purpose by also working with a Russian state-sponsored hacking team.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3P8C7)
Michael Kail's House of Cards tumbles, now Orange is his New Black, potentially A former vice-president at Netflix has been indicted for allegedly taking illegal kickbacks while making multimillion-dollar deals with the streaming giant's tech providers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3P8C8)
Blah, blah, speed up neural networks, something, blah blah F8 Facebook announced Pytorch 1.0, an updated version of the popular AI framework Pytorch, that aims to make it easier for developers to use neural network systems in production.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3P89H)
Bits of doomed Resource Prospector may survive on commercial moon buggies NASA has hinted that its Lunar Resource Prospector rover won’t be going to the Moon anytime soon. Not in one piece at any rate.…
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