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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2WPQ8)
Here are some pictures. And, er, that's all we've got for you Atari has continued its teaser-trailer approach to what is purported to be a retro version of its classic games console.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2WPQA)
Make sure you've updated if you're using Windows Cisco has patched its Chrome and Firefox WebEx plugins to kill a bug that allows evil webpages to execute commands on computers.…
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by John Leyden on (#2WPMH)
Blast from the past blasted Myspace's account recovery process is hopelessly flawed, according to a security researcher.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2WP2P)
Brit biz told to pay £80k for messages advertising Satsuma Loans Bradford-based loans company Provident Personal Credit has been fined £80,000 for squeezing out almost a million nuisance texts.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2WNY1)
But judge narrows scope of US Labor Dept request Google has been ordered to hand over personal details of 8,000 employees as part of an ongoing US Labor Department investigation into equal pay.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2WNPP)
Don't be waving those flash joint venture interests at anyone without telling us first A California court has told Toshiba not to transfer its flash memory joint venture interests to anyone else without advance notice to WDC subsidiary SanDisk, so that the issue is preserved for arbitration.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2WNPQ)
Thirteen? Thirteen? The Doctor Who fans will see you now The timelord of Doctor Who, a man since 1963, will be portrayed by a woman – actress Jodie Whittaker – for the first time.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2WNMP)
EMEA boss called it a day, says CEO, amid 'changes' to Euro beachhead Kaminario has left UK sales in the hands of an sales engineer and a chief technology officer following the redundancy of more than half of the local staff, a number of sources have told The Register.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2WNKN)
Secure shelter under expanded cryptographic umbrella IBM has launched its latest, newest, biggest, baddest mainframe, the z14 system.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2WNGY)
Local cops issue ticket afterwards Jesus has miraculously survived a great weight from the heavens that should have crushed him to death, according to Florida TV.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2WNFF)
UK peers want ICO to ensure info cannot be misused The proposed £11.7bn takeover of Sky by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox is a "grave threat" to the democratic process, members of the UK's House of Lords have claimed.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2WNDC)
Good old Capita keeps Auntie's purse overflowing Nearly three-quarters of TV Licensing criminal convictions last year were secured against women, according to data gathered by an anti-Telly Tax campaigner.…
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by John Leyden on (#2WNDD)
Another lonely day, with no one but FB, oh... I'll send an SMS to the world Facebook account recovery using pre-registered mobile numbers is poorly implemented and open to abuse, according to critic James Martindale.…
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Smut regulator also to be set up The government is poised to usher in mandatory porn checks this week, with reports it will require users to provide details from a credit card to prove they are over 18.…
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by Andrew Cobley on (#2WN8F)
When owning tin is a cheap(er) alternative to expensive cloud Machine Learning is becoming the only real available method to perform many modern computational tasks in near real time. Machine Vision, speech recognition and natural language processing have all proved difficult to crack with out ML techniques.…
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Home Office happy as Larry Analysis Oracle recently launched its dedicated Government Cloud in the UK - duly wheeling out the Home Office as an example of an early adopter. But to what extent are its new services just vendor lock-in under a cloudwash veneer or a change for the better?…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2WN6K)
Deep learning with Dr Tony Robinson Profile One of the pioneers of making what's called "machine learning" work in the real world is on the comeback trail.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2WN4Q)
Unclear if code was first mistaken for avant garde instrumental Rock deities Radiohead have snuck a program for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum into a re-release if their seminal 1997 album “OK Computerâ€.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2WN4S)
Database more adept at replication, memory control Redis, the moderately popular in-memory open-source database has just hit its 4.0.0 milestone, to the delight of some.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WN1A)
It's 2017 and attachments with "..." in their names caused crashes Microsoft has withdrawn at least three of the patches released at the end of June and early July, but left it to users to find out for themselves.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2WN1C)
Investigation launched into allegations of kickbacks-for-contracts SAP has installed an acting managing director and acting chief financial officer at its scandal-hit South Africa subsidiary.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2WMYE)
Infected sterile males will help kill off the population Google’s healthcare arm Verily announced just before the weekend it will release twenty million sterile male mosquitoes into the wild, in Fresno County, California.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2WMXB)
Life is short, have a quick buck Dating site for cheaters Ashley Madison has thrown US$11.2 million on the bed to make its 2015 data leak go away.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2WMW5)
He's definitely set Linux 4.13 ball rolling, with Intel Canonlake support and scaled-up Xen VMs Linux 4.13 is under way. Linus Torvalds pulled one of his semi-surprises by announcing release candidate one on Saturday, rather than issuing his usual Sunday evening missive.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WMQS)
'Have to admit, it's getting better' ... no, actually, it's not It's Monday, and infosec-watchers are showing their age by calling internet of things security disclosures “a broken recordâ€. This time, it's a home security system that's remotely p0wnable.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2WMQ6)
New software-defined and containerised toys, ahead of September's first full release Microsoft's revealed the first fruits of its plan to deliver twice-yearly updates to Windows Server by revealing the first-ever Insider build of the OS.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WMPD)
Aerospace firm says there's no market for this stuff, wants to build it anyway Aerospace company Orbital ATK has failed in a legal bid to halt a DARPA contract for robotic satellite maintenance devices and will instead see if the White House can help it to bring the work to the private sector.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WMHC)
Five vendors help virtualise access network functions Verizon is ramping up its multi-gigabit optical broadband work with interop tests for its implementation of the OpenOMCI specification.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WMFY)
15 per cent of potential attendees don't fancy trying to make it to San Francisco The Internet Engineering Task Force has taken the rare (and possibly costly) decision to relocate an upcoming meeting out of America.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2WH30)
High-Mach number, magnetized collisionless shocks reproduced Scientists have managed to create powerful supersonic shock waves – comparable to those generated in space – under laboratory conditions.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2WGD3)
Et tu, Vertu? Then fall, geezers Vertu, the British smartphone maker known for its obscenely expensive blinged-out handsets, will shut down over an apparent lack of interest in obscenely expensive blinged-out handsets.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2WG9Z)
Forget about the internet: FM is where the real action is Open up! It's the FCC!…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2WG80)
Amazingly, it's not Keith Richards Humans are newcomers on Earth and it's almost certain that we won't be around, on this planet at least, when the solar system's star finally goes nova. But boffins have identified one animal that will be.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2WG3B)
Also a bald-faced liar When AT&T decided at the last minute it was going to join this week's "day of protest" over net neutrality, the reaction ranged from incredulity to bemusement.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2WG18)
Uncle Sam says it won't trawl through travelers' phones Border searches of US citizens' mobile devices do not extend to data stored solely on remote servers, according to Kevin McAleenan, Acting Commissioner of the US Customs and Border Protection Agency.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2WFZ2)
Pulp-squeezing juicebags to drop a quarter of its workers Internet-tethered juicer maker Juicero is axing 25 per cent of its staff as the startup tries to shake off its status as a Silicon Valley punchline.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2WFT3)
Blade server initiates server portfolio conversion Huawei has announced a Xeon Scalable Processor conversion of its FusionServer portfolio, with a blade server leading the charge.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2WFCV)
Ninth Circuit panel urged to throw out injunction on software support biz The latest installment of the years-long legal battle between software support company Rimini Street and Oracle was acted out in the US Ninth Circuit court yesterday.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2WF9H)
Get your office benchmarking Crysi- *cough* I mean, working Amazon has rolled out its latest GPU computing box instance line, G3.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2WF3R)
Devon and Cornwall plod start using RC quadcopters +Comment Devon and Cornwall Police is launching its drone-equipped aerial surveillance team today.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2WEXT)
Paves way for thousands of sci-fi novel prologues to come true Luxembourg's parliament has passed a law that makes it the first European Union country to offer legal certainty that asteroid mining companies get to keep what they find in space.…
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by John Leyden on (#2WETW)
Server update Dark web marketplace AlphaBay's closure last week followed an international law enforcement operation and multiple raids, it has emerged. It has also been reported that a key suspect who was arrested in the raids has died in custody.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2WERM)
Now-freed 'serial entrepreneur' has yet to face a full trial Peter Sage, the "serial entrepreneur" accused by HPE of defrauding it out of $17.5m worth of servers, has been freed from prison by the UK's Court of Appeal.…
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MCubed makes it easy to get up to speed on the hard stuff If you’re in any kind of knowledge-based business, you may suspect your world is about to be rocked by machine learning and AI over the next few years.…
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UK Office of Tax Simplification wants to scrap 'anachronistic and cumbersome' process Government tech often gets slagged off for being old and clunky. But spare a thought for the folks issuing stamp duty, who have to handle machines from the 1870s which "close down" at 2pm every day to be cleaned.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2WEEM)
Korean 'delicacy' cakes cars It's always The Register's pleasure to remind you that, however bad you think your day is going, someone else has it worse.…
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by Sonia Cuff on (#2WECX)
From HAL to Slackbot Once cloud was accepted as something with various meanings, none of which our customers understood, the IT industry searched for the next big buzzword. It came up with not one but three terms often used interchangeably by people who don't know any better – bots, artificial intelligence and machine learning.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#2WEB6)
Well, it gets a prosthetic thumbs-up from me Something for the Weekend, Sir? A VR headset is pressing down on the bridge of my nose. The strap is pulling out strands of hair from the back of my head. I have bruised shins after walking into a coffee table.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2WE9X)
Tech services division changes tack to be a light for customers in digital darkness Hewlett Packard Enterprise is rejigging execs and consolidating subsidiaries in its last remaining tech services division Pointnext – a business that has shrunk year-on-year for almost half a decade.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2WE7S)
So she used a pencil to work it out, then cut herself down to size to fix it ON-CALL Last Friday your correspondent snorkeled on a tropical island, but this Friday it's time for another edition of On-Call, our weekly column in which we recount readers' tales of being forced to take on tricky jobs for tricky people.…
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