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by Paul Kunert on (#4SP0G)
One of the world's largest tech disties courted by Apollo Global Private equity monster Apollo Global Management has reportedly made an approach to buy Tech Data, one of the world's largest tech distributors, with a bid believed to be almost $5bn.…
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Former TalkTalk security director rattles the tin to cover costs of equal pay dispute against UK ISP
Compo pledged to women's rights charities A former TalkTalk programme director is crowdfunding the legal costs of an equal pay claim against the budget ISP.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4SNY4)
No Big Red now in use other than by third-party apps, firm claims Amazon has turned off its final Oracle database, completing a migration effort that has involved "more than 100 teams" in the consumer biz.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4SNVJ)
You wouldn't want to make workers anxious by cutting them off, wouldya? – study Bosses worldwide will be rejoicing after a British academic declared that banning work email use out of hours could negatively effect underlings' mental health.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SNPR)
Bigwigs on containers, consulting and the path ahead Puppetize PDX 2019 Despite standing squarely in the path of the GitLab juggernaut, DevOps automation outfit Puppet is betting that a one-size-fits-all approach will end up fitting nobody particularly well.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4SNMB)
Hope you look good in orange NASA has unveiled two new space suit designs for future astronauts on its Artemis program, a mission to send “the first woman and the next man" to the surface of the Moon by 2024.…
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by David Gordon on (#4SNJ0)
Catch up with the fast-moving digital world at the IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference Promo As the world gravitates towards cloud, edge computing, the internet of things, DevOps, and AIOps, the ground is shifting for infrastructure and operations teams. Their organisations must stay agile to keep up with the changing digital landscape.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4SNFC)
Code-hosting biz also bans staff from talking politics at work GitLab, a San Francisco-based provider of hosted git software, recently changed its company handbook to declare it won't ban potential customers on "moral/value grounds," and that employees should not discuss politics at work.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4SMZW)
Meeting app insists it is running a 'small payment test' after outcry over new prices Netizens are scrambling to find or build alternatives to Meetup.com – after the event-organizing app maker indicated it would charge people $2 per-RSVP.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4SMRG)
Work ongoing as site recovering from morning meltdown Docker says its services are back up and running after a Tuesday morning outage briefly left some developers unable to access its centralized Hub registry service.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4SMM0)
You're probably holding it wrong already Video At a press event in New York City on Tuesday, Google announced its Pixel 4 phone, revised Pixel Bud earphones, its Pixelbook Go laptop, a revision and rebranding of its Wi-Fi mesh router as a Nest product, and a tweaked Nest Mini smart speaker.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4SMEW)
If you thought Reader, Acrobat, Experience Manager were skipping October's Patch Tuesday, think again Adobe has finally released its October batch of security updates. It was quiet on Patch Tuesday last week, and now it's roaring in with scores of fixes for Reader, Acrobat, and Experience Manager.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4SM4T)
Plus: 35-year-old CEO who took over from dad blasts millennials for being entitled The chairman of Aussie telco Telstra threw a bit of a strop at the firm's AGM in Sydney today, comparing exec pay packets to the vast amounts a small handful of lucky millennials can earn by being good at gaming's current hotness, Fortnite.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SKYV)
Unless you ask really nicely Microsoft's .NET Core 3.0 team is done with the project to port the venerable .NET Framework API to the open source platform.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4SKRG)
The wrong kind of intrusion protection Updated Symantec has acknowledged an issue with an update to its Endpoint Protection Client that causes a Windows kernel exception after users this morning came down with a mild case of Blue Screen of Death.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4SKBZ)
No word on eggman counterpart Python's new feature release – version 3.8 – has landed, the first since June 2018.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4SK77)
A confusing announcement from the cloud giant AWS has announced its "Sponsorship of the Rust project", causing some initial excitement in the community. However, in reality it only amounts to a year of AWS "promotional credits."…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SK78)
Four-legged robot will scuttle a grand total of 10m Roundup In a week where the space-faring community said goodbye to death-defying cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, Skyrora upped the ante with its rocket testing, Elon Musk and Jim Bridenstine kissed and made up, and Britain said it would be sending mech-spider nightmare fuel to the Moon.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SK3Q)
Choo choo mothertruckers With its OpenInfrastructure summit mere weeks away, the OpenStack gang is emitting its next release in the form of "Train" with a focus on data protection and machine learning.…
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No next-gen mobile internet for you but, hey, no cancer either Brighton and Hove has been claimed as the latest victory in the battleground against common sense, with the council agreeing to ban the erection of three 5G masts.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4SJXX)
Corporate expansionism to blame for issues, claims bossman Getronics' CEO has opened up on its recent and "very, very embarrassing" winding-up petition from HMRC over non-payment of VAT, claiming it was an unintended by-product of corporate expansionism.…
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Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else
by Richard Speed on (#4SJVX)
Behold the Samsung Family Hu- oh, bugger The connected refrigerator has long been the fever dream of many an IoT enthusiast, and Samsung's Family Hub has demonstrated the power of such a concept by falling over in a heap on a John Lewis sales floor.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4SJSE)
HPE's Cray hits 80-million-quid target to build boffinry beast Cray has landed a £79m deal to construct Blighty's 28-petaFLOPS Archer2 supercomputer, which will use second-generation AMD Epyc processors.…
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by David Gordon on (#4SJPY)
Join us at a Nuance-powered morning briefing to discuss modern workflows Promo Voice-controlled assistants are popping up in kitchens and living rooms across the world – so what’s stopping us using this technology to take control of our day-to-day working environment?…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4SJKZ)
Boffins claim code was fine... when they wrote it Analysis Chemistry boffins at the University of Hawaii have found, rather disturbingly, that different computer operating systems running a particular set of Python scripts used for their research can produce different results when running the same code.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4SJAH)
Let us put it this way: One of your parental units is somewhat obese and has been rather amorous towards me Microsoft is rolling out a new feature that, it hopes, will filter out rude words in messages sent from Xbox Live users in a bid to make the gaming platform “a place where everyone can have fun.â€â€¦
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4SJ50)
Oops I did it again. And by it, we mean, ripped people off Internet celeb Siraj Raval’s reputation continues spiraling downward – after he admitted plagiarizing real scientists' work to produce a paper on neural qubits.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4SHX9)
All it takes is -u#-1 ... Wh%& t#e fsck*? It's only Monday, and we already have a contender for the bug of the week.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4SHRM)
Cupertino in China Syndrome meltdown Responding to concern that its Safari browser's defense against malicious websites may reveal the IP addresses of some users' devices to China-based Tencent, Apple insists that Safari doesn't reveal a different bit of information, the webpages Safari users visit.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4SHM4)
Venerable stamp-machine maker stalled by server infection Pitney Bowes, the US stamping meter maker, has been infected with ransomware, leaving customers unable to top-up their equipment with credit nor access the corporate web store.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4SHF2)
You want this web tech to be independent? Sure, we'll just put it in an org we bankroll Google's AMP project will join the incubation program of the OpenJS Foundation, which is part of the Linux Foundation.…
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by John Oates on (#4SHAV)
Firm admits it has considered a bricks-as-a-service biz model Beloved brick maker Lego is considering a rental service as part of a drive to improve sustainability in a world where hatred of plastic is threatening their attractiveness as a toy.…
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by John Oates on (#4SH61)
You know, co-founder of the Belfast-based reseller Munich-based Cancom Group is paying £70m to acquire public-sector reseller Novosco.…
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But without a majority, it's more likely to form basis of Tory manifesto than law The UK government has promised to roll out new legislation to achieve nationwide "gigabit-capable broadband" among 26 bills set out in Parliament's State Opening today.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SGVP)
Apple flogs Microsoft hardware and Puppet's CTO has a... notepad.exe tattoo? Roundup In a week that left the Windows Insider team facing a leadership vacuum after its Ninjacat-in-chief jumped ship, Microsoft's army of gnomes continued to toil ahead of the company's impending Ignite shindig.…
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Cos that's always gone really well... Exclusive The University of Nottingham has announced it will outsource some of its IT operations in a long-awaited shakeup of the department.…
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by John Oates on (#4SGQE)
If that floats your boat SoftwareONE, one of the world's largest Microsoft resellers, has started pre-booking its shares ahead of an initial public offering on the Swiss stock exchange later this month.…
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RIP: First space-walk badass Alexei Leonov, who made it to 85 despite best efforts of Soviet machine
by Richard Speed on (#4SGKV)
Looking back on Voskhod, Salyut, Soyuz, Apollo and having the right stuff Obit Alexei Leonov, the first man to float out of a capsule and into space, has died at the age of 85.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SGFZ)
And a release date – sort of Microsoft has given the next version of Windows 10 a name. 19H2 will now be known as the November 2019 Update and is due to land any day now.…
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Bills as high as £9k, but don't worry – they're working on it Vodafone has apologised for a "technical error" that left customers abroad facing thousands of pounds in roaming fees over the weekend.…
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by John Oates on (#4SGD2)
Will join McAfee, Barracuda Networks, Veracode Software in Thoma Bravo's tum Brit security software slinger Sophos has accepted an all-cash offer from US suitor private equity group Thoma Bravo of just over £3bn.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4SGD3)
Why Teams is a key product despite its frustrations – and yes, a Linux client is on the way Analysis Microsoft continues to plug Teams as the "fastest growing application" in the company's history, though it is not sold separately, only as a feature of Office 365 (there is also a free version). At the same time, there are major feature gaps that are only now being plugged, and it is not easy to manage. What is the attraction?…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4SG8Z)
Attention has shifted away from VMs, however, COO tells El Reg OpenStack chief operating officer Mark Collier told The Reg that while SUSE's decision to abandon its OpenStack Cloud product is "obviously disappointing", adoption is "strong and growing".…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SG62)
When 95 + (5 * RAND()) is all your spreadsheet needs Who, Me? Monday has arrived once again and with it the sweet, sweet music of a reader's darkest IT misdeeds in The Register's weekly Who, Me? feature.…
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Storage is no longer 'snorage' Survey results Storage is no longer snorage. And long gone are the days when enterprise storage could be taken for granted, or at least forgotten about until either users noticed access wasn’t speedy enough or the IT team realized space was running out.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4SG3Q)
Read the latest in the amusing world of AI Roundup It's another Reg summary of recent AI news.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4SG0R)
Including: Visual Studio Code debug hole found Roundup It's time for another security news catch-up.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4SCEV)
Perl 6 set to be reincarnated as Raku, as favored by Larry Wall Perl 6 should soon be known as Raku, now that Perl creator Larry Wall has given his blessing to the name change.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4SCBE)
Zuck-bucks dead in the water as payment giants snub currency tech Updated The Facebook-backed Libra crypto-currency project was dealt a crushing blow Friday when eBay, Stripe, and others yanked their support.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4SC7N)
Devs lament 'trash fire' 'Windows Vista-like' release Comment Amid Apple's attempt to fend off criticism for its removal, restoration, and re-removal of an app used by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, the company is also facing particularly voluble criticism from users of its latest desktop operating system, macOS Catalina.…
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