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by Richard Chirgwin on (#47R4R)
You can't eavesdrop on these whispers MIT boffins have used low-power lasers to beam audio directly into a subject's ear.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#47R4S)
Meanwhile, Canada to sign 5G R&D collab with Nokia Reports that University of California Berkeley will remove Huawei kit from its networks are overblown, the institute has told The Register.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47R1F)
Programming skills assessment tweak after 2017 malpractice GCSE computer science will be exam-only, the UK's education watchdog has said, after concluding it isn’t possible to fairly and reliably assess the secondary school qualification any other way.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#47QZ2)
Three: 'A number of customers' would've seen performance choke due to 'error' Vodafone has fingered a subcontractor after it was presented with evidence showing the mobile firm broadcasting on Three UK's piece of the 1,800MHz band at a cell site at London's Gatwick airport.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#47QWT)
Think of the ones you leave behind Something for the Weekend, Sir? This place is a mess. No, worse than that: it's a disaster area.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47QWW)
Sticky balls? Wash your mouse out On Call Friday mornings can mean only one thing: El Reg’s weekly instalment of On Call, where readers share their tales of users’, um, naivety.…
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by David Gordon on (#47QR7)
Defend your cloud data from military-style attacks Promo If you think an intrusion kill chain sounds like really bad news, you are absolutely right. A kill chain is a military term for the structure of an attack: target identification, force dispatch, order to attack, and finally destruction of the target.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#47QP4)
Computers 10 - 1 Humanity Analysis AlphaStar, DeepMind’s latest AI bot, crushed professional gamers playing popular strategy video game StarCraft II during a demonstration broadcast online Thursday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#47QGE)
Chipzilla laments weak IoT, looming server gloom, still promises 10nm proper by Q4 Intel saw some of the shine wiped off its 2018 fiscal year as the chip giant closed out the year with a disappointing fourth quarter and warnings of lean times to come.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#47QB5)
Easily swapped hashed passwords gives Domain Admin rights via API call. Fix may land next month Microsoft Exchange appears to be currently vulnerable to a privilege escalation attack that allows any user with a mailbox to become a Domain Admin.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#47Q8C)
Apple fans lured into installing malware via crafty JavaScript A strain of malware has been clocked using steganography to run malicious JavaScript on Macs via images in online banner ads, it was claimed this week.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#47Q56)
It's 2019. Banned fascist symbols are all the rage, these days The internet will make space for South Sudan this month, with plans to create a new top-level domain for the world's newest nation.…
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by Richard Speed on (#47PXJ)
What's this on the label? 'Do not wear in actual space' Fresh from its successful jaunt to space, Virgin Galactic has clambered into a pair of sweatpants with sportswear firm Under Armour.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#47PXM)
Dash it all... Fix rushed out after iOS 12.1.3 security patch collides with US telco Sprint subscribers using recent model iPhones have been reporting cellular connectivity problems following the installation of Apple's iOS 12.1.3 security update, which was released on Tuesday.…
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by Richard Speed on (#47PRX)
You'll have to pay for the privilege, though Microsoft Windows 10 users are spoiled for choice when it comes to Linux these days, and now open-source startup Whitewater Foundry has added yet another option for penguinistas living in a Windows world.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#47PKG)
Webex, security, IoT systems also need patches Cisco's irregular patch cycle has come round again and this time the focus is on the company's SD-WAN product.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#47PDT)
In the red corner we have Tweedledum and in the blue, Tweedledee Yet another playground dust-up between Nutanix and VMware has erupted over a vitriolic sales campaigns, with Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey calling on VMware to stop being a "bully".…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#47P8W)
CNCF project pulls on its big-project boots, will look for work in IT sector On Thursday, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) plans to announce the graduation of its fourth open source project, the CoreDNS Kubernetes DNS server system.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47P45)
Didn't see that coming Google is to appeal the €50m data protection fine handed down to it by the French data protection agency earlier this week.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47NYW)
Commish laments 'illogical' limitation on code compliance The UK government must urgently expand Blighty's surveillance camera rules to cover the NHS, and properly resource the nation's strategy on the rapidly increasing use of cams.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#47NSM)
And an IPO might mean just that... Reports that Toshiba Memory Corporation plans to bring its IPO forward from 2021 to this year keep coming: it is said to be slated for the second half of this year.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#47NSP)
Still afraid of no ghost? You didn't read the script Google Project Zero bug-hunter Tavis Ormandy took a "random look at the new release" of Ghostscript, and found a partly addressed vulnerability that works in all versions up to 9.26.…
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by Richard Speed on (#47NNT)
Redmond's search engine finally achieves parity with Google. Yep: it also doesn’t work in China Chinese internet users have today found themselves unable to access Microsoft's search engine, Bing.…
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by Richard Speed on (#47NNW)
Integration don't LIVI here any more A Discovery Report from NHS Digital has given video GP provider LIVI a kick in the integrations.…
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by Richard Speed on (#47NJJ)
2018's greatest hits on repeat in 2019 for some lucky Microsoft punters Office 365 is enjoying a Thursday wobble this morning, at least as far as users in the UK and much of Europe are concerned.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#47NFZ)
Rather than binning them and starting again Comment An alliance of Australia's tech and industry advocacy groups hopes, yet again, to have the country's encryption-busting legislation tweaked before the government goes to an election no later than May.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#47NG1)
Offshore, don't care? Reader poll Nothing splits The Reg readers, or the UK, quite like a discussion on where to put the jam in its scone, so we decided to ask you what, indeed, you would do if you were a tech billionaire on the eve of a potentially, er, disorderly Brexit.…
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by Team Register on (#47NCV)
Functions as a conference... Serverless Computing London returns in November, and we want you to be there, on stage.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#47NAK)
Cut-price unit takes WD's heatsink-toting SSD to the cleaners too Samsung has updated its 970 EVO SSD gumstick SSD to boast numbers that beat Western Digital's fancy heatsink-sporting SN750.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#47N8J)
Attacks on distributed frameworks on the rise, it is claimed by infosec biz Hadoop databases haven't been getting much interest from hackers so far, compared to other data silos, but that's changing, according to a new study.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#47N5G)
Smartish system has a good stab at prioritizing patients, has problems deciding what's critical, tho Artificially intelligent software can help slash the wait times for patients anxious to see the results of their X-ray scans, it is claimed.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#47N36)
Pantsdown vulnerability affects various BMC stacks as well as OpenBMC on systems using two particular Aspeed chips An oversight in the firmware for various baseband management controllers (BMCs) can be exploited by miscreants to bury spyware deep inside a server, potentially poisoning it for the next owner.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#47MW8)
Jeff 1 - 0 Elon Vid + Pic Jeff Bezos' rocket biz Blue Origin successfully launched its New Shepard rocket from US soil on Wednesday, with NASA science gear aboard.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#47MQH)
Yes. Killing effort to seize voice-controlled pal technology now A coalition of tech giants has successfully convinced a US court to invalidate three patents covering tech at the heart of voice-controlled digital assistants like Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant. The fight, however, isn't over yet.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#47MDD)
Advertising giant insists it's all still on drawing board – as plugin devs face code rewrites Analysis Following uproar from developers and netizens over proposed changes to Chrome that threaten to break content and ad blockers, and knacker other browser extensions, Google software engineer Devlin Cronin has offered reassurance that the plans aren't set in stone.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#47MDF)
A tale of Twitter fraudsters, an infosec biz boss, and a quest for one honeypot hit Fraudsters masquerading as ISP support agents to phish payment card details have been unmasked – after they tried to scam a Brit infosec biz cofounder.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47M4Q)
Gimme, gimme, gimme your data after midnight... Swedish watchdogs cry, Mamma Mia! over location slurping Google's slurping of people's location data and web browsing histories is being probed by Swedish privacy watchdog.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#47M4S)
Hookup app maker dishes out super-likes and $25 in cash to settle lawsuit Young people may have better skin, but old people seemingly have better lawyers.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47KP0)
All our Five Eyes mates have shown them the door The British government has been asked to confirm that national telecommunications infrastructure is secure amid growing concerns about Chinese supplier Huawei.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#47KGK)
Cost-cutting effort to see sites close, staffers shifted Vodafone is rationalising real estate in the UK to cut costs and – in its words – "unite teams", with the lion's share of its Technology heads to be based at Newbury HQ. Redundancies seem inevitable as staff will be asked to relocate, in some cases, hundreds of miles.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#47KGN)
Incompetence or malice? Pick one The Ministry of Justice has said a data centre outage was responsible for the widespread collapse of the UK's civil and criminal court IT infrastructure over the past few days.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#47KBQ)
Urges it to chuck Big Red's request to depose former Pentagon staffers, too Oracle's lawsuit over the Pentagon's $10bn cloud contract is cherry-picked "spin", AWS has said in a submission (PDF) aiming to stop Big Red accessing internal documents and deposing two former government staffers.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#47K6T)
We're just a humble reseller, eller, eller, eh, eh, eh Amid talk of Brexit uncertainty, Computacenter has issued a pre-close trading update that showed the sales dials for calendar '18 pointing upwards. And it was boring old tech reselling that helped it get there.…
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by Richard Currie on (#47K6W)
Pretty f***ing metal tbh Christians enjoy reminding the heathens, atheists and sinners who share this world that they're all going to Hell. Whether it's by peppering conversation with Bible quotes or just a little smug smile, we know what they're thinking.…
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by Richard Speed on (#47K2V)
While others fidget awkwardly, silicon slinger hits 'pay equity' Intel took time out from its hardware woes to buff its inclusivity halo and announce it had reached gender "pay equity" globally.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#47K2X)
Also reckons Russian hackers go quiet over the Christmas holidays FIC2019 According to Eugene Kaspersky, founder of the eponymous antivirus company, black-hat hackers are increasingly likely to speak Portuguese and Spanish as well as the traditional English, Russian and Chinese.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#47JZN)
Nope, never. We think buying nothing cost us AU$34m, but nobody's sure How much IT can you buy for AU$34m (£18m, $24m)? None at all, if you're the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission in the market for a biometric system.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#47JWC)
Looks like the final act in the grubby Vega+ saga Just as readers thought the saga of dodgy Sinclair reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd had ended, the High Court has ruled that its current and former directors owe £38,000 in legal costs to two of its founders.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#47JWE)
3,000 sites on list In one of its first major wins in the enterprise market, NBN Co** has confirmed it will pull fibre to Woolworths' properties in support of a Telstra contract with the supermarket giant.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#47JWG)
Lessons from LHC – the world’s largest scientific machine Reg Lectures The Higgs Boson particle was first predicted by scientists in 1964 but it wasn't until 2012 that the existence of this fundamental of physics could finally be proven. That was thanks to CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).…
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