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by Thomas Claburn on (#37865)
We catch up with 'death watch' project after latest version bags 1.6m downloads Interview Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 finally shipped on October 19, five months later than intended, but the software is still a bit buggy.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3784J)
Earth-based 'scope clocks one of this simulation's first wonders A large international team of astronomers has detected one of the oldest galaxies in the universe we've seen to date – born within a billion years after the Big Bang.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3782W)
This kind of security that should keep the likes of the NSA and pirates out, but doesn't Several large gaps have been found in the IEEE's P1735 cryptography standard that can be exploited to unlock or tamper with encrypted system-on-chip blueprints.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3781H)
Rights carrot dangled before Netflix, Amazon and HBO, apparently J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings could be on its way to the small screen.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3782X)
Out with Xen, in with 'core KVM technology' for new C5 instances and future VMs too AWS has revealed its created a new hypervisor based on KVM, not the Xen hypervisor on which it has relied for years.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#377ZG)
Deployed with Skylake-powered instances unleashed today, coming soon to more instances AWS has revealed its created a new version of the Xen hypervisor to make a new type of EC2 instance go faster.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#377ZH)
Domains? Blocked. Search engines? Blocked. ISPs? Ditto. Good luck with that A US judge has ruled that world+dog must help block Sci-Hub, a publisher of scientific texts, which will likely result in protracted battles with Internet companies over their responsibility for copyright infringement.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#377XE)
As researcher pleads with you not to brand bugs with a logo A security researcher has turned up new ways to silently hijack and infect Android devices via malicious Wi-Fi packets over the air.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#377RW)
Users want it and NVIDIA's already sniffing around OPENSTACK SYDNEY The OpenStack Foundation has started to scope what it will take to make its software a suitable platform on which to run machine learning workloads.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#377Q1)
Wanna break the Internet? Start by not patching this problem Cisco's pushed a fix for a border gateway protocol (BGP) denial-of-service bug in its IOS XE operating system.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#377MP)
Cisco still hasn't managed to drown this kitten Trying to duck patent sueballs slung by Cisco didn't stop Arista from claiming record revenue and profit for its most recent quarter.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#377K1)
Crypto-crafting JavaScript appears on hipster-boxing site Yet another website has been caught secretly running Coin Hive's JavaScript that silently pressgangs visitors' computers into mining the Monero digital currency.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#377D8)
Redmond, Princeton hope to protect folks from ICE swoops Microsoft is suing the US government to prevent the deportation of immigrants – including at least 45 of its own staffers – who are in America under the now-dying DACA program.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3776P)
Uncle Sam loses control of social media accounts The US Digital Registry – an authoritative list of government Twitter accounts – reveals that almost 30 have been suspended, several after tweeting in, er, Russian.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3770Z)
Celebrates CenturyLink gobble by blacking out A fat-fingered configuration blunder at Level 3 temporarily sent a chunk of internet connectivity in America and the wider world to level zero on Monday.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#37711)
Google, Facebook and chums quietly signal they're OK with tweaked US proposals Just before the weekend, the Internet Association quietly dropped its objections to the proposed Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) which is making its way through US Congress – after fighting against the draft legislation for months.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#376VK)
You're typing it wrong, duh Apple says it is working on a fix for an annoying bug in iOS 11 that leaves some fans unable to properly type the letter 'i' without it glitching out.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#376RW)
Stop whining, says ad giant, we only promoted harmful nonsense for a short time Following the murder-suicide of 26 people in church on Sunday by Texas gunman Devin Kelley, ad giant Google managed to shoot itself in the foot by promoting fake news about the 26-year-old.…
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by Chris Williams on (#376PB)
Just months after Chipzilla trashed its new best friend as an 'unreliable supplier' Analysis Arch-rivals AMD and Intel have put aside their animosity toward each other, and united against a common foe: Nvidia.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3765Y)
HPE's big honking server and memory box HPE has upgraded its Superdome X server to use Skylake CPUs, bragging that it's the world's most scalable and modular in-memory computing platform.…
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by Richard Priday on (#3762N)
Hello, hello? No I said a pain in my... Hello? Londoners are being given the choice of putting their health in the hands of their internet connection, via a 24/7 app-based NHS service which will allow them to have consultations with doctors over video call.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#375ZQ)
US Supreme Court sends another appeal packing Samsung seems to have trouble accepting reality when it comes to a long-running patent spat with Apple.…
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by John Leyden on (#375S3)
Appleby condemns 'criminal act' and 'politically driven' reporting Revelations from the Paradise Papers, a leaked set of more than 13 million financial documents, have shed light on how the rich and famous channel funds through offshore tax havens.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#375S4)
They're super keen to get it done ASAP Broadcom has confirmed its multibillion-dollar bid for Qualcomm, revealing more details of the $130bn all-cash-and-shares offer to buy out its rival chipmaker.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#375NH)
So rested they by the iSCI tree... And filed awhile in thought Red Hat's v3.0 Ceph storage software adds iSCSI block, POSIX file and containerisation support to the object storage core, making it a unified protocol storage software product.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#375NK)
Climate apocalypse, you say? Meh, at least we have truffles The Périgord black truffle has survived UK weather and grown in Wales.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#375JZ)
Burn in. Weird colours. Welcome to Super Retina Is the technology press operating double standards when it comes holding Apple to account?…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#375DD)
And it's not just about bonkers Bitcoin mining rigs Mellanox's next-gen Innova network adapter won't just pack the obligatory high-speed interfaces – it'll also embed a Xilinx FPGA.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#375DF)
'No branches, no phone lines... soon they'll have no customers' The online services for the Co-operative Bank and its digital-only arm Smile are both out of action.…
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by John Leyden on (#375BB)
Cash machine use dwindling in face of contactless and mobile Thousands of free-to-use cash machines could be axed from Britain's high streets due to plans to cut fees that fund the network, banking industry group LINK warned last week.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#375BC)
Websites, please wear our Badge of Virtue Competition Virtuous websites will be able to signal their goodness to the world under a new scheme proposed by digital quango queen Martha Lane Fox.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3756Z)
Websites, please wear our Badge of Virtue Competition Virtuous websites will be able to signal their goodness to the world under a new scheme proposed by digital quango queen Martha Lane Fox.…
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Huh! More like 'won't reach' Bonfire night has come a long way since Guy Fawkes' failed attempt to blow up the House of Lords on 5 November 1605. Now, we prefer to burn more modern day villains. Such as Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump and, err, Openreach.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3753D)
XMarks the ... where are my bookmarks? A freemium Firefox browser add-on that saves and syncs bookmarks has started "losing" bookmarks instead, according to its users.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#3751V)
This isn't a sci-fi premise, it'll influence how we segment our kit a few years down the line Even using the most conservative estimates, the number of connected devices has surpassed the number of humans. Machines are communicating more with other machines than they are with humans.…
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Cash stuffed into ground network for nippy broadband Satellite outfit ViaSat is forming a €68m (£60m) public-private partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), which among other things is intended to fund ground stations for home broadband speeds of 100Mbps.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#374Z4)
Proxima Centauri... more like Pulverea Centauri, amirite?* New research suggests that a dust belt may be circling the closest star to the Sun, a red dwarf named Proxima Centauri.…
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by David Gordon on (#374X9)
Consistent, stable and low SPONSORED Achieving consistent ultra low latency is often top of the list of requirements for those investing in all flash arrays.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#374XB)
And heeeere comes Amazon with its crazy low prices The tablet computer market is sinking even as the fortunes of its main protagonists rise.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#374VP)
May have to wait to 2019 or 2020 following court claims Plans to introduce a Europe-wide patent court may be delayed still further after the German parliament, government and patent lawyers asked for an extension on submitting responses to a legal challenge.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#374RS)
CoreOS on AWS, Kubernetes, and more Analysis Toward the end of this month, CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi expects Amazon will introduce a managed Kubernetes service at its AWS re:Invent event.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#374NF)
And mistook a baseball for a Monday morning coffee Video Students at MIT in the US claim they have developed an algorithm for creating 3D objects and pictures that trick image-recognition systems into severely misidentifying them. Think toy turtles labeled rifles, and baseballs as cups of coffee.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#374HZ)
Frying a motherboard will stop being a bad thing if two European companies have their way OPENSTACK SYDNEY Your next data centre could be an aluminium box filled with a handful of servers swimming in oil.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3749M)
Neither could figure out how to pull it off, but that hasn't stopped SoftBank from buying more of Sprint Updated US carriers Sprint and T-Mobile have decided their on-again, off-again merger is off.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3746E)
He'll probably burn it all up at high altitude ... in a rocket Amazon.com founder, CEO and president Jeff Bezos has sold a million shares in his own company an reaped over a billion dollars from the transaction.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3744Z)
Hints at multi-gig wireless, which should get nbn™ - and government - feeling nervous Facebook has urged the Australian government to open up millimeter-wave spectrum for licence-free applications.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3741P)
Anime-streamer is fine again, and disinfection is easy Popular anime streamer Crunchyroll is warning users to check their systems for malware, after attackers got access to its Cloudflare config and targeted Windows users with a malicious file.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#373XG)
Even CHARGEN services are hosed, daily, says CAIDA study One-third of Internet hosts with IPv4 addresses were subject to denial of service attacks in the last two years.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#373R1)
Users asked to open-source custom connectors to the real world OPENSTACK SYDNEY The OpenStack Foundation has kicked off its summit in Sydney, Australia, with a call to current OpenStack users to help it to win more users by sharing code they've written to link OpenStack to other tools and infrastructure.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#373KZ)
Vulture South wraps the week's news of Australia's National Broadband Network NBN WEEK Welcome to NBN Week, Reg Australia's new weekly roundup of the endless news of the nation's National Broadband Network.…
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