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by Richard Speed on (#508CG)
Anyone use that? Give this a upgrade a wide berth Microsoft has admitted that Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2019 has a problem, and those using SQL Server Agent should either skip it or roll it back.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#508CH)
Lax DNS leaves door wide open for miscreants to impersonate Windows giant on its own websites If you saw a link to mybrowser.microsoft.com, would you have trusted it? Downloaded and installed an Edge update from it? How about identityhelp.microsoft.com to change your password?…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5083J)
Department of Energy turns to HPE, AMD to flesh out monster The US Department of Energy has revealed a few more details about the supercomputer it has commissioned to simulate and study America's stockpile of nuclear weapons. This is the machine that is set to be the world's fastest publicly known super, and is expected to be 10 times more powerful than today's biggest beasts.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5083M)
1970, the Beatles disband and the UK celebrates the first successful Black Arrow launch Join us tonight in raising a toast to the 50th anniversary of the first successful launch of the Black Arrow, the UK's brief foray into orbital rocketry.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5083P)
Who are you and what have you done with Microsoft? It may be shuttering its events, but the release door at Microsoft has continued flapping with the emission of admin darling PowerShell 7.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5083Q)
600,000 Clubcards at risk earlier this week, said supermarket Data stolen from Tesco clubcards could be resold for just £2.70 a pop, reckons a price-comparison website that appears to have strayed into the dark web.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5083R)
NT News prints 8-page 'special liftout' amid coronavirus panic "Wouldn't wipe my arse with it" is an expression you'll commonly hear in the UK to describe a newspaper the speaker doesn't like. However, tomorrow Aussie tabloid the Northern Territory News will invite its readers to do exactly that.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#507SK)
Battery maker does phones too Energizer is best known as the battery maker that isn't Duracell. Few, however, are aware of the Energizer phone brand, which today announced its latest effort – the KaiOS-powered Hard Case H280S.…
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by Richard Speed on (#507SN)
At least the 'new update notification' worked OK Microsoft emitted a fresh version of its '90s PowerToys resurrection on GitHub last night, and followed it up with a bug fix in record time.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#507SQ)
More than a dozen dodgy websites spotted masquerading as the real deal, HTTPS certs and all What's old is new again as infosec bods are sounding the alarm over a fresh wave of homoglyph characters being used to lure victims to malicious fake websites.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#507SS)
Flawed platform was used to throw fraud charges about MPs are set to drag Post Office and Fujitsu executives before UK Parliament as part of a probe into the Horizon IT system scandal.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#507SV)
ICO probe found backup files not password-protected, unpatched web-facing servers, out-of-date OS and more The Information Commissioner's Office has fined Cathay Pacific Airways £500,000 for leaky security that exposed the personal data of 9.4 million passengers - 111,578 of whom were from the UK.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#507JJ)
You only think it's an echo chamber because that's what your echo chamber says From Brexit to Trump: technology, particularly social media, is in the firing line when it comes to the perceived departure from political norms. But there is much more to it than that, according to new research from think tank Chatham House.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#507JM)
Study finds most A320 pilots shrug, ignore dodgy systems and land safely Airline pilots faced with hacked or spoofed safety systems tend to ignore them – but could cost their airlines big sums of money, an infosec study has found.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#507JP)
Everybody get in here! It's another one of those Magic Quadrants! Gartner analysts have exhaled a "Magic Quadrant" report on Cloud AI developer services, concluding that while AWS is fractionally ahead, rivals Microsoft and Google are close behind, and that IBM is the only other company deserving a place in the "Leaders" section of the chart.…
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by Alun Taylor on (#507JR)
Give a Cheshire cheers to a true waterway wonder Geek's Guide One of the Seven Wonders of the British Waterways, the Anderton Boat Lift, near the Cheshire town of Northwich, is a perfect example of the rise, fall and reinvention of Britain's Victorian industrial heritage.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#507D6)
Old-style monolithic but modular software is 'highly underrated' QCon London Sam Newman, author of Building Microservices and Monolith to Microservices, told attendees at the QCon developer conference in London that "microservices should not be the default choice."…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#507D8)
Code needed because 'we no longer have direct measurements about what’s happening in outer electron belt' Machine-learning algorithms may in future be able to warn scientists of harmful radiation storms days in advance of their formation in Earth’s Van Allen belts.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#507DA)
UK.gov decision to back out of UPC smacks of ideology over commonsense +Comment The UK government will now not join Europe’s new Unified Patent Court (UPC) despite promising only last year that it would.…
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by Team Register on (#5079C)
Save yourself £100s and join us in May for excellent speaker sessions and workshops Event If you’ve been a little distracted over the past couple of weeks, and have missed out on our early-bird ticket offer for Continuous Lifecycle London 2020, fear not – we’ve extended it for another two weeks.…
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by Team Register on (#5074M)
Now COVID-19's got FAANGs An Amazon staffer based a couple of blocks from its Seattle nerve-center has tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#5074P)
Management puts on a brave face for Wall Street HPE endured a rough few months thanks to a hardware crunch and manufacturing headaches caused in part by the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus, it said Tuesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#506Y8)
'We're now approaching the point to do the analysis and write-up,' co-founder tells El Reg For more than 20 years, SETI@home has sent radio telescope readings to volunteers' home computers to sift for potential signs of extraterrestrial life among the universe's roar of signals. Come the end of this month, that distributed computing effort will cease.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#506YA)
Once the telcos have enough masts up Poll results published today suggest 68 per cent of smartphone owners around the world would be willing to trade in their handset for a 5G-capable model.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#506YC)
And policies and teams in place – on the double Uncle Sam has finally had enough: 15 years after it put out a memo telling its federal organizations they had to start moving to IPv6, it has decided to give sluggish bureaucrats a kick in the ass.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#506NF)
National survey of ISPs sparks familiar recommendations for better internet New Jersey has bested New York when it comes to broadband, according to a survey of all 2,000 ISPs across the US – and both beat the rest of the country.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#506NH)
Tons of TLS certs need to be tossed immediately after Go snafu On Wednesday, March 4, Let's Encrypt – the free, automated digital certificate authority – will briefly become Let's Revoke, to undo the issuance of more than three million flawed HTTPS certs.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#506NK)
Experts drafted in to help new hires answer customers' technical questions Amazon Web Services plans to double its sales staffing numbers this year in the face of mounting competition and slowing growth.…
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by Robbie Harb on (#506C3)
Adobe Summit too. They'll all go online now. Dress code: PJs and a blankie Updated Google and Microsoft have both axed major conferences due to take place this month - the latest casualties of the novel coronavirus amid a clampdown across the tech industry on attending all such events.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#506C5)
Cloud data warehouse slinger claims it can help comb through event logs Cloud-native data warehouse vendor Snowflake and Edge Delta have spun up a new SecOps architecture they claim will broaden the application of analytics in a security information and event management (SIEM) product.…
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by John Oates on (#506C6)
You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals... so help us get land speed record on the Discovery Channel The Bloodhound Land Speed Record chaps have thrust out the begging bowl to raise funds for a bid to break the 1,000mph (1,609kph) barrier next year.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#506C8)
UK.gov tries the KISS approach to infosec advice for the public Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) wants owners of baby monitors and smart CCTV cameras to take some basic security precautions.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5062C)
Now without all the mucking around on-premises Universal Print, a new Microsoft Azure service now in private preview, allows printers to be registered with Azure Active Directory so users can print to them via the cloud.…
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by Matthew Hughes on (#5062D)
Needing a landline will soon be a thing of the past BT's Openreach today launched an IP-based network that aims to ultimately replace the UK's public switched telephone network (PSTN), which carries analogue voice communications.…
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by Chris Williams on (#5062E)
Meanwhile, Marvell offers a 36-core chip, Xilinx whips out an FPGA-based SmartNIC Ampere will today tear the covers off Altra, its 80-core 64-bit Arm N1 processor for cloud and hyperscaler servers.…
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by John Oates on (#5062G)
Calm down now The British government said today that the novel coronavirus – COVID-19 – will, more likely than not, have a significant impact on the UK and could see up to 20 per cent of people missing work.…
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by Richard Speed on (#505TE)
'Test Like You Fly'? Yeah, we've heard of it Roundup Quite a bit transpired in the world of rocketeering over the past few days, and The Reg has got all the highlights.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#505TF)
Owner Troy Hunt staying in the saddle after potential deal falls through The popular security website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) will remain independent – despite owner Troy Hunt's decision last year to put the business up for sale.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#505TH)
Super-maker claims breakthrough in quantum supernumerary Honeywell International, a business known to most folks mainly for its thermostats, claims to have achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#505TK)
Plus: Big Blue wanted to 'turn the screw in a controlled manner' on client An IBM exec was accused of contradicting himself at the High Court in London as he testified over the failure of a £175m Agile platform contract with Co-Operative Insurance.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#505TN)
Staff found out after seeing their own jobs advertised in India Exclusive Maersk is preparing to make 150 job cuts at its UK command-and-control centre (CCC) in Maidenhead – the one that rebuilt the global shipping company's IT infrastructure after the infamous 2017 NotPetya ransomware attack.…
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by Richard Speed on (#505N2)
Also, a new data centre region beneath Spain's Azure skies Roundup Chromium Edge has been tweaked to prevent users installing PUA, Microsoft's going to Spain, plus there are a few more things about the gnomes at Redmond we didn't get around to revealing last week.…
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Open-source chap Boris Renski chats to El Reg about the near future Interview The co-founder of Kubernetes cloud outfit Mirantis, Boris Renski, has left the business to start a new venture focused on 5G-based "private LTE" campus networks.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#505N5)
Deep Space Climate Observatory ticking again after gyroscope mishap The Deep Space Climate Observatory – a satellite that warns of incoming space storms that could knacker telecommunications on Earth – is up and running again after being shut down for eight months by a technical glitch.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#505H7)
‘We'll just buff it out’ says SpaceX biz baron Video Video footage has emerged of SpaceX's Starship prototype dramatically blowing up on the pad.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5057V)
Google's TensorFlow Dev Summit may be next, too Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, due to take place on March 22 to 26 in Silicon Valley's San Jose McEnery Convention Center, has been cancelled following the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in Northern California.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#504ZK)
'Does it have its own satellite dish, sir?' 'You can tell your son it has its own satellite' Drone enthusiasts are up in arms over rules proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that would require their flying gizmos to provide real-time location data to the government via an internet connection.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#504ZM)
Proposed settlement to end 66 class-action cases awaits judicial approval Apple – which banked $55bn profit in its 2019 fiscal year – is willing to pay up to $500m to settle US claims that the company secretly slowed certain iPhone models to preserve battery life, according to a proposed class action settlement.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#504ZP)
British biz's foray 'has not fared well as it exits the market nursing substantial losses' Brit accountancy software maker Sage is offloading its Brazilian operation to local management.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#504ZR)
PC-and-printers biz will 'carefully review and evaluate the offer' before, presumably, deciding: No Xerox is going for it: this morning it officially inched forward in its effort to forcibly acquire troubled PC-and-printers slinger HP amid repeated attempts by HP's board to strangle the plan.…
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