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by Richard Chirgwin on (#20RZX)
Mouse-over-on-mobile feature intentionally allows data-stealing overlay attacks That took a while: Android's had Hover since Ice Cream, but boffins have taken until now to work out how to attack it.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#20RVW)
'The Dish' in Australia's Parkes gets much-needed cash injection from alien-hunters Australia's Parkes radio-telescope has found one of the white knights it needed, in the form of the search-for-intelligent-life Breakthrough Listen project.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#20RVY)
More than half of the NBN will be built in the next 21 months nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network, has emitted new canned statements to describe its progress that, as always, have a slightly soviet feel to them because as always everything's going just fine.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#20RV0)
Top boss cuts salary to 15 cents a year amid mega-wobble Less than a month ago, Chinese media and electronics firm LeEco made its glitzy launch into the US market. However, its founder Jia Yueting has just told staff that the firm is in trouble.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#20RQ9)
LipNet's got potential but also a loooong way to go AI surveillance could be about to get a lot more advanced, as researchers move on from using neural networks for facial recognition to lipreading.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#20RMG)
To bring the two airlines together, trust came before technology At the end of 2013, US Airways and American Airlines merged. But actually combining the IT systems of the two companies is expected to take from five to seven years, said Susanna Brown, managing director of operations technologies at American Airlines.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#20RHV)
None of this is good news On Monday, the Chinese government officially passed its 2016 Cybersecurity Law. From June 2017, all companies doing business in the Middle Kingdom will have to obey the new rules.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#20RF3)
Pumping up performance, price/performance and product virtualization +Comment Kaminario is building its K2 all-flash array mountain higher in scale, performance and price/performance terms and adding dynamic composability.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#20RDA)
15 months for fishing chips A Chinese national starts a 15-month stretch behind bars for trying to swap reprogrammable chips destined for the US Navy with fakes, and smuggle the real gear out of the country.…
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by Team Register on (#20R4A)
Meet top OpenStack peeps, hear how Dept of Defence went OpenStack PROMO Next Monday, November 14th, OpenStack Australia Day: Government hits Canberra. And The Register has free tickets for readers.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#20R12)
Cloud service for managing cloud services arrives, nearly If you build it, they will come and measure it. "They" in this case is New Relic, which offers developers a service for monitoring application performance and, now, computing infrastructure.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#20QWT)
Say hello to Bixby – Sammy's hopefully non-exploding AI assistant Samsung has joined the race to build the best AI assistant, which will be available on the Galaxy S8, the company’s flagship mobile phone series.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#20QQJ)
Windstream absorbs brand for $1.1bn Turn-of-the-millennium internet giant EarthLink has been acquired and will be absorbed into the brand of a regional US ISP.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#20QE8)
Upstart lets apps use on and off-prem storage in two shakes of a lamb's tail Microsoft has partnered with object storage software startup NooBaa, which has developed an Amazon S3-compatible front-end to Azure.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#20Q3Y)
300 Unite brothers brave wintry weather in northwest Three hundred unionised Fujitsu workers braved the bitter cold on Monday to attend the first of a two-day UK strike over pay, pensions and job security.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#20Q09)
Private purchaser not identified An old pair of knickers have been sold at auction for £2,900.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#20PVM)
Did the users consent to this? Updated A browser extension which was found to be harvesting users' browsing histories and selling them to third parties has had its availability pulled from a number of web browsers' add-on repositories.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#20PQ4)
Looks like Ecuador's getting fed up with their gobby broom cupboard squatter Julian Assange, the broom-cupboard-dweller also trading as Wikileaks, will be interviewed in Ecuador's London embassy by Swedish prosecutors over rape allegations.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#20PK7)
Big Red paid nearly another PeopleSoft for cloud provider Analysis NetSuite's 18-year run as an independent ERP SaaS provider is over after shareholders approved Oracle's $9.3bn acquisition of the firm.…
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by John Leyden on (#20PF8)
XSS marks the spot Black Hat EU Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities continue to dominate the list of most common vulnerabilities found in real-world tests.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#20PC8)
Extended lead times de rigueur Dell EMC doesn't have a magical NAND storage tap after all – the business, like its major rivals, has delayed shipping dates on certain drives by months after succumbing to shortages.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#20P92)
'See if we care, slacktivists' Virgin Mobile has finally upgraded its network to 4G – with an eye-catching deal: Facebook and WhatsApp data usage won't count against your monthly data bundle, a practice known as zero rating.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#20P63)
'We believe the arrow is still with the injured party,' say cops An alleged burglar was shot in the backside with a bow and arrow after an angry homeowner caught him trying to steal his car.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#20P1J)
Cost of correcting will be 'at least £10m', share price dives more than 60%. Ouch The chief bean counter at managed services slinger Redcentric has left the business with “immediate effect†following the discovery of multi-year accounting misstatements that will cost a minimum of £10m to rectify.…
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by John Leyden on (#20NZN)
Security researchers exploit vulns in Belkin home automation product Black Hat EU Security researchers have worked out how to hack into a smartphone and turn it into a tracking device by abusing its pairing with a Belkin home automation device.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#20NXG)
Company is putting more drives in thinner trays to grow capacity Infinidat is tweaking its Infinibox array design to increase its capacity.…
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by John Leyden on (#20NW5)
Current account customers affected by security breach Tesco Bank has restricted the operations of current accounts after funds were looted from a reported 20,000 accounts.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#20NVC)
Press-bashing grants paranoiacs extra week to prepare for Snoopers' Charter IPBill The Investigatory Powers Bill will not receive royal assent for at least another week as the Houses of Parliament disagree on an amendment regarding the regulation of the press.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#20NRJ)
Sets up DL rack servers using profile data – bare metal becomes usable system HPE OneView's system on-ramp automates the setting up of ProLiant DL servers as well as HPE's BladeSystem.…
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by Clodagh Doyle on (#20NPF)
Diva soapstar turn-on-turn-up-slap-down on the cards? Kettering has drafted in EastEnders veteran Cheryl Fergison to turn on the town for Christmas – after abandoning hopes of child-star-turned-adult-car-crash Lindsay Lohan following through on her post-Brexit promise to light up Northamptonshire.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#20NMC)
Tabs vs spaces? Unfortunately there are deeper, uglier issues facing IT Sysadmin Blog Gentlemen of IT, I think it's time we talked. I hate people who use spaces to indent their code instead of tabs. I don't mildly dislike them. I am not uncomfortable or annoyed by them. I hate them. A goodly number of you have some technical pet peeve that is similar, and that's a huge part of what's wrong with IT.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#20NJN)
Another week, another rc, but no overlayfs update Linux 4.9 is coming along nicely, with Linus Torvalds emitting the fourth release candidate on Saturday evening.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#20NG1)
Process pig keeps eyes glued on fraudsters' phone number. Tech support fraudsters have taught an old denial of service bug new tricks to add a convincing layer of authenticity to scams.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#20NE2)
Why try to extract pennies from kiddies when there's businesses to be bilked? Criminals behind the massive Cerber ransomware enterprise are now targeting businesses as well as individuals with a module that kills and encrypts databases, warns Intel's former security arm McAfee.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#20ND1)
Users rebel at $69 price to keep old peripherals alive Apple won't admit it got the pricing wrong, but has nonetheless slashed the cost of USB-C-to-connectors-people-actually-use dongles.…
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by Team Register on (#20NC1)
Perils of Internet demonstrated very graphically to wide-eyed kids ENTIRELY SFW VID A school cyber safety spiel delivered by Symantec's Norton brand at Australia's Robina High School has resulted in smut being displayed to the assembled students.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#20NAV)
But physics is resisting: antiproton weight probe reveals no anomalies Sorry, new physics fans, CERN has once again failed to break the old physics, this time using a particle decelerator that chilled helium atoms close to absolute zero.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#20N91)
And once he was in, this creep searched for sexy emails An Arizona man has been arrested for hacking 1050 email accounts at two united States universities, plus attempts to do so at some 75 other educational institutions.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#20N74)
No live sightings have been reported since October British honeybees can sleep safely in their hives tonight. The UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has announced that the outbreak of Asian hornets in Blighty has been safely contained.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#20N53)
This will not be the year of Linux on the media centre desktop, after all The developers behind Mythbuntu, a Linux distribution dedicated to melding the open source digital video recorder MythTV with Ubuntu Linux, have called it quits.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#20N2Q)
Tops US$290 million for Q3 2016 Arista may be fighting Cisco's legal fires in the USA, but it's still managed to post increasing revenue and profit.…
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by Duncan Campbell on (#20MVC)
El Reg was right: emailgate 2.0 is a fizzer On Sunday night, after a week of sending US elections spinning and Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton tumbling in polls, FBI director Michael Comey backed off and wrote to Congressional committee chairs that after "working round the clock to process a large volume of emails" found on a laptop seized a month ago from accused sex pest Anthony Weiner, the Fed's geeks quickly failed to find nothing new - as The Register predicted two days ago..…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#20MNA)
Idea for low-powered HTML adjustments abandoned after security implications explored Apple and Mozilla are leading the charge away from a W3C standard, because it's too much of a privacy risk.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#20MJY)
With Google goggles on, Chrome security performance outshines other browsers Two in three web pages served over the world's favourite web browser Chrome are now secured with HTTPS, Google says.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#20MGC)
PÃratar wants to drive change without taking power Piracy it seems, does not pay: Iceland's Pirate Party may have won ten seats in the nation's Parliament, but is indifferent about having just one at the negotiating table for a new governing coalition.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#20MED)
Private venture consortium buys 57 bit barns Fresh from its giga-acquisition of Level 3 Communications, CenturyLink is selling off 57 data centres to a bunch of private venture firms.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#20MBH)
Canadian Security Intelligence Service mangled mandate to feed its big data appetite Canada's Federal Court has rapped the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's (CSIS) knuckles for retaining too much citizen metadata.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#20M75)
We know what job you applied for last summer and so do social engineers Cisco has fixed a vulnerability in its Professional Careers portal that may have exposed truckloads of personal information.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#20M34)
Give us the sound of rolling dice heads After the collapse of Australia's Census on August 9, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told radio shock-jock Alan Jones “Lots of people are trying to find out who to blame and what heads should roll†at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#20KZ4)
'We already had those d**k pics', apparently The FBI's backed away from its almost-unprecedented (and much-criticised) intervention in the US Federal election, announcing there's nothing to investigate in the “Anthony Weiner e-mailsâ€.…
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