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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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by Kieren McCarthy on (#20G0R)
A worthy challenger to the Echo, but no home run Review There's really no way to write about Google Home, the search giant's digital assistant, without comparing it to the Amazon Echo.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#20FDF)
Promising, but needs some work Review Earlier this month, Google announced its Pixel range of smartphones – two models intended to replace the Nexus line the Chocolate Factory has carried for the past six years.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#20F8M)
Zut alors! An 18-year-old broke France's anti-terror laws by naming his home Wi-Fi network "Daesh 21" – after the medieval murder bastards ISIS.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#20EA7)
Screw online, we're going back to paper, say officials After keeping quiet for days, the city of El Paso, Texas, has finally admitted that it has fallen prey to "CEO fraud" emails that saw scammers funnel $3.2m from the authorities using bogus invoices.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#20E5M)
Remember when social media was going to bring about a golden age of interaction? Twitter trolls are undermining what political analysts had predicted would be a new form of responsive democracy.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#20E0W)
Duo follow Facebook in using space war game to improve neural networks Vid Google DeepMind is partnering with Blizzard Entertainment, the producers of the hugely popular StarCraft game, to set the real-time strategy game as the next challenge in AI.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#20DXT)
Successful launch takes payload into orbit Pic China has successfully launched its first Long March-5 rocket, a heavy lifter that is going to be pivotal to the Middle Kingdom's ambitions for a space industry of its own.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#20DSR)
EPO president ignores his own admin council President of the European Patent Office Benoit Battistelli has fired a key member of his organization's staff union despite being explicitly told not to by the EPO's Administrative Council.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#20DHJ)
Maybe it would be easier to just give us a list of what won't blow up? Samsung says it will recall millions of washing machines that are prone to blowing up.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#20DEB)
Alleged crooks said to have used Dridex and Dyre software nasties The UK’s National Crime Agency has arrested 14 people suspected of using the Dridex and Dyre malware to launder £11m in stolen cash.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#20DC7)
Optimism on Optane with 4X better throughput than Intel P3700 NAND SSD Analysis Lenovo x86 servers fitted with Intel Optane SSDs will be available by the end of the year.…
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by Duncan Campbell on (#20D7R)
95 per cent of the 650,000 messages not relevant Analysis Since igniting a political firestorm and triggering major changes in US presidential voting intentions by revealing some emails passing through Hillary Clinton's private email server had been found in an unrelated criminal investigation, the FBI has gone to ground.…
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by John Leyden on (#20D5G)
Entire country gets to enjoy life without the web thanks to huge DDoS attack, it is claimed The West African country of Liberia was allegedly flooded offline this week.…
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by John Leyden on (#20D2K)
Researchers are finding ways to protect users from cross-device tracking Black Hat EU Marketeers are coming up with ways to invade our privacy in the interests of serving us ads in a way that goes far beyond the dire predictions of films such as Minority Report. Security researchers are already thinking about countermeasures.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#20CYY)
Californians have lust for S3 targets but Azure is on the list too Scality is developing a software-defined storage controller (SDS) to archive objects off to the public cloud or tape using the S3 protocol.…
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by SA Mathieson on (#20CW9)
Papworth's timely backups saved the day World-leading Papworth Hospital has escaped a full-on zero-day crypto ransomware attack thanks to the "very, very lucky" timing of its daily backup.…
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by Steve Bong on (#20CTG)
And why Hillary will lose – she didn't listen to me ¡Bong! The people had not just spoken, I realised as I woke up in the late afternoon (as usual) on June 24th this year. They'd sworn and puked up all over my Sayl office chairs, and pissed gleefully in my Puyehue water.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#20CQF)
CMA beams: Look what we've done for consumer rights! BT, Dropbox, Google and Mozy have promised not to screw over their British consumer cloud customers with dodgy terms and conditions, according to the Competition and Markets Authority.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#20CKZ)
You gotta spend money to make money, after all – that's why top brass are getting millions in payouts once HPE's Enterprise Services are brought on board Sales at outsourcing and integrator basket case CSC are growing again – all it took was hundreds of millions of pounds worth of acquisitions.…
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by Clodagh Doyle on (#20CFR)
Natural History Museum under suspicion amid demands of "Justice for Dave" The Twitterati have pushed aside ephemera such as Brexit or the prospect of a Trump White House with protests about the fate of "Daveâ€, a prodigious annelid that may or may not have been murdered in the name of science.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#20CCE)
Undergrads will receive a salary and work alongside Dyson professionals After years of supporting traditional academia, Sir James Dyson is putting serious cash behind a new startup – his own engineering university.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#20C7Q)
Despite today's crowing about cutting steel, nowt's in writing BAE Systems hopes it will start cutting steel on Britain's new Type 26 warships next year – but the contract has not yet been signed, despite lots of positive spin from the Ministry of Defence this morning.…
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by Damon Hart-Davis on (#20C0X)
Because endless coffee and DNA replication goes only so far Radbot Pleading poverty, we don't have huge quantities of cash to throw at the necessary elements of a crowdfunding campaign such as the main video and its fleet of videolets for social meeja channels.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#20BYC)
CRM Online morphs into Dynamics 365 and 'confusion' reigns supreme The classic CRM Online suite is no more, it has ceased to be, is bereft of life and rests in pieces. Microsoft has overhauled its licence and for some the price has become a lot more expensive, trade customers have told us.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#20BTK)
We're still getting 138 jets but nobody knows if they'll all be F-35Bs, as planned, or not The Royal Air Force might buy F-35As instead of F-35Bs, according to a Parliamentary statement by the minister for defence procurement.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#20BSB)
How not to behave at tech press launches Something for the Weekend, Sir? Toy bears and model aeroplanes. Mini tubs of Pringles. Super-expensive watches that look like rusty bicycle parts adorned with a mashed insects.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#20BPW)
Get out your phones, people, and turn 8487 into letters ON-CALL POSSIBLY NSFW Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's Friday ramble through readers' recollections of unfortunate IT problems.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#20BMS)
No more call-outs if HPE, Cisco et al live up to promise – stop laughing at the back Tech's big names have jumped into bed together to create an industry standard that's supposed to make products less prone to failure in the cloudy era.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#20BJY)
Ad giant 'may actually believe it's a force for good in the world' – FairSearch Google has sought to blunt the European Commission’s three-prong inquiry into its business practices – by claiming the Eurocrats don’t understand antitrust law.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#20BFN)
But crewless boats are a long way off In January, the British firm Automated Ships and its Norwegian partners Kongsberg Maritime will begin work on the first offshore vessel that can be run with no captain, crew, or engineers.…
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by Team Register on (#20BEQ)
HackerOne's Jobert Abma spots import/export credential persistence problem The co-founder of HackerOne, Jobert Abma, has reported a critical GitLab vulnerability that allowed remote code execution on application servers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#20BD6)
Sudo how 'bout a quickie? A cafe owner from Switzerland is planning to open a coffee shop sex parlour staffed by robotic filles de joie.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#20BAA)
Ministry of Justice will hire 50 to decipher data from currently un-analysed illicit phones The UK's Ministry of Justice has revealed it is trying to have drone-makers hard code prison locations into their products, to ensure jails become no-fly zones.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#20B7G)
Windows Vista, 7 and 8 users can keep using code Redmond says has 'serious limits' Microsoft has extended the support life of its enhanced mitigation toolkit (EMET) affording Windows 8 laggards an extra 18 months of protection.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#20B3J)
€40 St. Gallen-Altenrhein to Friedrichshafen hop takes you from Switzerland to Germany Austrian airline People's Viennaline this week started flying the world's shortest international flight: a 21km hop from the Swiss town of St. Gallen to the German town of Friedrichshafen.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#20B19)
LastPass' free tier now works on all devices, which used to cost a buck a month With major breaches regularly turning up a prevalence of laughably predictable passwords, you'd think that the likes of password locker LastPass should find it easy to sell its wares for US$1 a month.…
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