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by Richard Speed on (#49C2F)
Second time lucky? Readers, we asked you what materials we should use to construct homebrew gadget Project Alias – which deafens smart speakers – and a whopping 40 per cent of you demanded Lego.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#49BVQ)
China, Russia, Israel and the US floated as potential culprits Australia's prime minister has blamed a "sophisticated state actor" for a hack on the country's parliament and some of its prominent political parties.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49BVS)
Born in a storm of snow, killed off in a blizzard of TCP/IP: The Bulletin Board System While large chunks of the US used this year's Snowmageddon to binge on streaming TV or tweet selfies with snowmen, take a moment to remember the Great Blizzard of 1978, which led to the first Bulletin Board Service (BBS) taking to the phone lines 41 years ago.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49BVV)
Na-nana-nana-nana-nana..nanana...nanana.... nana nana* Tech titans like Facebook, itself described as a "digital gangster", continually fail to address the risks their platforms pose to democracy – so the British government should regulate, MPs have said.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49BN4)
Seems to us like you would remember an incident like that... Who, Me? Gather round, dear readers, for a priceless story in this week's column for techies' mishaps.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#49BJC)
While browsers have got their act together, any other apps interpreting user-supplied code need to be aware of this Google security researchers have analyzed the impact of the data-leaking Spectre vulnerabilities afflicting today's processor cores, and concluded software alone cannot prevent exploitation.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#49BJE)
Don't panic, we're not all doomed – well, except Nvidia, perhaps Roundup Here's a summary of what's been going on in the world of machine-learning, beyond what we've already covered, to kick start your week...…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#49BF0)
Standby for a 'we woz haxx0ed' email from one of these sites this week... Roundup Let's kickstart your Monday with some lovely juicy computer security and screwups news, beyond what we reported last week.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4987P)
Revised proposals attempt to address worries over Manifest v3 API changes Google has proposed changes to its Chrome Extension renovation plan that answer some but not all of the concerns its Manifest v3 technical specification.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4985M)
And said lifeforms include us humans on Earth If you’re living in Earth's southern hemisphere, chances are you may be able to see some of the stars in a newly identified cosmic river that's flowed through the Milky Way for hundreds of millions of years.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#497X9)
Lawyers clean up after games biz settles with homeowners sick of zombie players Pokemon Go will soon let people ban its virtual pets from around their houses following a legal settlement with homeowners fed up with zombie kids.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#497XB)
'I didn’t buy a gun, I built the gun'... Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+P lands Texas man in the slammer A Texas fella banned from owning firearms is now behind bars for trying to 3D print a gun for himself.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#497RV)
Yet it's still whining that New York City didn't offer enough for HQ2 Amazon's pre-tax profits more than tripled last year to an extraordinary $11.2bn but, for a second year running, the web giant has paid not a single cent in US federal taxes.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#497G8)
Address gate criteria, conflicts of interest – then we can play Oracle is pushing America's Court of Federal Claims to rule in its favour and issue a judgment saying the Pentagon erred in its decision to offer its $10bn cloud contract to a single vendor.…
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by Richard Speed on (#497BP)
Romantic Redmondians pick 14 February to announce April go date for the code wrangler Devs seeking the perfect gift for that special someone were thrown a lifeline yesterday, with the announcement of Visual Studio 2019's launch date and a fresh preview of the development toolset.…
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by Richard Speed on (#49779)
Dead probe swinging around Ceres wins Swigert Award Less than a year after NASA's Dawn mission sent its last squawk back to Earth, the probe is to receive the Space Foundation's 2019 John L "Jack" Swigert Jr. Award for Space Exploration.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4972K)
WannaCry? You will do BBC "sister" medical drama shows Holby City and the venerable Casualty from which it sprang have announced that they are teaming up for a two-part "cyberattack special". NHS techies, stop sniggering at the back!…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4972N)
Bill Gates' bridge chum's firm buys Red Hat stock Oracle's share prices took a buffeting last night after it was revealed billionaire Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway had ditched its $2.1bn stake in Big Red.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#496XZ)
TITSUP* bank gets thumbs up from personal banking users In a baffling turn of events, more than half of IT chaos bank TSB's customers said they would recommend its online and mobile banking services – y'know, the ones that were crippled for huge chunks of last year – to friends and family.…
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by Richard Currie on (#496RD)
Not because he has anything to do with Newhaven British council halls are about the least hip places on the planet, full of fusty old folks umming and erring over whether the introduction of a Lidl branch will forever shatter the "street scene".…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#496RF)
Do you have a funky makeover horror story? We'd like to know Reg Appeal Design director Christie Lenneville tells a story that may be familiar to Reg readers. A design expert was called in to modernise some XP-era enterprise software used by call centre staff: their control panel.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#496MF)
Countries urged to consider regulating subliminal tech evil Human rights org the Council of Europe has warned that, without member states taking action, people may not be able to make decisions independently of automated systems because of sophisticated micro-targeting techniques.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#496MH)
Revs down 25% y-o-y, op profit sinks 79%. Miners? Gamers? Hyperscalers? Anyone? Guys? Bueller? You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, so found Nvidia's management team last night as they reported a pig of a quarter that saw revenues and profit crash.…
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by Richard Speed on (#496HC)
Lovely screen, shame about the price Hands On El Reg has spent some time talking Surface Studio with Mark Rowland, Microsoft's category lead for Surface UK, and we also pawed at the pricey box of tricks itself so we could give you the real skinny on what's under the hood.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#496ET)
Stop making 'sexy noises' and 'get real', conference told Blockchain-fanciers have been told to stop the "sexy noises" about its use in fintech and get real – though others remain hopeful the tech can hitch its cart to the techlash bandwagon.…
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by Richard Speed on (#496CH)
Windows 10 Insiders sent screaming into a future where, er, nothing much has changed right now Microsoft fired up the speculation machine last night by issuing a fresh build of Windows 10 to lucky skip-ahead testers: and it contains code from 2020s Windows.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#496AE)
JR Hartley is my bitch Something for the Weekend, Sir? The Ripper has returned.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#49680)
It was an easy solve, says techie, once we put our heads together On Call Well done, Reg readers, you’ve once again triumphed in the battle with the 9-5 and made it to Friday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4965D)
Execs, experts hope this cooperation continues to hold for the next big bug A panel of eggheads from Intel, the US government, and academia held court this week to figure how they can keep the likes of El Reg from spoiling their next major bug reveal.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4965F)
Ex-Googler reveals study and, yes, we're lookin' at you, WordAds If the web seems slow, blame third-party advertising and analytics scripts.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4962D)
There's only been one so far, so 49 more to go Cosmologists need gravitational wave measurements from 50 binary neutron star mergers to work out just how fast our universe is really expanding, according to new research.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#495ZY)
They're dropping like flies: First Opportunity, now NASA's Van Allen craft NASA’s twin probes studying Earth’s radiation belts are in the last stages of their mission – and will end their lives by nosediving into our planet’s atmosphere, the US space agency announced Thursday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#495T2)
Antisocial network may shell out billions to end watchdog's privacy probe, it is reported Facebook is reportedly close to breaking out its checkbook to settle the FTC's legal rumblings over the antisocial network's unique approach to netizens' privacy.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#495Q4)
Why fight an oligopoly when you can subsidize it? The White House and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have both announced big plans to expand broadband internet access across the United States.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#495KT)
CorrectHorseBatteryStaple once again more secure and memorable than ff3sd21n HashCat, an open source password recovery tool, can now crack an eight-character Windows NTLM password hash in less time than it will take to watch Avengers: Endgame.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#495G1)
Online retailer just wants to be loved. And by loved, it means given lots of subsidies no questions asked Amazon has ditched its plans to open a headquarters in New York City after growing opposition to its plans by local officials and unions.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#495G3)
Enterprise punters shut wallets amid 'deteriorating outlooks' and trade tariff blitz The old saying goes that when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. According to NetApp boss George Kurian, some large businesses are already reaching for the tissues.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#495BC)
UK watchdog denies project distracted from day-to-day enforcement The millions spent on investigating the Facebook data harvesting scandal was worth it because it allowed the Information Commissioner's Office to secure greater powers, Elizabeth Denham has said.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#495BE)
When in America, STFU and get a lawyer. Even if you're innocent Marcus Hutchins, the Brit white-hat hacker who halted 2017's WannaCry ransomware outbreak, has failed to stop the American legal system using statements he made while recovering from the effects of holidaying in Las Vegas.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4953B)
Microsoft prez Brad Smith talks AI and ethics with the Pope The head of an organisation noted for being a bit unpleasant over the years, and is now trying to rehabilitate its image for a new generation, met the Pope this week.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#494XZ)
'Not safe on database server!' it screamed back as its makers fear it could be abused for dodgy purposes Analysis Most neural networks are like people with savant syndrome: they have extraordinary capabilities in a very narrow range of tasks.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#494RM)
Commission fumes at 'fake' campaign The EU has finally settled on the wording of its Digital Single Market copyright reform package, a three-years-in-the-making effort, greeting the agreement with a sizzling rebuke of the "misinformation campaigns" around the measures.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#494RP)
Comms giant bared all to Brit security services, says chief Eric Xu, one of three rotating chairmen at Huawei, has said the company is "naked" before the British security services with whom it shares its most intimate secrets: its source code.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#494KM)
No new superjumbos after that date, confirms CEO Airbus has declared it will shut down the A380 superjumbo production line in 2021, after demand from airlines for the double-decker aircraft all but collapsed.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#494F6)
Sales of Jesus mobe slump by double digits in Middle Kingdom Apple's iPhone sales volumes in the strategic Chinese market slumped by double digits in Q4 – the firm's seasonally biggest quarter – as buyers opted for homegrown hardware makers' handsets.…
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Opportunity's mission is over, but InSight almost ready for a driller thriller below Martian surface
by Richard Speed on (#494F8)
Self-hammering spike to see what weather's like 5m down Unfazed by the outpouring of grief over NASA's admission that its teenaged Opportunity rover had likely trundled its last, the agency's lander, InSight, managed to position its second instrument on the surface of the Red Planet.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4949E)
Neon-style tech pumps Helium balloon in future gadgets Processor designer Arm will, we're told, today pull the wraps off its Armv8.1-M architecture for crafting next-gen 32-bit microcontrollers.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4949G)
Roses are reddish, don't cry into your beer... but Hoonigan.com is better than Top Gear A 20-year-old American man who allegedly used the Twitter handle @WantedByFeds has been charged with DDoSing, sending bomb threats and more along with a British teenager who is already in prison.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4944S)
Bank CIO Chaos explains Santander is locked, loaded and ready to fire the cash gun at IBM in an effort to speed the bank's jaunt towards the cloud.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4944V)
A dubious slider and a bargain midranger. Forgotten the chocolates? We'll warn you now: Danger! BBK Electronics brings its Oppo phones to Blighty today, meaning all three Chinese phone giants are now officially competing for Brits' affections.…
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