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by Alexander J Martin on (#82ES)
Bizarre iPad fail KOs dozens of flights Dozens of American Airlines flights were delayed this morning when pilots' iPads abruptly crashed, leaving the entire AA fleet without access to vital flight plans and, resultantly, grounded.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#820B)
Lifesaving prang-snoop SIMs will only transmit basic info New cars sold in the EU from March 2018 will have to phone the authorities if they think they've been in a crash.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#81ZE)
Can you achieve security through the obscurity of regional ISPs? Internet Service Providers (ISPs) may be the most important public cloud providers of the next decade. Hosting your data with an ISP has a number of advantages over choosing the dominant American cloud providers: advantages that run the gamut from technical to political.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#81XW)
Apple in 'Won't Work With Hipster Body Art' shocker Redditor guinne55fan has found a bug in the Apple Watch: it appears not to work on his heavily-tattooed arm.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#81WX)
Users unclear if packet racket is accident or attack China appears to have neutered swathes of otherwise uncensored websites and redirected Facebook login attempts to external websites, according to local reports.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#81VT)
And you don't have to keep data within national borders. Just be careful with it Security and privacy are not mutually exclusive says Europe’s privacy watchdog – and people should stop saying they are.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#81T2)
Reports of hacker toolkit's death proven greatly exaggerated Brad Duncan says attackers are again slinging the Fiesta, this time using a complicated series of loops that researchers will find difficult to trace.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#81SG)
This is why Lenovo is recalling ThinkPads Video UK boffins have taken a close-up of what happens with Li-ion batteries when they get hot under the collar, and it's not pretty.…
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by Team Register on (#81QX)
An awful lot of light cruisers dumped into landfills We're obliged to reader Simon Moore for flagging up a heavyweight improbable measurement unit, deployed by the National Physical Laboratory in an attempt to quantify the amount of printed circuit board waste dumped into UK landfills every year in terms of Royal Navy light cruisers.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#81Q9)
Australia's NAB in strife, too, says researcher Major banks are still open to POODLE attacks months after being called out as vulnerable.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#81P8)
Ambitious fish's sales rise but paperwork triggers crash Barracuda Networks reported a satisfyingly chunky revenue rise for its final 2015 quarter and full year, ended February 28, but losses dove unexpectedly deep due to taxation manipulations.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#81N3)
Applied Micro trumpets accelerating cloud-scale adoption in solid Q4 results Those hoping ARM-powered servers can give Intel and AMD some stiff competition in the data centre have some good news today, after Applied Micro revealed that PayPal “has deployed and validated†the company's ARM-architected X-Gene server-on-a-chip.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#81KF)
Petitie profit pump provide parachute, but didn't open in time to prevent a nasty landing Samsung Electronics, the phones-and-chips-and-tellies arm of the Chaebol, has reported a nasty set of numbers for 2014's first quarter. Let's go straight to a slide from the earnings call to show you how nasty.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#81HG)
SOAP scum dirties D-Link, TRENDnet and maybe more Twenty months of optimism has come to nought, so the Zero Day Initiative has gone public with a vulnerability in the Realtek SDK that's inherited by at least two broadband router vendors.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#81H0)
Plus: URL-guessing leak sees results hit market early and shares slump Financial analysts have reacted without apparent irony to disappointing results from microblabbing platform Twitter.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#81EF)
Good trick – it eluded Seagate Western Digital's third quarter of fiscal 2015, ended April 3, raked in sales of US$3.55bn – that's 4.1 per cent down on the year-ago quarter, and 8.7 per cent less than the previous quarter.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#81DF)
Palm's Bell bumped sideways, says WSJ Intel has signalled a refocussing of its R&D in an effort to really, truly make a difference in the wearables market.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#81CF)
Spray and prey – magic bullet can turn and burn Video The military boffins at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have shown off how the latest version of their "steerable bullet" lets a complete novice hit a distant target with pinpoint accuracy.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#81AG)
If Australia's public service needs this advice, the DTO has its work cut out Australia's Digital Transformation Office (DTO) has done something, again.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#819N)
Super Pressure Balloon flight terminated, 32 days into planned 100-day flight NASA has terminated the flight of its Super Pressure Balloon after one-third of its planned flight.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#8184)
Gartner's first DR-as-a-service Magic Quadrant puts Sungard and Big Blue on top Ahead of Amazon.com breaking out results for Amazon Web Services last week, IBM wrote to let us know that not only does it haul in about US$7.7 billion a year with cloud and software-as-a-service but that it does so with “higher-value, higher profit cloud opportunities†rather than “low-end commoditized cloud offerings.â€â€¦
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by Shaun Nichols on (#8169)
A gadget that tells the TIME on your WRIST? HERESY! Apple has banned Watch apps that tell the time from the App Store – and therefore from fanbois' wrists.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#815E)
Shiny, shiny, shiny phone in leather LG has unveiled its latest Android 5.1 smartphone, the G4, and promised that the handset will go on sale in US within the next few months. It will be available with a ceramic or real leather backplate.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#8146)
Says prosecution's evidence 'went unrebutted' A US federal judge has rejected convicted Silk Road kingpin Ross Ulbricht's request for a new trial, despite his attorneys' claims of misdeeds on the part of government agents and prosecutors.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#80Y9)
Whoops, maybe butting into Skyrim was a bad idea A week ago, gaming darling Valve set up an online store allowing designers to sell game mods. Now, after a backlash from gamers, the Half-Life biz has shut it down.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#80X9)
When dealing with multi-million storage estates, flying blind is not ideal When you have an existing storage array infrastructure with a variety of server apps about to hit the array, how do you know if array technology upgrades or even a new array will work as well or better than the existing kit?…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#80VP)
Mobile payment coming to US stores later this year – but what about CurrentC? Apple has finally convinced Best Buy – a big retail player in the US – to allow its customers to use Cupertino's mobile payment system.…
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by John Leyden on (#80TZ)
Ne'er-do-wells: 'Hey.' Dumb servers: 'WHAT?' Targets: 'AAARGH' DDoS attacks have grown in volume yet again with 25 attacks larger than 100Gbps globally in Q1 2015, according to the latest stats from DDoS mitigation firm Arbor Networks.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#80S7)
Progress capsule goes TITSUP: Total Inability To Sustain Usual Propulsion Video Russia has lost control of its Progress cargo capsule that was due to deliver 6,000lb of supplies to the International Space Station. The craft is spinning and tumbling around Earth as controllers try to establish contact.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#80QZ)
Board member ordered to appear at hearing ICANN broke its own bylaws – and acted in a way "fundamentally inconsistent" with its role as the world's DNS overlord – while restricting efforts to make itself more accountable to netizens.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#80KD)
Reality doesn't work like that, say crypto-bods Analysis At last week's RSA security conference, the halls were full of government speakers telling the tech community that it must do the impossible: invent a form of encryption that's strong, but also easy for law enforcement to crack.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#80JC)
Huge Hitachi conglomerate eyes cross-selling opportunities With a cornucopia of announcements, HDS is extending its VSP high-end technology down range, as well as introducing new UCP models, a Hyper Scale-Out Platform and infrastructure management software tools.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#80H8)
Rack management for the white box world Cumulus Networks has launched a management config of its Linux network distro to give white-box sysadmins the kind of capabilities they're used to in the world of proprietary switches.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#80EE)
Second shareholder letter disses Clinton Group Fearing the worst – that they might get booted off the board in a proxy vote war – Imation's CEO and board have written a second letter to shareholders, appealing for their support in a vote at the company's AGM on May 20.…
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by Lester Haines on (#80CK)
Meanwhile, US Nosh Posse team member preps a real fishy pot-boiler We at the El Reg Quid-A-Day Nosh Posse headquarters received the first full report from team member Nathan Dennis yesterday afternoon, shortly after he got stuck into the Live Below the Line challenge in aid of Malaria No More UK.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#8090)
Megacorp hopes to keep a firm grip on users' things A new lightweight OS for internet-of-things things has been announced by Chinese megacorp Tencent.…
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by Lester Haines on (#806T)
Orders from missus helps avoid repeat of 780-calorie-per-day debacle We're pleased to report that El Reg Quid-A-Day Nosh Posse member and 2014 Live Below the Line veteran Toby Sibley has resurfaced, fuelled by a vastly superior diet to that which saw him subsist on a meagre 780 calories per day last year.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#804Z)
Sir Christopher Wren would have approved Vulture at the wheel It’s all about the headrests.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#803X)
€150m to spunk away on digital projects? That’ll do nicely Money can’t buy you love, they say, but Google hopes it can mollify Europe’s newspaper publishers. Faced with antitrust action in Europe, the Chocolate Factory is pouring €150m directly into the pockets of European newspaper publishers to use on “digital projectsâ€, the FT reports.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#8012)
Tory leader promises better mobile broadband - but doesn't say how It’s election time, so all the party leaders are promising everything to everyone. The latest one from David Cameron is good mobile phone coverage.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#7ZZY)
Consultants confirm: It's white, cliquey and everyone hates them Special Report Last year, the Cabinet Office asked an external management consultancy to examine staff morale and high turnover at the Government Digital Service. After interviewing more than 100 civil servants, its scathing confidential analysis described an organisation beset by low morale and run by a “cabal†management of old friends, who bypassed talent in favour of recruiting former associates – while Whitehall viewed GDS as “smug†and “arrogantâ€.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#7ZZ4)
Perfect corporate fleet fodder, if you drive a hard bargain Review The Leap is the first full-touch device BlackBerry has released in 18 months, and only the third to be released in developed markets. It’s also the cheapest, with the BlackBerry UK store listing it at £199 including VAT.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#7ZX5)
Plant-eating platypus puzzles paleontologists Baffled bone boffins are puzzled by the discovery of a diminutive new vegetarian dino in Chile which, they say, was closely related to the infamous meat-eating Tyrannosaurus rex.…
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by Tim Worstall on (#7ZVY)
iThing event horizon actually not that close Analysis Apple's results are out - and it's time for the traditional game of trying to work out how much richer than which country the company is. With sales at $58 billion for the quarter, profits of $13.7 billion and depending upon how absurd we want to make our method of measurement this makes it the same as the US economy, the size of Ireland or Pakistan, that of Luxembourg or some 0.35% of the US economy.…
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by John Leyden on (#7ZV5)
'Account takeover was an isolated incident', insists firm Marketing email distribution service SendGrid is asking customers to switch passwords after admitting it got hacked.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#7ZS5)
Affordable fondleslabs, mobes 'n' wearables for the masses Pics In an earlier article on The Register, Acer revealed its PC plans – but also in evidence at its recent press launch in New York last week was the company’s belief that there is still plenty of room in certain market segments for tablets.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#7ZQQ)
High-end VSP G1000 gets a rackful of younger siblings We've learnt that HDS' high-end VSP G1000 storage array is sprouting siblings, with G200, G400, G600 and G800 products popping up under the high-end G1000 in the line up.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#7ZNE)
One thing to bring them all and in the darkness charge them A new antenna design aims to solve the two major problems with wireless charging: the mess of standards and the limitations of transmitting power by radio.…
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by Rachel Willcox and Gavin Clarke on (#7ZKD)
Brain surgeon? Anthropologist? Ex-NASA? You're just what we're looking for Simon Zhang is a former brain surgeon, but that’s literally the last thing you’ll find on his LinkedIn profile.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#7ZHT)
25 people arrested over international cash-slurp operation Romanian police have arrested 25 people who are suspected of being part of a cyber-crime gang that organised $15m in fraudulent bank withdrawals.…
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