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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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by Andrew Silver on (#34KZH)
Because 3D printers are sooo 2006 Beware, 3D printers. Self-assembling bacteria are coming for your jobs. Specially designed bacteria can organise themselves to make a three-dimensional pressure sensor, new research shows.…
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by Team Register on (#34KVH)
Tell us what you’re doing - or not doing - with DevOps, Containers, Agile The call for papers for Continuous Lifecycle 2018 closes in a couple of weeks, meaning you’ve still got the chance to tell your peers, and us, exactly how software development and delivery should work.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#34KVJ)
Motion to dismiss case of 6.4m leaked kids' accounts looks likely to succeed VTech, the toy company pierced by attackers in late 2015, is hoping an Illinois court will toss out the resulting class action against it.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#34KT4)
Google and Facebook can't – or won't – anticipate misuses of data that shouldn't exist We’re leaking location data everywhere, and it's time to fix it by design.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#34KPM)
Redmond's AI assistant can now scan your messages and make your more eloquent If you're really, really awkward in Skype text conversations, or you just want someone to think you're paying attention without all that pesky human interaction, you can now get help from Cortana.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#34KHG)
That's the price for continuing to cook Apple's cores Taiwanese chip heavyweight TSMC has announced the location for its future 3 nm chip-making factory in late September and has now put a figure on how much that's going to cost: a cool $US20 billion.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#34KAH)
In 2015 the two were at each other's throats over a blog post. We think we can say who won! Splunk has announced the acquisition of a rival company named Rocana with which it once fought a bitter blog-fuelled legal battle.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#34K65)
'Millions' of Pr0rnHüb visitors offered fake browser updates Security bods have closed off a malvertising campaign targeting an ad network spread through an ad network that targeted smut site P0rnHub.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#34K66)
The Social Network™ indulges in disaster pr0n in the week it has new VR kit landing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has visited Puerto Rico in virtual reality.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#34K68)
Part 1: find out who owns what. Part 2: get them to take security seriously ... or else Sysadmin-in-chief of Australia's telecommunications industry, Attorney-General George Brandis, has released plans to anoint himself in a similar role in other critical infrastructure sectors, starting with an ownership register.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#34JXS)
Japan's NICT looks to data centres of the future If you've always wanted to pump more than 50 Tbps down a data centre fibre, good news: it can be done. The bad news is that right now, it needs a fair whack of boffinry and equipment.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#34J05)
Professor Mark Bishop on the dangers of deep stupidity Minds Mastering Machines Mark Bishop, a professor of cognitive computing and a researcher at the Tungsten Centre for Intelligent Data Analytics (TCIDA) at Goldsmiths, University of London, celebrated the successes of deep learning during a lecture at the Minds Mastering Machines conference on Monday, but stressed the limits of modern AI.…
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