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Punters paying an average £113/year once promo finishes Sneaky broadband providers are enticing punters with cheap deals only to whack them with a 43 per cent hike once the offer runs out, according to the Citizens Advice Bureau.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JQCN)
At least that's what HPE tells us Five months after the Reg first reported that HPE, Cisco – and even Dell EMC – were being punched hard in the supply chain by worldwide flash chip shortages, it's still a problem for at least one vendor.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JQAN)
Firm seeks workaround to more VC cash Analysis File sync and sharer Egnyte expanded into content governance midway through last year as the collaborative file access market's maturity came into view. But the now-profitable company is not looking to make a debt-fuelled dash for growth.…
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Pan-government deal applies to 200,000 licences Exclusive The UK government has inked a deal with Microsoft to prevent Whitehall from paying an extra £15m in licence fees due to a post-Brexit price hike.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JQ4P)
Forum might be liable for celeb image breaches US forum admins will be watching a Californian court with nervous interest, as social forum LiveJournal goes to trial for copyright infringement.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2JQ3E)
AI must master gift of the gab, humans have to play nice too The AI hype has triggered a moral panic as people entertain the idea that super-intelligent machines may one day dominate Earth.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JQ0V)
Jet fuel can't melt SteelCentral, but pwnage is far too easy Riverbed admins: get busy patching the SteelCentral Portal application.…
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by John Leyden on (#2JPZR)
Feedback mechanism for parents/students on shaky ground UK school regulator Ofsted has downplayed security concerns about its website, adding that its policies will be further involved once a planned revamp is completed.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2JPVG)
Trump hacking claims look like red herring Police in Barcelona have arrested a man suspected of being one of the web's top spammers and the possible operator of a major botnet.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JPQR)
Control panel busted, but servers stayed online Ouch: last week, Digital Ocean took the GitLab fat-finger pill, deleting a production database and triggering a five-hour outage.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JPKM)
Boffins say BGP is a threat to the crypto-currency Attacks on Bitcoin just keep coming: ETH Zurich boffins have worked with Aviv Zohar of The Hebrew University in Israel to show off how to attack the crypto-currency via the Internet's routing infrastructure.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JPF6)
Hang on, sharing records is kind of what it's for The Australian government has found itself embroiled in a privacy furore, this time for the privacy settings on its MyHealthRecord e-health system.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2JPCN)
x86, Sparc running Solaris 6-10 at risk – and potentially 11 Now that the sulky Shadow Brokers gang has leaked its archive of stolen NSA exploits, security experts are trawling Uncle Sam's classified attack code – and the results aren't good for anyone using Oracle's Solaris.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JP8Y)
Laggy silicon at heart of broadband boxes lands gateway maker in court Cable modem maker Arris is facing a class-action suit over its handling of a lag-prone line of cable modems.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JP7M)
With Australians flocking to fast broadband, the digital divide's going to keep widening Nokia seems to believe in the future of fibre: it's run a test with nbn™ demonstrating next-generation passive optical networking (NG-PON) running at 10 Gbps.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2JP12)
NATO cybersecurity bods warn about transition to new protocol For all those sysadmins tired of having to make excuses for why they haven't moved to IPv6, worry no more: the new protocol brings with it the risk of network infiltration.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JNYW)
'Systemic compensation disparities against women across the entire workforce' Google is on the defensive after its gender pay equality campaign was panned in court by Uncle Sam.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2JNVT)
You decide! Poll Ajit Pai, chair of US comms watchdog the FCC, has unilaterally decided that no one wants to make cellphone calls on planes, and he killed off a 2013 proposal by the regulator to potentially allow them.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2JNNQ)
Not happy about online security being equated with restricting access to law enforcement The Internet Society has called for the full encryption of the internet, decrying the fact that securing the digital world has increasingly become associated with restricting access to law enforcement.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JNFW)
Kubernetes championing continues with gobble of orchestration specialist Microsoft has acquired Deis to provide better management tools for containers on the Azure cloud.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2JNE5)
City engineers stop attack by… yes, turning it off then on again Shortly before midnight on Friday in Dallas, Texas, the city's emergency sirens started to howl. Within minutes, all 156 of the sirens were blaring out and residents were starting to panic.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2JMRM)
Four more days of industrial action pencilled in The beleaguered rank-and-file at Fujitsu are downing tools this month over long-running proposals to chop jobs and the pension pot, Unite the union has revealed.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2JMGY)
Listen El Reg, our WW Spending Forecast is based on 'proven methodologies... not guesswork. OK?' Data druids at Gartner are defending their soothsaying abilities after being forced to halve global tech spending projections for 2017 because an expected slide in the value of the greenback didn’t materialise.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JMBP)
Climbs up Dot Hill to roll low-cost AFAs down into the market Seagate has introduced all-flash, all-disk, and hybrid flash/disk RealStor arrays.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2JM9W)
CyanogenNodSoMuch WileyFox is rowing its users away from the wreckage of the Cyanogen disaster, with some help from Ricardo Cerqueira, Cyanogen Inc’s former director of engineering.…
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Society is changing - we’ll show you why and how Society is changing before our eyes, and whether you think revolutionaries or robots are to blame, technology is often at the heart of the matter.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JM4J)
10x boost in processing performance apparently Storage startup Tachyum's co-founder Rado Danilak has blasted out a teaser tech alert saying the US is falling behind China in supercomputing. The implication being, of course, that his startup is coming to the rescue.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2JM3T)
Consultancy expects to take on 3,000 of 6,500 employees French multinational IT consultancy Capgemini is set to gobble Ciber, which has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the United States bankruptcy code.…
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by John Leyden on (#2JM1Q)
Daaaamn, these exploits are old-school The self-styled Shadow Brokers group has made a collection of NSA hacking tools and exploits publicly available.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2JM02)
And now we are all part of this sickening cycle too The chief executive of T-Mobile US has offered a random teen on the internet a year’s supply of chicken nuggets if he switches from AT&T.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JM03)
I can see me mam's house from up here Korean flash fabber SK Hynix has built a 72-layer 3D NAND die with 256Gb capacity.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2JKXG)
Collective legal action rears its head in Horizon IT scandal Over 1,000 subpostmasters whom the Post Office accused of dipping into the tills — wrongly, many complained, citing problems affecting the Post Office's Horizon IT system — could be set to join a group litigation order to clear their names.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JKVW)
Risen from the ashes? “NetApp has risen from the ashes and executed an unlikely business transformation†– at least according to one Wall Street convert.…
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by Thomas Flanagan, Faultline on (#2JKV5)
How premium, you ask? Analysis When YouTube announced its standalone TV subscription service last month, Faultline called for Apple to return fire, and last week there were rumours doing the rounds that Apple is preparing to rope in premium content providers to offer a bundled subscription package of its own.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JKSR)
From EMC to IBM, XIV to Diligent, the Symmetrix inventor is still going hard at 68 Profile The man is an enigma, but you can't expect billionaires to be easily understood people. He has performed several storage engineering firsts; he develops products and is basically a storage legend in his own lifetime. He is also said to have a massive ego.…
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Just show me the money! Comment "It doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice," according to Chinese revolutionary Deng Xiaoping.…
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Just show me the money! Comment "It doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice," according to Chinese revolutionary Deng Xiaoping.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JKNC)
Compares Mir chat to 'irrational' gun control or climate change debates, so F-that-S Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has labelled some members of the free software community habitual, hateful and reflexive contrarians.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#2JKKX)
Standards help, too, as we fight to ensure the cost of sharing doesn't outweigh the benefits A long-ago cartoon in The New Yorker put it plainly: "On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog." If that cartoon had been written today, the caption might have read, "On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a fraud."…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JKKD)
So why can it read scripts sent by SMS anyhow? TP-Link's M5350 3G/Wi-Fi router, has the kind of howling bug that gives infosec pros nightmares.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JKHR)
270,000 customers advised not to worry but also to watch out for odd transactions and ponder password refresh Payday lender Wonga has advised 270,000 customers of a data breach and offered inconsistent advice about the severity of the incident and how to respond.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JKF9)
9,448 of world's most popular airliner have flown since April 9th, 1967. 4,500 more are on order. 168 were written off Boeing's 737, the world's most common airliner, turned 50 over the weekend: the single-aisle workhorse first took to the skies on April 9th, 1967.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JKQN)
'Castellans' memorise manuals, 'Tinkers' can't stop hacking hardware. Keep 'Algorithmicists' out of a corner office Open source luminary Eric S. Raymond has given the world eight “Hacker Archetypes†that he thinks offer useful ways to categorise your colleagues and by doing so help them to understand their strengths and weaknesses.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JKBB)
'Castellans' memorise manuals, 'Tinkers' can't stop hacking hardware. Keep 'Algorithmicists' out of a corner office Open source luminary Eric S. Raymond has given the world eight “Hacker Archetypes†that he thinks offer useful ways to categorise your colleagues and by doing so help them to understand their strengths and weaknesses.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JK70)
Cupertino's so keen on Android it took eight months to repair interception bug If you're so much an Apple fan that you run Apple Music on Android devices, there's an upgrade to patch against a man-in-the-middle vulnerability.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JK71)
Testing was inadequate, staff training worse, averaging incomes was known to be risky but used anyway Australia's Commonwealth Ombudsman has published its report (PDF) on Centrelink’s automated debt raising and recovery system and found that while it is capable of correctly assessing debts, the agency was aware it had flaws and did little to prevent them.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JK1V)
FireEye, McAfee, disclose over the weekend. Will Microsoft squash it on Patch Tuesday? All eyes will be on Microsoft's April patch run - due tomorrow - to see whether Redmond gets ahead of a nasty Word zero-day that popped up last week.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JK0F)
US Customs OKs interface re-written software Arista has been cleared by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to start shipping modified products to the United States again.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JG0Q)
LiDAR? I barely know her! Uber has filed its response to Waymo's trade secret suit, arguing it does not even use the self-driving car technology described in the complaint.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2JFWV)
Rogue code aims to create permanent DoS A new form of attack code has come to town and it uses techniques similar to Mirai to permanently scramble Internet of Things devices.…
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