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by Kieren McCarthy on (#456ZC)
Money in form of loans and grants – but will it work or be wasted? Analysis The US government has added another $600m to the pot of money that is supposed to expand broadband internet access to rural areas of America. But it remains far from clear how effective the program will be.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#456RA)
Kiwibot snack shuttle snuffed by thermal runaway A Kiwibot delivery robot unexpectedly self-immolated last week at the University of California, Berkeley, due a defective battery, the company said over the weekend, attributing the incident to human error.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#456RC)
Fresh Senate dossiers detail influence campaign, flag tech titans' obstructionism Instagram may have been the most effective social media network for Russian spies in their effort to sway America's 2016 presidential election toward Donald Trump.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#456KJ)
Third of market to evaporate by 2021. Only nearline, spycam drives to swell In brief Number-crunchers at IDC and Wells Fargo are predicting that global disk drive sales will crash from 424.7 million units in 2016 to an estimated 284.7 million in 2021. Ouch.…
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by Richard Speed on (#45679)
A preview of next year's .NET Framework also emitted The hardworking elves toiling in the corridors of Redmond loaded up Santa's sled with two more developer treats in the form of Python updates for Visual Studio Code and a fresh preview of the venerable .NET Framework.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4562C)
One-time Intel boffin Obit Friends of Timothy May have confirmed that the former Intel engineer and co-founder of the Cypherpunks mailing list died of natural causes at his home in California on Friday. He was 67. Bitcoin and blockchain, WikiLeaks, P2P software and information markets all owe a debt to the list.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#455XY)
Crouching monkey, hidden leader of the free world A pair of boffins are in hot water after the image of president Donald Trump made an unexpected cameo in a paper on how to gather animal DNA from their poop at scale.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#455Y0)
But US firm must get specific on which trade secrets it claims were nicked – judge SAP has failed to have a copyright infringement and antitrust lawsuit lodged against it by Teradata thrown out.…
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by Richard Speed on (#455S8)
UK space specialist's holding company ups sticks for €11.2m Chippenham-based space systems specialist SCISYS has announced that it will trouser €11.2m as part of a contract to keep the Galileo project running.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#455N7)
Great. Big Brother Watch claims tech had 100% fail rate since May London cops have been slammed for using unmarked vans to test controversial and inaccurate automated facial recognition technology on Christmas shoppers.…
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by Richard Currie on (#455HW)
Office nerd saves day with Dungeons & Dragons die When two candidates running for director of Byron-Bethany Irrigation District in California found themselves locked in a bizarre tie earlier this month, the authority sought to resolve the stalemate in a swift and decisive manner – by reaching for a D20.…
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by Richard Speed on (#455F6)
Yuletide cheer for Wing Commander Andy Green and the team In news that will bring festive cheer to fans of plucky Brit engineering efforts, the Bloodhound 1,000mph car project has been lobbed a lifeline by Yorkshire-based entrepreneur Ian Warhurst.…
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It's not just about quality Research results Whether it's systems-level platforms and tools or full-blown business applications, you want the software your organisation depends on to run reliably and predictably. Our recent Reg survey, however, confirmed what most probably knew from experience, or could guess from press headlines – that software-related failures are far from uncommon.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#455AE)
'Please stop... you're doing something to the radios' Who, me? Welcome all, to the merry world of Who, Me?, our weekly trip down memory lane for techies who want to get something off their chest.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#452A3)
Plus: Listen to some new classical piano generated by an algorithm Roundup welcome to the last AI round up of the year; thank you for reading.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4525Y)
Plus, Talos critical of flawed message apps It was pretty hectic security week, between the Sharpshooter malware attack, a massive Patch Tuesday, and yet another Facebook privacy fail.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#451MZ)
Complaint argues false pixels, notch, and measurements don't fit with ad claims Two iPhone owners sued Apple on Friday claiming that company misrepresents the screen resolution and screen size of its recent model iPhones.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#451N1)
Scare tactic efforts may be the work of a single group Yesterday's 'bomb scare' spam campaign may have been a follow-up to another infamous email extortion effort.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#451J2)
Says it will give people $100,000 to ditch their smartphone. It won't It's your lucky day: sugary soft drink maker Vitamin Water has said it will give you $100,000 if you are able to give up your smartphone for a year.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#451J4)
Utter asshats pull seven-figure heist on Save the Children Foundation A group of criminal asswipes have managed to steal $1m from the Save the Children Foundation.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#451B0)
Computers are getting better at generating pictures of humans. This will go down well. AI systems can now create images of humans that are so lifelike they look like photographs, except the people in them don’t really exist.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#451B2)
Don't be daft, of course they haven't, we're still in Crazytown USA Analysis One year ago today, the FCC passed a controversial measure that undermined its own rules, passed just two years earlier, over net neutrality.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#45178)
Data gathering biz still having trouble keeping data secure Facebook on Friday apologized for a bug that may have exposed exposed private photos to third-party apps for the 12 day period from September 13 to September 25, 2018.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4513B)
Long-standing cloud enemies to do battle in the courts AWS has intervened in Oracle's lawsuit against the Pentagon's plans to award a $10bn cloud contract to a single vendor.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#450YT)
But built-in email and mobile clients still works in progress Only months after reaching the 2.0 milestone, the independent Chromium-based browser Vivaldi has added a bunch of useful features.…
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by Richard Speed on (#450SP)
Looking for work? Spammers could well be looking for you Tinder for job-seekers ZipRecruiter has copped to a data breach after the names and email addresses of job-seekers were flung to the wind in a permissions screw-up.…
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by Richard Speed on (#450N5)
Orphaned cross-platform code students, your new home is Microsoft Learn Cross-platform dev darling Xamarin is to shutter its online University in favour of Microsoft Learn as its absorption into the Windows giant continues.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#450GG)
IBM and Hitachi fail to surf crest of spending wave as rivals seize the day IDC's Q3 storage tracker numbers show a tier of the tech industry growing by almost a fifth versus the same period a year ago, though not all of the big players are keeping pace. Looking at you IBM and Hitachi.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#450C2)
All the better to sell you stuff Smart speakers will listen for your farts, yawns and sneezes and analyse it to sell you stuff, a British AI company hopes.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4507R)
No one knows if recruitment system will be usable once contract ends in 2022 The British Army has missed its recruitment targets by between 21 and 45 per cent each year since 2013 because of a botched project with Capita, according to a damning report released today.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#45044)
You know, they've paid for the phone a few times over now... UK regulator Ofcom wants ISPs and networks to tell customers when their contract is up and inform them of better deals. The consultation (PDF) was launched today alongside a review of broadband prices.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4500A)
The Windows Christmas Jumper Day Update is here! Those whacky guys on the Windows team have taken time out from slapping plasters all over Microsoft's flagship OS to slip a special Christmas gift under the tree of the faithful.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#44ZXN)
5G is like 3G, except this time they mean it Analysis 5G is a technical and economical miracle that you cannot help but admire. Soon our streets will be drenched in high-speed connectivity as all kinds of far-out radio boffinry get commercialised, productised, and deployed for something useful. Many billions of pounds of other people's money will be spent here. But the mobile networks are haunted by an awkward economic reality: for all the 5G razzle-dazzle, most punters just won't pay more for it.…
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by David Gordon on (#44ZTT)
It's time has come Promo Technical work on the first spec for Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) began in 2009 with a first version released two years later. A decade on, NVMEe’s time has come.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44ZTV)
But y'know, maybe we will terminate positions post-merger if there's a business case Cloudera founder Mike Olson has asked staffers to turn down recruiters' advances ahead of the firm's merger with Hortonworks – despite acknowledging there could be layoffs.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#44ZRR)
Surprise, surprise, the execs want someone SaaSy Mimecast headed up a crew of the usual suspects – which included Proofpoint and Microsoft – in the leaders' square of the latest Gartner magic quadrant that ranks enterprise information archivers.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44ZRT)
The user in this On Call would prefer we didn't tell... On Call How many sleeps 'till Christmas? We don't care, because here at El Reg, we count in On Calls, and we can tell you there are plenty to come, so fret not.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44ZM3)
Generate made-up currency in exchange for a different made-up currency Gamer hardware specialist Razer is asking customers to turn their graphics cards into cryptocurrency miners in exchange for rewards points.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44Z7N)
Cab hailing app accuses rival of predatory prices and fake bookings An early entrant to the cab-hailing app market, Sidecar, has sued Uber claiming the cab giant used predatory pricing and fake bookings to put its rival out of business.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#44Z7Q)
Extortion scheme gets national attention but not much in the way of funds Police departments around the US say they've been apprised of emailed bomb threats seeking payment in cryptocurrency or else explosions will ensue.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#44Z4T)
*Okay so it will be here for another billion years or so but it's shrinking faster than normal Somewhere in the Cancer constellation lies a mini-Neptune sized planet that is disappearing at rate faster than ever seen before, according to research published in Astronomy & Astrophysics on Thursday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44Z4W)
Congresscritters now have one less excuse for getting pwned The US Federal Election Commission has officially voted to allow members of Congress to use their campaign funds on cybersecurity protection.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#44YXJ)
Wheeled robo-containers called Serve headed first to LA Delivery biz Postmates on Tuesday showed off a wheeled robotic box named Serve that should soon start showing up in cities around the US, carrying goods for customers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44YSG)
Ingenious device, or fake bomb from 1980s cop movie? Police in London have put away a fraudster who was using a bizarre homemade device to con people out of the contents of their bank accounts.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44YSJ)
Well, in one respect anyway Microsoft may have taken the decision to ditch the Edge's browser engine for Google's Chromium too soon.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44YBV)
Cupertino pats own back for forking over dollars in home country Apple has said it will spend $10bn on data centres in the US over the next five years, and will set up a new $1bn campus in Texas.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44Y65)
SpaceShipTwo goes faster and higher than ever before Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo took its first trip into space today as the company launched the reusable rocket-powered craft on its fourth test flight above the Mojave desert in southern California.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#44Y67)
Orange, DT's plan to take on firms that create 'competitive asymmetries' Comment Nothing sums up Europe's tech dilemma like the deep and meaningful partnership two of its biggest telcos touted this week. The CEOs of Orange (Stéphane Richard) and Deutsche Telekom (Timotheus Höttges) see more than €120bn a year flow through their combined cash tills. The two were on stage at Orange's innovation showcase in Paris to team up on AI, and they had a mission.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44Y1M)
Generic privacy policies won't get you valid consent, says ICO A London firm that sent 14.8 million spam SMSes without consent has been fined £200,000 by the UK’s data protection watchdog.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#44XW5)
Don't worry, there are cheques, too DevOps outfit GitLab has opened its bug bounty scheme to world+dog, having paid out $200,000 last year and fixed "nearly 200 vulnerabilities reported to us".…
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