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by Iain Thomson on (#2B5T5)
Implementation, however, may take some time Usenix Enigma 2017 Data center managers should take some tips from the US Secret Service when protecting vital servers from hackers, says someone who has been through a White House lockdown.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2B5PD)
And restored itself. But the code locker lost about six hours of data for 707 users GitLab.com, the wannabe GitHub alternative that yesterday went down hard and reported data loss, has confirmed that some data is gone but that its services are now operational again.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#2B5M8)
Security outfit Zimperium wants to sell info on vintage Android and iOS exploits Security firm Zimperium will spend US$1.5 million buying hacks targeting flaws in three-year-old Android KitKat and ancient versions of iOS.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2B5HW)
Spinning rust for desktops-as-a-service is soooooo 2016 Amazon Web Services has found another way to make its “Workspaces†desktop-as-a-service offering more attractive: as of today the cloudy Windows instances run on solid state disks instead of ye olde spinning rust hard disks.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2B5B3)
Citius, altius, fortius, recyclius The organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 Summer and Paralympic games has announced that medals at the games will be made from recycled electronics.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#2B56X)
CMS sultan decided you'd be happier not knowing you were ever in danger Last week's WordPress patch run fixed a then-secret zero day bug that let remote unauthorised hackers edit or delete WordPress pages.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2B532)
President Bannon can't turn off the Internet, but he'll give it a damn good try The United States' temporary ban on seven nations' citizens seeking to walk on it soil has wrung a rare almost-political statement out of the Internet Engineering Task Force.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2B4ZS)
But he's keen on a technology-agnostic NBN energy policy with lots of coal in it Listen closely and you'll hear the tears of hipster app creators, angel investors and "Silicon Beach" real-estate speculators weeping that Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, once such folks' champions, appears now to be ignoring them.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2B4X5)
Remote unauthenticated control over a vulnerable ISP's gear Cisco is advising ISPs and other service providers using its Prime Home system to install a security update immediately – to squash a serious remote execution bug.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2B4X7)
Snitches get stitches A man has been indicted on arson and insurance fraud charges after police got hold of readings from his pacemaker that called his alibi into question.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2B4TB)
Cook bakes up another Chipzilla-free component for fruity computers – report Apple is believed to be developing another ARM-based processor that will challenge Intel hardware in its Mac line.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2B4QJ)
ZeniMax prevails in court fight over broken agreement Game maker ZeniMax has been awarded $500 million in its lawsuit against Facebook-owned VR firm Oculus.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2B4DY)
Humans in self-driving cars hit panic button far less in 2016 Self-driving cars may actually learn how to drive well enough to be deployed without human oversight some day, legislation and society permitting.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2B473)
President's executive order causes jitters, but data agreement became law today The transatlantic Privacy Shield data transfer agreement is not at risk from Trump's executive actions, former FTC Commissioner Julie Brill has promised.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2B41Q)
Big Apple goes to court on claims it– BUFFERING (0%) New York's Attorney General is suing cable giant Charter on claims of false advertising of its internet speeds.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2B3ED)
Shrunken A700 all-flash array wins top-3 benchmark result NetApp has launched two new all-flash FAS arrays, won a top 3 SPC-1 storage benchmark result, and announced a new flash capacity guarantee programme.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2B36D)
Blogger/influencer/sometime Reg commentator joins OpenIO OpenIO, an object storage startup, has recruited Enrico Signoretti as its head of product strategy.…
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by Team Register on (#2B310)
It was a real eye-opener
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by Chris Mellor on (#2B2XE)
Word to your motherboard Comment Supermicro will have more Skylake CPU server motherboard products out faster than competitors because its engineering smarts better equip it for Skylake fastening complexities.…
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Tell us what you think of All-Flash Arrays and the people who sell them Study All-Flash Arrays were one of the hottest themes on the pages of The Reg during 2016, so we want to dig deep into your knowledge and experience with these systems to get the details.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2B2RJ)
Yep, $497m smackeroos... Yes, net Industry execs are paid to put on a brave face when outlining company financials, and AMD’s CEO Lisa Su kept up her end of the bargain last night when the broken business reported a net loss of $497m for 2016.…
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by John Leyden on (#2B2RK)
2.5 million account details potentially exposed The personal details of 2.5 million gamers have been leaked following a breach of unofficial Xbox 360 and PSP forums.…
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by Clodagh Doyle on (#2B2NE)
Better sleep means better bedroom action for women over 50 Older women getting their full quota of kip are far more likely to be getting a full quota of other types of bedroom action too, research by the North American Menopause Society has shown.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2B2KM)
Adds smaller-scale options too Cisco's Tetration telemetry analytics has had six months since launch to bed down so Switchzilla has decided it's time for a refresh.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2B2G5)
Cook talks up HomeKit and enterprise Analysis Apple’s main job in earnings conferences is to remind us that there’s more to the world’s most valuable company than the iPhone – while persuading us that the iPhone is doing really jolly well. The iPhone generates almost two-thirds of Apple’s wealth.…
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Brendan Barber appointment part of BT's plans to rebuild 'credibility' Openreach has appointed former general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Sir Brendan Barber to its independent board.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2B2BZ)
NGO creates 'internet censor' job advertisements in protest Digital Economy Bill Government proposals to force websites serving up adult content to verify users' ages has been criticised as an "unworkable proposal" by Open Rights Group, which today launched a spoof recruitment campaign to raise awareness of the Digital Economy Bill.…
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by John Leyden on (#2B2C0)
But someone using his email says otherwise Spanish cops investigating an attack on a Catalan police union last May have arrested three suspects, including a hacker alleged to be behind high-profile attacks against spyware-for-cops firms Hacking Team and Gamma International.…
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Hospitals advised to use Bing instead Exclusive Google is blocking access to the entire NHS network, mistaking the amount of traffic it is currently receiving as a cyber attack.…
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by Marcus Gibson on (#2B276)
Sorry, Theresa May. Graphene and 'space' are not Britain's industrial future Rarely has a report on industrial strategy, unveiled by the Prime Minister Theresa May at the Sci-Tech Daresbury centre in the North West on January 23 contained so little about industry.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2B25M)
Grid bondage puts admins in charge Slack, the four-year-old team chat service that owes its popularity to email's shortcomings and some smart design decisions, has rolled out a version of the service for large organizations.…
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by Team Register on (#2B22Y)
PC vendors continue to slide as mobile tightens grasp on market Samsung overtook Apple in Gartner's "total addressable semiconductor" market.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2B21D)
Haughty minister tries brushing it off as pedantry Defence chiefs have confessed that the 70,000-ton aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth’s delivery date is getting later and later – with one Tory minister openly mocking an MP who asked a straight question.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#2B209)
I promise I've been a good boy this year Sysadmin Blog I yell at Microsoft a lot. It's cathartic. Microsoft make several decent pieces of software and quite a few great cloud services, but for every awesome thing they create it seems they ruin something else. Over the past year I've developed a wishlist of changes. Dear Microsoft...…
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Founder Charles Dunstone to take helm of biz Chief exec of TalkTalk, Dido Harding, is to step down from the company after seven years in the role.…
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by John Leyden on (#2B1VY)
Ah, kids today! Nope, nope, this is governments we're talking about Feature The allegations that computer hackers affected the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election have cast a long shadow and might appear to be unprecedented.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2B1RS)
Engineers need to change user interfaces Usenix Enigma Several academics have been using brain scanning methods to see how people handle computer security, and the resounding result is that our brains are biochemically working against us in this realm.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2B1PM)
RIP online Texas hold'em? Don't bet on it just yet Analysis Machines have triumphed again. Libratus, a powerful computer program, has crushed its human opponents at a heads-up no-limit Texas hold’em poker tournament held at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, winning $1,776,250 over 120,000 hands.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#2B1NR)
Crims aimed for a Christmas Number One and scored Net scum behind the Cerber ransomware have been pounding enterprises infecting more corporate machines than any other, according to Microsoft.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2B1M9)
If you want to catch as many people as you can, go for the old legal razzle dazzle Usenix Enigma 2017 Research has shown that older people – particularly older women – are more susceptible to phishing scams. You may think our oldies are more suspicious of strangers, but that's sadly not the case.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2B1HX)
Probe went this close in 2004, but the light is better this time around The Cassini probe's commenced its death dive into Saturn's clouds, but is still sending back high-resolution of the gas giant's rings.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2B1FK)
Great way to monitor effects of being in orbit As it prepares for interplanetary missions, NASA is offering a glimpse of its study of the effects of space on twins.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2B1BB)
It's growing, new products are flowing and Microsoft's sending it new punters In 2015 Citrix was in trouble: the company fired 900 employees and warned it would miss guidance on earnings, endured a profit slump and cleaned out its C-suite.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#2B1A6)
Then they resell that info to dodgy share traders Staff are taking to the dark web to leak corporate secrets for cash, research reveals.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2B15S)
Big Red lets C/C++ types talk to its call interface Oracle has taken DPI, the data access layer in its node-oracledb driver, refactored it, and used it to give C/C++ developers an API to its Oracle Call Interface.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2B10A)
No, seriously. Microsoft-supported scientists think this is a good idea in the data centre Microsoft-supported boffins hopes to eliminate cables in the data centre entirely.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2B0XX)
Project AirGig looks to solve bandwidth conundrum in the sticks AT&T says it is set to begin public trials of a project to backhaul high-speed mobile internet over power lines.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2B0WQ)
Upstart said it had outgrown the cloud – now five out of five restore tools have failed Source-code hub Gitlab.com is in meltdown after experiencing data loss as a result of what it has suddenly discovered are ineffectual backups.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2B0QY)
Holiday phablet shortage was our fault, says Tim Cook Apple recorded its best quarterly numbers ever despite an admitted shortage of iPhone 7 Plus phablets.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2B0JJ)
Going for a song: Hedge fund pulled the strings to snap up busted biz for $14.5m A Soros hedge fund vehicle made the winning bid at Violin Memory's January 23 auction.…
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