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by Tim Anderson on (#4XG06)
Systemd? It's the proper technical solution, says kernel maintainer The Linux kernel has around 27.8 million lines of code in its Git repository, up from 26.1 million a year ago, while systemd now has nearly 1.3 million lines of code, according to GitHub stats analysed by Michael Larabel at Phoronix.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XG08)
HP bad, Deloitte and Lynch and Hussain good, says current Invoke Capital bod Autonomy trial A witness who worked on the Autonomy finance team told London's High Court during the long-running Autonomy trial that the firm had indeed been accounting for some hardware sales as marketing expenses in its annual accounts.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4XG0A)
Not perfect, but pretty damn good Comment As the New Year’s festivities wound down a lot of science and science fiction fans toasted the 100th anniversary of the birth of Isaac Asimov, one of the titans of the profession.…
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by David Gordon on (#4XFV5)
Watch online and find out how to strengthen your arsenal of security measures with F-Secure Webcast Miscreants are constantly on the lookout for new ways to get at your data, becoming more dangerous all the time as a result.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XFV7)
We're not sure if Electronic Arts has even noticed Linux gamers have found yet again that their ubiquitous operating system remains unwelcome in the context of mainstream entertainment.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XFV9)
When curiosity killed the print job. All the print jobs Who, Me? Welcome to another entry on the Who, Me? naughty list, filled with the confessions from techies who were perhaps a little silly, maybe somewhat devious, and yet still escaped with careers intact.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XFPX)
Including: Tesla and a town hit hard by spear-phish bridge scammers Roundup Welcome to the New Year: here are some security headlines that may have slipped past you during the gorging season.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XDAQ)
And now he faces up to 20 years in the slammer A now-former senior IT exec has admitted conning his employer out of $6m – by setting up a fake tech services biz that billed his bosses for bogus services.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4XDAS)
Thanks to America's antitrust laws A US judge on Friday tripled the damages Quanta Storage owes HP Inc to $439m for unlawfully hiking the price of optical disc drives.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XD4X)
Distributed app platform's proposed agreement 'isn't freedom respecting,' he says Special report Last year, lawyer Van Lindberg drafted a software license called the Cryptographic Autonomy License (CAL) on behalf of distributed development platform Holo – and submitted it to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval as an Open Source Definition-compliant (OSD) license.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XCWC)
Data Center Network Manager bugapalooza with three must-fix flaws Cisco is kicking off 2020 with the release of a crop of patches for its Data Center Network Manager.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XCWE)
But that's minuscule compared to handsets flogged in Q3 2019 5G is in its infancy and yet Samsung has managed to carve out an impressive slice of the market, shipping more than 6.7 million Galaxy 5G devices during 2019.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XCM0)
Yorkshire and Clydesdale latest to join ongoing game of TITSUP*manship Updated It appears the UK banking system is playing a fiscal game of Top Trumps as both Yorkshire and Clydesdale Bank followed yesterday's example set by Lloyds by not processing payments into customer accounts.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XCM1)
Official reports reveal 'as designed but not intended' snafu Updated British electricity providers are paying £10.5m after a 2019 outage revealed a train-bricking software design flaw.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XCB3)
Chandrayaan-3 to be a bit less crashy this time around NASA is making preparations to ship the first core stage of its monstrous Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to a Stennis test stand ahead of firing it up.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XCB4)
Redditor finds security camera capturing stills from strangers' cribs Xiaomi has blamed some post-Christmas cache digestion problems after finding itself plonked on the naughty step by Google – which blocked the Chinese tech conglomerate's devices from its Nest Hub and Assistant last night.…
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Watch live online this month: Find out how to mine valuable business insights from mountains of data
by David Gordon on (#4XC64)
Tune to hear from NetApp on how to home in the information you need whenever you need it Webcast More business data than ever before is being created all the time by companies’ users, computer systems, and devices.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4XC65)
And she wore Pantone 19-4052 TPG Velvet Something for the Weekend, Sir? Call me an idiot* but I have no idea what you are talking about, why you're saying it or indeed what's going on any more.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XC67)
iXpand? Sounds about right for the holiday season aftermath Review If you spend more than £400 on a mobile phone, odds are high it will include wireless charging, which allows you to replenish your device's battery simply by placing it on a flat surface – no cables required. Predictably, the market is flush with charging pads, some costing as little as a tenner. But what happens if you spend a bit more?…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XC1S)
The time a reader found himself in an awful BIND On Call Did your phone ring over the New Year? No? Then spare a thought for those unfortunates who remain answerable day or night to the dread trill of a panicked On Call.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XC1V)
I'm not quite dead, mutters 2.7 as rigor mortis sets in With the arrival of 2020, the Python Clock has stopped ticking, marking the end of development for the Python 2 programming language.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XC1X)
Systems still toast since NYE compromise, manual processing only Foreign currency mega-exchange Travelex said on Thursday it was forced offline by a "software virus" infection, bring down a number of currency-exchange websites with it.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XBTQ)
Cupertino says its software is being ripped off, virty cloud biz says jailbreaks are under attack Corellium and Apple are once again trading allegations in a legal brouhaha over the former's virtual-iPhones-as-a-service operation.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XBMA)
Q&A biz admits mistakes, promises more discreet public communication In a display of Yuletide good spirits, or possibly a desire to bury bad news, Stack Overflow has settled its beef with a former moderator and said she can apply to regain her moderator status.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XBMB)
Meanwhile, Samsung semiconductor fab hit by power cut UK-based graphics chip designer Imagination Technologies has inked a new licensing deal with Apple.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XBCM)
And, oh shucks, is that Corning's Gorilla Glass 6? Dell is kicking off 2020 with a significant refresh of its XPS 13 laptops, including the Ubuntu-powered XPS 13 Developer Edition.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XBCP)
Dash 8? More like dash for the maintenance hangar A small Alaskan airline has suffered a curiously specific "cyber attack" that mostly affected its De Havilland Dash 8 airliners.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XBCR)
Guess they'll have to attract new recruits on the 'Gram TikTok is one of the fastest growing social apps, with more than 1.5 billion downloads. However, its Chinese origins have caused controversy in the US, leading some lawmakers to declare it a threat to national security. And now the US Army has banned soldiers from downloading the app on government-issued phones.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XB5A)
Faster is the new slower where payments are concerned at Black Horse (Down) bank UK banking giant Lloyds is having a mare of a 2020 as its systems fell over for the second day running today.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4XB5B)
Shopping spree means all roads lead to K8s for Virtzilla VMware has completed its acquisition of Pivotal – or re-acquisition, since Pivotal was spun out from VMware in 2012 – and has appointed Ray O'Farrell as leader of its new Modern Applications Platform business unit.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XAWQ)
Don't forget the 5G cellular radio Dell's latest premium business laptop – the Latitude 9510 – boasts, among other things, a 30-hour battery, an optional 5G cellular radio, and, er, a built-in speakerphone system.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XAWS)
Missed The Great Escape this year? How about boffins rescuing sat dishes from the scrappers instead? Scotland-based boffins may have snatched victory from the slavering jaws of bureaucratic indifference with the relocation of Dundee's satellite data-slurpers to a handy airfield.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4XAQJ)
Infuriates customers by making useable systems into electronic waste Soundbar and smart-speaker-flinger Sonos is starting the new year with the wrong kind of publicity.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XAQM)
Brit software biz blocked access to detailed audit info, says US firm as $5bn trial nears its end Autonomy Trial HPE is holding fast to its claims that Autonomy executives lied during due diligence calls before the ill-fated $11bn buyout of the British software company by the American megalith in 2011.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4XAQP)
Techies at the ready with buckets There's something reassuring about the techies that support a championship-winning Formula 1 team resorting to basic cooling methods to prevent their mobile data centre from melting.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4XAM0)
We pick one technology highlight for each of the Big 3 Analysis Three technology giants continued to dominate cloud computing in 2019, with each bringing in some interesting tools to play with as they sprawled over smaller players.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4X9M0)
If you must know, 2020 was a blast NSFW: Something for the New Year, Sir? Happy 2021, everyone! No, I haven't typed that wrong, I really do bring greetings from the future. Someone launched a handheld short-jump time machine at CES 2021 and I persuaded them to let me test a review unit before they find out I'm not Matthew Hughes.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X926)
The circle is now complete. When I met you I was but the learner. Now, I am the master. Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's stagger through the events of two decades ago, some of which are perhaps a little closer to home than we'd thought.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X8W6)
Patched or not patched? You won't know until the box marked "2000" is opened Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's collection of ramblings from readers tasked with dealing with what almost happened - but didn't - during those halcyon days of two decades past.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X8MQ)
Slipping in the enhancements while everyone else is watching the calendar Y2K Welcome to Y2K, a series of tales from Register readers who found themselves at the sharp, pointy end of the turn of the century IT panic of two decades ago.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X7HB)
We'll pay anything, anything - just don't turn that phone off Y2K There's a reason why some in IT remember the days of Y2K fondly. To quote a lyric from an erstwhile pop combo of the 80s, it really could be "Money for Nothing" for a lucky few. Welcome to The Register's reader recollections of the era.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X79H)
Coffee and smokes - but where did I put that entry card? In fact, where is the DC? Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's short series of what was acceptable at the end of the 90s as the world prepared for the digitapocalypse.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X79K)
Also: Shock News! Access 97 'perfectly capable' according to Reg reader Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's trip down the memory lane of the fear generated by those two naughty digits, and the cash flung at contractors to deal with them.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X72P)
Are those currants compliant? WELL ARE THEY? Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's Christmas gift to those that missed the insanity of all those years ago, and those who remember it all too well.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X4ZC)
Tripping into a rainbow of colour and cockup On Call Welcome to On Call, that time of the week where you can take time out from fretting about the days just past and nod sympathetically/take delight in tales of those that must smile and nod before the wrath of the user.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4X3MY)
Burn baby burn! The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. Happy birthday to me and merry Winterfest to you, gamers of the world moonlighting as IT pros. And let's not forget to have a bountiful New Year. It's been an absolute blast writing this thing for the past eight months, so thanks for reading. We round out 2019 with a look at one of its big success stories – Disco Elysium.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X3N0)
With great power comes great irresponsibility On Call Friday is upon us, and with it another On Call story from those poor souls who have to answer the phone when everything goes wrong. Not all heroes wear capes and, as we'll see, remember to ward their Linux servers from an enthusiastic boss.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X2DK)
But my emails! On Call Friday is upon us, bringing with it the promise of an early finish, the pub and a carefree weekend. Unless, of course, you are one of those unfortunates condemned to deal with... users. Welcome to On Call.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4X1PA)
I'm ready to throw it all in Something for the Weekend, Sir? Brussels sprouts make excellent projectiles, but only if they're boiled and undercooked. This much I discovered from experience as a youngster in the school refectory as we drew towards this festive time of year. Ho ho ho, what japes.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4X0SG)
The Register's spoiler-free take on the last of the Skywalker movies (for now, at least) Comment The Register attended a midnight showing of the latest entry in Disney's cash-cow franchise, hoping for a satisfying conclusion to 42 years of cinema trips. Did we throw our popcorn in the air with joy or stamp our feet like petulant toddlers?…
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