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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2S00B)
Get busy: SQL injection, XSS, CSRF and more SD-WAN company Peplink has patched its load-balancing routers against vulnerabilities turned up by a German pentest company.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2RZXE)
It's 1994 all over again, it seems It looks like the 1990s are back in fashion: Microsoft is, it seems, preparing another flavor of Windows 10 – the tentatively named Windows 10 Pro for Workstations.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2RZWK)
Yasss Steve i mean Tim... sorry... tell ush moar ab, ab, aboat aaye eye WWDC While touting forthcoming operating system features at its annual developer conference on Monday, Apple made sure to mention machine learning and related AI-oriented terminology over and over.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2RZSA)
GSLV Mk III pits new entrant into the orbital workhorse biz India has successfully launched its GSLV Mark III heavy-lift rocket on schedule, leaving explosion-watchers disappointed.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2RZQB)
We won't know what they are for a fortnight, but clouds are warning of VM reboots The Xen Project has announced nine – as in 3^ – embargo-worthy bugs. Details of the problems, which fixes for all, will be revealed on June 20.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2RZMM)
Reality Winner cuffed by FBI after allegedly emailing journos A 25-year-old contractor has been charged with leaking NSA files that claim Russian intelligence hacked at least one maker of voting software used in 2016's US elections.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2RZFT)
But labor worries aren't over yet AT&T has agreed to a new contract with 17,000 union workers who were threatening a strike.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2RZEM)
Cable networks' upgrade to DOCSIS 3.1 inches a step closer If you build a hybrid-fibre coax network in a lab, nbn™ says it can support 1 Gbps down / 100 Mbps up performance.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2RZBC)
Dial-a-ride biz agrees to settle another California class action Uber will pay $32.5m to settle a California class-action lawsuit alleging it was charging customers a fee on their rides for a background check service it was not providing.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2RZ8P)
Yet another belated entry into the interactive snooping speaker world WWDC Apple has joined Amazon, Google, and Microsoft in the race to plant microphones in people's homes.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2RYZK)
Will they live up to the promise, though? HPE today announced its generation-10 ProLiant servers – claiming they have better security and more persistent memory and manageability – while, like Dell, saying nothing much about the coming Skylake server CPUs from Intel.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2RYW2)
Uni gives kids a lesson they'll never forget after spreading stupidity on Facebook At least ten students due to start at Harvard this fall have had their admission offers torn up – after they swapped offensive piffle online.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2RYR8)
Armed robbery case goes to America's highest court After years of contradictory appeals court decisions, the US Supreme Court will finally hear a case about how private your cell phone location should be.…
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by John Leyden on (#2RY60)
Info safeguards to ramp up spending, say beancounters The rush to comply with Europe's upcoming General Data Protection Regulation will balloon the continent's IT security budgets to $11.5bn in 2018, analyst group Canalys reckons.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2RXV0)
You can't make the internet more and less safe at the same time The UK's Prime Minister has been taken to task for trying to make the internet "both more and less safe" at the same time – and failing to publicly acknowledge the dichotomy.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2RXMW)
Where's my self-driving plane? Nowhere, it's a feasibility study* It's the fear of anyone who watches Snakes on a Plane and books a flight – what if your plane crashes? Now take a deep breath and imagine that you're travelling on a plane or rocketship with no pilot. A new NASA research project hopes to find ways to certify unmanned autonomous aircraft systems for safety.…
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Unable to raise orders following database merge few weeks ago The merger between Dell and EMC has caused havoc for partners attempting to raise invoices with the borg, as its "new combined customer base" is having problems issuing purchase order numbers.…
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by Clodagh Doyle on (#2RX59)
Emo Oil targets overheated marketeers and frigid FM specialists alike If you're worried that your fellow office workers' productivity is being compromised because they're boiling over with "frustration", Northern Ireland's Emo Oil is promising to relieve their plight with its selection of oils and lubricants.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2RX38)
'NetApp HCI' takes all of its best bits and wraps them around compute and vCenter NetApp has finally revealed its long-promised hyperconverged appliance. Named “NetApp HCIâ€, the product pours almost everything the company does into a 2U box, along with four unnamed servers, a cloud-style pay-as-you-go pricing plan and a vCenter plugin so you can manage it without having to learn new tools.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2RWZN)
Meanwhile, Tosh shoves WDC's stake back, mutters 'keep it' Apple, Amazon and Foxconn are preparing to "chip in" for ailing Toshiba's NAND flash memory chip-making division, according to reports.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#2RWY5)
Um. Who put production credentials in onboarding doc? "How screwed am I?" a new starter asked Reddit after claiming they'd been marched out of their job by their employer's CTO after "destroying" the production DB – and had been told "legal" would soon get stuck in.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2RWW2)
Defence Science and Tech Lab accused of 'discriminatory' rules A data scientist claims the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) diddled him out of a £12,000 research competition prize because he is Russian – despite assurances he'd be able to claim the money.…
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by Chris Tofts on (#2RWY6)
It's not the velociraptor you can see that kills you One of the key principles of designing any high availability system is to make sure only vital apps or functions use it and everything else doesn't – sometimes referred to as KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid).…
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by Chris Tofts on (#2RWQQ)
The hidden problems of criticality bloat One of the key principles of designing any high availability system is to make sure only vital apps or functions use it and everything else doesn't – sometimes referred to as KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid).…
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by John Leyden on (#2RWN2)
How difficult can it possibly be? Very, apparently Delays in updating software and operating systems are putting organisations at greater risk of attacks, according to research by Duo Security.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2RWM5)
Forget 'value or biz justification' says UK GTS chief IBM UK and Ireland has told the Global Technology Services team that all travel to customer sites must be approved by divisional general manager Tosca Colangeli irrespective of "value or business justification".…
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by Thomas Flanagan for Faultline on (#2RWJR)
€120m for the bin... Opinion A group of European governing institutions has approved a programme to invest €120m (£105m, $134.7m) in public Wi-Fi hotspots in over 6,000 municipalities in all European Union member states by 2020.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2RWEH)
Survey of ~6,000 contributors also finds widespread harassment, gender imbalance The open source community is nasty in many ways, according to a survey of over 6,000 contributors to open source projects.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2RWBG)
'Maxx Interactive Desktop' lets you relive the workstation wars and maybe do serious work Those of you yearning for the experience of running a 1990s-vintage graphics workstation are about to have a good day: a developer named Eric Masson has resurrected the IRIX Interactive Desktop that shipped on Silicon Graphics Workstations and now offers it as a Linux desktop alternative.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2RW9E)
Strontium release dogged by normal boring clouds that blocked boffins' view NASA's attempts to make red and green clouds have been thwarted by Mother Nature.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2RW3S)
Cloudy backup, now with data de-dupe, Windows System State restore and free egress Microsoft keeps getting closer and closer to being a decent backup vendor.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2RVZB)
Internet offers terrorist hatemongers 'safe space to breed' says PM British prime minister Theresa May's statement in response to the terror attacks that saw seven people murdered in London on Saturday night has again called for internet companies to make life harder for those who would discuss hateful and violent ideologies.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2RVWY)
Admits costs set to rise and that it faces entrenched deep-pocketed competition Virtualized storage upstart Tintri has filed for its initial public offering.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2RPAB)
Details scant on insurance, mileage costs, and depreciation As Amazon tests drone-drops for online orders, Walmart wants sales associates to double as delivery drivers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2RP9A)
There's no way this could go horribly, violently wrong... right? Amazon has been given a patent on a system to deliver packages from the sky via on-board parachutes.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2RP83)
ISS crew Thomas Pesquet and Oleg Novitski come home The crew of the International Space Station is down to three after ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitski landed rather uncomfortably in the wilds of Kazakhstan.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2RP55)
FCC boss ready to kill off protections for phone calls FCC boss Ajit Pai has put forward a new set of changes to the rules it will use to govern US telcos, potentially reducing privacy protections and local government rights in the process.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2RP23)
Foe of same-sex unions seeks to wed machine The Utah Attorney General's Office says marrying a laptop is not a constitutionally protected right, particularly if it's less than fifteen years old.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2RNPC)
It's easier to mine than uraninite ore, too Scientists have discovered bizarre evidence in the US state of Wyoming – that bacteria hidden deep within the Earth's crust secrete uranium.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2RNAA)
Smartphone king already losing its only hope for a base With its much-hyped Bixby Voice assistant still learning basic English, Samsung has to deal with a mass defection of its user base.…
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Apple and Google have eaten its lunch Sage, pusher of the thrilling product that is accountancy software, has flogged its North American Payments business to private equity outfit GTCR for $260m (£202m).…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#2RMTA)
Finding a partner – what to check for You may have noticed that information security is something of a big deal these days. You’ll also not have missed that the attackers’ capabilities are far ahead of those of us trying to defend our systems against them.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2RMTC)
'Tier-one' customer cools off Hewlett Packard Enterprise's joint venture with Foxconn to build lower cost servers to order for the world's biggest service providers is under threat because of its over reliance on shrinking sales to its one major customer, reportedly Microsoft.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2RMBB)
Potentially by a panicking contractor, if reports are to be believed Analysis An IT bod from a data centre consultancy has been fingered as the person responsible for killing wannabe budget airline British Airways' Boadicea House data centre – and an explanation has emerged as to what killed the DC.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2RN58)
Do not install build 16212 “A small portion†of Windows mobile users hoping the unexpected cool new update would start the month off the right way got burned yesterday. Microsoft “accidentally†released a development build of Windows 10 that can transform your phone into jelly if you try to install it.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2RM6J)
Do not install build 16212 “A small portion†of Windows mobile users hoping the unexpected cool new update would start the month off the right way got burned yesterday. Microsoft “accidentally†released a development build of Windows 10 that can transform your phone into jelly if you try to install it.…
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Carrion parenting A pair of gay Dutch vultures in a long-term relationship have become parents.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#2RKY8)
We're talking 'bout blockage, blockage... Eyeo, Eyeo away Publishers will get a six-month headsup before Google kills intrusive advertising on Chrome, sources close to the ad giant have reportedly said.…
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Just kidding, they'll have smart 'Snap' spectacles... Memory monetisation has arrived in the UK today with the launch of Snap Spectacles.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2RKSM)
Remember to cut down on those travel expenses, folks... Here is the short video that IBM didn’t want the world see - it shows CEO, president and chairman Ginni Rometty mounting a Big Blue chopper following a trip to the Hursley R&D labs in the UK.…
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