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by Gareth Corfield on (#507JM)
Study finds most A320 pilots shrug, ignore dodgy systems and land safely Airline pilots faced with hacked or spoofed safety systems tend to ignore them – but could cost their airlines big sums of money, an infosec study has found.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#507JP)
Everybody get in here! It's another one of those Magic Quadrants! Gartner analysts have exhaled a "Magic Quadrant" report on Cloud AI developer services, concluding that while AWS is fractionally ahead, rivals Microsoft and Google are close behind, and that IBM is the only other company deserving a place in the "Leaders" section of the chart.…
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by Alun Taylor on (#507JR)
Give a Cheshire cheers to a true waterway wonder Geek's Guide One of the Seven Wonders of the British Waterways, the Anderton Boat Lift, near the Cheshire town of Northwich, is a perfect example of the rise, fall and reinvention of Britain's Victorian industrial heritage.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#507D6)
Old-style monolithic but modular software is 'highly underrated' QCon London Sam Newman, author of Building Microservices and Monolith to Microservices, told attendees at the QCon developer conference in London that "microservices should not be the default choice."…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#507D8)
Code needed because 'we no longer have direct measurements about what’s happening in outer electron belt' Machine-learning algorithms may in future be able to warn scientists of harmful radiation storms days in advance of their formation in Earth’s Van Allen belts.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#507DA)
UK.gov decision to back out of UPC smacks of ideology over commonsense +Comment The UK government will now not join Europe’s new Unified Patent Court (UPC) despite promising only last year that it would.…
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by Team Register on (#5079C)
Save yourself £100s and join us in May for excellent speaker sessions and workshops Event If you’ve been a little distracted over the past couple of weeks, and have missed out on our early-bird ticket offer for Continuous Lifecycle London 2020, fear not – we’ve extended it for another two weeks.…
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by Team Register on (#5074M)
Now COVID-19's got FAANGs An Amazon staffer based a couple of blocks from its Seattle nerve-center has tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#5074P)
Management puts on a brave face for Wall Street HPE endured a rough few months thanks to a hardware crunch and manufacturing headaches caused in part by the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus, it said Tuesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#506Y8)
'We're now approaching the point to do the analysis and write-up,' co-founder tells El Reg For more than 20 years, SETI@home has sent radio telescope readings to volunteers' home computers to sift for potential signs of extraterrestrial life among the universe's roar of signals. Come the end of this month, that distributed computing effort will cease.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#506YA)
Once the telcos have enough masts up Poll results published today suggest 68 per cent of smartphone owners around the world would be willing to trade in their handset for a 5G-capable model.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#506YC)
And policies and teams in place – on the double Uncle Sam has finally had enough: 15 years after it put out a memo telling its federal organizations they had to start moving to IPv6, it has decided to give sluggish bureaucrats a kick in the ass.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#506NF)
National survey of ISPs sparks familiar recommendations for better internet New Jersey has bested New York when it comes to broadband, according to a survey of all 2,000 ISPs across the US – and both beat the rest of the country.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#506NH)
Tons of TLS certs need to be tossed immediately after Go snafu On Wednesday, March 4, Let's Encrypt – the free, automated digital certificate authority – will briefly become Let's Revoke, to undo the issuance of more than three million flawed HTTPS certs.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#506NK)
Experts drafted in to help new hires answer customers' technical questions Amazon Web Services plans to double its sales staffing numbers this year in the face of mounting competition and slowing growth.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#506C3)
Adobe Summit too. They'll all go online now. Dress code: PJs and a blankie Updated Google and Microsoft have both axed major conferences due to take place this month - the latest casualties of the novel coronavirus amid a clampdown across the tech industry on attending all such events.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#506C5)
Cloud data warehouse slinger claims it can help comb through event logs Cloud-native data warehouse vendor Snowflake and Edge Delta have spun up a new SecOps architecture they claim will broaden the application of analytics in a security information and event management (SIEM) product.…
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by John Oates on (#506C6)
You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals... so help us get land speed record on the Discovery Channel The Bloodhound Land Speed Record chaps have thrust out the begging bowl to raise funds for a bid to break the 1,000mph (1,609kph) barrier next year.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#506C8)
UK.gov tries the KISS approach to infosec advice for the public Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) wants owners of baby monitors and smart CCTV cameras to take some basic security precautions.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5062C)
Now without all the mucking around on-premises Universal Print, a new Microsoft Azure service now in private preview, allows printers to be registered with Azure Active Directory so users can print to them via the cloud.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5062D)
Needing a landline will soon be a thing of the past BT's Openreach today launched an IP-based network that aims to ultimately replace the UK's public switched telephone network (PSTN), which carries analogue voice communications.…
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by Chris Williams on (#5062E)
Meanwhile, Marvell offers a 36-core chip, Xilinx whips out an FPGA-based SmartNIC Ampere will today tear the covers off Altra, its 80-core 64-bit Arm N1 processor for cloud and hyperscaler servers.…
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by John Oates on (#5062G)
Calm down now The British government said today that the novel coronavirus – COVID-19 – will, more likely than not, have a significant impact on the UK and could see up to 20 per cent of people missing work.…
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by Richard Speed on (#505TE)
'Test Like You Fly'? Yeah, we've heard of it Roundup Quite a bit transpired in the world of rocketeering over the past few days, and The Reg has got all the highlights.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#505TF)
Owner Troy Hunt staying in the saddle after potential deal falls through The popular security website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) will remain independent – despite owner Troy Hunt's decision last year to put the business up for sale.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#505TH)
Super-maker claims breakthrough in quantum supernumerary Honeywell International, a business known to most folks mainly for its thermostats, claims to have achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#505TK)
Plus: Big Blue wanted to 'turn the screw in a controlled manner' on client An IBM exec was accused of contradicting himself at the High Court in London as he testified over the failure of a £175m Agile platform contract with Co-Operative Insurance.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#505TN)
Staff found out after seeing their own jobs advertised in India Exclusive Maersk is preparing to make 150 job cuts at its UK command-and-control centre (CCC) in Maidenhead – the one that rebuilt the global shipping company's IT infrastructure after the infamous 2017 NotPetya ransomware attack.…
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by Richard Speed on (#505N2)
Also, a new data centre region beneath Spain's Azure skies Roundup Chromium Edge has been tweaked to prevent users installing PUA, Microsoft's going to Spain, plus there are a few more things about the gnomes at Redmond we didn't get around to revealing last week.…
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Open-source chap Boris Renski chats to El Reg about the near future Interview The co-founder of Kubernetes cloud outfit Mirantis, Boris Renski, has left the business to start a new venture focused on 5G-based "private LTE" campus networks.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#505N5)
Deep Space Climate Observatory ticking again after gyroscope mishap The Deep Space Climate Observatory – a satellite that warns of incoming space storms that could knacker telecommunications on Earth – is up and running again after being shut down for eight months by a technical glitch.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#505H7)
‘We'll just buff it out’ says SpaceX biz baron Video Video footage has emerged of SpaceX's Starship prototype dramatically blowing up on the pad.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5057V)
Google's TensorFlow Dev Summit may be next, too Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, due to take place on March 22 to 26 in Silicon Valley's San Jose McEnery Convention Center, has been cancelled following the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in Northern California.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#504ZK)
'Does it have its own satellite dish, sir?' 'You can tell your son it has its own satellite' Drone enthusiasts are up in arms over rules proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that would require their flying gizmos to provide real-time location data to the government via an internet connection.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#504ZM)
Proposed settlement to end 66 class-action cases awaits judicial approval Apple – which banked $55bn profit in its 2019 fiscal year – is willing to pay up to $500m to settle US claims that the company secretly slowed certain iPhone models to preserve battery life, according to a proposed class action settlement.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#504ZP)
British biz's foray 'has not fared well as it exits the market nursing substantial losses' Brit accountancy software maker Sage is offloading its Brazilian operation to local management.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#504ZR)
PC-and-printers biz will 'carefully review and evaluate the offer' before, presumably, deciding: No Xerox is going for it: this morning it officially inched forward in its effort to forcibly acquire troubled PC-and-printers slinger HP amid repeated attempts by HP's board to strangle the plan.…
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by Richard Speed on (#504ZT)
Let's hear it for tumbling memory prices It has been eight years since order books opened for the diminutive Raspberry Pi and the foundation has celebrated by knocking $10 off the price of the 2GB incarnation, reducing the thing to $35.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#504NJ)
Pandemic-dodging Sammy continues tradition of investment in Vietnam Samsung has started work on a $220m R&D centre in Vietnam to contribute to it's research in AI, IoT, big data and 5G.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#504NM)
Meanwhile, Sophos finds nasty rootkit, OnlyFans says massive archive not a hack Roundup Here's El Reg's fresh slice of all the infosec news – beyond what we've already covered – that you'll need to know as you start your week. Ready? Here we go.…
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by David Gordon on (#504NP)
Do you own your data – or does your data own you? Webcast You listened when they told you data was the new oil. Now you spend your working lives buying, tending, and managing storage.…
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by Richard Speed on (#504NQ)
Global Prestige or Global Positioning? Squabbles ensue as politicos realise space is hard Hopes of an on-time delivery of a report into how the UK's Galileo replacement might work have been dealt a blow as, yup, it's running late.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#504NR)
Also, head of AI at Intel leaves after his chip got canned Roundup Welcome to this week's AI roundup, where The Reg has - among other things - tried to lift the veil off the Clearview saga, and got the low-down from Nervana co-founder Naveen Rao, who is leaving Intel following the cancellation of the startup's neural network training chip.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#504C4)
Man who steered firm away from burning platform steps away: 'I want to do something different' Nokia Oyj will say jäähyvästi to current CEO Rajeev Suri in September, replacing him with Pekka Lundmark – who currently heads energy firm Fortum.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#504C6)
'Company affected lives of millions of people, causing disruption, annoyance and distress,' thunders ICO A Scottish business that fired 193.6 million automated nuisance calls at Brits has itself become the recipient of some unwanted comms – a letter containing a £500,000 fine from the UK's data watchdog.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#504C8)
'We are truly sorry' Fintech startup Loqbox has fessed up to suffering an "attack" which potentially revealed its customers' names, postal addresses, dates of birth, email addresses and phone numbers.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#504CA)
Still a monopoly in Western Euro channel, but it's smaller: shortages and AMD ROME burning Intel market share It isn't just in PCs that Intel's vice-like grip is weakening – its share of server CPU sales for standalone build-to-order (BTO) options and upgrades has also crashed in Western Europe due to protracted production issues, exploited by a resurgent AMD.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50436)
Anything but this Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another edition of signage behaving badly, The Register's look at borkage of all shapes, sizes and flavours from around the world.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#50438)
High Court hears from delivery lead in high-stakes trial IBM's delivery lead on the collapsed £175m Co-Op Insurance IT platform project told a colleague the project was "hurting" Big Blue, the High Court has been told.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50439)
Unloved assistant to smarten up its act in Microsoft 365. US only, naturally Microsoft has jammed yet another knife into the consumer incarnation of its unloved electronic assistant, Cortana.…
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