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Who needs cloud when users can host downloads for you? Feel like your network bandwidth is slipping away? Windows 10 could be the culprit.…

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Outfit marches on with £1bn revenue mid-market domination plan Acquisition-ravenous Daisy Group has completed its gobble of tech services outfit Phoenix IT Group.…

Maybe shouldn't have relied on Google Translate to check that one Google says it will not comply with French data cops' demands to apply the European "right to be forgotten" worldwide.…

Raspberry-powered stack thumbs nose at costly broadcast convention Britain’s first home-brewed open source-based DAB multiplex has gone live this morning. Six services will be operating on the new mux in Brighton for nine months.…

Firm has to smarten up its act if it wants to avoid another Ofcom thrashing It’s good to know that complaints to Ofcom produce action. A probe into broken promises and lies told by Unicom has seen the company fined £200,000 by the regulator.…

I see no ships ... or boxen, come to that The more I look at Gartner's recent Magic Quadrant for x86 server virtualization infrastructure, the more confused I get.…

Channelling some answers for Auntie Breaking Fad Do you like your free-to-air TV? It looks like a reasonable chunk of spectrum will be saved for terrestrial broadcasting at the WRC–15 meeting later this year, but the battle for Freeview is far from over.…

An internet that didn't rip you off? Who'd want a thing like that? The web has grown up without letting people own and control their own stuff, but a British-backed initiative might change all that, offering a glimpse of how the internet can work in the future. Their work will all be open sourced early next year.…

Fewer than 10 downloads for draft comparison app in France Around 800 people really do want to compare all the different versions of the EU’s proposed new data protection law.…

Adobe's scars make it ugly but tough. So tough it's being attacked more than ever Don't kill Flash; that's the message from Cisco security veteran John Stewart who says the Adobe team have put in the hard yards into reforming security and needs to weather the current bug storm.…

Head of HR films video response for El Reg HP Enterprise's head of HR says his company does not have a "global" dress code, while his minions quietly remove a webpage on workplace appearance from HP.com.…

First papers from Philae lander's brief burst of work appear in Science When the Philae lander failed to touch down cleanly on Comet 67P/Churyumov­-Gerasimenko it looked like a mess. But the probe's four bounces across the comet's surface turn out to have been a blessing in disguise because they've given us more close-ups of 67P than expected.…

West Yorkshire Police reveal their worst summer nuisance calls The West Yorkshire fuzz have released recordings of nuisance calls requesting a cat be arrested for eating a man's bacon and a complaint about a noisy washing machine, as well as a request to identify the actor in Magnum PI*.…

Update rollups needn't spoil your Sysadmin Day unless you're hot for Windows 10 VDI Looking forward to a nice, relaxing Sysadmin Day? If you run Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012, your dat may just have been complicated by the release of two update rollups.…

Bad packets cause crashes. Cisco has closed a hole in its ASR 1000 line of enterprise and service provider-grade routers that could trigger denial of service.…

Google scores whole-of-country deal for internet-over-windbags Service to launch just weeks before monsoon hits, complete with rain and wind a-plenty Sri Lanka has signed up for broadband services delivered by Google's “Project Loon” broadband balloons.…

If at first you aren't jailed for piracy, try, try again, this time funded by donations File locker mogul Kim Dotcom has signalled he'll soon create a third version of his Mega service.…

Smartglasses in possibly useful situation shocker Google is reportedly developing a revision of its infamous Glass product for use in the workplace.…

Flap over crap OnStar app yak, all will be revealed at DEF CON yap Anyone with $100 spare for electronic components, and some technical skills, can wirelessly track, unlock, and start General Motors cars that have OnStar fitted, it is claimed.…

Eyes PoS vendors, web terminals. Trend Micro researcher Anthony Joe Melgarejo says the sophisticated Angler exploit kit popular in cybercrime circles is now targeting point-of-sale (PoS) systems.…

Judge just doesn't have the time to hear their bickering The long-running copyright dispute between Oracle and Google over the latter's use of the Java language APIs in its Android operating system will likely drag on for another year or more, based on the latest developments in the case in a US federal court.…

iPhone giant to get comfy with CBS Interactive in San Francisco, apparently Apple is reportedly moving into San Francisco's stinky and noisy trendy South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood – by leasing office space in CBS Interactive's building.…

Lasers used to pump data between ground and aircraft Pics Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's slightly bonkers dream of beaming internet access to remote corners of the world has taken another step – or perhaps that should be flight – closer to reality.…

Mozilla's Beard gets in Sat Nad's face, says Microsoft is on the verge of killing choice Mozilla chief exec Chris Beard has penned a tetchy open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, criticizing the Redmond giant for changing customers' default browser choice when they upgrade to Windows 10.…

Avalanche of gripes could come in handy once someone figures how to enforce new rules The FCC has reportedly received over 2,000 complaints related to alleged violations of its Open Internet rules.…

You won't see that headline in Nature Video Astronomers have spotted a brown dwarf almost-star glowing with a dazzling display of aurora similar to the Northern Lights and Southern Lights here on Earth – but hundreds of thousands of times brighter.…

Larry's Unix to support cross-platform containers with unique Solaris features Oracle is the latest company to get on the Docker bandwagon, having announced support for the application container technology to come in a future version of Solaris Unix.…

Backdoored code slung at officials, journos etc Malware used to attack Ukrainian government, military, and major news agencies in the country, was distributed from the Russian portal of encryption utility TrueCrypt, new research has revealed.…

Year-long publicity effort hits bullseye ... in a way The internet is reeling today at the "news" that a rare make of computer-aided gunsight can under certain circumstances be hacked into, permitting a hacker to interfere with a suitably-equipped rifle's aim.…

Results for acquisition target Telecity look limp in comparison Net income at US data centre outfit Equinix jumped to $59.5m (£38m) for the company's second quarter of 2015, up from $11.3m (£7.2m) in the same period last year. Meanwhile, sales rose 10 per cent to $666m (£426m) for the three-month period.…

Disks in large enough numbers are volatile; they break... Comment New storage technologies are needed for exabyte-munching exaflop supercomputers. The same-old-same-old disk tech used for supercomputers won’t do for the exaflop generation promised by President Obama’s US leadership supercomputing order. This is Obama’s moonshot, the equivalent of President Kennedy’s man on the moon vision…

Disk units and revenues spin down as desktop market declines Are the glory days gone for good? Will the PC market ever come back? AS WD rues the damage that declining PC disk sales have done to its revenues, that’s a question that will be exercising its product strategists as they ponder its latest results.…

Possibility of Beijing-sponsored triple hack makes industry sit-up, gulp, take notice United Airlines was hacked by same Chinese group that also breached health insurer Anthem and the US government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM).…

Data watchdog advises eager Gallic singles to say 'Non' to naked selfies French privacy watchdog CNIL has spanked 13 dating websites for abuses of data protection law.…

Super generous state monopoly? Fat chance – it's in their contract Both BT and the Ministry of Fun – or the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, if you prefer – have spun BT’s toeing-the-line-of-a-contractual-obligation as unbridled generosity towards taxpayers.…

Chipmaker adds Israeli company's bolt-on protection to its bulging armoured sack Chipmaker ARM has sealed a deal to buy Israeli Internet of Things (IoT) security specialist Sansa Security. Financial terms of the deal, announced Thursday, were not officially disclosed. However, the WSJ previously reported that around $75m-$85m was on the table.…

Not perfect, but way better than IE and it gives Chrome the willies Review Microsoft Edge, the new web browser that comes with Windows 10 – released on Wednesday – isn't just a browser, it's a kind of atonement. Microsoft, it seems, wants to apologize not just for its recent Windows 8, but for the entirety of Internet Explorer. And, surprisingly, Edge turns out to be a great apology.…

Rejoice, petrolheads – team of boring old men back to act like prats again Amazon Prime has signed up Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May for a car show intended to rival Top Gear on its streaming service.…

Intel/Micron tech looks to force its way into the memory storage spectrum XPoint memory is a spectrum-invading cuckoo. Spectrums are great ways to describe a range including different items with differing characteristics. Everyone gets used to the range, then something comes along and forces its way into the spectrum, making existing items shuffle up and down.…

Smartphone giant feeling mobe market saturation sqeeze, suffers after supply shortage Samsung Electronics posted an eight per cent fall in profits for its second quarter results, as sales of its Galaxy S6 failed to gain any traction.…

Mass surveillance exercise didn't catch a single criminal Leicestershire Police has revealed the facial recognition technology it rolled out at Download Festival had no policing utility. Instead it was an experimental assessment opportunity, paid for – and carried out for the sole benefit of – software vendor NEC Corporation.…

Think of the children! Wait. Er... DON'T think of the children Prime Minister David Cameron has declared himself "determined to introduce age verification mechanisms to restrict under 18s' access to pornographic websites" and he is "prepared to legislate to do so if the industry fails to self-regulate."…

Consumer monies up, mostly off the back of price-hiked telly packages BT had a mixed quarter, buoyed up mainly by TV subscriptions - and it has taken its results announcement as an opportunity to shore up its broadband position.…

Pork experiment elicits baffled awe from fellow scientists A team of Harvard scientists has paved the way for a deadly laser pig weapon by demonstrating that, with a little encouragement, pig fat cells can be made to lase.…

Let’s lose this ‘worst app in the world’ title Dear Reg reader. Do you have an Android phone? Maybe you downloaded our Android App? Found it wanting - a lot? Help us make it better by joining our beta testers group. it is easy-peasy although you do need a G+ account.…

Funds for 'logical qubit' development, no less Nay-sayers may nay-say, but America's Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) reckons research into quantum computing is advanced enough to warrant a five-year program to kick things along.…

Think you're alright because it was all over years ago? Nope The British Government closed a window of opportunity for tax-efficient folk about a year ago that was beneficial to, and widely used by, contractors: the Employee Beneficiary Trust.…

Riding that software-defined wave SANs and filers are facing decline because of the sudden rise of hyper-converged systems and enterprises seeking IT silo simplification.…

Desktop gaming in every sense of the phrase Antique Code Show The last couple of months have seen the release of MotoGP and F1 2015. Just round the corner is the new Xbox exclusive Forza 6, so there are plenty of driving games around if you feel the need for speed.…