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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ZA09)
Online security process stalled by offline security screw-up The organization that keeps the internet running behind-the-scenes was forced to delay an important update to the global network – because it was locked out of one of its own safes.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4Z9VS)
You'll need a STEM degree and the ability to be a steely-eyed rocket person You knew this day would come, and hopefully you’ve made some smart choices along the way, because it is time to apply to become an astronaut. Yes, a real-life astronaut.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z9QF)
The aristocrats! The aristocrats! As feared, Cisco saw its sales slip slightly from last quarter as customers held off on buying new network and comms gear.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z9QH)
Now let us never speak of this again Microsoft has confirmed that the ill-fated Windows 10 1809 update has just three months left to live.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4Z9GS)
Technologieverzögerung? Uh, Kommunikationsbürokratie? Switzerland has stalled the rollout of next-gen 5G mobile networks over health concerns.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Z9GV)
Parent of Kraken wants to know who's daring to speak their mind The Electronic Frontier Foundation has teamed up with Glassdoor to fight off a cryptocurrency exchange that is trying to discover which of its ex-employees may have dissed the firm online.…
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Mobile World Congress now none of those things as 2020 industry megashow axed over coronavirus fears
by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z9GW)
Mass drop-outs prove too costly for European comms conference MWC Good news for anyone who fancies a cheap vacation in Spain at the end of the month: this year's MWC Barcelona has been officially cancelled.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z97P)
I'll show you my customers if you show me yours Oracle has continued its attempt to gain ground on cloud rivals by expanding its data centres and extending last year's love-in with Microsoft.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4Z8X9)
Barring a blip, still set for Valentine's ship date Samsung has unfolded its Galaxy Z Flip, its second stab at the nascent foldable phone market – which the vendor will be hoping goes better than the previous model that fell apart in the hands of multiple reviewers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z8XB)
Hey kids, put down those folding fondleslabs and get on Slow Ring with Grandpa Windows As if to remind a Microsoft world engorged with excitement at the new and shiny Windows 10X, the Insider team emitted an update last night to point out that vanilla Windows 10 is still a thing.…
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by Laurie Clarke on (#4Z8XD)
Ofcom awarded powers to police harmful content on social media – because the pr0n block went so well UK comms watchdog Ofcom is to be handed new powers to police social media's handling of harmful content.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4Z8XF)
Samsung and Huawei still in, for now Another day, another bunch of wary vendors have dropped out of MWC over fears of the novel coronavirus. This time it's Nokia, BT, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom that are withdrawing.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4Z8MN)
Huge changes for how apps run but will it win over users? Microsoft has made some bold claims about its forthcoming Windows 10X operating system, which will run on the dual-screen Surface Neo device.…
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by Laurie Clarke on (#4Z8MQ)
Ya think? A new report from the Committee for Standards in Public life has criticised the UK government's stance on transparency in AI governance and called for ethics to be "embedded" in the frameworks.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Z8MS)
And the company reaction is: not even 'meh' An infosec researcher has published a JavaScript-based proof of concept for the Netgear routerlogin.com vulnerability revealed at the end of January.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4Z8MV)
Goosey goosey gander, whither shall I wander? Wherever the f*** I want Geese are a crowd favourite at petting zoos for tot-flattening abilities rivalled only by the goat. This also means they are not to be trifled with, as a small Pennsylvanian town has discovered.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4Z8MX)
One of the Big Three will snap up floaty tech pact within 'months' Deutsche Bank has reportedly invited bids from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon to pitch for cloud services and other project work as part of a major tech investment scheduled over the next two years.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4Z8F2)
One staff outsourcer snaps back: It's no biggie, you've just got 'to pay a bit more tax' More than half of the contractors and consultants working for private companies plan to leave their clients rather than face Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs' tax reforms, according to a new study.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z8F4)
He spent the dosh on himself rather than invest it as promised, prosecutors claim Prosecutors have charged a man with wire fraud and money laundering after he allegedly raked in £27m ($35m) from a cryptocurrency scheme that largely targeted doctors.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4Z8AW)
OK Google, a little help here? An AI startup is battling a patent-infringement lawsuit filed against it for building an open-source Linux-based voice-controlled assistant.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Z8AY)
Downloaded 17m times a week, now coders should consider an alternative After eleven months of planning, the npm-distributed request module has been deprecated, meaning the popular JavaScript code library for making HTTP requests is no longer supported and won't receive further updates.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4Z8B0)
Aliens? Or something more prosaic? We're hoping for aliens Astronomers have, for the first time, detected a fast radio burst that spews powerful radio signals from the distant depths of space on a regular schedule, according to fresh research.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z80S)
Chinese mega-maker denies latest allegations of backdoor shenanigans An almighty row broke out on Tuesday over the cops-only backdoor Huawei builds into its cellular network products and who exactly can access it.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4Z80V)
Well, we just reached inside our ass and pulled it out, regulator tells court The controversial decision by the FCC to impose a $270 limit on what cities are allowed to charge mobile operators for hosting a 5G cell on their utility poles finally came up for judicial review this week.…
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If you're running Windows, I feel bad for you, son. Microsoft's got 99 problems, better fix each one
by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z7V8)
Meanwhile, we're still squashing bugs in Adobe Flash Player... plus stuff from Intel and SAP Patch Tuesday It's going to be a busy month for IT administrators as Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, and SAP have teamed up to deliver a bumper crop of security fixes for Patch Tuesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Z7MD)
Judge approves $26bn deal, individual states not quite so happy A federal district judge in New York City has approved the $26bn merger of telecom rivals Sprint and T-Mobile US, eliciting enthusiasm from company executives and investors.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4Z7MF)
Hope they've got a dump truck or three to deliver paperwork covering years of acquisitions An American biz watchdog has stepped up its probe into possible market abuse by Big Tech – Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft – by demanding information on all acquisitions not reported to antitrust authorities in the past decade.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4Z7MH)
It won't be like VBA this time, we promise Microsoft has brought in Office Scripts for Excel on the web and pushed out the XLOOKUP function, a replacement for the well-used VLOOKUP, to both web and desktop versions of the spreadsheet program.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4Z7MJ)
Three cameras, two models – and someone at Sammy likes SD cards The long-awaited – and highly leaked – Samsung Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra flagship phones are finally here along with official glimpses of the folding Galaxy Z.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4Z7AZ)
If you tell my hand, my achy-breaky hand, it might fling up and hit the fan What even is a flagship mobe these days? In the past few years, punters have been blessed with a bevy of top-notch blowers from firms like OnePlus, Xiaomi and Honor that cost less than £500. In 2020, what's the point of spending more than a grand on a phone?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Z7B1)
So says Malwarebytes, anyway Software nasties targeted at MacOS are on the increase faster than ones for Windows, according to antivirus biz Malwarebytes.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4Z7B3)
Default-hijacking browser extension pulled from Office Pro Plus installations Microsoft has U-turned on plans to automatically switch browser search defaults to Bing when users install Office 365 Pro Plus.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Z70W)
One for the Cold War infosec veterans: CIA and BND literally owned the firm Swiss encryption machine company Crypto AG was secretly owned by the US CIA and a West German spy agency at the height of the Cold War, according to explosive revelations in the Swiss and German media today.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z70Y)
Literally just for the keyboard. Pipe down, Panos Surface supremo Panos Panay took time out from fondling his slabs (and ordering up new business cards) to make a proposal last night to Oscar-winning filmmaker Taika Waititi.…
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Tens of millions of biz Dell PCs smacked by privilege-escalation bug in bundled troubleshooting tool
by Laurie Clarke on (#4Z710)
If you don't have auto-update switched on, time to patch Dell has copped to a flaw in SupportAssist – a Windows-based troubleshooting program preinstalled on nearly every one of its newer devices running the OS – that allows local hackers to load malicious files with admin privileges.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4Z712)
Ignores 'unwanted' presses from the fat-fingered too, apparently After almost four months on sale in its native China, the Google-free Huawei Mate 30 Pro is finally coming to the UK as a Carphone Warehouse exclusive.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z714)
Now please stop showering cash on consultants Y2K Welcome to Y2K, a mercifully occasional dip into that time, 20 years ago, when the IT world seemed to lose its collective mind, and governments were only too keen to empty their collective pockets.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4Z6R6)
A little Shakespearean data centre drama for you There is a disturbance in the bit barn market – Vantage Data Centers has swallowed rival Etix Everywhere as part of a $2bn expansion in Europe.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4Z6R8)
Plus: We know people are dying but OMG! China smartphone sales could plunge 50%, say analysts Intel is the latest big name to withdraw from the Mobile World Congress trade show, due to take place in Barcelona later this month amid growing fears about the coronavirus epidemic.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z6RA)
She applied the fix to fix the fix... I don't know why she did the apply. Perhaps it'll die Like a needy ex-partner that just won't let go, Microsoft's legacy OSes continue to cling to the Windows behemoth's ankles. Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 have once again been bashed with the borkage bat.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4Z6RC)
No jokes, just less work for them in the cloudy era Fujitsu is clipping the workforce that provides Projects work for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (UK taxman HMRC) following a reduction in the level of business.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z6JF)
Also: UK's OneWeb fires off 34 sats and NG-13 Cygnus scrubbed Roundup There was good news and bad news for space fans last week as a veteran probe lived to transmit for another day while issues with a new spacecraft became all too clear.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z6JG)
The Register goes virtual and gets a bit remote with DeX Review We had a play with the crowdfunded NexDock 2 last month and came to the conclusion that the machine was a handy host for Raspberry Pi-type devices on the move, for a price, but the Samsung DeX experience soon left us pining for a "proper" laptop.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4Z6JJ)
And it turns out there was an upside to the US-China trade war Global server shipments are forecast to drop nearly 10 per cent in the first quarter of 2020 as the coronavirus epidemic hits production lines in China, according to new figures from Digitimes Research.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Z6E8)
A nation of takeout deliverers The adoption of industrial robots in France makes manufacturing businesses more productive and profitable but at the expense of jobs, according to a recent paper presented by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, non-profit, non-partisan research organization in America.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4Z6EA)
The cosmic ballet goes on... We all know the Sun's eventually going to expand and envelop the Earth, but for smaller objects further away our star will still be deadly, as its light will cause asteroids to literally spin themselves to death.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z6AG)
Old Gigabyte code lets file-scrambling RobbinHood go undetected A kernel-level driver for old PC motherboards has been abused by criminals to hijack Windows computers, disable antivirus, and hold files to ransom.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4Z65E)
El Reg has also invented the warp drive but, ah jeez, we're told we can't show anyone. Shame. It's a tough one There’s a new giant AI language model in town: enter Microsoft’s Turing-NLG system, which apparently contains a whopping 17 billion parameters, making it the largest publicly known model of its class yet.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z65G)
And shares with guessable passwords A new variant of the notorious Emotet Windows malware is able to spread wirelessly by brute-forcing Wi-Fi network passwords and scanning for shared drives to infect.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Z65J)
With PIGIN skewered, take a look at this lovely TURTLEDOVE Last month, Google withdrew a poorly received web proposal for ad management called PIGIN, short for Private Interest Groups, Including Noise, and replaced it with a better branded spec called TURTLEDOVE.…
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