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by Gareth Corfield on (#4S5YK)
Delicate thing doesn't like turbulence, apparently A second Airbus Zephyr high altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) drone, built for the UK's Ministry of Defence, has crashed in Australia while on a test flight.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4S5YN)
Let's all pretend that we don't remember the layoffs in March What Larry snatcheth away with one hand, he giveth with another. Oracle is hiring a couple of thousand infrastructure services sales bods and has promised to swing open its data centre doors to more cloud regions.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4S5TG)
Plus: New build brings Cortana resizing to all. Hurrah! Microsoft squeezed out a fresh build of Windows 10 last night, and finally released the much-anticipated Calls feature to eager Windows Insiders.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4S5P9)
Senior beak overrules Upper Tribunal judges' refusal Aria Technology Ltd, the company that used to run e-tailer Aria PC, is headed for the Court of Appeal in a third attempt to overturn a £750,000 VAT fraud ruling.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4S5PA)
That means Kubernetes and DevOps for the Linux veteran Linux veteran SUSE has decided to kill off development of its OpenStack Cloud product line and cease sales to focus on its investments in application delivery.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4S5J9)
Walt Cunningham and Rusty Schweickart take a moment to chat with 'the enemy' ESTEC Apollo astronauts Walt Cunningham and Rusty Schweickart spoke at ESA's 2019 ESTEC shindig in the Dutch beach town of Noordwijk over the weekend, and The Register was fortunate enough to chat with the pair.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4S5EX)
Buddy Pivotal will operate managed framework on Azure Kubernetes Service Microsoft and Pivotal have used the latter's SpringOne shindig in Austin, Texas, to show off Azure Spring Cloud, which is now available in private preview.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4S5CJ)
100% capacity doesn't mean 2/3 of the true figure, growls ad watchdog TalkTalk has been slapped down by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after emailing lies to its customers as part of a hard-sell tactic for expensive fibre broadband.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4S59W)
Incoming unit prez revokes licence to print money HP is overturning a print sales model that helped it amass billions in profits over the decades but is now challenged by rival supplies makers luring customers with cheaper ink and toner cartridges.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4S57E)
It will also be restricting visas to Communist Party officials too The US government has blacklisted 28 Chinese companies, including some of the world’s most valuable AI startups, for being complicit in China’s effort to crackdown on its Uyghur Muslim population.…
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by Team Register on (#4S52C)
Get serverless, practically Event Our Serverless Computing Conference kicks off in just four weeks – and there’s still time to snap up tickets for both our conference and workshops.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4S4SZ)
That was just an unfortunate accident that ended up padding Jack's bank account Twitter says it was just an accident that caused the microblogging giant to let advertisers use private information to better target their marketing materials at users.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4S4QD)
Turns out the Feds make the CIA and NSA actually look good The FBI routinely misused a database, gathered by the NSA with the specific purpose of searching for foreign intelligence threats, by searching it for everything from vetting to spying on relatives.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4S4QF)
On the bright side, nothing from Adobe to install this month Patch Tuesday October brings a relatively light patch load for admins and users, thanks to Adobe's decision to sit out this month's update bonanza.…
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by David Gordon on (#4S4H3)
Protect your business with Carbon Black Webcast Stop press: there are miscreants out there, and they are looking to break into your computer systems and steal your data. But you knew that, right?…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4S4H5)
James Peebles gets half, whilst Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz share a quarter each Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of how the early universe evolved after the Big Bang and finding the first exoplanet orbiting a faraway star.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4S4CS)
'Every voice matters' unless there's renminbi to be had US games company Blizzard has caused a storm of protest for suspending a professional gamer after he made comments in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4S47D)
Nearly all admin warnings are false alarms, says Kaspersky, and that's not a bad thing Just one per cent of all Indicator of Attack (IOA) warnings are actually caused by network attacks.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4S3SC)
RISC-V, accelerator pressure leads to customizable Armv8-M instructions TechCon Microprocessor designer Arm will allow chipmakers licensing its blueprints to, in certain circumstances, alter the holiest of holy scriptures: its CPU instruction set.…
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That'll give them something else to moan about BT's budget broadband pusher Plusnet is about to give customers something else to complain about, having just announced a price hike before Christmas.…
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Also reliant on HMRC's shaky Customs Declaration Service A "virtual" solution to the Irish border problem arising from Brexit relies on data that has not yet been amassed and technology yet to be available, MPs heard today.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4S3AA)
'Chief NinjaCat' Dona Sarkar heads off to world of Developer Relations Windows Insiders celebrated five years of the programme with the sudden ejection of its boss, Dona Sarkar, to cloudy pastures new.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4S34Z)
Still, it could be worse, you could be one of cloud slinger's Venezuelan customers Apple fanbois were all a-quiver this morning as macOS Catalina made its presence felt by breaking chunks of Adobe's software.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4S30D)
Warns site owners: Images, audio, video will be barred in gradual process Google has announced forthcoming changes to the Chrome web browser that will prevent image, audio and video content from loading if they are served over HTTP.…
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Cash ploughed into paying off Brit firm's debt after IPO fail Spanish towerco Cellnex Telecom is set to buy Arqiva's telecoms subdivision for £2bn in a deal it claims will make it the largest independent operator of wireless infrastructure in Blighty.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4S2ST)
Westminster Hall debate shows parties in harmony over sticking their oar in A minister has said that future Internet of Things and data regulation will take into account "decisions that we need to be aware we are making" when handing personal data over to tech companies.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4S2Q0)
Surprise, surprise, a whopping 96 per cent of them are X-rated Deepfakes - counterfeit content generated by AI algorithms - are on the rise, staining the internet with doctored pornography, fake videos of political leaders, and bot accounts.…
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UK, Oz and US pleas to Facebook given short shrift The European Internet Service Providers Association (EuroISPA) has slammed calls for Facebook to drop its end-to-end encryption plans.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4S2MB)
Retro console a mess, may never launch, sources allege Special report The architect of Atari’s much-delayed retro console, the Atari VCS, has quit the project, claiming he hasn't been paid in six months. The departure could put the entire affair in doubt.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4S2F9)
Sorry mods, we'll do better, promises CTO (again) On Sunday, David Fullerton, CTO of Stack Overflow, issued an apology over how management had handled interaction with the Stack Exchange Q&A community during discussions about a code of conduct change and other grievances.…
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by David Gordon on (#4S2FB)
In-house and public – make the best of both worlds with the help of Avnet EMEA Webcast Public, private, hybrid, multi... how do you build a full-stack cloud solution that takes advantage of all available resources?…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4S2CA)
All hail the new moon king Astronomers have discovered 20 new moons orbiting Saturn, meaning the gas giant now has a total of 82 satellites, overtaking Jupiter which has 79 currently identified.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4S22S)
Australia says it will exchange personal deets via CLOUD Act Add Australia to the ranks of countries agreeing to honor US search warrants under America's CLOUD Act.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4S204)
New OS squashes bugs, older versions may have to wait Apple has taken the opportunity of its official macOS Catalina release on Monday to close more than a dozen security holes in the desktop operating system.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4S1S9)
iGiant declines to Taiwan on for Hong Kong and Macau Apple is under fire for kowtowing to Beijing and removing references to Taiwan in the localized versions of iOS 13 for Hong Kong and Macau in China.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4S1GT)
Now-removed personal website statement sparks confusion On Monday, a group of maintainers of the GNU Project, the free operating system created by Richard Stallman, questioned Stallman's leadership and emitted a joint statement for rethinking how the project should be managed going forward.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4S133)
Raytheon has a punt at aviation security with bus software suite US defence firm Raytheon is punting a security suite that apparently promises to harden military aircraft against "cyber anomalies".…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4S135)
Better at keeping dust out, though durability still a concern Screwdriver wielding nihilists at iFixit have dismantled the revised Galaxy Fold, declaring that despite Sammy implementing "durability quick fixes" it proposed in a previous teardown, the device remains "alarmingly fragile".…
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Wants to break its reliance on the Big 3 Vodafone is testing radio technology in Britain as it seeks to cut the cost of building 4G and 5G networks and at the same time dilute the dominance of Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4S0QT)
Desperate users tinkering with compatibility system to get up and running again Windows 10 users have been complaining since the weekend that VMware Workstation no longer runs after a cumulative Windows 10 Update prevents it from starting.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4S0JJ)
Conventional drives could boast 20TB capacities by 2020 With 10-platter conventionally recorded disk drives touting capacities of up to 20TB by 2021, the arrival of HAMR and MAMR drives could slip back to 2022.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4S0JM)
Plus: Space suits, walks and a new Crew Dragon Roundup How's your World Space Week shaping up? Baked a rocket cake or two? No? Nevermind. Take some time out to catch up with this week's roundup of space stuff.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4S0DJ)
Stop us if you've heard this one before – discussion over as far as Google is concerned A small UK software biz has complained of "eerily Orwellian" treatment from Google after its wares were suddenly suspended and then banned from the Play store, with no meaningful discussion possible.…
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Trials new tech to hit those difficult-to-reach areas BT's duct-off broadband arm Openreach is trialling "a range of new tools and techniques" to deploy full-fibre in 13 rural locations - in what it says is a first response to £5bn of promised government funds.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4S05D)
It wasn't all Surface, Surface, Surface in the Microsoft world last week. It just felt like it Roundup Amid all the excited spurtings over Microsoft's shiny new hardware, the Redmond gnomes continued their toiling. Here's a roundup of some other interesting things that happened last week in the Microsoft world.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4S05F)
Robot arm to give stricken burrower a helping scoop Boffins at NASA's JPL and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have come up with a plan to save the stricken Mars InSight probe.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4S02K)
Never mind the edge, try running a super 'puter up there Interview Though HPE's Spaceborne Computer is still fresh from its jaunt to the International Space Station, veep and CTO for HPC and AI Dr Eng Lim Goh is pondering a return visit and outfitting missions to Mars with the company's kit.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4S002)
Lenovo screen without fripperies but plenty of mobility Hands On The problem with notebooks (and even those shiny new Surfaces at Microsoft's event last week) is that the screen is usually too small to be completely productive. The Register got hold of Lenovo's ThinkVision M14 to see if two screens are really better than one.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4RZXX)
Learning from the competition, luring relational fans and, yes, that licence Interview A year after its controversial switch to the Server Side Public License (SSPL), and with new products livening up the Summer, MongoDB remains unrepentant.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4RZVF)
Implementations, Moves and Changes were delighted – for a time Who, Me? As the weekend departs like a first-class flight to Paris, and Monday turns up with the all the glamour of a Ryanair into Stansted, it is time once again to console ourselves with another tale of reader misdeeds in The Register's Who, Me? column.…
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