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by Thomas Claburn on (#3NW0M)
Lotus Notes man has a plan... and a patent Analysis Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, particularly if forgetfulness promises profit.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3NVYZ)
Instead of booting out Brexit Britain, domain-name registry will be opened to everyone A plan to kill off 300,000 British-owned .eu web domains has itself been killed off by European bureaucrats in yet another baffling Brexit backtrack.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3NVX8)
Terminal. It's outta runway. We're winging it with these puns Apple is officially getting out of the home networking business.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3NVV9)
Not too dissimilar to lighting a firework indoors – and then legging it to the nearest exit Britain has finally signed up to Europe's unified patent court (UPC) – a long-planned simplification of the continent's patent system – but big questions still remain thanks to Brexit and a federal court challenge in Germany.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3NVQ0)
Russia and China light blue touch-paper, stand well back Russia and China celebrated a pair of successful launches this week, with a Rockot booster placing Sentinel-3B into orbit while China's Long March 11 lobbed five imaging sats into space.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3NVJ8)
Data breach cost biz $70m this quarter alone The Equifax mega-hack has cost the credit reporting agency well north of $200m to date, according to a financial filing for calendar Q1.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3NVCS)
Redmond kit has the bends Microsoft's work on "bendable or flexible" display technology is far more advanced than anyone realised. A new patent application from Redmond indicates it's inspired by a very familiar technology: the paperback book.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3NV4A)
Language tweak makes internet giants safer than ever, say rights groups Exclusive The European Union looks poised to strengthen large internet platforms' position against online liabilities, according to a leak of the latest copyright directive draft dated 23 April. The most recent publicly available draft (PDF) is dated 13 April.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3NV1M)
Releases two 32Gbit/s switches to boost AFA networking Cisco is releasing two auto-zoning 48 and 96-port Fibre Channel switches to speed up networking in data centres with all-flash arrays.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3NTYK)
Doesn't comply with EU rules, say judges, but you knew that The UK government's surveillance regime has been dealt another blow as the High Court in England today ruled the Snooper's Charter unlawful – and gave the government six months to fix it.…
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It's really high profile, you know An exciting job advert has mysteriously appeared that is seeking a techie to head up infrastructure at TSB, just days after the bank's monumental and ongoing IT cockup began.…
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Director Mark Collins on becoming a key challenger in full fibre Broadband minnow CityFibre's acquisition by Connect Infrastructure Bidco for a staggering £537m has positioned it centre stage to take on industry goliath BT/Openreach, company director Mark Collins has said.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3NTMS)
El Reg has a fiddle with new toys for the Psion-inspired PDA The plucky little PDA that could is getting some upgrades.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3NTJX)
While keeping things safe Sleuthing has revealed more details about Google's project to allow its locked-down Chrome OS to run Linux applications – and well-informed speculation on its architecture.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#3NTH7)
What's new, Ubuntu? 18.04 has dropped and you may not like what you find Canonical has released Ubuntu 18.04, Bionic Beaver, as this one is nicknamed. The Beaver is a long-term support (LTS) release, which means it'll be supported until 2023.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3NTF1)
Just what are you measured on Ginni? Wall Street analysts says things gotta change IBM lost $28bn in revenues in the past six years but that made not one jot of difference the salary and bonuses the top execs got paid. The message from Wall Street? Ever-shrinking sales are not sustainable.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3NTDD)
Boardroom coup at where's-my-console biz Retro Computers Ltd A majority of shareholders in ailing ZX Spectrum reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd – including Sir Clive Sinclair's corporate presence – are calling a shareholders' meeting to replace its current directors.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#3NTDE)
Ten minutes of your life could be mine if you read this slooooowwwly Something for the Weekend, Sir? I am a time-waster. And I hate people who waste my time.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3NT8B)
Zuck's CTO adds to PR apologies in Parliament Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer was not British MPs' first choice of witness, but they certainly made the most of his appearance in Parliament, grilling him on why his firm is a "morality free zone".…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3NT4Y)
Dum dum dum dede dum dum, under pressure A team of physicists have attempted to recreate the internal conditions of a ‘super-Earth’ planet in a lab, by shooting laser beams at iron samples.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3NT50)
How do we say this nicely? You need help Special report On March 26 – two months before new privacy protections come into effect in Europe – Goran Marby, CEO of DNS overlord ICANN, sent a letter [PDF] to each of Europe's 28 data protection authorities (DPAs) asking them to hold off punishing it over Whois.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3NT1M)
Nobody told me it needed electricity, honest ON-CALL Why look at that! The end of the working week is upon us, which means it’s time to dip into the mailbag to bring you another instalment of On-Call, The Register’s reader-contributed tales of tech support trauma.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3NSWE)
IXPs mind their MANRS, plus as much multicloud as you can handle It's roundup time again, with ISOC working to protect the routing infrastructure, and announcements from Big Switch, F5, and Juniper.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3NSSN)
Boffins: 'infinitely precise' measurements feasible Gravitational wave measurements, and quantum computing and communications are just two applications of an international experiment that created entanglement between objects large enough to be visible to humans.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3NSPY)
Database replication SNAFU took down three out of five PostgreSQL servers In a classic example of the genre, GitLab yesterday dented its performance by accidentally triggering a database failover.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3NSNJ)
Process node stalled again over manufacturing nightmares – but hey, money's still pouring in Meltdown? What meltdown? Intel's 50th birthday in July should be a hell of a bash as the chipmaker is flush with cash and reckons 2018 might well be a record-breaking year.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3NSKX)
Rest of industry warned to check its PBD practices In March, Telstra acquiesced to allegations from Australia's competition regulator that it was helping scammers load up unwanted services on customers' mobile bills.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3NSGR)
It's pretty much a cloud provider with a gift shop on the side Amazon.com on Thursday reported $51bn in sales for its Q1 2018, an increase of 43 per cent from $35.7bn in the year-ago quarter.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3NSCX)
Satya's on several cloud nines – as in, billions of dollars Microsoft's boss Satya Nadella march into the cloud seems to be paying off for the Windows 10 and Office 365 giant: on Thursday, the biz announced its sales for Q3 2018 jumped 16 per cent.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3NS96)
Amazon fixes up app security hole affecting always-listening Echo assistants Amazon has shored up a security weakness in its technology to stop apps for Alexa-powered Echo personal assistants from secretly eavesdropping on folks.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3NRXJ)
Think Java code-completion on steriods Code boffins at Rice University in Texas have developed a system called Bayou to partially automate the writing of Java code with the help of deep-learning algorithms and training data sampled from GitHub.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3NRPR)
British computer case crafter dies after cancer battle Rick Dickinson, designer of Britain's iconic ZX Spectrum and ZX81 personal computers, has died following a lengthy battle with cancer.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3NRPT)
Gravitational lensing may help NASA kit see some real golden oldies Researchers hope that NASA's budgetary-challenged James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may score some good fortune with a boost from galactic alignment.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3NRGQ)
Chinese whispers suggest a big Patch Tuesday download Windows 10 Springwatch is headed for a fourth week, with the troubled update rumoured to have a name and possibly a release date.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3NRDV)
But analysts say ditch your stock as opex set to blow up Edison Research analyst Richard Windsor thinks you should sell Facebook stock – despite the social media octopus posting record numbers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3NR5B)
Software-defined storage meets single SKU-ery Open-source software house Red Hat has jumped into bed with Supermicro to produce a single system combining its storage software with the server maker's hardware.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3NR2Z)
MacBook owners demand recall over cruddy keyboard Mac laptop owners are experiencing frequent failures with the delicate "butterfly switch" keyboards introduced three years ago and included on its "TouchBar" MacBook Pro models two years ago.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3NQXP)
Nordic Nasdaq knocked as deleterious decibels crashed servers It's a bit rich when a fire prevention system designed to protect a data centre kills its servers, but that's what happened when inert gas was injected into a Nasdaq Digiplex bit barn in Sweden.…
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by Michael Moran on (#3NQKK)
And comic book fandom fanned the flames Movie franchises generally follow the law of diminishing returns. Christopher Reeve’s iconic first turn as Superman made $170m more than his second and a positively heroic $500m more than his fourth.…
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Small operator starts LTE building following spectrum splurge O2 is enlarging its 4G footprint across Blighty to an extra 1,000 sites, after splurging £205m gobbling up all the available LTE spectrum at Ofcom's recent auction.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3NQD8)
Nice camera, and Android without OEM crapware, though Special Report Much has happened since Google unveiled the Pixel 2 before Christmas, when it was instantly crowned the best cameraphone on the market. Like the magic fairy, Google has activated the phone's previously dormant Visual Core chip, speeding up HDR+ images and machine learning routines.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3NQBB)
Plus: CEO waives overdraft fees to keep customers on side In the midst of its six-day online banking meltdown, which is showing no sign of letting up, TSB has hauled in the systems integration big gun or as it is otherwise known, IBM.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3NQ7A)
Plus: Why NVMe over Ethernet can be a, er, ROCE'y road ... Interview NVMe storage networking (NVMe-oF or NVME over fabrics) promises to radically cut the latency of access to external block storage compared to iSCSI and Fibre Channel.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#3NQ5Q)
Zero justification under current or planned data law for actions of Home Office Comment It's probably a given that – with the European Union's GDPR now weeks away – you're sick to the back teeth of hearing, reading and talking about data protection.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3NQ4R)
Intel says no Analysis A team of scientists from China have asserted that 3D XPoint is essentially phase-change memory, which manufacturers Intel and Micron have not publicly admitted.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3NQ22)
The gargantuan blob could be creating the largest megastructure in the universe Astronomers have spotted a whopping 14 galaxies on the verge of merging to create what could be the densest and most massive galactic cluster in the universe.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3NQ0F)
Taming Things leaky, sneaky, or creepy Princeton boffins have taken a small step towards defending consumer-level IoT users from snooping, with what they call the IoT Inspector project.…
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Firmware updates pushed out to up to 400,000 subscribers A security vulnerability has been found in Brit broadband biz Hyperoptic's home routers that exposes tens of thousands of its subscribers to hackers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3NPVE)
Six Bitcoiners cuffed for electricity heist Chinese media is reporting the seizure of 600 Bitcoin miners in the northern municipality of Tianjin, on the grounds of electricity theft.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3NPVG)
In 53 quadrillion miles, take the next exit right at V354 Cephei The European Space Agency (ESA) has emitted a huge dump of data from its Gaia mission to 3D map the Milky Way.…
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