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by Richard Priday on (#38GHK)
No. 10 promises billions (in a few years), doesn't address Horizon 2020 The government has announced an extra £2.3bn in research and development investment by 2021/22, ahead of the Budget this week.…
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Want to consolidate fragmented market Cable giant Liberty Global has inked a deal with MXC Capital, an AIM-listed tech investor, to create a buy-and-build IT services business that sells to UK SMEs.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#38GEP)
DVLA could bring in £15m from fine-wielding corporates The UK government is driving towards a sale of up to 6 million vehicle records to private parking firms, according to a transport lobby group.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#38GB5)
Clueless freelancers and the productivity puzzle Nathan Barley, the insufferable "self-facilitating media node" of Charlie Brooker's TV series, may be a prime culprit for Britain's lack of productivity growth.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#38G7Z)
Why bother paying, ask some law-abiding operators The Civil Aviation Authority is threatening already squeezed British commercial drone operators with another licence fee hike from April, piling another 40 per cent onto their costs.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#38G50)
In 18 months, Switchzilla has established itself in hyperconverged market +Comment After 18 months of selling, some 2,000 customers are travelling along the Cisco HCIA highway.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#38FYW)
This time, the flagship challenger gets it right Review OnePlus has settled into the groove of releasing two flagships a year, and this Christmas-time 5T reiteration may well piss off the fans who bought the OnePlus 5 released in the summer. It's better all round, sports the 6-inch 18:9 OLED that's a genuine flagship display... and it's the same price as before. So £499 buys you some absurd specs: 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, and £449 6GB/64GB.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#38FYY)
It’s almost as if it doesn’t have a great track record on patient info and IT projects... The UK government has been advised against a hasty shift of vital data sets from one quango to another as it aims to centralise medical data collection and management.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#38FWH)
Weakens WD position on blocking flash biz sale Beleaguered Toshiba, facing a Tokyo stock exchange deadline, has planned a $5.4bn share issue to avoid a delisting threat.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#38FTG)
'We naturally regret the human error that led to the mistake' For reasons unknown, on Sunday The Independent "live streamed" footage from space that was more than two years old.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#38FPA)
*No, mate. Just no* New model throws spanner in exoplanet debate A new physical model has added more support to the theory that the large exoplanet 55 Cancri e has an Earthlike atmosphere.…
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by Richard Priday on (#38FPC)
Students allegedly screened for wealth, tendency to give money Twenty-four British universities are being probed by the Information Commissioner's Office after being accused of using their ex-students' data to target those most likely to be extra alma to their mater.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#38FPD)
Who are the RecoverX rivals again? Nice gig +Comment Distributed database protector Datos IO has added fractional backup and recovery so you can restore the data you want faster.…
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by John Leyden on (#38FJT)
Look! A pic that's not a metaphor Security researchers have warned that it might be possible to destabilise a container ship by manipulating the vessel stowage plan or "Bay Plan".…
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If you take the Apple shaped pill, you'll see things different(ly) Apple fanbois being fanbois, Apple's new iPhone X isn’t "super expensive" but rather "totally worth it". Or, as chief executive Tim Cook styled it, "a value price... for the technology you’re getting".…
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Shafting economy, more like... A draft Bill intended to close the loopholes on so-called "gig economy" employment practices has been published today by the the Work and Pensions and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committees.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#38FDV)
'Shape memory alloys' mean tires can roll over sharp objects without permanently deforming NASA has developed chainmail tires with a memory and thinks they'll do the trick for future rovers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#38FCM)
Open Web Application Security Project updated 'top-ten risks' lands on Monday, but we found a late, late draft The Open Web Application Security Project will on Monday, US time, reveal its annual analysis of web application risks, but The Register has sniffed out the final draft of the report and can report that it has found familiar attacks top its charts, but exotic exploits are on the rise.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#38F93)
Chipmakers could merge to take on BroadQual, Toshiba says its PCs aren't for sale While you relaxed over the weekend, financiers and execs were busy doing deals, or hosing them down.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#38F7M)
Group Co-founded by City of London Police promises 'no snooping on your requests' The Global Cyber Alliance has given the world a new free Domain Name Service resolver, and advanced it as offering unusually strong security and privacy features.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#38F4C)
Bleichenbacher, the name that always chills cryptographers' blood If you're an F5 BIG-IP sysadmin, get patching: there's a bug in the company's RSA implementation that can give an attacker access to encrypted messages.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#38EXZ)
Researchers watch publishers watching you, ignore privacy settings, run over mere HTTP Researchers working on browser fingerprinting found themselves distracted by a much more serious privacy breach: analytical scripts siphoning off masses of user interactions.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#38ESA)
Linux Lord fires up over proposal to secure Linux by shutting down wonky processes Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has offered some very choice words about different approaches security, during a discussion about whitelisting features proposed for version 4.15 of the Linux kernel.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#38EM9)
Regulators happy. Now investors get to see if buying Fibre Channel was a good idea Broadcom has completed its acquisition of Brocade.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#38EGG)
Open/R distributed router software goes open source, with Juniper, Arista aboard Facebook has sent another shiver running up Cisco's spine, by releasing the code it uses for packet routing.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#38ED0)
Custom big data bundles for Australia's Telstra pop up on product death list Vulture South last week spotted an oddity in this Cisco end of sale announcement for “Cisco Select UCS Server Accessoriesâ€.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#38E93)
nbn™ financials, the speed scandal, and 'what millennials like part 1,096' NBN Week Australia's National Broadband Network “speed scandal†was in the news again last week, as nbn™, the company building and operating the network, suggested it should publish its internal speed data to resolve the issue.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#38B7P)
NSF approves plan to keep Puerto Rico facility operational after hurricane trashed it The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved a plan to keep the famous Arecibo Observatory running after it was severely damaged by Hurricane Maria.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#38ARP)
Sir Jony's nosey speakers delayed until 2018 Apple will fail to deliver its HomePod internet-connected speakers in time for the Christmas shopping season.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#38A4V)
And this one is… not in favor of snooping on Americans, whoa The battle over a controversial US government spying program has intensified – with a fourth piece of legislation tackling the surveillance introduced to Congress on Friday.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#389RT)
You've got the authority, big boy, CTIA tells Pai... And such strong arms The stomach-churning love-fest between the American cable industry and FCC Ajit Pai continues apace with Big Cable now pillow talking the federal regulator into how to prevent individual US states forming their own net neutrality protections.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#389GJ)
Dozens of terabytes exposed, your tax dollars at work Three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets have been discovered wide open on the public internet containing "dozens of terabytes" of social media posts and similar pages – all scraped from around the world by the US military to identify and profile persons of interest.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#389AQ)
Highway to the donger zone A US navy pilot in an EA-18G GROWLER is facing stiff action – after crafting a novel flight pattern that left much of central Washington state staring up at an anatomy lesson.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#388YR)
Chairman tells El Reg nobody will even notice its passing Controversial certificate authority StartCom is going out of business.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#388VS)
Metadata lookup is super-charged, though, claims infinite-io Infinite IO has enabled clustering of its metadata accelerators to scale performance.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#388QV)
You know, the surprise attack intended to sink aircraft carriers Her Majesty the Queen will commission the new British aircraft carrier named after her into Royal Navy service in three weeks – on the anniversary of an infamous naval battle where numerous warships were sunk.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#388QX)
At least until there's some sort of strategy. Jeez – GLA London's Metropolitan Police force's use of "intrusive" technologies "without proper regulation" could put a fundamental principle of policing at risk, the London mayor has been told.…
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by Richard Priday on (#388KY)
Row, row, robot boat gently laying pipes The UK Ship Register signed up its first unmanned vessel on earlier this week.…
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Concerns raised over data breach Thousands of Lloyds Avios Rewards American Express credit card customers have been targeted by fraudsters, the bank has admitted.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#388AB)
Ruse of the Machines It's alive, it's terrifying, and it does perfect backflips! Boston Dynamics' gymnastic research robot Atlas has caused a minor panic on social media. With skills like this, surely humans are doomed?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3887G)
Finding out how to sail through consecutive green lights The UK Autodrive connected car consortium will start practical trials of its connected and autonomous cars on the streets of Coventry, it has declared.…
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by Richard Priday on (#38859)
Must cough £300k soon after £87k ICO slapdown Ofcom handed down a £300,000 fine to business phone and broadband company True Telecom after concluding a year-long investigation yesterday.…
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A digital service that works for users, but not government The abolition of the paper tax disc is costing the UK government £107m due to an increase in car tax evasion.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3880B)
That flagship you just bought? Here's one better BBK Electronics' OnePlus venture rolled out its second flagship of 2017 yesterday, the OnePlus 5T going on sale just five months after its predecessor, the OnePlus 5 in June.…
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by Team Register on (#3880D)
He built a plane called Digital Innovation and told readers: 'Come Fly With Me' The Register is reviewing its relationship with columnist and Shoreditch entrepreneur Mr Steve Bong MBE after Mr Bong admitted to having a close working relationship with the Kremlin this week, in a piece titled Yes, I took Putin's roubles to undermine Western democracy. This is my story…
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by Richard Priday on (#387X4)
Over-hyped tech inches a step closer... maybe Mobile operator EE has proudly announced the success of a "breakthrough test" for 5G, but what do these tests signal for future 5G usage?…
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by Chris Mellor on (#387X5)
Z-NAND has near-3D XPoint access latency and could scale capacity faster too Analysis How does Korean flash and DRAM chipper Samsung's Z-NAND compare to Intel and Micron's 3D XPoint?…
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by Paul Kunert on (#387VG)
Aviva and Centrica wanted cloud giant love. 1 outsourcer... wasn't ready... to let go Updated Insurer Aviva and energy supplier Centrica are the latest big customers to indicate plans to ditch outsourcing giant DXC Technologies, The Register can reveal.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#387T5)
Discoursing Descartes with my robotic pet Something for the Weekend, Sir? I have awoken to the sounds of electronic growling. Making my way downstairs, I discover teethmarks in the bannister, a pool of oil by the back door and the remains of a torn-open jumbo box of AA longlifes in the kitchen.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#387PC)
By George (Kurian), he's done it Analysis There's a new energy at NetApp. The Microsoft Azure NFS deal was a great confidence booster, and the two recent acquisitions of Greenqloud and Plexistor provide stepping stones to a high-performance, on-premises storage future and a stronger hybrid cloud play.…
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