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by John Leyden on (#2JEC4)
But have your popcorn ready 2030 BST just in case A threat to wipe millions of supposedly compromised iCloud accounts and iPhones has yet to materialise. A security expert who has analysed samples of compromised data has concluded that the threat – such as it is – only exposes a small number of accounts to potential credential-stuffing attacks.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2JEA8)
Back to being the uber internet regulator then Analysis Americans may get a less Google-friendly and less-politicised regulatory regime if America's trade watchdog, the FTC, adopts responsibility for "net neutrality provisions", as reports today suggest. But under Trump, will the FTC have any teeth?…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JE7W)
All-flash portable and pocketable drive Western Digital has stuck a 1TB SSD in its My Passport line of portable storage drives – previously they have all been disks.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2JE58)
'Plug-and-play' connectivity tech sealed the deal, says firm A utility company has opted for Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) connectivity technology for its IoT deployment, crapping all over competing connectivity techs in the process.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JE2A)
Exactly what the Japanese government doesn't want China's Foxconn has emerged as the leading bidder for Toshiba's Memory business.…
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by John Leyden on (#2JDZM)
New variant of 'Tsunami' is a disaster waiting to happen Hackers have brewed up a new variant of the IoT/Linux botnet "Tsunami" that exploits a year-old but as yet unresolved vulnerability.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2JDYD)
"Openness a driving force" says Google Open-source search analytics are coming to Google's Cloud Platform courtesty of Elastic.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2JDX7)
Yet the yellow submarine's operators are calm about it... Boaty McBoatface has slipped beneath the icy waters of the Antarctic on her first operational deployment.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2JDV6)
What fresh hell Facebook's first practical attempt to implement machine learning blew up badly. After suffering a 70 per cent failure rate, the Messenger Bot was redesigned to provide a potentially useful menu driven service.…
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Area with just 8,000 residents to benefit from small cell Bankers are to enjoy free 1Gbps Wi-Fi thanks to a deal brokered by the City of London Corporation intended to bring high speeds to the Square Mile.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2JDJJ)
Sources whisper to Reuters that it's an A-OK from Brussels Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox will gain EU clearance for its full takeover of Sky, according to sources who whispered to Reuters.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2JDHN)
Hive-minded project injection Interview Hortonworks believes it's solved duplication issues in its Hadoop spin that menaced users when incrementally merging data.…
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by Simon Travaglia on (#2JDEC)
Fires and server crashes also known to work Episode 5 "The thing is," I explain to James, "the vast majority of management bright ideas aren't – they're just stuff which keeps the Boss occupied till lunchtime firing off urgent emails about problems we don't have."…
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by David Gordon on (#2JDDM)
Skillset re-upping with hands-on guidance We've got six full-day workshops locked and loaded on the Continuous Lifecycle London agenda. The question is, which one to choose?…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2JDBY)
German court finds against the chopping of German man Data warehousing and business intelligence flogger Teradata has reached a settlement with ousted co-president Herman Wimmer, who alleged he was fired improperly.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2JD93)
Ad 'duopoly' has markets and public opinion by the short ones Former Times editor and News International chief executive Robert Thomson has launched a precision attack on the "duopoly" of Google and Facebook. As debate rages around what role "fake news" played in electing Donald Trump, Thomson points out that whether news is "real" or "fake", Google and Facebook don't care. Either way, they win.…
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People, not process – your worst nightmare We may be leaving the EU, but some EU law – with significant consequences for the IT community – will carry on. One such is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2JD5Q)
Real progress, but it's patchy Mobile network sleuth RootMetrics has released some performance data on how well operators are faring in our top provincial cities.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#2JD3Q)
Read the signs and weep because NO ONE CARES Something for the Weekend, Sir? Everyone is looking at me as I break into a sweat. "Come on, come on," I mutter to my smartphone but already the harrumphing has begun.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JD2Z)
Chainer makes Tensor Flow look like treacle, but until this week it didn't speak Xeon Ever heard of “Chainerâ€, the open-source framework for creating neural networks?…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2JD18)
Former IBM software engineer decries feeble-minded scientific rules Shajar Abid, a former senior engineer at IBM and presently the "chief visionary officer" at Nubius Technologies LLC, has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that the online ad giant has suppressed his freedom of speech and religion.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JCZS)
Tech support planned to clean gunk with canned air. But the user had an industrial-strength compressor ... twice ON-CALL Welcome again to On-Call, El Reg's regular Friday feature in which readers share their recollections of being asked to fix follies.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JCXY)
Lazy millennials can't even be bothered to commit petty crime Young artists are putting down their spray cans for smartphones, and causing graffiti art to die off as a result.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2JCVH)
All in the name of archeology, he says Imagine this: You’re trapped on a desert island. You’ve eaten nothing for 20 days and as you grow increasingly delirious, your friend who is also stuck in this godforsaken place begins to look appetizing... which part of the body should you eat first?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JCQ7)
Damn. It's the next XBOX, not a Surface and it's going to 4k things up nicely Microsoft's revealed the specs for some forthcoming hardware and the tale of the tape is impressive.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JCMN)
Sysadmins miss Windows Server 2012's GUI-or-no-GUI-and-back-again option Microsoft says it might bring back Windows Server 2012's option to run with or without a GUI.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JCHK)
Schnell! Designated complaint handlers could cop €5m Euro fine, networks could wear €50m Germany has followed through on its proposal to make social networks remove slanderous hate speech and fake news or face massive fines.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JCCK)
It's nice to know where a lake lies. It's better if you know how fast rain can get into it Australia's Public Sector Mapping Agency (PSMA) and US satellite constellation operator DigitalGlobe have joined together to come up with a whole-of-continent, high-resolution analytical data set.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2JCAQ)
Better do it quickly before the price falls further Ev Williams, the cofounder of Twitter and Medium, has revealed that he'll be selling a large chunk of his stock in the microblogging site to fund other activities.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JC4V)
Because it's 2017 and nothing really makes sense any more Twitter has sued the US Department of Homeland Security over its demands that the microblogging site unmask an anonymous anti-Trump account.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2JC46)
In non-snowball-in-Hell's-chance news: New York joins states' revolt on ISP rules Less than a week after President Trump signed the law allowing ISPs to sell customers' browsing habits to advertisers, Democratic politicians are introducing bills to stop the practice.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JC2G)
Preview builds aimed at IT dept guinea pigs Microsoft is opening up a new Windows Insider program for IT departments looking to test out new features in advance.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2JC1B)
Post-profit social network offers to rebuild repeatedly burned bridge with app makers After taking developers for a ride and then repeatedly driving into a ditch, Twitter has a new destination in mind and has produced a roadmap to reassure those who haven't already leapt out the door.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2JB9V)
Let's hope they walk the walk better than they talk the talk A naïve American startup run by "dreamers" claims that its electrically powered airliner concept will magically sweep away all of the world's existing problems with air travel.…
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by John Leyden on (#2JB49)
Gosh, this is awkward... Evidence of Chinese cyber-espionage against the US has been uncovered on the eve of an important Sino-US presidential summit.…
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Deloitte survey says third parties to blame for major disruption Outsourcers are to blame for causing major disruptions at one in three major UK companies over the last three years, according to research by consultancy firm Deloitte.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2JAVS)
But can he do it on a cold rainy night in Amiens? A German orthopaedic surgeon in Norfolk has spent £70,000 building himself a flyable full-size replica of the Red Baron's Fokker Triplane.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2JAPT)
Shuttleworth: 'No part of the business had sacred cows' Exclusive Canonical, the maker of Linux distro Ubuntu, is axing staff and closing projects under a sudden commercial get-fit regime.…
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If lithium batteries go boom in the hold, you're all screwed Europe's aviation regulator has warned that electronic devices should not be stowed in an aircraft's cargo hold, advice that contradicts the recent ban on laptops and tablets in cabin baggage on certain flights by UK authorities.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JAMC)
No spin: malleable scale-out storage software built for flash A stretchy and scale-out file storage system built for flash and covering the on-premises and public cloud world has been announced by Elastifile.…
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Transhumanists, hallucinogens, the far right... and blockchain If you think the last couple of years have been tumultuous you ain't seen nothing yet – there's a tide of tech-enabled secretive and influential movements heading your way that could completely upend and reshape society. If they get their way.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#2JAFR)
Moving beyond analytics Promo Artificial intelligence can solve all your problems. It can raise your children, argue with idiots for you on Facebook, order you a curry from the shop down the road, and even give you a foot massage while you’re eating it.…
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by John Leyden on (#2JAEH)
Gobbles behavioural blocking tech to combat growing threats F-Secure is expanding further into Mac protection with the acquisition of specialist security firm Little Flocker. Financial terms of the deal, announced Thursday, were undisclosed.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2JADR)
Behind the staffers ‘counting money in bed’ missive… Interview Last weekend Huawei’s flagship P10 (and P10 Plus) smartphones went on sale in the UK, with support from all four major operators for the first time. Huawei UK boasts that it was the only Mobile World Congress launch to get across-the-board support – something LG and Sony had failed to do.…
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by Dan Olds, OrionX on (#2JAB1)
LINBIT marks a million clicks by offering saucy T-shirt – if you write them a press release LINBIT, creators of the Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) storage system for Linux, has announced that its software has been downloaded ONE MEEEEELLION times.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2JAAJ)
Not quite the Caspian Sea Monster, but the ground effect vehicle has returned Russia has posted pictures of a new ground effect vehicle, or ekranoplan. The new design is more modest than the "Caspian Sea Monster" that so alarmed Western intelligence during the Cold War, and can only be seen taxiing.…
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by Dan Olds, OrionX on (#2JA8Z)
Beastmode crew hosts three-day conference in Lugano, Switzerland HPC Blog Looking to find out about the latest cutting-edge research and the best way to utilise HPC gear? Or would you just like to hang out with your HPC homies on the Piazza della Riforma in the brisk night air? Either way, you'll want to be in Lugano, Switzerland, next week because the HPC Advisory Council is coming to town.…
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Chinese vendors' upgrades driving costs Techno-seers Gartner have once again peered into the cosmic spreadsheet and found that global device spend will increase by 2 per cent this year to $600bn (£480bn) in its latest tech spend divination ritual.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2JA5D)
Stargazers perform grav wave 'paleontology' in simulations Astrophysicists are one step closer to understanding how pairs of merging black holes form in the far reaches of the cosmos.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2JA4H)
PCIe-connected super-calculator trounces outdated competition Analysis In 2013, Google realized that its growing dependence on machine learning would force it to double the number of data centers it operates to handle projected workloads.…
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