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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Z70W)
One for the Cold War infosec veterans: CIA and BND literally owned the firm Swiss encryption machine company Crypto AG was secretly owned by the US CIA and a West German spy agency at the height of the Cold War, according to explosive revelations in the Swiss and German media today.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z70Y)
Literally just for the keyboard. Pipe down, Panos Surface supremo Panos Panay took time out from fondling his slabs (and ordering up new business cards) to make a proposal last night to Oscar-winning filmmaker Taika Waititi.…
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Tens of millions of biz Dell PCs smacked by privilege-escalation bug in bundled troubleshooting tool
by Laurie Clarke on (#4Z710)
If you don't have auto-update switched on, time to patch Dell has copped to a flaw in SupportAssist – a Windows-based troubleshooting program preinstalled on nearly every one of its newer devices running the OS – that allows local hackers to load malicious files with admin privileges.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4Z712)
Ignores 'unwanted' presses from the fat-fingered too, apparently After almost four months on sale in its native China, the Google-free Huawei Mate 30 Pro is finally coming to the UK as a Carphone Warehouse exclusive.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z714)
Now please stop showering cash on consultants Y2K Welcome to Y2K, a mercifully occasional dip into that time, 20 years ago, when the IT world seemed to lose its collective mind, and governments were only too keen to empty their collective pockets.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4Z6R6)
A little Shakespearean data centre drama for you There is a disturbance in the bit barn market – Vantage Data Centers has swallowed rival Etix Everywhere as part of a $2bn expansion in Europe.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4Z6R8)
Plus: We know people are dying but OMG! China smartphone sales could plunge 50%, say analysts Intel is the latest big name to withdraw from the Mobile World Congress trade show, due to take place in Barcelona later this month amid growing fears about the coronavirus epidemic.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z6RA)
She applied the fix to fix the fix... I don't know why she did the apply. Perhaps it'll die Like a needy ex-partner that just won't let go, Microsoft's legacy OSes continue to cling to the Windows behemoth's ankles. Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 have once again been bashed with the borkage bat.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4Z6RC)
No jokes, just less work for them in the cloudy era Fujitsu is clipping the workforce that provides Projects work for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (UK taxman HMRC) following a reduction in the level of business.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z6JF)
Also: UK's OneWeb fires off 34 sats and NG-13 Cygnus scrubbed Roundup There was good news and bad news for space fans last week as a veteran probe lived to transmit for another day while issues with a new spacecraft became all too clear.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z6JG)
The Register goes virtual and gets a bit remote with DeX Review We had a play with the crowdfunded NexDock 2 last month and came to the conclusion that the machine was a handy host for Raspberry Pi-type devices on the move, for a price, but the Samsung DeX experience soon left us pining for a "proper" laptop.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4Z6JJ)
And it turns out there was an upside to the US-China trade war Global server shipments are forecast to drop nearly 10 per cent in the first quarter of 2020 as the coronavirus epidemic hits production lines in China, according to new figures from Digitimes Research.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Z6E8)
A nation of takeout deliverers The adoption of industrial robots in France makes manufacturing businesses more productive and profitable but at the expense of jobs, according to a recent paper presented by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, non-profit, non-partisan research organization in America.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4Z6EA)
The cosmic ballet goes on... We all know the Sun's eventually going to expand and envelop the Earth, but for smaller objects further away our star will still be deadly, as its light will cause asteroids to literally spin themselves to death.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z6AG)
Old Gigabyte code lets file-scrambling RobbinHood go undetected A kernel-level driver for old PC motherboards has been abused by criminals to hijack Windows computers, disable antivirus, and hold files to ransom.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4Z65E)
El Reg has also invented the warp drive but, ah jeez, we're told we can't show anyone. Shame. It's a tough one There’s a new giant AI language model in town: enter Microsoft’s Turing-NLG system, which apparently contains a whopping 17 billion parameters, making it the largest publicly known model of its class yet.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z65G)
And shares with guessable passwords A new variant of the notorious Emotet Windows malware is able to spread wirelessly by brute-forcing Wi-Fi network passwords and scanning for shared drives to infect.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Z65J)
With PIGIN skewered, take a look at this lovely TURTLEDOVE Last month, Google withdrew a poorly received web proposal for ad management called PIGIN, short for Private Interest Groups, Including Noise, and replaced it with a better branded spec called TURTLEDOVE.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z5XK)
In today's episode of Absolutely Never Happening, Amazon wants the President to testify whether or not he personally ordered AWS JEDI snub Amazon has taken the extraordinary step of moving to depose the President of the United States as part of its appeal against the Pentagon's decision to award the $10bn JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Z5XN)
* In Simplified Chinese NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has released a free, uncensored version of his autobiography for Chinese readers – after Beijing's censors scribbled out all the parts mentioning the Great Firewall in the official version.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4Z5XP)
Mozilla's browser will, from March, require manual override Mozilla Firefox will require user intervention to connect to websites using the TLS 1.0 or 1.1 protocol from March 2020 – and plans to eventually block those weak HTTPS connections entirely.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Z5N5)
It was a state-sponsored attack, declares US Attorney General The United States today announced criminal charges against four Chinese Army soldiers who, it is claimed, are the hackers who stole 145 million Americans’ personal data from credit scorer Equifax.…
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by David Gordon on (#4Z5B9)
Komprise wants to help you kick your storage habit Webcast If the task of storing ever higher piles of unstructured data is overwhelming your data center, you are not alone. Like many other organisations, your company may be devoting much more of its time and resources to buying and managing storage than to the actual data it holds.…
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Forget the Oscars, the Solar Orbiter is off to take a close look at our nearest (and super-hot) star
by Richard Speed on (#4Z5BA)
Sun, science and, er, more science The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter launched on time at 04:03 UTC this morning on the back of an Atlas V.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4Z5BC)
Rifles down back of sofa, finds extra $3bn for shareholders The mini saga that is Xerox's effort to financially charm the pants off HP Inc shareholders has taken a new twist – the copier biz is upping its bid to more than $36.5bn.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4Z5BD)
Meet the Ethos-U55 and the Cortex-M55 for edge devices Arm is aiming two new processing unit designs at slimline AI workloads in smart speakers and other Internet-of-Things devices.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4Z5BE)
Can GSMA really assure the event will be safe? It's been a brutal few days for Mobile World Congress, with several of its biggest participants withdrawing from the trade show over fears surrounding the coronavirus outbreak. The latest pack includes household names like Sony, Amazon, NTT Docomo and Nvidia, as well as 5G infrastructure stalwart VIAVI Solutions.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Z5BF)
Locking out network biz 'goes against the principles of a market economy and free trade', says diplomat The Chinese state has gone on a diplomatic offensive over Huawei and 5G, with ambassadors to the UK and France both accusing their host countries of discriminating against the company.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4Z549)
Users rage, rage against the dying of the light (and support) It's not only end of support that Windows 7 diehards have to contend with. Late last week a new problem emerged – systems that refuse to shut down.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z54A)
NASA: Defects risked 'loss of vehicle' Troubled aerospace giant Boeing will "re-verify" the flight software code for its calamity capsule, the CST-100 Starliner, after it was revealed that December's anomaly could have been a lot, lot worse.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z54C)
Good news for Windows on ARM64 users in this week's round up Roundup The Microsoft gang managed to find time away from breaking Bing and trashing Teams last week to emit new Windows and update Visual Studio Code.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#4Z4Z3)
Maybe sustainability's not just for hipsters? Column Last November, as I sat in a cafe penning my book Augmented Reality*, my MacBook Pro suddenly turned off in that very final way that lets you know something has gone very wrong. The Genius Bar confirmed a dead mainboard – and an estimated $1,000 repair.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Z4Z5)
Even then he said there was no need to break out hardware sales Autonomy trial HPE instructed its accounting expert to assume that Autonomy was knowingly engaged in transactions to falsely inflate its accounts, according to court documents seen by The Register.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z4Z7)
When two become one in the server room Who, Me? Welcome back to Who, Me?, The Register's regular feature covering confessions from readers who just wanted to get the job done.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4Z4VQ)
Including: Google Maps turns 15 Roundup Here's your latest roundup of AI news beyond what we've already covered on El Reg. And totally written by a human. Honest, $reader_salutation_alt4.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z4VS)
Including: Why was #RootGoat2020 trending on Twitter? It is as silly as you think Roundup It's time yet again to recap the latest security happenings.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Z2SN)
Prenez-vous les cartes de crédit? asks Tim Cook as he prepares to personally expense this trifling €25m On Friday, the French government fined Apple €25m for slowing down certain iPhone models to preserve battery life, a practice the Cupertino idiot-tax operation acknowledged back in 2017 following complaints about undocumented processor throttling.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Z2JW)
Nor any requests to remove the works of Rob Schneider, Kevin James, or Ashton Kutcher, sadly Netflix has posted its first-ever report into what sort of content governments have asked the streaming giant to pull from its service.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Z2JY)
'I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't fetch that document' Continuing to drop flame retardant on the dumpster fire that is web security, Google on Thursday said it will soon prevent Chrome users from downloading files over insecure, plain old, unencrypted HTTP.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4Z2AM)
Leaks, damn leaks and £219 phones Motorola will put the lengthy battery-life Power version of its upcoming Moto G8 range on British shelves later this month, after the specs for the latest handsets in its £200-ish budget 'droid "G" line were leaked earlier this week after a rogue Amazon listing went live.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Z20Z)
Security biz says it was a long time ago and he didn't technically work for them anyway Former Autonomy chief financial officer Sushovan Hussain was alleged to be involved in two #MeToo-style incidents while he was working for Mike Lynch's Darktrace infosec biz.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Z211)
Plus: Move to Agile is 'high risk' and infosec snafus still not fixed British F-35Bs deploying to the South China Sea next year may not meet key reliability metrics set by an American government watchdog, its annual report has revealed.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4Z213)
It may or not involve office stationery Greater Manchester Police is struggling with a partial outage of a Capita-built computer system used by frontline officers to input information.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4Z215)
Bell me to chat about it, eh? US attorney-general William Barr has urged the United States to buy a controlling stake in Nokia and Ericsson to build a competitor to Huawei.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4Z1QP)
If you tolerate this then your children will be next Choosing a name for one's offspring can be incredibly difficult. You don't want them to be the ninth Jaxon in class, but you also don't want them to be bullied mercilessly for the rest of their lives.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4Z1QR)
Joins LG under the duvet The list of vendors pulling out of Mobile World Congress (MWC) over coronavirus continues to grow. The latest to fall out is Swedish comms kit provider Ericsson, a big player in 5G hardware.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z1QT)
French terminal flashes sous-vêtements at Paris patty punters Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another instalment in our occasional series of software being poorly where it really shouldn't. Today it is Five Guys, where the burgers are fresh, but the software less so……
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4Z1J7)
Listen to me, Palmer, I said listen to me Something for the Weekend, Sir? Speak up. (La la la la la.) Say what? (La la la la la.) No, sorry, can't hear a thing.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z1J9)
Virtue is its own reward There's at least one browser out there unwilling to accept Microsoft's attempts to fiddle with search settings, and it's made by... Microsoft.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Z1DN)
A hairy moment with a Dell and a hairier one with a flying mouse On Call Welcome back to On Call, The Register's regular reminder of just how icky things can get at the sharp, pointy end of computer support.…
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