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by Rebecca Hill on (#45AHX)
UK competition bods threaten action against 'loyalty penalty' The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has issued an urgent call for action against mobile providers that rip off loyal customers with high prices even once handsets are paid off.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#45AEQ)
Was it Agile's fault? Was it the billing? Sueball rolls on IBM has blamed ex-customer Co-Op Insurance for the crash of a £55m project centring on Agile software development, but admitted the systems it built "would not have" boosted the insurer's top or bottom line anyway.…
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by David Gordon on (#45A9R)
CyberArk checks your privileges Promo Back in 2008, San Francisco's IT infrastructure ground to a halt. An engineer called Terry Childs who managed the network had consolidated all the sysadmin credentials giving access to the system's privileged accounts, but after a dispute with the city government he refused to divulge these vital details.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#45A9T)
Policing customers is tough, censoring content would be worse, says lawyer Analysis Cloudflare found itself underfire this month for seemingly allowing officially designated foreign terrorists to use its website protection services. Which, under US law, would be a big no-no.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#45A5C)
Divers claimed biz knew of defective kit, failed to fix it As anyone who has gone scuba diving will understand, it is critical that you know how deep you are, how long you have been diving, the air pressure in your tank, and how much air you have left.…
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by Chris Williams on (#459M9)
Another leak, this time it's personal. Plus: Trump launches Space Force, er, Command A server containing personal information, including social security numbers, of current and former NASA workers may have been hacked, and its data stolen, it emerged today.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#459GW)
Google's doing to Microsoft what Microsoft did to everyone in the 1990s, allegedly Analysis In what can only be described as painfully ironic, Microsoft engineers are seemingly convinced that Google is making changes to its websites in order to break rival browsers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#459CD)
California traveler wants damages for allegedly being made to open mobe, miss flight A California man is suing the US government for civil rights violations after he was apparently detained and forced to unlock his phone at an American airport.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4598F)
Journos, politicos trolled, abused 'once every 30 secs' In March, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey promised to stem the tide of toxic content that has plagued his antisocial network for years.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4594M)
But spare a thought for 'nauts coming home in punctured Soyuz Roundup It's been a packed week to round out the year for rocket fans still giddy from Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo sub-orbital jaunt.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#45901)
We won't be having a word with local firms until then Germany's top cybersecurity official has said he hasn't seen any evidence for the espionage allegations against Huawei.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#458V4)
UK mobile networks had better open their wallets Ofcom has revealed plans to offer more of the airwaves to mobile networks, increasing capacity by around 22 per cent overall, and by 62 per cent in the more attractive sub-1GHz portion of the spectrum.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#458NV)
Bristol firm says it will 'triple' headcount AI chip startup Graphcore has managed to grab $200m from investors, part of which will be used to hire more engineers on the west coast...the west coast of Britain for the absence of doubt.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#458GE)
We're listening, insists company right before new chief exec takes post BT has belatedly given its shareholders a public pat on the head for not voting down departing chief exec Gavin Patterson's £1.3m bonus.…
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by Team Register on (#458GG)
Learn about DevOps, Containers, CD/CI and save £100s Events We're announcing the first tranche of speakers for Continuous Lifecycle London 2019 today, meaning you've got just a few hours left to grab our super bargain blind bird tickets.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#458BE)
Nation becomes the latest to go it alone as EU talks stall France will start levying charges on tech giants from 1 January 2019, making it the latest nation to go it alone on a digital sales tax.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4585X)
Robo-ride processor core acts a lot like Intel Hyper-Threading Arm will today announce its Cortex-A65AE processor core aimed at powering self-driving cars and in-vehicle entertainment. Somewhat buried in the bumph we glimpsed ahead of the launch, though, is something very curious.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4582B)
Hi! I'm a task scheduler! Nobody really knows what I do until I stop doing it... Another long-in-the-tooth Azure service was put on notice this week.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#457Z0)
A wearable crossed with a mobile? Sounds terrible, but it's lovely Review No phone in 2018 has attracted as much real-world interest, I have found – and it's invariably delight and amazement – as the credit-card sized Palm. By, er, ...Palm.…
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by Richard Speed on (#457VY)
It's panto season in this week's Microsoft roundup Roundup As Microsoft's Xmas elves toiled long into the night on Santa's Windows 10 upgrade, the software giant found time to unleash static Azure websites and an unfortunately worded blog in this week's Microsoft round-up.…
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by Richard Speed on (#457SK)
Student vending machine project comes to a close It is with great sadness that we must announce the passing of the Ohio Pork Council's bacon vending machine after an all-too-short sojourn at the Meat Sciences Department of Ohio State University.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#457PW)
For now, it's a business to be in... for everyone but Hitachi IDC numbers show Dell EMC's position at the top of the all-flash array (AFA) market weakened as it grew less than the market as a whole, giving chasing vendors hope – except Hitachi, which managed to fall back despite a growing market.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#457MG)
Well, if you pronounce it 'Vee' and not 'Five'... Anyway, instruction set to be touted under undisclosed license AI biz Wave Computing on Monday told the world it intends to open source the latest MIPS instruction set architecture (ISA) in the hope that fosters the development of more RISC-based custom chips.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#457GB)
Animated tear-jerker awaits man who illegally shot bucks An outlaw hunter will spend not only the next year or so behind bars, but also must face regular screenings of the Disney film Bambi.…
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Highlight: Ellison goes bananas over AWS Aurora noise Red Hat and Oracle both on Monday reported their latest financial figures. Let's take a look at how they fared.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4577Y)
Just slightly better than coal in your stocking Roundup We are now firmly into the holiday season, the Christmas parties are kicking off, and folks are swapping their Excel files for eggnog, or something cliched like that.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4574T)
May your days be merry and bright, and may you all go patch your SQLite Google and other software developers have patched the SQLite component of their code after it was discovered it could be potentially exploited to inject malware into vulnerable systems.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#456ZC)
Money in form of loans and grants – but will it work or be wasted? Analysis The US government has added another $600m to the pot of money that is supposed to expand broadband internet access to rural areas of America. But it remains far from clear how effective the program will be.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#456RA)
Kiwibot snack shuttle snuffed by thermal runaway A Kiwibot delivery robot unexpectedly self-immolated last week at the University of California, Berkeley, due a defective battery, the company said over the weekend, attributing the incident to human error.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#456RC)
Fresh Senate dossiers detail influence campaign, flag tech titans' obstructionism Instagram may have been the most effective social media network for Russian spies in their effort to sway America's 2016 presidential election toward Donald Trump.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#456KJ)
Third of market to evaporate by 2021. Only nearline, spycam drives to swell In brief Number-crunchers at IDC and Wells Fargo are predicting that global disk drive sales will crash from 424.7 million units in 2016 to an estimated 284.7 million in 2021. Ouch.…
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by Richard Speed on (#45679)
A preview of next year's .NET Framework also emitted The hardworking elves toiling in the corridors of Redmond loaded up Santa's sled with two more developer treats in the form of Python updates for Visual Studio Code and a fresh preview of the venerable .NET Framework.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4562C)
One-time Intel boffin Obit Friends of Timothy May have confirmed that the former Intel engineer and co-founder of the Cypherpunks mailing list died of natural causes at his home in California on Friday. He was 67. Bitcoin and blockchain, WikiLeaks, P2P software and information markets all owe a debt to the list.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#455XY)
Crouching monkey, hidden leader of the free world A pair of boffins are in hot water after the image of president Donald Trump made an unexpected cameo in a paper on how to gather animal DNA from their poop at scale.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#455Y0)
But US firm must get specific on which trade secrets it claims were nicked – judge SAP has failed to have a copyright infringement and antitrust lawsuit lodged against it by Teradata thrown out.…
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by Richard Speed on (#455S8)
UK space specialist's holding company ups sticks for €11.2m Chippenham-based space systems specialist SCISYS has announced that it will trouser €11.2m as part of a contract to keep the Galileo project running.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#455N7)
Great. Big Brother Watch claims tech had 100% fail rate since May London cops have been slammed for using unmarked vans to test controversial and inaccurate automated facial recognition technology on Christmas shoppers.…
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by Richard Currie on (#455HW)
Office nerd saves day with Dungeons & Dragons die When two candidates running for director of Byron-Bethany Irrigation District in California found themselves locked in a bizarre tie earlier this month, the authority sought to resolve the stalemate in a swift and decisive manner – by reaching for a D20.…
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by Richard Speed on (#455F6)
Yuletide cheer for Wing Commander Andy Green and the team In news that will bring festive cheer to fans of plucky Brit engineering efforts, the Bloodhound 1,000mph car project has been lobbed a lifeline by Yorkshire-based entrepreneur Ian Warhurst.…
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It's not just about quality Research results Whether it's systems-level platforms and tools or full-blown business applications, you want the software your organisation depends on to run reliably and predictably. Our recent Reg survey, however, confirmed what most probably knew from experience, or could guess from press headlines – that software-related failures are far from uncommon.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#455AE)
'Please stop... you're doing something to the radios' Who, me? Welcome all, to the merry world of Who, Me?, our weekly trip down memory lane for techies who want to get something off their chest.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#452A3)
Plus: Listen to some new classical piano generated by an algorithm Roundup welcome to the last AI round up of the year; thank you for reading.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4525Y)
Plus, Talos critical of flawed message apps It was pretty hectic security week, between the Sharpshooter malware attack, a massive Patch Tuesday, and yet another Facebook privacy fail.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#451MZ)
Complaint argues false pixels, notch, and measurements don't fit with ad claims Two iPhone owners sued Apple on Friday claiming that company misrepresents the screen resolution and screen size of its recent model iPhones.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#451N1)
Scare tactic efforts may be the work of a single group Yesterday's 'bomb scare' spam campaign may have been a follow-up to another infamous email extortion effort.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#451J2)
Says it will give people $100,000 to ditch their smartphone. It won't It's your lucky day: sugary soft drink maker Vitamin Water has said it will give you $100,000 if you are able to give up your smartphone for a year.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#451J4)
Utter asshats pull seven-figure heist on Save the Children Foundation A group of criminal asswipes have managed to steal $1m from the Save the Children Foundation.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#451B0)
Computers are getting better at generating pictures of humans. This will go down well. AI systems can now create images of humans that are so lifelike they look like photographs, except the people in them don’t really exist.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#451B2)
Don't be daft, of course they haven't, we're still in Crazytown USA Analysis One year ago today, the FCC passed a controversial measure that undermined its own rules, passed just two years earlier, over net neutrality.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#45178)
Data gathering biz still having trouble keeping data secure Facebook on Friday apologized for a bug that may have exposed exposed private photos to third-party apps for the 12 day period from September 13 to September 25, 2018.…
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