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by Shaun Nichols on (#4233Y)
But it has nothing to do with shipments being down. Honest Cupertino tastemaker Apple Inc has logged yet another record quarter, though investors are worried that sales may be starting to slow.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42340)
Denial-of-service flaw exploited by miscreants in the wild, networking kit giant warns Cisco says miscreants are actively exploiting a SIP vulnerability in its networking gear that it disclosed on Wednesday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#422YH)
A Chen, a Ho, and a Wang walk into a bar... or so prosecutors allege The US Department of Justice has unveiled charges against two companies and three individuals it says have been stealing trade secrets from American memory chipmaker Micron.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#422V5)
We went along to CEO-approved demo in San Francisco Pics Thousands of Google employees across the globe marched out of their offices today upset that the advertising giant has paid millions of dollars in exit packages to male executives accused of sexual harassment.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#422JT)
Reinforcement learning toolkit open-sourced for devs Facebook has unveiled a software toolkit to help programmers plug AI – in the form of reinforcement-learning models – into their applications.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#422E9)
The firm everyone loves to fear sets new all-flash record Chinese array and IT systems supplier Huawei has set a new SPC-1 performance record, snagging it five out of the top six results.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#422EB)
Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc, bashed by Sir Timothy OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS Worldwide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has had enough of internet giants Google, Facebook and friends, and reckons the time has come to look at breaking them up.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4229P)
It's a triple A-rated keynote: Azure, AI and Accessibility Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took to the stage at Microsoft's Future Decoded shindig today in London. As has become the norm these days in events when the chief is not dispensing bonzer financials, much was made of the three As: Azure, AI and Accessibility.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4223Y)
Kids can be so cruel when you're a racist homophobe There's no question that fatherhood brings immense responsibility. From the moment they come into the world, children think you are immortal, an aeons-old genius – nay, a god.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#42240)
Need to up dem data rates Hutchison's UK network Three has upgraded 2,700 urban sites to support faster 4G data.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#421ZB)
Labour minister slams attitude that reaching an adequacy agreement is assured The UK has reportedly moved closer to agreeing the terms for data transfers with the European Union post-Brexit amid concerns about the impact it will have on business.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#421ZD)
Tech giants do urbanism? Of course they're watching you Locals have objected to Apple building a store in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården (Kungsan) park. Protestors said the intrusion of a tasteful glass temple of overpriced consumer electronics encroaches into the public space, ruining the character of the park.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#421T6)
Firmware security patches hit to fix critical holes in enterprise network access points On Thursday, network equipment makers Aruba, Cisco, and Cisco-owned Meraki plan to patch two flaws in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips made by Texas Instruments (TI) that power their respective enterprise Wi-Fi access points.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#421T8)
Storage news and views website ready for the coming zettabyte era Several years ago, The Register absorbed the storage-focused Blocks and Files website because storage news was becoming mainstream IT industry news. The bits and bytes making up blocks, files and objects were becoming so large in number that developing storage arrays to hold them was a complex business and getting more so.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#421P5)
'Internal issue' blamed for morning's outage Clydesdale and Yorkshire bank users have been unable to log in to their accounts or see transactions today, thanks to a non-specific “technical issueâ€.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#421P7)
Oh, and look at our lovely figures! No, ignore the cost cutting, sales declines. Shareholders are happy! BT has got Brexit licked, it told the stock market today – the former state telco said it has modelled for the worst outcome and is stockpiling products in case the UK exits with no trade deal in place and supply chains falter.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#421HW)
Firm plans to stuff a sizeable chunk into AI, naturally Graph database-flinger Neo4J has doubled its total funding after bagging $80m in E-round funding.…
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by Richard Speed on (#421HX)
Thales boldly goes where, er, NASA went in the 1960s Thales Alenia Space has bucked the Brexit blues by announcing the first all-electric satellite propulsion module to be designed and built in the UK.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#421E7)
We'll just take this one away Apple has withdrawn a faulty update that has left Apple Watch 4 owners with bricked bling.…
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Welcome back, 'ping of death', it has been... a few months. Now it's Apple's turn to do the patching
by Richard Chirgwin on (#421B9)
Kernel-level ICMP buffer overrun quietly fixed as all eyes on this week's launchfest When Apple took to the stage for its latest slew of product announcements, there were a bunch of security fixes disclosed at the same time with far less fanfare.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#421BB)
And competition regulator sees 5G clouds on the horizon The company building Australia's National Broadband Network turned in what was mostly a dull but worthy set of financials, and it's put something of a squeeze on its executive bonuses.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4218Q)
Phew, someone didn't get the plug-all-useful-holes memo Analysis The world's fourth biggest PC company sells three desktop PC lines, but it hadn't updated one of those three for four years. Maybe Apple had forgotten that the humble and unassuming Mac mini was there at all. But it fixed that this week.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4216A)
Cold-calling home security firms slammed in watchdog's cooler The UK's data watchdog has slapped a £220,000 fine on two firms that collectively made hundreds of thousands of nuisance calls to flog home security services.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#42144)
Code to help those managing lots of servers unleashed, designated by jumbles of letters After years of making the world more open and connected – to everyone's delight – Facebook recently moved on to bringing the world closer together.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#420Z9)
Top GOP man threatens retaliation One of the top Republicans in the US House of Representatives had harsh words Wednesday for the UK government's plan to impose additional taxes on tech giants.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#420J6)
Low power, low latency, backwards-compatible PHY interfaces, all the buzzwords Cisco has made its long-awaited entry into the 400G space, today announcing four switches pitched at webscale, high-end enterprise, and service provider customers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#420J8)
Justices question whether money should go to lawyers and their old universities The US Supreme Court is distinctly unimpressed with a cozy deal cooked up by Google's lawyers after the ad giant lost an $8.5m class action lawsuit for violating user privacy.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#420JA)
Russian space agency schedules ISS crew launch for early December A crew crisis at the International Space Station could be averted, with Russia's Roscosmos saying this month's Soyuz launch incident was caused by a sensor failure.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#420FK)
Secret API leaves door open for remote commands from other gadgets sharing its Wi-Fi Updated A security researcher says an undocumented API in the Google Home Hub assistant can be exploited to kick the gizmo off its own wireless network.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#42089)
Troll preserve's images can be used to distribute code, PDFs and other stuff A picture turns out to be worth much more than a thousand words, at least on Twitter. For security researcher David Buchanan, it amounts at least 884,000, roughly the number words in the complete works of William Shakespeare.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#42046)
As it turns out, crime pays incredibly well for some The infamous GandCrab malware infection has netted its operators an estimated nine-figure payout from targeting large, high-value corporate systems.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#42004)
China says case is full of hot air The US Justice Department has charged two Chinese spies with stealing jet engine blueprints through a series of online hacks over the course of five years.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41ZV7)
US DoE sees multiple CPU, GPU, interconnect support and snaps one up for $146m Cray has announced Shasta – a near-composable planned supercomputer supporting multiple CPUs, GPUs and interconnects, including its new high-speed Slingshot Ethernet-compatible fabric that fixes the noisy neighbour network congestion problem.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41ZPS)
CTO reveals all in cosy chat with startup founders Oracle staffers were about a week away from not getting paid, founder Larry Ellison has said of the firm's early days.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41ZV9)
CTO reveals all in cosy chat with startup founders Oracle staffers were about a week away from not getting paid, founder Larry Ellison has said of the firm's early days.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41ZJ4)
Utilitarian fix leaves minority of users still moaning Microsoft might be patting itself on the back prematurely for wrangling the technical gremlins that downed its Office 365 services for some users in the UK and the US.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41ZDJ)
UK and Canadian digital and privacy committees team up to snag star witness British MPs desperate to grill Mark Zuckerberg over misuse of Facebook data have teamed up with their Canadian counterparts in a last-ditch attempt to lure the boss to the first ever international "grand committee".…
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Bomb squad descends on suspicious package to find something much more dangerous – a Journey cassette
by Richard Currie on (#41Z87)
North Carolina, but it could happen aaannnyyywherrre An entire block was shut down around the Duke Energy building in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday after mail room staff reported "a small manila envelope handwritten and addressed from out of state" to police.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41Z3F)
That screeching sound might be the wheels coming off tech reselling in Q3 The wheels came off tech reselling in the UK for Computacenter in calendar Q3 according to a trading update released to the London Stock Exchange this morning, sending the firm’s share price crashing by a fifth.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41Z3H)
Local authority furiously smacking Ctrl+Alt+Delete A cache of keyboards has been dumped in a field in North Yorkshire, leading to speculation that the person responsible for Deleting them from the face of the Earth didn't want to put in another Shift.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41YZG)
The business appeal is mixed, but it's working Analysis None of the new products Apple announced yesterday – laptops, desktops and tablets – are cheap, and all are more expensive than the models they supersede. But the introduction of a £2,000 iPad is by far the most eye-catching.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41YZJ)
Horn gouges hole in host for Docker guest breakout Google's gVisor sandboxed kernel had a bug that would allow an attacker to escape their container and overwrite files in the host filesystem – according to Google Project Zero's Jann Horn.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41YW6)
Loyalty card members deets exposed Radisson Hotel Group has told members of its loyalty scheme that their personal details were exposed in a data breach.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#41YW7)
Chipzilla less pale and male – report Intel has hit its target of "full representation" among staffers who toil stateside, and said the diversity push has resulted in a hike in the proportion of its employees who are female or minorities.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41YSM)
Report slams digital policing and Home Office's leadership Cops' investment in and adoption of technology is "a complete and utter mess", MPs have said in a scathing report on the parlous state of UK policing.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41YSP)
As for you, Virgin Media... Virgin pipped BT to be the most-moaned-about UK ISP in Whinge Which? magazine's most recent survey of British broadband.…
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by Team Register on (#41YN5)
Eliminate the risks: Uncover the latest security trends here Webcast It has been argued that the future of software development and operations is all about speeding up development and deployment through cloud-based infrastructure and open source software.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41YHC)
It can only hold millions of cold rubidium atoms for now though The idea of tractor beams, concentrated rays of energy used to trap and move objects at a distance, was first introduced in science fiction.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41YFK)
FCC reckons 5.9 GHz coexistence can Pai A mostly-unused slice of radio spectrum set aside for connected cars in 1999 could soon be shared with Wi-Fi, with the Federal Communications Commission seeking comment on the future of the 5.9 GHz band.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41Y66)
Database replication is hard A 43-second loss of connectivity on the US East Coast helped trigger GitHub's 24-hour TITSUP (Total Inability To Support User Pulls) earlier this month.…
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