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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZT4W)
At least it didn't head back to the drawing board like Samsung Huawei has lifted the lid on its latest pholdable – the Mate Xs. This is the follow-up to last year's coveted tablet hybrid, which was released in China late last year.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZT4Y)
Also: Musical Soyuz seats ahead of next ISS mission Roundup SpaceX gets its feet wet, digging for victory with Mars InSight and a changing of the ISS guard await rocket fanciers in this week's summary of space news.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZSVX)
Internet of Security is the name of the game, instead of that other 'S' word Arriving fashionably late, Azure Sphere, Microsoft's take on turning the Internet of Sh*t into the Internet of Updates, has finally reached General Availability.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZSVY)
The re-badged progressive web apps should help fill it out a bit Huawei is boasting of some encouraging stats for its Google Play replacement after the Trump administration stopped the Mountain View giant doing business with the Chinese comms bogeyman.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZSVZ)
Moss green? Rust red? Is this Pokémon? Unfazed by the cancellation of Mobile World Congress, Realme has pulled the sheets off its latest blower – the Realme X50 Pro 5G.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZSW1)
With public cloud vendors now offering on-prem, why OpenStack? Cost and avoiding lock-in – Red Hat Interview OpenStack allows you to say "I am the Jeff Bezos of my cloud," Red Hat's Sean Cohen, senior manager product management, told The Reg at the launch of OpenStack's Platform 16, its enterprise cloud platform, which has just become generally available.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ZSW3)
Plus: Looking for a 'deep learning boost'? Chipzilla's your man Intel will sling out fresh silicon aimed at hardware across the nascent 5G market: including new second-generation Xeon processors and a low-latency Atom P5900 for next-gen mobile base stations.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZSW5)
But critics advise to take that with a 'pinch of salt' The UK's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has promised that HMRC will not be "heavy-handed" in pushing its IR35 tax reforms.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZSHE)
And it does 5G, but who cares? Undeterred by the coronavirus derailing Sony's MWC launch plans, the Japanese firm launched three new devices in a virtual press conference early this morning. Predictably, the most exciting handset is also the newest flagship phone – the 5G Sony Xperia 1 II.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZSHG)
Tight-lipped chaebol still won't talk about the dodgy app, though Samsung has admitted that what it calls a "small number" of users could indeed read other people's personal data following last week's unexplained Find my Mobile notification.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZSHH)
Also: Beware the disconnected car Roundup Between fanboys swooning over new Windows icons and a cracking time being had by Surface Laptop 3 owners, over the past week, Microsoft tinkered with backups and nudged Azure Sphere closer to release.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZSHJ)
RIP 'Mad' Mike Hughes The sad news that steam-rocket fan "Mad" Mike Hughes has taken his final flight reached Vulture Central over the weekend.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZSHM)
Elon Musk roasts OpenAI, says should be more open Roundup Hello readers. If you're struggling to keep up with all the AI-related news spewed out and have already read what we've covered this week, then here's more.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZSBJ)
The operating system that will not die lingers on in NatWest's ATMs Bork!Bork!Bork! In a welcome change from burger-based BSODing, here's Windows 7 tugging at the purse strings in a NatWest ATM in the East Midlands.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4ZSBM)
'As soon as I got the note saying I'm inside, I started chasing another role' Ahead of IR35 private sector rules, defence firm BAE Systems has issued a blanket assessment on all its contractors and freelancers that forces them into PAYE terms regardless of their individual circumstances.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#4ZSBP)
Face it: In 2220, your great-great-great-great-great-great grandkid will not find a compatible SoC for your tat Column If you've got a grand-and-a-half to splurge on rose-gold pocket tech, here are two contenders. One is a 512GB Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max, which can tell the time and make phone calls. The other is an 1820 Garcerand French repeating pocket watch (see below) with verge escapement and quarter repeater, which tells the time. No phone calls, but otherwise in good condition and working well.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZS6Y)
Drain you of your sanity, face the thing that should not be Who, Me? We have yellowing plastic, disintegrating drives and serial shenanigans to start the week in The Register's regular column of reader misadventures. Welcome back to Who, Me?…
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by Team Register on (#4ZS6Z)
Get up to speed with DevOps, containers, and more: Join us this May Event If you want to get up close with some of the finest minds in DevOps, containers, CI/CD and serverless, and save £100s, act now – because the Continuous Lifecycle London early bird offer ends this week.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZS71)
And Adobe in remote-code execution patch non-shocker Roundup It's once again time for a security news summary. Let's get to it.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZQ6T)
Funding free software is 'still a very unsolved problem' says co-founder At the end of August, JavaScript package registry NPM Inc said it intended "to finalize and launch an Open Source funding platform by the end of 2019."…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZQ2T)
Anecdotes of bullying customers fall short of legal standard to establish fraudulent intent The financial group suing Oracle for allegedly deceiving investors by inflating its cloud revenue this week took a third stab at articulating its claim against the database giant.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZPW0)
Treat yourself to a meal out or a case of bevvies... or an appetizer in SF or NYC Victims of dodgy IT support from Office Depot will start receiving compensation checks, a US consumer watchdog said Thursday.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4ZPW2)
Photocopier goliath hits back at PC giant's attempt to scupper takeover Xerox has shot back at HP's decision to adopt a shareholder rights plan – a poison pill designed to derail the photocopier titan's $36.5bn hostile takeover of the PC'n'printer slinger.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZPK7)
Register readers around the globe shared in worldwide oddity Concern is growing over the security of Samsung's Android infrastructure after readers from around the world told The Register that yesterday's Find my Mobile push notification affected them – including on devices where the offending app was disabled.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4ZPK9)
Says a big hello to low-cost services land, aka India Managed services pusher Ensono is to chop 137 employees across its UK and US global support desk and technology teams to reduce costs, and has said that hiring in India is a key element of delivering services.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4ZP9T)
Dangerous levels of EMF: Evidence-based Measurement Findings UK comms regulator Ofcom today published the results of its latest spectrum measurement tests, which tracked electromagnetic field emissions at 16 of the busiest 5G sites.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4ZP9W)
Also slapped with court request not to contact security staffers Members of Silicon Valley-based security firm Urban Tactical Group (UTG), which does "regular" work for Apple, have been granted a temporary restraining order preventing a Californian man from approaching them.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZP9Y)
Resistance no longer futile? There is good news for prospective buyers of the diminutive Raspberry Pi 4 as the USB-C issue that stopped the device working with some power supplies has been fixed.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4ZPA0)
Because the human condition isn't harrowing enough Fear, shame, regret and Quarter Pounder with Cheese – now you can relive the scents of last night in your living room thanks to obesity merchants McDonald's.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZPA2)
Fluent, fluent everywhere but not a patch that works Good news everyone! While Microsoft seems unable to deliver a patch that won't leave Windows 10 in a parlous state for some users, it does possess the will to fiddle with the icons. Again.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZP1P)
Web giant hits back, says allegations are 'factually wrong' New Mexico has sued Google, claiming the ad-slinging web titan broke its promises – and the law – by covertly collecting personal information and the browsing habits of children.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#4ZP1R)
It's a hard job... why not outsource it? Column Our favourite controller of UK media, Ofcom, is being given new powers to regulate the internet. Or censor it, depending on your preferred spin. It's all a bit fuzzy at the moment: with illegal content, the regulator will watch for the usual monsters of terrorism and child abuse and act swiftly to close them down and keep them down.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4ZP1S)
Crash, bang, wallop Intel is losing ground to AMD in every corner of the European PC industry serviced by the channel, according to official sales stats from distributors.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4ZP1V)
The inevitable return of Norbert Spankmonkey Something for the Weekend, Sir? Where's my free promo tat? Fellow convention attendees have no such problem being showered with promotional gifts from all sides as they totter up and down the rows of booths.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZNWT)
I'll take a Big Mac, large fries and... um, are you OK? Bork!Bork!Bork! There is a saying about networking fails: "It's not DNS. It can't be DNS. It was DNS." So far for The Register's column of retail calamity, it's McDonald's. It's nearly always McDonald's.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ZNWW)
Yet another reason to never do things by halves On Call The weekend is a day away, but before you swan off, please join us for another episode of ticketing system terror with The Register's regular On Call.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZNWX)
Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday to me... Astronomers have discovered a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet with the shortest orbital period yet: a year on this large puffy world lasts just 18 hours.…
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by David Gordon on (#4ZNWZ)
Discover which developments lie ahead: 16 - 17 June, Frankfurt Promo “Digital transformation†in practice still basically boils down to hybrid cloud, and while more and more of us are bolting public and private cloud infrastructure together, it’s no less important to keep looking for new inspiration as we put new technology and skills in place within the enterprise.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ZNQX)
Meet halicin, picked by a neural network and whimsically named after the HAL 9000 bot Although new strains of antibiotics are increasingly difficult to develop, scientists have done just that, with the help of a neural network.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ZNM4)
US regulator tries to hide embarrassment behind series of sudden announcements Comment The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking the American public to tell it if its decision in 2017 to scrap net neutrality regulations was dumb or not.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZNM6)
Before he was arrested, Googler appealed to internet, newspaper for help finding his spouse Sonam Saxena, 43, a product manager at Google Cloud, was arrested in Hawaii this week on suspicion of second-degree murder.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZNM8)
Purge is the latest in a series of similar store scourings On Thursday Google confirmed it has removed nearly 600 Android apps from the Google Play Store and banned them from its ad services for violating its policies on disruptive advertising and interstitials.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZNDY)
Keep your crypto below 398 days after September 1 and you're all good Safari will, later this year, no longer accept new HTTPS certificates that expire more than 13 months from their creation date.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ZNDZ)
Security biz clocked 55 million malicious login attempts on a client Financial services firms' public APIs are becoming the target du jour for internet ne'er-do-wells, reckons Akamai, which also said that one of its customers was firehosed with 55 million malicious login attempts last summer.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ZNE0)
Unfortunate timing – the Obama admin also supported the database giant The US solicitor general Noel Francisco on Wednesday filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Oracle in its Java API copyright lawsuit against Google, scheduled to be argued before the US Supreme Court next month.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ZN5N)
Alternative headline: Killer bio-nasty linked to former alien vault and cyber-hacker gathering RSA Yet another big brand has pulled out of RSA Conference, due to take place next week, amid the ongoing novel coronavirus panic.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZN5Q)
Introducing Project Operations Microsoft has announced a new application, Dynamics 365 Project Operations, as well as additional AI-driven features for its Dynamics 365 range.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4ZN5S)
Cloud giant aims to attract developers with code-oriented deployment automation Google's new Application Manager, now in beta, is geared toward simplifying setting up GitOps with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as the target platform.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZN5V)
What happens in Vegas... gets leaked on the internet Casino and hotel chain MGM Resorts lost almost 10.7 million guest records last summer, including the data of Jack Dorsey and Justin Bieber, which was duly posted to hacker forums.…
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by John Oates on (#4ZMW0)
Relax, you won't feel a thing Google's UK users will see their data shifted to a US-based data controller from the end of next month with the ad giant blaming Brexit for the move.…
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