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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2J6GC)
Twitter, Yandex and Mediafire as C&C for snoopy malware Cisco Talos researchers reckon South Korean users are again under attack from a new malicious RAT (remote administration tool) they've dubbed ROKRAT.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2J6DY)
Grab firmware updates ASAP Yesterday, Apple rushed out an emergency patch to plug a severe security hole that can be exploited to wirelessly and silently commandeer iPhones, iPads and iPods.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2J6B4)
Jurisdiction a problem for The Social Network™ Facebook has lost more skin in its battle to avoid handing over user account details to a US court.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2J6A2)
Meanwhile, for non-Americans, things could get a lot worse Four members of Congress – two Republicans and two Democrats – have introduced legislation that steers US border officials toward obtaining warrants before searching American citizens' phones and laptops.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2J63P)
Claim and counter-claim: What is the real deal? Analysis President Donald Trump has rescinded America's digital privacy protections over what ISPs can do with their subscribers' data, signing into law on Monday a joint resolution of Congress.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2J61G)
Amanda Todd's alleged tormentor already in Dutch jail The man thought to be behind one of the most notorious cases of cyber bullying may finally face trial in Canada – after a Dutch court approved his extradition from the Netherlands.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2J5NR)
Confesses retaliation after poor review was 'bad PR move' An Internet of Things maker has just had first-hand experience of the Streisand effect – after remotely killing a customer's Wi-Fi garage door for being rude.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2J5NT)
Us? Screw over Apple? Pffft! Qualcomm has urged a US judge to throw out claims it massively and illegally overcharged Apple and others for its chip technology.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2J5FX)
Trash can trash machine from 2013 was design dead-end Promising today that a new Mac Pro is being developed, Apple SVP of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller admitted the tech giant rather disappointed the workstation world by making its "most radical Mac ever" insufficiently expandable.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2J56J)
French corp catches Pat's hot potato VMware is selling its core infrastructure-as-a-service hosting business vCloud Air to OVH, the French cloud computing company.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2J51Q)
Chocolate Factory's SDN aims for better connections to hosted machines Google has released another piece of its in-house software-defined networking (SDN) system for public use on the Google Cloud service.…
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by John Leyden on (#2J50E)
Cyber-spies target intellectual property and trade secrets UK companies are being targeted by a China-based global hacking group dubbed APT10.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2J4XE)
NoSQL IPO prep? NoSQL business Couchbase has replaced Bob Wiederhold as its chief executive officer with former Veritas president Matt Cain.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2J4SM)
Lucky filer startup swimming down cash river Scale-out filer startup Qumulo has gained another $30m in funding less than a year after getting $32.5m. Either it's burning cash in a development conflagration or the VCs are keen about its prospects under a new CEO and want to help it build its infrastructure and develop its product tech fast.…
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by John Leyden on (#2J4P3)
It's settled then, he has spoken Sir Tim Berners-Lee has criticised plans to weaken encryption or extend surveillance in the wake of recent terrorist attacks.…
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by Andreas Kolbe on (#2J4H5)
Fourth EU region planned with three availability zones Amazon will expand the data centre footprint of AWS with the opening of a region in Sweden next year.…
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by John Leyden on (#2J4DS)
See these contusions? It's where the hackers burrowed out to infect other hosts The hacking group blamed for the infamous $81m cyber-heist against the Central Bank of Bangladesh last year has been targeting a far wider range of organisations than previously thought.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2J4AD)
Flatten that server application load with Oracle and Fujitsu's new big iron Oracle and Fujitsu have launched Fujitsu’s SPARC M12 server, claiming the world’s fastest per-core performance.…
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One-third of grad jobs to go, including accountants and even some lawyers Human job quotas and labels which state services or products were explicitly "made by humans" are just some of the measures law-makers could consider in combating the displacement of jobs due to robotics, according to a report by the global forum for the legal profession.…
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Expert on AI tech AND philosophy AND killer robots Events We're delighted to announce that Dr J Mark Bishop will be joining us at M in October as a keynote speaker.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2J42A)
Protects against trolls maybe. But not Google Samsung, LG and Foxconn are among the founding members of a patent pool for Android phone makers under Google's benevolent eye. Google hopes the "community-driven clearinghouse" for IP sharing will fend off patent trolls.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2J3ZF)
Could there be something more to this one than hype? Technology investment firm Andreesen Horowitz has poured $10.5m into an artificial intelligence drone upstart, buying itself a place on the board of directors into the bargain.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2J3WT)
Junk food, Android and Chrome do well in Google-sponsored survey A Google-sponsored study into how teenagers view brands has some bad news for tech companies desperately wanting to be cool. While YouTube takes the (dubious) prize by a considerable margin, Apple lags behind junk food favourites Doritos and Oreos, "the world's favourite cookie".…
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'Can you take the bins out, Ugg?' It happens to the best of us: one minute you're raiding and pillaging on the Pontic-Caspian steppe, the next you're settled down with a stone age woman, have a mortgage on the hut and 2.4 kids.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2J3SD)
Eight-for-oner provides lots of share price headroom above NYSE minimum price Data protection and multi-tier file management supplier Quantum is escaping a delisting threat from the New York Stock Exchange with a 1:8 reverse stock split.…
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Parliamentary committee calls for continued data sharing with Europol The government's "no deal is better than a bad deal" approach to Brexit negotiations has been slammed by a cross-party parliamentary committee report, which today called the claim "unsubstantiated".…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2J3KJ)
How PS/2 and OS/2 handed the industry to Bill Gates Special Report Thirty years ago this month, IBM declared war on reality – and lost. For the 30 years prior to that April day in 1987, nobody had dared to challenge IBM’s dominance of the computer industry. It would take almost a decade for the defeat to be complete, but when it came, it was emphatic.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2J3HT)
Name-checks VC object of affection in leaked pitch +Comment Vexata is a stealthy storage array startup with a product technology that it has been telling people is "25 times faster" than arrays from leading rival vendor and VC favourite Pure Storage.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#2J3G6)
Framework continues to draw criticism from campaigners The inaugural annual review into the operation of the EU-US Privacy Shield is to take place in September this year.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2J3CY)
Aerospace outfit says just four launches could build a base in Lunar space by the early 2020s Aerospace outfit Boeing has detailed the hardware it thinks humanity will need to stage a piloted mission to Mars.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2J3C1)
Chases AWS prices with Broadwell E5-2673 v4 at 2.3GHZ with 64 vCPUs Microsoft's revealed that virtual machines in its Azure cloud will soon be defined by virtual rather than physical cores.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2J38D)
One false frame in 50 and TensorFlow sees whatever you want it to Early in March, Google let loose a beta previewing an AI to classify videos – and it only took a month for University of Washington boffins to defeat it.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2J33W)
And heading for Azure real soon now, as the company figures out how to sell it DataCore's long-touted Parallel Server has reached production at “lighthouse customers†and should formally go on sale later in 2017.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2J300)
And also to make 5G sing, and cary radar so it can spot missiles at Mach 4 Phased-array antennas, a technology crucial to modern Wi-Fi systems that use beam-forming to improve throughput, has a speed limit in how quickly beams can be manipulated.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2J2WX)
'Quagga' gets new name, code injection from Linux Foundation, Cumulus and pals A group of open networking companies have dispatched a fleet of X-Wing fighters in the direction of the biggest target in networking: Cisco.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2J2S1)
Purple Palace keeps its exclamation mark under Alphabetical umbrella Logo Watch After a brief social media flurry, Yahoo! has spiked speculation that it's about to lose its name.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2J2QY)
And that's not all: a redaction slip identifies Lior Ron as Levandowski's co-accused A tired court clerk has accidentally unmasked the co-accused in Google's case against Anthony Levandowski and his autonomous car business "Otto" – it's his co-founder Lior Ron.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2J2M0)
President and COO Peter McKay doesn't deny suitors have come a-callin' Veeam has denied it is for sale, but not that it could be bought.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2J2JK)
Svakom's Siime Eye exposes your most intimate moments Sex toy designer Svakom decided that a vibrator needed a camera on the end, and it also needed a Wi-Fi access point – with the utterly predictable result that the device is hackable.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2J2E0)
Alleged spammer targeted victims of previous fraud An alleged PC tech support scam that used fake news releases from the US Federal Trade Commission to make its false claims more believable has attracted the attention of the consumer watchdog agency in the form of a lawsuit.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2J2BR)
Payment system lets punters use quaint concept of 'paper money' Amazon has introduced a payment system that will let customers buy its products without the need for a bank card.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2J2AK)
Don't skip this update Apple hasn’t provided much detail, but you don’t want to ignore the latest iOS release – 10.3.1 – because it plugs a very nasty Wi-Fi vulnerability.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2J29F)
Canuck tells FBI to back off the big fella A Canadian appeals court has told the FBI it's not allowed to review servers from file-sharing service Megaupload held north of the border.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2J20Z)
No, not that way An iPhone user is trying to raise awareness about the dangers of sleeping with your electronics after nearly getting electrocuted in the night.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2J211)
Coders seeking H-1B visas may have to document their specialness more thoroughly Technology firms in the US seeking to hire computer programmers from abroad using the H‑1B visa program may have more trouble doing so, as a consequence of both Trump administration policies and lawmaker concerns that emerged during the Obama administration.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2J1ST)
And we get to see details of the odd deal it struck with Intel After playing coy for the past two weeks, Cloudera has finally gone public with its plans to go public, filing the relevant IPO forms with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2J1N6)
Pai slices away 'overbuild' condition on Time Warner Cable gobble US comms watchdog the FCC has voted to eliminate a key provision in Charter Communications's merger deal with Time Warner Cable that required it to expand into new markets.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2J1GB)
Lucky Ottawa folk get to stay put Multinational car company Ford has hired 400 developers from BlackBerry for its connected cars, shortly after announcing the building of its own data center.…
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by John Leyden on (#2J1EZ)
IAAF breach exposed therapeutic use exemptions The IAAF has been hacked and it blames the notorious Russian hacking group APT 28, also known as FANCY BEAR, for the attack which targeted athletes'Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) applications stored on IAAF servers.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2J147)
Press F to pay respects Google's Android has overtaken Windows to become the world's first-choice platform for accessing the internet, according to number cruncher StatCounter.…
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