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by Markus Eisele on (#1Q1NS)
Less is more, from EE to SE The future of Java Enterprise Edition is on many developers' minds. After the community came to the conclusion that the platform’s progress has come to a standstill, a plethora of initiatives has arisen with the goal of encouraging Oracle to pick up the work on Java EE 8 again.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1Q1KX)
Google finds a new way to drop cloud computing costs, but is still breaking itself Google has taken another step in the never-ending cloud price-cutting dance, shimmying to make the cost of VMs as little as a cent an hour.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1Q1JQ)
Keeps details behind closed customer-only doors SAP has issued a baker's dozen of high, medium, and low-severity patches.…
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by Chris Williams on (#1Q1H2)
Redmond races to revoke Secure Boot debug policy Microsoft leaked the golden keys that unlock Windows-powered tablets, phones and other devices sealed by Secure Boot – and is now scrambling to undo the blunder.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1Q1G3)
If you're headed there on holiday, it's time to sort out cheap global roaming Thailand is considering a proposal to track the location of all SIM cards acquired by foreigners, be they tourists or resident aliens.…
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by John Leyden and Kat Hall on (#1Q1EB)
They don't care for it. Say it's bad news Analysis UK banking industry regulators are pushing banks to offer customers access to their data through shared smartphone apps.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1Q19X)
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument hoped to shed light on all that darkness out there Five thousand robots will get busy creating a 3D map of millions of galaxies in 2019.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1Q19Y)
Nope, no unusual traffic here say operators and security types The failure of the Australian census seems to be a failure of planning.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1Q190)
Australian banks complain Apple Pay is unfair without even reading T&Cs Apple has argued that allowing banks to use iPhones NFC chips independently of Apple Pay would compromise the phones' security.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1Q12Q)
Snapper built to take you inside a rocket plume eventually produced stunning images Video NASA has built a new camera that can show what's going inside the plume of hot gases produced by rockets, but the device failed during a test because “the sheer power of the booster shook the ground enough for the power cable to be removed from the power box.â€â€¦
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1Q11V)
STEM-boosterism creating chemist-slash-baristas, and IT is still boring If you actually want a STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) job, be an engineer: science graduates are mostly under-employed, but three-quarters of engineering graduates get work within four months.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1Q119)
Play Store should spot exploits The “Quadrooter†vulnerabilities in Qualcomm-based Android phones might grant total control over target devices, but Google reckons attacks should hardly ever reach users.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1Q0Z9)
A DDOS is not a hack, says cyber-security Czar as minister nods in agreement “This was not an attack, nor was it a hackâ€: that's the official government position on the collapse of last night's Australian online Census systems, attributed to a denial-of-service attack.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1Q0T3)
Solar storm that nearly turned the world hot For the first time, retired US Air Force officers have published [PDF] an account of an incident on May 23, 1967 when a solar storm nearly fooled American high command into thinking that a Soviet nuclear attack was on the way.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1Q0RN)
The South Koreans doth protest too much, methinks A war of words has broken out after a security researcher claimed last week that Samsung's contactless mobile payment system is vulnerable to skimming and spoofing attacks.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1Q0RQ)
Oi! Statistics wonks ... please explain that foreign 'attack' ... Hard on the heels of endorsing the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS') process for the 2016 Census, Australia's privacy commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has had second thoughts and launched an investigation into its failure.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1Q0RR)
CEOs tell Vulture South that mega-stuff-ups spark spook briefings, firings, grovelling Oh to be a fly on the wall in the boardrooms of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) or IBM Australia today, after online census capture form the latter created for the former was taken down after unspecified attacks.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1Q0PW)
Wire cuts, ad complaints, and big promises around the States A flurry of news from internet service providers (ISPs) in the US has picked up what is normally a slow summer season.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1Q0FV)
Everything's broken Patch Tuesday Microsoft has fixed 38 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in Edge, Internet Explorer, and Office, as well as high-profile flaws that have allowed researchers to circumvent Windows boot protections.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1Q0C4)
'Four attacks' on SoftLayer-hosted service The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) says the problems that emerged with its online services yesterday were caused by international denial-of-service attacks.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1Q067)
Redundancy is important, said Australian PM. So what does he think of Australia's cloud-hosted census failing? In late 2014, Australia's then-communications-minister and now prime minister Malcolm Turnbull flicked the On switch for Dimension Data's dedicated government cloud.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1Q03M)
There's always a catch A teenage hacker from the Netherlands has received a million airline miles for finding 20 bugs in the travel business' code base. Unfortunately for him it's United that's paying out.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1Q01S)
These silos of your personal information don't run themselves for free, folks Facebook will circumvent browser ad-blocking tools to push web adverts onto people's screens.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1PZXR)
Adobe plugin snubbed for HTML5 Google Chrome 55 will effectively make all Flash content click-to-play by default, marking a fresh push by the web giant for an HTML5-only world.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1PZSH)
Micron helps disk biz join the 3D NAND party Don't count us out of the flash drive business. That's Seagate's message at the Flash Memory Summit as it shows off another two new SSD products: an 8TB NVMe drive, and a massive 60TB SSD demo in a 3.5-inch form factor.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1PZCW)
DSSD competitor squares up for market struggle Israeli startup E8 has launched its rack-scale NVMe over Fabrics E8-D24 array at the Flash Memory Summit, saying it has the storage array Holy Grail, setting up a direct competition with EMC’s DSSD product.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1PZA6)
As for that tale about us selling entire org... no comment Rackspace execs confirmed the sale of its Cloud Sites hosting sub to Liquid Web but ignored the white elephant in the room that Apollo Global is reportedly in talks to slurp the entire organisation.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1PZ8C)
Prettier than normal with a little help from friendly gas giant Glowing meteors streaking across the night sky marks the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower which is expected to be an even more striking spectacle this year, thanks to Jupiter.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1PZ16)
Locked down and white-listed Released in 1995, Java went from a language running in a browser to the ubiquitous platform of today, one which underpins the entire industry and with deep tentacles in enterprise IT.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1PYVJ)
Cops slapped on wrist by Investigatory Powers Tribunal over 'reckless' witch-hunt Police Scotland has been ordered to pay a Scottish policeman-turned-novelist £10,000 in damages after being found guilty of abusing surveillance powers to hunt down sources who blew the whistle on a bungled murder enquiry.…
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by John Leyden on (#1PYNT)
Complete/partial loss of control of your vehicle's systems? Yeah, possibly - IOActive Vehicle manufacturers are making many of the same security mistakes as each other, creating scores of vulnerabilities in the process.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1PYMH)
Headcount harried as privacy fears persist Australia is today conducting a contentious national census, and things aren't going smoothly.…
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The ASA will soon require operators to advertise services in one monthly fee Vodafone has scrapped line rental charges as it tries to muscle into TalkTalk's lower-end market – and comply with imminent regulatory changes for an all-in-one price for broadband and phone services.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1PYDY)
Shared external access under 200 microseconds The NVMe over fabrics array access wave is gathering strength. NVMe-over-fabrics array flasher Mangstor has introduced its TITAN NVMe over Fabric (NVMf) target software storage stack.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1PYAR)
So says vendor Nimbus +Comment Nimbus Data has announced its scale-out ExaFlash all-flash array at the Flash Memory Summit, with four models ranging up to 4.5PB raw capacity in 4U. The claims are pretty big and prompt the question: "Is this for real?"…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1PY6A)
27,000 PCs still compute like it's 2001 London’s Metropolitan Police has missed its deadline to dump Windows XP, with tens of thousands of copper still running the risky OS.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#1PY4H)
Educating the British ... about the cloud/on-prem workload mix Blog Anyone who's read much of what I write for The Reg will know that I'm a believer in hybrid cloud – using the cloud for some elements of your world whilst retaining components on-premise too. But precisely which elements? We'll look at how you might decide what belongs where: on-premise, in the private cloud, or in the public cloud.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1PY4J)
Rise of the Machines? Perhaps if they're not very good ones Hundreds of London Underground's automated trains were cancelled last year thanks to automated train operation system SNAFUs, blowing a hole in claims that replacing bolshy staff with computers is the best way to prevent delays.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1PY10)
Do Not Upgrade order escalated to Nuke It From Orbit It's The Only Way To Be Sure There's egg on face down VMware way: the buggy release of NSX we reported reported two weeks ago turns out to be so messy VMware's decided to erase it from history.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1PXYE)
Three-year code pilot to cut costs, lock-in United States chief information officer Tony Scott and chief acquisition officer Anne E Rung have issued a joint memo decreeing that henceforth all government agencies need to consider open-sourcing any bespoke software they commission.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1PXXD)
Boffins clueless about cause We might have thought that the long-term dimming of “alien megastructure†star, Tabby's Star, had been put to rest as a calibration error, but boffins now reckon its mysterious dimming can be seen in Kepler data.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1PXTX)
One more reason to stop worrying and love the Brexit The United Kingdom has copped the largest jump in credit card fraud of all European countries with an 18 per cent rise resulting in £88m ($114m, A$150m) of additional losses.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1PXR5)
Intel Skylake drivers + Avast = kernel panic, BSOD Avast has issued a rushed fix to stem blue screen of death action caused by an update that clashed with Windows 10 on some systems.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1PXQ8)
Russian physicists give Chipzilla's HPC star the elephant stamp Russian researchers working with Intel on a NASA supercomputer have put Intel's Knights Landing through its paces, and are pleased with what they've found.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1PXKT)
Pushing ahead with 'coexistence' plan, while industry squabbles The row over Wi-Fi spectrum access is continuing, but the Wi-Fi Alliance is pressing ahead with coexistence tests to be conducted by US test laboratory AT4 Wireless.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1PXG3)
Another step towards miniaturising quantum computing MIT boffins reckon they've cracked one of the more difficult challenges of practical quantum computing – the miniaturisation of components.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1PXF8)
SaaS-o-saurus Rex preparing more granular status service for September debut Salesforce.com has slipped out a beta of a more granular status service.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1PXCH)
Government prods industry towards vertical integration 27 Chinese semiconductor companies have formed a “High End Chip Alliance†(HECA) aimed at creating a more integrated ecosystem across the Middle Kingdom and with an ambition to create new silicon standards.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1PXBW)
Small boost to login speed could be a big roadblock for Marshmallow malware. Google may be paving the way to kill one of the few remaining avenues to compromise modern Android handsets in its bid to improve password security with a new open source API.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1PX9K)
Mini-sats to buzz Luna and snap its sunny shores in 2018 NASA and Lockheed Martin have finalised the contract for an upcoming CubeSat mission called SkyFire.…
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