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Hint: It looks like a bleedin' iPhone Pics Apple has sent out invites for a press conference next week where it will unveil new iPhones – quite possibly the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus.…

Help wanted ... too late Poll Avid Life Media – the owner of hookup site Ashley Madison – has weeks-old openings for a data analyst and a senior system administrator.…

Two thirds of flogged smart wearables were Apple Watches Apple's wristjob is preparing to speed past Fitbit on sales of wearables after just four months, according to IDC.…

Euro probe row: People love our adverts, ad giant yells The European Commission’s antitrust case against Google is wrong “as a matter of fact, law, and economics,” so says, er, Google.…

Adding stretch clusters and faster replication to VSAN VMware's VSAN is going to support faster flash hardware and is getting replication, stretch cluster and Oracle RAC support.…

Former Apple CEO John Sculley presents us with a new hope Former Apple CEO John Sculley is to launch a pair of Android phones. The SF1 and SJ1.5 are mid-range and low-end devices respectively from the company Obi Worldphone.…

Hot new Gen-5 products leaves older Gen-4 10000 series out in the cold HP has replaced its 7000 series 3PAR StoreServ array with a gen-5 ASIC-based StoreServ 8000, starting at $19,000. It's also added a top-end 20800 starter config, a lower-cost 20000 all-flash product, and enhanced its StoreServ OS.…

Dual-SIM iPhone device is actually another, smaller phone in disguise First Look A Kickstarter project to produce a dual-SIM iPhone is really a separate phone which the iPhone connects to via Bluetooth.…

Plans later, but for now here’s $60m, Yuneec Intel has chucked $60m (£39m) at Chinese drone company Yuneec in a bid to combat the downward spiral in global PC sales, the latest cash-splashing exercise by the chipzilla.…

After such a wait, it seems they’re mid-range and plastic Images of the first flagship Lumia phones for 18 months have popped up on Twitter ... or have they? Renowned technology "leaker" Evan Blass posted two images of models described as the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL.…

High standard of entrants impresses our judges A month ago we announced our first coding competition, The Register's IBM Bluemix Programming Challenge 2015.…

Personalised ad network tries to avoid Russian data localisation rules With less than a week until a new Russian data localisation law comes into effect, Facebook is making a last-ditch effort to avoid compliance.…

Bypassing POSIX releases the brake pedal on the server-storage IO equation Comment At a DDN user group meeting in Frankfurt earlier this year, Alex Bouzari said high-performance computing (HPC) exhibits an enduring tug-of-war between compute and storage.…

Former TeaMp0isoN member downed by drone strike outside Raqqa Junaid Hussain, the UK fugitive hacker turned ISIS recruiter, has reportedly been killed in a US drone strike in Syria.…

It's time to get some guarantees for smart TV Breaking Fad Online video content is becoming increasingly popular, thanks to the likes of iPlayer, Netflix and Amazon. For many of us, those services make it possible to find something to watch whenever we want. With Netflix and Amazon throwing huge amounts of money at their own original productions, it's likely that more and more people will be considering a subscription a worthwhile addition to their monthly expenses.…

Perfect size for mini-ITX mobos and small cases Pics AMD will today launch the Radeon R9 Nano, a beefy graphics card designed to run comfortably inside tight spaces.…

Questions over consent to throw personal info in a database The Labour Party's membership purge, which has seen it weed out 3,000 "infiltrators", could be in breach of the Data Protection Act, legal experts have warned.…

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, and smuggle them on holiday A keyboard which rolls up four rows of almost full-sized keys into a stick has been launched by LG at the IFA trade show.…

Channel has two years to wait until 'modest' turnaround, says IDC The recovery in PC sales has been postponed until 2017 – and Microsoft and Windows 10 are partly to blame.…

It's complicated. Hubble snap reveals the Twin Jet Nebula's interactions The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking portrait of nebula PN M-29 – less prosaically dubbed the "Twin Jet Nebula", or "cosmic butterfly" if you're feeling particularly poetic.…

Let us all rise, and standardise The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has set up a working group looking at the Internet of Things, with the aim to possibly develop hardware and software benchmarks.…

Because nothing beats jail time. Or a spanner In a post-Snowden world most IT people are painfully aware that most of us would not win a fight against a well-funded organisation, or government, that wants the data on your network, laptop or device.…

Vuln allows deathless malware to continue spying even after shut down A newly discovered vulnerability allows an iOS application to continue to run for an unlimited amount of time, even if an application gets terminated by a user.…

Allowing you to forklift your silos the hell out of Dodge Interview Dump your on-premises SAN and fly to the cloud via an all-flash on-ramp: that's the message from startup ClearSky Data. Enterprises should access all their data, throughout its lifecycle, via a fully-managed service and, implicitly, hit the eject button on their on-premises data-storage equipment.…

Multi-billion company accused of ripping off name and code, still doing security wrong The gurus behind the popular and respected Linux kernel hardening service Grsecurity have decided to stop providing support for its stable offering.…

Liberté, égalité, électrosensibilité Despite dispute over the very existence of the syndrome, it has emerged that a French court has recognised a 39-year-old woman’s disability claim for “hypersensitivity to electromagnetic waves”.…

New app store for Android and reported hardware firings suggest new direction Amazon.com looks to be changing its hardware strategy in significant ways.…

Booming attack vector offers mass malware distribution, stealthy targeting Feature Online advertising has become an increasingly potent threat to end-user security on the internet. More hackers than ever are targeting the internet's money engine, using it as a powerful attack vector to hide exploits and compromise huge numbers of victims.…

Tricks admin tool into sucking down the malware File this under “it was bound to happen one day”: Cisco has spotted a targeted phishing attack based on a popular sysadmin automation tool.…

Dreams of half a million infections A former FireEye intern has pleaded guilty to creating and selling the Dendroid malware on the raided Darkode criminal forum.…

URLs for files in Google's cloud have been going nowhere Google's suffered another cloud storage outage.…

Veteran Ray O'Farrell to run Virtzilla's CTO office and development efforts Imagine for a moment that you're a top-tier enterprise vendor and a week before your big annual conference, the one at which you try to impress the pants off the world, your chief technology officer (CTO) departs.…

The miserable life of the security veep It's easy to laugh-and-point at Samsung over its latest smart-thing disaster: after all, it should have already learned its lesson from the Smart TV debacle, right?…

Hackers queue up, Humming Black, grey, and white hats associated with car hacking are flying in the air today, with Verizon announcing it's going to vastly expand their attack surface.…

Quantum computer maker prepares new benchmark it says explains ... something D-Wave is getting ready to drop a new benchmark on Arxiv, which the company says demonstrates its latest 1000-qubit processor outperforming classical machines.…

Kids don't want to code. They want to solve problems us oldies can't perceive “Grandpa is getting pretty old. Out there all alone on that farm, he has no one to look in on him, just to see if he’s ok. He’ll use the landline, but he’s beyond of the range of mobile, and he’s never been really great with computers. No Skype or emails. Grandpa does have internet. So I built this for him.”…

Tiny percentage of ladies checked messages, it seems When the Ashley Madison databases were splashed all over internet by hackers, it emerged that about 31 million accounts on the Tinder-for-affairs website were created by men. And about 5 million by women.…

More gateways join SOHOpeless shame file A bunch of home gateway vendors, presumably sourcing their firmware from the same place, can be hijacked using depressingly common hard-coded logins.…

Ex-manager at model's favorite MMO charged en route to China A former games company executive, who allegedly tried to steal trade secrets from his old bosses and flee to China, has been arrested and charged by the FBI.…

Rocket carrying broadband-beaming satellite aloft on Sept 30 is on the launchpad PICS nbn, the entity building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) is just 34 days away from putting its very own satellite into orbit, and the organisation's communications operatives are starting to reveal a little about the bird.…

New rules for IT providers The US government has posted a new set of rules outlining how cloud providers should report IT security cockups that involve Uncle Sam's data.…

Could be on; could be off Rumors that VMware will buy EMC – which owns 80 per cent of VMware – are back from the dead. And just in time for VMworld 2015, to be held next week in San Francisco.…

Plus: '123456' and 'password' are popular, er, passwords on the affairs-R-us website It appears someone closely linked to the hacking gang that ransacked adultery website Ashley Madison has accidentally outed him or herself.…

O Rovio, Rovio, wherefore art thou, Rovio? Angry Birds maker Rovio has announced plans to lay off 260 employees.…

Cupertino's idiot tax doesn't carry over to autos – in-dash system more likely Despite rumblings of secret research projects and hiring sprees, Apple is not going to be building its own cars anytime soon, says one analyst.…

A popular giveaway, but no word on the number of failed installs Microsoft's corporate veep Yusuf Mehdi reports that Windows 10 is now on 75 million devices, following its general availability four weeks ago.…

Decouples from storage with an on-premises element Interview/Analysis Velostrata sounds like a bicycle brand. In fact, it's a compute cloud-bursting startup marrying on-premises storage with public cloud compute and has burst onto the scene from its Israeli base, apparently out of nowhere with $14m in A-round funding.…