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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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by Richard Chirgwin on (#23J72)
Oh, there was an innovation strategy speech as well The New South Wales (NSW) Public Service Association has hit the ceiling about the Australian state's decision to hire IT staff from overseas for the outsourcing of its ServiceFirst shared service operation.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#23J3P)
Rule 41 makes life easier for Feds, cops to target Tor, VPN users, and malware victims Three last-ditch legislative efforts to block the changes to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure have failed, and from tomorrow the Feds will find hacking your PC a lot less of a hassle.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#23HVX)
Stream that money our way, says America's Hat The Canadian government will consider a new digital tax that would see Netflix required to set aside five per cent of its gross revenues.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#23HTF)
Just give it to me straight AWS re:Invent At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today, Amazon Web Services tipped its hand to reveal its battle plan for invading new markets.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#23HRQ)
Look out for bill shock, though, devs AWS re:Invent Now that it dominates the public cloud market, Amazon is setting its sights lower – on developers deploying small projects – in the hope that these customers will remain within the AWS ecosystem.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#23HGC)
Captain likely to walk the plank Internet speeds on the UK island of Jersey have been slashed – literally – after a ship's anchor destroyed three submarine cables linking the isle to the British mainland.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#23GWC)
Answers on a post card to El Reg please Hewlett Packard Enterprise made a nice claim today: it can cut the time to lob operational tech (IoT devices) on to a network and the cost of doing so – the blockers, it said, to wider enterprise and industrial adoption.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#23GQF)
Security is expensive – so cough up Financial necessity is forcing the security research group behind Qubes OS to begin establishing commercial funding to support its continued development.…
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by John Leyden on (#23GKD)
At an estimated rate of 13,000 smartphones a day A new strain of Android malware is infecting an estimated 13,000 devices per day.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#23GD0)
Philip Morris's iQOS Comment A few years ago, I interviewed Dr Craig Ventner, the man who decoded the human genome, about his plan to save the planet. Ventner’s goal was to create a drop-in substitute for hydrocarbon fuels, using genetically modified algae.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#23GBP)
Incoming CEO as founding CEO goes to CTO role Qumulo CEO and co-founder Peter Godman is transitioning to a CTO role as Bill Richter is hired to be the new CEO and Presidenp.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#23G9C)
Analytics Platform System made generally available Microsoft has made its latest appliance update generally available, reminding users that PolyBase exists and that SQL Server isn't just a boring old data warehouse.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#23G36)
Investors don’t care as sky-rocketing growth set to continue A thundering great loss: that’s the first thing to notice about Nutanix’s latest quarterly results.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#23FZV)
Don't laugh, you can get a shiny sticker out of it Amazon has jumped aboard the Internet of Things bandwagon, offering to certify its APN Partners as "Amazon IoT Competency Partners", it announced at its AWS re:Invent conference.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#23FW2)
There's HPE, Dell and two rampant Chinese server dragons chasing them Gartner's number-crunchers say the server market declined in the third quarter, with only Cisco and the Others supplier category showing revenue growth.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#23FRW)
New wine in old bottles; NVMe fabrics can use Fibre Channel instead of replacing it +Comment A walk through the vast and spacious exhibition arena at HPE Discover in London can bring you to Cavium's stand. There Roberto Angelo Polacsek, a senior account exec, will tell you why he believes NVMe over Fibre Channel will be important. Cavium bought Fibre Channel HBA vendor QLogic recently, and Polacsek says its 16Gbps HBAs can be upgraded to add NVMe fabric support, FC-NVMe, for free.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#23FQ8)
Debates ahoy in late January The head of Europol will be contributing to a seminar at UCL on "the state of the current privacy landscape", which will run in January.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#23FNY)
I was going to sext but then I remembered the government ban. So I didn't! The likes of Facebook must stop under-18s from sending each other sexually explicit pictures, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has told a Parliamentary committee.…
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by John Leyden on (#23FXY)
Don't panic, don't pay The NCA has said that "at least four young men have taken their own lives" after being targeted by financially motivated webcam blackmailers, while UK police forces are sharing stats and tips in a campaign to combat the rising problem.…
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by John Leyden on (#23FJQ)
Don't panic, don't pay UK police forces have recorded 864 cases of financially motivated webcam blackmail cases so far in 2016, more than double the 385 reported in 2015.…
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Soz about that. Mindfulness, yeah? Virgin Media has overhauled its botched spam filtering system, which has resulted in businesses and customers missing thousands of legit emails.…
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by John Leyden on (#23FF0)
No card data but possibly other personal stuff Cyber criminals appear to be using passwords and email addresses from previous breaches to gain access to 26,000 online UK National Lottery accounts.…
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Cyber threat and net loss of £4.5bn flagged four years ago The government was warned of the risks surrounding its controversial smart meter programme four years ago, according to a leaked internal report seen by The Register, but appears to have largely ignored those concerns.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#23FB0)
Linux shop vows PaaS play A "significant" number of Hewlett Packard Enterprise staff are accompanying OpenStack code going to SUSE Linux.…
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by John Leyden on (#23FA8)
Links to supermarket's systems may have exposed vulnerability A former techie at Tesco Bank reckons the recent high-profile breach may be down to security shortcomings at the bank's parent supermarket.…
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by Team Register on (#23F7J)
Podcast Idol winners rap about Apple, Google DeepMind and more
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by Gareth Corfield on (#23F6D)
Crumbling cover replaced by 36,000-tonne radiation-proof structure The world's largest moving structure has been moved to cover up the melted-down reactor which caused the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the former Soviet Union.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#23F3B)
Neural networks taught to understand danger so terrible mistakes are not repeated As artificially-intelligent software continues to outperform humans at various tasks, it's natural to be anxious about our future on this world. There's a desire to control increasingly powerful machines to ensure our safety.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#23F2E)
Physicists not happy with president firing staff The European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, has joined the list of organizations and media outlets calling for action against the president of the European Patent Office (EPO).…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#23F0G)
Still a lot more work to be done before it'll hit clinical studies Machines can detect diabetic retinopathy – a leading cause of blindness from diabetes – from retinal scans to the same degree of accuracy as ophthalmologists, according to a paper published by Google Brain.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#23EYC)
How far will it go? You'll have to ask the Home Secretary Among the many unpleasant things in the Investigatory Powers Act that was officially signed into law this week, one that has not gained as much attention is the apparent ability for the UK government to undermine encryption and demand surveillance backdoors.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#23ETX)
BMW, Daimler, Ford, Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche plot 400 charging stations Six auto-makers have signed a memorandum of understanding that will see them build a network of electric car charging stations across Europe.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#23ERC)
Competition commission cans anti-Cupertino cartel The four Australian banks attempting to use iPhones' near-field communications chips for their own payment services, and not Apple Pay, have all-but failed.…
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by Team Register on (#23EQ3)
Payment giant takes second look at bad bugs. Paypal has patched a phishing vulnerability that could allow attackers to steal any OAuth token for its payment apps and gain access to accounts.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#23EN4)
Software's selling well, but the SDN-will-totally-kill-Cisco argument looks thin Bare metal switches are mostly still in lab deployments, it seems: according to analyst IHS Markit, sales of branded bare metal switches hit US$23m.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#23EH3)
Hard disk industry caught between long-term decline and occasional spurts of enthusiasm Storage analyst outfit Trendfocus says that the hard disk industry has just posted its best growth in seven years, but that it comes with its own problems.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#23EDA)
Digital Transformation Office/Agency head Paul Shetler resigns Paul Shetler, the head of Australia's Digital Transformation Office/Agency has resigned.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#23EDB)
'Cortana, I'd like a software defined network script'. Sure. First let me sort this 404 Microsoft's J.C. Hornbeck has valiantly tried to announce VMM SDN Express for Microsoft System Center VMM: a bundle of automation scripts covering SDN stack deployment; setup inputs; and a dummy parameters file.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#23EAE)
Server buffer overflow equals remote control An insecure web server embedded in more than 35 models of internet-connected CCTV cameras leaves countless devices wide open to hijacking, it is claimed.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#23E7W)
Greybeard-built Debian fork bringing init freedom on track for early 2017 release The self-proclaimed “Veteran Unix Admins†forking Debian in the name of init freedom have released Beta 2 of their “Devuan†Linux distribution.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#23E6P)
SVG, JavaScript smuggles malicious payload into PCs Mozilla is scrambling to patch a vulnerability in Firefox that is apparently being exploited in the wild to unmask Tor Browser users.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#23E3J)
# 'Cause we all just wanna be big Canuck stars / And live in hilltop houses driving 15 cars A police service in Canada says it will be punishing drunk drivers by not only arresting them, but forcing them to listen to corporate rock group Nickelback on the way to the police station.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#23E07)
Backend apps become a bit more manageable, in theory Deploying server-side Swift applications isn't necessarily as fast as the programming language's name suggests.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#23DWD)
Network crippled by extortion software nasty Carleton University in Ontario, Canada, has confirmed it has been hit by a ransomware infection that crippled some of the Windows machines on its main campus.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#23DSJ)
Thank you for your service... bleeped the computer The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has signed a five-year deal with Flow Health, an AI company, to develop personalized healthcare plans for veterans using deep learning.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#23DMP)
Yup, it's still there and lifeless as ever before Video The European Space Agency's ExoMars orbiter has beamed back its first photos and sensor readings of the Red Planet after circling the harsh dust world.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#23DJV)
Relax, sit up straight, run your Node.js on our engine Microsoft has released an early version of Node-ChakraCore for macOS, following a similar release for Linux at Node Summit in July.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#23D7T)
Asking for donations to head north It's something many Americans have talked about – moving to Canada to escape President Donald Trump – but now the Internet Archive is preparing to do just that.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#23CFP)
It ain't no thang... only 'a small percentage' of 'hundreds of millions' affected... Microsoft is still working to resolve "difficulties" faced by its Outlook customers, despite months of complaints about the disappearance of sent emails and 550 Errors.…
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