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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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by Rebecca Hill on (#4513B)
Long-standing cloud enemies to do battle in the courts AWS has intervened in Oracle's lawsuit against the Pentagon's plans to award a $10bn cloud contract to a single vendor.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#450YT)
But built-in email and mobile clients still works in progress Only months after reaching the 2.0 milestone, the independent Chromium-based browser Vivaldi has added a bunch of useful features.…
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by Richard Speed on (#450SP)
Looking for work? Spammers could well be looking for you Tinder for job-seekers ZipRecruiter has copped to a data breach after the names and email addresses of job-seekers were flung to the wind in a permissions screw-up.…
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by Richard Speed on (#450N5)
Orphaned cross-platform code students, your new home is Microsoft Learn Cross-platform dev darling Xamarin is to shutter its online University in favour of Microsoft Learn as its absorption into the Windows giant continues.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#450GG)
IBM and Hitachi fail to surf crest of spending wave as rivals seize the day IDC's Q3 storage tracker numbers show a tier of the tech industry growing by almost a fifth versus the same period a year ago, though not all of the big players are keeping pace. Looking at you IBM and Hitachi.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#450C2)
All the better to sell you stuff Smart speakers will listen for your farts, yawns and sneezes and analyse it to sell you stuff, a British AI company hopes.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4507R)
No one knows if recruitment system will be usable once contract ends in 2022 The British Army has missed its recruitment targets by between 21 and 45 per cent each year since 2013 because of a botched project with Capita, according to a damning report released today.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#45044)
You know, they've paid for the phone a few times over now... UK regulator Ofcom wants ISPs and networks to tell customers when their contract is up and inform them of better deals. The consultation (PDF) was launched today alongside a review of broadband prices.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4500A)
The Windows Christmas Jumper Day Update is here! Those whacky guys on the Windows team have taken time out from slapping plasters all over Microsoft's flagship OS to slip a special Christmas gift under the tree of the faithful.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#44ZXN)
5G is like 3G, except this time they mean it Analysis 5G is a technical and economical miracle that you cannot help but admire. Soon our streets will be drenched in high-speed connectivity as all kinds of far-out radio boffinry get commercialised, productised, and deployed for something useful. Many billions of pounds of other people's money will be spent here. But the mobile networks are haunted by an awkward economic reality: for all the 5G razzle-dazzle, most punters just won't pay more for it.…
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by David Gordon on (#44ZTT)
It's time has come Promo Technical work on the first spec for Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) began in 2009 with a first version released two years later. A decade on, NVMEe’s time has come.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44ZTV)
But y'know, maybe we will terminate positions post-merger if there's a business case Cloudera founder Mike Olson has asked staffers to turn down recruiters' advances ahead of the firm's merger with Hortonworks – despite acknowledging there could be layoffs.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#44ZRR)
Surprise, surprise, the execs want someone SaaSy Mimecast headed up a crew of the usual suspects – which included Proofpoint and Microsoft – in the leaders' square of the latest Gartner magic quadrant that ranks enterprise information archivers.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44ZRT)
The user in this On Call would prefer we didn't tell... On Call How many sleeps 'till Christmas? We don't care, because here at El Reg, we count in On Calls, and we can tell you there are plenty to come, so fret not.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44ZM3)
Generate made-up currency in exchange for a different made-up currency Gamer hardware specialist Razer is asking customers to turn their graphics cards into cryptocurrency miners in exchange for rewards points.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44Z7N)
Cab hailing app accuses rival of predatory prices and fake bookings An early entrant to the cab-hailing app market, Sidecar, has sued Uber claiming the cab giant used predatory pricing and fake bookings to put its rival out of business.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#44Z7Q)
Extortion scheme gets national attention but not much in the way of funds Police departments around the US say they've been apprised of emailed bomb threats seeking payment in cryptocurrency or else explosions will ensue.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#44Z4T)
*Okay so it will be here for another billion years or so but it's shrinking faster than normal Somewhere in the Cancer constellation lies a mini-Neptune sized planet that is disappearing at rate faster than ever seen before, according to research published in Astronomy & Astrophysics on Thursday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44Z4W)
Congresscritters now have one less excuse for getting pwned The US Federal Election Commission has officially voted to allow members of Congress to use their campaign funds on cybersecurity protection.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#44YXJ)
Wheeled robo-containers called Serve headed first to LA Delivery biz Postmates on Tuesday showed off a wheeled robotic box named Serve that should soon start showing up in cities around the US, carrying goods for customers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44YSG)
Ingenious device, or fake bomb from 1980s cop movie? Police in London have put away a fraudster who was using a bizarre homemade device to con people out of the contents of their bank accounts.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44YSJ)
Well, in one respect anyway Microsoft may have taken the decision to ditch the Edge's browser engine for Google's Chromium too soon.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44YBV)
Cupertino pats own back for forking over dollars in home country Apple has said it will spend $10bn on data centres in the US over the next five years, and will set up a new $1bn campus in Texas.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44Y65)
SpaceShipTwo goes faster and higher than ever before Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo took its first trip into space today as the company launched the reusable rocket-powered craft on its fourth test flight above the Mojave desert in southern California.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#44Y67)
Orange, DT's plan to take on firms that create 'competitive asymmetries' Comment Nothing sums up Europe's tech dilemma like the deep and meaningful partnership two of its biggest telcos touted this week. The CEOs of Orange (Stéphane Richard) and Deutsche Telekom (Timotheus Höttges) see more than €120bn a year flow through their combined cash tills. The two were on stage at Orange's innovation showcase in Paris to team up on AI, and they had a mission.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44Y1M)
Generic privacy policies won't get you valid consent, says ICO A London firm that sent 14.8 million spam SMSes without consent has been fined £200,000 by the UK’s data protection watchdog.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#44XW5)
Don't worry, there are cheques, too DevOps outfit GitLab has opened its bug bounty scheme to world+dog, having paid out $200,000 last year and fixed "nearly 200 vulnerabilities reported to us".…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#44XQH)
Office revolutionary developed the hefty Redactron Obit The remarkable Evelyn Berezin, founder of Redactron, a company that successfully sold word processing systems in the early 1970s, has died aged 93.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44XJY)
Job opening at Redmond points to new consumer services Fire up the steam-powered speculation machine! A consumer-focused Microsoft 365 subscription is inbound.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44XK0)
Swifties' faces scanned against DB of 'known stalkers' at US gig – reports Spotify's one-time nemesis Taylor Swift has reportedly used controversial facial recognition tech on fans while they've been getting down to her sick beats.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44XFG)
All your activity are belong to us Updated A feature introduced in the April 2018 Update of Windows 10 may have set off a privacy landmine within the bowels of Redmond as users have discovered that their data was still flowing into the intestines of the Windows giant, even with the thing apparently turned off.…
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by Team Register on (#44XCS)
Agenda is set, blind bird tickets going soon Events We'll be revealing the first tranche of speakers for Continuous Lifecycle 2019 next week, meaning you have just days to save hundreds of pounds with our blind bird ticket offer.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#44XA0)
Doug Engelbart retrofitted for mystical bullsh!t Comment There was a time, happy days, when no one wanted to read about the titans of tech. Or so the editors at the newspapers thought.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#44X7H)
It doesn't make you invisible, but it could make powerups less painful Imagine throwing your phone onto a car dashboard or table, knowing it'll power up. And imagine that tabletop or dashboard powering up several randomly aligned devices at once. Above an unassuming street in Oxford, engineers are ironing out the problems.…
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by Team Register on (#44X3A)
Cisco gracefully says it won't charge for the privilege UK security training company Hacker House briefly had its site blocked after being mistaken for malware by Cisco's security wing Talos' smart "threat intelligence" software.…
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When it comes to AI research the West is winning, the East is rising and women are being left behind
by Katyanna Quach on (#44X0X)
Annual AI Index report shows competitive times ahead The US and Europe might be top dogs in machine learning at the moment, but the East is catching up fast, helped by massive government spending.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#44WWN)
Texan-led team find ancient oddity that's full of the stuff An accidental discovery by a team of astronomers has helped answer one of the burning questions about dark matter and where it came from.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44WJB)
Tensions continue to build between two countries The trade tensions between the US and China continue to build as American officials have accused Beijing of backing the massive Marriott data breach.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#44WJD)
Thrill-seeking infrastructure devs accept end of caffeine-fueled ops frenzy with murmur Kubernetes "is now very, very boring," declared Janet Kuo, software engineer at Google, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44WFA)
And the FCC and AT&T claim everything is hunky dory Just how much do you hate Comcast? Enough to spend $1m of your own money to escape its clutches?…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44WBK)
Sharpshooter takes aim at critical infrastructure Hackers are targetting critical infrastructure providers, including nuclear power and defense agencies, in what may be a state-sponsored attack that's hiding behind North Korean code.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44W72)
State TV can't decide whether it was duped or not Video Every year Russia holds – and broadcasts on state television – a tech showcase of its latest products for an audience of hundreds of school kids.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44VSW)
In Soviet Russia, comrade find small hole by making much bigger hole Spacewalking cosmonauts clambered outside the ISS yesterday to get an external view of the mystery hole drilled into the Soyuz, which is due to return three crew members to Earth next week.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#44VSY)
Dell EMC, HPE and ODMs frolic as cloud rains cash The continued data centre refresh cycle and seemingly insatiable demand from the big cloud slingers to bulk out their infrastructure saw server vendors make hay while the sun shone in Q3.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#44VNE)
Ain't no marketplace like a third-party marketplace Scale-out software filer supplier Elastifile has buddied up with Google to thrust its NAS file system into Mountain View's Cloud Platform.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44VNG)
Liberty and pals seek to prove intrusive spy powers can never be justified A band of human rights organisations have appealed against a top European court's ruling on bulk surveillance, arguing that any form of mass spying breaches rights to privacy and free expression.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44VGD)
Pr0n to be gated despite misgivings, says UK.gov minister Age checks for online porn are expected to come into force around Easter 2019, as peers yesterday signed off on the final regulations and guidance despite acknowledging they will not be wholly efficient.…
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