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Dedicated techie risks life and limb to locate office conference phone hiding under newspaper
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'Baby by myself the stain grows more obvious...'
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CIA traitor spy thrown in the clink for selling secrets to China. Stack Overflow, TeamViewer admit: We were hacked...
Roundup...And more from the world of infosec this week
18 May 10:01 |
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Science
It's 50 years to the day since Apollo 10 blasted off: America's lunar landing 'dress rehearsal'
Part OneCharlie Brown and Snoopy go to the Moon
18 May 07:04 |
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Cloud
Salesforce? Salesfarce: Cloud giant in multi-hour meltdown after database blunder grants users access to all data
UpdatedPlug pulled on instances as engineers scramble to protect customer info
17 May 20:52 |
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Security
Giga-hurts radio: Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers
Explosives activated by wireless networking signals discovered amid election
17 May 20:30 |
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Servers
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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Security
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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Software
It's been a lean month for Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, but look! Remote Development
Also: Accidental explosion in TypeScript type-checking de-borked in version 3.5
17 May 16:30 |
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Artificial Intelligence
Standards group W3C wins support from all major players to get AI working in the browser
Google, Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla on board, says chair
17 May 15:30 |
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Security
Get out of Huawei, it's an avalanche of news from everyone's favourite Chinese bogeyman
RoundupWe read this week's Huawei happenings and filleted it so you don't have to
17 May 14:28 |
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Business
Nvidia keeping mum on outlook for year as data centre slows, channel chokes on crypto crap
The term, we believe, is 'rekt': GPU giant loses nearly $1bn in sales, profits fall 68%
17 May 14:15 |
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HPC
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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Data Centre
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...'
17 May 12:21 |
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Storage
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
17 May 11:13 |
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Emergent Tech
Tesla big cheese Elon Musk warns staffers to tighten their belts in bid to cut expenses (again)
Plus: Battery software updated following vehicle fires
17 May 10:40 |
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Data Centre
Virtustream xakes xanaged, xrofessional xervices to xhe xtreme xith xStreamCare
Biz will do almost anything for money (as long as it is cloud-related)
17 May 10:10 |
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Software
Microsoft sends partners hundreds of unwanted OPI: Other People's Invoices
Risky business: Azure cloud rains bills
17 May 09:39 |
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Personal Tech
Polygraph knows all: You've been using our user feedback form
Something for the Weekend, Sir?Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies...
17 May 09:01 |
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Security
Good heavens, is it time to patch Cisco kit again? Prime Infrastructure root privileges hole plugged
Do the thing ASAP, you know how it works by now
17 May 08:09 |
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Data Centre
Dedicated techie risks life and limb to locate office conference phone hiding under newspaper
On CallDON'T ASK ME STUPID QUESTIONS, JUST GET YOUR ASS OUT THERE
17 May 07:05 |
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Bootnotes
Russian bots are just for rigging US elections? They hit home, too: Kid stripped of crown in TV contest vote-fix scandal
Singing competition stunned by suspicious spree of SMSes
17 May 06:07 |
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Artificial Intelligence
If you hear podcasting star Joe Rogan say something dumb, it may not be his fault – an AI has cloned his voice
VideoAnd how it could be you being impersonated next
17 May 05:01 |
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Security
Freed whistleblower Chelsea Manning back in jail for refusing to testify before secret grand jury
If orange is the new black, she's back in black
17 May 01:56 |
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Artificial Intelligence
Tesla driver killed after smashing into truck had just enabled Autopilot – US crash watchdog
Flash automaker insists victim 'immediately removed his hands from the wheel'
17 May 00:53 |
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Networks
Bloke accused of conning ARIN out of 750,000 IPv4 addresses worth $9m+ to peddle on black market
The failure to shift to IPv6 is now literally a criminal matter
17 May 00:13 |
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Security
Bank-account-raiding Goznym malware bust: Five suspects collared, five still on the run. $100m feared stolen
Most exciting Enid Blyton book yet – Five accused of international fraud?
16 May 23:37 |
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Security
The plane, it's 'splained, falls mainly without the brain: We chat to boffins who've found a way to disrupt landings using off-the-shelf radio kit
VideoDoS cyber-attacks are not just for websites, they may also be for aircraft ILS
16 May 21:03 |
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Data Centre
You're on a Huawei to Hell, China tells US: We'll fight import tariffs, trade war to bitter end
Beijing slams Trump's 'abuse of export control measures', vows to take some sort of action
16 May 20:22 |
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Artificial Intelligence
Let's check in with our friends in England and, oh good, bloke fined after hiding face from police mug-recog cam
VideoWell, it is the nation that brought us Nineteen Eighty-Four
16 May 19:39 |
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Internet of Things
OK, Google, please do a half-hearted U-turn: Stay of execution for smart home APIs after Big G goes cuckoo in the Nest
Plan to force everyone onto Assistant stalled after customers say: Mess with the Nest, die like the rest
16 May 19:02 |
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Storage
Time to reformat the old wallet and embiggen your smartmobe: The 1TB microSD is here
$450 massive capacity micro flash card could go in a drone or a snapper too
16 May 18:00 |
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Security
Office 365 user security practices are woeful, yet it's still 'Microsoft's fault' when an org is breached
As soon as defences are sold as a product, hygiene suffers
16 May 17:04 |
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Data Centre
British Army down thousands of soldiers after outsourcing recruitment IT to Capita
But have latest changes finally made a positive difference?
16 May 16:00 |
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Shove this in your orafce: Microsoft fiddles with cloudy databases as Build 2019 recedes
Making that migration to Azure Database for PostgreSQL that little bit easier
16 May 15:04 |
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The Channel
Police ICT Company kills £500m procurement, no longer wants one box shifter to rule them all
Yep, THAT would-be siloed IT smasher, conceived in Theresa May's brainpan 8 years ago...
16 May 14:19 |
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Artificial Intelligence
Human Genome Project and US DoE veteran to deliver keynote at MCubed
EventsBlind bird tickets getting ready to take off
16 May 13:23 |
Bootnotes
Wine? No, posh noshery in high spirits despite giving away £4,500 bottle of Bordeaux
Customer ordered £260 plonk from same year – bargain!
16 May 12:48 |
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Software
Microsoft waves the wizard wand, emits the Web Template Studio
It looks like you're trying to build a full-stack web app in Visual Studio Code. Would you like some help with that?
16 May 11:59 |
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Data Centre
China trade tariffs? Fuhgeddaboudit, say Cisco execs. We, er, shifted some production
Switchzilla takes slow boat from Middle Kingdom amid Prez Trump's latest hike
16 May 11:09 |
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Personal Tech
Want a good Android smartphone without the $1,000+ price tag? Then buy Google's Pixel 3a
Hands onAd goliath's latest has struck all the right compromises
16 May 10:09 |
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Storage
Datrium goes multi-cloud upstacking with Automatrix, new name for HCI platform DVX
AnalysisBolt on some rebranding, et voila
16 May 09:25 |
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Emergent Tech
If poking about Doctor Who's TARDIS in VR sounds like fun to you, better luck next time
UpdatedA vulture removes his anorak and straps on a Rift for BBC's nerd goggles attempt
16 May 08:57 |
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Data Centre
LzLabs kills Swisscom’s mainframes – but it's not the work of a vicious BOFH: All the apps are now living on cloud nine
Software lobbed up into the clouds without having to recompile a line, apparently
16 May 08:00 |
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Software
Tangled in .NET: Will 5.0 really unify Microsoft's development stack?
Interview.NET Framework? Mono? Xamarin? .NET Core? Blazor? Java interop?
16 May 07:10 |
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Artificial Intelligence
AI bots need a sense of hearing to navigate their computer world and the real world – eggheads
Audio perception enhances visual cues, boffins explain to El Reg
16 May 05:49 |
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Security
Breaking news: Bank-card-slurping malware sneaks into Forbes' mag subscription website
Dead-tree devotees who recently signed up may want to check their statements
16 May 01:57 |
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Networks
Banhammer Republic: Trump declares national emergency, starts ball rolling to boot Huawei out of ALL US networks
Fail Huawei, fail Huawei, fail Huawei: Executive order targets IT, telecom systems
15 May 23:28 |
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Bootnotes
Silence of the vans: Uber adds 'Plz STFU, driver' button to app for posh passengers using Black
Low wages and job insecurity, with an added hint of dehumanizing social control
15 May 23:05 |
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Software
Have you always wanted an algorithm that can search like Bing? Well, if you change your mind, one's on GitHub now
Make your app answer all the easy questions, like, 'Where can I download Chrome?'
15 May 21:01 |
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