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by Alexander J Martin on (#1HS1Y)
CEO Dido Harding did say infosec was her responsibility... A Parliamentary inquiry into the TalkTalk hack has said that telco CEOs' salaries should be garnished if their firms' cyber security practices are lacking.…
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by Timothy Prickett Morgan on (#1HRZJ)
Chucking money, engineering talent at HPC pays off ISC For the first time since the Top 500 rankings of the most powerful supercomputers in the world was started 23 years ago, the United States is not home to the largest number of machines on the list – and China, after decades of intense investment and engineering, is.…
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But gives bonus to charity Dido Harding, the chief exec of beleaguered firm TalkTalk, was handed £2.8m in salary this year, despite the company suffering a catastrophic cyber attack last year.…
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Find out all about it in our Reg lecture Space may be the final frontier, but it’s also site of the next landrush for the more buccaneering end of humanity, as new technology and new money change the dynamics of space exploration. Whether the prospect of Bezos and Musk reaching out beyond the planet thrills or appals you, it’s unquestionable that space is becoming a place for business and profit, not just governments and science.…
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by John Leyden on (#1HRSX)
'Advanced technology for those where cost is not an issue' El Reg got hands-on with the Solarin $14,000 ultra-high-end Android smartphone during a trip to Tel Aviv this week.…
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by Frank Jennings on (#1HRQW)
It's not like my boss painstakingly nurtured the contacts, right? You spend months or years building up a client list for your employer. You nurture the relationship and build up personal ties with the client. When you leave the employer, naturally the client goes with you. And so does the client list, via a USB stick or Dropbox or your webmail account. If you don’t get all the details before you leave, you can simply log back in later and copy the rest.…
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Roaming charges and the EU, or how to play a zero-sum game One thing the Brexit debate hasn't been short on is hyperbole, with much talk about a potential economic Armageddon triggered by a leave scenario.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1HRN7)
Lib Dem peers plan serious opposition to bill in House of Lords IPBill The Liberal Democrats are planning to meet the Investigatory Powers Bill with strong resistance in the House of Lords, a list of key issues shared with The Register reveals.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1HRJH)
Clients might get even more spam, MD says A million and a half customer records have strolled out the door of T-Mobile Czech Republic in an employee's pocket.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1HRHD)
Gravitational waves provide key to some of the universe's greatest mysteries The first time physicists announced that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) had detected gravitational waves, on September 14, 2015, it was breaking news. The discovery coincided with the 100-year anniversary of Einstein's theory of General Relativity, which predicted the existence of gravitational waves.…
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by Team Register on (#1HRED)
Demands $250, steals passwords for good measure New ransomware written entirely in JavaScript has appeared encrypting users files for a US$250 (£172, A$336) ransom and installing a password-stealing application.…
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by Chris Williams on (#1HRDG)
No NVLink CPU? No problem ISC Nvidia has popped its Tesla P100 accelerator chip onto PCIe cards for bog-standard server nodes tasked with artificial intelligence and supercomputer-grade workloads.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1HR98)
'Fair Repair Act' returned in its original packaging Another US state has missed a legislative deadline to make third-party tech product repair legal.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1HR5N)
Next version release candidate drops, stable gets bug-fixes Big iron sysadmins: there's a significant upgrade to OpenMPI in the works.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1HR2R)
The Terminator comes to your bank account If your wallet is too heavy by AU$10,000 or so, relax: Australian doctors can relieve your pain with a robot surgeon.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1HR0D)
We've taken the nine-inch iPad Pro and instant global broadband for a spin ROAD TEST “Lapable†is not a word I would ordinarily use, save for the fact that Apple’s applied it to the new iPad Pro nine-incher.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1HQW3)
Now bad for your phone's health. MacDonald's New Zealand and Australia restaurants reportedly have unused and insecure NFC tags glued under tables.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1HQVF)
That sound you can hear? Big integrators are rubbing their hands together Australia's Medicare will have to contract its own systems to replace the current payment processing iron, with politics killing off the idea that payment processing could be privatised.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1HQS2)
If the future happens at 5Mbps, we need fibre to the what exactly why? A couple of weeks ago, Telstra breathlessly announced “the future of medical diagnosisâ€, namely “haptically-enabled robotics†that mean ultrasound examinations can be conducted remotely, complete with force-feedback so that a sonographer can guide their instrument over a distant body's lumps and bumps.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1HQNW)
Short-chuted crew capsule just fine, thanks In spite of the SpaceX hard landing last week, successful booster landings are becoming almost routine, but if you haven't already watched Blue Origin's successful test over the weekend, it's at the bottom of this story.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1HKB4)
Money software blubs at the sight of onions UK supermarket giant Tesco's mobile banking app refuses to run on handsets where the Tor app is also installed, it emerged this weekend.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1HJKA)
AI bots are the new hype – just not money-making, chat flooding bots Gameplay video streaming biz Twitch has had enough of bots on its network and, after failing to find a lasting tech solution, has started throwing sueballs instead.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1HJG4)
We ran out of fuel, admits Elon Video SpaceX supremo Elon Musk's hopes of adding a fifth rocket to his collection of pre-used space hardware were dashed on Wednesday when the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket suffered a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. Now we know why.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1HJ8J)
No tweets, no YouTube, no likes, no killings, court told A grieving father has sued Google, Twitter and Facebook, alleging the web giants enabled the Paris terrorist attacks that killed his daughter.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1HJ5W)
é¸¡çˆªè’‚å§†Â·åº“å…‹ï¼ Apple has lost a patent infringement lawsuit that could see the iPhone booted from China's capital.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1HJ49)
$50m hack leads to reset proposal before stolen money can be cashed Digital currency Ethereum may have less than a month to live.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1HHVP)
Cybersecurity bods argue for formalizing zero-day disclosure rules The FBI's purchase of a hack to get into the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone should have been barred.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1HHHP)
Lost info includes names, addresses, numbers and security codes Acer's insecure customer database spilled people's personal information – including full payment card numbers – into hackers' hands for more than a year.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1HHBQ)
Neighbours had enough of man picking up fluff and laundering in the buff A sweep-silly Swede is being turfed out of his studio apartment following complaints from hard-pressed neighbours upset about his gratuitous vacuum cleaner usage – and nude laundering.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1HH8X)
Brit astronaut gets back on terra firma at 0900GMT tomorrow British astronaut Major Tim Peake and the rest of the crew aboard the Soyuz spacecraft will be zooming back to earth after a six-month long mission in space.…
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by Team Register on (#1HH15)
Not quite at AWS or Azure scale this time around, but engorging nicely Softlayer has announced new and larger cloud VMs.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1HGTC)
New PowerEdges for all you dual-socket fetishists and a new box suggested for Ceph You know the drill: Intel pops out a new Xeon ( in this case the E5-2600 v4 and over the following weeks all the major kit-makers find ways to put it to work.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1HGRS)
This watch now has even more added computer Many analysts were expecting big improvements to Apple’s watchOS platform last week. Just like they were expecting big announcements around Android Wear last month.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1HGME)
Tee-hee Thanks to an eagle-eyed reader who chanced upon the latest job ad for a network technical architect at everyone’s favourite public sector parasite Capita - we enjoyed the irony too.…
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'A real kick in the cabinets', moans Virgin Media exec Broadband providers have hit out against a forthcoming hike in business rates which will dramatically increase the tax paid on fibre optic networks.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1HGC8)
Extract your cloudy stuff before the end of next month Storage firm Quantum bought the Symform cloud consumer/small business file sync and share business in August 2014 – and is going to close it down on July 31. It has gone from acquisition to closure in 23 months.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1HG90)
Around 100 jobs saved as GCI steps in, as for investors' cash... Something positive was salvaged from the crash at cloud biz Outsourcery - 100 employees have transferred with the business in a pre-pack sale to new owners GCI Network Solutions.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1HG7H)
Singapore's state investment company is buying the lucky number of 18,181,818 shares The Register can reveal that Chinese numerology is playing a part in Dell's acquisition of EMC.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1HG3S)
Comrades! You have nothing to lose but your prerolls and blipverts! YouTube stars have started a labour guild to represent low paid video producers for sites like YouTube. But it promises to be really, really polite and it won’t be asking Google for more money.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1HG16)
Dell buying EMC causing goodbye to EMC stock option incentives Stock option-incentivised EMC staff could brain drain out of the company as the Dell acquisition will cash-out their stock options, de-incentivising them.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#1HFX8)
It'd be logical Something for the Weekend, Sir? "Kids tend to spend far too much of their childhood in an unproductive way," it says here.…
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by SA Mathieson on (#1HFW9)
Middle-class terror of engineering also part of problem Immigration is an issue swaying electorates around the world, including Britons, who will next week decide whether to leave the European Union and Americans, who will soon decide whether to vote for Donald Trump as president in November. While this is generally assumed to affect low-pay, low-skilled jobs, it can affect those in IT too.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1HFRV)
OK, who registered their name as Jane Smith'; UPDATE votes SET choice=Sadiq;-- The confirmation of Sadiq Khan as Mayor of London last month was delayed for several hours by a database application bug.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1HFPQ)
Pro tip: Ship kit and clear customs before you send people to oil rigs On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our end-of-week wander through readers' reminiscences of being asked to do dumb things in nasty places and unsociable hours.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1HFMQ)
Faster, stronger crypto comes to baked-in browser Microsoft will speed up HTTPS encryption in its Edge browser with support for TLS 1.3 and performance extensions.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1HFJM)
Listen up bud, high times ahead for cloud-puffing Redmond Put this in your pipe and smoke it: Microsoft is offering pot growers software tools to help them stay on the right side of America's relaxed laws.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1HFFY)
Annihilating Android flaws now scores $50k Google will pay out potentially 50 per cent or more cash to bug hunters who couple software vulnerability reports with proof-of-concept exploit code or patches.…
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by Team Register on (#1HFC1)
Scams up 1,300 percent says FBI The FBI is warning that businesses have handed some US$3.1 billion to email scammers, a whopping 1,300 percent increase in 18 months.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1HF8K)
Pirate Bay cases grind on Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde has been hit with a fine worth nearly US$400,000 by a court in Helsinki.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1HF54)
Rocket Lab scores launch pad on North Island New Zealand's government has announced plans to relax the regulatory rules surrounding commercial space ventures, in a move it hopes will help local outfits and attract launches to the country.…
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