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Muni project doubles as data-center linkups A project born out of finance house Quicken Loans is making a push to bring broadband to the city of Detroit.…

How did they get your number – and was it legal? Were you phoned up by the Leave or Remain Campaigns on your ex-directory telephone number during the Referendum Campaign (probably in breach of PECR)? I was. If so, how did they get my number?…

The big red button has already been pushed on the risky manoeuvre to date NASA's Juno spacecraft is set to enter its most critical stage as it attempts to fly into Jupiter’s orbit.…

Waitrose elevation Exclusive Iconic British retailer John Lewis has elevated its chief of IT Paul Coby to a brand-new role, overseeing the entire John Lewis Partnership.…

DDN hires staff for Paris R&D centre Comment Classic and enterprise HPC storage supplier DDN Storage has opened up a Research and Development centre in Paris to help grow its European business. Its experience exposes the strengths and weaknesses of the European IT skills and startup scene, it says.…

Rebadged Alcatel imminent? Federal government staff in Washington DC have their own private underground metro system but they won’t be getting any more BlackBerrys. United States Senate staff have been told that they’ll no longer be equipped with the once ubiquitous BlackBerry phones.…

Mishcon de Reya leads charge to put up hurdles to EU exit path Law firm Mishcon de Reya has been instructed to launch a legal challenge to block Britain from leaving the European Union, in spite of the popular vote to leave the bloc.…

Rust project still needs a lot of polish Mozilla has started publishing nightly in-development builds of its experimental Servo browser engine so anyone can track the project's progress.…

Seagate eSSD deal faces problems Micron made a loss of $215m in its latest quarter, job losses are coming, and the Seagate eSSD partnership hasn’t taken off.…

As long as our Establishment thinks digital is magic, it can avoid the oiks Comment Some people think the main issue in the UK’s decision to leave the European Union was sovereignty and self-determination. Others think it was migration. Others think it was class. But you’re all wrong. The main issue in Brexit is Martha Lane Fox – and we have her word for it.…

Playing politics with the IT jobs axe The London Stock Exchange takeover by its German competitor Deutsche Boerse (aka the "Merger of Equals") should still be going forward despite Brexit, but a planned vote by their respective shareholders throws another wildcard into how job cuts are shared between London and Frankfurt.…

China's venerable big beast splashes in Hands On Few people would have placed ZTE as being in the flagship Android race this year in Europe, but its Axon 7 makes it a surprising and strong contender.…

Industry experts hyper converge on Berlin PROMO Does the world looks a little more complicated today than it did yesterday? You might not be able to stop change, but you can work harder at making it work for you.…

While also hoping to throw £1 in every £3 UK.gov spends on procurement at small biz Government procurement body the Crown Commercial Service is to start hiking up the amount it charges suppliers to sell stuff to the public sector.…

Bee pheremone is similar to genes found in mammals The genetic pathway toward social behavior for honey bees and mammals is more similar than previously thought, according to a new study published in PLOS Computational Biology titled "Conservation in Mammals of Genes Associated with Aggression-Related Behavioral Phenotypes in Honey Bees."…

Locky's deadly brood spawns a fresh horror A dangerous new ransomware variant based on the Locky ransomware has security experts worried.…

iOS bad, but not Android bad If your enterprise has 200 mobile devices at least one is infected, so says security firm Skycure…

Tempfile permissions a can of worms SQLite has pushed out an update to fix a local tempfile bug, to address concerns that the bug could be exploitable beyond the merely local.…

Bulk SMS sender, Tails, Tor, and some free WiFi It's easy to spam voters with text messages and get away with it.…

No Venue for droids Dell is getting out of the Android tablet market, citing oversaturation and weak overseas demand for a decision to quit offering the operating system on its Venue tablets.…

Hands were washed long ago ICANN has stiff-armed the content lobby, writing that it's not responsible for what people do with domains registered through the international registration hierarchy.…

Is it a bug or is it a backdoor? Lenovo, and possibly other PC vendors, is exposed to a UEFI bug that can be exploited to disable firmware write-protection.…

Sudden outbreak of modesty in the gun-for-hire business Boston Consulting doesn't want the people of New South Wales to know why it thinks a private college under police investigation is doing a better job than publicly-funded TAFEs.…

This is what your brain looks like on bad data A whole pile of “this is how your brain looks like” MRI-based science has been invalidated because someone finally got around to checking the data.…

Igor's got his hand on the Big Red Switch China's bolted down the last mirror of its Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), put away the hex key, and is about to start trial observations with the instrument.…

Yeah actually it's probably time to switch off the internet Pic Gameplay streaming site Twitch.tv says it will be launching a dedicated channel for live videos of people eating.…

The unpalatable side of ICANN's effort to control internet root zone Verisign will retain control over the dot-com registry until 2024, providing it with a multi-billion-dollar cash cow for the next eight years.…

Meet the new BSoD – the Blue Screen of Despair Pic As the Windows 10 free upgrade period draws to a close, Microsoft is stepping up its operating system's nagware to full-screen takeovers.…

If only lawyers could make money rather than costing money Analysis Oracle's chalked up yet another stunning courtroom loss.…

Online freedom resolution passes despite best efforts by Russia, China et al The United Nations officially condemned the practice of countries shutting down access to the internet at a meeting of the Human Rights Council on Friday.…

Administrative Council leaves staff frustrated A determined effort to oust European Patent Office (EPO) president Benoit Battistelli amounted to nothing this week, as representatives from European countries instead spent two days rehashing a reform proposal.…

Hyper-converged upstart eyes up hypervisor flash caching biz Four independent sources say hyper-converged poster child Nutanix is buying hypervisor flash-cacher PernixData, thus gaining crucial technology to speed up its appliances.…

Doppler detections will help test Einstein's key theory Gravitational waves released from black hole “super kicks” may soon be detectable, according to new research published in Physical Review Letters.…

We asked vendors about it and they dodged the question Tech vendors don’t want to admit it but CIOs will need to return to their spending plan spreadsheets: hardware is going to get more expensive post-Brexit as sterling slides against the US dollar.…

Post-NAND explorations and adaptations; or, predicting future storage uses StoreServ arrays use special hardware, an ASIC, to accelerate storage array operations, and this is redesigned for each major generation of the arrays. The current design is generation 5.…

Ex-Catalogic CEO Ed Walsh assumes Big Blue's storage hot seat – again IBM has a new storage boss, Ed Walsh, Storage Division General Manager, replacing interim GM Greg Lotko who keeps his VP development slot in the unit.…

It's time we rebooted democracy in our start-up nation, apparently Alasdair Gray, the acclaimed Glaswegian writer and artist, penned a phrase now engraved on a wall of the Scottish Parliament: “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”…

Hollobone offer draws response from flame-haired acress turned pundit Troubled wildchild turned Brexit commenter Lindsay Lohan has accepted the challenge of turning on Kettering for Christmas, in order to “redeem her political reputation”.…

Brit boffins are worried about ... well, everything Science research funding from the European Union to the UK is set to continue until Britain officially terminates its membership of the bloc by triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.…

What's my name, fool Not so long ago you could barely move on Facebook for all the exquisitely crafted beheading videos. Now you can’t even watch a cute cat video – if your first name is Isis, anyway.…

Agile means aggressive dumping of big iron Dutch finance giant ING is moving away from mainframes as “aggressively” as it can, rejecting vendors’ hopes that a little sprinkling of Agile dust will give the venerable platform a new lease of life.…

Offside! Lack of encryption bares usernames, passwords and more The official UEFA Euro 2016 app is leaking football fans’ personal data, security researchers warn.…

Full cloudification of market still a drop of vapour in the supplier sky Cloud slinging (and tax evading) Amazon Web Services nearly doubled its revenue in the UK last year, pulling in £254m.…

How did TNS do it? Head of opinion polling explains to El Reg Analysis The EU referendum was a catastrophe for opinion pollsters. Remain’s official pollster, Populus, predicted a ten point margin of victory.…

150,000 user profiles bared to world+dog as well – report Hackers have leaked the personal details of 150,000 users of the Muslim Match website after breaking into the niche dating portal.…

Something weird happened last week Something for the Weekend, Sir? Thank you for submitting a support request. You can put your clothes back on now.…

Former Disney exec leaves the cartoon characters behind... oh hang on The fires were lit and a chicken sacrificed at Microsoft’s Reading HQ campus today as new UK CEO Cindy Rose was sworn in* - the first female to run the business locally.…