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by Darren Pauli on (#27PTQ)
HR staffers, crap corporate spam filters, in VXer sights Criminals are posing as job applicants to drop ransomware into human resources departments.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#27PRJ)
New rules put kibosh on internet videos from House floor The next session of the US Congress will include a ban on representatives shooting and streaming video from the floor of the House.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#27PNW)
With a transcompiling tool, YouTube aims to overcome Python's limitations Google on Wednesday introduced an open-source project called Grumpy to translate Python code into Go programs.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#27PDQ)
2017 is off to a flying start A Florida inmate is suing Verizon Wireless after he used one of the telco's stores to commit identity theft.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#27PCJ)
Reformat the future? More like, reformat all hope CES 2017 While the crowds at CES in Las Vegas are all agog at the Faraday Future FF91 supercar, you can stop saving your pennies. Half Life 3 will be released before these allegedly self-driving vehicles roll out in volume.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#27NZW)
DNS bug was a matter of time When the leap second was added just before the arrival of 2017, Cloudflare stumbled. The content delivery network's DNS service suffered a limited service interruption during the first few hours of the new year.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#27NQ6)
Renters freed from restrictions on network providers San Francisco has become the first major US city to bar building owners from restricting their tenants to specific ISPs.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#27NH7)
ZCL, motherf****r, do you speak it? Internet of Things bods at the Zigbee Alliance have unveiled what they are calling a “universal language†for IoT, dotdot.…
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by John Leyden on (#27N14)
Cue customers blasting weary Christmas staff over Twitter Updated DomainMonster finally resolved problems with its hosted email service on Tuesday, more than two weeks after they first began on 21 December.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#27MRN)
Failed US Veep candidate Palin's wailin: I was wrong about you, pale one! Julian Assange has been interviewed for the first time in months, putting to bed rumours he'd been kidnapped, while also disputing claims that Russia contributed to WikiLeaks' offerings during the US Presidential election.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#27MHA)
Hidden wonders of the universe NASA will embark on a new mission to explore supermassive black holes, neutron stars, and pulsars hidden within the depths of space.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#27MBJ)
What data giveth AWS, AWS taketh away from everybody else AWS's database migration service (DMS) is storming along according to its head Andy Jassy, who offered a rare data point on the company's development last week.…
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by John Leyden on (#27M7E)
Let me check my Rolodex... T for Travel Agent ... Legacy travel booking systems disclose travellers’ private information, security researchers warn.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27M2D)
Collaboration with UAV makers DJI will fit the buggers with cavernous storage Seagate is partnering with drone maker DJI to develop onboard storage for its unmanned aerial vehicles.…
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Oh good. Another billionaire looking to get into politics There is only one appropriate response to obnoxious self-improvement posts on Facebook: instant de-friend. But unfortunately Mark Zuckerberg's New Year's resolution is to make more pals in person.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27KW6)
Just a dash to Kaby Lake splash CES 2017 Intel has announced Optane memory products in M.2. format to ship in the second 2017 quarter.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27KPW)
External drive capacity and connectivity boosters CES 2017 With two Seagate LaCie drive revisions, we see the storage industry doing what it does best at a device level; capacity and connectivity upgrades so as to store more data and get at it faster.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#27KJW)
Double-ring phenomena for the 0.1 per cent fans A rarer-than-rare galaxy 359 million light years away from Earth has been spotted by physicists.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#27KHZ)
Privacy? Yeah, they're a little worried about that too The general public is keen on drones of all shapes and sizes but wants their operators to be registered and trained, according to a study carried out by the UK Department for Transport and the Ministry of Defence.…
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by Edward Martinson on (#27KFF)
Sir, I challenge you to a Huel The very phrase "food substitute" is enough to strike fear into the hearts of the Full-English loving workforce, and perhaps rightly so.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#27KA9)
Segfault, segfault black out Smart meters are 'dangerously insecure', according to researcher Netanel Rubin, with insecure encryption and known-pwned protocols - and, worryingly, attacks reach all the way to making them explode.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#27K5S)
Swarm gazers find faster flows in the outer core A speeding jet of magma 420 kilometres wide, described nearly as hot as the Sun's surface underneath Russia is moving three times faster that previously recorded, scientists say.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27K1T)
How to spot a side order of Rowhammer in a benign binary Rowhammer and similar side-channel attacks aren't caught by anti-virus, so a bunch of US boffins have set about working out how to catch their signatures.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27JVJ)
Security smashed for 400 MEEELLION users Kaspersky is moving to fix a bug that disabled certificate validation for 400 million users.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27JQ6)
Creepy: Aristotle gets a female voice, advertisers' ears Today in “what could possibly go wrong?â€, the company that gave the world the infamous “Hello Barbie†now wants its Amazon Alexa look-alike in kids' bedrooms.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#27JJ1)
Patch or perish Some 2,000 MongoDB installations have been compromised by an attacker demanding administrators pay 0.2 bitcoins (US$206) to have lost data returned.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#27JCY)
Cook & Co had the tech and didn't use it, lawsuit claims A family is suing Apple after their five-year-old daughter was killed by a driver allegedly distracted at the wheel with a FaceTime call on his iPhone.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#27JAF)
We're being encouraged to do different work and not everyone can keep up, study shows Routine jobs are disappearing, pushing less educated workers toward either lower-paying non-routine jobs, unemployment, or non-participation in the labor market.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#27J94)
Bonkers IoT gizmo that's wired for sound wins tech bash's mane prize CES 2017 The annual godforsaken hypegasm that is the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has given an "innovation award" ... to a Wi-Fi-connected microphone-fitted allegedly "smart" hairbrush.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#27J2N)
Cornerstone collapse led to blackouts on campus, it is claimed Rutgers University is struggling to pay its bills on time amid a prolonged outage of its Oracle-powered management systems. It is claimed this IT failure led to power outages within its campus after supplies were cut off due to non-payment.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#27HK6)
Advertising industry consultant argues banners are undermined by fees and fraud One dollar of online display advertising will buy you approximately $0.03 worth of actual ads seen by real people, according to Bob Hoffman, a partner in media consultancy Type A Group.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#27HG9)
Cofounder ejects over blacklist for bad reviews The developer of Ham Radio Deluxe – a popular app used by thousands of hams – have restructured its management following claims it punished users who wrote critical reviews.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#27HAC)
Four-hour outage stretches lines, patience If you were trying to enter the US on Monday, queues were much longer than usual. That's because a Christmas software update borked the main computer systems used by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).…
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by John Leyden on (#27GMZ)
Mid-range security mash-up Clearlake Capital Group has acquired IT systems and security management company LANDESK from Thoma Bravo. Financial terms of the deal, announced on Tuesday, were not disclosed.…
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by John Leyden on (#27GFC)
1,280 Wi-Fi networks have fallen victim to the Switcher Hackers have brewed up a strain of Android malware that uses compromised smartphones as conduits to attack routers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#27G9B)
Deep learning, string theory and er ... kitchen gizmos? CES 2017 LG Electronics is unveiling a range of home appliances embedded with “deep learning technology†during this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27G7A)
Multi-billion dollar cost could lead to sale or part-sale of flash business Toshiba is facing such horrific cost-overruns with its US nuclear power plant projects it may have to sell assets, such as its flash memory business, to cover them.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#27G0Y)
No actual demo, though. Looks nice, right? CES 2017 The PC market may be flaccid but Lenovo is taking a punt on virtual reality headsets with Microsoft.…
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by John Leyden on (#27FVA)
You mean that's not a beer coaster? Vinyl sales, which reached a 25-year high, and a continued increase in streaming offset decline in CD sales as music consumption rose last year, according to official music industry figures.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27FSS)
China breaks ground on $24bn memory foundry China's Yangtze River Storage Technology (YMTC) has started building a 3D NAND flash plant.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27FPK)
Desk warriors get Optane cache to chew through data faster Lenovo has a ThinkPad T570 notebook computer coming out which will be able to use Intel Optane 3D XPoint memory as a cache.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27FM5)
Rise of the Storage Machines On Storage Igneous's Ethernet-accessed, ARM-driven disk drives provide a seriously large amount of collective CPU chops to its dataBox/dataRouter array but the poor little suckers work blindfolded. Why would I say that?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#27FGE)
'We have no recruiting targets,' says indignant MoD spin doctor Army social media psyops unit 77 Brigade is struggling to reel in new government cyber-warriors in spite of a recruitment publicity blitz last year, according to the Ministry of Defence.…
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Fatter pipes for some, BT Openreach verdict and plenty of hype Blighty’s post Brexit diet must include a "full-fibre" eating plan, or so says the UK’s new digital minister Matt Hancock. Amid all the political noise over the last 12 months, the volume for infrastructure investment was dialled up to 11.…
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by Team Register on (#27F36)
Crypto currency's 2017 cracking start bouyed by devalued yuan Bitcoin has surpassed the US$1,000 mark for the first time in three years.…
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by Team Register on (#27EXH)
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27ETB)
Where were you in June 1995? Coding image libraries? Let's have a chat Slackware has raced out of the blocks in 2017, issuing one patch for the libpng image library on New Year's Day, and two Mozilla patches on January 2.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#27EN0)
Borked patch opens remote code execution on web servers Websites using PHPMailer for forms are at risk from a critical-rated remote code execution zero day bug.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27EHW)
Space 'scope spots staggering galactic resonator The name's boring but the science isn't: an entire galaxy spied by the Hubble Space Telescope is acting as a microwave-emitting laser, or maser.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27EEE)
Google joins Microsoft, Apple, Adobe in top of the pops Of any single product, CVE Details reckons, Android had the most reported vulnerabilities in 2016 – but as a vendor, Adobe still tops the list.…
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