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And they'll rip off random blogs too – unless the ungrateful gits complain too loudly Apple is hiring journos for its latest Apple News venture, a move that will presumably mean it is bringing some of the mountains of breathless product announcement coverage in-house.…

Look IOWT, Gromit - it's memory you can wrap round your arm Bendy humans pose problems for wearable IT as devices break when they’re deformed. Flexible computers would be ideal – and a group of Korean boffins has devised some flexible PRAM tech to help with the problem.…

Musk biographer on stalking Musk Interview Ex-Reg man Ashlee Vance has written a warts-and-all bio of Elon Musk. We quizzed him on how he did it – and why.…

A technology swap? That's very thoughtful, but we'd prefer cash, please Nokia – the bit in Finland, not the bit that belongs to Microsoft – isn’t making mobile phones anymore, but it’s still making money from them.…

Shrinks time, enlarges your wrinkles and gets hazy Pics Adobe has updated its Creative Cloud Suite for 2015, bringing enhancements and new features to 15 desktop applications and delivering tighter integration for its desktop and mobile users. Adobe has also let Android in on the mobile party with versions of Brush, Color, Ps Mix and Shape being made available to the platform for the first time.…

The strange afterlife of an unsupported operating system Windows Server 2003 is almost out of support, and many of us simply don't have the option to upgrade to a newer operating system. In some cases this problem is self-imposed. In others it is the result of events beyond our control. Either way, there are millions of businesses – mostly small businesses – who simply don't have the option to upgrade even if they wanted to.…

Dual monitor support, better panels, and improvements in speed Review Cinnamon is best known as one of the two default desktops for Linux Mint, which is fast approaching its next major update. Mint 17.2 will include the brand new Cinnamon 2.6, just released, when delivered later this year.…

Yarr! There's 550 amendments seeking to water down me beauty, says MEP The legal affairs committee of the European Parliament will vote today on Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda’s controversial copyright report.…

Square Enix unveils PS4 reboot of revered series E3 2015 Game studio Square Enix has announced it is remaking the groundbreaking role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII.…

Dell and HDS missing from excessively proscriptive market snapshot Comment Gartner's gnomes gnosticated on all flash array sales (AFA) and revenues recently. Dell did not appear at all in its charts or revenue numbers and neither did HDS, leading us to suppose Dell revenues were lower than any of the eight AFA vendors mentioned. Yes, really.…

Plan Bs, from corrupted data to pandemics I run into the same misconceptions about business continuity on an almost daily basis. “We’ve already got backups, so why would we need to have a disaster recovery site as well?,” comes up with alarming regularity, as does: “We spent tens of thousands on a disaster recovery site, so why did we have that four-minute outage – why didn’t we switch over to DR and get our money’s worth?”…

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit — und Internet natürlich Germany has got the green light from the European Commission to push ahead with a publicly funded scheme to roll out next generation access (NGA) broadband networks.…

Desktop friendly release makes you wish for Windows 8 Microsoft's new Surface 3 tablet should be the perfect hardware for Windows 10, set to be released on 29 July. We put it to the test.…

That's Single Sign On as a Service from the cloud, to your mobe, and in IBM+Apple's face VMware's ever-expanding end-user computing and cloud portfolios have embiggened, again, with the advent of a new single sign-on product called VMware Identity Manager.…

Peskware now net nasty Last month's MacKeeper vulnerability is now being exploited in the wild to hijack Apple machines, according to BAE security researcher Sergei Shevchenko.…

Customers can get payback 'in a few months' Managed and cloud service providers have a lightning fast on-ramp to providing backup services via three Asigra appliances.…

All the cool kids are doing it and better security would put a ಠ_ಠ on your face British outfit Intelligent Environments says it in discussions with online banks to sell what it says is the first authentication scheme to replace passwords with emojis.…

'Of course, I cant prove anything ... that's part of the intimidation' Sometimes there's only one rational explanation for not finding your shoe: obviously, Zionists working within a global conspiracy must have taken it.…

Yay, another connectivity-for-things protocol Samsung has become the latest backer of French company Sigfox, which is trying to pitch an IoT-over-cellular protocol for low-throughput communications.…

'Cannot continue to negotiate' with ad-slinging stalker Facebook won't quit stalking people who aren't its users, so after months of wrangling, Belgium's Privacy Commissioner is pressing ahead with a lawsuit against The Social Network.…

How to spot-the-bot on The Social NetworkAn analysis of 1,400 Facebook accounts, more than 143,000 posts Liked, and more than a million could go some way to unmasking the techniques of “Like Farms” used to manipulate reputations on the content-with-ads network.…

This HTTPS thing is catching on Microsoft product manager Duane Forrester says it will encrypt all Bing search traffic later this year.…

Quantum key distribution kit to be deployed internally, bank says. Australian banking goliath Westpac will become a majority stakeholder in Canberra based QuintessenceLabs (QLabs) and use outfit's quantum key distribution technology for its internal infrastructure.…

Sorry, speculators, we're not buying Juniper or Ciena Ericsson has decided not to follow the example of Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia, telling Reuters it doesn't need a big acquisition.…

Output doubled, but capacity and likely poor user experience remains the same Elon Musk has responded to criticism of the specs of its Powerwall home battery, and says when it start shipping the system's output power will be doubled, without changing the price.…

Event-driven model not just for JavaScript anymore Amazon Web Services has expanded its AWS Lambda programming model to support functions written in Java, the cloud kingpin said on Monday.…

The land of the crypto-ban has trouble filling its cyber-defence jobs Australia needs a bunch more experts in disciplines you're barely allowed to discuss here, according to the Australian Federal Police.…

Look what the nerd brought to a gaming conference E3 2015 Microsoft kicked off this year's E3 gaming conference by announcing that its x86-powered Xbox One console can now play games built for the PowerPC-based Xbox 360.…

Server-side JavaScript tools reunited under wing of Linux Foundation The Node.js open source project and its fork, io.js, have decided to kiss and make up, with the aid and support of the Linux Foundation.…

Whacked hacks face flack, slap back in article scrap The Sunday Times has apparently sent a copyright complaint to critics of its article that claimed British and American overseas spies have had their covers blown by Edward Snowden.…

More like LostPass Password-storing cloud biz LastPass is urging its users to change their master passwords after hackers broke into its network.…

Ah the sweet smell of successful failure Recap The final episode of season two of Silicon Valley was a blast: almost literally.…

Student competition launched Elon Musk's private space transport company SpaceX is throwing its weight behind Musk's concept of the Hyperloop ground transport system, although it says it's not doing it to make money.…

Knubley not bubbly about TLD price query The Canadian government has responded to a request from domain-name overseer ICANN about the .sucks top-level domain – by shaking its head and sending a form letter.…

Her computer was used to spread Trojan, it is claimed The recent cyberattack on the German government began with the compromise of Chancellor Angela Merkel's personal computer, it is alleged.…

Driver signed by Chinese factory giant, says Kaspersky The super-sophisticated malware that infiltrated Kaspersky Labs is more crafty than first imagined.…

German telco emphasises security, lack of NSA nibbling Deutsche Telekom claims to have Amazon and Google in its sights (thanks to a little lens polishing from a Chinese big boy) as it ramps up its cloud business and attempts to dominate the sector in Europe.…

Brussels now intent on bolstering tech startups One of the official cheerleaders of Europe’s digital industry said he couldn’t believe the UK would be mad enough to vote itself out of Europe in the upcoming EU referendum, and leave itself effectively stuffed as a tech power.…

Use silicon photonics to continue chasing Moore's Law IBM last month claimed a breakthrough in photonics – the practice of using light pulses rather than electrons to quickly send signals in chips.…

Architects, not coders, to blame for vulnerable HFT markets I'm keen on energy efficiency. Some would also describe me as a cheapskate (I'd sue 'em all if I could find a cheap lawyer.)…

Anon murmurs fool few serious infosec watchers Analysis A row has broken out over claims that Russian and Chinese have reportedly decrypted files of NSA leaker Edward Snowden, identifying British and US secret agents in the process.…

Researchers identify vertebrates' germ cells genetic switch Japanese fish boffins have discovered – for the first time in vertebrates – a genetic switch which determines whether germ cells (essentially reproductive precursors) become either eggs or sperm.…

Unknown Chinese bidder snags phone for 100 times retail price A limited edition Iron Man-themed Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge has been bought for $91,000 by an anonymous bidder in China.…

Talks start this month with EU Parliament and Commish EU states' justice ministers seemed to be competing to sound the most disappointed as they grudgingly agreed to move forward on a new data protection law.…

Get rich or die tryin' If you did have any doubts, recent events should have assuaged them, the division between the public and private cloud is here – and widening.…

Next chapter is a balance of neutrality and integration Salesforce last month announced another quarter of growth, up 23 per cent, year on year. Only this time, there was also profit — the first in 18 quarters.…

Firm sets sights on bigger mid-market slice Managed services biz Redcentric reported a significant increase in sales and profits for its full-year 2015 results, as the firm's acquisition strategy began to bear fruit.…

Virtual muck now struck from smut bucket content glut despite Luckey's pluck Facebook has contradicted a statement by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and declared that pornographic content will be forbidden from appearing on the Oculus store.…

Hanselman: 'I didn't expect this little tweet reply to cause a ruckus' Microsoft will release its blog authoring tool, Live Writer, as open source, according to a tweet from developer evangelist Scott Hanselman.…