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by Katyanna Quach on (#49ZXH)
Boffins predict success rate of telescope's gravitational microlensing tech NASA’s in-development Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope could help scientists discover as many as 1,400 distant exoplanets, according to new estimates.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49ZXJ)
Grids may be able to better juggle solar electricity supplies using machine-learning code A freshly developed AI system can predict the power generated by wind farms up to 36 hours in advance, helping electrical grid managers plan ahead in terms of availability, according to the latest collaboration between Google and its Alphabet stablemate DeepMind.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#49ZRR)
Honey, I've shrunk the spyware and concealed it with speculative execution Spectre – the security vulnerabilities in modern CPUs' speculative execution engines that can be exploited to steal sensitive data – just won't quietly die in the IT world.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#49ZRS)
It's a time of long goodbyes Western Digital (WD) has started to replace its SATA and SAS SSDs with faster NVMe drives.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#49ZBH)
Well, that's one way to attempt to avoid future legal action In a remarkable effort to avoid future lawsuits, Apple will close two of its retail stores in east Texas and reopen them at a new location a few miles down the road – where they will no longer be subject to a patent-friendly court.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#49Z88)
Open memory defenses allow mischief from connected kit Analysis Computers have enough trouble defending sensitive data in memory from prying eyes that you might think it would be unwise to provide connected peripherals with direct memory access (DMA).…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#49Z4V)
National security, sanctions allegations, pfft, you don't understand the art of the deal Efforts to pressure the White House into banning Huawei hardware from America's networks may have backfired.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49Z0G)
Microsoft, Red Hat, Mozilla, EFF, and more want lower court ruling scrapped The US Supreme Court has been urged to hear Google out in its long-running copyright battle with Oracle over the search giant’s use of Java technology in Android.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49YVB)
Needs manpower, bags of time, full knowledge of target Analysis A group of infosec researchers have uncovered neat ways to track a phone's location via 4G or 5G. However, the mechanics of the surveillance, while fascinating, are difficult to pull off for all but the most determined foe.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#49YJ1)
Businesses as well as ordinary punters hit by viral nasties Antisocial media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube aren't merely inciting hatred, enabling discrimination, driving content moderators to the brink, and showing kids how to commit suicide. They're also making cybercrime more practical and profitable, at the expense of law-abiding internet users.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49YD4)
And it makes you look silly MWC Hands On There are a couple of reasons why air gesture interfaces haven't taken off – they make you look silly, and they're hard for phone makers to get right.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49YD5)
Yep, they look at that data, and the fix is in the hands of another company Windows Insiders chief Dona Sarkar has taken to Twitter to explain what's taking the Slow Ring version of Windows 10 so long: It's all about the gamers, apparently.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#49Y8Y)
Just one tier of cheap deduped accelerated flash Startup VAST Data lifted the lid on its secret storage sauce today, revealing cheap, exabyte-level scale out flash arrays sped by Optane SSDs – which it hopes will persuade users to load up their on-premises spinning rust in the 'barrow and wheel it to the tip.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49Y3V)
UK.gov agency dangles £120k salary to rid itself of legacy tech The UK's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is on the lookout for a new CTO to pick up the reins of its modernisatiom agenda.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49XZ1)
Billionaire investor says he was burnt by IBM – but is 'amazed' at Amazon's rise Warren Buffett has told the world he was behind Berkshire Hathaway's decision to ditch its £2.1bn Oracle stake – just a quarter after buying it – because he felt he didn't understand where cloud computing is headed.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49XV9)
Regulator says 'inaccurate' claims go against 2018 settlement Elon Musk should be held in contempt of court, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has told a New York federal court after Tesla's mouthy CEO tweeted about the number of cars the company will roll out this year.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49XVB)
It looks like you want to increase your lethality. Do you want some help with that? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has responded to employees' concerns over the company's decision to flog its HoloLens tech to the US military.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49XR3)
This one gets everything right MWC Hands On Five years ago, LG, Sony and HTC roamed the Earth like all-conquering warlords. But then the engines of the Chinese manufacturing economy cranked up, and thanks to the gift of Android that Google gave them, Huawei and OnePlus stole much of their thunder. And market share.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#49XN6)
Direct-to-memory attacks now account for 57 per cent of hacks, apparently A company's internal network, once compromised, is now more likely to be ransacked by automated scripts than a piece of malware.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#49XN8)
Reg sees reports on IT chief investigation Exclusive The UN's patent body has finally fired chief information officer and one-time whistleblower Wei Lei after claiming a probe found evidence of criminal misconduct, a point still contested by the ex-staffer.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#49XJG)
NAND great. It's going to get worse this quarter DRAM supplier revenues plunged in the final quarter of 2018, as have those of NAND suppliers, with both quantity shipped and prices paid dropping, industry analyst DRAMeXChange said.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49XGM)
Firm 'sought to abuse privileges limited liability offers' – insolvency bod A Leicester-based IT supplier has been closed down after it carried on the work of two companies that courts said had traded in an improper manner.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#49XGP)
Infosec bods spot IBM SoftLayer not wiping down BMC flash memory after use Cloud providers renting out bare-metal servers must make sure they scrub every last byte of writable storage on their boxes between deployments, infosec outfit Eclypsium has urged. Otherwise, malicious customers could stash malware in motherboard flash memory that activates when the next user of a machine powers it up.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49XED)
Tech giants under fire? Hold my beer, says Big Blue as it spins up race slur recruitment websites Exclusive IBM has apologized after its recruitment webpages asked applicants whether their ethnicity was, among other options, the racial slurs Yellow and Mulatto.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49X93)
Networks may be late, but handsets are here MWC Analysis 5G may buck the trend set by the first three generations of digital cellular technology, and actually offer punters a broad range of mobiles when the networks go live. This time it's the networks that may be buggy and late, not the handsets.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49X4V)
Just 90 seconds, it's claimed, provided a) you have 512 Nvidia V100 GPUs and b) er, no need for accuracy The shortest time for training a neural network using the popular ImageNet dataset has been slashed again, it is claimed, from the previously held record of four minutes to just one and a half.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#49X0K)
Hint: It's something to do with a new California law Analysis After years of fighting to prevent any form of legislation that would safeguard Americans' online privacy, this week Congress will have two hearings on the topic during which the tech industry will outline its newfound love for laws covering its business.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#49WVT)
Lawsuits fly as sandwich shop chain grills ex-programmers, system analyst If you were to list the top five reasons why sandwich shop chain Panera has been so successful, with over 2,000 bakeries across the US and Canada, it's unlikely that its IT team would make the cut.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#49WNA)
CEO of embattled biz tells The Reg: 'Docker Enterprise continues to be our main focus' Exclusive Docker has been unable to contain itself.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#49WHM)
Red scare reaches new heights as intel committee urges further crackdown on network-connected gear Equipment made by Chinese electronics giant Huawei could be torn out of America's electrical grid, if US senators get their way.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49WD7)
Microsoft: 20 billion connected devices by 2020. Voda, Arm: How about 1 trillion by 2035? While HoloLens 2 took center stage at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft sneaked out some intriguing Azure Internet-of-Things news aimed at dealing with connectivity challenges in remote areas.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49W8Q)
Times are strange when spies talk about infosec and economics colliding The world must "understand the opportunities and threats from China's technological offer", GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming said today as he observed that there are "no clear norms or behaviours" for state-on-state cyber-squabbling.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49W44)
Microsoft: don't mention the 'C' word, but you can have it at a discount if you're in the military MWC Sometimes you have to feel for Microsoft. Even though it failed to keep a lid on HoloLens 2 leaks, the arrival of the Azure Kinect was a surprise. Unless you’d sat through the keynote at last year’s Build, of course.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49VYW)
If you lose, get your cheque book out, High Court judge rules amid two-year legal battle A millionaire barrister who started a crowdfunded lawsuit against taxi app maker Uber over a £1 VAT receipt has lost his attempt to stop Uber claiming legal costs against him.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49VSY)
ICO slams 'neither confirm nor deny' tactics as unlawful The UK's data watchdog has reportedly asked two government departments and a Kent Brexit planning group to rethink advice given to local councils on how to handle Freedom of Information (FoI) requests.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49VSZ)
Plus: Up close and personal with Ultima Thule and Fregat saves the day Roundup Scientists sharpened their view of Ultima Thule last week, while three more space Virgins popped their commercial astro cherries aboard SpaceShipTwo and Elon Musk revealed the fate he has in store for last week's Falcon 9.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49VT1)
Cloud-to-cloud interoperability with Microsoft, more vendors to come MWC Germany's big name in back-office tech announced a suite of IoT capabilities in its SAP Leonardo toolkit at Euro mobility gabfest Mobile World Congress.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#49VNZ)
Plus, hackers say your Facebook account is worth roughly a tall coffee Roundup Last week, the security world saw Adobe take a do-over, Cisco clean up some bugs and the NCC head out to space.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49VP1)
From California state regs to Europe's GDPR: It's all just a 'veneer of protection' Much-lauded privacy laws risk being undermined as compliance is outsourced to tech vendors and "toothless trainings, audits and paper trails" are confused for genuine protections, a New York Law School professor has said.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#49VH9)
Pick a card, any card: Micron's or SanDisk's ... but it'll cost you £££ MWC Micron and WD's SanDisk both dropped the veil on massive memory cards for your mobile at Barcelona's phone confab this morning: specifically, the little beggars are stuffed with a terabyte of storage.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49VD5)
Three aboard Boeing freighter killed after mystery plummet Three people were killed when an Amazon Prime Air-branded cargo flight crashed near Houston, Texas, on Saturday afternoon.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49VD7)
New kit runs a bit faster, costs less MWC Huawei's impressive business laptops are now a bit more affordable. The burgeoning PC giant is bringing MateBook X features to a new lower-priced range announced on Sunday at Mobile World Congress.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49V9Y)
Plus: Windows Mixed Reality sulks in kitchen while HoloLens 2 hogs limelight Roundup While the Microsoft team were setting up shop at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress (and frantically plugging HoloLens 2 leaks), things continued apace back in Redmond.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49V9Z)
Five shiny lenses at a sensible price MWC HMD Global's Nokia business has been puttering about with Android for a couple of years now, respectably rather than spectacularly, trading largely on the goodwill of the brand. The Nokia 9 PureView, unveiled on Sunday in Barcelona, tries to change that, recapturing some of the premium market.…
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by Team Register on (#49VA1)
Big speakers, big venue….small prices Events Our early bird ticket offer for Continuous Lifecycle finishes this week, so if you want save £100s AND learn from some of the finest in DevOps, Containers, Continuous Delivery and Serverless, the time to act is now.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49V7B)
This may be proof that ET doesn't need the same DNA chemicals we need Scientists say they have crafted a semi-synthetic DNA and RNA molecular system that is able to usefully store genetic information. It's hoped that alien lifeforms exist out there with similar exotic biological structures.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49V7D)
But at around £2,000, you might want to wait MWC Huawei's foldable phone made its debut at Mobile World Congress on Sunday, and it's the most impressive attempt yet at creating a new consumer device category: the phone that becomes a tablet.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49V56)
Also, DeepMind published new code to help train agents play football Roundup It's Monday. It's a new week. The coffee's on. The hangover's over. Let's brighten your morning with some developments from the world of machine learning.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#49V30)
We'd like to Azure you, mixed reality has a business application MWC With mixed reality in danger or becoming the cold fusion of technology hypes (i.e. it never arrives), Microsoft has reminded everyone it has built up a significant body of practical know-how at MWC this week.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49TY8)
Ah yes, that cheque, just make it out to a Mr Stonking C*ck Who, Me? Good Monday morning, dear Reg readers. If you were faced with doing overtime this weekend, rather than going out for beers, this episode of Who, Me? might be right up your street.…
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