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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KPW1)
US senator dismisses cop-out, suggests jail time for execs Data-spaffing consumer credit biz Equifax is offering a package of roughly $700m in order to kill off lawsuits regarding its 2017 super-cyber-heist.…
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by John Oates on (#4KPW3)
But does complain there are too few suppliers, cybersecurity not a priority The British government has once again deferred an already postponed decision _ this time about whether or not to ban Huawei equipment from 5G networks in the UK.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4KPS1)
Is that 'Googley' enough for you? Google has settled out of court with 227 people, who had accused the web giant of age discrimination, for $11m. After all the legal fees are deducted, each person will, on average, get a payout of a little over $35,000.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KPCP)
Brad's big bucks banish bothersome Budapest bung Microsoft has cut a deal with the US government to settle charges one of its European subsidiaries was bribing officials from 2013-2015.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KPCQ)
Taking the reins after Nils Brauckmann retires in August German open-source haus SUSE has appointed former SAP executive Melissa Di Donato as CEO.…
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by Maxwell Cooter on (#4KP83)
Here's the real score on what's happening with information in business today Analysis We keep hearing data is the new oil. It’s one of those annoying axioms that holds a germ of truth, and is repeated by every marketing executive who’s read a business periodical this year.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4KP36)
Ours too, though OpenAI says GPT-2 model won't be released Microsoft has plowed $1bn into OpenAI, a San-Francisco-company that is working on artificial general intelligence (AGI).…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4KNYA)
Didn't see the slide in the PC market? Smartphones? Missed the hyperscale cloud builders? The laws of botched supply and demand forecasting are coming home to roost for the semiconductor industry in 2019 with DRAM average sales price set to fall 42.1 per cent.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KNYC)
With former Easynet CEO in charge of the board Brit ISP Onecom has bagged a £100m cash injection from private equity outfit Lloyds Development Capital (LDC) and asset manager Ares Capital.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4KNSQ)
Plucky mini-comp idling at concerning temperatures Some early adopters of the Raspberry Pi 4, released on 24 June, are running into heat issues, especially with the official Pi 4 case making no provision for a heatsink or fan.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4KNSS)
It's also the 'largest workplace transformation programmes the UK has ever seen' Sixteen minutes: the amount of time it takes for the world to generate 60.8 million Google searches or a BT worker shimmying along to a new shiny HQ in central London.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4KNMS)
Except when talking about Katie Hopkins, possibly... Uncle Bulgaria, elder of the Womble tribe who make their homes on Wimbledon Common, has spoken out against usage of the word "cockwomble", saying his species "would never approve of any use of profane language", particularly not "in our name".…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4KNMV)
Better iterators, generators... Semicolons? Who needs 'em? Microsoft's TypeScript 3.6 beta, pushed out just before the weekend, is "intended to be feature complete", according to program manager Daniel Rosenwasser.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KNG8)
It is but WAF-er thin... – report Network overlord Cisco is reportedly planning to purchase Signal Sciences, a frequent cybersecurity collaborator and member of the Cisco Security Technical Alliance.…
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by John Oates on (#4KNDS)
Hutchison's underdog won't, even if handset paid off Telecoms regulator Ofcom is pushing mobile companies to make clearer to customers when their bundled and split contracts end, as many are left on high tariffs even when they've paid off their handsets.…
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by John Oates on (#4KN84)
Qualcomm, Google, Micron, Microsoft, Broadcom and Intel said to be invited White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow is reportedly meeting Silicon Valley bigwigs today to discuss the placement of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei on the US trade ban Entity List.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4KN5R)
OpenAI's GPT-2 language model has been tweaked to help you code faster Talk about working smarter, not harder. A computer-science student has got the right idea, by building an intriguing code-completion tool that uses deep-learning software to finish lines of source.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4KN5T)
Sprint Education plugged digit-diddling URL snafu quickly An education sector marketing firm has committed a data breach – ironically, because it mass-mailed people asking them to update their GDPR communications preferences.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KN0Y)
Zoinks! There's a crime to be solved Who, Me? Like the unwanted early morning return of last night's spiced food, Monday is here once again. Take your mind off it with an unsolved mystery courtesy of The Register's weekly Who, Me? column.…
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by Elyse Silverberg on (#4KMYX)
Tune in today to hear from Sumo Logic on real-time monitoring and app stack troubleshooting Sponsored webcast It is not unusual for organisations to amass such large volumes of data that they struggle to examine it for real-time operational insights that will help them resolve issues and grow their business.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4KMBR)
Watching us, watching you Roundup Hello, welcome to this week’s roundup of news in the ever encroaching world of AI and machine learning. We’ll be talking about everyone’s favorite topic at the moment: facial recognition.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KKFW)
A summary of computer security news for you, delivered rapid-fire-style Roundup Let's catch up with all the recent infosec news beyond what we've already covered.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4KJ41)
Your periodic reminder that there was maybe a reason so many people voted to leave The European Commission has, yet again, changed its position on who can have a .eu domain after Brexit.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KJ0N)
What a waste of time and money that was Creative Content UK, the organization that terrified British internet users by requiring ISPs to send out emails with accusations of copyright infringement, has decided to drop this questionable practice.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4KHM4)
Phishing led to shopping spree with victims' credit cards A man from the US state of Georgia who pleaded guilty in March to breaking into the Apple iCloud accounts of sports and entertainment figures was sentenced on Thursday to three years and one month in federal prison – and ordered to pay almost $700,000 in restitution.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4KHJ6)
Internet testers went down to Georgia and found a fraud Comment American internet users are, seemingly, getting a quarter of the internet speed they are paying for.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KHBY)
Contractor Martin sentenced for squirreling away 50TB of hush-hush files, exploits An ex-NSA contractor who admitted stashing some 50TB of secret US government documents and exploit code at his home was today sentenced to nine years behind bars.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4KHBZ)
One hit by robo-ride, another injured in US, Austrian trials Two driverless vehicle trials were temporarily halted this week after self-driving mini-buses encountered obstacles – or think they did – resulting in minor injuries to a rider and a pedestrian.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4KH7Q)
Defence ministry gets with the Apollo vibes Roundup As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon mission, the UK's Ministry of Defence has gone a bit wacky – not only does it have fresh space plans, but it also wants to strap laser zappers to stuff too.…
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by John Oates on (#4KH4C)
America. Fsck yeah US firm Throwflame is selling – you guessed it – a flamethrower attachment for drones.…
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by John Oates on (#4KGZS)
'Aliens' The French army has said it is looking to recruit four or five sci-fi writers and futurologists to staff a "Red Team" that predicts future threats and how to disrupt or defend against them.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4KGVP)
After report claimed its sales pitches boasted of doing that Israeli spyware firm NSO Group has denied it developed malware that can steal user data from cloud services run by Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.…
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Look, we're all of out ideas! Fresh out of ideas on how to crack the problem of digital identity, the UK government has put out a consultation asking what the hell it should do next.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KGHT)
Appeal from competitor who fought Apple application fails to stop project Recently established data centre developer Echelon has received permission to build a massive bit barn campus in County Wicklow, Ireland.…
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by John Oates on (#4KGD2)
Fined £80,000 under Data Protection Act – could have been a lot more under new EU rules A London estate agent has been fined £80,000 for losing thousands of clients' personal data when it was handed over to a third party.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4KG8M)
Virty GPU upstart joins the fold Crusty old VMware is attempting to keep up with the youngsters by acquiring Bitfusion, a startup that claims to enable machine learning on any VM via the magic of network-attached GPUs.…
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by Maxwell Cooter on (#4KG8P)
Or Sam connecting a vulnerable dev box to production. Here's your gentle guide to risks and threats menacing your IT Backgrounder The good news for enterprise security is that the number of reported cyberattacks is going down, in the UK at least.…
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A decision must be made as a 'matter of urgency', says Intelligence and Security Committee Excluding Huawei from the UK's 5G network infrastructure would harm resilience and "lower security standards", the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) warned today.…
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People Framework strikes again: 'Employees feel worse off and demoted' A number of female staff at BT that take maternity leave could be disproportionately affected by plans to remove car allowances from certain employees.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KG1K)
1969 and all that, or why NASA shouldn't be all about lunar footprints Tomorrow it will be a full 50 years since humans first set foot on the Moon, and nearly 50 years since the annual hand-wringing began over why none have gone back after Apollo 17.…
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by John Oates on (#4KG1N)
Transport for London missed the train for 2019 deadline Transport for London is to trial 4G services on the eastern half of the Jubilee line, and is looking to work with a firm that wants to run a Underground-wide network by the mid-2020s.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4KFYD)
Of course the ticket's real: it says 'Pan Am' at the top, doesn't it? Something for the Weekend, Sir? My mother won a ticket to the Moon.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4KFVF)
Makes you proud to be British The Ministry of Defence has slipped £10m of British taxpayers' money into Serco's back pocket to settle a legal challenge over the award of a £525m Fire and Rescue services contract to rival outsourcer Capita.…
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Watchdog casts doubt on testbeds and trials scheme The UK's £217m 5G testbed trials have already hit a major speed bump due to a lack of available equipment, according to an official report.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4KFPZ)
How our sysadmin learned to fear vSphere On Call Welcome to Friday. The weekend is almost upon us so put down that bacon sarnie and pick up today's On Call, The Register's weekly column of tales from the tipping point.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4KFQ1)
Yak app still cleaning up after four-year-old cyber-break-in Slack says a 2015 database theft is to blame for a large-scale reset of stolen passwords.…
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by Team Register on (#4KFMW)
Get your early-bird tickets for talks ranging from technical deep-dives to advice on ethics and the law Event Your early experiments in machine learning or AI can be tough. Getting them to work in production will be tougher still.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4KFJH)
93% of onanistic orgs tracking you despite battened-down browsing Google, Facebook, and, surprisingly, Oracle are among the top ten third-party companies that frequently track your personal sexual interests every time you watch porn, according to new research.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4KFAJ)
15 months of wrangling and Orlando couldn't even begin testing AI cloud tech for population surveillance Orlando cops have given up using Amazon’s controversial cloud-based facial recognition to monitor CCTV cameras dotted around the Florida city – after a nightmare year of technical breakdowns.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4KF5N)
Record revenue reaches Redmond, the result of a booming as-a-service business Microsoft on Thursday reported record revenue for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2019 and for its full fiscal year, predictably pushing its stock higher in after-hours trading.…
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