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by Gareth Corfield on (#292SS)
What else do you Tx at 20mW somewhere between 868MHz and 900MHz? Amazon has filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission to conduct what looks like Internet of Things wireless networking tech trials.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#292QY)
SoCing it to the ARM-powered nodes The European Commission's multi-phase, super-dupe-compute project Mont-Blanc is pouring more euro gravy into developing an army of ARM SoC compute nodes.…
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by Team Register on (#292N1)
Last chance to save a bundle Reg Events You've got less than a week to snap up early bird tickets for Building IoT London, our three-day bonanza of all things IoT for real businesses. After that, the sticker jumps back up to full rate.…
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by John Leyden on (#292J3)
Authorities uneasy in wake of alleged Russian interference in US presidential race French authorities are warning political parties about the increased threat of cyber attacks as the country prepares to elect a new president in May.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#292FY)
What will Andy Rubin do next? The "Father of Android" Andy Rubin is plotting a return to hardware – and he could beat Google's own Android successor Andromeda to market.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#292EV)
They've got as much money as half the world, scolds charity Five of the world's eight fattest fat cats, whose collective wealth equals that of the world's 3.6 billion poorest people – according to a new report by Oxfam – are technology billionaires.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#292B1)
Musk's merry men manage it this time Elon Musk's SpaceX, space cargo contractor and purveyor of space rockets for the well-heeled masses, successfully launched a two-stage rocket into orbit on Saturday.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2928D)
16nm? Lower. 10nm? Lower. You cannot be serious ReRAM startup Crossbar has sample embedded ReRAM chips from SMIC that are currently undergoing evaluation.…
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We know you've been in an accident. It says so in our *beeeeep* BT has opened a free nuisance call screening service, which it estimates could junk 15 million cold calls - such as PPI and accident claims - to a voicemail box.…
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by Andreas Kolbe on (#29257)
From aardvark to Bicholim, the encylopedia of things that never were Sixteen years ago, Larry Sanger had the idea for a wiki-based encyclopaedia anyone could edit: the "wiki-pedia". On January 15, 2001, he and Jimmy Wales launched the site. Today, it's everyone's go-to place for quick factlets.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2922K)
Silicon to carbon change could boost Nantero's business A market-research report suggests carbon nanotube storage developer Nantero could be on the verge of a breakout after years of disappointment and struggle.…
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Bringing more audience data to TV advertising Analysis More data means better performance for advertising – at least on the digital side. Increasingly, marketers are looking to inject data-driven decision making into the “dumbest†box in the house: the TV set.…
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Timetable 'unachievable'. Now, where have we heard that one before? The UK government's tax digitisation plan could be delayed by at least a year after the Treasury Committee exposed "serious shortcomings" with the programme.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#291XZ)
Microsoft security boffins throw fresh CVEs at unpatched OS, emerge smiling Microsoft says its Windows 10 Anniversary Update squashes more exploit delivery chains than ever.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#291TJ)
Even the servers it colocates (!) says new doc detailing Alphabet sub's security secrets Google has published a Infrastructure Security Design Overview that explains how it secures the cloud it uses for its own operations and for public cloud services.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#291SF)
Golden Arches website's security doesn't pass the sensible surfing taste test Dutch software engineer Tijme Gommers has revealed a still-active reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability and borked password controls in McDonald's main website that could be fodder for phishing attacks.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#291P0)
2017 forecast to see cloud kit clock $11bn every 90 days Abacus-shuffling outfit IDC has updated its Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker with sales data for Q3 2016 and predictions for spend in 2017.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#291MV)
Strategy_Doc.PDF from the next cubicle is actually a portal to p0wnage An newly-detected Gmail phishing attack sees criminals hack and then rifle through inboxes to target account owners' contacts with thoroughly convincing fake emails.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#291F1)
Promises to reveal reasons for unfashionably phlammable phablet next week Samsung's figured out why its Galaxy Note 7 phablets burned up the mobile phone market last year, but won't say why until next week.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#291B5)
New VMs will use over-provisioned RAM reserved by other apps The Register's virtualisation desk is back from holidays, just in time to report changes to desktop Hyper-V before they go completely stale.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#29131)
Data diggers' dumpster dive demonstrates dumb and dumberer defences The security industry's ongoing efforts to educate users about strong passwords appears to be for naught, with a new study finding the most popular passwords last year were 123456 and 123456789.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#29109)
It's time to debate damages. To Apple and to common sense A US appeal court has opened the next round of the long-running Apple versus Samsung patent case, this time to recalculate the damages Sammy owes Cupertino.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#290TW)
Distributed 'supercomputer' prises open Fermi 'scope's secrets, sometimes with just 10 photons a day The Einstein@home project has announced the discovery of 13 neutron stars in its distributed analysis of gamma ray data from the orbiting Fermi telescope.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#290PS)
13-year-old aircraft left gate 13 and landed at 13:31 Finnish flag carrier Finnair has successfully flown the devil to hell on Friday the 13th.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#28W3Z)
The cake is a IIe Videos What do you get when you cross a 10-year-old game with a 40-year-old computer? The weekend at El Reg.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#28VPD)
Both robo-players ace humans – in one-on-one matches DeepStack is the first AI computer programme to beat professional poker players in a game of hands-on no-limit Texas hold’em, a team of researchers claim in a research paper out this week.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#28TXX)
What a Shames A 21-year-old computer science student, who won a Programmer of the Year Award in high school, has admitted selling key-logging malware out of his college dorm room.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#28TS0)
From the phones of Montezuma to the servers of Tripoli The head of the US Marines wants to recruit about 3,000 troops skilled in online warfare and espionage to make sure the Corps is ready for 21st-century battle.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#28TES)
49 kids rescued so far An administrator of Playpen – the notorious dark-web trading post of child sex abuse material – has been jailed for 20 years and faces a lifetime of parole.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#28TC5)
Aiming for 'literate machines that can think, reason and communicate like humans' Microsoft reckons it can advance its efforts in conversational AI by today acquiring Maluuba – a Canadian machine-learning startup trying to “solve artificial general intelligence†through language.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#28TC7)
Execs recruited onto US govt panel, will meet next week The US government has pulled together a high-powered bunch of execs to form a new committee focused on self-driving cars.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#28TAK)
All a coincidence, we're told Lily Robotics says its decision on Thursday to shut down and return pre-order payments for a never-delivered drone, which came on the same day that San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón charged the company with false advertising and misleading business practices, was purely coincidental.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#28T5V)
$840,000 punishment isn't even a tap on the wrist Canada's Competition Bureau has administered what it thinks is a stinging fine for Amazon, but it's unlikely that CEO Jeff Bezos will be losing much sleep over it.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#28T2H)
Appeals court breathes life into App Store legal challenge A US Court of Appeals has resurrected a class-action lawsuit accusing Apple of monopoly behavior with its iOS App Store.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#28SXM)
But will it make any difference? Video Tom Wheeler, chairman of America's comms watchdog the FCC, has given a passionate defense of net neutrality rules in his last public speech – and warned his fellow commissioners not to go backwards by removing them.…
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by John Leyden on (#28SR2)
Plug pulled on Barts Health computer gear to prevent cyber-disease spread Malware has infected hospital computers at the UK’s biggest NHS trust.…
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by John Leyden on (#28SEW)
♪ I've got the key, I've got the secreeeee-eeet ♪ Google has released an open-source technology dubbed Key Transparency, which is designed to offer an interoperable directory of public encryption keys.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#28SB1)
Someone's keeping the neckbeards in Doritos Knock knock. Who's there? This Wednesday, officers from the City of London Police's Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) trying to get your advertising agency to stop helping pirate sites generate revenue.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#28S6V)
300,000 coins to count but just one digit that mattered, the middle one Reg Standards Bureau There are supposedly two certainties in life, death and taxes, and while we've never seen death by wheelbarrow, Nick Stafford from Cedar Buff, Virginia has sorted us out on the latter.…
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by Chris Evans on (#28S2D)
Sounds odd but it could work - disk controller heads are stateless Storage Architect There’s an almost religious divide between those who see containers as entirely stateless objects and others taking a more pragmatic approach that says state and containers is an inevitable thing.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#28S2E)
It's good to talk... with Acas It might be damn cold outside, but Unite the union is trying to thaw relations with Fujitsu by cancelling strike action scheduled for January 19 to enter conciliatory talks over job cuts, pay and pensions.…
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Over a year late, but it's not like we need 745,000 workers with digital skills or anything The Science and Technology Committee has today slammed the UK government for dragging its feet in releasing a digital strategy, now more than a year late.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#28RWH)
Pricing, dates... Mario? Just over a decade after it challenged home gaming with the Wii, Nintendo has aimed a new weapon at Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s Xbox.…
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by John Leyden on (#28RWK)
S'OK. Just turn on your notifications – green messenger Update A vulnerability in WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption creates a potential mechanism for Facebook and others to intercept and read encrypted messages, reports claimed today.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#28RNZ)
Corporate veteran to re-invigorate big-data sales Hortonworks has named Raj Verma as its new president and chief operating officer in the latest of a string of shakeups designed to reinvigorate the Hadoop business following sliding sales.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#28RM8)
Nope, don't see any problems shaping up there. None whatsoever. Exclusive In the week that Lloyds Banking Group suffered multiple outages, it has emerged the financial giant is negotiating to outsource management of its bit barns to IBM Global Business Services.…
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Follows move by much-complained about parent BT British mobile phone network EE has brought 1,000 customer service operator jobs in-house - claiming to be the first operator to "in-source" all call centre roles to the UK and Ireland.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#28RE9)
A lot of buzz, little lift in quadcopter market? Surely not Lily Robotics, which three years ago set out to create a flying camera, is shutting up shop and returning $34m to customers who had placed pre-orders.…
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Legal fallout from the ill-fated $11bn HP takeover continues The ex-chief financial officer of Autonomy, Sushovan Hussain, has pleaded not guilty to charges he inflated the price of his company's $11bn (£9bn) acquisition by Hewlett-Packard.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#28R64)
StorNext bringing in the scale-out, tiered storage bread Quantum has surprised itself with preliminary quarterly revenue numbers well ahead of plan.…
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