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by Gareth Corfield on (#3EHNJ)
Yes, folks, it's crystal ball time again PC shipments will continue sliding south, reckon Gartner’s mystic mages – but, like Monty Python’s Black Knight, they still refuse to lay down and die.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3EHK6)
Privacy preserved, promise, because Mozilla wants to re-invent web ads Some users who bravely test betas of Mozilla’s Firefox browser will soon also test an “occasional sponsored story†as the browser-maker tries to re-invent web ads.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3EHF9)
‘I’m the reason we missed seeing aliens’, jokes nervous reader Who, me? Welcome again to Who, Me? The Register’s new column in which readers confess to times they performed sub-optimally and broke important stuff.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3EHD4)
All the bits that make it a server are being deprecated Apple appears to have all but killed macOS Server by deprecating most of what distinguishes it from a desktop OS.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3EHC7)
NASA reckons it might even be able to operate 'IMAGE', thought dead since 2005 An amateur astronomer hunting the Zuma satellite that SpaceX may or may not have lost has instead turned up signals from a NASA bird thought dead since 2005.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3EH9D)
Dell’s soft-spruiking ‘PowerEdge MX’ – sounds like composable successor to modular FX series Dell’s proven that even servers can now be the subject of meaningless teaser trailers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3EH8J)
Malwarebytes pushed a patch, then a patch for the patch Security software vendor Malwarebytes has overwritten two updates to its products and apologised to users who found their machines turned into near-bricks.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3EH3W)
Out-of-band patch may assuage user anger over Intel crudware, closed-club disclosure process Microsoft has implemented Intel's advice to reverse the Spectre variant 2 microcode patches.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3EH2N)
Strava fitness fans ignored off-by-default privacy settings, emit sensitive personal info In November, exercise-tracking app Strava published a “Heatmap†of user activity which it cheerily boasted comprised a billion activities, three trillion lat-long points, 13 trillion rasterized pixels and 10 TB of input data.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3EGZW)
But Linux overlord braces for more Meltdown/Spectre excitement as kernelistas clean up remaining CPU messes ‘This was not a pleasant release cycle’ says Linux overlord, who prefers things boring, ‘Because boring really is good’…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3ED2F)
Trend Micro suggests disabling JavaScript in browsers The hijacking of CPU cycles through crypto-mining JavaScript code has surged over the past few days, according to security biz Trend Micro.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3ED0P)
Always believe in... because you are GOLD NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument is successfully heading into orbit – after the Ariane 5 rocket lifting it into space worryingly lost its radio link with Earth.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3ECMX)
Forgot to CoinCheck themselves, have now CoinWrecked themselves Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange CoinCheck says it has been taken for around $530m by hackers.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3ECJ3)
You wanna hijack an ECU? It doesn't even have to be turned on, bruh In 2015, infosec gurus Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek demonstrated that they could take over and turn off a jeep from afar as it was being driven, a feat that magnified interest in car hacking.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3ECFF)
More chip flaws await In 2015, Microsoft senior engineer Dan Luu forecast a bountiful harvest of chip bugs in the years ahead.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3ECV5)
ThinkPad owners need to update their software – unless they're using Windows 10 Lenovo wants ThinkPad owners to update their machines after its Fingerprint Manager Pro software was found to contain serious security vulnerabilities.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3ECB3)
ThinkPad owners need to update their software – unless they're using Windows 10 Lenovo wants ThinkPad owners to update their machines after its Fingerprint Manager Pro software was found to contain serious security vulnerabilities.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3EBPW)
But now lots of lovely cash abroad can be used more easily Drive-shipper Western Digital reported record revenues in its second quarter but new US tax laws dragged it into a $0.82bn net loss.…
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by Richard Priday on (#3EBKK)
Well, OK, there is a warrant. About that... – WikiLawyers WikiLeaker-in-chief Julian Assange has asked a British court to withdraw an arrest warrant against him, hoping that this would finally allow him to stop his unending Ecuadorean couch-surf.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3EBDG)
Tell the grid how much juice your auto autos are sucking, says UK transport sec AEV Bill A new amendment to the UK's Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill aims to make it mandatory for electric car charging point operators to transmit power consumption data to Britain's National Grid.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3EB8K)
Big Red's lawyers say $9.3bn deal was 'playbook' acquisition Oracle's acquisition of NetSuite was a "stage-managed" process rife with conflict of interest, lawyers for one of Big Red's shareholders have argued in a case alleging the biz overpaid for the cloudy ERP firm.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3EB69)
You can muck about with Python and flight sims at home. For free Comment Udacity has cooked up a £2,000 "nanodegree" that "teaches students how to design their own flying cars".…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3EB4B)
Well... that was unexpected Analysis Four years after Michael Dell took his company private, he is considering whether Dell should make a stock market comeback, or so "familiar sources" have told a slew of newsfolk.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3EB2H)
Manchester man seeks £50k damages for alleged data leak A Manchester man is suing his former employer, the UK's largest government department, claiming "highly private" information was divulged to his workmates.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3EAZ5)
Privacy bods rip into attempts to make Investigatory Powers Act legal The government's attempt to bring the UK's data retention regime in line with European Union laws have been slammed by privacy campaigners, which has accused politicians of trying to avoid making necessary changes.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3EAXK)
Plus old churches – and even school playing fields Virgin Media has resorted to hiding in disused public toilets as Britain's demand for ever-fatter pipes to channel digital detritus into the home grows.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#3EB6B)
Celestial choirs are coming to your screen soon Something for the Weekend, Sir? It's not working. Sorry, this has never happened to me before. Actually it has, frequently, but let that pass. Can we try again in a few minutes?…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#3EATV)
Celestial choirs are coming to your screen soon Something for the Weekend, Sir? It's not working. Sorry, this has never happened to me before. Actually it has, frequently, but let that pass. Can we try again in a few minutes?…
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by David Gordon on (#3EATX)
Westminster event targets security experts Promo You may think you are ahead of the game when it comes to IT security, but are you ready for the threats fomented by the fertile imagination of cyber-criminals, or the unsuspected dangers lurking in areas you may not even have considered?…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3EASG)
Windows-only but sure, thanks Acronis has released a free, standalone version of its Acronis Ransomware Protection with AI-based Active Protection tech.…
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by David Matthews on (#3EASJ)
Simulating physical sensations is a growing frontier in VR tech Haptic controllers are being touted as the next frontier in virtual reality. Having spent years obsessing over headset pixel counts, the VR industry is now playing with exoskeletal gloves, ultrasound waves and even electric shocks in order to simulate a sense of touch.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3EAPJ)
Chocolate Factory touts more ways to blast banners Google says it will allow netizens to block nuisance "reminder" adverts that follow them around across websites.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3EAJP)
Just one hour of teaching grannies the internet left sysadmin a broken man On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register’s weekly column in which provide a little therapy by letting readers share their stories of horror tech support entanglements.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3EAHB)
That's one way to stay secure Outlook will strip attachments from some forwarded emails once you've applied a security patch from this month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has admitted.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3EA87)
It's all kicking off Roundup Technology companies can't decide whether to take Russian money or run from it – not that they've ever been much good at turning down cash.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3EA3Z)
Ajit Pai throws hissy fit at first sign of criticism Analysis Fresh from being mocked by Burger King, Ajit Pai – chairman of America's broadband watchdog, the Federal Communications Commission – has further undermined his authority by attacking a key advisory committee to his own regulator.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3E9WA)
Siri, what's a monopoly? Still dealing with the consequences of security research that demands changes in its processors, Intel on Thursday reported better-than-expected earnings in 2017's final quarter.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3E9RT)
Broken security? More like broken record UK Prime Minister Theresa May has reiterated calls for a special magic version of encryption to be developed by technologists so law enforcement can access everyone's communications on demand – and somehow engineer it so that no one else can abuse this backdoor.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3E9HX)
Personal info obtained to pull off 1,400 password resets. Now he's behind bars Jonathan C. Powell, who hacked into over 1,000 email accounts in search of sexually explicit images and videos of college-aged women, was jailed for six months for computer fraud, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3E9D0)
Puny humans feebly try to fend off robotic takeover The Teamsters labor union wants package delivery giant UPS to promise not to replace any of its drivers with drones and self-driving trucks.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3E8YC)
Total coincidence: That's the same day Chipzilla's CEO sold off his shares Intel quietly warned computer manufacturers at the end of November that its chips were insecure due to design flaws, according to an internal Chipzilla document.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3E8R3)
Only 2 member states have adapted national legislation – SMEs, citizens still in dark The European Commission has admitted readiness for incoming data protection rules is very varied across the bloc, with just two countries having adapted their national laws.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3E8R4)
Components spread across servers, storage, networking Dell has split up and distributed the Chad Sakac-led Converged Platforms and Solutions Division (CPSD) across company's existing server, storage and networking units (Infrastructure Solutions Group).…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3E8N2)
Tanks and jets or sexy cyber-warfare stuff? A long-rumoured review of British defence spending will not be "fiscally neutral", Secretary of State for Defence Gavin Williamson told Parliament this morning as he announced that it is going ahead.…
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And someone has already offered Microsemi, flogger of military and aerospace semiconductors, is reportedly looking for buyers after it was propositioned by an unnamed company.…
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by Team Register on (#3E8AY)
Continuous Lifecycle London gets two days of workshops We’ve got a cracking lineup of workshops at Continuous Lifecycle London this year, and because we’re spreading them over two days, you’ve got double your options for taking a deep dive into the topic of your choice.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3E8AZ)
Version 3.0 scales up, shows some container love and promises validation Cisco has pushed a new version of its HyperFlex hyperconverged software out the door and given Microsoft a big hug by adding support for Redmond's Hyper-V virtualization software.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3E85K)
Yes, keys your devs put in public repos got forked. RTFM Github rejected a DMCA takedown request from Chinese drone-maker DJI after someone forked source code left in the open by a naughty DJI developer, The Register can reveal.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3E83R)
Fuel cell tech generates cleaner power for San Jose plant Supermicro has said it will start building servers and storage boxes at a new facility that can make 480 racks per month, powered by a 3MW fuel cell system to cut greenhouse gas emissions.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3E83S)
Megflix anyone? Outgoing HPE boss finds new raison d'etre Outgoing Hewlett Packard Enterprise chief Meg Whitman is stepping out of tech and into the big chair at a "mobile-first media platform" startup.…
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