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Website claims huge donation boost after society backlash Netzpolitik.org, the website at the centre of the treason scandal in Germany, is the real winner in the whole furore as a senior German official was forcibly retired over the scandal, editor Markus Beckedahl told el Reg this morning.…

Waiting for EMC’s spinning in (and not out) of VMware

Dodd-Frank stupidity writ large Worstall on Wednesday I have muttered around here more than a few times about the various idiocies of the Blood in the Mobile campaign. This was the idea that we could stop the appalling (and true) levels of violence in Eastern Congo's mining trade by making American companies fill out lots of documents.…

Bean counters' big-number blues Exclusive Whitehall bean counters have ordered government departments to find fresh ways to end their reliance on Oracle.…

Acting director general keeps seat warm until full-time replacement arrives The GSMA has a new interim director general, with chief technology officer and chief strategy officer Alex Sinclair taking over the reins following the departure of the charismatic Anne Bouverot.…

That's no drone. That's an aerial security scanning project! A clan of security geeks are flying a ZigBee-sniffing drone to map online internet-of-things things universe in what they hope will be the SHODAN of electronic junk.…

In a very British way – leaflets! OVER 9,000 of them Video Nottinghamshire-based software biz Impero has a lot of recycling to do – after hacker-turned-security-researcher Cal Leeming delivered over 9,000 paper copies of a vulnerability to the company's headquarters as a protest.…

Won't have Niedermayer to kick around anymore The leader of the FFmpeg open source project has resigned amid ongoing turmoil among the project's developers.…

Anti-virus software can now peer into VMs running on open source hypervisor The Xen Project's had a nasty run with security of late, thanks to a run of five bad bugs, but has revealed plans to improve matters in the forthcoming version 4.6 of its open-source hypervisor.…

Mockup cockup leads to lockup A man pulling over drivers while pretending to be a cop has been charged after being rumbled by one of his targets, who was himself an off-duty cop.…

Kiddiesmut still well and truly banned, ordinary onanism-inducers online again India's ban on online pornography looks to have gone limp after four days, after a DEITY recommended a change of interpretation to the nation's ban on 857 sites.…

RSA report fingers globe-spanning, server-slamming hack network BlackHat A China-based virtual private network (VPN) provider is powering some of the world's most capable hacking crews by selling infrastructure access stolen from at least 30 hacked businesses, RSA says.…

Control freakery intended for cloud-scale ops is heir to IPMI The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has announced the completion of the Redfish standard, an effort to enable management of heterogeneous computing resources at cloud scale.…

The branding gurus are really earning their wages down Redmond way gets a makeover Fresh from showing glimpses of the next-generation Outlook Web Access client in a preview of Exchange Server 2016, Microsoft has now detailed just how the new version of the browser-bound Outlook will work.…

Gaffe-ey McAfee in slap-happy mugshot Pic Paranoid wild man of infosec John McAfee was arrested in the US state of Tennessee over the weekend – and charged with driving under the influence, and possession of a handgun while intoxicated, it is reported.…

Management decides to wind down advocacy group after four years Women-in-tech advocacy group The Ada Initiative is shutting down.…

Carriers get website blocking, data retention and the same red tape reduction as other industries Australia's carriers won't be offered the tit-for-tat regulatory relief the government says is due to other industries.…

Razor blade biz model in retreat with more two-year ink tanks There can't be many printer owners who haven't had an apoplectic fit about the outrageous cost of inks for their machines, and now Epson is trying to change that business model and lower the cost of printing.…

Geez, you would think they had never seen a heroin-dropping quadcopter before An exercise-yard fight at an Ohio prison is being blamed on a drone's failed drug-smuggling attempt.…

Do the Feds know something we don't about crypto-tool? Or did bloke squeal his password? Discontinued on-the-fly disk encryption utility TrueCrypt was unable to keep out the FBI in the case of a US government techie who stole copies of classified military documents. How the Feds broke into the IT bod's encrypted TrueCrypt partition isn't clear.…

Join or support our cycling team: biggest fund-raisers score a "Vulture Velo" cycling jersey The biggest event on Sydney's cycling calendar is the annual "Gong Ride", a 90km trip from Sydney to Wollongong.…

Hodgepodge of flawed ideas, bad processes Analysis The internet community has published its plan to pull the United States government out of its role at the top of the internet's hierarchy.…

Or not ... judge calls for new trial Chipmaker Marvell has managed to whittle down the amount of patent infringement damages it must pay to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) after a US court of appeals found that it was only liable for chips that were imported into or sold in the United States.…

This is fine, everything's fine PernixData has lost Ted Stinson, its veep of worldwide sales, and laid off up to 16 people in its North American channel and inside sales operations.…

Newest nanomaterial could be perfectly power efficient Researchers at Stanford have laid down the first atom-thick sheet of tin, and it has the potential to revolutionize electronics thanks to its unique power propagation properties.…

Epilepsy pill gets OK for public use The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted its first-ever approval for a drug manufactured by 3D printing.…

Dodgy apps use hole in Yosemite to inject adware The amusing vulnerability in Apple's OS X that grants administrator-level access to anyone who asks is being exploited in the wild by malware. Yeah, malware exists for Macs, this isn't the 1990s.…

Micron-assisted with variable endurance ratings Seagate has announced a not-quite 4TB, dual-port SAS SSD technology, built in an alliance with Micron: the drive giant is touting four 1200.2 products defined by their endurance. Micron is using the same tech in its S600DC SSD products.…

Erm, yeah, more Korean pear juice, that is, before you hit the hard stuff The juice of Korean pear Pyrus pyrifolia might just be the greatest discovery in all human history, as boffins think the fruit can reduce the severity of hangovers.…

Third time lucky for the Phreak Phablet? BlackBerry has revamped the design of its Passport, putting its monster QWERTY phablet in a new upmarket frame.…

Hometown boys mean big trouble in China Figures from research company Canalys indicate both Apple and Samsung are feeling the pinch in the world's two fastest growing mobile markets: China and India.…

Attorney General wanted to plough on ... others aren't so sure Updated Germany's Attorney General Harald Range says “political interference” has forced him to halt a treason investigation into two Netzpolitik journalists.…

Savings of £1bn expected ... yeah, we'll see The Ministry of Defence has inked a ten-year deal worth £1.5bn with HP, Fujitsu, Airbus and CGI for IT and comms.…

No severance or office closures pegged, but Brit firm will have to pull up SOX The great unwashed at Kelway could be forgiven for checking their backs after CDW acquired the reseller yesterday, but job cuts or office closures are not part of early integration plans, or so say the new bosses.…

Dutch chipmaker submits Freescale takeover bid Dutch chipmaker NXP is attempting to get ahead of any EU antitrust concerns regarding its planned Freescale takeover by offering a bunch of concessions to the European Commission, before it has even had a chance to investigate.…

The queue for the men's toilet is out of control Chipzilla Intel is so desperate to increase the diversity of its workforce that it is paying double its finder's fee for women and minorities, according to reports.…

Pithy advice for your move On Demand So what happened on July 14 when support ended on Windows Server 2003?…

It's all about the speed baby, speed, speed, speed Stealthy startup Radian Memory System's Symphonic software replaces an SSD's Flash Translation Layer software to accelerate performance up to 80 per cent and extend endurance. It's selling its own RMS-250 SSDs with this software for data centre use…

Freedom to pick the hardware you want, when you want Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) are growing in importance. Genuine interest around them is growing fast, faster even than the hype would indicate. This is having some curious knock-on effects.…

In tents coding session for hackers A new take on a hackathon is being tried by the team behind more traditional geek gatherings such as Swedish Beers and Heroes of the Mobile Fringe. They are going to do it outdoors. Yes, outside. In fresh air.…

Long suppressed video finally makes it onto the web Reg Lecture Veteran investigative journalist Duncan Campbell detailed his long time entanglements with GCHQ and the Echelon project in a long-form article in The Intercept yesterday - but a select group of Register readers heard the full story from the man himself, last year.…

You had one job, Microsoft. One job Microsoft had one job to do with Windows 10 – but it looks like it's failed to get even that right.…

Software – not shelves – is the answer, whatever the other kids may say Administrators have some growing up to do before they're ready to properly implement Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV), as it not only has to be automated and integrated into extant management systems, it needs to be a lot more lightweight than most administrator believe is possible.…

Impaling your data insights with Impala Customers can now buy Cloudera Hadoop from EMC to run on their Isilon arrays, diving into data lakes for those pearls of insight; essentially running on Isilon's scale-out NAS boxes (with their native HDFS support), rather than building a separate Hadoop storage silo using cheapo DIY nodes.…

Unpatched Flash holes exploited to inject file-scrambling nasty Yahoo!'s ad network is still being used to spread ransomware to Windows PCs a year after the last big outbreak.…

Tier-1 server suppliers feel the bite as Chinese vendors increase market share China and the cloud are wreaking havoc on Dell, HP and Lenovo server sales, with Chinese and Taiwan ODMs benefitting. Why should this change?…

Thinner, lighter 10-incher now with bundled keyboard dock Review Time to recap the history of Sony’s Xperia tablet range to put this new model into context. In the beginning was the Xperia Tablet, the first Sony 10-inch slab. Then came the Z2 Tablet, launched just over a year ago and reviewed here. The Z3 Tablet never existed, only the clumsily named Z3 Tablet Compact, an 8-inch affair.…

Avoids the light-fingered criminal element by using a light element Vodafone in South Africa plans to avoid the recent problems it has had with South African power outages with more hydrogen-powered fuel cell base stations.…

Navel-gazing gov body flings taxpayers' hard-earned at bot that reads Twitter The Government Digital Service is spending £21,000 per year on a brand monitoring tool designed to track what is being said about it online.…

God, you never understand me The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is making a second attempt to sell online publishers and ad networks on a Do Not Track specification.…