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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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by Richard Speed on (#41JGW)
You don't want fixes. You really want a shiny new Windows Search. Of course you do Microsoft has confirmed that, yes, that whole zip-file thing is indeed a bug and, er, no. It won’t be fixing it until November. But hey, how about a new Windows Search?…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41JGY)
We are in the dark period (before our Q2 results are released) – outsourcing titan DXC has responded to our report yesterday about the CEO ousting his Americas leader by, er, not really responding – after our scoop caused its share price to crash almost 19 per cent.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41JCB)
Engineers too busy looking for missing-in-action SD-WAN 10.1.1? Using Citrix Cloud in the EU? You might want to consider taking a longer lunchbreak as the virtualisation service is having a bit of a moment.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41J79)
Former Worldpay chief to start January next year BT has hired former Worldpay boss Philip Jansen as its CEO, handing him an annual pay packet worth £3.9m for his first year of service – if he lasts longer, his compensation will swell further.…
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by Richard Currie on (#41J7B)
Siriusly, though Granger things have happened What can identity and class rights as seen in the enslavement of house elves or the marginalisation of werewolves, giants and centaurs possibly teach India's future legal eagles? One institution believes it has the answer.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41J3E)
Atlassian's code shack goes TITSUP*, has a coffee and feels much better now, thanks Hey developers! Thinking of stomping off in a huff to Bitbucket when Microsoft finally closes the GitHub deal? Well...…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41J02)
£500k legal max penalty under old Data Protection Act Updated The UK's Information Commissioner has formally fined Facebook £500,000 – the maximum available – over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41J04)
Passport numbers, credit card info etc – combo of stuff leaked 'varies for each' poor sod Cathay Pacific has admitted that personal data on up to 9.4 million passengers, including their passport numbers, has been accessed by unauthorised personnel in the latest security screw-up to hit the airline industry.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41HXJ)
Aisles of Wal-Mart will be changed forever if $267bn toll hits, says HP Inc CEO US consumers and businesses shopping for tech in Europe? The rise of manufacturing in Vietnam or the Philippines? The tech industry is braced for the potential consequences of another, wider reaching round of trade tariffs on components or finished goods that are imported to the US from China.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41HTY)
Insists it wasn't chased off following protest and occupation by locals After months of protests centring around a local anarchist bookshop, Google has left the disused Berlin electrical substation building – where the international ad-tech behemoth had planned to open a Google Campus branch.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41HRK)
Vote for what you hate is a sure-fire winner, right? It looks like Australia's proposed expansion to piracy-blocking will become law, with the opposition Labor party deciding to support the bill.…
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