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by Alexander J Martin on (#2B6PV)
Las Vegas hotel changes world Reg Standards Bureau Our thanks today are due to Michelle O'Sullivan, late of this parish, who snapped a wonderful poster boasting to residents of the LINQ Hotel in Las Vegas of its recycling prowess.…
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by John Leyden on (#2B6KN)
Hacking convention's founder hacked off with executive order The next edition of the well-regarded ‪PasswordsCon‬ conference is in doubt as an indirect result of the Trump administration's controversial travel ban.…
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by Mark Whitehorn on (#2B6GJ)
Is your machine learning? Pity the 34 staff of Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance in Japan, diligently calculating insurance payouts and brutally replaced by an AI system. If you believe the reports from January, the AI revolution is here.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2B6E1)
A story of a £24k ring and a man who compared himself to Nelson Mandela A "serial entrepreneur" from Leicester who compared himself to Nelson Mandela and whose solar power company is alleged to have defrauded Hewlett Packard Enterprise out of $17.5m in discounts has been jailed for 18 months by the High Court following an application by HPE.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2B6AD)
24-rack unit replaced with 15 'blades', performance gained, millions saved – so they say A 24-rack NetApp system has been replaced with a single Pure Storage FlashBlade product at a customer site.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#2B682)
Yep, that's gotta hurt Sysadmin blog Holistic IT is hard. There are those among us who want to purchase hardware, software, services or so-called turnkey "solutions" – as vendors call them – bearing logos and stickers and otherwise don't require any architect-level thinking. None of us wants to dive deep into compliance regimes to understand what we need to do.…
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by Wireless Watch on (#2B664)
Even in rural Australia, sharing is resisted Analysis The advantages of network sharing seem glaringly obvious in a world where the mismatch between mobile data demand and mobile data ARPU is rushing MNOs’ profits. The need to reduce the cost of delivering those rising tides of data is urgent, but many operators are ready to discuss almost any tactic – Wi-Fi offload, automation, outsourcing, even an early move to more spectrally efficient 5G radios, or an outright merger – rather than consider sharing the RAN load with others.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2B646)
Just... why? Comment Mark Zuckerberg is the world's fifth-richest man on the basis that stock markets think he's pretty smart. That's not the entire reason for Zuck taking his place alongside Gulf oil sheikhs – but it's certainly a big factor in Facebook's astronomical evaluation. But this week's Facebook strategy insights make you wonder how smart he really is.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2B61K)
Wholesale price agreement slashes telco-to-telco charges The European Commission has taken the next step towards the scheduled end of roaming charges in the European Union, securing agreement on maximum wholesale charges telcos will be able to charge each other to handle roaming subscribers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2B60A)
Windows XP? SHA-1? USB sneakernet? What were they thinking? Or smoking? The Netherlands has decided its vote-counting software isn't ready for prime time, and will revert to hand-counted votes for its March 15 election.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2B5YD)
He who controls the film rights controls the universe The legendary sci-fi novel Dune is going to be turned into a movie again – and, thanks to director Denis Villeneuve, it may not suck.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2B5VG)
Plus: Boston Dynamics builds 'nightmare-inducing' jumping pram Videos Watch out – robots are now fast and strong enough to catch live fish and kick balls underwater, according to a group of engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2B5T5)
Implementation, however, may take some time Usenix Enigma 2017 Data center managers should take some tips from the US Secret Service when protecting vital servers from hackers, says someone who has been through a White House lockdown.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2B5PD)
And restored itself. But the code locker lost about six hours of data for 707 users GitLab.com, the wannabe GitHub alternative that yesterday went down hard and reported data loss, has confirmed that some data is gone but that its services are now operational again.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#2B5M8)
Security outfit Zimperium wants to sell info on vintage Android and iOS exploits Security firm Zimperium will spend US$1.5 million buying hacks targeting flaws in three-year-old Android KitKat and ancient versions of iOS.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2B5HW)
Spinning rust for desktops-as-a-service is soooooo 2016 Amazon Web Services has found another way to make its “Workspaces†desktop-as-a-service offering more attractive: as of today the cloudy Windows instances run on solid state disks instead of ye olde spinning rust hard disks.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2B5B3)
Citius, altius, fortius, recyclius The organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 Summer and Paralympic games has announced that medals at the games will be made from recycled electronics.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#2B56X)
CMS sultan decided you'd be happier not knowing you were ever in danger Last week's WordPress patch run fixed a then-secret zero day bug that let remote unauthorised hackers edit or delete WordPress pages.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2B532)
President Bannon can't turn off the Internet, but he'll give it a damn good try The United States' temporary ban on seven nations' citizens seeking to walk on it soil has wrung a rare almost-political statement out of the Internet Engineering Task Force.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2B4ZS)
But he's keen on a technology-agnostic NBN energy policy with lots of coal in it Listen closely and you'll hear the tears of hipster app creators, angel investors and "Silicon Beach" real-estate speculators weeping that Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, once such folks' champions, appears now to be ignoring them.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2B4X5)
Remote unauthenticated control over a vulnerable ISP's gear Cisco is advising ISPs and other service providers using its Prime Home system to install a security update immediately – to squash a serious remote execution bug.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2B4X7)
Snitches get stitches A man has been indicted on arson and insurance fraud charges after police got hold of readings from his pacemaker that called his alibi into question.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2B4TB)
Cook bakes up another Chipzilla-free component for fruity computers – report Apple is believed to be developing another ARM-based processor that will challenge Intel hardware in its Mac line.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2B4QJ)
ZeniMax prevails in court fight over broken agreement Game maker ZeniMax has been awarded $500 million in its lawsuit against Facebook-owned VR firm Oculus.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2B4DY)
Humans in self-driving cars hit panic button far less in 2016 Self-driving cars may actually learn how to drive well enough to be deployed without human oversight some day, legislation and society permitting.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2B473)
President's executive order causes jitters, but data agreement became law today The transatlantic Privacy Shield data transfer agreement is not at risk from Trump's executive actions, former FTC Commissioner Julie Brill has promised.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2B41Q)
Big Apple goes to court on claims it– BUFFERING (0%) New York's Attorney General is suing cable giant Charter on claims of false advertising of its internet speeds.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2B3ED)
Shrunken A700 all-flash array wins top-3 benchmark result NetApp has launched two new all-flash FAS arrays, won a top 3 SPC-1 storage benchmark result, and announced a new flash capacity guarantee programme.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2B36D)
Blogger/influencer/sometime Reg commentator joins OpenIO OpenIO, an object storage startup, has recruited Enrico Signoretti as its head of product strategy.…
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by Team Register on (#2B310)
It was a real eye-opener
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by Chris Mellor on (#2B2XE)
Word to your motherboard Comment Supermicro will have more Skylake CPU server motherboard products out faster than competitors because its engineering smarts better equip it for Skylake fastening complexities.…
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Tell us what you think of All-Flash Arrays and the people who sell them Study All-Flash Arrays were one of the hottest themes on the pages of The Reg during 2016, so we want to dig deep into your knowledge and experience with these systems to get the details.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2B2RJ)
Yep, $497m smackeroos... Yes, net Industry execs are paid to put on a brave face when outlining company financials, and AMD’s CEO Lisa Su kept up her end of the bargain last night when the broken business reported a net loss of $497m for 2016.…
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by John Leyden on (#2B2RK)
2.5 million account details potentially exposed The personal details of 2.5 million gamers have been leaked following a breach of unofficial Xbox 360 and PSP forums.…
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by Clodagh Doyle on (#2B2NE)
Better sleep means better bedroom action for women over 50 Older women getting their full quota of kip are far more likely to be getting a full quota of other types of bedroom action too, research by the North American Menopause Society has shown.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2B2KM)
Adds smaller-scale options too Cisco's Tetration telemetry analytics has had six months since launch to bed down so Switchzilla has decided it's time for a refresh.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2B2G5)
Cook talks up HomeKit and enterprise Analysis Apple’s main job in earnings conferences is to remind us that there’s more to the world’s most valuable company than the iPhone – while persuading us that the iPhone is doing really jolly well. The iPhone generates almost two-thirds of Apple’s wealth.…
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Brendan Barber appointment part of BT's plans to rebuild 'credibility' Openreach has appointed former general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Sir Brendan Barber to its independent board.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2B2BZ)
NGO creates 'internet censor' job advertisements in protest Digital Economy Bill Government proposals to force websites serving up adult content to verify users' ages has been criticised as an "unworkable proposal" by Open Rights Group, which today launched a spoof recruitment campaign to raise awareness of the Digital Economy Bill.…
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by John Leyden on (#2B2C0)
But someone using his email says otherwise Spanish cops investigating an attack on a Catalan police union last May have arrested three suspects, including a hacker alleged to be behind high-profile attacks against spyware-for-cops firms Hacking Team and Gamma International.…
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Hospitals advised to use Bing instead Exclusive Google is blocking access to the entire NHS network, mistaking the amount of traffic it is currently receiving as a cyber attack.…
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by Marcus Gibson on (#2B276)
Sorry, Theresa May. Graphene and 'space' are not Britain's industrial future Rarely has a report on industrial strategy, unveiled by the Prime Minister Theresa May at the Sci-Tech Daresbury centre in the North West on January 23 contained so little about industry.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2B25M)
Grid bondage puts admins in charge Slack, the four-year-old team chat service that owes its popularity to email's shortcomings and some smart design decisions, has rolled out a version of the service for large organizations.…
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by Team Register on (#2B22Y)
PC vendors continue to slide as mobile tightens grasp on market Samsung overtook Apple in Gartner's "total addressable semiconductor" market.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2B21D)
Haughty minister tries brushing it off as pedantry Defence chiefs have confessed that the 70,000-ton aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth’s delivery date is getting later and later – with one Tory minister openly mocking an MP who asked a straight question.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#2B209)
I promise I've been a good boy this year Sysadmin Blog I yell at Microsoft a lot. It's cathartic. Microsoft make several decent pieces of software and quite a few great cloud services, but for every awesome thing they create it seems they ruin something else. Over the past year I've developed a wishlist of changes. Dear Microsoft...…
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Founder Charles Dunstone to take helm of biz Chief exec of TalkTalk, Dido Harding, is to step down from the company after seven years in the role.…
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by John Leyden on (#2B1VY)
Ah, kids today! Nope, nope, this is governments we're talking about Feature The allegations that computer hackers affected the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election have cast a long shadow and might appear to be unprecedented.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2B1RS)
Engineers need to change user interfaces Usenix Enigma Several academics have been using brain scanning methods to see how people handle computer security, and the resounding result is that our brains are biochemically working against us in this realm.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2B1PM)
RIP online Texas hold'em? Don't bet on it just yet Analysis Machines have triumphed again. Libratus, a powerful computer program, has crushed its human opponents at a heads-up no-limit Texas hold’em poker tournament held at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, winning $1,776,250 over 120,000 hands.…
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