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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XXEJ)
Grab your Microsoft, Adobe, SAP, Intel, and VMware fixes now Patch Tuesday In the first Patch Tuesday of the year, Microsoft finds itself joined by Adobe, Intel, VMware, and SAP in dropping scheduled security updates.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4XXEM)
This isn't the way to make the Cook(ie) crumble Analysis Apple has responded to a demand from the United States' Attorney General William Barr that it grant the FBI access to two iPhones used in a recent shooting by carefully calling bullshit on his claims.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XX4T)
RAM, bam, thank you .. actually... hmmmm. That's kind of excessive There's just a few short weeks until the Samsung Unpacked launch event, where the South Korean giant will unveil this year's ultra-pricey flagships. Predictably, most of the pertinent details have already dripped out. The latest pertains to the potent Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra*, which packs some unbelievably meaty specs.…
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US hands UK 'dossier' on Huawei: Really! Still using their kit? That's just... one... step... beyond
by Gareth Corfield on (#4XX4W)
American security officials fly to London to 'brief' Boris It would be "nothing short of madness" to use Huawei gear in Britain's 5G mobile networks, an American national security adviser has reportedly told UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#4XWTR)
Project holding steady for resident techies but white knuckle ride continues Fantasy model manufacturer and tabletop wargames flinger Games Workshop has dispatched a warning note about the continued danger inherent to an ongoing project to replace its core ERP systems with Microsoft Dynamics 365.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XWTT)
You may not have plumbing to the premises, but by god you'll have fibre Good news for much-maligned new-build contractors in the UK - equally maligned broadband infrastructure provider OpenReach today said it will drop the threshold for installing gigabit-capable fibre-to-the-premises connections to new build developments - from 30 houses to just 20.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4XWTW)
Docker who? Veteran Hadooper already plugging away after 6-month stint at container biz Cloudera has turned to the co-founder and one-time CEO at Hortonworks - the business it merged with in 2018 - to run the show.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XWTY)
Only Linux, um, Windows 10 can save you! The Windows 7 hysteria machine has most definitely kicked into gear today, with Viking burials and scary statistics for the orphaned operating system.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XWJD)
Not keen to let them Hang Solo. (We're here all week.) Next Friday's filing aims to stop work before it begins on 11 Feb Amazon Web Services is expecting a decision next month from a US court about whether the brakes will be slammed on the Pentagon's lucrative Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract awarded to Microsoft.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4XWJF)
Like manna from Microsoft: Windows 7 great escape out-trumps crappy Intel CPU availability Businesses upgrading to Windows 10 forced global PC sales into the black for the first time in seven years in 2019, but it could have been so much better if Intel's chip drought had eased.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XWJG)
Oppo and OnePlus stablemate plans shock for 2020 Chinese phone maker Vivo has wowed attendees of the past two Mobile World Congress megafests with intriguing — and hugely divisive — APEX concept phones it hoped would set the industry tempo for years to come.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XWDZ)
Support? Hello? Is anyone here? Programmers are complaining that Google's Chrome Web Store still looks more like an ill-tended shack than a legitimate store.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XWE1)
Also: Fancy a trip round the Moon? Of course you do, but there's a catch... Roundup It's a been a busy start to the new year in this week's SpaceX-heavy round-up of news for rocket fanciers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XWE3)
Any one thought about actually testing this on diabetics? Er, no? Academics have applied for a patent describing how a neural network can detect low blood-sugar levels by analyzing heartbeat patterns rather than a blood sample.…
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by David Gordon on (#4XW8T)
Insight and security in a complex environment? Let NetApp guide you with help from Freeform Dynamics Webcast You know the story: your users are creating data faster than ever before.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4XW8V)
Mainstream support officially ends today Britain's cyber-plod have warned people not to use Windows 7 machines for online banking, nor emails, nor any other services that contain sensitive information – which rules out pretty much everything except reading The Register.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XW8X)
That's way, way, way older than the dust off your oldest PC Boffins think they have found the oldest known substance on Earth, dust grains that were formed around five to seven billion years ago - before the Solar System had even formed.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4XVYG)
Purchase funded by debt, includes another ex-ICANNer, will be done through four different companies. All perfectly normal Analysis DNS overlord ICANN has finally released additional details over the proposed sale of the .org internet registry to a private equity firm – details that raise more questions than answers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4XVQY)
Amazon puts (a tiny amount of) its money where its tax bill isn’t Comment The richest man on the planet, with an estimated fortune of $150bn, has got his internet company to pledge an extraordinary $1m to battle ferocious wildfires in Australia: that’s Australian dollars, so $690,000 in US bucks.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XVQZ)
Study shows top telcos are naff at fending off cellphone number hijackings Four Princeton University eggheads have published a report showing that the five major US mobile carriers implement weak authentication techniques, leaving customers vulnerable to SIM-swapping attacks that transfer victims' phone numbers to devices controlled by scammers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XVR1)
FBI probes massive fraud A miscreant managed to swipe $2.3m from a Texas school district after staff inadvertently wired large sums of public money to the crook's bank account.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XVE2)
Open letter to Chocolate Factory's Sundar Pichai penned by 50 campaign groups For much of Android's existence, Google has adopted a relatively hands-off approach that lets manufacturers ship units with pre-installed bloatware which, in many cases, cannot be easily removed. This has infuriated users and privacy advocates alike, leading 50 of the latter to pen a blistering open letter to Google and Alphabet chief Sundar Pichai urging him to take action.…
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Guilty as charged: Apple confesses some Smart Battery Cases are having 'issues', offers replacements
by Matthew Hughes on (#4XVE4)
Nine-month production run of gear provides 'intermittent' charging results for fans Apple has announced yet another replacement programme — this time for several models of its pricey Smart Battery cases.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XVE5)
UK.gov decision to use Chinese biz or not due in a week or two, maybe, perhaps... sort of The head of Britain's domestic spy agency, MI5, has declared that he has "no reason to think" that his country's impending decision to use Huawei in the core of 5G mobile networks will harm UK-US relations.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4XV48)
Up for discussion? Iran, another term for Trump, and maybe, just maybe, Bezos and THAT cloud contract will get a mention Oracle execs are no stranger to pressing the flesh with senior politicos in the White House and tonight, Oracle's chief techie Larry Ellison is set to break bread with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XV4A)
In other words... A long time ago we left the Galaxy far, far away... The success of the Huawei Mate X has always been in doubt. But, improbably, sales have actually been fairly decent, with the Chinese tech giant claiming to be flogging 100,000 each month (in Chinese). That’s not too bad, considering the unfortunate geopolitical circumstances Huawei finds itself in.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XV4B)
His helicopter costs £550/hour to fly, don't you know The managing director of a Manchester-based infosec firm has been fined for flying his helicopter into an air traffic control zone without permission – having first launched a rant at tower controllers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XV4D)
Plus: Fresh Visual Studio for Mac, another Release Candidate for PowerShell 7 and New Edge nears GA Roundup Welcome to the final round-up of the Microsoft news you might have missed before a cheery engineer pulls the plug on the Windows 7 freebie security fix machine for the last time.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XTWK)
Thanks Vegas - it's been weird CES The 2020 edition of CES has wrapped up. Friday was the last day of the trade show, which attracts hundreds of thousands of attendees from across the globe to the Marlboro-scented glamour of Las Vegas. At the weekend, vendors began dismantling their booths, ready to head home.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XTWN)
What's that coming over the hill? Is it a lawyer? It's Larry's lawyers Linux kernel jockey, Linus Torvalds, has taken time out to remind open source loyalists that he is no fan of the ZFS file system due, in part, to the sometimes tortuous nature of open source licensing.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XTWQ)
Plus: Hollywood wants to revamp the film business with AI, Nvidia improves StyleGAN Roundup Welcome to the first AI round up of this year. AI continues to spread like wildfire and everyone wants a slice of the pie - even Hollywood. Read on for the latest flop in facial recognition, too.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XTQJ)
Either Brit DVLA bigwigs have a very special DeLorean on the books, or the Y2K20 bug has bitten A mysterious "blip" has caused the printers of the UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to skip back a century as 2020 rolled round, unless the acknowledgement of a change of keeper took a really long time to arrive.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XTQK)
Info Commish has £2m annual legal budget to face off with multinationals The UK Information Commissioner's Office has kicked £280m in data breach fines against British Airways and US hotel chain Marriott into the long grass.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XTQM)
Macro or Mackerel? Whatever it is, it looks o-fish-al. We'll get our sealskin coat Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me? The Register's headlong plunge into the pit of reader recollections and confessions.…
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by Team Register on (#4XTJJ)
The Great Big – but not that big – Reg Reader Survey Survey Thank you for reading The Register. We hope you like what you see. And whether you do or you don't, now's your chance to pipe your thoughts about the site and its coverage of technology directly into our brains.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XTJK)
Plus: TikTok clocked, Honey in a sticky situation, Arm's PAN mechanisms sidestepped Roundup Welcome to another Register security roundup. Here are a few stories that caught our eye.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XSPH)
Best sit down and read this story with a mug of hot steaming (green) tea Tea lovers that chug three or more cups of the warm nectar per week are more likely to live longer than those that drink tea less often, or never touch the wonderful stuff.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XRQF)
Described FAA regulators being briefed as 'like dogs watching TV' Boeing this week turned over damning new documents around the design and response to its ill-fated 737-Max airliner.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XRAM)
It's got a name and logo so it's serious, you guys A vulnerability in Broadcom's cable modem firmware has left as many as 200 million home broadband gateways in Europe, and potentially more worldwide, at risk of remote hijackings.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XR3Q)
Well, apart from a couple of hundred million bucks in stock sales David Drummond, chief legal officer at Google-parent Alphabet, plans to leave the web titan at the end of the month.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XQVM)
Tch-oh, you wait for one cosmic rock and then two show up A relatively small rock was spotted orbiting asteroid Eurybates this month by scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope. Luckily enough, that's the same asteroid NASA's Lucy probe is aiming to fly past and inspect in 2027, so boffins will be able to get a closer look at both.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4XQKR)
Every little helps, right Jeff? Updated The UK's Home Office has tossed a contract worth up to £100m of taxpayer cash at Amazon Web Services to renew a public cloud hosting agreement with the hyper tax efficient American giant for four years.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XQKT)
Conference swag collectors take note - this thing will apparently go 10 days pong-free Geeks around the world, rejoice. You too can own a T-shirt that can go 10 days between washes, resist pizza and caffeinated beverage stains while keeping static at bay.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XQKW)
'You targeted a large charitable organisation' thundered judge A Londoner who hacked the National Lottery using Sentry MBA and made off with just £5 will spend up to nine months in prison for his crimes.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4XQA0)
$3bn reportedly changing hands after data centre biz auction A disturbance has been detected in the world of data centres amid reports that private equity biz Macquarie is to take a majority stake in Sydney-based AirTruck that will cost circa A$3bn.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XQA2)
Good luck running apps on that round display CES Oh, CES. Each year, interspersed between the big product launches from Dell and Samsung are smaller companies, often with some truly bonkers kit. Take, for example, the Cyrcle Phone.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XQ4D)
An update inbound with Search, Settings and Scanlines With Windows 7 emitting its last death rattles and a Microsoft engineer poised to pull the plug, the Redmond gang has teased a return to a simpler, text-based time with the next release of Windows Terminal.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4XQ4F)
Sorry, I've misplaced my ticket again. Where's my head at? Something for the Weekend, Sir? There is supposed to be an old Afghan proverb that goes: "When God wants to punish a nation, he makes them invade Afghanistan."…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XPZW)
And even better, you've got a good chance of winning against it GPT-2, OpenAI’s giant text-generating language model, can play chess – despite having no prior knowledge of the game’s rules.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XPZY)
What you really need is a bawling co-worker On Call Welcome to On Call, The Register's receptacle of woe for those unfortunate enough to be at the beck and call of that species we call The Customer.…
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