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by Richard Speed on (#40KK6)
Fondleslabs continue to be borked by flaky firmware Unhappy Surface Pro 4 owners continue to fill Microsoft's support forums with complaints over an update that is leaving the touchscreen untouchable.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#40KGS)
Runs SPEC SFS 2014 software builds 25% faster than E8 Optane system Enterprise HPC storage vendor DDN has run the SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark 25 per cent faster than an E8 NVMe storage system using Intel Optane 3D XPoint drives.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40KED)
The spikey satellite is not for the faint hearted Exploring Jupiter’s moon, Europa, will be a treacherous task after scientists discovered its surface is covered in sharp icy daggers towering at almost 15 metres tall.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40KGV)
The spikey satellite is not for the faint hearted, it appears Exploring Jupiter’s moon Europa will be a treacherous task, it seems: scientists reckon its surface is covered in sharp towering icy daggers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40KBV)
Oh, and there are 21 other vulns to patch It's time for Juniper Networks' semi-regular bugfest, with 22 fixes announced today, two of which carry a “critical†rating and should be applied immediately.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#40K9K)
The tech that is, not this made-up mystery Backgrounder IT infrastructure has become more complex as virtualization and private clouds have added more cream and sponge to the technology layer cake within businesses.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40K5A)
The bad news: PC sales went down a little, says IDC It's time for the quarterly PC market predictions from analyst houses Gartner and IDC and, as usual, they disagree on the state of the trade.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40K39)
MikroTik. Stupid name. Stupid bugs. Get those fixes If you haven't installed a batch of patches for bugs in your MikroTik routers – and two thirds of owners apparently haven't – then stiffen the sinews and summon up the blood: you really need to update your firmware.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40K16)
Xu can play at this espionage game, Feds allege US prosecutors have unsealed charges against a collared Chinese national, accusing him of stealing trade secrets from American aerospace companies.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40JYP)
Deal or no deal – what's in the bot? Artificially intelligent bots are notoriously bad at communicating with, well, anything. Conversations with the code, whether it's between themselves or with people, often go awry, and veer off topic. Grammar goes out the window, and sentences become nonsensical.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40JVG)
Open-source suite defies doomsayers with millions of downloads Analysis Last year Brett Porter, then chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, contemplated whether a proposed official blog post on the state of Apache OpenOffice (AOO) might discourage people from downloading the software due to lack of activity in the project.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40JR6)
Hack to thaw account freezes reported, fixed, hopefully never exploited Experian's website exposed to world-plus-dog the PINs needed to unlock frozen accounts, allowing crooks to potentially apply for loans and credit cards as their victims.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40JMF)
Likely state hackers make do with 'living off the land' and going after tardy Office patchers A newly discovered spy gang is eschewing boutique attack tools to instead use publicly available exploits against unpatched systems.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#40JGN)
But Oracle shot first IBM has officially griped to a top US government watchdog about JEDI – the Pentagon's proposed 10-year $10bn single-vendor IT system for America’s Green Machine.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40JBS)
350-year monkish mystery could be down to a merger Astrophysicists have finally solved a mystery lasting almost 350 years to uncover the first documented merger between a white and brown dwarf star.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40J6P)
Finally, Jeff Bezos can sleep easy on his cash pillow Canalys Channels Forum 2018 The billions of dollars in ad revenue that Amazon is turning over each quarter will bankroll the capital expenditure of new data centre builds at AWS for years to come, sustaining the business model.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#40J20)
Membership of WD's OpenFlex club has its perks Western Digital has invested in all-flash array supplier Kaminario, which supports WD's composable systems technology.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40HX0)
That 60,000 patents in your pocket or are you just pleased to see us? Who would have thought it? Not content with signing with LOT Network, Microsoft has taken the next step in patent cuddling and joined the Open Innovation Network.…
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Microsoft has signed up to the Open Invention Network. We repeat. Microsoft has signed up to the OIN
by Richard Speed on (#40JBV)
That 60,000 patents in your pocket or are you just pleased to see us? Who would have thought it? Not content with signing with LOT Network, Microsoft has taken the next step in patent cuddling and joined the Open Invention Network.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40HX2)
Hopes to lure new cloud-sniffers with location lockdown feature Google Cloud Next At the Google Cloud Next conference in London today the adtech company's enterprise tech arm declared that business clients would soon enjoy location restriction policies and other new tools of control freakery on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).…
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by Richard Speed on (#40HX4)
Microsoft tweaks firmware for kiosks and users that love the power cord In news that will make Surface Pro 3 owners twitch involuntarily, Microsoft is fiddling with Surface battery settings yet again.…
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by John Leyden on (#40HRX)
Comparing Middle Kingdom's hacker forums to Russia's? Apples and pears Underground hacker forums in China and Russia are as different as each country's regular shopping bazaars, according to research from Recorded Future.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40HMJ)
RIP Verify. Finally It's official: the UK state's expensive-but-comatose digital identity system Verify has been taken off life support.…
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by Team Register on (#40HMM)
Choosing your platform is just the first step If you're considering moving to a serverless architecture you might think the first step is easy, but the real challenges come with ensuring enterprise-grade discipline once you move into production.…
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by Team Register on (#40J22)
Choosing your platform is just the first step Event If you're considering moving to a serverless architecture you might think the first step is easy, but the real challenges come with ensuring enterprise-grade discipline once you move into production.…
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by John Leyden on (#40HFP)
UK information commish is investigating Employee benefits firm Sodexo has suffered a data breach exposing personal info believed to include names, email addresses and home addresses after its UK Engage unit’s internal IT systems were hit by malware.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40HFR)
If it's not one DRAM thing, it's another As Intel battles to get on top of CPU shortages that have plagued its business in recent times, the world's largest computer makers are hunkering down for six months of tight supply.…
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by Richard Currie on (#40HBM)
And Brussels sprout... Give it a chai, says Sainsbury's It's common knowledge that the British are a nation of tea drinkers but – yikes – Sainsbury's launch of pigs in blankets and Brussels sprout-flavoured teas ahead of the Christmas mania are a little beyond the pale brown water.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40H8W)
Two Redmond wranglers sitting in a tree... Switzerland-based flinger of Microsoft licences SoftwareONE has announced plans to snap up IT services provider Comparex in a deal that will create a licensing giant.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40H5Q)
Sysdig's container runtime security project gets solid foundation Falco, Sysdig's open source project for monitoring container runtimes, is slated to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation on Wednesday, becoming the first runtime security tool to be added to the Cloud Native Sandbox project, a home for early stage projects.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40H35)
Internet Engineering Task Force doc examines how to better protect authentication tokens Google and Microsoft engineers have pooled their efforts to propose a protection against what are known as "replay attacks".…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40H37)
IT shifts from a back office to core of operations, says survey Half of senior IT bods across Europe agree that their departments are struggling to cope with new tech while keeping core gear running, according a recent survey.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40GY1)
Sick burn, bro: attacker only managed to torch a window-sill Russian media is reporting that someone has tried to torch the notorious St Petersberg “troll factory,†linked with trolling Western social media sites, sparking a police investigation.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40GW1)
Let's try that one again, says Redmond, after last week's operating system build misread timestamps The world now knows why last week's Microsoft Windows 10 upgrade deleted unlucky users' files: the software treated the default user directory as ripe for destruction, because it thought the files were elsewhere. The upgrade has since been pulled.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#40GSW)
Signs up NetApp as a reseller Commvault started its GO user conference in Nashville, TN, by telling attendees it had signed up NetApp as a reseller, made its main backup and recovery product available as a service, introduced bigger and smaller backup appliances, and said it has a complete new system management product coming, with AI helping it continuously improve.…
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by David Gordon on (#40GKY)
And how might this be done? Backgrounder Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is a popular way to deal with complex server, SAN storage, and virtualization requirements with integrated, scale-out nodes that converge server compute, storage, and hypervisor technology in all-in-one clusterable elements.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40GHW)
GAO report finds more holes than a Swiss cheese, and very little hope for improvement If you were worried about the state of US military security systems you might not want to read the latest audit. with such frequency, there was no reason to suspect an attack.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40GFK)
Xiongmai's cloud portal opens sneaky backdoor into servers Yet another IoT device vendor has been found to be exposing their products to attackers with basic security lapses.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40GFN)
Remember the days when you didn't have to charge your phone several times a day? AI can help developers design mobile phone apps that drain less battery, according to new research.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40GNK)
Remember the days when you didn't have to charge your phone several times a day? Artificial intelligence can help developers design mobile phone apps that drain less battery, according to new research.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40GCK)
Memory corruption flaw present in Android, iOS builds. Aaand it's been fixed WhatsApp has patched a vulnerability it its smartphone code that could have been exploited by miscreants to crash victims' chat app simply by placing a call.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40GCM)
Code automation biz waves its big data yardstick DevOps biz Puppet held a stage show in San Francisco on Tuesday, because that's how IT vendors get attention these days. It's a rite of passage for Silicon Valley companies of a certain size.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40G98)
Redmond goes retro in latest Patch Tuesday bundle Microsoft has released the October edition of its monthly security update, addressing a total of 49 CVE-listed bugs.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#40G4J)
New Hub device continues to pull AI, Nest, YouTube closer together Analysis Google has joined the battle to create a single-supplier smart-home with the release of a new product called the Home Hub.…
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by John Leyden on (#40G4M)
Customer ratings plugin treated to a malicious rewrite to swipe entered banking info The payment-card-skimming malware operation dubbed Magecart has turned up again, this time in Shopper Approved, a customer rating plugin for websites.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#40G1A)
Bloomberg puts out related story while security experts cast doubt on research and quotes The veracity of a bombshell yarn claiming Chinese agents managed to sneak spy chips into Super Micro servers used by Amazon, Apple and the US government is still being fiercely argued over five days after publication.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40FWX)
Pricey kit from the Google Pixel hardware team The day after it confessed to exposing the personal data of millions of Google+ accounts, Google formally unveiled the the most-exposed phone of all time.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40G1B)
Plus a Home Hub unit for the really die-hard fans who trust Google over Amazon The day after Google confessed to almost exposing the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google+ accounts to app developers, the ad giant unveiled perhaps the most-leaked phone in recent memory.…
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by John Leyden on (#40FJG)
Bloody SSL...it's the final countdown Hundreds of high-profile websites are still unprepared for the total disavowal of legacy Symantec-issued digital certificates that will kick in with the release of Chrome 70 next week.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40F6E)
Want to know if all that cash you spent on consultants is paying off? DevOps heavyweight Puppet took the opportunity afforded by its Puppetize Live shindig to fling out a new product to measure DevOps performance.…
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