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by Thomas Claburn on (#2Y79H)
Lookalike npm packages grabbed stored credentials A two-week-old campaign to steal developers' credentials using malicious code distributed through npm, the Node.js package management registry, has been halted with the removal of 39 malicious npm packages.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2Y777)
Lawyers on both sides choosing their next luxury cars TechnologyOne and the Brisbane City Council could settle their differences for nothing, but that's probably not going to happen.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y778)
No reason given for Fowler's exit, no new exec named and no sign of continuous delivery Oracle has revealed that John Fowler, a Sun veteran who stayed to serve as Oracle's executive veep for systems, has left the company.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2Y70F)
Proposed US law to shore up key piece of online protection hits web opposition An effort to redefine key legal protections in America, in order to prosecute those aiding child sex traffickers, has hit opposition from internet giants.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2Y6VY)
App cabbies push back against controlling black-box computers Uber drivers are resisting Uber's algorithmic management to raise their wages and to push back against uncompromising computer control.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2Y6PX)
Suit seeks damages for alleged snooping during split-up A fella in the US is suing his ex‑wife, alleging she broke federal wiretapping and privacy laws by snooping on his email during their divorce.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2Y6PY)
Toolmaker phished, Google account pwned, malicious code pushed out – and now fixed A popular Chrome extension was hijacked earlier today to inject ads into browsers, and potentially run malicious JavaScript, after the plugin's creator was hacked.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2Y6MF)
Wait, Wales has digital billboards now? Shoppers in Cardiff got an eyeful this week when mystery hackers took control of an electronic billboard overlooking the main shopping street and broadcasted a string of images, including Nazi swastikas.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2Y6HJ)
Despite Pai on face, US federal regulator keeps digging DDoS BS hole America's broadband watchdog, the FCC, has continued digging an ever-deeper hole over its claims it was subject to a distributed denial-of-service attack.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2Y5XZ)
Data management. It's so hot right now. Data management +Comment Primary Data has rolled up $40mn in new funding as the data management space becomes white hot.…
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Acquisition marks move away from snail mail to broadband The Post Office has today completed its acquisition of ISP Fuel Broadband, adding 60,000 customers to its UK network.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2Y5TC)
Beta tech on Insider builds now Goodbye, keyboard. Goodbye, mouse. To use Windows, soon all you'll need is your vision.…
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by Team Register on (#2Y5FC)
Plus, Black Hat, Meg quitting, Uber damage control, tech TV shows
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2Y5C2)
🎶 It's the circle of life 🎶 PayPal has invested in e-commerce tech firm Cloud IQ as part of the upstart's latest £4m funding round.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2Y596)
Granddaddy celebrates one score and 15 years of inbox-filling antics This month marks the 35th anniversary of the sign-off of RFC 821, the first definition of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, that everyday staple of email comms.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2Y540)
Situation is 'very different' to San Bernadino case Apple boss Tim Cook has said that his company would "rather not" remove apps from its store – but has to comply with the law in China.…
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Online anyway The Telegraph newspaper accidentally published an obit of the Duke of Edinburgh, instead of reporting his retirement from official duty today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2Y51V)
No word where he's headed yet Bill Lipsin, NetApp's VP for global channels, is leaving the company.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2Y4YA)
Behind the scenes of infosec's cat-and-mouse game Feature The magic AI wand has been waved over language translation, and voice and image recognition, and now: computer security.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2Y4YC)
Flying from London? Add a few hours on for good measure British Airways is getting its grovelling in early after a systems crash caused chaos at Heathrow and Gatwick airports earlier this morning.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#2Y4WW)
'Just switch it on and watch it connect.' Yeah, right The great thing about standards is that there are always so many to choose from. We've seen the standards forest grow countless times before. The Internet of Things is a vast digital petri dish for them, and they just keep growing.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2Y4SP)
Yes, again. Sony - thank you for the tape you gave to me IBM has claimed its fifth-in-succession world tape density record with a 330TB raw capacity technology using Sony tape media tech.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2Y4RG)
Kids Pass tries to explain why it gave folks reporting the security hole the virtual middle finger A UK web biz has been slammed for blocking people on Twitter just for reporting a security vulnerability that potentially leaked people's contact details.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y4ND)
Mozilla spins share 'n' synch as Google spins its own virtues Google and Mozilla have each revealed significant new features in their respective browsers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2Y4NF)
In Germany, at least, you're gonna have to get your jollies some other way Installing keylogging software on your employees' computers and using what you find to fire them is not OK, a German court has decided.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2Y4J4)
It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere ... I'm all alone NASA scientists have dashed hopes that Proxima Centauri b, an Earth-ish-like planet orbiting the closest star to the Sun, could be habitable.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2Y4J6)
You'll be blinded by science, literally, if you put on fake glasses, boffins warn The American Astronomical Society has warned that knockoff viewing glasses for this month's total solar eclipse will blind people if they wear them while looking up at the spectacle.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2Y4ET)
Top tip: Don't fetch and install dodgy Flash updates from random websites A new breed of Android malware is picking off mobile banking customers, particularly those in the UK and Germany, we're told.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y4DA)
Optane's great as memory, says Big Blue, but we can't do that yet IBM's made good on its promise to fire up a cloud packing Intel's Optane non-volatile memory “in the second half of 2017.†But Big Blue has fallen short of the “broad services suite†it foreshadowed and can't even put Optane to work as memory.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y46B)
'Earn up to 90% in less than an hour' apps binned, Apple vows they won't return Apple and Google have pulled options trading programs from their respective app stores after being asked to do so by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC).…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y41E)
If you fancy something more profitable, Oracle's cloudy cross-seller predicts your tastes Oracle's fired up a cloud service that it says can automate and refine the question of whether you'd you'd like fries with that when ordering food at a restaurant.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2Y3Y2)
Get it? Put the drinks on my tab? Haha, ah. What a wild ride life is Apple is crediting a resurgence in its education programs and school sales in helping to drive up iPad sales to its first gains since 2014.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2Y3WC)
We all want totally secure gear. And flying cars. And $1m. And... After years of warnings about the parlous state of Internet of Sh!t security, the US Senate has finally introduced legislation on the matter.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2Y3TD)
Final liquidators' meeting to wrap up billionaire boys fun phone adventure Infamous Australian telco One.Tel is finally being read its last rites. The Register understands that the the final meeting of members and creditors will take place in August and it is expected that regulators will erase the company from their registers three months later.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2Y3TF)
Far be it from us to lecture journos on overreacting but cripes – calm down If you thought artificial intelligence was already overhyped to death, this week will have given you a heart attack.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2Y3KW)
Fake quotes linked DNC staffer to Wikileaks to divert attention from Russia, it is claimed To obscure Russia's role in the 2016 election, the Trump administration collaborated with Fox News to fabricate news about the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, according to a defamation and discrimination lawsuit filed on Tuesday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2Y3KX)
US comms giant denies buyout rumors, says it prefers Verizon for the time being US cable monster Charter Communications says it has no interest in acquiring mobile carrier Sprint – at least for the time being.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2Y3GG)
Magical thinking meets willful ignorance at closed meeting Analysis UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd kicked off a firestorm in the tech community Tuesday when she argued that "real people" don't need or use end-to-end encryption.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2Y39C)
Toshiba pulls plug on reactor construction, uranium becomes u-ran-out-of-cash Energy companies in the US have cancelled plans to build a pair of nuclear power plants – after Toshiba's Westinghouse Electric Company collapsed.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2Y36K)
Bitcoin Cash is the New Coke of cryptocurrency Bitcoin split into two separate currencies on Tuesday because part of the Bitcoin community isn't happy with recent and planned changes to the code that controls the cryptocurrency.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2Y31H)
v5.0 combines end-to-end data protection and big data storage Secondary storage consolidation player Cohesity has fulfilled a long-term promise and added archive-accessing workload support for Big Data analytics.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2Y31K)
Undulating propulsion system makes waves, useful for amphibious missions Feature In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Paul Revere's Ride," light from lanterns served to signal how British troops would arrive at the start of the American Revolutionary War: One if by land, two if by sea.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2Y2PY)
Replication tech integrated with data truck - yes an actual truck... WANdisco is integrating its Fusion product with Amazon's Snowball product, which moves massive amounts of data to its public cloud.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2Y2EF)
Firm now tackles smaller crises alongside disaster recovery Databarracks has started offering business continuity as a service (BCaaS) to small and medium-sized businesses in the UK.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2Y2EG)
Usage up 0.08% while Windows 10 continues to win converts Windows 10 adoption keeps rising and Windows 8 usage continues to fall, StatCounter confirmed in its latest monthly worldwide traffic sniff to discern who's using which desktop operating system.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#2Y24H)
Isolation-based security is getting important Sysadmin blog Do you remember Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and so forth? It's marketing terminology that was popular at the turn of the millennium and was as used and abused as "cloud" is today. Underneath all the fluff, however, were solid and reasoned ideas about how technology would evolve and the benefits they'd bring.…
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Networking biz forks out for loss-making outfit Comms and networking integrator Maintel has snapped up Merseyside-based reseller Intrinsic Technology for £5.2m.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2Y1Y0)
Bewilderingly, algo-crafting boffins fail to reference Reg standards Academic research is always best when it confirms your preconceptions, and a pair of data scientists from Lawrence Technological University have done just that.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2Y1RP)
Don't take our name in vain, DJI veep tells trade union Drone manufacturer DJI has publicly challenged a pilots' union to release the disputed results of an aircraft collision study it sponsored.…
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With a knick knack, piggyback, throw broadband folks a bone In its on-going efforts to break Blighty's broadband dependence on BT, regulator Ofcom has today proposed a cap on Openreach's rental charges for smaller providers accessing its ducts and poles.…
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