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by Gareth Corfield on (#44VGF)
Who was Jamal Khashoggi, anyway? British ministers have approved the export of more than £2.4m worth of telecoms snooping gear to Saudi Arabia, in spite of its very obvious human rights problems, according to a report.…
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by David Gordon on (#44VBA)
Test your own workload at their Cloud Center of Excellence Promo Server giant Supermicro recently teamed up with Intel to set up its Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) at its logistics hub and manufacturing facility in the Netherlands.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44VBC)
Your code is immutable, and always believed in... 'cause you use Go(Center) Self-proclaimed "Database of DevOps" JFrog is about to fling open the first central repository for Go modules in the form of GoCenter.…
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by Chris Williams on (#44V6C)
3D stacks of Arm-like core clusters, APIs, and more coming some time soon "We have humble pie to eat right now, and we're eating it," Murthy Renduchintala, Intel's chief engineering officer, said yesterday. "My view on [Intel's] 10nm is that brilliant engineers took a risk, and now they're retracing their steps and getting it right."…
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by Richard Speed on (#44V2H)
DevOps outfit also unleashes commercial support for Jenkins X The gang at DevOps darlings CloudBees have been busy, er, bees and flung out a new continuous delivery product for Kubernetes development in the form of Core while also kicking off commercial support for Jenkins X.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#44V2K)
No one's buying new friggin' handsets, says retailer Dixons Carphone today reported a £440m statutory loss at the halfway stage of its fiscal '19 after writing down the goodwill of its mobile division, sending its shares tumbling by almost 12 per cent.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#44TWK)
Waves bye to yet ANOTHER HPE exec, internal memo confirms DXC Technology UK arm has hired former BT Security CEO Mark Hughes to run its global security function, replacing yet another old timer from the Hewlett Packard Enterprise side of the merger.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#44TWN)
Uh, hello? Didn't you put third-party Javascript on a payment page? Ticketmaster is telling its customers that it wasn't to blame for the infection of its site by a strain of the Magecart cred-stealing malware – despite embedding third-party Javascript into its payments page.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#44TTB)
We just modem down with that headline (OK maybe not) As the chip supplier to almost half the phone market, Qualcomm should be able to make a decent guess about when 5G will condense from vapourware into something more solid.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#44TM5)
Deadly radiation bouncing around could have killed off animals in the Pliocene era A gigantic supernova explosion may have triggered mass extinctions for creatures living in Earth’s prehistoric oceans some 2.6 million years ago, according to new research published in Astrobiology.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#44TJ4)
Bees harvest data, but would be more fun if they had lasers Boffins at the University of Washington have developed a portable sensor system for bumblebees, an improvement on previous research that saddled bees with GPS tracking chips, if not a prelude to the autonomous drone insects depicted in Black Mirror.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44T5W)
Windows, Office, Acrobat, SAP... you know the deal Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP are finishing up the year with a flurry of activity, combining to patch more than 140 CVE-listed security flaws between them.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#44T5Y)
TL;DR: The engineers realize that human data isn't enough to teach robots how to drive Self-driving cars won’t learn to drive well if they only copy human behaviour, according to Waymo.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44T5Z)
Vendor opens new investigation to refute bugging claims Hardware builder Super Micro has delivered another effort to prove to the public its machines were not bugged by the Chinese government.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44T2K)
Also, none of you have any idea what you are talking about Google's CEO Sundar Pichai appeared in front of a Congressional hearing this morning in a session that revealed two main things: he is still going to take the company into China, and Congresscritters have absolutely no idea what they are talking about when it comes to technology.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44SW7)
It's just not fair on profit-making companies otherwise Analysis ISPs should be paid to provide slower internet speeds to poor people.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#44SW9)
Etcd joins growing collection of code tended by Cloud Native Computing Foundation At the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's (CNCF) KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 meetup on Tuesday, the CNCF revealed it will adopt, shelter and nourish an itinerant jumble of letters known on the street as "etcd."…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44SRK)
'Entirely preventable' theft down to traffic-monitoring certificate left expired for 19 months Updated A US Congressional report outlining the breakdowns that led to the 2017 theft of 148 million personal records from Equifax has revealed a stunning catalog of failure.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44SGH)
Not like there's been a major incident recently to kick them into gear or anything A quarter of NHS trusts in the UK responding to a Freedom of Information request have no staff with security qualifications, despite some employing up to 16,000 people.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44SBP)
What's she going to do? 'Engage' with people Mega-bucks CRM titan Salesforce has appointed a loftily titled "chief ethical and humane use officer" to counteract the problems of being a tech giant in 2019.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#44S6Z)
K8's kitchen puts self-serve Istio on menu as managed offering takes shape KubeCon As a gathering of DevOps types at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 gets under way in Seattle, Washington, Google plans to tell anyone who will listen that its managed Kubernetes service, GKE, now can be ordered with Istio on the side, though you'll have to ladle it on yourself.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#44S21)
Well, you know what we mean. Variable quality comes with increasing quantity Analysis "On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, our engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts," said Facebook's Guy Rosen in a security update in September.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#44S22)
Class V shareholders agree to sell or swap the stock Class C shares in Dell Technologies are to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange before the year is out, after it today removed an obstacle that was hindering its ability to do so.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#44S23)
Slack off, hipsters Microsoft shows no sign of yielding its enterprise chat and conferencing users to a hipster-friendly upstart like Slack. A snapshot of US businesses who use work chat shows that Microsoft's Teams is taking advantage of Google's enterprise missteps rather than those of Slack.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44RX3)
Great way to make friends during procurement for a $10bn contract, eh Larry? Fresh from defeat at the hands of the US Government Accountability Office, Oracle has taken its battle against the single-vendor Pentagon cloud contract to court.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#44RRE)
Non-millennial claims Big Blue is hiding evidence of anti-greybeard HR policies A former high-flying IBM salesman yesterday accused the American mainframe megalith of using "obstructionist" legal tactics to block disclosure of incriminating documents that would help him win a landmark age discrimination lawsuit.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44RMY)
Water + capsule + 2 weeks = 5 litres of beer Fan of those trendy coffee machines shilled by George Clooney? Wish there was one that did beer? Of course you don't, but LG has gone and done it anyway.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#44RN0)
That's thousands of employees' names, monthly salaries, bank details Exclusive A corporate-issued laptop lifted from a Lenovo employee in Singapore contained a cornucopia of unencrypted payroll data on staff based in the Asia Pacific region, The Register can exclusively reveal.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44RGY)
Fixes aplenty, but not so many shiny baubles – which is great With less than two weeks to go before Christmas, Microsoft has lobbed a fresh build of next year's Windows 10 down the chimney.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#44RE0)
Yeah, we've patched that one, adds Cisco Texas Instruments has rather feebly slapped down infosec researchers' findings on a so-called Bleedingbit Bluetooth Low Energy vulnerability after a more detailed explanation of the chipset's weakness emerged.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#44RBH)
Principles AND work for Google – it's been known to happen AI is reported in extreme terms: it's revolutionising our roads, our workplaces and our homes – or it's stealing our jobs and will eradicate humanity. But what about operating in a war zone?…
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by Richard Speed on (#44R9T)
But will there be any 'nauts left on the ISS after AI bot CIMON has finished with them? A resumption of crewed flights from US soil has inched closer after NASA named a date for SpaceX's Demo-1. But the latest Delta IV Heavy remains firmly earthbound following the second and latest abort.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#44R4Z)
But how Earth ended up with all its water is still a mystery NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has discovered water on the asteroid Bennu less than a week after its arrival at the hunk of space rock.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44R2Q)
How things change Well, it's official. For years, at El Reg offices we have commented on how Facebook is the new Microsoft – and not in a good way.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44QTV)
Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee and other identify lots of problems, few solutions If ever there was doubt that 2018 is the year of fear, it was confirmed by a panel discussion involving the two men that are credited with inventing the internet and the world wide web.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44QRC)
52.5 million accounts at risk, tens of people are worried Google says it will be speeding up the dismantling of its Google+ social network following the discovery of a new security bug that affected 52.5 million users.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#44QNS)
Who cares? Let's whip out the BFG and blow up the boss On December 10, 1993, after a marathon 30-hour coding session, the developers at id Software uploaded the first finished copy of Doom for download, the game that was to redefine first-person shooter (FPS) genre. Hours later IT admins wanted id's guts for garters.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#44QNV)
Chang'e-4 is in the pipe; 5 by 5 China has successfully launched a spacecraft aiming to become the first lander to touch down on the far side of the Moon.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44QFP)
Malware hides cheap Android clicks as high-end Apple traffic An enterprising malware writer has been masquerading infected Android devices as Apple gear in order to make a few extra bucks.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44QBZ)
If Artem Moskowsky owes you money, its a good time to ask A recently-patched set of flaws in Samsung's mobile site was leaving users open to account theft.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44Q7P)
The veteran probe that keeps going has now gone where only Voyager 1 has gone before NASA’s Voyager 2 probe has followed its sibling, Voyager 1, into interstellar space, according to the team managing the veteran spacecraft.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#44Q3E)
EU Aviation Network wrangle set to continue US satcom provider Viasat has declared it will appeal a British tribunal ruling that rival European operator Inmarsat had not breached its licence by becoming part of an EU-wide satellite broadband network.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44PZ2)
End-of-year reports show impairment costs running into millions Local health boards in New Zealand have been forced to write down losses running into the millions of Kiwi dollars as a result of a troubled Oracle implementation.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#44PTN)
As KubeCon + CloudNativeCon draws nigh, vendors can't contain themselves A number of open source types are heading toward Seattle, Washington, on Monday, if they're not already installed there, to attend the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's (CNCF) KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 confab.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44PNZ)
Online marketplace coughs up $100k for selling force-fed birds' livers despite ban Amazon will not sell pate made from the livers of force-fed ducks and geese in California, and has agreed to pay $100,000 in penalties after a civil suit was brought against its brown box delivery biz.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44PH9)
All the better to lock customers into its fluffy white services So desperate keen is SAP to lure more developers to write apps using its cloud tools that it is promising them a year's worth of platform access for free.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#44PCF)
Sweet Jesus! It includes Brussels sprouts Nothing says festive fun like a Chrimbo dinner encased in lovely crispy batter, and as luck would have it, a chippy north of the border is serving up such a wonder to its clientele.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44PCH)
Yeah, how about you work for us... Digital minister Margot James reckons Brits need to "get over" their concerns about privacy and cyber security and let the government assign them with ID cards.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44P8J)
Trusts to be subjected to quarterly searches for contraband machines NHS trusts have just 20 days to buy in fax machines – because from January 2019 they will be banned from purchasing the outdated devices.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44P64)
Gaps continue to close in MS's messaging platform as fanbois dream of new devices Roundup In a week that saw developer goodness aplenty in Connect(); and Microsoft face a Chromium future, there were some other adventures in Redmond you may have missed.…
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