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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3HF5F)
Wait. Don't you do those already? Bose's noise-jamming headphones are ubiquitous with business travellers and also popular among commuters, but the 11,000-strong company will face designer competition from Apple in a battle that pits two of the industry's most-respected engineering teams against each other.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3HF3Y)
It was your plan all along! 'Oh no it wasn't.' Oh yes it was. 'CFIUS is BEHIND you!' Qualcomm took a deep breath, counted to three and responded to Broadcom's weekend broadside before postponing its stockholder meeting by a month.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3HF2A)
Daily backups? We've heard of them The UK's self-proclaimed number one website provider, 123 Reg, is having yet another very bad day, although arguably not as bad as those of its long-suffering customers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3HF01)
Let's go to all-flash arrays' house instead Despite the storage market growing 13.7 per cent annually in the fourth 2017 quarter, the external array section grew less than 2 per cent and is forecast to decline, according to IDC's worldwide enterprise storage systems tracker.…
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by Michael Cote on (#3HEYC)
Architecting for change In large organisations, the question is rarely “what are these newfangled practices and technologies,†but more “how could we actually do them here?â€â€¦
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by Richard Speed on (#3HEWK)
Over 40? You've used one of these. Of course you have The ZX81 was launched 37 years ago this week as a £49.95 kit (£69.95 assembled) and introduced an entire generation to the joys of computing, fights over the family television and prodigious use of sticky tape.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3HESK)
CEO bullish as biz pushes Cypher QL and new DBaaS Emil Eifrem, chief exec of Neo4j, has said that graph databases are at a turning point for so long that you'd imagine he's bored of the line by now. But 2018 might just be the year his predictions come true.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3HESM)
Don't panic: 'supremacy' is the point at which quantum kit trumps classical computers Google reckons it's on the cusp of demonstrating “quantum supremacy†with the development of a 72-qubit processor.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3HEP8)
This is why the IETF's SUITs squad wants to make IoT firmware updates fast and easy The IETF has noticed how badly Internet of Things firmware is managed, and wants it fixed.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3HEMF)
New HPs can survive 'repeated germicide wipes', but disclaimer says they can't cure anything HP Inc has announced a trio of slightly-odd products intended for use in hospitals.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3HEJ7)
CEO says propaganda's a worry, but the deeper problem is Americans' credulity Searchers for Russian influence on the United States 2016 presidential election have of late swung their searchlights towards Reddit, which has tried to explain its role in the affair.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3HEGP)
First XCP-ng release, based on Xen Server 7.4's new GPU goodness, due March 31st XCP-ng, the effort to revive an open source version of XenServer, will go ahead after crushing its crowdfunding campaign.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3HEDV)
There is no honour among CPU thieves Cryptocurrency-mining malware-scum have started to write code that evicts rivals from compromised computers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3HEBM)
Cisco's ambition for subscription adoption advances Cisco's updated its Tetration network monitoring software to tackle application security and multi-vendor policy enforcement.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3HE8T)
Not a typo. This stuff will make top-of-rack switches sizzle in 2019 Marvell Semiconductor is off and running with 802.3cd-compliant chips, and reckons it's the first sand-baker to ship to the standard.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3HE7J)
Veteran Jeff Jennings to get the band back together with VMware founder Diane Greene Jeff Jennings, VMware's senior veep and general manager for security and networking has left the company to join Google.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3HE38)
If they are going v-e-r-y slowly A team of engineers have developed algorithms that reconstruct images of objects hiding around corners or behind walls, and believe it could be used to help make self-driving cars safer one day - albeit very slow ones at present.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3HE3A)
"It was a mistake," says exec. Facebook has apologized for sending out a survey to find out how the social network should respond when adult men ask teenaged girls for sexually explicit images.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3HE0J)
Memcached attacks are going to be this year's thing Last week, the code repository GitHub was taken off air in a 1.3Tbps denial of service attack. We predicted then that there would be more such attacks and it seems we were right.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3HDZ2)
McIntyre going to Redmond as non-compete case wraps up Microsoft and IBM have settled a lawsuit over the former hiring away the latter's chief diversity officer.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3HDXP)
Not much brotherly love in this Philly court case Uber has been hit with a lawsuit over its failure to disclose the 2016 theft of its customer and driver records.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3HDQX)
My god, it's full of hydrocarbons A team of researchers carried out a series of experiments to study how complex hydrocarbons, an important class of molecules needed to create the building blocks for life, formed in space.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3HDN8)
Fly the insecure skies International airline Emirates leaks customers' sensitive personal information to third-party marketing partners and network adversaries, according to Konark Modi, a data security engineer for Cliqz, a privacy-focused browser based on Firefox.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3HDJH)
Redmond unveils custom US government versions of clouds Courting the lucrative government contract market, Microsoft has unveiled custom versions of Azure Stack and Microsoft 365 for the US government.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3HDG7)
Oak Ridge, Lawrence Livermore labs slated for beastmode kit in 2021-2023 The two new mystery exascale computing systems known only as Frontier and El Capitan popped up on a budget request last week. They are being developed by the US government and have been slated for deployment in 2022 and 2023.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3HDG9)
Inventor dies in poverty after patents didn’t protect Obit Trevor Baylis, one of Britain's most well-loved inventors and the creator of the clockwork radio that was designed to save lives in the developing world, has died at the age of 80 after battling Crohn's disease.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3HD5C)
ICO strategy outlines plans to slurp up academic expertise The Information Commissioner's Office has promised organisations a regulatory sandbox to test out the data protection implications of new tech as part of its first technology strategy.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3HD1Z)
We're lost without you, Zuck. Save us! Comment Stand by for more clickbait. Facebook has abandoned its "fix" for news after publishers complained about a drop in traffic.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3HCZX)
The dark side of easy R&D cash A Chinese firm's buyout of a British semiconductor company may have directly led to China developing railgun weaponry and electromagnetic aircraft carrier catapults for its navy, according to reports.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3HCWV)
Campaigners say proposed law would create a 'discriminatory' system for data access rights Campaign groups have increased pressure on the UK government to remove a section of the Data Protection Bill that could effectively prevent people gaining access to immigration data held on them.…
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I don't care about running water, where are my internets? Up to a quarter of new builds still lack access to superfast internet, according to a study by comparison site Thinkbroadband.…
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by David Gordon on (#3HCQ2)
Webinar gives the full picture Promo Launched in August at VMWorld in Las Vegas, Supermicro’s vSAN Hyperconverged Solution promises to optimize performance for specific workload uses and make the world a greener place, thanks to its superior power efficiency.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3HCQ4)
And takes a swipe at American UAV regs An American upstart says it is the first company to implement the EU's vision of drone air traffic management – over the skies of Switzerland.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3HCJB)
Red giant revives a nearby corpse through the emission of cosmic wind The European Space Agency's INTEGRAL space observatory has captured an unusual piece of stellar voodoo: the moment when a dead star was brought back to life by a nearby red giant.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3HCJD)
CFIUS sends Broadcom deal TITSUP* for 30 days American national security bods at the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) have asked Qualcomm to delay tomorrow’s vote on Broadcom’s proposed $117bn (£84.7bn) takeover.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3HCE8)
Alleges ex-sales bods copied files and solicited former clients Dell EMC has tossed a trade secrets sueball at two ex-sales employees who left for Rubrik, alleging that they solicited other EMC staff to jump ship and approached Dell EMC customers.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3HCCX)
Country says no in licence referendum Swiss voters have decided to retain the country's costly TV licence in a referendum.…
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by John Leyden on (#3HC9H)
Similar to Apache Struts flaw that stuffed Equifax Pivotal's Spring Data REST project has a serious security hole that needs patching.…
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by Team Register on (#3HC9K)
Nail down your tickets by St Patricks If you’ve been caught out by the end of our early bird ticket offer for Continuous Lifecycle, don’t despair...we’re extending it till March 16, giving you another chance to enjoy the best in DevOps, Containers, Agile and Continuous Delivery AND save a bundle.…
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CityFibre applies for review, says ASA is failing consumers CityFibre has applied to take the Advertising Standards Authority's to court over its decision to approve the continued use of the term "fibre" to describe services delivered over copper-based networks.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#3HC5A)
Using the Dart language for apps on Android and iOS MWC2018 Fancy a Flutter? Google is hoping users will take a bet on its new cross-platform mobile development framework, whose first beta was announced at Mobile World Congress last week.…
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by Stuart Burns on (#3HC3Y)
The promised land of VCSA – time to start packing Up until relatively recently, VMware’s vCenter was a Windows-only affair. With version 5 came the VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) based on a hardened Linux installation. It essentially left behind the legacy issues around management and patching (and all manner of other issues) that impact Windows. The next major release of vSphere is to be the last that supports a vCenter sat on Windows.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3HC2R)
French minister says around two per cent of turnover sounds about right Bruno Le Maire, France's minister for the economy, has revealed that a plan to levy a special tax on Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon will soon be revealed by European authorities.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3HC0A)
Samsung's 3840 x 1080 CHG90 gives you 2,891 Excel cells ... and a sore neck Review In 2017 we learned that Samsung had given the world the CHG90, a curved, 49-inch, 3840 x 1080 monitor with a 32:9 aspect ratio. Rather a lot of Reg readers read and/or commented on the story about the screen and more than a few of you seemed intrigued by the ideas of having your heads just-about-surrounded by display.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3HBXS)
Tedious Y2K maintenance made chap a bit vague, then a bit sore Who, me? Welcome to the seventh instalment of Who, me? The Register's new column in which readers share stories of the times they broke stuff without any help at all from users.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3HBT2)
Open source dominates the content management system market The web-watchers at WTechs have just noted a milestone: WordPress now accounts for 30 per cent of the world's web sites.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3HBQ1)
Icelandic cops cuff 11 on suspicion of data centre robberies Icelandic police have cuffed 11 people in connection with four raids on data centres that targeted cryptocurrency mining equipment.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3HBJW)
Five-qubit creation is behind the great firewall and outside it at the same time! Alibaba reckons the world needs another quantum computer in the cloud, so it's opened up access to an 11-qubit system.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3HBE0)
User location spoofing? Check. Fake emergency alerts? Check. Plenty more nasties, too A group of American university researchers have broken key 4G LTE protocols to generate fake messages, snoop on users, and forge user location data.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3HBA4)
Oracle released the code, but not the name, so now devs have to make sure package names make sense The open source version of Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) has been renamed Jakarta EE to satisfy Oracle's desire to control the "Java" brand.…
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