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by Richard Speed on (#4Y5MF)
Login management service sulks in days-long TITSUP* for some Updated Password manager LastPass appears to have had a big night out on Friday, to the point where the service needed a lengthy lie down over the weekend. In fact, for some users it is still horizontal.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#4Y5MG)
France, Germany and Austria house the most offenders – survey EU regulators have slapped businesses with an estimated €114m (£97.29m) in fines for data leakage or crappy practices since GDPR was introduced in May 2018, although bigger numbers are expected in future penalties.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Y5E1)
NHS working with cops and ICO to determine if patients must be told A Stoke-on-Trent hospital administrator has avoided prison after hacking his NHS trust and helping himself to almost 9,000 heart scan images.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Y5E3)
Mere months until 'nauts get a ticket to ride? SpaceX looks set to shove a pair of astronauts into its Crew Dragon capsule following a successful demonstration of abort systems over the weekend.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Y59Z)
Traditional IT titans take backseat behind cloud giants Exclusive Hewlett Packard Enterprise has warned that the industry-wide 18-month-plus shortage of certain Intel Xeon server-class processors may continue all the way through 2020.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Y5A1)
Things can only get better, unless someone misplaces the source Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me? The Register's open-all-hours confessional for readers who really need to get that one dastardly deed off their chest.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4Y5A3)
Plus other 'fun' news from the world of AI Roundup Here's a roundup of news beyond what we've covered already in the world of machine-learning.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Y3ES)
Investigators ask Chocolate Factory to help them connect the geographic dots At 1030 on April 27, 2019, four unidentified individuals attempted to rob a Brinks armored truck parked outside of Michaels, an art supply and home decor store at the Point Loomis Shopping Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To find out who they are, local authorities plan to ask Google.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Y31A)
Plus, WeLeakInfo? Not anymore! Roundup Welcome to another Reg roundup of security news.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Y2WB)
Jetliner's return to the skies likely to be delayed by more tech glitches Boeing today said another software flaw has been spotted in its star-crossed 737 Max.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Y2WD)
Euro Commission also wants to loosen purse strings for AI investment while tightening reins The European Commission is weighing whether to ban facial recognition systems in public areas for up to five years, according to a draft report on artificial intelligence policy in the European Union.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Y2NJ)
Congratulations, you've won a secret backdoor Hackers exploiting the high-profile Citrix CVE-2019-19781 flaw to compromise VPN gateways are now patching the servers to keep others out.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4Y2CJ)
I missed my Self Assessment filing deadline because.... a rundown of the worst excuses Brits’ favourite government department, Her Majesty’s Revenues & Customs, has released a listicle of the most bizarre excuses people have given for missing the Self Assessment tax returns deadline, along with the weirdest biz expense claims…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Y2CM)
Bloc to make not-quite-universal connector universal within its bounds The EU plans to force manufacturers to use a common connector – the happily symmetrical USB-C – for all mobes, fondleslabs, e-readers and similar electronic tat.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Y226)
One Irishman and one Dutchman both nicked Two men have been arrested after Britain’s National Crime Agency and its international pals claimed the takedown of breached credentials-reselling website WeLeakInfo.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Y228)
Microsoft releases a Windows 10 Fast Ring refresh and previews new calc toys While 45 years of carbon emissions from Microsoft were being scrutinised by execs last night, the Windows Insider team made an emission of its own, in the form of a fresh Windows 10 build.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Y1V1)
Snafu-ridden maintenance software behemoth to be replaced The US military is dumping its Autonomous Logistics Information System (ALIS) in favour of ODIN as it tries to break with the complex past of its ailing F-35 fighter jet maintenance IT suite.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Y1V2)
Plans to cancel out emissions from power consumption since 1975. No word on warming through excessive corporate hot air though Microsoft has set itself the goal of being "carbon-negative" by 2030, nailing its colours to a so-called "moonshot" for worldwide removal and reduction of carbon.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4Y1V4)
There's an app for that, and it's utter pants Something for the Weekend, Sir? Sitting in my tin can far away from home, I marvel that I got here at all.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4Y1N4)
State of Wasm: 'Better support for high-level languages', plus interesting cross-platform news Interview WebAssembly will not magically speed up your web application and may be as significant running in environments other than web browsers as it is within them, a co-designer of the language told The Register.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Y1N6)
New perspective on FBI, Interpol demands for backdoors Vid Police Scotland to roll out encryption bypass technology, as one publication reported this week, causing some Register readers to silently mouth: what the hell?…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Y1N8)
It's getting hot in here, so open all your doors On Call Welcome to On Call, The Register's regular foray into the increasingly unreliable memories of those who have to pick up the phone when everything is on fire.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4Y1GJ)
Guess we can't escape our future Terminator overlords Artificial intelligence with frickin' lasers beams attached can see objects hidden around corners, according to a study published in the journal Optica on Thursday.…
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Copy-left behind: Permissive MIT, Apache open-source licenses on the up as developers snub GNU's GPL
by Thomas Claburn on (#4Y1BW)
Share all our code modifications with others? Think again, hippie Permissive open-source software licenses continue to gain popularity at the expense of copyleft licenses, according to a forthcoming report from WhiteSource, a biz that makes software licensing management tools.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Y1BY)
Meanwhile, AMD snags Intel exec as server chip boss Google is hoping to improve the appeal of its mid-tier Cloud platform to enterprises with a new set of support and response options.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4Y140)
Good news: There is none. Well, apart from you can at least fully patch the Microsoft blunder Vid Easy-to-use exploits have emerged online for two high-profile security vulnerabilities, namely the Windows certificate spoofing bug and the Citrix VPN gateway hole. If you haven't taken mitigation steps by now, you're about to have a bad time.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4Y0VP)
Connecticut Supremes affirm trial judge's decision to toss 'pay to play' claim Gartner did not defame network app biz Netscout by placing it in the "challenger" section of its Magic Quadrant instead of the "leaders" section, the Supreme Court of the US state of Connecticut has ruled.…
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Azure consultant's Google image search results hotlinking sueball booted off the pitch by High Court
by Gareth Corfield on (#4Y0HD)
British copyright law probably wasn't right way to do this one An Azure consultant has lost his bid to sue Google for copyright infringement over search results that sent web users to a website run by a hotlinker who was displaying one of his photos.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Y0HF)
Apple: 'The apps you use every day.' Except that one. And that one. And those are right out The macOS Catalina bad news train kept on rolling this week as AccountEdge, friend of the Apple-using beancounters, threw in the towel over the forced migration of Macs to a 64-bit world.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4Y0HH)
'A very long haul' says judge as HPE v Lynch and Hussain reaches its end Autonomy Trial After 93 days in the courtroom, the $5bn Autonomy Trial has reached its end, with Mike Lynch's lawyers urging the judge to dismiss all of HPE's claims against the British software firm's former CEO.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4Y077)
Bankers ring in 2020 by thwacking employees with the Windows stick Microsoft and UK finance behemoth Lloyds Banking Group have signed a deal that will see the Windows giant manage the group's desktops and mobile devices.…
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by Team Register on (#4Y079)
Dive into an all-day workshop – now at early-bird prices – for practical advice from experts in the field Event If you want to get deep into continuous delivery, or get your hands dirty with Kubernetes or Lambda, our Continuous Lifecycle London conference has a workshop for you.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#4Y07B)
Docs keen to hear how, as promised, project will make their own logins less of a Hancockup UK doctors' union the British Medical Association (BMA) is seeking clarification on how GPs will access the £40m funding for single sign-on to health systems recently promised by health and social care secretary Matt Hancock.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#4Y07C)
Software licensing issues made it harder to turn the page Libraries Northern Ireland - the public sector organ which, erm, runs libraries in Northern Ireland - has renewed an IT services contract with Fujitsu worth £12m after running out of time to run a tender process.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4Y00M)
June 2020 is the end for users on Windows, Linux and Mac Google has rolled out a new schedule for ending support for Chrome Apps – packaged desktop applications built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript – in favour of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and other browser-based approaches such as Chrome Extensions.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4Y00N)
German Constitutional Court is much more dangerous than people think It has been years in the making and Europe’s largest law firms are smacking their lips in anticipation but the long-held dream of a single European patent system may die next month – and everyone appears to be in denial.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#4Y00Q)
Execs don't care to keep things shipshape if they don't see a return.... so let's MAKE them Column On New Year's Eve 2019, the good ship Travelex struck the iceberg of ransomware. That's not a good metaphor, to be honest: when the SS Titanic hit its frozen nemesis, it had the good taste to unambiguously sink in two hours and 40 minutes. Not so Travelex.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#4XZW3)
Join us next month in a cosy pub to hear all about Ordnance Survey's latest project Register Lecture A golden age of cartography is upon us. Only this time, it's satellites and tech firms’ vehicles that are crossing the Earth’s surface, compiling maps for their distant masters who are building geospatial services.…
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by David Gordon on (#4XZW5)
Sign up now: The UK government's scheme to help new companies grow and scale is back Promo If you need your new security company to get noticed, Tech Nation’s Cyber programme is back, opening its doors for another cohort of infosec companies looking to scale at speed.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XZW7)
Yum, long noodle-like stars Astronomers have finally figured out what the peculiar object known as “G2†orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is: a behemoth star created from the merger of two binary stars being stretched by the extreme tidal forces around the black hole.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4XZQP)
Decision is preliminary and unenforced, though a good start Analysis In a massive win for privacy rights, a preliminary ruling from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has made clear that national security concerns do not override citizens’ data privacy. Thus, ISPs should not be forced to hand over personal information without clear justification.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XZK8)
Most-accurate algorithms showed 'little to no bias', so nothing to fear, eh? Vid A recent US government report investigating the accuracy of facial recognition systems across different demographic groups has sparked fresh questions on how the technology should be regulated.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XZKA)
Wow, it's all coming up Trump right now, huh? America and China have struck a deal that may signal the beginning of the end in their ongoing trade war.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XZKC)
Enjoy that new version 72? Donate.mozilla.org is a thing, folks On Wednesday Mozilla Corporation, maker of the Firefox browser and would-be internet privacy protector, said it plans to lay off an undisclosed number of employees.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XZDN)
Exposed: Intimate... personal details belonging to thousands of folks A pair of misconfigured cloud-hosted file silos have left thousands of peoples' sensitive info sitting on the open internet.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XZDQ)
House of Larry delivers massive update for 93 products Oracle has released a sweeping set of security patches across the breadth of its software line.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XZ58)
Redmond loves Linux so much this Internet-Explorer-replacement is for Windows, macOS only right now Microsoft's Edge browser, retooled to run on Chromium's open source foundation, has shed its beta designation and entered general release on Wednesday, promising performance, productivity, privacy, and value – a word which here means Microsoft Rewards gift card points for using Bing and access to so-called Premium News.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4XZ5A)
Going like Blazor(s) everywhere, says Microsoft, but will this enthusiasm last? Microsoft will provide experimental support for native mobile applications using its Blazor web development platform.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XYW3)
£20k 'incentive' up for grabs if you can get something into the App Gallery before the end of Jan The embattled Chinese networking gear and mobe slinger used its London Developer Conference on Wednesday to lure coders to its HMS (Huawei Mobile Services) platform as a post-Google world beckoned.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4XYW5)
Plenty of cash flying around ahead of that $5bn biz gobble Updated What an interesting world of revolving doors the enterprise storage sector can be sometimes.…
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