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by Gareth Corfield on (#2PXTJ)
'We had no option' claims former director Troubled ZX Spectrum reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd has been ordered to repay two of its shareholders’ £52,000 legal fees by the end of this month.…
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by John Oates on (#2PXPQ)
We read the manifesto so you don’t have to… The Conservatives have pledged to introduce a digital charter in the party's manifesto today, which also rehashes a number of familiar-sounding ideas about “digital by default†government and backs the failing identity authentication platform Verify.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PXN2)
Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron burp as PC memory prices jump 30 per cent Global DRAM shortages might have proved a pain in the butt for buyers of PCs, smartphones and servers, but – unsurprisingly – they were a boon for the memory manufacturers.…
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by John Leyden on (#2PXFE)
Fintech firms not that thrilled about the idea The European Banking Federation (EBF) has asked the EU Commission to support a ban on "screen scraping".…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2PXCY)
Google shows its hand Analysis Nothing in the new version of Android O, revealed for the first time at Google's annual developer conference yesterday, is as significant as the changes to the way Google releases code to phone makers.…
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by John Oates on (#2PXAD)
Parties warned to follow rules ahead of General Election The UK's Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has opened a formal investigation into the use of big data analysis during the Brexit referendum.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PX5M)
Sales suffering – should it quit the market? Comment Cisco has missed out on a blade to rack server shift, sales growth has turned negative, it doesn't sell to cloud providers and it has a small market share. Should it invest to grow or get out of servers altogether?…
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Brexit and loss of oversight casts doubt on reform agenda – sources The British government's plans to overhaul £6bn in large IT contracts expiring within the next three years have fallen by the wayside, according to sources.…
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by John Oates on (#2PX0T)
Pilots: Um, you want all those lithium batteries in the hold? The European Commission (EC) and the US have pushed back against moves for a wider ban on laptops on aircraft but talks on the subject will continue in Washington next week.…
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by John Oates on (#2PWZH)
'Errors' in 2014 filings 'not intentional', apparently The European Commission has fined Facebook €110m (£94.4m) for giving misleading or incorrect information about its takeover of messaging giant WhatsApp.…
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Spend big or go home Comment Google Cloud Platforms's chief thinks the service will surpass AWS by 2022. Speaking at Forbes CIO Summit in Half Moon Bay, California, last month,Diane Greene claimed Google has "a huge advantage in our data centers, in our infrastructure, availability, security and how we automate things. We just haven't packaged it up perfectly yet."…
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by John Leyden on (#2PWVA)
Precautionary disconnect – patients still being looked after The internationally famous Great Ormond Street Hospital has been taken offline as a safety measure following last week's catastrophic WannaCrypt outbreak.…
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by John Oates on (#2PWS2)
Motherboard say what? Dell's latest BIOS update is bricking some machines – apart from a power light, they refuse to boot up at all, say users.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PWQ5)
Operating at scale is easy. Changing culture to accept and cope with failure is harder Organisations that hope to improve their own data centre operations by adopting the techniques used by hyperscale operators like Google or Facebook need to consider the stuff between their ears, not just the stuff on their racks, because changing data centre culture is more powerful than changing equipment.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2PWNW)
So you wanna build a robo-ride? Start saving up, get a ticket, get in line Analysis A closer look at LIDAR sensors – a key component in autonomous vehicles – reveals the lucrative and competitive nature of the self-driving car industry.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PWHY)
Artificial Van Allen belts, auroras, geomagnetic storms, just another day in the Cold War Space weather is usually driven by the Sun – but a bunch of data about Cold War nuclear tests has given NASA boffins the chance to measure whether humans can affect what goes on in Earth's neighbourhood.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2PWFF)
First they came for the activists and I did nothing… British police have charged a man under antiterror laws after he refused to hand over his phone and laptop passwords.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PWAS)
Microsoft advises how to harden cloudy Windows, cos it runs a cloud not your OS Microsoft Windows users already know what to do to defeat WannaCrypt (unless they've been asleep for a week). Now the company's published its advice for its Azure customers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PW65)
Julian Assange tweets his delight, but nothing on his promise to visit the USA As expected, leaker extraordinaire Chelsea Manning has left the United States Army's Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, after her sentence was commuted in the last days of Barack Obama's presidency.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PW0P)
By our reckoning this means a mouse could let a RAT into your computer If you're using an HP Inc wireless keyboard/mouse combo and the cursor starts behaving badly, someone might be pranking you.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PVZV)
Trumpian chaos and router collapse clip Switchzilla's wings, again Administrative chaos in America has put a dent in Cisco's financials, and the company has announced its intention to cut another 1,100 jobs.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PVY1)
Centrelink's buggy “Robodebt†program to get another audit Australia's Department of Human Services (DHS) might have given itself a clean bill of health over its notorious “Robodebt†data-matching program, but Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim wants to check it out for himself.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PVWJ)
Some greenfields won't get fibre, company tells Senate Remediating and backfilling copper networks for Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) was always going to need new copper, and now Australians know how much: 15,000 kilometres.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PVVF)
Plutus Payroll's owners arrested, aircraft seized, tax office suspends senior staff … and tech contractors sweat When Australian payroll-for-contractors outfit Plutus Payroll stopped paying its customers, several pointed out that the company looked too good to be true – because it did not charge for its services. And now we know why: the biz has been named at the centre of an AU$165 million (US$122.5m, £94.5m) fraud against the Commonwealth of Australia.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2PVQJ)
Appropriately named Panic has its repository raided after founder gets infected The head of a Mac-centric software studio is coming clean today after a malware infection on his OS X machine last week resulted in the loss of source code for several products.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2PVME)
Compatible with 'droid libraries, statically typed language is leaner and safer Google on Wednesday said it has made Kotlin a first-class language for Android development, alongside Java and C++.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2PVH0)
Beauty website suffers ugly IT security breach Cosmetics peddler Tatcha is warning customers after hackers were able to compromise its website and harvest payment card details as orders poured in.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2PVEM)
Biggest issue may be Partisan Pai and his Trump-like behavior Analysis Despite more than a million comments opposing it, tomorrow at around 12:00pm Eastern time, the three FCC commissioners will vote 2-1 to approve a so-called "notice of proposed rulemaking" and start on the rocky path to rescinding net neutrality rules.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2PVAX)
Ads giant flashes TPU 2 machine-learning ASIC Google I/O On Wednesday, Google kicked off its annual developer conference and media spectacle, Google I/O, at the Shoreline Amphitheater, a stone's throw from its Mountain View, California, headquarters.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2PV2D)
Windows Server 2k3 kit yanked, replacement slow to arrive Fasthosts left some customers without access to their backups for roughly six days – after it tore down systems it feared were vulnerable to the WannaCry malware.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2PTSH)
Effort to redraw online copyright rules receives furious response Internet giants Google, Facebook and a wide range of organizations from Pinterest to Kickstarter to Wikimedia have responded furiously to a recent decision by the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that could have huge liability implications for online companies.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2PTH6)
Oi, Amazon. Still think you're going to do domestic drone deliveries? The UK's Department for Transport and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy “don’t understand†airspace traffic management – and UK‑focused drone software startups might be closer to the government view than they like to think.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2PT9X)
It's all to play for Samsung has finally launched its mobile payments service, Samsung Pay, in the UK. The chaebol acquired the technology by buying LoopPay and launched the service in South Korea in August 2015.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2PT5M)
Files complaint over claims contract makers withholding license payments Qualcomm is suing Chinese iPhone and iPad contract makers it says have stopped paying it royalties at the behest of Apple.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PT1D)
Data centre CPU boasts more cores, IO, memory bandwidth than Intel's AMD has renamed its Zen-based Naples processor as the EPYC brand, pitching it as a data centre server CPU, and hopes to make inroads into both the dual-socket and single-socket server markets.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PSSF)
The SS300 comes in 2bits/cell and 3bits/cell variants HGST has released the Ultrastar SS300, an enterprise server SSD that's 1.6 times faster than its predecessor.…
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by John Leyden on (#2PSJC)
Stand down, folks. Back to Defcon none A ransomware variant, dubbed Uiwix, that abuses the same vulnerability as WannaCrypt has turned out to be something of a damp squib.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PSGV)
SolidScale software supplier gets closer relationship with up-the-stack moving MIcron We understand Micron has invested in Excelero, the software supplier for its SolidScale all-flash NVME array.…
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by John Oates on (#2PSDV)
If you want to slash overheads, you're learning from the best Beleaguered Canadian train and plane giant Bombardier has signed a six-year $700m contract with IBM to outsource tech management and, er, cut costs – something Big Blue has expended considerable effort doing itself.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2PSAA)
Mr Slurpy lives next door Review The Galaxy S8+ is like a nine course meal of desserts – tiramisus, trifles, ice creams, one after another – that you have to eat with chopsticks and a straw.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2PS6D)
This (probably) isn't a spear phishing attack but we were too afraid to verify Official anti-ransomware advice issued by UK police to businesses can only be read by clicking on a link titled "Ransomware" which leads direct to a file helpfully named "Ransomware.pdf".…
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by John Oates on (#2PS3B)
Pricking your memory, anyone? West Yorkshire police are seeking a giant penis who may have witnessed a serious assault in Leeds city centre in April.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2PS0G)
That is if you ever want to sell or use UK-certified kit abroad The UK's ability to successfully export – and import – drone technology relies on our aviation safety regulators staying as closely aligned with the EU as possible, Royal Aeronautical Society UAV committee chairman Tony Hadley told The Register.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PRZ2)
Optane persistent memory support from Cascade Lake Xeon SPs in 2018 Intel says its coming Xeon SPs (scalable processors) will run in-memory SAP HANA workloads 1.59 times faster than a Xeon E7 v4 system, and has demonstrated Optane DIMMs.…
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by John Leyden on (#2PRW6)
Significant number of devices continue to expose Windows SMB on port 445 Vulnerable Windows Server Message Block (SMB) shares central to last week's WannaCrypt outbreak are still widely deployed and frequently hunted, security researchers warn.…
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by John Oates on (#2PRSS)
Over 1k complain about free tablets, smartwatches wheeze The Information Commissioner's Office has fined Fareham telco Onecom Limited £100,000 for sending spam texts.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PRRM)
I need to take a cold shower Global travel systems business Amadeus is testing 100TB SSDs.…
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by Team Register on (#2PRP6)
Plus: Is America anti-innovation?
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by Chris Tofts on (#2PRM4)
Young servers, old servers, no middle-aged servers "In our country," Alice told the Red Queen in Through the Looking-Glass, "you'd generally get to somewhere else – if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PRJ7)
By reinventing ILM, HSM and file data management Analysis Komprise is a data management startup saying it will save enterprises money by identifying and analysing file/unstructured data sprawl then shift it to cheap on-premises or in-cloud storage. This is a message put out by others, such as Catalogic and Primary Data. It overlaps with the copy data managers, such as Actifio, and the secondary data convergers such as Cohesity.…
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