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by Katyanna Quach on (#4W9G3)
And why China might not be as big as first thought in AI spending Roundup Hello, welcome to this week's machine learning musings. We bring you news about the hottest topics in AI: Facial recognition, the so-called AI arms race between the US and China, and erm, GPUs in the cloud.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4W7HH)
Meanwhile, the DOJ sets its sights on money mules Welcome to yet another El Reg security roundup. Off we go.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4W77D)
Trade boss says long-dead biz was indeed deceiving the public The US Federal Trade Commission has issued what looks to be a largely symbolic ruling against the remnants of data-harvesting marketers Cambridge Analytica.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4W77F)
CEO's tweeted taunt totally fine, twelve jurors decide Billionaire Elon Musk did not defame British cave explorer Vernon Unsworth, a Los Angeles jury concluded on Friday.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4W701)
We're never gonna survive unless, we get a little crazy NASA’s science team has a new female recruit and she's probing the watery depths of the Antarctic in a quest to help climate eggheads understand our climate.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4W703)
Standardization of wasm for the web offers a new take on the same old problems The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Thursday published three WebAssembly specifications as W3C Recommendations, officially endorsing a technology touted for the past few years as a way to accelerate web code, to open the web to more programming languages, and to make code created for the web more portable and safe.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4W6Q2)
Protest organizers come under fire from network traffic barrage China is reportedly using the 'cannon' capabilities of its massive domestic internet to try and take down anti-government websites in Hong Kong.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4W6Q4)
Squaring up to the iPhone 11 Samsung is expected to next year release its newest flagship, the Galaxy S11. And, as is the case with any high-profile phone release, details are steadily leaking from the chaebol's notoriously porous supply chain.…
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by John Oates on (#4W6Q6)
Not even a wafer-thin blade? The global server market hasn't been able to match the heady highs of 2018 so far this year and Q3 was no exception as both shipments and the value of those boxes dropped.…
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by John Oates on (#4W6Q8)
May we suggest a rebrand? B.ICONIC, the parent of one of Ireland's largest Apple Premium Resellers (APRs), is buying Stormfront – the UK Apple retailer that is, rather than the Aryan social network.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4W6D7)
19.11 brings penguin support and a Visual Studio Code extension Microsoft's forever-in-preview Azure Sphere received an important update this week, bringing a Linux SDK (also in preview form) and Visual Studio Code support.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4W6D9)
But get ready to flip your cables cos it's microUSB HMD Global, the licencee of the once-ubiquitous Nokia mobile phone brand, today unveiled its latest budget blower, the Nokia 2.3.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4W6DB)
Fix it to a wall, stick it on a shelf While the public cloud might have once been all the rage, the cold light of day has brought the realisation that bandwidth, compliance and convenience means that something a little more local is needed.…
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by John Oates on (#4W6DD)
UK regulators hash out cheat sheet to avoid total meltdown The Bank of England has teamed up with other regulators to offer UK banks a little advice on sorting out their woeful IT systems.…
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by Team Register on (#4W645)
Save yourself a few quid and we'll see you in May 2020 Event If DevOps, containers, CI/CD and serverless are on your agenda for next year, grabbing a blind-bird ticket for our Continuous Lifecycle London conference should be top of your end-of-year todo list.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4W647)
NVM, we'll give you a toggle to deactivate UWB... in the future-ture-ture For a company that prizes itself on its privacy credentials, Apple received a bit of a bloody nose earlier this week when long-time security journalist Brian Krebs revealed the iPhone 11 Pro intermittently seeks the user’s location — even when there are no applications with location permissions in use.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4W649)
Come with us through the gates of Jenkins Land to admire the Java dinosaurs within DevOps World Lisbon Love was in the air at the CloudBees-sponsored DevOps World in Lisbon this week as the 900 or so attendees were treated to public displays of affection with Google both on stage and behind the scenes.…
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by John Oates on (#4W64B)
Too soon for New Year Resolutions? Cybercriminals will continue to exploit tried-and-tested fraud methods but also adopt a couple of new takes and targets in the year ahead.…
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by John Oates on (#4W5YG)
Great job, now let's do some applied AI with the big boys Mustafa Suleyman, one of the founders of DeepMind, is to join Google's applied AI division.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4W5YJ)
How the worst mobe I ever used maimed an American teen Comment Earlier this year, I reviewed arguably the worst phone I've ever used in eight years of covering tech for a living: the Doogee S40. I've always prided myself on my fairness, but I genuinely couldn't find a silver lining to this appalling waste of rare-earth metals. It had a crap screen, a weak camera, and was frustratingly slow to use.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4W5SK)
Behold the 'heaving monstrosity of pulsing evil' On Call Friday has arrived once again with a tale from the smouldering world of On Call.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4W5SN)
All you need is tens of thousands of Lego bricks, a Raspberry Pi, and a laptop GPU An engineer has built something that is sure to be the envy of any self-respecting Lego fan: an AI-powered Lego sorting machine.…
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by David Gordon on (#4W5NC)
Sign up, tune in, expand your knowledge, and compete in hacking contests Promo On December 9, SANS will launch its second annual KringleCon virtual conference followed shortly thereafter by its 13th Holiday Hack Challenge.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4W5NE)
OpenVPN, WireGuard, IKEv2/IPSec also vulnerable to tampering flaw, we're told A bug in the way Unix-flavored systems handle TCP connections could put VPN users at risk of having their encrypted traffic hijacked, it is claimed.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4W5GS)
Presidential 'disdain' may have been a factor in awarding mega-contract to Microsoft, says cloud supremo re:Invent Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy faced the press yesterday at Amazon's re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, and there was one thing above all else that journos wanted to discuss.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4W5GT)
App detection interface sparks privacy worries Comment A nascent web API called getInstalledRelatedApps offers a glimpse of why online privacy remains such an uncertain proposition.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4W5GW)
Images beamed back from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leave scientists baffled Pic A closeup image of Bennu snapped by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reveals that the asteroid’s surface is surprisingly volatile, randomly spitting out shards of debris into space.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4W5AA)
Who needs an elevator pitch when you have man-in-the-middle attack? A group of hackers used a compromised email account to steal a start-up's $1m venture capital payment.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4W5AC)
Boffins ride the memory bus past Intel's SGX to your data Computer scientists from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M, and semiconductor biz SK Hynix have found a way to defeat secure enclave protections by observing memory requests from a CPU to off-chip DRAM through the memory bus.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4W5AE)
Documentary filmmakers lob sue ball to halt practice The US State Department is being sued over its policy of crawling the social media accounts of people applying for entry visas.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4W51J)
Looking forward to seeing these in, well, anything would be nice Qualcomm will today expand its range of Snapdragon system-on-chips for always-connected Arm-based Windows 10 tablet-laptops from one to three.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4W51M)
Highest-ranked front shooter yet for the poser in your life The middle ground of the smartphone market is a bit of a battleground. Manufacturers of all stripes – except Apple – keep flinging devices at punters with fairly high-end specs, but price tags under the £500 mark. The latest salvo comes from embattled Chinese comms giant Huawei, which today announced the launch of its Nova 6 handset.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4W51P)
What happens when you throw your lot in with crypto-coin types Collaboration site Keybase, once touted for its encrypted meetup channels and robust developer features, is struggling to ward off an epidemic of harassment and spam brought about by its shift toward cryptocurrency.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4W4QN)
Claims it's unconstitutional Huawei Technologies today filed a fresh lawsuit against the US Federal Communications Commission over its decision to ban rural carriers from buying the company's mobile hardware with Universal Service Fund (USF) cash.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4W4QQ)
Account-draining malware masterminds charged but remain in motherland US prosecutors have slapped a $5m bounty on the heads of two Russian nationals they claim are part of the malware gang behind the banking trojans ZeuS and Dridex.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4W4QS)
Learning points, not an instruction manual Black Hat Europe Faking digital evidence during a cyber attack – planting a false flag – is simple if you know how, as noted infosec veteran Jake Williams told London's Black Hat Europe conference.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4W4DC)
Comms provider switched 118 people to its services without their consent Updated Imagine a telco kicking down your front door, yelling "all your bills are belong to us" then leaving. In the industry parlance, it's known as "slamming" and Ofcom has fined Onestream £35,000 for the practice.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4W4DD)
Another $0.51 dividend for shareholders, exec pay OK'd, but no say for employees Updated There was good news for investors and perhaps bad news for employees during Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4W4DF)
You say 20H1, they say 2004, let's call the whole thing off Microsoft has emitted a fresh build of next year's Windows 10 to both the Slow and Fast rings of the Windows Insider programme and goodness, those guinea pigs weren't keen on Notepad-In-The-Store.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4W4DH)
Billionaire accuses execs of running scared for jobs amid $33.5bn bid Corporate raider Carl Icahn isn't quietly accepting HP's rejection of Xerox's hostile $33.5bn takeover bid – he has accused the board of using delay tactics to keep their jobs and warning it can be done in a nice or not-so-nice way.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4W46A)
ZeroCleare wipes up where Shamoon left off An Iran-based hacking crew long known to target energy facilities in neighboring Middle Eastern countries is believed to be launching new attacks.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#4W46C)
What's that when it's at home? Oh, they mean pixel binning Motorola has updated its mid-range lineup with the announcement of the Android 10-powered One Hyper.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4W46E)
Ready to go, but beware 'unfortunate breaking change' in Windows Forms Microsoft has released .NET Core 3.1 – a significant milestone as, unlike version 3.0, it is a long-term support (LTS) release, suggesting that the company believes it's fit for extended use. It is accompanied by Visual Studio 16.4, also an LTS release.…
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by John Oates on (#4W46G)
What now? A pre-election porky? Heaven forfend… Conservative Party claims they may review the extension of IR35 tax rules to the UK private sector have been called into question by a tax expert.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4W41E)
Pretty fly for a Wi-Fi... The long-awaited future of super-fast wireless is here, with the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) claiming speeds of 700Mbps in a real-world environment using the Wi-Fi 6 standard.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4W41F)
Distributed acoustic sensing turns old glass cabling into seismic sensors Old, unused fiber optic cables buried underground can be refashioned into seismometers, helping scientists monitor earthquakes, according to new research.…
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by David Gordon on (#4W41H)
Advice based on feedback from Register readers and insights from Box Webcast Financial institutions across the board are wrestling with how to engage more closely with customers and work better across internal teams. Too often, the cause is ill-fitting content and document management systems, designed for another time. Meanwhile, cloud-based platforms can both help and hinder, delivering short-term benefit but adding complexity and fragmentation.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4W3WE)
The great .uk foist is still rumbling along Two months after promising customers that its past practices of automatically registering, and charging, customers for .uk domains was all a big misunderstanding, pushy registrar 123-Reg is at it again, charging at least one punter for .uk domains they never ordered and don’t want.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4W3RK)
Collaborating with other companies is such a drag re:Invent AWS CEO Andy Jassy, asked about the future role of Kubernetes (K8s) in cloud infrastructure, told The Register that "I don’t believe in one tool to rule the world."…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4W3RN)
Exposed private cert key may also be an issue for IBM Aspera Updated Twitter security celeb SwiftOnSecurity on Tuesday inadvertently disclosed a zero-day vulnerability affecting enterprise software biz Atlassian, a flaw that may be echoed in IBM's Aspera software.…
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