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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4DZTA)
TurboTax and H&R Block find robots.txt to hide in plain sight Updated The United States' tax-filing software industry actively prevents search engines from discovering their free-filing versions, it has been discovered, adding further criticism to an industry that drives Americans toward unnecessary paid-for products.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4DZKZ)
Six incident reports prompt wall wart withdrawal Apple has issued a voluntary recall of some of AC wall adapters and travel adapter kits designed for the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore out of concern customers could get a jolt.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4DZM1)
Virtual currency exchange's response probably tells you all you need to know The price of Bitcoin has dropped seven per cent after New York's Attorney General accused leading exchange Bitfinex of trying to hide $850m in missing funds.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4DZH2)
That’s a lot of servers Northern Virginia – the bit barn capital of the world, the beating heart of our digital universe – has become the first regional market to reach 1,000MW of wholesale colocation capacity, according to real estate specialist CBRE.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4DZDJ)
Storage requirements embiggened in Redmond's upcoming OS emission Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10's voracious appetite for storage remains undiminished in the upcoming May 2019 Update (1903).…
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by Richard Speed on (#4DZ0T)
Scientists get ready to rewrite the cosmological rulebook Hubble boffins have confirmed that the universe is expanding about 9 per cent faster than expected thanks to new measurements taken by the venerable space telescope.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4DZ0V)
Hopes to berry woes of slow Q1 '19 Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim has said the company will be "focused on delivering a return to growth later this year" amid shrinking revenues and weak product demand for its first quarter of fiscal 2019.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4DYR2)
Developing nanophotonic disk read-write heads Seagate is to help pump £57.4m ($74m) into its plant at Springtown in Derry, Northern Ireland, to get its next-gen disk heads dealing with smaller bits.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4DYMB)
A subtle rebranding exercise might be needed A chap who runs a B&B an actual stone's throw from the US-Canada border has been ordered to put up a sign warning guests not to cross as a bail condition.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4DYGC)
An unexpected extended Easter break Bewildered customers of A2 Hosting have endured a multi-day outage this week as the company battled to clear some pesky malware from its fleet of Windows Servers.…
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by Ania Kunert on (#4DY94)
Word of self-braking supermarket product pram reaches Vulture Central Finally a solution has surfaced to compensate for parents that simply refuse to say no to their little darlings: a self-braking supermarket trolley.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4DY96)
Er, do you have your original password written down somewhere? Something for the Weekend, Sir? I have been propositioned at midnight at a hotel door. "What's your room number?"…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4DY6D)
Firm explains but security folk not appy with clarifications Weird things are afoot with NordVPN's app and the traffic it generates - Reg readers have spotted it contacting strange domains in the same way compromised machines talk to botnets' command-and-control servers.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4DY3X)
As solid as ever, but not such a bargain any more Review Perhaps it's an English thing about being fair to the underdog, but I quite warmed to Huawei's "ordinary" P series model last year, while its attention-seeking big brother P20 Pro hoovered up all the attention.…
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by Team Register on (#4DY1N)
Bruce v Sheila: Episode Two On Call It's that time again: Friday morning, and your weekly dose of On Call, where we gather round to share a laugh at someone else's expense.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4DXYV)
The domain name system is going to get more expensive and probably less competitive The internet is about to get a whole lot more expensive.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4DXW3)
And before Half-Life 3 arrives The hunt for dark matter has been fruitless so far, but scientists searching for the elusive particle have discovered another rarity: the radioactive decay of xenon-124.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4DXW5)
And 10nm still on for Xmas 2019, sometime 2020, depending on CPU model Intel's CEO Bob Swan told Wall St on Thursday he had "the best job in the world," though it can't have felt like it as he announced his first full quarter's financial figures as the official head honcho.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4DXMV)
Ignoring privacy laws, storing plain text passwords, slurping millions of contact details come back to bite web giant Here's a triple Thursday whammy: Facebook has been accused of breaking Canada’s privacy laws, and is being investigated in the US and Ireland for seemingly mishandling people's private data.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4DXHT)
An attack of conscience or have the super-snoops got something better now? The NSA's mass-logging of people's phone calls and text messages, at home and abroad – a surveillance program introduced after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks – is set to end as it's no longer worth the hassle.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4DXCQ)
Modest expectations for next quarter, though, as web souk works toward one-day delivery Cloud cash-cow and stuff-shifter Amazon on Thursday reported $59.7bn in revenue for its Q1 2019, up 17 per cent from a year ago and about what financial analysts expected.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4DX1Z)
Let's cut the crap, El Reg style Comment We thought the hype over next-generation mobile broadband networks couldn't get much thicker, but we were wrong. So let's just jump into the five biggest lies about 5G.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4DX20)
Password resets reset Microsoft has finally decided to get rid of password expiration policies in Windows because forcing people to reset their passwords periodically harms security.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4DWWY)
Troves of deleted data lingers on disks... according to this 'ere study, anyway You would think that, with computers dominating every aspect of our lives, people would be aware that storage devices can retain information even after clicking "Empty Recycle Bin".…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4DWK2)
But is it enough to combat the Microsoft juggernaut? Hipster-friendly chat app Slack frantically wants to turns itself into a development environment to fend off the Microsoft juggernaut.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4DWEN)
Chip flinger slams brakes on production as it waits for demand to pick up Oversupply in the memory market has savaged SK Hynix's first-quarter 2019 results, but the Korean chip flinger hopes for an improvement after June.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4DW9N)
FPGAs + NICs = profit FPGA daddy Xilinx is buying California-based silicon design startup Solarflare Communications to improve its networking credentials.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4DW56)
Kids, you're all right The American education system has always been the envy of Brit schoolkids – if only because it's easy to glower across the pond at their freedom to wear whatever they want from the prickly tomb of Teflon uniforms.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4DW0N)
Largest shareholders for LSE-listed biz give thumbs-up to proposed sale KCOM, the Hull-based telco that still has a monopoly fibre network in the city, has agreed to go private in a £504m deal agreed with the USSL, one of the UK's largest pension funds.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4DVX8)
Chromium base should ease porting pains substantially Microsoft may be closer to its first Mac browser in 14 years.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4DVT6)
You mean they already do? Pull the other one Cyber UK 2019 Ever-exciting Cabinet Office minister David Lidington has put his name to a new infosec response testing tool developed by the NCSC, called (wait for it) Exercise in a Box.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4DVPX)
Contender hopes to one day become the preferred Node.js Package Manager The recent management change and layoffs at JavaScript accessory outfit NPM Inc prompted several former employees to speculate that the company's alleged union-busting push toward profitability may well spur the creation of competition.…
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by Team Register on (#4DVPZ)
Find out at Continuous Lifecycle London next month Events It's one thing using the latest tools and methodologies to build from the ground up - quite another to use them alongside your legacy software setup.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4DVKK)
Welcome to Ox Horn, such a perfect town. Here we have some rules, let us lay them down The Register paid a visit to Huawei's HQ in Dongguan, China, to find Europe in miniature along with a "5G" hotel that was, er, pretty much what we expected.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#4DVHF)
We're messy, expensive, lazy, difficult – and entirely necessary Column Somewhere in the second hour of sorting through a handful of travel reservations that had been added to my calendar, I started to suspect I'd been lied to – by a computer.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4DVFH)
'The best way to do this is a partnership between the robot and a surgeon' AI-trained autonomous robots have helped surgeons perform heart surgery on live pigs, according to research published in Science Robotics.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4DVD7)
Plenty of CPU goodness to spread around in the first big 2019 update Emulation fans, rejoice! Version 4 of open-source emulator QEMU has dropped with features aplenty and, sadly, one or two omissions.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4DV59)
Plus: PC slowdown, chip shortages? Shut yer mouth – we've got loadsamoney Microsoft announced healthy revenues for its third-quarter financial results on Wednesday, citing a growing demand in Microsoft 365 and its cloud services.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4DV39)
Time for those geniuses to earn that job title Apple is speeding up repairs of defective laptop keyboards that have left MacBook users angry, frustrated, and firing off lawsuits.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4DV0S)
From the creators of Apache Spark, comes a new tale of friendship and imagination American startup Databricks, established by the original authors of the Apache Spark framework, has launched an open source project designed to solve the reliability issues plaguing data swamps – those huge (cess)pools of raw corporate data that are supposed to deliver value from analytics.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4DV0V)
Net income halved as antisocial network preps for big slap Facebook's financial figures for its first quarter of 2019, published Wednesday, had an interesting twist.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4DTT4)
Unsealed warrant in Massachusetts adds to growing privacy debate Analysis A US judge gave the cops permission to force people's fingers onto seized iPhones to see who could unlock them, a newly unsealed search warrant has revealed.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4DTNY)
Two weeks and no sign of a proper solution, Avast and McAfee affected, too Updated Unlucky Sophos antivirus users face a dilemma: either uninstall the software, or install April's Windows security fixes. That's because having both in place at the same time will bork their machines.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4DTJ8)
Container biz cuddles with chip whiz in quest for kismet Container wunderkind Docker and chip architecture scribblers Arm on Wednesday said they are working together to help make containerized apps comfortable on Arm hardware.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4DTEP)
Plans to hire 15k heads in R&D and production, taking on TSMC in contract manufacturing Samsung Electronics will plough Won133tn (£116bn, $155bn) over the next 11 years to develop its logic chip business and boost manufacturing lines to produce those non-memory processors to order for other corporations.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4DTER)
Aging awful art app to remain in May 2019 OS upgrade after its, wait for it, wait for it... brush with death For anyone upset about the fate of doomed art application Microsoft Paint, bundled with Windows for as long as we can remember, here's something to set your mind at easel.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4DTA8)
Huawei was just the beginning While some governments obsess about Huawei, the impending launch of 5G is giving lesser-known Chinese upstarts a hope of cracking elusive Western smartphone markets – as Oppo demonstrated today in Zurich.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4DT47)
Venture with a vengeance US-based start-up investor Clear Ventures has set up a second fund to bankroll businesses that deal with the ridiculously nebulous notion of the fourth industrial revolution.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4DT49)
Mind the gap You'd think a forensic teardown of the first commercially available foldable smartphone – the Samsung Galaxy Fold – may be less challenging than most, given the device's propensity to do it itself.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4DSYV)
If we all chip in, we can help secure old Blighty Cyber UK 2019 "We're talking about how to design telecoms systems properly for the long term," National Cyber Security Centre CEO Ciaran Martin told press at UK.gov's infosec event in Glasgow today. "That is a bigger and sometimes different issue from the Chinese."…
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