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by Paul Kunert on (#4VBAC)
CEO insists firm can compete with big rivals on cloud DXC is broken but fixable, the beleaguered outsourcing provider's new chief exec has assured the 130,000 employees still on its payroll.…
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Freelance techies claim they face 20% pay cut Exclusive IT contractors with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) are mulling legal action following a decision to get rid of all freelancers ahead of controversial changes to UK off-payroll worker tax legislation next year.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4VB5T)
Mind where you're pointing that thing, Al Part 2 Welcome to the second part of our Apollo 12 retrospective, where we look at the breaking of cameras and the (almost) breaking of the lunar module pilot. You can read about the eventful launch in Part 1, here.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4VB5W)
Some concerned it hands too much power to too few Microsoft has put its weight behind the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) security protocol, greatly increasing the likelihood of it becoming a default internet standard.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4VB1H)
Pool of companies itching for a slice of the $2.6bn contracts has now grown to 14 A total of 14 companies have now entered the race to develop landers to deliver goodies to the Moon as NASA plans to send the first woman and the next man to our nearest rocky companion by 2024.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4VASE)
Country offline for third day in response to protests Iran has been offline for three days after the government responded to widespread protests by killing the internet.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VASG)
US Department of Commerce relents-ish on blockade plans US telcos will be able to continue doing business with Huawei for the time being.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4VAJD)
Terminator it ain't, but should prove useful and a little lovable The US Army has is building a new 248-strong robot regiment to help defuse or detonate explosives and has just spent $109m on the new hardware, which bears an unfortunate similarity to the beloved cartoon character WALL-E.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4VA9F)
Will take the GDPR hit for all cloud biz so you don't have to Microsoft says it will be making a data protection deal it struck with the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security into a global policy for its cloud services.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4VA9H)
Multinational cop agency reportedly set to issue statement Multinational police agency Interpol is due to say that tech companies deploying strong encryption helps paedophiles – unless they build backdoors for police workers.…
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by John Oates on (#4V9ZE)
It's Magic! The MacBook keyboard nightmare is over – Apple's latest attempt reverts back to something remarkably similar to the key design it was using up until 2016. The one that worked.…
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by John Oates on (#4V9ZG)
You have four days left to nab what you need Intel is removing drivers and BIOS for its old desktop boards so anyone running an old Pentium-based PC has four days to get hold of anything they might need.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4V9ZJ)
High Court throws out Nathan Wyatt's extradition appeal A Briton once suspected of hacking Pippa Middleton's iCloud account – although he was cleared after a police probe in 2016 – now faces deportation to America.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4V9ZM)
Plus: That time the first American in space gave 'nauts an on-air telling off Roundup Last week SpaceX proved its Crew Dragon abort engines can work, ISS 'nauts embarked on an EVA to fix their particle physics detector, and Searching for Skylab got a director's cut of sorts.…
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by John Oates on (#4V9N8)
Lexus of speakers fails to address months of complaints, say users Firmware updates to Bose TV soundbars don't seem to have fixed the problems for everyone and have even managed to add some new issues.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4V9NA)
Today you toil. Who knows what tomorrow brings? A former Unix sysadmin has been elected the new president of Sri Lanka, giving hope to all those IT workers who fear they are trapped in a role where the smallest of decisions can have catastrophic consequences if it goes wrong.…
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Continues big old offload of 'non-core' assets UK accounting software biz Sage is flogging its payments arm to US firm Elavon for £230m, the latest asset offload of its "non-core" businesses in favour of those with a cloudier flavour.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4V9NE)
Missed your deadlines? Here, have some more taxpayer dosh Auditors minced no words in their assessment (PDF) of NASA's Commercial Crew providers: overdue, overbudget and overpaid.…
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by John Oates on (#4V9FX)
Supersonic air detected Bloodhound LSR hit 628mph (1,010kph) in high-speed testing over the weekend, as fast as its current rocket will propel it.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4V9FZ)
All the Microsoft excitement you missed while installing 19H2 Roundup As Microsoft luxuriated in the Ignite afterglow, the hardworking Reg gnomes deep within the Windows mines managed to unearth a nugget or two of news you may have missed.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4V9G1)
You didn't work 2 weeks straight so you couldn't have been whistleblowing, tribunal rules A Capita accountant who turned down a £10,000 bung to leave the firm only to be sacked anyway has lost her appeal against a rejected Employment Tribunal case.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4V9BE)
... thanks to today's entrant in the Who, Me? hall of shame Who, Me? Bid farewell to the weekend and a cheery hello to the week with another seepage from The Register's confessional in the form of our Who, Me? column.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4V9BG)
Plus, 1Password gets a boatload of cash It's time for another Register security roundup of the week's smaller stories you may have missed.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4V9BJ)
Plus a deepfake video that will freak you out Roundup Here's this week's collection of AI-related news that we found interesting. Read on to find out more about a new chip coming to Microsoft Azure and how Twitter hopes to deal with deepfakes.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4V92H)
Board keeps door open... HPOX not a total impossibility, at least not if Carl Icahn has his way HP’s board has spurned the advances of Xerox, saying the $33.5bn opening bid “significantly undervalues†the business.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4V92K)
If at first you don't succeed, Phi Phi again SC19 Intel today confirmed the identity of the GPU-based math-accelerator chip it will offer to supercomputer builders.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4V79G)
The meatball that shook the world has investors salivating At the second annual Cultured Meat Symposium in San Francisco on Friday, donuts featured prominently on the breakfast menu and lunch involved only plant-based options. Attendees the day before had the opportunity to sample mechanically prepared beef burgers, courtesy of robo-restaurateur Creator, but lab-fabbed meat didn't make an appearance. Give it about five years – that was a guestimate from one attendee.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4V705)
Trust your hardware? Pah, you oughta trust nobody Claims that 5G offers “better security†for IoT may not ring true – with the technology remaining vulnerable to SIM-jacking attacks within private Industry 4.0-style deployments, according to infosec biz Trend Micro.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4V6T2)
Tanks of nitrous oxide needed for, erm, science eh? A team of researchers have built a terahertz laser that might one day see through clothes, book covers, and even skin, using laughing gas, according to a paper in Science.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4V6JB)
The case that just won't die The US Supreme Court has agreed to once and for all decide the copyright case between Oracle and Google after nine years of legal wrangling.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4V6JD)
Illinois man gets more than a year in the slammer for $550K DDoS scheme A US court has sentenced the operator of a massive DDoS service to 13 months in prison.…
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by John Oates on (#4V6JF)
Meanwhile, his co-defendant has troubles getting into land of the free The US State Department has until 1 December to get its paperwork in order and show how it wishes to proceed in attempting to extradite ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch to face charges.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4V6JG)
Though not much detail on said list, except security and privacy Some 14 years after it was founded and with no external funding taken in during that time, 1Password has finally succumbed to the charms - and $200m in cash - of venture cap biz Accel.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4V687)
Just goes to show, stick with what you know The ill-conceived and costly error of doubling down on the crypto-market is almost a distant memory for Nvidia as the GPU maker reported results that indicate an upward turn in fortunes.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4V689)
Change rolled back, but it's not a good look An experimental feature silently rolled out to the stable Chrome release on Tuesday caused chaos for IT admins this week after users complained of facing white, featureless tabs on Google's massively popular browser.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4V68B)
Admits open-source API bigger than any one company, but it is not letting go Google's Cloud Run service, which lets you run containers on Kubernetes (K8s) using a serverless model, has hit general availability, and El Reg has taken it for quick spin.…
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'The news overnight ... making everybody in the sector pause and consider' TalkTalk has yet to find a buyer for its infrastructure investment vehicle Fibre Nation, the business revealed in its results for the half year to 30 September.…
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Still a better love story than Twilight NSFW In what is certainly a crowded field, step forward the Doncaster Free Press and take a bow for the best local news headline of 2019: "Doncaster traffic bollard used by man for sex 'killed' in road smash".…
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by John Oates on (#4V5Y1)
Bezos' empire strikes back claiming 'unmistakable bias', self-recused defense chief denies it Amazon is headed for court to contest the surprise decision to hand Microsoft the $10bn US Department of Defense JEDI IT supply contract.…
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by John Oates on (#4V5Y3)
Mate 30 Pro's modular innards praised, but glue still abundant The good geeks of iFixit have ripped open Huawei's first Google-free handset, the Mate 30 Pro, to find a serious battery powering the big screen and sophisticated camera setup.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4V5Y5)
I'll huff and I'll puff... Something for the Weekend, Sir? Help, I forgot my keys! [rummage] Oh yes, of course – ah don' need no stinkin' keys, my front door locks smartly.…
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Amazingly made it to 2 years without telling anyone his name The High Court of Justice in London yesterday dismissed another attempt by an unnamed man, who refuses to identify himself to the UK courts, to take his Right To Be Forgotten legal action to the Court of Appeal.…
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The 1980s called and wants its state-owned telco-provider back Labour will today pledge to give the good folk of Britain free broadband by 2030 by part-nationalising BT - if the political party gets elected.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4V5R5)
*Cough cough* The privacy-focused Brave web browser has reached version 1.0, available now for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4V5JQ)
Well, Clarice? On Call Hit reset on the working week for Friday has arrived and with it another entry in The Register's long list of on-call shenanigans.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4V5JS)
How neuroscience can help AI In a bizarre experiment, researchers recorded the brain activity of mice staring at images and used the data to help make computer vision models more robust against adversarial attacks.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4V5JV)
Sophos sees common behavior across various infections Common behaviors shared across all families of ransomware are helping security vendors better spot and isolate attacks.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4V5D9)
Satellite radar imaging shows explosion was 17 times more powerful than Hiroshima The explosion from North Korea’s sixth nuclear test in 2017 was seventeen times more powerful than the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima in 1945, according to a paper published in Geophysical Journal International.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4V582)
Cloned kit had real IMEI and serial numbers, keeping the scam going for eight years US federal authorities on Wednesday announced the arrests of 11 people from a group of 14 indicted for tricking Apple into accepting about almost 10,000 fake iPhones and iPads and replacing them with genuine iDevices.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4V509)
Bill would require cops to get a court order for any surveillance A bipartisan bill making its way through the US Senate asks that federal law enforcement get a court order before any use of facial recognition tech.…
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