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Cook counts out pocket change to cover out-of-order suit A jury has today awarded the University of Wisconsin a $234m payday from Apple after the iGiant ripped off the college's processor design patent.…

(Aside from sendmail admin) For some people, landing a job in IT means going to the ends of the Earth. In this case, quite literally.…

Money can't buy me love, but it can buy a slice of Match.com Online dating is big business – but just how big? Well, the father of all cyber-cupids, Match Group, has filed its paperwork to go public.…

FBI probe? That's news to us, says Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones has poured cold water on claims that its servers were penetrated by hackers harvesting information for insider dealing.…

Step 2. Laugh at Comcast Chattanooga, Tennessee: a Bible Belt city with a population of 170,00, ish. Winner of the All-America City Award in 1962. The birthplace of the tow truck and Moon Pies (that's Wagon Wheels to Brits). The Glenn Miller Orchestra even made a record in honor of the place.…

Appeals court brushes off Authors Guild, says snippet searches are just fine A US appeals court has today ruled that Google Books does not infringe on US copyright.…

Security-as-an-afterthought biz sprints to fix exploited bug early Adobe's security engineers have pulled out all the stops to release a patch for a shocking vulnerability in Flash much earlier than expected.…

Lawyers to menace Silicon Valley unless peace brokered Europe's privacy guardians, the Article 29 Working Party, has given the European Commission and US government until the new year to sort out the safe harbor shambles – or Silicon Valley faces a legal showdown.…

Go on, you know you want to, you funny people El Reg's last caption competition had two men experiencing an Oculus Rift in a forest. Lots of the captions – indeed, most of them – hinged around a large ear growing out of a tree behind the two VR viewers.…

Controversial regulations approved Germany's Bundestag has voted for a new version of the data retention law that caused so much controversy in the past, with the new regulations approved by 404 to 148 votes, with seven abstentions.…

Arctic Blue nearline disk array adds extra archival capabilities Archival product supplier Spectra Logic has announced its Arctic Blue nearline disk array using powered down, shingled disk drives with object storage data striped across them.…

Another open source community in Red Hat's maw Red Hat is buying Ansible, a big wheel in the DevOps tools scene, for an undisclosed price. But the gossip is $100m or so, not a bad price for a company with just 50 employees.…

Will 4K TVs become obsolete as soon as next year? Dolby Laboratories seems to be one step closer to pushing its version of High Dynamic Range into the TV ecosystem, with a collaboration announced this week with mega smart TV player MStar Semiconductor, which said it would deliver a Dolby Vision 4K Ultra HD SoC to go into TVs next year.…

US claims Kosovan hacked thousands of military folk's personal details Malaysian authorities have arrested an alleged hacker from Kosova after receiving a tipoff from the US alleging he is an Islamic State-aiding cyberterrorist.…

SS7 vulns expose us all - even location can be tracked Mobile networks around the world have been penetrated by criminals and governments via bugs in signalling code.…

'Not a war on independents,' but independents should beware Comment The odds of paying Oracle top dollar to keep updating your database or business software shortened this week, despite Oracle’s victory over Rimini Street.…

We don't need no PC-shifter owning our storage supplier EMC customers are far from delighted regarding the proposed Dell takeover, according to the 451 research house.…

New Build, new bugs A fresh version of Windows Mobile 10 has wobbled off Redmond's servers, and landed on devices enrolled in the Windows Insider programme.…

Prince William's mum and dad also dragged into French court A French couple's plan to dub their daughter "Mini Cooper" looks to be heading for the breaker's yard after officials referred the matter to court.…

Nuclear carrier plans passed to undercover FBI agent after internal hack A civilian US naval engineer has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for attempted espionage, after passing military technology secrets to an FBI undercover agent posing as an Egyptian intelligence officer.…

Good news for SMEs and cloudy buyers HMRC has U-turned on its proposals to hand out VAT refunds just for large system integrators, while forcing public sector bodies purchasing off-the-shelf "cloud" services to pay the full whack.…

Emails, more like ‘ewails’, amirite? The woes of Virgin Media Ntlworld.com account-holders are no closer to being resolved, with continued reports of customers unable to access their email.…

A smartphone can’t be considered a taximeter Uber's minicab-hailing app has been found lawful in the British High Court, following concerns over its alleged use as a taximeter, which is currently outlawed for private hire vehicles.…

NAO says no, for one Analysis Claims that the Government Digital Services saved the taxpayer £1.7bn during the last Parliament through "digital transformation" have been repeated so frequently of late, it seems the figure will go down as the main business case for the body's existence over the last Parliament.…

Indubitably coruscating lingo, but what are your comely faves? It was decidedly nippy yesterday morning, and in remarking the fact to my pandiculating and yawning daughter, I was struck by the sheer magnificence of the word nippy when used to describe a crisp autumnal chill in the air.…

How former hostage worked abroad and brought home all the tea in China Expat files Regular readers of The Reg will know Peter Moore as the UK techie who was kidnapped by an Iraqi militia in 2007, before spending over two-and-a-half years as a hostage. But Iraq was just one in a succession of foreign postings during Peter's career.…

In any case, the enemy is now Amazon Sysadmin Blog: Dell bought EMC. The internet promptly lost its mind. Make no mistake, the Dell-EMC merger is a pretty big deal. Everyone has news, thoughts and analysis on the subject.…

Security dabblers lured in with STEM skills funds Competition NCC Group is running the Cyber 10K security challenge to encourage young people and security amateurs to join the industry – and The Register is the exclusive media partner.…

The latest from Mini Chipzilla in its third quarter of the year Intel punchbag AMD wrote down the value of its computer chip stockpile by $65m in the third quarter of 2015 after it couldn't flog some of its older inventory.…

You may be surprised by the results Review So, um, I love the Amazon Echo.…

Someone apparently forgot to apply their security patches A 31-year-old Warsaw chap is accused of stealing more than four million Polish złoty (£700,000) by hacking into a bank in Poland.…

Better latency than never The UK's mobile infrastructure is notorious for its hotspots and poor coverage, and we got LTE later than almost everyone else in Europe. But when it works, it actually works better than the Germans'.…

Senior official says six-legged bots offer a greater leap for mankind than rolling rovers China's signalled its intention to develop robotics for deep space missions.…

Or perhaps you fancy an Enigma machine or vintage astrolabe? If you've half a million pounds burning a hole in your pocket, get thee to the web site of posh auction house Christie's and place a bid on an Apple 1 going under the hammer on October 29th.…

It scales! It virtualises! It helps you containerise yourself! Is it also still too weird? The 12th version of OpenStack, Liberty, is on the streets.…

IBM's SoftLayer signs up as NSX-powered vSphere hybrid helper One of the selling points of the Dell/EMC deal, aka “Le Dell-uge”, was that all the component companies controlled by Dell the man will be able to cross-sell each other's stuff and cash in.…

Proposed data-sharing rules risk to revenue, er, privacy Some of the biggest names in the tech industry have issued a public protest against the proposed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) working through US Congress.…

Group promises more secure, less pushy banners The Interactive Advertising Bureau – a powerful association of ad networks and marketing types that shift the vast majority of online adverts in the US – has finally noticed all the hate aimed at web advertising.…

* If you're a Fed US biz Battelle boasts it has found a way to rid our skies of annoying drones without breaking the flying machines' hardware.…

New list estimates where connection work is expected to commence by Sept 2018. Or H2 2018. For 9m connections nbn, the organisation building Australia's national broadband network (NBN) has revealed a glorious three year construction plan it says will see “9.5 million homes and businesses” on the network “by September 2018.”…

Hybrid approach could cut corners Researchers at Microsoft's quantum computing division have published a paper claiming that a new approach could bring about practical working systems within a decade.…

Torch and pitchfork time after Redmond force-feeds update Have you noticed Microsoft being a little too eager in pushing its Windows 10 upgrade?…

Runaway software nasties are nightmare fuel for IT security pros, says survey A majority of organizations polled in a data center and cloud security survey are dissatisfied with their malware containment and recovery times.…

Flaw could have let crooks view your details online Lloyds Banking Group – a major financial outfit in the UK – has closed a security flaw that potentially exposed banking records on tens of thousands of Brits.…

Up to $5m in earnouts (possibly) plus Imation stock prospect CEO Q&A The $7.5m purchase of Connected Data by Imation can be looked at as an $80m funding round with a potential bonanza from a successful Imation restructuring-driven stock price rise.…

Those rumours that the commissioner is to step down are not true Europe's Digital Commissioner, Günther H-dot Oettinger, has denied rumours that he is to step down from his post.…

Tit-for-tat whack-a-hack in one of this year's largest breaches Cyber Defence Summit Four researchers from American cybersecurity firm Mandiant have engaged in an eight-month epic battle against hackers behind one of the biggest breaches of this year.…

'They asked us a year ago but why would we sell a competitor's device' Canalys Channels Forum Lenovo snubbed “competitor” Microsoft’s advances when it was asked to sell the Surface Pro slab, the PC maker’s chief operating officer has claimed.…