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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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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40F1M)
We'll just take our time here Google will appeal the €4.34bn fine imposed in July by the European Commission, according to a report.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40EWJ)
Appeal beaks ponder first-of-a-kind data protection case Lawyers for supermarket chain Morrisons today urged the UK Court of Appeal to overturn an earlier judgment that made the company partly liable for a criminal data breach that saw 100,000 people’s payroll details published via Tor.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40ES4)
What a time to be alive From the department of "just because you can doesn't mean you should" comes news that Indiegogo has put the kibosh on an attempt to crowdsource a portable pervscanner.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40ENP)
Feeling lucky? Readers cry out for more diversity in the phone world, but few alternatives are as striking as Punkt's take on Android.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40EJP)
Weekend failure could reduce 'scope's scope Space-watchers have been nervously watching that bit of space occupied by the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA tries to diagnose a problem with its gyroscopes.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40EGM)
Microsoft's social-media-for-suits platform snaps up employee engagement startup Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has announced it is acquiring Glint, a Human Resources outfit, which produces software to tell employers why workers keep leaving.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40DYH)
Also: Internet Australia blasts crypto-busting bill Australia's communications minister Mitch Fifield has hinted at further regulation of the internet, in a speech delivered last night to the Sydney Institute.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40DYK)
'Compliance' is a corporate value isn't it? Google has withdrawn from bidding on a multi-billion US military cloud contract, citing corporate values. And a lack of certification.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40DT4)
Project Zero would have been all over this – yet it remained under wraps Google has surprised Google+ users – all two of them – by vowing to shutter the service over the next ten months in the wake of a potential data leak.…
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by John E Dunn on (#40DK5)
Is there a difference and does it matter? Comment In a little more than 20 years, what quaintly used to be called "network security" has gone from simple firewalling and VLANs to talk of analytics driven by self-learning machine intelligence and AI. How should we make sense of such a dramatic jump?…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40CXR)
Trust us, pleads the Zuck It's always listening to you and comes from a division of Facebook run by the former head of US military madtech arm DARPA*, so what could possibly be creepy about Facebook's new hardware experiment, Portal?…
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by Jude Karabus on (#40CSA)
'Google You Owe Us' hopes to appeal in cookie-muncher case The UK High Court has blocked an attempt by British consumer rights advocates to fling a multibillion-pound class-action sueball at Google over iPhone handset tracking allegations. The full judgment (PDF) was handed down in London today.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40CSC)
Musk's mighty missile no match for the plucky probe that could SpaceX were cock-a-hoop this morning as the company landed its first booster at California's Vandenburg Air Force Base. NASA merely coughed politely and pointed toward its Voyager 2 probe, which looks to be about to enter interstellar space.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40CM4)
Operator fined £120k by UK data watchdog Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) has been fined £120,000 by the UK's data watchdog for the loss of an unencrypted USB memory stick reportedly containing airport security data.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#40CM6)
Don't mind us, just having a Linux moment Private equity-owned SUSE has released v5.5 of its software-defined, Ceph-powered Enterprise Storage (SES) platform.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40CFQ)
While Insiders look to a golden 19H1 future Roundup The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is heading thingwards, Windows RS5 is dead (long live 19H1), and trolls are banished (kinda) in this week's Microsoft roundup.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40CBJ)
A stellar improvement all round – except for Siri Review What could be more Silicon Valley than inventing a technology to alleviate the inconvenience caused by another you invented? But that's one of the biggest appeals of the Apple Watch.…
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by John Leyden on (#40C8S)
Security experts confounded by consumer org's assessment Which? Magazine has been called out for recommending a line of smart home cameras with known vulnerabilities.…
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by Team Register on (#40C8V)
We say yes, and in 7 days we’ll show you how Events If you want to exploit machine learning and AI, the range of technologies and techniques available can appear dizzying.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40C6M)
Day four exceeds all expectations as Microsoft steps back from brink Microsoft has taken the unprecedented step of pulling a Windows 10 release a mere four days after its arrival amid a clamour of users complaining about files not being where they had left them.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#40C21)
This is my server. That's your server. No, wait, that's your server... Who, Me? After a hopefully relaxing weekend, we at El Reg want to kick off your week the right way – with a full-scale facepalm.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40BZQ)
Security is a process or at least an aspiration Intel claims that "protecting our customers’ data and ensuring the security of our products is a top priority" for the semiconductor giant – however, security researcher Stefan Kanthak argues otherwise.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40BZS)
What Monday morning isn't complete without some, er, AI code to play with Roundup How about we kickstart the week with artificial intelligence goodies?…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40BXE)
Officials: Not saying Bloomberg was wrong, we just believe biz saying Bloomberg was wrong UK spymasters and US Homeland Security officials have supported Western tech companies' denials that Chinese agents were able to smuggle hidden surveillance chips into Super Micro servers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40AFD)
It's your week in the world of networks Oh no, Congress wants to lead Wi-Fi policy, and to that end representatives Republican Bob Latta and Democrat Jerry McNerney have created the Congressional Wi-Fi Caucus*.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#408X0)
Including: US Marines are looking for a few good bugs roundup This week we all worried about bugged servers, North Korean APTs, and GRU hacking groups.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#408AM)
He was a saint Seven years ago on this day, Steve Jobs, the cofounder of Apple and a man held up as one of the most remarkable innovators of modern times, died at his home in Silicon Valley, aged 56.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40888)
The first detection shows beams powered to over 25 trillion electron volts The first microquasar us Earthlings have detected has left astrophysicists puzzled.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40850)
Privacy blunder blows cover on 300+ suspected Kremlin agents It has been a busy week for Russian military intelligence – and it's about to get busier. A database search of car registrations appears to have outed more than 300 GRU agents.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#407XH)
This one's not going to get abused, not at all The US federal government has just authorized its staff to shoot down any drone they consider a threat.…
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by Richard Speed on (#407S7)
Skip that Friday beer: the academic research tool is now open to one and all The sharing of Microsoft’s toys continued today with the open-sourcing of its model-based machine-learning framework, Infer.NET.…
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by Richard Speed on (#407BD)
Users report disappearing docs. What will day four bring? Updated Folk keen as mustard to get their hands on the Windows 10 October 2018 Update have reported files being mysteriously deleted by the upgrade.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#407BF)
Only a third of its revenues at most come from 'growth areas' IBM’s profits are in a “likely irreversible structural declineâ€, according to a house of analysts that isn't convinced the company is in a position to grow anytime soon.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4076Z)
ARM64 and iOS 12 for devs, slow shuffle for venerable framework A third preview of Visual Studio 2017 15.9 made an appearance last night, along with teasers for what Microsoft has planned for its .NET Framework and Core products.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40771)
No integrated 5G just yet Qualcomm's revamp of its mobile system on a chip Snapdragon is more than just a rebrand, according to a reliable German source.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40811)
No integrated 5G just yet Qualcomm's revamp of its mobile system on a chip Snapdragon is more than just a rebrand, according to a reliable German source.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40729)
It's easy to be serene from a throne of cash Today's captains of the tech set are just too arrogant, according to multimillionaire and Cisco-exec-turned-venture-capitalist John Chambers.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4072B)
Public Accounts Committee 'concerned' businesses haven't been told how to prepare British MPs have chastised HMRC over further slippage in the tax collector's efforts to replace the UK's customs IT systems ahead of Brexit, and its lethargic attitude to preparing traders for a no-deal scenario.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#406YQ)
Lenovo slides by a fifth, ZTE sinks too on back of server allegations The ripple effect of explosive claims that Chinese government agents slipped snooper chips into Super Micro servers used by Apple and Amazon today dented the share price of the Middle Kingdom's tech titans.…
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