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Anti-saucy snap programme makes more sense Facebook has settled a case with a 14-year-old girl after the social network hosted revealing pictures of her on a Facebook "shame" page.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3DB2H)
Chinese mobe-flinger probing the issue A large number of OnePlus customers claim to have been hit by fraudulent credit card transactions after making purchases on the phone company's site. And they're unhappy that the company has been slow to address the issue.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3DB00)
Customers couldn't see sync 'n' share files Business user file sync and sharer Box "sank" for some users late last week, who took to forums and social media complaining they could not see any of their files.…
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by Richard Priday on (#3DAXZ)
Thousands still experiencing issues since April launch More than 6,000 parents looking to access financial help with childcare have had difficulties with using HM Revenue and Customs' frequently broken Childcare Choices website.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3DATP)
Tech bigwigs won't seek re-election to Mickey Mouse board The Walt Disney Company's increasing interest in moving its shows online has forced two Silicon Valley supremos to leave the board.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3DAQ0)
Minister says commish is 'free to disregard' framework if it is 'irrelevant' The government has moved to allay fears over amendments to the Data Protection Bill that critics say could undermine both the law and the powers of the UK’s privacy watchdog.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3DANW)
A view on quad-level cell flash error correction Analysis Error-checking code use is so much easier with 3D NAND than previous planar NAND that capacity-lifting quad-level cell technology becomes more feasible.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3DAMC)
GSM gateway prohibition was way below Sir Philip Rutnam's paygrade Comment Questions have been raised over the Home Office's most senior civil servant's involvement in the banning of GSM gateways, following botched redactions to Freedom of Information responses by Ofcom.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3DAK4)
CPU utilization up, throughput down, but a second fix may have restored normal service Log-sniffing vendor SolarWinds has used its own wares to chronicle the application of Meltdown and Spectre patches on its own Amazon Web Services infrastructure, and the results make for ugly viewing.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3DAJA)
Good news for UPC advocates, bad news for EPO staff The effort to create a single patent court system for Europe has been given a boost with a response from the German Bar Association arguing that a complaint against the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) should be thrown out.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3DAH2)
And warms to a kind of speculative execution for Tabs, too. Really. Mozilla’s announced it will add a “policy engine†to the next extended support (ESR) release of its Firefox browser.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3DAFS)
Transaction costs more than chicken, which would go cold by the time BTC change hands KFC’s Canadian wing has started selling chicken for Bitcoin.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3DABA)
AI and other tech could go on 'not to be acquired' list France is considering regulating foreign takeovers of businesses in the data protection and artificial intelligence sectors, minister for the economy Bruno Le Maire said on Friday.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3DA5B)
Galaxy can turn itself off, then on again The black hole at the centre of galaxy SDSS J1354+1327 sucked in gases, “burped†– and then repeated the display.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3DA42)
You'll Pai for this, thunders FCC Bad user interface design has been blamed for Hawaii experiencing a brief spate of nuclear panic over the weekend.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3DA00)
Router vendors sling firmware to protect users from packet floods Wi-Fi router vendors have started issuing patches to defend their products against Google Chromecast devices.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3D9Y0)
Sun ZFS Storage Appliance users: brace for super-critical fix Oracle still has nothing to say about whether the Meltdown or Spectre vulnerabilities are a problem for its hardware.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3D9Y1)
Keeping geostationary sats chatting is simple. Low-Earth sats need more brains The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will next week discuss changes to satellite constellation regulation and fees, an effort needed to keep space useful for communications…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3D9R0)
Yup: LKML.org and all its records of the planet's most-used OS were on one disk Spare a thought for Jasper Spaans, who hosts the Linux Kernel Mailing List archive from a single PC that lives in his home. And since things always happen this way the home machine died while he was on holiday.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3D677)
A quick catch-up on infosec stuff beyond what we've already reported Roundup The security world is still feeling the aftereffects of last week's CPU design flaw disclosures, which continued to dominate the news this week, even amid the noisy CES jamboree in Las Vegas.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3D5KR)
Shared hosting oversight bites free SSL/TLS certificate org Let's Encrypt – a SSL/TLS certificate authority run by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) to programmatically provide websites with free certs for their HTTPS websites – on Thursday said it is discontinuing TLS-SNI validation because it's insecure in the context of many shared hosting providers.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3D5H7)
House reps approve bill requiring vuln disclosure reports The US House of Representatives this week approved a bill that, given further legislative and executive branch support, will require the American government to account for its handling of software and hardware vulnerabilities.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3D5CK)
US House rep proposes govt ban on Chinese mobile tech A law bill introduced into the US House of Representatives would, if passed, ban Uncle Sam's agencies from using stuff made by Chinese mobile giants ZTE and Huawei.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3D5AJ)
Maybe they should have shoved in some AI love-bots to spice things up Comment This week, the tech world has been consumed with intrigue over the details of alleged "sex parties" hosted by Silicon Valley's power brokers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3D53H)
Govt CIOs failing to scrutinize techies' spending – watchdog American government agencies are spending billions of tax dollars on IT projects without getting the proper approval or oversight.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3D502)
Fake tech support mails used to phish for photo album logins A fourth man has admitted stealing Hollywood stars' private nude photos that eventually leaked online in what became known as Celebgate.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3D504)
Make like a virtual machine, and migrate out of here, small percentage of staff told Virtualization kingpin VMware is this month laying off staff again.…
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by John Leyden on (#3D4DZ)
It's not like a recall is possible, says chip security expert Analysis Processor security experts – including one cited in the Meltdown paper – are split on whether the resolution of the Spectre vulnerability may need to involve hardware modifications or the software defences being rolled out are adequate.…
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by John Leyden on (#3D47R)
Easy as A, B, CTRL+P Updated Security shortcomings in Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) can be exploited by miscreants to bypass login prompts on notebook computers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3D3ZF)
It's been a week, hasn't it, storage bods... After multiple, multiple quarters of doing a reverse IBM and growing revenues quarter after quarter after quarter, Veeam has been beaming about having grown revenues some more.…
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by Steven Rogers on (#3D3ZG)
Become the ruler of all you survey Security people talk of an attack surface to describe exposure to malware and hacking. The bigger the attack surface, the more at risk you are.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3D3TB)
Google’s Play Store fails again Researchers have found a batch of over 60 malware-carrying apps in Google's Play Store designed to rob mobile users or show them pornography, all with a kid-friendly theme.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3D3QX)
Are you getting that syncing feeling? DropBox has reportedly filed for an IPO, giving it fresh capital to fund a significant expansion.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3D3QY)
Global sales fall for 13th straight quarter America’s PC market sneezed in Q4 calendar and the rest of the world caught a cold: global sales declined in the final three months of last year, stats from Gartner indicated – although rival IDC did not concur.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3D3NT)
Austrian lawmakers bump up row over criminal content The European Court of Justice has been asked to decide whether Facebook should actively search for hate speech posted by users.…
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Unwieldy projects AND leaving the EU? Don't make us laugh The UK government's spending watchdog has warned HMRC is biting off more than it can chew by undergoing major transformational projects while simultaneously coping with the fallout of Brexit.…
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by Team Register on (#3D3GJ)
Power up your brain with our 2018 lectures If you’re worried you still haven’t gotten your head around 2017, never mind the changes that 2018 will bring, don’t worry: our next tranche of Register Lectures will give you the required brain charge. Or at least give you the opportunity to enjoy some talk, beer and chat with your fellow Reg readers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3D3NW)
General assumption is yes. But five suppliers say no Analysis Is the performance sapping spectre of the X86 Spectre/Meltdown bug fixes hanging over SAN storage arrays? The general assumption is "yes" but five suppliers say not.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3D3F5)
General assumption is yes. But five suppliers say no Analysis Is the performance sapping spectre of the X86 Spectre/Meltdown bug fixes hanging over SAN storage arrays? The general assumption is "yes" but five suppliers say not.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#3D3DD)
Some people will believe anything Something for the Weekend, Sir? Before I take off my Sonic The Hedgehog socks, I want to be sure there is mutual consent. I don't mind being extradited to Sweden but there's no way I want to spend the next five years conducting my daily ablutions under a cold dripping tap in the faux-marble tiled toilet in the Ecuadorian embassy.…
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by SA Mathieson on (#3D3BV)
What Bernard Lovell did before Jodrell Bank Geek's Guide to Britain When you first see the view from Croome's church, it looks like an English utopia. The landscape, designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown during the 1750s, features a lake pretending to be river, winding lazily through fields dotted by scenic trees. To the left is Croome Court, a grand Palladian country house built over the red bricks of an earlier one. The Malvern Hills rise in the distance.…
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We seem to be far less religious these days – what happened? 2018 has barely begun, and it already feels like we'll be nibbling techwar milquetoast all year long. If 2018 ends up being at all like 2017, that is.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3D380)
Not so fast, please. Ask polar explorers and mountaineers how hard it is to get a drink Mars boffins have spotted lots of almost-pure water ice on Mars.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3D382)
Punctuation-averse devs, you're coding it wrong In what non-technical people might take as an attempt to outdo the absurdity of the tabs vs. spaces debate that continues to divide programmers, the TC39 technical group that advises the development of ECMAScript – the specification from which JavaScript is implemented – has proposed telling web developers to terminate statements and declarations with semicolons.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3D3B1)
Four machines on the slate, at almost-exascale and beyond, to nourish local industry The European Commission’s decided to throw €486 million at high performance computers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3D35C)
Four machines on the slate, at almost-exascale and beyond, to nourish local industry The European Commission’s decided to throw €486 million at high performance computers.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3D35D)
X-ray satnav demo'd for future spacecraft Pics After years of research and testing, NASA has demonstrated spacecraft positioning equipment that relies on measuring X-ray bursts. The hardware will help future spacefarers navigate the galaxy and beyond.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3D317)
Not even Linux could save the day for odd educational outpost On-Call Welcome back to On-Call, The Register’s weekly tale of – ahem – challenging support jobs that readers have encountered around the world.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3D3B2)
PowerShell Core 6.0 arrives for your CLI-wielding pleasure Microsoft has given the world new versions of PowerShell that bring the popular automation and scripting tool to MacOS and Linux.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3D2Y2)
PowerShell Core 6.0 arrives for your CLI-wielding pleasure Microsoft’s given the world new versions of PowerShell that bring the popular automation and scripting tool to MacOS and Linux.…
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