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by Peter White at Faultline on (#2FPT8)
We're coming to America Analysis In the end, after a year waiting for the service, BritFlix has become BritBox, an OTT service which the BBC promised a while back, as a follow-on to its failed global iPlayer initiative. This will have been stimulated by the relatively new relationship between AMC Networks and BBC Worldwide – effectively AMC said (to OTT): "Come on in, the water's fine".…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2FPR6)
It was supposed to be a 40,000-ton US supply ship on the day, though The Ministry of Defence has spent around £200m rebuilding a jetty at HM Naval Base Portsmouth ready for the arrival of HMS Queen Elizabeth later this year. El Reg got invited to watch an American supply ship test it out.…
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Might not be everyone's best option, but at least we're not going to Brussels Analysis When Ofcom announced it had finally reached a settlement with BT over the future of Openreach on Friday, you could practically hear the collective sigh of relief.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#2FPHX)
Efforts to engage women with STEM are useless if 'Bro culture' means they face years of harassment and frustration Over the last few years we’ve watched parents, educators and mentors everywhere working hard to get women into science, technology engineering and maths careers. Those efforts are succeeding: the number of women going studying engineering at the tertiary level has begun to arc upward. This is a good thing.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2FPH8)
Real-time video search for weapons looking possible Artificial intelligence has the potential to take over mundane, boring tasks such as driving, scheduling meetings and transcribing speech. Now there's another job that can be added to the list: detecting handguns in videos.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2FPFR)
Visa paperwork is due April 1, but Sean Spicer says visa needs 'comprehensive look' United States president Donald Trump appears to have gone slow on his campaign pledge to reform H-1B visas, the category of working visa that tech firms often use to bring skilled workers to America.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2FPD4)
Boffins demo withholding attack that could work on one ASIC and make an Evil Genius™ rich Bitcoin's reward mechanism is based on publishing a solution to the block chain. What if an Evil Genius™ reversed this, and rewarded miners for withholding their solutions?…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2FPCB)
Microsoft's also advancing code cleanup tool DevSkim Repo Roundup Welcome again to Repo Roundup, in which The Reg trawls online code repositories to let you know about the fun, the useful or the inexplicable.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2FP63)
Tax office tight-lipped about what it's just patched Canada's taxman has restored online services it took down over the weekend to respond to unspecified vulnerabilities.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2FP0G)
Linux 4.11 rc 2 is out, but not until after a little terse instruction on how to contribute Linux kernel developers have again given Linus Torvalds cause for complaint.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2FNVS)
CommVault and Veeam both sign up in a week, which Cisco says is a total co-incidence Cisco's pals are excited that The Borg has signed them up for new data protection bundles.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2FNNV)
Submission on extending metadata access proposes making lawyers aware of costs before they subpoena Telstra has put a new wrinkle on Australia's simmering data retention debate by suggesting that it charges for access to retained telecommunications sought by civil litigants.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2FNKZ)
Handsets leave the factory clean, then get dragged through the mud before they reach you Smartphones from Samsung, LG, Xiaomi, ZTE, Oppo, Vivo, Asus and Lenovo have been spotted sporting malware they apparently carried when they were shipped.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2FNJX)
Five-year plan proposes to explain why you're seeing that ad and the fake news it leads to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has penned a 28th-birthday letter for his creation in which he identifies three trends he thinks are harming the web, and explains how the Web Foundation that he heads will seek to implement his ideas.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2FHDS)
Document hoarding 'must be deterred for the sake of intelligence community' Mohan Nirala, 52, a former employee of the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, received a prison sentence of 12 months and a day on Friday for storing national defense information in violation of the law.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2FH5X)
Industrial bot builders, installers, maintainers blamed for horrific accident The family of a repair technician killed in an auto parts factory accident is suing five robotics companies they say are responsible.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2FGZR)
If you're using an 8-character password, you may just as well not bother Jeff Atwood, founder of the popular coding site Stack Overflow, has published an extended and entertaining rant about the lamentable state of password policy among developers.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2FG1D)
DHS report shows the limits of bonkers budget-busting plan The US Department of Homeland Security used software to scan social media accounts of people visiting America, but it didn't work properly.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2FFVW)
Light touch regulation philosophy runs up against political reality Analysis The ideological goal of "light touch regulation" as proposed by the new head of the US FCC has hit a barrier: cybersecurity.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2FFQR)
Give us your genes or pay 50% more for company healthcare Amid the attention on the new US administration's healthcare plan, a law has been proposed that would force employees to hand over their genetic information if they want company health insurance.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2FFP2)
Apple-championed lingo climbs over Perl, Ruby, assembly code In March, the Swift programming language rose to became the 10th most popular, at least by the measure of TIOBE Software.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2FFK4)
Switch to 3.5-inch disks for bulk capacity sealed engineers' fate Seagate is closing a design center in South Korea, according to its 8-K homework submitted to US financial watchdog, the SEC.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2FFEV)
Oculus CTO asks Judge Boyle to wield her BFG (big f'ing gavel) in contract dispute Wizard programmer John Carmack is suing his former employer ZeniMax alleging $22.5m in unpaid stock options.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2FFBF)
Das Auto be the end of it, says car maker as it coughs up billions in fines Volkswagen today pled guilty in a Detroit, Michigan, court to scamming the American public through its "Dieselgate" vehicle emissions test cheating.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2FF61)
Video success numbers will be scrutinized by outside outfit After successive scandals in which Facebook was found to be diddling its ad numbers, the social network will let a third party vet its stats.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2FEJ0)
High turnover in Big Blue staff contributes IBM has been accused of fraud for under-delivering an over-budget IT upgrade to Pennsylvania's unemployment compensation systems.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2FEFK)
Astrophysicists handily crunch travelling aliens numbers just in time for Friday pub chat Astrophysicists think that mysterious short millisecond-long blip of radiation may be distant aliens powering up their sailcraft. Over 20 such FRBs (fast radio bursts) have been detected since 2007.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2FEBR)
Who nodes what'll actually be in it, though Backgrounder SolidFire boss Dave Wright talked with El Reg and discussed the vendor's upcoming hyper-converged system based on its own nodes.…
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by David Gordon on (#2FE7F)
Scalable agility Promo Infrastructure as a Service can make your computing operations more scalable and agile. It may also be the first step to something larger.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2FE3R)
Startup promises permissioned Blockchain-validated truth database Analysis Startup Gospel Technology is evangelising the use of Blockchain to secure and verify sharable data.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2FDY4)
What on Earth is the 'innovation' field? Exclusive Silicon Valley has pushed back hard against Europe’s copyright reforms in the forthcoming response from the European Parliament’s rapporteur, a full draft of which has been seen by The Register.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2FDWQ)
Cattle farmers going through one cartridge evey ten months bullied into buying 2040 of 'em A tribunal has found cold calling salespeople to have illegally bullied a farming couple in Australia into purchasing 2,040 printer ink cartridges.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2FDMP)
His own, that is... Following the heat of a courtroom battle a lawyer defending an alleged arsonist was reportedly forced to flee proceedings temporarily after his own pants* caught fire.…
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by Team Register on (#2FDHP)
Early bird tickets finish on Sunday Events It’s just a few days till we pull down the shutters on our Early Bird offer for Continuous Lifecycle London, our three-day spectacular spanning the best in DevOps, Containers, Agile and Continuous Delivery.…
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Male bunnies simulating sex acts on him in carnival A Spanish priest who dressed up as Hugh Hefner – flanked by two men in Playboy bunny outfits – as he rode a float at carnival in the Galician town of Cuntis, has been forced to apologise.…
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by John Leyden on (#2FDFD)
Patch, patch .. attention snatch WikiLeaks has promised to release software code of CIA hacking tools to tech firms.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#2FDD1)
Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow Something for the Weekend, Sir? My ring smarts.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#2FDAV)
Preparing for the Internet of Things Germany's federal government plans to roll out a gigabit internet service across Germany by 2025, through a government and private consortium known as Netzallianz Digitales Deutschland.…
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by Rachel Willcox on (#2FD9H)
Forget computer vision and AI – why Ocado's on the money Predictions are rife about the millions of repetitive, administrative and operative roles set to be decimated by automation over the coming years.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2FD7P)
Cracks early April Fool's Day joke...but changes really ARE due 1st of next month Exclusive An April Fool's Day joke has come early for Vodafone teleworkers, who are facing a clampdown on their own flexible working conditions from the start of next month.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2FD5V)
Smaller than Optane, but faster and perhaps a bit immortal too Non-volatile memory outfit Everspin's popped some of its Spin Torque MRAM onto a PCIe card in the hope system builders get excited about a new tier of memory. Or is it a new tier of storage?…
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'We have listened to criticism of our business,' says chief exec Gavin Patterson Former state monopoly BT has finally agreed to regulator Ofcom's plans for a legal separation of its broadband division Openreach.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2FD3B)
Ad-slinger pushes its very own version of Lambda, opens YouTube and AdWords data hose Google Next '17 Google has rolled out a slew of new additions to its Cloud platform, including public release of the Cloud Functions serverless code set.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2FD2K)
Same worker also thought Excel was a great app for making art ON-CALL Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's Friday foray into a mailbag stuffed full of readers' recollections of being asked to fix things that should never have broken.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2FD0J)
Cybercrime even has its own religion in Ghana Spoofed email and malware hidden in attachments netted crooks in West Africa more than $3bn in three years from businesses.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2FCZ2)
Nah, trust us, there is something to this Google-stablemate DeepMind is creating a blockchain-like system to show how sensitive medical data passing through its processors will be used, allowing healthcare professionals to check if data has been tampered with.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2FCVQ)
Wild boars in empty towns are nastily radioactive, but sadly remain normal size and lack atomic breath Radioactive wild boars have become a problem in the evacuation zone around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2FCTM)
Image archive torn offline after we raise alarm Next Tuesday, US Senators will hold a special hearing into America's ongoing military sex scandal. Archives of compromising snaps of female US Marine Corps fighters are being shared online, and the Senate Armed Services Committee wants answers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2FCJ7)
Special Rapporteur calls for privacy as a right, but also for International Data Warrants The United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy has heavily criticised new surveillance laws in France, Germany, the UK and the USA, saying they are “predicated on the … disproportionate though understandable fear that electorates may have in the face of the threat of terrorism†but are informed by “little or no evidence†of their “efficacy or … proportionalityâ€.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2FCCY)
DR upstart's board adds chap with data loss experience: Yahoo! CFO Ken Goldman Nutanix users protecting their data with Zerto software need to pay close attention to the latter's recently-released 5.0U2 as it fixes a problem that could cause data corruption.…
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