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by John Oates on (#4PY3S)
$16bn slapped on table by Permira and Advent – reports Symantec shares have jumped almost 5 per cent following reports that it is close to offloading its consumer business to a pair of private equity investors.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4PY0F)
While browbeaten oldies try to focus on Windows 10, .NET Core, Visual Studio Roundup While trying not to let themselves be too distracted by the 30-odd interns doing Glee Club in the courtyards of Redmond, Microsoft workers kicked off September with a flurry of releases for Windows 10, .NET Core, Visual Studio and more.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#4PXXM)
It's time for an intervention Column Here we go again. Google, that universal vacuum of all data created by humanity, can't seem to swim within the lane carefully laid out for it by regulators.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4PXVJ)
Did someone say idiot tax? 26% of operating profit in FY'19 estimated to come from richer storage configs Apple is on course to make $18bn in sales in its current financial year by upselling customers to higher NAND configurations on iPhones, iPads and Macs.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4PXSA)
Desktop browser fans – and Vulture Central – get an Android client to play with Hands On The independent Chromium-based browser outfit Vivaldi has finally emitted a mobile client.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4PXP2)
Friends don't let friends click Publish Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me?, The Register's weekly forage through the hedgerows of reader's misdeeds and tumbles into the ditch of IT despair.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4PXP4)
Also, XKCD forums hacked and Monster monstered Roundup Here's a look back at some of the latest security bits and bobbles besides the stuff we already covered over the past week.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4PXGT)
Also cunning crimes use machine learning to steal cash Roundup Hello, here's a list of all this week's AI and machine learning related news beyond what we've already covered. Facebook has turned off automatic facial recognition for its users and the US Department of Defense wants to hire an ethicist to, you know, develop AI for good, of course.…
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by Team Register on (#4PW06)
Come join us at our Serverless Computing London conference this November Event Serverless Computing London hits Westminster again this November, and if you’re a charity or similar non-profit, we’d love for you to join us.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4PTH8)
Cyber-assistant taught to duck sensitive topics Apple has programmed its Siri voice assistant to avoid politically charged subjects, and deflect or duck questions that require its AI to take a stand on issues, it emerged this week.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4PST9)
400k+ volunteer computer crack tough three-cubes problem Mathematicians have finally cracked the sum-of-three-cubes problem for the geek-friendly number 42.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4PSR5)
Nation braces for bad news after last-minute comms blackout India's mission to the Lunar South Pole, known as Chandrayaan 2, suffered a setback early Saturday morning Bengaluru (Bangalore) time, when the spacecraft's Vikram Lander stopped communicating during its descent to the Moon's surface.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4PSDY)
Brits gobsmacked and Microsoft launches probe after cyber-bazaar's avatar switched to X-rated snap NSFW (ish) eBay UK customers got an unexpected eyeful this week – after a busty topless model bafflingly appeared in some of the online tat souk's emails.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4PSBM)
Integration may lead to more smartphones with faster cellular broadband (networks permitting) IFA 2019 Huawei, Qualcomm, and Samsung were at the IFA consumer tech marketing fest in Germany this week to publicly tear the wraps off their upcoming mobile system-on-chips with built-in 5G modems. This integration means a load of forthcoming phones and gadgets using these processors will come with 5G support as standard, in theory.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4PRQ8)
They paid us before we paid them, said Gary Szukalski Autonomy trial A former Filetek sales and marketing man has told London's High Court that the firm received money from Autonomy before paying it back as part of reciprocal deals.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4PRCG)
Some Insiders are more equal than others (sorry, Release Preview) Microsoft has attempted to clear the murky waters of its Windows Insider programme by stowing its virtual coin toss for those on the Slow Ring.…
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Hey nurses, it's not like you've got anything else to do The NHS is seeking nurses and health care professionals to become social media "influencers" to promote its app.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4PR75)
MoD tech accelerator asks industry, is this idea possible? The Royal Navy's (RN) tech innovation tentacle wants clever folk to come up with entirely autonomous ways of dropping new missiles into its warships' hungry silos.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4PR3E)
Desktop layout suite granted 2019 reboot With a nostalgic twinkle in its corporate eye, Microsoft has emitted a Windows 10 version of its venerable PowerToys suite.…
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Openreach network targeted for second time in 2 weeks Thieves have stolen 500 metres of Openreach's copper cable in Cambridgeshire, leaving thousands of people without broadband or a working telephone.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4PQZW)
Win a wee sample of Mackmyra's Azure-addled stuff Swedish distillery Mackmyra has released a whisky infused with the goodness of AI. Keen to reinforce workplace stereotypes, The Register went to check it out.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4PQX7)
Install incoming update to avoid having your boxes hijacked The widely used Exim email server software is due to be patched today to close a critical security flaw that can be exploited to potentially gain root-level access to the machine.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4PQTC)
Email got easier. Ordinary mail got worse Something for the Weekend, Sir? I was only trying to collect a package from the counter. No, officer, I don't know why the post office is littered with broken glass. And teeth.…
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by Julia Schmidt on (#4PQTE)
Facebook London AI chief and uni prof Sebastien Riedel talks to us ahead of MCubed conference keynote Interview Natural language processing, or NLP for short, is one of the key research areas of artificial intelligence, and has had a major boost in the last couple of years.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4PQRD)
Senior exec carries can for screwup in supplies, missing rev targets for 3 quarters Exclusive HP Inc has bid farewell to EMEA president Nick Lazaridis amid the collapse of the supplies business - historically the company's cash cow.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4PQNM)
What's that coming over the hill? Is it a CD? Is it a CD? On Call Welcome to On Call, our weekly dip into the seemingly bottomless pool of user, er, difficulties, told by the unfortunates who are sat at the other end of the telephone.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4PQJS)
Dacorum Borough Council wants decorum in town centre A newly introduced Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) in the Hertfordshire town of Hemel Hempstead has managed to lump the relatively harmless pastime of cycling in with publicly relieving oneself.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4PQJV)
0.833 femtometers also happens to be how close we are to losing our minds The positively charged proton sitting inside the nuclei of atoms has a radius smaller than a trillionth of a millimeter, according to a paper published in Science on Thursday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4PQ8K)
Oh, so you can just do that? That's possible? Restoring from clean, good backups after an infection? Who knew? The City of New Bedford, in Massachusetts, has found a way to deal with ransomware without paying: shoring up defenses, restoring from backups, and rebuilding systems.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4PQ6G)
Mayor apologizes, joins privacy watchdogs in probing use of technology in bustling corner of UK capital London cops have admitted they gave photos of people to a property developer to use in a facial-recognition system in the heart of the UK capital.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4PQ4E)
Except one – a 'your phone is now my phone' bug reported months ago and still not fixed Google this week emitted the September edition of its monthly Android security updates – and has left at least one known vulnerability unpatched. Also, in case you missed it, the web giant started rolling out Android 10 a few days ago.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4PQ1Q)
It's 2019 and, like, duh, insecurity comes as standard Concerned parents who strap GPS trackers to their kids to keep tabs on the youngsters may be inadvertently putting their offspring in danger. Hundreds of thousands of the gizmos ship with pathetic security, including a default password of 123456, allowing them to be potentially monitored by strangers, it is claimed.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4PPSB)
Firebrand in town to give Redmond a GNU lease of life Photo When a frantic group of paranormal researchers were trying to convince the Mayor of New York of the impending apocalypse depicted in the 1984 flick Ghostbusters, they described the situation as a disaster of Biblical proportions.…
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by Gerard Thompson on (#4PPN8)
And the holy spirit, NVMe-oF? Comment The amount of data being collected and held in systems is – yes, we know – increasing, as organisations generate and store data for real-time or post-real-time analysis.…
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by John Oates on (#4PPFZ)
Dodgy dealing in a mobile phone shop? What kind of a world? The City of New York is suing T-Mobile US, alleging that it is unfairly exploiting people with its "Metro by T-Mobile" brand – its no-contract, pre-pay service.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4PPBE)
Atlassian would love it if you joined its glorious cloudy future Recent entrant to the billion-dollar collaboration club Atlassian is to unleash a free version of the Jira issue-tracking system amid a shake-up of its cloud pricing plans.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4PP5B)
Canada and EMEA see growth. As for the rest of the world... "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" seems an appropriate phrase to describe the predicament facing server vendors. Following a record 2018, almost of all the major manufacturers recorded slimmer numbers in Q2.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4PNZG)
Gently, mind – it's rather expensive IFA2019 Samsung is showing its remade Galaxy Fold 5G mobile at IFA, under way in Berlin, and we got a short hands-on.…
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Guess it's time to put down the crisps and get off the couch, Gav ... The former boss of BT, Gavin Patterson, is to join US software giant Salesforce offering "strategic guidance" to its European business.…
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by John Oates on (#4PNS9)
7% of new cars run on batteries compared to 3% in Europe Electric cars are failing to take the world by storm, although sales remain strong in China even though its government subsidies for driving a 'leccy were recently reduced.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4PNK1)
Orchestrating Movere purchase in the Dark? Microsoft has snapped up cloud migration specialists, Movere, in its efforts to smooth the path for customers to Azure.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4PNK3)
Seven years from noob to pro The UK Armed Forces' privatised pilot training system is taking nearly seven years to turn new recruits into frontline-ready aviators, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4PNEQ)
Mobile biz is a mess, but we're sticking to revenue guidance The gods of mobile sales continue to frown on Dixons Carphone as the loss-making unit reported another quarter of shrinkage.…
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European data sharing confined to underused Interpol database Brit law enforcement bodies will no longer have access to 79 million alerts about potential criminals or persons of interest if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, a Parliamentary committee has heard.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4PNAH)
Gaming chairs, gaming phones, gaming laptops – and some delightful feather-light ones IFA 2019 It was press day one at the annual consumer electronics megafest, IFA, in Berlin, when PC vendors Acer and Asus unveiled their latest hardware, from impossibly light and fast laptops to heavyweight monsters.…
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by John Oates on (#4PN7N)
SF-based continuous delivery outfit says soz Software testing and delivery company CircleCI has apologised for exposing user data to the world and its dog.…
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My terrifying childhood with the man who made the Time Lords great Obit Long before I read John Wyndham's dystopian horror stories The Day of The Triffids and The Kraken Wakes, I snatched terrifying glimpses of Terrance Dicks' work in the Doctor Who episodes, "Terror of the Autons" (1971) and "The Sea Devils" (1972).…
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by David Gordon on (#4PN4E)
We chat to Scale Computing to dig deep through the hype and buzzwords Webcast As organisations see their volume of data grow at an ever-faster rate, many find themselves struggling to manage this avalanche of information, not just securely but without incurring exorbitant costs.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4PN4G)
FFS! Updated Yahoo!, it appears, is still a thing. Unless it's Thursday morning, in which case it isn't.…
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by John Oates on (#4PN4H)
Battle with Microsoft not letting up Slack shares got hammered last night in its maiden results after listing on the NYSE in June, despite the collab company beating analyst forecasts for second quarter sales.…
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