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by Richard Speed on (#4XB5A)
Faster is the new slower where payments are concerned at Black Horse (Down) bank UK banking giant Lloyds is having a mare of a 2020 as its systems fell over for the second day running today.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4XB5B)
Shopping spree means all roads lead to K8s for Virtzilla VMware has completed its acquisition of Pivotal – or re-acquisition, since Pivotal was spun out from VMware in 2012 – and has appointed Ray O'Farrell as leader of its new Modern Applications Platform business unit.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XAWQ)
Don't forget the 5G cellular radio Dell's latest premium business laptop – the Latitude 9510 – boasts, among other things, a 30-hour battery, an optional 5G cellular radio, and, er, a built-in speakerphone system.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XAWS)
Missed The Great Escape this year? How about boffins rescuing sat dishes from the scrappers instead? Scotland-based boffins may have snatched victory from the slavering jaws of bureaucratic indifference with the relocation of Dundee's satellite data-slurpers to a handy airfield.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4XAQJ)
Infuriates customers by making useable systems into electronic waste Soundbar and smart-speaker-flinger Sonos is starting the new year with the wrong kind of publicity.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XAQM)
Brit software biz blocked access to detailed audit info, says US firm as $5bn trial nears its end Autonomy Trial HPE is holding fast to its claims that Autonomy executives lied during due diligence calls before the ill-fated $11bn buyout of the British software company by the American megalith in 2011.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4XAQP)
Techies at the ready with buckets There's something reassuring about the techies that support a championship-winning Formula 1 team resorting to basic cooling methods to prevent their mobile data centre from melting.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4XAM0)
We pick one technology highlight for each of the Big 3 Analysis Three technology giants continued to dominate cloud computing in 2019, with each bringing in some interesting tools to play with as they sprawled over smaller players.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4X9M0)
If you must know, 2020 was a blast NSFW: Something for the New Year, Sir? Happy 2021, everyone! No, I haven't typed that wrong, I really do bring greetings from the future. Someone launched a handheld short-jump time machine at CES 2021 and I persuaded them to let me test a review unit before they find out I'm not Matthew Hughes.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X926)
The circle is now complete. When I met you I was but the learner. Now, I am the master. Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's stagger through the events of two decades ago, some of which are perhaps a little closer to home than we'd thought.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X8W6)
Patched or not patched? You won't know until the box marked "2000" is opened Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's collection of ramblings from readers tasked with dealing with what almost happened - but didn't - during those halcyon days of two decades past.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X8MQ)
Slipping in the enhancements while everyone else is watching the calendar Y2K Welcome to Y2K, a series of tales from Register readers who found themselves at the sharp, pointy end of the turn of the century IT panic of two decades ago.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X7HB)
We'll pay anything, anything - just don't turn that phone off Y2K There's a reason why some in IT remember the days of Y2K fondly. To quote a lyric from an erstwhile pop combo of the 80s, it really could be "Money for Nothing" for a lucky few. Welcome to The Register's reader recollections of the era.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X79H)
Coffee and smokes - but where did I put that entry card? In fact, where is the DC? Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's short series of what was acceptable at the end of the 90s as the world prepared for the digitapocalypse.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X79K)
Also: Shock News! Access 97 'perfectly capable' according to Reg reader Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's trip down the memory lane of the fear generated by those two naughty digits, and the cash flung at contractors to deal with them.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X72P)
Are those currants compliant? WELL ARE THEY? Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's Christmas gift to those that missed the insanity of all those years ago, and those who remember it all too well.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X4ZC)
Tripping into a rainbow of colour and cockup On Call Welcome to On Call, that time of the week where you can take time out from fretting about the days just past and nod sympathetically/take delight in tales of those that must smile and nod before the wrath of the user.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4X3MY)
Burn baby burn! The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. Happy birthday to me and merry Winterfest to you, gamers of the world moonlighting as IT pros. And let's not forget to have a bountiful New Year. It's been an absolute blast writing this thing for the past eight months, so thanks for reading. We round out 2019 with a look at one of its big success stories – Disco Elysium.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X3N0)
With great power comes great irresponsibility On Call Friday is upon us, and with it another On Call story from those poor souls who have to answer the phone when everything goes wrong. Not all heroes wear capes and, as we'll see, remember to ward their Linux servers from an enthusiastic boss.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X2DK)
But my emails! On Call Friday is upon us, bringing with it the promise of an early finish, the pub and a carefree weekend. Unless, of course, you are one of those unfortunates condemned to deal with... users. Welcome to On Call.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4X1PA)
I'm ready to throw it all in Something for the Weekend, Sir? Brussels sprouts make excellent projectiles, but only if they're boiled and undercooked. This much I discovered from experience as a youngster in the school refectory as we drew towards this festive time of year. Ho ho ho, what japes.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X0SG)
The Register's spoiler-free take on the last of the Skywalker movies (for now, at least) Comment The Register attended a midnight showing of the latest entry in Disney's cash-cow franchise, hoping for a satisfying conclusion to 42 years of cinema trips. Did we throw our popcorn in the air with joy or stamp our feet like petulant toddlers?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4X0SJ)
Community service for 'Turkish Crime Family' wannabe big dog A 22-year-old Londoner has been given 300 hours of community service and a State-enforced bedtime after trying to blackmail Apple with hundreds of millions of previously compromised login credentials.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X0SK)
Meanwhile, in the UK: Rocket engine testing? Here? We'd really rather not... Roundup While the travails of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner may have captured space fans' attention, there was plenty of other fun and games happening in the world of rockets as 2019 came to a close.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4X0JF)
Son of Care.Data? Remember what happened to that first initiative. It didn't end well Senior healthcare techies have warned England's National Health Service (NHS) that it will need to be open with industry professionals and the wider general public as it forges ahead with the collation and potential sale of millions of Brits' medical records via a mega database.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4X0JG)
Do the sums before adopting Analysis AWS's automated code review and profiling tool CodeGuru drew substantial interest when it was announced at the vendor's re:Invent shindig in Las Vegas this month.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4X0D7)
A decade later, has LibreOffice succeeded? With business still hooked on Microsoft Office, not really The LibreOffice team is testing the first release candidate of version 6.4, which is set for release at the end of January.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4WZM3)
Redmond celebrates holidays with new toys and a tease of 2020 Roundup Welcome to the last Microsoft round-up of 2019. While it may seem that the Windows mines of Redmond have been deserted by Nadella's minions ahead of the holidays, there remains one more roundup before the delight of 2020 falls upon us.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WZM5)
Former state-owned telco snaffles ad tech biz for undisclosed sum BT today announced it’s acquiring the remnants of InLink Limited — a profoundly controversial outdoor adtech company — after it entered administration last month.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4WZM7)
Life is but a dream(liner) as 737 Max maker parachutes in new leader Boeing CEO Dennis A. Muilenburg has stepped down from his position "effectively immediately" following 14 months of headwinds triggered by two fatal crashes of the now grounded 737 Max line.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WZM8)
$1,500 actually cheap for foldable phone, unless you buy it off the back of a, um, from an Escobar We've got some bad news for the deeper-pocketed nostalgia-tinged tech fans out there: Motorola is pushing back the launch of its foldable reboot of the Motorola Razr.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WZB7)
Nobody at The Reg guessed (alleged) Clash of Clans microtransactions Freemium mobile game Clash of Clans is perhaps best known for its enthusiastic use of celebrity endorsements in its advertisements, which have starred Liam Neeson, Christoph Waltz, and James Corden.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4WZB9)
Connectivity Cluedo: It was the hi-vis, in the building site, with the digger Some Virgin Media broadband customers remain free from the shackles of connectivity today following some over-enthusiastic digging last Thursday.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4WZBB)
Unauthorised users able to perform 'arbitrary code execution' A critical vulnerability found in Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Citrix Gateway (formerly known as Netscaler ADC and Netscaler Gateway) means businesses with apps published using these technologies may be exposing their internal network to unauthorised access.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WZBD)
Yes, people of UAE. That free govt-approved VoIP app that replaced all the banned encrypted chat apps A popular UAE messaging app has been reportedly used by the country's government to spy on its population. This app, called ToTok, passed all the usual Google Play and Apple App Store checks. Huawei even promoted it via social media.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4WZ30)
Making lemonade out of lemons with Calypso Boeing's borked capsule, the CST-100 Starliner, successfully returned to Earth yesterday while engineers scrambled to work out what went wrong, and managers rushed to justify the truncated mission.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4WZ32)
Half a million docs, including patient names and medical records left at back of premises A pharmacy that left around half a million documents, including customers' personal information and medical data, in unlocked storage at the back of its premises, has been fined £275,000 - a financial penalty the ICO has issued under the General Data Protection Regulation.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4WYWR)
El Reg pulls up a chair next to the fire and chats to box giant's CEO Antonio Neri Interview Migrating your data to the machine that is Amazon Web Services is a little like booking into the Hotel California, the title track from The Eagles late 1970's album of the same name, the rub being that customers, like guests at the hotel, can check out anytime they like but never truly leave.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4WYWT)
Look before you leap, and by leap, we mean run del *.* Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me?, The Register's weekly dive into the murky waters of the reader confession pool. Read on to see if this week's tale triggers a guilty memory or two from you.…
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by David Gordon on (#4WYRM)
Learn about everything Nutanix and win prizes in the process Promo California-based cloud computing company Nutanix wants to invite you to its winter Cloud Chalet to watch a six-part series of videos on hot topics such as end-user computing, databases, and cloud.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4WX0K)
Including: Nasty Mac malware and gas-pump infections Roundup Here's a catch-up of security news beyond everything else we've covered.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4WWEN)
What a clock-up Boeing’s first attempt to get its Starliner capsule to dock with the International Space Station has failed due to a software blunder. The unit was carrying cargo to the orbiting science lab though Boeing hopes to use it to send people into the obsidian void at some point.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4WWEQ)
Various bits and bytes ahead of the Christmas break Roundup As much of the Western world winds down for the Christmas period, here's a summary of this week's news from those machine-learning boffins who haven’t broken into the eggnog too early.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4WW7H)
Payer cette petite amende, s'il vous plaît Google was today ordered by France's monopoly watchdog to cough up a €150m ($166m) fine for abusing its "dominant position in the search advertising market."…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4WVYZ)
They're not 'immune', they just have the 'power' to not be punished It’s perfectly legal for British spies to break the law, Britain’s secretive spy court has ruled – making a mockery of other laws intended to keep eavesdropping agencies and others under effective control.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WVZ1)
Nothing on you? Ask a friend The owner of Flickr has once again brought out the begging bowl after telling the service's legion of users that company accounts are still daubed with red.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4WVNW)
WebAssembly key tech for replacing native apps, say respondents Mozilla has released the first "Web DNA Report", in which devs identify their top needs in terms of web development - and browser compatibility is the biggest issue by far, especially when it comes to supporting our old friend Microsoft Internet Explorer.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WVNX)
Brummy bobbies particularly careless, apparently Hapless UK plod have lost 2,600 mobile phones, laptops, police radios, and other assorted gadgetry over the past three years, according to research from Parliament Street Think Tank.…
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by Team Register on (#4WVNZ)
Microservices and cloud pioneer Sam Newman to deliver keynote Event We’re thrilled to announce the first tranche of speakers for Continuous Lifecycle London 2020, which will bring you face to face with some of the finest minds in DevOps, containers, CI/CD, and serverless.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WVP0)
Take a break from calling for the end of e2e, so they can switch encrypted chat apps It's not just the European Union the UK's ruling party wishes to leave. According to the Guardian, the recently victorious Conservative party is switching from WhatsApp to Signal, in order to accommodate its new influx of MPs.…
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