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by John Leyden on (#1FN9H)
Bloatware creates easy pwnage Computers from many of the biggest PC makers are riddled with easy-to-exploit vulnerabilities in pre-loaded software, security researchers warn.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1FMYC)
Wearable-friendly silicon is aimed at lifestyle IoT items Qualcomm has announced it will be launched a new series of Snapdragon Wear chips aimed at wearable devices.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1FMWB)
The Transatlantic Limbo: Privacy Shield given a thumbs down by Giovanni Buttarelli The EU's independent data protection supervisor has said that the proposed US-EU data sharing agreement, Privacy Shield, "is not robust enough to withstand future legal scrutiny" and has refused to endorse it.…
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Yes, literally There's one thing that literally makes bees' hairs stand up and quiver, say boffins: small electric fields emitted by flowers looking to get it on.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1FMN7)
It's a small hyper-converged world... and EMC swims nearby Comment Scale Computing is one of 13 suppliers attacking the hyper-converged infrastructure market. Not all will survive. What has it got that makes it distinctive and gives it the potential for success?…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1FMHN)
Brussels bods demand Microsoft, Google etc keep doing the same thing The European Commission has claimed the credit for getting Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft to agree on a code of conduct which will address "illegal online hate speech", despite the companies already following practices demanded by EU bureaucrats.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1FME7)
Meet our bonkers burst buffer-driven system DDN’s FlashScale (14KXi) is a scale-up and scale-out all-flash and processor powerhouse that can deliver headline-grabbing IOPS and bandwidth numbers - fancy a billion IOPS?…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1FMBW)
Ad-slinger quietly pushes pro-Brexit views down its results Google has demoted the site EU Referendum to “below the fold†in searches for the term “EU referendumâ€, where it isn’t visible to most web surfers unless they scroll down.…
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by Lester Haines on (#1FM9J)
Facebook Live vid Q&A session tomorrow International Space Station (ISS) 'nauts Tim Kopra, Tim Peake and Jeff Williams will tomorrow enjoy a 20-minute Facebook Live vid Q&A session with Mark Zuckerberg.…
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by John Leyden on (#1FM7D)
If we had, say, $15.38 for every user... oh wait More than 65 million sets of login credentials for users of Yahoo-owned Tumblr have appeared up for sale through the darknet.…
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by Lester Haines on (#1FM5Q)
Spacecraft drawn to July rendezvous with gas giant NASA's Juno spacecraft last week crossed the Sun/Jupiter gravitational boundary and is now firmly in the gas giant's embrace.…
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Good news if you're in Silicon Valley or Tel Aviv Microsoft is stretching out its foot to dip a tentative toe into the waters of early stage investment, under a revamp of its Microsoft Ventures programme.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1FKZ3)
Needs to keep SoCing it to 'em, frame after frame Chip design boffins at ARM have unveiled specs for the Brit firm's latest ceepie-geepie offerings.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#1FKSW)
We like 'any device, any platform', but not UWP, says component vendor Keeping pace with Microsoft's ever-changing developer story has not been easy. Just ask Infragistics exec Jason Beres, Senior VP Development Tools.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1FKR3)
Atom-powered home kit so ISPs can pipe VMs into your house As predicted by The Register, Intel has created an x86-powered reference platform for home gateways that makes the box you use for broadband services an Atom-powered target for virtual machines delivered by carriers.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1FKP6)
Microsoft and Samsung celebrate Windows 10 year of driver FAIL Samsung is advising customers against succumbing to Microsoft’s nagging and installing Windows 10.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1FKKF)
At least, that's what the analysts say... Total disk drive shipments are going to plummet by 2020, with raw SSD cost getting cheaper than disk and SSDs taking over from disk in notebooks.…
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by Lester Haines on (#1FKHX)
Bigelow Expandable Activity Module finally fattened The International Space Station (ISS) grew by 16m on Saturday as the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) was successfully inflated at the second attempt.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#1FKF9)
Open source .NET will add legacy APIs to make porting easier Microsoft's open source fork of the .NET platform, called .NET Core, will be modified for better compatibility with existing applications, says Program Manager Immo Landwerth in a recent post.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1FKAK)
Upgrades previous 6TB drive tech Toshiba has upgraded its X300 gaming/workstation desktop drive from 6TB to 8TB capacity, continuing to sidestep any moves to helium-filling tech.…
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Professor lays spending blame at Crown Commercial Services' door Analysis Every government has always claimed to be the friend of SMEs – and with 5.2 million of them in the UK it makes an easy vote winner. But promising to do more business with smaller providers and handing over cold, hard cash are two very different things.…
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by Boris Adryan on (#1FK6T)
There's more than one Boris in this debate Opinion In the early 2000s the United Kingdom was the powerhouse of European science and innovation. For many young, aspiring scientists from continental Europe, this meant coming here to world-leading institutes and universities to pursue research not possible in the constraints of their home countries.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#1FK5N)
Don't step out of this house if that's the code you're gonna wear Sysadmin Blog Perhaps the greatest lie ever told is that the many are powerless against the few. This is rarely, if ever, true, yet is something that we are told every day of our lives until we believe it. This is especially the case when it comes to IT.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1FK2E)
Rubbish-covered relic found in Essex shed. A World War II teleprinter Hitler used in strategic communications with generals has been bought on eBay for £9.50.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FK0B)
E&Y to flog 24k BTC seized by Oz cops Australia is getting ready to sell off a bunch of Bitcoin seized by police under proceeds of crime laws, in an international auction.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1FJYK)
The fix? Kill features or replace Unpatchable vulnerabilities have been disclosed in an industrial control system, of the kind used in power plants, that remote attackers can exploit to gain control of networks.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1FJWD)
Microsoft's exchange rates for discounted Azure can work in your favour Microsoft is offering unintentional discounts to Azure users.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1FJTJ)
Hackers get 'exclusive' PornHub tees Pornhub is paying thousands of extra dollars to researchers who have already submitted vulnerabilities under its bug bounty program as part of an overhaul.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FJRH)
Hacked transaction house wants US security trainee International payments clearing-house SWIFT wants extra hands to keep its stable doors closed.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FJPF)
Anyone seen our missing Musudan? Japan and South Korea have had another live training exercise turn to disappointment, with another North Korean missile launch failing.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1FJKZ)
Government that already spies on citizens decides it needs a social network North Korea appears to have created a Facebook clone.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FJJY)
Oh, and please order the money-truck, we need more The University of NSW / Australian Defence Force Academy-run Australian Centre for Cybersecurity reckons the government needs to tip AU$1 billion annually into cyber-security.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FJG9)
You've already patched the corporate Galaxy fleet, haven't you? A pair of Israeli researchers has detailed their discovery of three Android / KNOX vulnerabilities in older Samsung phones, and it makes for depressing reading.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FJB0)
Indian state wants in on balloon broadband trials The Indian state of Goa wants to attract Google to the region for its Project Loon balloon broadband trials.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FJ53)
Big Blue's colleges boosted with another $4.2 million Why is the Liberal party promising money to recreate vocational training on an American model, when Australia used to have a working vocational training system of its own?…
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by Stuart Burns on (#1FFZC)
To err is human, to double err is career limiting Blog Everyone I speak to about system security seems to panic about malware, cloud failure system crashes and bad patches. But the biggest threat isn’t good or bad code, or systems that may or may not fail. It’s people. What we call Liveware errors range from the mundane to the catastrophic and they happen all the time at all levels of business.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1FFVE)
Cops find 5000 stolen active credit cards at carder's crib Darkode bot bandit Rory Stephen Guidry has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for selling a botnet containing 5000 enslaved machines, and stealing US$80,000 (£72,069, A$111,728) in Bitcoins and 5000 active credit cards.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FFHV)
Axe hovers over journal publishers Bet on furious lobbying to prevent this: the European Union's Competitiveness Council has recommended all scientific papers be made “open access†by 2020.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1FFHW)
Patch or miscreants could doctor records The US computer emergency response team has issued a warning after admin credentials were found in a popular medical application used for acquiring patient data.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1FFE3)
Lone researcher cleans up $30k Google has patched 42 vulnerabilities including 23 contributed by external researchers earning them US$65,000 (£54,030, A$83,732) in rewards.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FFAC)
Time is 'bigger on the inside' Back in the early 1960s, physicist Richard Feynman remarked that the centre of the Earth had to be a little younger than the surface, since it would experience gravitational time dilation.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1FF6K)
Pushed in line with latest PCI DSS The payment application data security standard (PA-DSS) has been updated to help businesses better install, update, and patch their hardware.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FF38)
No replacement in mind yet Telstra's CTO has returned to America after just 21 months in the role, sparking speculation that he was sacked over the accuracy of his CV.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FF09)
Study good for a headline, not much else Mobile phones do cause cancers – and rats' cells are modulation-sensitive. That's what emerges from a preliminary study dropped on a pre-print server by America's National Toxicology Program.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FEWK)
Facebook, Google want looser controls over biometrics The Center for Democracy and Technology is accusing Illinois senator Terry Link of planning to gut protections covering the use of biometric data by the IT sector.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FES4)
'Political rumourtrage' crack raises ire nbnchair Ziggy Switkowski has penned an article for Fairfax saying the “NBN leakers†aren't whistleblowers, but partisan ideologues.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1FEPK)
El Reg hefts Amazon's 50TB cloud data mule FIRST LOOK VIDEO Moving data into and out of clouds is expensive and slow. Which is why Amazon Web Services (AWS) started rolling a Snowball, a box packing up to 50 terabytes of data.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1FA7Y)
Better late than never The international financial network SWIFT has said it will "expand" its use of two-factor authentication when banks shift funds.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1F9CY)
Are you not entertained? No It's almost routine now. After previous thrills and spills, Elon Musk and his team now don't just make rocket science look easy – they make it look like a quick trip to the corner store.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1F9C6)
Happens to us all, space-station inflatable podule boffins After halting the first try on safety grounds, NASA is going to make another attempt to inflate the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday.…
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