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by Chris Mellor on (#27TCT)
Data protection for distributed software Analysis Startup Datos IO is the Tesla of the backup industry, redesigning data protection for distributed apps and focussing on high-end customers with code to solve specific problems no one else can solve anywhere near as well.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#27T8R)
Ex-head of growth claims upstart's execs are fudging numbers ahead of IPO A former Snapchat employee has accused the selfie-slinging giant of illegally inflating its user numbers and misleading investors.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27SR0)
Startup's internal strategy tensions lead to exec, CEO and board changes Analysis Startup CloudByte is having a substantial exec and strategy makeover as it embraces an open source approach to containerised storage.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#27SMF)
World's first VR shoes to go on sale in Autumn CES 2017 Concerned that a virtual reality headset just isn't enough real-life escapism for you? Then perhaps you need to pair it with VR gloves and boots for that double dose of sensory deprivation.…
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by John Leyden on (#27SDK)
BigBoss and SillyGoose based on MM Core backdoor Two new variants of some Windows spyware first discovered in 2013 have surfaced in targeted attacks, security firm Forcepoint warns.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#27SBE)
Sinn Féin man says Cook's 'legal excuse doesn't add up' Tim Cook has turned down an invitation to appear before the Irish parliamentary finance committee to offer his thoughts on the EU's ruling over Apple's tax affairs with the nation.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#27S3Q)
Welshman insisted he was travelling to fight Islamic State and help war victims A former soldier from Wales has pleaded guilty to a terrorism offence after failing to reveal his mobile phone PIN to police.…
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by Clodagh Doyle on (#27S00)
Puppies and pussies ousted from lamp-posts by free-ranging tech toys Pic If your heart sinks every time you see a badly photocopied picture of a missing cat, we’ve got some good news. They’re about to be replaced by far better quality pics of missing drones.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27RWP)
Android mobile backup and monster USB stickery Toshiba and SanDisk are showing off Android phone backup and monster microSD/USB stick products at CES in Las Vegas, but they don’t want what happens in Vegas to stay in Vegas.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#27RMP)
Sound familiar? Yes, you read it on El Reg last July The Ministry of Defence has today re-announced for the third time that it has awarded a £30m contract to build a great big feck-off laser cannon for zapping the Queen's enemies.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#27RHE)
Old-school PRC response to the 140-character kid Incoming US president Donald Trump has been reprimanded by China for indulging in “Twitter diplomacyâ€.…
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Government's obsession is a load of hot air, claims professor The government should ignore the 5G hype and invest its £700m funding earmarked for the technology on ubiquitous 4G technology instead, a top telecoms expert has urged.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27RCB)
Bigs up its vSphere replacement creds Unlike what's happening with the famed Athenian ruin, Nutanix is building up its Acropolis product, and has made v5.0 available with more than 45 new features.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#27R7F)
Better mother matching needed Troubling new findings have been discovered that could affect the lives of (misleadingly* branded) "three-parent" offspring born thanks to breakthrough mitochondrial replacement therapy.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#27R51)
Shard this for a game for forks! Mega Mountain View SQL decision 'coming' The cloud wars won't be won on price – but customers are waking up to the costs, according to Google.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27QZT)
And the year hyper-converged infrastructure put a dent in SANs Storage Review in 2016 Storage in 2016 saw its on-premises SAN/filer array heartland assaulted by the public cloud on the one hand, and hyper-converged and software-defined storage on the other.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#27QS2)
Mighty Trojan probe will eye up biggest metal ball in Solar System Vid NASA has OKed two new missions to study some of the most interesting asteroids in our solar system, as part of its ongoing Discovery mission program.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27QPJ)
SGX needs I/O protection, Austrian boffins reckon Intel's Software Guard Extensions started rolling in Skylake processors in October 2015, but it's got an Achilles heel: insecure I/O like keyboards or USB provide a vector by which sensitive user data could be compromised.…
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by Team Register on (#27QM6)
Spammer opts for penal colony Russia is reportedly letting convicted crackers take a seat in its offensive operations units, as an alternative to doing time.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27QER)
Calling 'tinkerers and thinkers' America's Federal Trade Commission has kicked off a challenge to see who can come up with good ideas for securing the Internet of Things.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#27Q9K)
Amnesty nobs Plone CMS bug A hacker is claiming to have breached the FBI's content management system, dumping email addresses and SHA1 encrypted hashes with salts online.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27Q4F)
Boffins get best fix so far on mysterious 'FRB' location Sorry to say this, but fast radio bursts still aren't alien communications. There is a surprise, however, in the latest science about them – the only repeating burst yet known comes from a "puny" galaxy with no obvious sources for such a cataclysmic cosmic event.…
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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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