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by Team Register on (#KWS9)
Please Jesus don't make me do this LiveBlurt Holy Crap! It's Apple hypegasm launch day again, and here's your fabulous soaraway Reg with continually updating hot live news-a-like barrelscrape content of some sort delivered via our proprietary LiveBlurt technology to tide you over until the fruitcast actually begins. We're unbelievably excited about this and we know you are too! Yow!…
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Police ICT company chief admits 'big elephant' gobble won't be done in one More outsourcing will "play a part" in reducing the eye-wateringly expensive £1bn-a-year police IT bill, according to the new chief exec of the just-established Police ICT Company, Martin Wyke.…
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by Lewis Page on (#KWM6)
If you have any poo, fling it now What raises us above the beasts? According to new boffinry just out, it is the ability to wield cricket bats and other tools, coupled with the ability to accurately throw cricket balls or similar items. These gifts were given us back in our remote evolutionary past, by adaptations to the shoulders of early proto-humans.…
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by Tim Worstall on (#KWK2)
Perhaps there is life in that dog of a neoclassical price system Worstall on Wednesday One of the things those within economics think that the subject gets generally correct is microeonomics, which itself is generally a discussion of the price system. There are those who insist that this is all well, true, insisting that since we're not all rational agents, don't have perfect knowledge, then that standard neoclassical model is wrong.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#KWGB)
Court to hear arguments in cross-Atlantic data protection bunfight An appeals court in New York will hold an oral hearing in the Feds vs Microsoft battle today. The so-called Microsoft warrant case has dragged on for nearly two years as Redmond resists efforts to make it hand over customer emails stored in Ireland.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#KWE5)
Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu MATE and Lubuntu: No Dibble or Grub The next Ubuntu – 15.10, nicknamed Wily Werewolf – is beginning to take shape but, as before, the first beta code out of the gate doesn’t belong to the main desktop.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#KWAQ)
Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong And Taiwan first off the rank Netflix has announced it “will expand into South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan in early 2016 as it moves to complete its global rollout by the end of next year.â€â€¦
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by Darren Pauli on (#KW9P)
Premium SMS abuse gate thwarted. CAPTCHA-busting malware wormed its way into apps hosted on Google Play, reaping up to US$250,000 from infected victims.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#KW68)
Windows-tellybox users complain about mistakes in Redmond's new data feeds Users of Microsoft’s Media Center PCs across report that their electronic program guides (EPGs) aren't downloading or offering incorrect data, nobbling their ability to use their boxen as video recorders.…
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by Lester Haines on (#KW58)
Big time actor Warwick Davis gives explanation short shrift Culturally sensitive audience members attending this year's Christmas panto at Leicester's De Montfort Hall will be pleased to find that Snow White's seven dwarfs have been cut in favour of a septet of "friends".…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#KW1D)
Sysadmins, get ready to manage servers on ANTENNA POLES It's increasingly clear to the telecommunications industry that content distribution is going to need to push further out into networks, to try and relieve congestion on the moderately-constrained backhaul that connects cell towers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#KW0K)
Those are OUR random blotches of ink, says photo library Venerable hacker publication 2600 is fighting off what looks like an early candidate for the most egregious copyright infringement accusation of 2015.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#KVXJ)
Fresh food deliveries: like Webvan, only with funds Google is hoping to wean Silicon Valley man-children off junk food diets with fresh-food deliveries by its Google Express operation.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#KVVN)
What could possibly go wrong? For starters, iOS randomises iThings' MACs Be careful with your Wi-Fi things' MAC addresses: an Iowa cop wants to sniff hardware addresses to turn up stolen goods.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#KVRK)
Cloud DLP and audit concern Adallom lets Redmond hug it into new phase of existence Microsoft has acquired cloud security outfit Adallom.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#KVQY)
Scammers hate email bounce-backs too Spammers deploying the TorrentLocker ransomware are so good at targeting victims that their poison emails hit the mark more frequently than those sent by legitimate software companies and professional marketers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#KVN5)
Not going to make this easy The amazing Yahoo! / Alibaba / SpinCo tax structure has suffered a blow: America's Internal Revenue Service has refused to say whether or not it approves or disapproves of Yahoo!'s tax-avoidance chicanery. And that usually spells trouble.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#KVH0)
Pitching the Play store to the next billion The next billion people online aren't going to be as profitable as the first. Google India has announced that the local version of its Play app store has reduced the lowest price developers can charge for their wares or in-app purchases to 10 rupees. The floor price used to be 50 rupees.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#KVF3)
Brewster's Millions meets the world of internet plumbing Domain-name overseer ICANN wants your suggestions for how it should spend the $60m it made from auctioning off new dot-words.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#KVCH)
Man faces two years inside for impersonating minister of the crown 'with intent to deceive' The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is investigating a Twitter impersonator who for a few weeks claimed to be a government minister.…
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by Chris Williams on (#KVBM)
Thinking cap on after security gap tapped The web version of phone chat app WhatsApp – yes, there's a web version – allowed internet lowlives to fire off malware at potentially millions of PCs, apparently.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#KVAY)
PATCH NOW – 56 security holes, and at least two are already under attack Microsoft has today released patches for 56 security vulnerabilities in its products. People should apply the updates as soon as possible because miscreants are actively exploiting at least two of the holes – and likely more by the time you read this.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#KV5C)
VP9 support coming for Windows 10's standards-happy new browser Microsoft says it plans to build support for Google's open source VP9 streaming video codec into its Edge browser, and it's evaluating other open source audio and video formats for the web.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#KV0B)
Telco mum on public launch, but says field trials will start in 2016 Verizon is planning to test its 5G wireless broadband network next year.…
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by Chris Williams on (#KTZA)
Playboy millionaire files paperwork to run for leadership PDF Move over, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It appears paranoid wild man of computer security John McAfee is running for US President.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#KTWV)
Don't get too excited though The United Nations has pledged to provide universal internet access by 2030.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#KTRN)
New features for businesses to roll out to Windows Insiders soon Microsoft says features of Windows 10 for enterprises that weren't available when the OS launched in July will begin rolling out this month.…
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by Chris Williams on (#KTQ3)
Pre-launch open-ish code appears online Chip blueprint scribbler ARM has released some of the source code for its first public beta of mbed, its operating system for the Internet of Things.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#KTFY)
Credit-card PC can hook up with 7-inch pokeable display The Raspberry Pi Foundation has given its seal of approval to a 7-inch touchscreen for its flagship microcomputer.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#KT3C)
Groups step up scrap over gaffe-escape mechanism Digital rights groups are putting pressure on Twitter to restore API access to gaffe-watcher websites Politwoops and Diplotwoops.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#KSWA)
Banbury magistrates hearing adjourned after holidaying defendant fails to turn up A case involving the owner and certain employees at security reseller Quadsys, who were last month charged with fraud by Thames Valley Police, is to be elevated to Crown Court.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#KSTN)
Lived with mum, 'did not exhibit lavish lifestyle' A Londonderry man has been handed a four-year sentence – of which half will be spent in custody – as a result of an online piracy operation he ran from his bedroom at his parents' house between 2008 and 2013.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#KSPA)
In investment terms, it's the most bang the industry could get for $4m Comment The Register storage desk thinks NVMe fabric linking for storage arrays will be very big, as it's a SAN/NAS latency killer. Startup Mangstor has built an NVMe fabric-accessed array, so we've seen what such a beast looks like.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#KSNB)
However, after an extensive assessment, Register staff deem site OK Russia's telecommunications "supervisor" Roskomnadzor has banished Canadian smut-floggers PornHub from the nation's networks.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#KSKZ)
In a mature market, ‘better to be the big guy than little guy’, says Lenovo Euro pres Texan Mick, founder and CEO at Dell – the PC company which took his surname – reckons in five to seven years it will be game over for most of the stragglers currently selling computers.…
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Row over council decision to end contract goes pasty point of no return A legal showdown between BT and county of Cornwall, over the local council's plans to prematurely exit its £300m outsourcing contract with the telco giant, is to be heard in the High Court in December.…
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Hey taxpayers - you want a transformed cloud, right? HMRC is advertising for a "cloud transformation director" at a salary of up to £162,000 per year, as part of a bid to claw its IT back from Capgemini.…
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by Lewis Page on (#KSE1)
New Channel 5 news tool probed Neural Net AI (Poll) Much of the world is poised on the edge of its collective seat this week, awaiting the scheduled moment tomorrow when mighty Apple - the fruitchomp-branded love/hate Wall Street darling of the technology world - will unveil its latest offerings.…
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by Alun Taylor on (#KSCP)
Blows Sony and Motorola out of water Review If someone asked me what my ideal smartphone would be I’d say one that costs no more than £120, has 16GB of storage, at least 2GB of RAM, a 5-inch IPS screen, a removable battery, two SIM slots, space for a microSD card, the best iteration of Android available (that’s the Cyanogen OS Android fork, in my opinion) and is waterproof.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#KSAY)
Server space seller snaffles MSP to boost fighting weight ahead of possible float Euro-bit-barn-operator-cum-cloud-hosting-provider Interoute is to wolf down pan-regional managed services outfit Easynet for £402m, including debts.…
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Is it time to put down this terminally ill scheme? The UK government's gaffe-prone Care.data scheme has been paused once again, this time to review the opt-out process of the much-hated and delayed program.…
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by Lester Haines on (#KS8D)
Anti-Semitic graffiti could remain as part of the work – take that vandals! Artist Anish Kapoor has suggested the anti-Semitic graffiti daubed on his sculpture "Dirty Corner" may become part of the artwork.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#KS6T)
Machine uprising postponed following FLAWLESS VICTORY for mankind A 60-year-old man has been arrested in Japan following a violent encounter with a robot on Sunday, with the mechanoid coming off worse.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#KS4A)
EU-US data agreement also incoming – EU citizens to get right to sue their hearts out The top advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) will give his opinion on the so-called Europe versus Facebook case on 23 September.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#KS23)
'Why Cheesoid exist?' Comment Simple questions can be difficult to answer when the predictive analysis needles being looked for are buried in a 50-million-record haystack. However, so-called Tuned Machine Learning techniques can be used to automate data scientists' work, and get answers in a couple of hours that used to take a week or more.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#KRXX)
NexentaStor flies with flash wings from HGST and fuselage from Supermicro NexentaStor has come round the all-flash array block a second time with a Supermicro flash server box slotting underneath the SanDisk-powered 512GB InfiniFlash box.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#KRVH)
APIs not EAI maketh a business digital Think Argos and you think catalogue: The Laminated Book of Dreams, as comedian Bill Bailey puts it, placing thousands of products from crayons to cookers within the easy reach of eager shoppers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#KRTW)
All-flash FS1 hits a new low. On price, that is Oracle has booted out the disks in its FS1-2 hybrid flash/disk FS1 array to create the all-flash FS1, a 2-tier flash array scaling from 2TB to 912TB of capacity with "the lowest entry price of any all-flash enterprise-class storage solution." Oracle and low prices; who'd a thought it?…
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by David Gordon on (#KRRX)
Find out the answers on our live webcast Live today at 1100 BST Register now to watch our live Regcast today at 11:00 BST, where we look at how you can future proof your infrastructure.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#KRP3)
One for all and all for one (in all sorts of ways) is Virtzilla's cunning plan Interview “From the EMC board room,†says VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, “you can see the carnage of the minicomputer industry.â€â€¦
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