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First Amendment rights and dancing babies Facebook is a sex offender-friendly zone – by order of the Supreme Court.…

OMG, GOP! WTF? A massive cloud-hosted database containing personal information on nearly 200 million people in America was left wide open by consultants hired by the US Republican National Committee, it is claimed.…

Ex-Nimble CEO joins Datos IO board Ex-Nimble president and CEO Suresh Vasudevan has joined Datos IO's board.…

'Can we Tucci this startup? Well Big Joe, can we?' Former EMC grand fromage Joe Tucci has walked into a special advisor role at venture cap outfit 83North.…

Concern teachers can't handle tougher syllabus The number of pupils signing up for GCSE computing has plateaued just years after the qualification was introduced, raising concerns that not enough is being done to help teachers with more difficult courses.…

Toshiba thinking 200 layers of 3D NAND Update At Pure's Accelerate conference last week, the company talked about distributing intelligence to its NVMe fabric-accessed storage shelves.…

Put down the screwdriver... we're going to need a knife It appears as if Microsoft has been following the Apple playbook in creating another laptop whose components you can never replace.…

System might only be fitted to HMS Prince of Wales – reports American defence firm Raytheon has said it is in talks with the Ministry of Defence to put the US Navy’s “satnav for F-35s” system onto new British carrier HMS Prince of Wales.…

If you don’t, the competition will MCubed Blue sky thinking is great, but if you’re interested in what machine learning and AI means for your business right now, you should really join us at MCubed London in October.…

Brexit? No, no... it's baking! Put away the booze, biz-suit If he listened to the latest advice from HR types working for the European Commission, Brexit secretary David Davis may today be sat in a darkened room, dressed in cabana wear, as talks with the EU’s chief negotiator begin.…

Fujitsu report slams Common Agricultural Payments system The Scottish government has considered scrapping its disastrous £178m rural payments IT system, according to an internal report.…

Papr app lets you rate academic papers - and maybe find your ideal postdoc Boffins have created an app that lets users rate academic preprints and find people with similar academic tastes - and hope to use the results to spot trends in academic publishing.…

App provides fast-track to recruitment Jaguar Land Rover has enlisted a cartoon musician to help it fill what it says are 5,000 electronics and software vacancies across the firm.…

This one goes to 11: More rig pr0nz from students at ISC17 HPC Blog Eleven teams at the ISC17 Student Cluster Competition will go head to head live in glamorous Frankfurt, Germany, this week. Yep, this one goes to 11.…

Taking the PB out of PBBA? Datos IO hopes you're ready for this jelly Interview Datos IO has a unique approach to data protection that is at odds with legacy media-server-based data protection and the use of purpose-built backup appliances.…

Spreadsheet of extenuating circumstances attached to email The University of East Anglia has sent almost 300 undergraduates an email detailing other students' extenuating circumstances.…

Of devils and details “Move it all to Microsoft’s cloud,” they said. “It’ll be fine,” they said. You’ve done your research and the monthly operational cost has been approved. There’s a glimmer of hope that you’ll be able to hit the power button to turn some ageing servers off, permanently. All that stands in the way is a migration project. And that is where the fun starts.…

Errr, maybe its time for backup? The UK stands to lose £1bn per day in the event of a major disruption to the Global Positioning System (GPS), according to a government report.…

The Cisco slip of 2010 LogoBotch Thanks to a sharp-eyed Reg reader in Norway who snapped the local Cisco offices, everyone can cop an eyeful of the unfortunate rebranding exercise that happened after it bought Tandberg in 2010.…

'Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species' plan details how to get 1m humans to Mars Elon Musk has published his blueprint for “Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species” by establishing a self-sufficient city on Mars.…

YouTube's advice to turn heads is 'make better videos'. Literally. That's all they've got YouTube's revealed the secret to making an engaging virtual reality video: put the best parts right in front of the audience so they don't have to move their heads.…

Plan is to spin up single photons as a comms medium Israel has entered the quantum communications arms race, announcing it's going to build a national demonstrator for “spooky” communications.…

Paranormal parallelogram for IaaS has Google on the same lap, IBM and Oracle trailing Gartner has published a new magic quadrant for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) that – surprising nobody – has Amazon Web Services and Microsoft alone in the leader's quadrant and a few others thought outside of the box.…

Pinkslipbot malware copies Conficker for C&C channel Another banking malware variant has been spotted in the wild, and it's using UPnP to pop home routers to expose unsuspecting home users, recruited as part of the botnet.…

Routers should know their place One of the most persistent bugs in Internet infrastructure, route leaks in the border gateway protocol (BGP), is in the sights of a group of 'net boffins and their with a new Internet-Draft.…

AI isn't good enough for the job, so more mods and Google ads will get into the grey areas Google's revealed its plans to remove terror-related content from YouTube and decided the investment community should hear about it before the rest of us.…

'Kernel address randomised link' masks memory locations OpenBSD has a new security feature designed to harden it against kernel-level buffer overruns, the "KARL" (kernel address randomised link).…

Less trackiung, more consent, and stronger encryption says privacy committee A committee of the European Parliament is pushing back against the anti-encryption sentiment infesting governments around the world, with a report saying citizens need more protection, not less.…

'Stretch' debuts, with MariaDB replacing MySQL Debian 9, “Stretch”, has been released, and dedicated to the distribution's co-founder Ian Murdock.…

Whole Foods, which Amazon chomped for $13.7bn, is a cloudy Active Directory user Amazon.com's purchase of US grocery retailer Whole Foods has made it a user of Microsoft's Azure cloud.…

Competition regulator wants you to help tag slack ISPs Having beaten off opposition from carriers and ISPs, Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission has kicked off its broadband speed monitoring program.…

But will what looks like a mad scramble result in anything? Atari confirmed on Friday that the reborn biz will indeed produce its own games console, understood to be built out of PC tech.…

Yep, King Battistelli wants to award himself more power Another raft of reforms at the troubled European Patent Office has come to light and, yet again, the main purpose appears to be to enhance the power of EPO president Benoit Battistelli.…

So where is our Sol's sibling? Nearly all stars, including our Sun, are born from hot, dense molecular clouds and come in pairs, according to a paper to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.…

End-to-end encrypted, verifiable voting already in action Election hacking is much in the news of late and there are fears that the Russians/rogue lefties/Bavarian illuminati et al are capable of falsifying results.…

There, some spare change under the couch will solve this Google has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the ads broker of failing to pay overtime to contract workers.…

♪ Tech biz fought the spying law and the spying law won A mystery technology biz tried to fight off demands from the US government that it hand over people's communications flowing through its systems.…

King of the (autonomous) Hill Texas will, from later this year, allow the entire Lone Star State to become a test bed for cars that can drive themselves with or without a human behind the wheel.…

C'mon, what were they expecting? Privacy? On Facebook? Facebook last year introduced a bug in its content moderation software that exposed the identities of workers who police content on the social network to those being policed, raising the possibility of retribution.…

What could go wrong? In 1991, Sony launched the world’s first commercial lithium-ion battery... and since then the design hasn’t changed all that much.…

Storage upstart reveals IPO price range, hopes to raise $100m All-flash and hybrid array startup Tintri has set out its IPO pricing terms, and they look quite modest.…

Michelle Carter responsible for beau's sucide, decides court The teenager who repeatedly urged and encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself with hundreds of text messages has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.…

From Actian to WANdisco, we've got it all Another week, another week of storage news laid out in our farmer’s market on groaning stalls full of free-range and organic produce. Walk around and check it out.…

Tech disties paying up to 42% more for computers since vote Computer trade prices have surged in the year since the EU referendum with currency and component shortages fingered, at least according to sales data from tech distributors.…

13.7 billion Bezos bucks buys luxury retailer Today, Amazon announced it will be acquiring the devilishly expensive Whole Foods Market to the tune of $13.7bn.…

Still lagging WDC and Toshiba chip capacity by half Samsung says it is boosting its 64-layer V-NAND flash chip production after Toshiba and WDC have introduced 64-layer NAND drives.…

First decision of three probes expected in coming weeks The EU is preparing to fine Google €1bn (£875m) over claims the company abused its search market dominance to build the Google Shopping service.…

Specs and performance deets in the wild Media site VideoCardz has leaked two AMD EPYC 7000 server CPU slides revealing core, thread and clock details.…

You’ve opted out of marketing emails. Can we just send you a marketing email to check? Supermarket chain Morrisons has been fined £10,500 by the UK's data protection watchdog for sending marketing emails to people who had unsubscribed from marketing bumf.…

Scientists rejoice: It’s raining TeraFLOPS from the cloud Sponsored High-performance computing (HPC) environments are expensive. Government research facilities and commercial laboratories spend hundreds of thousands building out large, monolithic supercomputers and then jealously guard their compute cycles. This approach to HPC is restrictive. It creates a rarified environment in which only the cream of the crop get the FLOPS they want.…