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by Darren Pauli on (#1JXZR)
Toxic Foxit plugs bugs Makers of popular PDF reader Foxit have patched 12 dangerous vulnerabilities that could have resulted in remote code execution.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1JXXW)
Probe launched after ex-Navy SEAL, 40, dies in semi smash An investigation was launched today after the driver of a Tesla was killed in what is understood to be a malfunction of the car's autopilot.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1JXTW)
Colin Murphy, can we talk about SHA-1? Western Australia's Auditor General has panned the state's consistently-awful IT security, delivering its report from a site that Chrome warns isn't doing HTTPS right.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1JXP8)
The Big TITSUP strikes again Telstra is red-faced yet again, after suffering a long outage centred in Victoria.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1JXNC)
Vote at Human Rights Council to take place Friday Russia and China are fighting an effort at the United Nations (UN) to extend human rights to the internet.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1JXJ8)
Has the regulator finally bitten off more than it can chew? Twenty billion dollars is a lot of incentive, as the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has found out.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1JXF4)
New US report suggests fewer peeps are using crypto but it's probably the other way around Figures published this month suggest fewer Americans are using encryption to secure their communications – but if you look into the detail, the opposite is probably closer to reality.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1JX7F)
Sparks fly as DigitalOcean pulls plug amid shocking trademark tantrum over sendup site Updated Web publisher Surge.sh blames a single trademark-infringement complaint for stripping more than 38,000 websites from the internet.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1JX5C)
Potential Clinton running mate lays into anti-competitive Silicon Valley giants Potential vice-president and Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren has accused tech giants Apple, Amazon and Google of undermining competition and using their political clout to kill off efforts to place limits on them.…
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by David Gordon on (#1JX0T)
Two-day event at AT&T Park, July 15 and 16 Promo In San Francisco on Friday, July 15 and Saturday, July 16? Be sure to check out Shape, a jam-packed technology festival and expo curated by AT&T that runs over the two days.…
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by Drew Cullen on (#1JWDS)
Ball and blockchain for Glock parts postal buyer A West Midlands man who bought gun parts on the so-called Dark Web has been sentenced to 10 months in prison.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1JWBM)
Sounds good. Wait, Google agua caliente for us, will you? Google's Madrid offices are its latest to be raided as the search giant faces a series of tax probes across the European Union.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1JW5X)
Spacecraft 'welcomed' by gas giant's aurora, light show seen by NASA The Hubble Space Telescope has captured new images of Jupiter’s glowing aurora swirling around one of the planet’s poles, as part of a wider observation programme of the gas giant.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1JW1Y)
Your smuggling idea? Probably best to drop it A 37-year-old man has pleaded guilty to plotting to smuggle contraband into a British prison using a drone.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1JW0J)
Bean counter eye up $100m cost cuts Seagate is flinging about three per cent of the workforce overboard to cut its cloth to match crappy PCs sales.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1JVV7)
Gorgeous MIlky Way not even close to turning red through stress of ageing Physicists have created a novel simulation which allows users to watch how the colour of a galaxy changes over time as it evolves.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1JVR9)
Nice jet, just don't look too closely at the software snafus The first of the Royal Air Force's new F-35B Joint Strike Fighter jets landed on British soil last night, heralding a new era for the Royal Air Force.…
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by John Leyden on (#1JVPW)
Nmap in hand, they're soon working pwned systems like a boss - study Hackers almost exclusively use standard network admin tools to move around a compromised network once they’ve broken in using malware or other hacking techniques.…
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Small crumb: You can pick your own network operator Amazon has slashed the cost of its mobile handsets in return for customers eyeballing more personalised spam – its latest attempt to foist more e-commerce tat on consumers.…
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by Andrew Fentem on (#1JVF0)
Who will pour cash into our disruptive apps? Comment As Brexit sends London's tech sector and Silicon Roundabout into post-traumatic shock, and protesters out onto the streets of London, inventor Andrew Fentem wonders "what sort of hippy free-for-all is this anyway?"…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1JVDX)
'Extremely challenging' year for sales and 'trademark infringement' sueball blamed Grey broker DP Data Systems is facing a trademark infringement case brought by Hewlett Packard that ultimately convinced management to pull down the shutters, the business has claimed in its latest financial filing.…
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by David Gordon on (#1JVAB)
The three Vs? Let’s start with a video Promo If keeping up with the volume, variety and velocity of information is a data scientist's biggest challenge, keeping on top of the tools and methods to do this must come fairly close.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#1JV90)
The nuts and bolts of the matter Go to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, and you’ll see a strange contraption cobbled together from commodity motherboards purchased from electronics stores. It’s one of Google’s first production servers, built in 1999 when it didn’t have money to waste on dead-end projects like Wave, NexusQ and Buzz.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1JV67)
What happens after the 2 year wait? Depends – spokesman The EU bank that has poured more than £34bn (€42bn) over 10 years into UK projects will honour its existing deals in the wake of last week’s Brexit vote.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1JV4F)
If people trust Bezos' boys with their data, this is going to rattle a few cages Amazon has made its Elastic File System (EFS) available, opening up an assault on on-premises filers.…
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by Dan Olds, Gabriel Consulting on (#1JV3C)
Third trophy for South Africa HPC Blog The results are in for the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2016 Student Cluster Competition, and we've analyzed them senseless.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1JV1B)
Even footy didn't dampen self-love happy folks' ardour British people are now bored of Brexit and have returned to using the Internet for what it was made for – pornography.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1JV09)
Careful, he might hear you A well-known radio source has turned out not to be the galaxy it's been classified as for 20 years, but a surprisingly quiet black hole.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1JTYG)
Open-source biz extends Linux sandbox offerings with storage and more Red Hat Summit Red Hat is going full tilt after bringing containers and traditional Linux apps together under its management with a raft of announcements.…
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by Team Register on (#1JTWE)
Big bucks in pillaging parking The transport sector is a booming lucrative playground for cyber criminals that is increasingly fragmented, IBM researchers say.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1JTV6)
Remember these names, they'll be running copper in the big leagues soon Students from around the US gathered recently in Louisville, Kentucky to take part in a series of contests based on installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting lines for telco networks.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1JTQ1)
Gateway for Things Cisco has anointed another industry alliance into its Internet of Things embrace, with LoRaWAN…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1JTKJ)
Or something will happen, as bad as being hacked Government agencies in the Australian state of Victoria will have two years to move from near ground zero to stand up fully-fledged and updated information security, risk, and governance policies.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1JTGM)
Lu Wei steps down, Xu Lin steps up China has a new Internet chief, after Lu Wei abruptly stepped down.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1JTE0)
Google-backed cable ready for service Backed by Google and built by NEC, the FASTER consortium submarine cable has been lit up.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1JT73)
Mobes face Hummer summer bummer Security researchers are warning about the continuing spread of Hummer, a powerful trojan that roots handsets, downloads pornographic applications, and displays pop-up ads at random intervals.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1JT4T)
Wait, what? Telstra CEO Andy Penn, while promising to spend AU$250 million improving the Telstra network, has, without much fuss, re-started investment in ADSL infrastructure.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1JSWG)
Run for the tills! Software nasty infected registers, admits US chain American fast-food chain Noodles and Company says malware got into its sales registers, allowing it to slurp customers' payment card numbers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1JSTQ)
Regional Internet Registries sign contract with DNS overlord The internet's move away from US government control took a significant step forward Wednesday with the signing of a new contract.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1JSS9)
He raided bank account to buy shares in biz just before acquisition news, SEC claims A California chap is accused of illegally using inside information to pocket more than $68,000 when Apple took over mobile security biz AuthenTec.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1JSMW)
Final arguments to be heard next month over fate of bloke who 'broke into' FBI boxes Alleged Brit hacker Lauri Love, who is accused of compromising US government servers and faces extradition to America, has been bailed by a UK court.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1JSHT)
You need to go bother the Irish, says appeals court The Belgium Privacy Commission has lost its effort to force Facebook to stop tracking non-users of the website when an appeals court ruled it was outside its jurisdiction.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1JSCA)
Data slimming tech for Hybrid Cloud Prof Services partners Permabit has moved beyond OEMs, making the latest release of its dedupe technology available as a Linux software package so that ISVs, professional services folks and systems integrators in its Hybrid Cloud Professional Services partners programme can use it.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1JS7V)
Filing claims the CFAA blocks online researchers The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) should be stricken for being unconstitutional.…
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by John Leyden on (#1JS54)
US politicos a side project for spies, claims report Well publicised attacks against the US Democrat National Committee exposed earlier this month are part of a wider pattern of attacks against a much broader range of US political targets, according to new research by Dell SecureWorks.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1JS0Z)
Astro boffins use find to study star formations The Hubble telescope has captured images of a rare tadpole galaxy glittering with bursts of star formation, swimming in the black pond of space.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1JRZD)
CueSongs hits the run-off groove A music licensing startup backed by Peter Gabriel has gone into receivership, Music Week reports.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#1JRVF)
And other telco oligopoly moans... Our resident maple leafer talks to digi rights group Opinion Openmedia, a digital rights advocacy group, has quickly become one of Canada's leading civil liberties organizations. Established in 2008 by Steve Anderson, Openmedia has run a series of successful campaigns which have made it the bane of Canada's telecoms oligopoly.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1JRRC)
Part of planned 9,000 job cuts and 200 branch closures Lloyds Banking Group is to chop 640 jobs in IT and back office functions as it forges ahead with plans to reduce its branch network's real estate.…
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by Team Register on (#1JRM5)
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