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by Alexander J Martin on (#2A2AX)
Also: We could rebuild Trump's social score, we have the technology Kinetica, the in-memory GPU-accelerated database, is adding user-defined functions (UDFs) to contribute to more sophisticated analytic workloads.…
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by Clodagh Doyle on (#2A290)
Gov spokesperson promises Mr Ring he’ll get to the bottom of it Residents of the picturesque town of Westport, County Mayo are being driven to distraction by their confused countrymen attempting to call UK-based late night smut channel Babestation sans international dialling code.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2A23H)
The only way is up Nexsan's sale to private equity has gone through and the company is now looking to drive organic and inorganic growth.…
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by Team Register on (#2A201)
Our best price for three days of DevOps, Containers, CD and Agile REG EVENTS We're bringing some of the finest brains from the worlds of DevOps, Containers, Agile and Continuous Delivery to London in May, and if you're quick you can join us AND save over a quarter off the full-fat ticket price.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2A1YS)
Cheerful chap writes off all mission-critical IoT software without realising it "Software comes with two unique properties: it's basically impossible to inspect and test, and we don't know the sequencing of instructions at the basic level," Statoil's lead analyst for corporate IT digitalisation, Einar Landre, told today's IoT Tech Expo in London.…
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by John Leyden on (#2A1SQ)
Flip side of the La La Land love-in This year’s Razzie nominations - celebrating the worst that Hollywood has to offer - are in, with Zoolander No. 2 and Batman v Superman leading the pack with the most nominations.…
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Firm defies forecasts despite warnings of 'uncertain times' Sales at Dixons Carphone in the UK and Ireland sales rose 4 per cent for the ten weeks up to Christmas, the retailer said today.…
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by John Leyden on (#2A1NR)
Survey: 'Bluff' ransomware is on the up Two in five large UK businesses have fallen victim to a "bluff" ransomware attack, according to a new survey.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#2A1MD)
25 years, eight updates, all gravy Open Source Insider Vim text editor turned 25 late last year – the first public iteration was launched on November 2, 1991, a couple of weeks after Linus Torvalds announced Linux. To celebrate Vim's anniversary, creator Bram Moolenaar recently dropped version 8.0.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2A1JP)
Parliament must be consulted on EU exit process Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to trigger formal talks for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU in March have been thrown into uncertainty.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2A1HJ)
Big Blue claims 3 more releases coming to take us to mid-2018 IBM’s XIV storage array has three more product releases coming, and is not going away, although it is not having a fourth generation version developed, the firm has claimed.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2A1ET)
Brit audio networking bods Chirp go all green and glowy Audio-based networking may seem an unusual choice for the Internet of Things, especially when used for machines to bellow information at each other inside a nuclear power station.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2A1B2)
Algorithm aims to make 'droids more autonomous Computer scientists in Germany hope to make humanoid robots smarter by programming the 'droids with a sense of “artificial curiosity.â€â€¦
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Figure much higher than the £145m originally estimated BT is to write off £530m following an accounting scandal in its Italian business, saying it was "deeply disappointed" with the improper practices uncovered.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2A170)
There's a low awareness of vulnerabilities in neural networks, say researchers Surrounded by all the hype in AI, it’s easy to sing the praises of machine learning without realizing that systems can be easily exploited.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2A146)
Yes, Lexmark is still a thing If printer maker Lexmark International prevails against ink cartridge reseller Impression Products, tech giants and other American companies will gain the ability to control products through patent claims after they have been sold.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2A13E)
Bought a Breathometer? You can get your money back If you’re trusting a personal breathalyzer to protect you from a drunk driving conviction, think again, since the devices might not work as advertised.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2A108)
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a HUMMINGWHALE The HummingBad malware first discovered in February 2016 is making a return visit to the charts.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2A0Y6)
The internet of sh*t hits the rotor US company Department 13 claims it has been able to reverse-engineer several popular drones' commands, even when they are encrypted before transmission.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2A0W0)
Memory and monitor surges trump phlaming phablet fiasco Samsung Electronics, the Chaebol's business that encompasses smartphones, monitors, memory and more, has reported a bumper fourth quarter despite its phlaming phablet fiasco.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2A0SK)
Toy-makers, please quit this rubbish, you're NO GOOD at security Here's your future botnet, world: connected kids toys that will Rickroll their owners while hosing big servers and guessing the nuclear codes.…
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by Team Register on (#2A0QM)
HTML Comment Box clocked Hackers Karim Rahal and Ibram Marzouk have found multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the HTML Comment Box that opened avenues to compromise visitors to some used by some 2 million websites.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#2A0PZ)
Full read/write access was there for the taking Microsoft has patched a code execution hole in its Mac remote desktop client that grants read and write to home directories if users do no more than click a link, says Italian security researcher Filippo Cavallarin.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#2A0JZ)
It needs admin privileges, but we know there's a pool of stupid out there waiting to be p0wned Source code for an Android banking app has been published online, spurring fears it could prompt a wave of malicious apps.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2A0ED)
Oracle reckons killing big bang OS releases also kills application upgrade hassles Oracle has released a little more detail about the future of its Solaris operating system, after last week suddenly revealing a planned version 12 would be canned.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2A0AP)
And there you were thinking WiFI interoperability was done and dusted ... NOT! You'd think by now that Wi-Fi has been around so long, nobody could get it wrong, right?…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2A09M)
Meta will be first to suck Mark Zuck's bucks The $3bn philanthropy initiative led by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan has agreed to acquire Meta: an AI-based aggregator for medical research studies.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2A030)
Look forward to hearing lots more about how great he is US President Donald Trump has formally designated Ajit Pai as the new chairman of America's powerful broadband and telly regulator, the Federal Communications Commission.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2A01R)
Helping internet scammers proved profitable, for a while Western Union will forfeit more than half a billion dollars after admitting it broke money laundering laws.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2A004)
Just get rid of it – bin it now Malicious websites can remotely execute commands on Windows systems that have Cisco WebEx's Chrome extension installed. About 20 million people actively use this broken software.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#29ZXE)
Apple squashes a bunch of security bugs, so get installing Apple has emitted a set of software security updates for all of its major operating systems.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#29ZTA)
A big leap forward, you say? Tell that to the anti-trust authorities Google is hardwiring its Android app store, Google Play, into all new Chromebooks.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#29ZKW)
è‰¯è—¥è‹¦å£ The Chinese government has started an 18-month crackdown that will require all VPN providers to seek government approval for their activities if they want to stay in business.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#29ZJ5)
Larry's biz swings the axe after denials and silence Oracle will cut hundreds of jobs from its embattled hardware division in California, a move the tech goliath had previously denied.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#29ZDN)
Putting the US of A first could require arms from Europe Making America great again may require foreign-made weapon systems, a possibility that would contravene the Trump administration's stated goal to "buy American and hire American."…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#29ZAG)
President Snowflake slots in an easy campaign goal first thing US President Donald Trump has made good on a campaign promise and signed an executive order backing the United States out of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.…
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by John Leyden on (#29Z4Y)
San Francisco's Agile 3 Solutions acquired IBM has announced a deal to buy data visualization firm Agile 3 Solutions, a San Francisco-based privately held company. The terms of the deal, announced Monday, were not disclosed.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#29YPH)
The man they call Martin gives post-work life the elbow, lands at WD Well, well, whaddya know? Meg Whitman announces Martin Fink’s retirement as CTO and HPE Labs top dog, where he evangelised the Machine and memristors, but the fabled techie was clearly not ready to swan off into a post-work life of shed-building and ocean cruises just yet. He's back in the industry and mad for it.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#29YGY)
Memory is king: Industrial, auto, storage app ICs grow Global semiconductor revenue is set to rise 7.2 per cent over 2016 because of ramping demand for DRAM and app-specific standard products for the IoT and allied markets, according to Gartner's digital witch-doctors.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#29YH0)
Bids Kaycee Lai farewell, welcomes Robert Wilson In comes Robert Wilson and out goes Kaycee Lai at Primary Data.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#29YH2)
Again, nobody is saying rexit-bay The gods of channel sales growth did not smile on Computacenter in 2016 as the UK filed standstill top line numbers and progress in European ops was unpicked by unfavourable forex rates.…
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Yes, from the English university. No you shut up Researchers at Cambridge University believe a psychological "vaccine" could help prevent the spread of "fake news" - in a study that on the face of it might also pass for a bogus story.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#29Y90)
Cites demand on his family, will be replaced by 2019 The Director General of GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, has announced his intention to step down as leader of the signals intelligence agency.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#29Y78)
Terix partnership pulls PC maker into Larry's crosshairs Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Oracle are heading back to court – this time over an alleged violation of IP rights on Solaris.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#29Y25)
A wild early adopter programme appeared! Microsoft has previewed its support for SUSE Linux Enterprise in its next version of SQL Server, and announced an early adopter programme.…
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by John Leyden on (#29XYH)
But it is keeping schtum A DDoS attack was reportedly behind online outages at Lloyds Bank a fortnight ago.…
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Come with us now 'on a journey away from PSN' The Cabinet Office wants government departments to buy public cloud rather than services from the Public Services Network (PSN).…
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by Chris Mellor on (#29XNE)
Not so, er, fab for storage tech, innit? Storage Blockhead Say hello to Wilbur Ross, "King of Bankruptcy" and the likely next US Secretary of State for Commerce – the man charged with implementing President Trump's promise to bring home the jobs stolen by cheap labour countries using free trade policies.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#29XJJ)
Preview of next flagship delayed as embers of Note 7 debacle still burn MWC 2017 The great and the good attending next month’s Mobile World Congress won’t be getting a sneak peak at Samsung latest premier Galaxy S8 smartphone after all, a company exec has confirmed.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#29XG5)
Firms fighting off rocket docket suit as a matter of principle Cloud host Rackspace and storage vendor NetApp are fighting a patent holder who's targeted some of tech's biggest names in the notorious Eastern District of Texas.…
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