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by Shaun Nichols on (#4965D)
Execs, experts hope this cooperation continues to hold for the next big bug A panel of eggheads from Intel, the US government, and academia held court this week to figure how they can keep the likes of El Reg from spoiling their next major bug reveal.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4965F)
Ex-Googler reveals study and, yes, we're lookin' at you, WordAds If the web seems slow, blame third-party advertising and analytics scripts.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4962D)
There's only been one so far, so 49 more to go Cosmologists need gravitational wave measurements from 50 binary neutron star mergers to work out just how fast our universe is really expanding, according to new research.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#495ZY)
They're dropping like flies: First Opportunity, now NASA's Van Allen craft NASA’s twin probes studying Earth’s radiation belts are in the last stages of their mission – and will end their lives by nosediving into our planet’s atmosphere, the US space agency announced Thursday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#495T2)
Antisocial network may shell out billions to end watchdog's privacy probe, it is reported Facebook is reportedly close to breaking out its checkbook to settle the FTC's legal rumblings over the antisocial network's unique approach to netizens' privacy.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#495Q4)
Why fight an oligopoly when you can subsidize it? The White House and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have both announced big plans to expand broadband internet access across the United States.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#495KT)
CorrectHorseBatteryStaple once again more secure and memorable than ff3sd21n HashCat, an open source password recovery tool, can now crack an eight-character Windows NTLM password hash in less time than it will take to watch Avengers: Endgame.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#495G1)
Online retailer just wants to be loved. And by loved, it means given lots of subsidies no questions asked Amazon has ditched its plans to open a headquarters in New York City after growing opposition to its plans by local officials and unions.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#495G3)
Enterprise punters shut wallets amid 'deteriorating outlooks' and trade tariff blitz The old saying goes that when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. According to NetApp boss George Kurian, some large businesses are already reaching for the tissues.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#495BC)
UK watchdog denies project distracted from day-to-day enforcement The millions spent on investigating the Facebook data harvesting scandal was worth it because it allowed the Information Commissioner's Office to secure greater powers, Elizabeth Denham has said.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#495BE)
When in America, STFU and get a lawyer. Even if you're innocent Marcus Hutchins, the Brit white-hat hacker who halted 2017's WannaCry ransomware outbreak, has failed to stop the American legal system using statements he made while recovering from the effects of holidaying in Las Vegas.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4953B)
Microsoft prez Brad Smith talks AI and ethics with the Pope The head of an organisation noted for being a bit unpleasant over the years, and is now trying to rehabilitate its image for a new generation, met the Pope this week.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#494XZ)
'Not safe on database server!' it screamed back as its makers fear it could be abused for dodgy purposes Analysis Most neural networks are like people with savant syndrome: they have extraordinary capabilities in a very narrow range of tasks.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#494RM)
Commission fumes at 'fake' campaign The EU has finally settled on the wording of its Digital Single Market copyright reform package, a three-years-in-the-making effort, greeting the agreement with a sizzling rebuke of the "misinformation campaigns" around the measures.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#494RP)
Comms giant bared all to Brit security services, says chief Eric Xu, one of three rotating chairmen at Huawei, has said the company is "naked" before the British security services with whom it shares its most intimate secrets: its source code.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#494KM)
No new superjumbos after that date, confirms CEO Airbus has declared it will shut down the A380 superjumbo production line in 2021, after demand from airlines for the double-decker aircraft all but collapsed.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#494F6)
Sales of Jesus mobe slump by double digits in Middle Kingdom Apple's iPhone sales volumes in the strategic Chinese market slumped by double digits in Q4 – the firm's seasonally biggest quarter – as buyers opted for homegrown hardware makers' handsets.…
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Opportunity's mission is over, but InSight almost ready for a driller thriller below Martian surface
by Richard Speed on (#494F8)
Self-hammering spike to see what weather's like 5m down Unfazed by the outpouring of grief over NASA's admission that its teenaged Opportunity rover had likely trundled its last, the agency's lander, InSight, managed to position its second instrument on the surface of the Red Planet.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4949E)
Neon-style tech pumps Helium balloon in future gadgets Processor designer Arm will, we're told, today pull the wraps off its Armv8.1-M architecture for crafting next-gen 32-bit microcontrollers.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4949G)
Roses are reddish, don't cry into your beer... but Hoonigan.com is better than Top Gear A 20-year-old American man who allegedly used the Twitter handle @WantedByFeds has been charged with DDoSing, sending bomb threats and more along with a British teenager who is already in prison.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4944S)
Bank CIO Chaos explains Santander is locked, loaded and ready to fire the cash gun at IBM in an effort to speed the bank's jaunt towards the cloud.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4944V)
A dubious slider and a bargain midranger. Forgotten the chocolates? We'll warn you now: Danger! BBK Electronics brings its Oppo phones to Blighty today, meaning all three Chinese phone giants are now officially competing for Brits' affections.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4941G)
Big Red is red, underpaid staffers are blue. No angry counter-claims can stop that being true The Department of Labor has hit back at Oracle's "inflammatory" accusations that it set up a "secret" pact with plaintiffs in a civil case, saying the company is trying to deflect from serious issues of bias.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4941J)
Cheap Google mobes this year, at least according to Nikkei Long-rumoured cheaper Google phones will make their debut this year, according to Nikkei, which claims to have an idea of how much (or how little) they'll cost.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#493Y8)
Roses are red, gave Violet pick 'n' mix. She didn't like the milk bottles. Now back to ethics The UK's advisory body for biometrics and forensics ethics has had another chunk of oversight added to its already laden basket – instructing the Home Office on ethical issues in large, complex data sets.…
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by Team Register on (#493Y9)
CLL 19 early bird tickets disappear in two weeks If you want to accelerate your software development and deployment operation, and stay within budget, get your skates on to grab a handful of tickets for Continuous Lifecycle London before our early bird offer expires in two weeks.…
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by Richard Currie on (#493V6)
Urgh, you're infuriating! Three years ago, internet memelords united under the clarion call "Dicks out for Harambe". The 17-year-old gorilla was shot and killed on 29 May 2016 after snatching a toddler at Cincinnati Zoo.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#493V7)
Anti-antivirus root-rooting weirdness just gets deeper Taiwanese NAS maker QNAP has admitted its devices are affected by mysterious malware that alters hosts files on infected boxen following The Register's report.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#493S0)
Battery could be improved, we charge Long Term Test Clearing out the attic recently, I was astonished to discover an ancient bit of PC kit that had failed to be recycled with family, friends, eBay, the vicar, or a random homeless person. This was a rarity: a laptop with a desktop class Intel chip: the Thinkpad A31, from Big Blue itself, around 2002.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#493Q4)
Get an update, or risk giving a dodgy user or malware an upgrade Canonical has issued an update for Ubuntu to address a security vulnerability that can be exploited by malware and rogue users to gain root access.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#493D9)
Switchzilla shakes off economic worries, turns tidy profit Little news is good news for networking giant Cisco.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#493B2)
Prosecutors accuse Monica Witt of helping Tehran target her former colleagues US prosecutors on Wednesday announced the indictment of a former US counterintelligence agent on charges of helping Iran conduct cyberattacks on her former colleagues.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4935G)
Amazing what you can achieve on unforgiving dust world over 15 years with a 20MHz RISC CPU and a bunch of probes NASA’s beloved Mars rover, Opportunity, has been officially laid to rest more than seven months after it was engulfed by a gigantic dust storm and fell silent.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4931R)
Federal court shoots down attempt to reveal Feds' decryption demands A US federal judge has refused to unseal court paperwork that would show how the FBI tried to force Facebook to snoop on calls made through its instant-messaging app.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#492Y3)
Board of directors sued for 'failing to protect investors' Two Oracle shareholders on Tuesday sued the database giant and its board of directors for allegedly misleading investors about the potential of its cloud business.…
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by Richard Speed on (#492ST)
Redmond opens up the .NET Core 3.0 big box of preview toys Microsoft emitted an Azure Pipelines app for Slack today while also reminding devs of the tweaks made to breakpoints in the upcoming combo of Visual Studio 2019 and .NET Core 3.0.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#492SV)
We won't just suddenly break our evidence rules for HP, says Blighty's High Court A British judge has rejected the FBI's request for legal documents submitted to London's High Court by Autonomy founder Mike Lynch's lawyers just weeks before his civil lawsuit is heard in Britain.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#492GK)
US financial watchdog, prosecutors overdose on irony The top boss of Apple's insider trading compliance program has been accused of insider trading by the feds.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#492BG)
Hapless bank goes into lockdown mode, vanishes from the internet Malta's Bank of Valetta (BOV) has pulled the plug on its entire internet access, including shutting down cashpoints and branch offices, after detecting a "cyber intrusion" by crims that tried to steal nearly €13m.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4926H)
Low-power ultra-narrowband network for your street, ma'am? Who at one time hasn't wanted to install a low-power ultra-narrowband radio network in embedded objects all over the neighbourhood? Perhaps you wanted to keep an eye on the local badgers? Well, badgers look out: it's now become easier to do so.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4920T)
We can't see the Arm in having a little tinker Enthusiasts with time and hardware on their hands have a few extra options for the weekend. One committed group of Linux fans has got Ubuntu working on a Windows Arm laptop, while Pi fans have made it easier to bring full Windows 10 to the diminutive computer.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4920W)
Heal thyself Fancy that. Days after Apple suspended Facebook and Google for abusing Apple's enterprise developer privileges, Apple has been found to be permitting dozens of dubious apps to misuse its enterprise certificates.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#491VS)
Trusts to choose between secure email providers (not just Accenture's NHSmail) The NHS, in England at least, will email patients directly rather than rely on snail mail, and organisations will be free to look beyond Accenture's NHSmail to send e-missives, under proposals from health secretary Matt Hancock.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#491QG)
It's about fighting fires, not starting them, right defence bods? The British military has commissioned a hackathon to develop drone swarms – while claiming that it's definitely not about developing dual-use military tech.…
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by Richard Speed on (#491KJ)
iFixit pays tribute to 'beacon of light' for the fixers of the world Obit John Haynes, creator of the Haynes Manual and at least partly responsible for the skinned knuckles of enthusiastic amateur car repairers around the world, has tightened his last bolt and headed off to the great workshop in the sky aged 80.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#491KM)
US states mull 'work verification' laws, shaped by work verification biz Special report Anyone working on a substantial contract with the US state of New Jersey could soon be required to install software that captures the screen and tracks keystrokes – to verify all hours billed are legit.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#491FZ)
Oh snap. UK netizens better hope they don't have twitchy mouse-click finger It will be an offence to view terrorist material online just once – and could incur a prison sentence of up to 15 years – under new UK laws.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#491G1)
Hole puncher, hole puncher... where's headphone jack? Leave out the notch, add hole for snap flash... With Huawei breathing down its neck, Samsung had planned to unveil its flagship just ahead of Mobile World Congress, the firm's usual stage for its launch.…
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by Richard Speed on (#491CR)
The theme tune is still like a sonic screwdriver to the eardrum It seems the Chinese authorities were wise to be concerned about the rise of Peppa Pig, as reports have surfaced of American poppets adopting the squeaky English accent of the petite cartoon porker.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49187)
Plain language questions, automated data prep promised in first release of 2019 Natural-language loving data visualisation firm Tableau has emitted its latest release, which includes a plain language question tool, developed after its 2017 slurpage of startup ClearGraph.…
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