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by Shaun Nichols on (#4CDV2)
Rogue 'worker' processes can sneak in with elevated privileges at startup Apache HTTP Server has been given a patch to address a potentially serious elevation of privilege vulnerability.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4CDQN)
More research dosh and more legal immigrants please! The US Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has asked the government for “bold federal policies†that would enable it to maintain its grip on the world’s chip supply.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4CDJX)
Intel double-whammy: kit festooned with new Xeons Fujitsu has refreshed its entire x86 server portfolio, adding support for Optane DC persistent (aka non-volatile) memory from Intel, officially launched last night.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CDE0)
But handle with care to dodge dominance of Google, Microsoft Schools have been told to increase their use of tech to ease the burden on teachers, better prepare their students for the world of work and bring kit into the 21st Century.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4CD9A)
Prospect cheers as members vote against telco's People Framework Members of the Prospect trade union at BT have voted overwhelmingly to reject the telco's so-called People Framework proposals to overhaul the pay and grading structure.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4CD9C)
Dell/VMware and Nutanix dominate, HPE best of the rest Number crunchers at IDC told the world this morning that international converged systems market revenue grew 14.8 per cent year-on-year to reach $4.15bn in the final quarter of 2018.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4CD4Y)
19-year-old also accused of breaching sex offence order, money laundering The teenager who hacked TalkTalk three years ago has been hauled before court charged with computer misuse offences after allegedly amassing a Bitcoin fortune worth more than £300,000.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CCZ1)
US spy agency plans to award multibillion-dollar deal in 2021 The CIA is reportedly planning to award a multibillion-dollar contract to extend its cloud services for the intelligence community to more than one vendor by summer 2021.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CCSV)
Increase in tax payout comes as UK.gov threatens digital sales tax on revenues Google's UK business paid £65.3m tax into the British government's coffers in its 2018 financial year, almost 40 per cent more than in the previous 12 months.…
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by Team Register on (#4CCSX)
MCubed call for papers extended Events We’ve extended call for papers for our MCubed conference to April 15, meaning you've still got time to tell us how you've made AI and machine learning work in your organisation.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4CCSY)
Gulps down firm for undisclosed number of kronor All-flash array supplier Pure Storage has bought Compuverde, a Swedish scale-out filer software business, giving it an entrée into the classic file storage market.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4CCT0)
Expanding its vendor-agnostic support service in the UK Data centre maintenance giant Park Place Technologies has gobbled MCSA Group, a British IT services business headquartered in High Wycombe.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4CCPS)
Fun fact: We haven't dismantled a single one. Ever Storing Britain's obsolete nuclear submarines has cost the nation £500m – with some 1960s boats having been in storage for longer than they were in service.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4CCM0)
Screwdriver-botherers put the hurt on Apple's little tablet Despite being rated way behind Apple's iPhones in build quality due to copious glue squirted under the componentry, Cupertino's latest fun-sized tablet was praised by teardown gurus iFixit for actually having a headphone jack. Yes, it has come to that.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4CCHT)
That's 15 March btw, when Micro Focus dumped profitable bits SUSECON '19 SUSE CEO Nils Brauckmann could scarcely contain his glee as he bounded on stage to deliver his keynote before the thousand or so attendees at this year's SUSECON summit in Nashville, Tennessee.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CCFV)
Prepare to scale the cookie wall Adtech industry body IAB Europe is facing down another data protection complaint from Brave browser bod Johnny Ryan, this time over the all-encompassing cookie wall stalking its site.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#4CCFW)
Smart strategies for ambitious humans Elon Musk dreams of life on Mars, but why stop there? Why not dream really big? What would it take for a group of creatures – not necessarily those living on Earth – to colonise the entire universe?…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4CCC3)
Slack motherboard firmware controls leave machines open to deep-rooted malware Gaming PC specialist Razer has been singled out for leaving its motherboards vulnerable to a well-known and critical firmware vulnerability.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4CC9Q)
Take your media viewing ideas somewhere else In theory, the open source nature of web technology should allow anyone with the appropriate skills to innovate and implement an alternative browser.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4CC73)
Sad news: It's probably not down to alien microbes The European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft caught a massive whiff of methane from orbit, confirming an earlier gas detection on the Red Planet by America's Curiosity rover.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4CC31)
Robot rides slow down but keep moving Intel Capital "My greatest fear is that we will hit the winter of AV (autonomous vehicles)," says Jill Sciarappo in response to an unwelcome question at the Intel Capital conference in Arizona – the US state that saw the first self-driving car death last year.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4CC0W)
What do you think I am? A chartered accountant? Autonomy Trial Ex-HP CEO Léo Apotheker had not read any of KPMG's due-diligence reports on Autonomy ahead of his company's $11bn acquisition of the British software maker, he told London’s High Court on Tuesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4CBY6)
npm uninstall iarna The cultural turmoil at JavaScript package management outfit NPM Inc, brought on by a leadership change and staff shakeup, has claimed another employee: product manager Rebecca Turner.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4CBVS)
Techie says he was grilled for three hours after refusing to let agents search his devices Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal says he was interrogated for three hours by America's border cops after arriving at San Francisco airport – because he refused to unlock his work laptop and phone.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4CBS4)
She faces two federal charges after apparently getting as far as reception A Chinese woman was caught sneaking into President Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club with a thumb drive of malware, it was claimed yesterday.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4CBNT)
Striding into its third decade, dev suite is now ready to Share It's a big day for Microsoft developers as Visual Studio 2019 for PC and Mac emerged, blinking, into the light of General Availability.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4CBJH)
To view this content, please click on the headline This week AR hype machine Magic Leap will finally – finally! – start selling its headset to the public but you'll need to go to one of three AT&T stores in Boston, Chicago or San Francisco, to buy them. And fork over more than $2,000 to get a pair.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4CBJK)
Airlines will have to wait few more weeks to get new code as engineers need more time Boeing yesterday warned it will take longer than expected to overhaul the anti-stall system in its 737 Max aircraft, the infamous safety mechanism that likely caused two deadly crashes.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4CB5J)
Give me sockets, give me DIMMs, give me Optane, give me all the speed Server slinger Supermicro has dropped the veil on its range of second generation Xeon SP servers with Optane DIMM support – just as Chipzilla itself reveals all the gory details on its latest chippery.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4CB5M)
New entry-level and mid-range bring NVMe fabric acceleration IBM has replaced its entry-level Storwize arrays with faster boxes and introduced an NVMe-oF accelerated mid-range.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4CB0G)
Amazing what some competition can do: Kicking Chipzilla up the data cache In a highly orchestrated global maneuver, Chipzilla today launched, to much of its own fanfare, its second-generation Xeon Scalable Processors for servers – chips previously codenamed Cascade Lake.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CB0H)
Firm pushes its customers to containers, recoils from Hadoop Users might want containerisation to separate compute and storage for data analytics but few fully understand it, according to MapR, which has launched a set of integrations with Kubernetes.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4CAVB)
Running HPE Helion? Time to start thinking about that 'seamless' transition SUSECON '19 At its Nashville SUSECON gathering, the German open-source software maker told more than a 1,000 attendees that version 1.4 of its Cloud Application Platform (replete with Kubernetes goodness) and its take on OpenStack Rocky will be inbound before the month is out.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4CAPC)
Bad guys are settling in, putting their feet up for the long haul Network intruders are staying longer and going after wider swathes of machines with their attacks.…
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by Team Register on (#4CAPD)
Find out at Continuous Lifecycle London this May Events Adopting DevOps, Containerisation and Continuous Delivery doesn't mean compromising on security - and if you want proof, just check out the conference sessions at Continuous Lifecycle London, 2019.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CAGT)
Damian Collins' band just can't quit fake news, babe UK Parliament's digital committee, keen to ride its post-Facebook probe publicity wave, has launched a sub-committee on disinformation to dig into the issues raised during its high-profile report.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4CACR)
Fulfilment promise fulfilled Amazon staffers – one dressed as a Big Red piñata – have taken to Twitter to celebrate shutting down their last Oracle database used in the retail side of the organisation.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4CA96)
Massive outage across energy firm Centrica's app estate Brit energy company Centrica's Hive smart home devices went missing in action this morning with a major outage confirmed across much of the app estate, forcing users to tweak manual controls for heating, hot water and surveillance cameras.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4CA61)
UK taxman's digital boss talks living with Amazon OpenInfra Days UK 2019 The British tax man loves the cloud, but anyone who thinks public infrastructure can be run by a skeleton crew should think again: HMRC has no fewer than 4,000 IT staff who deliver around 140 digital services.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4CA3P)
And that's a quote from its 2010 accounts Autonomy Trial Former HP top man Léo Apotheker told the High Court yesterday morning that Mike Lynch described Autonomy to him as a "pure-play software company".…
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by Richard Speed on (#4CA3R)
Fancy a slice of SLES for SAP? SUSECON '19 Veteran Linux slinger SUSE kicked off its Nashville shindig, SUSECON 2019, with a slew of new tech to gladden the hearts of enterprise fans.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4C9ZN)
Violent Fierce Lion makes $5m in Middle Kingdom compared to Prooi's $260k at home Move over Disney superheroes and endless reboots – a three-year-old B movie has proven that Narnia can tell what's going to be the mane attraction (sorry – Ed), and that China is the market to crack.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4C9XF)
Devs strip code from toolkit amid blogger dramarama A British web-dev outfit has denied allegations it deliberately hid code inside its WordPress plugins that, among other things, spammed a rival's website with junk traffic.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4C9VG)
And from all different angles you want Intel Capital One of the most maddening aspects of live sports may not just disappear in the next two years but may actually become, well, awesome.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4C9SK)
You satmad, bro? Misinformation coming from Russia isn't merely an internet phenomenon; it also affects navigation systems.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4C9PR)
His Muskiness praises Tencent's car hacking boffins for the warning, fixes bugs Video The Autopilot feature in Tesla Model S vehicles could be fooled into swerving across lanes into oncoming traffic by mere stickers on road, researchers discovered. The eggheads also found a way to take control of the flash motor's steering with a wireless gamepad.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4C9JM)
One panellist quits, another decides to stay and listen Over a thousand Google employees and members of the machine-learning community have signed a petition urging the ad giant to remove Kay Coles James, president of conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, from its external AI ethics board.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4C9JP)
Meanwhile, another Edge, IE zero-day emitted online Google has released the April edition of its monthly Android security updates, including fixes for three remote-code execution vulnerabilities in the mobile OS.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4C9AB)
IT cloud baron's device pillaged, Feds told, while mag denies any hacking, spying Remember that sordid and strange tale of the National Enquirer publishing Jeff Bezos's sexts sent to his new girlfriend, and then trying to blackmail the billionaire biz baron?…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4C9AD)
Chipzilla no longer a passive investor, we're told Intel Capital Remember when "disruption" was the big buzz word – before tech bros managed to ruin it for everyone? Well, like denim jackets, it's back, baby!…
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