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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4VNKV)
So will you all please move to IPv6? World: Nope. Analysis It happened four years ago. And again two years ago. And last year. But this time, on November 25, 2019, we have finally, finally, finally run out of IPv4 addresses.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4VNKX)
Plus: AMD teases third-gen 64-core Threadripper and more Intel today tapped up MediaTek to integrate 5G modems into next-generation PCs, due to hit the shelves in early 2021.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4VNBT)
Keeping score? So far it’s Apple 3 VirnetX 8 with more to come Apple has won the latest round in its nine-year patent mega-battle with VirnetX – with a US appeals court rejecting a $600m jury decision and sending it back down to the district court to redecide.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VNBW)
Sheepish staff apologize after it turns out securing government comms is hard work British officials scrambled to apologize this afternoon after the official Twitter account of the Welsh arm of the UK government was clocked retweeting links to, and videos of, hardcore porno.…
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by David Gordon on (#4VN2C)
Learn from top-tier execs about when it comes to digital transformation, monogamy doesn’t pay Promo There’s some truth in the old adage “don’t put your eggs in one basket.†For years, cloud vendors have bombarded corporate decision makers with heavy-handed marketing tactics, insisting businesses should use their cloud platforms — and their platforms alone. Those who heeded their words often lived to regret it.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#4VN2D)
Golden boy to start new job next month VoIP tech and services outfit Vonage has snapped up an exec who formerly worked for European software giant SAP to fill the role of president of its applications group.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VN2F)
Running for more than three years? Check the firmware Updated Using an HPE solid-state drive? You might want to take a look at your firmware after the computer outfit announced that some of its SSDs could auto-bork after less than four years of use.…
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by John Oates on (#4VN2H)
CEST la vie: Still pooh-poohs MoO. Reform just months away With the deadline for IR35 assessment fast approaching, the latest update to HMRC's Check Employment Status for Tax tool (CEST) is still not fit for purpose.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VN2K)
Also: India admits Vikram had 'hard landing', 'nauts continue ISS repair job, and more Roundup The Arianespace launch may have been delayed, but there remained plenty to bring delight to the hearts of rocket fans last week as Starliner neared launch and Boeing bit back at NASA.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4VMRE)
iPhone sales still in doldrums Retailers in Europe – perhaps burned by excess inventory issues this year – have yet to rekindle their love affair with the iPhone as Apple failed to catch a lift on the back of a regional Q3 upswing in demand across the wider market.…
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by John Oates on (#4VMRG)
Ancient IBM gear in new home thanks to power of the internet The team behind the mission to rescue a pair of aged IBM mainframes are celebrating after finally getting the hardware back to Blighty.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VMRJ)
Also: Teams and Slack get the handbags out Roundup Though there won't be any Surface Earbuds in stockings this year, a Release Candidate of PowerShell 7 is looking likely and maybe, just maybe, we'll get a nearly finished Windows 10 20H1.…
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by John Oates on (#4VMRM)
String of failures put passengers at risk, says city transport authority Transport for London has ruled that Uber is not fit to run a minicab business in the capital.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4VMGS)
Do your homework then get back to us HP's board has snapped back at Xerox over its "hostile" $33.5bn takeover threat, saying the copier giant's refusal to answer lingering questions about the merger only magnifies their "concerns" about any tie-up and Xerox's future prospects.…
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It's down there somewhere, let me take another look The UK's data watchdog has confirmed it failed to collect up to £7m worth of fines dished out in the past four years.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VMGX)
How to query the telemetry from 1 trillion queries a day You may recall that Azure SQL Data Warehouse got a blasting with the Redmond rebrandogun at the company's Ignite event earlier this month. The Reg caught up with corporate veep for Azure Data, Rohan Kumar, at the recent Big Data event in London to find out more.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VMGY)
Bet that won't have been cheap IBM has paid off 281 people who brought age discrimination claims against it in UK Employment Tribunals – leaving four more cases outstanding.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4VMBT)
Backlog of how many weeks worth of support tickets? Ouch! DXC Technology has Workplace contracts to "shore up" before it offloads the business, the newly installed CEO at the IT outsourcing (ITO) giant has admitted as he took staff through some related war stories.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VMBW)
ASCII control codes, Teletext and BBC Model B micros – it's a 1980s Who, Me? Who, Me? Monday has arrived once more, and with it a Model B Who, Me? as Acorn's finest takes centre stage.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4VMBY)
Including: AI exercises in Safety Gym Roundup If you can't get enough of machine learning news then here's a roundup of extra tidbits to keep your addiction ticking away. Read on to learn more about how DeepMind is helping Google's Play Store, and a new virtual environment to train agents safely from OpenAI.…
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by David Gordon on (#4VM6V)
Keep up with the latest threats – and learn how to stop them Promo The IT security landscape changes by the second, as organisations move to new technologies and data thieves devise increasingly ingenious ways to penetrate systems. It’s no surprise that IT security leaders feel the constant need to shore up their defenses.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VJCG)
...OnePlus also compromised, and much more Roundup Time for another roundup of all the security news that's fit to print and that we haven't covered yet.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4VJ3H)
New law calls for pre-in-Stalin nationally mandated code The Russian State Duma has approved legislation that forbids the sale of unspecified devices unless they contain certain pre-installed government-authorized applications.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VHZ2)
BlueKeep isn't the only bug in town, plenty to go round VNC remote desktop software has no shortage of potentially serious memory-corruption vulnerabilities, you'll no doubt be shocked to hear.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4VHZ4)
Wings, heads, Big Foot – or just rocks. You decide Pics An entomologist in the US claims to have discovered extraterrestrial insects living on Mars after spending years poring over photos of the Red Planet's surface.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VHQC)
Regulator will cut providers from Universal Service Fund dollars America's broadband watchdog has told telcos they cannot use government subsidies to buy any more Huawei or ZTE equipment.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4VHQE)
The Dictator leading man says web giants would run 'Final Solution' ads for Hitler Updated On Thursday, in New York City, actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen eviscerated Facebook, Google, and Twitter for facilitating the spread of hate and violence and threatening democracy.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VHED)
Also: Two very different autopilots show up for tech's San Diego shindig Kubecon 2019 If one were looking for an indicator that Kubernetes is maturing (other than the sheer numbers that turned out for Kubecon San Diego), it is the plethora of backup solutions emerging for the orchestration technology.…
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by John Oates on (#4VHEF)
But doesn't stop Commerce Secretary saying he's still 'frightened' of Chinese tech biz The US Department of Commerce has decided to grant Microsoft a licence to flog its software to Huawei – America's fave bogeyman – despite the Commerce Secretary describing the Chinese company as "frightening".…
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by Richard Currie on (#4VHEH)
'It didn't go through, that's the plus side' So we know Elon Musk believes we're "probably" living in a simulation. He might well be right because the big reveal at the LA Tesla Design Center last night refused to render properly.…
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by David Gordon on (#4VHEK)
Take your rightful place around 451 Alliance, the global tech watercooler Promo Do you feel like those working on the coalface of enterprise IT are routinely ignored, particularly when it comes to the direction of their industry?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VH44)
That'll be £750 for us to take a look, ta very much – £3,000 if you don't like the answer Fresh from banking a £100m windfall through its controversial dot-UK cash grab, Nominet is now making more money – from firms forced to defend trademarks via the UK registry's domain name dispute resolution service.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4VH46)
Brexit UK and Japan 'more difficult trading environments' A price war led by Dell has clipped the wings of Pure Storage, as a wider slowdown in enterprise spending and uncertainty caused by the protracted US and China trade war continue to hurt the storage sector.…
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by John Oates on (#4VH47)
Chaebol blames 'popularity' for 'slight delay' of 2.5 months Samsung is getting flak from punters waiting an age for delivery of bundle deals offered on Galaxy phones back in September.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4VGV4)
Has learned from its mistakes... again TSB has again managed to capture the ire of thousands of customers after a technical glitch meant delays to payments into some accounts - just days after a damning report heavily criticised the bank for last year's IT meltdown.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4VGV6)
I dream of wires Something for the Weekend, Sir? Guess what I'm doing with my hands right now.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VGNW)
Windows giant continues its quest for developer approval Kubecon 2019 Microsoft had a quiet Kubecon, with technology such as Azure Arc conspicuous by its absence as the company continued its efforts to be a good open source citizen.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VGNY)
Or their marketing dept is talking utter hoop Halfords is telling potential DAB radio buyers that the digital radio tech is "super-fast" compared to analogue AM radio, which might come as a surprise to the laws of physics.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VGP0)
You left your landline number in an error message, you doughnut On Call Welcome back to On Call, The Register's weekly peer into the dungeon of despair inhabited by those who twitch uncontrollably at the trill of a telephone.…
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by David Gordon on (#4VGH4)
You're not alone. Head to Google Cloud's Global Cloud Digital Conference and find out how to ramp up productivity Promo Is the way your business works actually working? Are the members of your organization collaborating together to achieve goals? Are the tools intended to improve security actually being used?…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4VGH6)
More evidence that building blocks for life on our home world replicable in outer space Scientists have detected alien sugars in Earth-bound meteorites for the first time, providing further evidence that some of the ingredients needed to kick start life on our planet may have been delivered from elsewhere in space.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4VGCE)
While there's still a rainforest left, that is Loon, an Alphabet-owned subsidiary, is collaborating with an internet service provider in Peru to set up wireless broadband internet over the Amazon rainforest using the Chocolate Factory's balloon fleet.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4VGCG)
Whale becomes an albatross around the neck of the container community In 2017, DevOps darling Docker decided to start calling the Docker open-source project by a new name, Moby – a decision the containerization upstart knew would be confusing and in fact baffled many developers at the time.…
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After 10 years, Google Cloud Print will finally be out of beta... straight into ad giant's graveyard
by Shaun Nichols on (#4VG84)
Not so much 'going gold' as 'growing cold' Google has announced plans to close down its Cloud Print service over the coming year.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VG86)
Did you copy that? Xerox is escalating its takeover efforts against HP Inc with an explicit threat that it could soon begin a hostile takeover.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4VG10)
Ad-tech arms race continues: DNS system exploited to silently follow folks around the web Developers working on open-source ad-blocker uBlock Origin have uncovered a mechanism for tracking web browsers around the internet that defies today's blocking techniques.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VG12)
About 20% of employees worldwide look for new jobs Millennial daycare provider WeWork says it will lay off about one fifth of its workforce – 2,400 employees – as it tries to get its finances in order.…
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by Team Register on (#4VFQN)
Save £££s on DevOps, container, continuous delivery, serverless advice and info Event The program committee for our Continuous Lifecycle London 2020 conference meets this week – which means the clock is ticking loudly on our blind-bird ticket offer.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VFDM)
Good news? They're not paying the ransom A French hospital has suffered a ransomware attack that reportedly caused the lockdown of 6,000 computers.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4VFDN)
Beyond the spill chucker in G Suite docs - and Google Assistant too Google is adding AI features to its G Suite for business, using neural network processing for grammar-checking, spelling autocorrect driven by Google Search, and spelling suggestions tailored by words used in your organisation.…
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