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by Katyanna Quach on (#3963T)
Animal-piloted cyborgs is just what 2017 needs right now Amputatee monkeys have been trained to control robotic arms with their minds using an advanced brain-machine interface, a group of researchers have claimed.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#39626)
Ahem ahem, have you... have you tried turning off and on again? Call it a bug, call it a spellcheck quirk, or call it a wonderful bit of wishful thinking; iPhone owners are all about the IT department these days.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#395ZH)
What's Redmond got to hide? Or clear with lawyers? Microsoft's delayed its big reveal of how it plans to run VMware on Azure by a fortnight, and won't say why.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#395WC)
Fake pizza, fake comments, fake arguments aren't helping either side Analysis Just because it was inevitable doesn't make it bearable.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#395SC)
Tech consultants waged six-year hacking campaign, American prosecutors claim Three Chinese nationals went on a six-year hacking spree against American targets, siphoning financial reports and tech blueprints, US prosecutors allege.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#395P4)
Web giant's R&D boffins to tease privacy-protecting tech in NIPS show-and-tell Video Google researchers claim to have developed an "electronic screen protector" that can alert you when nosy parkers are looking over your shoulder at your phone.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#395MD)
Lawmakers wonder if biz known for regulatory contempt flouted rules Five US senators on Monday asked ersatz taxi biz and lawsuit magnet Uber to provide more details about how it allowed hackers in 2016 to pilfer personal information for 57 million customers and drivers.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#395HW)
Apple's facial-recog tech 'not secure enough for business' claim researchers Video Security researchers have once again claimed a simple mask to hoodwink Apple's Face ID authentication system that graces the tech giant's $1,000 iPhone X.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#395DT)
Buttered beverage second-nastiest thing on upstart's site The Silicon Valley-backed nutrition upstart specializing in butter-infused coffee says evil code injected into its website was covertly gulping customers' payment card details for months.…
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by David Gordon on (#395BR)
Once you're in... How times change. When the Cloud Industry Forum first started surveying cloud take-up, about seven years ago, most businesses still weren’t using any cloud services. Its latest survey, published this spring, revealed that nearly 90 per cent of organisations are using cloud, each one deploying three cloud-based services.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3959V)
Strangers' snaps glimpsed, deleted with code you wouldn't touch with a ten-foot poll A security researcher found a way to delete any picture on Facebook, irrespective of whether it's public or private, by cunning use of polls.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3957A)
City's attempt to foster competition shafted after taking pole position An American city's efforts to make it easier for Google and upstart ISPs to compete against cable giants has been unceremoniously unplugged.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#39520)
Cure period now available in other license flavors Facebook, Google, IBM, and Red Hat on Monday will give free-software license violators two months to mend their ways before going nuclear.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#394SY)
Thoma Bravo bags network security biz for $1.6bn cash Private equity biz Thoma Bravo is buying slow-growth Barracuda Networks for $1.6bn in cash.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#394C2)
Come on in, the water's... err... cloudy Businesses want cloud-style IT, HPE declared as it pushed out GreenLake on-premises everything-as-a-service models – an evolution of its Flex Capacity pay-per-use infrastructure.…
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by Richard Priday on (#39491)
Summer tests show mobile signal on all trains is possible Transport for London promises to have 4G mobile coverage on the London Underground during 2019 following successful tests this summer.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#39493)
User conference opens with call for clarity on indirect access Brit SAP users have little interest in adopting the German enterprise resource planning giant's self-branded "digital innovation system", Leonardo, citing licensing concerns as a barrier, according to a survey.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3942D)
Revisiting a feel-good hit of the summer Long-Term Test It's become a bit of cliché that in recent years low-cost Chinese phones have been "disrupting" a market that belonged to high-margin, high-cost flagship makers like Samsung and Sony. But what happens when a Chinese phone vendor "disrupts" itself?…
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by Andrew Silver on (#393WH)
Streamed direct from the Amazon storage fishbowl, natch Amazon announced a preview for its new AR, VR and 3D app editing and hosting service, Sumerian, today. It is hoping new augmented and virtual reality web developers will pick its new cloud-based platform over Unity3D and Unreal Engine.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#393QH)
One-time head-shedding biz will build foundations for robot air traffic controllers Troubled integrator biz Logicalis has scooped itself a contract to supply the UK's main air traffic control firm with key IT infrastructure equipment and services.…
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by Richard Currie on (#393KG)
Shada serial completed with animation and voiceovers The fourth and finest Doctor, Tom Baker, has reprised the role to finish a Who serial scuppered in 1979 by strike action at the BBC.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#393HP)
Wedding, schmedding, here's the REAL news of the day As Prince Harry and actress Meghan Markle announce their engagement today, equally thrilling news is also breaking across Britain: new laws forcing drone operators to register.…
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by Richard Priday on (#393GP)
£20m vaccine for NHS cybersecurity The UK's National Health Service will pay white hat hackers up to £20m to protect its IT systems, it announced today.…
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by John Leyden on (#393F8)
It won't help the situation (*cough* idiot *cough*) Attempting to scare people by telling them their password choices are stupid or easily guessable is counterproductive: because it serves only to reassure them that they are just like everyone else.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#393DE)
Private equity investor of fallen reseller launches online auction Whichever fool once proclaimed money can’t buy one class clearly wasn’t privy to the inventory of now defunct tech reseller Misco Group that was recently put up for sale by private equity backer Hilco Capital.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#393BT)
Switch flicked on latest voluntary redundancy scheme. Staff out by 31 Dec DXC Technologies is spreading some festive cheer by dangling voluntary redundancy (VR) terms in front of customer support teams, according to a confidential document seen by The Register.…
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by Mark Whitehorn on (#393AK)
Here's one I made earlier – now, over to you If there's a poster child for machine learning, it's neural networks. We gave a practical introduction to the topic here, but this time I'll take a different approach and explain the background to how neural networks, er, work.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#39367)
Playing augmented reality while driving in the real world cost billions, say boffins Pokémon GO killed at least two people and spiked rates of car accidents and injuries, according to a study of the game's impact on just one United States city.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3933S)
Cunning plan: anger rusted-on users who've been with you before social networks existed Administrators of Yahoo! Groups have complained that the service has become unstable and unreliable.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3930W)
It'll be a doddle because we invented it, claims state-owned organ Xinhua China has claimed it invented IPv6, according to state-controlled newswire Xinhua.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#392V0)
Uber gets a big slab of combined company, Russia and region get UberEATS The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation has given its approval to the combination of Uber's services with those of local Google analog Yandex.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#392SA)
Qubits are old hat: this uses 'qudits' - a photon with more than two simultaneous states Researchers have packed extra information onto single photons to speed up quantum key distribution (QKD) systems.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#392PK)
Billions spent on networks not fit for purpose, cabling may be to blame +Comment nbn™, the company building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), has announced that it will remediate parts of its hybrid fibre-coax and pause new rollouts…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#392HC)
Phew! Nothing but emails and hashed passwords leaked The world's self-described “most awesome†collection of images, Imgur, has confessed to leaking 1.7 million user records in 2014.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#392DS)
$20k up front to get in the queue, $200k to buy a 'Founder's edition' Tesla's revealed more details about its forthcoming “Semi†electric truck, including a starting price of US$150,000.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#392C5)
Patch imminent, for now please turn off e-mail attachment chunking Sysadmins who tend Exim servers have been advised to kick off their working weeks with the joy of patching.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#38X6M)
What swamp? Donald Trump's former policy chief Steve Bannon wanted to limit the power of Silicon Valley's plutocrats, but US trade negotiations have just thrown a protective arm around them.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#38X4F)
In other news, shares in mirror manufacturers have soared British miltech boffinry outfit Qinetiq has opened a testing centre named the Dragonworks for the building and tweaking of giant laser cannon.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#38X0N)
Judges reject Privacy International's case against Investigatory Powers Tribunal The UK's Court of Appeal has ruled that the body that oversees the nation's intelligence agencies cannot be held subject to a judicial review under active laws.…
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by Duncan Campbell on (#38WXX)
Why do we mention thrashing in the 'best schools'? Read on Proposals to reform and rewrite Britain's aged Official Secrets Acts have been postponed for at least a year, the government's Law Commission has confirmed to The Register.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#38WXY)
Why won't you let us create value for shareholders? Analysis InfiniBand/Ethernet tech supplier Mellanox is being targeted by an activist investor pissy that it rejected overtures from Marvell.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#38WVB)
New finch species developed in just two generations New research has documented a species of finch evolving on the Galápagos island of Daphne Major, 1,000km off the west coast of Ecuador, in just two generations.…
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by Richard Priday on (#38WRW)
Get fined £45,000 anyway The Information Commissioner's Office has fined Hamilton Digital Solutions £45,000 for sending spam text messages, it announced today, despite its protestations that a third party had been responsible.…
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by Richard Priday on (#38WP5)
But will it make a difference? Analysis BT has long been accused of jealously guarding its infrastructure. But forcing it to open up its network to competitors and break its market dominance has been an aim of Ofcom for some time.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#38WKM)
Networking subsidiary insists everything is Just Fine "No change to Aruba" was veep Morten Illum's public verdict on the news that Meg Whitman was stepping down from the top spot at Aruba's parent company, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.…
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by John Leyden on (#38WF4)
Infosec staffing needs a shot in the arm Plugging the infosec skills gap with expensive consultants or by trying to hire already skilled people won't fix recruitment headaches, Thom Langford, CISO at Publicis Groupe, insisted at the #IRISSCERT conference in Dublin this week.…
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The 1970s called, it wants its dancers back When it comes to women in tech, it's fair to say the sector has a bit of an image problem.…
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by Richard Priday on (#38WC8)
Samsung inks deal to give crews up to 250k handsets The British emergency services are to be equipped with 4G phones thanks to a new handheld device contract with Samsung worth up to £210m.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#38W9J)
UK.gov told to sever ties with 'grubby, unethical' company The massive Uber data breach will be discussed by the European Union's data protection authorities next week.…
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by John Leyden on (#38W63)
We never learn from incidents, says Europol security adviser The world has never been so dependent on computers, networks and software so ensuring the security and availability of those systems is critical.…
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