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by Richard Speed on (#40VP0)
Plucky Brit land speed record chaser fails to find £25m down the back of the sofa, calls in Administrators Twenty-one years to the day since Wing Commander Andy Green cracked the land-speed record with ThrustSSC, the UK outfit attempting to go one better with Bloodhound has entered administration.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40VP2)
Another old world vendor to rely on hyperscale beasties... in this instance, Azure Fujitsu has taken the K5 platform for a long walk off a short pier, sending the hybrid cloud service to a watery grave - to stretch the metaphor - just a year and a half after its UK launch.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40VKD)
But you're only in the pink if you're in China Microsoft’s chief product officer, Panos Panay, took to Twitter today to insist that the Surface line was positively in the pink. In China, at any rate.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40VKF)
Also: Juniper and the gang plus AI network research tools Roundup German internet exchange operator DE-CIX has again attempted to block the country's spy agency from tapping its network – this time by filing a constitutional complaint.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40VH3)
Probably because Microsoft has accidentally disabled your audio Somebody got a little trigger happy with the big red Windows Update button last week as a broken Intel audio driver was unleashed on users “by mistakeâ€.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40VH5)
'To team up with Amazon is like to team up with the devil' Canalys Channels Forum 2018 Pity the poor resellers, because Jeff Bezos and his Amazon Business business is coming for their business, and they'll play ball with him at their own peril, so an analyst claims.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#40VET)
Techie gets away with it by saying 'I Love You' Who, Me? Just like clockwork, another weekend is over and Monday is here again. To lighten the load, El Reg is offering you the latest instalment of Who, Me?, our weekly sysadmin confessional column.…
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by Team Register on (#40VEW)
And more than one place… Events Serverless computing might be the way of the future, but to some it can also look suspiciously like a whole new crop of walled gardens.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40VC5)
Digital government? Not sure how it is for you, but it's been great for us You may not have many functional digital government services to use here in the UK – but if you did, they would be the prettiest in the world.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40RPT)
Your two-minute guide to this week in machine-learning world Roundup Hello, here's a quick roundup of what's been happening in AI outside of the headlines.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40R4T)
The Live bookmarks, preview features, that is When Firefox 64 arrives in December, support for RSS, the once celebrated content syndication scheme, and its sibling, Atom, will be missing.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40QV1)
Also, Flash fakers seek out crypto marks Roundup This week we caught wind of another Facebook blunder, a dodgy Patch Tuesday bundle, and more China trouble.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40QS2)
A pulse-racing tale of biotech bug fixing The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising health professionals to keep an eye on some of the equipment they use to monitor pacemakers and other heart implants.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#40QKY)
Aging kit kicks into safe mode, 65,000+ miles away October is shaping up to be a lousy month for NASA. First, the Hubble space telescope went into hibernation. Then a Russian Soyuz rocket failed to get its astronauts and kit up to the orbiting International Space Station. And now the American agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory, tens of thousands of miles from Earth, is kaput – temporarily, we hope.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40QGH)
'Humans are going to be a lot less visible ... will be just one species of intelligent beings' The notion of deploying armed human soldiers on the ground to fight wars will disappear over time, according to one of America's top military scientists.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40QGK)
Tinder subdomain flaw turns into massive everybody flaw Bug-hunters have told how they uncovered a significant security flaw that affected the likes of Tinder, Yelp, Shopify, and Western Union – and potentially hundreds of millions of folks using these sites and apps.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40QD6)
Good news: 20m feared pwned are safe. Bad news: That's still 30m profiles snooped... Facebook users can relax and get back to interacting with quality content and authentic individuals on the social network.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40Q97)
Wait.... this wasn't in the script In a US Senate hearing that went little reported this month, America's antitrust chiefs warned that Europe's tough General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) had benefited the companies it was designed to tame.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40Q0A)
A lovely bit of open-source interop for the weekend Language interoperability efforts are underway at Microsoft in the form of the open-source xlang, which builds on the approach taken with WinRT.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40PQA)
Message for the fu-ture-ture-ture Canalys Channels Forum 2018 Microsoft is still going to ditch or spin off the Surface line in 2019, insists the analyst who first made the prediction a year ago, despite the line-up's annual refresh this month.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40PQC)
Come with me if you want to be ripped off Twenty years ago, the internet was promised to level the playing field allowing small fry to compete with the bigger, entrenched players. But online digital markets have tended towards monopoly, or a small number of dominant firms.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40PJ6)
Bigwigs report lots of progress in the cash-flinging department The UK's Department of Health and Social Care released a progress update this week on the hesitant efforts to deal with shonky NHS IT.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40PDM)
Try being useful to customers Interview Samsung has responded to a saturated market – and the mortal threat of Huawei – by ramping up its mid-range phones and promising much more rapid repairs.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40PAA)
Oh, and we need A3 sales skillz Canalys Channels Forum 2018 Spending $550m on Apogee was as much a defensive measure to stop rivals buying the print services dealer as it was to beef up its place in the copier market, HP Inc chief Dion Weisler has said.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40PAC)
RPI or CPI? A percentage point really can make all the difference Can UK telco giant BT move its pension scheme increases off the RPI inflation measure and onto CPI? Earlier this year the High Court said no, but now the telco and 300,000 of its pensioners are awaiting the Court of Appeal’s verdict on this thorny question.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40P4M)
Is it Project Fear? Tech trade doesn't seem to think so Canalys Channels Forum 2018 Product shortages, additional price hikes and a recession could become a reality if the UK crashes out of the European Union without any sort of trade agreement in place. This was the message that came loud and clear at this week's Canalys Channels Forum in Barcelona.…
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How does a complimentary ticket sound? Events We have a limited number of complimentary tickets for Serverless Computing London next month to give away, so if you want to get up to speed on Serverless, FaaS and related technologies with us get in touch quick.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#40P29)
Faulty fluoroscopes and malfunctioning monitors make for an On Call two-fer On Call It’s Friday at long last and that means it’s time for On Call, our regular trip down readers’ memory lanes.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#40P02)
So says Alex... Graham... Dan... Something for the Weekend, Sir? My name is McLeod. Graham McLeod. If you're looking me up in a list, you'll find me under M as "McLeod, Graham".…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40NX7)
Preaching network-as-software, bidding farewell to the CLI Juniper Networks has taken the wraps off what will be one of the year's biggest efforts for the biz: the EngNet network software developer toolset and its associated education, technical exchange, APIs, training, and ecosystem.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40NTV)
'Smart' home tech now only a half-accurate description Yale Security UK says it is working to restore service after some unplanned maintenance turned into a total outage on the smartphone app customers use to control their home alarms.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40NHC)
Senator calls for real probe into 'Chinese-controlled' outfit The “weirdest acquisition ever†– Broadcom's $19bn proposed takeover of CA Technologies – ran into a rather strange road-bump this week: a fake US military memo passed around American politicians on Capitol Hill.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#40NC2)
SpaceX, Boeing running behind schedule, and don't get me started on SLS Comment Thursday's failed Soyuz launch, carrying kit and astronauts to the International Space Station means NASA is fast running out of options for shipping stuff into orbit. Especially since its homespun solutions aren't living up to their earlier promise.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40N8F)
Patched server, or working server. Pick one... IBM has withdrawn a patch for a significant security vulnerability in its WebSphere Application Server after the code knackered some systems.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40N0V)
Auto-updates come with a sting Updated Microsoft on Tuesday posted KB4464330 (Windows 10 1809 Build 17763.55) in an effort to halt the damage done by last week's Windows 10 version 1809 update, but it hasn't quite worked.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40N0X)
Pinedo avoids serious time after spilling beans to Mueller on account sales A California man who provided bank accounts to Russian online trolls seeking to monkey with America's 2016 elections will spend the next six months or so behind bars.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40MVM)
Incremental titbits aimed at time-poor techies Google Cloud Next Google has released another handful of networking features for its cloud, including Cloud NAT, which lets devs build cloud-based services that do not have public IP addresses.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40MVP)
Chaebol charges back against Chinese SIM-only onslaught Hands On Samsung has launched the Galaxy A9 – its most comprehensive offensive against the twin threats of SIM-only subscribers and Chinese giant Huawei. The fightback involves a stronger mid-range, trade-ins, and promises better turnaround for faults and repairs.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40MPY)
Staff snapped up and IP licensed by iPhone giant Apple has agreed to hand $600m over to Dialog Semiconductor in return for a slice of the chipmaker's business and brains.…
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by John Leyden on (#40MHD)
Crouching tiger, hidden APT The UK's National Cyber Security Centre and its western intel pals have today put out a report spotlighting the most commonly wielded hacking utilities.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40MDM)
New bits from Amsterdam Config management and automation outfit Puppet rolled out a slew of updates to its DevOps toolset in front of a crowd of excitable engineers at its Puppetize Live event in Amsterdam this week, with an eye on security and automation.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#40M8F)
Startup now valued at $3.5bn Cloud data warehouser Snowflake has raised nearly half a billion dollars in its latest tranche, taking total funding to $923m.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40M8H)
UK operators this summer look much like they did last year Monitoring biz OpenSignal has found no major gains in mobile broadband performance since spring in its latest quarterly UK survey [PDF] as network operators focus their investments more carefully ahead of the upcoming 5G spectrum auction.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40M49)
Pixel Slate: Nero for a Day Comment Common sense says you can't make a Veblen good out of a dumb computer terminal – but that isn't going to stop Google trying.…
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by John Leyden on (#40KZV)
DNS infrastructures still vulnerable to attacks The majority (72 per cent) of FTSE 100 firms are vulnerable to DNS attacks, nearly two years after the major Dyn outage.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40KZX)
Take your foot off the accelerator, admins told VMware has warned users about an "important" denial-of-service vuln in ESXi, Workstation and Fusion that hinges on a problem with 3D rendering.…
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by John Leyden on (#40KWA)
Delay 'in the overall best interest' of Firefox users Mozilla has postponed its plans to distrust all legacy digital certificates from Symantec, spreading dismay in security circles.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40KS7)
'Nauts safe, but the ISS may have to be abandoned The post-Space Shuttle era of reliability spearheaded by Russian space agency Roskosmos came to an abrupt end this morning as the booster carrying the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft to the International Space Station failed a few minutes after launch.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40KNJ)
Middle Kingdom is a rising threat once again – research Infosec pros might have already noticed some familiar IP address ranges in their system logs – China has returned to the cyber-attack arena.…
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by Team Register on (#40KNM)
Getting practical with machine learning and AI There are many ways machines can learn, but for humans nothing beats getting together with like-minded souls who’ve trodden a similar path.…
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