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by Gareth Corfield on (#4TN10)
Has collective amnesia about stance on end-to-end encryption The British government wants your bright ideas for improving the nation's cybersecurity because it wants to "understand the apparent lack of strong commercial rationale for investment" in locking down your shizz.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4TMQ4)
Day after termination of Windows 7 support. Plus: First Release Candidate arrives Ignite Less than a year after it emerged that EdgeHTML was for the chop, Microsoft has delivered a Release Candidate of its shiny new Chromium-based browser.…
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by David Gordon on (#4TMQ6)
Join us and fellow tech pros for a morning briefing on November 20 Promo Reading about the impact of voice-powered systems is one thing, but talking through the reality with a roomful of your fellow tech pros is quite another.…
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Bumps up engineer total for UK & Ireland to 4k - but is that enough? Sky's broadband and TV arm will hire 1,000 new staff members, half of whom will be engineers.…
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HMRC vows to appeal IT contractor Richard Alcock has won an appeal against HMRC after the UK taxman said he owed more than £200,000 in national insurance contributions (NICs) and income tax under off-payroll rules.…
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by John Oates on (#4TMQB)
So there Outsourcing giant Infosys has told the Indian National Stock Exchange that whistleblowers have offered no evidence to go with their claims of corruption and false accounting.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#4TMGM)
A tricorder for food is possible, but the truth is trickier Column A few hours after a meal, there's sometimes a nasty moment. The stomach does a bit of a churn, and you wonder, 'Oh god, what have I eaten?'…
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by Richard Speed on (#4TMGP)
Plus: Your Phone makes do without Bluetooth, Azure Sphere release date Roundup As Microsoft's Ignite shindig loomed, the gnomes of Redmond took a break from crafting PowerPoints to emit Windows builds and a new icon for Edge.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4TMGR)
Not many actual software companies threaten Linux now Keith Bergelt, CEO of the Open Invention Network (OIN), says the organisation is "pivoting to focus on" risks from "non-practising entit[ies]" also known as patent trolls.…
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by John Oates on (#4TMGT)
Mostly illegible missive claims to come from tiny uninhabited island with its own TLD An Antarctic research station is asking for help after finding a message in a bottle with an indecipherable email address.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4TMC3)
Thank $DEITY for VPNs and, er, Service Pack 3... yeah, that's it. Service Pack 3! Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me?, your Monday morning palate-cleansing confessional after a weekend of not worrying about the antics of users. Pop on the kettle, grab a digestive and… maybe check your bandwidth?…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4TMC5)
Kick off your Monday with machine-learning news Roundup Hello, here’s a short but sweet round up of news from the world of machine learning beyond what we have already covered on El Reg.…
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by Team Register on (#4TMC6)
It's about serverless computing, it's in London... it's Serverless Computing London Event Whether you’re deciding which platform to opt for, or want to turbo-charge your existing serverless development efforts, you can find all the answers at Serverless Computing London this week.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4TMC8)
Adversarial T-shirt disguise hoodwinks machine-learning algorithms In a pleasing symmetry, boffins have used machine-learning algorithms to develop a T-shirt design that causes its wearer to evade detection by object-recognition cameras.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TM89)
Including Spanish camgirl sites spill info, domain registrars hacked Roundup Let's check out some of the more recent security happenings beyond what we've already covered.…
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by Team Register on (#4TJAS)
We've extended the call-for-papers deadline for Continuous Lifecycle London Event We’ve extended the call for papers for Continuous Lifecycle London 2020, meaning you’ve got extra time to nail down your proposals.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4THW3)
FTC tells Senator staff reports are confidential The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has refused to release an infamous report into Google’s anti-competitive behavior, claiming that staff reports are exempt from America's Freedom of Information Act.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4THKG)
Purchase another sign of mass consolidation by tech giants Google will pay $2.1bn to acquire Fitbit, the second largest company in the wearables market, inserting itself into a world increasingly dominated by Apple – and continuing the mass consolidation of consumer technology by the Big Three corporations; Amazon being the third party.…
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by John Oates on (#4THKJ)
Cold water poured on mystery Cold War death-ray fears Sonic attacks supposedly launched back in 2016 by dastardly Cubans on innocent US diplomats in Havana may well be psychosomatic rather than the result of technology aimed at the embassy.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4THKM)
Stock crashes by 25%+ on weaker sales outlook The share price for Arista Networks has crashed after the network switch maker warned of a sudden softening to its turnover due to a "cloud titan" customer cutting back on its spending plans.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4THAS)
Trial ditched because parentals weren't happy – report As if China weren't scary enough already (at least according to US prez Donald Trump), schoolkids in the country have been fitted with head-mounted gizmos to track their attention spans.…
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£1bn Brit court digitisation scheme would be great ... if Wi-Fi situation wasn't 'wholly inadequate'
Unfortunately, these things need internet to work The tech behind the £1bn justice system modernisation programme, intended to digitise the process against a backdrop of court closures, has been slammed by British MPs.…
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From the broken world of banking to the broken world of govt IT Mark Denney has left the creaking world of banking IT to join the, er, creaking world of government IT – taking the role of interim chief digital and information officer at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.…
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by John Oates on (#4TH1Y)
Disposable furniture flogger seeks data wranglers Scandi furniture emporium Ikea is seeking privacy specialists to join its office in Malmö, Sweden.…
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by Matthew Huges on (#4TH20)
Professional wireless buds pack interesting features, though iFixit, the Huntingdon Life Sciences of the tech world, has published its long-awaited teardown of the latest Apple earbuds (or, using the terminology of pro tea-leaves readers at Gartner, "earworn wearables").…
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by John Oates on (#4TH22)
Yes, the chips are still down Samsung Electronics profits shrivelled up in the third quarter of 2019 thanks to the ongoing memory market downturn.…
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UK.gov handout scrutinised due to boss's friendship with PM A £100,000 government grant to Jennifer Arcuri's infosec training business, Hacker House, has been flagged as "appropriate" following an investigation.…
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by John Oates on (#4TGRW)
Sexual assault reports under investigation Greater Manchester Police have confirmed they are investigating two allegations of sexual assault against Lawrence Jones, who stepped down as boss of UKFast yesterday.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4TGRY)
Obsidian nails it The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. This time we're heading spacewards again, to The Outer Worlds to be exact, otherwise known as Halcyon, a corporate hellhole colony at the arse-end of the galaxy.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4TGS0)
Two countries separated by a common language The US Air Force (USAF) has declared it is awarding a contract to Raytheon thanks to its pressing need for "full ARSE compatibility", including Windows 10 support, with equipment designed for maintaining fighter jet missiles.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4TGKD)
Look in my eye and say that Something for the Weekend, Sir? Thrilling news: my Libra account is ready! I can barely restrain my excitement.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4TGKF)
In which our hero becomes an accidental expert On Call Welcome to On Call, The Register's weekly cautionary tale for those who believe a good deed can ever go unpunished.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4TGKG)
The 'massive unseen companion' is still a mystery Astrophysicists may have discovered the smallest black hole yet – just 3.3 times the mass of our Sun – according to a new paper published in Science.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4TGKJ)
Not bad if you have over $3 million to splash out on cloud DeepMind’s AlphaStar AI bot has reached Grandmaster level at StarCraft II, a popular battle strategy computer game, after ranking within the top 0.15 per cent of players in an online league.…
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by David Gordon on (#4TGFH)
From incident response and forensics to disassemblers and debuggers, it's all covered Promo No matter how thorough your security preparations, chances are that hidden threats already lurk inside your organisation's networks. Even the most advanced security and monitoring tools can’t be solely relied upon on to keep persistent adversaries out of your systems.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TGFJ)
Bogus charges being racked up by Android tool Malicious code slipped into a popular Android keyboard app racked up millions of dollars in fraudulent charges for unlucky punters.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TG5K)
Power to the people... in charge of IT – phew! Microsoft has done an about-face on its plan to let folks bypass their Office 365 administrators and purchase Power Platform tools willy-nilly for work.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4TG5N)
Civil-rights warriors sue FBI, DEA, DoJ over fears of secretive mass-spying network The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and the Department of Justice (DoJ) in an effort to find out what the US federal government’s systems and policies are around facial recognition.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4TFYG)
Crook exploited security hole, hijacked punter's bank cards A fraudster exploited a bizarre weakness in Amazon's handling of customer devices to hijack a netizen's account and go on multiple spending sprees with their bank cards, we're told.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4TFYJ)
What do you expect from Mister 'Truth isn't truth'? The month after Rudy Giuliani was named the US president’s cybersecurity adviser, the former mayor of New York queued up outside an Apple Store in San Francisco to get staff to reset his iPhone because he couldn’t remember the passcode.…
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by John Oates on (#4TFME)
It is Halloween after all Global shipments of smartphones bucked the market's downward trend in the third quarter of 2019 to increase by a paltry 1 per cent – the first signs of growth in two years.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4TFMG)
Let's all have a code audi- oh, wait, they did that already Encrypted email biz ProtonMail has open-sourced the code for its iOS app, having paid for a code audit that says there's nothing wrong with it.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4TFMH)
Proud CEO Cook hails a 'remarkable year'... perhaps for all the wrong reasons Apple has always been able to conjure magic of sorts – be it hardware, software or services based – that captures the imagination and the wallets of its loyal users. But in fiscal '19, Apple performed an altogether different kind of act, a vanishing one: it managed to make $5bn of sales revenue disappear.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4TFMK)
Our old friend the Investigatory Powers Act says so A radio electronics geek has been caught eavesdropping on NHS medics' pager messages, translating the signals into text while broadcasting them on the internet via a publicly available webcam stream – possibly committing a crime in the process.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4TF9V)
New global site permissions but rivals still ahead on privacy Version 2.9 of Chromium-based web browser Vivaldi boasts a new central control of website permissions.…
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by John Oates on (#4TF9X)
Wouldn't it be nice if they did more of the legwork? European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager has proposed forcing technology firms to prove their actions are not harming the market or consumers.…
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by David Gordon on (#4TF9Z)
Join El Reg and experts from Google Cloud and Trax for top advice and info Webcast It’s hard to find an IT decision maker or strategist who doesn’t dream of being able to deploy and manage applications without obliging the company’s administrators and developers to learn different environments and APIs.…
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Troubled outsourcer continues work with troubled bank The Co-operative Bank has renewed its mortgage servicing contract with Capita, handing the controversial outsourcer £141m over six years.…
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All divisions flat or down as firm tries to up its fibre plans Higher spectrum fees and content costs were blamed by BT for a wobbly bottom line at the half-way stage of its financial year.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4TF12)
Software giant joins OpenJDK for the second time Microsoft signed Oracle's contributor agreement "in the past week" and is officially joining OpenJDK, the official open-source implementation of Java, according to a senior product manager at the Redmond-based machine.…
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