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by Lewis Page on (#C1DC)
Tin cops first through all the doors ahead of meatsack lawmen A pair of police robots are being hailed as heroes in Colorado, after they stormed a house in which a possibly drug-addled, armed man had barricaded himself.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#C1B7)
We munch your cookies and inject ads but look HERE'S YOUR NETFLIX! Developer Christian Haschek is building an online tool to allow users to check whethre their free proxy is potentially harvesting their details, or is one of the few to be relatively secure.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C18P)
How's that OPM data going, then? There's no irony here at all: America's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalised its advice to US Federal agencies about how sensitive data should be protected when it's handled by contractors and outsiders.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C17V)
Singer bites fruity firm, Eddy takes Cue Taylor Swift has beaten Cupertino: Apple has backed down in the royalty stoush with the chanteuse, and agreed to pay, even during Apple Music customers' free trial period.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C15E)
Spectrum targets 25/50/100 Gbps Ethernet Mellanox is putting itself forward at the heart of faster Ethernet data centre networks, with both chips and switches pitched at 25 Gbps, 50 Gbps and 100 Gbps deployments.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C12A)
2.65 petaflops for Uni of Tokyo Japan's Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) at the University of Tokyo is the latest win for SGI, which is to pull the big red switch on a 2.65 petaflop system on July 1.…
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by Joshua Gliddon, Sydney on (#C0ZJ)
Will return sometime later this year Telstra’s free wi-fi hotspots have gone dark ahead of a commercial launch of the service sometime later this year.…
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by Joshua Gliddon, Sydney on (#C0WG)
240 games banned since March The number of computer games refused classification by the Australian Classification Board has exploded following the trial of a new international rating system called the International Age Ratings Coalition.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C0SC)
Industry vets propose Oz IoT access net A couple of Australian telco industry veterans reckon the Internet of Things needs an access network of its own, to meet the requirements of cheap, low-volume traffic.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C0PB)
20 Gbps air interface on the cards Following a working party meeting in San Diego, the ITU has announced the timeline for 5G standardisation.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#C0ME)
Remembering the demise of Osborne Computer In late June of 1995, Australia's top PC manufacturer Osborne went into voluntary administration, caused in part by tactics that made Microsoft the titan it is today – and shaped our industry in nasty ways.…
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by Team Register on (#C03B)
Affects some systems sold between 2012 and 2013 Apple has kicked off a replacement program for faulty hard drives in some of its 27-inch iMac computers.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#BZZQ)
Dear Tim Cook, 1989 called – it wants its royalties back Taylor Swift has come out swinging against Apple's "shocking" decision not to pay musicians or composers a penny during a three-month music-streaming trial period.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#BZW1)
Funny, that Microsoft has been forced to quietly edit a misleading blog post that seemed to suggest that anyone could get their mitts on Windows 10 for free – if they first installed a test version of Redmond's upcoming operating system for PCs.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#BZJJ)
Retail giant hopes machine learning will weed out tricksters Amazon has reportedly rejigged its product reviews systems for customers in the US, in an apparent move to mute fake ratings on the retail giant's service.…
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by Team Register on (#BZF2)
Plus: Craigslist gets Shakespearean on eBay's ass QuoTW This week brought with it the death of journalism and the the exit of Stephen Elop from Microsoft.…
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Ahh ... father. Powerful Jedi was he Film Review Last week, I was transported to a galaxy far, far away (well OK, Sarf London) to barter with Jawas. Life’s hard when you’re a Jedi kitted out in eBay's finest robes, especially after a night drinking Spice Smugglers at the Mos Eisley Cantina.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#BZ7Z)
Seduced by a sexy Italian Vulture at the Wheel The Alfa Romeo 4C is unusual. It’s not, like every other Alfa, “the make or break car for the company’s future†– a tag which has been attached to pretty much every new launch since the 75 in 1985.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#BZ50)
Armed guards at security checkpoints? Our reader has a plan On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our weekend regular in which we share readers' tales of odd things that happen at odd times in odd places.…
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by Tim Worstall on (#BZ1D)
Assuming that what we're told is correct, that is ... Worstall @ the Weekend There is undoubtedly a gender pay gap in our society. Even a number of them across our various societies.…
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by Team Register on (#BXN0)
NASA: Spacecraft flies within 300 miles of icy surface NASA's Cassini spacecraft has passed tantalisingly close to Saturn's pitted, icy Dione moon.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#BXDW)
Next time you hear the beep, think of the fun ... Or not Twitter has began testing new shopping features on the micro-blogging site and app as the firm seeks more ways to bolster its revenue.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BX2W)
President says he's welcome to stay 'for the rest of his life' It's now been three years since Julian Assange slipped into the Ecuadorian embassy claiming political asylum, and now the president of the Ecuador has said he's welcome to stay for the rest of his life if need be.…
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by Lester Haines on (#BWYJ)
Malaysian chicken fried rice omelette. Lovely We invite our wobbly dining regulars to travel with us today to Malaysia, in search of "nasi goreng pattaya" – a tempting egg omelette envelope stuffed with chicken fried rice, with a distinctly Western splash of tomato ketchup.…
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by Nigel Whitfield on (#BWVF)
A trip back in time at the Natural History Museum Review One way or another, Sir David Attenborough has been involved in the adoption of many key consumer technologies of recent decades, from the introduction of colour programming as BBC 2 controller, through landmark TV series such as Life on Earth, to the stunning HD of Planet Earth – and 3D nature programming for Sky.…
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by Mark Diston and Matt Dupuy on (#BWQX)
Despotic dad, destitution and a dazzling debut Page File El Reg bookworm Mark Diston is joined by Vulture Central staffer Matt Dupuy to review the pick of publishing this week. Alex Hourston's debut novel proves to be an intense page turner. Rosemary Sullivan explores the life of the offspring of one of the 20th Century's most fearsome dictators and, on a lighter note, Greg Proops offers his own take on being a clever clogs.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#BWM4)
Seeking the heart and groin of smart retail Something for the Weekend, Sir? Youtube Video…
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by John Leyden on (#BW1Y)
AM radio + HTC HTC EVO 4G smartphone = snooping rig Your encryption keys can accidentally leak from your PC via radio waves, computer scientists have reminded us this week. This is a well-understood risk, but as these guys have demonstrated, it can be done cheaply with consumer-grade kit, rather than expensive lab equipment.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BVZZ)
Nifty little nicher adds filer sync'n'share Connected Data's Transporter stores and shares files over the network like a Dropbox-style private cloud. Now it can hook up with any supported NAS system, thanks to its Network Storage Connector.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BVM5)
Ad giant will take down unauthorized nudes, if you ask nicely Google has promised it will remove from its web search results links to "revenge porn" pics – which are typically sexy snaps leaked online by jilted exes – if the subjects of the images ask nicely.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BVJZ)
Unhappy marriage ends in divorce Web tat bazaar eBay is selling its 28.4 per cent stake in Craigslist, and is dropping its legal action against the classified ads site.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BVF5)
Boss goes public with brand license pledge Nokia's chief exec says he wants to resurrect the Nokia smartmobe brand by licensing the name to cellphone hardware makers next year.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BVCW)
He will report to Ellison, focus on engineering The confusion over whether John Fowler will remain at Oracle, now that incomer David Donatelli has an executive vice-president role that includes Fowler's responsibilities, is over. Fowler is staying.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BVAR)
ESA shifting Rosetta probe for better comms with lander The European Space Agency says its Philae probe on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been in contact again – and that the spacecraft is getting more than enough sunshine on its solar panels to power itself continuously.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#BTZ4)
Legal challenge to copying music for private use The British music industry has dealt a significant legal blow to the UK government – after the law was tweaked to allow Brits to copy audio CDs without another penny going to musicians and labels.…
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by Team Register on (#BTTQ)
Apple milks fashion-conscious bourgeois cash cow in top economies Android’s market share globally is closely tied to the spending power of a particular market and it dominates in low-income countries, a survey of real-time usage has confirmed.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#BTQT)
Equity backer eyed exit but is holding off for better 2015 financials App hosting and co-lo slinger Attenda was expected to be put up for sale by owner Darwin Private Equity later this year, but postponed the process, and it’s latest financials perhaps explain why.…
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by John Leyden on (#BTHH)
I didn't ask for this verification code, but here, you have it Symantec has warned about a new password recovery scam that tricks users into handing over webmail account access, possibly setting the stage for more serious security issues.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#BTBD)
Can we please just get out of this mess and on with our jobs? The director general of regional internet registry APNIC, Paul Wilson, has called for a staggered transition of the critical IANA contract away from the US government.…
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by Mike Plant on (#BT8B)
Coming to a console, PC or mobile near you Game Theory The E3 2015 press conferences have been and gone, leaving us to consider what to make of the gameplay and teaser footage shown-off by Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda and Square Enix. Which devs had us out of our seats and which were faced with an awkward silence?…
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Forever joined in a union of substandard tech Scottish nationalists have a lot more in common with their Sassenach cousins than they'd like to admit, with both nations seemingly equally crap at IT.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BT3N)
None of Hurd's people are talking An Oracle EVP has become a non-person after David Donatelli was appointed EVP for converged infrastructure at Larry’s Redwood Shores palace.…
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by Brid-Aine Parnell on (#BT1Z)
However, a ‘step change in data storage’ needed Cambridge University has been involved in high performance computing for 18 years, starting with a “traditional†supercomputer, before a major restructuring eight years later led to what would now be considered high-performance computing (HPC).…
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Ofcom regulatory wand means consumers only a bit locked in From tomorrow it will be easier for consumers to switch from a crap broadband provider to, er, well, another — possibly slightly less crap — broadband provider.…
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Infrastructure readiness temperature check Study Do you dream of a world in which business people just get on and use what you give them? Amid all the support calls, change requests and high pressure projects, you could be forgiven for thinking that way, especially at those times when it feels like you are fighting a losing battle.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#BSVZ)
Fidelity offers 190 pence per share, values telco at £1.73bn Fidelity, the majority shareholder in LSE-listed telecoms biz Colt Group, has bid 190 pence per share to buy the remaining stock and take the ailing firm private.…
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by John Leyden on (#BST9)
Unseemly blog spam quickly purged by embarrassed Redmond staffers Microsoft's privacy and surveillance policy micro-site has been hacked to promote gambling sites.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#BSS1)
Who has your back? Trying asking a we-don't-disclose-our-donors lobby group The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has pushed out its fifth annual "Who Has Your Back" report, claiming to chart tech companies' commitment to "the next frontier of user privacy".…
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by John Leyden on (#BSPH)
We'll fix this problem that isn't actually a problem, no problem Samsung has promised to push out updates to resolve a serious mobile keyboard snooping bug, with security policy updates rolling out in the coming days, Sammy said in a blog post on Thursday — which simultaneously acknowledged and played down the issue.…
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by Lester Haines on (#BSKK)
Got a wobbly dining fave? Let us know We at the post-pub nosh neckfiller team are drawing up a menu for the next batch of wobbly dining delicacies, and invite readers to suggest their faves for inclusion on the list.…
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