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Not just the government that is crap at IT... Nearly 40 per cent of IT projects in the UK are on course to fail, according to a survey of 182 project managers.…
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| Updated | 2025-08-02 15:45 |
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by Kendra Chamberlain on (#2VHSS)
Can you pick up product, examine it from all sides? Not yet Opinion Nokia has premiered what it calls a first-of-its-kind immersive virtual reality advertising experience for its new line of digital health products. The advert is hitting two Nokia birds with one virtual stone: the ad shows off Nokia’s own burgeoning line of VR content creating hardware – the OZO camera – and its suite of digital health products.…
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The kids are all right HPC Blog Enormous happenings at the ISC17 Student Cluster Competition, where students from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat (FAU) broke the student cluster competition world record for HPL (LINPACK).…
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'Now you can watch Game of Thrones in peace' The UK government has today launched its £400m Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund, aimed at boosting Blighty's full-fibre infrastructure.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VHJE)
Putting Bruce Willis out of work NASA has okayed one of its save-the-world-from-asteroids proposals to move to the preliminary design phase, on the way to a hoped-for launch early in the 2020s.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VHFW)
'No reason to delay' As anticipated last week, version 4.12 of the Linux kernel landed Sunday amid a storm of … well, placidity, as it happens.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VHD9)
Fighting to head off Department of Defense blacklisting Eugene Kaspersky, founder of the eponymous antivirus firm, has reiterated his offer to give the US government access to his source code.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VHAN)
Dies ist eine Chaos Germany's e-government system is open to padding oracle attacks and other vulnerabilities because of an insecure communications protocol.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VH8V)
Long March, short flight China's latest Long March-5 Y2 the launch has gone awry for reasons not yet made public.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VH59)
Patches issued for 38 products, plus bonus Web portal bug-fix You don't need state-sponsored hackers to crack industrial control systems, just an empty Intel AMT login – something Siemens started patching against last week.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VH2F)
Red Hat abstains but doesn't spoil the party Java 9's Java Platform Modular System, that's caused Oracle so much trouble has passed the community vote and will ship in September.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VGZK)
*George Brandis, Self-Certified Network Architect, to get keys to carrier networks The Australian government is moving a step closer to having the attorney-general overseeing its telecommunications networks – even while the committee that looked at the bill says it lacks detail.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VG3N)
Your essential guide to latest developments in enterprise-grade silos of bits and bytes We have here another seven days' worth of scintillating storage news that didn't manage to make the daily news cut in this crowded week of June 26.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2VCXK)
No more freeloading graphics, it wants its $400-a-year cut Photobucket is cracking down on people embedding on third-party websites images it hosts, until now, for free.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2VCW6)
Uncle Sam's wiretap stats show the state of surveillance in Land of the Free, Home of the Brave The US government's annual wiretap report, published this week, has revealed the reach and scope of its agents' surveillance abilities.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2VCRK)
Broke your screen? Avoid dodgy repair shops – your private sexy selfies will thank you later A group of researchers has shown how, for instance, a repair shop could siphon data from Android handsets or infect them with malware with nothing more than a screen repair.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2VCPA)
All part of the wider plan to visit the dusty wasteland of Mars Japan's national space agency JAXA has announced plans to send a lone astronaut to the moon by 2030.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2VCDQ)
Chocolate Factory warns employees about contractor's cock-up Google says some employees may have had their personal information exposed after the agency that handles its company travel bookings got hacked.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2VCDS)
No humans on Red Planet, straight-faced officials have the audacity to claim NASA has not enslaved a colony of children on Mars nor is it using them for vile orgies on the Red Planet nor feasting on them to harvest their precious bone marrow, officials have told The Register.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VC94)
And slashing the share price, too. That also worked After pulling its IPO yesterday, all-flash and hybrid array startup Tintri repriced its shares at $7 to $8, down from the previous $10.50 to $12.50 range.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#2VBXP)
If HCI sounds simple, that’s because it is Sysadmin blog Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) isn't a product, it's a feature. The future lies in turnkey cloud solutions. This means that there are certain IT services HCI vendors need to bring to the table to remain relevant.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2VBXQ)
Get used to hearing once again: 'We were only following orders' The German parliament has today approved a law that would see social media titans fined up to €50m if they don't quickly remove hate speech from their sites.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VBV6)
But what's a 'true data fabric'? Analysis Data archiver StrongBox has moved into the data management space with StrongLink.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2VBNG)
Ken 'e' logins Update Users of Microsoft's Office365 cloud productivity suite struggled to log in today.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2VBJB)
Ideal steward would be mediator, soothsayer, guide Two of the UK’s leading academic societies have recommended setting up a data stewardship body to take a “helicopter view†of the whole data governance landscape.…
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One of 30 Brit branches to be shut due to 'shift to online' Exclusive Virgin Media has named the 30 branches scheduled to shut as part of plans to slash up to 250 jobs – including the closure of its flagship Oxford Street store in London in August.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VBBP)
Product shortage plus high demand equals price rise driven profits rise Memory and flash chip-maker Micron had a massive third quarter as demand growth-driven revenues led to price rise-driven profits.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2VB88)
Not that easy, is it? Apple, Samsung most locked-down of all kit Out of 17 IT brands, Apple, Samsung and Microsoft have taken the crown for devices that are the hardest to repair or upgrade – and their displays are the fiddliest bits of all.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2VB6R)
High Court allows group to challenge mass state surveillance The High Court has given Liberty permission to challenge parts of the UK's Investigatory Powers Act.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2VB6T)
None of today's P45 recipients will be directors, say sources Virgin Media is closing 30 shops and cutting 250 jobs, including a number of head office people, as a result of botching its £3bn Project Lightning superfast broadband plan.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#2VB3D)
Classic or encapsulated? You choose Sysadmin blog Next year will see the 20th anniversary of IEEE 802.1Q, the standard that defines the tagged VLAN for Ethernet networks. Despite it being two decades since modern VLANs started being used in anger a significant number of systems administrators remain afraid of them. Unfortunately, the time is upon us where VLANs are becoming a necessity even in small businesses.…
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Follows €2.4bn mega fine The European Commission is seeking a company to police Google’s algorithm in a tender worth €10m, following its record antitrust fine against the advertising business of €2.4bn (£2.1bn).…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#2VB1D)
This app could have grave consequences etc Something for the Weekend, Sir? I will be annoying when I am dead. In fact, I plan to be much more of an irritant after passing away than I am at the moment as the once-dicky ticker continues to clock up the artery miles.…
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by Maxwell Cooter on (#2VAWJ)
750,000 smart cards, millions of PCs A quiet revolution has been rumbling in Leeds. It may not seem revolutionary: a gathering of software developers is scarcely going to get people taking to the barricades in these uncertain times, but the results of this particular meetup could shape access to NHS PCs in the coming years.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#2VAVD)
Battle beyond terrible packaging Sysadmin blog VMware's VRealize suite for management and orchestration recently received its bi-annual refresh for hybrid-cloud wranglers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2VAVF)
The atmosphere was positively electric back when polyester pants were popular ON-CALL Hello Friday! And hello, therefore, to On-Call, The Register's regular column in which readers explain how they were sent out into user-land to do odd things and returned triumphant, frustrated or smugly satisfied.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VASG)
Russia 'won't rule out' retaliation Russia has hinted at retaliation if the US adopts a Senate committee recommendation to ban Kaspersky from American military contracts.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2VARA)
Eggheads demand panic button to control wacky brain-machine interfaces in the future Who is responsible if a robot controlled by a human brain drops, say, a baby?…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2VAKX)
Tune into space boffins' 24-hour telethon celebration Space scientists and enthusiasts are today celebrating International Asteroid Day – with events in 190 countries and a 24-hour telethon with boffins from NASA, ESA, and JAXA plus assorted celebrities.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VAJT)
Passwords were salted, so there's some comfort A staffer of social music streaming site 8Tracks is having a really bad day: a bit of GitHub carelessness has leaked 18 million user accounts.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VAES)
Security service calls NotPetya an 'act of cyberterrorism' The Ukraine, hardest hit by this week's “NotPetya†ransomware/havoc-ware, has called for help from Europol, the FBI, and England's National Crime Agency to investigate who was behind it.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VAC1)
Software update adds traction control to protect rover's wheels After 18 months of testing, NASA's pushed a patch to the Mars Curiosity Rover – to extend its wheels' life, and eliminate over-exuberant climbs causing “wheeliesâ€.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VAB0)
Nine SNMP MIBs vulnerable Cisco's been caught out by the venerable Simple Network Management Protocol, turning up nine bugs in IOS and IOS XE that appear in all SNMP versions.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VA6K)
Another day, another botched government contract Australia's derailed outsourcing of its National Cancer Registry is the latest project red-flagged by the Australian National Audit Office.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2VA57)
No phone tracking without asking for permission that you probably already granted The US state of Illinois is about to pass a law that makes it illegal to track a phone's location without the owner's consent.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2VA30)
Also starts mysterious VIP service for $130,000 The Shadow Brokers is once again trying to sell yet more stolen NSA cyber-weapons, raising the asking price in the process. And the gang has threatened to out one of the US spy agency's ex-operatives that it claims hacked Chinese targets.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2V9YK)
Stable for up to 10x the distance from Earth to Moon A team of physicists claims to have created the world's sharpest laser, with a line width frequency of only 10 millihertz – opening up the possibility of improving the accuracy of optical clocks and radioastronomy experiments.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2V9TF)
Hang on, there's a tech angle in here somewhere... IoT, right? Fad-crazed parents have something new to worry about, as reports suggest that fidget spinners can pose a fire risk.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2V9NP)
Brendan Carr will be a reliable vote against net neutrality as an FCC commissioner President Donald Trump has nominated Brendan Carr, the FCC's general counsel, to fill the last remaining Republican commissioner slot at America's telco watchdog.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2V9KD)
Thanks, WackyLeaks The latest cache of classified intelligence documents dumped online by WikiLeaks includes files describing malware CIA apparently uses to track PCs via Wi‑Fi.…
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