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by Richard Currie on (#41J7B)
Siriusly, though Granger things have happened What can identity and class rights as seen in the enslavement of house elves or the marginalisation of werewolves, giants and centaurs possibly teach India's future legal eagles? One institution believes it has the answer.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41J3E)
Atlassian's code shack goes TITSUP*, has a coffee and feels much better now, thanks Hey developers! Thinking of stomping off in a huff to Bitbucket when Microsoft finally closes the GitHub deal? Well...…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41J02)
£500k legal max penalty under old Data Protection Act Updated The UK's Information Commissioner has formally fined Facebook £500,000 – the maximum available – over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41J04)
Passport numbers, credit card info etc – combo of stuff leaked 'varies for each' poor sod Cathay Pacific has admitted that personal data on up to 9.4 million passengers, including their passport numbers, has been accessed by unauthorised personnel in the latest security screw-up to hit the airline industry.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41HXJ)
Aisles of Wal-Mart will be changed forever if $267bn toll hits, says HP Inc CEO US consumers and businesses shopping for tech in Europe? The rise of manufacturing in Vietnam or the Philippines? The tech industry is braced for the potential consequences of another, wider reaching round of trade tariffs on components or finished goods that are imported to the US from China.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41HTY)
Insists it wasn't chased off following protest and occupation by locals After months of protests centring around a local anarchist bookshop, Google has left the disused Berlin electrical substation building – where the international ad-tech behemoth had planned to open a Google Campus branch.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41HRK)
Vote for what you hate is a sure-fire winner, right? It looks like Australia's proposed expansion to piracy-blocking will become law, with the opposition Labor party deciding to support the bill.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41HPB)
Survey results: Bad news for the poor, overweight, old The question of the infamous trolley problem for self-driving cars has finally been answered.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41HPD)
Patch your vid conferencing software to stop malware, users nabbing admin rights Sorry to spoil your day, Cisco admins and users, but it's time to patch Webex, again.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41HM1)
We'll just tack that on your .uk domain bill. You're welcome! Analysis UK domain name holders are furious with registrar 123-Reg for automatically charging them an additional £6 a year for a service few of them want or even need.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41HM3)
On the 6th day, God created humans. And on the 8th day, they created a bot to rewrite the Bible six ways from Sunday Software has been trained by academics to produce different styles of biblical text, after swotting up on the original sacred texts.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41HHS)
Oz boffins swivel light to cram up to x100 more data in fiber One of light's stranger characteristics – the ability to give its wave propagation a “twist†– has taken a step closer to practical application, and could be used to increase fiber-optic network speeds a hundredfold.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41H8T)
Redmond runs rampant, reaps ridiculous record revenues If Microsoft is sweating from the heat it's taking on Windows 10 release quality, its financial figures certainly aren't showing it.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41H6N)
Disinterest in GPU gear spurs selloff, but x86 biz insists all's well, nothing to see here AMD stock plunged following the release of the chip designer's third-quarter financial figures – which showed sales at Intel's antitrust shield suffered due to sluggish interest in its GPU hardware.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41H3T)
Smartmobe-borking updates make Italians see red Apple and Samsung have been fined a relatively sod-all amount – just a few million dollars – by Italy's antitrust watchdog for purposefully slowing down old phones.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41H05)
Privacy 'a fundamental right' – see terms and conditions, national restrictions may apply Analysis At a European conference for privacy watchdogs on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook praised EU data protection supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli for defending privacy and warned that technology, for all its utility, can do harm rather than good.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41GW1)
'I think all of us would agree that cyber space is the new battle space' OpenWorld Former intelligence leaders have called for international terms of engagement in cyber warfare and greater collaboration between the public and private sectors to defend critical infrastructure.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41GR8)
Zero-day crash'n'pwn exploit for Microsoft's latest OS disclosed, no official patch available (yet) A skilled Microsoft bug hunter with a penchant for public disclosures via Twitter has openly floated a new Windows 10 zero-day flaw.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#41GRA)
Christies sets up 'giants of science' memorabilia sell off The family of the late Professor Stephen Hawking is auctioning off some of his possessions – including an early version of his motorized wheelchair – to raise money for the charitable foundation that bears his name.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41GKV)
Would madam care for native support for SAM in madam's pipeline? As the march to the cloud continues, the Jenkins project has tossed developers a bone in the form of a plugin for AWS serverless functions.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41GEZ)
Offers a no-details flash performance guarantee NetApp has a new version of ONTAP which supports server persistent memory caching, a flash-accelerated object storage system, and its containerised storage provisioner supports NetApp cloud storage in AWS and GCP.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41GA5)
Kohsuke Kawaguchi takes a swing at rampaging Jenkinsteins Jenkins, er, DevOps World kicked off in Nice this week as CloudBees took to the stage in front of 800 fans of the pipeline to show off some of the toys available to lucky devs.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41G5W)
Switkowski: Write-downs are a financial, not political, decision Australia's National Broadband Network co-chairman, Ziggy Switkowski, has told a Senate Estimates hearing at the country's parliament in Canberra that he doesn't endorse a write-down of the company.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41G0W)
Flashes AWS and Azure cloudification, ONTAP as cloud abstraction layer At its Las Vegas Insight event, NetApp was quick to assure customers they could have the public cloud and NetApp products both – and that indeed, the two are better together.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41G0Y)
That's right, the Lords' AI report was written by people with skin in the game Comment Unlike some of the people who invented it, the House of Lords AI Committee has "no doubts" AI will bring "tangible and practical deliverables" to the UK – if only the right sort of people use it.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41FVZ)
Snarking at vendors: Priceless An Australian government agency given AU$700,000 (just shy of US$500,000 or £380,000) to research applications of the blockchain has delivered its answer: don't bother. Anything you want to do with blockchain, you can already do better with existing technology.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#41FQN)
Preps mainframes, mid-range arrays, tape and cloud... and that's just to offload all this data IBM has fired a broadside of announcements at the storage world. The gist? Flash arrays get more capacity and NVMe-over-fabrics has been added to a slew of arrays using Fibre Channel to speed data access.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41FM0)
Full fibre deployment shifts up a gear Privately-owned broadband biz CityFibre declared this morning that it would spend £2.5bn on building out full-fibre connections to British homes.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41FH4)
Karan Puri just one of 36,000 staff to leave broken outsourcing biz in 18 months The boss of DXC Americas has been elbowed out of the door, an internal memo seen by The Register can confirm. The reason for his exit is believed to be a double-digit drop in the region's sales.…
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by David Gordon on (#41FH6)
Blind Bird tickets available NOW! If you want to get together with 40 of the smartest brains in modern software development, and save £100s into the bargain, you should grab a blind bird ticket for Continuous Lifecycle London 2019 before they expire.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41FH8)
First mobe maker to sell DIY repair tools A 2014 Eurobarometer survey (PDF) found that 77 per cent of EU citizens would prefer to repair their electronics rather than buy new ones, but were put off by the cost quoted, and ended up replacing them anyway.…
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by Richard Speed on (#41FEB)
Open sourcing BASIC for the kool kids Microsoft’s Small Basic broke out the jelly and ice cream today as the language celebrated its 10th birthday.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41FB5)
'Zero touch' setup, Mac@IBM, lands at GitHub IBM wants to save Apple sysadmins from wearing out too much shoe leather visiting user desks so it's published its Mac@IBM system provisioning code at GitHub under the GNU Public Licence 3.0.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#41FB7)
English-mangle-word-zels – fresh from Reg whippernapper's garden Flame of the Week Have you ever uttered the sound "erm" while speaking? More to the point, have you ever erm'd when answering politicians' questions during a scrutiny panel session? If you have, says one Reg commentard, you are bastardising the English language. Oh yes.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41F74)
'Brexit and the election of Donald might be largely due to the use of data analytics' Not long after the US presidential election in November 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was "crazy" to think that Facebook ads swayed the vote. He was right, but only for supporters of Hillary Clinton.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41F76)
Let's hope this doesn't accidentally kick off a war AI can translate between languages in real time as people speak, according to fresh research from Chinese search giant Baidu and Oregon State University in the US.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41F4P)
FireEye reckons it's fingered the operating behind nasty cyber-infection at industrial complex A malware infection at a Saudi petrochemical plant last year was likely the work of a Moscow-based research operation backed by the Russian government.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#41F2T)
Astroboffins baffled by mysterious repeat visitor 3200 Phaethon, a weird object that sends cosmic debris streaking through Earth's night skies during the Geminid meteor shower, is more puzzling than previously thought.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41EYZ)
Updates urged for serious web services vulnerabilities Companies running Arcserve Unified Data Protection to manage their backups and archives are being advised to update their software after bug hunters discovered four remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#41EWT)
Meanwhile: Q3 sales slid downwards, profits pointing up Juniper Networks has confirmed its margins will be squeezed in 2019 by US President Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese electronics and components coming into America.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#41ERG)
As in, Big Red: Database giant says this offering is a worldwide first OpenWorld Oracle today insisted it is the first public cloud vendor to offer bare-metal servers powered by AMD’s Epyc processors.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41EGG)
It's all about location, location, location Facebook and Google are being sued in two proposed class-action lawsuits for allegedly deceptively gathering location data on netizens who thought they had opted out of such cyber-stalking.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41EDJ)
Boutique PC for middle managers, subscription hardware for creative pros As the Microsoft Surface juggernaut rolls on, there's added urgency to flogging premium PCs this autumn, with Intel's chip shortage affecting the lower end of the market, making premium sales more hotly contested.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#41EDM)
Language is still free, it's the support that will cost you plenty CodeOne The perennial Oracle OpenWorld sideshow previously known as JavaOne flowered again on Monday under a new name, Oracle Code One. The rebranding, as Stephen Chin, director of the Oracle developer community team, said in April, represents an effort to create a "bigger event that’s inclusive to more languages, technologies, and developer communities."…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#41EDP)
These are not the vendors you're looking for, republicans suggest in demand for probe A pair of US congressmen are calling for an investigation into the Pentagon's $10bn single-vendor IT contract dubbed JEDI – aka the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#41EAN)
Oh, and many of the stereotypes of Gen Z are wrong A new survey of teenagers reveals that children from poorer households use the internet more than those from richer homes, upending a common assumption about our online lives.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#41E7Y)
Cancer claims life of the poster child for computing excess Charles Wang, the cofounder of Computer Associates – latterly CA Technologies – has died of lung cancer at the age of 74, an attorney representing his family has confirmed.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41EAQ)
Three urgent changes Redmond must make to stop the QA crisis Comment Windows isn't working – and Microsoft urgently needs to change how it develops the platform, and jettison three filthy practices it has acquired in recent years.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41E80)
Three urgent changes Microsoft must make to stop the QA crisis Comment Windows isn't working – and Microsoft urgently needs to change how it develops the platform, and jettison three filthy practices it has acquired in recent years.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#41DRB)
Yeah, probably not, but dev previews are available now "Exodus" may be a fair description of HTC's customer base in recent years – once the reviewers' darling, it has fallen a long way. Earnings for the first half of 2018 were almost half the same period last year (PDF).…
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