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by Team Register on (#3MHPW)
Register Lecture to calculate Existential Risk of AI, bio-tech and more If you’ve got a nagging feeling that the emergence of autonomous weapons, bio-tech, all knowing computers, untracked asteroids, and the breakdown of political norms is all a bit of worry, congratulations. You’re aware of some of the key existential risks facing us all.…
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by John Oates on (#3MHNK)
Talked to UN investigators, boss given unredacted report UN patent body WIPO is advertising for a new IT chief in a move widely seen as a reprisal against the current man in the job who blew the whistle on the dodgy behaviour of his boss.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3MHM5)
HP and Lenovo are kings of the ever-shrinking hills, but Dell’s made a move PC shipments continue their slow slide, with analyst firms Gartner and IDC both releasing data for 2018’s first quarter showing further slippage.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3MHJV)
Malware tickles unused cores to put signals in current If you want your computer to be really secure, disconnect its power cable.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3MHJX)
RHEL 7.5 caught up on compression and Windows Server 2019 revealed storage migrations from older editions May 5th is World Naked Gardening Day and Wednesday April 10th might just have been “Add better storage features to enterprises OSes day†because Microsoft and Red Hat both did just that.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3MHH9)
'The Book', a first-draft programmer's Fuchsia how-to Google has published details of its "Fuchsia" operating system.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3MHFS)
PureSec tries to make serverless less defenseless Serverless computing is not quite carefree computing. Those using it don't have to worry about servers, apart from the cloud service provider's bill. But they would be well advised to give some thought to application security.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3MHD3)
Bug gives Microsoft cold feet Microsoft has yet to release the Spring Creators Update to Windows 10. We've been sitting here waiting with a story about the launch ready to go, and nothing. Now people are starting to talk.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3MHFV)
Fantasy game ratchets up subscription price The creators of the popular online game RuneScape are raising subscription prices, and putting the blame on Nigel Farage and his Brexit buddies.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3MHBM)
Fantasy game ratchets up subscription price The creators of the popular online game RuneScape are raising subscription prices, and putting the blame on Nigel Farage and his Brexit buddies.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3MH8A)
Cloudflare fixes its DNS, Mellanox at NAB, Palo Alto shopping and more packets of presentation layer Cloudflare generated some buzz of the wrong kind when it turned out the company's much-hyped privacy-focussed DNS resolver at 1.1.1.1 caused hassles for some users.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3MH78)
April patch bunch offers lucky thirteen fixes, mostly for Junos OS Juniper Networks' bug-hunters have bagged a big haul and shown them off with this month's patch collection.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3MH3C)
Line of business people will do the buying. IT departments still get to do the rest People outside the IT department will control more than half of IT budgets from 2019 onwards, according to analyst outfit IDC.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3MH0X)
Some bloke called Elon slurped $500m of it It’s been a bumper few months for the commercial space industry with the torrent of cash from starry-eyed investors showing no signs of slowing, according to investment outfit, Space Angels.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3MGXH)
Commissioners take to the stage to hate on one another amid $4bn media merger Vid Internecine fights at America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have broken out in public at an industry event in Las Vegas.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3MHA0)
Zuck shows curious amnesia about his own business Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used today’s grilling in Congress to point the finger at dodgy app developers and Cambridge academics – but appeared to expose huge holes in his knowledge of the way his own business works.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3MGVV)
Zuck shows curious amnesia about his own business Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used today’s grilling in Congress to point the finger at dodgy app developers and Cambridge academics – but appeared to expose huge holes in his knowledge of the way his own business works.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3MGM1)
Invites devs for tour amid ongoing construction Mozilla has released a preview version of WebAssembly Studio, its browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) for creating code touted to be the future of internet software.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3MGHA)
Well, we been having some difficulty. Ziggy, he's, uh, spitting out some wild values A team of physicists claim to have developed a guaranteed random number generator using photons and the laws of quantum mechanics.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3MGES)
We pull the covers off latest problems within Oz 'net body Australia's .au internet registry members have called for the scalps of its CEO and three Board members as part of an ongoing dispute over how the organization is being run.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3MGM3)
It's not just you, VoIP app is prone to failures Microsoft has confirmed that some versions of its Skype for Business app are prone to crashes, and the issue won't be easy to resolve.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3MGCJ)
It's not just you, VoIP app is prone to failures Microsoft has confirmed that some versions of its Skype for Business app are prone to crashes, and the issue won't be easy to resolve.…
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by John Leyden on (#3MG4R)
Hashtag game over crooks question mark question mark Britain's Home Secretary Amber Rudd has launched a crackdown on criminals who exploit the dark web.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3MFRT)
We can install a new OS from 150 million kilometres away, but Windows 10 1803 is delayed? The European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter is getting a software refresh as a reward for 14 years spent circling the red planet.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3MFP0)
Plus: El Reg's handy guide to all those pesky UAV abbrevs Preparing the ground for remotely flown and autonomous aircraft – drones – of the near future is a challenge. How much effort has gone into clearing radio spectrum for vital command-and-control links?…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3MFKJ)
Cross-border databases to tackle fragmentation, speed drug R&D Thirteen European countries have agreed to link up genomic databases in a bid to give boffins access to a research cohort of more than one million genomes by 2022.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3MFGQ)
Don't say you'll send somebody, MEPs plead Mark Zuckerberg has been warned not to treat European Facebook users as "second class" as pressure mounts on the CEO to face the music from politicos on the other side of the Pond.…
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Resident: 'We can see those potholes coming now' A Cambridge-based protester has been heralded for daubing penises around potholes - the latest in a rising trend of phallic crater painters.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3MFAX)
Altitude Angel founder talks to El Reg Interview Drone flight management app Altitude Angel is quietly cornering the challenging market in connecting drone traffic management to traditional air traffic control systems, its founder has told The Register.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3MF3X)
Only the inbox owner had to consent to it, though... not the people they conversed with Facebook has admitted that some apps had access to users’ private messages, thanks to a policy that allowed devs to request mailbox permissions.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3MF1M)
MS 'toy lovers' create sensor mat with NFC-tagged thesps Despite a failure to consult Reg Playmobil academia, Microsoft Research has unleashed new toy findings: a playmat for little ones that combines capacitive sensing, Near Field Communication (NFC), a kid-friendly user interface and Playmobil.…
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Potential deal said to be at an 'advanced stage' Google looks set to expand its horizon according to reports that claim the ad giant is in talks to buy Nokia's airplane broadband biz.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3MEXE)
We're thirsty and comfy and there's work to do and it's faaar The Register needs to build a robot capable of transporting multiple pints of beer without spilling a drop. Can you help?…
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1,000 accounts compromised Great Western Rail is urging all customers to change their passwords after identifying a successful attack to access GWR.com accounts over the last week.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3MER7)
Bleeding edges in the cloud Analysis Following last week's announcement that Microsoft's Azure planned to reinvent MAID disk arrays, The Reg took a deep breath and dove into Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s presentation.…
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by John E Dunn on (#3MEPS)
WannaCry was a wake-up call for healthcare, but the sector is still terribly vulnerable to attack As memories of last May's WannaCry cyber attack fade, the healthcare sector and Britain's NHS are still deep in learning.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3MENJ)
If it looks like, walks like and quacks like a Psion, is it actually a penguin? Review Planet Computing’s Gemini is a middling Android phone integrated with a Psion Series 5-style keyboard and clamshell case. Since our exclusive hands-on with a real production device, I’ve spent a few weeks in its rattly, plasticky company. And I’ve also managed to get Linux installed. So what’s it like?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3MEM0)
See? We really are a software company now! Just in case you doubt Cisco’s intention to become a software company, it’s now shrunk its Tetration analytics software and spawned a SaaS version.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3MEJK)
Posts hit hyper-partisan r/the_donald, CEO says most crimped before 2016 election While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the US Congress, Reddit confessed to its own Russian problem.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3MEF4)
Future wars will be fought with physical and cyber robots As US Army researcher believes that wars will be fought with human soldiers commanding a team of ‘physical and cyber robots’ to create a network of “Internet of Battle Things†in the future.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3MEF6)
But the US patent office will probably save the day. Again Intellectual property hoarder VirnetX has had another win, probably to be short-lived, against Apple in the two companies' everlasting patent spat.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3MECF)
WebAuthn and CTAP published this week A pair of authentication standards published this week have received endorsement from Mozilla, Microsoft and Google: the WebAuthn API, and the FIDO Alliance's Client-to-Authenticator Protocol.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3MEAQ)
Small problem: world faces big shortages of air freight capacity Poll Airbus has revealed a plan to put beds in passenger planes’ cargo holds.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3ME7B)
And that's the worst of ten patches awaiting lucky, lucky SAP admins SAP has issued its >April security update, which brings a waiting world news of ten patch-worthy problems.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3ME55)
Apparently someone still uses src to suck content into web pages from FTP servers Mozilla developers have decided to block requests for File Transfer Protocol (FTP) subresources inside web pages.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3ME2V)
Image boffins readying streaming codec for VR, cars, drones The Joint Photographic Experts Group's image compression standard, JPEG XS, has started to turn up in implementations ahead of its slated April 2019 completion.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3MDZQ)
Bug allows hijack of city, army and nuclear warning systems Researchers have uncovered a remote hijacking vulnerability present in the systems many cities and organizations are using to manage emergency sirens and alerts.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3MDYC)
Bolstered by a booster, Robo-Zuck sits firm before senators, parries away mild questions A few hours after the introduction of Facebook's newly launched Data Abuse Bounty program – an admission the social ad network has no idea what's become of its illicitly harvested data – CEO Mark Zuckerberg reprised his long-running mea culpa show before America's lawmakers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3MDSC)
Masshole 'targeted women, families, friends with abuse' A US bloke accused of cyberstalking and harassing his former housemates has been hit with two dozen more criminal charges.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3MDNN)
Internet registries and registrars provide terrible timeline The internet's domain name system is going to miss a May 25 deadline to become compliant with new European privacy legislation by, um, a year or so.…
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