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by Richard Speed on (#50H41)
Recovery might be easier than fixing the UK's retail sector Bork!Bork!Bork! We take a break from crashed cashpoints in today's instalment of The Register's occasional series of unhappy computers to bring you the latest from fashion sensation Superdry.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50H43)
Hopefully more memorable than the Men In Black gizmo Japanese imaging specialist Ricoh has spun off its 360° camera team into a new company called Vecnos.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#50H45)
NASA also struck, more conferences cancelled, WISPA is moving ahead Updated The deadly novel coronavirus has reached California’s tech sector with the news that an engineer who attended the RSA Conference in San Francisco last month has now tested positive for COVID-19 – and is in a serious condition.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50H47)
Don't cry for me, Catalina! Don't scream when firing up the open-source editor ♬ Microsoft's open-source code editor is now notarised by Apple so the nagging of macOS Catalina should be a thing of the past with the February release of Visual Studio Code.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50GVB)
Spirited equine gambols from vendor to vendor UK finance giant Lloyds Banking Group is to slice off a portion of its £3bn digital transformation investment and feed it to Google as part of a five-year agreement.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#50GVC)
Sub-postmasters testified about impact of scandal on their lives The "disgusting" Post Office acted as "judge, jury and executioner" before blowing more than £100m of taxpayers' money on legal bills, former sub-postmasters told Parliament today.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50GVE)
Chipzilla's silicon will surrender secrets if properly probed Computer security researchers involved in the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities affecting many modern processors have developed a related attack technique called Load Value Injection (LVI).…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#50GVG)
Narrow House of Commons victory sees fresh wave of counter-Chinese comms pledges MPs have narrowly voted down a Parliamentary amendment that would have banned Huawei altogether from the UK's 5G networks.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50GGK)
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and subscribe! On Tuesday, Docker will reveal how it hopes to make some serious money, which has been something of a mystery ever since the VC-fueled biz took shape in 2010 under the name dotCloud.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#50GGM)
We have to Just Walk Out of that shop, right? Oh... with products You know how it is: you start by selling books online, then take over the world of ecommerce, and almost by accident end up dominating the multibillion-dollar cloud computing market. After that, you just can't help yourself.…
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The K8s on-ramp you didn't realise you need, or so Virtzilla hopes VMware has followed through on its promise to make vSphere capable of managing both virtual machines and Kubernetes (K8s) clusters by announcing version 7 of vSphere and a plethora of other container-related tech it hopes will give developers a consistent layer of services to let them go crazy with containers.…
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by Chris Williams on (#50G6Q)
Premium chip is 7nm, 4 Arm CPU cores, up to 7.4 million logic cells, multi-Tbps networking and crypto Xilinx will today announce an FPGA that is a little bananas: the Versal Premium, aimed at cloud builders and telcos.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50G6S)
I love the smell of plasma in the morning. It smells like ...victory Astronomers have discovered for the first time a bizarre star floating in space some 1,500 light years from Earth that seems to only pulsate on one side.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50G6V)
Plus: Last hurrah for v1 Dragon and Boeing is in trouble Roundup SpaceX hit the big five-oh as Boeing continued shuffling its feet and staring at the ground in this week's Queen-infused rundown of rocketry.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#50G6X)
Oh, she also took 'industry-leading role in AI' and found someone to replace her Ginni Rometty was awarded $20.16m for her final full year as CEO, president and chairman at IBM as the organisation reported a gargantuan revenue rise of 0.1 per cent.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50G18)
Look! We've cleared the Windows 7 warning and replaced it with... oh dear... Bork!Bork!Bork! UK banking giant Barclays has become the McDonald's of bork as its ATMs continued their parade of Windows-based shame.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#50G1A)
El Reg speaks to Siemen's Lars Reinkemeyer Interview Ignoring process mining could leave money on the table or set application upgrades up for failure. A new vendor-neutral book offers guidance from people who walk the talk at BMW, Bayer and Uber. The Register spoke to its editor.…
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by David Gordon on (#50G1C)
Make tenant-to-tenant migration woes a thing of the past with the help of Quadrotech Webcast There’s loads to celebrate when a company merger or acquisition has gone through. It marks the first step into a bigger, expanded business landscape, and the chance to add talent, techniques, and budget to your next big idea. As a founder, the big, fat payout alone is obviously reason to quite literally pull out the champagne.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#50FY2)
And he tells peers: 'I'm not sure showing you a neural network would be helpful' The reverence in the House of Lords was palpable as Vint Cerf, a Google grandee and one of the, er, elders of the internet, was described during a committee meeting as technology's answer to Sir David Attenborough.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50FY4)
Better ask the human doc in the room Neural networks that analyse electrocardiograms can be easily fooled, mistaking your normal heartbeat reading as irregular or vice versa, researchers warn in a paper published in Nature Medicine.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#50FTS)
Internet community expresses frustration during virtual conference In 11 days, DNS overseer ICANN is supposed to rule on the $1.13bn purchase of a critical piece of the internet – the .org registry with its 10 million domain names. But ICANN has yet to even decide what criteria it will use decide whether to green-light the takeover.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50FQH)
HTTPS traffic could be intercepted, manipulated, thanks to sloppy proxy You'd think HTTPS certificate checking would be a cinch for a computer security toolkit – but no so for Avast's AntiTrack privacy tool.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50FGY)
Maybe don't be quite so smug, security researchers warn AMD processors sold between 2011 and 2019 are vulnerable to two side-channel attacks that can extract kernel data and secrets, according to a new research paper.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#50F7Y)
Still a record year for hardware orders US data centre power biz Vertiv has cut its financial forecasts for the next quarter in response to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on its supply lines.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50F7Z)
Israeli biz says Social Network didn't properly serve legal docs Facebook has been accused of lying to a US court in its ongoing legal battle against government malware maker NSO Group.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#50F81)
Mystery still surrounds saga of top-secret tools spillage The extraordinary trial of a former CIA sysadmin accusing of leaking top-secret hacking tools to WikiLeaks has ended in a mistrial.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#50EYT)
And more creepy surveillance AI news Roundup If you're sick of hearing about the coronavirus outbreak, you can take a breather here. There will be no further mention of the disease, just loads facial recognition misuse and a few other bits and bobs.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#50EYV)
Are they? Aren't they? Will they? Won't they? Yes, no, kind of, a bit UK Parliament's Defence Committee is to open an investigation into 5G and Huawei with a special focus on national security concerns.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50EYX)
Also: Stable Edge for all (staffers) and setting a good example with regard to coronavirus Roundup Cosmos DB has rolled out a free tier, staffers get their mitts on stable Edge, and Azure DevOps Services steps back from axing TLS 1.0. For now. Yes, it's the weekly roundup of all things Microsoft we haven't already covered.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#50ENP)
BBK brand plays it safe Hands on OPPO's latest flagship smartphone, the Find X2, comes to the UK in early May.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#50ENR)
Yes, you read that right Australia's privacy watchdog is suing Facebook for exposing the personal data of more than 300,000 Australians as part of the Cambridge Analytica data-slurp scandal.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50ENT)
£1bn boon to improve coverage across the home nations UK ministers are meeting the heads of O2, Three, EE and Vodafone later today to formalise plans for a Shared Rural Network (SRN), which would improve coverage in rural black spots.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50ENW)
Oh, and beware of the leopard The weekend marked the 42nd anniversary of the first broadcast of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the hugely influential BBC radio show.…
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Spyware maker NSO runs scared from Facebook over WhatsApp hacking charges, fails to show up in court
by Shaun Nichols on (#50ENY)
Meanwhile, Broadcom and Symantec have merger woes Roundup It's that time again – the week's security news in digestible chunks beyond what we've already covered. Let's get into it.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#50EFS)
Ministry of Fun under pressure to admit it's going to happen Who'd be a head of data policy for the British government? You spend all your time talking about data transparency, but it is so hard to be transparent.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#50EFV)
A decade on, expanding open ecosystem highlights limits of monolithic approach to CPU design How well does Intel sleep? It's just rounded off a record year with a record quarter, turning silicon into greenbacks more efficiently than ever, redeeming recent wobbles in the data centre market and missteps in fabrication with double-digit growth.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#50EFW)
One vendor's security controls aren't enough, says Dan Wiley Interview "I don't want to have a job any more," said Check Point's Dan Wiley, sitting in a fashionably nondescript London coffee shop. "I don't want to have to do my job. It means that we failed."…
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by Tim Anderson on (#50EFX)
Well-known software development principles count for more than technology choices QCon London Software engineers from digital bank Monzo told developers at the QCon event in London how and why it runs its banking systems on 1,600 microservices.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50EB9)
Disk-wiping utility was meant to be a force for good, not evil Who, Me? Welcome to another leap back to the shooters of the '90s, and how to deal with them, in The Register's regular Who, Me? feature.…
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by Ryan Dawson on (#50CGP)
And why do such a thing? Well, how else will you push your artificially intelligent software into production? Achieving production-level governance with machine-learning projects currently presents unique challenges. A new space of tools and practices is emerging under the name MLOps. The space is analogous to DevOps but tailored to the practices and workflows of machine learning.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50C03)
That's one way to pad your pension pot, allegedly A former acting Inspector General at the US Department of Homeland Security was today indicted for allegedly stealing internal software and data and attempting to sell it all back to his then-employer.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#50C04)
Wait, a proposed law tackling the sexual abuse of kids and they name it... the EARN IT Act? Seriously? On Thursday, a bipartisan group of US senators introduced legislation with the ostensible purpose of combating child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online – at the apparent cost of encryption.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#50C06)
Infosec biz that found the database spill raises eyebrow at UK ISP's advisory to subscribers A Virgin Media server left facing the public internet contained more than just 900,000 people's "limited contact information" as the Brit cable giant's CEO put it yesterday.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#50BQR)
Domestic intel agency's cloud server continues to get them into hot water The UK's spy agency auditor has given public sector snoopers a clean bill of health – except for domestic surveillance specialists MI5, whose cloud data storage blunder is still under investigation.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50BQS)
With eSIM tech for the Dick Tracy in your life OPPO has whipped the sheets off its first watch – imaginatively titled the OPPO Watch. The news coincided with the unveiling of the OPPO Find X2 smartphone, which the Chinese tech brand introduced at a London event earlier today.…
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by Richard Speed on (#50BEH)
Three 'nauts, one commander to ride Musk's missile for an eight-day stay Axiom Space has signed a contract with SpaceX to fly three private astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) "as soon as the second half of 2021".…
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by Paul Kunert on (#50BEK)
It's like Christmas all over again, source tells us Exclusive Morrisons has slowed its conveyor belt of tech changes to avoid any IT crashes as British shoppers continue a coronavirus-inspired panic-buying spree.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#50BEN)
Historic tech real estate has a guide price of $300k Deep-pocketed fans of historical computing gear, take note: a fully functional Apple-1 computer is going under the hammer, with a guide price of $300,000.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#50B62)
David Goeckeler finally gets keys to his own kingdom, says he's stoked to ride 'massive wave of new opportunity' Storage giant Western Digital has hired David Goeckeler, boss of Cisco's $34bn networking and security biz, as its new chief exec.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#50B64)
Fiddle with some numbers and voila A vulnerability in NordVPN's payments platform allowed anyone to view users' payment information and email addresses, a startling HackerOne entry has revealed.…
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