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by Team Register on (#127BP)
Feet up for the many, head's down and patch for the rest. OpenSSL maintainers have pushed a pair of patches, crushing a dangerous but uncommon bug that allows HTTPS to be unravelled while also hardening servers against downgrade attacks.…
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by Lester Haines on (#127AV)
Glossy 23-hour reimagining of minimalist Brit classic The Register can exclusively reveal today that a top Hollywood studio has optioned a sequel to Paint Drying - the 607-minute minimalist masterpiece designed to try the patience of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1277X)
One thing cloud doesn't improve is readability of fine print Last week, a chap named Mario Karpinnen took to Medium with a tale of how downloading 60GB of data from Amazon Web Services' archive-grade Glacier service cost him a whopping US$158.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#12770)
'Release the audit-hounds' says OECD as it targets legal-but-black-hearted tax tricks 31 nations this week signed a data-sharing agreement that will see multinational companies' financial reports shared widely, the better to understand their global financial contortions.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#12741)
Borg assimilates NTP January update, nixes critical firewall hijack hole Cisco has patched 11 remote denial-of-service and network time protocol vulnerabilities spanning at least 46 products and is investigating a further 142 offerings which may be affected.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#126YK)
Which of the new Like buttons - angry, sad, wow, haha, yay, and love – articulates your reaction? POLL Facebook has announced it will shutter Parse, the mobile app development too it kicked off back in 2013 when it acquired a company of the same name.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#126TM)
Too sexy, no licence and nobody bothered rating the movies Telkom Indonesia, the nation's dominant telco thanks to its nearly 130 million subscribers, has decided to block Netflix.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#126R2)
Telcos pimp out your bandwidth and profit Companies are going to be selling a lot more public Wi-Fi plans over the next few years and it's going to be home Wi-Fi users who'll be the backbone of the network, according to analysts from Juniper Research.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#126R3)
Users urged to go forth and implement 4.4.4 Can it really be time to update Xen again?…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#126PD)
Facebook tycoon trails only Gates and Bezos in total worth A stellar financial year from Facebook has made founder Mark Zuckerberg the sixth-richest person in the world.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#126GJ)
Mounting AWS bucks provide some solace for Bezos Amazon is taking a beating on Wall Street as the retail and cloud giant posted numbers that, although strong, were short of analyst expectations.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#126F3)
Latest vote inches faster speeds and more competition closer The United States is still lagging the world in the rollout of broadband, but things are looking up as federal telecom regulator the FCC formally gave itself the power to act Thursday.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#126AK)
The death of URLs greatly exaggerated A new open source plugin designed to prevent the creation of dead content links online – so called "link rot" – has launched.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#126AN)
Shares jump 8% on news It has proven a happy New Year for Microsoft, with profits of $6.3bn (up 8 per cent on the year) in its second financial quarter – driven largely by increasing revenues from its cloud business.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#12654)
Winter is the killing season for US astronauts On the clear and cold morning of January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral bearing seven crew. Minutes later they were all dead, and NASA is holding an official day of remembrance for them, and the crews of Apollo 1 and Shuttle Columbia.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1263P)
Former student could get 35 years A former computer science student accused of supporting the ISIL terrorist group has arrived in the US to face charges.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#125YR)
EU/US data jigsaw pieces fitting together The US Senate has celebrated Data Privacy Day by passing a critical piece of legislation that will extend US privacy rights to Europeans.…
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by John Leyden on (#125VV)
TV stations the latest targets A new BlackEnergy spear-phishing campaign is targeting more Ukrainian firms, including a television channel.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#125S7)
Newest trustee steps down amid no confidence vote Hours after receiving the dreaded football manager’s vote of confidence from his board, Wikimedia’s newest trustee has quit.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#125QB)
Hey Siri, why are you trying to electrocute me? Apple is asking people to return their Mac and iOS travel adapters after multiple reports of the two-prong plugs electrocuting users.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#125JR)
Restore Return Refund program means no-charge restore Cloud backup provider Backblaze has a nifty new take on large data restores, involving disk drives.…
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Good potential, but just one ingredient in the mix Survey Results Managing PC estates is a time-consuming, expensive and thankless task. Better provisioning and management tools can obviously help, but implementing one or more of the various forms of desktop virtualisation available nowadays may also be beneficial.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#125A3)
Q4 sales rise, so do profits (cos of tax benefits) and the share price Puppet master-cum activist investor Elliot Management appears to be pulling virtualisation vendor Citrix's strings in the right direction… for shareholders if not for some staff.…
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by Tom Baines and Gavin Clarke on (#1256K)
Options for extreme data crunching Facebook is to spend US$218m (£153m / €200m) on its second data center in Europe. Mark Zuckerberg's firm has promised an "innovative, environmentally friendly data center."…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#12550)
Mankind's creations are almost better than the real thing By the early 22nd century, Mega-City One will stretch down the eastern seaboard from Montreal to Georgia. It will be home to some 400 million citizens. Almost all of them will be unemployed.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1251E)
Startup struggling for exit buys in AFA/hybrid array and QoS smarts Analysis In a major pivot, all-flash and hybrid array startup NexGen is merging with hyper-converged infrastructure appliance software startup Pivot3 in a cash-free stock merger.…
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by Chris Williams on (#124ZM)
We want to share your lessons learned Line break Shellshock. Heartbleed. That CCTV storage firmware with a hardcoded password. We've all seen some really bad code.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#124X7)
Council has shut down entire IT network to prevent spread Exclusive The Register has learned that Licolnshire County Council has been hit by ransomware, leading it to turn off all of its networks' computers yesterday.…
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Gag order on MP's flirtation with contempt of court lifted The Secretary of State for Health (and former technology PR) Jeremy Hunt, got himself into a bit of bother with a judge after sending a tweet during the Frances Cappuccini manslaughter trial.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#124QR)
Profit warning issued on back of forecasted weaker tab and smartphone sales Samsung Electronics has forecasted weaker smartphone and tab sales for 2016 amid concerns consumers’ gadget lust is waning - well, if there’s no compelling reason to upgrade, folks don’t upgrade.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#124MA)
When the going gets tough, the tough get going – and the rest get bought A final growth quarter but revenue declines on the annual compare, amid falling annual revenues, end a tough year for SanDisk as it prepares to be acquired by WD.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#124K0)
But if there were, they'd still kick English and Welsh arse – audit An audit into Police Scotland has raised the alarm over the country's lack of independent oversight on police access to the facial recognition capabilities of the UK Police National Database.…
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Man allegedly ran 'internet brothel' for 18 years before gov noticed Rentboy.com founder and CEO Jeffrey Hurant has been hit with Federal charges of promoting prostitution and money laundering after failing to cut a deal with prosecutors.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#124D7)
Be a speedboat, not an oil tanker. And don’t let the CEO read Forbes If it wasn’t for users, managers, or compliance execs, IT would be an easy place with goalposts that stayed put. The real world is far less predictable. The rules of play may change. So how do you design data strategies to cope?…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#124B8)
Radical idea: You give them money. They send you a phone You can now buy a OnePlus smartphone by simply giving the company some money. This normally wouldn’t (and shouldn’t) make news, but it’s a radical departure for the Shenzhen outfit. It means you don’t have to offer a secret password, smash up your existing phone, or win a gurning competition. As of today, all three OnePlus models can be acquired without jumping through any such hoops.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1249E)
Darn customers and their 'I-just-wanna-use-a-working-phone' desires Microsoft’s dream of a smooth transition to Windows 10 Mobile needs a reality check. Figures from AdDuplex, which samples devices actually in use, finds that much of today’s active Windows Phone user base won’t be able to make the update.…
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Thoughtleaders, users, engineers - we’ve got it all on schedule The conference schedule for Continuous Lifecycle is virtually complete, with something for everyone - as long as they want to get deep into DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Agile and Microservices.…
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by John Leyden on (#1245N)
Oh, SNAP! Apply the patch Security researchers have uncovered a major vulnerability in LG G3 Android devices.…
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With products - they're touching customers with products Apple’s retail supremo Angela Ahrendts has handed down pearls of wisdom on how to make retail staff feel loved, in a valuable lesson for anyone running customer-facing sales teams.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1240M)
It's the Ministry of Fun to the rescue, folks Exclusive The government wants to introduce a Digital Bill, sources familiar with its plans have revealed to The Register.…
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Eh, UK tax officials? Anything to be 'concerned about'... The EU's Competition Commissioner has said Europe would probe Google's £130m sweetheart deal with the UK government "if asked" - following growing calls for Brussels to scrutinise the deal.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#123VJ)
'The threat from 3-year-old children must not be taken lightly' says info commish A Parliamentary inquiry into the TalkTalk security breach heard the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, stress that aggrieved TalkTalk customers should lawyer up.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#123TJ)
HPE, or as it is also known, Helping People Exit Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ditching techies at its Lytham site who provide infrastructure services for public sector clients, including the Department for Work & Pensions.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#123RK)
300 of Doc Brown's time-travelling gull-wing DMC-12s may be built for sale in 2017 DeLorean Motors has announced that it hopes to resume construction of the DMC-12 sports car made famous by 1985 flick Back to the Future.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#123QK)
VMware's already hyping things up and EMC's filed trademark papers for 'InfraSIM' EMC, VMware and VCE will soon announce a new range of hyper-converged appliances that EMC II CEO David Goulden says are game-changers.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#123MN)
The more your phone knows about the world, the more useful - and invasive - it becomes A computer without sensors is a pitiful, useless thing. Keyboards are sensors, as are mechanical-optical paper-tape readers, magnetic heads on storage discs, and the logic scanning for ones and zeroes on an ethernet interface. Everything a computer does - outside of calculations - involves a sensor.…
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by Chris Williams on (#123KN)
Er, party's over, you've got an 820 to ship Qualcomm makes running a top-tier semiconductor business look like hard work.…
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by Enrico Signoretti on (#123J2)
But it will be an all-flash hybrid array Comment In the future we will have an all-flash hybrid concept. This can’t be considered a prediction; it’s just a fact. If you look around, a large number of vendors are craving Intel’s 3D Xpoint memory and this will be the next tier 0 (or cache) for many newly designed storage arrays.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#123G0)
Indian call center workers accused of harvesting data UK ISP TalkTalk is considering cutting ties with its Indian call center provider after three employees at the site were arrested for allegedly scamming customers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#123CQ)
The HFC cables that deliver pay TV are getting closer to being broadband blasters Broadcom's grinning like the Cheshire Cat, with its OEMs apparently dominating the first round of DOCSIS 3.1 device certification. DOCSIS 3.1 is a standard allowing for gigabit-and-above data transmission rates over existing hybrid fibre-coax cables widely deployed around the world for cable television delivery.…
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