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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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by Thomas Claburn on (#41Y68)
Vulnerabilities that expose browsing history yet to be fixed "History sniffing" promises a nose full of dust or, you're talking about web browsers, a whiff of the websites you've visited.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41Y6A)
Nine injured riders and pedestrians say scooters are shoddy and ill-maintained Scooter providers Bird and Lime, and scooter makers Segway and Xiaomi, face a lawsuit in Los Angeles, Calif., claiming that the two-wheeled tech toys are poorly manufactured and maintained.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41Y3F)
DoH or DoT? Punch-up time! Last week, amid some acrimony, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) formally adopted a new encryption standard for the internet naming systems.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41Y0H)
Security updates. What did you think we were referring to? Sneaking in behind the hoopla of Tuesday's MacBook spectacle was a set of security updates for virtually all of Apple's supported products.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41XWF)
Exoplanet telescope out, and Opportunity in its last rights The Kepler spacecraft has coughed up its last reserves of fuel and is now retired, after helping scientists discover thousands of exoplanets for nearly a decade, NASA announced on Tuesday.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41XR4)
Come join us all in our lovely walled garden Analysis It may seem counterintuitive to use the launch of a new Apple laptop to argue that the company is trying to kill off laptops altogether but that is exactly what's happening.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41XF6)
Commissioner doubts ability to carry out data breach rules The Canadian government this week will be enforcing a strict new privacy law, with the term "enforcing" up to interpretation because the regulator says he can't enforce it.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41XAE)
Bringing home the bacon Comment So we all know by now that IBM is buying Red Hat for $34bn – the largest software acquisition ever. Of course, that includes all Red Hat's storage products.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41X5G)
Reports of online 'productivity' suite going AWOL Microsoft's Office 365 has been giving some users cold sweats. No matter how hard they try to log in, they simply can't access the service and haven't been able to for hours – others say it has wobbled for days.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41X09)
Bring a dongle, though. There are bugger all ports Apple has given the moldering MacBook Air a new lease of life at the company's hardware event in Brooklyn today.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41X0B)
You shouldn't profit from punishment The lawyer leading the complaints against Alphabet in the EU Android case doesn’t sound impressed by giant ad-slinger’s proposed remedy. Not one bit.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41WTQ)
Speculation that running joint venture with shipping giant Maersk might be off-putting to rivals IBM has admitted that its blockchain-based trade platform, set up with shipping giant Maersk, is struggling to gain traction with other carriers.…
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by Richard Currie on (#41WNK)
Ghouls just wanna have fun If, on the eve of Halloween, your mind has turned to Amethyst Realm, the woman who dated more than 15 ghosts, let us get you up to speed. She has settled down. With another spook.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41WH1)
Currently 'no incentive' for telcos to chase lazy 'uns who ignore requests, admits UK.gov Up to 40 per cent of UK landlords ignore telcos’ requests to connect properties for full-fibre broadband, the government has said, and current laws incentivise operators to exclude those tenants rather than press for access.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41WH3)
UK's Civil Aviation Authority grounds kit after 'complete loss of power' mid-flight reported The UK's Civil Aviation Authority has temporarily grounded DJI's Matrice 200 following reports of the commercially used drone suffering a complete loss of power mid-flight and crashing to Earth.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41WD3)
A brutally functional work device Review On a recent press trip to IFA, I noticed several journalists discreetly packed a BlackBerry as a second phone. By day they wrote about gadgets, and the BlackBerry wouldn't get name-dropped.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41WAE)
Chip maker Fujian Jinhua labelled 'national security' risk The US department of commerce has issued an edict that effectively bans American companies exporting technology to Chinese DRAM maker Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41WAG)
It's coming, but only for enterprise customers Australian businesses will soon get retail offers for the kind of National Broadband Network services consumers pine for: symmetrical gigabit-per-second Ethernet access, delivered over fibre.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41W7W)
This time use people who know what they're doing Interview The new Cabinet secretary and head of the British civil service, Mark Sedwill, has a chance to rethink how the UK government does IT.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41W54)
Shake-up might give Apple's phone shipments a boost After years in the doldrums, the iPhone XR could boost Apple's phone shipments.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41W10)
Engineers hope it will land a rover safely for the future Mars 2020 mission Video NASA engineers have launched a gigantic parachute as big as a size of a house at record speed to prepare for its Mars 2020 mission.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41VYK)
Traditional math heavy calculations are just too slow AI can help chemists crack the molecular structure of crystals much faster than traditional modelling methods, according to research published in Nature Communications on Monday.…
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