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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ZJ4V)
There's always a tech angle The former CEO of education software business Symplicity was pardoned by President Donald Trump this week, almost six years after the suit admitted hacking into two rivals’ computer systems.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZJ4W)
President slams his own administration's 'ridiculous' China crackdown President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he wants America's semiconductor industry to be able to do business around the globe, calling into question a reported trade rule change targeting Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZHYS)
Meanwhile: Chip fabs still running just fine in China, FYI, says analyst Google has added rentable virtual machines powered by AMD's second-generation Epyc Rome server processors to its cloud platform line-up – as a beta, we note.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZHYT)
If you need to ask the price, you definitely can't afford it Updated SpaceX has pledged to carry up to four passengers into Earth orbit aboard its autonomous Crew Dragon capsule – its first crewed mission for private space tourism – as early as 2021.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZHPA)
Japanese supplier's biz model, like its products, were straight as a spring Two former sales executives at NHK Spring Ltd, Hitoshi Hashimoto and Hiroyuki Tamura, were indicted in America last week for alleged participation in a worldwide conspiracy to fix the prices of hard disk components.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZHPC)
Following this? An Instagram/YouTube ad horse has carried out a cunning meta-Marshall McLuhan-style spoof by faking an influencer holiday in Bali photographed entirely in her local Ikea.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZHPE)
Look over here! Mmmmm, tax breaks In an effort to counter the influence and spread of Chinese-built kit, the Japanese government has approved a draft bill that will offer low-cost finance to firms looking to develop 5G and drone technologies.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZHCY)
Texan tech giant hacks off part of security real estate, sells to consortium Dell Technologies is flogging its infosec business RSA for $2.075bn as it tries to reduce its longstanding debt.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZHD0)
Not many stranger things happen at sea Penetration testers looking at commercial shipping and oil rigs discovered a litany of security blunders and vulnerabilities – including one set that would have let them take full control of a rig at sea.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZHD1)
OPPOrtunity knocks etc You can count the number of phone manufacturers who design their own silicon on one hand – Huawei, Samsung and Apple. But soon you'll be able to add OPPO to that list.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZH3Q)
French telco pairs up with Telxius on backhaul links, co-lo services Orange and Telxius are hooking up to provide backhaul links and co-lo services for Google's fibre-optic transatlantic cable, due to go live later this year.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZH3S)
Support ends May 26. Users fretting over Fedora CoreOS's limitations might want to jump into Flatcar Red Hat is set to fling a flaming arrow at Red Hat CoreOS Container Linux*, the software firm said as it laid out the details of the end of life timeline for the distro it acquired in January 2018.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZH3V)
Then goes and opens rocket engine factory Very wealthy bloke Jeff Bezos announced he would be spending billions on fighting climate change the same day his space rocket venture, Blue Origin, opened its Huntsville production facility.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZH3X)
Yet another financial institution only wants freelancers on its own terms Deutsche Bank is set to lose contractors from key UK teams as it tries to force freelancers to take pay cuts in line with looming IR35 tax reforms.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZH3Y)
Factories 'ramping more slowly than anticipated' Apple said the COVID-19 epidemic in China has disrupted iPhone production to the point that it will lead to global shortages of the handset – and likely miss already widened revenue forecasts it set in January.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZGWP)
ElectionGuard guards real-life election Microsoft is in Fulton, Wisconsin, today to try its ElectionGuard electronic vote system in the primary election for the US state's Supreme Court candidates.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZGWR)
Microsoft previews its efforts to bring complexity of on-prem IT to the cloud Microsoft has slung out a limited sneak peek at Azure Shared Disks, which enable on-premises applications that run on clustered storage to be migrated cloudwards.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZGWT)
Just what is it you lot actually do anyway? Comment Headlining the recent Oracle OpenWorld Europe gabfest in London, Big Red's CEO Safra Catz says big chages are afoot at the company, though the shadow of its colourful chairman continues to loom large.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZGWW)
Ah Larry, you're all heart. Virtually While the faithful were gathered for Oracle's OpenWorld Europe (OOW) knees-up at London's Excel centre, boffins using the company's cloud have been busy creating a virtual human.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZGRD)
If only there was some way of organising the space Bork!Bork!Bork! Considering the origins of the word "bork!", we were delighted when news reached Vulture Central of IKEA getting in on the act.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZFY2)
Move over, there's plenty of room on Putin's naughty step Fresh from last week's controversy with a US telco, German secure email biz Tutanota has declared today that the Russian authorities have pulled the plug on its services.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZFY3)
As in, it's easy to damage despite spiel Early adopters of Samsung's foldable Galaxy Z Flip have shed doubt on the phone's hardiness despite claims from the tech giant about its flexible glass display.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZFPF)
'Web apps should be able to do anything native apps can' Google's Chrome 81 is now in beta, bringing Web NFC support to the browser and extensions to the WebXR implementation to enable Augmented Reality (AR).…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4ZFPH)
Just edible gold rather than briefcases filled with the actual stuff A plate of oysters, followed by genuine Japanese Wagyu sirloin? Washed down with a bottle or two of Screaming Eagle Cabernet '92? These are just some of the levers Xerox may pull to convince HP Inc shareholders to cash out when it wines and dines them this week.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZFPK)
Remote attackers were able create their own admin accounts A vulnerability in a popular WordPress user role plugin lets any random person create an admin-level account on targeted websites.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZFPN)
Also: No HoloLens 2 at Barcelona Roundup While Windows wobbled under the weight of patches, the Microsoft gang updated development tools and buffed up a lure for startups among other shenanigans in this past week.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZFF6)
Chaebol switching even more production out of Middle Kingdom The coronavirus epidemic continues to disrupt China's manufacturing and logistics sectors, forcing smartphone manufacturers to adapt. Among them this is South Korean tech giant Samsung, which has begun shipping smartphone components to Vietnam by air and sea, where two-thirds of its handsets are now being assembled.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZFF7)
Spindly thing claimed to stay airborne for a year with 15kg payload A BAE Systems pseudo-satellite drone has made its maiden flight in Australia, just under two years after being announced as a marketing concept.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZFF9)
'Horrible news' for invested devs Microsoft is shutting down its Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), part of App Center, to the dismay of developers using it.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZFFB)
Plus: Did NASA just accidentally give the game away? Roundup Cygnus flies, SpaceX stands down, Rocket Lab is going to the Moon and New Horizons drops a massive dump (of new data) in this week's roundup. A heck of a way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a view of Earth from really, really far away.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZFBB)
Plus: Trump budget favors AI, 'patent troll' backs down, and CEO quits amid sex pest claims Roundup It's a long weekend in the US, though sadly not in Blighty. So, for those of you starting your week, here's some bite-sized machine-learning news, beyond what we've recently covered, if that's your jam.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#4ZFBD)
Good hook if you're already all-in. Oh, and there's an elephant in the room: full Hadoop implementation Analysis After securing a lofty position in enterprise applications and databases, Oracle has fixed its eyes on data science. And though analysts have expressed doubt about whether Big Red is producing technologies new to the field, its shiny Cloud Data Science Platform might appeal to those already heavily invested in Oracle's software.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZFBF)
Now, where was I? [tappity tap] ... BALLS! Who, Me? Hey hey hey, it's Monday! The new week is but a caffeinated beverage away. Come join us in celebrating another Register reader's flirtation with career-ending disaster with a morning dose of Who, Me?…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZF7Q)
Plus: Iranians accused of hacking IT service providers to get at their customers Roundup Everything is insecure and everything is broken, exhibits A through Z:…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZF7S)
And also, crucial point, the software may be wrong and we'll never be released by these angels of death A neural network has identified eleven asteroids once thought to be benign that may actually come close enough to hit Earth.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZEY2)
'A combination of losing Huawei and slower than anticipated ramp in 5G' A small round of layoffs at Silicon Valley's Xilinx was the result of the US government's ongoing war on Huawei, one of the FPGA designer's top customers.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZD3H)
Ah, bless Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison is planning to hold a fundraiser at his California estate in Rancho Mirage on February 19 to help re-elect US President Donald Trump.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4ZD3J)
Who will join the IT giant in staying away from San Francisco? Updated IBM has pulled out of annual security shindig RSA Conference, due to be held in San Francisco at the end of this month, to avoid its staff catching the Wuhan novel coronavirus that's spreading worldwide.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZCWP)
Malvertising campaign makes big bucks for online criminals Google has removed more than 500 Chrome extensions in response to a report from a security researcher, who found the browser plugins distributed through the Chrome Web Store facilitated ad fraud and data theft.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZCWR)
Techies quit to go it alone, iGiant tries to lure away their staff – then sues – court told Apple's iPhone chip designers mulled creating their own homegrown server processor for the Silicon Valley giant – but were shot down by Steve Jobs after they presented the idea at an internal meeting.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZCKH)
Also: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 eyes its operating system shackles Microsoft flung out fresh updates to its cross-platform data wrangler Azure Data Studio, the Windows Terminal and continued to tease a standalone Windows Subsystem for Linux last night.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZCKK)
Does this mean things are looking up for the industry? Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's board of directors has approved a $6.74bn budget for expanding its factories.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZCKN)
That's phone, broadband and pay TV Starting from tomorrow, telcos who fail to offer their customers their best deals will find themselves on Ofcom's naughty step, potentially helping millions of customers in Britain.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZC9F)
Russia denies claims from well-informed broadcaster that it was homegrown Turla malware baddies Austria's foreign ministry has said a weeks-long cyber attack from a "state actor" against its systems has ended – amid local reports that pin the blame on a Russian hacking crew and its initial four-byte payload.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZC9H)
Buy to boost cloud, automation and visibility chops Arista has beaten several rival suitors to snap up software-defined networking (SDN) specialist Big Switch after months of negotiations.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZC9K)
As 1809 is nudged toward the darkness, the Baron of Bork has plans for 1903 and 1909 There are three certainties in life: death, taxes and duff patches from Microsoft. So, yes, some Windows 10 users have found their PC unhappy following Tuesday's patch shenanigans.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZC9N)
Sold out in China, no word when it arrives in the West Chinese tat bazaar Xiaomi just peeled the wraps off its latest flagship smartphones – MWC or no MWC.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZC0P)
Productivity or performance? Hey, why not both? On this day 25 years ago, Borland Software trotted out version 1.0 of the Delphi application development product, making the announcement at the Software Development '95 event in San Francisco.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZC0R)
Maybe stick to walking the beat instead of infosec advice, eh? The National Crime Agency has publicly distanced itself from a poster urging parents to call police if their child has installed Kali Linux, Tor or – brace yourself – Discord.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4ZC0T)
The days of spinning rust in lappies looks numbered and deskops will be next, says analyst Dearly beloved, let us take a moment to remember the spinning rust featured in PCs for the last four decades. This year "no new laptops" will have an HDD inside, and desktops' innards will go the same way in 2020.…
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