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NHS England bosses met tech, pharma giants to discuss the price of 65 million Brits’ medical data • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- December 12, 2019
Exclusive Talks to package millions of British medical records into a vast, commercially valuable database that may then be sold on are already underway between NHS England bosses and global giants, documents exclusively obtained by The Register show. This comes as Brits today go to the polls in a general election dominated by accusations from
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Nothing to see here, folks. Just pig-monkey chimeras developed in a Chinese laboratory • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- December 10, 2019
We’ve read enough sci-fi to know how this turns out Squeals like a pig, trots like a pig, but is it? (Credit:Tang Hai) Scientists in China are laying claim to the first ever pig-monkey chimeras to be born in what they hope will be a breakthrough for biomedicine, not just fuel for your nightmares. The
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OpenBSD bugs, Microsoft’s bad update, a new Nork hacking crew, and more • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- December 8, 2019
Welcome to yet another El Reg security roundup. Off we go. OpenBSD a little too true to its name The freely available OpenBSD operating system is the host of some annoying security holes. Researchers at Qualys found and reported authentication bypass flaws that can be exploited locally, and potentially remotely, to log into services without
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Tricky VPN-busting bug lurks in iOS, Android, Linux distros, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, say university eggheads • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- December 6, 2019
A bug in the way Unix-flavored systems handle TCP connections could put VPN users at risk of having their encrypted traffic hijacked, it is claimed. The University of New Mexico team of William Tolley, Beau Kujath, and Jedidiah Crandall this week said they’ve discovered CVE-2019-14899, a security weakness they report to be present in “most”
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Is your computer doctor secretly a racist? Two US senators want to find out the truth • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- December 4, 2019
US Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) are examining how federal agencies and healthcare companies are tackling algorithmic biases, after a recent study found that black patients were less likely to be referred to care programs by AI systems than white patients, despite being sicker. On Tuesday, Wyden (D-OR) and Booker (D-NJ) wrote
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The Register rips a 7th-gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon apart. Literally • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- December 2, 2019
Nippy, fixable but oh-so-scuffable. Lenovo’s premium X1 Carbon ThinkPad has had an update, but is it any good? For those of a certain age, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon is very much the Ford Cortina GXL of its generation – the tippety-top of the line handed out to workers who almost, but don’t quite, merit a
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