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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4EX1X)
It's the art of the deal, folks New tariffs imposed today by the US government on Chinese imports will hit the tech industry hard, with everything from semiconductors to networking equipment now taxed at 25 per cent.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4EWY4)
Debut skids off the road as people reluctantly admit they hoped everyone else's stupidity would help them cash out It couldn't have happened to a nastier company.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4EWY6)
GitHub Package Registry provides libraries and other bits and bytes for Java, JavaScript, Ruby, .NET and more GitHub today will introduce the GitHub Package Registry, a service to allow software developers to publish and manage public or private software packages for a variety of programming languages.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4EWTT)
This is your IT on steroids A reinforced IT rack able to accommodate up to 4,500lbs (more than 2 metric tonnes) of hardware – even in transit – has been built by contract manufacturer Sanmina.…
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by John Oates on (#4EWQ5)
Court filing warns: Welcome to the jungle Aged rockers Guns N' Roses are suing a Colorado brewery which has been flogging Guns N' Rosé beer.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4EWKB)
You know the drill: Patch and stop using C Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered an SQLite use-after-free() vulnerability that could allow an attacker to, in theory, remotely execute code on an affected device.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4EWF8)
CEO Bob Swan sees NAND as a ugly duckling, apparently Analysis Intel has SSDs in its data centre strategy but has not committed to technology investments - and analysts have said they suspect a supply partnership deal is in the offing.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4EWBD)
It's X-ray men: Rise of the machines – as units deploy AI for NHS GPU near-monopoly Nvidia will be working alongside King's College London to put machine learning algorithms to work on NHS datasets.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4EW5Y)
Troubled security house keeps up trend of sudden resignations Greg Clark, CEO and president of Symantec, has "stepped down" suddenly and with no permanent replacement lined up, just as his predecessor did.…
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by John Oates on (#4EW11)
Cue shares diving 16% for Santa Clara-based contact centre tech outfit Troubled call centre and telecoms provider Avaya has confirmed it is up for sale following a rollercoaster couple of years and a poor set of results for its latest quarter, Q2 '19.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4EVX2)
Awwigh daahlin', I FINK you'll find Contrary to popular belief, Brits really don't all sound like the Queen or Hollywood villains and according to Big 7 Travel, there are no less than 56 accents recognised within our tiny corner of the world (though there are likely a lot more). So what's the logical next step?…
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by John Oates on (#4EVX4)
More like Blue BALLS amirite? lolol I'm 11 At an event in Washington DC, Blue Origin boss Jeff Bezos yesterday showed world+dog the company's Moon lander – Blue Moon – and promised manned missions to the lunar surface by 2024.…
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by John Oates on (#4EVSA)
Might be back inside soon Chelsea Manning has been released from prison after 62 days for refusing to testify to an American grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4EVSC)
Plus: Barrister's questions 'abuse of process', rages opponent Autonomy Trial While he agreed that Autonomy’s ex-CFO was a "highly ethical person", Stouffer Egan couldn't quite bring himself to tell the High Court that Sushovan Hussain had never fiddled Autonomy's accounts.…
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by Team Register on (#4EVSD)
Doors open at Continuous Lifecycle London on Tuesday Events The doors open at Continuous Lifecycle London on Tuesday, and there's still time for you to join us, and 40 of the finest speakers in DevOps, containers, serverless and CI/CD.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4EVP2)
Unnamed security shops said to have lost source code A Russian hacking outfit says it has stolen confidential data from a trio of US antivirus companies.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4EVP3)
It's all about the enterprise, dummy The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 was one of the bigger surprises of Microsoft's developer love-in, Build. The Register had a chat with the team behind Pengwin to find out what the changes mean for devs on the platform.…
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by John Oates on (#4EVKD)
Red warning light for blue-light comms A National Audit Office report into the unending nightmare of Home Office attempts to buy a new critical communications network has warned the project is likely to be three years late and £3bn over-budget.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4EVH0)
Can someone have a look at that code again? Something for the Weekend, Sir? This week's [article|column] comes to you fresh from our latest in automated journalism, The RegAIster. We hope [you|they] enjoy [it|them].…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4EVH1)
Firm ever so sorry, takes security of info seriously, vows not to do it again etc Insurer Chubb scored a privacy own goal recently when a double-sided printing error on bulk mailers sent to customers about a policy document change contained a stranger's personal details on one side of the sheet.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4EVET)
Supermarket chain helps Amazon, er, live well for less through AWS AWS Summit London Perceived wisdom in the enterprise tech world is that the future of IT is in hybrid cloud – mixing on-premises infrastructure and public cloud resources – but AWS was still preaching the gospel of total and utter cloudification at its gabfest in London on Wednesday.…
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by David Gordon on (#4EVEW)
The challenges, the model, and how it can be done Sponsored webcast The jury is back, a consensus has been reached, and the results are in...…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4EVEX)
You mean you didn't read the 2,566 word privacy policy? Millions of images stored by Ever, a photo album app, are being used to sneakily train facial recognition systems and the only way you'll find out is if you read through the 2,566-word privacy policy.…
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by Team Register on (#4EVC5)
5-minute job? We've heard that old chestnut before On Call Have you got that Friday feeling? El Reg does, mainly because we're bringing you the latest instalment of On Call.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4EV9S)
Existing censorship-resistant S3 paths get a stay of execution Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it intends to change the way its S3 storage service can be referenced in API and web requests. But by doing so, the cloud giant would have eliminated a means of censorship avoidance.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ETWZ)
Fujie charged with killing them softly with his scripts. And by them, we mean, the health insurance giant's computers US prosecutors today formally accused two people of being part of a Chinese hacking crew responsible for one of the biggest cyber-heists in American history.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ETT1)
I feel the need, the need for a general adversarial network DARPA, the US military research arm, has launched a program to train fighter jets to engage in aerial battle autonomously with the help of AI algorithms.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ETPZ)
David Redl and Mike Platt quit NTIA. Trump Administration craziness to blame The head of the US government department that oversees the internet and telecommunications spectrum unexpectedly resigned on Thursday, along with his Congressional go-between.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ETJS)
Former salesperson sees termination as part of a deliberate effort to dump elders A former Oracle salesperson has sued the database giant in the US, claiming the company discriminated against him because of his age and a medical disability.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ETJV)
Soldier's pilfered docs provided basis for robo-aircraft news reports, say US prosecutors A former US Air Force intelligence analyst who fed documents to the press detailing the American military's classified drone programs has been indicted on five criminal charges.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4ETJX)
Meanwhile, Facebook's co-founder goes public with call for end to social media monopoly One thing you can't accuse people of in Washington DC is lacking an appetite for power. But not, it seems, if that power comes with responsibility.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4ETAS)
New reference architecture rolls together containers and VMs Virtualization kingpins Red Hat and VMware have linked arms on a reference architecture that combines their software.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ESX5)
Secure boot, local CA for your network o' widgets, and more Certificate authority (CA) Sectigo, the artist formerly known as Comodo CA, has bought out security biz Icon Labs.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4ESX7)
Oh and fiscal '19 crappy, fiscal '20 forecasts gloomy too It's been an eventful morning for BT's new CEO: he upped targets to roll out fibre broadband to more Brit homes, talked up cost savings and clipped sales and profit forecasts for the next year.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ESSB)
Mike Pompeo reaches beyond grave to read Iron Lady's mind in ongoing security spat Margaret Thatcher would not let Huawei build Britain's 5G networks, US foreign secretary Mike Pompeo claimed yesterday as British ministers suggested the rollout may be delayed for security reasons.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4ESMF)
Congratulations, Liverpool and Spurs fans! Wait... never mind Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur are off to Madrid for the Champions League final after emphatic wins against Barcelona and Ajax – so of course devotees were ecstatic to find they had won all-expenses-paid VIP tickets to the footie match courtesy of etailer Zavvi.…
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by Team Register on (#4ESMG)
When the agenda goes up, so do the tickets... Events If terms like FaaS, Serverless and event-based computing are creeping on to your to-do list, here’s something else to add: grabbing a blind bird ticket for our Serverless Computing Conference while you still can.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ESGB)
Supernova of allegations turns into black hole for HPE Autonomy Trial Autonomy's former US head of sales made a series of startling admissions in court yesterday which contradicted his witness statement, throwing a curveball into Britain's biggest fraud trial.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4ESCZ)
Something something unicorn Silicon Valley-based log management and analytics specialist Sumo Logic – popular among the DevOps crowd – has bagged $110m in its biggest funding round to date, led by Battery Ventures.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4ESD1)
New appliance runs your backup engine of choice .NEXT Nutanix has made a flashy bid for hybrid cloud relevance by enabling its environment to run in AWS and added a Mine appliance to bring backup data into its fold.…
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by John Oates on (#4ES9F)
Platform admits failover cluster fell over but they're really sorry and, here, have a credit note Biz automation platform ConnectWise has issued a credit note to disgruntled customers caught up in last week's day-long outage that the firm blamed on a wobble in its "highly resilient" cloud infrastructure.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ES9G)
Plus: Privacy options abound and Collections attempts to fill Sets' boots Build There were nods to the past and future at Microsoft's Seattle Build event as the company teased upcoming features for its latest crack at a browser that people might want to use.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ES6W)
Is that a laser projector in your pocket or are you, er, just going camping? Those seeking a bit of portable projector fun will shortly have a tiny option in the form of the Nebra AnyBeam, a pocket-sized laser for flinging images onto a handy surface.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4ES6Y)
It's been fun Bill Clinton was president of the United States when I first started at The Register, mobile phones (and anything else "mobile") were low-rez monochrome chunks of plastic, and politicians were slack-jawed children when it came to technology.…
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by David Gordon on (#4ES6Z)
Add new skills to your security arsenal to stay one step ahead Promo Organisations can no longer ignore the growing problem of cybercrime, with ransomware affecting enterprises of all sizes while state-sponsored adversaries and others attempt to obtain access to their most critical data.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4ES1V)
Get your modular bargains Smartphone makers are touting cameras with 5x and even 10x lossless zoom on some very expensive new gadgets. Huawei's lossless 5x costs around £900. However, on a recent weekend family escape, I grabbed a smartphone and took some wonderful, truly lossless 10x photos on a rig that set up that will cost you, dear reader, less than £300. It's a proper LTE flagship phone, and has a (real) Xenon flash too.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ERZF)
Bundled software not just an annoyance, it's also a risk The apps bundled with many Android phones are presenting threats to security and privacy greater than most users think.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4ERZG)
Try saying that a few times before any morning coffee NetApp has made life a bit harder for its all-flash competitors, claiming to offer the industry's best price/performance on a new mid-range end-to-end NVMe array and updating its ONTAP OS and services.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ERWN)
Microsoft answers whinges that there was not enough Windows at Build with fresh borkage Build The Windows Insider team celebrated the end of Microsoft's annual Seattle developer shindig, Build, this week by dropping a fresh Windows 10 update for testers and, er, breaking stuff.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ERT7)
Ad giant pushes Kotlin language, Q beta 3, Flutter, ChromeOS, and more Google I/O Google released Android Q beta 3 to developers this week, though more significant was word that the company wants developers to write their Android apps in Kotlin rather than Java or C++.…
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