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by Shaun Nichols on (#4PA1W)
Project Zero dissects years-long surveillance campaign Updated Google's Project Zero says more than a dozen iOS flaws that Apple patched back in February had been under attack for years.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P9S3)
And they're imposing a 20-character limit on new ones Users of software house Foxit's free and paid-for products, including its popular PhantomPDF editor, may have fallen victim to a data breach – with stolen data including users' website passwords.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4P9MH)
Computers bring home the bacon for US biz in Q2 Good old fashioned sales of business PCs is keeping growth at Dell Technologies chugging along, more than compensating for crappy sales of server and networking gear.…
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Tunnels, bridges, lights and other route constipation hardness to be eased by laxative of software goodness Transport for London (TfL) has signed a £6.5m deal for a new control system with outsourcer Sopra Steria.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P9AB)
Ransomware strain was top customer call-out title in 2018 Kaspersky Lab reckons the number one reason its customers call them for emergency help is because of ransomware – with Wannacry still playing a large part in detections picked up by the Russian company.…
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No it's not Russell Brand's new cult, it's Microsoft's Office crew rolling out their Save Experience
by Tim Anderson on (#4P969)
Not one, not two, but three Save dialogs in updated Office 365 desktop applications In an effort to help users "save files to the cloud more easily," Microsoft has added an additional save dialog to desktop Office 365 applications, including Word, Excel and Powerpoint.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4P92T)
And it's probably better for it The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. Since the last one, not only did we play and complete Bioshock for the first time, but also Batman: Arkham Knight. And a lot of Kenshi.…
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Roles to be outsourced to HCL Exclusive Energy and broadband provider SSE is set to shed 115 roles within its IT infrastructure division in Britain, and will instead outsource some functions to Indian software supplier HCL.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P8X0)
You can't patch stupid Despite years of corporate awareness training, warning articles in The Reg and regular bollockings by frustrated IT admins, human error is still behind most personal data leaks, a newly released study says.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P8X2)
As resilient as a bullet-riddled piece of, er, video game artwork An intensely dreary Little Red Book of media quotes from Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei uses photos to boast of the company's grit and resilience to damage – illustrating the concept with what looks remarkably like a screenshot from computer game Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4P8RV)
You shall not PaaS? An Ask Me Anything reveals common gripes Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), an Azure-hosted VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), plugs an obvious gap in the company's cloud offerings, but comes with its fair share of annoyances too, many of which came up in a recent Ask Me Anything laid on by the team.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4P8PQ)
How's that Boris Johnson impression working out for you? On Call Welcome to On Call, The Register's weekly dive into the mailbag of woe from those faced with recalcitrant users or, occasionally, an overly helpful operator.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4P8KZ)
Insane in the brain Video Tiny brain cells grown in a petri dish can be induced to emit electrical waves similar to the ones coming from humans, scientists have discovered for the first time.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4P85D)
First Gim, er, Glimpse – now our web vultures' favorite coding lingo Earlier this month, Elizabeth Mattijsen, a Dutch software developer and contributor to the open-source Perl programming language, opened an issue in the GitHub Perl 6 repository seeking to rename the project because having "Perl" in the name is "confusing and irritating."…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4P824)
Chinese mobe maker says screw you, we'll build our own Google has confirmed that Huawei’s new smartphone, the Mate 30, will not include some of the world’s most popular apps - Google Maps, YouTube and Gmail - as a result of US sanctions, .…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P7Z5)
Payouts extended to anything with more than 100m installs Google is expanding its Android bug-bounty program to cover not just holes in the web giant's apps but also vulnerabilities in third-party software – as long as they have more than 100 million installs.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4P7Z7)
The clock is ticking to find replacement, he's off by Xmas Chris Beard announced today he will be stepping down as CEO of Mozilla at the end of this year.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4P7V1)
Planned obsolescence and big profits be damned, we're going to let you fix your kit On Thursday, Apple introduced a program that will allow independent computer repair shops access to the same resources available to Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASP), a significant policy shift that could help level a market the company has been deterring unauthorized battery replacements and lobbying against right to repair legislation.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4P7Q6)
Ex-Amazon techie accused of cyber-looting other storage buckets, mining crypto-coins on hacked servers The ex-Amazon engineer who allegedly stole 100 million Capital One credit applicants' personal details from AWS cloud buckets has been formally accused of swiping data from 30 other organizations.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4P7EE)
Plus: Intel slips first 10nm Agilex FPGAs to select lucky customers Here are a couple of chip-related news bytes for you.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4P74A)
Five years' history not enough to get a meaningful human response Canadian developer Mathieu Méa has gone public about his experience with Google's Play team after they abruptly terminated his publisher account at the end of last week.…
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Claims loosening BT's price cap will cost businesses £230m Updated Vodafone has lobbed a sueball at UK comms regulator Ofcom for relaxing regulation of BT's wholesale fibre leases - a move it claims could cost British businesses £230m.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4P6T1)
Slowing economy blamed for customers delaying software buys as storm clouds gather The share price of Micro Focus is taking a battering on the London Stock Exchange, plunging 30 per cent this morning after the home of ageing software brands lowered revenue guidance.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4P6T2)
Devises three-point plan to up its privacy game Sorry seems to be the hardest word for some - Apple has finally apologised to customer weeks after it emerged contractors had been asked by the company to listen to recordings of people using the Siri digital assistant.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P6NN)
'Network censorship will only accelerate the loss of HK to competing cities' The Hong Kong ISP Association (HKISPA) reckons any moves by China to shut off the semi-autonomous territory's uncensored internet connection, African dictator-style, "would immediately and permanently deter international businesses" from staying in the one-time British colony.…
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Just months before 'Brexit day' Just months before the omnishambles deal-or-no-deal uncertainty of Britain's exit from the European Union, the government has a cunning plan to help businesses prepare: information packs!…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P6DQ)
Live footage of runway and grass verge more compelling than actual flight instruments The latest British Army Watchkeeper drone crash happened because its crew became fixated on live footage from an onboard camera instead of their instruments, a Ministry of Defence report has revealed.…
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Bad news for Nimbys and 5G health cranks, good news for 4G The British government has raised the spectre of giant mobile masts looming large over the English countryside in its 5G consultation review paper as a further loosening of planning regulations is considered.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P69D)
Claims to have made nearly €800k from ad clicks A Maltese "browser-based gaming" company that claimed to have made nearly €800,000 from ad clicks in one month is suing Google after the ad tech monolith kicked it out of the Adsense program.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4P677)
MIT, Analog get into some RISC-y business “Hello, World! I am RV16XNano, made from CNTs.†That’s the friendly message emitted by a RISC-V-based chip made entirely out of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and revealed on Wednesday.…
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by David Gordon on (#4P64Y)
Tune into expert-led eight-part video series and bag fear gear Promo Nutanix will dispense valuable advice on ways to modernize your data centre in an eight-part series of videos that you can view throughout August, in what the California-based cloud computing software company calls its Cloud Shack.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4P626)
Let's hope the sunshield doesn't get ripped off again, eh? The long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope has finally been assembled, NASA announced on Wednesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4P5TE)
Save the family joules, urge Apple's WebKit developers Apple WebKit engineers Benjamin Poulain and Simon Fraser have offered advice to web developers about how to design power-efficient web pages, to preserve the life of mobile device batteries and give users move time interacting with web content.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P5QS)
Small governments make up two-thirds of infection victims observed by infosec bods Ransomware criminals have taken a particular shine to US city and state governments, infecting them with file-scrambling extorionware in hope of quick payouts.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4P5HH)
Uncle Sam sued by rights warriors probing claims of silent snooping on suspicious rides The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has sued [PDF] the US Department of Homeland Security to find out more about a program where, it is claimed, officers secretly stick GPS trackers on vehicles they are suspicious of as they come through the border.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4P5EA)
Of course it's Craig Wright The man who claims to have invented Bitcoin has been ordered by a Florida court to hand over half of his stash of the cyber-money, worth an estimated $5bn, to the estate of his dead business partner.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P5EC)
Thousands of dollars and new kit up for grabs if you can blow a hole in Zuck's video-conf gear Facebook is opening its Portal videoconferencing hardware to hackers for the first time at the upcoming Pwn2Own Tokyo competition.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4P5A8)
Wright State University broke rules by loaning out software engineers via solutions biz IT staffing outfit Web Yoga pleaded guilty on Wednesday to knowing about – and failing to report – employment visa fraud that the Ohio-based biz benefited from at the nearby Wright State University.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4P51C)
Kills roaming settings, makes HTML copy 'incontrovertible' You can now get a Windows Terminal preview without the roam-tastic settings after 0.4 appeared in the Microsoft Store in Windows 10, replacing version 0.3 which it kicked out just a few weeks ago.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4P4PH)
exFAT heading towards Open Invention Network's Linux System Definition Microsoft has published the technical specification for exFAT, a file system widely used for removable storage devices.…
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by John Oates on (#4P4H5)
Competition Commish Margrethe Vestager confirms latest piercing The European Commission is investigating Google for illegally favouring its own job ads service over rivals.…
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Programme to shine a light on elections lacks transparency Researchers studying the influence Facebook has on democracy are threatening to quit over a lack of access to the antisocial network's data.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4P4BN)
Release the GIMP: Glimpse project founded to avoid branding that some find offensive Interview Glimpse is a fork of the popular open source image editor, GIMP, created primarily to offer the software under an alternative name.…
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by Team Register on (#4P4BQ)
Book now – Serverless Computing London early-bird offer expires soon Event If you’re thinking about saving money by going serverless, you should start by going to Serverless Computing London AND some money.…
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by John Oates on (#4P46Y)
This will end well UK PM Boris Johnson will attempt to close Parliament in order to push through a no-deal Brexit without interference from pesky voters' representatives in the form of MPs.…
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by John Oates on (#4P42E)
Out of options we are running Oracle is having one last shake of the dice by going back to court to try to force the Pentagon to reconsider kicking it out of the running for the $10bn contract to run cloud services for the US Department of Defense.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4P3Z4)
IoT botnets move into the home theater market in search of low-hanging fruit Set-top tuner boxes have become the infection vector in the spread of Internet of Things malware.…
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by John Oates on (#4P3Z5)
Government dept finally called out... by Britain's ad watchdog. We guess everyone else was busy UK ad watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has told the Home Office to pull a radio advert aimed at encouraging Europeans living in the UK to apply for "settled" status, because it is misleading.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4P3VG)
The second generation 300e for when your little darling simply must have Windows 10 Hands On With a new school term fast approaching, The Register has got its claws on Lenovo's second generation 300e laptop, a device aimed fairly and squarely at students.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4P3SA)
And that's why we flirted with your nemesis Symantec, Brit retailer claims Brit retailer Dixons has lashed back at McAfee's £30m High Court broadside, saying it was entitled to promote rival antivirus (AV) tech from Symantec if McAfee's software wouldn't work on Windows 10S devices.…
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