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by Team Register on (#41SZK)
Two weeks till doors open on our conference Events We’ll be throwing open the doors at Serverless London in two weeks time, that's Nov 12, with a programme that is not just platform-agnostic, but shows how the technology is used in applications from connected cars to broadcast to international development.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41SWT)
Plus Blighty goes full Kubernetes and Windows Mixed Reality still a thing in this week's round up While Microsoft celebrated another earnings bonanza and its flagship operating system continued to remain conspicuously absent there was plenty for the followers of Redmond's antics to chew over.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41STT)
Just one of the pitfalls of fruity brand's biz in FY'19, stock market gamblers warned Apple could be the “collateral damage†in the escalating trade war between Donald Trump’s US administration and China's government, a Wall Street analyst has warned.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41SRE)
Servicemen and women 'deserve' access to our tech... even if that includes Windows 10 October 2018 Update Microsoft has responded to critics - some of them on the payroll - over its decision to keep selling tech to the US military, including its recent bid for a whopping $10bn cloud contract tendered by the Pentagon.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41SPJ)
But fake fix wins more praise Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me?, our weekly column in which readers confess to their worst IT cock-ups.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41SME)
Including: Bonus IBM Watson Health drama Roundup Let's kick Monday off with a bunch of bits and bytes you may have missed last week from the world of AI – alleged intelligence or artificial intelligence, depending on where you stand.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41SJH)
Not a great look for an industry tackling data bias issues Special report Like something out of HBO's TV satire Silicon Valley, Neural Information Processing Systems is one of the world's top AI conferences.…
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by Chris Williams on (#41RTC)
Mainframe giant to try on open-source outfit IBM intends to acquire enterprise Linux maker Red Hat for $34bn (£27bn).…
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by Iain Thomson on (#41R94)
Selling toolsets is a no-no, distributing them for free a gray area Analysis This week the US Copyright Office ruled it's OK for Americans to break anti-piracy protections in a bunch of home and personal devices, and vehicles, in the course of fixing or tinkering with said equipment.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41PVZ)
Plus, GSA shamed for glacial notification pace Roundup This week's headlines included buggy cranes, WebEx cockups, and DNS drama.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41PJ4)
Scientists watch from 1,000 miles away as Charlie the Rover plays with ExoMars' toys A prototype Mars rover, named Charlie, has gone for a trundle around Spain’s Tabernas Desert this week, as scientists gear up for the real thing in 2021.…
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by David Gordon on (#41P8A)
Your gentle first-steps to processing live information streaming from networked sensors Comment The Internet of Things is growing, and it feels unstoppable.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41P0K)
The state's top court, however, may be asked to intervene Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeals has granted a petition by a defendant not to be forced to reveal his iPhone passcode and iTunes password, based on the US Fifth Amendment's protection against self-incrimination.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41NVD)
US govt's legal challenge halts rollout of internet safeguards The US state of California has agreed to put its controversial net neutrality law on hold pending a legal challenge against it from the federal government.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41NQY)
Hole opens up remote-code execution to miscreants – or a crash, if you're lucky A security bug in Systemd can be exploited over the network to, at best, potentially crash a vulnerable Linux machine, or, at worst, execute malicious code on the box.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41NMY)
Yeah, everyone's getting fed up with next-gen wireless hype Once in a generation, a technology comes along that changes everything: how we work, communicate, trade, live.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41NN0)
Massive hacker playground can be spun up on the cheap A group of Italian researchers have developed a blueprint for a massive virtualized enterprise network to allow for large-scale security tests without ruining an IT manager's day.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41NG6)
Whack-a-Troll: Ad biz smashes latest manipulation plot to show it's doing... something Facebook, the antisocial advertising platform on which anyone can promote just about anything, on Friday said it found people promoting political discord in the US and UK, yet again.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41NG8)
New production facilities may not be needed, if doom-monger analysts are to be believed In its third 2018 quarter, SK Hynix revenues were up a massive 41 per cent, year on year, to a record $9.94bn, with net income of $4.08bn, a rise of 53.5 per cent on the year.…
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by Richard Currie on (#41N7T)
Talk about scorched earth policies Kill it with fire! A bloke from Fresno, California, almost burned his parents' house down when he opted for a blowtorch to address the property's black widow spider population.…
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by Richard Currie on (#41NCA)
Talk about scorched earth policies Kill it with fire! A bloke in Fresno, California, almost burned his parents' house down when he opted for a blowtorch to address the property's black widow spider population.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41N2V)
Great selfies too, Donald Cheeky Huawei has advised the President of the United States to use one of its own Chinese-designed phones to avoid eavesdropping.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41MY3)
Oh mate: Over 1k Bavarian workers bite nails over upcoming plant closure There's trouble at Fujitsu: it is removing EMEIA* boss Duncan Tait from the board – the first non-Japanese exec ever invited on to it – and wants to shutter its German manufacturing plant. Oh, and it's laying off half the number of executive officers that work across the group.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41MSS)
New models get first updates as wailing of Pro 4 users continues As Microsoft released the first batch of firmware updates for its shiny new Surface Pro 6 and Surface Laptop 2 hardware, owners of Surface Pro 4 fondleslabs afflicted by July's borked update remain in the dark as to when, or even if, their broken firmware will ever be fixed.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41MNP)
Firm to curb wafer output starting April '19 Western Digital's revenues are dropping and set to get worse because of poor flash product sales and declines in pricing.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41MJ2)
The week in networking Roundup Nokia is sharpening the axe again, looking for €700m in savings after turning in net sales of €5.45bn for Q3 2018, and a net loss of €54m, in what president and CEO Rajeev Suri said was a solid result.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41MF1)
World's worst housemate is so misunderstood WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's efforts to tip a bunch of rules allegedly imposed on him by his Ecuadorian hosts into the kitty litter tray have been suspended owing to interpreter difficulties.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41MF3)
Third of 600 fims surveyed fed up trade deal uncertainty, plan to slash tech budgets The dial for biz tech spending growth in the UK will barely move for 2018 as businesses that are “losing patience†with the uncertainty surrounding Brexit negotiations cut their budgets, and GDP slows.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#41MBZ)
Those darn webcam hackers are at it again, maybe Something for the Weekend, Sir? First, an apology. Allow me to express my sincere regret for any offence caused by the videotape you will soon be receiving of your faithful servant buffing the old banana, courtesy of some mysterious stranger.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41M9B)
State investigation finds non-Snowden proof of UK badness - local report GCHQ’s rumoured hacking operation against Belgacom came back into the spotlight yesterday after a local newspaper revealed more tantalising snippets from a Belgian judicial investigation into the attack.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41M9D)
Sorry, programmers. No bowel-moving discounts for you BT's Openreach has said it is dropping the price of installing fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband by around three-quarters as the race to install high-speed internet connections across the UK continues.…
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by David Gordon on (#41M6Y)
Tell us of the pain and practicality of chasing code blunders, software diagnostics Survey Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 QA crisis focuses the mind not just on software quality, but on how important it is to diagnose and fix defects once they escape out into the wild.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41M4N)
How a favour for the IT manager won back a support contract On Call Friday has rolled around once more, and so we welcome you to the latest instalment of On Call, where readers share their tech support achievements.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41M2N)
Blurred lines, blurred sales figures, killing robots in the cloud, and much more Analysis Cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud. Oracle – the IT giant once known for its derision of the off-premises tech – spent its four-day annual conference waxing lyrical about how it is now great at the fluffy stuff.…
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by Chris Williams on (#41M06)
SSH hardcoded 'admin' login found, patch, er, patch coming? A Wi-Fi router flogged by British mobile network EE has a hidden administration account with a hardcoded username and password – and is accessible via SSH.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41KY1)
$3bn-a-quarter in profit and most of coming in from AWS Amazon, a global cloud compute provider with a gift shop on the side, is slipping in the stock market despite posting another solid quarter.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41KWE)
Revenue: up. Profit: up. Number of managers booted for being creeps: a dirty dozen If Google parent Alphabet thought its financial results for the third quarter of 2018 would result in a flood of positive coverage on Thursday, it was in for a disappointment. A slew of claims about execs sexually harassing staff stole headlines instead.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#41KRB)
Landmark victory for right-to-fix movement The US Copyright Office has ruled that, in certain circumstances, folks can legally break a manufacturer's anti-piracy mechanisms – aka digital rights management (DRM) – if they want to repair their own gear.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41KRD)
It turns out the data craze does good things for chip sales Brushing aside concerns about its 10nm production problems and its ability to meet market demand, Intel reported surprisingly high Q3 2018 financial figures on Thursday, lifting its stock in after-hours trading.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41KP5)
Names, billing addresses, email addresses, card info, CVV numbers in some case... British Airways' horror hack is worse than first thought: the world's favorite airline has added 185,000 cardholders to the pile of 380,000 potentially caught up in the IT security breach.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41KP7)
If nothing else goes wrong, National Cancer Registry goes live in November ... 2019 A rushed federal government decision to pull cancer screening registers out of the nonprofits that used to run them may finally draw to a close at the end of next year.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41KJQ)
FCC prepares to approve new wave of small internet birds What's harder: putting a pipe of cables in the ground, or launching a satellite into space?…
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This two-year-old X.org give-me-root hole is so trivial to exploit, you can fit it in a single tweet
by Richard Chirgwin on (#41KFE)
Overwrite arbitrary files? Load arbitrary code? As setuid root? Sure, why not! X.org, the X Window server used by various desktop Linux and BSD operating systems, has – depending on its configuration – a security vulnerability that can be exploited to gain root powers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41KBW)
XML twiddling can lead to lock-and-loading dodgy JavaScript, we're told Updated Microsoft Word documents can potentially smuggle in malicious code using embedded web videos, it is claimed. Opening a booby-trapped file, and clicking on the vid, will trigger execution of the code.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41KBX)
Keep an eye out for filters chomping away at non-adverts. Just sayin' The maintainer of uBlock Origin – arguably the most well-respected content blocking browser extension – has removed a set of filtering rules because they took a political stance. It's a development that underscores the vulnerability of trust-based community projects.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41K7R)
And fails to penetrate the jungle of local politics Amazon offered the governments of Brazil and Peru millions of dollars' worth of Kindles and AWS hosting if they would stopped blocking its effort to get hold of the .amazon top-level domain.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41K3N)
Builders warned over Telecrane remote control radio vuln US-CERT is advising some customers of Telecrane construction cranes to patch their control systems – following the disclosure of a security bug that could allow a nearby attacker to wirelessly hijack the equipment.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41JZA)
15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 targets hyperscale crowd Western Digital has claimed its shingled 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 is the highest capacity disk drive in the world.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41JT3)
And you thought 640KB was enough for everyone Ahead of the company's impending UK launch, Xiaomi has broken new ground with the first 10GB RAM smartphone in China.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41JN9)
Hyperconverged kid takes a cash injection Scale Computing has announced a $34.8m F-series round, in which new partner Lenovo is the biggest investor. New and existing financial investors also participated and total known funding stands at $104m.…
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