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by Simon Sharwood on (#DH2T)
Government 'Digital Locker' will hand 1GB to each citizen India last week launched a national Digital locker/, a kind of Dropbox clone it hopes will simplify citizens' interactions with government.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#DGSY)
Wham, bam, thank you, NAND Samsung is flogging a pair of 2TB solid-state drive (SSD) internal hard drives aimed at the consumer market.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#DGR0)
July 4 ruined when compression triggers titsup condition NASA has given a detailed teleconference to explain why the New Horizons space probe shut down its main computer just days before the most important part of its mission began.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#DGGA)
Do what we say, not what we do Analysis Over the weekend, 400GB of highly sensitive files belonging to Italian malware spyware software house Hacking Team were spread over the internet for everyone to see.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#DGFA)
Chipmaker lowers Q2 guidance in light of awful PC numbers Struggling chipmaker AMD warned investors on Monday that its second-quarter results, which are due to be announced on July 16, will be lower than previously expected.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#DGCV)
Redmond ponies up the cash for devs working on headset Microsoft is promising $500,000 to researchers and developers who will build apps for its Hololens headset.…
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by Team Register on (#DG7C)
Plus Mega Man guy wants to blue-bomb us all with new game, and more News bytes A social networking website built in Brazil is touting itself as a sin-free version of Facebook.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#DG7E)
Judge says evidence isn't there Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs programmer who was charged with stealing code from the firm's high-frequency trading software, has had his conviction overturned a second time.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#DG52)
Not an anime – by 2016, huge droids will face off on Planet Earth Vids A Japanese robot maker has accepted the challenge from a similar firm in the US to stage a special battle between massive, multi-ton robots in the next year.…
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by Chris Williams on (#DFZK)
Heads up for July 9 security vulnerability fix Sysadmins and anyone else with systems running OpenSSL code: a new version of the open-source crypto library will be released this week to "fix a single security defect classified as 'high' severity."…
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by Chris Mellor on (#DFNY)
Legal eagle soared high when the Federation dug deep Top mergers and acquisitions lawyer Michael Ringler helped EMC splash a cool billion dollars buying a rack-scale flash array upstart, The Register can reveal.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#DFHT)
Microsoft shows the people of Blighty some cloudy love Blighty has dodged the price hike bullet that Microsoft is set to fire into Europe and Australia, which will see customers paying more for Azure cloud services - much more, in fact.…
by Paul Kunert on (#DFF3)
Future lies in exam tests and curriculum kit The inevitable after-effects of withdrawing from hardware production and dwindling Building Schools for the Future contracts are leaving a huge hole at RM.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#DFDW)
IBM support in September, EMC early in 2016 Undisciplined file copy creation spreads like a weed across data centres. You can deal with the problem in two ways.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#DFAV)
But we were doing that FIVE YEARS AGO, says exasperated PayPal Apple has filed a patent which uses NFC and Bluetooth to transfer funds when you bonk two iPhones together.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#DF6K)
‘No such thing as anonymity in the cyber world’ says Secret Service agent A German man has been sentenced to 50 months in prison and ordered to repay $14m after he hacked into US banks, stealing debit card data and even removed withdrawal limits.…
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by SA Mathieson on (#DF5A)
Tunguska, Chelyabinsk... Powys Geek's Guide to Britain As I approach the Wales-England border, the rolling Herefordshire countryside sharpens into steep hills and narrow valleys. Powys is a county covering a quarter of Wales, but it is home to just 133,000 people, making it the least densely populated area of Britain south of the North Yorkshire moors.…
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by Lewis Page on (#DF41)
Could live on earth, apparently Top astrobiologists say that the approaching comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko could be loaded with slumbering alien organisms capable of living on Earth, which will wake up and become active as the frosty spaceball comes nearer and nearer to the Sun.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#DF28)
Today Blighty and the DACH regions. Tomorrow, EMEA domination... maybe? Security and storage value-added distributor Wick Hill is the first piece of channel real estate that Rigby Private Equity has invested in, with the proceeds to be used to fund wider expansion in mainland Europe.…
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Investors fall over each other to get hold of a chunk of prime unicorn flesh The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is launching a probe into the booming "black market" in hotly-tipped, privately-held tech stock occurring outside the US regulator's watchful gaze.…
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by Simon Crisp on (#DEY1)
Toughing it out against brutal competition Review Kingston’s latest SATA-based addition to its HyperX range of SSDs is the Savage, an SSD which boasts some pretty impressive performance and endurance figures.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#DEVA)
Is that an iPhone in your pocket or are you trying to shoot me? US police have warned punters not to buy a new iPhone case that resembles a handgun.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#DESV)
EMEA big boss retiring before firm gets stuck into the big split Herbert Köck, HP’s joint big knob for EMEA and the region’s chief of the PC and print division, will be standing down from next month when the company splits operationally.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#DERP)
Petitioners want interim CEO to GTFO before she runs site 'into the ground' Ellen Pao, the increasingly reviled interim CEO of Reddit, is facing more than 150,000 signatures on a petition calling for her to quit.…
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by John Leyden on (#DEP5)
We're not laughing - we're POINTING, and laughing Controversial surveillance software biz Hacking Team is claiming that a torrent purporting to contain files stolen from its systems is contaminated with malware, a claim laughed to scorn by independent security experts.…
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by David Gordon on (#DEM4)
What are they, and what can they do for you? Sign up RIGHT NOW to watch The Register’s latest Regcast, which will give you the tools to decode why hyperconverged systems should matter to you.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#DEHY)
Needs must, says Trevor Pott Sysadmin blog Some people take exception to my recommendation that those running Win32 applications try to move to a newer version of Windows. They believe that if I were a "credible" IT professional I would counsel a move to *nix technologies such as Linux, Unix or BSD.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#DEF2)
Will a million hotdogs be going the other way? Probably not Some bright spark in the United States of America, as much a culinary home to the doughnut as it is a technological home to mass surveillance, has sent an order to a French baker for 1,000,000 samples of the fried confectionery.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#DECR)
Flails at EMC, NetApp and Pure Storage with rolled-up out of date documents Punchy all-flash array startup SolidFire has taken the gloves off in its competition with EMC, NetApp and Pure Storage by releasing competitive architectural comparisons singling out weaknesses in their products.…
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by Frank Jennings on (#DEAX)
Time to pull out the magnifying glass to swot up on those Ts&Cs You’ve entrusted your data to a cloud. This has allowed you to sell off (or scrap) your legacy hardware. You’ve got some new, up-to-date software applications. Maybe you have also outsourced all or part of your IT team.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#DE9X)
Consumption up by four per cent, but post-Apple income set to fall The BPI reckons music consumption rose four per cent in the first half of 2015, thanks to a string of best-selling albums.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#DE7J)
Set phasers to Frag, says Mozilla, in gaming roadmap for future browsers The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox the 39th.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#DE5S)
926 pounds of water, plus food and oxygen, reach orbit to sate nervous 'nauts The Russian Soyuz craft launched last week to bring supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) has successfully docked, bringing welcome supplies to the crew.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#DE3Y)
Three-strong earth observation constellation, and two friends, due to fly on Friday The UK is entrusting a bunch of earth observation satellites to India's burgeoning space program.…
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by Lewis Page on (#DE1Z)
Yarr, 'tis every seadog's right to trigger his smoke-poles A Florida pirate was arrested recently after allegedly firing shots at passing cars using his pair of "operational" black-powder pistols, presumably flintlocks.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#DDZP)
Blame Obama. Or Greece. Or China. Take your pick, really Over the last few years, Google, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have all announced price cut after price cut, but Redmond is about to increase prices for its Azure cloud.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#DDXP)
Memory and processing in the same transistor Shuffling stuff between memory and the CPU is one of the biggest wasters of time and electricity inside, so boffins from the University of California, San Diego, have demonstrated a prototype “memcomputer†that has memory and compute in the same place.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#DDSB)
Admins asleep as 400GB of data walks out the door and into BitTorrent Italian surveillance software slinger Hacking Team has allegedly been cracked with some 400 gigabytes of data exfiltrated.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#DDQG)
Cisco led the pack, even before the big buys of 2015 The US, China, Canada and Australia are the world's major sources of security patents, according to analysis by LexInnova.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#DDP9)
Programmer says he was raided for Tweeting Argentinian police have reportedly raided a programmer who went public with vulnerabilities in the electronic voting system used in Buenos Aires elections last June.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#DDNF)
500 routers whip up colossal DDOS over ye olde RIP protocol Attackers are exploiting an ancient networking protocol to enslave small home and office routers in distributed denial of service attacks, Akamai says.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#DDKA)
Big Data decree, definitive human rights source and much, much, more Back in March, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced the “Internet Plus†plan, an effort to stimulate China's growth. In late June he did it again at a State Council Meeting. And over the weekend he did it again, announcing that an “action plan†is now in place to make Internet Plus a reality.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#DDGP)
4.2 rc1 is biggest … release … candidate … EVER Linus Torvalds has loosed Linux 4.2-rc1 upon a waiting world, and rates it the biggest release candidate ever in terms of the volume of new code it contains.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#DDE2)
Because everybody needs a Star Chamber The Australian government is taste-testing new anti-terrorism proposals to give police access to information gathered by its spook agencies.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#DDDD)
Self-seeding copyright troll's log files trawled, apparently It looks like there's more trouble approaching for the notorious copyright trolls, formerly of Prenda Law.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#DDB8)
Movie backhaul breaking back of retailers iiNet reckons the runaway success of Netflix in Australia is going to put the National Broadband Network pricing model under pressure.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#DDA6)
The NSA? She's heard of it, presumably Former US secretary of state and now presidential candidate Hilary Clinton has accused China of aggressive, state-sponsored hacking aimed at stealing both state and trade secrets.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#DCHM)
Virtual money system update spaffs $50k up wall Bitcoin users have been urged to switch to pool mines that fully validate data blocks, after the virtual currency system hit a major snag during a planned upgrade.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#DC8E)
Smartphone makers' pre-installed software is bad news for consumers, it claims Samsung and Oppo face legal action in China, after a consumer watchdog filed separate lawsuits over the bloatware loaded on the vendors' smartphones.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#DC3M)
Unsettling 80-min silence puts willies up NASA boffins NASA's New Horizons probe – due to buzz past Pluto 10 days from now – gave its handlers a brief fright yesterday by going silent.…
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