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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2P74B)
Lucky duckies Google wants you to believe that free music on YouTube doesn't deter people from paying for the same music somewhere else. Pull the other one, it's got bells on, the music industry has replied.…
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by John Leyden on (#2P72X)
Israeli firm prepares for DevOps deluge Infosec firm CyberArk has bought Conjur, a provider of DevOps security software, for $42m.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2P720)
It's make-up time but nobody's kissing yet Top Western Digital and Toshiba execs are talking after brandishing legal daggers over who can do what in Toshiba's memory business sale.…
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by John Leyden on (#2P6YJ)
Third-party provider blamed Cloud-based password manager LastPass has resolved an issue that left Brits unable to reliably access the service between Tuesday and Thursday this week.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2P6XB)
Combining security and data protection Analysis Data protection and security player Barracuda is being affected by customers moving away from point products, and the resulting combined data protection plus security themes could mean other pure-play backup suppliers are going to be left behind.…
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by Andrew Cobley on (#2P6TZ)
Wrestling with Google's machine learning framework Hands-on Occasionally a technology comes along that changes the way that people work. Docker has had a profound effect on how applications are deployed in the cloud, Hadoop changed how analysis of big data was done and the R language has disrupted the statistics market.…
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Well it's sustainable ... it's a single source producer... Yep! Boutique massive outsourcing In an effort to overhaul its massive £2.3bn contract with Atos, the BBC has awarded its Enterprise ICT and Hosting Services contract worth up to £560m over eight years to... you guessed it, Atos.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2P6PP)
Fraudster: Is this Windows? And why is it looking up my IP address? On-Call Why look at that! Friday is upon us, which means it’s time for another instalment of On-Call, The Register’s weekly column in which readers share memories of being asked to fix odd stuff at unpleasant times of the day.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2P6KG)
Moving VMs in fleet of micro-sats for virtual geosynchronous satellites Last week we talked to a space startup that wants to let satellites run XenServer so they can run virtual machines, which sounded intriguing enough that we decided to learn more.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2P6D7)
Hmm, who has a conflict and IMSI catchers, we wonder An ongoing campaign of propaganda-texting Ukranian solders has, unsurprisingly, been attributed to Russian forces equipped with cell site simulators (IMSI-catchers).…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2P69R)
PHPMailer bug leads to remote code execution via HTTP The popular Vanilla Forums software needs patching against a remote code execution zero-day first reported to the developers in December 2016.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2P651)
Patch promised Users of Google's PHP API client: watch out for phishing attacks while Google patches a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the code.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2P61A)
Virtualisation for daredevils The next FreeNAS release candidate landed last week, hopefully to a better reception than the disastrous Version 10 launch in March.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2P5Y6)
Brian, take a look at this ... Last December, Qualcomm said Windows 10 would soon arrive on the ARM architecture, and it's had its first demo.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2P5T5)
When do private companies dictate how we run national security? Federal MP Anthony Byrne wants to re-start the encryption debate in Australia.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2P5RD)
Storage biz's seasonality dip exacerbated by sales fall Quantum almost failed to meet its revenue expectations in its final fiscal 2017 quarter, as a StorNext revenue dip added to a seasonal decline.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2P5NA)
Jury finds that chip giant did not infringe on AVM patent Intel is breathing two billion dollars lighter Thursday, after a jury in Delaware decided that the chip giant had not infringed on a dynamic logic circuit patent.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2P5KN)
'Ghost' calls overload lines, preventing babysitter from getting through for help – suit A Texas mother is suing T‑Mobile USA, alleging technical issues with the carrier prevented her child from getting urgent medical care, which led to his death.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2P5JM)
But court date delayed again and superannuation payments are still in limbo No-longer-AWOL payroll provider Plutus has, as promised, started paying people again.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2P5FE)
Promises to hold agency heads responsible for slipups President Donald Trump has signed his long-promised executive order on cybersecurity – and it says the executive branch will take overall command of securing America's critical IT systems.…
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A bleary-eyed Microsoft wakes up after its cloud, IoT party, clears throat: 'Oh yeah, so Windows...'
by Thomas Claburn on (#2P5B7)
A roundup of things you might actually use Build At its Build 2017 developer conference in Seattle, US, on Wednesday, Microsoft turned its attention to Windows and cozied up to competitors.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2P586)
They won't love you like I love you, sniffs Ma Bell Just one month after announcing a $1.7bn acquisition deal with AT&T, 5G spectrum holder Straight Path now says it is instead inking a $3.1bn deal with Verizon.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2P575)
Eugene shouts back: Gimme the mic and let me testify Five US spy bosses, and the acting FBI chief, today told the Senate intelligence committee they do not trust software from Russian antivirus maker Kaspersky.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2P53Q)
Well, of course they are It's time to let Benjamin Franklin know that there is a third inevitability in life. To death and taxes, we must add advertisements.…
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by John Leyden on (#2P4WW)
Dodgy Conexant driver spaffs keystrokes into wide-open log HP Inc ships a creepy key-logger on its laptops, according to security researchers.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2P4SZ)
Open-source software to lure devs into Redmond's cloud Build Microsoft has wheeled out open-source software that wrangles Internet of Things devices and beams data to and from Azure.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2P4GQ)
Proprietary tape format bits shrink while capacity bulks up IBM has brought out a TS1155 tape drive as an update on the existing TS1150, offering 15TB raw capacity, half as much again.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2P4E2)
For when the robots have taken yours Google has acquired VR games company Owlchemy Labs, makers of Job Simulator. The witty cross-platform VR role-playing game is set in 2050. You're invited to strap on your goggles and engage in now-forgotten activities such as booking a meeting room, finding the office stapler, or other drudgeries associated with early 21st century lifestyles.…
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Platforms, platforms, platforms, powering workplace of future, yada, yada Cisco is the latest member of the tech old guard to jump on to the artificial intelligence bandwagon by slurping MindMeld for $125m (£97m).…
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by Tim Anderson on (#2P46T)
Cross-device clipboard, OneDrive placeholder files, mixed reality headsets... Build Microsoft has announced the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, a second wave of updates to its "Windows as a service" operating system. The first Creators Update was released in April 2017.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2P3ZM)
For you, Fritz, the testing is not over Europe's top court has ruled that the General Court issued a flawed and unfair verdict against Dyson, Britain's best-known manufacturer.…
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Oh go on, we'll throw in a soft-boiled Brexit The UK Labour has pledged a 30Mbps universal broadband speed by 2022, according to a draft leaked version of its manifesto.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2P3VE)
Web giant wants to invalidate Blackbird Tech's designs, get them thrown out of profession Cloudflare says it will go above and beyond to destroy what it claims is a uniquely dangerous patent troll.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#2P3S3)
'You do not abandon your users' .NET Foundation chief tells El Reg Build Microsoft will not, after all, restrict its open source, cross-platform web framework ASP.NET Core 2.0 from running on the Windows-only .NET Framework.…
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by John Leyden on (#2P3NA)
Now that's cast-iron antivirus An Avast software update pushed out on Wednesday is preventing web access for at least some devices running the firm's freebie anti-malware software.…
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Chief exec says 'significant chunk' of job cuts to come from Global Services Analysis "Collaboration" was the watchword from Openreach chief exec Clive Selley during BT's results this morning. An interesting expression given accusations it previously used its market heft to the disadvantage of its communications providers.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2P3C4)
Will the whistleblower please identify himself, asks IPCC The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating claims that the Metropolitan Police used outsourced Indian hackers to illegally access the email accounts of Guardian journalists and environmental campaigners.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2P3AD)
Will provide workload transition via Linux containers HPE is introducing a new generation of its mission-critical Integrity/HP-UX servers and providing a Linux container migration route to x86 server-land.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2P37D)
Nine months after its buttocks ignominiously met terra firma The "giant flying bum" Airlander 10 airship has successfully flown for the first time since it nosedived into the ground last summer.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2P35S)
Now regulate the ass off it Uber is really a transport company, not an internet company, in official advice given to the European Court of Justice. If it's followed by the court, the opinion will have significant impact on horizontally integrated platforms operating in Europe that present themselves as intermediaries and thus bypass many regulations.…
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by John Leyden on (#2P33X)
Cause unclear, users told to go through 'offline mode' Connectivity issues have left Brits unable to reliably access LastPass, the online password manager service, since Tuesday.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2P2ZT)
Workers couldn't take their legally mandated breaks Elon Musk’s SpaceX has agreed pay out nearly $4m to thousands of underpaid employees – yet one of them is curiously annoyed with his court-backed windfall.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2P2XG)
Well, the divorce lawyers haven't been called yet Analysis At the Dell EMC World event in Las Vegas, the two put a good face on it, with no apparent resentment bubbling underneath, as was the case for Symantec and Veritas.…
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by SA Mathieson on (#2P2TQ)
How Sweden and Norway turned to ANPR Most people leaving Kielder forest park in Northumberland go east towards Tyneside, but you can also head north-west on an uncategorised road through open countryside.…
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There's something cloudy in the air tonight. Oh Lord Against all odds, middle-of-the-road rocker Phil Collins – along with ex-Genesis pals – are some of the unlikely backers behind UKCloud.…
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by John Leyden on (#2P2PD)
That'd be 0.4 pence a call – if anyone ever paid it A UK firm found responsible for orchestrating 99.5 million nuisance calls has been fined a record £400,000 (US$517,550) by the Information Commissioner’s Office.…
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Profit plunges 19 per cent on back of 'challenging' year BT is to axe 4,000 jobs at worldwide, with profits plunging 19 per cent to £2.4bn during a "challenging" 2016/17 financial year for the former state monopoly.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2P2JP)
Beleaguered email client team gets its 'Dear John' letter A little over a year ago, Mozilla started pondering the future of Thunderbird. And this week, it's decided the troubled open-source email client must sleep in the spare room.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2P2H5)
Look, it's a fancy user interface, not actual intelligence Build Microsoft's Bot Framework received a minor feature injection at the Windows giant's Build 2017 developer conference, with the addition of Adaptive Cards for cross-platform rich media and support for new channels and the company's payment API.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2P2DJ)
Browser helps attackers by autocompleting passwords Edge nemesis, security tester Manuel Caballero from Buenos Aires, has popped the browser again, getting around its Same Origin Policy to steal stored credentials.…