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by Thomas Claburn on (#4B3MF)
Ellison insists Oracle Cloud is less expensive, more secure than AWS – which is why, er, so many people are flocking to it Oracle on Thursday reported revenues of $9.6bn for fiscal Q3 2019 – which is about what analysts anticipated and prompted the stock to bounce up and down indecisively in after-hours trading.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4B3E3)
Just a plan B, claims Chinese giant, in case we get cut off from Android, Windows Huawei is building its own proprietary operating system platform in case the United States tries to isolate the manufacturer by cutting off access to Windows, Android, and other American-built software ecosystems.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4B351)
Get ready for handhelds with notebook-beating RAM chips Samsung has unveiled a 12GB cellphone DRAM module it hopes will be part of next-generation smartphones.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4B353)
Is a single tweet enough when millions of people's communications are affected? Facebook has said a "server configuration change" was to blame for an 14-hour outage of its services, which took down the Facebook social media service, its Messenger and WhatsApp apps, Instagram, and Oculus.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4B2ZY)
Plans to squeeze out enterprise data cloud in next two quarters Cloudera and former open-source database rival Hortonworks may have merged in a defensive manoeuvre but CEO Tom Reilly seems to have spied a bigger existential threat – AWS.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4B2T7)
Not on 5.1.1? You should be A newly revealed vuln in the open-source CMS WordPress allows an unauthenticated website attacker to remotely execute code – potentially letting naughty folk delete or edit blog posts.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4B2NA)
Euro space agencies approve air-breathing engine testing Britain's Reaction Engines has been given the greenlight to press ahead with an ambitious testing programme for its SABRE air-breathing rocket engine.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4B2NC)
The technology's not ready – but they won't wait If anyone knows the state of play in 5G, it's Regius Professor Rahim Tafazolli, director and founder at the Institute of Communication Systems and 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey, and the government's go-to man for mobile technology. But he warned today that the industry was being too hasty in proclaiming the revolution.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4B2GA)
Pint-sized drive in quart bottle Toshiba has pushed out its 2.5-inch XD5, a physically smaller gumstick format with a waspy 7mm thickness slotted into a larger case so that it can slip into standard drive bays.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4B2BG)
What do you think A is for, staffers? Oh yeah, no one asked you... Capita today did what Capita does best: confirmed yet another round of "cost competitiveness initiatives" to chop out even more people, cut real estate, and squeeze suppliers. Predictably, the stock exchange loved them for it.…
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by David Gordon on (#4B2BJ)
Make smarter decisions about IoT Promo More and more organisations are realising it can make sense to process data and make decisions using smart devices at the edge rather than in the cloud.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4B2BK)
Compromised government website slurps buttload of data about applicants A Pakistani government website was compromised with a keylogger and other malware that hoovered up a whole host of information about people checking on their passport application status.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4B26P)
Pesky JavaScript harvester malware strikes again Sportswear brand FILA is the latest outfit to fall victim to card-stealing JavaScript of the kind that menaced British Airways and Ticketmaster last year.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4B220)
Four months to arrive at 31,415,926,535,897 digits Emma Haruka Iwao, a developer advocate at Google Cloud, has celebrated Pi Day (3/14) by setting a new Guinness World Record for calculations of the beautiful mathematical constant, reaching a number with more than 31.4 trillion (ha!) digits.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4B221)
Meanwhile, Skip-Ahead testers glimpse Notepad of the future Some excited Windows Insiders, breathlessly awaiting the first 19H2 build of the operating system, instead found themselves booted off the programme after installing the latest Fast Ring emission.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4B1YS)
Bridenstine reckons the agency should try sticking to its dates Fresh from a budget that has deferred the future of NASA's mega-rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), the agency's own administrator has hinted that the present is looking iffy as well.…
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by Team Register on (#4B1VR)
Last chance savings on 3 days of DevOps, containers and more Events The early bird ticket offer for Continuous Lifecycle, our three day dive into DevOps, Containers, Serverless, and Continuous Delivery, closes tonight, so if you want to save £100s on conference and workshop places, act now.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4B1RJ)
2019 just a transition year, says French watchdog European data protection agencies have issued fines totalling €56m for GDPR breaches since it was enforced last May, from more than 200,000 reported cases – but watchdogs have said they're just warming up.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4B1RK)
Quantum solace: Encryption to die another day Special report Quantum computing has been portrayed as a threat to current encryption schemes, but the ability of finicky vaporware to overthrow the current security regime looks like it's massively overstated.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4B1M8)
Music's violent subject matter has little effect on the listener In a shocking turn of events, boffins have used the power of science to determine that, generally speaking, death metal fans don't actually want to rip off your head and shit down your neck.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4B1MA)
Boffins baffled by Bennu: We're due to visit asteroid but it's whirling faster and faster Bennu, the asteroid targeted by NASA for its OSIRIS-Rex mission, is spinning at increasing rate and scientists aren’t quite sure why.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4B1J0)
You do know just dragging stuff to the delete folder doesn't wipe stuff, right? Apparently not About two-thirds of USB memory sticks bought secondhand in the US and UK have recoverable and sometimes sensitive data, and in one-fifth of the devices studied, the past owner could be identified.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4B1FK)
It's quicker and easier than solving maths equations at least Boffins bored of time-consuming mathematics are turning to machine-learning code to predict the mass of exoplanets that aren't yet fully formed.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4B15V)
It is easy to make itsy-bitsy tech without spaffing glue all over the place Having previously flung scorn at the Apple AirPods, the iFixit team has turned its spudgers on Samsung's wireless earpieces.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4B135)
Here comes Chipzilla with a big bunch of security fixes for graphics drivers, server and workstation firmware, and more Hot on the heels of this month's security updates from Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP, Intel has kicked out a batch of its own bug patches.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4B0XY)
Actual bipartisan legislation in the US, with industry backing, reemerges Analysis In an all-too-rare sign of Congress doing its job, on Wednesday US lawmakers introduced a new law bill aimed at improving the security of the internet-of-things.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4B0P5)
They all fell over, fears of massive DDoS denied Updated Both Google and Facebook suffered outages Wednesday, with the Chocolate Factory leading the way and seemingly fixing its issues just as Zuck's network became decidedly antisocial.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4B0J5)
Mad Max airline grudgingly backs decision 'out of an abundance of caution' Canada and America have now banned Boeing 737 Max aircraft from flying anywhere over the Great White North and the Land of the Free, pending the implementation of new safety measures and training programs.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4B0J7)
Devs may have been duped into using dodgy SDK, tut-tuts infosec biz Android adware found its way into as many as 150 million devices – after it was stashed inside a large number of those bizarre viral mundane job simulation games, we're told.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4B0D6)
Hammond splashes the cash – guess Brexit's sorted then? The University of Edinburgh is getting a new supercomputer for academic and commercial research, and now we know it'll cost around 79 million quid.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4B089)
64 bits of cert ID on the wall, 64 bits of ID. Take the top bit down, don't pass it around, 63 bits of cert ID on the wall... A bunfight over a controversial UAE mobile security company led to the discovery that millions of TLS security certificates have been improperly issued – thanks to a dodgy default configuration in popular certificate authority (CA) management software.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4B08B)
Command line smarts leave blobs all a bit GUI, thanks to AzCopy Microsoft has continued its efforts to speed up storage performance by adding AzCopy to the company's Azure Storage Explorer.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4B02D)
'We’re living in an age of anger where people feel disempowered, unhappy...' Innovators are losing the battle for people's trust and facing a kickback where technologies are banned before they have been fully discussed, according to the tech lead at the UK's data watchdog.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4AZXT)
Wanted: A cheap model? Price cuts in China have not helped revive demand for Apple's iPhone according to an analyst firm cited by Bloomberg.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4AZR4)
Plus: A little thing called Brexit has been most distracting A competition review into the giant digital platforms commissioned by the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has recommended a new watchdog and greater data rights for users.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4AZR5)
Also upgrades VxBlock options Dell EMC has assembled Ready Stack designs for punters who want to build validated converged infrastructure stacks – customers can use any combo of server, storage and networking as long as it's Dell EMC gear, natch.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4AZK5)
Scream if you wanna go FASTER. SAFE, mate US chipmaker Marvell Technology has created 400Gbps silicon for Ethernet switches, destined for data centres that live at the edge of the network.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4AZK7)
The less we talk about those travel costs though, the better IBM's head honcho Ginni Rometty was paid $16.45m for running the company last year though this was dramatically lower than it could have been – the exec herself downgraded her final incentive score and the board agreed.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4AZES)
No, not your phone. It's 2019, for heaven's sake. The app Windows Insiders struggling to keep up with the flood of builds were given something new to play with last night.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4AZA5)
Smartphone retailer at centre of very own PPI scandal after FCA probe Misfiring UK mobile phone dealer The Carphone Warehouse was today slapped with a £29.1m penalty by the Financial Conduct Authority for "mis-selling" handset insurance over a six-and-a-half year period.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4AZ6X)
Hail of notifications incoming... just be thankful 8 passed you by Updated Windows 7 holdouts have been warned to expect a notification suggesting that perhaps an upgrade might be in order.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4AZ6Z)
XP lingers like that cold you just can't shake Fancy sticking a toe into the warm bath of nostalgia? UK retailer Boots is showing the old Windows XP login screen on a self-service terminal in its Islington store.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4AZ48)
Might want to stop throwing stones for a while... The Bank of England (BoE) has admitted to MPs there is "significant" room for improvement in its IT systems, which cost about a third more than other central government organisations.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4AZ25)
Capital idea, old boy... yes, plenty of capital Analysis OpenAI, a leading machine-learning lab, has launched for-profit spin-off OpenAI LP – so it can put investors' cash toward the expensive task of building artificial general intelligence.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4AYZV)
Venus also turns up a number of undiscovered orbital partners Scientists have spotted, for the first time, gigantic dust rings circling the Sun alongside the orbits of Mercury and Venus.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4AYX0)
Ride the fox, ride the fox Mozilla's Firefox Send, a free encrypted file sharing service, graduated from test to official release on Tuesday after a year and half of refinement.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4AYA2)
DHCP client has trio of remote-code exec vulns – plus SAP, Adobe issue updates Patch Tuesday It's the second Tuesday of the month, and you know what that means: a fresh dump of security fixes from Microsoft, Adobe and others.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4AY6Q)
No, of course it wasn't If there was any hope that Congress will make progress on resolving the battle over America's net neutrality protections this legislative session, it was surely snuffed out during a hearing on Tuesday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4AY1W)
Or C. It's all a libtard plot? A developer specializing in mobile apps for US conservatives is under fire for threatening to call the Feds on someone who reported security shortcomings in its software.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4AXXK)
ICANN tired of delay tactics from Brazil and Peru Amazon may finally get its hands on the .amazon top-level domain it craves, having been blocked for years by the governments of Brazil and Peru, after ICANN finally lost its patience.…
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