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| Updated | 2026-05-15 11:46 |
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by Jennifer Baker on (#C8Y9)
Euro Parl, Commish, EU countries slip on singlets The EU will take a big step towards finalising measures to protect its citizens' privacy today, as negotiators from member states, the European Commission, and the European Parliament will come together for the first time to thrash out an agreement on the EU’s planned data protection law.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#C8VF)
Google Project Zero bod drops 15 remote code execution holes Get patching: Google Project Zero hacker Mateusz Jurczyk has dropped 15 remote code execution vulnerabilities, including a single devastating hack against Adobe Reader and Windows he reckons beats all exploit defences.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C8RK)
1995 called, wants its vulnerability back Intel-owned embedded software outfit Wind River has been caught with an embarrassing bug in its VxWorks OS.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C8QP)
More Xeon in less space Dell's fired its next HPC gun, announcing the PowerEdge C6320 which it says targets big data and heavy workload applications.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#C8NN)
Employer DNA demand evidently not the dung thing An Atlanta jury has wiped away the troubles of two warehouse workers who had been accused of devious defecation.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C8KC)
Dr Kerry Hinton ticks off seven key energy-saving techs for El Reg At the end of last week, the GreenTouch telco energy-efficiency consortium told a presumably-glittering event in New York that its five-year project to design more energy-efficient telecommunications has been a success.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C8GH)
Chocolate Factory takes a trip in the self-driving DeLorean Google side-project Sidewalk Labs is buying the companies running New York's LyncNYC project that offers public WiFi from payphones, in the hope of one day achieving World Domination.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#C8D3)
Radar and comms failure pushes Welly to manual A trinity of network failures led to the grounding of all aircraft in New Zealand yesterday.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C8AQ)
TV broadcasters build crumbling wall around New Zealand New Zealand ISPs' experiment with bundled VPN services is over: CallPlus has settled a lawsuit by agreeing to axe its Global Mode service on September 1.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#C896)
Could affect millions Get patching: new vulns in the RubyGems developer distribution platform could expose millions of users to malicious redirects.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#C86Q)
Bad news Oz: you may have lost even more Cryptowall authors have wrought some US$18 million in damages on US users and businesses alone, according to the FBI.…
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by Joshua Gliddon, Sydney on (#C83V)
Internet Society Sg takes aim at Dallas Buyers Club letters Singapore's Internet Society is fighting back against lawyers for sending speculative demands on behalf of Dallas Buyers Club.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#C82Y)
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys call emergency meeting A diplomatic storm is brewing in France after WikiLeaks published evidence that the NSA has spied on at least three French presidents and their senior staff for the last nine years.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C7ZZ)
Wants to net financial phishers America's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has joined the hunt for the FIN4 hacking group.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#C7Z9)
No, this doesn't mean Ross Ulbricht is getting out of jail. Ever. The agent accused of extorting Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht out of his Bitcoins while investigating the case has agreed to a plea deal.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#C7X9)
US government tells ICANN to ignore government attempts at influence. Um… The US Congress has had a second stab at trying to get Amazon its own internet extension in a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C7XB)
No regrets after six-year beta Mountain View has decided that the “Undo Send†feature in Gmail, which it first unveiled in Gmail Labs in 2009, is ready for prime time.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#C7HR)
Welcome to MacinWatch An Apple Watch tinkerer has managed to get his wristslab running an operating system that hasn't been updated in nearly two decades.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#C7HT)
Web giant hopes to upset the Apple cart A week before Apple launches its streaming music service, Google has sneaked out a free-to-use rival.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#C76R)
Cosmic super-prang end to mission in late 2016 The European Space Agency's Rosetta space probe will continue to study Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko until September 2016 – after which the craft will be sent crashing into the mysterious rock.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#C75K)
Ninety-nine problems and staff retention is one The troubled celebrity-backed music-streaming website Tidal has lost another CEO: Norwegian Peter Tonstad has quit after just three months in the job.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#C72F)
Patch now, or just dump the thing Adobe is advising users and administrators to patch its Flash Player after yet another remote-code execution vulnerability was discovered in the plugin.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#C70T)
More are coming – this horse isn't dead yet BlackBerry CEO John Chen told shareholders at his company's AGM today that he’ll stay in the handset business as he reckons he has a good chance at making money from it.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#C6Z0)
Calderoni traverses extremes from tech giant to healthy Linux distro Cisco’s departed financial chief Frank Calderoni has landed as CFO and operations chief at Linux distro kingpin Red Hat.…
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by Stuart Burns on (#C6VZ)
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and verify Managers and customers love statistics and metrics. Companies can live or die by how good their metrics are and the potential penalties for failing to meet the required service levels as defined in agreements.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#C6R7)
Feds play security whack-a-mole across holey govt IT systems The US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has discovered illicit activity on three of its desktop computers, which may have been compromised in much the same manner as those of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#C6GS)
Perky licensing revenues offset by slow decline in hardware sales Rising software revenue helped make up for continuing falls in phone hardware income at BlackBerry in the past quarter, with the waning giant booking revenue of $658m for first quarter of full year 2016, and reported a non-GAAP operating loss of $7m.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#C6D4)
Not only were rumours of its death exaggerated – now it's cheaper too FlashRay lives! All-flash FAS is now a price/performance beast – which now comes with a substantial price cut.…
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Good news for readers with short attention spans Amazon is switching to a “pay-per-page†royalties model for self-published Kindle authors, a move likely to be welcomed by all readers with attention deficit disorder.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#C66F)
Sentinel-2 will track terrain, ocean and environmental changes The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched a second satellite for environmental monitoring in the early hours of Tuesday morning from French Guiana.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#C63E)
Things heat up in Glacier data grab Oracle technology chief Larry Ellison is embarking on a journey Microsoft couldn’t complete: beating Amazon’s cloud services on price.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#C5ZQ)
Wolfs down CANAI and Clarity Tech to 'own' the services lifecycle First Ingram Micro dug deep to acquire handset seller Brightpoint and now it is buying up companies to deal with the devices in middle age and at the end of their life.…
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by Simon Crisp on (#C5YE)
Fed with the hottest chips, just how fast can the little fellah go? Review Intel’s teeny-weeny NUC or Next Unit of Computing device was first launched back in 2012 and has been tweaked and updated at regular intervals ever since. Just recently, the latest version of the NUC landed in my lap – or to be more precise, landed in the palm of my hand.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#C5WZ)
Turns out, it wasn't that big of a deal after all The Register has discovered that the unspecified IT attack which left 1,400 passengers of LOT Polish Airlines stranded in Warsaw was a simple DDoS issue, which had so impeded the airline's connection that it could not produce its flight plans in time for take offs.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#C5VA)
Still more questions than answers Analysis Yesterday, a security screw up with the Spiceworks application was noticed, and reported a little earlier by our good selves. Anyone with a Facebook or LinkedIn account could log in to Spiceworks installs running the latest version and it would create an administrative account for them.…
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Want to flee? You can't ... because of our tech RBS customers are continuing feel the fall-out from the bank's IT disaster last week which led to 600,000 customer transactions going missing, The Register can reveal.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#C5RR)
When scientists jaw-jaw, good things happen Modern(ish) Europeans and Neanderthals may have interbred in the fairly recent past, suggest Anthroboffins, with the latter contributing a much higher percentage of their stocky DNA to modern humans than had been thought previously.…
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Greenwald pulls 2008 reverse-engineering doc from bulging Snowden file The UK's spook agency GCHQ has been working with the National Security Agency to subvert anti-virus software, according to the latest piece of spoon-fed Snowden info reported on The Intercept.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#C5P9)
'This is a very complex topic', grumbles bumbling Redmond OS chief Microsoft has attempted yet more damage control regarding Windows 10, after the software giant confused world+dog into thinking that anyone could qualify for a freebie version of its soon-to-be-released operating system.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#C5MM)
Next on the list: Silicon Valley's data management startup sprawl Rubrik, Primary Data, Formation Data Systems, and Hedvig: all startups that want to provide a virtualising data abstraction layer above and across multiple storage silos to make storage access and management easier. Now you can add Komprise to this list.…
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by Robin Birtstone on (#C5J0)
All together now: Simplicity drives efficiency Sometimes, it’s better to think inside the box. Bundling different IT components together into a single unit may just solve some of your computing problems, if you plan it right. Welcome to the world of IT convergence.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#C5GX)
Cloud’s fundamental role in primary storage analytics assessed Comment I’ve been talking about two-tier storage infrastructures for a while now. End users are targeting this kind of approach to cope with capacity growth and performance needs.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#C5DD)
'Making a bible of cloud knowledge' ISC has announced the dates of its training courses for its new cloud security certification, created alongside Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), beginning with exam availability in PearsonVUE testing centres from 21 July.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#C5AM)
Achtung, die Engländer haben mein Tellyboxsignalfrequenzen bought Germany's electricity, gas, telecoms, post and railway regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur, has raised €5.08bn in its latest spectrum auction - including flogging the 700MHz frequencies currently in use by TV channels.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#C59G)
Wake up chaps, this is serious A serious security flaw has been discovered in the Spiceworks network administration application. The issue, uncovered by Spicehead Darren K Smith, allows anyone with a Facebook or LinkedIn account to log in as an administrator.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#C534)
Cambridge Brit to wire up 14,000 gates, 3,500 LEDs Pics A bloke in Cambridge, UK, is building a computer processor using 14,000 individual transistors and 3,500 LEDs – all by hand, piece by piece.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#C51E)
Sour krauts stiffen up with 10pm smutty story watershed A regulator in Germany has ruled that websites must only offer downloads of sexually explicit ebooks between 10pm and 6am.…
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