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by Richard Speed on (#4XTQM)
Macro or Mackerel? Whatever it is, it looks o-fish-al. We'll get our sealskin coat Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me? The Register's headlong plunge into the pit of reader recollections and confessions.…
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by Team Register on (#4XTJJ)
The Great Big – but not that big – Reg Reader Survey Survey Thank you for reading The Register. We hope you like what you see. And whether you do or you don't, now's your chance to pipe your thoughts about the site and its coverage of technology directly into our brains.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XTJK)
Plus: TikTok clocked, Honey in a sticky situation, Arm's PAN mechanisms sidestepped Roundup Welcome to another Register security roundup. Here are a few stories that caught our eye.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XSPH)
Best sit down and read this story with a mug of hot steaming (green) tea Tea lovers that chug three or more cups of the warm nectar per week are more likely to live longer than those that drink tea less often, or never touch the wonderful stuff.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XRQF)
Described FAA regulators being briefed as 'like dogs watching TV' Boeing this week turned over damning new documents around the design and response to its ill-fated 737-Max airliner.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XRAM)
It's got a name and logo so it's serious, you guys A vulnerability in Broadcom's cable modem firmware has left as many as 200 million home broadband gateways in Europe, and potentially more worldwide, at risk of remote hijackings.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XR3Q)
Well, apart from a couple of hundred million bucks in stock sales David Drummond, chief legal officer at Google-parent Alphabet, plans to leave the web titan at the end of the month.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XQVM)
Tch-oh, you wait for one cosmic rock and then two show up A relatively small rock was spotted orbiting asteroid Eurybates this month by scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope. Luckily enough, that's the same asteroid NASA's Lucy probe is aiming to fly past and inspect in 2027, so boffins will be able to get a closer look at both.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4XQKR)
Every little helps, right Jeff? Updated The UK's Home Office has tossed a contract worth up to £100m of taxpayer cash at Amazon Web Services to renew a public cloud hosting agreement with the hyper tax efficient American giant for four years.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XQKT)
Conference swag collectors take note - this thing will apparently go 10 days pong-free Geeks around the world, rejoice. You too can own a T-shirt that can go 10 days between washes, resist pizza and caffeinated beverage stains while keeping static at bay.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XQKW)
'You targeted a large charitable organisation' thundered judge A Londoner who hacked the National Lottery using Sentry MBA and made off with just £5 will spend up to nine months in prison for his crimes.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4XQA0)
$3bn reportedly changing hands after data centre biz auction A disturbance has been detected in the world of data centres amid reports that private equity biz Macquarie is to take a majority stake in Sydney-based AirTruck that will cost circa A$3bn.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XQA2)
Good luck running apps on that round display CES Oh, CES. Each year, interspersed between the big product launches from Dell and Samsung are smaller companies, often with some truly bonkers kit. Take, for example, the Cyrcle Phone.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XQ4D)
An update inbound with Search, Settings and Scanlines With Windows 7 emitting its last death rattles and a Microsoft engineer poised to pull the plug, the Redmond gang has teased a return to a simpler, text-based time with the next release of Windows Terminal.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4XQ4F)
Sorry, I've misplaced my ticket again. Where's my head at? Something for the Weekend, Sir? There is supposed to be an old Afghan proverb that goes: "When God wants to punish a nation, he makes them invade Afghanistan."…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XPZW)
And even better, you've got a good chance of winning against it GPT-2, OpenAI’s giant text-generating language model, can play chess – despite having no prior knowledge of the game’s rules.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XPZY)
What you really need is a bawling co-worker On Call Welcome to On Call, The Register's receptacle of woe for those unfortunate enough to be at the beck and call of that species we call The Customer.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XPZZ)
New estimation of Hubble Constant emerges Cosmologists are scratching their heads after the latest measurements of just how fast the universe is expanding raises more questions than answers.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XPQJ)
IT goliath under pressure to settle cloud sales star who claims he was unlawfully axed after turning 60 Analysis A judge's recommendation to reject IBM's bid to dismiss an age discrimination claim raises the likelihood that the case could go to trial – and puts pressure on the IT titan to settle.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XPQM)
The main event is next week Cisco has released a fresh batch of security updates for its networking and comms gear lines.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XPH4)
0xdeadbeef Updated Customers of web hosting outfit Gandi.net have been left less than impressed by its handling of a data-destroying storage crash.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XPH6)
To make matters worse, uninstalling it could cause even more pain Updated On Wednesday, more than 50 advocacy groups accused Google of exploiting poor people by failing to police misbehaving Android apps on cheap phones.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XP87)
If CheckPeople could take a look at this, that would be great Exclusive A database containing the personal details of 56.25m US residents – from names and home addresses to phone numbers and ages – has been found on the public internet, served from a computer with a Chinese IP address, bizarrely enough.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XP88)
Expect some wow factor in our newer phones, says company chief LG was at one point a major player in the handset market, pumping out phones like the Nexus 5 that sold like hotcakes. Since then, its fortunes have waned, with its mobile division reporting an operating loss of $135m (KRW 161.2bn) in the third quarter of 2019.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4XNYJ)
Malware loaded onto more than 5k cash tills but pre-GDPR screw-up means retailer dodged bigger financial bullet Dixons Retail is facing a £500,000 penalty from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after a hacker installed malware that infected thousands of point of sale tills and scooped up 5.6 million payment card details.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4XNYM)
Why Rust? 'It works and usually does what you wanted it to do,' says dev Interview Rust developer Denys Séguret, from Lyon, France, wanted a better way to view and search directories, so he coded his own, sparking interest from others with similar frustrations.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XNYP)
Not a good look if camera hits you from the wrong angle CES Honor, the youth-focused subsidiary of the embattled Chinese tech giant Huawei, today unveiled its latest MagicBook laptops at CES.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4XNN4)
Fast retrieval and 'Bucket lock' security, but not the cheapest for cloud storage Google has opened the freezer on general availability of its Archive class cloud storage, designed for data that is stored for more than a year and accessed less than once every 12 months.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4XNN6)
$33bn 'significantly undervalue' the stock, your move again copier giant The board at HP has yet again rejected advances from Xerox, telling the hard pressed copier giant that it needs to increase the tabled bid of $33bn before it considers mutual due diligence and then putting the offer to shareholders.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4XNN7)
Ghost of Windows Future takes a bow while the Ghost of Windows Past spots XP in the wild Happily for those still reacting negatively to sunlight after New Year's festivities, the new version of Windows 10 Microsoft has flung at Fast Ring fanboys and girls was a tad on the muted side.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4XNE9)
Moving to America after being swallowed by Insight Partners, which already chucked $500m at it last year Insight Partners – the same private equity house that pumped half a billion dollars into data protection powerhouse Veeam Software earlier this year – is acquiring the firm for an estimated $5bn.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XNEB)
This 'Droid won't break speed records, but battery lasts ages and you've got 2 years of updates Review Released halfway through last year, the Nokia 3.2 ain't no spring chicken but you should pay that no mind, because, despite being on the market for a while, this budget blower is not a waste of money.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#4XNED)
Should you believe the hype? Well, yes and no Column Just before Christmas, Google claimed quantum supremacy. The company had configured a quantum computer to produce results that would take conventional computers some 10,000 years to replicate - a landmark event.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4XN9V)
Businesses have many options, but with 25% of Windows users still on 7, security is a worry It is remarkable that Windows 7 is reaching end of support on January 14 2020 while maintaining something approaching 27 per cent market share among Windows users, according to Statcounter.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4XN9X)
ICANN, ISOC, PIR and Ethos still refusing to provide details Comment The controversial proposed sale of the .org internet registry to an unknown private equity firm will hit a critical decision point this week, and all the organizations in charge are refusing to talk about it.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XN9Z)
The Radcliffe is totally radical The Milky Way's spiral arm that's home to our Solar System has been found to cradle the largest gaseous structure in the galaxy – a long, thin strip of jumbled star-forming matter measuring 9,000 light-years long and 400 light-years wide.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XN4Y)
El Reg speaks to ex-AT&T boffin who previously probed weird effect Video Netizens this week rediscovered and documented in viral videos an electrical interference problem known to researchers for years: standing up from your chair can cause your PC monitors to blank.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XN0T)
This Internet of Things in the cloud is working out so well, so, so well, so well Amazon's Ring home security camera biz says it has fired multiple employees caught covertly watching video feeds from customer devices.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4XN0W)
Vinod Khosla sued by Golden State for refusing to allow folks to access shoreline After years of negotiations, arbitration, pleas, and Supreme Court challenges, the US state of California has finally had enough of beach-blocking billionaire Vinod Khosla – and sued the Sun Microsystems co-founder.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4XN0Y)
And the techies are almost universally very happy about it There are still corners of the internet that function like the old days, and US regional internet registry ARIN has just proved it – much to the joy of network engineers.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4XMSS)
Unsafe hashing algorithm really is unsafe SHA-1 stands for Secure Hash Algorithm but version 1, developed in 1995, isn't secure at all. It has been vulnerable in theory since 2004 though it took until 2017 for researchers at CWI Amsterdam and Google to demonstrate a practical if somewhat costly collision attack.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4XMSV)
If you're thinking of riding one of those things, wear a helmet There were nearly 40,000 electric scooter injuries in the United States between 2014 and 2018, according to a study published in the journal JAMA Surgery on Wednesday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4XMGJ)
Nork cash grab nasty gets stealthier Malware hunters are sounding the alarm over a new, more effective version of the North Korean "Apple Jeus" macOS software nasty.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XM6S)
Uploads, deletions, private-to-public switcharoos, all bad stuff TikTok, a mobile video app popular with teens, was vulnerable to SMS spoofing attacks that could have led to the extraction of private information, according to infosec researchers.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XM6V)
Better LTE than ever, cos you'll prise my perfectly serviceable old mobe from my cold, dead hands, say respondents A flurry of 5G-capable handsets have hit the shelves, giving punters an opportunity to transcend the limits of LTE data. But will they take the bait? According to the latest edition of the GSMA's The Future of Devices, probably not.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XM6W)
He could have nicked £7m if he hadn't been caught A civil servant who stole £1.7m from the UK's Ministry of Justice through a fake "IT services contract" has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4XM6X)
Yearly review promises FTTP for rural bods, price check on network wholesaler Openreach Ofcom today published new proposals that aim to see fibre-to-the-premises broadband become more ubiquitous, particularly for users in rural areas and finally kill off the old copper network.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4XKWB)
Beefy Firefox release despite new 4-weekly release cycle, but users stick stubbornly to Google Chrome Updated Mozilla has aired a bunch of new features aimed at making web 2020 a little less unpleasant in its release of Firefox 72.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XKWC)
'Unsubstantiated' ad must never be seen again, growls adland watchdog A group of Luddites who think 5G causes everything from cancer to lack to sleep have had an advert promoting their views banned from public display.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4XKWE)
Odd thing haunts Next Generation airliner family (not the infamous Max) Boeing's 737 Next Generation airliners have been struck by a peculiar software flaw that blanks the airliners' cockpit screens if pilots dare attempt a westwards landing at specific airports.…
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