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Fourth Amendment plays second fiddle to the Second The US Senate has struck down an amendment that would have allowed the FBI to track internet histories and communications without judicial oversight, but a re-vote could be called as soon as today due to Senate rules.…

And they're probably right to An extraordinary 77 per cent of employees simply ignore their company's social media policy, using Facebook, Twitter and other similar services how they wish.…

Will add replication and capacity next year to its single box Netshelf Datrium, the startup disaggregating a SAN by having host-based controller SW and flash caches, has added an Insane Mode to turbo-charge performance.…

King Battistelli faces ousting from his subjects Tension between staff and management at the European Patent Office (EPO) has descended into open warfare with the publication of an open letter by some staff, calling on the organization's Administrative Council to get rid of its president.…

Windows Mobile gets support for NFC payments Microsoft has launched its entry into the near-field communications (NFC) mobile payments space.…

RingCentral in the middle Google's going after Office 365 and Skype users in a cloud telephony partnership with Microsoft VoIP ally RingCentral.…

When Android goes proprietary, everyone will need a Plan B Just when you thought the platform wars had settled down into a cosy duopoly, Huawei is reportedly to be working on “an alternative mobile operating system”, according to reports.…

Interoperability, hallelujah The Apache Software Foundation has announced that Libcloud 1.0, the cloud service interoperability Python library, is now generally available.…

By massive we mean, er, not very big at all... Dell is charming PC punters with a promo and the reaction is much the same as that of the ambassadors' guests when they were handed spherical balls of hazelnut goodness in the Ferrero Rocher ads.…

Two retro treats for you, cartofans The Ordnance Survey celebrates its 225th birthday this week, and is commemorating it with two new custom retro-styled maps. Both marry historically accurate styles to modern data.…

Student cluster configurations stretch imagination, credulity HPC Blog This year’s ISC’16 Student Cluster Competition boasts the most diverse set of hardware in the near 10-year history of student cluster competitions. Student teams are running three different system architectures (x86, ARM, and Power) in both traditional and hybrid (hardware accelerated) forms.…

Fabricating array structure for more compute, storage separation Analysis All-flash array vendor Kaminario has been in business a year longer than Pure Storage but is some way behind in sales, size and funding. However, it has begun expressing a technology vision that could accelerate its growth dramatically.…

Better the devil EU know? Comment I like this tweet:…

Google dispatches monkeys Google’s mega video service YouTube appears to be down for some and out for others.…

Execs and directors post deal payout of $126m gets thumbs up too US-headquartered Ingram Micro edged closer to Chinese ownership last night when shareholders voted overwhelmingly to accept Tianjin Tianhai’s $6bn offer.…

No it's not Michael Fassbender getting flatulent Astronomers have found a “wind nebula” around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star for the first time.…

'Constitutionally incompatible' to get the digi-bods to do it Parliament is hiring a load of web developers, analysts and UX folk as it prepares to revamp its website – and it's keeping the whole project well away from the Government Digital Service, The Register has learned.…

A Reg expert would sort them out, right? Paging Simon now... NHS England is recruiting for a director of digital experience for £131,000, part of a major digital rebrand of the health service.…

Co-founder: I think graph is going to be big NoSQL startup DataStax has announced the release of the newest version of its enterprise edition database, DSE 5.0, which ships with a graph database for cloud applications.…

Pipelines are improving but discrimination is still a problem Israel cyber week The "father" of Israel's cybersecurity industry reckons the unprecedented growth in its security startup industry can be sustained.…

Digi Marketplace director role looks so arduous. Any takers? Bueller? The UK government is hiring a Digital Marketplace director who will pocket £90,000 a year with a budget of £3.9m to lead a team of 38 digi procurement bods.…

'Packets don't wear uniforms', says Atlantic Council fellow The famous Stuxnet attack against Iran is credited by some as forestalling the alternative: a bombing raid by Israel against Iran’s nuclear facility. The use of such cyber-weapons in the future, however, may mean more countries end up in low-level conflicts more or less continuously.…

Data, platforms, agility, users... buzzwords A professor of digital governance has slammed Whitehall's IT 'transformation' efforts to date, blaming an obsession with websites for obstructing any real digitally-enabled revamps.…

How I stopped being an avoidnik and got off the fence Comment I'm just about old enough to remember the 1975 Europe referendum. Old enough to remember leaflets thudding onto the doormat (for every 'NO', there were three for ‘YES’). Most vividly of all I remember my father and our Austrian GP, who lived a few doors down in Teesside, discussing the EEC as he walked his dog past our house.…

Let's put body-worn camera footage in the white'n'fluffy stuff, says Martin Wyke A national strategy which considers the use of public cloud services such as AWS and Azure is needed if the police are to cope with the increasing weight of unstructured data storage, the head of the Police ICT Company has said.…

Ormandy's win is Amnesty International's windfall Google hacker Tavis Ormandy and security firm Bromium have handed Amnesty International US$30,000 (£20,443, AU$40,242) in bug bounty cash awarded after the former broke the latter's security controls.…

AMD's complaint: sweet sixteen, never been nixed Intel's rearguard action to avoid a billion-Euro-plus fine continued this week in a Luxembourg court, with the company arguing that the 2009 European Commission penalty was unfair.…

Regulatory arbitrage and data flows Britons should remain in the European Union to protect their data, says Rafe Laguna of Open-Xchange.…

The complete package? Review Fedora 24 is here, packing not just the standard group of changes familiar to any distro update, but also changes to fundamental elements.…

EITC Holdings sources promise hundreds more to follow Would-be Bitcoin creator Dr Craig yeah Wright has filed more than 50 patent applications relating to the crypto currency with the UK Intellectual Property Office.…

Six continents, 233 locations, thousands of servers Brit boffins have peeled back the covers of how Netflix has built its CDN, by requesting movies from all over the world and working out what the responses told them about the hosts.…

Q2 2016 ahead of 2015 by 20 per cent Adobe's reported continued growth in its cloud subscriptions, but not enough to satisfy investors.…

Elon? Yes, Elon? Would you like to buy my business? Sure, Elon, name your price Tesla has made a US$2.8 billion offer for another Elon Musk-founded company, home photovoltaic specialist SolarCity.…

Possible bug in screen lock requirement Google has set up an easier two factor authentication system to allow staff to login with a tap instead of codes.…

Victoria's Dept of Education vetting questioned An educational support group attacked for anti-vaccination views is also a fierce opponent of WiFi in schools.…

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale... A small community on an island off the coast of Maine says that it wants to give Gigabit internet service to all 560 of its residents.…

System-wide reset to block miscreants with account lists If you're a user of online backup service Carbonite, you're getting a new password. Don't make it one you've used somewhere before.…

Billionaire's OpenAI club wants to play a game A scrappy bunch of Silicon valley A-listers have announced plans to build an artificial intelligence (AI) system that will clean your house, answer your questions, and beat you at Call of Duty.…

100 mph speed limit and line-of-sight only The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Department of Transportation (DOT) have laid out a new set of rules to guide businesses that use small drones for imaging.…

Teets up security on display "Plane Hacker" Chris Roberts managed to make it to Israel before delivering a barnstorming presentation at the nation's Cyber Week security conference.…

Unhappy about massive outage Content delivery network CloudFlare has apologized in part for the massive outages its customers experienced yesterday, but placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of Tier 1 provider Telia.…

Container Hub-plus enters private beta DockerCon Docker is sprucing up its container repositories website with fancy steel architecture and floor-to-ceiling plate glass windows to create a corporate-friendly online store.…

Politicians reminded of deadline to halt changes The campaign against Rule 41 – which will give cops and Feds in America the power to hack people's computers around the world – has kicked up a gear.…

Smart digital road-side ad signage Cloudian object storage is being used to target Japanese drivers with focussed ads as they drive past a digital billboard.…

Lifeline program could be killed with new bill The US House of Representatives could end the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Lifeline subsidized phone program in a vote today.…

Commission publishes final report after two years of work Analysis The internet could go one of three paths in the next decade, according to an elite group of policymakers: open and global; unequal and uneven; or dangerous and broken.…

10-day dog-and-cat-meat festival an ‘embarassment’, say pet loving citizens A whopping 8 million Chinese citizens have called on Beijing to call time on the country’s infamous Yulin Lychee Dog Meat Festival, saying it was harming the country’s image abroad.…

Scientists hope Big Smoke inhabitants will plant aphid-friendly flowers Hundreds of bees with special number plates attached to their fuzzy abdomens will be released from the rooftops of Queen Mary University of London later today.…

Does a collection of sensible tunes mean a 'difficult third album' problem? Hyperconverged enfant terrible Nutanix's first siren song to tech buyers offered the impressive proposition of on-premises hardware that converged compute and storage while improving the experience of running vSphere.…