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by Gareth Corfield on (#4WVYZ)
They're not 'immune', they just have the 'power' to not be punished It’s perfectly legal for British spies to break the law, Britain’s secretive spy court has ruled – making a mockery of other laws intended to keep eavesdropping agencies and others under effective control.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WVZ1)
Nothing on you? Ask a friend The owner of Flickr has once again brought out the begging bowl after telling the service's legion of users that company accounts are still daubed with red.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4WVNW)
WebAssembly key tech for replacing native apps, say respondents Mozilla has released the first "Web DNA Report", in which devs identify their top needs in terms of web development - and browser compatibility is the biggest issue by far, especially when it comes to supporting our old friend Microsoft Internet Explorer.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WVNX)
Brummy bobbies particularly careless, apparently Hapless UK plod have lost 2,600 mobile phones, laptops, police radios, and other assorted gadgetry over the past three years, according to research from Parliament Street Think Tank.…
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by Team Register on (#4WVNZ)
Microservices and cloud pioneer Sam Newman to deliver keynote Event We’re thrilled to announce the first tranche of speakers for Continuous Lifecycle London 2020, which will bring you face to face with some of the finest minds in DevOps, containers, CI/CD, and serverless.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WVP0)
Take a break from calling for the end of e2e, so they can switch encrypted chat apps It's not just the European Union the UK's ruling party wishes to leave. According to the Guardian, the recently victorious Conservative party is switching from WhatsApp to Signal, in order to accommodate its new influx of MPs.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4WVD2)
Luckily, it's not the night before Christmas. Actually, it's worse Updated HSBC’s mobile and online banking services went absent without leave in the UK last night and are missing in action again this morning, just as Brits begin panicking about any last minute buys they need to make for Chrimbo.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4WVD4)
Lithuanian bloke gets half a decade for the mother of all phishing schemes A Lithuanian hacker will spend the next five years behind bars for masterminding a massive $120m (£92.05m) business email compromise involving Facebook and Google.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WVD6)
PXC 500-II comes for Sony and co's expensive audio breakfasts armed with... oh no, a microUSB Review In airports and train stations, it's not unusual to encounter weary corporate warriors sporting headphones that cost upwards of £300. This premium segment of the audio market is largely dominated by two players: Bose's QuietComfort II cans, and the Sony WH-1000XM3. Could their time at the top be coming to an end?…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4WV7V)
And by the way, sorry about Swift and Kitura Interview What does a £63m investment even mean in a country where you don't need to declare cash flow?…
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by Richard Speed on (#4WV7X)
The day a Reg reader learned that honesty (and cheese) is its own reward Who, Me? Ho ho ho, behold our bulging bag of reader confessions in The Register's regular Who, Me? feature. Today we learn, once again, that the boss is not always all bad.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4WTHD)
Poisoned movie feeds will do more damage than an angry Dalek Movie fans eager for an early peek at the new Star Wars installment are putting themselves at risk of malware infection.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4WTHF)
FOIA lawsuit demands data on Tactical Terrorism Response Teams When Andreas Gal, CEO of Silk Labs and a US citizen, returned to the US from a business trip in Europe last year, he was detained by US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) for secondary screening. He claims he was threatened with unwarranted charges, denied access to an attorney, and told he had to unlock his electronic devices before he would be allowed to leave.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4WTHG)
Dial-a-ride dev opens wallet over sexual harassment and retaliation case Uber has agreed to pay $4.4m to settle claims it allowed employees to be sexually harassed and then allowed retaliation against them when they came forward.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4WSZE)
And you thought politics was winding down for Christmas The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has suffered a data breach after allegedly having 143 party email accounts accessed amid demands made by blackmailers, the High Court in London has been told (PDF).…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4WSZF)
Tried Svelte yet? Perhaps you should According to a sizeable group of coders who responded to a new State of JavaScript survey, the React framework is not only the most used front-end framework, it also has the highest satisfaction rating.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WSP6)
Two less lovely phone booths in the world, and it's going to be fine Who knew payphones could be so controversial? The central London council of Westminster has won a court battle against New World Payphones, preventing it from deploying two billboard-cum-payphones in the heart of London's Marylebone Road.…
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by John Oates on (#4WSP8)
Do election promises mean anything? The Right Honourable Sir John Redwood is supporting contractors in their battle to overturn IR35 tax rules before they hit the private sector, demanding the new Tory government meets its pledge to review the legislation.…
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by John Oates on (#4WSP9)
Reg's Logowatch team sad to report UK outsourcing baddie didn't get too creative Capita is launching a consulting arm called ... err ... Capita Consulting - at least we can get behind the sensible name it chose instead of going with something like Indigo Egret or Seventh Wave.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WSGZ)
Sticky grip of sole more efficient for sweeps than for gamers Puma is perhaps best known for its sportswear and trainers. However, it's getting into a new market – eSports.…
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by Team Register on (#4WSH1)
Catch up with public sector developments and more Promo If you missed this year's re:Invent – the annual Amazon Web Services cloud-computing mega-conference held in Las Vegas at the beginning of December – you can catch up with some of the highlights in London, England, on 22 January.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4WSH2)
All Chromium browsers are equal, but some smell more equal than others Browser maker Vivaldi celebrated its last release of 2019 with a handbags-at-dawn move that will see it don a Google Chrome disguise.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4WSCB)
* Terms of stay non-negotiable following extradition. Some imprisonment required. He denies any wrongdoing A British man suspected to be an instrumental member of the Dark Overlord hacking crew has been extradited to the US for trial.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4WSCD)
School in Germany rolls out credential refresh with printed ID requirement Tens of thousands of students and staff at a university in Germany had to queue up this week after a malware infection on its campus network forced the college to reset everyone's account passwords.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4WS38)
A data silo we didn't know existed until a certain IT admin went rogue Analysis The FBI is likely breaking the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches, when it investigates domestic crimes using an NSA database created from international wiretaps, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4WS3A)
Sales team trimmed in time for the holidays Exclusive Enterprise cloud storage biz SwiftStack got smaller on Wednesday when it laid off an unspecified number of people.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4WS3C)
On the plus side, this saves cable companies the hassle of laying down fiber America's communications watchdog, the FCC, has unveiled another piece of its rural broadband master plan – and it comprises blowing $89m on getting a tiny number of people very expensive, data-capped internet.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4WRVJ)
Stick a fork in 2019, we're done, eh Canadian medical testing specialist LifeLabs says miscreants were able to break into its corporate network and access systems containing the sensitive and personal records of 15 million customers.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4WRVM)
Merry Christmas! A federal judge has ruled that the US government can collect royalties from the sale of ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden's memoir Permanent Record and any fees from related public speeches.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4WRVP)
The bad news: You may have to buy all new kit if you want things to work After years of trying and failing to dominate the smart home market with their own standards, tech giants Amazon, Apple and Google have finally agreed to work on a set of common code that will allow smart home products, from thermostats to cameras to plugs to digital assistants, to work together seamlessly.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4WRJ1)
Disgruntled ex-techie took just 13 minutes to almost wreak havoc The man who hacked northern airline Jet2 has been jailed for five months after he posed to hotel staff as a company director, was disciplined, and later went on an alcohol-fuelled deletion spree.…
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by David Gordon on (#4WR8N)
Simplify your DataStax deployments and management with Kubernetes Webcast Today, many enterprise IT organizations are implementing hybrid and multi-cloud solutions to bring the most advanced features and capabilities into their operations. It’s a move that promises a competitive edge, though success ultimately depends on one's ability to handle workloads seamlessly across providers.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4WR8P)
Non-compete legal brouhaha reveals how once-mighty handset biz now sees itself BlackBerry, the former phone handset company, has accused rival security business SentinelOne of systematically poaching its top talent during a court hearing in central London where the Canadian company tried to block a salesman from jumping ship.…
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by John Oates on (#4WR8R)
Before you gasp, settlement does cover audit of a full decade The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has scooped A$481.5m (£252.3m, $330m) in back taxes from ad giant Google, its latest victory scored against big technology businesses including Apple, Facebook and Microsoft.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4WR8T)
High Court judge passes file to prosecutors following £58m civil suit settlement Fujitsu faces a potential criminal investigation after a High Court judge's savage criticism of the outsourcing company and one of its customers, the Post Office, at the end of a long-running trial over the state mail operator's core IT system.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WR05)
Will run Android 10, but sans Choc Fac apps In another body blow for Huawei's global smartphone ambitions, the Chinese telco yesterday confirmed its upcoming P40 and P40 Pro handsets will ship without Google Mobile Services.…
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by John Oates on (#4WR06)
World+dog hunts for new password manager Remote access, collaboration and password manager provider LogMeIn has been sold to a private equity outfit for $4.3bn.…
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by John Oates on (#4WR08)
Two dozen staff found guilty The chairman and a vice president of Samsung electronics are starting 18 months' prison sentences after being found guilty of illegal union busting yesterday at the Seoul Central District Court.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4WQTE)
Lightweight Linux VMs for all. So long as Ubuntu is your thing Canonical is preparing some festive fun for developers with a major release of its lightweight VM manager, Multipass.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4WQTG)
Once a hit with drug entrepreneurs, though its algos had been weeding them out When Intersection first announced it was bringing LinkNYC's smart billboard technology to the UK in 2016, it promised to drag the humble telephone booth into the 21st century.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4WQTH)
The IAU brandishes 112 new names for the star systems and its exoplanets to celebrate its 100 year anniversary On Tuesday the International Astronomical Union announced the names of 112 exoplanets and their parent stars, with names selected from 112 different countries here on Earth.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4WQNB)
Turns out even with the luxury and protection of billions of dollars, you still can't take any criticism Stung by an article mulling Amazon Web Services' market dominance on Monday, AWS VP Andi Gutmans fired back, complaining the reporter ignored flattering comments from AWS partners – and that "AWS is 'strip-mining' open source is silly and off-base."…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4WQND)
'Divisive and humiliating' terms are bad as the N-word, uni lecturer argues Labeling super-smart people with terms like nerd, geek, or boffin is hate speech, and should be punishable as such, argues lecturer and Harley-Street psychotherapist Dr Sonja Falck.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4WQHB)
Non-profit says seizure-inducing posts were a deliberate attempt at harm The Epilepsy Foundation said this week it will report to the cops any and all tweets seemingly engineered to trigger seizures.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4WQHD)
Techie allegedly fed secret financial info to buddies ahead of public release A now-former Palo Alto Networks IT administrator illegally exploited his employer's confidential financial figures to line his pockets with stock-market profits, it is claimed.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4WQCY)
You need stability concerns? Here’s some stability concerns, say DNS gurus at Packet Clearing House The sale of the .org registry to a for-profit private equity firm would have “a disastrous effect on stability,†a DNS specialist has warned.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4WQ67)
Web giant claims she broke rules with pro-union popup code – fellow techies reckon that's rubbish Google on Friday fired security engineer Kathryn Spiers after she created a Chrome popup notification reminding her colleagues that they have the "right to participate in protected concerted activities."…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4WQ68)
Just another, oh, $1.675bn to go to defend systems, it is estimated US lawmakers have formally earmarked hundreds of millions of dollars for an election security overhaul.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4WQ6A)
FTC gives out a wrist slap, lets it continue doing the exact same thing If you were one of the millions of people that signed up with Unrollme to cut down on the emails from outfits you once bought a product from, we have some bad news for you: it has been storing and selling your data.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4WPY4)
'I'm not dead!' insists doomed OS. It will be soon Microsoft unloaded some festive cheer on the last remaining Windows Phone user by apparently extending the life of the doomed platform for another few weeks.…
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