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by Lester Haines on (#BSGM)
Controversial orifice sculpture attacked with yellow paint Artist Anish Kapoor has decried French "intolerance" towards art, after vandals attacked his vast vagina sculpture in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.…
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by Dominic Connor on (#BSCM)
Reg roundtable disses pen testers and security theatre CIO Manifesto We again gathered an eclectic mix of IT execs including some CISOs, CTOs etc, in a secret bunker to discuss whether we’re winning the security battle. OK, the “bunker†was a meeting room under the Soho Hotel, but not only are we not winning, it is not even clear what winning actually means.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#BSAF)
Barriers, rights and a one-eyed world view Interview The European Parliament this week made one of its strangest ever decisions, endorsing the replacement of the European cultural tradition with American ideas.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#BS9C)
We'll be burning them in fireplaces instead of coal A consumer PC bottleneck in the UK could result in some price cuts ahead of the Windows 10 launch - or so folk in the supply chain are telling us.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#BS7A)
File under 'To save the village, I had to destroy it' Reckless sys admins rejoice: entrepreneurial security bod Ben Murphy has created a daring quick patch for the popular Redis data structure server.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BS5F)
That's gotta sting Mark Shuttleworth has lost his long-running fight to reverse a US$20m (£12.8m) bank charge levied after he transferred a fortune out of South Africa.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BS3J)
'Competitors in chaos' says former HP and EMC enterprise strategy man Oracle has confirmed its rumoured hire of former EMC and HP man David Donatelli, and given him the job of running its converged infrastructure business.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#BS1Q)
Springdale PD: Facebook, help us catch local owner-operator Arkansas state cops are trying to press the flesh with a local who took things slightly too literally when he opted for a five-knuckle shuffle outside a Kum & Go convenience store ... and then legged it without even leaving a phone number.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#BRZ1)
Verisign, LiveJournal and StackExchange members are your unknown admins Drupal has shuttered a flaw in its implementation of OpenID that allows attackers to log in as web site administrators.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BRYB)
Three brownouts in one week looks bad, may not be a major drag Google's endured a wobbly week in the cloud, suffering three brown-outs of varying severity.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#BRTF)
Proven researchers are signal, the rest of you are noise LinkedIn has revealed the closed-door bug bounty program it has run for the last eight months, paying out $65,000 in vulnerability rewards along the way. But the company is keeping the door to the scheme firmly closed.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BRP7)
Sauce-maker surrendered domain name and the smutmeisters moved in A chap named Daniel Korell got quite a surprise when, in late May, he scanned the QR code on a bottle of Heinz Hot Tomato Ketchup, as the bottle led him to pornography rather than information about the comdiment.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BRKG)
Nasty domains go on sale to world+dog, registrars brace for frenzy At a minute after midnight on Sunday, UTC time, .sucks domains will go on sale to anyone who wants one.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BRJN)
276,394 more documents available for the prurient, freedom-lovers and YOU WikiLeaks has added another 276,394 documents to its trove of data lifted from Sony Pictures Entertainment as a result of its infamous hack by “North Koreansâ€.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BRG4)
Black monolith detector ought to be in probe's package Pic NASA has finished sketching out plans to send a probe to Europa, Jupiter's most curious moon, and is ready to put the operation into action.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BREH)
Penguinistas made it rain again Red Hat's sales jumped 14 per cent, year-on-year, in the quarter that ended May 31, thanks to contracts with government and cloud providers.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#BRDQ)
What's the key? Just check the manual ERPScan technology boss Alexander Polyakov says default security settings are exposing passwords and root keys in SAP HANA to external attackers.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BR6K)
Stanford boffins find yet another use for super-material Scientists at Stanford have found a new use for graphene that will significantly increase the speed of standard computer processors.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BR5A)
New Bureau of Statistics data reveals a nation of pragmatists, not laggards The Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday released new data on “Business Use of Information Technology†and I expect that any moment now it will be seized upon as evidence the nation's businesses are technology laggards.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#BR46)
Lifeline program expanded to include internet access amid partisan puffery FCC commissioners embarked on a Reagan-quoting political bake-off today as the regulator sought to expand its discount telephone service for flat-broke families.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BQQ7)
But telco says report is dirty trick to help unions New York City authorities have thumped Verizon for apparently reneging on its promises to wire up the Big Apple with super-fast fiber internet.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BQJQ)
Not that we, er, needed to anyway, telco admits Sprint says America's new net neutrality rules – which kicked in last week – have forced it to stop throttling download hogs' mobile broadband connections.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#BQCY)
Naked metal performance love promised Canonical has partnered with Joyant to spin up Ubuntu clouds minus the virtualisation.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#BQA8)
Will IANA contract handover to ICANN miss deadline? The US government has signaled its concern yet again over plans to give ICANN full control of the vital mechanisms that keep the internet held together.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#BQ79)
Men in black shrug off criticism of warrantless domestic spyplane fleet The FBI has told Congress not to worry about its shell-company-owned surveillance aircraft, which are decked out in the best surveillance tech, as they are engaged in an unclassified operation - which they were unwilling to talk about in a Congressional briefing.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#BQ45)
'Employ machines, not people with PhDs,' say machine floggers with PhDs Twitter has acquired artificial intelligence start-up Whetlab, probably to assist with what it considers "barriers to consumption" by foisting machine-curated content on unsuspecting tweeters.…
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Banks' 600,000 missing transactions unrelated to 2012 mega-snafu The NatWest and RBS IT cock-up that caused 600,000 transactions to go missing this week was entirely unrelated to the 2012 mega IT cock-up, the bank has said in an not-too-reassuring update.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BPY3)
It's about SSAs, not AFAs – they reckon flash is not forever Comment Our earlier pop at Gartner's all-flash array methodology has generated a response from Gartner.…
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Turning the sharing economy air into gold Airbnb is shortly expected to unveil a valuation of $24bn (£15bn), meaning it will soon be worth more than actual hotel chain Marriott, according to reports.…
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by John Leyden on (#BPQ5)
NIST attempts to create some kind of ironic self-referencing meta-vuln The US National Vulnerability Database was itself left vulnerable to cross-site scripting last week.…
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by Lewis Page on (#BPN8)
Will some people be unimpressed? Is the Pope a Catholic? So that's it - the climate debate is over. Or it is provided you accept that the highest authority of the human race is Pope Francis, anyway.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#BPJ8)
Use of ad-flinger’s search function means echo chamber innovation Mountain View has announced "the biggest expansion of Google Trends since 2012" in a move set to thicken the already impenetrable walls of its media-baiting echo chamber.…
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by Drew Cullen on (#BPE4)
A plague on all your server racks Earlier this year I managed to sleep - somehow - through the Kent Earthquake. And in 2011 and 2012 about 30 centimetres of snow blocked my village for one or two days at a time. I also know someone who got flooded last year - she lives next to an estuary just a few kilometres away.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BPD6)
Hopes its skinny 4TB USB-powered portable drives will be a big hit Seagate’s Samsung unit has spun out the lightest, thinnest, 4TB USB-powered 2.5-inch drive in the world, with its M3 and P3 portable products.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#BPBE)
More polished, but a bit slow and buggy First look Microsoft has released Build 10136 of Windows 10 Mobile, part of the “One Windows†wave set to be released later this year.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#BP8R)
Lawyer warns corporate crime fighters: 'Google will come after you' A judge will decide whether a fishing expedition by Google to uncover, and then request, documents protected by client-attorney privilege is legitimate, in the latest twist of the Mississippi Saga.…
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Providers hit back: Shut up, you tedious hype merchants More than 15 million households may not be getting their advertised broadband speeds, suggesting that providers are telling porky pies about how fast their services are.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BP5M)
Startup bulging with Google and Qualcomm's B-round cash Flush with cash, startup Cohesity is aiming to "eliminate the current fragmentation and data sprawl", and run MapReduce analytics using a claimed infinitely scalable, Google File System-type platform.…
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by Stuart Burns on (#BP43)
Exposing the hidden crisis of the virtual age Backup is a fundamental component of a healthy infrastructure. I admit backups are neither cutting edge nor sexy but they are important. It is an often-quoted statistic that of the companies that suffer serious data loss, one third go out of business within three years.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#BP1G)
Elop elopes from Redmond Comment The leadership of Nokia phones shuffled out of Microsoft yesterday, with phones VP Jo Harlow joining former CEO and Microsoft devices VP Stephen Elop in the taxi queue. The traffic wasn’t all one way: Meego UX guy Peter Skillman has joined Microsoft from Nokia’s HERE division.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#BP0T)
Why soft skills matter in the drive to shared services If you’re the guy tasked with breaking down silos, should you be breaking down the people who police those silos first? We explore how to de-mine your team ahead of your brownfield project.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#BNXQ)
Someday you'll code for the web in any language, and it'll run at near-native speed Brendan Eich, the former CEO of Mozilla, has announced a new project that could not only speed up web applications but could eventually see the end of JavaScript as the lingua franca of web development.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BNWD)
Company goes NUTS with enterprise add-on to open-source core In-memory open source NoSQLer Hazelcast has announced a caching update to its product range, claiming v3.5 of its High Density Memory Store offers “100’s of GB of near cached data to clients for massive application scalabilityâ€.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#BNVG)
Now you can rip it up and start again Fairphone, the crowd-funded mobe maker, has launched its second model, and in marked contrast to others (a sideways glance at you Apple) has literally taken the lid off.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#BNT9)
Perhaps Norris will get his leg over Angelina Jolie after all? Systemax EMEA chief exec Pim Dale, the man who once dreamed of fashioning the biggest tech reseller in the region, is out following a run of negative results that were criticised by his bosses.…
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by David Gordon on (#BNR4)
Live today at 11 WEBCAST Register now to watch our live Regcast, where we look at why the human factor is an important internet security risk.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#BNMF)
Senior veep of operations Simon Taylor quits Simon Taylor, EMEA senior veep of operations at cloud-wannabe reseller Insight Enterprises, is the latest big cheese to quit the firm with the regional chief finance exec Russell Leighton taking on dual responsibilities.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#BNJ9)
Strict Transport Security joins strict new anti-abuse policies Reddit will soon be served over HTTPS only as part of wider moves to secure the web.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BNH6)
And claims Uncle Sam would have hacked China's personnel database 'at the speed of light' Former National Security Agency director Michael Hayden this week told a conference about how little fallout the NSA has suffered after the Snowden leaks, and detailed how his former agency would hack other governments.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BNE8)
Chuck Robbins 're-goals' socket-slingers, tightens belt on commissions Cisco has instituted a cap on the commissions it pays to sales staff, The Register has learned.…
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