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by Alexander J Martin on (#296E9)
Makes its Brentrance in the South and West regions Microsoft's slow rollout of the full suite of Azure tools in the UK has taken another step forwards today, with Automation arriving in both of its UK regions.…
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by John Leyden on (#296B3)
One was hit 19 times over 12 months A third (30 per cent) of NHS trusts have been infected by ransomware, with one – the Imperial College Healthcare in London – suffering 19 attacks in just 12 months.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2969N)
Or why the customer isn't always right Engineers and designers hate committee-led engineering and design, hence the proverbial joke about the camel. And ZTE's effort to allow passing strangers to design and brand a new mobile device perhaps illustrates why.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2966T)
Yeah, just don't worry about the 100k plus you've tossed on the bonfire Meg Cynics might say Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman is on thin ice when discussing job preservation in the era of AI and robotics given her own track record, but that was the thrust of her speech at Davos.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2964G)
Calls for benefits of foreign workers to be recognised Employers have called for a "sensible" immigration programme to recruit and retain overseas talent in a post-Brexit Britain.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2962V)
What you don’t know, you can’t look for - obviously Interview In a story about ARM-powered, Ethernet-addressed, object storing disk drives, I said such drives couldn’t carry out image searches at a drive-level because they would be operating "blindfolded". OpenIO says “Rubbish†to that in a blog it wrote ( I exaggerate.)…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#295Z8)
Driving assistant gives self-drivers a bit of Lip(Net) When Nvidia popped the bonnet on its Co-Pilot "backseat driver" AI at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, most onlookers were struck by its ability to lip-read while tracking CES-going "motorists'" actions within the "car".…
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by SA Mathieson on (#295VA)
Social giant works both sides of news street National elections in the UK and US, and Britain's 2016 referendum on membership of the EU demonstrated the growing power of social media to swing views and win votes.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#295SF)
Make a cup of tea - or a mocha - before you read this if you want a long and happy life A cup of tea, coffee or even a mocha could extend your life, new research shows.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#295RJ)
Unless you're willing to tolerate the chance of data corruption IBM on Saturday slipped out news of a nasty bug in its VIOS, its Virtual I/O Server that offers virtualisation services on Power Systems under AIX.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#295PF)
FUDalicious post argues ancient security features are just too risky Microsoft Germany has argued that Windows 7 is no longer "fit" to be used in business.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#295NG)
Australia, Malaysia and China say no new information on plane's location has been found Australia, Malaysia and China have suspended the search for missing Malaysian airlines flight MH370.…
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by Team Register on (#295MJ)
It's 2017 and developers are still doing really dumb things A security firm has reverse engineered 16,000 Android apps on Google's Play store and found that over 304 contain sensitive secret keys.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#295J7)
Then hoovered out users' personal data, stole identities galore and spent up big Dutch police are this week warning 20,000 users that their email accounts were hacked after a malicious web developer left backdoors in the sites he built.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#295HF)
EPA's allegations against Fiat Chrysler become sweary international incident The latest “cheatware†scandal to rock the auto industry has escalated to cause inter-government tension, with Germany and Italy trading snipes over Fiat Chrysler's claims about emissions.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#295F5)
And fails: the launcher's second stage failed to ignite so it ditched into the sea From plants to pocket-sized radios, Japan has a long history of miniaturisation, but its first attempt to shrink a satellite-launching rocket has ended with the launcher ditching into the sea.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#295BP)
Your code tested as soon as you send it to GitHub Here's a handy tool from Docker's GitHub repository: a continuous integration library to help manage DataKit projects.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#2954T)
'Panic Button' could be pressed by miscreants, repeatedly The Rave Panic Button app, designed to allow businesses to summon emergency services, allows miscreants to easily 'swat' targets by making false reports of emergencies says security researcher Randy Westergren.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#294ZP)
Security audit of popular-with-service-providers package produces surprised smiles POP and IMAP mailserver suite Dovecot has passed an extensive audit by hackers, who were able to find only three minor vulnerabilities.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#294VH)
RPi 3 shrunk into normal and 'lite' Compute Modules for embedded applications The Raspberry Pi Foundation has baked two new Pi.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#294Q8)
Apollo 10 and 17 astronaut, moonwalker, spacewalker, pioneer Eugene Cernan, the last man to leave footprints on the Moon, has died aged 82.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#294JD)
Nice theory, BAE Systems, now where's the demonstrator? British defence contractor BAE Systems says it has developed a laser-powered "mirage on demand" which can be used to bend the very fabric of the skies to military commanders' whims.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#294G5)
Blockchain consortia are like the early internet: everyone knows and trusts each other. But when you try to scale ... The financial sector's enthusiasm for blockchain technology might be misplaced, according to a pair of Australian distributed computing experts.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#294ES)
No amount of innovation will win over a suspicious public Comment A bright-eyed MIT undergraduate implausibly branded "the Mark Zuckerberg of guns" has recycled an age-old solution looking for a problem – the smart gun.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2948P)
*California State Governor Peter Thiel, the only tech billionaire to back Donald Trump, is reported to be considering a run for governor of California.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2942A)
Startup orbits security VM around vSphere and VSAN unstructured data Analysis Startup DataGravity laid off staff in February last year and subsequently pivoted away from building and selling its Discovery Series array line to building a shipping virtual appliance using its Discovery Series array software as a basis.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#293VZ)
Health Secretary makes a mint. Good for him, right? Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has become one of the UK's richest politicians following the sale of his business which runs course-listing websites.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#293MR)
Hey Alexa, manage my system! Storage Blockhead Chatbots are flashing up in our future view as something that could improve an admin's lot. Instead of using a GUI with nested and drill-down screen forms to do their job, they'll have a new form of Command Line Interface, only this will be a Chat Line Interface to a chatbot.…
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Wants every human computer interaction to be AI-powered The tech sector is currently "worshipping" a handful of artificial intelligence companies, but is yet to show how it will make the technology accessible to and useful for its human end users, Microsoft head Satya Nadella has said.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2934N)
Salesforce SMB partner explores deeper waters Salesforce partner Sage Group has signed a trio of firms to its emerging X3 business ERP platform.…
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Patient is suspected to have died while system was down The IT system responsible for dispatching ambulances across London has been hit by three outages in the last year, it has emerged.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#292V3)
Mr Lee jnr ensnared in corruption scandal Samsung's been pulled deeper into "Choi-gate" – the scandal surrounding the South Korean president. Prosecutors in the country today applied for an arrest warrant for Samsung's de facto boss, Lee Jae-yong.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#292SS)
What else do you Tx at 20mW somewhere between 868MHz and 900MHz? Amazon has filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission to conduct what looks like Internet of Things wireless networking tech trials.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#292QY)
SoCing it to the ARM-powered nodes The European Commission's multi-phase, super-dupe-compute project Mont-Blanc is pouring more euro gravy into developing an army of ARM SoC compute nodes.…
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by Team Register on (#292N1)
Last chance to save a bundle Reg Events You've got less than a week to snap up early bird tickets for Building IoT London, our three-day bonanza of all things IoT for real businesses. After that, the sticker jumps back up to full rate.…
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by John Leyden on (#292J3)
Authorities uneasy in wake of alleged Russian interference in US presidential race French authorities are warning political parties about the increased threat of cyber attacks as the country prepares to elect a new president in May.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#292FY)
What will Andy Rubin do next? The "Father of Android" Andy Rubin is plotting a return to hardware – and he could beat Google's own Android successor Andromeda to market.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#292EV)
They've got as much money as half the world, scolds charity Five of the world's eight fattest fat cats, whose collective wealth equals that of the world's 3.6 billion poorest people – according to a new report by Oxfam – are technology billionaires.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#292B1)
Musk's merry men manage it this time Elon Musk's SpaceX, space cargo contractor and purveyor of space rockets for the well-heeled masses, successfully launched a two-stage rocket into orbit on Saturday.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2928D)
16nm? Lower. 10nm? Lower. You cannot be serious ReRAM startup Crossbar has sample embedded ReRAM chips from SMIC that are currently undergoing evaluation.…
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We know you've been in an accident. It says so in our *beeeeep* BT has opened a free nuisance call screening service, which it estimates could junk 15 million cold calls - such as PPI and accident claims - to a voicemail box.…
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by Andreas Kolbe on (#29257)
From aardvark to Bicholim, the encylopedia of things that never were Sixteen years ago, Larry Sanger had the idea for a wiki-based encyclopaedia anyone could edit: the "wiki-pedia". On January 15, 2001, he and Jimmy Wales launched the site. Today, it's everyone's go-to place for quick factlets.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2922K)
Silicon to carbon change could boost Nantero's business A market-research report suggests carbon nanotube storage developer Nantero could be on the verge of a breakout after years of disappointment and struggle.…
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Bringing more audience data to TV advertising Analysis More data means better performance for advertising – at least on the digital side. Increasingly, marketers are looking to inject data-driven decision making into the “dumbest†box in the house: the TV set.…
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Timetable 'unachievable'. Now, where have we heard that one before? The UK government's tax digitisation plan could be delayed by at least a year after the Treasury Committee exposed "serious shortcomings" with the programme.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#291XZ)
Microsoft security boffins throw fresh CVEs at unpatched OS, emerge smiling Microsoft says its Windows 10 Anniversary Update squashes more exploit delivery chains than ever.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#291TJ)
Even the servers it colocates (!) says new doc detailing Alphabet sub's security secrets Google has published a Infrastructure Security Design Overview that explains how it secures the cloud it uses for its own operations and for public cloud services.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#291SF)
Golden Arches website's security doesn't pass the sensible surfing taste test Dutch software engineer Tijme Gommers has revealed a still-active reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability and borked password controls in McDonald's main website that could be fodder for phishing attacks.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#291P0)
2017 forecast to see cloud kit clock $11bn every 90 days Abacus-shuffling outfit IDC has updated its Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker with sales data for Q3 2016 and predictions for spend in 2017.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#291MV)
Strategy_Doc.PDF from the next cubicle is actually a portal to p0wnage An newly-detected Gmail phishing attack sees criminals hack and then rifle through inboxes to target account owners' contacts with thoroughly convincing fake emails.…
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