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by Max Smolaks on (#4MAVS)
NAND if you think it's bad now, wait 'till Japan's trade sanctions bite Samsung's quarterly profits have been cut in half by shrinking smartphone sales and the ongoing memory oversupply crisis.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4MAVT)
What, under its actual name? Microsoft has confirmed its long-rumoured plan of building massive data centres in Arizona. The company lifted the lid on three giant Sun-powered server farms in the state, shockingly all listed under its own name.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MAGV)
www and https are 'irrelevant information', insists ad giant Google is having another go at killing off the displaying of https and www in the URL bar of upcoming versions of Chrome, despite protests from users.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MAGX)
Yep, Patel continues age-old tradition. Plus: Five Eyes word games Priti Patel has declared war on encryption safeguards, demanding they be torn up for the convenience of police workers.…
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Part of plan to 'transition' to a new IT system The UK's Department for Work and Pensions has handed Capita £112m for a two-year extension to the controversial Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments contract.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4MA79)
Report finds enterprise software collecting and shipping out sensitive customer information Enterprise security, analytics, and hardware management tools - the very tools used to keep data safe - are collecting and sharing far more information than customers might think.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MA3B)
OrbitBeyond begone: Getting to the Moon is hard NASA made a slew of announcements yesterday aimed at bigging up the agency's efforts to get commercial companies involved with its deep space ambitions – despite one vendor dumping plans for a 2020 lunar landing.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MA3C)
Educator, learn thyself. Prevention is better than cure Lancaster University has started withdrawing non-business-critical access to a breached student database – more than a week after the apparent hack took place.…
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Better deals, crap service main reasons for switching, but only half surveyed have ever done it Long-suffering customers of internet providers are most likely to leave if they find a better deal elsewhere, although crappy customer service is also a major push factor.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M9XQ)
Blade to swing in 2021, but 'onboarding' for new Office 365ers starts in September The equally loved and loathed Skype for Business Online has a date with the Grim Reaper as Microsoft prepares to finally axe the poor old thing.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M9T5)
The tech has been around for years – why aren’t we using it? A consortium of European organizations has launched ELIoT, an EU-funded project that hopes to develop commercial applications for visible light communications.…
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by Team Register on (#4M9Q6)
Early-bird offer ends tonight – book your tickets now Event It’s great to have a vision when it comes to machine learning and AI, and at MCubed, we want to show you how to turn it into reality, whatever the challenges.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4M9MS)
RIPE approves new policy that shouldn't really exist If you want IPv4 addresses in Europe, there is now a literal waitlist to join.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M9BS)
Su stumbles as Cook and Co log $54bn haul for quarter Junior varsity chip outfit AMD saw its stock take a hit Tuesday when its financial forecast fell short of analyst expectations.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M97N)
PASSENGERS IN PERIL? CRISIS IN THE SKIES? No – but neat ways to frig with your own aircraft An investigation into the computer security of small airplanes, the results of which were made public this week, will be sure to generate some flashy headlines. However, there are important caveats.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4M8W0)
What's that? They found 20 weapons and the landlord was linked to a truck bomb assassination? Oh sheeeeet Vid Newly released footage showing cops storming the house of the woman accused of hacking Capital One's cloud servers to steal 106 million people's personal information, has again raised questions about the over-militarization of the American police force.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4M8QT)
That $5,000 headset you splashed out on, it's done in terms of non-security tweaks Microsoft will no longer improve the operating system for its Hololens headset, save for security fixes.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M8KF)
Remove LibreLogo now Updated The Document Foundation said on Tuesday that it had recently patched LibreOffice, its open-source office suite, to fix an issue where documents can be configured to run macros silently on opening.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M8KH)
Tight-lipped plod say cybercrook emailed them sample of stolen data Around 20,000 Los Angeles Police Department job-seekers and officers have had their personal data nicked, the force has confirmed.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4M8AA)
2.6 million customers hit... over period of nearly 8 years UK comms watchdog Ofcom fined Brit MVNO Giffgaff £1.4m today for overcharging around 2.6 million users to the tune of around £2.8m.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4M84Z)
Brittany Kaiser dumps buttload of emails suggesting otherwise A fresh salvo of emails dug out by Cambridge Analytica whistleblower and Netflix star Brittany Kaiser appear to confirm that the disgraced political consulting outfit carried out work for Brexit-mongers Leave.EU.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M851)
More cloud polygamy for Dell EMC's Virtzilla VMware enthusiasts will be able to lift-and-shift their virtualized workloads directly into Google Cloud before the end of the year, after the two businesses agreed a deal.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M7ZH)
Red-faced SK Telecom coders say soz, reset repo An open-source project on GitHub has been thrown into disarray after contributors complained it was being promoted via a free drink in return for a star.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M7T4)
Might go limp as Linux orphans controller driver for ancient removable media Linus Torvalds has articulated what much of the world has known for some time, with a merge marking the Linux floppy driver as "orphaned".…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M7ND)
It may be a 'plane riddled with bullet holes' – but it's still flying Huawei is apparently like a "plane riddled with bullet holes" that keeps on flying – at least according to chairman Liang Hua.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M7J7)
Latest build hits 11% usage, year-old code still reigns at 54% Microsoft's OS hangover from last year continued to recede this month as uptake of the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (1903) jumped, mostly at the expense of April 2018's code dump (1803).…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M7EY)
Mobe will watch, er, fingers as well as listen for commands Google will include motion-sensing radar in the forthcoming Pixel 4 smartphone to enable gesture control by waving your hand.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M7F0)
'Look ma, no launch date' – Rocket Lab aims for August excursion Roundup As the rocket world settled down after the excitement of that Apollo anniversary, there was plenty to keep the faithful entertained last week.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M79Y)
Fit for production if you are brave, but no Windows Forms designer yet Microsoft has released .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 and Visual Studio 16.3 Preview 1, which work together to enable new features including Windows desktop applications built with .NET Core and C# 8.0.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M77Y)
This is a lawsuit, you filthy-minded people Virgin Media's lawyers have seen off a group of IP trolls who were trying to force the British ISP to hand over the personal details of people downloading allegedly copyrighted smut flicks.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M755)
Cloggies less than chilled out over Windows telemetry A report backed by the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security is warning government institutions not to use Microsoft's Office Online or mobile applications due to potential security and privacy risks.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4M730)
After all, what could possibly go wrong, apart from everything? France is threatening to stick submachine guns on its next generation of satellites as part of an "active space defense" strategy that would enable it to shoot down other space hardware.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M707)
Turns out the PHYS not the limit DRAM pioneer and serial litigant Rambus is set to acquire Northwest Logic, primarily known for dreaming up IP cores used in ASICs and FPGAs.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M6QK)
Japanese manufacturer could help bring down co-conspirators in rip-off caper A Japanese manufacturer that makes parts for hard disk drives has admitted to racking up millions in profits from a price-fixing scheme.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M6QM)
More than 1 million social numbers nicked among other details – FBI collars, charges software engineer A hacker raided Capital One's cloud storage buckets and stole personal information on 106 million credit card applicants in America and Canada.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M6N9)
HPC beaut built by Fujitsu to debut in November Australia's most powerful supercomputer is - we are told - about to get 10 times faster in November, thanks to an AU$70m (£39.4m) cash injection from the government.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M6HW)
Using widgets probably not worth the GDPR minefield Organisations that deploy Facebook's ubiquitous "Like" button on their websites risk falling foul of the General Data Protection Regulation following a landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M6E3)
Still not migrated? You have until 8 September Transport Level Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 is to be axed for users of Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) from 8 September as the company shores up security with a requirement for TLS 1.2+.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4M6AG)
DNS overlord ignored opposition, says Namecheap Internet oversight body ICANN has been accused by one of its biggest backers of undermining its public benefit remit in a recent decision to lift price caps on all .org domains.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M6AJ)
Equipment in hospitals, factories, offices, etc potentially vulnerable to attack Wind River has patched 11 security vulnerabilities in VxWorks that can be potentially exploited over networks or the internet to commandeer all sorts of equipment dotted around the planet.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M62Q)
Vulture Central strenuously denies any involvement in MOMO mishap Japanese rocket boffins' hopes of following up a successful third launch of the MOMO Sounding Rocket with MOMO-F4 were dashed over the weekend as the commercial launcher plopped into the sea after a mere 172 seconds of flight.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M5YH)
Gartner analyst talks Azure 'reliability' issue, AWS strategy 'misses', Google 'human' concerns Analysis According to a Gartner report, the top five IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) cloud providers have increased their share of the global market to nearly 77 per cent, up from under 73 per cent in 2017.…
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by John Oates on (#4M5SJ)
And the rush hasn’t started yet UK universities have slammed the Home Office's outsourced visa system for foreign students as not fit for purpose because it leaves scholars waiting weeks for appointments.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4M5MY)
Put the money in the bag How "culturally British" is tax avoidance? Well, just ask Gary Barlow, Jimmy Carr and David Beckham, to name but a few. Now one "culturally British" games dev can be added to the list.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M5GH)
Liberty loses but vows appeal IPA Civil rights campaigner Liberty has lost the latest of its legal challenges against the Snooper's Charter gotta-spy-on-'em-all law, with judges stating the Investigatory Powers Act has "interlocking safeguards against the possible abuse of power".…
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by John Oates on (#4M5GK)
Risks posed by Chinese bogeyman 'manageable' Germany's data protection and security regulator is not too stressed about the supposed threat of using Huawei equipment in 5G networks.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M5B6)
Plus: RobinHood admits to password gaffe Roundup Here's a quick summary of what's been happening in the infosec world lately, beyond what we've already reported.…
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by John Oates on (#4M57C)
The kids are in good hands The orgs that will sit on the executive board of the new UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS) have been named.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4M57E)
First non-Japanese board member at services behemoth is gone Duncan Tait, the first non-Japanese exec to sit on Fujitsu's board and the man that rose to head up operations in Europe, Middle East, India, Africa (EMEIA) and the Americas, is leaving with immediate effect.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M544)
Crooks fail to hijack infosec bloke's site to dress it up as a legit Euro bank login page Exclusive Think you have bad luck? Imagine being the script kiddie who inadvertently tried and failed to pwn an Akamai security pro.…
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