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by Chris Mellor on (#N3SY)
Stifel reckons the naysayers haven't got a clue what they're talking about Comment Seagate and NetApp are telling analysts that news of their doom is somewhat premature, if not downright rubbish. They are not going to be toast, but some startups are heading that way.…
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With slow quarterly revenue growth, take any support you can get Analyst and investor conferences can be a platform for all manner of odd ball questions, but one company rep at a presentation by Chinese tat seller Alibaba recently took the opportunity to express his love for the Middle Kingdom. Repeatedly.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#N3MY)
Chocolate Factory's appeal rejected as 'right to be forgotten' battle escalates The French privacy watchdog has dug its heels in over Google’s refusal to apply the so-called Right To Be Forgotten* to all of its domain names, including Google.com.…
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IOCCO: ‘Inappropriate for us to name the two police forces’ now Police Scotland’s covert investigations unit has been accused of committing "multiple breaches" of a new code intended to guard against unlawful spying on journalists.…
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by John Leyden on (#N3FN)
XcodeGhost dispels comforting notion that iOS is safe from malware Apple is cleaning up its official iOS App Store after the first large-scale attack on its walled garden mobile software site.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#N3CB)
Car maker's stock price plummets after confession Volkswagen's CEO has admitted that the German car manufacturer used software to cheat emissions testing for certain air pollutants on nearly half a million of its cars.…
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by Ollie Wilson on (#N39F)
Google manipulation dreams of being as respectable as ads Comment Search Engine Optimisation is desperately seeking respectability, with “creativity†being the main buzzword at the industry’s big get-together – with the dark arts of “black hat†SEO scarcely being mentioned.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#N375)
Yippee, now you can have 2,048 entries – but why is there a limit? Microsoft has rolled out Build 10547 of Windows 10 to its "Insider" public preview testers, offering a fix to the Start menu bug that saw some shortcuts missing.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#N35T)
Brands to stay as they are! Yeah, that's what they all say CK Hutchison - once known as Hutchison Whampoa* - will float O2 when it merges with Three, pushing the company back into public ownership. The merger is still awaiting regulatory approval, but is expected to go ahead.…
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by David Gordon on (#N33D)
‘Three issues for £1’ offer Promo It’s been - ooh years - since we advertised the existence of The Register’s daily email newsletter.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#N30Z)
F2000 is the up-to 330TB, seven-nines, baby 18U array that never forgets Moshe Yanai's Infinidat high-end enterprise array is getting added file support, better disaster recovery and an entry-level system.…
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Vid chat service KOd, hapless Brits bear brunt of borkage Microsoft-owned video chat service Skype has 'fessed up to a major outage affecting its customers, promising it is "working on a quick fix" to the problem.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#N2WH)
Come on, Meg, sing 'we love the channel' again HP’s controversial Value System Integrator sales programme hasn’t been taken out the back and murdered, contrary to the wishful thinking from some in the channel – but it is being scaled back.…
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by Enrico Signoretti on (#N2ST)
The problem – we don’t just use them for back-up Next year, the seventh-generation LTO tape format will be hitting the market. We are talking about 15TB cartridges. It sounds like an interesting media and it actually is if you need to store huge amounts of cold data.…
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That's at least 33 per civil servant The Ministry of Justice has failed to make any cash savings from moving its 2.3 million Oracle software licences to the Cabinet Office's shared service centre, The Register can reveal.…
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by John Leyden on (#N2Q7)
Sabre-rattling is moving on from the traditional miscreants, say infosec bods Cyberattacks from Russia have increased because of sanctions related to the Ukraine while assaults from Iran have dropped over recent months, thanks to the recent Iran nuclear deal.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#N2M4)
Repacked malicious Xcode framework flogged on Chinese watering hole dev sites Millions of Apple users are at risk from malicious yet legitimate apps uploaded to the official App Store, which are being used in "unprecedented", live iCloud phishing attacks.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#N2HV)
TVs and mobes can do without Android (but won't) The developers of the Linux-based device operating system Tizen have announced the latest iteration of their TV and mobile offerings.…
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by Bill Bennet on (#N2FZ)
I'll green you on the dark side of the Moon China used its latest green rocket design to carry 20 micro-satellites into space on Sunday.…
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by Bill Bennet on (#N2DH)
Plug-ins checking out for chatty types Microsoft has added Object RTC to the latest insider preview of Windows 10. The move paves the way for Skype users using Microsoft’s Edge browser to make voice or video calls without faffing around with browser plug-ins.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#N2BW)
Scorecard to list hackable ICBMs, office fridges US Defence bureaucrats are bashing numbers into a database in a bid to develop what the agency hopes will become an automated security scorecard, assessing vulnerability exposure across the country's networks and weapons systems.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#N2A6)
Spooky signals called Fast Radio Bursts could tell us where the stuff is Only a few of them have been observed so far, but boffins from the University of British Colombia reckon fast radio bursts (FRBs) could help refine our understanding of where stuff is in the universe.…
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by Dan Olds, Gabriel Consulting on (#N27R)
Smooth sailing and near READ ME disaster averted HPC Blog Rounding out the field for the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition, below is an introduction to the two teams we haven't profiled yet. For previous Reg coverage, refer to this, this, and this.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#N20T)
Everything from name to illnesses posted by mistake The private health records and private contact information of as many as 1.5 million Americans have been posted to Amazon's cloud services.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#N1Y6)
Cover-ups, unfair processes, just another day in the bureaucracy Three judges of Australia's Federal Court have delivered a ringing blow to Australia's treasurer, Scott Morrison, saying in his former role as immigration minister he oversaw a process designed to turn a data breach investigation into a failure.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#N1VB)
Operator trawled a MONTH worth of texts to hunt whistleblower Vodafone Australia's data access scandal has escalated towards blood-in-the-boardroom levels, with accusations that its abuse of a journalist's data in 2011 went on longer than the company has admitted.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#N1R7)
The successor to the World's Greatest Luddite is now a successor to the World's Greatest Luddite The communications portfolio that Malcolm Turnbull vacated to become Australia's prime minister seems to have been downgraded.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#N1A0)
Industry veteran mysteriously exits after three-year return from Apple AMD's top microprocessor architect Jim Keller has walked from the chip vendor, just months after the company unveiled a shift in strategy to reinvest in high-end FX CPUs.…
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by Team Register on (#N12D)
Plus: OMG SAP CEO 'still alive' after horror fall QuoTW We do hope you've enjoyed this week of botched Apple updates, unlikely Linux lovers and surprise birthday gifts.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#N0VQ)
Cloudopocalypse stalks Sunday sofa surfers Amazon's Web Services (AWS) have suffered a monster outage affecting the company's cloudy systems, bringing some sites down with it in the process.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#N0PY)
Total Inability To Secure Uptown Pad. AWS to blame? Lodge-listing website Airbnb suffered what appeared to be a fairly widespread outage in the early hours of Sunday morning.…
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by Team Register on (#N0KM)
Come back ... Was it something we said? A "tree of life", which depicts the relationships of 2.3 million named species on Earth, has been created by biologists.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#N0BX)
Where electric hypercar torque figures almost equal prices Vulture at the Wheel Electric cars are coming, but not in the way you would expect. The lawns of Salon Privé suggest a direction that will have the lentil-munchers puzzled.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#N05N)
No, silly, the green screen isn't the computer. Let's follow the wires ... On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our regular look at the messes readers find themselves confronting when asked to go to help out their clients.…
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by Tim Worstall on (#MZZR)
It's really not that taxing Worstall @ the Weekend Phillip from London writes in to note that I'm really not a fan of the minimum wage. So, given that we don't want the poor starving in the streets, or that we might actually think there is some minimum income that a rich country should provide just because, what's the recommended Worstall method of achieving this?…
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by Chris Williams on (#MZJR)
How clicking on or even rolling your mouse over it will knacker browser You can crash the latest version of Google Chrome with a simple tiny URL.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#MZ3Z)
But the content is secret for now, another review's on the way and there's NO MONEY for teacher training Last Friday, Australia signed off on the nation's Digital Technologies curriculum, the first effort to teach computational thinking from infants' school to late High School. But the signoff is hollow because the content of the curriculum is hidden and a further review of technology education has been announced.…
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by Team Register on (#MZ01)
Davros, Daleks and Missy – a total treat for fans TV Review Readers please note: THIS IS A POST-UK BROADCAST REVIEW – THERE WILL BE SPOILERS!…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#MYJ1)
Brave bee-stung willy brain box also bags a gong Boffins, who – thanks to their bladder-poking research – busted the myth that racehorses urinate longer than other animals, have been awarded the physics Ig Nobel prize.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#MYBJ)
Watchdog says 'defeat device is threat to public health' The US government has accused Volkswagen of using software to duck emissions testing for certain air pollutants on nearly half a million of its cars.…
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by Lester Haines on (#MY2K)
Wobbly dining fan Pascal Harris cooks up a Netherlands staple Our elite post-pub culinary team has decided to enjoy a short break from the pots and pans and bugger off on holiday, so we'd like to take the opportunity to hand over cooking duties this week to reader Pascal Harris.…
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by Nigel Whitfield on (#MXW4)
Getting the basics of your box up and running Feature Last week, I explained the reasoning behind setting up your own mailserver, and the choice of software that I'll be using for it. This week, it's time to get hands on and show you how to do it. One word of advice, though: this is my configuration, and there are lots of options for tweaking, not to mention different ways to do it.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#MXNN)
Tech tagging horror 'n' itchy collars Something for the Weekend, Sir? There’s something I’d like to show you in my underpants. Come along, now, don’t be shy. Take a good look.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#MX6Y)
But suggests a little structure around its evaluation A highly anticipated report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has given the green light to a shift of critical internet functions away from the government to domain overseer ICANN.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#MX2A)
Registration of 29 odd dotcoms flags move Apple is getting ready to launch its own piece of the internet: .apple.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#MWY1)
Small tweak needed to global network's foundation Analysis Engineers have recommended a small but important change to the internet's underlying structure in order to avoid a possible doomsday scenario.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#MWNF)
Fanbois flustered, furious; faulty firmware fingered Apple has published a workaround after some iOS users have been left stranded in the middle of the iOS 9 update process.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#MWGC)
Annual dev tools subscribers get a perpetual license, will have to roll back to use it Developer tools company JetBrains displeased many of its customers when it announced a move to subscription-only licensing from later this year.…
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by Chris Williams on (#MWEX)
Friday firmware facepalm Updated Taiwanese networking kit maker D-Link leaked a private code-signing key onto the internet for anyone to download.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#MWCM)
'Just doesn't feel good' he says as he kills top paid app download The developer behind the wildly popular Peace ad blocker for iOS has pulled it from the App Store after claiming it was too effective.…
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