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Can't be GDP-arsed with this anymore For a regulation designed to safeguard data processing, the forthcoming GDPR has already generated a surfeit of info. Somewhere in Europe sits a growing compliance mountain.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2WBFX)
Two-thirds of the time support is not disclosed, say campaigners A network of academics on Google's payroll just so happens to churn out "independent research" friendly to their sugar daddy's corporate goals. But two-thirds of the time you wouldn't know it, according to the Campaign for Accountability.…
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by Marcus Gibson on (#2WBES)
What? We have them. There's life outside the hype bubble Nothing brings a smile to the face of Sabine Toulson – co-founder in 1995 of Intelligent Financial Systems – faster than the notion that AI and its associated technologies are “something newâ€.…
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System has capacity for 150 million declarations – just 105 million short... Plans by HMRC to overhaul the clunky IT system underpinning £34bn in tax at the border may not be complete before Brexit, the government's spending watchdog has warned today.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WB9Y)
1941 German army crypto machine found in Romanian flea market A cryptography professor wandering through a Romanian flea market has turned a nice ROI on his €100 investment: €45,000.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2WBA0)
Developer promises not to force peeps to the cloud – which it says is way, way better The maker of password manager 1Password says it will not force its users to stop using private password vaults – as it sweeps this local storage functionality under the rug.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2WB85)
~650,000 machines still ship every day, but that's the lowest total since 2007 Analyst firms IDC and Gartner have emitted their quarterly assessments of the personal computer market, with both recording further sales slowdowns but also suggesting things could be worse.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2WB6J)
Like transportation, medicine is becoming more automated, for better or worse As drivers contemplate computer controlled cars, physicians get to ponder self-driven surgery tools.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WB6M)
'Fairhair' is *Yet Another Standards Alliance, but at least it cares about security A vendor collective pushing Internet of Things standardisation for commercial buildings has published its first set of specifications, and wonder-of-wonders the specs include security.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2WB49)
Shrinking spot looks like the Eye of Sauron NASA has released the first closeup images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the massive storm system that has been swirling on its surface for over 180 years.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2WB4B)
It's an open-source public cloud gateway in diguise Object storage slinger Scality has announced an open-source public cloud gateway and controller called Zenko.…
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by John Leyden on (#2WB1H)
Upstart exits stealth this week with 'reinvented' protections Edgewise Networks launched on Wednesday with a project to reengineer the firewall and make it suitable for cloud-based environments by moving beyond traditional address-centric controls.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2WB0J)
Holds up versus IBM, Oracle in benchmarks... whether it's worth the cost is another thing Weka.io claims its file storage device can scale out to billions of documents. Rather than rely on object storage to cope with this kind of data, you just need to reinvent the filer, which it reckons it has done.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WAZE)
Five months passed between notification and patch Smart-home controllers from German company AGFEO have adopted best practice internet things security by offering an unsecured Web admin interface.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2WAYE)
Travel co. says human error to blame for Australian mess, won't reveal numbers Human error at travel company Flight Centre has resulted in a leak of personal information, including data of customers' passports.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WAYG)
Patch flood includes fix for hard-coded creds and access-all-areas XSS firewall flaw Juniper Networks has released 22 patches and security notices.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2WAVE)
The good, the bad and the ugly parts of Redmond's white space internet Analysis On Tuesday, Microsoft announced it will pay third-party ISPs in the US to offer wireless broadband on unused TV spectrum, or "white space."…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WASK)
Supposed evidence of potent cracking powers actually reports well-known public documents The “how to crack mobile phones†tutorial posted by an Australian Taxation Office employee appears not, as widely reported, to be evidence that the agency has the ability to penetrate a wide range of devices.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2WAR4)
Final stepping stone to irrefutable fake news? Video Researchers have crafted algorithms that can blend an audio recording of someone talking with a video of them saying something else entirely – and create a new convincing lip-synched video with the replacement sound.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2WANF)
Sure, teach people it's OK to plug in random drives A US health insurer is taking heat for its decision to mail USB drives containing coverage information to businesses that offer its plans to employees.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2WANG)
Firm needs a new anti-harassment trainer after blowup Frank Artale, managing partner at Ignition Ventures, has resigned at the request of the board following multiple claims of inappropriate behavior.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2WAHT)
Dieu merci, nous n'avons pas mis en place un bureau à Paris, le grand fromage of ads sighed Google has narrowly avoided a massive €1.12bn ($1.28bn, £990m) back-tax bill for earnings in France, thanks to not setting up an office in Paris.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2WAHV)
TVs, phones, watches, you all get Sammy's bugs Samsung's Tizen appears to have more holes than a screen door, but the mobile operating system, which powers Samsung watches, TVs, and a few phones, may not be as disastrous as it seems.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2WAFS)
And, surprise, surprise, everyone's still baffled Analysis Remember that selfie of the grinning monkey way back in 2014?…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2WAB0)
Have we just reached Peak Register? Snap Inc is being sued by its shareholders who claim that executives misled investors about the value of SnapChat app maker ahead of its IPO earlier this year.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2WA8B)
US telco giant insists only infosec bods saw the info Updated Another day, another leaky Amazon S3 bucket. This time, one that exposed account records for roughly 14 million Verizon customers to anyone online curious enough to find it.…
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by John Leyden on (#2WA6A)
Katyusha scanner targets web servers with instant chat Hackers are touting a tool that allows any idiot with a smartphone to conveniently order up mass SQL injection attacks against websites.…
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by Team Register on (#2W9SG)
And: Anyone fancy a Phillips CM8833 mkii?
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2W9PS)
UK.gov pledges transparency in long-awaited response to data and consent reviews The NHS is to get a funding boost for cybersecurity measures, while the UK government has promised patients a digital service that lets them see who's accessed their health records.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2W9GH)
The curious case of the dog that didn’t bark Comment Entering the BBC today to talk about the net neutrality protests “supported by Amazon and Netflix and othersâ€, I had a dilemma. How in three minutes can you give viewers worldwide a perspective which conveys that the motivations are valid – American fixed-line broadband is pretty rubbish – but what we were witnessing was the most powerful multinationals in the world flexing their muscles, a show of corporate strength. In Europe these companies are regularly said to be more powerful than any nation state.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2W9GK)
Economies of scale, in reverse Slower purchases of the F-35 fighter jet have piled $27bn on top of the cost of buying the ridiculously expensive aircraft, according to reports.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2W9DF)
Who'll get all the hotties? Who'll mope in the corner thinking about EPYC? As expected when Intel processors power virtually all x86-class servers, the vendors all hopped on the Skylake Xeon SP party bus.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2W99Z)
Of double negatives, TSVs, TROs, BiCS and JVs Western Digital Corp has won a temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing its flash joint-venture partner Toshiba from impeding the shipment of engineering wafers and samples to WD in Milpitas, CA, as well as preventing it from blocking certain Western Dig employees from accessing shared databases.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2W971)
Look here, we're doing OK now, aren't we? It's the last set of results it'll post before its $8.8bn spin merge deal with HPE Software, and the UK's Micro Focus is keen to show it has a clean bill of health.…
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by John Leyden on (#2W956)
Mike Lynch-backed firm pushes unicorn status as demand soars Machine-learning enterprise-focused cybersec firm Darktrace has raised $75m in order to expand its sales operations into Latin America and Asia as it prepares for a possible IPO.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2W8ZZ)
Didn't manage to pull it off Adult toys and lingerie retailer Honey Birdette was today placed on the naughty step by egg-xacting watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority for mixing sex and religion in a promotion over Easter.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2W8X4)
Transport brainboxes urge UK.gov to keep eye on tech Tech and automotive firms are pushing driverless car technology on society, rather than there being a big demand for it, in the opinion of the Transport Research Laboratory's boffins.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2W8X6)
KEYone flagship crumbles under pressure BlackBerry Mobile reps have confirmed the manufacturing process for its KEYone flagship will be tweaked so the display doesn't pop out so easily.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2W8V5)
Showing Labour boss wasn't on 'ram-packed' train didn’t break law Virgin Trains did not break data protection laws when it released images of UK's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn during his supposedly "ram-packed" trip to Newcastle, the UK’s data protection watchdog has said.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2W8RR)
Citizen data can only be stored within the country Apple has announced plans to set up its first data centre as part of a $1bn investment in the Chinese province of Guizhou.…
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£60m spent so far and five years late The Ministry of Justice has been slammed by the government's spending watchdog for failing to achieve value for money on its controversial electronic monitoring programme.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2W8Q3)
Department must do more to attract sci and tech innovators The Ministry of Defence needs to stop reflexively demanding rights to its suppliers' intellectual property if it is to attract more private sector tech innovators, according to the Royal United Services Institute.…
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by Michael Allison on (#2W8M3)
A hard-won hit at five Difficult as it might be to comprehend, Microsoft has been shipping Surface for just under five years.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2W8JM)
But will Google and Facebook be good neighbours? Newspapers in Europe are closer to winning the right to ask Google and Facebook to remove or pay for the news story snippets they scrape for their free services – although there's nothing compelling Google (or anyone else) to actually do anything. The furore over "fake news" last year has helped sway MEPs.…
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by Wireless Watch on (#2W8G3)
Oh Mi goodness Nokia may be a spent force in smartphones since selling its devices business to Microsoft, but it still aims to be the power behind the throne of other vendors via its technology licensing programme.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2W8F2)
2014 MU69 is New Horizons' next stop and this is a way to get an early look NASA has flown a plane through shadow of Kuiper Belt object 6.6bn kilometres from Earth.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2W8DM)
ECMAScript 2017 addresses left-pad gate, alongside various improvements ECMAScript 2017, the latest edition of the specification upon which JavaScript is based, plugs a gap left by awkward extinction of some Node.js code last year.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2W8B6)
'Intel Xeon Scalable Processor' hailed as 'cornerstone for new platform' with servers customised for different roles Microsoft may have said ARM servers provide the most value for its cloud services back in March, but today it's given Intel's new Xeons a big ARM-less hug by revealing the hyperscale servers it uses in Azure are ready to roll with Chipzilla's latest silicon and will all use Chipzilla's field programmable gate arrays.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2W88Y)
Or you could buy two of the cheaper battery-pack keyboards for less than the wireless kit Dell has given the world its first wireless-charging laptop.…
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by Chris Williams on (#2W85C)
Inside Chipzilla's new security measures Deep dive Intel has taken its Skylake cores, attached some extra cache and vector processing stuff, throw in various other bits and pieces, and packaged them up as Xeon CPUs codenamed Purley.…
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