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by John Oates on (#4MN4Q)
UK.gov offers £990k for pilotless pilot The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is coughing up just shy of a million quid to see how drones could help with sea rescue and surveillance operations.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MMZM)
Also: ISS traffic, Intelsat results, India swings ever closer to Moon Roundup Space fans enjoyed a busy week thanks to a plethora of spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, India continuing its journey to the Moon and SpaceX teasing its next launch.…
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by John Oates on (#4MMZP)
Press 2 for a new van BT is selling its fleet vehicle maintenance and leasing business to German private equity firm Aurelius.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4MMVE)
Use Microsoft software on dedicated servers hosted on public cloud? Get ready to pay more Microsoft has introduced a preview of Azure Dedicated Host, which provides a physical server hosted on Azure and not shared with other customers.…
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by John Oates on (#4MMQ5)
Data loss is lawyers' gain Code repository GitHub and credit-card-flinger Capital One are facing down a potential class-action lawsuit in the US accusing them of negligence over the loss of 106 million individuals' personal data.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MMKM)
Open-source command line fun and ga- oh. It crashed again. Microsoft continued its breakneck pace of Windows Terminal development with a major update to its open source command line baby over the weekend.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MMKP)
Three-quarters of email addys already in breach database Twee T-shirts 'n' merch purveyor CafePress had 23 million user records swiped – reportedly back in February – and this morning triggered a mass password reset, calling it a change in internal policy.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MMGN)
Will the last IE 11 user please turn out the lights? Microsoft is dealing with the seemingly never-ending dribble of security problems with VBScript by muffling its cries. In Internet Explorer 11, at least.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MME8)
Just another few months of others' testimony to go Autonomy Trial The judge in the long-running Autonomy trial has joked that it's a "very strange feeling" not to see the British firm's former CEO in the witness box after Mike Lynch's marathon testimony to the High Court finally ended.…
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by John Oates on (#4MMBK)
Image board cesspit will be back in one way or another Cloudflare has yanked its services from 8chan, the "lawless" 4chan spinoff forum favoured by far-right nuts and paedophiles, after two mass shootings in the US over the weekend left nearly 30 people dead.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4MM92)
Because it's America, it's 2019, and after more mass shootings, let alone Mandalay Bay, no one's taking chances Black Hat If you're heading off the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences in Las Vegas, USA, this week, be prepared to have your hotel room searched if - for any reason - you shoo maid service away and stop staff from cleaning your room.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MM7J)
Code libraries, calculators, that advert and MSDN Magazine gives a final death rattle Roundup While many prepared for a well-earned August holiday, the Microsoft purses were a-flapping and keyboards a-clacking last week. Join us for a round-up of the stories that you might have missed.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MM53)
Or: yet more uses for CD trays in racked servers Who, Me? The weekend is over, but for some, the knuckle-chewing over a decades-old event still goes on. Welcome to Who, Me?, The Register's confessional for misdeeds and mishaps in the IT world.…
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by Team Register on (#4MM31)
Save £100s with our early-bird tickets, get a wealth of advice from our line-up of experts Event If you’re considering what your organisation could do with serverless or function-based computing, join us in November for three days of practical advice and deep dives – and save now with our early-bird ticket offer.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4MM1B)
Plus, Cisco patches up router pwnage vulnerability Roundup Here is a quick roundup of the recent happenings in the world of computer security beyond what we've already reported.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4MGQT)
Charges for chip giant cofounder and pal downgraded in special plea deal Broadcom billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III and a pal will avoid a stretch behind bars after cops seized a huge stash of narcotics from their Las Vegas hotel suite.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4MGGA)
Back at base, bugs in the software. Flash the message, 'Something's out there'... Floating in the summer sky, 99 Fed balloons go by Uncle Sam is testing a system that uses high-altitude balloons to conduct surveillance over American soil.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4MG94)
Scumbag faces up to 20 years in the clink for email fraud An email phisher found hiding in Kenya is facing up to two decades behind bars in America for scamming thousands of dollars from US universities.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4MG55)
Talk about an appealing patent, eh, VirnetX? Apple has lost its fifth legal appeal against the holder of network protocol patents, VirnetX, inching the case forward one judgment at a time.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4MG56)
Just don't ask us to stop recording and storing them, says tech privacy leader Apple has hit pause on contractors listening into and making notes on recordings of people using its Siri digital assistant after the secretive practice was exposed.…
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by John Oates on (#4MG0B)
Definitely going on his Permanent Record Ex-NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden's memoir, Permanent Record, is to be published on 17 September – Constitution Day in the US.…
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Google bows to power of GDPR Germany's data protection commissioner in Hamburg has launched an investigation into Google over revelations that contracted workers were listening to recordings made via smart speakers.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MFQ9)
Third time's a charm? Further details have emerged on the 737 Max flight control software bug discovered at the end of June, with reports suggesting that belated tests by a US regulator found the hitherto unknown bug.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4MFKN)
Settle in because we are here for the long haul After a short-lived cease fire, the glorious leader of the United States has announced yet another round of tariffs on Chinese imports, due to be imposed in September.…
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by John Oates on (#4MFKP)
Study claims country richer in money is richer in wildlife, too Researchers from the Zoological Society of London and UCL have found a clear link between economic development and improved biodiversity.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4MFE3)
System tracks who's next, but it's no stand-in for a good bartender's judgment Pics and video A British firm thinks it has found the answer to an age-old problem – how to decide which boozed-up revellers should get served at the bar first.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4MFE5)
Movement of LEDs and chipmaking gubbins to be slowed The Japanese government has announced it will remove South Korea from its list of trusted export destinations, adding fuel to the fire of the ongoing trade conflict between the two countries.…
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by David Gordon on (#4MF9W)
Our panel is here to help you cut through the thickets of indifference Webcast Security professionals like you have a tough job. You can bang on about risks, threats, attack types and other scary stuff, explain the ins and outs of compliance, issue dire warnings about what might happen if your listeners don’t do the right thing – and they remain supremely unperturbed.…
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BT's digital network biz noticed it wasn't paying out enough BT's Openreach is forking out £14m to refund internet service providers for network outages and faults.…
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by John Oates on (#4MF5P)
Pint icons in comments please If you needed an excuse beyond it being Friday, why not raise a glass to the 11th International Beer Day?…
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by John Oates on (#4MF3B)
Neat, another revenue stream Google's Android will charge internet search providers to appear on its court-mandated option screen from early next year.…
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Cites health reasons amid net loss of $12.6m for Q2 GoDaddy chief exec Scott Wagner has stepped down citing "health reasons" as the hosting business reported a net loss of $12.6m (£10.4m) in its second-quarter results.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4MF0Q)
When is a macro not a macro? When it comes with the product, apparently Interview The Document Foundation, custodian of LibreOffice, has defended the suite's security after attempts to patch a code execution flaw turned out to be "partial".…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MESG)
Because no one will ever think to look for logins here On Call Welcome back to On Call, a special corner of The Register where readers can share tales of their cries for help and the deaf ears on which they fall.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4MEQF)
US and UK authorities get a different version of Cambridge Analytica scandal Facebook has been asked to explain "direct contradictions" in its testimony to the UK Parliament in light of new information revealed in a complaint from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ME9Q)
Defense Sec halts contract decision, probes for Amazon bias The Pentagon is putting its controversial winner-takes-all $10bn cloud contract, dubbed JEDI, on hold as it investigates whether the whole process was biased in favor of Amazon.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ME9S)
Chipzilla teases actual proper working 10nm notebook CPUs as Omni-Path 2 quietly dies Intel today waved its arms around in the air to remind us it has another family of products coming later this year – after quietly swinging the axe on another one.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4MDV5)
Super Cali 'leccy bikes are proving quite atrocious, even though the biz insists they really quite precocious Lyft has pulled its entire electric bike fleet from the streets of San Francisco and two other Bay Area cities after a number of cases of exploding batteries.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4MDJ2)
Spreads the Openshift love around for Cloud Paks There are many reasons for IBM’s recent purchase of Red Hat, but one of them became apparent today - the Big Blue has announced that it has packed more than 100 products across its software portfolio into containers, designed for Red Hat’s OpenShift.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MDC7)
You might also be slurping Chinese malware Palo Alto Networks has spotted a new cryptomining malware technique that not only wipes out any other miners present on the target machine but uses GitHub and Pastebin as part of its command-and-control (C2) infrastructure.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4MD6S)
Harnessing container tech to ease the Agones of laaaaaggg Google is testing a new cloud service designed specifically for video game developers, based on a fully managed version of the open-source Agones project.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MD1D)
This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardise it Logowatch The British Army has launched yet another social media 'n' psyops unit and its logo will look remarkably familiar to anyone who's watched 2001: A Space Odyssey – or Captain Scarlet.…
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by Maxwell Cooter on (#4MCVX)
Your gentle guide to thwarting miscreants Backgrounder Crime doesn’t pay? Tell that to the small businesses that fall victim to cyber-attacks every year and have to fork out cash to crooks. According to a 2018 survey from the UK's Federation of Small Businesses, 5.4m of their members were attacked by cyber criminals, resulting in a loss of more than £5bn.…
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Better luck next year Outsourcing and IT services giant Capita has reported a fall in revenue of 6.3 per cent to £1.85bn in its half-year results to June, and a drop in profit before tax of 3.6 per cent to £31.2m.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MCQZ)
Little longer to wait before a busted installation can be rescued by Redmond's servers Microsoft responded to speculation that Windows 10 would be acquiring a cloud recovery option – with a terse confirmation in last night's Windows Insider emission.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4MCMF)
Notable omission from list of trusted stuff? Microsoft Outlook Google has begun rolling out the beta of its Advanced Protection Program for enterprise, a set of stricter security policies intended for employees "most at risk".…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MCH7)
First ever year of sales drop pinned on long lifecycles, lack of innovation Industry watcher Gartner has bad news for smartphone vendors this morning – 2019 is looking like it'll be the first year in which worldwide sales of smartphones decline.…
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Meanwhile, Vodafone closes Liberty Global gobble Private equity investor Macquarie's £627m takeover of Hull-based broadband monopoly KCOM has been approved by the UK High Court.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MCA1)
Make stock images great again! Uninspired by the stock imagery used by the media to depict cybersecurity, a graphic design group is offering cash prizes to anyone who comes up with something more original than dodgy hoodie-wearing laptop users with waterfalls of cascading 1s and 0s behind them.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4MC4N)
Straight outta launchin' -the name is ICE Cube- for a game called encryption at altitude The European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled an experiment it hopes will overcome the problems that prevent encrypted communications between the Earth and orbiting spacecraft.…
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