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New Mexico's KRQE squeezes statement from American launchpad bods The Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) mission and its epic struggle to get clearance to launch at Spaceport America got a bit of airtime on Saturday night on Albuquerque TV station KRQE.…

That's a WHOPPING WHOLE GRAND more than in 2013 Facebook has once again ponied up corporation tax to Blighty's HM Revenue & Customs – this time around handing over the vanishingly small sum of £4,000 to the Treasury.…

Fist and twist to control your PC the electromyographical way Review For years, the way we interact with computers hasn't much changed. Keyboards and mice have been the mainstay of computing for decades. Of course, there have been experiments, like clunky VR gloves, and more successful gizmos like Kinect.…

Mmmm, clustered ONTAP covered in open-source NetApp and Mirantis are partnering for, and producing, an OpenStack reference architecture so that clustered ONTAP can run with the free, open-source software platform, according to information on the Mirantis website.…

Outage outrage floods airports with passengers Hundreds of Southwest Airlines flights were delayed on Sunday due a technological glitch.…

Is 'wartime metadata collection' a human rights violation? Plans are underway to update a putative Geneva convention for cyberwar, put together by experts in international law and backed by an Estonian-based NATO-run military think tank.…

Oetti pins hopes on a 're-negotiated' safe harbour Europe’s outspoken digi Commissioner, Günther H-dot Oettinger has admitted that the European Commission did too little, too late in reaction to Edward Snowden’s NSA spying revelations.…

Joining forces for Storage Class Memory deal +Comment HP and SanDisk are joining forces to combat the Intel/Micron 3D XPoint memory threat, and developing their own Storage-Class Memory (SCM) technology.…

Gov goes all ¡BONG! on code that goes BANG to breed next Lara Croft The United Kingdom has found £4m (US$6.1m AUD$8.4m) to “boost the UK’s growing video games industry”.…

UN Ambassador calls for rules on peaceful co-operation on humanity'new frontiers' China has outlined its preferred framework for international rules on internet governance, couching them as a push for peaceful development of the four “new frontiers” of “outer space, cyberspace, deep sea and polar regions.”…

The move to shunt TCP into userspace is gathering momentum Back in September, The Register's networking desk chatted to a company called Teclo about the limitations of TCP performance in the Linux stack.…

Criminal genius busted for third time by cop 'on a hunch' A teenager on probation for car theft has been arrested after court documents relating to that car theft were found alongside identifiable personal items in a second stolen car. These items were subsequently collected from the police station by the suspect, who arrived in a third stolen vehicle.…

EMC will be free to seek other bidders, says report Dell will table its bid for EMC on Monday, according to a Reuters report from Sunday.…

VMware man William Lam detained in France en route to VMworld Europe UPDATE VMware employee William Lam appears to have been denied entry to Europe.…

Not confidential information, just A/B testing UPDATE Pay-peanuts-get-monkeys project auction site Freelancer.com seems to have had its own site built on cents-per-hour rates, and has ended up with an embarrassing information disclosure bug.…

Cisco, Nutanix and NetApp all have plenty to worry about, too We're far from convinced that Dell acquiring and/or merging with EMC is a good idea, but if it did what kind of entity would we be looking at?…

Turnbull looks like he's backing opposition's amendments Australia's first national attempt to ban “revenge porn” has landed in federal parliament.…

If you looked for vulnerabilities in 2009, you're vulnerable today. A bit. Venerable leak site Cryptome.org has 'fessed up to a data leak that saw some users' IP addresses reach the Internet.…

Crimp nasty privilege escalation bug by running it in Linux instead says Rapid7 Rapid7 is advising HP SiteScope users to run the tool on Linux rather than Windows servers because of a nasty privilege escalation vulnerability.…

When physics gurus speak, they speak to El Reg Interview The life of physicist Freeman Dyson spans advising bomber command in World War Two, working at Princeton as a contemporary of Einstein, and providing advice to the US government on a wide range of scientific and technical issues. He is a rare public intellectual writing prolifically for a wide audience, and also campaigned against nuclear weapons proliferation.…

Singaporean telco's customer premises equipment is a gateway to security hell Thousands of routers mandated for use by a major Singaporean telco and operated by 'top enterprises" around the world are open to a remote zero day exploit that allows routers to be completely hijacked and is indefensible by most users.…

Hit the books, apprentices told, after training scheme powered down Updated Australia's federal government is sending electrical trades students around the country back to textbooks, after a decision to discontinue a pilot program designed to improve apprentice retention rates.…

Video compression format's name compressed In late September, Google released a compression algorithm called Brotli and gave files it makes the extension “.bro”.…

Plus: 'Shuddit, fools! I burned my life to the ground' QuoTW Welcome once again to our smorgasbord of tech quips, quotes and quibbles from the past seven days.…

Blow for graphics chip maker as it demands answers from ITC Nvidia has suffered a major setback in its patent case against Samsung and Qualcomm, after a US regulator – in a preliminary decision – cleared the companies of any wrongdoing.…

Must go faster, must go faster! Sysadmin blog Cisco's new CEO Chuck Robbins has caused a lot of introspection with me. This week he said a number of things that frighten and confuse me.…

Did Cupertino impose blanket censorship to avoid patchwork quilt censorship from Beijing? Apple's URL-redirect news app has stopped working behind the Great Firewall of China, it has emerged.…

Don't rush to dump your dirty Vee Dub just yet Feature Everyone has heard about the diesel emissions scandal surrounding Volkswagen, but finding out what really went wrong and who is to blame is not so clear cut. John Watkinson considers the culprits: mechanical, political and virtual.…

Hint: Hmm, perhaps diagnose the difference between a PC and a monitor On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our regular look at situations readers have confronted when their phones ring at awkward hours and they're asked to fix things up.…

Speaking of domestics, what's your house-bound spouse worth? Worstall @ the Weekend Last week, when I wrote a column about the nature of cold hard cash from a rabid free marketeer point of view, commenter Chris Miller asked about the intricacies of GDP: is it actually a bad measure of how well-off we all are or is it used just because it's simple to calculate?…

Twisting time to flush out beasties TV Review Readers please note: THIS IS A POST-UK BROADCAST REVIEW – THERE WILL BE SPOILERS!…

Jack Dorsey to show workers the door, see? Twitter is preparing to lay off an unknown number of staff, just days after Jack Dorsey returned to the micro-blabbing site.…

Not all brain boxes happy with brain drain to 'narrow' project A section of rat brain has been digitally reconstructed by a huge team of 82 scientists, some of whom had been working on the project for decades.…

Pinch me, Pichai! Android chaps promoted, too Google's recently-uploaded chief Sundar Pichai has made his first big management changes to the ad giant since assuming the top dog role in August.…

Windscreens are for wimps Vulture at the Wheel Eagle eyed Reg readers who read our review of the Rolls-Royce Wraith will have spotted that there was an Ariel Atom parked next to the Rolls-Royce in Monaco and ahead of us near Rouen.…

Too POSH to SWIPE Something for the Weekend, Sir? Whenever I dump my load, I don’t feel the need to swipe. Swiping is far too dirty for me. I’d rather just lightly touch, lift up my trousers and walk away.…

Horn plays bad apple card, throws staff under a bus (a NOx-spouting bus, no doubt) Volkswagen America CEO Michael Horn has played the "rogue employee" card to explain how and why his cars' engine software cheated in pollution tests.…

Let's keep this little matter private, eh, says Uncle Sam President Obama will not push for laws requiring tech companies to cripple their encryption systems with backdoors, FBI boss James Comey has said.…

ICANN evaluation takes absurdity to new levels This time last year, the applicants for the internet top-level domain .gay were stunned to find that their application to be recognized as a "community" was rejected because they weren't gay enough.…

Meanwhile, new FAA committee to develop cybersecurity protections One World Labs, the infosec biz founded by Chris Roberts – the security expert famous for allegedly making an airplane move sideways mid-flight without leaving his passenger seat – has filed for bankruptcy protection.…

China cloud unit pushes deeper into Silicon Valley Chinese cloud purveyor Aliyun, a division of the Middle Kingdom's Amazon equivalent Alibaba, has opened its second data center in Silicon Valley.…

Password wrangler says nothing will change as users grumble over $125m deal LastPass has been acquired by LogMeIn, and people are none too happy about the deal.…

Cooperation – what a concept Hacking suspects have been arrested in China by the nation's authorities at the behest of the US government for the first time, The Washington Post reports.…

Total Inability To Sustain Usual Productivity Updated It's not you – it's Google. The web giant's Docs cloud has fallen off the internet, leaving US office workers eyeing up the boozer early.…

That Elon is one vengeful *shut your mouth* Billionaire business mogul Elon Musk is taking some time away from his electric car and space exploration ventures to slag off Apple.…

But directive still needs Euro Parl approval - get the popcorn European justice ministers on Friday reached an agreement on a new EU law governing how police agencies share information.…

Gains in-house system-on-chip controllers for flash The Non-Volatile Memory Express technology wave is rising and Micron has bought Tidal Systems, an early stage NVMe PCIe controller developer.…

Europe takes the Red Pill OX Summit 2015 If any Americans are in doubt about what European technology business thinks of Silicon Valley’s data-slurping giants, it wouldn’t take them long to find out from a gathering in Berlin of European companies who look after personal data.…