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by Shaun Nichols on (#42FAK)
Rogue managers can seize control of web shops A vulnerability in the WooCommerce online store platform, used by over four million vendors, can be exploited to hijack WordPress installations hosting the software.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#42F6D)
Tenth Circuit wins lawsuit lottery over terrible policy Six lawsuits filed against controversial new 5G rules drawn up by America's communications watchdog have been bundled into one, and will be heard at the Tenth Circuit of Appeals.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#42ES4)
The monster workhorse with price tag to match El Reg's editorial team does not typically cheerlead any tech, we are dispassionate observers sat at the side of the industry's sales super highway. Or something like that. The latest offer from Dell, however, was too tempting to ignore.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#42EMH)
Google: Hey, it'd mean more if there was global agreement European efforts to implement a digital sales tax have stalled after Ireland, Sweden and Denmark yesterday stood firm in their refusal to approve measures aimed at scraping more cash in from tech giants.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#42EF4)
Ex-Chipzilla exec may have told staff, 'Stick with me, this time next year we'll be millionaires' Former Intel boss Brian Krzanich who split from Chipzilla months ago – after a past fling with a fellow employee came to light – is to head up a business that sells tech to dealerships.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#42EAT)
Firm: We know you wanna chat, guys, but Zuck won't Friend you What’s the old saying – misery loves company? Well, it's certainly true for British MPs and their efforts to grill Mark Zuckerberg, as another three parliaments have been added to Facebook’s group snub list.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#42E68)
Ooh... and council tax too! Again! UK capital borough is truly spoiled People of the City of Westminster will continue to have their council tax collected and housing benefit managed by Capita for up to another decade, the outsourcing badass confirmed today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#42E6A)
Heavily read-optimised QLC flash drive leads the charge Micron has started shipping its 2.5-inch 5210 ION flash drive, positioning it as a 10,000rpm disk drive replacement offering much better read access performance for more or less the same price.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#42E3B)
ICO's second report into data analytics in campaigning lands with a thud Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, universities and political parties are all in the dog house as the UK's data protection watchdog condemned a "disturbing disregard" for personal privacy across the system.…
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by Richard Speed on (#42E3D)
Hey Cortana, where's your VP? Javier Soltero, head honcho of Microsoft's Cortana business, has stepped down.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42DZY)
Bug hunter rages at wearisome disclosure process An infosec researcher has expressed his frustration with disclosure processes by going public with a zero-day in VirtualBox, Oracle's open-source hypervisor.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#42E00)
Yes, the one where El Reg won the open justice verdict... Aria PC has lost its appeal against a previous legal ruling that the reseller took part in a VAT carousel fraud to the tune of £750k – though its MD insists the firm will appeal the ruling again.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42DX7)
FTC antitrust lawsuit due for trial next year A US district judge has made a preliminary ruling that Qualcomm is obliged to license its technologies to its rivals.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#42DX9)
Will it increase capacity in a tuned-in MAMR? Toshiba, the third-placed disk drive maker behind Seagate and Western Digital, shipped 23.4 million units from its factories in 2018's third quarter.…
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by Team Register on (#42DV0)
Chipzilla more like Tyrannosaurus Rekt AMD said on Tuesday it's going to roll out a 7nm 64-core second-generation Epyc server processor, dubbed Rome, in 2019.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#42DRX)
Taxpayers splash £100m+ to save doomed agency Picture the scene. A father is returning home to his family, his face etched with anxiety, and darkened by shame. The family sits expectantly around an empty dinner table.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#42DPV)
If yes, wow, you're well ahead of the game Backgrounder Recent headlines have been full of IT security breaches at major corporations, such as the theft of customer data from British Airways in September 2018. Yet, smaller companies should not believe that they fly beneath the radar of attackers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#42DMP)
Maybe time to put down that Bitcoin-mining rig and pick up that spade? Cryptocurrencies require as much, if not more, energy to mine as precious metals like copper, gold or platinum, according to some latest calculations.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#42DHR)
Ancient light source may last trillions of years before dying Astronomers claim to have found the oldest star yet discovered – a 13.5-billion-year-old sun hovering on the edges of our Milky Way, according to a new study.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42DFD)
BlackBox IronPhones' IronChat app convos intercepted Dutch police claim to have snooped on more than a quarter of a million encrypted messages sent between alleged miscreants using BlackBox IronPhones.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42DDC)
Profit stalls, sales downward, jobs off-shored, cuts deepen The turmoil that has engulfed DXC Technologies was all part of the plan. That's the line chairman, president, and CEO Mike Lawrie took in a conference call discussing his company's latest financial results on Tuesday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#42D9D)
Advisory issued over yet another critical security vulnerability The Apache Foundation is urging developers to update their Struts 2 installations and projects using the code – after a critical security flaw was found in a key component of the framework.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#42D9E)
Modern data-fetching scheme could become industry standard GraphQL, a query language for APIs that was on the verge of being shunned last year over software license concerns, has bounced back and landed in the arms of the Linux Foundation.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#42D4A)
Gate.io exchange believed to be target of embedded attack One of the top traffic metrics websites on the internet is apparently being used by criminals to steal Bitcoins from a currency exchange.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#42CXR)
Where the one place in the world you don't want your computer to fail? It's never a nice feeling with your computer keels over, wiping out work, sometimes requiring hours of maintenance and basically ruining your day.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#42CXT)
Social networks played key role in genocide says UN, Amnesty Late Monday afternoon, about the same time the FBI warned about Russia and other countries using social media to influence the US midterm elections, Facebook quietly released a report showing the company's platform was used to foment violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#42CSR)
Trump-heralded deal proving to be an expensive mistake Electronics manufacturer Foxconn has denied that it is planning to import Chinese workers into America for its controversial new factory in Wisconsin.…
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by Richard Speed on (#42CST)
In the market for a MacBook Air, eh Linus? The knickers of the Linux world have become ever so twisty over the last few days as Penguinistas fell foul of the security hardware in their pricey Apple hardware.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#42CNY)
Bank fesses up: Hackers made off with folks' personal details HSBC has admitted miscreants have probably made off with personal details of thousands of its online-banking customers.…
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by Richard Currie on (#42CHF)
Microsoft man opens three-day newfangled shithouse expo Bill Gates' obsession with all things faecal continued apace on Tuesday as the billionaire philanthropist took to a Beijing stage armed only with a fierce determination to improve global sanitation. And a jar of poo.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#42CCQ)
To the death? Not necessarily, but the gloves are off As the world's boffins prepare to carve up the airwaves again next year, the mobile industry has stepped up the lobbying war over spectrum, fearing a crushing 5G disappointment.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#42C8A)
QA? We've heard of it It isn't just Microsoft that has QA issues – so does Apple. The Cupertino giant withdrew a watchOS update that bricked the Apple Watch 4 last week, and has now rushed out a replacement containing things that don't work yet which Apple probably didn't want you to see.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#42C3X)
Though you get what you pay for, mostly Brit consumers get a broadband bargain, but pay for it with poorer performance than other European countries.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#42BYC)
This is all about 'digital', gonna be so digital you could cut yourself on our services In a lurch towards “digitising†ops as part of the “transformation†scheme launched months ago, Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) today said it is creating 2,000 roles to beef up its “leading-edge digital banking†services.…
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by Richard Speed on (#42BYD)
Fireworks night has been and gone. Microsoft stayed home The leaves on the trees are turning golden, a chill is in the air, and while the Windows 10 October 2018 Update remains locked in the fireworks tin, there seems to be movement for its sibling, Windows Server 2019.…
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by Richard Speed on (#42BTF)
De-crewed? More like de-orbit if the ISS had to wait for Orion It was another busy week in space as Russia notched up a second Soyuz success, China conducted its 32nd launch of the year and NASA awaited the arrival of its first service module for Orion.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#42BTH)
Oh, and some exam boards might need to offer paper-based tests due to schools' crap IT kit Students starting GCSE computer science in 2020 may be assessed by exams only, amid concerns about schools' IT kit, burdens on teachers and malpractice in non-exam tests.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#42BPN)
Tax efficient biz makes 1.73 pre-tax profit % on £1.508bn local sales in fiscal '18 Salesforce's European limb last year coughed £5m in tax to the UK government - the business is registered in Blighty - as it made a 1.73 pre-tax profit percentage on a turnover of £1.51bn.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#42BPQ)
Finds orgs sent marketing emails promoting each other without consent The Information Commissioner’s Office plans to slap fines totalling £135,000 on Leave.EU and Brexiteer Arron Banks’ insurance biz Eldon for “serious†breaches of direct marketing laws.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42BK0)
Network admins really need to mind their MANRS Oracle has backed claims that China Telecom Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) announcements regularly take internet traffic on an unwanted tour of the Middle Kingdom.…
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by Richard Speed on (#42BK2)
What's that coming over the hill? Is it ProcDump, a Linux ProcDump? Roundup Microsoft is looking to 2019 and tinkering with Skype as the Windows 10 October 2018 update continues its lonely wanderings.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#42BG8)
Antacid, anyone? Analysis Hyperscale customers went on a disk drive buying strike late in Seagate's first quarter of fiscal '19, ended September 28.…
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by Andrew Fentem on (#42BDN)
There is no ghost in the machine Comment For the last few years the media has been awash with hyperbole about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies. It could be said that never, in the field of computer science, have so many ridiculous things been said by so many people in possession of so little relevant expertise. For anyone engaged in cutting-edge hardware in the 1980s, this is puzzling.…
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by Richard Speed on (#42BDQ)
Most of the bang of the XS for not so much of the bucks Review Back in 2007, Apple convinced the world a phone that could barely last a day was OK. In 2018 it has set out to persuade the public that a phone costing £749 is somehow a bargain.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#42BBM)
The wheels of steel are turnin' and traffic lights are burnin'... A lot of vendors have looked to NVMe amongst the other cloud, software and hyperconverged tidbits in storage roundup this week, but let's start with some updates.…
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by Chris Williams on (#42BBP)
Have you tried innovating your enterprise synergy today? Today marks the opening of VMware's VMworld Europe 2018 event in Barcelona, Spain. The Dell-owned virtualization giant has a bunch of announcements to kick off its shindig.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#42B74)
It works for now because the forgeries are quite easy to spot The rise of AI systems that can generate fake images and videos has spurred researchers in the US to develop a technique to sniff out these cyber-shams, also known as deepfakes.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42B4G)
Kernel release candidate adds support for two Chinese CPU families... will these be the final new CPU archs? The new, improved, and chilled-out Linus Torvalds emitted the first release candidate for Linux kernel 4.20 over the weekend.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42B1N)
Hundreds gone from Switchzilla's Customers Experience division Exclusive Cisco has confirmed to The Register that it has launched a round of layoffs, slashing its Customer EXperience team, after some affected staff got in touch with us.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#42B4J)
Switchzilla's Customer Experience division experiences brunt of HR's 'limited restructuring' Exclusive Cisco has confirmed to The Register it launched a round of layoffs on Monday, effectively slashing its Customer Experience (CX) team, after insiders alerted us to the cuts.…
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