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by Kieren McCarthy on (#431CR)
FCC signs off on broadband-in-space plans, plus connections to Europe's GPS America's broadband and telly regulator, the FCC, today approved a vast expansion in satellite networks around Earth.…
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by Richard Speed on (#431CT)
Allows updating user space without breaking everything Hot on the heels of its OpenStack Platform 14, Red Hat has announced the beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4317Q)
Default judgement for one-time antivirus bad boy Infosec personality John McAfee has been found legally "liable" via a default judgment for the death of his neighbour, who was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in his Belize home in 2012.…
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by Richard Speed on (#43134)
Just don't mention those three Big Blue letters, OK? Red Hat used this week's OpenStack Summit to announce the impending arrival of its OpenStack Platform 14. We had a chat with Red Hat's Nick Barcet about cadence, Kubernetes, and most definitely not IBM.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#43136)
Facebook boss delays, denies and deflects more invitations to international committee "Delay, deny and deflect." Turns out Facebook's strategy for dealing with major threats works pretty well for small fry too because Mark Zuckerberg has once again turned down MPs' advances.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#430YM)
Of course they've crammed some AI in there too HPE Aruba today released a line of wireless hotspots supporting next year's 802.11ax/Wi-Fi 6 standard – and then immediately sullied them by applying the AI marketing buzzword.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#430TH)
It's all about hyperconverged – no we're not breaking out those numbers With one eye on uncertain currency movements and the developing US/ China trade war, NetApp reported a solid set of Q2 numbers, albeit figures that highlighted a slowdown in its monumental all-flash array sales growth.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#430NJ)
Now go away, we’re saving the world Analysis Google’s DeepMind operation insists UK patients have nothing to worry about now that Google has absorbed the subsidiary - but lawyers and privacy campaigners have raised doubts.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#430NK)
Commission will 'endeavour' to make an adequacy decision during transition period The UK will be locked out of European Union databases once the Brexit transition period ends – but the UK is hoping a data adequacy decision will be adopted by the end of 2020.…
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by Richard Currie on (#430FT)
23-year-old fined $4,000, volunteers services for Perth Zoo, zoo says thanks but nah Ever found yourself overcome by cuteness while gawping at sad, caged animals that you just had to take one home with you? Us neither, but that's exactly what 23-year-old Jesse Hooker did on a trip to Perth Zoo in Australia.…
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by Richard Speed on (#430FW)
No need to learn Mandarin, we collaborate in English OpenStack Summit The OpenStack Foundation took to the stage in Berlin this week to talk infrastructure because, heck, everyone loves infrastructure, right? Especially open infrastructure.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#430AY)
Xiaomi your underpants: When will the UK market get its branded undies? Prospective phone buyers may want to wait before plumping for a new Xiaomi. The newcomer’s flagship ships with MUIU 9 firmware, which is stuck on 2017’s Android Oreo.…
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by Richard Currie on (#43074)
Never uses computers because his peons do everything for him In Blighty, we have former home secretary Amber "Necessary Hashtags" Rudd, but shockingly politicians' failure to grasp basic aspects of their brief is not limited to the UK.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#43049)
'Tis the season to be tracked by your connected water bottle The FREDI baby monitor has been ranked creepiest connected home gadget on offer this festive season in a survey by Mozilla.…
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by Richard Speed on (#43014)
Did we mention the worse battery? Real world review While the XR may be the best value notched iPhone that Apple is making today, some of its compromises may be too much for the target market of customers hanging on to their dated but perfectly functional hardware.…
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by David Gordon on (#43016)
Beware the trusted insider Webcast If you like true crime stories, you already know that at the end the criminal is usually revealed to be someone the victim knew well.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42ZYD)
'Trump tariff' question hangs over immediate future A week after announcing hundreds of layoffs, Cisco has turned in a set of financials for Q1 of fiscal 2019 that are ahead of analyst expectations.…
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by Richard Speed on (#42ZYE)
A $10 saving cuts ports and memory from the Pi 3 Model A+ but keeps that quad core CPU Like the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ but feel that the RAM is just a bit too big, the price too high or the ports too numerous? Fear not, for the spiritual successor to the original Model A+ is here.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#42ZW1)
Court of Appeal rules it's wrong to assume regulator should pony up for cases it loses The Court of Appeal has ruled that legal costs from BT Openreach's dark fibre bunfight against UK telcos will be reconsidered by the Competition Appeal Tribunal.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42ZSE)
5G, IoT, and tech supply chains should go under spotlight Another US government panel has warned of the dangers of over-reliance on Chinese tech vendors: the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#42ZSG)
Post boasts cloud host's utmost roast Amazon may be working to rid itself of Oracle database software, but the box-and-bit shifting biz can't get enough of Oracle's coffee-themed programming technology, Java.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#42ZQ1)
Icy planet within cosmic spitting distance of humanity A planet three times the size of Earth has been spotted orbiting Barnard's Star, one of the closest suns to our Solar System.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#42Z8Z)
CISA heads off for Trump's signature – no, not that CISA, the good one The US House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bipartisan bill that would create a new agency to lead the federal government's cybersecurity efforts.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#42Z5Z)
Federation snubs Larry Ellison's bid to break up $10bn winner-takes-all contract Oracle's bid to halt the Pentagon's JEDI $10bn winner-takes-all cloud IT contract has been turned down.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#42Z2C)
Ok, we have Amazon. Anyone else? Analysis If regulators ever do get around to reining in the ecommerce steamroller that is Amazon, this week's announcement of his new headquarters may be the spark.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#42YZ0)
CPU slingers insist existing defenses will stop attacks – but eggheads disagree Computer security researchers have uncovered yet another set of transient execution attacks on modern CPUs that allow a local attacker to gain access to privileged data, fulfilling predictions made when the Spectre and Meltdown flaws were reported at the beginning of the year.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#42YV1)
This is a Shinning example of an enterprise IT pun Rubrik has expanded its database, unstructured data, and in-cloud protection.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#42YV3)
Government audit finds office still hasn't cleaned up from Obama-era megabreach More than three years after suffering one of the largest cyber-attacks in US government history, the Office of Personnel Management has yet to adopt dozens of the security measures investigators ordered – including basic stuff like changing passwords.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#42YV5)
Amazon gizmo may be key witness in slaying A US judge has ordered Amazon to hand over any recordings made by its Echo digital assistant at a house where two women were murdered last year.…
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HPE flack: We've got an Azure stack flash rack. What's with these techies wanting technical details?
by Chris Mellor on (#42YJP)
All-flash, Arista top-of-rack switching and... single tier HPE has finally coughed some details on those all-flash server configs it said it would provide for its Azure Stack rack last week.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#42Y89)
Defra concedes end-to-end testing can throw up challenges as MPs shout into the void The UK's food and farming department has yet to test six critical IT systems ahead of Brexit and may have to rely on manual workarounds or "unsophisticated" tech, MPs have warned.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#42Y38)
Black Hat survey on infosec's darkest fears The number one thing worrying infosec bods right now is… yup, you guessed it, a giant targeted attack that KOs their employers' systems.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#42XYC)
It's pop-AI but tailored, fans Samsung has unveiled the next-gen chips that will power its smartphones and tablets (and crypto-miners). And it hopes others will use them too.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#42XRY)
Bank ATM pen testing reveals alarming results ATM machines are vulnerable to an array of basic attack techniques that would allow hackers to lift thousands in cash.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#42XS0)
Great hulk of a system not working after 'emergency works'... Biz broadband comms provider – in name at least today – Gamma is suffering from web wobbles this morning, reportedly across the UK, as customers can't access its Horizon service.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#42XMW)
All your Health Data are belong to us Google has placed itself at the heart of Britain’s National Health Service by absorbing its wholly owned DeepMind Health unit into the Chocolate Factory - data and all. It has also scrapped the unit’s “independent review panelâ€.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#42XGS)
Landmark lit up in orange, New Yorkers underwhelmed New York's finest building* has turned orange to welcome Amazon to town.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42XCT)
Tells gov.au: There's your scope creep When Australia implemented its telecommunications data retention regime, privacy wonks worried about the potential for scope creep. The same warnings have been made about the government's proposed encryption-busting legislation.…
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by Verity Stob on (#42XCW)
It's sing-along-a-Stob time Stob It's that time of year, in the northern hemisphere, when IT specialists reluctantly abandon their rugged, outdoor lifestyle, and gather around Mama's upright piano to sing some favourite old songs... with updated, satirical lyrics. Like these.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42X8C)
RPC over TLS: You know it makes sense An Internet Engineering Task Force group has turned its attention to how Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) travel over the internet, and decided a bit of (easy) encryption is in order.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#42X5Q)
HPC pusher bats eyelids at OEM flingers after biggest product refresh in a while HPC supplier Panasas has introduced a faster file system and non-proprietary hardware design in its biggest product refresh for a decade or more.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#42X3B)
Carmaker's unpredictable 'super cruise control' tech blamed for ton of close calls Tesla CEO Elon Musk asked the Tesla owners among his millions of Twitter followers last week what aspect of their electric cars they'd most like to see improved or fixed.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#42X0E)
Well, if anyone knows if he fudged it, it would be him The inventor of two patents that covers Ethernet switching products has been given permission to question the validity of his own invention.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42WV1)
Another pair awaiting trial over slaying of Andrew Finch One of three people charged over the December 2017 “swatting†death of 28-year-old Andrew Finch in the US has pleaded guilty.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#42WSD)
Sub cable biz raises hand, 'fesses up to causing BGP hijack drama Monday's prolonged Google cloud and websites outage was triggered by a botched network update by a West Africa telco, it is claimed.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#42WKQ)
Look, we're tired of doing these headlines too, but for there's patching to do Microsoft and Adobe have delivered the November edition of Patch Tuesday with another sizable bundle of security fixes to install as soon as you're able to.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#42WFX)
Xilinx Alveo cards added to platform list Liqid has added FPGAs to the list of compute resources its customers can use to compose workload-specific computing systems.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#42WCH)
Bio-boffins bet beastly bad bits bash bronchi Analysis Scientists are calling for more research into the effect, negative or otherwise, of 3D printers on indoor air quality.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#42W80)
Hackers are lethal weapons, as in diplomatic... oh forget it The Russian government has denied having anything to do with hacking the US Democratic party in 2016, although in a court filing this week stressed that even if it did break into the DNC's servers, it is immune from prosecution.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#42W3R)
Wow, what a novel concept: 'Extensive internal validation' Is the Windows October 2018 update here again? Did it ever exist previously? Are we all in a feverish dream where the latest version, build 1809, is stable and fit for purpose, and Patch Tuesday was totally uneventful? Our finger hovers over the "no" button, but we live in hope of someone one day fitted a "yes" key.…
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