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Company mouthpieces refuse to deny allegations that up to 1,000 face the axe Vodafone has embarked on a major cost purge that could see hundreds of workers laid off, insiders have told The Register.…
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by Lester Haines on (#147CN)
Rapid departure for Sentinel 3-A atop converted ICBM The European Space Agency's Sentinel 3-A satellite successfully launched yesterday from Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome, atop a Rockot converted intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) lifter.…
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by Chris Williams on (#147AN)
Bad braces, spelling mistake workarounds, and more ghastly code in the wild Line Break Roll up, roll up. It's your Wednesday dose of ridiculous code spotted in the wild.…
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We might not even notice.... Black holes have long been a source of much excitement and intrigue. And interest regarding black holes will surely grow now that gravitational waves have been discovered.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#1477E)
No ifs or ands, says Buttarelli about EU-US agreement A data protection framework that will underpin the exchange of personal data between law enforcement agencies in the EU and US should not apply when sensitive information is to be transferred to the US in bulk, an EU privacy watchdog has said.…
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And Cisco reckons plenty of security bods will be in another job in five years Cisco Live Chief execs polled in a major survey have little time for their cybersecurity folk and believe complying with security regulations hampers business.…
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by John Leyden on (#1472J)
Desperate times push ordinary Brits into taking desperate measures More than four in 10 ransomware victims in the UK have paid to recover their documents, with 31 per cent of users willing to pay up to £400.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1471D)
US peppered Iran with thousands of cyberwar weapons The super worm known as Stuxnet was but a cog in an active US war program in which hundreds of thousands of network implants and backdoors in Iran networks were actively maintained to facilitate a devastating barrage of hacking attacks, a documentary claims.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#146ZN)
VMware's falling shares means the merger will be cheaper, which may help Dell has written to its global workforce, advising them that its transaction to acquire EMC is on track.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#146YS)
Old qualifications for Windows Store developers put on death row for six months In six months Microsoft will cull some of its Windows app store developer qualifications.…
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by Team Register on (#146XG)
You have won second prize in a beauty contest. Swipe your card to be credited $10 Iconic vulture capitalism trainer family-friendly property trading game Monopoly has adopted an automatic teller machine in a new edition of the game.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#146V8)
But why has NASA stopped posting weekly status reports? Keep cool, conspiracy-lovers It's an entirely arbitrary milestone, but Voyager 1 is now more than 20 billion kilometres from our Sun.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#146T7)
Ticket-dispensing produce reaches version 2.0 A network engineer who made headlines when he hooked people into his company Wi-Fi network with a banana has rebuilt the system as an enterprise-ready touchscreen device.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#146RK)
Eight lines of text. 40 characters per line. Glorious grey LCDs. PLUS: C64 redux! Runtime Readers' tales of very old computers keep rolling in, so we'll keep rolling them out at you. We even gave ourselves a name for this silliness: Runtime.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#146PF)
Cisco – yes, Cisco – drops foundation code into open source networking project The Linux Foundation has kicked off a new collaboration designed to push open I/O closer to the metal, to squeeze higher performance out of the white-box world.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#146KX)
Brookhaven boffins point to scalable manufacture of wonder-stuff graphene Researchers from the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in the United States have turned up an unexpected property of common glass: it makes a good substrate for graphene-based electronics in applications like solar cells and touch-screens.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#146HX)
Indonesian vid shows shiny, waterproof and wireless device, just like the S6 and S5 Samsung Indonesia has posted a YouTube video depicting “The Next Galaxyâ€, presumably the S7.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#146H9)
LTE rollouts were too expensive, let's get it right for 5G A year on from kicking off its mobile strategy, Brocade has followed up with a pre-Mobile-World-Congress announcement of its first virtualised Evolved Packet Core (EPC) offering.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#146F3)
Calls for sale - in pieces - to promote competition, plus reveal of bush services' costs Australia's nascent national broadband network (NBN) should be sold sooner rather than alter, according to the new Australian Infrastructure Plan published today by Infrastructure Australia (IA).…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#146EJ)
Government in spectrum-for-cash deal to assess viability, tolerance for HappyHype! Weeks after being released in South America, Alphabet's Project X windbag-broadband balloons have reached their Sri Lanka test area.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#146DF)
FBI wants to brute-force PIN-protected encrypted mobile without it self-destructing Apple must assist the FBI in unlocking the passcode-protected encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters in California.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#146AS)
Malware could be on your application whitelist if you haven't caught up on patching Researchers at Blue Frost Security have disclosed a bug that let them evade FireEye's analysis engine, getting a short-lived but dangerous way to whitelist malware.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1468X)
Even US giants have trouble with their broadband ISPs American Airlines has gone to court to ditch its in-flight Wi-Fi provider GoGo and find a better service elsewhere.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1465T)
iOS app now offers native support for Office. End of the road for Managed Accounts Microsoft is pulling Apple-leaning Skype users deeper into its lair.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#145SW)
Goodies exchanged for deals Massachusetts-based software maker PTC and two of its Chinese subsidiaries have been fined $28m for bribing buyers in the Middle Kingdom.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#145QB)
Keep up with rules, regulations and laws affecting your internet The European Commission (EC) has published a beta version of its new internet governance tool, called the Global Internet Policy Observatory (GIPO).…
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by Chris Mellor on (#145KX)
The dirty half dozen Analysis On-premises IT is facing decimation by six public cloud enemies: Amazon, Azure, Google, OpenStack, Oracle and SoftLayer, who are on course to have the majority of customers' IT spend by 2018.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#145JQ)
British bank reform was a boon to bandits. Australia's long-awaited instant bank transfer reform will result in more fraud attempts and fewer theft recoveries according to RSA fraud boffin Tim Dalgleish.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#145FH)
Buffer overflow found in glibc A huge amount of Linux software can be hijacked by hackers from the other side of the internet, thanks to a serious vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc).…
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by Chris Mellor on (#145DV)
It's just a box that runs cloud and big data apps As well as the VxRack 1000, EMC has two more VxRack variants coming: SDDC and Neutrino.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#145AV)
Cable giant still not sure why its network went kaput Comcast says it is still working to figure out the cause of an outage that hit subscribers across the US Monday.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1459C)
PIR unexpectedly opens up backend to bidder The company that runs all .org domains, Public Interest Registry (PIR), has opened up its US$30m back-end contract to tender.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#144T2)
And one-time TalkTalk victims are really unhappy with the help on offer Aviva-owned online-only insurance business Quotemehappy.com has informed customers that there has been a data breach at its website.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#144R9)
Outfit will now do, er, privacy and stuff. Yeah. That thing A Google-bashing industry group backed by Microsoft says its Google-bashing days are over.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#144N4)
'VxRail' debuts with familiar hyper-converged package and promises of low, low prices EMC's VCE converged systems unit is heading into hyperconverged country with new VxRail appliances that look and behave an awful lot like existing products from upstart rivals, but are promised to be simpler and cheaper.…
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by Drew Cullen on (#144FF)
Faster security baked into Quite Big Iron IBM’s new entry-level mainframe, the z13s, makes its debut next month and the company’s press blurb makes for instructive reading, not least because it has very little to say about the actual spec.…
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by John Leyden on (#144D9)
TEMPESTuous Israeli security researchers have been able to extract encryption keys from a nearby computer by analysing stray electromagnetic radiation.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#1448R)
Explicit thread control and closer to the metal, but OpenGL not dead yet Khronos has released Vulkan 1.0, the next generation open graphics API, and a Vulkan SDK for Windows and Linux is now available from LunarG.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#14471)
Acropolis hypervisor said to enjoy 4x performance boost Nutanix has chosen today, the day of EMC's hyper-converged launch, to update its own hyper-converged stack.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1441Z)
Castle Street Investments goes from online dating biz to tech services LSE-listed Castle Street Investments has slurped network services and bit barn hosting biz C4L Group Holdings for circa £23m.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#14401)
Mighty lighty mini thinny drive gets 2TB shingling Seagate has delivered on its September 2015 technology announcement with a thin drive for notebooks that uses shingled magnetic media to get to a 2TB capacity level.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#143YH)
20 data centres, 11,000 servers. What can go wrong? Swedish battering ram truck maker Volvo has offloaded its external IT business to HCL Technologies for around SEK 900m and signed a deal with the Indian outsourcing monster to overhaul its apps and plumbing.…
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by Lester Haines on (#143XG)
Sentinel satellite soars heavenwards at 17:57 GMT The European Space Agency (ESA) is gearing up for today's launch of its Sentinel 3-A satellite - part of the Copernicus Earth-monitoring programme.…
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by Lester Haines on (#143T4)
Brit comic unpublished for community standards breach Facebook has "unpublished" the page pertaining to legendary Brit comic Viz, citing a breach of the social network's terms and community standards.…
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by Drew Cullen on (#143T6)
Fujitsu, VAIO ops merger rumours grow more insistent Toshiba is denying Japanese reports that it will exit the PC business.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#143RV)
You have never seen – or heard – anything like this Vid Storage dudes! Drop what you're doing and play this three-and-a-half minute video of Chad Sakac singing and dancing in front of a bunch of racks.…
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by Lester Haines on (#143PC)
Plenty of craters, a bit short on pubs Those of you planning a hiking holiday on Mars will be pleased to learn that Ordnance Survey has produced a handy map of the Red Planet, or at least a 3,672 by 2,721km chunk of it.…
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by Stuart Burns on (#143K9)
Time to start acting 'small' Sure, we've all heard about "microservices" but just what use are they and why would you want them? How do you even start designing microservices?…
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Radioheads roar over cloud RAN backhaul leap for G.fast One of the things that will not be answered by any amount of discussion about 5G is how the huge increase in bandwidth expected in next generation cellular gets backhauled. But at Faultline we have assiduously tracked the ownership of fixed line assets throughout the US and Europe, anticipating the rising cost of backhaul to cellular-only businesses, which have no such assets.…
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Biz announces merger in Netherlands with Vodafone Telco Virgin Media posted revenue growth of four per cent to £4.6bn for its full-year results in 2015. That was on a healthy increase of operating income up £104m from £274m in 2014.…
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