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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JT81)
You're faster than the Kepler, but what about the newer and better Pascal? It's not easy being Nvidia: the rise of AI has put a rocket under demand for GPUs, but the corollary to that is World+Dog publishing benchmarks to try and knock Nvidia off its perch.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JT6G)
What goes on when chip components chat? Nobody cares. But they should The internal inter-chip communications of devices like smartphones are a “huge, mostly unaudited attack surface,†according to Gal Beniamini of Google’s Project Zero, in his promised follow-up to last week’s demonstration of how to attack Wi‑Fi chips over the air.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JT5B)
Pays AU$1.26bn for right to push waves into atmosphere for 12 years Australian junior telco TPG has announced it will create Australia's fourth mobile network.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JT2J)
Lawsuit says Purple Palace's China fund was just 'window dressing' The shriveled husk of Yahoo! has once again been dragged into court, this time over allegations the company mishandled millions of dollars earmarked for humanitarian aid.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JSZA)
Patch Tuesday shakeup sucks Microsoft today buried among minor bug fixes patches for critical security flaws that can be exploited by attackers to hijack vulnerable computers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JSX7)
Of course it was a mistake, but the apology to 'buyers' included a 20% discount code Apple Australia's base price for the Mac Pro is AU$4,899. So when Australian airline QANTAS store for frequent flyers started offering the computer for just AU$$520.53, plus 5,000 frequent flyer points, news of the bargain quickly hit sites that track this sort of thing.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2JSNM)
Well, sort of China plans to impose the world's strictest digital privacy rights rules against large corporations like Facebook and Google by requiring them to obtain users' permission before sending any data on them outside the country.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2JSMA)
Nap time for spacecraft as it heads out to ice-rock belt Pic NASA's New Horizons spacecraft – right now 3.5 billion miles (5.6 billion kilometres) from Earth – has been powered down by boffins as it heads out to the icy wastes of the Kuiper Belt.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2JSH5)
Claims he was scared about losing his job FBI agents have collared a devops engineer accused of stealing rifling through colleagues' user accounts and stealing proprietary stock trading software.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2JSB5)
'Tick Different' is so confusing… to expensive lawyers with invoices ready to go Apple's lawyers have got their knickers in a twist over an ad campaign by outdated watch company Swatch.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JS83)
I'll have an E, please, Bob Hybrid and all-flash array supplier Tegile has had the benefit of Western Digital Corporation largesse, with the flash and disk-making giant leading its latest funding round.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JRZ8)
Advance check-in is down too. If only there was a team that could fix it... Updated The ba.com and britishairways.com websites and online check-in system for British Airways have been down for the past seven hours or so.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JRKX)
Virtzilla: Hyperconverged flash drives run 50% faster with latest vSAN SW VMware says it has upped flash IO performance by half with the latest vSAN version, as well as adding myriad point feature updates.…
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Director of 1st Milestone disqualified after firm falsifies £146,884 in tax The boss of an Oracle reseller has been banned from holding a director position in the UK for six years – after his company fiddled its VAT returns, resulting in a loss of £146,884 to the taxman.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2JRCP)
ICO and cops storm homes in Macclesfield and Droylsden Two properties in the North West were raided this morning as part of an ongoing investigation into nuisance calls related to data thefts from car body repair shops.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JR4V)
NVMe in FlashArray speed-up Pure Storage has moved away from SSDs in giving its FlashArray an NVMe makeover, halving its latency and doubling its bandwidth.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2JR02)
Would-be irresistible force meets immovable object Qualcomm has hit back at Apple over claims it overcharged the fruity firm for IP licensing, revealing that it had a pay-to-play deal to get its chip technology into iThings.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2JQYT)
Whatever DB will be, devs can choose from 3 Amazon Web Services has joined the chase for MongoDB developers' cloud budgets, announcing new support for NoSQL databases being added to its prize-pony Database Migration Service.…
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by Duncan Campbell on (#2JQVV)
Scrutinised? Consulted? Really? Thought so. The UK government's Law Commission, reeling from a Reg-led torrent of press, political and even judicial criticism of proposals for punitive new official secrets laws, has branded their first report "only provisional".…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JQT2)
Unprecedented: Unaudited results filing means potential Tokyo Stock Exchange delisting Toshiba has filed unaudited results for its business, meaning its potential losses from the Westinghouse disaster cannot yet be quantified, putting the conglomerate at risk of collapse.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JQRY)
Netzilla adds NVMe over Fibre Channel support on top of 32Gbit/s FC Networking titan Cisco is adding both NVMe over Fibre Channel and 32Gbit/s Fibre Channel speed to its MDS Director and UCS C-Series server products.…
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by John Leyden on (#2JQP8)
Banking trojan-proofing will take place later today Cybercrooks are actively exploiting an unpatched Microsoft Word vulnerability to distribute the Dridex banking trojan, claim researchers.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#2JQKY)
Review your privacy settings, or no update for you Microsoft's rollout of Windows 10 Creators Update has begun, complete with a privacy dialogue box shown by default to all users.…
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Punters paying an average £113/year once promo finishes Sneaky broadband providers are enticing punters with cheap deals only to whack them with a 43 per cent hike once the offer runs out, according to the Citizens Advice Bureau.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JQCN)
At least that's what HPE tells us Five months after the Reg first reported that HPE, Cisco – and even Dell EMC – were being punched hard in the supply chain by worldwide flash chip shortages, it's still a problem for at least one vendor.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JQAN)
Firm seeks workaround to more VC cash Analysis File sync and sharer Egnyte expanded into content governance midway through last year as the collaborative file access market's maturity came into view. But the now-profitable company is not looking to make a debt-fuelled dash for growth.…
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Pan-government deal applies to 200,000 licences Exclusive The UK government has inked a deal with Microsoft to prevent Whitehall from paying an extra £15m in licence fees due to a post-Brexit price hike.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JQ4P)
Forum might be liable for celeb image breaches US forum admins will be watching a Californian court with nervous interest, as social forum LiveJournal goes to trial for copyright infringement.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2JQ3E)
AI must master gift of the gab, humans have to play nice too The AI hype has triggered a moral panic as people entertain the idea that super-intelligent machines may one day dominate Earth.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JQ0V)
Jet fuel can't melt SteelCentral, but pwnage is far too easy Riverbed admins: get busy patching the SteelCentral Portal application.…
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by John Leyden on (#2JPZR)
Feedback mechanism for parents/students on shaky ground UK school regulator Ofsted has downplayed security concerns about its website, adding that its policies will be further involved once a planned revamp is completed.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2JPVG)
Trump hacking claims look like red herring Police in Barcelona have arrested a man suspected of being one of the web's top spammers and the possible operator of a major botnet.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JPQR)
Control panel busted, but servers stayed online Ouch: last week, Digital Ocean took the GitLab fat-finger pill, deleting a production database and triggering a five-hour outage.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JPKM)
Boffins say BGP is a threat to the crypto-currency Attacks on Bitcoin just keep coming: ETH Zurich boffins have worked with Aviv Zohar of The Hebrew University in Israel to show off how to attack the crypto-currency via the Internet's routing infrastructure.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JPF6)
Hang on, sharing records is kind of what it's for The Australian government has found itself embroiled in a privacy furore, this time for the privacy settings on its MyHealthRecord e-health system.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2JPCN)
x86, Sparc running Solaris 6-10 at risk – and potentially 11 Now that the sulky Shadow Brokers gang has leaked its archive of stolen NSA exploits, security experts are trawling Uncle Sam's classified attack code – and the results aren't good for anyone using Oracle's Solaris.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JP8Y)
Laggy silicon at heart of broadband boxes lands gateway maker in court Cable modem maker Arris is facing a class-action suit over its handling of a lag-prone line of cable modems.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JP7M)
With Australians flocking to fast broadband, the digital divide's going to keep widening Nokia seems to believe in the future of fibre: it's run a test with nbn™ demonstrating next-generation passive optical networking (NG-PON) running at 10 Gbps.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2JP12)
NATO cybersecurity bods warn about transition to new protocol For all those sysadmins tired of having to make excuses for why they haven't moved to IPv6, worry no more: the new protocol brings with it the risk of network infiltration.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JNYW)
'Systemic compensation disparities against women across the entire workforce' Google is on the defensive after its gender pay equality campaign was panned in court by Uncle Sam.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2JNVT)
You decide! Poll Ajit Pai, chair of US comms watchdog the FCC, has unilaterally decided that no one wants to make cellphone calls on planes, and he killed off a 2013 proposal by the regulator to potentially allow them.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2JNNQ)
Not happy about online security being equated with restricting access to law enforcement The Internet Society has called for the full encryption of the internet, decrying the fact that securing the digital world has increasingly become associated with restricting access to law enforcement.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JNFW)
Kubernetes championing continues with gobble of orchestration specialist Microsoft has acquired Deis to provide better management tools for containers on the Azure cloud.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2JNE5)
City engineers stop attack by… yes, turning it off then on again Shortly before midnight on Friday in Dallas, Texas, the city's emergency sirens started to howl. Within minutes, all 156 of the sirens were blaring out and residents were starting to panic.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2JMRM)
Four more days of industrial action pencilled in The beleaguered rank-and-file at Fujitsu are downing tools this month over long-running proposals to chop jobs and the pension pot, Unite the union has revealed.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2JMGY)
Listen El Reg, our WW Spending Forecast is based on 'proven methodologies... not guesswork. OK?' Data druids at Gartner are defending their soothsaying abilities after being forced to halve global tech spending projections for 2017 because an expected slide in the value of the greenback didn’t materialise.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JMBP)
Climbs up Dot Hill to roll low-cost AFAs down into the market Seagate has introduced all-flash, all-disk, and hybrid flash/disk RealStor arrays.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2JM9W)
CyanogenNodSoMuch WileyFox is rowing its users away from the wreckage of the Cyanogen disaster, with some help from Ricardo Cerqueira, Cyanogen Inc’s former director of engineering.…
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Society is changing - we’ll show you why and how Society is changing before our eyes, and whether you think revolutionaries or robots are to blame, technology is often at the heart of the matter.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JM4J)
10x boost in processing performance apparently Storage startup Tachyum's co-founder Rado Danilak has blasted out a teaser tech alert saying the US is falling behind China in supercomputing. The implication being, of course, that his startup is coming to the rescue.…
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