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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4FMD0)
EU experts claim US tech giants use funding carrot to influence findings Comment Facebook and Google used grants and other funding to academics and journalistic organizations to pressure a group of experts in Europe to water down proposals on fake news, it was claimed yesterday.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FMAS)
KaaS and carry, friend? KubeCon Europe At the Linux Foundation's KubeCon this week cloudy services biz Mirantis gave some sneaky previews of its upcoming Kuberentes-as-a-Service product, a technology aimed at self-managing and provisioning multi-cloud clusters.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4FM8J)
DARPA eggheads want brain-machine interfaces that work at the speed of soldiers' thoughts. No further comment... DARPA, the US military's boffinry nerve center, is trying to fulfill the science-fiction dream of developing non-surgical brain-machine interfaces so soldiers can comfortably control weapon systems with their minds.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FM6C)
Cash for horizontal launchers and PowerPoint slides The UK Space Agency has flung open the doors on a mighty £2m fund aimed imbuing Blighty with spaceflight capabilities.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4FM3Y)
Vulnerability can be exploited to turn users into system stars, no patch available yet A bug-hunter who previously disclosed Windows security flaws has publicly revealed another zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's latest operating systems.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4FKYE)
The May 2019 update is out and it's optional, for a while Microsoft on Tuesday released Windows 10, version 1903, aka the May 2019 Update, without forcing it on folks.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4FKW9)
Biz app login details encrypted at rest, though, ad giant insists Google admitted Tuesday its paid-for G Suite of cloudy apps aimed at businesses stored some user passwords in plaintext albeit in an encrypted form.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4FKJD)
Sorry state of documentation baffles programmers as iGiant launches new MacBook Pros, promises better keyboards Apple developers are becoming increasingly vocal about their displeasure with the state of the iGiant's programmer documentation, which they depend upon to craft iOS and macOS software.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4FKJF)
Persistence pays off for online super-souk, but not for South American states Analysis It's taken seven years but online mega-mall Amazon will finally get its hands on the .amazon top-level domain name.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FKEH)
Touts 'vast improvements' in performance with 1.0 release The shadow of Microsoft loomed large over Kubecon with the version 1.0 release of its serverless container tech, Virtual Kubelet.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FJZX)
Microsoft pushing standard for new containery hotness Microsoft took to the stage at Kubecon in Barcelona today to push its take on the proliferation of mesh technologies that have sprung up around the container-happy tech.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4FJZZ)
Memo warns of regime having access to American data – remind you of anything? A US government agency has claimed drones pose a threat to national security in an echo of its wider campaign against all things Chinese.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4FJVC)
Scottish Virgin Media users also down and out after lunch Updated UK mobile operator EE has been struggling to get its VoLTE services back on their feet, after a seven-hour flood of angry complaints from customers unable to place voice calls over the 4G network.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4FJPF)
Plus: Fujitsu and Veeam hook up, cloudy IBM upgrade, Iguazio on Azure, and more Storage roundup It's a garage sale of storage info this morning, including faster IBM object storage, Rubrik hiring a Google veteran, Nakivo backup supporting Nutanix AHV systems and much, much more.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FJGR)
How do open-source projects play nicely? They get off Twitter Something odd happened at Kubecon 2019. Rather than snipe at each other from the safety of Twitter, two very similar open-source projects opted to pool their ideas into one: OpenTelemetry.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4FJBZ)
Come for the enterprise tech, stay for the tortured puns Most of us not fortunate enough to dwell in gated manors in the countryside hive to endure a simple truth – noisy neighbours can bee annoying. One Spanish couple had 80,000 of them, living in their bedroom wall.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4FJ88)
Cheapskate fandroids get a pass on this one, though Your iPhone can be uniquely fingerprinted by apps and websites in a way that you can never clear. Not by deleting cookies, not by clearing your cache, not even by reinstalling iOS.…
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by John Oates on (#4FJ4A)
Customers shocked to find swathes of data deleted CrashPlan has banned a bunch of file formats from its online backup system aimed at small businesses.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FJ1P)
Putting the 'blue' in blue moon Part two As you sup your evening pint or enjoy some lunchtime refreshment, depending on your timezone, cast your mind back 50 years to when Apollo 10 did the "everything" part of "everything but land" and nearly ended NASA's lunar ambitions for good.…
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by John Oates on (#4FHXN)
Why random plans made in pub shouldn't always be acted upon Three men we can safely call geeks are looking for help to restore an IBM 360 mainframe they rescued from a soon-to-be-demolished factory in Germany.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4FHVS)
New convolutional neural network did just as well as radiologists in clinical settings Deep learning algorithms can help doctors predict a patient’s risk of lung cancer, according to fresh research published on Monday.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4FHSE)
But not Bain; Bain is there for the long haul Silicon printer Toshiba Memory Holdings is reportedly planning to buy out major shareholders including Apple, Dell, Kingston and Seagate, as it prepares to try its luck in the public markets.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4FHH2)
Temporary General License buys time for Chinese tech giant, customers, suppliers The US government on Monday gave Huawei temporary permission to obtain technology from American organizations so that the Chinese giant can continue to maintain and repair existing deployments of its products around the world, and push US-sourced software updates to people's phones.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4FHDR)
Cyber-cabbies bag more dosh from fares by gaming demand versus supply Analysis Drivers for ride-hailing apps Lyft and Uber have organized for better pay through collective action – and not by unionizing.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4FH3Z)
Republican Senator preps proposed legislation ahead of hearing Analysis New legislation that would put teeth into the web's Do Not Track option for internet users, by fining companies that ignore it, will be introduced this week in the US Senate.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4FH40)
American tech regulation reduced to: If the telcos want it, it must be a good thing Analysis America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is likely to approve a controversial $26bn merger between the third and fourth largest US mobile carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint, sparking claims of regulatory inconsistency and coziness with the mobile industry.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4FGZX)
El Reg tunes into customer conference calls to hear SVP of engineering apologize Three days on, Salesforce.com has yet to fully recover from an outage that began on Friday.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4FGWF)
But what is the significance of lower clock speeds? Benchmarks of engineering samples of AMD's second-generation Zen-based server processor silicon, codenamed Rome, have once again found their way online.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4FGQF)
Obscure legal doc catapulted to prominence by Home Sec UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid has announced an Espionage Bill, charging ahead with new laws intended to criminalise any British copycats of Edward Snowden – and allowing a future crackdown on Huawei.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4FG8X)
Yes, the one with the critical security fixes Brit security software slinger Sophos has advised its customers to uninstall Microsoft's most recent Patch Tuesday run – the same patches that protect servers against the latest Intel cockups.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4FG8Z)
Turning off trim control software in training wouldn't give realistic results – report Boeing has admitted that pilot training simulators for the controversial 737 Max did not accurately reproduce what happened if the infamous MCAS system went gaga.…
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by John Oates on (#4FG38)
Court rules regulator should cough for 'wrongful' increase Vodafone, O2, Three and EE have won a case against Ofcom claiming that the UK comms regulator's increase in spectrum fees was unfair.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4FG39)
FPGAs bring sweet relief to overworked CPUs Open-source storage enthusiasts at SoftIron have trotted out a low-cost hardware accelerator designed to take over from the CPU on erasure coding duties.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FFZ0)
Let's lift again, like we did last summer, let's shift again, like we did last year From the department of "and about time too" comes news that Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Windows Server containers, in preview form at least.…
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by John Oates on (#4FFZ1)
Swedes' EAW could be a starter or a main Sweden's deputy director of public prosecution Eva-Marie Persson has asked a district court for a detention order for Julian Assange on suspicion of rape.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FFVA)
China adds to Beidou constellation while India preps radar-imaging satellite Roundup While SpaceX twiddled its thumbs and NASA salivated at the prospect of a return to the Moon, last week China put another satellite into space and the New Horizons gang published its first batch of findings.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4FFVB)
UK head honcho swap follows European shakeup Following a substantive restructure across EMEA, NetApp has hired Chris Greenwood - its now former director of north east Europe, Russia and Turkey - to head up operations in the UK and Ireland.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FFRM)
Plus: Azure galore, and Your Phone app can now munch through mobile data Roundup Monday is here once again, an excuse to take a look at the news from Redmond that you might have missed in the past seven days.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4FFNS)
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then... Analysis The technology industry has numerous terms for sneaky software, including malware, adware, spyware, ransomware, and the ever adorable PUPs – potentially unwanted programs. But there isn't always a clear difference between malware and less threatening descriptors.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4FFKA)
The spiritual successor to the Windows GUI Microsoft has made numerous updates to its Azure Portal, partly to accommodate new features announced at its Build developer conference, and partly in an attempt to improve the user interface.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4FFKC)
Plus: AI-generated whisky – I'm sorry Dave, I can't drink that Roundup Let's get you up to speed on the latest AI news, beyond what we've already covered lately.…
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by John Oates on (#4FFHD)
Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lonely face Updated Google will pull Play Store and other services from future shipments of Huawei mobile phones.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FFFK)
It was the nerd, with the wallpaper, in the .ini file Who, Me? With the copious behind of the weekend waddling off into the sunset, and only the leaner pickings of the working week to look forward, welcome to our weekly dose of Monday prevarication: Who, Me?…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4FFDA)
Ah yes, maybe generative adversarial models can be useful after all Spinning up dark matter simulations is computationally expensive so a team of cosmologists are turning to AI models instead.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4FFBB)
Chinese sex company wants to (wire)tap that... A class-action lawsuit against a Chinese sex toy company accused of storing intimate data from its internet-connected dildo can move ahead, a California judge has decided.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4FCNQ)
...And more from the world of infosec this week Roundup Here's a quick catch-up of all things infosec beyond what we've already reported this week.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FCH4)
Charlie Brown and Snoopy go to the Moon Part One Today marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 10, the mission that would do pretty much everything except land on the Moon.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4FBXF)
Plug pulled on instances as engineers scramble to protect customer info Updated Unlucky Salesforce customers have been unable to reach the service since 0956 PDT (1656 UTC) on Friday, thanks to a ham-handed database deployment.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4FBXG)
Explosives activated by wireless networking signals discovered amid election Terrorists have been caught strapping Wi-Fi-activated backup triggers to bombs in Indonesia, police claimed this week.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4FBPR)
Don't worry, it'll shut itself down if someone hits it hard enough French tech services biz Atos has squeezed out its first edgy server box to be deployed outside of the data centre.…
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