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by Darren Pauli on (#BHFM)
Dumb API spewed too much information says security chap Hacker Joseph Redfern has reported a privacy flaw at UK telco Three, which exposed names and email addresses in online surveys.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BHDN)
Penguinista succession is secure, says Linux Lord Just a few days after asking the Linux community to let him take a break, Linus Torvalds has said the project he kicked off 1991 can now get along without him.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BHCY)
It's like Uber, but for picking the delivery driver's pocket Amazon looks to be exploring a new way to cut costs by turning you - or anyone willing to deliver parcels - into its drones.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#BHA8)
Sysadmins unlikely to appreciate new large-scale deployment tool in current form Enterprises will be able to stem the remaining revenue stream for online news outlets using a new wide network feature launched today for popular browser extension AdBlock Plus.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BH9F)
Hillary Clinton's stand means Europe's TTIP also likely dead in water The controversial Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), thought to include SOPA-style anti-piracy provisions, among other nasties - looks to be dead in the water: not only has the US Congress knocked back the “fast-track†mechanism that would have seen it signed off quickly, but Hillary Clinton has come down on the side of America's nay-sayers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BH6K)
Amazon blocks Kodi software, still flogs Kodi hardware Efforts by the Kodi media player's maintainers to keep pirates from sullying its good name haven't been enough to satisfy the copyright cops at Amazon.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BH5R)
Official case revealed, complete with removable lid, and year-long plastic hassle The Raspberry Pi Foundation has revealed a new piece of hardware: the official Rasbperry Pi case.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BH3A)
Free certs for me and all my friends! In September! For Freedom! The Mozilla-backed Let's Encrypt effort is moving out of its vapourware phase, announcing general availability for September 2015 and an intention to issue its first certificate in the week of July 27.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BH1K)
Touchscreen keyboard update leaves handsets vulnerable to remote-code execution Samsung smartphones can be hijacked, infected with malware, and remotely controlled by malicious Wi-Fi hotspots in cafes, hotels, and so on, security researchers claim.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#BH0P)
Remote low level attacks plus patch to be answered with cash Researchers can score up to US$58,000 for bypassing core Nexus security mechanisms with a remote exploit under an expansion of Google's bug bounty program launched today.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BGZ7)
Oracle's patch with new tax updates just landed, MYOB says it's in the mail It looks like the conveyor belt's broken at the Australian Taxation Office, because vendors of accounting and HR software are releasing their new financial year compliance patches rather late.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BGZ8)
Getting them up there will be the next problem Global internet provider wannabe OneWeb has announced a deal with Airbus Defence and Space to build 900 small satellites aimed at providing more 10 terabits per second of new communications capacity to the whole world.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#BGNQ)
Profit-free tech darling bats eyelids at advertisers, rattles empty tin for change Twitter will automatically play videos, Vine vids, and animated GIFs.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#BGKN)
Sorry, faithful testers, you'll need to roll back to Windows Phone 8.1 for this one Microsoft is back with another build of the Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview, but only the most eager testers will be able to get their hands on it.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BGKP)
Firewall here, firewall there. Two-factor auth under there. Job's a good 'un The boss of the US government's thoroughly ransacked Office of Personnel Management has – rightly – come in for a rough ride from members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BGFB)
Governator will show you around town with Waze plug-in Action film star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is offering his voice to Google's Waze navigation app.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#BGFD)
No breach of freedom of expression – ECHR ruling +Comment Fining a news website for offensive article comments posted by its readers is not a violation of the freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BGD9)
Pro-tip: Don't be in the UAE A bloke in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is facing hefty fines and possibly deportation after he swore at a colleague on WhatsApp, it is reported.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#BG67)
FCC names Parul Desai as new ombudsperson America's broadband watchdog the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has named its first net neutrality ombudsperson – and she'll be your first point of call when your ISP breaks the new rules.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BG4M)
Who had the passwords to Houston Astros' database? The St Louis Cardinals – the perennial good guys of pro baseball – are being investigated by the FBI after someone allegedly gatecrashed computer systems belonging to the Cardinals' former rivals, the Houston Astros.…
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by Bryan Betts on (#BG2S)
A touch of the SSD magnetic We tend to think of flash as a solid-state disk – like spinning rust, only more expensive, consuming less power, and much, much faster. And yes, it is true that you can use it like that, but there is a lot more that flash can offer if you start to take into consideration what makes flash different in the first place.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#BG13)
Your Bitcoins will be in the post just as soon as we've got any Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge* has declared war on “oldmediaâ€, which he spells as one word. His Falconwing News service will pump out three-sentence “stories†scraped from real news sources and posted as images. Advertisers will be able to inject their ads into this stream.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#BFY1)
The best things in life are free – well, they are for three months, anyway The independent music sector may opt-out of Apple Music – at least for its launch – because of the decision by the $731bn-valued giant to pay musicians and composers the big fat round sum of $0 for music streamed during the three-month trial period.…
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by John Leyden on (#BFVP)
Never mind your bank account. Tell me your name Snoops are exploiting vulnerabilities in China’s most frequented websites to target individuals accessing web content which state censors have deemed hostile.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#BFTD)
Hadoop and dev duo deliver cluster wrapping Big data and developer advocates are joining IBM promoting Apache’s cluster computing framework as a safe and consumable platform for business.…
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by Lester Haines on (#BFQ0)
Andrew Tridgell tunes into LOHAN avionics test flight Pics + vids + graphs EDGE22 - PRATCHETT Mission Summary…
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by Paul Kunert on (#BFMM)
Time is an abstract concept in the mind of Crown Commercial Services It is week 40 of the Network Services framework tender and suppliers are still in the dark about the cause of the latest delay - which means nobody knows who's made the cut and who hasn't.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#BFK4)
Full vote in July, H-dot’s draft law on table by September The European Parliament’s legal committee on Tuesday approved a non-legislative and non-binding report by Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda by a majority of 23-2 - albeit with several substantial amendments.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#BFE5)
Nowt to show for a year's jaw-jawing with spy tech industry Talks to establish a code of conduct for the commercial use of facial recognition technology in the US have collapsed, following the withdrawal of privacy advocates who claimed industry representatives weren't cooperating.…
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by John Leyden on (#BFAT)
If I ever get my hands on those phreaking kids who hacked my phones... UK businesses are getting disproportionately targeted by a surge of attacks against Voice over IP (VoIP) systems.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#BF9D)
Grudgingly hands users keys to Ofcom-mandated escape pod Vodafone loves the price of 37.5p/minute. So much so that pretty much everything which is outside a standard bundle is going to cost exactly that.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#BF9E)
Terrifying beasties couldn't find a nice salad to chomp on Dinoboffins have discovered why the most terrible of the terrible prehistoric giant lizards avoided the tropics for 30 million years, explaining one of the great mysteries of the fossil record.…
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by David Gordon on (#BF68)
Reporting from the latest IT battleground Site news IT infrastructure: a combined set of hardware, software, networks, facilities, etc. (including all of the information technology), in order to develop, test, deliver, monitor, control or support IT service (ITIL v3).…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#BF69)
Never leave a baby in charge of this sort of thing Google doesn’t always take the threat of anti-trust charges too seriously. After the Wall Street Journal implied that the FTC opted for less aggressive action against Google because of political pressure, Google responded with references to a laughing baby, and by personally attacking the newspaper’s owner.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#BF2X)
Funding crisis? What crisis? Look over there, charities get stiffed like this too! The UK’s National Health Service is paying through the nose for low-tech gear, including cables and USB flash drives, according to a poll of IT buyers.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#BF1N)
Old flames rekindle romance amid push for new biz Vodafone and Huawei have signed a memorandum of understanding to say that they are going to work on fixed and mobile connectivity bonding technology for new products, amongst other enterprise-friendly things.…
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And they'll rip off random blogs too – unless the ungrateful gits complain too loudly Apple is hiring journos for its latest Apple News venture, a move that will presumably mean it is bringing some of the mountains of breathless product announcement coverage in-house.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BEW9)
Look IOWT, Gromit - it's memory you can wrap round your arm Bendy humans pose problems for wearable IT as devices break when they’re deformed. Flexible computers would be ideal – and a group of Korean boffins has devised some flexible PRAM tech to help with the problem.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#BETQ)
Musk biographer on stalking Musk Interview Ex-Reg man Ashlee Vance has written a warts-and-all bio of Elon Musk. We quizzed him on how he did it – and why.…
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Whittingdale plays Twist to Ken Hu’s Bumble John Whittingdale, the UK's Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, has indicated Blighty would like more cash from Chinese kit maker Huawei after its current £1.3bn investment pot runs dry in 2017.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#BEPC)
A technology swap? That's very thoughtful, but we'd prefer cash, please Nokia – the bit in Finland, not the bit that belongs to Microsoft – isn’t making mobile phones anymore, but it’s still making money from them.…
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by Bob Dormon on (#BEM9)
Shrinks time, enlarges your wrinkles and gets hazy Pics Adobe has updated its Creative Cloud Suite for 2015, bringing enhancements and new features to 15 desktop applications and delivering tighter integration for its desktop and mobile users. Adobe has also let Android in on the mobile party with versions of Brush, Color, Ps Mix and Shape being made available to the platform for the first time.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#BEHV)
The strange afterlife of an unsupported operating system Windows Server 2003 is almost out of support, and many of us simply don't have the option to upgrade to a newer operating system. In some cases this problem is self-imposed. In others it is the result of events beyond our control. Either way, there are millions of businesses – mostly small businesses – who simply don't have the option to upgrade even if they wanted to.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#BEG3)
Dual monitor support, better panels, and improvements in speed Review Cinnamon is best known as one of the two default desktops for Linux Mint, which is fast approaching its next major update. Mint 17.2 will include the brand new Cinnamon 2.6, just released, when delivered later this year.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#BEF3)
Yarr! There's 550 amendments seeking to water down me beauty, says MEP The legal affairs committee of the European Parliament will vote today on Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda’s controversial copyright report.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#BEBN)
Square Enix unveils PS4 reboot of revered series E3 2015 Game studio Square Enix has announced it is remaking the groundbreaking role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BE8S)
Dell and HDS missing from excessively proscriptive market snapshot Comment Gartner's gnomes gnosticated on all flash array sales (AFA) and revenues recently. Dell did not appear at all in its charts or revenue numbers and neither did HDS, leading us to suppose Dell revenues were lower than any of the eight AFA vendors mentioned. Yes, really.…
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by Tom Baines on (#BE76)
Plan Bs, from corrupted data to pandemics I run into the same misconceptions about business continuity on an almost daily basis. “We’ve already got backups, so why would we need to have a disaster recovery site as well?,†comes up with alarming regularity, as does: “We spent tens of thousands on a disaster recovery site, so why did we have that four-minute outage – why didn’t we switch over to DR and get our money’s worth?â€â€¦
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by Jennifer Baker on (#BE4Z)
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit — und Internet natürlich Germany has got the green light from the European Commission to push ahead with a publicly funded scheme to roll out next generation access (NGA) broadband networks.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#BE2G)
Desktop friendly release makes you wish for Windows 8 Microsoft's new Surface 3 tablet should be the perfect hardware for Windows 10, set to be released on 29 July. We put it to the test.…
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