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by Shaun Nichols on (#P370)
Peek into Sir Jony's precious boxes, pay the price DIY repair biz iFixit says it can no longer offer its iOS mobile app, thanks to a ban from Apple.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#P358)
Free for ordinary users, promises not to harvest your requests Verisign is throwing its hat into the “free DNS†ring, promising not to retain information about recursive requests to its just-launched service.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#P333)
Delegates suggest govs should sort themselves out before criminalising researchers Speaking at a roundtable meeting on export controls on Wednesday, Dutch MEP Marietje Schaake said that she and other lawmakers were working to avoid "some of the unintended consequences of the Wassenaar Arrangement."…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#P325)
Patch now: El Capitan upgrade available, plus Safari and iThing software tweaks Apple has posted a trio of software updates to address major security flaws in its OS X and iOS operating systems.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#P2XV)
CEO and CFO in hot water with the Feds If you bought internet services from Illinois-based ContinuityX Services, the US Securities and Exchange Commission would like a word, since you may be part of a very, very small group – far smaller than the company itself represented.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#P2WH)
Latest version of streaming media box puts it to the head of the market Exclusive The much-anticipated Roku 4 will come with 4K ultra high-definition resolution, a separate games controller, and a faster quad-core ARM processor.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#P2JP)
Libby Schaaf puts case for using tech to empower people The Mayor of Oakland in California has warned taxi-ordering app Uber that it needs to behave when it moves into a new office complex in the heart of the city's downtown.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#P2H8)
So about those automatic Windows updates ... Windows 7 users were left scratching their heads on Wednesday when a mysterious garbled patch appeared in Windows Update, origins unknown.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#P2G4)
Sergey Brin gets car number 3 off the lot Pics and video Elon Musk finally got to unveil Tesla's Model X luxury electric sports utility vehicle, and showed off some literally ludicrous features the car has to offer.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#P2G6)
Shutterbugs furious that pic-sharing website isn't Some users of Yahoo!'s photo-sharing site Flickr have been struggling or unable to upload photos to the site for several weeks.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#P25C)
New York Stock Exchange gears up for the listing Pure Storage has told us something quite interesting: "Pure Storage will be listing shares for our initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, 7 October."…
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by Paul Kunert on (#P223)
Heard of the Bring Your Own Cloud unit? You want to be getting in there Acer is not reacting to the downturn in PC spending by cutting heads – not yet anyway – but it is planning a restructure.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#P1X0)
It’s not what you’ve got, it’s how you use it, apparently Despite what Qualcomm claims, its main foe, MediaTek, claims that the core wars are not over. Qualcomm has argued – like a politician saying that “left and right is old thinking†– that it isn't about how many cores you had, but what you did with them.…
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by John Leyden on (#P1VC)
HELM offered free aggravation, rather than free electricity The UK's data privacy watchdog has issued its largest ever fine for a nuisance caller, £200,000, after a solar panels provider was found culpable for recklessly breaking marketing call regulations.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#P1RK)
Should have stayed under the skirt of Mother Russia. Just a thought Dimitry Belorossov – a Russian cyber-criminal who used the Citadel banking trojan – has been sentenced to four years and six months in a US prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit computer fraud.…
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by Team Register on (#P1MJ)
Spiceworkers, selfie deaths, and a lack of terrible girlband pop
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by Paul Kunert on (#P1H4)
Frosty PC demand not helping as post-XP order glut clogs distie warehouses Until recently, dusty Lenovo PCs were looking a likely candidate to replace concrete in the British construction sector, such was the inventory glut confronting local ops. Things have improved, but still aren’t great.…
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by Kat McIvor on (#P1EN)
Hello World How to Docker is the name on the tip of many tongues at the moment. It is a containerisation engine which allows you to package up an application along with all the settings and software required to run it and deploy it to a server with a minimum of fuss.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#P1B1)
They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true David Goulden, CEO of EMC Info Infrastructure, said breaking up the Federation would be the wrong thing to do, while speaking at the Code/Enterprise Series conference in New York on Tuesday.…
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by John Leyden on (#P18D)
Special file names and domains are key An Arabic-speaking cyber-espionage group, active since 2012, has stepped up its attacks over the last six months, according to new research from Kaspersky Lab.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#P166)
Nothing to do with the MOFCOM hold on the HGST merger. Nope In a transaction said to be unconnected to the HGST-WD merger – still becalmed by Chinese watchdog MOFCOM – Western Digital is selling a 15 per cent stake to a subsidiary of China-based Unisplendour Corporation (Unis) for $3.8bn.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#P168)
This Just In: List of 1.2m cars in UK affected by filthy cheating planet-killer dieselware Olaf Lies, a Volkswagen board member and the economy minister of Lower Saxony, has stated that some staff acted criminally in installing software which allowed cars to cheat on pollution tests.…
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Watchdog raises concerns over £216m deal that will see hundreds of jobs lost Plans by the Metropolitan Police to outsource its IT and shunt 445 staff out of the capital via a 10-year £216m mega deal with Steria present "huge risks", a report by London's spending watchdog has warned.…
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by John Leyden on (#P0ZM)
Workers aged 16-34 chastised for leaving sticky deposits everywhere Many (45 per cent) of workers say they could access a former employer’s systems through old, unchanged passwords, according to a survey by password management outfit Dashlane.…
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More transparency promised, just not on its revenue figures Adblock Plus is to farm out its evaluation process for unblocking adverts to an independent reviewer in a bid to be "100 per cent transparent", while remaining tight-lipped over its revenue from companies effectively paying to have their ads displayed.…
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by Lewis Page on (#P0X2)
'Could explain recent disagreements' As world leaders get ready to head to Paris for the latest pact on cutting CO emissions, it has emerged that there isn't as much urgency about the matter as had been thought.…
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by Tim Worstall on (#P0X4)
Now Wolfie's Labour leader, why not rerun his Greatest Hits? Worstall on Wednesday It's more normally Mr Orlowski around here shouting that Mariana Mazzucato is a poopyhead, but given that she's just been appointed to Corbyn's economic advisory team, perhaps it's time to add to the chorus?…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#P0VV)
Meanwhile, US says Europe's top legal adviser is totally wrong on US surveillance Next Tuesday, Europe’s top court will decide whether the much-discussed and sometimes controversial EU-US data sharing deal provides enough privacy protection for citizens.…
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by David Gordon on (#P0RZ)
Plug into these webinars and chant OMS Promo IT is moving at a furious pace. Are you trying to figure out how to manage hybrid clouds, deploy converged infrastructure and run open source workloads in the cloud?…
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by David Gordon on (#P0S1)
Renaissance man Managing the desktop estate hurts the head and the wallet, so why don't people use thin clients?…
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Get ready for tighter regs, possibly, no decisions made yet Transport for London (TfL) has today opened a public consultation on the regulations governing private-hire taxis, a move that could see a major clampdown on the way Uber operates.…
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by Team Register on (#P0KK)
Kremlin says nothing about what he can tweet, but knows where he lives Former NSA sysadmin Edward Snowden, famed for leaking colossal quantities of secret government information to selected journalists, has decided to supply free content to microblurt advertising platform Twitter.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#P0GT)
Elliott Management Corp will demand satisfaction Comment War could break out in EMC's investor ranks any day now as the standstill agreement between EMC's board and activist investor Elliott Management runs out this month.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#P0EM)
Aunty confident you'll ditch third-party plugin It may not be the definitive decision which propels humanity towards our inevitable end, but in a post on the Beeb's internet blog, James East, the Media Playout Product Manager, stated that his team is now confident they can "achieve the playback quality you'd expect from the BBC without using a third-party plugin."…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#P0CF)
‘Lots of people will wake up and figure this out at the last minute’ The start of 2016 is crunch time if you’re running legacy Microsoft browsers. From January 12, 2016, a huge swath of Internet Explorer versions will no longer get security fixes or updates from Microsoft.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#P09D)
Proof of concept could lead to nasty phish Half a billion users are at risk from a public zero day remote code execution exploit affecting all versions of the popular WinRAR compression software.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#P08N)
Hosting firm will offer cloud management on top of AWS, report claims Rackspace has reportedly formed a partnership with Amazon Web Services to help customers move their data centers to the online retail giant's public cloud.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#P05D)
ASTROSAT in orbit, let the science begin India's space agency has successfully launched the country's first space observatory, the long-awaited ASTROSAT.…
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by Team Register on (#P047)
Clouseau fans will be pleased to hear minkey had liçense "Shortly after 8am," reported Florida's Sanford Police Department (SPD), "we received a call from a Sanford resident who lives in the Hidden Lakes subdivision, reporting that a monkey was eating mail out of a mailbox."…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#P014)
After that, Volkswagen, you'll be on your own Volkswagen is going to spend up big getting rid of its troublesome cheatware, the company has announced.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#NZZ7)
Offices more damaged by water than flame Russian ATM VXers have firebombed the research lab of an anti-virus firm after its researchers refused to retract reverse engineering analysis of their malware.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#NZV2)
Paranoia a boon for local data centres Questions about data sovereignty have brought another cloud provider to Australia, with Intralinks moving into an HP data centre down under.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#NZQV)
Vodafail no more After Vocus and M2 Communications announced their merger deal, all eyes turned to troubled mobile operator Vodafone, with TPG mooted as the likely buyer.…
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by Bill Bennett on (#NZMD)
We'll only sniff your packets FOR YOUR OWN GOOD One-time NBN CTO Gary McLaren called out his former employer on Twitter yesterday following a request for proposal that hinted at plans for deep packet inspection.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#NZKJ)
And whips out a music-slurping gizmo Pics Google has redesigned its $35 Chromecast TV dongle, and come up with the Chromecast Audio – a new gizmo that streams music over Wi-Fi to speakers.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#NZHJ)
Cyber Sec Oz pits 251 hackers in capture the flag comp. Two hundred and fifty one university and TAFE students will today compete to hack the hell out of the Enterprise Wellness Initiative, smashing its apps, and pulling off feats of forensics.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#NZFK)
Contractor signs on to safeguard 100-plus agencies Defense contractor Raytheon said it will be providing IT security for more than 100 US government agencies in a deal valued at upwards of $1bn.…
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by Chris Williams on (#NZEW)
Easy does it ... don't want to scare off corporate customers with too much fanfare, eh? Intel's human shield from monopoly watchdogs AMD has quietly revealed some processor packages for business PCs.…
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by Bill Bennett on (#NZDZ)
'Keep our data away from the PATRIOT Act, please' Macquarie University says it will drop Gmail after The Chocolate Factory decided to move its data storage from Europe to the United States.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#NZ7W)
Welcome to ICANN, where you always agree with us It has long been a concern that domain-name overseer ICANN is largely funded by companies reliant on the organization to make money.…
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