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by Richard Speed on (#4GF9H)
Used in 34% of American searches. Really Microsoft's don't-mention-the-G-word search engine, Bing, has just the candles blown out on its 10th birthday cake.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4GF9K)
Boffins craft code that compresses machine-learning models for modest microchips Eggheads have devised software that can automatically produce machine-learning models small enough to run inside tiny microcontrollers.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#4GF6V)
Journey into future of disruption with Carl Miller Nothing demonstrates the extent to which Silicon Valley has disrupted society better than Twitter and the head of state who seemingly live tweets his thoughts as they occur to him: Donald Trump.…
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by David Gordon on (#4GF6X)
How to turn your data into valuable business insights Sponsored webcast The arrival of cloud, 5G, the internet of things, and a proliferation of increasingly complex application environments has generated an ever-growing volume of data that can make mere IT mortals feel overwhelmed by a tsunami of machine data. The velocity, volume, variety and veracity factors must be factored into how companies can sift through all their data and turn it into clear insights that benefit their business and advance its goals.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4GF4H)
Also: 53 years since NASA first soft-landed on Moon Roundup Last week NASA finally issued an update on the SpaceX Crew Dragon anomaly while Northrop Grumman enjoyed one all of its very own.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4GF2H)
Video streams can be hijacked by anyone on your Wi-Fi Owners of Supra Smart Cloud TVs are in danger of getting some unwanted programming: it's possible for miscreants or malware on your Wi-Fi network to switch whatever you're watching for video of their or its choosing.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4GEZP)
Not due to whiz past, 5.9 million km away, until 2123. NASA still wants to crash a DART into it A pair of asteroids just whizzed past Earth at 70,000 KPH (43,496 MPH), and although the flyby presented no danger to our home world, we can learn from the close encounter to potentially thwart any future menaces from the cosmos.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4GEZR)
Redmond kinda just shrugs after advertising systems sling scareware pop-ups at users Application makers are crying foul after some of their programs distributed via the Windows Store popped open tech-support scam ads on users' desktops.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4GEPH)
CJ Silverio floats open-source federated approach to save JavaScript community from corporate clutches After being ousted late last year as CTO of JavaScript package registry NPM Inc in a management shakeup, CJ Silverio on Saturday unveiled a self-hosted federated package registry called Entropic that she hopes will serve the JavaScript community better than her former employer's technology.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4GEKV)
Short-sighted and short-tempered, according to CTA A top, and usually rather conservative, technology trade body has turned on President Trump over his threat to impose tariffs on goods imported from Mexico into the United States.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4GEKX)
We sat through 150 minutes of WWDC keynote so you didn't have to suffer At its Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, Tim Cook addressed the Apple faithful and promised a host of software updates and some very expensive hardware – so much so that the hapless presenter was booed when announcing a $999 monitor stand.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4GED9)
Bet ya regret that ironic neverjihaditsogood89 at hotmail.com addy now, huh? Analysis The US government will now require "most" visa applicants to provide details of their social media accounts before they are allowed into the country.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4GE41)
Big Blue headed to US Supreme Court in battle over investment plans The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case between IBM and employees who have accused the enterprise computing giant of mishandling their retirement fund.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4GE43)
Analyst clips 2019 shipments, reckons 3.1% market shrinkage Huawei may have reassessed its ambitions to summit the global smartphone market by 2020 due to political and economic uncertainty between the US and China.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4GDQD)
To a fellow China-based firm, mind you Huawei is reportedly flogging off part of its undersea telecoms cable business, barely six weeks after Australia blocked its attempts to win a major cable contract.…
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by John Oates on (#4GDQE)
In abstentia ruling would have been first step to extradition A Swedish court has ruled against detaining WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange or seeking his extradition over an allegation of rape.…
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by John Oates on (#4GDQF)
Another regulator lines up to have a kick Google shares took more than a 6 per cent tumble this morning as twitchy investors heard reports the US Department of Justice was about to launch a major investigation into the ad giant's business practices.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4GDJA)
Major content wrangler adopts Wrangler as the official CLI Ever-present content delivery network operator Cloudflare has rolled out a bunch of goodies for developers working with its serverless platform.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4GDD8)
6 weeks after board approves pension fund offer, private equity biz trumps bid Hull-based fibre flinger KCOM has thrown its lot behind a £563m bid from private equity investor Macquarie, dropping the previously accepted £504m offer from one of the UK's largest pension funds.…
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by John Oates on (#4GDD9)
High street's online killer appears on actual high street, again The British High Street has a very unlikely saviour in the shape of Amazon following news that physical retail outlets are set to er, pop-up across the UK this year.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4GD7C)
Academic outfit U-turns on blacklisting Chinese bogeyman The US-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has lifted its sanctions on Huawei-linked academic reviewers.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4GD3N)
Meet Network Cloud – Brit telco's latest infrastructure play BT will be using software-defined networking (SDN) tools from Juniper Networks to breathe new life into its ageing infrastructure and prepare it for the deluge of data expected when 5G goes mainstream.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4GD3Q)
Also: Excel gets OCR smarts and Win 10 Oct 2018 Update hits 30% Roundup The Redmond gang enjoyed a busy week, emitting a new build, shovelling new toys into old apps and (temporarily) making insiders look elsewhere for kitten videos.…
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by Team Register on (#4GD3R)
Agenda revealed, blind bird tickets about to take flight Events We're pleased as punch to announce the first speakers for MCubed London 2019, our three-day dive into machine learning, AI and data science, and what they mean for real-world companies and organisations.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4GD07)
Three words to ruin an Apple engineer's day: 'Patrick Wardle disclosure' Malware can bypass protections in macOS Mojave, and potentially access user data as well as the webcam and mic – by exploiting a hole in Apple's legacy app support.…
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by John Oates on (#4GD09)
Childish prank for childish visitor Here's hoping Trump spotted the welcome willy at the Essex village of Hatfield Heath when he flew into London Stansted Airport this morning for his UK state visit.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4GCWJ)
No data nicked in weekend attack but systems and server pulled to contain infection Bio-analytical testing biz Eurofins Scientific today admitted it was the subject of a ransomware attack at the weekend.…
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by John Oates on (#4GCWK)
Service will split into separate apps for music, TV, podcasts Apple is expected to confirm the imminent death of its iTunes service to be replaced with separate apps for music, video and podcasts.…
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by John Oates on (#4GCSZ)
Mega-chips ahoy: German chip biz takes over piece of US real estate Munich-based Infineon has said it will cough €9bn for California's Cypress Semiconductor.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4GCT1)
Plus machine systems can trounce humans at Quake III flag captures Roundup Let's get right to it: here's your latest roundup of recent machine-learning related news beyond what we've already reported.…
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by John Oates on (#4GCQQ)
Heaven forfend, someone had to use their actual TV speakers Owners of Bose kit are filling support forums with moans that a recent firmware update has introduced a deeply irritating crackling noise to "the world's best performing soundbar".…
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by John Oates on (#4GCP2)
Plus a punched card reader and some extra manuals Big congratulations to Adam Bradley and Chris Blackburn, who have raised enough cash to get their rescued IBM 360s back from Nuremberg.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4GCMB)
Hey – watch where you're pointing that code! Who, Me? A fresh week means a fresh story to add to The Register's regular hall of shame where hapless techies tell tales of in-the-field slip-ups: welcome to Who, Me?…
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Nginx nJS will need patches, hotels exposed via security systems, Docker containers dinged, and more
by Shaun Nichols on (#4GCHQ)
Another week of security mishaps is in the books Roundup Here's a quick summary of news in the world of information security beyond everything we've already covered.…
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by Team Register on (#4GC5W)
Unlucky netizens struggle to connect to web giant suffering from 'network congestion' Google is right now recovering from a multi-hour outage that knocked several of its internet services offline for unlucky netizens on Sunday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4G97P)
Server hoster apologizes, undoes system slaying after washing away AI org Nicolas Beauvais, the CTO of a two-person AI startup called Raisup, raised a ruckus on Twitter on Friday to revive his company and it worked.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4G8YT)
What a radical idea Maine is about to become the latest US state to – and get this – mandate that ISPs obtain subscribers' permission before selling their data to advertisers.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4G8VA)
Popular admin tool shifts to .Net Core 3.0 amid talk of future features Microsoft on Thursday released a preview version of PowerShell 7, its command-line shell and scripting language for administrators. The software was once was limited to Windows but opened up to Linux (including arm64) and macOS three years ago.…
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by John Oates on (#4G8QB)
Nothing to see here, pervs – it is all in your mind Attempts by the US Air Force to keep up with its Navy pilot rivals in the fine art of contrail cock drawing is nothing of the sort, according to service flacks.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4G8M3)
Mad dash stalled growth and screwed revenue targets Subscriptions is the nirvana that tech vendors are trying to journey towards since investors love predictability. For hyperconverged bigwig Nutanix, it has proved to be something of a challenge but for all the wrong reasons.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4G8FS)
Deadline for offers is June 14 MapR Technologies, once a shining star of the emerging big data analytics set with a valuation of more than $1 billion, has two weeks to find an investor. Failure to do will see the software developer shutter its HQ and terminate 122 staff, including founder and CEO John Schroeder.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4G8FV)
Hot in that waistcoat, innit, Gareth Southgate? RotM The Football Association - which governs competitive football in England - has fallen prey to the rise of the player analytics machines, having thrown its lot in with Google's public cloud and associated tools.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4G8BJ)
Let's not talk about the $48bn debt pile Sagging server market demand, protracted chip shortages and the US’ tariff shenanigans with China are among the things Dell Tech is watching with interest after lowering fiscal ’20 revenue targets.…
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by John Oates on (#4G86K)
Plus market's slow to swallow gear, especially storage. Hmmf. At least Huawei 'ban' won't hurt too much Storage and semiconductor maker Marvell Technology Group played down the impact of the effective ban on selling chips to Huawei as it filed losses of $21m for the quarter ended 4 May.…
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by John Oates on (#4G86M)
Show us what you knew and when, shareholders demand A court in Delaware has backed investors who want to see internal emails and other documents relating to how Facebook handed data on 50 million users to Cambridge Analytica.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4G81G)
Case being heard in US, but disties in Middle East, Europe warn delays will go on till at least August Exclusive A courtroom showdown over a patent infringement allegation that Fujifilm brought against Sony is crippling supply of LTO-8 tape media stateside and further afield, and a resolution doesn't appear to be imminent.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4G7XH)
Sorry, wrong Eton – the power distribution specialist says rent out battery capacity to the grid Power distribution specialist Eaton has kicked off a pilot project in Ireland that uses data centre UPS systems to help power the grid in periods of peak demand, to avoid grid-level outages.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4G7SH)
Now they're withdrawing co-operation too Following disquiet over the IEEE's decision to block Huawei-linked researchers from doing various academic tasks, a Chinese computer research body has reportedly severed ties with the IEEE in retaliation.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4G7SK)
If you've bought a Foxes shirt lately, check your statements Leicester City Football Club has quietly told people who bought stuff from its website that their financial details have been stolen by hackers – and those details include credit card numbers and CVVs.…
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by John Oates on (#4G7PF)
Stock prices take predictable battering Minicab disruptor Uber burned a billion dollars in the quarter ended 31 March 2019, its first since going public.…
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