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by Richard Speed on (#41153)
But that's not as bad as Barbie flinger Mattel or, indeed, Oracle It has been a bumper year for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose compensation soared to $25.8m in fiscal 2018. Quite a bit more than the median salary of the rest of the company, which hovered at an admittedly none-too-shabby $167,689.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41155)
Not quite the native experience Google's shooting for Version 70 of the Chrome browser has begun to slither onto Windows 10, bringing with it Google's desktop take on Progressive Web App functionality.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4110K)
...ahem, as is 'normal in our industry' Though the wheels keep rolling at unstoppable reseller juggernaut Softcat, fuelled by a Windows 10 refresh and returning demand for servers, the CEO has voiced caution about the potential implications of Brexit.…
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by Chris Williams on (#410VT)
By servers, it means boxes that do networking, storage, security Analysis One million Arm-powered data center servers will ship in 2018, the processor design house claimed on Tuesday.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#410VW)
It's playing a long game Comment Google's artful but risky response to the European Commission highlights the weakness of Brussels' strategy dealing with big Silicon Valley companies.…
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by Chris Williams on (#410Q2)
Programming interfaces, threat models, and more pop up online One year on from launching its Platform Security Architecture – a recipe book and ingredients for securing Internet of Things gizmos – Arm has opened it up some more to get more manufacturers and developers involved.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#410KF)
If you punt 33% pr0n or less, you're in the clear, say draft rules The UK government is bracing itself to face legal challenges when it implements controversial smut age check rules, and has said it could cost up to £10m in the first year alone.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#410FV)
If this all feels rather familiar, you'd be right Analysis For a company that just four years ago vowed not to "engage in significant advertising campaigns", Huawei now puts on vast displays of wealth and technological prowess. Yesterday's extravaganza drew over 5,000 to London's Excel centre to see four new phones and two wearables, ranging from €99 to €2,099.…
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by Richard Speed on (#410D9)
Fear not! A swift sudo and your computational prayers will be answered Knickers have become ever so twisty over the last few days as fans of the diminutive Raspberry Pi computer and its Raspbian operating system noted that Mathematica had been "removed".…
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by Richard Speed on (#410DB)
Second Insider build with more fixes for 1809. Could third time be the charm? Microsoft’s efforts to recover from the Windows 10 October 2018 Update debacle continued last night as a fresh build of the troubled operating system was emitted to Windows Insiders.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#410BE)
Plain text password storage? Check. Directory traversal? Check. SOHOpeless? Check Eight D-Link router variants are vulnerable to complete pwnage via a combination of security screwups, and only two are going to get patched.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41096)
New right to appeal findings of Investigatory Powers Tribunal The British government has finally offered up its proposed changes to the way the UK's spy court operates – including the right to appeal its decisions – for approval by the country's Parliament.…
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by David Gordon on (#4106V)
There are many mistakes you can make – learn how to avoid them from gurus Webcast For those of you who missed out on our live online broadcast on the the seven deadly sins of multi-cloud last week, fear not, a catch-up video is available now.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#4104J)
Ad giant to charge for key applications amid license shakeup and antitrust fine In an effort to placate Europe's regulators furious at its anticompetitive tactics, Google has overhauled its Android licensing practices for the continent.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#4102N)
Malicious code in VMs can leap over ESXi, Workstation, Fusion hypervisor security Get busy, VMware admins and users: the virtualisation virtuoso has patched a programming blunder in ESXi, Workstation Pro and Player, and Fusion and Fusion Pro products that can be exploited by malicious code to jump from guest OS to host machine.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40ZTC)
Hiding under an assumed name to avoid discrimination, Repairnator is unmasked Luc Escape leads a double life. The software engineer on the Spirals research team at the University of Lille in France goes by another name, Repairnator.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41000)
Hiding under an assumed name to avoid discrimination, Repairnator is unmasked Analysis Luc Esape leads a double life. The software engineer on the Spirals research team at the University of Lille in France goes by another name, Repairnator.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40ZQY)
Big Blue's $18.8bn revenue falls short of expectations IBM saw its stock price take a hit Tuesday afternoon after the enterprise tech giant saw quarterly revenues miss the mark.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41001)
Big Blue's $18.8bn revenue falls short of expectations IBM saw its stock price take a hit Tuesday afternoon after the enterprise tech giant saw quarterly revenues miss the mark.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#40ZR0)
Nothing to do with lousy infrastructure, poor public transport etc As any Bay Area resident knows traffic is bad and getting worse, but San Francisco thinks it has found the culprit - ride-hailing companies.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#41002)
Nothing to do with lousy infrastructure, poor public transport, etc etc etc As any San Francisco Bay Area resident knows traffic is bad and getting worse, but the city's officials think they have found the culprit: ride-hailing companies.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40ZMK)
And you'll definitely want to check out the libssh flaw Oracle has released a wide-ranging security update to address more than 300 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its various enterprise products.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40ZH7)
Social code biz makes bid to turn workflows into code At San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts on Tuesday, GitHub held its annual tech touting talk in a space that once housed the city's Exploratorium science show.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40ZCP)
Behold, a new Chinese platform? Google's decision to shove Java everywhere it can may be as catastrophic as Microsoft's "Windows everywhere" from the 1990s.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40ZCR)
Storm-savaged waterworks having to rebuild from scratch A water company in the US state of North Carolina already dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Florence will now have to juggle a complete database rebuild – thanks to a nasty ransomware infection.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#40Z8R)
Investors sue over failure to 'fess up in financial filings Google's parent has been hit with a lawsuit for failing to disclose to investors a bug – secretly fixed in March – that could have exposed half a million users' data.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40Z8T)
Samsung-screened mobe not easily repaired, just like a Samsung Teardown demon iFixit has pulled Google's shiny new flagship Pixel 3 phone to pieces, revealing more glue and glass than strictly necessary.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40Z3H)
Icahn hardly believe it Dell Technologies will ask shareholders to vote in calendar Q4 on the proposed changes in its relationship with VMware.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40Z3K)
A tale of Four Mates Hands On With its vast, formidable production machine roaring behind it, Huawei is giving itself two entries in the annual flagship race this year – the prize some other OEMs struggle to hit annually.…
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by Chris Williams on (#40YYR)
Data center blueprints get Neoverse brand, roadmap Japanese chip designer Arm has lightly sketched out in public its future processor designs that are aimed at powering internet servers and infrastructure.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40YYT)
'Mainframe revenue remains a key wild card' – analyst IBM might be pinning its ambitions on emerging tech, but some corners of Wall Street will be looking closely at legacy hardware sales when Big Blue reports its third-quarter results later today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#40YR0)
ISE ISE baby Struggling all-flash array vendor Violin Systems has said it will buy X-IO Technologies' ISE storage line, picking up the tech as well as customers and channel partners.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40YNF)
Jamal Khashoggi: Oil-rich state is blushing but Western leaders aren't saying much Google Cloud's gros fromage, Diane Greene, has pulled out of a Saudi Arabian summit following the disappearance of a writer who criticised the Saudi regime from the country's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40YNG)
A message to you, Rudy. Or a call. Or maybe an email? Customer engagement outfit Twilio has confirmed its intent to snap up email marketing platform SendGrid in a deal worth around $2bn in stock.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40YG7)
Nixing 139k phishing sites is pretty good going to be fair Despite companies "hanging up" when GCHQ rings them to say they've been hacked (true story), "the UK has avoided a category 1 [infosec incident]", according to National Cyber Security Centre chief Ciaran Martin.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40YB2)
Cross-platform? Sure, but there's still no place like home IBM has trotted out tech it reckons will ease management of services over a variety of cloud infrastructures, including Microsoft and Amazon's as well its own.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40Y65)
Paperwork demands code from internet goliaths Analysis After Redis Labs relicensed the modules it developed to complement its open-source database, from AGPL to Apache v2.0 with a Commons Clause, the free-software community expressed dismay.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40Y67)
Need SSD RAID, i9 or a GPU? Join our Z Club, says Inky Microsoft's Surface has become a victim of its own success. This year’s iteration reuses the same case, maintaining compatibility with peripherals. Several PC rivals can boast better value in the premium professional segment with more interesting designs.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40Y2Y)
Users face hours without tunes as streaming service trips up mid-dance move In a reminder of a golden age when we still had physical media, Amazon Music decided to pop on its headphones and chill out to some Harold Budd this morning, leaving users unable to access the streaming service.…
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by Richard Currie on (#40XZN)
And we'll take your cat if you don't tidy up after it Like a weary mother laying down the law, London's Ecuadorian embassy has slapped WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with a nine-page memo of house rules to follow if he wants to see the internet again under their roof.…
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by Richard Currie on (#40YNJ)
And we'll take your cat if you don't tidy up after it Like a weary mother laying down the law, London's Ecuadorian embassy has slapped WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with a nine-page memo of house rules to follow if he wants to see the internet again under their roof.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40XX8)
Er, one-tenth of the human capital AWS is throwing at its public cloud Fujitsu may have given up the ghost on its own K5 cloud, but it is promising to throw a ton of human resources at selling and managing Microsoft Azure – its public cloud service of choice.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#40XTM)
Police forces have 'real anxieties' about incremental uptake, dodgy 4G coverage The Home Office has admitted a three-year delay to the rollout of the UK’s new 4G Emergency Services Network will cost £1.1bn – but insisted it will still demonstrate value for money.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40XTP)
Minecraft? In The Reg? Call the Brigadier! While the world may have been focused on the acid reflux of the Windows 10 October 2018 release, it wasn't the only news out of Redmond in the past 7 days. It's time for the Microsoft round-up.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40XNX)
IE, Edge, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, all planning to deprecate lousy old versions by 2020 Sysadmins and netizens, it's time to get serious about killing off old, buggy and insecure versions of Transport Layer Security (TLS) – the encryption used to secure connections to HTTPS websites like your bank, El Reg, and so on.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40XKQ)
X-ray probe could be awake by end of this week NASA's rough month is improving somewhat: the American space agency is spinning up a spare gyroscope to bring the orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory back online by the end of the week, and it reckons it can wake the Hubble Space Telescope soon.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40XHD)
EASA's writing rules for them after 'a number of requests' The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued a public consultation on how to regulate futuristic air taxis that take off and land vertically.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40XDB)
Like a little tiny ghost in the machine Video The Palm brand has returned with a bizarre concept: a tiny touchscreen "ghost" phone that mirrors the contents of your real smartphone – and won’t do much without one.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40XB7)
Two weeks after he went public with illness, philanthropist Alt-F4s from this simulation we call reality Obit Billionaire Paul Allen, who cofounded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975 and is credited with coining the company's name, has died of cancer aged 65.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40X6A)
Surprising nobody, survey finds investors think they're buying more than a slice of a startup Nearly 22 per cent of women tech biz founders surveyed by startup accelerator Y Combinator learned the hard way that venture-capital and angel investors can be creeps or worse.…
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