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Miscreants sweep internet for unpatched Cisco kit, fears over bugged Chinese parts, Roger Stone nabbed......PHP's PEAR sabotaged for months, and more from the world of infosec
Roundup This week we saw Hadoop hacks, Exchange exploits, and Deadpool besting scammers.… Categories: Industry & Technology
NASA's Opportunity rover celebrates 15 years on Mars – by staying as dead as a doornailStill, not bad for hardware that was supposed to last 90 days
NASA scientists this week celebrated the fact their robot buddy Opportunity has spent the past fifteen years on Mars.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Apple: Trust us, we've patented parts of Swift, and thus chunks of other programming languages, for your own goodNothing to see here, etc etc
Analysis Apple has, over the past few years, quietly and successfully patented, in the US at least, various aspects of Swift.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Whats(goes)App must come down... World in shock as Zuck decides to intertwine Facebook, Instagram, WhatsAppTakeover leads to consolidation? Unfathomable (adjusted for sarcasm)
Analysis In an unprecedented decision that has left tech observers struggling to contain their shock, Facebook has decided to create a common software architecture for its three main apps: Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp.… Categories: Industry & Technology
SK Hynix feels mosquito bite in revenues from flat flash and DRAM demandMoving to high-density DRAM and delaying 96-layer flash
DRAM shortages that boosted the coffers of memory makers in recent times looks to be over - at least for now - and the impact can be seen in SK Hynix's top and bottom lines judging by its calendar Q4 financials.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Six Flags fingerprinted my son without consent, says mom. Y'know, this biometric case has teeth, say state supremes...Theme park's attempt to shoot down lawsuit snubbed by top judges
Analysis The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday ruled a family's lawsuit that claims downmarket-Disneyland Six Flags broke the US state's Biometric Privacy Act can proceed.… Categories: Industry & Technology
FCC accused of colluding with Big Cable to game 5G legal challengeHouse Commerce committee says it has inside knowledge of dodgy regulator antics
US telecoms regulator the FCC has been accused of colluding with companies it is supposed to oversee in order to protect a controversial decision over new 5G networks.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Microsoft delivers a second preview of Visual Studio 2019 (a Redmond thing we actually like)New toys for C++, C# and mobile in tech giant's big bag of early access goodies
Developers rejoice! The second preview of Visual Studio 2019 is upon us and contains all manner of goodies for those brave enough to venture into the not-for-production environment.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Should the super-rich pay 70% tax rate above $10m? Here's Michael Dell's hot take for DavosNah, says 39th richest man in world
Michael Dell, the 39th richest man in the world, has shocked observers by speaking out against a higher marginal tax rate on people earning more than $10m.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Crispest image yet of Ultima Thule arrives on Earth, but grab a coffee while the rest downloadsAt up to 2,003bps, it'll be 2021 before we get all the data
The New Horizons spacecraft has continued its dribble of data back to Earth with a fresh image of Ultima Thule.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Oof, are you sure? Facing $9bn damages, Google asks Supreme Court to hear Java spatChocolate Factory hoping to strike it lucky against Oracle
Google has taken the years-long spat with Oracle over its use of Java code in the Android mobile operating system to the US Supreme Court.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Facebook didn't care if your kids ran up gigantic credit card bills – lawsuitEven Angry Birds' makers asked why so many refunds were being made
Facebook has been accused of not caring if game companies diddled children and their parents out of millions of dollars with in-game purchases, following the unsealing of US court documents.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Requests for info, gag orders and takedowns fired at GitHub users hit an all-time high last yearMore stuff disclosed, but code host could rarely tell targets
Microsoft-owned code repo GitHub has received twice as many requests for user information in 2018 as the prior year, noting a disproportionate rise in accompanying gag orders.… Categories: Industry & Technology
SpaceX enjoys three whole seconds of fire and fury on Pad 39ACrew Dragon demo flight slated for February
SpaceX has finally fired up the engines of the Falcon 9 that is tasked with carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on its demo flight.… Categories: Industry & Technology
UK-EU infosec data sharing may not be KO'd by Brexit, reckons ENISA bodOps director talks to El Reg about continential cybersecurity contrivances
Interview A senior EU cybersecurity official has said he is “optimistic” about information sharing between the UK and the political bloc continuing after Brexit.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Weak flash demand and disk sales leave Western Digital scrabbling to claw back $800m a yearRevenue drops 20% as market slackens, with worse to come
Western Digital is about to go into cost cutting mode to carve out $800m in savings, after reporting shrinking revenues of $4.23bn for its second fiscal 2019 quarter, down by a fifth compared to the year ago period.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Just keep slurping: HMRC adds two million taxpayers' voices to biometric databaseBut thousands opting out in 'backlash', says privacy group
HMRC's database of Brits' voiceprints has grown by 2 million since June – but campaign group Big Brother Watch has claimed success as 160,000 people turned the taxman's requests down.… Categories: Industry & Technology
The Apple Mac is 35 years old. Behold the beige box of the futureWant expansion? Tough. You're using it wrong.
It is 35 years since computer buyers were first able to take a glimpse into a fruity future without having to remortgage for an Apple Lisa. Happy birthday, Mac.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Pentagon admits it's now probing conflicts of interest at AWS over $10bn JEDI cloud dealEarlier investigation would've been 'premature'
The US government has confirmed it is investigating whether Amazon's decision to rehire a former Pentagon staffer poses a conflict of interest to the $10bn JEDI cloud contract.… Categories: Industry & Technology
I can hear the light! Boffins beam audio into ears with freakin' lasersYou can't eavesdrop on these whispers
MIT boffins have used low-power lasers to beam audio directly into a subject's ear.… Categories: Industry & Technology
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