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by Simon Sharwood on (#2G4RJ)
Nuke boffins mine recently-declassified films of atmospheric tests for new insights The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has released a recently-declassified collection of films depicting atmospheric nuclear weapons tests conducted between 1945 and 1962.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2G4N9)
Journey into live volcano is a feature, not a bug Google Maps' Street View can now show you the interior of an active volcano, complete with bubbling lava lake.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2G4G7)
Storage cluster lost power and Azure flickered as a result Users of Microsoft's Azure storage service “may have experienced difficulties provisioning new resources or accessing their existing resources “ for over eight hours on Wednesday and Thursday . Azure storage was also tough to provision for a short time on Wednesday night.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2G4CM)
Not even if you've got lots of cash… One of Microsoft's most hated operating systems (Windows ME is difficult to beat on that front) is destined to die in less than a month.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2G47E)
And SpaceX will be happy While some government departments are facing swinging cuts in President Trump's "America First" proposed budget, NASA appears to have escaped lightly – so far.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2G42N)
A meltdown week for the Chocolate Factory Google’s bad week continues with an emborkened Android update pushed to some Nexus 6 users.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2G404)
And, nope, no patch Security researchers have gone public with details of an exploitable flaw in Ubiquiti's wireless networking gear – after the manufacturer allegedly failed to release firmware patches.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2G3W0)
Court order casts wide net over 50,000 people A US judge has granted cops a search warrant to direct Google to provide personal details about anyone searching for a specific name in the town of Edina, Minnesota.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2G3SG)
Silicon Valley's smartest battle to fix outage Updated The Google Drive app for Windows has crashed and burned – after the tech genius hub pushed out an unfinished and faulty software update.…
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by John Leyden on (#2G3MH)
Website and Intel Security (McAfee) products excluded from 'Wild West' payouts scheme Intel has launched its first bug bounty program, offering rewards of up to $30,000.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2G3H2)
Watch web giant destroy its own product Video Google Home, the web giant's internet-connected talking personal assistant, has started spamming audio adverts to unsuspecting folk today.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2G3E1)
Lines being drawn after Trump executive order prompts heavy-handed customs response The Canadian privacy commissioner has opened an investigation into the Canadian border police and a recent uptick in phone seizures.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2G32D)
They're from the government, and they're here to help The National Cyber Security Centre has ineptly tried – and failed – to Rickroll someone taking the piss out of them on Twitter.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2G2YW)
Melts ISE software from hardware, reveals new product tech Analysis Back in January X-IO was back from a restructuring and refinancing and talking about product refreshes after a downturn in 2016.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2G2NW)
Is public cloud focus punishing on-premises biz? Analysis In its third fiscal 2017 quarter a post-NetSuite slurp Oracle saw marginal revenue and profits growth, but with inflated cloud revenues, the Oracle-ites are happy.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2G2MF)
When cloud backups go wrong A barrister has been fined by the UK Information Commissioner's Office after client information was accidentally uploaded to the internet.…
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by John Leyden on (#2G2HF)
Yes there's still such a thing as a travel agent A hack attack on the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) has exposed the personal details of thousands of consumers and hundreds of tour operators and travel agents.…
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HGTTG's Deep Thought shouldn't be used for price-fixing European Commissioner has urged competition enforcers to keep an eye out for cartels that use software “to work more effectivelyâ€, in a speech about algorithms and competition today.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2G2CA)
Mongo's wire protocol gets support, and there's a new connector for Spark too Microsoft reeeaally wants MongoDB developers to get onto Azure, and as such has announced support for Mongo's wire protocol for those who've declined offers to migrate to DocumentDB.…
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by John Leyden on (#2G28T)
Just, er, eight years later A recently resolved vulnerability in the Linux kernel that had the potential to allow an attacker to gain privilege escalation or cause denial of service went undiscovered for seven years.…
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Follows legal separation from Openreach last week Just one week after Ofcom and BT came to an agreement on the future of Openreach, the broadband division has said it is hiring 1,500 engineers.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2G25G)
Well, it was that or appendage amputation Dublin’s fire brigade - armed with a hand-held angle grinder - were called to the aid of a man that was unable to remove a titanium ring that he’d miraculously slipped over both his meat and two veg.…
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by Team Register on (#2G25H)
Last chance to save on DevOps and Containers bonanza There are less than 36 hours left to grab tickets for Continuous Lifecycle London at our very generous, slightly extended early bird price. Once Friday clicks into Saturday, they revert to full price, and they’ll be staying there.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2G21X)
Single hybrid array replaces 8 disk boxes A hybrid flash/disk array is replacing several disk arrays at a UK college and shows the way mainstream disk array replacement is heading towards flash for primary data applications.…
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Cambridge paper has 'significant factual and analytical errors' retort pair Google’s DeepMind and the Royal Free London NHS deal to use patient data without explicit consent was "inexcusable", an academic paper has concluded in a damning report today.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2G1WX)
Amazon throws AWS credits at Alexa dev fans Amazon is throwing free cloud credits at developers building apps for Alexa hosted on AWS.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2G1VK)
£500,000 pledged by thousands on Indiegogo, yet still no product Investigation Troubled Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ firm Retro Computer Limited has missed multiple product delivery dates amid lawsuits and very public infighting. Perhaps these modern-day shenanigans cast light on why the UK's 1980s game coding scene collapsed. What happened, and how did a straightforward gaming console project go so far off piste?…
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You can run, but you can't hide The UK government is gearing up for a massive tax clampdown on private sector contractors, in an extension of its IR35 regime to hundreds of thousands of freelancers outside the public sector.…
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by Amberhawk Training on (#2G1P5)
If it has Data Protection Act's defects, all bets are off Comment Since 2005, I have tried to use Freedom of Information legislation to find out what is behind the “ongoing†infraction proceedings, commenced by the European Commission against the UK. This is because the UK’s Data Protection Act (DPA) is, according to the Commission, a defective implementation of Directive 95/46/EC.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2G1KQ)
Will you please get rid of him, world+dog asks Admin Council Another wave of letters condemning the controversial president of the European Patent Office, Benoit Battistelli, has been sent ahead of a meeting of the organization's Administrative Council this week in Munich.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2G1JN)
Sort out Blighty's not-spots and let industry do its thing, peers urge Autonomous vehicles are more than just cars, the House of Lords’ Science and Technology Committee has warned the UK government in a report, as it urges greater focus on boats and farming equipment.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2G1GQ)
New version 2 integrates better with Google's tough but essential software library Keras, a popular deep learning library, has been updated with a new API to make it easier for developers to use machine learning in Python.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2G1FA)
Fluffier bottom line after expensive cloud meal Oracle thinks it's done the hard work as it transitions to become a cloud company and is now poised to convert swathes of its customers from software licences to SaaS and infrastructure-as-a-service subscriptions.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2G1EC)
But more could be done through better programming With the recent arrival of a new version of its Chrome browser, Google is celebrating its software's energy saving potential, even as it overlooks its electricity addiction.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2G1BC)
Open-source storage software adds a hypervisor and Docker support FreeNAS, the FreeBSD-derived software that turns a server into a network-attached storage box, has upgraded, changed its name and now asserts it's a hyperconverged platform.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2G1A9)
And you can now use Google Compute Engine storage as a disk, you lucky people Raspberry Pi Zero users have another operating system to choose from, with the release of NetBSD 7.1.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2G17Z)
Spacecraft might need lighter rad-shields, which means more payload! Video After a three-year search, NASA's Van Allen Probes have worked out there's far fewer high-energy electrons in the Van Allen Belts than previously thought.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2G172)
Cunning plan: get AIs co-operating in bricked VR, hand prizes to winners Microsoft wants PhD researchers to pitch their bots into a Minecraft landscape, but it's not some simple “robot wars†remake: to win, your AI will have to learn to co-operate with humans.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2G14F)
Australian Taxation Office reveals more about outages plus plans for Easter upgrade The Australian Taxation Office will install a new Hewlett Packard Enterprise storage area network over Easter.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2G13K)
The Borg's 'This kit has Struts 2 trouble' list is also getting longer If you've implemented Mobility Express on a Cisco 1800 access point, it needs patching against a critical authentication bypass.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2G102)
32 cores on a Xeon E5 V3 with up to 5.6TB of SSD, counted in gigabytes or gibibytes Microsoft's decided Azure needs virtual machines optimised for storage, so has given us all the new L-series to play with.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2G0WS)
It's 2017 and a VGA driver can take down a cloud. Seriously The Xen Project has bent its own rules of vulnerability disclosure for a buggy and possibly exploitable video component that needs urgent attention.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2G0JR)
Old monopoly crumbles as competition is introduced The US Air Force has awarded a $96m contract to SpaceX to launch one of its next-generation GPS satellites, in a competitive contract that left the United Launch Alliance in the dust.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2G0HS)
They've had years to fix things up, but they can't even deliver on known best practice Australia's Taxation Office, Department of Human Services and Department of Immigration and Border Protection are heavyweights of the public service, but only one has managed basic infosec protections on its systems.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2G0CG)
And why won't the NSA open up about Section 702 spying? Two of the most technically literate US politicians want to know why America's Homeland Security is dragging its feet over SS7 security flaws in our mobile phone networks.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2G073)
Containerd plumbing shelters on neutral ground at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation As it promised in December, Docker has bestowed containerd, its core container runtime, upon the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, putting an important piece of container infrastructure under neutral governance.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2G04C)
Study could explain how star systems go from amorphous blobs to beautiful spirals The mystery surrounding dark matter deepens: scientists have discovered that the puzzling substance was less dominant in our universe's early galaxies.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2FZYQ)
City puts together team to bring 1Gbps dark fiber to Bay Area The City of San Francisco has already put in place numerous plans to resist the policies of the Trump Administration – from immigration to healthcare to labor agreements. Now it is moving on to internet access.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2FZVN)
Two FSB agents and two stooges fingered for 2014's 500m webmail account raid Two Russian spies and two hackers were the miscreants who broke into Yahoo!'s servers and swiped at least 500 million user account records.…
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by John Leyden on (#2FZRS)
Rob Joyce is heading to US National Security Council NSA hacking crew bossman Rob Joyce is set to join US President Donald Trump's National Security Council as a cybersecurity adviser.…
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