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Do Not Track is back in the US Senate. And this time it means business. As in, fining businesses that stalk you online
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Oh 4G, I'm speechless: EE network outage smacks rare breed of customer that talks into their mobile phones
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Oh my Tosh, WD: Storage firms etch for a stretch – 15 more years of fab flash hookup
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Team OpenCensus or OpenTracing? It'll be neither and both now: Hello, OpenTelemetry
How do open-source projects play nicely? They get off Twitter
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Honey, hive had it with this drone: Couple lived for years with thousands of bees in bedroom wall
Come for the enterprise tech, stay for the tortured puns
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iPhone gyroscopes, of all things, can uniquely ID handsets on anything earlier than iOS 12.2
Cheapskate fandroids get a pass on this one, though
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Backup your files with CrashPlan! Except this file type. No, not that one either. Try again...
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50 years ago: Apollo 10 takes an unplanned spin above the lunar surface – and sh!t gets sweary
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Ahem, ahem... AI engine said to be good as human docs at spotting lung cancer developing
New convolutional neural network did just as well as radiologists in clinical settings
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Big payout for Dell, Apple et al as Toshiba Mem 'prepares' to buy them out ahead of IPO
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Where there's a will, there's Huawei: US govt already eases trade ban with 90-day reprieve
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Do Not Track is back in the US Senate. And this time it means business. As in, fining businesses that stalk you online
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Salesfarce to Failsforce: Salesforce database blunder outage enters day three as fix falters
El Reg tunes into customer conference calls to hear SVP of engineering apologize
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All nodes lead to Rome: Epyc leak spills deets on second-gen Zen 32-core AMD server chippery
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UK's planned Espionage Act will crack down on Snowden-style Brit whistleblowers, suspected backdoored gear (cough, Huawei)
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Sophos tells users to roll back Microsoft's Patch Tuesday run if they want PC to boot
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Let adware be treated as malware, Canuck boffins declare after breaking open Wajam ad injector
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Google's cunning AI linguist, Uncle Sam drills ML skills into .mil, Intel's iffy CPU claims
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Cosmoboffins use neural networks to build dark matter maps the easy way
Ah yes, maybe generative adversarial models can be useful after all
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CIA traitor spy thrown in the clink for selling secrets to China. Stack Overflow, TeamViewer admit: We were hacked...
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It's 50 years to the day since Apollo 10 blasted off: America's lunar landing 'dress rehearsal'
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Salesforce? Salesfarce: Cloud giant in multi-hour meltdown after database blunder grants users access to all data
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Load of old Bull: French integrator Atos trots out first edge server box
Don't worry, it'll shut itself down if someone hits it hard enough
17 May 18:30 |
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It's not chicken feed: Million-dollar meal deal for livestock sabotaged by hackers... and, er, exchange rates
Six-week investigation delay shrank payment by 13%
17 May 17:30 |
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It's been a lean month for Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, but look! Remote Development
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Standards group W3C wins support from all major players to get AI working in the browser
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Get out of Huawei, it's an avalanche of news from everyone's favourite Chinese bogeyman
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Nvidia keeping mum on outlook for year as data centre slows, channel chokes on crypto crap
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Cray's found a super scooper, $1.3bn's gonna buy you. HPE's the one
Substantial losses weren't much fun, now we'll wait till deal is done
17 May 13:42 |
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Intel budges Samsung out of its seat at the top of silicon-slinger league
As most chip suppliers take a hit on sales
17 May 13:02 |
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Artificial Intelligence
Oracle AI's Eurovision horror show: How bad can it be? Yep. Badder
'Baby by myself the stain grows more obvious...'
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DRAM, that's cold: Overclockers squeeze out extra Micron DDR4 performance with liquid nitrogen system
Hardly practical but the headroom is there
17 May 11:45 |
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Science
SpaceX takes a leaf from the Microsoft playbook and stands down Starlink for an update
Also: Repeated reboots to get a Windows 10 update installed? Just like the (not so) old days
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Tesla big cheese Elon Musk warns staffers to tighten their belts in bid to cut expenses (again)
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