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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2A8RJ)
Wasn't there some issue about Hillary doing this? Nah Senior members of the Trump administration have been accused of blatant hypocrisy after it was revealed they are continuing to use personal email accounts.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2A8M6)
Execs get Bern notice to talk up $85bn deal Fifteen US Senators are asking AT&T to provide them with an outline of how they plan to benefit the public with the $85.4bn acquisition of Time Warner.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2A8A7)
It turns out there are better ways to enhance strength than heavy metal armor Exosuits have featured prominently in comic books and films for decades, but as they move from research labs to the work environment, they're looking more like couture from Robin Hood: Men in Tights than artifacts from Iron Man.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2A88A)
One-billion Yuan lawsuit in Middle Kingdom alleges further royalty wrongdoings Apple has taken its legal battle against Qualcomm international with a pair of lawsuits in China.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2A82X)
Poor Panasonic power packs pinpointed HP Inc is warning that over 101,000 laptop batteries sold in the US, Canada, and Mexico are at risk of catching fire, and it would like them back please.…
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by John Leyden on (#2A7XX)
Linux-Proxy-10 allows crooks to remain anonymous online Several thousand Linux devices have been infected with a new Linux-based trojan, Russian security software firm Doctor Web warns.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2A7KQ)
Next step: Get it working on mobile phones An algorithm that promises to diagnose skin cancer as well as dermatologists can may work with mobile phone cameras in the future, according to a paper published in Nature.…
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by John Leyden on (#2A7FF)
Reports link arrest to receipt of money from foreign companies A top cybercrime investigator at Kaspersky Lab has been arrested by Russian police investigating alleged treason.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2A7BJ)
LeBlanc retires after decades in IBM, two years in cloud IBM software veteran Robert LeBlanc is stepping down after just two years heading the firm's growing cloud business.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2A74J)
Desktop productivity – without the Windows crap Microsoft may have relinquished SQL Server's Windows monogamy and let Linux join the party, but still it refuses to yield Office.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2A6W5)
One person falls for scam, now everyone's at risk of fraud A school district in Texas says it lost sensitive tax information from every worker after a single employee was duped by a phishing attack.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2A6P7)
Don’t panic. LG is betting on …. electric cars and Android smartwatches You’re an investor in LG: do you want the bad news or the even worse news?…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2A6M4)
Better be, hmmm. Earnings up despite falling revenues In its second fiscal 2017 quarter, Seagate's profits rose even as it shipped fewer disk drives, through manufacturing cost reductions and increased component counts in high-capacity drives.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2A6E0)
Protest arrives over alleged mistreatment of whistleblowers and bad management relations United Nations staff are demonstrating in Geneva this afternoon to demand the ousting of Francis Gurry, the controversial boss of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2A6AP)
Daddy *sniff* they're gonna mix behavioural data with searches and texts *blub* and it's not fair! The European Commission has confirmed that it will probe competition concerns over Google's decision to allow personal user data in its silos to co-mingle, to create "super profiles".…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2A683)
Oh, and ailing outsourcing biz hires fourth boss in two years, swaps Wilson for Wilson Sickly outsourcing titan CSC UK is strapping another 1,101 staff to the employment catapult to be hurled out of the organisation between March and September, according to Unite the union.…
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Slippage of life-critical system could cost taxpayers millions Hugely ambitious plans to replace the radio system used by the emergency services need more testing and are likely to face delays, the Public Accounts Committee has warned today.…
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More pr0nz-filtering plans under the Digital Economy Bill Internet Service Providers could be given powers to block user access at their own discretion in an amendment to the controversial Digital Economy Bill.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2A61Q)
Scale Computing's Jeff Ready on Scale, the HCI boom and more Interview El Reg talked with Scale Computing co-founder and CEO Jeff Ready and asked him about the HPE SimpliVity acquisition and what it means for HPE, for the hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) market, and for Scale.…
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by Team Register on (#2A5Y2)
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016... 2017 is going to be our year!
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2A5VZ)
Yes, you can stick IoT sensors on tractors - and John Deere's been doing it for 20 years Two decades ago a tractor manufacturer was fitting smart sensors to its devices. Blending the agricultural and the technological were a natural fit, the firm’s Georg Larschied told The Register.…
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Concerns raise could spark exodus of self-employed talent UK government departments are advising IT contractors to hike their fees by a fifth in order to avert an exodus of self-employed techies that will be hit by a forthcoming tax clampdown, multiple sources have told The Register.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2A5QG)
Addressing the 3D XPoint elephant in the storage-class memory room Comment When Martin Fink resigned from his positions at HPE in August 2016, the announcement said: "Martin Fink, our chief technology officer and head of Hewlett-Packard Labs, will be retiring from HPE at the end of the year, after more than 30 years with the company." He was retiring, we were told, but he was just 51.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#2A5MN)
S4 and S5 A single TXT message is enough to cause Samsung S5 and S4 handsets to return to factory settings, likely wiping users' data along the way. And because the attack exploits Android's innards, other vendors' handsets are at risk.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2A5MQ)
America's new Earth observation sat sends home sharpest images ever The United States' newest Earth-watcher, GOES-16, has sent back its first high-resolution images, and it's making the Earth observation community get a bit misty around the eyes.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2A5KG)
No more waiting for exploitive, data-gobbling applications to download Google has begun testing Android Instant Apps, a mobile application format delivered by streaming rather than as a downloaded file.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2A5HY)
Meanwhile, Faraday's Future looks like the debtor's prison Former bodybuilder, movie star and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has gone electric.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2A5GS)
128 ports of 100 Gbps switching grunt in a single 'Backpack' Facebook has pulled apart a bunch of its Wedge 100 Gbps switches and reassembled them as a hefty 128-port 100 Gbps open network switch dubbed 'Backpack'.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2A5FR)
Just imagine what a printer jam looks like Vid 3D printing for most users is limited to polymer printing, or in some cases metal – but now a team from Spain has built hardware that can print actual human skin.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2A5DS)
Of course, of course it has a cloud subscription Cisco is kicking out a new set of screens and conferencing software aimed at overhauling its video conferencing and collaboration lines.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2A5CS)
Independent user group HQ excluded Virtzilla rivals, fired volunteers Ongoing tension between Nutanix and VMware has spilled over into Virtzilla's user groups, which have decided to exclude volunteers who work for rivals. That decision has left both vendors somewhat diminished and the user groups' governing body facing possible rebellion by individual user groups.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#2A5BN)
If it wants a password and doesn't use HTTPS, Mozilla will breathe fire Shoddy sites will have fewer places to hide with Firefox joining Chrome in badging cleartext sites that collect personal information as insecure.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2A58G)
If you really want to run MS Office 2013 on Linux, you can Wine, the open source tool that translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls, and therefore lets Windows apps run on Linux, Mac OS and BSD, has reached version 2.0.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2A577)
Not official. Not documented. But not bad-looking, either With close to 60,000 employees, Google/Alphabet has an awful lot of desktops, laptops, notebooks, tablets and phones to support, and it's taken the covers off one of the tools that helps it do that.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2A512)
Cloudy storage kit needs firmware patch, will anybody notice? Western Digital has issued a fix for its My Cloud Mirror backup disks, after ESET "detection engineer" Kacper Szurek found an authentication bypass with remote code execution in the system.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#2A4X2)
Automated hacking weapon with human smarts does the business LinkedIn has shuttered five dangerous privacy holes that could have allowed users' phone numbers, email addresses and resumes to be downloaded, plus the deletion of all connection requests.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2A4VY)
'Rebalancing' will make IBM great again. America? That's someone else's problem IBM's post-election promise to President Donald Trump to bring jobs home appears not to have been entirely accurate, as the company is making redundancies at home and stands accused of shipping jobs to Asia and Europe.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2A4T0)
Borg wants you to assimilate real-time performance info for everything Cisco has announced it intends to acquire AppDynamics, a maker of software that performs real-time monitoring of application performance, the better to understand the impact on infrastructure and the end-user experience.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2A4P7)
This isn't going to end well US President Donald Trump's pick for his Attorney General and head of the FBI will have security specialists nervous, since both believe breaking encryption is a good idea.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2A4FV)
Biz apologizes after years-old data mysteriously reappears Dropbox says it was responsible for an attempted bug fix that instead caused old, deleted data to reappear on the site.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2A45K)
Redmond decides we need to talk about Kevin Microsoft has reinstated its overall CTO role for the first time in 17 years and hired Kevin Scott – currently senior vice president of infrastructure with LinkedIn – to do the job.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2A441)
Think DevOps, without the work Those daunted by the complexity of using Kubernetes to manage containerized applications can now outsource the work to Platform9.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2A3XT)
Message slurp faces scrutiny from America's highest judges The US government has lost a legal appeal to have a critical case against Microsoft reheard, paving the way for a Supreme Court challenge.…
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by John Leyden on (#2A3TP)
And SEC probes three-year gap between data swipe and disclosure Yahoo!'s sale to Verizon has been delayed, following revelations last year of historical data security breaches.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2A30G)
Did I say that? Bullish MS man finds quotes ripped out of context Microsoft has committed itself to the UK after comments by a manager were ripped out of context.…
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by John Leyden on (#2A2SZ)
Value of fraud surpasses £1bn for first time in five years The total cost of fraudulent activity in the UK surpassed a billion pounds for the first time in five years, reaching £1.137bn in 2016 compared to £732m the year before.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2A2T0)
And they're eyeing up the NHS as a customer for wearables American telco Verizon reckons it's got a shot at being the next big Internet of Things player and might be eyeing up the NHS, the company's pet evangelist told IoT Tech Expo in London this morning.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2A2N9)
Couriers allege their pay was slashed retrospectively Unpaid workers for the "sharing economy" delivery outfit Jinn who claimed they hadn't been paid besieged the company's co-founder to demand their wages last week.…
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by John Leyden on (#2A2KD)
Opens door to privilege escalation attacks Some Linux distros will need to be updated following the discovery of an easily exploitable flaw in a core system management component.…
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by John Leyden on (#2A2FB)
Botnets' power level over 9,000 thanks to gaping vulnerabilities IoT botnets have transformed the threat landscape, resulting in a big increase in the size of DDoS attacks from 500Gbps in 2015 up to 800Gbps last year.…
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