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by Gareth Corfield on (#44RE0)
Yeah, we've patched that one, adds Cisco Texas Instruments has rather feebly slapped down infosec researchers' findings on a so-called Bleedingbit Bluetooth Low Energy vulnerability after a more detailed explanation of the chipset's weakness emerged.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#44RBH)
Principles AND work for Google – it's been known to happen AI is reported in extreme terms: it's revolutionising our roads, our workplaces and our homes – or it's stealing our jobs and will eradicate humanity. But what about operating in a war zone?…
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by Richard Speed on (#44R9T)
But will there be any 'nauts left on the ISS after AI bot CIMON has finished with them? A resumption of crewed flights from US soil has inched closer after NASA named a date for SpaceX's Demo-1. But the latest Delta IV Heavy remains firmly earthbound following the second and latest abort.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#44R4Z)
But how Earth ended up with all its water is still a mystery NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has discovered water on the asteroid Bennu less than a week after its arrival at the hunk of space rock.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44R2Q)
How things change Well, it's official. For years, at El Reg offices we have commented on how Facebook is the new Microsoft – and not in a good way.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44QTV)
Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee and other identify lots of problems, few solutions If ever there was doubt that 2018 is the year of fear, it was confirmed by a panel discussion involving the two men that are credited with inventing the internet and the world wide web.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44QRC)
52.5 million accounts at risk, tens of people are worried Google says it will be speeding up the dismantling of its Google+ social network following the discovery of a new security bug that affected 52.5 million users.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#44QNS)
Who cares? Let's whip out the BFG and blow up the boss On December 10, 1993, after a marathon 30-hour coding session, the developers at id Software uploaded the first finished copy of Doom for download, the game that was to redefine first-person shooter (FPS) genre. Hours later IT admins wanted id's guts for garters.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#44QNV)
Chang'e-4 is in the pipe; 5 by 5 China has successfully launched a spacecraft aiming to become the first lander to touch down on the far side of the Moon.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44QFP)
Malware hides cheap Android clicks as high-end Apple traffic An enterprising malware writer has been masquerading infected Android devices as Apple gear in order to make a few extra bucks.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44QBZ)
If Artem Moskowsky owes you money, its a good time to ask A recently-patched set of flaws in Samsung's mobile site was leaving users open to account theft.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44Q7P)
The veteran probe that keeps going has now gone where only Voyager 1 has gone before NASA’s Voyager 2 probe has followed its sibling, Voyager 1, into interstellar space, according to the team managing the veteran spacecraft.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#44Q3E)
EU Aviation Network wrangle set to continue US satcom provider Viasat has declared it will appeal a British tribunal ruling that rival European operator Inmarsat had not breached its licence by becoming part of an EU-wide satellite broadband network.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44PZ2)
End-of-year reports show impairment costs running into millions Local health boards in New Zealand have been forced to write down losses running into the millions of Kiwi dollars as a result of a troubled Oracle implementation.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#44PTN)
As KubeCon + CloudNativeCon draws nigh, vendors can't contain themselves A number of open source types are heading toward Seattle, Washington, on Monday, if they're not already installed there, to attend the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's (CNCF) KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 confab.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44PNZ)
Online marketplace coughs up $100k for selling force-fed birds' livers despite ban Amazon will not sell pate made from the livers of force-fed ducks and geese in California, and has agreed to pay $100,000 in penalties after a civil suit was brought against its brown box delivery biz.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44PH9)
All the better to lock customers into its fluffy white services So desperate keen is SAP to lure more developers to write apps using its cloud tools that it is promising them a year's worth of platform access for free.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#44PCF)
Sweet Jesus! It includes Brussels sprouts Nothing says festive fun like a Chrimbo dinner encased in lovely crispy batter, and as luck would have it, a chippy north of the border is serving up such a wonder to its clientele.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44PCH)
Yeah, how about you work for us... Digital minister Margot James reckons Brits need to "get over" their concerns about privacy and cyber security and let the government assign them with ID cards.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44P8J)
Trusts to be subjected to quarterly searches for contraband machines NHS trusts have just 20 days to buy in fax machines – because from January 2019 they will be banned from purchasing the outdated devices.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44P64)
Gaps continue to close in MS's messaging platform as fanbois dream of new devices Roundup In a week that saw developer goodness aplenty in Connect(); and Microsoft face a Chromium future, there were some other adventures in Redmond you may have missed.…
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by Chris Williams on (#44P66)
With permission, of course: Guizhou joint-venture touts Centriq-like 48-core Arm server CPU Analysis Qualcomm is laying off 269 folk in America as it gradually wakes up from its dream of filling data centers worldwide with its own Arm-based server processors.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#44P38)
We don't want to be an IaaS about it, but... BT’s Cloud of Clouds (CoC) field of vision is about to narrow. Its open-source cloud software platform, based on Apache CloudStack, will be "quietly withdrawn", The Reg can confirm.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#44NYX)
Reseller's owner axed staff without proper consultation before pulling down the shutters An employment tribunal has found that now defunct tech reseller Misco breached Collective Redundancy rules by failing to consult with staff when it laid them off in 2017 before entering administration.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44NW8)
Claims it was all for the greater good Who, Me? As we edge closer to Christmas, Mondays might be getting just slightly more bearable. To make that more so, we bring you another instalment of Who, Me?, The Register's tales of the mistakes our readers have brought upon themselves.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#44JZM)
Plus: European AI researchers to create a new lab Roundup Hello, welcome to this week's AI roundup.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44JPM)
Plus, US Congress wants more cybersec training, better breach laws Roundup This week, we saw Linux get pwned, a teen hacker go down, and Julian Assange vowing to stay right where he is.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#44JK3)
'Sun in a box' system promises power storage from molten silicon Energy boffins have proposed an alternative to lithium-ion batteries: Instead of costly electrochemical cells, which have been known to burst into flames, they have devised a "sun in a box" to store energy for power utilities.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#44J5F)
First proof-of-concept, SplitSpectre, requires fewer instructions in victim Analysis You've patched your Intel, AMD, Power, and Arm gear to crush those pesky data-leaking speculative execution processor bugs, right? Good, because IBM eggheads in Switzerland have teamed up with Northeastern University boffins in the US to cook up Spectre exploit code they've dubbed SplitSpectre.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44J5H)
It's the least they could do. Really. The bare minimum Hotel-chain turned data faucet Marriott says it will help some customers cover the cost of replacing stolen documents.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44J2T)
DNS overseer faces probe over decision to award TLD to dot-com giant Analysis An ugly struggle over the .Web top-level domain may soon spill into public view again, after one of the companies vying for control of the dot-word demanded an independent review of DNS overlord ICANN's handling of the saga.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44J2W)
DEA gets down and dirty with new surveillance kit Next time you're closing a big drug deal you may want to watch the cleaner. Or more specifically their vacuum cleaner.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#44HZQ)
Can't really blame him for turning down the 'probably won't be executed' pact Wikileaks alumnus Julian Assange has apparently turned down a proposed deal that would have seen him leave the Ecuadorian embassy he has been camped out in for over six years.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44HVZ)
Web admin blames public Whois and lack of 2FA The Linux.org domain was hijacked on Friday morning, with the hacker plastering the message "G3T 0WNED L1NUX N3RDZ" complete with expletives and a very NSFW image (a hairy asshole).…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#44HKK)
Networking nuggets from the week that was Networks roundup What if all you had to do to block SYN-based denial-of-service attacks was drop the first incoming SYN packet?…
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by Richard Speed on (#44HEY)
1,000mph dreams dashed as administrators throw in the towel Bloodhound, a British project to strap a rocket to a car and fling it at the horizon, is officially dead, as administrators finally pulled the plug on the venture.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#44HAS)
So much for the Apophis Squad's Twitter boasts A teenage bomb hoaxer from Watford who taunted the UK's National Crime Agency on Twitter while pretending to be a hacker crew called Apophis Squad has been jailed for three years.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#44H5Z)
Oscillating microwaves reduce coercivity, permit small area bit writing Toshiba, like Western Digital, is going to use Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) to escape the inability of current PMR tech to go beyond 15-16TB disk drive capacity.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#44H15)
Eyebrow-raising claim will be heard in full early next year Lawyers for a man who sued the Cambridge Analytica group for £20,000 claiming misuse of his personal data have suggested the controversial data-mining biz misled a High Court judge when the companies were put into administration.…
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by Richard Speed on (#44GX0)
Bring your own AWS. Or let us take care of everything. For a fee The team at Red Hat has continued its toiling in the Big Blue shadow of IBM, and has churned out some tweaks to its OpenShift Dedicated platform and also sliced a few prices for the Kubernetes service.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#44GR6)
Sidelined messaging app given end-of-life date of March 2019 It's decluttering time at Google again, and the Chocolate Factory has decided to chuck its Allo messaging client into the skip.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44GR8)
Privacy International lays out its case to El Reg The UK's highest court has this week heard arguments in Privacy International's long-running attempt to challenge decisions made by Britain's shadowy spying oversight court, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT).…
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by Richard Speed on (#44GMM)
A little over half of what IBM paid for Lotus. That's Big Blue business, folks! Indian software outfit HCL Technologies is snapping up $1.8bn worth of IBM's software in a deal expected to close by the middle of 2019.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#44GHM)
A second put aside for Doresa and Milena Clocks on a pair of Galileo satellites have given physicists the first refinement of gravitational redshift since 1976.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#44GER)
Don't want to be an enterprise id-IoT? Time to look at process Backgrounder Sitting on many enterprise networks is a constellation of equipment. A lot will be legacy network-connected industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) gear, together with some relatively new IIoT gear installed within the last few years as a move to what has been sweepingly called the "digitalisation" of business.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#44GET)
Incompetence is a kind of malware Comment It's a bit of a cliche that "everything's connected", but O2's stunning outage yesterday – chalked up by Swedish kitmaker Ericsson to an expired software certificate – is a reminder of how true that is.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#44GAG)
What's the control panel? Okay. And what's the start menu? Right. And what's this big button here? On Call To no one’s surprise, Friday has arrived again, and brings with it On Call, El Reg’s weekly foray into the best (and the worst) technical problems our readers have helped solve over the years.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#44GAH)
Court of Human Rights weighs in on libel hyperlink brouhaha The complex legal headache of linking to controversial material on the internet has been given additional, but qualified, protections by the European Court of Human Rights.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#44G8D)
'It’s clear that intelligent behavior doesn’t always require a brain' The inner designs of today's artificial intelligence are often inspired by the human brain, yet there other biological structures perhaps better suited to crafting next-gen machine-learning software and hardware.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#44G5V)
Really, you all, stop it! Hey, Amazon, what's going on back there? Enough! Cut that out! Microsoft's president has issued a clarion call for more government regulation in response to the rapid evolution of facial recognition technology.…
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