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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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by Lewis Page on (#BND8)
Men quaff lady-sourced 'natural superfood' purchased online Perhaps you don't think that there's a massive and highly lucrative trade in human breast milk on the internet, much of the milk apparently being quaffed by adult men? Perhaps you need to pull your head out of the "real" world, get back online and get up to speed, my friend.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BNB0)
Keep your containers close and your data closer ClusterHQ has inked an agreement that will see its Flocker container management code integrate with EMC's flashy fare.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#BN8X)
Sleepy project hits nightly builds Mozilla looks ready to revamp its Firefox web browser so tabs and user interfaces can run in separate processes.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#BN60)
Clocks three billion sneaky searches a year.
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BN3X)
Square Kilometre Array testbed spots 100 BEEELLION SUNS worth of hydrogen It's not yet fully operational, but the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is already giving astro-boffins surprises.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BN31)
Application to visit Ecuador's embassy lodged un-diplomatically late last Friday Extreme couch-surfing contender Julian Assange claims “Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny cancelled a prospective appointment to take my statement today.â€â€¦
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by Darren Pauli on (#BN0F)
Tech support fraudsters still booming Retail and finance call centre phone scamming in the US is up 30 percent according to research.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BN0H)
Serbia and Brazil give acquisition the thumbs' up too, who's next? The huge Nokia-Alcatel Lucent acquimerger transaction has cleared one of its major hurdles, with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) clearing the merger for takeoff.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BMXC)
Redmond reveals Azure's FPGA-powered NICs, pledges cloud-grade SDN on premises Microsoft's drip … drip … drip of information about Windows Server 2016 has revealed a couple more droplets of detail, and one big splash of news about Redmond's approach to the new OS.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BMWE)
Turnaround strategy: talk to the big boss, pay 'taxes' in form of local alliances and JVs Just days after emptying out some corner offices in China, Cisco says it's going to pour US$10 billion into developing business in the Middle Kingdom.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BMSJ)
Fitbit preps IPO to gobble up $730m from investors Health-monitoring wearables maker Fitbit has set the price for its initial public offering (IPO) at US$20 per share.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BMQY)
San Francisco upstart in series-B round Code-sharing website GitHub is pursuing a new round of venture capital based on a US$2bn (£1.26bn) valuation.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#BMJM)
Business is way up – 5.4 per cent of it, that is Investors had their knives out for Oracle once again on Wednesday after the database giant's fourth-quarter results missed analysts' estimates on both earnings and revenue.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BMJP)
DDoS hacktivism over Bill C-51, apparently Canada's government websites and email servers have been knocked offline in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BMED)
Top Gun, this is not The US Air Force has reduced the number of drones it keeps in the air because their stressed-out pilots are quitting in large numbers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BMB9)
Upper house, upper case and on the outer limits of political stunts Australia's Senate has voted on an "order for the production of documents" demanding access to "a complete and unredacted copy of the NBN Corporate Plan 2015-18," plus "a complete and unredacted copy" of the 2014-2017 plan and an unredacted copy of the NBN Co Strategic Review.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#BM9Y)
Thermostat biz rolls out new gear Pics Smart-tech poster child Nest has revamped two of its three products and updated its app to better integrate all three.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BM7C)
Miss Bell vows to fight watchdog's tap on the wrist The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined AT&T $100m (£63m) after accusing it of unfairly limiting "unlimited" mobile data plans. The telco insists it has done nothing wrong.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#BM7E)
Browser snuck proprietary voice-snoop code into distro The Debian Project thinks it's fixed an issue where Google's Chromium web browser snuck proprietary code into the fiercely Free Software oriented Debian Linux distro. That hasn't stopped Debian users from wondering how the issue got past project maintainers in the first place.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BM1S)
Version 0.1 stars spotted by 'scopes Pic Astronomers have recorded the brightest galaxy yet seen in the universe. It was formed 800 million years after the Big Bang, and has evidence of an until-now theoretical type of star.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BKV9)
Driver must be treated as employee, says labor commish A California labor commission has ruled that an Uber driver has won the right to be treated as an employee of the taxi app upstart, rather than as a contractor.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#BKGZ)
New ITU study group hopes to make sense of cluttered, confusing world The United Nations is joining the melee for a single "internet of things" (IoT) standard.…
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Gives everyone the Bird as ex-Check Point man climbs on board Symantec has appointed another senior exec to its team, ahead of a major corporate restructuring which will see the firm split into two by the end of the year.…
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by Team Register on (#BK83)
'Password expert? What's a password expert?'
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#BK46)
Redmond: 'We are aligning our engineering efforts' Ex-Nokia chief Stephen Elop is officially out of Microsoft.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#BK04)
Shove over, AWS and Google Cloud – it's all about Azure Microsoft is trying to top Amazon and Google's cloud giveaways by stuffing $120,000 in credits to startups committing to its cloud.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#BJYC)
Aide reckons self-destruct policy made work 'a Mission: Impossible' Email records on computers in Downing Street are subject to automatic deletion within three months through a system which makes it almost impossible for the public to view them under the Freedom of Information Act, former staff have disclosed to the Financial Times.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#BJRX)
Private equity family merger targets specific biz bods Six months after being split from Compuware by private equity surgeons, Dynatrace is working to get under the noses of devs in suits.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#BJQ2)
Sources cast doubt on vendor's claims he quit for pastures new Lenovo has told us that long-standing Brit channel director Darren Phelps has quit the organisation, denying claims from sources that he was given the old heave-ho.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BJKD)
Death by NAND acronyms: 2D MLC, 3D TLC, 3D QLC Analysis And in a flash, disk is dead. Well, actually, not that fast. But flash array flogger Violin Memory is convinced disk is dying in the data centre, killed by a series of NAND acronyms: 2D MLC, 3D TLC and, the final blow, 3D QLC.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BJHZ)
Virtzilla's third-party build-out brings it an apps marketplace One of public cloud's selling points is that vendors make it super-easy to spin up common applications: Amazon Web Services, Azure and Rackspace all operate a “marketplace†in which one can find ready-to-deploy virtual machines for just about whatever takes your fancy. Google calls its version “click-to-deployâ€.…
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by John Leyden on (#BJFT)
Swatbanker malware appearance seems politically motivated Online banking trojan Swatbanker has been brought into play in a second round of attacks against the German Bundestag, reports security software firm G DATA.…
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by Tim Worstall on (#BJDW)
Now the Indians will get rich too Worstall on Wednesday El Reg serves us up the news that Foxconn is looking to India to set up production lines, presumably for the assembly of Apple's products. This is excellent news as it means that now Indian workers will get exploited and become rich, as those Chinese have in recent decades.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#BJC5)
In IT paranoia is never a bad thing Sysadmin blog Companies that are more proficient with technology are more likely to believe that their security is "very effective". Is this a form of contempt born of familiarity, or a true understanding of the risks? The bigger the company, the harder they fall, and no organisation – not even the US state department – has proven impenetrable.…
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'Nothing but problems with this bank, going to change' NatWest customers have been informed that 600,000 transactions have gone missing, the latest debacle facing the IT gaffe-prone bank.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#BJ9C)
This stays between us, right, at least until the first media leak Google’s rivals will be given a tiny, sneak preview of the charges ranged against the search monster in the coming weeks, sources have confirmed to The Register.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BJ87)
Chuck Hollis chucks (possibly simplistic) price bomb into the mix VMware evangelist and blogger Chuck Hollis says Nutanix prices are vastly higher than VSAN prices for equivalent performance and functionality at least, so why pay more?…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#BJ5R)
Free content ad network faces Thursday court date Belgium has made good on its promise to take action over Facebook’s privacy breaches, and will haul Zuck's ad empire into court on Thursday.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#BJ40)
US VC crosses pond to commandeer managed services outfit Private equity biz Penta Capital has agreed to sell hosting and managed services outfit Six Degrees to funds affiliated with Charlesbank Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum.…
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Sorry, we have 'technical' problems Hospitals and GPs across England are resorting to fax machines in order to refer patients this morning thanks to IT problems resulting in the new e-Referrals system being pulled offline.…
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by Drew Cullen on (#BJ41)
...While trying to do their own IT support Haters gonna hate, but not corporate employees who actually quite like the support their IT departments provide.…
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by Drew Cullen on (#BJ1G)
...While trying to do their own IT support Haters gonna hate, but not corporate employees who actually quite like the support their IT departments provide.…
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by Team Register on (#BJ0D)
He's got your back... along with your passwords, your contacts and your work Often within teams there is a certain shared camaraderie and level of trust between team members. They chew the fat, have a moan or playful poke at other staff during a day’s work. They cover for each other and stuff usually gets done. At the end of the day, they spend more time with each other than family.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#BHZ0)
Crumbs, Zuck – those pesky data watchdogs still hate facial recog Mark Zuckerberg may have bigged up Facebook's latest app release on Monday, but one thing was missing from the vomit-inducing, fluffy coverage around Moments: it won't be coming to Europe any time soon.…
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Will still be a fraction of overall spend by 2018 Spending on Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-as-Service is rapidly increasing, but will still add up to less than 10 per cent of the overall infrastructure services market by 2018, research from analyst firm TechMarketView has concluded.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BHTR)
Ramps up RAM, shovels in storage, piles on the performance VMware has pumped up the power of its hyper-converged EVO: RAIL nodes with more memory and storage, so they can run twice as many VMs.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#BHQE)
Guess what? We don't like governments snooping It's the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta: the document that King John was forced to sign by English barons in 1215, and which has served as the cornerstone for many of the world's judicial systems ever since. And to commemorate it, the British Library has published its crowdsourced version for the digital world.…
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