Contacts-slurping Android malware sneaked onto Google Play store - twice - Could a simple automated scan have picked up open-source nasty? Hmm

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I couldn't possibly tell you the computer's ID over the phone, I've been on A Course™ -- On Call -- That time a PA put the 'ass' into 'asset tag'

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Artificial Intelligence -- Join us at MCubed to find out how machine learning can fight fraudsters, cut pager noise, and much more -- Event -- Our practical no-hype conference on AI development

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My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station -- Video -- What could possibly go wrong?

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Virtualization -- A Pivotal moment for VMware: Software biz gobbled up along with Carbon Black for $5bn -- Meanwhile, Salesforce sees profits fall -- |

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Personal Tech - Dion? He off: HP Inc CEO Weisler quits over 'family health matter', Lores will be High-res - Wall Street miffed at flat Q3 earnings as printer boss set to take over in November - |

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Steam cleaned of zero-day security holes after Valve turned off by bug bounty snub outrage -- Security bod may be invited back into vuln reward program, Half-Life 3 still ain't happening

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As browser rivals block third-party tracking, Google pitches 'Privacy Sandbox' peace plan -- Disclaimer: No advertisers were harmed in making this project

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Overstock dot-gone: Surplus biz CEO now surplus to requirements, ejects after Russian spy fling, deep state rant -- Resigns – or punished for telling the truth? Wake up, sheeple!

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GitLab 12.2 is here and oh my can you create complex pipelines now

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Puppet gives cracking another silo a go, steps into the security realm

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Azure DevOps team sends help for PRs, pipelines and processes

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End of an era for ULA as the last Delta IV Medium rocket leaves launch pad -- US sends up another GPS III spacecraft while Blighty ponders the Brexit Satellite

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Storage - Pure Storage the latest pipes 'n' plumbing playa to slash sales forecast - Look at the troubles facing legacy vendors. We're not immune either - |

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Veritas plays nicely with VMware in the cloud

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Pure Storage sees no enterprise sales slowdown – yet

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Datrium DRaaS takes the disaster out of recovery

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Personal Tech -- Samsung Note10+ torn apart to expose three 5G antennas: One has to pick up something -- Repairability score tumbles – good luck swapping that battery -- |

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Cloud -- What is it with hosting firms being stonewalled by Microsoft? Now it's Ionos on naughty step -- Email issues dog the company formerly known as 1&1 -- |

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Data Centre -- Tune into Nutanix's Cloud Shack of vids for a rewarding experience – top info, free gear and a chance to win .NEXT tix -- Promo -- Learn about all hyperconvergence, multi cloud, and more

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Emergent Tech -- Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs -- Blighty not even on track for legally binding 2023-2032 levels -- |

16 hours ago

Shhh! Microsoft, Intel, Google and more sign up to the Confidential Computing Consortium -- You can make your own joke about foxes and hen houses...

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Devs invited to bake 'Run on Google Cloud' button into git repos... By Google, of course -- An offer you can refuse?

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TalkTalk's voice-over is writing speeds that its text can't match: Ad pulled from broadcast -- Mere threat of time on naughty step has ISP redrafting

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Science - Brit rocketeer Skyrora reckons it'll be orbital in 3 years – that is, if UK government plays ball - Interview - El Reg speaks to small-sat upstart in Edinburgh - | 11

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Networks -- Gartner awakens from trance, tells huddled villagers: 5G revenue will almost double to $4.2bn next year! -- It has been foretold! -- |

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Personal Tech -- Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date -- Google's little-known Auto Update Expiration D-Day leaves users bereft of auto software refreshes and more – here's how to check yours -- |

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Emergent Tech - Don't trust Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, boffins warn: Zuck & Co know that hash is king - Analysis - It's not about the money, it's about the identifiers - | 51

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DevOps -- How Lego, Bayer and iRobot use serverless tech to get ahead – find out with us this autumn -- Event -- Book now: Serverless Computing London early-bird ticket offer ends soon

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Security -- Disgruntled bug-hunter drops Steam zero-day to get back at Valve for refusing him a bounty -- EoP bug now free for the world to see after bounty was rejected

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Security -- The Joy of Six... critical security patches: Cisco small biz switches open to hijacking via web UI -- Plus UCS and other gear need updates

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Personal Tech -- Cali court backs ex-Apple engineer who says he invented Find My iPhone and Passbook -- Computing giant labeled 'ungenerous' for fighting lawsuit

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Finally. Thanks so much, nerds. Google, Apple, Mozilla end government* internet spying for good -- * Terms and conditions apply. Offer not valid outside Kazakhstan. Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up payments

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Eighty-year-old US 'web scam man' on the run after pocketing $250,000 in Dem 'donations' -- Feds claim John Pierre Dupont created fundraising websites supposedly for Beto O'Rourke, others, then nicked the dosh

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Here's a top tip: Don't trust the new guy – block web domains less than a month old. They are bound to be dodgy -- Better to be aggressive and safe than sorry

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Sueball claims Tesla solar panels are so effective, they started fires at Walmart stores -- Supermarket biz wants them torn out at Musk firm's expense

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Bootnotes -- US soldier cleared of taking armoured vehicle out for joyride – because he's insane, court says -- 60-mile Virginia roadtrip thankfully ended peacefully

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Science -- Brit-built trundlebot eyeing up a July 2020 launch as cams fitted to ExoMars mission rover -- Now, about those parachutes...

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Personal Tech -- A challenger appears: Taiwanese devs' answer to Gemini PDA wraps a Raspberry Pi in a tablet -- Portable Linux with fully open-source hardware in the CutiePi

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Security -- Microsoft: Reckon our code is crap? Prove it and $30k could be yours -- Doors on the Edge Insider Bounty Program flung open

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Sorry script kiddies, hacktivism isn't cool anymore: No one cares about stuff that's easy-peasy to defend against -- So much for Beto O'Rourke's cow-related capers

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Software - Latest sneak peek at PowerShell 7 ups the telemetry but... hey... is that an off switch? Updated - Where is Microsoft and what have you done with them? | 31

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Shiny new toys take backseat in Android Studio 3.5 for now as '600 bugs' squished -- 'Project Marble' focuses on quality ahead of big features

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Overseas investors eat the UK tech sector for Brexit: More cash flung about in 7 months than the whole of last year -- Weak pound and China trade war make Blighty attractive proposition – research

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Data Centre -- Welcome to Hollywood, Claranet-style: You've (not) got mail, or hosted sites for that matter -- Updated -- Hoddesdon bit barn outage blamed as customer emails falter, corporate sites go dark

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Personal Tech -- Brits are sitting on a time bomb of 40m old electronic devices that ought to be recycled -- Mountain of digital detritus 'not sustainable' – survey

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Artificial Intelligence -- Moore's Law isn't dead, chip boffin declares – we need it to keep chugging along for the sake of AI -- Hot Chips -- If you want to train neural networks quickly, keep packing in the transistors

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Security -- Stuff like sophisticated government spyware is scary and all – but don't forget, a single .wmv file can pwn you via VLC -- Keep your media player, like other apps, up to date: 13 security flaws fixed

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Don't panic! Don't panic! UK IT job ads plummet as Brexit uncertainty grabs UK tech sector by the short and curlies -- Biggest recruiters for techies remain AWS, NHS and BSkyB Group -- |

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Personal Tech - My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop) Comment - Thief swipes Reg vulture's computer from under his fingers in cafe – here's what happened next - | 345

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Can hyperconverged infrastructure live up to the hype and change your life? Tune in online next month to find out -- Webcast -- Scale Computing is here to drill through all the buzz

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30+ countries, 160,000 emails, $4.2m in cyber-heists... maybe it's time for the Silence hacker crew to change its name -- Russian bank-hacking ring continues its global expansion -- |

2 days ago

There once was a biz called Bitbucket, that told Mercurial to suck it. Now devs are dejected, their code soon ejected -- ...Knowing they just cannot duck Git: Repos to be deleted when support ends

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Clip, clip, hooray: NASA says it will send Clipper probe to Europa, will attempt no landing there -- Forget Mars, Jupiter's moon could be where life's at

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No REST for the wicked: Ruby gem hacked to siphon passwords, secrets from web devs -- Developer account cracked due to credential reuse, source tampered with and released to hundreds of programmers

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How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network for 37 hours, knackering 911 calls, VoIP, broadband -- FCC delivers postmortem after blunder cripples US fiber links

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