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Brazilian wandering death arachnid free to join Islamic State A shaken British mother has recounted how she and her family narrowly escaped death at the fangs of the feared South American eight-legged death machine which is the Brazilian wandering spider.…

Rounds off fatal assault with chicken soup de grâce A woman in California allegedly killed her boyfriend using mixed veg, according to local news reports.…

Decision due by July 27 The European Commission has set 27 July as D-Day for its decision on the Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent takeover.…

Third time lucky, hopes Elon Musk Elon Musk’s other company is gearing up for its third attempt to land its Falcon 9 rocket booster on a drone barge anchored at sea. The attempt will take place after a launch this Sunday, which will also see the booster send an uncrewed Dragon cargo capsule on a supply run to the International Space Station.…

(Almost) untraceable $820k cash siphon too tempting for sorry security bod. A US Secret Service information security bod is going to enter a guilty guilty to pilfering US$820,000 in Bitcoins from scuttled drug souk the Silk Road.…

Canonical's a Fan of the cloud Canonical is taking a shot at dealing with virtual machine address scaling problems, and reckons it can do so without resorting to software-defined network approaches.…

Not Ok Google, says irked open source Chromium collective Pirate Party captain Rick Falkvinge has weighed into the Google Chrome 'listening blob' debate, saying Mountain View silently downloaded an 'eavesdropper' to Chrome users' machines.…

Where did the game studios go? Greens Deputy Leader Scott Ludlam has won support to set Australia's Senate on a search for our missing computer game development industry.…

'Here's your $125k HP, now GO AWAY'. HP security research bod Dustin Childs says the company couldn't get Microsoft to patch an IE exploit, so it's gone public.…

NCTA doesn't like LTE-U America's cable broadband lobby has decided it doesn't like proposals for unlicensed LTE, claiming that LTE-U rollouts will interfere with citizens' WiFi kit.…

Complaint hits FCC's desk just days after regulations kicked in The rules on net neutrality in the US are only ten days old, and the first accusation that a telco is breaking them has already been filed.…

Crypto, power gobbling, performance and more tweaked The 4.1 release of the Linux kernel has hit, after what Linus Torvalds says was a “very quiet week” since Release Candidate 8 dropped.…

Developers see containers, ops teams see VMs, VMware sees possibilities Developers like containers because they're lightweight, easy to make, fast to spawn and allow them to do the DevOps thing and improve code continuously. But developers think virtual machines are clunky. Operations people like virtual machines because they're secure, easy to manage and/or automate and are the way IT mostly gets done these days. And they are wary of containers because they look lightweight and scarily impermanent.…

Opposition? We've heard of it Australia is to get its not-an-Internet-filter, with the government and the opposition joining forces to pass the bill in the Senate.…

EPIC fail for taxi app upstart – if claims come true Uber's smartphone app will soon track and report back the whereabouts of its users even when they're not using the software, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) now fears.…

Linux Foundation-led effort promises a single spec for all DockerCon 2015 For a while, it looked as though software containers were heading for the kind of standards squabble that has plagued the tech industry too often in its history.…

Better late than never It is going to take until the end of June next year for the US government to formally hand over control of the top level of the internet.…

First color snaps reveal retro-tastes of alien world Pics The first color photos of Pluto and its moon Charon have been received from NASA's New Horizons probe. And the dwarf planet is beige-orange just like a bad 1970s kitchen.…

It takes a pop star to clean up Silicon Valley Analysis Tech oligarchs aren’t supposed to say sorry. And no, Apple hasn’t formally apologized to the music community for demanding that it works for Apple for free, Apple still comes out of it with plenty of credit.…

Some seriously supercharged speedy server SAN Developer of flash storage solutions and startup Mangstor is developing PCIe flash cards usable both as direct and shared flash storage, with figures indicating SanDisk has some work to do if it wants to return Fusion-io to the top of the performance tree.…

New add-on system opens doors DockerCon 2015 As its DockerCon conference kicks off today in San Francisco, Docker has announced new features for its software container technology, including software-defined networking (SDN) and a swappable plugin architecture.…

Linux Foundation to oversee specs for containers and runtime DockerCon 2015 Docker has joined forces with the Linux Foundation to create a new organization that will oversee and manage open standards for application containers.…

WAN optimiser weeds out extraneous duplication – and everyone's a winner Fujitsu has found a way round repetitive metadata ops that delay CIFS and SMB transfers from remote file-sharing sites. It's developing a WAN optimiser product using this software tech.…

Trnqey applianc builds on OpnStac for prvat clod deplymnts Breqwatr? What on Earth is a Breqwatr? It looks like someone is trying too hard to get attention with bad spelling. In fact, it's a company making the Breqwatr Cloud Appliance, a turnkey, all-flash, scale-out, hyper-converged appliance for private cloud deployments.…

Brits second as Paris stages international ovum-elevation showdown A group of Alabama students claimed the International Rocketry Challenge crown in Paris last week, pipping their British and French rivals into second and third places, respectively.…

Refuses even to Tweet or Facebook her opinion of them Taylor Swift has told her millions of Facebook and Twitter fans they should not pay any attention to, er, Facebook or Twitter - via the good old fashioned medium of a TV interview.…

£75m investment in Manchester, and 500 new jobs Virgin Media has started work connecting customers to the fibre broadband infill it announced in February.…

Roll up for Bollywood and Nollywood ... but no IPL cricket Low-cost mobile virtual network operator Lebara is following the non-virtual operators in a step towards quad-play with a TV offering — and for the moment at least skipping broadband and fixed.…

But spooks behaved unlawfully with intercepted data of two foreign outfits Privacy International and Liberty failed today to convince the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) that GCHQ had unlawfully intercepted the communications of, and snooped on, UK-based human rights groups.…

It's indifferent at the top Here’s a thing. CIOs don't care about vast swathes of technology in their organisations. They have people to do that.…

Holy franchise finale! Game Theory Rocksteady Studios has stated that Batman: Arkham Knight is the last game of the franchise. Fans are in for a real treat. I really enjoyed Batman: Arkham City (2011) with its sense of progression but then thought the shock gloves were excessively overpowered in Batman: Arkham Origins (2013), making combat heavy handed.…

Not so much 'Luke, I am your father' as LUKE WHERE ARE YOU GOING Anakin Skywalker – legally known as Jake Lloyd – has been arrested after a high-speed police chase concluded when his vehicle ploughed into a tree.…

Economist emerges triumphant at Reg summer lecture Reg lecture Tim Worstall brought together rare minerals, bacon and eggs, and his own interpretive victory dance in his battle to stop us all worrying about running out of resources, at our most recent Reg lecture.…

Container-aware storage startup unveils boxy software product Startup Portworx is providing elastic scale-out block storage natively to Docker containers, so containerised apps can execute directly on the storage infrastructure and containers persisted and scheduled fluidly across machines and clouds.…

Continued survival of humanity starting to get embarrassing for Ehrlich A professor famous for predicting the imminent demise of the human race at regular intervals since the 1970s has predicted the imminent demise of the human race.…

A cuckoo in the Nest So in order to test out the Ecobee3 - as its names suggests, the third iteration of the product - it was necessary to pull the Nest smart thermostat off the wall and put it away.…

Buy time with Server 2008 or bite the 64-bit upgrade bullet? This is the last gasp migration for Microsoft ecosystem 16-bit applications. Windows Server 2008 x86 is the last Microsoft server operating system to support them. You can upgrade from Server 2003 to Server 2008 and buy yourself a few more years, but extended support for Server 2008 runs out in 2020.…

Surely we can't be stuck in Warsaw? You are, and don't call me Shirley An unspecified IT attack has left 1,400 passengers of Polish flag carrier LOT Polish Airlines stuck in Warsaw, after the company discovered it was unable to file flight plans for its departing aircraft.…

EU and French anti-trust watchdogs play whack-a-mole with merger proposals Despite Margrethe Vestager – the EU’s anti-trust supremo – railing against telco mergers earlier this month, French mega-company Altice has made a €10bn bid for the telco part of rival Bouygues.…

You're a fake, baby, you (probably won’t be able to) conceal it The UK's Competition and Markets Authority is cracking down on companies publishing fake reviews or taking cash for unmarked promotional content.…

Burnouts peak early, then fall, before increasing with age. Like journalists, then Facebook engineers and Carnegie Mellon researchers have looked into SSD failure patterns and found surprising temperature and data contiguity results in the first large-scale SSD failure study.…

Will he be able to shift gear, despite no direct sales experience? Has Violin’s new worldwide sales head Said Ouissal got what it takes to lift sales at the recovering all-flash array company?…

Counters brace for complaints that customers' TV remotes won't make calls The Post Office has launched its own mobile phone service.…

What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime? Page File Twenty years ago we thought the music industry would disappear and something fairer would take its place, as sure as eggs was eggs. We were right about the first part – but I doubt anyone predicted the new Man would be worse than the old Man.…

Academic eyeballs architecture, screams in horror Government “identity assurance” programme Verify contains "severe privacy and security problems" including a major architecture flaw that could lead to "mass surveillance" – according to an academic paper.…

Restaurant reopens for birthday bash, 1,400 lucky diners selected via ballot The rotating restaurant at the top of the BT Tower will open for two weeks this year to celebrate its 50th anniversary.…

Getting the internet to demonstrate On Demand Register here to watch a few experts give you the information (including demos)you need, to take control of your network traffic.…

Not the way you want to lead the world Level 3 Communications says America is home to more botnet command and control servers, edging out the Ukraine, with Russia only managing third place.…

XSS, CRSF, and input holes fixed Vulnerability Lab researcher Hadji Samir says eBay has squashed three vulnerabilities in its Magento shopping platform that could permit session hijacking and man-in-the-middle attacks.…