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by Shaun Nichols on (#4CJRW)
YuGiOh takes brave stance of requesting basic hygiene in competitions Competitive YuGiOh players have been given a literal breath of fresh air, thanks to new rules mandating anyone in a competitive game not reek.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4CJNT)
Network that can't control ads or content turns out to have trouble with illegal activity Dozens of groups composed of around 385,000 people convened to discuss and participate in dubious or illegal services - not on the dark web but on Facebook - according to Cisco's Talos security team.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4CJJN)
This is local storage for local people Developers targeting Azure with Spinnaker have had their lives made a little easier this week, as deployments to Microsoft's cloud got integrated into the delivery platform, and Microsoft also had news to interest Blighty-bound devs.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4CJJQ)
When Irish eyes are prying A family staying at an Airbnb rental in Ireland made an unsettling discovery when they found their unit had a hidden camera livestreaming their stay.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4CJEG)
Open-source project borrows bits of OpenStack OpenInfra Days UK 2019 Open-source software developers at Red Hat are working on a tool that would simplify deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal servers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4CJ1J)
Did someone say perfect storm? Well, here we are Slowing smartphone sales and low demand for DRAM and NAND memory have taken their toll on Samsung.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4CHX6)
Skyrora seeks spaceport operators for its next three rocket tests Edinburgh-based Skyrora, flushed with success after getting its Skylark Nano rocket off the ground in 2018, is on the hunt for a location for its next three engine tests.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4CHX8)
Yes, this will complement SAN flinger's DM array line nicely Despite having its own line of SAN arrays, Lenovo is to globally resell Excelero's NVMesh software to add fast access NVMe-over-Fabrics virtual SAN software to its storage lineup.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4CHX9)
AWS shucks... they've only gone GCP Commercial scale-out filesystem startup Qumulo's Core scale-out distributed file storage software – available on-premises and AWS – has now been ported to Google's cloud too, and should be available from the GCP Marketplace later this year.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CHS3)
Chocolate Factory says it will have to find 'different ways' of getting outside opinions Google has canned its AI ethics board after just a week due to outcry over its choice of panel members, claiming it would find "different ways" to bring in outside opinions.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4CHME)
Meanwhile, Israeli spacecraft Beresheet scooped by Moon Japanese probe Hayabusa2 has shot a 2kg copper bullet at Ryugu in order to get a glimpse of the asteroid's interior.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CHMG)
As politicos struggle over deal, firms continue bracing for Britain's departure Google Pay has this week shifted its service provision for all non-UK users in the European Economic Area from Britain and into Ireland ahead of Brexit.…
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If there's 5G connectivity but no 5G devices on it, does it make a sound? Wait, no, that's not right
by Max Smolaks on (#4CHGR)
Vodafone blesses Birmingham New Street station with amazing network tech of far-flung future Vodafone has proclaimed Birmingham New Street as the UK's first railway station to have 5G connectivity. There's just one minor problem – the lack of actual 5G devices necessary to use it.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CHGS)
Body plans to stick data experts on cancer, mental health teams The NHS has named the overlord of its digital health quango and talked up plans to put data specialists on cancer and mental health policy teams as tech support.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4CHDZ)
Microsoft's latest update for its ageing OS due to hit Soon™ The Windows 10 May 2019 Update is inbound, but not before it has spent a bit more time in the hands of testers excluded from the disastrous October 2018 Update.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4CHBM)
Vaccination GOOD. Spread of easily preventable illness BAD An oddly specific health warning has confirmed a case of measles in the Canadian capital of Ottawa – and patient zero is believed to have merrily sauntered through the offices of, er, antivirus maker Trend Micro.…
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by David Gordon on (#4CHBP)
Hackers are raising their game. You need to do the same Promo Organisations can no longer afford to sit back and hope their security measures will protect them from determined and inventive adversaries who know how to get around most of today’s security and monitoring tools.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4CHBQ)
No way you're never gonna shake me... Ooh darlin' cause you'll always be my baby Something for the Weekend, Sir? I fell in and out of love yesterday. It was a wild, stormy relationship that could never last, and it's only now by relating to you the sequence of events that I will feel ready to move on with my life.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4CH94)
Hello everyone. We brought dip Quantum, like IBM Storwize, will be using a classic 2U, 24-bay chassis for its excursion into end-to-end NVMe array land, The Reg can reveal.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CH71)
Cops £145k fine for blabbing deets on 200 people Newham Council has been fined £145,000 after an employee sent out a mass email containing an unredacted version of the police database that ranks people's likelihood of gang-related violence.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4CH73)
Radio enthusiasts argue signals must travel in the open, for the sake of national security Some people have been using ham radio frequencies for communication that's encrypted or difficult to decipher and others argue that's a threat to national security and a violation of the spirit and rules of amateur radio. Really, it's a fight over whether the amateur radio spectrum remains a hobbyist space or develops as a medium for data traffic.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CH4T)
Another day, another user failing to figure out basic IT kit On Call The weekend is nearly upon us again, and there's just Friday between you and some cold, cold beers. Let's ease the transition with On Call, in which readers regale us with tales of well-solved tech conundrums.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4CH4V)
We talk to specialist chipmakers about binning the BUS and secrecy It seems the answer to every problem these days is artificial intelligence. Want to reduce traffic congestion? You need AI. Cut down on fake news? AI. Understand your business better? AI. Create next-generation sliced bread? AI.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4CH2J)
Solid small satellite where a year lasts for just two hours Astronomers have discovered an object that orbits dangerously close to its parent white dwarf star. It should have been crushed to death by the dying star’s gravitational pull, but has miraculously stayed intact somehow.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4CGQP)
Proposed bill would bring immediate sanctions for tampering with democracy The US Senate is mulling a bill that would call for sanctions on any country caught trying to hack or influence American elections.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4CGF1)
Pharmaceutical brand says no data lost in Winnti outbreak German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer says it has been hit by malware, possibly from China, but that none of its intellectual property has been accessed.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4CGF2)
Bigots, racists and haters rejoice! You are going to get bias out of the box Facebook has been taking a lot of stick over discrimination on its platform but a new paper suggests that the problems with the platform could go deeper.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4CGB6)
Addictive social media should be banned says man who just launched a his and hers Instagram account Opinion The game Fortnite should be banned, according to Britain's own Prince Harry, because it's "addictive" and "irresponsible."…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4CG7F)
Top tech uni also dumps Huawei, refuses money from China, Russia, and Saudis The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says it will no longer work with ZTE or Huawei as part of a larger ban on doing business that have been accused of nefarious behavior.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4CG38)
Plus, it’s now actually two hypervisors in one Open source hypervisor Xen has reached version 4.12, bringing major improvements in resource footprint and security, and revamped x86 architecture support.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4CFT1)
Toying with UI, burstin' bubbles Google has added some cosmetic changes to the second beta of this year's version of Android to go with the plumbing it introduced in the first beta.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CFNP)
'Shadowy' data-sharing deals undermine public trust, says pressure group Frontline public sector workers have been urged to fight against backroom data-sharing deals as campaigners warn the British government wants to build a massive data set for automating immigration checks.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4CFNR)
Picking up slack from doomed Accenture IT contract i6 Outsourcing badass Capita has gulped down a tasty £13.2m morsel dished out by the Scottish Police Authority: namely, the deal for Police Scotland's Core Operational Solution (COS).…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4CFGB)
Promised prelim investigation should be out this week Ethiopia's transport minister has said the national carrier's pilots were following published Boeing procedures immediately before the fatal crash of a 737 Max 8 in March, citing an unpublished government report.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4CFGC)
Software giant's Brit limb reaps pre-tax earnings of £137.5m Microsoft's UK operation has published its annual report for the year ending June 2018, which showed the company cracking the £2bn barrier in turnover but, er, paying a bit less tax than last year.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4CF8T)
And if it ain't that, it's hacked-off students firing out DDoSes British university admin folk are alarmingly easy to phish, according to an academic support body which claims a 100 per cent success rate "within two hours".…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CF4V)
Meanwhile, PlusNet and BT pay women more than blokes The UK arms of Civica, Huawei and Siemens all paid women about 40 per cent less than men in 2018-19, according to data submitted to the government.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4CF4X)
Analysts predict solid-state array revenue to overtake spinning rust and hybrid All-flash storage arrays are very fast, but their limited capacity and prohibitive cost has meant that, historically, they were not very popular in enterprise data centres. According to analysts, this is about to change.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4CF1X)
Tell your dad not to open the 'HMRC' Word doc promising a yuge refund As the tax year rolls over into 2019/20, cybercrims have started belching out phishing emails and tax-themed malware, according to infosec researchers.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4CEZ4)
Trust th'wife to out them to cops You have in your possession a bulletproof vest, a firearm, and some beer. As the brews weave their magic, of course you have to make sure the armour works. Right?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4CEZ6)
Tell the boss you're not slacking off – it's vital threat intelligence research A government survey of British businesses has praised those who read El Reg to keep up to date with security news – while claiming to have revealed that fewer firms have spotted cyber attacks against them over the past 12 months, when compared to last year.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4CEX3)
Ministry of Fun review likely to recommend happy shopping Huawei is girding itself for the results of a UK government review that could recommend telcos buy network equipment from different vendors.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CEV2)
Schools told not to use it 'until further notice' Schools using Capita's information management system have been warned that there is an "incident" with its Spring release – just months after it 'fessed up to an issue with the same data-transfer mechanism in a previous release.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4CERY)
Domestic hosts and servers are being used for major attacks, finds Bromium A collection of servers found in the US are responsible for some of the nation's biggest malware and phishing attacks.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4CEPR)
Brain-scanning boffins find no signals to differentiate real and spoofed speakers Human brains appear to be better at detecting fake images than fake voices, a distinction that bodes ill for security as voice spoofing technology becomes more effective and more accessible.…
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Astroboffins may have cracked the mystery of where the photons from weird gamma ray bursts come from
by Katyanna Quach on (#4CEM4)
A quick flash can light up the observable universe The photons streaming from mysterious gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic form of electromagnetic energy in the universe, break out from relativistic jets shooting out from dying supernova stars, according to the latest research.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4CEBE)
NASA and co confirm that Starliner won't be carrying crew until the end of the year Boeing's passenger spacecraft for deliveries to the International Space Station (ISS), already lagging behind SpaceX, has been delayed yet again.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4CE8J)
I see you're using adaptive algorithms. Step this way for some regulation please The US Food and Drug Administration has proposed a framework on how it might regulate medical devices that rely on AI and machine learning algorithms.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4CE5H)
Laid-off litigant must reveal source of damning document in age discrimination row IBM has demanded to the name of the person who leaked an internal document that appeared to show the company was deliberately targeting and firing older workers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4CE1Y)
App devs fail to lock down their databases, yet again The details of millions of Facebook accounts have been left ripe for harvesting thanks to a pair of careless developers.…
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