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by Andrew Orlowski on (#23QT3)
Redmond blames currency for UK-hosted Azure hike “My own story would not have been possible but for the democratizing force of Microsoft technology reaching me where I was growing up,†CEO Satya Nadella told shareholders this week.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#23QQ7)
'SAMRi10' script hides the creds hackers crave, making box-to-box jumps harder Microsoft hacker Itai Grady has created a tool to help prevent blackhat scouts from stealing Windows credentials, an effort the firm hopes will make network compromises harder to achieve.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#23QPE)
Stonkingly good grunt, battery life, some rough edges Review In October, the Chinese firm LeEco announced bold plans to storm the American market with a range of consumer electronic devices, ranging from smartphones to a futuristic electric car.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#23QMD)
I'm tall, handsome, ready to commit and don't know how to operate the ENTER key On-Call Thank the Galactic Spirit it's Friday: your correspondent is beat! But not so beat I can't dip into the On-Call mailbag to dredge up another story in which your fellow Reg readers explain how they've rescued clients and colleagues from chronologically-inconvenient computational cock-ups.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#23QJC)
Thanksgiving turkey: Free turns out to be what you were willing to pay November lies behind us in all Reg-reading jurisdictions, so it's time to again consider the state of the desktop by gazing at the three services we use to assess desktop operating system market share.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#23QDA)
Clouds, boffins, businesses all keep hands in pockets. And ARMs are nowhere Abacus-shuffler IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for the year's third quarter makes for ugly reading: the firm says just about all categories of server sales have stalled.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#23Q83)
What would happen if someone sticks this USBBQ into an airplane seat socket? VIDS Hackers are destroying everything from the latest gaming systems, phones, and even cars with a dangerous circuit-frying USB device that could put critical systems at risk.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#23Q36)
With a leap second coming up, smearing's quite a good idea Google's turned on a set of public network time protocol (NTP) servers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#23PVB)
Pundits note growth in Lambda, database efforts as highlights of conf AWS re:Invent Amazon made news in a big way this week, kicking out more than a dozen new features and services for the AWS cloud at its annual re:Invent conference.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#23PVD)
Iran suspected as likely source of re-vamped nastyware Thousands of computers in Saudi Arabia's civil aviation agency and other Gulf State organisations have been wiped by the Shamoon malware after it resurfaced some four years after wiping thousands of Saudi Aramco workstations.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#23PHB)
Four-year op by US and EU culminates in arrests, server seizures On November 30, simultaneous raids in five countries by the FBI, Europol, and the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) finally shuttered the Avalanche criminal network that has been spewing malware and money laundering campaigns for the past seven years.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#23PDP)
Narcissist in Chief recruits another anti-net-neut bod for US comms regulator Supporters of net neutrality are preparing to defend FCC regulations passed two years ago in the face of what is increasingly looking like a determined effort by the Trump Administration to undermine them.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#23PAK)
Vogels channels his inner Ballmer with pitch to code monkeys AWS re:Invent Amazon Web Services turned its focus to developers in day two of its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, kicking out a handful of new features designed to make life easier for those who develop and maintain cloud applications.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#23P3Z)
The race is on to be the best in the world Analysis At a US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing this week chaired by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), artificial intelligence experts were grilled on how to keep the US ahead of its competitors.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#23NYX)
BB to be 'a pure software company' BlackBerry finally released an update for its BB10 OS, eight months later than promised.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#23NSS)
Senate, House pass law against automated tix snatch-and-resell The US Senate has unanimously passed a bill that will make it illegal to grab large quantities of online tickets with an automated bot.…
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by John Leyden on (#23NPM)
Europe's FBI sheds light on security bungle An investigator at Europe's FBI Europol took home a USB stick packed with terror probe documents and accidentally spilled the files on the internet.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#23NKX)
Suspected third-stage failure in Soyuz rocket, again A Progress capsule filled supplies for the International Space Station today blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport in Kazakhstan. Now its controllers have admitted the MS‑04/65P mission has been annihilated.…
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Consumer Watchdog fears it's all in the name US advocacy group Consumer Watchdog has renewed its demands for a recall of Tesla's Autopilot feature following a number of crashes.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#23N27)
2015 legislation review is laid before Parliament There is still too much discretion in what the State is talking about when discussing terrorism, according to the outgoing independent reviewer of terrorism legislation.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#23MYC)
Smartwatch pioneer looks set to call it a day Crowdfunding hero and smart bling pioneer Pebble is about to be acquired by Fitbit. The Information was first with the story, and subsequent reports suggest the price is modest: around $35 to $40m.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#23MW3)
'Roger, drone 04957, vector 45 at 300 feet...' British startup Altitude Angel has, in conjunction with air traffic control service NATS, launched an air-traffic-as-a-service app for drone operators.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#23MRB)
Business is Redshifting itself into analytics queries Athena, goddess of wisdom, has bestowed her name upon Amazon's new interactive query service for S3 as the company seeks to become more than a mere infrastructure vendor.…
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by John Leyden on (#23MM4)
Routers scooted, says KCOM Thousands of broadband customers in the Hull area have been left without reliable internet access following a cyber attack.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#23MH3)
Military personnel's social centre scratches its head The Royal Air Force Club appears to have been the victim of a hack, following members being sent fake invoices for staying at the club's London HQ.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#23MD3)
Media titan's radical idea for mobile network Sky had a few surprises when it unveiled its new mobile network this week. Rather than half-heartedly selling its network as a second-class bolt-on to Sky's 11 million existing TV and broadband customers, Sky Mobile is going to be a feisty, consumer-friendly MVNO in its own right.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#23M9N)
The drives? For sure Interview How does HPC array vendor DataDirect Networks view NVMe drives and NVMe over Fabrics?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#23M4S)
Securing you from head to toe! Wait... what? How secure are your feet? With these exclusive socks from, er, Kaspersky, your tootsies will never be subject to another bout of ransomware again.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#23M2S)
That didn’t take long They’re back. Sort of.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#23KYC)
It's pulling out of cheapies Samsung's phone sales have fallen 10 per cent in the last year, but the Note isn't to blame. The analysis comes from market researcher CCS Insight, which says the Korean giant is in decline because it is withdrawing from low-margin volume segments.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#23KVH)
Four words: Stand-alone storage. Kerching Pure Storage all-flash arrays continue to rise, with revenues up 50 per cent year-on-year in Pure's third fiscal 2017 quarter.…
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by John Leyden on (#23KRN)
Data breaches could cost firms business, Brits tell survey Further evidence has emerged that hacked firms might subsequently suffer a customer exodus. After TalkTalk's famous data breach, 101,000 of its customers walked.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#23KPA)
UEFI scramble for frozen for unlucky 19 Lenovo server customers should disable Windows Update and apply a UEFI update to avoid Microsoft’s November security freezing their systems.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#23KN6)
Then cruelly cooks him in Mexican-inspired dish Pic It was just an ordinary evening for Janet Ayers in Portsmouth, preparing a vegetarian chilli for dinner.…
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by David Gordon on (#23KJX)
Find out how to resolve that at 11am GMT today Live Broadcast Office 365 is not intrinsically secure. Its risks are not necessarily greater than they used to be, they're just different — and need to be addressed accordingly.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#23KGW)
Traders free to offer differential pricing, though The Council of Ministers has agreed on draft regulation to ban unjustified geoblocking in an attempt to remove barriers to e-commerce across the European Union.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#23KEJ)
Because who doesn't want Hipster chat at 160 × 200 with a side of with a side of rPi? A Kiwi chap named Jeff Harris has created a Slack client for the Commodore 64.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#23KCC)
Vacuum of space gets distorted and acts like a prism Pic A neutron star may have led astronomers to find signs of a strange quantum phenomena in vacuum space that was predicted more than eighty years ago.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#23KAJ)
More evidence, if any were needed, that Microsoft wants you to sign for more Azure Microsoft's ambition to paint the enterprise azure is accelerating, with the news that Redmond's StorSimple arrays will be able to convert the data they store into Azure Blobs.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#23K90)
Put the tape measure away, boys AWS re:Invent Speaking at his opening keynote for the 2016 re:Invent conference, AWS chief Andy Jassy made a point of going after Oracle.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#23K6P)
Experiment on International Space Station rivals Teflon's 'unepxectedly useful stuff from space program' crown Fifteen years of plasma experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) could let people enjoy the lusciously unhealthy taste of deep-fried potato chips, without having to smell them first.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#23K4R)
Brit/Belgian research team decipher signals and devise wounding wireless attacks A global research team has hacked 10 different types of implantable medical devices and pacemakers finding exploits that could allow wireless remote attackers to kill victims.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#23K19)
Keep the defibrillator handy There's no sunrise in sight yet, only a slightly paler night: IDC reckons a lame uptick in convertibles and slim laptops will slow the PC market's collapse.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#23JYN)
Don't panic, because this one's a bit esoteric. Do feel free to face-palm anyway Microsoft is working on a patch for a bug or feature in Windows 10 that allowed access to the command line and, using a live Linux .ISO, made it possible steal BitLocker keys during OS updates.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#23JW2)
Michael 'Jim' Delligatti somehow made it to 98 years before throwing away the pickle Michael 'Jim' Delligatti, the inventor of the Big Mac, has died aged 98.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#23JQE)
IoT vendor in prompt, polite, sensible, security shocker IoT security camera vendor UCam247 has contacted The Register to say most devices in the wild aren't vulnerable to the “single URL pwnage†vulnerability.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#23JK1)
Redmond said it wouldn't fix a flaw, then did it on the sly For once, a Google Project Zero bug report to Microsoft has resulted in a fix without a public spat. Indeed, this fix happened without any public announcement at all.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#23JG2)
Let a thousand bad reviews bloom on the web The US Congress has handed over the Consumer Review Freedom Act, which stops businesses from gagging online reviews of their products or services, to President Obama for his signature.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#23JC5)
...and then witness how Oakland's court system managed them all There is not a sysadmin in the world who has not had to deal with a botched software rollout; for most, it is a coming-of-age experience.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#23J8H)
Turns out printing money requires a buttload of compute muscle AWS re:Invent AWS says it has moved into building its own silicon to help deliver the throughput for its massive cloud service.…
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