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by Shaun Nichols on (#34RQT)
DMV paves way for human-free fully autonomous vehicles Totally autonomous cars with no drivers, no passengers nor steering wheels are set to roll out onto California's streets under rules proposed by the US state's Department of Motor Vehicles.…
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by John Leyden on (#34RGM)
Spear phishing emails thought to be affiliated with Pyongyang sent to electricity firms Hackers believed to be from North Korea are casing out US electric companies in preparation for a possible cyber attack – so says security firm FireEye.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#34R93)
US and Moscow both want to extradite Alexander Vinnik, 38, but minister of justice will decide A judicial appeals court in Thessaloniki, Greece, has backed Moscow's extradition request for Russian citizen and suspected Bitcoin launderer Alexander Vinnik, The Greek Observer reports.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#34R28)
The world according to WDC WDC is channelling its inner Theodore Roosevelt in its public negotiating stance with Bain Capital and Toshiba.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#34R29)
Abuse tax mooted as 'online safety' rhetoric ratchets up The British government is now proposing a direct tax on social media companies while inviting everyone else to hush and think of the children.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#34QW8)
Notes from an Oral Evidence session Comment To Westminster, England, where the House of Lords is conducting a wide-ranging inquiry into artificial intelligence.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#34QWA)
Oo, what's that you've got on? Chanel No. 5? Anthrax? This trendy wearable would know Smartwatches and Fitbits might be the cool wearables du jour, but they're hardly able to tell you if you're standing in a cloud of noxious chemicals. However, a team of boffins hopes to some day fill this, er, gap in the market with their hip prototype, the broad goal of which is to help keep you alive.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#34QQ1)
Edgy move: Acting to preserve on-premises IT Analysis Dell is going full tilt into the Internet of Things market, setting up a new division and promising to invest $1bn in IoT R&D over three years to build the business.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#34QQ2)
Tools will make peeps more attractive, it's claimed The revolution will not be televised because IT automation is boring. But it will be scripted and play out unseen, because boring is the desired state for computing infrastructure. Businesses just want their systems to work, without drama or excitement.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#34QH3)
Can I plug it in? Not without blowing the neighbourhood fuse A power consumption monitoring startup reckons its substation monitoring technology can be used to help the spread of electric car charging points.…
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by John Leyden on (#34QER)
SuperValu breached after cyber attack at mega-retailer Shoppers at SuperValu, Centra and Mace have been told to review their bank statements following a cyber attack against Irish retailer Musgrave.…
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by Kat Hall and Rebecca Hill on (#34QCP)
'Incredibly hard to read and even harder to understand'... Fears over privacy and the application of GDPR, concern over lax rules for spies, and the omission of regulation on fake news were just some of the issues raised at the second reading of the UK Data Protection House Bill in the House of Lords.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#34Q8W)
Better than having to stump up £54.5m in back payments SAP is to offer feedback on anonymised indirect licensing as concern and confusion about the rules grows among customers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#34Q55)
Memory... lights the access speed of RAM. (Or does it?) Debate An argument about how to solve the same technical problem has sprung up between two rival startups with plenty of reason to say the other's tech is not up to scratch. But they raise some interesting issues about how to solve slow access to moved files, where to store metadata, and more.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#34Q3Z)
Move UK consortium gathers data for insurers and regulators A group of council delivery drivers in East London are riding new £28,000 Land Rover Discovery Sport vehicles. A bit extravagant? Yes, deliberately so: these cars are testbeds for the Move UK autonomous car tech data-gathering project.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#34Q2S)
How can the other players up their game on and off-premises? Analysis Run the Azure Stack on-premises and you can move data and apps to the Azure public cloud with ease. It's the same software environment. Run the Oracle Cloud at Customer on-premises and move apps and data to the Oracle public cloud with ease. It's the same software and billing environment.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#34Q0B)
Overseers told of low morale, poor performance and even suicides Fed up with years of willful ignorance, staff at the European Patent Office publicly called out their president in front of the organization's overseeing body.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#34PXK)
SW-defined storage maker gets extra cash to start 2017 Has software-defined storage supplier Nexenta's growth stalled? Far from it, its CEO and chairman insisted. It's booming and additional significant funding is coming, apparently.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#34PXN)
Hussain's lawyers say exec can't be tried in the States for what allegedly happened in UK The former chief financial officer of ill-fated $11bn HP acquisition Autonomy is asking a US court to dismiss felony fraud charges related to his role in the 2011 merger deal.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#34PSN)
Reminder: amateur astronomers, watch out for 2012 TC4, you might get lucky With asteroid 2012 TC4 about to pass between Earth and the moon, NASA is gearing up for its much-anticipated live test of its warning system.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#34PR8)
Reports say patent, interop promises on the table Qualcomm is hoping it can cut a deal with the European Union to get the go-ahead for its multi-billion NXP Semiconductors acquisition.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#34PJS)
Fourth Amendment trumps your math, nerds Continuing the US government's menacing of strong end-to-end encryption, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told an audience at the US Naval Academy that encryption isn't protected by the American Constitution.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#34PFF)
Explosive new claims also put a bomb under US-Israeli cooperation The brouhaha over Russian spies using Kaspersky antivirus to steal NSA exploits from a staffer's home PC took an explosive turn on Tuesday.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#34PDR)
Arrests after customized malware apparently used to drain millions Hackers managed to pinch $60m from the Far Eastern International Bank in Taiwan by infiltrating its computers last week. Now, most of the money has been recovered, and two arrests have been made in connection with the cyber-heist.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#34PA2)
Farewell, you're out of extended support: No more updates, security fixes from Microsoft A decade after their release, Microsoft Office 2007 and Outlook 2007 today fell out of extended support. Gaze teary-eyed at your installation discs. The software has entered the Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#34P6B)
...says analyst who reckons Cupertino's next big iThing will fall short of its last big iThing Apple's upcoming iPhone X will be its biggest in years, but will still fall short of sales expectations.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#34P8F)
But at least there's no Flash update (not this week, anyway) Microsoft today released patches for more than 60 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its software. Meanwhile, Adobe is skipping October's Patch Tuesday altogether.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#34P45)
But at least there's no Flash update (not this week, anyway) Microsoft today released patches for more than 60 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its software. Meanwhile, Adobe is skipping October's Patch Tuesday altogether.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#34NZS)
Brits will be warned by post, agency says Updated Last month, US credit score agency Equifax admitted the personal data for just under 400,000 UK accounts was slurped by hackers raiding its database. On Tuesday this week, it upped that number ever-so-slightly to 15.2 million.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#34NXB)
Big sums spent on shady search ads amid US elections Joining Facebook and Twitter, Google has now been sucked into an investigation into how Russia influenced the US presidential elections last year.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#34NV2)
Big sums spent on shady search ads amid US elections Joining Facebook and Twitter, Google has now been sucked into an investigation into how Russia influenced the US presidential elections last year.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#34NR4)
Fake login request boxes spark formal bug report Apple, we have a problem. A bug report filed Monday through Open Radar – which mirrors bug reports developers submit to Apple's private bug tracking system – suggests that password prompts in iOS apps can be misused to steal passwords and other secrets.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#34NNJ)
AWS config blunder spills secrets all over the internet Updated Yet another organization has been caught exposing sensitive data to the public internet: this time it is Accenture – consultants to the great and the good – with a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket leaking access keys and other private documents.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#34N7Q)
I see you shiver with antici... pation Samsung has confirmed its 4bit/cell flash is incoming – that's a QLC (quad-level cell) NAND chip.…
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by John Leyden on (#34N4B)
Ideological unity drives 'spirit of sharing' in crimeware market Cybercriminals in the Arab states are some of the most co-operative in the world, according to a new report by Trend Micro.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#34MY6)
RansomBlock tech stops unauthorised access and changes to data The RDX is a neat niche removable disk storage product that can now tell ransomware to get lost.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#34MTQ)
Mimecast promises fast mail search and (of course) GDPR-friendly tools Email archiver Mimecast has promised a subscription drug to cut through GDPR pain.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#34MR2)
Microsoft suspects 'code change' behind slow calls Microsoft has said it suspects a code change has caused "performance issues" for its cloud-based code repository and dev collaboration platform, Visual Studio Team Services.…
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by John Leyden on (#34MMQ)
And London advertising firm spanked for similar campaign A Bradford-based bank has been fined by the UK's data privacy watchdog for sending illegal marketing texts and emails.…
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by John Leyden on (#34MHK)
Mules open forged accounts, crooks clear them out from foreign ATMs Hybrid cyber attacks on banks in former Soviet states has already resulted in estimated losses of $100m.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#34ME4)
By the end of 2018, says Realm, Kotlin will overtake Java for Android apps Java on Android is dying, and before long will be dominated by Kotlin, or so says a selective slice of developer data.…
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All hexagons and no pentagons makes Jack a very dull... A petition has been launched to update the UK Traffic Signs Regulations to include a geometrically correct football.…
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EE phone home EE customers have been hit with a nationwide outage, with many unable to make calls this morning.…
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Never knowingly undersold Everyone's favourite outsourcer Capita has appointed Jonathan Lewis as its new CEO, after former grande fromage Andy Parker left last month, due to a series of profit warnings.…
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by John Leyden on (#34M70)
They’re taking our processor cycles Cryptojacking is well on its way to becoming a new menace to internet hygiene.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#34M72)
It's an Android with a few frills and BBM. Fine First Fondle BlackBerry's new "Motion" handset is a solid Android with some nice touches that, if it lives up to its battery life promises, will be a solid contender for mid-to-premium handset buyers.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#34M4Y)
Central bank deputy governor calls them 'dubious' Russia has announced a ban on the websites of cryptocurrency exchanges.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#34M36)
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to nerds raging on Twitter Europe's second largest cinema, Cineworld, is struggling to meet demand for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.…
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Redundancies down to falling demand, says chief exec BAE Systems has confirmed it is to slash 2,000 jobs across its military, maritime and intelligence services operations.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#34KZG)
Kubernetes grunt-powered community storage software Multi-app enterprise storage startup CloudByte has announced v0.4 of OpenEBS, hyperconverged block storage for stateful applications on the Kubernetes platform.…
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