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by Shaun Nichols on (#22KPA)
Packet loss equals knackered broadband service for some For the past nine hours or so today, bungling Brit broadband ISP Plusnet's internet service has been rather wobbly – with network packet loss wrecking some connections.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#22KMM)
Preferential E-3 visa deal likely to come under scrutiny for labor and free trade reasons In January 2016, the United States changed the rules of the E-3 visa to make it easier for skilled Australians working in the USA to stay there for longer. And yesterday President-elect Donald Trump announced he would “direct the Department of Labor to investigate all abuses of visa programs that undercut the American worker.â€â€¦
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by John Leyden on (#22KD9)
Software nasty also uses steganography to inject poison payload A Trojan targeting US healthcare organizations attempts to avoid detection by going to sleep for prolonged periods after initial infection, security researchers warn.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#22K0E)
Eight claims dismissed with prejudice Veeam has defeated two four-year-old legal challenges from Symantec, initiated before Symantec split from Veritas and its data protection software.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#22JWP)
Mass-client borkage leaves netizens SMH over SMTP An unknown issue affecting Microsoft's free email service Outlook has left users' email clients borked.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#22JS5)
Patient data access concerns prompts ICO probe DeepMind Health, the healthcare arm of the artificial intelligence business owned by Google, has signed a deal with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust to provide an app called Streams.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#22JJP)
5 processor types, 4 basic form factors in server gallimaufry Backgrounder HPE has the biggest cojones in the server business, bending tin, designing silicon and pushing photonics, all the while mixing it in the rough and tumble of the COTS jungle.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#22JGH)
Simplicity is good, but what else can you do? In a world of complex technologies and unforgiving business environments, simplicity in IT is good.…
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by John Leyden on (#22JCN)
Uncle Sam goes crackers for hackers Security experts reckon the US government’s newly unveiled "Hack the Army" bug bounty programme may usher in greater co-operation across the whole arena of security research.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#22J9E)
Flash array backup jungle receives a new message from Mr Tambourine Man Flash array supplier Pure Storage and disk-based backup vendor ExaGrid want users to have Veeam backup software protect FlashArray data with ExaGrid's arrays.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#22J5V)
Sorry, data, the holiday's cancelled IBM is expanding its UK data centre footprint, tripling the number of facilities in the region.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#22J2D)
The five deny all wrongdoing The five officers from South Yorkshire Police accused of using a copper 'copter to record people who were naked or having sex will contest the allegations at their trial next year.…
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by John Leyden on (#22HY9)
Law enforcement dents cybercrime networks A pan-European crackdown has resulted in the arrest of 178 suspected money mules.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#22HX7)
Park your legacy apps here, they'll feel right at home Microsoft plans to emulate x86 instructions on ARM chips, throwing a compatibility lifeline to future Windows tablets and phones.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#22HV8)
Tales from the antitrust crypt Microsoft is offering to crack open access to LinkedIn to secure European Commission approval for its $26bn purchase of the social network for suits.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#22HT7)
Tuchen tells El Reg what's wrong with the per-core software pricing model Interview Founded in France in 2005, Talend made its initial public offering on the NASDAQ in July, listing as a French company although it's now headquartered in Redwood City, south of San Francisco.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#22HQJ)
EU should not be 'too restrictive' with data protection law EU countries must not be too restrictive in how they apply EU data protection laws or risk damaging the development of big data projects, German chancellor Angela Merkel has said.…
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'That there London gets all the speeds' More than half the population does not believe it is has access to superfast broadband – despite the government promising that 95 per cent of the country will have 24Mbps next year.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#22HKT)
Hold it, hold it, hold it – now sell it! Falling sales, burning batteries – but not everything associated with smartphones is bad…
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by Chris Mellor on (#22HGB)
Now stop wasting our time Veeam has defeated two four-year-old legal challenges by Symantec, initiated before it split from Veritas and its data protection software.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#22HEF)
Watchdog should look to the users for help User rating and review services provided by online platforms can help reduce the need to regulate the "sharing economy", according to a report by a US regulator.…
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Stop drooling, BT. It's not for you The government is to release £400m towards full-fibre broadband in its Autumn Statement tomorrow, part of its Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#22H9C)
King Battistelli, of course, remains unrepentant The extraordinary meltdown at the European Patent Office (EPO) has started to draw political attention, with the Dutch parliament planning a debate on the organization and its ongoing problems.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#22H8A)
To be fair, the same goes for many humans, too Researchers at Facebook have attempted to build a machine capable of reasoning from text – but their latest paper shows true machine intelligence still has a long way to go.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#22H69)
D1000 can be directed to drop its firewall, allowing access to panel over the internet Eir, Ireland's largest ISP, has tens of thousands of customers with insecure ADSL2+ modems that appear to be vulnerable to remote takeover.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#22H54)
Sorry, no climate change. Just faster Glacier retrieval and new cloud hijinks with desktops-as-a-service-in-a-browser Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made a few price cut announcements a few days out from its Re:Invent shindig in Las Vegas.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#22H44)
The 'pseudogap' state could be key to high-temperature superconductors Physicists may be one step closer to cracking the mystery behind high-temperature superconductivity, as they confirm that a new distinct state of matter forms just before a material enters its superconductive state.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#22H0K)
Vendors don't care, so government should step in The Democrats 66 (D66) party, currently in opposition in The Netherlands, hopes it can legislate insecure stuff away from the Internet.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#22GXX)
'Stubby' aims to protect your metadata from snoopers The Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF's) years-long effort to protect Internet users has taken a small step forward, with one option for better Domain Name System (DNS) privacy reaching the test stage.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#22GTS)
Wi-Fi, routing up; SANs down Ahead of its acquisition by Broadcom, Brocade has turned in another quarter of growing revenue but slumping net income.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#22GRE)
Developers may have dropped keys to drop cops Anti-malware outfit ESET has baked master decryption keys into a tool that lays waste to the Crysis ransomware.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#22GP8)
Kiwis plan a CERT with heart, not just a shield for business Kiwicon Kiwi security incident responders are gearing up to go live with New Zealand's first computer emergency response team (CERT) next March. And in a change of tack for CERTs, New Zealand's will help all businesses, not just the top end of town.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#22GK1)
AU$19.5bn loan made on cost grounds, not due to concerns about the business model When nbn™, the entity building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN), announced it had secured a loan for AU$19.5bn from Australia's government, it looked like the network-builder had failed to convince lenders it was a decent customer.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#22GH0)
Doubles down on new cyber-defence plan, too, even though USA already has one United States president-elect Donald Trump has released a statement outlining the things he plans to do in his first 100 days in office, three of which will impact the technology industries.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#22GEW)
AirPort taken behind shed, shot heard Apple has pencilled in the end-of-life date for its 17-year-old AirPort product line.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#22GDT)
We won because we built it from the ground up, Google insists Google hasn't yet released its Wifi mesh router, but the company is already claiming to have bested the competition.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#22GCP)
US chain accused of flagging malware false positives to flog expensive disinfection tool Office Depot has suspended PC Health Check – its malware-scanning service – after it was accused of lying about infections to push antivirus software.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#22G31)
Meanwhile, crew welcomes oldest woman astronaut aboard On Sunday, the International Space Station turned 18, a birthday many non-US teenagers around the world celebrate with a drunken binge and a colossal hangover. Instead, the station celebrated with a new arrival and by firing up an unusual birthday candle.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#22FY0)
'Fifty billion? Tell 'em they're dreaming, son' Once a fan of Australia's National Broadband Network, Deloitte Access Economics is now warning it's a time bomb for the federal budget.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#22FY1)
Siemens firmware emits admin login details to anyone who asks nicely Siemens has issued a security patch for CCTV cameras that cough up their admin passwords to remote attackers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#22FW7)
It's goodbye Google and hello fresh faces from Verizon and Sprint President-elect Donald Trump has hired two strong opponents of net neutrality rules to head up his transition team for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#22FV9)
EOS 4.16 and later isn't infringing Cisco patents, according to officials Arista says US Customs officials will wave in shipments of its latest-generation kit after deciding that the gear does not infringe Cisco's patents.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#22FMC)
End of the line for weak hash as web giants finally act The death knell for the SHA‑1 cryptographic hash function will be sounded, now that all of the main browser builders have decided to cut off support – only 12 years after its flaws were first discovered.…
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by John Leyden on (#22FJX)
Is that a useful tool or a compromised .exe? Only one way to find out, apparently Apache Big Data Europe Big data application programmers routinely download and execute unverified code, opening the door to information-stealing hackers, a security researcher has claimed.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#22ESE)
Consumer volume driving ARM and OpenCAPI forward, and its lack hobbling XPoint Analysis Wikibon's chief technology guy, David Floyer, has put out his top six disruptive tech tips for 2017, seeing that ARM and Open CAPI will separately grow at Intel's Xeon expense, the cloud at on-premises' Server SAN expense, and flash at disk drive's expense, while XPoint will be a 2017 dud.…
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by Dan Olds, OrionX on (#22END)
FPGAs join tussle and GPUs back with vengeance at SC16 HPC Blog This is the most widely varied and exciting set of student cluster competition systems I've seen since the competition began ten years ago. We have fourteen different teams and fourteen different takes on which system configuration is best suited to take on the applications in this year's competition.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#22EKB)
Scoops up Twitter with A-list DNS customer list Oracle is buying the internet infrastructure outfit whose A-list customers were struck by a global DDoS from internet-attached "things" in October.…
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Embiggens itself by one-quarter Telecoms business Daisy is poised to gobble Alternative Networks for £165m - the latest deal in its seemingly insatiable appetite for acquisitions.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#22EDC)
But world SSD shipments up 46%, 128-layer 3D incoming The utter irrelevance of Seagate as an SSD shipper is shown by TrendFocus's estimated total SSD unit ship numbers for 2016's third quarter, with just 0.1 per cent of the 38.25 million units shipped, 46 per cent up on a year ago.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#22E8Y)
Memory-intensive apps drive adoption of storage-class memory Data is getting closer to compute – Supermicro's X10DRU-i+ dual-socket server is available with 1TB or 2TB of application memory for analytics, database, and caching apps by being equipped with Diablo's Memory1 flash DIMM modules, and up to a 4x memory increase from DRAM-only servers.…
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