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by Richard Speed on (#3P43M)
Or dance on their graves, whatever flips your pancake The Windows 10 April Update has begun seeping out from beneath the Redmond bathroom door. As an antidote to the excitement of the new, let us take a moment to mourn the passing of the old.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3P41B)
Too lazy to get a meal deal? Ask for drone deliveries Robo-coolbox firm Starship Technologies is now touting its services to campus-based universities, businesses and other places where people might be too lazy to walk to the shops for a bite to eat.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3P401)
The cause of all this misery? Storage vendors poach key analysts CIOs may - or may not - be reeling from Gartner's admission that the Data Center Backup and Recovery Magic Quadrant will be put on ice after a number of its big hitting analysts upped sticks to work for vendors.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3P41D)
Analysing Galileo's Jovian moon results NASA scientists have made some new discoveries about Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede, thanks to a dedicated team, an elderly VAX machine and 20-year-old data from the long-defunct Galileo probe.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3P3V8)
Analysing Galileo's Jovian moon results NASA scientists have made some new discoveries about Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede, thanks to a dedicated team, an elderly VAX machine and 20-year-old data from the long-defunct Galileo probe.…
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by Marc Ambasna-Jones on (#3P3SP)
Yet Filton display shows it's among the world's best-loved aircraft Geek's Guide to Britain For a generation that never heard the sonic boom as Concorde broke the sound barrier overhead, the iconic white arrow-shaped aircraft dubbed "The Rocket" by British Airways is just a story our parents told.…
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by Anne Currie on (#3P3R7)
Are you having a giraffe? I've been working in tech for nearly 25 years and I'm currently involved in DevOps – a mashup of operations and development that works well with cloud infrastructure.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3P3MC)
Much-feared magnetic field 'flip' not happening anytime soon Earth's magnetic field flips from time to time, but boffins are now confident it won't happen again any time soon.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3P3H7)
Spontaneous offer made during chat about vaccines (which - phew! - Trump seemed to like) Bill Gates reportedly turned down an offer to serve as President Donald Trump's science advisor.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3P3F0)
Mozilla thinks you won’t mind analytical action on the client The Mozilla Foundation has revealed that links to sponsored posts have started to appear in its Firefox browser and pledged to deliver them without invading users' privacy.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3P3E7)
Victim of 'FacexWorm' malware clicked on random link from Facebook Messenger Security researchers have caught a Bitcoin-hijacking Chrome extension that only managed to grab one BitCoin transaction before being exposed.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3P3AA)
And don’t forget it’s a cloud you can re-configure on a well-informed whim Thorough research into the nuances of Azure and AWS infrastructure-as-a-service will help you to avoid plenty of pain, according to Elias Khnaser, a research director at Gartner for Technical Professionals.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3P35Y)
User privacy rows rage on as Koum leaves to play Ultimate Frisbee, collect rare Porsches WhatsApp founder Jan Koum has left the company amid Facebook's ongoing privacy rows.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3P321)
new doc mostly mentions carbon fibre, natural fibre … not so much FTTP The Australian Labor Party (ALP) may be on the way to dropping its policy commitment to a fibre-to-the-premises national broadband network (NBN).…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3P30M)
It won't pass but hey, why pass up a partisan punch-up? Democrats in the US Senate are pushing for a measure that would, if passed, kill off efforts by America's communications watchdog, the FCC, to scrap the nation's net neutrality protections.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3P2Z7)
Thousands refusing to submit, review, or edit for Nature Machine Intelligence journal Thousands of machine-learning wizards have signed an open statement boycotting a new AI-focused academic journal, disapproving of the paper’s policy of closed-access.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3P2X5)
Brit exec Sushovan to cough up $8m after US jury convicts him The former chief financial officer of British software shop Autonomy was today found guilty of fraud – after helping convince HP to splash out $11bn for the upstart back in 2011.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3P2TT)
Stop us if you've heard this one: Samsung, Micron, and Hynix walk into a courtroom... Updated The three semiconductor giants responsible for nearly all of the world's DRAM supply are being sued for allegedly working together to keep memory chip prices high.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3P2PH)
Another try...catch attempt to end tedious mansplaining Code Q&A site Stack Overflow has admitted its community can be hostile to women, people of color, and marginalized groups, and has promised to do better.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3P2KY)
Legal eagles funneled class-action windfall to favorites A dodgy deal cooked up between Google and the lawyers that successfully sued it for violating user privacy is heading to the US Supreme Court.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3P2HN)
Lawyers under fire for giving class-action funds to favorites A dodgy deal cooked up between Google and the lawyers that successful sued it for violating user privacy is heading to the US Supreme Court.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3P2FB)
Michigan man caught rifling through county IT systems A Michigan fella will spend up to seven years and three months behind bars – for trying to hack government IT systems in the US state to get a friend out of jail.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3P2CT)
Let's slow down the wheels of justice some more, eh, Zuck? Facebook today appealed the Irish High Court’s decision to pass the web giant's legal battle with Max Schrems over privacy rights to the European Union’s top court.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3P2A4)
Probably won't get anywhere, but let's slow down the wheels of justice, eh chaps? Facebook has today appealed the Irish High Court’s decision to refer its long-running legal battle with Max Schrems to the European Union’s top court.…
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Cash splashed from £150m cyber resilience pot The UK government's Department of Health and Social Care has inked a deal with Microsoft to upgrade all NHS machines to Windows 10 – in a supposed attempt to boost resilience following the WannaCry incident last year.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3P1PZ)
New amendments aim to stop NHS data-sharing, scrap immigration exemption Data Protection Bill The UK government wants to grant the Information Commissioner power to demand that data controllers and processors hand over information in just 24 hours – instead of a week – and plan to make destruction of such information an offence.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3P1MD)
Multicloud Platform builds virtual data centres Analysis Cloud startup RStor has dropped out of stealth and received $45m of A-round cash, led by Cisco Ventures, to develop its Multicloud Platform compute service.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3P1J3)
French-born man says country took his 24-yr-old domain name An expat in the US is suing the French government and Verisign after the Fifth Republic seized the domain name France.com.…
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Both stats still pretty piss poor For the first time, the number of folk in the UK accessing speeds of 1Gbps is greater than those poor souls unable to get a meagre 10Mbps, according to an Ofcom report today.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3P19W)
But it's public anyway so selling access is fine, cheeps network The Cambridge academic at the centre of the Facebook data-harvesting scandal also had access to Twitter data, the social network has confirmed.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3P16E)
Blue Origin test flight reaches 107km apogee and lands safely Jeff Bezos-founded spaceflight firm Blue Origin set a company record yesterday by sending its capsule on a sub-orbital trajectory with an apogee of 351,000 feet (107km) before landing both booster and capsule safely in West Texas.…
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Bye Amber Rudd. And hey, maybe it's time to talk about consent Comment Is there a lesson for politicians around the apparent destruction of disembarkation cards of citizens from Caribbean nations who arrived in the UK after the Second World War? Perhaps.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3P132)
'Necessary hashtags' Rudd replaced by local gov sec Amber Rudd threw in the towel late last night and resigned as Home Secretary over her mishandling of an immigration scandal.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3P0YX)
Eat it *shakes fist* Ah, the wide and deep and far-fetched wonders of storage – IBM researchers talking about chemically driven phase transformations, Backblaze looking at a Pelican, HPE setting up an Azure Stack and SQream going off to Thailand.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3P0WJ)
Peer-to-peer patch distribution over the LAN, exile for email, S-mode and lots more fun Unless something goes very badly wrong, the April 2018 Update to Windows 10 lands today, April 30th, 2018, complete with a new way to handle updates called “Delivery Optimizationâ€.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3P0V7)
That’s not a test machine? Well it was before I went on holidays Who, me? Welcome again to Who, me? The Register’s Monday column in which readers hang their heads in shame and admit to their past mistakes.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3P0RE)
McAfee spotted malware-machine on IP address used for the Sony Pictures hack A server hidden in a Thai university and allegedly used as part of a North Korean hacking operation has been seized by ThaiCERT.…
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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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