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by David Gordon on (#4QR17)
Dive deep into networking and storage next week with our awesome sister site, The Next Platform Event Join the editors of our sister site The Next Platform for The Next I/O Platform conference in San Jose on September 24.…
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by John Oates on (#4QQPA)
Filing alleges less-qualified blokes given all the jobs, too A technical director is suing Google for allegedly paying her less than male counterparts and promoting less-qualified men to positions for which she was more skilled.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4QQPC)
'Pain points' include data collection, lock-in and uncontrollable costs The Federal Ministry of the Interior (Bundesministerium des Innern or BMI) in Germany says it will reduce reliance on specific IT suppliers, especially Microsoft, in order to strengthen its "digital sovereignty".…
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by Richard Currie on (#4QQGZ)
Five hours and counting, this does not look good for UK hoster Brit hosting provider Claranet found itself resetting the "29 days without incident" sign this morning as "connectivity issues" felled customer emails and websites all over again.…
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by John Oates on (#4QQH0)
Delicious data hoard handed over from UK contracts Five National Health Trusts have signed up to transfer their existing data deals with DeepMind to its parent company Google, but one has refused.…
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Would that be the 'secret talks' Openreach is consulting on? BT is considering moving its entire network to full fibre and will decommission its copper cables by 2027, according to reports.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4QQB9)
Add in Brexit outsourcing mess and it's plain to see why young international scholars get duped Scammers are exploiting Chinese students' Brexit fears by targeting them with phishing emails claiming their visas could be revoked, threat intel researchers say.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4QQ5C)
Nugget dropped in keynote focused on cloud and AI announcements Connect 2019 Huawei will plough $1.5bn into a developer programme to swell the ranks of coders that write software for its kit in an apparent effort to counter moves by the American government to ban US suppliers from dealing with the Chinese firm.…
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The Beeb may have forced you into it, but you still have to cough up HMRC has won an IR35 tribunal against BBC journalists Joanna Gosling, David Eades and Tim Willcox.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4QPVY)
Two-seat jet crashed in France A Belgian F-16 fighter jet pilot has been rescued from a power line after getting into difficulties and ejecting from his stricken aircraft.…
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by John Oates on (#4QPW0)
Can probably run Crysis IBM has opened a quantum computing centre in Poughkeepsie, New York, which adds 10 quantum systems to Big Blue's fleet.…
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Come on guys, we're losing £1.5bn per year An inquiry into online value-added tax (VAT) fraud is being launched this autumn, following concerns there may be an uptick in scams after Brexit.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4QPNM)
Whatever you do, don't pay the ransom Analysis WannaCry – the file-scrambling ransomware that infamously locked up Britain's NHS and a bunch of other organisations worldwide in May 2017 – is still a live-ish threat to this day, infosec researchers reckon.…
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by Team Register on (#4QPNP)
Bed down for the night with tech's great and good at Action for Children fundraiser That sound you can hear is the clock ticking down on your chance to register for this year’s Byte Night sleep out.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4QPJY)
Doh! It only gives us the right answer half of the time Forest fires have apparently ravaged over four million acres of land across the United States so far this year, and the problem is only getting worse with global warming. Enter technology's hottest solution: Machine learning.…
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by SA Mathieson on (#4QPK0)
Farewell to St Paul's telco treasury Geek's Guide to Britain The BT Centre is an unremarkable-looking building just north of St Paul's Cathedral, nine storeys of Portland stone with straight unadorned 1980s lines softened by curved corners. The headquarters of the UK's largest telco could be mistaken for an apartment block if it wasn't for the company's logo.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4QPBK)
Symantec says Tortoiseshell crew ransacked suppliers Miscreants are hacking into Saudi Arabian IT providers in an attempt to compromise their real targets: said providers' customers, according to Symantec.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4QP98)
Extensions used by nearly 2m people a week pretend to be legit add-ons, stuff cookies to make bank On Wednesday, Google nuked two ad-blocking Chrome extensions that appear to have been designed to conduct affiliate-marketing fraud.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4QP3B)
Both sides have different interpretations of the rules The infosec duo cuffed during an IT penetration test that went south last week are out of jail, though not necessarily out of the woods.…
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by John Oates on (#4QNYC)
Remanufactured kit never as reliable, complainants claim A judge in California has OK'd a class-action lawsuit against Apple for alleged breaches of its AppleCare warranty schemes.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4QNYE)
Angry cable subscriber sues, claims 'never-ending' deal actually lasted just three years Maintaining its hard-won reputation for being one of the most-hated companies in America, Comcast has seemingly redefined the meaning of the word “lifetime†– and received a lawsuit in response.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4QNTY)
Service Mesh and Cloud Run put existing features in a pretty wrapper Google talked up new features for Anthos, its take on hybrid cloud, at an event in New York earlier this week.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4QNQN)
Sex assault survivor reveals her two-year fight for justice Analysis A woman who says she was subjected to a horrific rape at the hands of her Lyft driver has sued the tech biz.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4QNMQ)
Blueprints for mobile apps, databases exposed in public GitHub repos Exclusive Scotiabank leaked online a trove of its internal source code, as well as some of its private login keys to backend systems, The Register can reveal.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4QNFY)
Semmle's flaw-finding queries can be shared and used on multiple projects On Wednesday, Microsoft's GitHub said it has acquired Semmle, a San Francisco-based software analysis platform for finding vulnerabilities in code. No price was disclosed.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4QNBD)
GCHQ offshoot says be on your guard Cybercrims are still likely to affect universities and other educational institutions online with ransomware, reckons GCHQ offshoot the National Cyber Security Centre.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4QN5W)
Cash for acquisitions, new hires and data centre expansion Goldman Sachs has led a $147m funding round in Acronis which values the data recovery and protection vendor at more than a billion dollars – unicorn status.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4QN01)
Q3 figures = good, Q4 targets = vague A day after Adobe posted hugely profitable Q3 results, its share price dropped by as much as 5 per cent (~$270) and has been bouncing around the sub 3 per cent mark (~$275) for the remainder of trading.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4QMVA)
Government gave them the deets, so not a hacking charge The head of Novaestrat, the data analytics company at the centre of the huge leak revealed on Monday involving personal information about more than 20 million Ecuadorian citizens, has been taken into custody.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4QMVB)
By 'eck! Geoffrey Boycott-inspired domain sees off tat bazaar challenge eBay and Gumtree have lost a legal fight to kill off a British wannabe rival thanks to Geoffrey Boycott's usage of a well-known Yorkshireism.…
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No lobbying for at least another five months The government has confirmed former permanent secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions, Robert Devereux, has rocked up at ethical SaaS oufit Salesforce as veep of global public sector.…
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UK.gov policy slammed for not keeping pace with technology Plans to introduce a legal right for everyone in the UK to have minimum broadband speeds of 10Mbps next year will be "obsolete soon after introduction", a Parliamentary report has found.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4QMGH)
Social afflictions solved by waving an 'inexhaustible chalice' in your face Orthodox priests in the central Russian city of Tver have been practising an original method of ridding locals of alcohol abuse and fornication: grab some religious relics, jump in a bi-plane, circle overhead and pour holy water onto citizens from the skies while reciting prayers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4QMBB)
New report after 12 forces across England and Wales trialled technology MPs across parties have called for an immediate "stop" to live facial recognition surveillance by the police and in public places.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4QM6D)
It might even hand you the fire extinguisher An autonomous dog-like robot designed to scamper down tunnels on search-and-rescue missions was put to the test in the most recent bout of US military boffins' DARPA Subterranean Challenge.…
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by John Oates on (#4QM6F)
Savage SAP's German customers are using a meeting in Nuremberg to complain the company should be doing more to make its products usable.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4QM2V)
Preview of private endpoints accessible both in the cloud and on premises Microsoft has pulled the sheets off Azure Private Link as a way to create a private endpoint for a shared service.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4QM2X)
Pair of bug reports show how VM escapes put servers at risk A pair of newly disclosed security flaws could allow malicious virtual machine guests to break out of their hypervisor's walled gardens and execute malicious code on the host box.…
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by John Oates on (#4QKZH)
Brit airport to extend facial recog after easyJet trial Gatwick Airport will extend its use of facial recognition to match passengers to their passports at departure gates before they board planes.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4QKX0)
The past present and future of a confusing platform Interview The development experience may be easy, but the open-source Cloud Foundry (CF) platform is confusing as hell for newcomers. Chip Childers, CTO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation since it was formed in January 2015, spoke to The Reg about its past, present and future, at the recent Cloud Foundry Summit in The Hague.…
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by John Oates on (#4QKTJ)
Wrong: Biz committee bemoans lack of automation strategy The UK government needs to come up with an actual strategy to help businesses and workers take advantage of automation and robotics.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4QKRA)
Tired: SQLi. Expired: Format string exploits. Hired: Anyone who can port code from C/C++ On Tuesday, the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) team from MITRE, a non-profit focused on information security for government, industry and academia, published its list of the CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4QKNV)
If we could stop teaching AI insults, that would be great Netizens are merrily slinging selfies and other photos at an online neural network to classify them... and the results aren’t pretty.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4QKJ9)
His persuasive argument? You’re wrong – we know better about this money stuff The Facebook exec in charge of its Libra cryptocurrency effort has sought to assure European governments that their fears are unfounded… by telling them they’re wrong and Facebook knows better.…
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by Maxwell Cooter on (#4QKE7)
Let's take a quick tour under the hood – and spell out why your biz needs this Comment Anyone who’s ever watched the original Star Trek series will probably remember Spock and Kirk playing three-dimensional chess – a great chance for the Enterprise’s science officer to show off his prowess with logic as he contemplated a range of complex moves.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4QK1D)
Commander-in-Chief jets into Silicon Valley under cloud of secrecy The mystery host of a Silicon Valley fundraiser for President Trump today has been revealed as Scott McNealy, co-founder and former CEO of Sun Microsystems.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4QJS7)
Uncle Sam tries to plug leaker's pay, ends up plugging leaker's book The US government today sued former CIA employee and NSA sysadmin contractor Edward Snowden to deny him payment from his newly published book, Permanent Record.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4QJS9)
'This is the last Fitbit I will buy' Yesterday El Reg wrote about the frustrating syncing failures plaguing FitBit gadgets over the past four or so weeks.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4QJMB)
Whole pile of US data just sitting there with no security Around 24 million medical patients' data is floating around on the internet, freely available for all to pore over – thanks to that good old common factor, terribly insecure servers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4QJMC)
Drops Enterprise (Core) into VMware Cloud Marketplace, misspells own name DevOps botherer GitLab has scored another $268m of funding, bringing the value of the outfit to $2.75bn ahead of a 2020 IPO.…
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