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by Shaun Nichols on (#27J2N)
Cornerstone collapse led to blackouts on campus, it is claimed Rutgers University is struggling to pay its bills on time amid a prolonged outage of its Oracle-powered management systems. It is claimed this IT failure led to power outages within its campus after supplies were cut off due to non-payment.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#27HK6)
Advertising industry consultant argues banners are undermined by fees and fraud One dollar of online display advertising will buy you approximately $0.03 worth of actual ads seen by real people, according to Bob Hoffman, a partner in media consultancy Type A Group.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#27HG9)
Cofounder ejects over blacklist for bad reviews The developer of Ham Radio Deluxe – a popular app used by thousands of hams – have restructured its management following claims it punished users who wrote critical reviews.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#27HAC)
Four-hour outage stretches lines, patience If you were trying to enter the US on Monday, queues were much longer than usual. That's because a Christmas software update borked the main computer systems used by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).…
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by John Leyden on (#27GMZ)
Mid-range security mash-up Clearlake Capital Group has acquired IT systems and security management company LANDESK from Thoma Bravo. Financial terms of the deal, announced on Tuesday, were not disclosed.…
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by John Leyden on (#27GFC)
1,280 Wi-Fi networks have fallen victim to the Switcher Hackers have brewed up a strain of Android malware that uses compromised smartphones as conduits to attack routers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#27G9B)
Deep learning, string theory and er ... kitchen gizmos? CES 2017 LG Electronics is unveiling a range of home appliances embedded with “deep learning technology†during this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27G7A)
Multi-billion dollar cost could lead to sale or part-sale of flash business Toshiba is facing such horrific cost-overruns with its US nuclear power plant projects it may have to sell assets, such as its flash memory business, to cover them.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#27G0Y)
No actual demo, though. Looks nice, right? CES 2017 The PC market may be flaccid but Lenovo is taking a punt on virtual reality headsets with Microsoft.…
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by John Leyden on (#27FVA)
You mean that's not a beer coaster? Vinyl sales, which reached a 25-year high, and a continued increase in streaming offset decline in CD sales as music consumption rose last year, according to official music industry figures.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27FSS)
China breaks ground on $24bn memory foundry China's Yangtze River Storage Technology (YMTC) has started building a 3D NAND flash plant.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27FPK)
Desk warriors get Optane cache to chew through data faster Lenovo has a ThinkPad T570 notebook computer coming out which will be able to use Intel Optane 3D XPoint memory as a cache.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27FM5)
Rise of the Storage Machines On Storage Igneous's Ethernet-accessed, ARM-driven disk drives provide a seriously large amount of collective CPU chops to its dataBox/dataRouter array but the poor little suckers work blindfolded. Why would I say that?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#27FGE)
'We have no recruiting targets,' says indignant MoD spin doctor Army social media psyops unit 77 Brigade is struggling to reel in new government cyber-warriors in spite of a recruitment publicity blitz last year, according to the Ministry of Defence.…
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Fatter pipes for some, BT Openreach verdict and plenty of hype Blighty’s post Brexit diet must include a "full-fibre" eating plan, or so says the UK’s new digital minister Matt Hancock. Amid all the political noise over the last 12 months, the volume for infrastructure investment was dialled up to 11.…
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by Team Register on (#27F36)
Crypto currency's 2017 cracking start bouyed by devalued yuan Bitcoin has surpassed the US$1,000 mark for the first time in three years.…
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by Team Register on (#27EXH)
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27ETB)
Where were you in June 1995? Coding image libraries? Let's have a chat Slackware has raced out of the blocks in 2017, issuing one patch for the libpng image library on New Year's Day, and two Mozilla patches on January 2.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#27EN0)
Borked patch opens remote code execution on web servers Websites using PHPMailer for forms are at risk from a critical-rated remote code execution zero day bug.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27EHW)
Space 'scope spots staggering galactic resonator The name's boring but the science isn't: an entire galaxy spied by the Hubble Space Telescope is acting as a microwave-emitting laser, or maser.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27EEE)
Google joins Microsoft, Apple, Adobe in top of the pops Of any single product, CVE Details reckons, Android had the most reported vulnerabilities in 2016 – but as a vendor, Adobe still tops the list.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27E9H)
Happy New Year, let's get ranty next time around The latest Linux 4.10-rc2 build nearly didn't happen because L-triptophaniac developers were Christmassing, but Linux Torvalds decided to set it free as a New Year treat.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27E5C)
One laptop does not a blackout make Updated Russian hackers have not penetrated America's electricity grid, in spite of an end-of-year media flurry saying they did.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#27E30)
Dismissed hacker calls US Govt buddy to nix exposed database A Pentagon subcontractor has exposed the names, locations, Social Security Numbers, and salaries of Military Special Operations Command (SOCOM) healthcare professionals.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#27DXC)
Pressure vessel buckled, something sparked, oxygen exploded Only a regulatory sign-off stands between Elon Musk's SpaceX and the restart of its Falcon 9 launch program within a week. With its anomaly investigation complete, the company hopes to launch a Falcon carrying Iridium's NEXT satellite from Vandenberg on January 8.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#27BJ8)
Putting the 'AI' into FAIL “Fake News†vexed the media classes greatly in 2016, but the tech world perfected the art long ago. With “the internet†no longer a credible vehicle for Silicon Valley’s wild fantasies and intellectual bullying of other industries – the internet clearly isn’t working for people – “AI†has taken its place. But almost everything you read about AI is Fake News. The AI coverage comes from a media willing itself into a mind of a three year old child, in order to be impressed.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#272V6)
If you all ask nicely, maybe they'll restore Program Groups? Because it’s not complicated enough already, Windows 10’s Start menu will support folders in a forthcoming release.…
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VR gets a bit too real A flight simulator turned into a real life hazard of its own, after it caught fire and caused €16m (£13.6m) in damage at Frankfurt airport.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#272P5)
This is what got you stoked Brexit and Windows 10 stories dominated reader discussions in 2016.…
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'When's the bin man coming?' A Yorkshire council's website has been out of action since Boxing Day, causing a headache for residents mostly seeking info on bin collections.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#272A3)
3 billion fewer banners ads as fundraiser is finally cancelled If you’ve noticed that Wikipedia has been much less annoying this Christmas – you can thank El Reg.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#27296)
Technical and HPC gains offset commodity server losses IDC bean-counters saw strong high-end server revenue growth in the third quarter high-performance technical computing market but revenue falls in low-end sysyems.…
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Russian Embassy responds with pic of 'LAME' duck, says move is 'Cold War deja vu' President Barack Obama has ordered the expulsion of 35 suspected Russian spies in response to "malicious cyber activity and harassment" by Putin's government for attempts to undermine the 2016 election.…
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A drone flying over a human face forever In an image straight out of a dystopian consumerist vision of the future, Amazon has filed a patent for a huge flying warehouses equipped with fleets of drones for airborne drops.…
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Soz bumpkins, it's not for you The government is asking for ideas on how it should splash £400m earmarked for fibre broadband investment.…
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Avoidable harm prevention for things like 'surgery on the wrong part of the body' The NHS is stamping barcodes on breast implants, replacement hips and surgical tools in a bid to improve patient safety.…
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Refuses to release info without a 'valid and binding legal' demand Amazon has resisted a warrant to release information to US police seeking data from its Echo device, in order to gather evidence on a murder investigation.…
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Up to seven New York law firms targeted, say Manhattan prosecutors US prosecutors have charged three Chinese men with making more than $4m (£3.2m) by allegedly trading on information obtained from hacking top merger and acquisition law firms.…
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Chip biz to challenge decision in court US chip giant Qualcomm is to face a fine of $853m (£696m) for alleged antitrust violations by South Korea's top regulator.…
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by John Oates on (#26PSR)
Shed boffin, dad, sparks, punk rocker, wordsmith, pic-snapper, friend. We miss you Obit "So what are going to say about him now that he’s gone? Are you going to say he was a good man? Will you be saying he was a happy man?... Fuck no."…
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by John Leyden on (#26KJP)
History made How often can we say that an IT blunder might have changed the course of world history? Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server whilst serving as outgoing US President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State became a key element in the US presidential election this year.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#26KCH)
What the Brexit PM and Orange POTUS elect meant Year in Review If 2016 proved anything, it proved the existence of the law of unintended consequences making this a miserable year for lovers of liberty and privacy.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#26H5S)
Only smart survives the cloud consolidation Review of 2016 Blame Mark Zuckerberg. Not for the election of Donald Trump as US president, but for Artificial Intelligence becoming the trend du jour in enterprise tech circles in 2016.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#26C6G)
Consumer Reports nerd baffled by bizarre results Geeks at Consumer Reports have, for the first time, declined to award a "recommended" status to an Apple laptop – after the latest MacBook Pro proved unreliable during testing.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#26BX8)
Container data layer biz signs off with unavoidable expletive Preempting cheap shots at his company's failure, CEO Mark Davis on Thursday announced that ClusterHQ is shutting down with a single, unassailably apt headline: "ClusterF***ed."…
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by Iain Thomson on (#26BVG)
Great timing, Chris Microsoft's marketing boss Chris Capossela has confessed the infamous your-Windows-10-upgrade-is-ready pop-up that tricked so many people into installing the thing was a step "too far."…
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by John Leyden on (#26BEA)
Firmware updates on the way Netgear has downplayed the significance of newly discovered flaws in its WNR2000 line of consumer routers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#26B78)
ESG says Apeiron NVMe array delivers real time Splunk goods Case study Apeiron has had its Splunk processing speed advantage confirmed by ESG. Big deal. So what?…
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Five, four, three, two, one... one Most people are over 2016 - although god knows what next year has in store. But unfortunately they'll have to endure it bit longer: one second longer to be precise.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#26AVC)
Festive giving has become a ‘Googlicious’ sales push Special Report The dictionary defines charity as unselfish acts that benefit other people. Google boasts that it does a great deal for charity. So how come the biggest beneficiary of Google’s charity seems to be Google itself?…
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