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by Gavin Clarke on (#RYTW)
Back-pedalling fast, but where's the difference? Larry Ellison laughed off the cloud seven years ago. If anything, cloud meant nothing more than taking out a new full-page ad on the back of The Economist.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#RYRN)
Insecurity, it's a gas-gas-gas British Gas has 'fessed up that customer data posted to Pastebin was genuine, but believes payment details were not exposed.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#RYQ1)
Element14 scores gig to reshape and reconfigure rPi for bulk use in whatever you fancy The Raspberry Pi Foundation has decided the time is right to allow custom versions of its creation.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#RYM2)
AndroRAT, DroidJack top pwning preferences. Future threat researcher Rodrigo Bijou says Iranian hackers have made Android a priority for attacks with remote access trojans.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#RYJ4)
ITU radio gabfest to consider the very future of time itself An upcoming International Telecommunication Union (ITU) conference is about to become an international battleground over whether or not to retain the leap second – the periodic adjustment of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) so it stays in agreement with atomic clocks.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#RYHF)
'Most powerful cordless vacuums' claim Hoovered up by Australian court Dyson's found itself in strife again, after Australian courts found its claim to make the “most powerful cordless vacuums†with “twice the suction power of any cordless vacuum†could not be sustained.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#RYEP)
Share your secret diary to improve security, says Splunk Splunk has hurled the fourth edition of its Enterprise Security product out the door, and feels that the most important new feature is its diary, or as Splunk likes to call it the “Investigator's journalâ€.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#RYBJ)
Is this Virtzilla's riposte to Microsoft Continuum? When Windows 10 makes it to mobile devices, one of the more interesting features will be “Continuumâ€, a tool that will make it possible to plug a phone into a keyboard and monitor and use it as a PC.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#RYAP)
Broadband balloons secure local operators for 2016 test Project Loon, the once-Google-now-Alphabet broadband balloon project, is to be trialled in Indonesia next year.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#RY93)
Natsec, schools covered, but what about the middle, boffins bleat. New Zealand will get its first national computer security incident response team (CSIRT) helping to assist underserved hacked small businesses, should a funding effort be successful.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#RY95)
New craft will be stealthy, smart and stupidly expensive The US Department of Defense has announced that Northrup Grumman will be supplying its next generation of Long Range Strike Bomber (LRSB) to replace the aging B-52 and B-2 fleets.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#RY6R)
Insurers have no idea how to protect the digital realm. So they need to buy those who do The Insurance industry encompasses a very odd paradox: it wouldn’t exist without risk, yet does everything in its power to remove any risks for its policy-holders. Insurers only make money if they don’t pay out, and they won’t pay out if they can keep you from doing any of the things they’ve identified as risky.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#RY5A)
Claims world-record breaking performance OpenWorld Oracle execs used the final keynote of this week's OpenWorld to praise their Sparc M7 processor's ability to accelerate encryption and some SQL queries in hardware.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#RY1Z)
Train our supers, please Australia's cash-strapped peak research body, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is recruiting the help of the crowd to improve its X-Ray crystallography capabilities.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#RY21)
Settlement dumps company into the red Identity-protection company LifeLock will shell out $96m in a settlement to end claims it broke a promise over false advertising.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#RXZT)
IETF publishes RFC 7686 and makes edible bulb a reserved name Software is forbidden from using Tor URLs ending in .onion on the public internet following the publication of RFC 7686, which makes the top-level domain a "special use" case.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#RXTB)
Motion detection now accurate to within two centimetres Eggheads at MIT are getting better and better at using Wi-Fi signals to see through walls, capturing motion accurate to within a few centimetres.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#RXS1)
Unencrypted logins leaked through unpatched PHP hole Hackers have made off with the names, email addresses, and unencrypted passwords of 13 million accounts at 000webhost, a free web hosting biz.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#RXN6)
Details of info-sharing pact replacement emerge The NSA's blanket surveillance of Europeans will be subject to judicial review, according to EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourová.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#RXK2)
US military's cruise missile detectors discover cloud computing A US government surveillance airship broke free of its moorings and headed to Pennsylvania, carrying its load of very sensitive and super-secret hardware.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#RXHE)
Execute R in the database for speedy analysis Microsoft is releasing a new preview of SQL Server 2016, including integration with the R language for statistical analysis.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#RX9H)
16 million years worth of music streamed to your mobe annually Those fumbling with PCs may want to think about updating their skills portfolio, according to a new Cisco forecast that predicts the majority of data will no longer be stored on client devices by 2019.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#RX75)
Redmond confirms display spasm fix coming Video People who bought the first batch of Microsoft's Surface Book slab-tops are furious that a glitch causes the screens to flicker.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#RX5J)
Novena – a novel piece of lab equipment How does one build a completely open-source computer from scratch? Answer: slowly.…
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by Andy Favell on (#RX25)
You think your firm suffers from geo-political issues? Humanitarian organisations depend on internet and telecoms connectivity to conduct their life-saving work, and providing that critical service when there is none available is the job of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC).…
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by Chris Mellor on (#RWZ0)
PC drives will be blue through and through. Except the Black models WD is abandoning its Green drive branding, moving the Green drive product line into the Blue brand so as to have a single mainstream PC brand.…
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That hot babe was only interested in your digits Folk looking for love online were left £33m worse off last year thanks to online fraudsters, according to stats released by the City of London Police and Action Fraud.…
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by John Leyden on (#RWP4)
Over 500 enterprise clients across North America, Europe once combined US-based InteliSecure has acquired Reading, UK-based Pentura in deal designed to allow it to deliver Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technology as a managed service. Financial terms of the deal, announced Wednesday, were not disclosed.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#RWKG)
The Neutron star at Tokyo event The Tokyo OpenStack summit saw more announcements today as vendors enjoy playing the Open Stack game which, it appears, no one can lose.…
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PM didn't mean it when he repeatedly said he'd ban encryption The government has "no intention" of introducing legislation to weaken encryption, minister for internet safety and security Baroness Shields told the House of Lords in the wake of the TalkTalk cyber attack debacle.…
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by Lester Haines on (#RWF0)
The Wonderful Well Gone and Slightly Wasted Wizards of Oz Australians' distinctive accent – known affectionately as "Strine" – was formed in the country's early history by drunken settlers' "alcoholic slur".…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#RWB6)
Companies blow hot over energy efficiency accusations Bosch and Siemens are taking legal steps "in Great Britain" against Dyson over what it terms the "false allegations" made by the British manufacturer that the German companies had cheated in vacuum-cleaner energy efficiency tests in "behaviour ... akin to that seen in the Volkswagen scandal".…
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by Chris Mellor on (#RW85)
Well, according to a note received by El Reg, quite possibly El Reg was kindly sent a note about an EMC virtual event plus a Commtech session in Ireland, suggesting that scale-out filer Isilon array functionality could be available as software-only running on Dell servers.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#RW6Z)
PM Cameron hardens against pr0n to 'protect' kids Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed today that the Tory government planned to legislate on smut filters, following yesterday's net neutrality ruling in the European Union.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#RW5F)
Or is it just a Microsoft lobbying campaign? Europe's examination of Big Tech's dominant platforms – like Alphabet-Google and Amazon – is only just beginning, but Parliament got a teaser of the battles ahead this week, as two antitrust professors sharply disagreed on the merits of the enquiry.…
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by Wireless Watch on (#RW1V)
It's not about the hardware... it's about a 'unified experience' Analysis Microsoft stubbornly refuses to let go of making hardware, but now the reasons why CEO Satya Nadella has not followed his clear instinct to ditch devices (except Xbox) are becoming clearer.…
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by Lester Haines on (#RW0C)
PicoBrew promises no-hassle custom beer US home-brew tech outfit PicoBrew has raced past its Kickstarter fundraising target for its Pico "fully automatic craft beer brewing appliance".…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#RVXN)
Cheap'n'cheerful firm introduces yet another product line Pumped up by a (claimed) $1bn in profit in 2015, Chinese phone-maker Xiaomi will start selling Linux laptops early next year, according to a report.…
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Big Blue throwing yet more cash at Watson in bid to turn around the oil tanker Big Blue is reported to be further beefing up its Watson division by splashing $2bn (£1.3bn) snapping up the digital arm of the Weather Company, a US-based organisation that runs the Weather Channel and a digital company providing mobile apps.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#RVQH)
Choosing ACI or NSX a ‘strategic network decision’ – analyst One hundred and fifty customers across the globe have taken a seat on Cisco's Application-Centric Infrastructure bandwagon that started rolling 15 months ago, we can reveal.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#RVND)
This is not a data breach, whatever it is we must've done it ourselves... The Information Commissioner's Office is making enquiries into Marks & Spencer's website after customers complained that they were being presented with each others' personal details while shopping.…
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by Team Register on (#RVMD)
Guests include Reg APAC editor and all-star panel of enterprise CTOs
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#RVHH)
Briskly waves through telco takeover bid BT's planned £12.5bn merger with EE has provisionally been given the greenlight by Blighty's Competitions and Markets Authority.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#RVF2)
Why Larry + ? won't own all the pies come 2025 Mark Hurd reckons Oracle and one “other†will own all the cloud pies in 10 years.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#RVCP)
HTTP Strict Transport Security isn't working as advertised or planned Yahoo! crypto ace Yan Zhu has found twin attacks that allow websites to learn the web histories of visitors users by targeting HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS).…
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by Chris Williams on (#RVA7)
We take a look at color-based Sparc defenses Analysis Oracle insists it really is going to sell computers powered by Sparc M7 processors – the same chips it started talking about in 2014.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#RV6Z)
No need for Obi-Wan to turn it off, this is 'acoustic levitation' for Kidney stones Researchers from Spain and the British city of Bristol have found a way to move objects using sound.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#RV4Z)
Terracotta found porous China-based virtual private network provider Terracotta, a favourite of some of the most capable hacking groups, is pumping their stolen user credentials in cleartext.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#RV32)
Boffins pry in protocols, find some surprises Popular apps like Facebook and WhatsApp, combined with weaknesses in LTE protocols, could help spooks or attackers locate users, a group of German and Finnish researchers have found.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#RV14)
NASA goes bug-hunting on the ISS and finds microbes a-plenty where there should be few Everything that goes to the International Space Station gets clean-roomed to within an inch of its life, but humans are leaving behind a considerable microbial footprint.…
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