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by John Leyden on (#31J6F)
A Wordpress site? Really? Credit reference agency Equifax has been criticised for its breach response in the wake of the disclosure on Thursday of a megahack that affected the data of up to 143 million people in the US alone.…
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Judge mulls whether to dismiss suit after ITC ruling Arista Networks has called its long-running patent dispute with Cisco "breathtakingly broad, unprecedented and insane" in a hearing regarding an antitrust suit against Switchzilla.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#31J10)
Motorolaesque panic buy? Not really Google is set to relieve HTC of its mobile phones unit, according to a report in Taiwan's Commercial Times, leaving the company to focus on its Vive VR helmet.…
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HSBC biz banking crypto: The case of the vanishing green padlock and... what domain are we on again?
by John Leyden on (#31HZ2)
8-char password limits? HTTP-YES HSBC has been faulted for redirecting business customers to a website that is not obviously secure.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#31HX6)
Someone's noticed Big Blue’s deal with Hortonworks Big data company Cloudera has acquired an artificial intelligence research firm in a bid to expand its machine learning offering and get customers to part with more of their cash.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#31HQW)
Bare-bones offerings from AmAzureGoog don't compute Huawei is delivering an enterprise storage service in its public cloud to which enterprises can transfer mission-critical apps from on-premises without changing their applications or processes at all.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#31HPD)
Every $1 of sales costs array supplier $1.50 +Comment Hybrid and all-flash array supplier Tintri is haemorrhaging cash – the latest quarterly results show every $1 of sales costs it $1.50. And its been getting worse. In the previous quarter $1 of sales cost it $1.01.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#31HMP)
JBOF ... or perhaps you'd prefer to look into a Barreleye Analysis Will NVMe over Fabrics nuke the storage array into a JBOF winter or will array technology extend itself into new combinations of compute controllers, media and network links? Huawei has both technology strands in development with a high density 1U JBOF and a 4U x 16-blade Barreleye system.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#31HK5)
If someone filmed it, it must be real Something for the Weekend, Sir? I'm on deadline for two concurrent articles and another client has asked me to rebuild their app with a new welcome screen by tomorrow morning, which is also when I shall be training a classroom of delegates how to use spectrophotometers to create custom-calibrated ICC profiles.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#31HGB)
Package management client hits 1.0 Facebook, known for telling tales about about users it doesn't have, has spun another sort of yarn.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#31HGC)
Desktop team cleans up mess created by developers, and doctors confused by disks On-Call Welcome agin to On-Call, The Register's weekly column in which we share readers' stories of being asked to achieve the improbable, by people who are impossible.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#31HGE)
Servers, switches, PCs all did well, but traditional arrays left a nasty balance sheet stain Weakness in traditional disk array sales held Dell Technologies back as it posted otherwise solid results for the second quarter of its FY 2018, the numbers for which were released a year on from the formal conclusion of its EMC acquisition.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#31HGF)
One language called Ansible to rule them all While tech luminaries fret about the world-killing potential of self-directed computers amid galas and globetrotting, the industry's worker bees see automation as salvation from soul-killing drudgery.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#31HGH)
South Park doing what it does best: making you laugh, uncomfortably Science fiction author John Scalzi once wrote that “In the role playing game known as The Real World, 'Straight White Male' is the lowest difficulty setting there is.â€â€¦
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by Katyanna Quach on (#31H9W)
Did, did these bio-boffins just sass us? A team of scientists has proposed a new classification system that grades how advanced alien civilizations are by examining how an exoplanet uses energy.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#31H11)
New collaboration tool is 'recommended upgrade' to HipChat, beats it on price Atlassian has decided HipChat is terminally un-hip and created a new product with which to take on Slack in the messaging-with-benefits market.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#31GZ6)
Registrar put crucial domains in limbo. Is that good enough for a big cloud? IBM's cloudy global load balancer and reverse DNS services have been impacted by a DNS mess inflicted on Big Blue by a domain name registrar.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#31GTM)
Future robocars will not need steering wheels or brake pedals A draft US law that will let self-driving cars potentially swerve mandatory vehicle safety requirements has raced through the House of Reps.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#31GPG)
Grow up, dweebs – this won't break the internet, says Big Red A looming battle over corporate social responsibility on the internet has taken an interesting turn. Oracle has backed a proposed US law that will penalize the operators of sex-trafficking websites.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#31GGM)
143m in US, unknown number in UK, Canada – gulp! Vid Global credit reporting agency Equifax admitted today it suffered a massive breach of security that could affect almost half of the US population.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#31GGP)
Android 8.0 bug runs internet traffic over LTE rather than Wi-Fi The latest version of Android, version 8.0 aka Oreo, contains an unfortunate bug that causes phones to burn through their monthly mobile data allowances.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#31GBH)
Air Force picks Florida as new center for mini-shuttle Video SpaceX today successfully launched the US Air Force's secretive mini-space-shuttle X-37B from the biz's launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral, Florida.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#31G8Y)
No, it's not because they have Trump-pee-tapes Analysis When Edward Snowden revealed the extent of illegal operations carried out by American spy agencies, many wondered whether the US Congress was either unaware or had simply turned a blind eye toward them.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#31G6F)
Hey Jeff, do you know the way to San Jose? Or, er, Austin? Amazon has gone full "The Bachelor" in its search for a city to host a second corporate headquarters.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#31G3P)
To be fair, the kid is only 13 A teenage tearaway with a passion for building botnets was apparently caught using the same Skype ID he used for hacking activities when applying for jobs.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#31FYY)
Security tool slated for Creators Update promises to rat on misbehaving apps, bad staff Microsoft says its upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update will include new capabilities in the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection security suite.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#31F82)
Thousands unable to load app or access and sync files Many users are experiencing disruption with Google Drive cloud storage and file backup today.…
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by John Leyden on (#31F83)
White-hats warn voteware kaput weeks ahead of Bundestag poll Software used in Germany for vote counting is insecure, according to research by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC).…
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Who needs sunlight when you've got Netflix? Scottish pensioners are up in arms that Virgin Media has had the audacity to build a huge cabinet outside their homes in East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, which is reported to be blocking their light.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#31EQQ)
Their data slurp laws don’t comply with human rights – watchdog Most EU member states’ rules on data retention do not comply with fundamental human rights, according to a survey by civil rights campaign group Privacy International.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#31EJQ)
Says hi to the Next global sales chief in radical biz overhaul Exclusive The first implementation of a planned major reorg at Hewlett Packard Enterprise was outlined last night with a new chief sales officer named and the heads of the Americas and EMEA ops confirmed as exiting the business.…
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by Team Register on (#31EJS)
But hurry – MCubed tickets are moving fast Reg Events If you want to get a grip on what machine learning and AI can do for your business – and what it can't – you should really join us in London next month for MCubed.…
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But experts reckon Blighty's still in the slow lane The government has today unveiled a "co-ordination hub" to test driverless cars under its £100m Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) investment programme.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#31ECZ)
All we want is life beyond the iPhoneDome… Huawei surpassed Apple for two months running this summer to be the world’s no 2 phone brand by volume behind Samsung, according to box counters Counterpoint Research.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#31EB9)
And what does this mean for competition case law? Analysis The European Court of Justice's ping-ponging of Intel's billion-euro EU antitrust suit appeal might mark an evolution of rebate-based competition case law, legal eagles have said.…
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by John Leyden on (#31E8N)
Registrar finally plugs web address hijacking vulnerability Thousands of UK companies were at risk of having their .uk domain names stolen for more than four months by a critical security failure at domain registrar Enom.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#31E78)
Lots of lovely data, less of lovely privacy Opinion A smart city is, inherently, a surveillance city, and citizens' privacy could potentially be the cost of the efficiency gains.…
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by Nicole Segre on (#31E5T)
Stay ahead of the latest ploys Promo Ransomware has become one of the most damaging threats on the internet. In recent years viruses have proliferated, spreading through spam emails and off-the-shelf malware kits that even criminals with minimal IT expertise can use to hijack and encrypt data, then demand a ransom to unlock it.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#31E47)
Need a few air-gapped apps on one screen? Here's how Researchers at Australian think tank Data61 and the nation's Defence Science and Technology Group have cooked up application publishing for the paranoid, by baking an ARM CPU and secure microkernel into a KVM switch.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#31E49)
Probe skipped past Pluto by 12,500km, so this rock needs to prepare for its close-up If we're not all too hungover when New Year's Day 2019 rolls around, NASA will hopefully have a fun set of photos to show us because on that day New Horizons probe has been told to go within just 3,500km of Kuiper Belt Object MU69.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#31E1P)
Fake accounts bought nasty spots about guns and race Facebook has 'fessed up to taking “approximately $100,000 in ad spending†from 470 fake accounts connected to Russia and which published spots “amplifying divisive social and political messagesâ€.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#31E1R)
Flipper heck! Voice control is all the rage these days, but a team of Chinese researchers has come up with a way to subvert such systems by taking a trick from the natural world.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#31DWR)
Please pass the paperwork Qualcomm would like to spend around US$39 billion to acquire NXP Semiconductors, but the European Commission is taking its sweet time over its approval for the takeover.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#31DV0)
So Mozilla's going to give them their very own Tab, perhaps ahead of opt-out slurping Fewer than one per cent of users installing the Firefox browser bother to read the fine print regarding privacy, so the browser's makers at the Mozilla Foundation are going to put it in your face.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#31DQF)
Tells Cisco's Talos it's a feature, not a bug. Apple and Google disasgree and fixed it Which of Google, Apple and Microsoft think a content security bypass doesn't warrant a browser patch?…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#31DJY)
WebUSB, WebShare, JavaScript Modules and more due any day now Google has wrapped up coding the desktop version of Chrome 61, and will be rolling it out for Windows, Mac and Linux “over the coming days/weeksâ€.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#31DHM)
Libel lawsuit bounces A US district judge has dismissed the libel lawsuit entrepreneur Shiva Ayyadurai filed against bloggers who rubbished his claims he invented email.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#31DEG)
Wage rows in limbo as IT giant drags heels over arbitrartion A former Oracle sales rep seeking to resolve a pay dispute has asked a California court to force the company to participate in arbitration over all wage claims against the database giant.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#31D4Z)
Astroboffins predict cosmic collision for ice giant Four of the 27 moons orbiting Uranus are on a collision course and will smash into each other, creating new rings around the distant ice giant.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#31DJZ)
Astroboffins predict cosmic collision for ice giant Four of the 27 moons orbiting Uranus are on a collision course and will smash into each other, creating new rings around the distant ice giant.…
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