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by Katyanna Quach on (#1Z4SK)
Millipede possesses a tetrad of todgers. Oh, and 200 poison glands Scientists have discovered a new species of millipede with four penises lurking deep within the crystal cave of Sequoia National Park.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1Z4R8)
Copyright chief removed, moved sideways The US Copyright Office has been given a brutal Silicon Valley-style sacking, the first time the Copyright Register has been dismissed in 119 years.…
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Audit follows IT disaster that resulted in farmers being underpaid Whitehall's spending watchdog is to review the achievements of the Government Digital Service in light of the Rural Payments Agency's IT disaster.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1Z4HP)
'Spotlight' on the money in a post-cloud-hype world The cost and expense of AWS and Azure is helping drive cloud hopefuls to OpenStack, the organisation has said.…
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by Chris Evans on (#1Z4G2)
But don't forget: the network needs monitoring Block-based storage (and particularly that based on Fibre Channel) has always been the favoured child when it comes to vendors talking about their products and solutions. All of the high-end performing devices tend (but not exclusively) to be block-based.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1Z4D6)
Reputation management comes out of the shadows It isn’t just feral estate agents who drape their cars with adverts. Reader James sent us this photo, which you may want to examine more closely if you’re an enthusiastic Wikipedian.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1Z4BK)
Nearly 80% accuracy in human rights trials from reports RotM Artificial Intelligence can predict the outcomes of European Court of Human Rights trials to a high accuracy, according to research published today.…
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by John Leyden on (#1Z4A4)
Dyn-Dyn-Dyn... it's a knockout! A group called New World Hackers has claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack that rendered significant portions of the web unreachable last Friday.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1Z47N)
MicroProfile play targets the Eclipse Foundation Oracle aims to land the delayed Java Enterprise Edition 8 on or before October 2017.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1Z457)
Fatter flash and in-drive compression helps to boost performance Hitachi Data Systems has a new enterprise all-flash array and a faster hybrid array, doubled flash drive capacity and updated its Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS).…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1Z42Z)
Cross-party collective of 105 MPs sign open letter to US President to save Love A cross-party collective of 105 MPs has penned an open letter to US President Barack Obama, requesting that he intervene to withdraw the extradition requests for alleged #OpLastResort hacker Lauri Love.…
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How's that plan to break with monopoly suppliers going? The Cabinet Office is gearing up to ink another mega pan-government Oracle licensing deal, multiple sources have told The Register.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1Z3YM)
Not just Europeans who'll consume Cloud 28+ Hewlett Packard Enterprise is taking Cloud 28+ - aka Worldwide Indirect Digital Services - to a global audience, leaked internal documents have revealed.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1Z3XM)
On-prem set for 13% hike Life is to get a lot more expensive for Microsoft customers from the start of next year with currency linked, double-digit price hikes looming for cloud and on-premise software.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1Z3TS)
Let’s hope not. Somebody might notice A curious story appeared overnight, one that made Samsung look very foolish. According to anti-copyright activist and blogger Mike Masnick, Google's YouTube had received a copyright takedown notice from Samsung requesting that game videos featuring the Samsung Note 7 as a weapon be removed.…
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by John Leyden on (#1Z3SV)
A*STAR Singapore shows how easy it is The crypto scheme applied to second generation (2G) mobile phone data can be hacked within seconds, security researchers have demonstrated.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1Z3QH)
How long before it goes off the rails? Comment Violin Memory’s stock is slowmo crashing, and is now down to $0.35; it was $0.65 on October 11.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1Z3MN)
Kind of a hacker-MacGyver story We all know that sinking feeling when you realise your laptop screen is broken and you need to use it sooner than you can get it fixed.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1Z3GZ)
Patch? Nah, we'll just remove 'secure' from the tin: vendor Ruxcon Wireless keyboard and mouse manufacturers including Microsoft, Fujitsu, and Logitech have been forced to fix borked encryption in peripherals that allow physical attackers to hijack computers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1Z3D6)
Networks also need to grab a mirror and look at themselves Last Friday's Mirai botnet attack against Dyn must force everybody's hands – vendors, regulators, and Internet infrastructure operators.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1Z3AH)
Get your Rs into gear, data scientists Microsoft is expanding the analytic and visualisation capabilities of its R analysis package, with the launch late last week of IDEAR and AMAR.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1Z36W)
dpauli, darren.pauli, darrenp, pauli.darren, paulid Ruxcon Melbourne security bod Andrew Horton has created a tool to automate the generation of usernames in a bid to round-out brute force account attacks.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1Z33T)
Behold! A global titan of data retrieval is upon us Data recovery and discovery outfit Kroll Ontrack has been acquired, for US$410m.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1Z2ZK)
Suits told to run two versions of services and turn on the bad one once budgets run low Amazon Web Services (AWS) has all-but-admitted some customers are experiencing bill shock, or finding it hard to control costs in its clouds.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1Z2WT)
Emergency fail over provisions abused. Ruxcon Hacker Wanqiao Zhang of Chinese hacking house Qihoo 360 has blown holes in 4G LTE networks by detailing how to intercept and make calls, send text messages and even force phones offline.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1Z2V3)
Quicker handshake starts encrypting data sooner Mozilla has decided it needs to lift its HTTPS game, and will default to TLS 1.3 in next year's Firefox 52.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1Z2PG)
Space Surveillance Telescope can spot specks of shiny 36,000km away The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) is on track for its transfer to a site in Australia later this year.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1Z2DX)
Batman, HBO, Harry Potter, CNN to become 'addressable advertised personal social mobile experience' AT&T has agreed to acquire Time Warner for US$85.4bn.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1YYQ9)
This is not the way to get vulnerabilities fixed Security startup MedSec and the financial house backing the biz have published new allegations of security flaws in pacemakers and defibrillators built by St Jude Medical – and again look set to profit from the disclosures in an unorthodox way.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1YY9Q)
Attempt to steal wife's text messages gets all watered down A judge in North Carolina, US, has been convicted for attempting to bribe an FBI agent to pull his wife's text messages in exchange for two cases of flavored water – aka American light beer.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#1YX7Q)
Fed up with artificial intelligence hype? The blather is only just beginning Machine learning, Tableau, and user experience design represented the fastest growing skills on freelancing platform Upwork during the third quarter of the year, a finding that makes sense in the context of the accelerating collection of data and the need to present it.…
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by Chris Williams on (#1YX66)
IoT gadgets behind tens of millions of IP addresses flooded DNS biz Dyn Updated Today a vast army of hijacked internet-connected devices – from security cameras and video recorders to home routers – turned on their owners and broke a big chunk of the web.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1YWZ9)
Pair abused typo blind spot to game certificate authority Two European security researchers exploited Comodo's crappy backend systems to obtain a HTTPS certificate for a domain they do not own.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1YWR6)
4KM plummet to surface shattered Euro spacecraft Pic The European Space Agency has spotted what it assumes is what's left of its Schiaparelli lander that smashed into the Martian surface this week.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1YWN9)
Twitter, Amazon, AirBnB, Github and many others hit in DDoS attack on infrastructure An extraordinary, focused attack on DNS provider Dyn continues to disrupt internet services for hundreds of companies, including online giants Twitter, Amazon, AirBnB, Spotify and others.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1YWDV)
Fun but it's probably better for measuring really small things Holograms created with neutron beams have been demonstrated for the first time by a team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1YWA8)
Quadrantic magicians do their square rating thingy Gartner has published a distributed file systems and object storage magic quadrant with the top three suppliers being Dell EMC, followed by IBM and Scality.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1YW45)
Blockchain timestamped hashing fraud check Acronis's Storage software product for businesses and service providers uses blockchain technology to prove data has not been altered.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1YW0W)
Private cloud - as a service, sir? Cloud-flinger Mirantis has signed up global telco giant NTT as its first data centre service provider partner.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1YVX4)
Check the Org chart, will you Comment We've learnt how the EMC organisation has been fitted into its new Dell house, at least at a top exec and product level, and here is an org chart set to show what we believe we know.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1YVVE)
No, not the whole country, just the whole country operation After three decades at or near the top of HPE’s Irish ops - latterly the standalone Enterprise organisation - Martin Murphy is to leave the business by the end of February, El Reg can confirm.…
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by John Leyden on (#1YVR3)
Reddit, Github, Airbnb and pals affected A denial of service attack against managed DNS provider Dyn restricted access to many US-based websites on Friday.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1YVP0)
You gotta have standards Reg Standards Bureau Reporting on NHS expenditure today, the BBC's health correspondent Nick Triggle coined The Register's newest unit of measurement: The Pogba (Pg).…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1YVK0)
Toast the Immortal Memory of Admiral Lord Nelson, shipmates Today marks the 211th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, in which Admiral Horatio Nelson gave the combined naval might of France and Spain a bloody good kicking.…
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by John Leyden on (#1YVK2)
Not even playtime's safe these days Hackers abused a free VoIP service for gamers to distribute remote-access Trojans and other malware.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1YVEN)
And it can't come soon enough for resellers as sales slide Perennial forex challenges, coupled with sliding demand for tech products in Germany and a shrunken tech services pipeline in Britain squeezed Computacenter’s top line in Q3.…
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30 cables cut and countless masts out of action Hapless Network Rail contractors drove a pile through 30 cable ducts, cutting phone, broadband services and many cell towers in the Uxbridge, Middlesex - potentially knocking services out until next week.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1YV88)
Both parties promising massive tax break on overseas earnings Last night's US presidential debate may have been fierce, but no matter who wins the election next month, technology firms are going to make out like bandits.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1YV70)
And we'll attack you back, promises Defence Secretary Britain is splurging £265m on military cyber security – and that includes offensive capabilities, according to Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon.…
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Amazingly slow Shropshire attack causes sluggish services Snails attacked a Virgin Media broadband cabinet in Shropshire, resulting in sluggish broadband services.…
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