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Experts remain unconvinced by breathless government report Calls in a government-commissioned report to maximise Britain's position as a 5G "world leader" have been slammed by experts as a case of the Emperor's New Clothes.…
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by John Leyden on (#28FVT)
Tech 'crèche' will nurture firms to compete on the world stage The first infosec startups selected for the GCHQ Cyber Accelerator have been unveiled.…
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by Team Register on (#28FVW)
Delight your users - even the marketing department We’re delighted to reveal that our second keynote speaker at Building IoT London is UX and IoT expert Dr John Morkes.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#28FTH)
Company: We don't know what happened, couldn't tell you if we did An unspecified glitch at Lloyds Bank Group prevented customers from logging into their accounts via a browser or app this morning.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#28FTK)
EMAL system was nearly bought by the UK. Bullet dodged? Oh no The US Navy is having difficulties with its latest aircraft carrier's Electromagnetic Aircraft Launching System (EMALS) – the same system which the UK mooted fitting to its new Queen Elizabeth-class carriers.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#28FNN)
ePrivacy draft is a mixed bag for Silicon Valley The EU has proposed only incremental changes to data protection law in Europe, but their significance lies in a new ability to fine digital services – including the giant platforms – for privacy breaches.…
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by John Leyden on (#28FMN)
Survey shows people don't act on insecure wireless routers Recent Mirai-style attacks against home broadband routers have had some effect but the majority of users have failed to act.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#28FGR)
We’re on a roll baby and we’re gonna grow, grow, grow…. Cloud storage gateway supplier Panzura has raked in a $32 million E-round of funding as incoming CEO Patrick Harr proves his worth on the growth front.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#28FF0)
Andy Wright heads to XMA board seat, Tracey Westall seeking new employer Nigh on 20-year SCC veteran Andy Wright is hanging up his company overalls to take a commercial director role and board seat at reseller XMA, sister company to distributor Westcoast.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#28FF2)
Stop right now and make sure you've configured it correctly The rise in ransomware attacks on MongoDB installations prompted the database maker last week to issue advice on how to avoid being victimized.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#28FB2)
Vows to dump entire series on iPlayer before they air on TV The BBC is abandoning linear exclusivity as it goes for broke to make the iPlayer a global Netflix rival. The corporation says it will throw entire series on to the on-demand streaming service before the first episode in a series is even broadcast on terrestrial TV.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#28F9X)
Panaseer reckons market there is more mature, i.e. it spends more money on security British security startup Panaseer is expanding to New York from London as it plans to land a large American investor in 2017.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#28F7Z)
Whimsical folk brand problems 'Connectiongate' PlayStation 4 gamers are growing increasingly irritated with Sony after a rising tide of complaints over audio and video blackouts in the PS4 Pro console’s PSVR headset.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#28F66)
Oh EFSS, they'd better spread sideways. That's the impression we got from one Interview With the demise of Bitcasa, EMC selling off Syncplicity, and so forth, the enterprise file sync and share market might appear moribund. What’s happened is a trend of consolidation plus an additional of functionality for other content functions. EFSS on its own is no longer viable.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#28F3Z)
Yet another cash pile to 'better' machine learning with non-experts LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar are among a bunch of investors bankrolling a $27m fund to further AI ethics and accountability.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#28F30)
Carrier mum on cause for outage hitting new SIM cards Plusnet Mobile subscribers say their smartphones have been unable to reach the internet via the cellular network for several days.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#28F22)
Microsoft offers two settings – on and almost off – and a dashboard of collected data Microsoft has built an online dashboard of privacy controls in an attempt to soothe lingering anger over Windows 10 and its ability to phone home people's private information.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#28EYM)
The tale of the underage girl who wasn't and still isn't years later The owner of Fark.com is furious at Google and wants it to reimburse him for five weeks of lost ads – thanks to a five-year-old story that featured a picture of a girl wrongly believed to be underage.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#28EXP)
And there's a $20 charge to remove the block Over to North Dakota, US, now and a new front in the war against cyber-smut has opened up.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#28EVS)
Thankfully most users are patched Authors of the Sundown exploit kit have integrated a since patched and limited Microsoft Edge vulnerability from a security firm's public proof-of-concept.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#28ESW)
Explosive union visible with the naked eye Pics and video The stars of the Northern Cross – one of the most recognisable features in the night sky that has been used as a marker for the seasons for thousands of years – should be getting a bright new addition.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#28EM1)
Just the Facts, sysadmins Ansible sysadmins, make with the patch-fingers because the project's just gone public with a high-severity bug.…
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by Team Register on (#28EH6)
Smells like 2010 Remote attackers can hose EMC hybrid flash storage thanks to cryptographic weaknesses.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#28EC5)
Turn it off and turn it back on again. No, really Juniper is warning users of its SRX firewalls that a borked upgrade leaves a root-level account open to the world.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#28E8F)
Chris Lattner to head up Tesla's Autopilot software team Chris Lattner, head of Apple's Swift and XCode, is heading for pastures new.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#28E5G)
Gimme a break, retorts congresswoman Online ads site Backpage.com has shut down all its adult categories claiming US government censorship.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#28E0W)
Vulture South isn't so sure On Monday, we noted the privacy nightmare that is the NSW State Government's latest attempt at public transport Wi-Fi, and asked APN Outdoor, owner of Catch, questions about security and its regulatory status.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#28DW3)
Why stop digging when we've only just started? Australia's Human Services Minister Alan Tudge has finally weighed in on the country's Centrelink debacle, having returned from holidays with a sheet full of talking points.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#28DTH)
Jobs created, jobs lost – and we're not talking Steve Apple boss Tim Cook and US president-elect Donald Trump aren’t exactly best buds. However, the iPhone maker could soon land the honor of a congratulatory tweet from the jumped-up telly celeb – after it revealed it is expanding its manufacturing in America.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#28DAJ)
Also: Edge is foiled by hyperlinks, Windows Server fails at authentication requests, and Microsoft is a $486bn company Microsoft has begun its 2017 with the release of four updates to address security holes in Windows and Office, while Adobe has posted fixes for more than three dozen vulnerabilities in Flash and Reader.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#28CMQ)
eBay's Eagle monitoring software also soaring with open-source foundation The Apache Software Foundation has today announced two new top-level projects, Apache Beam and Apache Eagle.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#28CGM)
Second app-aware deduper for distributed databases Analysis Talena was founded in 2013 to develop data management software for Big Data and non-relational database applications. Its data management software provides backup, recovery, test data management and archiving capabilities for Cassandra, Couchbase, Hadoop, and Vertica. The company claims its software integrates machine learning with unique storage optimisation technology to dramatically reduce the costs associated with backup, recovery, and other data management functions across NoSQL, Hadoop, and modern data warehouse products.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#28CEM)
Veteran support Racker Cotten takes on global business role Rackspace support manager Jeff Cotten was Tuesday named company president, halving the workload of the now single-jobbed chief executive Taylor Rhodes.…
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Best of frenemies Virgin Media has surprised the market by signing a five-year deal with rival BT to use EE's network.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#28CAA)
Mr Kipling and Bisto prices on the up, owner confirms Life is about to get more expensive for anyone in Britain that favours a French Fancy, an Angel Slice or indeed any other “exceedingly good†cake from a certain baker.…
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by Chris Evans on (#28C62)
Discover and re:Invent; infrastructure vs services The Storage Architect As we enter 2017, many people look back at 2016 and attempt to predict what might happen with technology during the coming year. The past isn't always a good reflector of the future (hence the disclaimers on many UK financial institutions' advertising). However, it does do some good to look at where we've been as an indicator of where we are headed.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#28C4F)
But still really keen on user consent, commish insists The EU’s most famous contribution to the internet era could be snuffed out soon, and few will mourn it. As expected, Brussels will no longer mandate that websites receive the user’s consent for placing cookies on their device.…
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by John Leyden on (#28C0Z)
Well, they did say it was a priority in 2010 The UK parliament launched an inquiry into cyber-security on Tuesday.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#28BW4)
Jobs dared take on the GSM chumocracy – and won iPhone at 10 Apple's iPhone wasn't just a shiny new thing that was irritatingly and madly overhyped. Before long, it shattered a benevolent kind of crony capitalism in which Europeans took great pride, but that was short-serving the public. And it needed an outsider to do this.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#28BT4)
Media luvvies and adland the lure The company behind teen sexting phenomenon Snapchat has chosen London for its international HQ. The Snap Group already has 75 staff here. The company cited proximity to the UK’s world class creative sector, which in this context means digital adland.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#28BPZ)
Clouds, Win 10 and app 'layering' Citrix is updating its decades-old relationship with Microsoft, targeting Windows 10 and the cloud.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#28BND)
F-round funding is vote of confidence in its prospects All-flash array supplier Kaminario has gained an additional $75 million funding in an F-round, taking total funding to $218 million.…
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by Drew Cullen on (#28BKF)
Love your content about muscle! (and a proposal) Many times a week we get emails from SEO link spamming bunnies asking us to add links to Reg stories, often many years old. We always say no - and mark as spam.…
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by John Leyden on (#28BGJ)
Version 2: Sinister malware just got sinistererer Security researchers have identified a second wave of Shamoon 2 PC-wiping attacks against a further target in Saudi Arabia last November. The new research shows hackers upping the ante and developing more sophisticated, multi-stage attacks.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#28BEP)
No really. Insurer's details on 60k people lost forever An insurance business has been fined £150,000 for its lax security practices after a hard drive containing customers' unencrypted information was stolen.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#28BC9)
MTI Europe swaps one private equity parent for another MTI Europe, a tech supplier to the British Transport Police, has swapped one private equity owner for another with Endless LLP slurping the Surrey-based business for an undisclosed fee.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#28B9G)
But... but... you're using it... as just another VDI box A Moonshot-class, Internet of Things HPE server is being used for down to Earth VDI by Citrix.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#28B3Q)
Banks 'effectively unregulated on cybersecurity' It might take a major bank to fail as a result of a cyber attack for meaningful changes in cybersecurity practices, regulation and governance in the UK banking market to be implemented, a leading industry commentator has said.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#28B0X)
Armed with EU ruling, Liberty seeks to nix indiscriminate surveillance Civil liberties advocacy group Liberty is seeking to crowdfund a judicial review of the Investigatory Powers Act.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#28AXQ)
Turn your PC into a green-eyed monster Redmond has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15002 – one of the biggest updates to its cloudy operating system – ahead of the release of the Creators Update later this year.…
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