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And helping online floggers shift tat. If you want the rainbow … There’s a lot of hype around data scientists. You can blame big data and the cloud. Data scientists are lauded, hunted and positively desired by those wanting to squeeze the most from their information.…

Oldest instance of human decapitation found – but a bit late to catch the killers The oldest case of human decapitation has been uncovered by scientists in Brazil – some 9,000 years after the ritual was originally performed.…

In the future, no-one can tell you how much things cost 100% Design Electricals While much of the 100% Design show was devoted to furniture, textiles and materials, we love stuff you can plug in – especially if it also lights up. And there was no shortage of entertaining electricals on offer.…

So long as you just want to answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’, it's fine University of Washington (UW) researchers have entered the realm of sci-fi (sort of), and achieved brain-to-brain direct communication. Sadly, these mind-reading superpowers are limited to responding to 'yes' or 'no' questions.…

Realises rewriting blocks of data on disk and flash is (basically) the same Radian Memory, startup pusher of faster SSD software, claims its SSD-managing software can work with host-managed shingled disk drive software to make an SSD-SMR disk combination quite exciting. We'll see.…

Variant of CryptoLocker makes an unwelcome appearance Spam emails disguised as messages from local post offices – but actually packing the latest variant of the CryptoLocker ransomware – are being flung at surfers in Scandinavia.…

Let us turn your automation or containerization into an agile devops show Reg Events We’re doing a major conference on DevOps next year and we don’t just want Reg readers to attend. We want some of you to be the speakers too.…

Move reflect importance of this ‘finite resource’, says regulator Ofcom has tripled its spectrum use licences fees for O2, Vodafone, Three, and EE, pushing the figure to damn near £200m.…

Big Blue spaffs out a load of APIs and dev tools IBM is turning its puny-human crushing Watson AI brain over to developers for the first time.…

Join our experts live on October 6 Webcast Register now to watch our live webcast, that looks at what you are saying about where and how cloud is being used, where it is going, and some of the imperatives that fall out of that? Is a BOFH-friendly cloud service really possible?…

Yusuf Mehdi: We’re still ‘deeply committed’ to Bing. Mmmmm Microsoft is cosying up with Chinese search engine Baidu in a deal which will see it ditch Bing as the default browser for Windows in the Middle Kingdom.…

New marketing director bringing some DataCore expertise Storage software supplier FalconStor has hired itself an EMEA marketing director to help get its FreeStor messages out there.…

Big tech love of open crypto standards could be 'unstoppable', CERN man says Facebook has boosted its security chops with support for better bang-for-buck email encryption.…

Ne'er-do-wells seek to amputate data stores and feast on the rich pickings within The healthcare industry sees 340 per cent more security incidents and attacks than the average market segment, according to a new study by Raytheon|Websense.…

Digital: the magic middle-class makework word Special Report It was Open London last weekend, where for two days we got to see inside buildings normally closed to the public. With Doctor Who’s Tardis being unavailable, my kids found themselves on the Dazzle Ship moored in the Thames*.…

'We've humiliated the bloke – now let's grab his money' In the inverted morality of the obsessive copyright hater, criminals are folk heroes, and the innocent must be punished.…

Nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana – LAWSUIT! Riddle me this: what has four wheels, a jet engine, and will get you an angry call from DC Comics' legal department if you try to rip it off?…

But ad-flinger has spent more than most to stop such clicks Google has been accused of charging advertisers for YouTube clicks against adverts even when some of those ads have not actually been viewed by a human, according to a study.…

Also: Grauniad selected to join El Reg in elite group of news organisations It's the eve of iPhone Day, the most magical time of the year, when fanbois' and fangurls' little faces light up as they tear open the packages tomorrow. It's the day that we celebrate the coming of a new Jesus Phone down to Earth to be seen amongst mortals yet again.…

Supermassive Sagittarius is firing off X-rays The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy has become a lot more active in the last year, and now the scientists think they've worked out why.…

I can SEE what you're thinking … well, not quite The world has come a step closer to eliminating privacy altogether, with University of Washington boffins claiming the most sophisticated brain-to-brain link so far demonstrated.…

Trio of trouble sent to the Zero Day Initiative. Three remote code execution and privilege escalation flaws have been reported in the Kaseya IT management software which when chained enable unauthenticated attackers to gain 'master admin' status.…

Chinese mobe vendor to Cupertino: 'You snooze, you lose' China’s leading phone maker plans to capitalise on its success flogging mobes to the masses by operating its own-brand mobile network.…

IOS DoS and authentication bypass vulns patched Cisco has patched a bag of bugs in its IOS and IOS XE software, with three denial-of-service bugs and one authentication bypass via SSH.…

More security, more SDN ONOS is pitching high availability and scale-out capabilities in the latest iteration of its SDN operating system.…

Agriculture proving fertile ground for analytical startups Like fusion energy, big data has consistently promised amazing results – always at some indeterminate point in the future.…

Joint venture to help lift Borg out of doldrums Cisco has revealed the first concrete outcome of its new China strategy, inking a deal with the server maker best known for helping build the Tianhe-2 supercomputer.…

What could possibly go wrong? Perhaps to counter the rapturous reception the tech sector has given new prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's opposition has floated the idea of government loans for youngsters with a startup idea.…

Musical chairs in Canberra stalls legislative agenda Speculation is emerging that the changing of the guard in Canberra is going to delay the implementation of the government's much-criticised telecommunications security regime.…

Remote code exec reported in HP Autonomy. Australia's national spy agency has been credited with its first public vulnerability disclosure after reporting a remote code execution vulnerability in an HP Autonomy component.…

Contractor backs out – and it's clearly not about the money The Russian government's plan to unmask citizens who use the anonymizing network Tor has hit a snag: the company hired to do the job is trying to wriggle out of its contract.…

Cyber Xi Jinping cyber claims he's cyber ready to cyber play cyber ball The US and China are still expected to announce a cyberwar peace deal, despite signs to the contrary during a state visit to the US by the Chinese paramount leader this week.…

Warner – boo hoo Good news: you can now sing Happy Birthday without fear of someone demanding you get your checkbook out.…

Letter from 50 MEPs stresses EU will decide own laws, thanks A letter sent to the US Congress by over 50 members of the European Parliament has hit back at claims of "digital protectionism" emanating from the United States.…

And the dodgy database at the heart of the crash is suffering again right now Netflix, Tinder, Airbnb and other big names were crippled or thrown offline for millions of people when Amazon suffered what's now revealed to be a cascade of cock-ups.…

Did we say 1.1 million? It's more than that, says OPM The fingerprints of nearly six million US government workers were copied by hackers who raided Uncle Sam's Office of Personnel Management (OPM), it emerged today.…

Gang set up foundation to blame when IoT goes titsup A new non-profit foundation dedicated to improving security in the "internet of things" launched on Wednesday.…

Simple sequence opens up iPhones, iPads even if they have a passcode set Vid A security flaw in iOS 9 allows anyone who has a locked Apple iThing in their hand to view its contacts and photos without having to enter a passcode.…

Somerset heritage means combined firm will come down hard on data scrumping Security firm ESET has snapped up UK-based data encryption firm DESlock+. Terms of the deal, announced on Tuesday, were not disclosed.…

You can flush the messages, but you need to wipe too The FBI has managed to recover "deleted" emails from presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private server, which she used for official business while presiding over the State Department.…

Big and beefy heterogeneous HPC systems When it comes to groundbreaking innovations in supercomputing over the last decade, there are few shifts that made bigger waves than the introduction of heterogeneous computing. By coupling high performance host processors with a graphic processing boost, several top-ranked supercomputers have achieved both their performance and energy efficiency results with GPU computing.…

German motor giant was (not) taking the piss Volkswagen's boss Martin Winterkorn has quit his job as the diesel emissions cheat scandal continues to engulf the German car maker.…

Testing, IAM and sandboxing hot … endpoint protection ain't Worldwide spending on information security will reach $75.4bn in 2015 – an increase of 4.7 per cent over 2014 – despite a currency-driven price hike causing some customers to delay purchases until next year.…

Slow, unwieldy downloads, $99 dev ID fee also contribute to App Store appocalypse In light of XcodeGhost, the number of malware-laden iOS apps is focusing attention on how developers were tricked into using dodgy code in the first place.…

80-page report gets under the skin of memristor-slaying 3D XPoint tech Semiconductor market researcher Jim Handy of Objective Analysis has produced an 80-page report looking into what XPoint memory is, how it could be used and what its prospects are.…

C'mon folks. Look to Asia's tigers, not Euro 'lame ducks' Professor Peter Cochrane OBE, the former head of R&D at BT, has dismissed the former incumbent telco's trumpeted “vision for Britain’s digital future” as woefully inadequate.…

You shall not pass … on this opportunity, surely The government is hiring an IT cloud director at a cool £1,000 per day, for a bod proficient in Microsoft cloud systems – and just about every other form of enterprise IT.…