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Great sound, but it'll cost you Wi-Fi streaming speaker supplier Sonos has rejigged its high-end PLAY:5 devices to provide what it describes as a dramatically better listening experience to customers accustomed to its PLAY:1 and PLAY:3 products.…

Don't go chasing waterfalls Blog When I joined QA nearly eight years ago I did so in a time of wonderfully ordered roles and responsibilities. It was a world of web developers, designer, application programmers and database administrators. Each sat in their own little area worrying about only their little part of the puzzle with clear definitions of responsibility.…

Cupertino accused of censoring streams of iOS hacking sessions The Chaos Computer Club is claiming that Apple has rejected an app that would stream security talks from its Chaos Communications Congress event because researchers there have previously hacked iOS.…

Windows XP market share declining less than Win 8.x or 7 If it's the first Monday of the month, then it's time for our monthly look at desktop operating system market share data from StatCounter and Netmarketshare.…

Small Australian shrub Persoonia terminalis achieves fleeting fame The English language version of Wikipedia has celebrated the publication of its five millionth article.…

Regulatory listicle demands consideration before merger can pass Go The European Commission has opened what it's calling “an in-depth investigation” to consider whether the proposed acquisition of Telefónica UK and its O2 operation by Hutchison “would harm competition.”…

Algae looks like cured pork, tastes like cured pork … you can't believe it's not Bacon! Months before the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared bacon a carcinogen, American boffins may have found a solution: algae that tastes just like bacon, but without the bad bits the Doctors at WHO say could cause your untimely demise.…

Repeat after me: don't re-use passwords Vodafone is the latest UK telco to suffer an attack on its databases, but reckons it shut the door on its data after just 1,800 records were compromised.…

How to stop a Coronal Mass Ejection ending civilisation as we know it Nobody's quite forgotten that a really big solar event can upset kit even as crude as a telegraph, so the US military is recruiting radio hams to help test its contingency plans.…

EXT3 filesystem bites the dust, graphics and virtual Linux desktops get some extra love With fewer ugly incidents than might have been expected, and after an expletive-laden rant directed not at a coder but at code, Linux Torvalds has announced that Linux 4.3 has gone general availability.…

'You broke it, Mal, you bought it' The former CEO of Australia's NBN Co, the entity responsible for building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN), Mike Quigley, has hit back at two years of being blamed by two prime ministers for the troubles that beset the project's multi-technology mix model (MTM) mandated in 2013.…

Ask friends to use PGP. They'll love you for it The main reason the world is able to read and enjoy the contents of Hillary Clinton's emails is that crypto tools aren't any better than back when Phil Zimmerman created PGP, the crypto system even he can't use.…

Ratmir thinks legacy backup sucks; yah-boo! One of these days Veeam is going to stop growing. Sadly, for its competitors that day appears not to be today.…

13,000 decryption keys unleashed. The Coinvault and Bitcryptor ransomware are officially dead according to Kaspersky: the alleged authors have been arrested, and all 14,000 decryption keys released allowing victims to avoid paying ransoms to unlock their files.…

What's happening down on the sea floor near Indonesia? Rumbles are again reaching The Reg's ears about the state of the SeaMeWe-3 submarine cable.…

Gandalf-grade developer says everything is insecure, so why single out Xen? Open source luminary Ian Jackson has hit back at criticism of the Xen Project's security.…

Trio on bail. A 20-year-old Staffordshire man has become the third to be arrested in connection with the mammoth hack of British telco TalkTalk.…

Oz system builders' letterbox wait times just shrank Components and kit retailer NewEgg has fried up an Australian delicacy.…

Post starts with 'Christ people. This is just sh*t' and gets angrier from there Linux Lord Linus Torvalds has unloaded as only he can in a post to the Linux Kernel Mailing List.…

Hello, Bonnie. We've been expecting you TV Review Readers please note: THIS IS A POST-UK BROADCAST REVIEW – THERE WILL BE SPOILERS!…

Ancient code jocks needed to keep probe alive With its last generation of space-race engineers hanging up their slide-rules, NASA is looking for someone fluent in Fortran and other Cold War-era languages.…

Less tough than Germany David Smith, deputy information commissioner, said businesses should "take stock" of their data transfer arrangements and review whether they provide adequate protection of personal data, as is required by EU law.…

Get offa ma property, boy! Something for the Weekend, Sir? There’s nothing worse in journalism than a big-mouthed writer who can’t take what he gives. So I would like to thank all those readers who emailed me personally to offer their opinions on last week’s column in which I cast doubt on Hollywood’s portrayal of computer hackers as sharp-witted and articulate with washboard abs rather than fat, spotty and smelling of Lynx and tramp sick.…

Do you want virus outbreaks? Because that's how you get 'em Comment Microsoft's decision to push out Windows 10 upgrades as automatic Windows Update downloads is one of those ideas that sounded great in a Redmond meeting room, but will cause more problems than it solves.…

So says the CEO of Deutsche Telekom, a, er, telco giant Just a few days after new net neutrality rules were passed by the European Parliament, the CEO of Deutsche Telekom has revived fears over how "loopholes" will lead to an unequal internet.…

Don't panic, it's just a Redmond screwup Several Reg readers were stunned by an email from Skype on Friday, which told them they were going to be paying a lot, lot more for their paid-for VoIP subscriptions.…

Brit police toys with video-chat meetings in bid to save time and money Police in Peterborough, UK, are asking Brits to report crimes via Skype chats.…

SEC OKs Kickstarter-on-steroids websites selling shares in private startups America's financial watchdog says anyone with spare cash will be able to buy a slice of a startup online without having to fill out mountains of paperwork.…

Rome’s burning faster than thought but slower than hoped Comment Public cloud storage supporters couldn't hope for a better cheerleader than Nasuni CEO Andres Rodriguez, whose company provides cloud storage gateways, including an on-premises caching device.…

ICANN community process under fire after baffling rulings Dot Gay LLC has once again appealed the decision that it does not represent the gay community in its bid to run the .gay top-level domain.…

A round-up of new tools and tricks for Chrome, Skype, Android and Visual Basic fans Just in time for a weekend that can't come soon enough, Microsoft has rolled out a handful of features for Office on Windows and OS X.…

Beams back first images from Saturnian moon fly-by NASA has published some unprocessed images of Saturn's moon Enceladus, grabbed earlier this week when the Cassini spacecraft swooped to within 49km (30 miles) of the icy satellite's south polar region.…

Storage systems analyse and operate on their own data Comment Last week, during SFD8, I got to meet with two incredibly interesting storage startups: Cohesity and Coho Data.…

ISP boss has 'full support of the board' TalkTalk boss Dido Harding has refused to bow to pressure to step down from her role, as the fall out from its cyber attack debacle continues.…

It's a head-scratcher alright. Time for change? Major droop alert: as per its preliminary warning, Seagate’s revenues and profits tumbled on the annual compare.…

Skippy on radar, hit the brakes Swedish motor manufacturer Volvo is developing "kangaroo detection" tech aimed at reducing the number of collisions between metal and marsupial.…

CEO: Overall market challenging, but disk and tape held up well Storage company Quantum has confirmed its early October revenue warning, with second fiscal 2016 quarter revenues of $117m, and not the hoped-for $125m.…

Deal covers a ‘broad range’ of technologies ... but that’s all we know Global ad-flinger Google and German ERP behemoth SAP have hopped in bed together to form a "long-term patent cross licensing agreement".…

Join our experts live on 18 November 11.00 GMT to 12.00 GMT Regcast Some of the most important developments in IT are taking place around DevOps and hybrid-cloud. So what do these two topics have to do with each other?…

Credit cards 'cannot be used for financial transactions' TalkTalk has finally provided some information on the amount and type of information breached in last week's cyber attack, downplaying the size of the incident.…

Warning: Contains red meat, alcohol, arsenic and asbestos Earlier this week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) shocked the civilised bacon-eating world by classifying processed and red meat as "carcinogenic to humans" and "probably carcinogenic to humans", respectively.…

Merger of Android and Googly platform is probably still a goer The Google exec running both Android and Chrome has tried to pour cold water on the story that Mountain View is merging its mobile platforms.…

'Small number' of customers' details in public domain The share price of mobile payments business Optimal Payments has taken a banging after the company confessed it was only just beginning to investigate historical data breaches, following the discovery of its customers' data being trafficked online.…

Don't call it a comeback, but this is looking like the Snoopers' Charter again IPB Police have demanded to be given access to the whole of the public's web-browsing history as part of the forthcoming Investigatory Powers Bill, due to be published in draft form next week.…

Results make Android seem scary this All Hallows' Eve Users in both enterprises and at home are failing to take basic precautions against an increasing range of mobile threats, according to a new survey by security firm Skycure.…

Give it up for our five reader laureates The jury has deliberated, and it's time to announce the winners of our Back to the Future caption competition.…

Low web traffic prompts rethink from the Murdoch empire Rupert Murdoch's flagship British tabloid, The Sun, is to abandon its paywall in search of greater web traffic as it seeks to compete with big online news hitters such as the Daily Mail.…

Guys, do we really need 45 operating systems? Deutsche Bank is re-engineering its "excessively complex" IT – including slashing its number operating systems from 45 down to four – as part of a sweeping strategic overhaul.…

Signals intelligence, diplomatic snooping still OK though China and Germany are moving towards a mutual no-hacking-for-economic-espionage pact, along the lines of agreements already signed between China and the the US and UK.…

Users, not makers are target of cop crackdown Police across Europe have raided homes of suspected users of Droidjack, a strain of Android malware.…