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by Richard Speed on (#4H5M6)
Howz ur spelan? On Call Friday has arrived, and with it the promise of a weekend free of workplace distractions. It also brings another tale from one of the unfortunates who will be spending their Saturday and Sunday awaiting the dreaded phone call. Welcome to On Call.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4H5HR)
Wait, wut? Surviving in zero gravity takes its toll on the human body. Muscular atrophy sets in, and astronauts should not only exercise regularly but consider taking testosterone shots too, according to new research.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4H5FA)
Isn't that what we all want for our kids, after all? A descendant of the notorious Mirai Internet-of-Things botnet has apparently cast a wider net than its predecessors, potentially infecting systems normally found within enterprises.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4H57J)
CEO speaks to The Reg as we dig into labor complaints, future of npm CLI Special report JavaScript package registry and aspiring enterprise service NPM Inc is planning to fight union-busting complaints brought to America's labor watchdog by fired staffers, rather than settle the claims.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4H55N)
People will share anything scandalous, duh – El Reg might well be Exhibit A Analysis The US House of Reps' Intelligence Committee on Thursday held its first hearing into computer-fabricated videos dubbed deepfakes, quizzing experts from across worlds of AI, social policy, and law.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4H4Z4)
For FIPS sake! Yubico is recalling one of its YubiKey lines after the authentication dongles were found to have a security weakness.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4H4Z6)
No, of course not. It's all perfectly fine Comment The man heading up any potentially US government antitrust probes into tech giants like Apple and Google used to work for... Apple and Google.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4H4V9)
Lawmakers threaten to rewrite rules that shield sites from netizens' dodgy uploads US lawmakers have warned they may revisit American tech corporations' blanket legal protections – specifically, the ones that shield internet giants from the fallout of user-posted content – in order to tackle the rise of deepfakes.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4H4PT)
Uncle Sam sounds alarm after Windows CE SMB left wide open on hospital equipment Two security vulnerabilities in medical workstations can exploited by scumbags to hijack the devices and connected infusion pumps, potentially causing harm to patients, the US government revealed today.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4H4DX)
Customers didn't like how much data spare parts package was funnelling back to America The F-35 fighter jet project has been hit by yet another set of controversies including a kerfuffle over US data-slurping, flight control problems and its stealth coating melting at supersonic speeds.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4H498)
All the while more WPF source trickles into GitHub Microsoft has continued its quickfire pace of .NET Core 3 updates, flinging preview 6 at developers keen on the open-source platform.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4H44C)
Have you appointed your designated droner? Everyone has a mate who won't stop droning after a few bevvies – and the Japanese government clearly thinks the activity is dangerous enough to be outlawed.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4H402)
That Guns N' Roses album* might be out soon... or not Chat app Telegram has reportedly been DDoS'd, with its downtime coinciding with protests in Hong Kong against repressive new Chinese laws.…
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by David Gordon on (#4H404)
Immerse yourself in forensic training with autumn Promo If you work in digital forensics or incident response and would like to advance to a higher level, the annual Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) event staged by security training company SANS is a must.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4H3TB)
It's fun to trademark your brand in CA, it's fun to trademark your brand in SK...ay Huawei has been spotted nestling in datasets hosted by colourful UN patent body WIPO, but rather than having any sort of dispute, it has been filing a barrow-load of trademarks on the term "Hongmeng" – thought to be the preferred moniker for its homegrown Linux-based mobile OS.…
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Huawei with you! It seems the rest of the world can't get enough of 5G – Germany has just raised €6.6bn (£5.8bn) in its spectrum auction, and more than a million folk in South Korea have subscribed to a 5G contract.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4H3NN)
Collaboration toys, ransomware protection and a 20% price hike Dropbox has announced new features and partnerships with Atlassian, Slack and Zoom – but it comes after a price rise that has some users feeling hit under the collar.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4H3HS)
OMG, emoji panel also fixed in Microsoft's 2020 OS Microsoft has given its army of unpaid testers some Linux loving with the latest build of next year's Windows 10.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4H3EM)
Sajid Javid inks court papers for hearing tomorrow UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid revealed this morning that he has signed papers to have Julian Assange extradited to the US.…
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Ground-penetrating radar and micro ducting to keep that lovely cathedral untouched The sleepy English city of Salisbury – infamous for the poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal last year – is once again the target of an underground network. Yep, Openreach's full-fibre plans.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4H3BQ)
CEO Tom Leighton pitches CDNs for enterprise Akamai Edge World The future of enterprise IT is not in centralised clouds, but in a complex interplay between massive core data centres and small edge locations.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4H39B)
Office 365 to demonstrate legendary ability to not fall over when pushed to the front line Lucky London plod have been gently nudged down the Microsoft 365 staircase with the cloudy platform rolled out to Metropolitan Police employees.…
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by David Gordon on (#4H39C)
Simplify your technology estate and move onto more effective platforms Sponsored webcast Total Gas & Power supplies gas and electricity to industrial, commercial, and business customers across the UK.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4H371)
CFO said she talked 'dead man walking' down Autonomy Trial One-time bungling HP chief exec Leo Apotheker seriously considered slurping two software giants in addition to the disastrous buy of Autonomy – but was talked out of it by HP's then-CFO Cathie Lesjak.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4H34W)
Euro super-boffins embrace MAlt right after academic discount axed For the past twenty years, European boffinry nerve-center CERN has enjoyed licensing Microsoft products on favorable terms as an academic institution.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4H32H)
Talk about a high profile discovery Wooden burners unearthed from ancient Chinese tombs dating back 2,500 years have revealed the earliest evidence of humans smoking cannabis yet.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4H2XN)
'It is something we are interested in … but the economic model hasn’t worked out yet' Akamai Edge World Akamai CEO Tom Leighton – an expert in distributed computing with 50 patents under his belt – has thrown shade on Google’s plans to launch a cloud-based gaming platform.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4H2SM)
We want to make Chrome safer... by taking away the API we used to race Firefox Analysis Google on Wednesday defended its pending work-in-progress updates to Chrome that will change the way extensions filter out web adverts and other content.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4H2MX)
If it's not a 50in TV or a huge fridge of soylent, we don't want to know Off-the-shelf object-recognition systems struggle, relatively speaking, to identify common items in hard-up homes in countries across Africa, Asia, and South America. The same software performs better at identifying stuff in richer households in Europe and North America.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4H2DN)
La Liga says privacy watchdog is Barca-ing up the wrong tree A top Spanish soccer body is facing a six-figure GDPR fine for inappropriately and covertly accessing the microphones of fans using its cellphone app.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4H2AN)
I'm sorry, I won't comment on ongoing litigation: Two privacy lawsuits filed against Amazon Amazon has been hit with two lawsuits in the US regarding the recording and storage of children's voices through its Alexa digital assistant.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4H26F)
All that was missing was a Beware of the Leopard sign A "highly skilled IT professional" has lost his fight to be paid his unused vacation days as well as a non-trivial bonus, after a judge stuck to a law he admitted was outdated.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4H21R)
Welcome to Vim Sh*tty 2000 Proof-of-concept text files are now available that, when opened in a vulnerable installation of the Vim and Neovim, will execute commands on the underlying machine, or even open a backdoor.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4H1JJ)
Next up, Falcon Heavy and thinking about those Crew Dragons for Bigelow SpaceX nailed a second landing of a Falcon 9 first stage at its Vandenberg Landing Zone 4 today after punching through the Californian fog to send a trio of Canadian satellites into orbit.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4H1D1)
OK, it has Files On-Demand, but haven't the people suffered enough? Uneasy bedfellows Apple and Microsoft have hooked up to update the PC client for the fruity firm's cloudy storage service.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4H130)
Not great, not terrible – but downright diabolical The absolute state of 2019 is that millions of vapid young people, followed by millions more vapid young people, make serious bank just by virtue of being really, really, really ridiculously good looking and posting about it online.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4H132)
SQL support and Release 4 arrives in cloudy open source service Feeling a bit poorly? Good news! Microsoft has added SQL to its FHIR Server for Azure, so your symptoms can now be flung even further.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4H0YV)
They've got us on the list Huawei has suspended the launch of the latest Matebook laptop ahead of sanctions being imposed by the US government that will block it from dealing with American suppliers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4H0V6)
A stitch in time saves 6.5 Microsoft crossed its fingers and started rolling out an update to Azure Service Fabric over its cloudy platform yesterday.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4H0QW)
Call for industry giants to get zoned in on SMR, ZNS drives Western Digital is launching an open initiative called Zoned Storage to convince industry to develop standards and software for emerging types of high-capacity drives – thus feathering its own nest.…
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by David Gordon on (#4H0QY)
Connect with developments in the operational technology world Sponsored webcast While many organisations are still gazing in marvel at the inelegantly named Internet of Things, the technology world has been making big strides in the area of routinely handling data from thousands of pieces of equipment.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4H0NQ)
Think different? In Europe, they definitely are: Huawei, the lads! It isn’t just in China that Apple’s feeling the burn of shrinking iPhone sales. The reassuringly expensive mobe maker is, we're told, shipping millions fewer handsets in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, too.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4H0KJ)
Good – if you're eye-deep in Amazon's cloud, that is Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added key features to the console and API for its source code repository, CodeCommit.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4H0HC)
'Text editing' system for speeches to change meanings emerges along with CEO-goading art attack Video Once again, artificially intelligent software has been demonstrated automatically editing videos of talking heads to make them say things they haven’t actually uttered. And it's getting better at it. Today, it's altering footage of boffins, and Mark Zuckerberg and Kim Kardashian, but next it could be you. Probably not.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4H0F9)
Bad news: Might actually be 1,000 years. And not even that devastating Our Sun may be middle-aged but it still has the energy to expel superflares, a rare rush of energy, every few thousands of years that could destroy Earth’s spacecraft and electronics, scientists warned.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4H018)
Kaspersky fingers pro-G filters for letting cyber-muck through Spammers are abusing the preferential treatment Google affords its own apps to score free passes through Gmail's spam filters, it was claimed this week.…
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RAMBleed picks up Rowhammer, smashes DRAM until it leaks apps' crypto-keys, passwords, other secrets
by Thomas Claburn on (#4GZY3)
Boffins blast boards to boost bits Bit boffins from Australia, Austria, and the US have expanded upon the Rowhammer memory attack technique to create more dangerous variation called RAMBleed that can expose confidential system memory.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4GZTQ)
And Google drops a zero-day on Windows after deadline miss Patch Tuesday Microsoft, Adobe, Intel, and SAP have all emitted their latest Patch Tuesday batch of security fixes. Users and admins are encouraged to test and install the updates as soon as humanly possible.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4GZQ3)
In Cupertino, no one can hear, er, see your screen Apple's "geniuses" spent two weeks and an estimated $10,000 in warranty costs fixing a MacBook Pro screen fault that was resolved with a single button press or three.…
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Cram this in your Pai hole! New York, Cali, eight other US states sue to stop T-Mobile-Sprint merger
by Kieren McCarthy on (#4GZEK)
State attorneys general unimpressed by FCC boss's rationale Ten state attorneys general, including New York and California, are suing in an effort to stop the merger of T-Mobile US and Sprint.…
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