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by Shaun Nichols on (#49XGP)
Infosec bods spot IBM SoftLayer not wiping down BMC flash memory after use Cloud providers renting out bare-metal servers must make sure they scrub every last byte of writable storage on their boxes between deployments, infosec outfit Eclypsium has urged. Otherwise, malicious customers could stash malware in motherboard flash memory that activates when the next user of a machine powers it up.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49XED)
Tech giants under fire? Hold my beer, says Big Blue as it spins up race slur recruitment websites Exclusive IBM has apologized after its recruitment webpages asked applicants whether their ethnicity was, among other options, the racial slurs Yellow and Mulatto.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49X93)
Networks may be late, but handsets are here MWC Analysis 5G may buck the trend set by the first three generations of digital cellular technology, and actually offer punters a broad range of mobiles when the networks go live. This time it's the networks that may be buggy and late, not the handsets.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49X4V)
Just 90 seconds, it's claimed, provided a) you have 512 Nvidia V100 GPUs and b) er, no need for accuracy The shortest time for training a neural network using the popular ImageNet dataset has been slashed again, it is claimed, from the previously held record of four minutes to just one and a half.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#49X0K)
Hint: It's something to do with a new California law Analysis After years of fighting to prevent any form of legislation that would safeguard Americans' online privacy, this week Congress will have two hearings on the topic during which the tech industry will outline its newfound love for laws covering its business.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#49WVT)
Lawsuits fly as sandwich shop chain grills ex-programmers, system analyst If you were to list the top five reasons why sandwich shop chain Panera has been so successful, with over 2,000 bakeries across the US and Canada, it's unlikely that its IT team would make the cut.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#49WNA)
CEO of embattled biz tells The Reg: 'Docker Enterprise continues to be our main focus' Exclusive Docker has been unable to contain itself.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#49WHM)
Red scare reaches new heights as intel committee urges further crackdown on network-connected gear Equipment made by Chinese electronics giant Huawei could be torn out of America's electrical grid, if US senators get their way.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49WD7)
Microsoft: 20 billion connected devices by 2020. Voda, Arm: How about 1 trillion by 2035? While HoloLens 2 took center stage at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft sneaked out some intriguing Azure Internet-of-Things news aimed at dealing with connectivity challenges in remote areas.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49W8Q)
Times are strange when spies talk about infosec and economics colliding The world must "understand the opportunities and threats from China's technological offer", GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming said today as he observed that there are "no clear norms or behaviours" for state-on-state cyber-squabbling.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49W44)
Microsoft: don't mention the 'C' word, but you can have it at a discount if you're in the military MWC Sometimes you have to feel for Microsoft. Even though it failed to keep a lid on HoloLens 2 leaks, the arrival of the Azure Kinect was a surprise. Unless you’d sat through the keynote at last year’s Build, of course.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49VYW)
If you lose, get your cheque book out, High Court judge rules amid two-year legal battle A millionaire barrister who started a crowdfunded lawsuit against taxi app maker Uber over a £1 VAT receipt has lost his attempt to stop Uber claiming legal costs against him.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49VSY)
ICO slams 'neither confirm nor deny' tactics as unlawful The UK's data watchdog has reportedly asked two government departments and a Kent Brexit planning group to rethink advice given to local councils on how to handle Freedom of Information (FoI) requests.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49VSZ)
Plus: Up close and personal with Ultima Thule and Fregat saves the day Roundup Scientists sharpened their view of Ultima Thule last week, while three more space Virgins popped their commercial astro cherries aboard SpaceShipTwo and Elon Musk revealed the fate he has in store for last week's Falcon 9.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49VT1)
Cloud-to-cloud interoperability with Microsoft, more vendors to come MWC Germany's big name in back-office tech announced a suite of IoT capabilities in its SAP Leonardo toolkit at Euro mobility gabfest Mobile World Congress.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#49VNZ)
Plus, hackers say your Facebook account is worth roughly a tall coffee Roundup Last week, the security world saw Adobe take a do-over, Cisco clean up some bugs and the NCC head out to space.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49VP1)
From California state regs to Europe's GDPR: It's all just a 'veneer of protection' Much-lauded privacy laws risk being undermined as compliance is outsourced to tech vendors and "toothless trainings, audits and paper trails" are confused for genuine protections, a New York Law School professor has said.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#49VH9)
Pick a card, any card: Micron's or SanDisk's ... but it'll cost you £££ MWC Micron and WD's SanDisk both dropped the veil on massive memory cards for your mobile at Barcelona's phone confab this morning: specifically, the little beggars are stuffed with a terabyte of storage.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49VD5)
Three aboard Boeing freighter killed after mystery plummet Three people were killed when an Amazon Prime Air-branded cargo flight crashed near Houston, Texas, on Saturday afternoon.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49VD7)
New kit runs a bit faster, costs less MWC Huawei's impressive business laptops are now a bit more affordable. The burgeoning PC giant is bringing MateBook X features to a new lower-priced range announced on Sunday at Mobile World Congress.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49V9Y)
Plus: Windows Mixed Reality sulks in kitchen while HoloLens 2 hogs limelight Roundup While the Microsoft team were setting up shop at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress (and frantically plugging HoloLens 2 leaks), things continued apace back in Redmond.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49V9Z)
Five shiny lenses at a sensible price MWC HMD Global's Nokia business has been puttering about with Android for a couple of years now, respectably rather than spectacularly, trading largely on the goodwill of the brand. The Nokia 9 PureView, unveiled on Sunday in Barcelona, tries to change that, recapturing some of the premium market.…
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by Team Register on (#49VA1)
Big speakers, big venue….small prices Events Our early bird ticket offer for Continuous Lifecycle finishes this week, so if you want save £100s AND learn from some of the finest in DevOps, Containers, Continuous Delivery and Serverless, the time to act is now.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49V7B)
This may be proof that ET doesn't need the same DNA chemicals we need Scientists say they have crafted a semi-synthetic DNA and RNA molecular system that is able to usefully store genetic information. It's hoped that alien lifeforms exist out there with similar exotic biological structures.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49V7D)
But at around £2,000, you might want to wait MWC Huawei's foldable phone made its debut at Mobile World Congress on Sunday, and it's the most impressive attempt yet at creating a new consumer device category: the phone that becomes a tablet.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49V56)
Also, DeepMind published new code to help train agents play football Roundup It's Monday. It's a new week. The coffee's on. The hangover's over. Let's brighten your morning with some developments from the world of machine learning.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49V30)
We'd like to Azure you, mixed reality has a business application MWC With mixed reality in danger or becoming the cold fusion of technology hypes (i.e. it never arrives), Microsoft has reminded everyone it has built up a significant body of practical know-how at MWC this week.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49TY8)
Ah yes, that cheque, just make it out to a Mr Stonking C*ck Who, Me? Good Monday morning, dear Reg readers. If you were faced with doing overtime this weekend, rather than going out for beers, this episode of Who, Me? might be right up your street.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#49Q8H)
Processor designer says he's right about one thing: The need for end-to-end dev platforms Linux kernel king Linus Torvalds this week dismissed cross-platform efforts to support his contention that Arm-compatible processors will never dominate the server market.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#49Q5Q)
Contrarian command-in-chief tweets, world scratches head Comment President Donald Trump appears to have undermined an increasingly aggressive push by the US government and telcos to pressure the world to shun Chinese equipment in next-generation 5G networks.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#49Q2X)
Nothing like a little reminder of who's really in charge The chairman of a US Senate committee mulling privacy protections will be thrown a reelection fundraiser by, er, the privacy-trampling telecoms industry literally the day before a key hearing.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#49PZ4)
Hard drives not included, for obvious reasons Fancy owning a piece of Silicon Valley history? Hundreds of PCs, notebooks, and monitors used by infamous biotech cluster-fuck-up Theranos are set to be sold off following the $10bn-peak-valued biz's collapse.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49PQA)
Profitable secure SIM firm in the bag by March, Thales hopes French defence tech conglomerate Thales has flogged off its hardware security module biz nCipher Security, a sale demanded by competition regulators over Thales' buyout of Gemalto.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49PK8)
Confusion not severe enough to stop $60m Series E round Redis Labs has jettisoned the Commons Clause software licence introduced last year for its Redis Modules, saying the earlier change had left some users "confused."…
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by Richard Speed on (#49PEW)
Asteroid bits collected. Next step, to hadouken a crater Japan's Hayabusa 2 probe has successfully collected a sample from the surface of asteroid Ryugu following a careful descent last night.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49PA5)
Speak up and you might recover some of that £513k People who paid for one of the infamous ZX Spectrum Vega+ handheld game consoles are being urged to register themselves as creditors of the company before a liquidator is appointed.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49PA6)
Enterprise+: One toolkit to deliver them all DevOps darling JFrog has snapped up cloud-based Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) outfit Shippable.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#49P57)
NVMe drives speed VMs, but be warned – it ain't persistent AWS and Google Cloud virtual machine instances – and as of this month, Azure's – have NVMe flash drive performance, but user be warned: drive contents are wiped when the VMs are killed.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49NZQ)
There's a PhD position in it too, if you want to get involved NCC Group and the University of Surrey have set up a "Space Cyber Security Research Partnership" to investigate the security issues faced by satellites.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49NV6)
Ad giant plans reshuffle to focus on privacy, anti-trust – reports Facing down an increased interest in tech regulation, Google is said to be rejigging its global lobbying efforts and upping its focus on privacy and competition.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#49NV8)
Rest of the portfolio couldn't keep up with Nimble HPE storage revenues – like NetApp's – grew just 2 per cent year-on-year in the firm's first 2019 quarter, with Nimble all-flash arrays leading the charge amble.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49NKT)
The iceberg has begun to change course Stinging from British criticism over its slow pace, Huawei has promised to start addressing security fears from the country's spy agency, GCHQ, by June.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49NKW)
Search giant lifts ban on out-of-court talks, class-action suits Google has said it will end forced arbitration next month and lift a ban on class-action suits after intense pressure from staffers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49NGM)
If it works. Comms sat also along for ride, but there are loads already so... SpaceX has sent the first privately funded lunar lander on its way to the Moon following an evening launch from Canaveral Air Force station.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#49NEH)
It's not big and it's not clever. Well, not clever, anyway Something for the Weekend, Sir? "Where's the intelligence?" cried a voice from the back.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#49NC0)
'The perils of wrist-based motion sensors' Ah the perils of a connected society were evidenced once again this week when some techies we know took on a pimply faced, smartwatch clad youth as an apprentice.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49NA4)
Uhhh... we can't log in. Doughnut, anyone? On Call After a long, hard week, what better way to start Friday than with a dose of On Call, El Reg's weekly column for tech traumas, mishaps and eureka moments.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49N81)
It's time we rise up against these AI overlords and overthrow their useful technologies Neural networks have proven surprisingly adept at detect radar signals – and could help the US Navy and civilian mobile networks better share their overlapping radio spectrum.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#49N5K)
Ad giant must divorce IoT subsidiary, privacy warriors tell sleepy watchdog Following Google's acknowledgement that it made a mistake by failing to mention that its Nest Guard alarm hub includes a microphone, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has asked the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to force the ad biz to sell its Nest division and surrender data snarfed from Nest customers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49N3N)
Looks like someone's thought ahead this time The Carnegie Institution for Science, a research hub headquartered in America's capital, is asking for the public’s help to name five of Jupiter’s newly discovered moons.…
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