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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2PPXF)
Sueball-slinging biz kicks off new VR tech legal assault The company that successfully sued Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus for $500m has now set its sights on another giant: Samsung.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2PPFW)
And it's going to get a whole lot worse for Zuckerberg and pals Facebook has been fined the maximum possible amount – €150,000 ($166,000) – by France's data protection watchdog for gathering information on internet users without their permission.…
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by John Leyden on (#2PPC3)
Meanwhile, Fed heads have their work cut out for them US President Donald Trump's cybersecurity executive order, signed on Thursday after a series of delays, will make federal agency heads accountable for protecting their networks.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PNW8)
Dell EMC has four AFAs now... Comment XtremIO all-flash array revenues have fallen from their 2015 peak as all-flash Unity and VMAX revenues have raced past it.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2PNM4)
Better late than never Realm, maker of an object-based database of the same name, is extending its mobile-oriented software to work with wares from a company not known for its mobile offerings, Microsoft.…
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by John Leyden on (#2PNJH)
Lazarus rising again... or not Security researchers are exploring the theory that the WannaCrypt ransomware might be the work of an infamous North Korean government-backed hacking crew.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2PNJJ)
Familiarity – and dual-cloud strategies – breeds growth Competition for enterprise IT spend is intensifying with Microsoft and Google applying pressure to AWS.…
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by John Leyden on (#2PNF1)
Adylkuzz predates ransomware by at least a week – and pays better too The now infamous Windows vulnerability (MS17-010) exploited by the WannaCrypt ransomware has also been abused to spread another type of malware, specifically a cryptocurrency miner.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2PNB6)
Should vendors be obliged to maintain ageing, unsafe PCs? Poll Microsoft has got off remarkably lightly from WannaCry, as the finger pointing between Whitehall and NHS trusts began. But that might be beginning to change.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PN5C)
ARM-powered, 40-node prototype HPE's Machine research project has debuted an ARM-powered, 160TB monster memory system prototype, calling it the world's largest single-memory computer.…
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UK market remains particularly poor performer Vodafone has reported a substantial loss of €6.1bn (£5.2bn) during its full-year results 2016/17, mainly due to a writedown of its Indian business.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2PN04)
Forthcoming ExtReact promises support for a price Enterprise web app biz Sencha plans to make its ExtJS JavaScript interface components available to React developers through an offering called ExtReact.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2PMXE)
Expired Fraunhofer patents won't be renewed The owner of the MP3 format killed it off last month – and it's taken three weeks for anyone to notice. With the last of the patents protecting the MPEG Audio Layer III expiring, the Fraunhofer Institute has declined to renew the IP and terminated its licensing programme.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PMVT)
Japan encouraging Tosh and WDC to come to agreement +Comment The latest twist in the Toshiba Memory Business auction sale is that Toshiba has not barred access to the foundry or its online facilities from partner WDC employees.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2PMRC)
Oh, 'collective responsibility' – that old chestnut Analysis In the circular firing squad of WannaCrypt, the world's largest recorded ransomware outbreak, nobody looks good.…
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by John Leyden on (#2PMP5)
Data dump on monthly subscription model The infamous Shadow Brokers hacking crew, central players in the release of the vulnerability that led to last week's WannaCrypt chaos, have returned online with a threat to release more exploits.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2PMJR)
But is it enough? Hands On It made everyone's favourite Android just three years ago, the "Alfa Romeo of phones", but today finds HTC like Sony, hanging on in the market despite shareholder pressure to bail out.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2PMFH)
David must be stoked by his corporate elevation from UK boss seat to Europe IBM’s UK overlord David Stokes is getting his just deserts for presiding over a sustained period of sliding sales and plummeting profits - he’s being promoted.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2PMCQ)
With human trainers, bots may finally get smart enough to hold complex conversations Facebook's artificial intelligence research team, which operates under the self-endorsing acronym FAIR, has released an open-source research framework called ParlAI to train bot software to chat more coherently with people.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PM9D)
Also dumps Apple, Intel and Microsoft, plus plenty more. But it's not a good look IBM's pension fund has sold most of its shares in IBM.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2PM7Z)
Emerald Isle catches up with modern technology The Irish government is planning to make the most unpleasant online acts criminal offences.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2PM5D)
Privacy watchdog scolds hospital for using unproven AI app to diagnose Brits Google's use of Brits' medical records to train an AI and treat people was legally "inappropriate," says Dame Fiona Caldicott, the National Data Guardian at the UK's Department of Health.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2PM34)
Quantum fluctuations may be key to explaining why we're all drifting apart Not only is our universe is expanding, its expansion is accelerating. How and why this is happening remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PM0R)
German government stores IP addresses of visitors, Pirate Party lawyer wants that to stop Germany's federal court is set to hand down a ruling about the legality of storing IP addresses.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2PKYS)
Retailer accused of acting like a real bunch of Dixons A British man says PC World botched his order, then staff trolled his blog after he wrote a post complaining about it.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PKVJ)
AWS is cooking virty servers with 16TB but thinks we'll also need clusters packing 34TB Amazon Web Services is working on new instance types that will offer either eight or 16 terabytes of random access memory.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PKTN)
Security partners have chatted to PM Turnbull and the idea is under consideration Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has said the nation is considering signing up for the laptops-on-planes ban imposed by the United States and United Kingdom.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PKS7)
Company couldn't school all the phish in the sea Electronic signatures outfit DocuSign has warned world+dog that one of its email systems was cracked by phisherpholk.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PKQ9)
Appeal offers a laugh-a-minute how-not-to guide for would-be criminal masterminds Michael Mancil Brown, aka Dr Evil, who tried to extort a million dollars from PricewaterhouseCoopers on the basis that he'd nicked Mitt Romney's tax returns, has had a win on appeal and will be sentenced anew.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PKPF)
Two code reviews give crypto client nearly clean bill of health The venerable OpenVPN client has been given a mostly clean bill of health.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2PKHF)
And it took three months to release despite Eternalblue leak When the WannaCrypt ransomware exploded across the world over the weekend, infecting Windows systems using a stolen NSA exploit, Microsoft president Brad Smith quickly blamed the spy agency. If the snoops hadn't stockpiled hacking tools and details of vulnerabilities, these instruments wouldn't have leaked into the wild, sparing us Friday's cyber assault, he said.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PKFM)
Clients, access points and backhaul all need firmware patch before attacks ferment 5G wireless vendor Mimosa Wireless has patched against a bunch of remote code execution, denial-of-service and file disclosure vulnerabilities.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2PKAE)
Seven Apple updates, because it's not like you had anything else to patch today Apple has released security updates for both of its main operating systems, along with iTunes, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. All should be installed as soon as possible before they are exploited by miscreants.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PK87)
Big Blue gets cloud cred. Nutanix gets a chance to talk core apps Nutanix and IBM will announce on Tuesday a new relationship that will see Nutanix build hyperconverged systems out of IBM Power servers – its first non-Intel-powered boxes.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PK3V)
Middle Kingdom's CERT puts infection rate in the thousands If reports from China are accurate, the country's often-bootlegged and under-patched Windows installations are being hit hard by the WannaCrypt ransom-worm.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2PJZY)
Two more chip heavyweights enter the patent fray Add Intel and Samsung to the mix of companies siding against Qualcomm in its battle with US trade watchdog the FTC over alleged dodgy patent licensing.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2PJBR)
Still allowed to continue self-driving research, however Uber has two weeks to make sure Waymo receives all of its stolen documents back and one month to give a full accounting of all its interactions with the former-Waymo engineer who stole them.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2PJ6Y)
Not a good month for the aviation giant You get the feeling United's PR boss must be praying for death at this point, after his employer admitted to another serious cockup.…
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by John Leyden on (#2PJ3D)
Kill switch ID'd in ransomware attempt to abuse MS17-010 patch A feared second wave of WannaCrypt ransomware attacks has failed to materialize, but 16 UK National Health Service Trusts are still grappling with last week's infection.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2PJ01)
At least the human cargo will be safe as houses Volvos of the future will include an in-car entertainment system built on Android, the stolid Swedish automaker announced earlier today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PHEB)
This co-CEO nonsense is spreading from Oracle +Comment Backup firm Veeam has retired its freshly promoted CEO to a board committee chair role and promoted two other execs to be co-CEOs.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2PH7Y)
Crowdsourcing is the future of (pubic) navigation Some anonymous clown has drawn a, well, giant spawn hammer on Antarctica by using Google’s crowdsourced map-‘n’-satnav app Waze.…
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by John Leyden on (#2PH6A)
Watered down homeopathy for computers is more powerful, m'kay? Updated Sophos updated its website over the weekend to water down claims that it was protecting the NHS from cyber-attacks following last week's catastrophic WannaCrypt outbreak.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PH2C)
ARM-powered, 40-node prototype flies HPE's hot development technology flag HPE's Machine research project has debuted an ARM-powered, 160TB monster memory system prototype, calling it the world's largest single-memory computer.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PH0E)
Storage firm is going hybrid cloud Nutanix has booked Google Cloud supremo Diane Greene to talk at its .NEXT 2017 conference, leading to speculation that a deal – possibly around hybrid cloud – is being cooked up between the two.…
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Only caveat is they need to actually get in power... The Liberal Democrats have pledged to end the "Orwellian nightmare" of mass-snooping powers in the Investigatory Powers Act ahead of their manifesto launch.…
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by Team Register on (#2PGRG)
Software brains, fabulous food, served up in Westminster Events We’ll be throwing the doors open at Continuous Lifecycle in just over 36 hours, but there’s still time for you to grab a prime spot for three days of the best in DevOps, Agile and Containers.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2PGNN)
A solid, thoughtful job Review Well, no one saw this one coming. Samsung has succeeded where Microsoft and HP have struggled (so far) in turning a phone into a PC.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2PGKP)
Fancy a crack at being Germany's secret signalman? The National Museum of Computing has put an emulation of an "unbreakable" Second World War German cipher machine online for world+dog to admire.…
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by Dan Olds, OrionX on (#2PGKR)
Tsinghua's score analysed HPC Blog Tsinghua University topped their 19 competitors to take home the Overall Championship trophy at the recent ASC17 Student Cluster Competition in Wuxi, China.…
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