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by Rebecca Hill on (#2Y5C2)
🎶 It's the circle of life 🎶 PayPal has invested in e-commerce tech firm Cloud IQ as part of the upstart's latest £4m funding round.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2Y596)
Granddaddy celebrates one score and 15 years of inbox-filling antics This month marks the 35th anniversary of the sign-off of RFC 821, the first definition of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, that everyday staple of email comms.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2Y540)
Situation is 'very different' to San Bernadino case Apple boss Tim Cook has said that his company would "rather not" remove apps from its store – but has to comply with the law in China.…
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Online anyway The Telegraph newspaper accidentally published an obit of the Duke of Edinburgh, instead of reporting his retirement from official duty today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2Y51V)
No word where he's headed yet Bill Lipsin, NetApp's VP for global channels, is leaving the company.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2Y4YA)
Behind the scenes of infosec's cat-and-mouse game Feature The magic AI wand has been waved over language translation, and voice and image recognition, and now: computer security.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2Y4YC)
Flying from London? Add a few hours on for good measure British Airways is getting its grovelling in early after a systems crash caused chaos at Heathrow and Gatwick airports earlier this morning.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#2Y4WW)
'Just switch it on and watch it connect.' Yeah, right The great thing about standards is that there are always so many to choose from. We've seen the standards forest grow countless times before. The Internet of Things is a vast digital petri dish for them, and they just keep growing.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2Y4SP)
Yes, again. Sony - thank you for the tape you gave to me IBM has claimed its fifth-in-succession world tape density record with a 330TB raw capacity technology using Sony tape media tech.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2Y4RG)
Kids Pass tries to explain why it gave folks reporting the security hole the virtual middle finger A UK web biz has been slammed for blocking people on Twitter just for reporting a security vulnerability that potentially leaked people's contact details.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y4ND)
Mozilla spins share 'n' synch as Google spins its own virtues Google and Mozilla have each revealed significant new features in their respective browsers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2Y4NF)
In Germany, at least, you're gonna have to get your jollies some other way Installing keylogging software on your employees' computers and using what you find to fire them is not OK, a German court has decided.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2Y4J4)
It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere ... I'm all alone NASA scientists have dashed hopes that Proxima Centauri b, an Earth-ish-like planet orbiting the closest star to the Sun, could be habitable.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2Y4J6)
You'll be blinded by science, literally, if you put on fake glasses, boffins warn The American Astronomical Society has warned that knockoff viewing glasses for this month's total solar eclipse will blind people if they wear them while looking up at the spectacle.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2Y4ET)
Top tip: Don't fetch and install dodgy Flash updates from random websites A new breed of Android malware is picking off mobile banking customers, particularly those in the UK and Germany, we're told.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y4DA)
Optane's great as memory, says Big Blue, but we can't do that yet IBM's made good on its promise to fire up a cloud packing Intel's Optane non-volatile memory “in the second half of 2017.†But Big Blue has fallen short of the “broad services suite†it foreshadowed and can't even put Optane to work as memory.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y46B)
'Earn up to 90% in less than an hour' apps binned, Apple vows they won't return Apple and Google have pulled options trading programs from their respective app stores after being asked to do so by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC).…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y41E)
If you fancy something more profitable, Oracle's cloudy cross-seller predicts your tastes Oracle's fired up a cloud service that it says can automate and refine the question of whether you'd you'd like fries with that when ordering food at a restaurant.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2Y3Y2)
Get it? Put the drinks on my tab? Haha, ah. What a wild ride life is Apple is crediting a resurgence in its education programs and school sales in helping to drive up iPad sales to its first gains since 2014.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2Y3WC)
We all want totally secure gear. And flying cars. And $1m. And... After years of warnings about the parlous state of Internet of Sh!t security, the US Senate has finally introduced legislation on the matter.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y3TD)
Final liquidators' meeting to wrap up billionaire boys fun phone adventure Infamous Australian telco One.Tel is finally being read its last rites. The Register understands that the the final meeting of members and creditors will take place in August and it is expected that regulators will erase the company from their registers three months later.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2Y3TF)
Far be it from us to lecture journos on overreacting but cripes – calm down If you thought artificial intelligence was already overhyped to death, this week will have given you a heart attack.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2Y3KW)
Fake quotes linked DNC staffer to Wikileaks to divert attention from Russia, it is claimed To obscure Russia's role in the 2016 election, the Trump administration collaborated with Fox News to fabricate news about the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, according to a defamation and discrimination lawsuit filed on Tuesday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2Y3KX)
US comms giant denies buyout rumors, says it prefers Verizon for the time being US cable monster Charter Communications says it has no interest in acquiring mobile carrier Sprint – at least for the time being.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2Y3GG)
Magical thinking meets willful ignorance at closed meeting Analysis UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd kicked off a firestorm in the tech community Tuesday when she argued that "real people" don't need or use end-to-end encryption.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2Y39C)
Toshiba pulls plug on reactor construction, uranium becomes u-ran-out-of-cash Energy companies in the US have cancelled plans to build a pair of nuclear power plants – after Toshiba's Westinghouse Electric Company collapsed.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2Y36K)
Bitcoin Cash is the New Coke of cryptocurrency Bitcoin split into two separate currencies on Tuesday because part of the Bitcoin community isn't happy with recent and planned changes to the code that controls the cryptocurrency.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2Y31H)
v5.0 combines end-to-end data protection and big data storage Secondary storage consolidation player Cohesity has fulfilled a long-term promise and added archive-accessing workload support for Big Data analytics.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2Y31K)
Undulating propulsion system makes waves, useful for amphibious missions Feature In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Paul Revere's Ride," light from lanterns served to signal how British troops would arrive at the start of the American Revolutionary War: One if by land, two if by sea.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2Y2PY)
Replication tech integrated with data truck - yes an actual truck... WANdisco is integrating its Fusion product with Amazon's Snowball product, which moves massive amounts of data to its public cloud.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2Y2EF)
Firm now tackles smaller crises alongside disaster recovery Databarracks has started offering business continuity as a service (BCaaS) to small and medium-sized businesses in the UK.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2Y2EG)
Usage up 0.08% while Windows 10 continues to win converts Windows 10 adoption keeps rising and Windows 8 usage continues to fall, StatCounter confirmed in its latest monthly worldwide traffic sniff to discern who's using which desktop operating system.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#2Y24H)
Isolation-based security is getting important Sysadmin blog Do you remember Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and so forth? It's marketing terminology that was popular at the turn of the millennium and was as used and abused as "cloud" is today. Underneath all the fluff, however, were solid and reasoned ideas about how technology would evolve and the benefits they'd bring.…
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Networking biz forks out for loss-making outfit Comms and networking integrator Maintel has snapped up Merseyside-based reseller Intrinsic Technology for £5.2m.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2Y1Y0)
Bewilderingly, algo-crafting boffins fail to reference Reg standards Academic research is always best when it confirms your preconceptions, and a pair of data scientists from Lawrence Technological University have done just that.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2Y1RP)
Don't take our name in vain, DJI veep tells trade union Drone manufacturer DJI has publicly challenged a pilots' union to release the disputed results of an aircraft collision study it sponsored.…
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With a knick knack, piggyback, throw broadband folks a bone In its on-going efforts to break Blighty's broadband dependence on BT, regulator Ofcom has today proposed a cap on Openreach's rental charges for smaller providers accessing its ducts and poles.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2Y1KW)
'Substantial upfront cash payment' from licensing spat Apple has handed over a cool €1.7bn (£1.5bn) cash payment to Nokia following an intellectual property dispute with the Finnish firm.…
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Wants to hand out £40m from £200m full-fibre investment pot The government is to begin trialling a gigabit voucher scheme with small businesses in autumn, according to proposals seen by The Register.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2Y1E3)
Jailbreak it the official way, kids... Review Student debt in the United States now stands at $1.2 trillion. In the UK outstanding student loans top £100 billion. Microsoft has made an fascinating contribution to the student debt crisis, by attempting to increase it.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2Y1CN)
Heard about this, Cray? DDN says it will provide support to stranded ClusterStor customers following Seagate’s product line shutdown - only they are not stranded.…
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by Sonia Cuff on (#2Y1BB)
Wait, come back. There are some... good bits, promise Skype revolutionised IP-based video calling to such an extent it became a verb, much like Google. This largely consumer technology went pro in 2011 when Microsoft bought the firm for $8.5bn.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y18B)
Backpack PC aimed at designers who move between metaphorical mice and VR HP Inc has released a backpack PC for the office.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2Y16H)
Telematics torched in BMWs, Infinitis, Nissan Leaf and some Fords A bunch of mid-age Ford, Infiniti, Nissan and BMW vehicles are carrying around a vulnerable chipset from Infineon that America's ICS-CERT reckons is easy to exploit.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y13C)
Stallman says ZFS-on-Linux is impossible ... now Red Hat has dedupe without GNU legals Red Hat has acquired “the assets and technology of Permabit Technology Corporationâ€, a data-shrinking concern, for an undisclosed sum.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2Y10H)
Room-temperature single-photon-emitter boosts conventional networks Single-photon emitters aren't a new thing in physics labs, but they usually require liquid-helium-chilled freezers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y0YG)
Attackers can look legit while hitting APIs that make the most work for an app Netflix has identified denial of service threat to microservices architectures that it's labelled “application DDOSâ€.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y0SZ)
Prank prompts 'vinyl sounds so much better than toys' debate Canadian indie outfit Arcade Fire has released an album on a USB-flash-drive-packing fidget spinner.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2Y0RH)
38 lines of code later, you're owned. Good thing the fix is in, eh? McAfee has moved to patch a bug that falls under the “didn’t you get the memo?†category: among other things, its free Security Scan Plus online tool retrieved information over HTTP – that is, in plain text.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2Y0KG)
Facebook hits the acqui-hire button to boost its instant-messaging assistant Facebook has acquired Ozlo presumably to help the gigantic social network improve its virtual assistant M on its Messenger platform.…
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