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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2MXRR)
Trove then disappears, as folks point out the privacy problem Amid a storm of criticism, a set of facial images built by scraping the Tinder dating service has been pulled from Kaggle.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2MXKV)
Final release sprint decides to take a hurdle off the track Debian's release team has decided to postpone its implementation of Secure Boot.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2MXET)
The IBM arrays are okay, but the PC you used to set up the array might be in trouble Big Blue is red-faced after shipping malware-infected initialisation USBs for its Storwize disk racks.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2MXDM)
WikiLeaks finds the spooks' work experience kids' Scribbles Web beacons are objects such as transparent, single-pixel GIFs planted in emails and web pages to phone-home when users access the content. They're trivially easy to expose – simply forcing an e-mail client to show URLs instead of links can do the trick.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2MS0P)
Surprising signs of hope, and a few of danger Interview In 2015, writer and activist Cory Doctorow told the DEF CON hacking conference that he was rejoining the EFF on a new campaign to eliminate digital rights management regulations by 2025.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2MR8F)
Welcome to the crazy world of Oregon state law Interview Last year, Mats Järlström was fined $500 for revealing troubling flaws in the mathematical formula used to govern the timing of US traffic lights.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2MQ4H)
The answer – because net-neutrality slayer Ajit Pai wants to stay in charge Special report This week, Ajit Pai, chairman of America's broadband watchdog, decided to reignite the contentious debate over net neutrality – by proposing scrapping the country's open internet safeguards.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2MQ0Q)
Curious time to stop listening to Americans talking about foreigners, eh, Donald? Updated The NSA has, in theory, stopped snooping on American citizens' private communications that loosely involve foreigners in some way.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2MPTM)
Chip biz says Cook's crew has commanded tech world to withhold patent dosh Qualcomm claims Apple has ordered chip manufacturers to stop sending royalty checks to the Snapdragon designer amid the pair's patent licensing war.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2MPKG)
Reference to vulns suddenly vanishes after El Reg probe Apache OpenOffice, sized for euthanasia by one of its own last year, still lives and should see an update before the end of May, allegedly.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2MPGR)
Like their hockey teams, Canadian systems went down this week eh Canadians have had a mildly frustrating week as a pair of IT problems derailed broadband connections, blacked out TVs, cut off phone lines, and halted buses in America's hat.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2MP96)
Paranoid fella hid operating system, weapons manuals in USB drive cufflinks, no less A paranoid Welsh Muslim who wore gloves while typing on his laptop, admitted being part of Islamic State, and, gasp, harbored a copy of Linux Mint, has been described as a “new and dangerous breed of terrorist.â€â€¦
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by Chris Mellor on (#2MP0Y)
All the bits and pieces: It's like the three-day weekend has come early
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2MNXE)
'He was the most talented and handsome man we have ever worked with,' mourns office After just over two years at The Register my contributions from now on will be dropping to the comments section.…
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by Team Register on (#2MNQ5)
Now to find out if it has fewer crashes... The M6 is officially the UK's worst motorway for 4G coverage.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2MNMX)
So far, no silly Bluetooth toothbrushes Internet of Things startup investment firm Breed Reply is a curious creature, pouring cash into IoT companies that aren’t punting laughably silly technology.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2MNCW)
Ah, the old 'Windows upsell' one-two Analysis Sales of Surface, falling 26 per cent year-on-year, wasn't the only wrinkle in Microsoft's third-quarter trading period.…
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Ageing systems, Brexit, exodus of contractors, delayed agile projects... The departure of UK Home Office chief information officer Sarah Wilkinson after two years at the helm comes at an interesting – and crucial – time for the department.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2MN51)
Much, much more than a nostalgia trip 24-Hour Test The hottest phone in town this week isn't the new Samsung but, improbably, BlackBerry's comeback device. Partly this is a quirk of a staggered rollout by TCL, which has awarded the UK virtual exclusivity for a month before the US gets it. But it's not entirely down to production issues.…
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by John Leyden on (#2MN08)
Spies, bank raiders gravitate to growing stealth technique A newly uncovered cyber-espionage campaign targeting Israeli organisations relies on "fileless" malware hidden in Microsoft Word documents, a hacker tactic that's becoming a growing menace.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2MMYX)
Offended? Go hassle Merriam-Webster, not us Apple fanbois are officially sheeple. So says American dictionary Merriam-Webster.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2MMS7)
Oh, and voting is the only say you get in how the government handles your information The Digital Economy Bill 2016-17 has received Royal Assent, and with Her Maj's rubberstamp it shall henceforth become a requirement for all pornography-serving websites to verify the ages (and thus identities) of all of their visitors in the UK.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2MMQN)
Thousands left terrified worrying about limiting their beer intake this month There's drama aplenty for NatWest customers this morning as account transfers are “disappearing†according to aggrieved customers.…
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by Robin Birtstone on (#2MMPM)
Come and have a go, if you think you’re hard enough Sponsored Digital transformation has been a boardroom buzzphrase for the last couple of years. If your CEO hasn’t asked you to explain it, then the invitation’s in the mail. Are you ready to tell them what it is, and what you’re doing to help make it happen?…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#2MMNB)
Please now wash your hands Something for the Weekend, Sir? I'm off to the toilet. Would you like to join me?…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2MMGY)
Looks like revenues are up by almost $6bn Analysis WD took advantage of stable disk drive and strong flash markets to crank revenues and profits in its third fiscal 2017 quarter, giving Seagate an object lesson in how to run a storage business.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#2MMGZ)
Independence from distros The world of Linux has long been divided into tribes, or distros as we called them. But what actually makes a distro? The packages it uses? The people who put those packages together? The philosophy behind the choices the people who put the packages together make? The question of what makes a distro is actually very difficult on to answer and it's about to get even more difficult.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2MMF5)
Ad biz disputes claims, but duopoly marches on Internet advertising revenue continues to grow, thanks to mobile, but the Silicon Valley duopoly of Facebook and Google swallowed up almost the new money.…
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by John Leyden on (#2MMD3)
TalkTalk's £400,000 penalty was big – how about £59 MILLION? Fines from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) against Brit companies last year would have been £69m rather than £880,500 if the pending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) had been applied, according to analysis by NCC Group.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2MMA0)
Support chap reveals the squalid horror of restaurant computers ON-CALL Welcome again to On-Call, our weekly sharing session in which readers unburden themselves by sharing memories of nasty jobs.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2MM8P)
Kali's a favourite for white hats, but that doesn't stop black hats guys from using it too Think passwords, people. Think long, complex passwords. Not because a breach dump's landed, but because the security-probing-oriented Kali Linux just got better at cracking passwords.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2MM52)
License to print money renewed in full, thanks to mobile Google's parent company Alphabet has enjoyed a bumper start to the year, raking in more and more ad cash, sinking dosh into hobby projects, and generally having a great time.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2MM53)
Single phone call by journalist probed, Feds then self-report breach to Ombudsman Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin has admitted that one of the force's investigators accessed a journalist's telecommunications metadata without a warrant, thereby breaching the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2MM41)
'Meteoric' success downgraded to mere 'rocketing' Amazon Web Services growth slowed down a bit, but still brought Amazon cash at a record clip in the first three months of 2017.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2MM0N)
DARPA's current thinking for potential future bright sparks The boffinry nerve center of the US military is working with seven American universities to see if electrically stimulating the brain will increase the ability to learn new skills.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2MKZ6)
Phones also dead – but hey, $53m profit A DAY is still $53m Microsoft has reported strong results in its latest quarter, pulling in nearly $5bn in profits and showing good cloud revenue growth. Just don't mention the sagging Surface fondleslab sales.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2MKSE)
Space Launch System and Orion Crew Vehicle won't lift off for planned 2018 test flight The United States Government Accountability Office has found that NASA's return to crewed space exploration will likely not commence in 2018, as planned, and will probably slip into 2019. And familiar technology integration challenges are partly to blame.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2MKM3)
Google's ongoing HTTP exposé comes to Incognito Mode and forms Google's efforts to make unsecured HTTP connections untenable will step up in October, when its Chrome browser starts to warn users that more web sites are insecure.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2MKJK)
We're trying our best here, OK? Arcserve has bought its way into the email archiving game by gobbling up FastArchiver.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2MKDV)
You could wait for servers and apps to grok storage-class RAM … or just supercharge 'puters Memory-centric analyst firm TrendFocus reckons Intel's Optane is going to take years to make a difference in the data centre, which means using it in PCs is as good as it will get for the foreseeable future.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2MK0P)
Basically what he was saying while bragging about sales Intel today revealed that its first-quarter earnings and sales were more or less as forecast, sending its stock down in after-hours trading.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2MJRD)
And, oh for $DEITY's sake, yet ANOTHER best-practices standards organization? Traffic bouncer Cloudflare has outlined what it claims is the solution to the perennial internet-of-things security problem: pay it.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2MJK9)
Not quite 'lock her up,' but they'll take what they can get – like formal criminal charges US House Republicans are demanding prosecutors bring charges against the IT chap who hosted Hillary Clinton's private email service.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2MJFM)
Once dismissed by Zuck, misinformation now merits revised security strategy Analysis Last November at the Techonomy Conference in Half Moon Bay, California, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed the notion that disinformation had affected the US presidential election as lunacy.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2MJC4)
Probe plunges deep into dark cosmic hole Photo NASA's Cassini probe has made its first dive inside Saturn's rings, skimming about 1,900 miles (3,000KM) over the surface of the gas giant's stormy atmosphere.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2MJ4N)
Here we go again On Wednesday, Ajit Pai, the boss of America's broadband watchdog, decided to reopen the decade-long debate over net neutrality, despite rules having been finally decided back in 2015 and held up by the court last year.…
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by John Leyden on (#2MHMN)
The Dark Knight of malware's purpose remains unknown Hajime – the "vigilante" IoT worm that blocks rival botnets – has built up a compromised network of 300,000 malware-compromised devices, according to new figures from Kaspersky Lab.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2MHGF)
Mark Durcan gets to retire at last as Sanjay Mehrotra takes over Micron has hired ex-SanDisk CEO Sanjay Mehrotra as its new president and CEO, replacing the retiring Mark Durcan.…
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by John Leyden on (#2MHD0)
Researcher claims it's riddled with flaws. Vendor denies it Security researchers claim to have uncovered a variety of serious security holes in a heavily touted secure email server technology. Nomx, the firm behind the device, strongly disputes the claims and has challenged researchers to a hacking challenge, involving the creation of an email account on a designated remotely hosted nomx device.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2MH97)
And it weighs the same as 5.7 million adult badgers China has launched its own aircraft carrier – the first ship of its type to be built from scratch in the rising Asian superpower's yards.…
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