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by Simon Sharwood on (#3J4E0)
Patch or risk Revenge Of The Users Samba admins: get patching and/or updating. Unless you’re content to have your admin passwords overwritten by, well, anyone else using Samba.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3J4AB)
Physicist now has a new chance to truly know the mind of God Physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3J45Q)
Jericho Capital says deal would benefit Dell alone, suggests VMware buy Red Hat instead Investment firm Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P has departed from its usual practice of not commenting publicly on deals by publishing a scathing letter addressed to VMware’s independent directors decrying a reverse merger between VMware and Dell.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3J446)
It's like Spy Vs Spy, but with neural network boffins Adversarial models, already known to defeat the artificial intelligence behind image classifiers and computer audio, are also good at defeating malware detection.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3J3ZB)
ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificates now live Let's Encrypt has updated its certificate automation support and added Wildcard Certificates to its system.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3J3Y2)
Machine learning and AI could make the problem worse Voice recognition systems are sexist: they struggle to deal with female voices compared to male ones.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3J3Y4)
And buries past flops as it pitches SaaS to slay Outlook and Excel for US$25 a month Salesforce has flicked the On switch for two new apps in its "Essentials" range, the cut-down and cut-price version of its SaaS platform launched last November.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3J3V6)
Crim cops to running illegal testbed A Russian coder who ran and franchised a dark web service that optimized malware and checked it against antivirus engines has pled guilty to one charge of conspiracy and one charge of aiding and abetting computer intrusion.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3J3V7)
Copyright case puts royalty model under the microscope UPDATED Audio specialist Dolby Labs is suing Adobe for copyright violation as the two companies sit at odds over licensing payments.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3J3P0)
DoubleClick for Publishers has been exhibiting unexpected behavior for several hours Google's ad service DoubleClick for Publishers has been experiencing problems since at least 1000 Pacific Time (1700 UTC) on Tuesday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3J3P1)
Holes useful for malware on completely pwned PCs, servers Analysis CTS-Labs, a security startup founded last year in Israel, sent everyone scrambling and headlines flying today – by claiming it has identified "multiple critical security vulnerabilities and manufacturer backdoors in AMD’s latest Epyc, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile processors."…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3J3KQ)
ICANN throws itself under bus to hit GDPR deadline A plan by ICANN to let governments collectively decide who is allowed to bypass new European privacy rules over domain names has been blasted by its most powerful member, the United States.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3J3F0)
Plus plenty of other Microsoft and Adobe bugs to fix Patch Tuesday Microsoft delivered another hefty bundle of patches with its scheduled monthly update.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3J3CD)
Great, you're in space. But everything's all blurry An ophthalmologist studying astronauts in the International Space Station has found long-term structural changes in their eyes.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3J39E)
But look closely and you'll note the PCLOB has no teeth The federal agency designed to ensure US spy agencies protect people's privacy and civil liberties has been revived two years after it was effectively killed off by Congress.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3J345)
Hyperledger executive director Brian Behlendorf wants to demystify distributed ledgers Analysis At the Open Source Leadership Summit in Sonoma, California, last week, The Register caught up with Brian Behlendorf, executive director of The Hyperledger Project, and had a chance to chat about the state of open source blockchain technology.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3J347)
Ride these iron donkeys and everyone (else) will make a packet Toyota is to flog around 10,000 connected cars to vehicle hire biz Avis over the next three years.…
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Lawless man sold lifestyle devices at Cash Converters A university IT technician stole Apple Macs valued at £22,200 and flogged them for £200 a piece at rail pawnbroker Cash Converters to fund his drug habit, a court has heard.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3J2YV)
Researchers develop method to sniff out forum conflicts A group from Stanford University says conflicts on Reddit forums follow a reliable enough pattern to be predicted before they happen.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3J2YX)
We're told Bruce Willis is standing by The next time a giant asteroid threatens the Earth, Russia may just know how many megatons of explosives are needed to blow the thing to smithereens.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3J2W7)
Less weird, less clunky, and a four day+ battery life Fitbit has taken the wraps off its second (or fifth, depending on how you're counting) smartwatch, Versa, claiming the new model has inherited Pebble DNA.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3J2RV)
Rocket veterans blame explosion on design flaw NASA has fingered design failings by SpaceX in a much-delayed report (PDF) on the 2015 explosion of a Falcon 9 on its way to the ISS.…
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by John Leyden on (#3J2P3)
Flaws meant others could read, meddle with encrypted emails Recently resolved vulnerabilities in SecurEnvoy's encrypted email transfer SecurMail created a way for encrypted emails in users' inboxes to be read, overwritten and deleted by others.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3J2HW)
Survey finds almost half track students' internet use Privacy activists have called for more transparency and parental control over web monitoring in British schools after a survey indicated that almost half track their students online.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3J2ER)
Control. Control. Control The Mozilla Foundation has released a Firefox for Enterprise with sysadmin controls to manage deployment. F4E arrives in beta form today.…
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Spring mini-statement for the UK: Who gets broadband cash etc UK Chancellor of the Exchequer* Philip Hammond unveiled the first areas to receive £95m from the government's full-fibre fund and suggestions for how the UK could tax large digital businesses - in a slimmed-down "Spring Statement" light on details.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3J254)
Court docs reveal women filed over 230 internal complaints of discrimination, harassment More than 230 internal complaints of harassment and discrimination within Microsoft were handled in a “lackluster†way by the business, according to documents made public yesterday in a class action lawsuit.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3J22S)
Amid rumours that handset add-ons initiative is for the axe Motorola has acknowledged reports that it's cutting its workforce in the windy US city of Chicago – just not by the 50 per cent rumoured.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3J1Z8)
Kitty Hawk is also personally backed by Larry Page A “self-flying†electric air taxi, as built by a startup backed by Google moneybags Larry Page, has reportedly been undergoing flight tests in New Zealand.…
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'Cos the garden was soooo rosy before that Outsourcers are anxious their hard-earned reputations are being besmirched by the recent collapse of Brit multinational construction firm Carillion, so much so their representative organisation is seeking a drastic image rebrand.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3J1RN)
Moomins and Lordi on the board? It's in the national interest! The Finnish government has snapped up 3.3 per cent of Nokia Corporation in a bid to shore up national ownership.…
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by Team Register on (#3J1PC)
Final countdown for CLL18 early bird tickets If you want to get up to speed on the key ideas changing software development and deployment AND dive deep on the technologies most important to you, grab your early bird tickets for Continuous Lifecycle London while you can.…
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But do they really need to worry? Analysis UK.gov is investing more and more taxpayer cash on Amazon Web Services, with spend through the G-Cloud digital marketplace growing eight fold year-on-year to £16m in 2017.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3J1J1)
Right To Be Forgotten trial continues in London The Right to be Forgotten trial has heard arguments on whether a man who gave interviews to national newspapers about his criminal past should be able to have those reports, among others, deleted from Google Search.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3J1EM)
Unloved by customers, and less and less loved by retailers Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality technology hit the shelves five months ago and the signs aren't good: dropped by retailers and ignored by developers, Redmond could be facing another Windows Mobile moment.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#3J1CW)
Open source or Hotel California, there's something for everyone Container orchestration comes in different flavours, but actual effort must be put into identifying the system most palatable.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3J19S)
And for politicians to regulate before disruption disrupts disruptively London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for social networks and sharing economy platforms to act for social good, rather than profit.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3J17E)
But first, the big catchup: adding proper mail, scalability, mobility and JavaScript for devs IBM and HCL have outlined their plans for the Notes/Domino portfolio that the former offloaded to the latter last year.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3J14M)
No 'legitimate users' of modded Blackberries, says FBI An arrest by US authorities last week has brought to light alleged associations between encrypted phone supplier Phantom Secure and international drug trafficking.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3J0ZC)
Spat with activist investor continues as companies feud over voting procedures The spat over activist investor Starboard Value's plan to have Mellanox sell itself or do something else to enhance its value has resumed.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3J0SH)
Light and proximity sensors blocked for Firefox 62 Firefox has revealed it will bin more privacy-invasive APIs, deprecating access to the light sensor, device proximity sensor, and user proximity detection.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3J0Q1)
Virtzilla's Amazonian cloud is also tooling up for managed services providers VMware has started planning to bring its Amazon Web Services tie-up to Australia and Japan.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3J0Q3)
Full-fare payers can travel anonymously, but not concession-card holders The public transport authority in the Australian State of New South Wales has been told to limit the amount of data it collects with its stored value "Opal card", after a decision released by the state's Civil and Administrative Tribunal in February 2018.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3J0K4)
'Great, great company' to 'security risk' in six months The White House crushed Broadcom's bid for Qualcomm, declaring the deal cannot go due to national security concerns.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3J0K5)
Judge Koh trims class-action complaint, but suit will proceed The remains of Yahoo! will be forced to defend the class action complaint filed by customers whose data was exposed in the 2014 megahack.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3J0F7)
One of the 'super-Earth' finds might even have liquid water A team of astronomers have spotted 16 exoplanets, including a ‘super-Earth’ that might hold liquid water, hovering around 12 low mass stars hundreds of light years away from the Solar System.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3J0DH)
ISP cut off our secure mail service, says dev The creator and co-founder of Tutanota is blaming Comcast after his encrypted mail service was briefly taken offline earlier this month.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3J0C0)
United Church of Christ not serene about Sinclair media ownership rule relaxation The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has picked up another foe in its ongoing love-in with Big Cable. But this time it's the Big Guy. Yes, we're talking about Jesus.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3J07S)
Computer outage leaves Canucks grounded The famed politeness of Canadians was put to the test on Monday after the nation's largest airline suffered a massive computer outage, leaving travelers stranded.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3J05N)
Boffins shows that sound output devices secretly capture audio Computer speakers and headphones make passable microphones and can be used to receive data via ultrasound and send signals back, making the practice of air gapping sensitivite computer systems less secure.…
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