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by Thomas Claburn on (#46QTP)
Game over for Brit-based maker of real-time online gaming platform? Updated Improbable, the UK-based maker of the SpatialOS Game Development Kit (GDK) for the Unity game engine, on Thursday warned that all Unity-based titles integrating its GDK are now violating Unity's Terms of Service.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#46QK4)
End of fast processing upsets the Apple cart (and workers at other Silicon Valley giants) Restrictions placed on US work visas by the Trump administration are upsetting employees in one of America's most profitable industries: technology.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#46QAK)
Forum admin blames recycled credentials for 'security concern' Some Redditors have been locked out of their accounts over a mysterious security problem that the internet forum's admins have blamed on people reusing old passwords.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#46Q5B)
This is the age of the SSD Disk drive shipments sank from 104.8 million in Q4 of 2017 to 88-89 million in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to a preliminary report from research house TrendFocus.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#46Q0C)
You can’t stop the change: Chalk one up to AWS as judge agrees with Big Red's rival Oracle's in-house counsel has been denied access to sealed information in its legal battle over the Pentagon's $10bn cloud contract after a judge sided with AWS in what will be one of many smaller battles in the case.…
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by Richard Speed on (#46PTZ)
The cloud giveth and the cloud taketh away Microsoft Azure's UK South storage region developed a distinct wobble today.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#46PPK)
Move comes after database upstart mooted new licence to stop cloud giants ripping off its tech Amazon has sent a shot across the bow of MongoDB today as it announced a document database with Mongo compatibility.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#46PJ5)
'Almost unprecedented' attacks use the old man-in-the-middle diddle – infoseccers Infosec biz FireEye has suggested Iran may be responsible for what it claims are DNS hijacking attacks aimed at snooping on the contents of Middle Eastern governments' email inboxes.…
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by David Gordon on (#46PJ7)
Unshackle your data from slow disks eBook Promo If you are trying to find the best way to boost the performance of your top-tier applications, look no further than Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe).…
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by Richard Speed on (#46PEF)
It's dangerous to go alone, take these WSL tweaks too Microsoft dropped a fresh Windows 10 Insider Build last night, which brought some welcome tweaks to the Windows Subsystem for Linux and enabled Reserved Storage.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#46PAQ)
Top court receives advice paraphrasing M People* European Right To Be Forgotten (RTBF) rulings should not apply globally, but block results across all EU states, the bloc's top court has been told.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#46P7X)
What Captain Cook can do next for Cupertino Comment Like a comedy sketch Lord Nelson, Apple CEO Tim Cook held the telescope to his eyepatch this week and told investors he couldn't see any enemy ships.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#46P57)
Happy New Year from the Gin Palace Juniper Networks has had its first big bug day in months, with 19 patches announced covering everything from third-party package catchups to critical errors in password handling.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#46P0N)
Donald's wall tantrum has out-of-this-world consequences The Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA’s beloved Hubble Space Telescope is right now out of order due to a hardware glitch, the space agency confirmed this week.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#46NYH)
Patches pending for distros to deal with threat of local privilege escalation to root Security biz Qualys has revealed three vulnerabilities in a component of systemd, a system and service manager used in most major Linux distributions.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#46NV8)
Plod hope to snare DHL blackmailer with a penchant for homemade explosives German police investigating a blackmailer's parcel bombing campaign reckon they know the MAC address of a device used by the scumbag, and hope network logs can help unmask the perp.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#46NRN)
Canada CHIMES into search with new 'scope and lots of iron Canada's new radio telescope, built to explore the early universe, has turned out to be a handy hunter for the mysterious phenomena called Fast Radio Bursts (FRB).…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#46NF2)
And we're only halfway through the week CES 2019 It's this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week – and you know what that means……
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#46NF3)
Process data, crash, restart, process data, crash, restart... Cisco's security team's holiday season has ended with a bang: 18 patches, but thankfully only one of them rated “criticalâ€.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#46N8E)
Oldies should stick to handing out Werther's Originals, not headlines, study suggests Senior Americans aged 65 and older shared more fake news on Facebook during the 2016 US Presidential election than any other age group, according to a study published on Wednesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#46N8G)
Advertising giant insists annoying banners are rare... and killable by Chrome Come July 9, Google Chrome will take its online advertising controls global as it begins worldwide enforcement of the Better Ads Standards, guidelines developed to discourage truly disruptive online ads.…
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Who cracked El Chapo's encrypted chats and brought down the Mexican drug kingpin? Er, his IT manager
by Kieren McCarthy on (#46N4W)
Feds flipped techie and recorded hundreds of calls In an extraordinary twist, it was revealed on Tuesday that the man most likely responsible for bringing drug kingpin "El Chapo" Joaquin Guzman to justice was none other than his sysadmin.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#46MZT)
Laid-off Big Blue sales ace suing over 'age discrimination' demands end to stonewalling IBM is still refusing to turn over documents in a bombshell age-discrimination lawsuit that attorneys representing plaintiff Jonathan Langley believe will show Big Blue has deliberately and systematically shed older workers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#46MPK)
I have to celebrate you baby, I have to praise you like I should It's all about "Firstline Workers" in three new updates to Microsoft's cloudy collaboration platform.…
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by Richard Speed on (#46MBV)
Quality Assurance? We've heard of it Microsoft has doubled down on efforts to persuade users to migrate to Windows 10 by breaking Windows 7 networking for some.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#46M6N)
Otherwise it's just another glossy, scripted PR op Comment After the year he's had, Mark Zuckerberg probably felt he deserved a bit of a laugh.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#46M6P)
How did these get through the net? Malware made it past Google's detection systems and infected some 9 million Android users, analyst Trend Micro has found. Google has removed 85 apps from the Google Play Store as a result.…
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by Richard Currie on (#46M1H)
And the beast was given a mouth uttering blasphemous words: 'We value your privacy' Just as well we've hit peak smartphone – the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church has warned that people's dependence on the ubiquitous gizmos will herald the coming of the Antichrist.…
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by Richard Speed on (#46KXT)
Alternative headline: Redmond smashes windows to bits Microsoft has announced that it is time to simply tear stuff down and rebuild anew.…
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by Team Register on (#46KXW)
K8s in production? We’ve got a workshop on that We're very pleased to announce that Joe Beda, one of the founders of Kubernetes, will be delivering a keynote at Continuous Lifecycle London in May.…
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Cambridge Analytica sister firm pleads guilty, fined £21k for failing to obey UK information commish
by Gareth Corfield on (#46KSZ)
Data regulator notches up another successful prosecution SCL Elections Ltd, stablemate of scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica, has been fined a total of £21,000 after pleading guilty to not complying with an Information Commissioner's Office enforcement notice.…
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by Richard Speed on (#46KT1)
Includes a £3m discount. Excludes VAT and delivery Apple's pricing woes do not seem to have worried PC giant Dell, as the flinger of Windows – and occasionally Linux-powered silicon – appears to have unleashed another multimillion-pound laptop on the world.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#46KP3)
Of course! It's the public's fault it doesn't look like Amazon coughs up enough – we need to better understand corporation tax Things would be lot simpler for Amazon if people had a better understanding of corporation tax and didn't think online tracking was so sinister, according to the UK director of public policy for the £634bn online marketplace giant.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#46KP5)
Kepler's successor, TESS, turns up its first three exoplanets The space telescope launched last year as the successor to NASA's long-running and very successful Kepler turned in three exoplanets in its first three months of observations.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#46KJX)
Noticed a missing bollard? Mappy partnership may help Britain's Ordnance Survey is beginning to provide businesses with real-time information for the first time – almost.…
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by Richard Speed on (#46KGS)
2018 a cracker for spaceflight. Ignoring Galileo Roundup 2018 was a tremendous year for spaceflight as commercial providers inched closer to carrying passengers and legacy launchers delivered more than a little drama.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#46KEQ)
As in, big enough Lenovo has given its Carbon and Yoga business flagships a makeover – but you won't be able to use one in anger until June.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#46KCA)
Breathe easier knowing you've tested your software properly A Google cyrptoboffin is close to releasing a tool that will hopefully make all of us more secure online.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#46KCC)
Two-year-old bird in safe mode An Earth-imaging satellite that generated $85m in revenue last year for Maxar Technologies' Digital Globe business went TITSUP: a total inability to snap usual photographs.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#46K9Y)
More suggestive assistant than robo-doc, boffins say Artificial intelligence can potentially identify someone's genetic disorders by inspecting a picture of their face, according to a paper published in Nature Medicine this week.…
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by Richard Speed on (#46KA0)
Trusty command interpreter gains some new toys and a jolly good buffing In news that will set the hearts of shell fans all a quiver, Bash 5.0 was released this week, replete with a truckload of fixes along with a few new features.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#46K7Q)
Don't miss ISS's Star Spores: Return of the Fungi Space isn’t, for now, turning bacteria on the International Space Station into nasty superbugs hellbent on infecting astronauts, according to a study published on Tuesday.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#46JW0)
11 patches ship on Patch Tuesday While you were sighing your way through Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, enterprise vendor SAP slid 11 security advisories under your door.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#46JRX)
Hyper-V, DHCP, Word, and more. Plus, bonus shock: Adobe spares Flash in January patch dump Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released the first Patch Tuesday bundle of the year, patching up 49 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities and issuing two advisories.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#46JN0)
Owners claim security vulns have damaged resale price A class-action lawsuit claiming Fiat-Chrysler knew about, but failed to fix, significant cybersecurity holes in its cars will go to trial in America later this year.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#46JHB)
Well, we all have to start somewhere: Rentable Q machine has just 20 qubits IBM today claimed it will shortly sell the world's first commercial quantum computer – or, more accurately, calculation time on it.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#46J7Y)
Alleged sighting of annoying flying gizmo torments second UK air travel nerve-center London Heathrow Airport temporarily halted departing flights this evening after a drone was apparently spotted hovering in the area.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#46J22)
Rights warrior ticked off after yet another report of whereabouts being flogged to dodgy geezers US Senator Ron Wyden is renewing his calls for legislation banning the sale of people's private cellphone location information after yet another report of phone carriers doing exactly that.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#46J24)
Western Digital's CES lineup a tad more composed Seagate and Western Digital has of course announced new mobile HDDs, SSDs and data protection facilities at the CES gadgetfest in Las Vegas – and some of Seagate's are clad in a "tactile, textile industrial design". Oo er.…
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by Richard Speed on (#46HW0)
Your move, Microsoft and Google Amazon has taken an axe to the pricing of its containers-for-dummies service Fargate with costs for the on-demand engine dropping by up to 50 per cent.…
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