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by Tim Anderson on (#ST5C)
Bezos' cloud invades Blighty Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to build a UK region, alongside existing regions in Dublin and Frankfurt.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#SSZK)
Coming soon to a mobile and Xbox One near you Microsoft has released Build 10586 of Windows 10 to "Windows Insider" previewers, as the first major update to the operating system nears release.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#SSY4)
Telcos: No, sigh, it won't ruin your home network Wireless carriers are once again looking to reassure the American people after more objections were raised against the planned LTE-U broadband network.…
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Eruption of Indonesian volcano ground planes... worse places to be stuck Some of the IT world’s finest channel brains and one of the world’s most wanted men were trapped at a conference resort on the tropical Island paradise of Bali this week after a local volcano blew its top.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#SSQR)
Can't we all just get along? Yeah, probably The trade association for mobile operators, the GSMA, has taken up arms in support of its members' campaign for three areas of spectrum at the World Radiocommunication Conference, currently being held in Geneva.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#SSMX)
Who'd a thunk it? Just fancy that! A Washington think tank chaired by Eric Schmidt, Alphabet Inc’s executive chairman, has given Alphabet Inc. an award for "protecting your digital rightsâ€.…
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by Lester Haines on (#SSHF)
Say goodbye to $20-30k, if you want Al Pacino's M16 The M16 rifle used to explosive effect by Al Pacino as Cuban drug dealer Tony Montana in the climactic battle scene of Scarface goes under the hammer later this month in Los Angeles.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#SSF0)
'Value can be extracted' – Cabinet Office minister In a speech earlier this week, Matt Hancock, minister for the Cabinet Office, referred to data as being "no longer just a record" but a "mineable commodity, from which value can be extracted" and outlined how the UK government intends to improve its use of the information at its disposal and help others exploit the data too.…
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by John Leyden on (#SSCB)
Nearly 3,000 apps affected by JavaScript phone-home vuln Security researchers have discovered “backdoored†versions of an ad library embedded in thousands of iOS apps originally published in the Apple App Store.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#SS99)
Ansip demands 'safer safe' transatlantic data transfers The Oxford Dictionary states the following for its definition of the word "safe": "Protected from or not exposed to danger or risk; not likely to be harmed or lost."…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SS6E)
Our man Trevor says industry-best security claim needs pinch of salt, though Virtualisation and data management company Sphere 3D says its Glassware 2.0 and SnapCLOUD VirtualNAS products can now use Azure, as the company has joined a Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance.…
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Website unable to process online transactions Scandi finance house Swedbank has been hit by a DDoS attack, which has taken down access to online banking via its website.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#SS2T)
Your biz commute, sucked up into Office? Microsoft has acquired Mobile Data Labs, developers of the popular mileage tracking app MileIQ.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SS15)
Documentation-driven doc ranks HCIA suppliers and kit Analyst group DCIG has produced another report ranking hyper-converged infrastructure appliance vendors based on documented features and questionnaire answers.…
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CMO promises to spread the love New Relic acquired another company and a chief marketing officer this week, which may or may not take the edge of another quarter of losses for the software analytics firm.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#SRXF)
CEO: Our storage-free world is almost here, now just need to secure our future A soon to be storage-free Symantec has reported its last numbers before the split with Veritas and they aren’t good - not if you are a company exec or investor.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SRWB)
Shipping ElastiStor ESA-A1000 to support a applications SanDisk has won another InfiniFlash OEM, in the shape of enterprise and cloud storage provider CloudByte.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#SRV8)
Cheapo telco revises down attack figure, shares climb 4% TalkTalk has once again attempted to downplay the seriousness of the attack on its systems by claiming on Friday morning that only four per cent of its customers – nearly 157,000 people – were affected by the security breach.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#SRS4)
New open source InSpec language and runtime automates server checking Chef Software has released Chef Compliance, a product which aims to automate verification of server security policies to enable rapid application delivery without threatening compliance.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#SRQV)
New law means no more data centres for social giant A European Court last month threw data-sharing with the US into a thicket by tearing up the so-called safe harbor agreement.…
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Maths markers module mayhem Updated Exam board OCR has been caught red-faced in a schoolboy email error involving 900* of its maths markers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SRKG)
China's massive telecoms giant flexes its enterprise IT muscles Part I Huawei is China's Cisco or Sweden’s Ericsson without the storage hangups that affect the US networking giant. It's a $46.5bn colossus with 170,000 employees, privately-owned by its Chinese national employees, with no venture capital investment and three rotating CEOs. This is most assuredly not your average IT corporation.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SRG8)
How long is a piece of wire? Remember: size doesn't matter On-Call In this week's edition of On-Call, our weekly wander through readers' reminiscences, we're indebted to reader Shannon who's shared a tale of his late 1990s experience working in “a small-ish computer sales and repair shop.â€â€¦
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#SRFC)
Just look at IMP. Or CDB Analysis The Home Office has revealed some of the costs associated with its proposed Investigatory Powers law – but the final price tag could arguably run into billions of pounds.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SRBM)
Bosses called sackings a 'mass streamlining', which surely justifies harsh retaliation An Indian food delivery startup called TinyOwl this week conducted “a mass streamlining to unlock the organization’s operational efficiency by deploying scalable city level frameworks.†And in response, workers took one of the company's founder's hostage.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SRAX)
Attempts to frame open-source leaders with false sexual assault allegations alleged Celebrity programmer Eric S. Raymond has aired a theory that feminist activists are trying to find a way to lay false sexual assault claims against male leaders of the open source community.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SR6J)
When process sandboxes talk, electricity meters scarcely need to listen Ericsson researcher Roberto Morabito has compared the power consumption requirements of virtual machines and containers, and found the latter more economical.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#SR3K)
A phone for grown-ups that doesn't suck Review If somebody told you six months ago that the best Android phone of 2015 would have been made by BlackBerry, you’d have thought they were a bit mad. BlackBerry didn’t really make phones any more, and what phones it made were marketed as a secure alternative to the Mad Max badlands of Android.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SR02)
I'm writing from the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, hosted on obsolete Joomla Malfeasants have embedded a phishing scam inside the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria's web site.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#SQX8)
Leverages Stagefright scare for installs As police across Europe crack down on the use of the DroidJack malware, a similar software nasty has emerged that can control not just Android, but also Windows, Mac, and Linux systems and is being sold openly at a fraction of the cost.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SQT6)
Xen Project issues maintenance release, urges upgrade sooner rather than later Hot on the heels of dumping a hot, steaming pile of patches on its users, the Xen project has squeezed out a maintenance release.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#SQQJ)
'Cos all those pitchforks you bought will go to waste Analysis The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has finally been revealed, after seven years of negotiations and following formal approval last month.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#SQMN)
Shocked outfoxed Cox docked US broadband watchdog the FCC has fined Cox Communications $595,000 (£391,000, AU$832,000) after a Lizard Squad hacker swiped its customer records.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#SQHX)
Cheap wires could bork your chargers, PCs, hubs, etc A Google engineer says some discount USB Type-C converter cables are substandard and could cause damage by drawing too much juice.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#SQAQ)
Sciences train bright kids, commerce eats them up Comment There's a good reason why the big brains at the top of science in Australia are suddenly singing hosannas to entrepreneurs.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#SQ80)
Bank card slurping malware discovered in casino chain's tills A casino owner in Michigan is warning its players after detecting bank-card-stealing malware in its payment systems.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#SQ6E)
Terraforming Red Planet going to be much harder than thought Video NASA thinks it now understands why Mars has lost so much of its atmosphere: the Sun stripped it virtually clean.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#SQ2M)
We're your servants, says general counsel unconvincingly After spending months pressuring tech companies to add backdoors into their encryption software, the FBI says it has given up on the idea.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#SPVW)
Centennial state could soon be blazing in more ways than one Voters in Colorado have abolished laws that had prohibited local governments from offering their own broadband internet services.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#SPGW)
10Gbit/s connectivity – now that's what I call inflight Wi-Fi The prototype craft for Facebook’s laser internet-in-the-sky is close to take off. A solar-powered, carbon fiber flying V-shaped wing, that’ll pump out 10Gbit/s connectivity using a laser, will begin test flights “soonâ€, the firm said Thursday.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#SPBQ)
And they didn't even help us flog more gear either Acer is back to its operationally loss-making ways again after pumping cash into promos to get the products flying out the door - but it didn’t work, as sales fell through the floor.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#SPAM)
LTE-NB has been designed with much lower power use in mind Huawei GMBF There’s a general acceptance within the mobile industry that the more advanced forms of 4G and 5G will eventually conjure up connections of 1Gb/s. But for many speakers at Huawei’s Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2015, 10kb/s is every bit as exciting.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#SP45)
US parent of Kelway owner doing just fine thanks Sales steamroller CDW - the US parent of Brit reseller Kelway - turned over $54.7m worth of tech products and services on a daily basis in calendar Q3 ended September.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#SP18)
Read it here. Geoblocking falls off the cart The European Commission has pedalled back from making radical changes to Europe’s copyright regulations, according to a leaked version of its draft Copyright Framework seen by The Register. It’s a draft that isn’t due until 9 December.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#SP1A)
A Reg writer's mea culpa Comment Hang on: you want to use a phone number as an identity certificate?…
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by John Leyden on (#SNYK)
Harder to take down, nyet? Miscreants have cooked up a new strain of ransomware that works offline and so might be more resistant to law enforcement takedown efforts as a result.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#SNW1)
Your domain renewal dollars at work, people Special report Just minutes after the board of internet overseer ICANN applauded the results of a review into its accountability – announced at a public meeting in Dublin – the mood soured.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#SNQ3)
From chips to base stations, 2020 will be like the Finns' year 2000 A little over a thousand CTOs, CIOs and decision makers from the world’s mobile phone networks attended Huawei's mobile broadband forum event this week. It gives us a view of not only how Huawei sees the world, but of how it sees itself.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#SNNM)
Panama-based gambling operation squashed by FBI & Department of Justice Two members of an illegal international gambling enterprise which operated over the net and telephone have been convicted of a racketeering conspiracy.…
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That SQL background may be more useful than you think... Reg Events If you’re dreading the pressure cooker of a family Christmas, we challenge you to change your perspective by coming to our 1 December lecture with SQL specialist and former Iraq hostage, Peter Moore.…
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