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by Thomas Claburn on (#4AVGV)
Servers-for-hire shop takes nap for repairs Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has been under the weather today, failing to respond to developers for several hours and counting.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4AVD0)
Dystopian forced pregnancy scenarios likely a figment of Western media biases An unprotected MongoDB database of 1.8 million women in China has been taken offline after drawing media attention for the inclusion of a data field designating whether the women are "BreedReady."…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4AV83)
Software may have played a grim role in both fatal accidents China has grounded all Boeing 737 Max 8s on its civil aircraft register after one of the US-made airliners crashed yesterday near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Operators in other countries, including South Africa and Thailand, have followed suit.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ATY1)
Inspectors not happy with stagnant security practices NASA's Office of the Inspector General has once again concluded the American space agency's tech security practices are "not consistently implemented".…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ATS2)
Infosec skills are useful. But so are locked doors Journalists were able to bimble into a UK cable landing station almost completely unchallenged after security gates were left open and unlocked.…
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Small Brit firms beg for 'light touch' as only half are ready for digital tax reforms due next month
by Rebecca Hill on (#4ATM1)
We also have Brexit to be utterly unprepared for, yo A half of VAT-registered small biz don't have the software needed to comply with the British government's digital tax reforms - due for launch next month - with each facing bills of almost £600 to bring it in.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4ATM2)
Consolidation in the chip industry as the geepie giant eyes new markets GPU giant Nvidia is to cough $6.9bn for chipmaker Mellanox, known for its data centre networking kit and InfiniBand interconnect tech widely used in HPC.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4ATFF)
He was landing. Marsupials have not yet developed flight As if we needed another reminder that everything in Australia wants to kill you, the ongoing turf war between kangaroos and people has claimed another victim.…
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by Team Register on (#4ATFH)
Start by snapping up a CLL19 early bird ticket today There’s just a few days left to grab your early bird tickets for Continuous Lifecycle, and join us in May for three days of serverless, containers, CI/CD and DevOps.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ATFJ)
Moxa boxes caught using plain text passwords and insecure web apps Bug hunters have discovered yet another set of flaws in industrial control systems used by electric utilities, oil and gas companies, and shipping and transportation providers.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4ATAY)
Oh, compute, not commute. Got it. Version 1.0 of spec ratified, available shortly Big-name tech companies will together unveil yet another interconnect, this one dubbed Compute Express Link or CXL, which is aimed at plugging data-center CPUs into accelerator chips.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ATB0)
Put away the glue and duct tape, and luxuriate in virtualised goodness A funny thing has happened on the way to 19H1: an Azure OS kernel engineer tweaked Windows 10 to make the operating system considerably more KVM-friendly.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4AT7G)
All fine now, insists telco after Total Inability ToTalkTalk to Server Upsets Pipex peeps* TalkTalk is back in the spotlight over its email services after ageing Pipex mail addresses stopped working abruptly on Saturday.…
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UK Ministry of Fun seeks deputy director for IT as it edges away from Cabinet Office shared services
by Rebecca Hill on (#4AT7J)
DCMS wants to quintuple in-house IT staffers... that'll take it to 10 The Ministry of Fun is creating a position for a deputy director of IT to expand the department’s internal tech team and wean itself off the Cabinet Office’s shared services programme.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4AT4V)
GPU powerhouse reportedly throws down $7bn for networker Ethernet and InfiniBand networker Mellanox has reportedly received a $7bn acquisition bid from GPU powerhouse Nvidia.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4AT2M)
Industry and free software folk alike condemn proposals EU plans to ban the sale of user-moddable radio frequency devices – like phones and routers – have provoked widespread condemnation from across the political bloc.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4AT0Z)
Businesses slow to detect, report data leaks pre-GDPR Businesses waited an average of three weeks after discovering a data breach to report it to the watchdog before GDPR came into force, with many waiting until the end of week to 'fess up.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4ASZB)
Techie's 'oops' moment goes unnoticed due to massive bills Who, Me? Our warmest of wishes to you all on this fine Monday. Let us provide you with some of El Reg’s finest word sustenance, with this week’s Who, Me?…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ASXT)
BS as in 'behavior sequenced', or 'bland speech'... If you were terrified by the news that "Elon Musk-backed scientists created an AI text generator that was too dangerous to release" then here’s something that may soothe your fears.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4ASW1)
Boffins find pros-for-hire no better at writing secure code than compsci beginners Freelance developers hired to implement password-based security systems do so about as effectively as computer science students, which is to say not very well at all.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ARRB)
...and AI worker quits over killer robot plans Roundup Hello, here's a quick recap on all the latest AI-related news beyond what we've already reported this week.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4ARFS)
And they may be injected into your body one day Video Millions of tiny moving robots, each as small as the width of an average human hair, can be crafted from a four-inch silicon wafer, according to new research.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4APS6)
Tired: Booth babes. Wired: Floof babes. Expired: Conference hall carpets Roundup This week we had an NSA reverse-engineering toolkit released at the RSA Conference, a buffer bashed aboard British Airways, big trouble brewing for Citrix, plus much more.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4APAH)
Sum of a ditch! Bloke demands $75,000 after road prang Installing broadband fiber is a complex and expensive activity, though it may have got a little bit more so, for Google at least, following a lawsuit in America.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4AP7A)
Another quango? Really? 'It's deliberately not that,' says Lord The world's tech titans have been warned that none are too big nor too international to be regulated on UK soil – though, Blighty's government must stop taking a piecemeal approach and ensure existing laws are effectively enforced.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4AP1M)
'They’ve bulldozed rivals, used our private info for profit' ... yes, yes, but could she actually tackle giants as prez? Analysis US presidential contender Elizabeth Warren has vowed that if elected she would break up Amazon, Google, and Facebook, accusing the internet giants of abusing their market power.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4AP1P)
'This is a gigantic amalgamation of data all in one place' expert tells El Reg An unprotected MongoDB database belonging to a marketing tech company exposed up to 809 million email addresses, phone numbers, business leads, and bits of personal information to the public internet, it emerged yesterday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4ANN1)
Remote-desktop giant 'among more than 200 govt agencies, oil, gas, tech corps' hit by gang Updated Citrix today warned its customers that foreign hackers romped through its internal company network and stole corporate secrets.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ANGR)
3D glasses required... or you can try squinting at the screen The New Horizons scientists have released a fresh 3D image of the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 – also known as Ultima Thule.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ANBK)
Canonical will keep Trusty Tahr fixes flowing... for a fee Canonical has made good on its promise to keep on patching the venerable 14.04 Long Term Support (LTS) version of the Ubuntu operating system as it emitted updated installation media.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4AN6V)
Latest storage tracker's out The latest quarterly storage systems tracker from industry analyst IDC revealed that hyperconverged uptake did not dent SAN and filer sales, although overall revenue for the sector saw a decent uptick.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4AN1Y)
And you don't need to know what we're spending your billions on. Got that? The British government has rejected Parliamentary calls for greater ministerial control over the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), an arm of secretive spy agency GCHQ.…
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by Robin Birtstone on (#4AN20)
...As NetApp is all too happy to explain Sponsored AI is perhaps more important to the financial services sector than any other. As an industry built on data, where the right information at the right time can potentially make or lose millions, any extra analytical edge that a bank, insurance or investment company can gain is highly valuable.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4AMW8)
Cuddly Earth to stay in orbit. For now. SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft safely returned to the Earth today, dropping into the Atlantic Ocean following a successful mission to the International Space Station (ISS).…
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by Richard Speed on (#4AMWA)
Microsoft now only 200 million short of that tricky first billion Microsoft has confirmed that the company is still quite some way shy of its first billion Windows 10 users.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4AMRS)
Outage hits websites, apps, international payments French bank BNP Paribas's systems have been down for more than 24 hours in its home nation, with customers complaining they can't transfer money or access the website or app.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4AMRV)
Vulnerable kit can immobilise motors and even unlock doors Researchers have discovered that "smart" alarms can allow thieves to remotely kill your engine at speed, unlock car doors and even tamper with cruise control speed.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4AMNS)
Hello? Is this thing on? Good news, everyone! Now you can shout "Hello? Can you hear me?" at Skype on the web just as if you were using the app.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4AMNV)
Building to nowhere Analysis The UK's four big mobile network operators dropped in on Whitehall yesterday to plead their case for taller masts and other policy tweaks. With the public thirsting for better data, but derailing attempts to improve it, they're treading a delicate line.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4AMJJ)
Stern words to sites that deny access if users reject trackers Take-it-or-leave-it cookie walls don't comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, the Dutch data protection authority has said.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4AMJM)
Researcher's stumbling on bug was risky to say the least A cybersecurity professor has insisted he was not hunting for a vulnerability when he found a denial-of-service bug on an in-flight entertainment screen during a long-haul flight. His findings could affect a number of airliners running Thales-made equipment.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4AMG1)
Ah, nice move, Big Red – but what's the plan for next year? Oracle's UK tentacle has reported a 103 per cent increase in revenues after making tweaks to its financial reporting – a much needed boost following a slump in the previous year.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4AMDH)
Confuse those cyber attacks by placing a bucket of water on every floor Something for the Weekend, Sir? It's important – and responsible – to use adequate protection. My own helmet, for example, is wrapped in tin foil.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4AMB9)
Chap does a lot of travel, zero work for penny-pinching customer On Call Gather round, readers, as we have a good root in our On Call mailbag for this week’s tale, fresh from one of your fellow techies.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4AM93)
Panic, flee, cry – or just update Windows for fsck's sake A new malware strain tapped into GitHub posts and Slack channels to siphon precious data from infected Windows PCs, it is claimed.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4AM5X)
Still looks slim thank to Spanx-like dark matter NASA and the European Space Agency have teamed up to attempt to answer what seems like an impossible question: what is the mass of the Milky Way?…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4AM3N)
Wham bam, thank you, MRAM Samsung this week claimed it is mass-producing and commercially shipping embedded magnetic RAM (eMRAM) to replace EEPROM, SRAM, and NAND memories in embedded electronics.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4AKZ3)
Now Homeland Security committee sticks the boot in Credit-rating monitor Equifax ignored years of warnings and red flags before it was thoroughly ransacked in 2017 by hackers, who made off with the personal information of roughly 150 million Americans, Brits, and Canadians, according to another congressional probe.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4AKWW)
How agents tracked down half-inched Surface Pro slabtops to eBay store An IT contractor for a US government fraud and abuse watchdog pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing 16 US government computers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4AKT9)
Privacy, encryption, vaccines, fake news, er, Messenger themes, uh, emojis? We have obtained a transcript of a secret crisis meeting held last week between top executives at Facebook, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, hammering out a corporate response to the social network's non-stop rollercoaster of scandals. We present it here unedited.…
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