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by Paul Kunert on (#41YW6)
Loyalty card members deets exposed Radisson Hotel Group has told members of its loyalty scheme that their personal details were exposed in a data breach.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#41YW7)
Chipzilla less pale and male – report Intel has hit its target of "full representation" among staffers who toil stateside, and said the diversity push has resulted in a hike in the proportion of its employees who are female or minorities.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41YSM)
Report slams digital policing and Home Office's leadership Cops' investment in and adoption of technology is "a complete and utter mess", MPs have said in a scathing report on the parlous state of UK policing.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41YSP)
As for you, Virgin Media... Virgin pipped BT to be the most-moaned-about UK ISP in Whinge Which? magazine's most recent survey of British broadband.…
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by Team Register on (#41YN5)
Eliminate the risks: Uncover the latest security trends here Webcast It has been argued that the future of software development and operations is all about speeding up development and deployment through cloud-based infrastructure and open source software.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41YHC)
It can only hold millions of cold rubidium atoms for now though The idea of tractor beams, concentrated rays of energy used to trap and move objects at a distance, was first introduced in science fiction.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41YFK)
FCC reckons 5.9 GHz coexistence can Pai A mostly-unused slice of radio spectrum set aside for connected cars in 1999 could soon be shared with Wi-Fi, with the Federal Communications Commission seeking comment on the future of the 5.9 GHz band.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41Y66)
Database replication is hard A 43-second loss of connectivity on the US East Coast helped trigger GitHub's 24-hour TITSUP (Total Inability To Support User Pulls) earlier this month.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41Y68)
Vulnerabilities that expose browsing history yet to be fixed "History sniffing" promises a nose full of dust or, you're talking about web browsers, a whiff of the websites you've visited.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41Y6A)
Nine injured riders and pedestrians say scooters are shoddy and ill-maintained Scooter providers Bird and Lime, and scooter makers Segway and Xiaomi, face a lawsuit in Los Angeles, Calif., claiming that the two-wheeled tech toys are poorly manufactured and maintained.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41Y3F)
DoH or DoT? Punch-up time! Last week, amid some acrimony, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) formally adopted a new encryption standard for the internet naming systems.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41Y0H)
Security updates. What did you think we were referring to? Sneaking in behind the hoopla of Tuesday's MacBook spectacle was a set of security updates for virtually all of Apple's supported products.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41XWF)
Exoplanet telescope out, and Opportunity in its last rights The Kepler spacecraft has coughed up its last reserves of fuel and is now retired, after helping scientists discover thousands of exoplanets for nearly a decade, NASA announced on Tuesday.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41XR4)
Come join us all in our lovely walled garden Analysis It may seem counterintuitive to use the launch of a new Apple laptop to argue that the company is trying to kill off laptops altogether but that is exactly what's happening.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41XF6)
Commissioner doubts ability to carry out data breach rules The Canadian government this week will be enforcing a strict new privacy law, with the term "enforcing" up to interpretation because the regulator says he can't enforce it.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41XAE)
Bringing home the bacon Comment So we all know by now that IBM is buying Red Hat for $34bn – the largest software acquisition ever. Of course, that includes all Red Hat's storage products.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41X5G)
Reports of online 'productivity' suite going AWOL Microsoft's Office 365 has been giving some users cold sweats. No matter how hard they try to log in, they simply can't access the service and haven't been able to for hours – others say it has wobbled for days.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41X09)
Bring a dongle, though. There are bugger all ports Apple has given the moldering MacBook Air a new lease of life at the company's hardware event in Brooklyn today.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41X0B)
You shouldn't profit from punishment The lawyer leading the complaints against Alphabet in the EU Android case doesn’t sound impressed by giant ad-slinger’s proposed remedy. Not one bit.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41WTQ)
Speculation that running joint venture with shipping giant Maersk might be off-putting to rivals IBM has admitted that its blockchain-based trade platform, set up with shipping giant Maersk, is struggling to gain traction with other carriers.…
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by Richard Currie on (#41WNK)
Ghouls just wanna have fun If, on the eve of Halloween, your mind has turned to Amethyst Realm, the woman who dated more than 15 ghosts, let us get you up to speed. She has settled down. With another spook.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41WH1)
Currently 'no incentive' for telcos to chase lazy 'uns who ignore requests, admits UK.gov Up to 40 per cent of UK landlords ignore telcos’ requests to connect properties for full-fibre broadband, the government has said, and current laws incentivise operators to exclude those tenants rather than press for access.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41WH3)
UK's Civil Aviation Authority grounds kit after 'complete loss of power' mid-flight reported The UK's Civil Aviation Authority has temporarily grounded DJI's Matrice 200 following reports of the commercially used drone suffering a complete loss of power mid-flight and crashing to Earth.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41WD3)
A brutally functional work device Review On a recent press trip to IFA, I noticed several journalists discreetly packed a BlackBerry as a second phone. By day they wrote about gadgets, and the BlackBerry wouldn't get name-dropped.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41WAE)
Chip maker Fujian Jinhua labelled 'national security' risk The US department of commerce has issued an edict that effectively bans American companies exporting technology to Chinese DRAM maker Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41WAG)
It's coming, but only for enterprise customers Australian businesses will soon get retail offers for the kind of National Broadband Network services consumers pine for: symmetrical gigabit-per-second Ethernet access, delivered over fibre.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41W7W)
This time use people who know what they're doing Interview The new Cabinet secretary and head of the British civil service, Mark Sedwill, has a chance to rethink how the UK government does IT.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41W54)
Shake-up might give Apple's phone shipments a boost After years in the doldrums, the iPhone XR could boost Apple's phone shipments.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41W10)
Engineers hope it will land a rover safely for the future Mars 2020 mission Video NASA engineers have launched a gigantic parachute as big as a size of a house at record speed to prepare for its Mars 2020 mission.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41VYK)
Traditional math heavy calculations are just too slow AI can help chemists crack the molecular structure of crystals much faster than traditional modelling methods, according to research published in Nature Communications on Monday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41VWG)
Dictation tool was more than just another app for those with disabilities A seemingly insignificant product cancellation is having a far-reaching impact on a particular community of Mac users.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41VMW)
Quick takeaway: most everyone sucks at IaaS The average business has around 14 improperly configured IaaS instances running at any given time and roughly one in every 20 AWS S3 buckets are left wide open to the public internet.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41VF5)
Huawei, ZTE are threats to critical infrastructure. Super Micro servers? No problem The head of the Australian Signals Directorate, the Down Under equivalent of America's NSA, has said Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE would be a threat to critical infrastructure if they were allowed to take part in building the country's 5G networks.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41VF7)
Our eye on the sky winks open Astroboffins the world over drew a collective sigh of relief to hear that the Hubble Space Telescope has been formally returned to service.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41VC2)
The world according to FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly Comment It has long been a sad truth that Washington DC lives within its own distorted universe, but even by DC standards a recent speech by federal regulator Michael O'Rielly is a wonder to behold.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41V7X)
Don't chuck away the software away just yet For all the fuss over algorithms and machine learning, computation can't quite compete with people when it comes to lossy image compression.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41V49)
That furious clicking you hear is Charlie Brooker frantically writing his next script A newly developed class of brain implants could also become hacking targets, researchers are warning.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41TZC)
Thirsty for cloud? Let's have a drink Analysis IBM has spent a good long spell slumped at the bar in the last chance saloon for businesses figuring out how to make a mark in the public cloud arena. The proposed buy of Red Hat is supposed to change all that.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41TZE)
Chancellor says not 'sustainable or fair' that digital shops aren't paying a fair share UK chancellor Philip Hammond has used today’s budget to take aim at tech giants who he says aren't paying their fair share of tax in the nation and is promising to introduce a digital sales levy in 2020 to rectify this.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41TP9)
Bluffing no more Hands On "We're not the cheeky upstart anymore," OnePlus told us at previews of the 6T flagship, its seventh, launched today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41TCG)
Faster controllers, doubled capacity Fujitsu has announced the fourth generation of its high-end DX8900 array with 50 per cent more drives, doubled storage capacity, faster caching, a 1.3x performance boost and the addition of compression.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41TCJ)
Chugga chugga chugga chugga... EEEEE... we are currently unable to process... Updated Train companies across the UK are unable to take online ticket bookings due to what has been described as a "national issue" with the country's reservation service.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41T7Z)
Report slams lack of empirical measures on hardships Brit MPs have expressed serious concerns about the Department for Work and Pensions' ability to transfer 4 million people on legacy benefits to its embattled Universal Credit programme.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41T3C)
Next stop, formaldehyde-free mattresses? Xiaomi will officially launch in the UK with its first physical store in November – and retail support from Hutchison's Three UK.…
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by Richard Currie on (#41T3E)
Little by Little, he, er, Lost Control of his garden A man from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, allowed dog toffee to build up in his garden over the summer months to the point that his neighbours couldn't bear to open their windows.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41SZJ)
Meanwhile, China notches up another launch success and a commerical orbital miss While the Hubble Space Telescope gingerly spun its gyros back to life, China and Russia were busy lighting the business ends of rockets with varying levels of success in this week's round-up.…
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by Team Register on (#41SZK)
Two weeks till doors open on our conference Events We’ll be throwing open the doors at Serverless London in two weeks time, that's Nov 12, with a programme that is not just platform-agnostic, but shows how the technology is used in applications from connected cars to broadcast to international development.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41SWT)
Plus Blighty goes full Kubernetes and Windows Mixed Reality still a thing in this week's round up While Microsoft celebrated another earnings bonanza and its flagship operating system continued to remain conspicuously absent there was plenty for the followers of Redmond's antics to chew over.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41STT)
Just one of the pitfalls of fruity brand's biz in FY'19, stock market gamblers warned Apple could be the “collateral damage†in the escalating trade war between Donald Trump’s US administration and China's government, a Wall Street analyst has warned.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41SRE)
Servicemen and women 'deserve' access to our tech... even if that includes Windows 10 October 2018 Update Microsoft has responded to critics - some of them on the payroll - over its decision to keep selling tech to the US military, including its recent bid for a whopping $10bn cloud contract tendered by the Pentagon.…
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