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by Iain Thomson on (#8KWZ)
Mitchell McConnell and pals push to re-authorize mass surveillance Now that a US federal court has ruled that the NSA's mass wiretapping program exceeded its legal authority, leaders of the US Republican party are pushing to make it legal.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#8KT6)
Because it wants to, of course. Not because they told it to AT&T has apparently had a rethink regarding its policy of limiting data transfer speeds for heavy users who subscribe to its so-called unlimited data plans.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#8KQ0)
Those car, cloud, and gaming bets better pay off Nvidia posted mixed results for the first quarter of its fiscal 2016, even as it looks forward to exiting the mobile chip business in favor of new markets.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#8KP8)
Failed cargo pod should provide spectacular light show The Russian space agency Roscosmos has confirmed that its out-of-control Progress cargo capsule will begin its fatal plunge toward Earth on Thursday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#8KNC)
FTC politely tells PTO: fix your crappy rules The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is calling on the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to overhaul its rules on licensing intellectual property.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#8KJ0)
Native-speed JavaScript available now in Windows 10's Edge browser Microsoft has included a surprise feature in its new Edge web browser for Windows 10, in the form of support for the ultra-optimizable Asm.js JavaScript dialect.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#8KDP)
And we're dropping your share price 10%, say markets Coffee machine maker Keurig's attempt to lock customers into its proprietary K-Cup coffee pods was a failure, the firm's CEO has admitted, and the company is dropping the practice.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#8KC8)
Why not strap ourselves to that hemorrhaging outfit? T-Mobile has taken up the cause of BlackBerry, agreeing to offer the fading firm's products in its mobile lineup, nearly two years after it dropped the Canadian's hardware from retail stores.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#8K8J)
Silent iron halls where ancient cat pics slumber undisturbed Analysis Facebook is storing old photos in special cold storage halls, Zucky ziggurats housing racks filled with MAID (massive arrays of idle drives) using erasure coding and anti-bitrot scanning to increase storage density and lower power costs while providing faster-than-tape access.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#8K6M)
Charter granted to itBit by Department of Financial Services The first government-approved BitCoin exchange in the US has gone live.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#8K20)
Legitimacy of several election results looking threatened Breaking Failures in local government IT systems have threatened the legitimacy of some of today's parliamentary elections by denying large numbers of citizens a chance to vote.…
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by John Leyden on (#8K16)
Act isn't a get-out-of-jail-free card for NSA The NSA's bulk collection of Americans' phone call records may be illegal, a US federal appeals court has ruled.…
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Parliament keen to increase security after attack on ... Parliament The Canadian government has passed a controversial anti-terrorism Bill, designed to extend the powers of the country's spy agencies.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#8JX7)
Pockmarks in wall around revenue and profit dartboards at the Big Data pub Big data and data warehouse shop Teradata has fallen from Wall Street grace with a Q1 revenue and profits miss.…
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by John Leyden on (#8JW9)
Stick another one on the 'Merkel's phone' list of snooping blunders Germany has reportedly pulled the plug on cooperation with the NSA following controversy over the role of its BND secret service assisting with US spying ops targeted at European politicians and firms, including Airbus.‬…
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by Trevor Pott on (#8JSR)
Escape the fatal flaw in RAID Those who follow storage developments know that there are concerns about the viability of RAID systems.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#8JQ3)
But with less incipient barbarism brewing in the car park Comment Barracuda, the backup, file copy and security supplier, has a laser-like focus on the mid-market and aims to offer Walmart pricing with Nordstrom quality and features (that's IKEA pricing with Heal's quality for UK readers). It's not a bleeding edge company, aiming instead to move into a market when best-of-breed products have already emerged for the enterprise, with small businesses having, in 'Cuda's view, inadequate all-in-one type offerings.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#8JN8)
Better than expected financials prompt new direction Quantum's confirmed fourth quarter and full fiscal 2015 results were better than the prelim numbers, with full year net income the highest in more than five years, and it's aiming to move into high-performance computing storage.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#8JMF)
Trevor puts his theoretical knowledge to practical use
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by John Leyden on (#8JH3)
'I love Apple products, I just wish they were secure' A former NSA staffer turned security researcher is warning that bypassing typical OS X security tools is trivial.…
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Scraper in shock move to spend 0.002 of revenue on workforce diversity Gigantic scraper ad platform Google has set aside $150m (£98m) of its annual $66bn (£43bn) turnover (that is zero point zero zero two of its money) to tackle the weighty issue of diversity within its workforce.…
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by John Leyden on (#8JF9)
Avast there indeed, matey, wail admins as rogue guard dog savages their jugular A misfiring signature update from anti-virus developer Avast triggered all sorts of problems on Wednesday.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#8JDE)
Fitting in never looked so good DIY vs COTS: Part 2 Last time I looked at the PC versus console battle as a metaphor for DIY versus Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) data centres, and touched on the horrors of trying to run a DIY data centre.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#8JCD)
This business workhorse has quality and character Review One of my surprising reviews last year was Nokia’s huge, budget phablet, the Lumia 1320. It's fairly similar to the most recent Lumia 640 XL.…
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That's intellectual-property police, not intellectual property-police A London-based criminal outfit suspected of flogging $10m (£6.6m) in counterfeit Cisco networking gear to the US has been arrested by the City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU).…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#8J9N)
Eukaryon with your research, we'll carry on reading it A team of Swedish bioboffins has, on Wednesday, presented its discovery of a new microbe which represents a missing link in the evolution of complex life. The study provides more information about the development of Eukaryotic cells, the complicated unit that allows larger biomasses (such as ameobas, plants and human bodies) to develop.…
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Giant telco just waiting on clearance for EE gobble Sales dropped 2 per cent to £17.85bn for telco giant BT's full-year results announced today, while profits increased 12 per cent to £3.17bn compared with the previous year.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#8J7C)
1) Make same old phone. 2) Put it in bigger box. 3) Profit Remember “Peak Apple� Maybe you haven’t heard the phrase so much lately.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#8J50)
New execs struggle to make turnaround, understandably given wheel issue A hard rain's a-gonna continue to fall as CommVault's uphill struggle shows a fourth fiscal 2015 quarter revenues fall.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#8J3K)
Aiming at the five series VULTURE AT THE WHEEL The VW Passat 2/0 is a car you buy with your head.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#8J2V)
Searchable OPSEC built by scouring LinkedIn for folks claiming spook skillz A trio of transparency boffins have revealed personal details of 27,000 intelligence officers they say are working on surveillance programs. The resulting dump not only names the officers, but in some cases tells you where they live based on data sourced from LinkedIn profiles and other easy-to-access sources.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#8J21)
Webkit history, page loading and everyday browsing holes plugged Apple has update its Safari browser to quash three Webkit-derived bugs.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#8J0Q)
Broken English ad for 'Technical Department of Windows' aims to cut through in tight talent market Fancy a gig in which you must “Tell users all computer are infectedâ€, always “Follow a script no matter what†and “Write down credit card numbers and details most clearlyâ€?…
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by Darren Pauli on (#8HZX)
Dirty hole in default plugins Sucuri researcher David Dede has uncovered a critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in a default WordPress plugin that allows attackers to hijack websites.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#8HYJ)
You’d need to connect it to your Deja VDU The remake of the Sinclair Spectrum from Retro Computers is about to ship.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8HX9)
Big Switch upgrades monitoring, turns on bigger Big Tap Pervasive security and deeper monitoring: that's what Big Switch Networks is pitching as the centrepiece of the next iteration of its Big Tap Monitoring Fabric, version 4.5.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#8HV0)
I'd like a pepperoni with extra jail time, hold the drugged-out homicidal maniac A quick-thinking kidnappee managed to summon the cops using the comments section of an online order for pizza while being held hostage with her three children.…
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by Team Register on (#8HSN)
KVM-wrangling kit is hiding in plain view and headed for hyperscale The Reg's pursuit of Nutanix's rumoured hypervisor has turned up some leads about something called “Project Acropolisâ€.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8HRN)
Reality pays the pretty Powerwall a visit A couple more interesting details have emerged about Tesla's “game-changing†home battery, and it remains a moderately limp competitor that's done wonders for market awareness.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8HQN)
Recovery team heads for Thargominda PICS The NASA super-balloon that landed in Australia in late April has been found on a cattle station in western Queensland.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8HPG)
Yes, medical devices have flaws, but they're harder to exploit than you're led to believe It's the kind of vulnerability that's tailor-made for infosec publicity: a brand of infusion pumps used to deliver drugs to patients in hospital has an open, unauthenticated Telnet port that allows an attacker access to the dosage database.…
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by Stuart Burns on (#8HN3)
Which is right for you? Unlike most of its rivals, Apple is primarily a hardware company which also happens to make the operating system and application delivery platform, taking a cut from the sales of software and media that others create for its platform. Mass laptop and desktop management is not really what Apple does; it lets others fill this void.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#8HM0)
And odds are it was an iPhone 6 Plus, you fanboi Sales of phablets went through the roof during the first quarter of 2015, say researchers with Kantar Worldpanel.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#8HK6)
Policy crackdown sends slimeballs packing Google spam abuse researcher Kurt Thomas says some 84,000 injectors and apps are targeting its Chrome web browser with dodgy advertising.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8HHJ)
Staunch HEARTBLEED, kick POODLE and make it to lunch on time Do: start rolling TLS 1.3, support TLS 1.2, and DTLS 1.2. Don't: negotiate sessions using TLS 1, TLS 1.1, SSL 2 or SSL 3.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8HH3)
30 year old computers are end-of-life, apparently If the pre-budget briefings-to-journalists are correct, Big IT is going to be refreshing its tender boilerplates for a lot of work in the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8HFD)
Consultation over the future of LTE-Unlicensed The United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is looking over a key item on the telco industry's wish-list: spectrum sharing to try and cope with a capacity crunch.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#8HD6)
Another week, another Chinese firm accused of gaming system Antivirus ratings firms AVâ€Comparatives, AV-Test, and Virus Bulletin have stripped another company of its rankings for trying to game their tests.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8HCG)
Opposition party looks under lounge, finds dusty piece of its geek cred The Australian Labor Party is considering whether it might be able to revive some kind of fibre-to-the-premises policy to take to the 2016 election.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#8HBS)
No extensibility mechanism planned for initial release You won't have to worry about dodgy toolbars, rogue ActiveX controls, or buggy plugins when you use Microsoft Edge (née Project Spartan), Redmond's new web browser for Windows 10. But you can also forget about extending the browser in any way, at least at first.…
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