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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4392C)
Majority of sketchy apps can be traced to China, study finds Many popular free VPN apps are sketchy Chinese operations with dubious privacy policies, according to research.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#438XV)
Expert panel hopes to make dreams of improvement reality Health secretary Matt Hancock's tech brains trust met for the first time today as the UK government revealed the people it hopes will come up with workable ideas to fix the NHS's creaking IT systems.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#438XW)
We'll thrust it even deeper into chipmakers, vow investigators China has claimed to have gathered "massive evidence" in its ongoing investigation into Korean chip giants Samsung and SK Hynix and the US's Micron for alleged violations of its antitrust laws.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#438T4)
And those utility price controls? Er, not helpful Britain's critical national infrastructure is vulnerable to hackers and neither UK.gov nor privatised operators are doing enough to tighten things up, a Parliamentary committee has warned.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#438MF)
Disgruntled investor says shareholders are being 'misled' on finances Hortonworks is facing a sueball over its uneven merger with competitor Cloudera, as a proposed class action takes aim at the company's claims to shareholders.…
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by Richard Currie on (#438MH)
All you need to do this at home is a party balloon and roadkill The year is 2018 and planet Earth is on the edge. Tensions between the great powers are at boiling point, fires ravage the western United States, and the European Union is in disarray. But yesterday in Atlanta, Georgia, the world's finest minds gathered to answer the question on everyone's lips.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#438G4)
Data including CVV numbers slurped up as customers submitted it to website Vision Direct has admitted customers' personal and financial data was leaked earlier this month after hackers compromised the company's website.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#438G6)
He was there when Bill Gates tried to carve up tech Obit We're sorry to bring news that John Wharton, a popular and influential figure in Silicon Valley, died last week.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#438CC)
Do they accept Monero in Hell? One or more completely feckless scumbags have loaded the Make-A-Wish foundation's international website with crypto-mining malware scripts.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#438CE)
Halt – who goes there? No one, from now on As if its financial woes weren't bad enough, IBM is suffering the further indignity of having a Scottish rail operator halting services to a station named after everyone's favourite mainframe maker.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4389S)
I've heard so much about the team, she burbles. Yes, us too TSB has named Debbie Crosbie as the chief exec to clear up its tech mess and persuade customers they can still trust the meltdown bank.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4389V)
Microsoft's cloudy service finds Mondays just as hard as the rest of us Update Happy Monday, everyone! Azure Multi-Factor Authentication is struggling, meaning that some users with the functionality enabled are now super secure. And, er, locked out.…
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by David Gordon on (#4387B)
Discover the latest attacks, learn the best defence tactics Promo No matter how sophisticated your security precautions are, you can never assume your computer systems are impenetrable. Only the most alert and highly skilled defenders can fight off determined cybercriminals who know how to circumvent today’s advanced security and monitoring tools.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4384W)
UK watchdog waves fist in paper’s general direction, asks it to stop forcing people to accept tracking The Washington Post newspaper's online subscription options don't comply with European Union data protection rules – but the UK's privacy watchdog can only issue it with a firm telling off.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4384Y)
Like Ubuntu, hate upgrading? Canonical founder has good news. And a mighty, mighty beard Interview Mark Shuttleworth delivered an unashamed plug for Ubuntu while cheerfully throwing a little shade on the competition at the OpenStack Berlin 2018 summit last week.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#4380C)
Embellished CV almost spells disaster Who, Me? Roll up, roll up, for another instalment of Who, Me?, the weekly column in which El Reg tries to cure the very worst cases of Monday blues with fist-biting tales from readers of tech jobs gone wrong.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#437VW)
Boffins find those who know about phishing more likely to be duped than the less informed Phishing works more frequently on those who understand what social engineering is than on those who live in blissful ignorance, or so a study of students at University of Maryland, Baltimore County suggests.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#436D8)
Silicon Valley legend dies in firestorm that has killed scores while more than 1,000 are missing Obituary Bill Godbout, a maverick techie who played a pivotal role in getting computers into the hands of the masses, was killed this week in California's wildfires. He was aged 79.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#43516)
Plus, why is Kaspersky Lab getting into chess? Roundup What a week it has been: we had the creation of a new government agency, a meltdown flashback, and of course, Patch Tuesday.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#434P7)
Measurement nerds enter the 21st century As incredible as it may seem, until this week the definitive measurement of a kilogram was a cylinder made of an alloy comprising 90 per cent platinum and 10 per cent iridium sat under a glass dome in a room in Paris.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4349F)
We never meant to make that widely public which is why we made a public FAQ for it Microsoft was, and maybe still is, considering injecting targeted adverts into the Windows 10 Mail app.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4346S)
El Reg drills into banned technology with Freedom-of-Info request The US Department of Defense's "do not buy" list of foreign software and equipment turns out to be about as long as the list of bug-free Windows releases or privacy-focused Facebook apps.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4340E)
AWS comes up with blanket policies to smother public-facing cloud silos Amazon Web Services is taking steps to halt the epidemic of data leaks caused by the S3 cloud buckets it hosts from being accidentally left wide open to the internet by customers.…
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by Chris Williams on (#433X6)
Ex-Oracle man gets top job as another experienced woman exec quits web ads titan Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene has quit the online ads giant, and will be replaced by ex-Oracle executive Thomas Kurian.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#433X8)
Telemetry data slurp broke the law, Dutch govt eggheads say Microsoft broke Euro privacy rules by carrying out the "large scale and covert" gathering of private data through its Office apps.…
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by Richard Speed on (#433SC)
Final update of beloved development adding ARM64 Microsoft devs rejoice! A new version of Visual Studio 2017 has arrived replete with fixes, tweaks and ARM64 support.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#433MY)
Also: Huawei cloud lands in Africa, Nokia OpenStack, Cisco Nexus BIOS bugs Riverbed made two announcements covering its SteelHead SD-WAN solution this week – a bunch of enhancements, and subscription pricing options.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#433G6)
Sells 'intelligent' chassis, removable drive magazine, StorNext base station Quantum has stepped sideways into the autonomous vehicle testing market with a data logging system integrated with its StorNext multi-tiered workflow file management product.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#433BM)
Hold on Redmond, don't light those fireworks yet, the dominance will be shortlived Microsoft's Surface line leapfrogged Apple's iPad Pro as the detachable tablet of choice for tech distributors in Western Europe but that top spot definitely won't be sustained, or so IDC says.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#43370)
As shareholders sign off on Big Red's big pay packet for first time in seven years Oracle is to slurp up software-defined WAN provider Talari Networks for an undisclosed sum.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#4331Z)
Even Softbank balked at these tethered terrors Google's parent company Alphabet has closed down its biped robot maker Schaft after failing to find a buyer.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#43321)
Routine file about accused crim suddenly mentions WikiLeaker's name An apparent cut-and-paste error has revealed that American prosecutors may have already filed criminal charges against cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaks fugitive Julian Assange.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#432XH)
$1.4bn match made in heaven BlackBerry has made its biggest acquisition ever, spending over half of its cash pile to bolster its threat detection unit.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#432SP)
Gangs Matrix led to 'multiple and serious' breaches of data protection rules, says watchdog London cops have broken data protection rules by using a controversial database that ranks people's likelihood of gang-related violence but fails to distinguish between victims and perps, and low and high-risk people.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#432SR)
Guess what happens? Stockholders thaw to idea of cashing in Dell Technologies has upped the buy price for Class V stock to win support from shareholders that threatened to block the proposed transaction and hinder the company’s return to the US stock market.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#432PP)
First UK conviction for reckless UAV flying A Russian-speaking man from Cambridgeshire has become the first person in the UK to be convicted of illegally flying a drone beneath a police helicopter during a search operation.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#432PQ)
EE: We're sorry, Ofcom. Virgin: Why, that's... unjustified and disproportionate! The UK's comms watchdog claims to have slapped a £13.3m penalty on EE and Virgin Media for fleecing customers who wanted to exit their broadband or mobile phone contracts before they were due to expire.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#432KZ)
Not the best at anything, but a solid, great value performer Review What if Huawei used OnePlus's Oxygen UI, I found myself musing recently. Wouldn't it be the perfect package? Huawei's amazing RF performance, and bleeding-edge tech, with a UI that didn't actually suck?…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#432M1)
Swipe – open toilet door – and swipe again Something for the Weekend, Sir? "Work out loud," my prospective new employer tells me, adding that "we are a team, not a family". Sister Sledge need not apply.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#432HC)
Chinese fabber YMTC has cunning tech catch-up plan China's Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC) aims to leapfrog 96-layer NAND and move straight to the production of 128-layer flash in 2020, according to a report.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#432HE)
Says company that sells switching services Millions of Britons unwilling to be parted from their urban broadband and not-too-shabby mobile phone reception are shunning rural living, according to a survey.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#432CA)
Dusts off unused 'paperweights' to save data entry program On Call Dust yourselves off, dear readers, it’s Friday once more and time for On Call, our weekly column of reader’s technical triumphs.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4329X)
Six weeks after first release of build 1809, and Redmond still can't get it right The 1809 build of Windows 10 and Windows Server is fast becoming infamous, after Redmond pulled it shortly after release when it started deleting people's files and stumbling in other ways. Redmond reissued the software on Tuesday, and today it's clear you shouldn't rush into deploying it, if installing it at all, in its present state.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#4327A)
Mislabelled signal raised rover fans' hopes, just for a while Space-fans pricked up their Twitter-ears today, when just for a few minutes it looked like the little lost rover Opportunity had woken up.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#4320C)
I see the red team and I want it painted black Australia's government's crypto-busting legislation risks blocking security research, a leading Internet policy boffin has warned.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#431Y9)
Ongoing Bitcoin woes left the channel holding all the cards, and that's not a good thing Nvidia has turned in growth in revenue and profit, but has been punished for missing its guidance in the third quarter of its fiscal 2019, all amid a continuing sharp drop in demand from crypto-currency miners.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#431VC)
Sudden changes to FCC document raise eyebrows Analysis There's a new battle brewing in Washington DC and for once it's not between Democrats and Republicans, but over who gets to decide the policies for a new trillion-dollar market: The internet in space.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#431RD)
CEO insists Chinese spy chip bombshell 'impossible' Super Micro Computer on Thursday reported net sales in the range of $952m to $962m for the first quarter of its fiscal 2019, which ended September 30, 2018. That's higher than company guidance of $810m to $870m, and up roughly 40 per cent on the year-ago period.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#431MR)
Mark promises independent oversight and AI as Sheryl leans far, far away Analysis Facebook on Thursday (again) reiterated its commitment to fighting misinformation, following a report that the data gathering biz hired a public relations firm, Definers Public Affairs, to promote content that undermine company critics.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#431HC)
Gadgets can be hacked to spy on, find youngsters – claim Parents could be unwittingly putting their children's safety and privacy at risk, thanks to security vulnerabilities in potentially millions of kids' GPS-tracker watches.…
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