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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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by Shaun Nichols on (#4MBR4)
American tech giant coughs up $9m for shipping vulnerable crates of crap to Uncle Sam Cisco finds its bank balance $8.6m lighter after it agreed to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit in the US over its video surveillance software.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4MBNB)
Age discrim legal battle reveals startling internal details An ongoing age-discrimination lawsuit against IBM by one of its former star cloud salesmen has this week blown the lid off Big Blue's inner struggle to reinvent itself as a hip'n'cool place for millennials.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4MBFD)
Moved more than 40,000 fake iStuffs while on student visa A Chinese citizen will be spending the next three-plus years as an involuntary guest of the US after he was convicted this week of smuggling tens of thousands of counterfeit Apple products into America.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4MB8X)
Not enough settlement cash to go around, sighs watchdog America's trade watchdog has officially told millions in the US not to apply for the $125 it promised each of them as part of the deal it struck with Equifax – and instead take up an offer of free credit monitoring.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4MB8Y)
Nandu Thondavadi reaches agreement with America's financial watchdog The former CEO of IT consultancy firm Quandrant 4 has agreed to pay back the $2.9m he embezzled from the now-bankrupt business, in a deal [PDF] that finally closes the book on a long-running case.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MB0J)
All going just as you'd expect, reckons Akamai Content delivery network Akamai Technologies reckons that despite the time and effort spent convincing people not to fall for phishing and other frauds, the bigger threat might actually be credential-stuffing attacks.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4MAVS)
NAND if you think it's bad now, wait 'till Japan's trade sanctions bite Samsung's quarterly profits have been cut in half by shrinking smartphone sales and the ongoing memory oversupply crisis.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4MAVT)
What, under its actual name? Microsoft has confirmed its long-rumoured plan of building massive data centres in Arizona. The company lifted the lid on three giant Sun-powered server farms in the state, shockingly all listed under its own name.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MAGV)
www and https are 'irrelevant information', insists ad giant Google is having another go at killing off the displaying of https and www in the URL bar of upcoming versions of Chrome, despite protests from users.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MAGX)
Yep, Patel continues age-old tradition. Plus: Five Eyes word games Priti Patel has declared war on encryption safeguards, demanding they be torn up for the convenience of police workers.…
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Part of plan to 'transition' to a new IT system The UK's Department for Work and Pensions has handed Capita £112m for a two-year extension to the controversial Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments contract.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4MA79)
Report finds enterprise software collecting and shipping out sensitive customer information Enterprise security, analytics, and hardware management tools - the very tools used to keep data safe - are collecting and sharing far more information than customers might think.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MA3B)
OrbitBeyond begone: Getting to the Moon is hard NASA made a slew of announcements yesterday aimed at bigging up the agency's efforts to get commercial companies involved with its deep space ambitions – despite one vendor dumping plans for a 2020 lunar landing.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MA3C)
Educator, learn thyself. Prevention is better than cure Lancaster University has started withdrawing non-business-critical access to a breached student database – more than a week after the apparent hack took place.…
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Better deals, crap service main reasons for switching, but only half surveyed have ever done it Long-suffering customers of internet providers are most likely to leave if they find a better deal elsewhere, although crappy customer service is also a major push factor.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M9XQ)
Blade to swing in 2021, but 'onboarding' for new Office 365ers starts in September The equally loved and loathed Skype for Business Online has a date with the Grim Reaper as Microsoft prepares to finally axe the poor old thing.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M9T5)
The tech has been around for years – why aren’t we using it? A consortium of European organizations has launched ELIoT, an EU-funded project that hopes to develop commercial applications for visible light communications.…
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by Team Register on (#4M9Q6)
Early-bird offer ends tonight – book your tickets now Event It’s great to have a vision when it comes to machine learning and AI, and at MCubed, we want to show you how to turn it into reality, whatever the challenges.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4M9MS)
RIPE approves new policy that shouldn't really exist If you want IPv4 addresses in Europe, there is now a literal waitlist to join.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M9BS)
Su stumbles as Cook and Co log $54bn haul for quarter Junior varsity chip outfit AMD saw its stock take a hit Tuesday when its financial forecast fell short of analyst expectations.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M97N)
PASSENGERS IN PERIL? CRISIS IN THE SKIES? No – but neat ways to frig with your own aircraft An investigation into the computer security of small airplanes, the results of which were made public this week, will be sure to generate some flashy headlines. However, there are important caveats.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4M8W0)
What's that? They found 20 weapons and the landlord was linked to a truck bomb assassination? Oh sheeeeet Vid Newly released footage showing cops storming the house of the woman accused of hacking Capital One's cloud servers to steal 106 million people's personal information, has again raised questions about the over-militarization of the American police force.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4M8QT)
That $5,000 headset you splashed out on, it's done in terms of non-security tweaks Microsoft will no longer improve the operating system for its Hololens headset, save for security fixes.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M8KF)
Remove LibreLogo now Updated The Document Foundation said on Tuesday that it had recently patched LibreOffice, its open-source office suite, to fix an issue where documents can be configured to run macros silently on opening.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M8KH)
Tight-lipped plod say cybercrook emailed them sample of stolen data Around 20,000 Los Angeles Police Department job-seekers and officers have had their personal data nicked, the force has confirmed.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4M8AA)
2.6 million customers hit... over period of nearly 8 years UK comms watchdog Ofcom fined Brit MVNO Giffgaff £1.4m today for overcharging around 2.6 million users to the tune of around £2.8m.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4M84Z)
Brittany Kaiser dumps buttload of emails suggesting otherwise A fresh salvo of emails dug out by Cambridge Analytica whistleblower and Netflix star Brittany Kaiser appear to confirm that the disgraced political consulting outfit carried out work for Brexit-mongers Leave.EU.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M851)
More cloud polygamy for Dell EMC's Virtzilla VMware enthusiasts will be able to lift-and-shift their virtualized workloads directly into Google Cloud before the end of the year, after the two businesses agreed a deal.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M7ZH)
Red-faced SK Telecom coders say soz, reset repo An open-source project on GitHub has been thrown into disarray after contributors complained it was being promoted via a free drink in return for a star.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M7T4)
Might go limp as Linux orphans controller driver for ancient removable media Linus Torvalds has articulated what much of the world has known for some time, with a merge marking the Linux floppy driver as "orphaned".…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M7ND)
It may be a 'plane riddled with bullet holes' – but it's still flying Huawei is apparently like a "plane riddled with bullet holes" that keeps on flying – at least according to chairman Liang Hua.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M7J7)
Latest build hits 11% usage, year-old code still reigns at 54% Microsoft's OS hangover from last year continued to recede this month as uptake of the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (1903) jumped, mostly at the expense of April 2018's code dump (1803).…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M7EY)
Mobe will watch, er, fingers as well as listen for commands Google will include motion-sensing radar in the forthcoming Pixel 4 smartphone to enable gesture control by waving your hand.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M7F0)
'Look ma, no launch date' – Rocket Lab aims for August excursion Roundup As the rocket world settled down after the excitement of that Apollo anniversary, there was plenty to keep the faithful entertained last week.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M79Y)
Fit for production if you are brave, but no Windows Forms designer yet Microsoft has released .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 and Visual Studio 16.3 Preview 1, which work together to enable new features including Windows desktop applications built with .NET Core and C# 8.0.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M77Y)
This is a lawsuit, you filthy-minded people Virgin Media's lawyers have seen off a group of IP trolls who were trying to force the British ISP to hand over the personal details of people downloading allegedly copyrighted smut flicks.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M755)
Cloggies less than chilled out over Windows telemetry A report backed by the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security is warning government institutions not to use Microsoft's Office Online or mobile applications due to potential security and privacy risks.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4M730)
After all, what could possibly go wrong, apart from everything? France is threatening to stick submachine guns on its next generation of satellites as part of an "active space defense" strategy that would enable it to shoot down other space hardware.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M707)
Turns out the PHYS not the limit DRAM pioneer and serial litigant Rambus is set to acquire Northwest Logic, primarily known for dreaming up IP cores used in ASICs and FPGAs.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M6QK)
Japanese manufacturer could help bring down co-conspirators in rip-off caper A Japanese manufacturer that makes parts for hard disk drives has admitted to racking up millions in profits from a price-fixing scheme.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M6QM)
More than 1 million social numbers nicked among other details – FBI collars, charges software engineer A hacker raided Capital One's cloud storage buckets and stole personal information on 106 million credit card applicants in America and Canada.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M6N9)
HPC beaut built by Fujitsu to debut in November Australia's most powerful supercomputer is - we are told - about to get 10 times faster in November, thanks to an AU$70m (£39.4m) cash injection from the government.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M6HW)
Using widgets probably not worth the GDPR minefield Organisations that deploy Facebook's ubiquitous "Like" button on their websites risk falling foul of the General Data Protection Regulation following a landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M6E3)
Still not migrated? You have until 8 September Transport Level Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 is to be axed for users of Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) from 8 September as the company shores up security with a requirement for TLS 1.2+.…
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