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by Chris Mellor on (#2VQ5A)
No Bull... no flops... or should that be the other way round? The Atomic Weapons Establishment, which provides warheads for the UK's nuclear weapons, is going to use a Bull supercomputer to simulate Trident nuclear warhead explosions.…
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by Team Register on (#2VQ1X)
Plus: More Valley douchebaggery, NotPetya, death of backups, and more
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by Andrew Silver on (#2VQ01)
It's just preliminary research, don't freak out RoTM In a version of the infamous Trolley Problem, you're sitting in a runaway train on a fatal collision course with five people. You can flip a switch to change tracks, but on the other track you'd still kill one person.…
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by Team Register on (#2VPYM)
And think of the children of course... We’re pleased as punch to announce that The Register is the official media partner for Byte Night, the annual sleepout fundraiser for Action for Children, the UK charity which has been caring and sticking up for vulnerable young people for 150 years.…
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by John Leyden on (#2VPYP)
Plus, bonus ransomware strain found in bottom of source code All the Bitcoins paid by victims of the NotPetya ransomware attack were withdrawn overnight.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2VPV0)
Passengers can bring electronic devices onboard from today Two Middle Eastern airlines have lifted the ban on in-cabin laptops on flights to the US.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2VPV1)
Oh no! Digital darkness forces folk to use cards and ATMs Nationwide Building Society is having a wobbly web Wednesday with customers getting only intermittent access to online and app-based services.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VPHR)
Three eyes look at the sky Camera designers will get to add a technique borrowed nature to improve how they handle colour, borrowed from the humble honey bee.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VPE3)
April drift test analysis updated Australian researchers who haven't given up on finding Malaysian Airlines MH 370 have told a conference in Darwin they believe they know where it is likely to be.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VPCN)
Think of it as your independence day Intel is shedding nearly 140 staff from Internet of Things business lines.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VP8Y)
The right hand? Go on, guess Facebook's lawyers are racking up the billable hours in the USA, with the company winning a lawsuit about tracking and privacy, but still doing battle against the American government over protecting users from government warrants.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VP6B)
Vulture South talks to Lockstep's Steve Wilson about privacy, identity, and loose APIs Australia's Medicare data leak certainly won't be the last such, so why are so many expressions of digital identity so badly protected?…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VP4B)
Equipment seized to head off new attack, Cyberpolice says There's a new wrinkle to the NotPetya story: authorities in the Ukraine have seized equipment from M.E.Docs, the online accounting firm implicated in spreading the malware.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VP1R)
Well, that's all right then The fallout from Australia's Medicare card number leak continued yesterday afternoon, with Minister for Human Services Alan Tudge trying unsuccessfully to hose down the flames.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#2VN6C)
Ok, we are going to say that 'agility' word Sysadmin blog Data center technologies are constantly evolving, displacing their predecessors. Data center storage, and Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) in particular, make for a good example.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2VN3T)
Brit chip designer opens up on annus horribilis Brit chip designer Imagination Technologies has returned to operating profit, in part aided by 350 poor souls – about a fifth of its workforce – that were tossed onto the employment bonfire amid wider cost cutting.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VMXK)
IoT, AI and car tech driving demand for chips Memory and flash fabber Samsung is boosting production, convinced that high demand for chips is here to stay.…
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by John Leyden on (#2VMPG)
Motoring org denies sensitive information was exposed Breakdown and car insurance outfit AA has been scolded for its handling of a data breach that spilled customer email addresses and partial credit card numbers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VMMH)
This joint venture could be described as strained at best Toshiba has filed a legal motion claiming a court has no right to judge Western Digital Corp's (WDC) attempt to halt its memory business sale, which, Toshiba says, would cause irreparable harm.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#2VMK3)
Maybe we're headed for a robo-pocalpse, but let's deal with these other problems first, eh? Not many people know that Isaac Asimov didn’t originally write his three laws of robotics for I, Robot. They actually first appeared in "Runaround", the 1942 short story*. Robots mustn’t do harm, he said, or allow others to come to harm through inaction. They must obey orders given by humans unless they violate the first law. And the robot must protect itself, so long as it doesn’t contravene laws one and two.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VMH9)
Both go to Broadcom for their ASIC chips Broadcom's $5.9bn purchase of Brocade has been approved by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) so long as Broadcom's technology used in chips for fibre channel switches built for Cisco is walled off from its storage networking business.…
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by John Leyden on (#2VMBD)
It does a pretty good job of ruining everything Ransomware dominated the threat landscape last year even though file-encrypting nasties made up less than one in a hundred examples of different Windows malware during 2016.…
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by David Spooner on (#2VMAC)
Tibet? Pah! A £20m ride puts the Highlands at your feet Geek's Guide to Britain The world's highest railway is the Xining-Golmud-Lhasa railway at 5,068m (16,627ft) above sea level and running 815km (506 miles). As much a political piece as a transport corridor, the line was designed to fuse China with Tibet – the country the People's Republic invaded and annexed in 1950.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VM7V)
Rocket and payload just fine, try again tomorrow SpaceX's current launch, carrying the geosynchronous satellite Intelsat 35e, hasn't got off the ground yet: two launches in a row have been pulled at the last minute.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VM4Z)
Massive news While business around the world closed out a financial quarter or a financial year ahead of June 30, US boffins were working to a different deadline: linking the kilogram to electromagnetism.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VM2A)
Boffins bust libgcrypt via side-channel Linux users need to check out their distributions to see if a nasty bug in libgcrypt20 has been patched.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VKZ1)
Emergency security talks in Japan, South Korea North Korea's regime remains bent on brinkmanship, with yet another missile test launched and suspicions it reach Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VKWE)
We care about your privacy... Medicare numbers in Australia became a lot less useful as a proof-of-identity, with the Australian Federal Police investigating how an unknown number of records ended up for sale on a Tor site.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VKRV)
Wallow in my DevOps holiday It looks like the New York Stock Exchange took the opportunity of an abridged trading session ahead of the fourth of July to test some code relating to its API.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VKNC)
So does ESET, which reckons the malware spread better than its authors expected Ukraine's security service, which last week called on international help to trace the “NotPetya†outbreak, has upped the ante, accusing Russia of being the source of the malware.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VKM1)
MITM, remote code execution If you use an app called eVestigator, billed as checking Android phones for compromise, delete it.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2VKHJ)
Corporate shill allegations spark furious response Special report In an extraordinary flurry of allegations, personal insults and legal threats, net neutrality has entered the world of academia.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#2VJPP)
What's here already, what's missing Sysadmin blog In late 2014 I wrote about Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI). I revisited this early last year. This year I expect the first mainstream SDI blocks to emerge, likely under the moniker "Enterprise Cloud". So what does the enterprise cloud of 2017 look like?…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VJM3)
What are we getting? Endurance NVMe drives could last longer because of a feature in the new NVM v1.3 specification (282-page PDF).…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2VJHJ)
Enterprise, corporate sales become one Microsoft is in the process of squishing more of its various sprawling limbs and partners into a single group. Multiple sources close to the tech giant have told us jobs would be cut during the upcoming revamp, although they could not name a number.…
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by Nicole Segre on (#2VJHK)
How to stay calm and carry on Promo As the volume of data held by companies mounts up at dizzying speed, so too does the complexity of protecting IT systems from theft or malicious attacks. Has your company’s success and steady growth meant that your data is being held in various geographic locations, on a mix of platforms and media, with several different solutions in place to protect it?…
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by John Leyden on (#2VJCB)
Are you thinking what we're thinking? (They even invited Hoodie-wearing Hacker™) Organisers have drawn up their conclusions following a pan-European cyberwar exercise.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VJCD)
Stock market launches can be hazardous to your value Dropbox looks set to follow fellow file sync and sharer Box with an IPO.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2VJ20)
Exscientia claims approach IDs candidates quicker GlaxoSmithKline has announced a research deal with British company Exscientia to use artificial intelligence to identify drug targets.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2VHYG)
Station F: 2,600 tech entrepreneurs en Paris Giant tech startup incubatory "space" Station F, which describes itself as the world's largest startup campus, officially pulled the dust covers off the scatter cushions last week in Paris's 13th arrondissement.…
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