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World ponders how it managed to get to here from there Billions have been made in Silicon Valley by wrapping HTML angle brackets around 1980s protocols and calling it “innovation”.…

Adblock denies Google has found a way to block Adblock AdBlock Plus has denied Google has found a way of getting around its adblocking tool, instead blaming the problem on Chrome.…

Why not just use 10GE? Q&A PCIe switching sounds like a mundane topic, but it’s actually a key part of the revolution that’s blurring the boundaries between servers and storage arrays, with vastly faster data access the result.…

Web scale comes at a price. Larry's price Oracle is clamping down on uses of its entry-level Standard Edition database by throttling threads.…

We agree with you, we just want you to change everything Analysis The process to bring greater accountability to domain-name overseer ICANN descended into farce last week when the organization's board tried to skewer plans to force it to answer to the internet community while simultaneously claiming it supported the idea.…

Ansip worried about slow digital uptake, online platforms' gatekeeper status The EU’s digi-veep says European industry has been too slow in making use of mobile tech, social media, cloud and Big Data.…

Hot lava welling up in the San Andreas fault between servers and storage Comment Mainstream storage arrays are being harassed by a wolf-pack of sleeker competitors. Looking at storage is like looking at a dog walker on the beach with a hundred howling dogs of all sizes and breeds on the leashes.…

Victims were first Britons to be targeted and killed by an RAF drone Two British citizens fighting for terrorist group ISIS in Syria were killed in an RAF drone strike on 21 August.…

Ex-Dragon's Den dragon will appear before the beak on October 5 Ex-Dragons Den dragon, and founder of a number of Cambridge startups Doug Richard has been charged with child sex offences.…

Cheating plaintiffs seeking megabucks in restitution from stolen-data-slinging services Amazon and GoDaddy are being sued for handling stolen Ashley Madison data by three of the affair-enabling site's customers.…

Famous stone circle was just a rock garden corner of ancient super-henge Boffins reckon they now have evidence that shows a row of 90 lofty stones – hidden for millennia – once stood less than two miles from England's world-renowned Stonehenge site.…

IBM, NetApp and HP all rubbing shoulders to claim joint second IDC’s latest quarterly storage tracker shows EMC clawing back some lost ground, HP growing, IBM overtaking NetApp – and Dell selling the most storage capacity of all.…

Plus: Commission ruling on Irish Apple case expected in coming weeks MEPs in Strasbourg will tonight discuss how to stop the likes of Amazon and Apple from making deals with governments in order to pay next-to-no tax.…

Legal woes (and cracked licence keys) cause dev favourites to throw in the towel Iron Speed, a firm which provided a rapid application development tool for creating .NET apps, is shuttering itself thanks to "litigation with a patent troll", according to a letter sent to customers by co-founder and chairman Alan Fisher.…

Chances are it's not Aunt Sally phoning you to talk about your mother's maiden name Telecoms regulator Ofcom is warning customers of the dangers of CLI spoofing – the process which allows incoming calls to display fake originating numbers on recipients' phones.…

ISS-matured liquor also has hint of 'antiseptic lozenges' A Scotch whisky that spent almost three years maturing on the International Space Station (ISS) boasts an "intense aroma" with hints of "antiseptic smoke, rubber and smoked fish".…

HAE: HDD Acronym Excess. We have SMR, TDMR, BPM... Comment Seagate has revealed fresh data on how it will increase areal density as well as a disk's IO rate from next year onwards.…

Forced faceprint feel-up is illegal in Illinois, intimates irate inhabitant Facebook has been hit with a class-action complaint over its biometrics slurpage, with millions of possible plaintiffs who may claim damages if the advertising giant is found to have acted unlawfully.…

Demand is so great that many would-be workers took summer off UK techies can pick and choose where they want their next job to be – so much so that many of them took the summer off completely to sip on pina coladas and top up their tans.…

New TED-style 'ideas initiative' part of not-an-expansion-at-all The BBC has blown a raspberry at both the Minister of Fun and the Chancellor, who want a smaller and more focused BBC, by setting out plans to embiggen itself.…

Ad-blocking company selflessly campaigns for the blocking of ads Israeli ad-blocking company Shine has climbed on to the moral high ground, taking out an advertisement in the Financial Times calling on the mobile industry to block mobile ads.…

US prosecutors claim fruity machines sold in unmarked brown boxes Four people have been charged with stealing $1m worth of MacBook Airs destined for local school kids.…

Kojima-heavy title was worth the wait... right? Game Theory Whether fearing negative reviews, spoilers, or to wrestle back some control on reports of how much Hideo Kojima's name appears in the game, getting a copy of The Phantom Pain to review before it shipped was akin to striking black gold in the American West.…

Vandals mount second graffiti attack on controversial sculpture The controversial voluminous vagina adorning the gardens of the Palace of Versailles has been vandalised for the second time.…

'Popular' firm tightens its grip on public cash firehose Capita has increased its share of the public sector IT market by one quarter since 2012, despite overall government IT outsourcing spending remaining flat over that period.…

You've no time to get lazy If the Ashley Madison saga has taught us one thing – well, many things, but one main thing – it was never, ever, ever use a work email account for personal pursuits online.…

Vid: How the tech history boys are our future Reg Lecture Having a hankering for the shiniest of new kit doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate genius that went into the tech of the past.…

2015 will be 'pretty awful', according to analyst firm Forrester 2015 is shaping up to be “pretty awful” for US tech vendors, which have been hit by a one-two of strong international competition and a strong US dollar.…

Patch deluge awaits Penguinistas after weekend emissions Popular GNU/Linux distribution Debian published the second update to its “Jessie” stable release over the weekend and the ninth update for its older “Wheezy” edition.…

If you're not patching Flash you're even stupider than those who still rely on it Crooks behind the world's worst exploit kit, Angler, have added the latest Adobe Flash vulnerabilities to the suite's long list of attack vectors.…

Slimy creature invades Baltic Sea The European Space Agency (ESA) has spotted a new threat to Earth: a Ship-swallowing green “storm” in the Baltic sea.…

Wheezy Cisco replaces 'respiratory disease' with 'a useless person' Logowatch We only break out Logowatch for special occasions, and this one surely counts: Cisco has decided that its OpenStack Private Cloud is a tad dull, uses too many words and, worst of all, gave rise to jokes.…

Network nixed A man credited with helping to create the infamous Gozi banking malware has pleaded guilty in a US court.…

'Chip-to-cloud' analytics ARM, which in late July bought Israeli Internet of Things Sansa Security, has added another plank to its IoT strategy by signing on with IBM's IoT Foundation.…

Eager boffins 'endorse' LinkedIn infosec probers wearing models' photos as avatars F-Secure hacker Sean Sullivan (@5ean5ullivan) says phishers are targeting security researchers with fake Linkedin profiles built on repurposed photos of models and company logos.…

On track, but no sign if the broadband project can hit top speed Updated One of the big issues at Australia's 2013 election was the nation's National Broadband Network (NBN). Championed by the then-Labor government, the project was pitched as a nation-building effort to re-wire Australia with optical fibre, but cast as a failed black hole for cash by the then-opposition Liberal/National Party coalition.…

Storyteller, Beamer and Refocus binned, images in cloud to blow away on Oct 30 The debacle that was Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business continues to unravel, with Redmond turning the EOL-gun on a bunch of Lumia-specific applications.…

Download everything, seed with malware, move on to next sucker CERT.org has reported Seagate wireless hard drives include “undocumented Telnet services” accessible with a hard-coded password. This allows “unrestricted file download capability to anonymous attackers with wireless access to the device.”…

After dumping EVO:RAIL, HP bounces back with deeper VMware partnership HP's decision to bail out of VMware's EVO:RAIL hyper-converged happiness project wasn't due to any dissatisfaction with the product. Instead, HP decided it could not ask its salesforce and channel to wrap their heads around EVO:RAIL and its own StorVirtual-based hyper-converged products, so chose to go it alone.…

Developer push begins in earnest Facebook has announced that its Parse project has been expanded with new SDKs for silicon vendors like Broadcom, Intel, Texas Instruments, and Atmel.…

Jeep Renegade SUVs need software refuel Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has recalled nearly 8,000 SUVs, with the hope of halting hackers from mounting remote attacks on the vehicles.…

App overtakes YouTube – now second most popular in US Facebook's Messenger – which readers may recall was ingloriously shoved down the throats of the free content ad network's users – has been crowned the second most popular app, slinking past Google's YouTube.…

Carlsbad construction site unearths ancient beasts Prehistoric bison and ancient Columbian mammoth bones have been dug up at a construction site in San Diego County, California.…

Plus: Boffins see forest for the (trillion or so) trees QuoTW What a week it has been. We've seen dangerous dating sites, crazy gaming rigs and crooked Wikipedia mods.…

Easy on the eye, nice on the backside, tough on the legs Vulture at the Wheel Volvo has always been the marque you bought if you didn’t want to buy German. That didn’t change when Ford bought the brand and hasn’t now that it’s owned by the Chinese company Geely. This little number is a rival to a BMW 3 series or Mercedes C Class.…

Fancy that! Worstall @ the Weekend Much as some of us love international biz editor Ambrose Evans-Pritchard over in The Torygraph, it is true that he can occasionally get a little bit excited about whatever it is that he's spotted.…

'EGS8p7 is unusually luminous, may be powered by hot stars' Scientists believe they have detected a galaxy that is more than 13 billion years old.…

Buddies up with Stanford and MIT boffins to drive down road injuries and deaths Car manufacturer Toyota has begun working with researchers at Stanford and MIT in the US, having agreed to pony up $50m over the next five years to invest in robotics tech.…

El Reg looks at why and what the FCC wants to do. Plus: How you can get stuck in Analysis America's broadband watchdog is suffering a backlash over plans to control software updates to Wi-Fi routers, smartphones, and even laptops.…

It's time to spare a thought for our threatened flying friends It's come to our notice that the first Saturday in September is Vulture Awareness Day, and so we're happy to do our bit in raising said awareness of our fave flying animal.…