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by Shaun Nichols on (#4GJ2Y)
Absolutely criminal behavior – unrestricted file upload, really? Exclusive Phishing kits – used by miscreants to build webpages that steal victims' personal information and money by masquerading as legit websites – harbor vulnerabilities that can be exploited by other miscreants to pilfer freshly stolen data.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4GHYB)
Historic St Paul's digs among 270 offices offloaded BT is shuttering more than 270 UK offices as part of a three to five-year grand plan to carve out £1.5bn in expenses.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4GHYC)
Promises to give EU the goods by 2021 After just six months, the EU-funded project attempting to build home-grown CPUs that would power future European supercomputers has delivered its first architectural designs.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4GHV2)
Not even a video link, lawyers tell judge Autonomy Trial Sushovan Hussain, former chief financial officer of Mike Lynch's Autonomy, will not testify in his defence to London's High Court.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4GHV3)
Azure Active Directory integration and super secret APFS volumes? Oh my WWDC Amid the hoo-ha surrounding Apple's WWDC announcements were some nuggets aimed at encouraging enterprises to get snuggly with the fruity firm's devices.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4GHQT)
Speaker identification and more listening in: welcome to the future of voice assistants Amazon has submitted a patent application which suggests the firm plans to capture your speech and send it to the cloud for processing before as well as after hearing a "wakeword" trigger.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4GHNF)
Today in current affairs... Video Scientists studying the degradation of lithium-ion batteries believe fast charging will damage the power packs faster than one might expect.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4GHNH)
Inoffensive, nondescript logo screams 'building a safer world' Logowatch The strategy boutique opened a pop-up shop on the wild steppe of Kaspersky Lab yesterday as the Russian antivirus developer revealed a daring redesign that involves dropping the word "Lab".…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4GHKK)
Claims of country and western music, cowboy management, cooking the books to be aired Autonomy Trial Meg Whitman will enter the High Court’s witness box today to give evidence about HP’s controversial purchase and $8.8bn writedown of Mike Lynch’s British software firm Autonomy.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4GHHF)
Snouts in the trough for The Great British Brand Sell-off Special report Nominet, the operator of the dot-UK domain-name registry, has been accused of designing a scheme to give its largest members a £100m payday.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4GHF7)
The ruddy things are getting in the way of our radio telescopes! The International Astronomical Union has warned against the rise of satellite constellations in Earth's night sky, such as SpaceX's Starlink system, since their brightness and noise could hamper future scientific research.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4GH6F)
No one has complained so far, fed honcho protests Three years ago, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the FBI had very limited metrics about the accuracy of its face-recognition technology.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4GH4D)
Outsourced silos of personal info raided, at least 200,000 payment details swiped Hackers have raided databases containing millions of medical test lab patients' personal and payment information, making off with at least hundreds of thousands of people's banking details.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4GGVN)
Hello London! Buh-bye kiosks Microsoft has quietly swung the axe on a chunk of its retail operation, with "speciality stores" in America bearing the brunt of the blade.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4GGR4)
echo "And we're ok with this" For the past decade, Apple has avoided updating the Bourne Again SHell, better known as bash, for its desktop operating system due to the iGiant's distaste for the GPLv3 license attached to the command interpreter.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4GGR5)
Engineers struggled to restore own packet-starved systems during four-hour SNAFU Google says its four-hour wobble across America and some other parts of the world on Sunday was caused by a bungled reconfiguration of its servers.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4GGFV)
US House Judiciary Committee and the Antitrust Subcommittee open Big Tech investigation American lawmakers are opening an investigation into the dominance of large digital companies in their respective marketplaces, sending a collective shudder across Silicon Valley.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4GGFX)
Or so claim these security bods after clocking proxy-installing fake Flash plugin A devious and baffling new strain of malware intercepts and tampers with internet traffic on infected Apple Macs to inject Bing results into users' Google search results, we're told.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4GG16)
Astro-amateurs catch raging storm in a moment of shedding Updated The storm that has been raging on Jupiter for the last 400 years or so could be coming to an end earlier than expected, judging by observations from some in the amateur astronomer community.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4GFW6)
Free open source office suite gets better, but use the redaction tools with care The Document Foundation has released the first beta of LibreOffice 6.3, with new features including a redaction tool and a Fourier Analysis spreadsheet function.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4GFW8)
'Underperformance', liquidity problems fingered, vendor relationships 'increasingly strained' American cloud peddler Fusion Connect has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, after entering a series of risky mergers and accumulating more debt than it could hope to repay.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4GFQ2)
Bruce Willis thankfully not involved Oracle has emitted an update for release 5 of its modestly named Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) for Linux.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4GFK8)
When supply doesn't meet demand, biz goes looking for action elsewhere With the Windows 7 refresh cycles forecast to run and run, Intel's protracted CPU shortage is sending conservative corporate enterprise buyers into the arms of AMD – or so says HP Inc's CEO.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4GFFD)
Like a childhood dream come true Samsung smartphones are set to do a lot more than just run Crysis after the company agreed to license AMD's GPU designs for its mobile devices in a multi-year deal.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4GFFF)
Upgraded its systems after attack in early '18, just enough to detect attack in late '18 The Australian National University (ANU) today copped to a fresh breach in which intruders gained access to "significant amounts" of data stretching back 19 years.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4GFC2)
Developing for iGiant's platform just got way easier WWDC Apple's freshly laid SwiftUI uses a declarative syntax to create user interfaces and enables powerful new visual design tools in Xcode, the company's developer tool for Mac and iOS applications.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4GF9H)
Used in 34% of American searches. Really Microsoft's don't-mention-the-G-word search engine, Bing, has just the candles blown out on its 10th birthday cake.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4GF9K)
Boffins craft code that compresses machine-learning models for modest microchips Eggheads have devised software that can automatically produce machine-learning models small enough to run inside tiny microcontrollers.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#4GF6V)
Journey into future of disruption with Carl Miller Nothing demonstrates the extent to which Silicon Valley has disrupted society better than Twitter and the head of state who seemingly live tweets his thoughts as they occur to him: Donald Trump.…
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by David Gordon on (#4GF6X)
How to turn your data into valuable business insights Sponsored webcast The arrival of cloud, 5G, the internet of things, and a proliferation of increasingly complex application environments has generated an ever-growing volume of data that can make mere IT mortals feel overwhelmed by a tsunami of machine data. The velocity, volume, variety and veracity factors must be factored into how companies can sift through all their data and turn it into clear insights that benefit their business and advance its goals.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4GF4H)
Also: 53 years since NASA first soft-landed on Moon Roundup Last week NASA finally issued an update on the SpaceX Crew Dragon anomaly while Northrop Grumman enjoyed one all of its very own.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4GF2H)
Video streams can be hijacked by anyone on your Wi-Fi Owners of Supra Smart Cloud TVs are in danger of getting some unwanted programming: it's possible for miscreants or malware on your Wi-Fi network to switch whatever you're watching for video of their or its choosing.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4GEZP)
Not due to whiz past, 5.9 million km away, until 2123. NASA still wants to crash a DART into it A pair of asteroids just whizzed past Earth at 70,000 KPH (43,496 MPH), and although the flyby presented no danger to our home world, we can learn from the close encounter to potentially thwart any future menaces from the cosmos.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4GEZR)
Redmond kinda just shrugs after advertising systems sling scareware pop-ups at users Application makers are crying foul after some of their programs distributed via the Windows Store popped open tech-support scam ads on users' desktops.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4GEPH)
CJ Silverio floats open-source federated approach to save JavaScript community from corporate clutches After being ousted late last year as CTO of JavaScript package registry NPM Inc in a management shakeup, CJ Silverio on Saturday unveiled a self-hosted federated package registry called Entropic that she hopes will serve the JavaScript community better than her former employer's technology.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4GEKV)
Short-sighted and short-tempered, according to CTA A top, and usually rather conservative, technology trade body has turned on President Trump over his threat to impose tariffs on goods imported from Mexico into the United States.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4GEKX)
We sat through 150 minutes of WWDC keynote so you didn't have to suffer At its Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, Tim Cook addressed the Apple faithful and promised a host of software updates and some very expensive hardware – so much so that the hapless presenter was booed when announcing a $999 monitor stand.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4GED9)
Bet ya regret that ironic neverjihaditsogood89 at hotmail.com addy now, huh? Analysis The US government will now require "most" visa applicants to provide details of their social media accounts before they are allowed into the country.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4GE41)
Big Blue headed to US Supreme Court in battle over investment plans The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case between IBM and employees who have accused the enterprise computing giant of mishandling their retirement fund.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4GE43)
Analyst clips 2019 shipments, reckons 3.1% market shrinkage Huawei may have reassessed its ambitions to summit the global smartphone market by 2020 due to political and economic uncertainty between the US and China.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4GDQD)
To a fellow China-based firm, mind you Huawei is reportedly flogging off part of its undersea telecoms cable business, barely six weeks after Australia blocked its attempts to win a major cable contract.…
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by John Oates on (#4GDQE)
In abstentia ruling would have been first step to extradition A Swedish court has ruled against detaining WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange or seeking his extradition over an allegation of rape.…
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by John Oates on (#4GDQF)
Another regulator lines up to have a kick Google shares took more than a 6 per cent tumble this morning as twitchy investors heard reports the US Department of Justice was about to launch a major investigation into the ad giant's business practices.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4GDJA)
Major content wrangler adopts Wrangler as the official CLI Ever-present content delivery network operator Cloudflare has rolled out a bunch of goodies for developers working with its serverless platform.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4GDD8)
6 weeks after board approves pension fund offer, private equity biz trumps bid Hull-based fibre flinger KCOM has thrown its lot behind a £563m bid from private equity investor Macquarie, dropping the previously accepted £504m offer from one of the UK's largest pension funds.…
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by John Oates on (#4GDD9)
High street's online killer appears on actual high street, again The British High Street has a very unlikely saviour in the shape of Amazon following news that physical retail outlets are set to er, pop-up across the UK this year.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4GD7C)
Academic outfit U-turns on blacklisting Chinese bogeyman The US-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has lifted its sanctions on Huawei-linked academic reviewers.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4GD3N)
Meet Network Cloud – Brit telco's latest infrastructure play BT will be using software-defined networking (SDN) tools from Juniper Networks to breathe new life into its ageing infrastructure and prepare it for the deluge of data expected when 5G goes mainstream.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4GD3Q)
Also: Excel gets OCR smarts and Win 10 Oct 2018 Update hits 30% Roundup The Redmond gang enjoyed a busy week, emitting a new build, shovelling new toys into old apps and (temporarily) making insiders look elsewhere for kitten videos.…
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by Team Register on (#4GD3R)
Agenda revealed, blind bird tickets about to take flight Events We're pleased as punch to announce the first speakers for MCubed London 2019, our three-day dive into machine learning, AI and data science, and what they mean for real-world companies and organisations.…
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