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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4M6AG)
DNS overlord ignored opposition, says Namecheap Internet oversight body ICANN has been accused by one of its biggest backers of undermining its public benefit remit in a recent decision to lift price caps on all .org domains.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M6AJ)
Equipment in hospitals, factories, offices, etc potentially vulnerable to attack Wind River has patched 11 security vulnerabilities in VxWorks that can be potentially exploited over networks or the internet to commandeer all sorts of equipment dotted around the planet.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M62Q)
Vulture Central strenuously denies any involvement in MOMO mishap Japanese rocket boffins' hopes of following up a successful third launch of the MOMO Sounding Rocket with MOMO-F4 were dashed over the weekend as the commercial launcher plopped into the sea after a mere 172 seconds of flight.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M5YH)
Gartner analyst talks Azure 'reliability' issue, AWS strategy 'misses', Google 'human' concerns Analysis According to a Gartner report, the top five IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) cloud providers have increased their share of the global market to nearly 77 per cent, up from under 73 per cent in 2017.…
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by John Oates on (#4M5SJ)
And the rush hasn’t started yet UK universities have slammed the Home Office's outsourced visa system for foreign students as not fit for purpose because it leaves scholars waiting weeks for appointments.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4M5MY)
Put the money in the bag How "culturally British" is tax avoidance? Well, just ask Gary Barlow, Jimmy Carr and David Beckham, to name but a few. Now one "culturally British" games dev can be added to the list.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M5GH)
Liberty loses but vows appeal IPA Civil rights campaigner Liberty has lost the latest of its legal challenges against the Snooper's Charter gotta-spy-on-'em-all law, with judges stating the Investigatory Powers Act has "interlocking safeguards against the possible abuse of power".…
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by John Oates on (#4M5GK)
Risks posed by Chinese bogeyman 'manageable' Germany's data protection and security regulator is not too stressed about the supposed threat of using Huawei equipment in 5G networks.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M5B6)
Plus: RobinHood admits to password gaffe Roundup Here's a quick summary of what's been happening in the infosec world lately, beyond what we've already reported.…
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by John Oates on (#4M57C)
The kids are in good hands The orgs that will sit on the executive board of the new UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS) have been named.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4M57E)
First non-Japanese board member at services behemoth is gone Duncan Tait, the first non-Japanese exec to sit on Fujitsu's board and the man that rose to head up operations in Europe, Middle East, India, Africa (EMEIA) and the Americas, is leaving with immediate effect.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M544)
Crooks fail to hijack infosec bloke's site to dress it up as a legit Euro bank login page Exclusive Think you have bad luck? Imagine being the script kiddie who inadvertently tried and failed to pwn an Akamai security pro.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M546)
CEO finds it 'painful'. Affected coders, more so Microsoft-owned GitHub has slapped restrictions on users residing in certain countries as the company bows to restrictions resulting from US sanctions, according to a hand-wringing tweet from CEO Nat Friedman.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M51F)
Also: Your Phone sees double, Mac fans get Visual Studio love, and more Roundup Of course there was a lot more going on at Microsoft last week other than accidentally inflicting an untested version of Windows 10 on its loyal army of Insiders. But first...…
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by John Oates on (#4M4YY)
One wonders how the 100k-plus staff are taking it Nokia has removed all unexplained or unjustified wage differences among all its staff around the world as part of a review announced in May.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M4WJ)
Let us compete globally, say threat intel outfits A group of British infosec companies has written to UK prime minister Boris Johnson asking him to reform the Computer Misuse Act 1990, saying the act "has failed to keep pace with technological and market developments, inadvertently prohibiting a large component of contemporary threat intelligence research."…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M4TT)
Kubernetes is becoming the 'standard API for infrastructure', says Rob Mee Interview Pivotal CEO Rob Mee is in a talkative mood, waxing lyrical about the transition of its key products to run on Kubernetes – something which has long-term benefits but also costly pain points.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4M4TW)
Including: Facebook code to cram your computer vision model onto tiny chips Roundup Here's a quick summary of what's been happening in the machine learning lately, beyond what we've already reported.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M4RK)
Or how a Reg reader battled the dark heart of Active Directory and lived to tell the tale Who, Me? The weekend is over so ease yourself into the working week with a few words guaranteed to strike fear into the bravest Who, Me? reader: "We were moving to Office 365..."…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M4RN)
Let's be careful out there Scanning of random ports and the use of encrypted malware by online criminals is on the rise, according to a threat report by Sonicwall.…
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Help us understand your world more Survey There's a difference between multi-cloud, and simply using multiple clouds.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4M16Y)
Coming to an FPGA near you, soon, maybe, hopefully? Analysis Chinese tech giant Alibaba claims to have designed the fastest RISC-V processor to date, and reckons it will open source at least some of the blueprints for others to use.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4M11M)
'We should have seen it earlier' astro-prof tells El Reg after rock whizzed between us and Moon Video An asteroid zipped past Earth on Thursday, close enough to slide in between our planet and the Moon – and nobody knew the bloody thing was coming until about a day earlier, when it was within spitting distance.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M0W6)
One thing is certain: it's not China paying for the new round of tariffs Networking giant Juniper has had another challenging quarter – this time it was service providers, not cloud vendors, causing Cisco's nemesis grief.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M0RN)
Uncle Sam's legal eagles sign off on $26bn mega-mashup – multiple states still not happy with biz deal Uncle Sam's legal eagles have cleared Sprint and T-Mobile US to go ahead with a $26bn merger the two cellular networks have been planning for years.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4M0RQ)
Joy as infosec researcher spared jail time in America Marcus Hutchins is on his way home to England after a judge spared him a stretch behind bars in America for developing the Kronos banking trojan.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M0M4)
Don't ask about profit, but over half cash came from subs in FY2019 Atlassian, home of DevOps stalwarts Trello and Jira, has reported over half of its takings from the company's subscription model.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M0F3)
You guessed it, he was using not-an-Autopilot A Tesla Model 3 driver reportedly fell asleep with the car's misleadingly named "Autopilot" lane-keeping feature enabled – and promptly crashed into a pile of barrels.…
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by David Gordon on (#4M0F5)
Make security, compliance and analytics simple Webinar Cybersecurity company Sophos says it has the answer to the challenge so many businesses face when they move to the public cloud and struggle to manage their growing quantities of data.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M0F7)
Encryption, VPN and Android app support for Apple and Google refuseniks Jolla has updated Sailfish, the Linux-based mobile OS aimed at those who prefer a little less Android and Apple in their lives.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M05E)
Here - have a new Docking Adaptor. Sorry about that whole exploding rocket thing SpaceX dodged Florida storms to launch its 18th resupply mission to the International Space Station last night while the company's stumpy Starhopper vehicle accomplished its first big hop.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M007)
Choice? Yes, we've heard of it too Almost half of all the money spent on public cloud infrastructure is now divvied up between Amazon and Microsoft, according to stats from Synergy Research.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4KZV5)
Where else but San Francisco? Remember "clubbing"? You were young, slim, limber – not a care in the world. You thought you could dance. If you couldn't, it didn't matter. Now look at you. Flailing flabby limbs swinging from a corpulent, jiggling mass. Disgusting.…
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Adams joins the family of Fun, completing BoJo's politico shake-up One-time telco company co-founder Nigel Adams is Britain's new minister of digital, the latest appointment in newly hatched moptop PM Boris Johnson's ministerial reshuffle.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4KZJR)
Try to claim your birthright from eldritch horrors, but don't get attached to anyone The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. This month was sunny Christmas, better known as the Steam summer sale and, gosh, was it a doozy picking out some bargains. But we settled on a title known to us for some time and finally took the plunge... all the while watching our hardware lurch and swelter in this unnatural heat.…
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Seeking to wipe a bit of red ink off balance sheet ahead of €19bn Liberty Global swallow Vodafone is looking to flog off its towers in the next 18 months, the mobile operator revealed in first quarter results ended 30 June (PDF).…
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When UK and US said it was Russia, they weren't thinking of the litigators! Analysis The defining feature of cyberwarfare is the fact that both the weapon and the target is the network itself. In June 2017, the notorious file-scrambling software nasty NotPetya caused global havoc that affected government agencies, power suppliers, healthcare providers and big biz.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KZCM)
Ad Astra Tabernamque... but no, we can't dance The Register braved the mud of Bluedot 2019 to chat to Human Exploration Programme Manager at the UK Space Agency, Libby Jackson, and Professor of Planetary and Space Science at the Open University, Monica Grady.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4KZA8)
At last I feel infused with the write stuff Something for the Weekend, Sir? I'm drowning in ballpoint pens.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4KZ7W)
How would YOU make those evil fluffy bastards clear off? Vulture Central's scribes have known for years that our best – and most vocal – resource is you, the Reg reader. So with this in mind, this correspondent needs the 12th player on the pitch to help with a burning issue.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KZ4T)
'This report is taking ages to print, let me take a closer l-argh!' On Call Come join us in a celebration of System Administrator Appreciation Day with an On Call tale of bravery, courage and, er, hairdressing?…
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by David Gordon on (#4KYVV)
Here's a gentle introduction to off-prem security for SMBs Backgrounder Without in-house staffing to set up or manage their IT estates, many small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) have migrated to cloud-based business applications, email, messaging, file sharing, and file-storage services.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KYQV)
Here's a round-up from a bumper day of earnings Mega-financial-o-gasm Quarterly earnings season is again upon us this week, and here is a lightning run through the financial results from three of the biggest names in technology: Intel, Google, and Amazon.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KYEE)
Automaker loses money as software-as-a-service slinger's woes mount Ford says it took a hit on its $182m investment in cloudy biz Pivotal Software.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KYA8)
City says no data stolen in ransomware outbreak, some prepaid punters without 'leccy The city of Johannesburg in South Africa is battling to get electricity to some customers left in the dark by a ransomware infection.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4KYAA)
Give it a Wray, give it a Wray, give it a Wray now: Big Chris steps in to defend blowing a hole in personal crypto FBI head honcho Christopher Wray is rather peeved that you all think the US government is trying to weaken cryptography, privacy, and online security, by demanding backdoors in encryption software.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KY0E)
'Google? Who is Google? My name is Guy Incognito' An unnamed company is developing a data center campus in Lincoln, Nebraska, and all signs point to the Chocolate Factory as the party responsible.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4KXVV)
Boss bats away the idea deals were 'circular' to pump up revenues Autonomy trial As his marathon Autonomy-era cross-examination comes to an end, former CEO Mike Lynch has entered detailed denials to every allegation put to him by Hewlett Packard’s legal team – and appears to have the judge on his side.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KXS0)
Microsoft: Why pay Oracle when you can pay us for Big Data Clusters? Microsoft will be including free support for Java with SQL Server 2019 in a move that involves a little shade thrown at arch-rival Oracle.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KXKQ)
When the chips are down: trade tussle with Japan yet another reason for pessimism Memory manufacturers just can't catch a break this year. As if the ongoing memory oversupply and US-China trade war weren't enough, now they have to contend with an escalating trade conflict between Japan and South Korea, which is disrupting the flow of key silicon etching ingredients.…
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