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by Shaun Nichols on (#17M39)
70 years later, Murray Leinster's disaster scenario is the internet you know and love Analysis Buried deep in the pages of the March 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine sits a short story by Murray Leinster that, 70 years on, has proven a remarkably sharp prediction of both 21st century consumer technology and culture.…
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by Chris Williams on (#17KAD)
Some updates for an extra year then just security fixes Stand well back: Microsoft has had a bright idea. Rather than royally screwing over people running Windows 7 and 8.1 on new Intel hardware, it's just going to give them a rough ride instead.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#17K36)
Dangling pink furry thing spotted in launch snap Vid + pics The three latest additions to the International Space Station crew have blasted off successfully from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#17JZ6)
Release of more Clinton emails reveals extent of ad giant's cosy relationship Analysis The close relationship between Google and the US government has long been a concern.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#17JS6)
Allows devs to claw back a few bucks for donating code A New York state senator says open-source programmers should be able to claim back part of their costs for writing free software.…
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by John Leyden on (#17JNF)
Tencent Security Team Sniper crowned Master of Pwn Pwn2Own Researchers pulled off multiple OS X, Windows and web browser exploits at the latest Pwn2Own competition.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#17JMB)
Music streamer strikes deal to pay mystery artists Spotify says it has struck a deal with the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) to pay out more royalties to songwriters.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#17JGK)
And whistleblower defamation suit dropped The CEO of a controversial cybersecurity outfit has been put on leave following an FBI raid of its headquarters.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#17JCG)
Console boss apologizes amid PR disaster Microsoft's attempts to brand itself as a modern inclusive company were seriously derailed last night. The Xbox giant hired dancers in skimpy schoolgirl outfits for its party at the Games Developers Conference in San Francisco.…
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by Lester Haines on (#17JBA)
NASA TV to screen live departure to ISS There are worse thing to be doing on a Friday night than quaffing a few beers while watching a mighty lifter thunder aloft, so get a few cold ones ready in the fridge and plump up the sofa cushions in preparation for tonight's Soyuz launch to the International Space Station.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#17J6R)
You thought Tim Cook was stubborn? Try his coders Apple's refusal to build a crippled iOS that will help the FBI unlock a killer's iPhone goes far beyond the executive suite. Some of Cupertino's own engineers are refusing to work on the operating system in case they are forced to aid the US government.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#17HW8)
Microsoft promises it won't be as aggressive as it is with the desktop version Windows 10 updates have begun rolling out to eligible Windows Phone 8.1 devices. Microsoft has promised not to be as aggressive as it has been with pushing Windows 10 onto desktops – a promise that’s surely not hard to keep.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#17HQX)
Start complaining about the lifts, soon you're doxing your own mum and eating the dog The film High Rise is set in the 1970s and based on JG Ballard’s 1975 book. That’s roughly two decades before Tim Berners-Lee would “create†the web.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#17HNY)
You can change a password. You can't change fingerprints Around the world, banks are implementing biometric authentication systems for their customers as fraud cases increase – but experts warn biometrics should not be treated like a silver bullet for ID woes.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#17HGD)
Puts Boston Dynamics up for sale Google's parent company Alphabet is fixing to flog its money-munching robotics arm, Boston Dynamics, which it only bought three years ago.…
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by Lester Haines on (#17HCV)
A Cultural History of the Anus shafted in oddest book title race Author Alan Stafford has secured himself a place in literary history for his triumph in the 38th Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year with his masterwork Too Naked for the Nazis.…
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by John Leyden on (#17H9P)
Time to upgrade, Unix-like OS-havers Sysadmins need to upgrade networking kit and web servers following the discovery of a critical bug in FreeBSD.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#17H7A)
An IP era really over. No, really. Well, things will be different. Sort of. Perhaps Linux and Android device makers can breath a little easier: their IP bête noir has left Microsoft.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#17H29)
3D and robocars loom HERE has provided the best, and some say only real mobile competition to Google Maps, but this week it dumped its biggest fans: people who own a Windows Phone. So we were keen to hear more about HERE’s strategy - to find out whether we have any part in its future thinking.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#17GZ5)
All you need is a couple of blowtorches, some wire and a desk-sized steam engine Video A Swedish schoolboy has built a miniature steam engine to power his Raspberry Pi. It is a piece of absolute engineering beauty.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#17GXQ)
Sidenote: He's a mite better at redacting than the FBI QCon One of the highlights of the QCon software development conference in London last week was Stevie Graham's presentation on reverse-engineering mobile banking apps.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#17GVW)
And bring your tools, people and partners together Cyberthreats are like the common cold or some other infectious virus; eventually you’re going to get sick. It’s a part of life. They’re always there, lurking just around the corner, waiting to make your life that little bit harder.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#17GT9)
You could buy into a world where dreams are made reality The UK’s largest Apple reseller, Jigsaw24, is for sale, multiple industry contacts have told The Channel.…
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by Lester Haines on (#17GTA)
Ordnance Survey prints limited edition Red Planet guide In outstanding news for those readers planning a hiking holiday on Mars this summer, Ordnance Survey has produced a limited edition print version of its 1 to 4 million view of the Red Planet's Western Arabia Terra.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#17GQ1)
Sir Keir Starmer, KCB, QC, pledges party's qualified support for bill IPB Labour supports the Investigatory Powers Bill because of what NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revelations showed us about GCHQ's mass surveillance, according to the party's Keir Starmer MP.…
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by Lester Haines on (#17GNE)
Now a tad taller, thanks to GPS The Scottish mountain of Ben Nevis is now a officially a metre taller at 1,345m, thanks to Ordnance Survey measurements gleaned using GPS.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#17GJC)
Let’s not get paranoid, here, but... Something for the Weekend, Sir? A friend has the willies. He even went on Facebook to tell us about his willies. He’s not normally the kind to get the willies, but willies is what he has.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#17GE9)
Microsoft Dynamics UK Gov gateway IBM has snapped up an as-a-service CRM expert and, no, it has nothing to do with Salesfore.…
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Give us real data and not guff that's six months out of date, thunders Parliament's PAC MPs have said they are disappointed in the lack of evidence that the Major Projects Authority has reduced UK.gov's poor track record in delivering big programmes, according to a report released today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#17GB1)
Serves the HCIA software vendors right Whomever it needs to partner with to sell a server inside a hyper-converged appliance, Lenovo seems eager to partner with them, dancing with virtually every hyper-converged body.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#17G80)
Five men allegedly involved in hacking rival security reseller stand in the dock The fraud case against five men from security reseller Quadsys will go to trial in September after they pleaded not guilty to allegations of hacking into a rival’s database to plunder customer and pricing data.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#17G6R)
Millions ripped as worms infest bank networks. Russian malware writers have scored at least US$25.7 million (£17.8 million, A$33.6 million) in raids against banks in their home country, intelligence firm Group IB says.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#17G50)
Smut caches move management to find health and safety solution On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our weekly feature in which readers share stories of being asked to do stupid things at stupid times. And frequently for stupid people.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#17G1M)
Waist-high and just begging to be hijacked by hungry hooligans Domino's Pizza's Australian slice has decided wheeled drones trundling down footpaths are the pizza delivery mechanism of the future.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#17FZ2)
India and Europe exploring remote sensing to track trains, rather than terrestrial sensors India has joined the gang of nations looking to make its trains run on time by using satellites.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#17FTY)
Radical server re-designs needed soon, but for now the focus is on prosaic problems The question Lenovo's asked most often is how to address heating, cooling and power requirements in the data centre and the company is thinking about how to get better at managing these concerns.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#17FQF)
Too-talkative PCIe bus can leave Nexus 5600 and Nexus 6001 just hanging around If you don't want your Nexus 5600 or Nexus 6001 switches to just … … … freeze, you'll need to replace their BIOSes.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#17FM6)
Windows 10 looks to have hit the goldilocks zone for the hybrid PC/tablet experience says IDC Tablets with detachable keyboards are set to capture a fifth of the PC market by 2020, in Western Europe at least, say the abacus-shufflers at IDC.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#17FH1)
Critics slammed old system, slam new one too for format that will break tooling Vulnerability clearing house MITRE will Monday launch an experimental federated and fast-processing platform to address widespread discontent within the security sector revealed by The Register.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#17FDR)
Smartmobe OS lands on some lucky handsets For the past few months, peeps keen to run Windows 10 Mobile have been able to buy handsets with the new OS installed. Now patiently waiting Phone 8.1 owners can upgrade their smartphones to the operating system – well, some of them, anyway.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#17FBV)
Even the gatekeepers need patching Symantec is advising users of its Endpoint Protection (SEP) software to update their systems, after three vulnerabilities were reported in the computer defense tools.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#17F8K)
No software? No problem, just hand over the credit card Adobe is crediting a surge in cloud services with helping to drive its best financial Q1 take ever.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#17F7F)
Eight million people affected by reconnection flood Australian incumbent telco Telstra has been forced to offer another day of free mobile data after a nationwide outage knocked out mobile services for eight million customers across the country.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#17F7H)
Riding the nbn mythbusting bus with CEO Bill Morrow Reg roadtrip In the best possible world, all terrestrial internet connections would use fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP). Everything I've learned over years writing about broadband suggests that a fibre optic network has a longer working life and will scale to greater bandwidth than technologies that rely on existing or new twisted pair copper.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#17F59)
But shoddy defaults still set username to 'admin,' password to 'password' University of Sydney tech Paul Szabo says Netgear routers provided by Australian telco Optus contain a vulnerability that allows attackers to change admin passwords without knowing the existing credentials.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#17F2K)
Plus: Senator McCain calls for investigation into military sat launch cash splurge Brett Tobey, vice president of engineering at the United Launch Alliance, has resigned after he spilled the beans on ULA's feud with SpaceX.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#17F0B)
Go ahead, torch all our customers' data allowances, says carrier T‑Mobile US will let video-streaming websites opt out of being included in Binge On.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#17EZ8)
One tiny little reference missed in massive censoring effort It was Edward Snowden's email account the FBI was targeting in its extraordinary legal case against Lavabit, we can now confirm.…
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by Chris Williams on (#17ETT)
PowerVR, MIPS wallahs must slash $40m in costs Brit chip design house Imagination Technologies will shed a fifth of its workforce in a £27.5m ($40m) cost-cutting spree.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#17ENJ)
Seven-year-old AV software, not updated? Please ... Home Depot will pay at least $19.5m in compensation to the 50 million customers hit by hackers who infiltrated the chain's sales tills in 2014.…
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