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Possibly cheese-eating, involuntarily surrendered monkeys now Billy No Primates Seventeen endangered monkeys have been stolen from ZooParc de Beauval, a zoological conservation park in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, central France.…

Mad Max Fury Road vehicles park down the road from our antipodean outpost BONKERS The insane vehicles of Mad Max Fury Road cruised past Vulture South When the Vulture South team popped out for lunch today, members of the local constabulary directed us away from our usual haunts.…

Mad Max Fury Road vehicles park down the road from our antipodean outpost BONKERS The insane vehicles of Mad Max Fury Road cruised past Vulture South When the Vulture South team popped out for lunch today, members of the local constabulary directed us away from our usual haunts.…

Chef cooks up evil code for the third time this year Celebrity chef, food activist and supermarket promoter Jamie Oliver's website has been compromised for the third time this year.…

New 'whisper' mode deletes messages while u wait BitTorrent has released its secure messaging app to world+dog, and given it the name “Bleep”.…

But there's a catch: you have to use Samsung's Artik kit to win IoT World 2015 Samsung is offering prizes of up to US$90,000 to device devs who come up with good ways to tackle the record-setting drought in California – and who are willing to use the its brand-new Artik Internet of Things (IoT) platform to do so.…

That's application delivery as-a-service in case you don't know your aas from your elbow Citrix has kicked off its Synergy shindig with a preview of its new Citrix Workspace Cloud, an application and desktop delivery tool it's billing as “a new control plane that merges the worlds of on-premises and cloud, allowing IT managers to create secure, mobile workspaces that include desktops, applications and data from whatever infrastructure source best meets their specific needs.”…

900-pound silverback seeks share accommodation with like-minded heavyweights Heavyweight US carrier Comcast has seen the light and wants its input into how software-defined networking (SDN) works.…

We'll have our multi technology fully mixed by then BUDGET 2015 The 2015 Federal Budget has set the date at which the government will drive the national broadband network (NBN not nbn) to a quiet country road, open the door, and drive off.…

Senate Democrats back Obama – off a cliff Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) optimists - including US President Barack Obama - are licking their wounds after Democrats in the US Senate dumped the "fast-track" legislation needed to wrap the trade deal up according to America's preferred timetable.…

Printer manufacturer looks at the industrial niche IoT World 2015 You may be really looking forward to 3D glasses but based on the latest tech giant's efforts, it may be some time.…

Time to green it up, tech titans, says Greenpeace Greenpeace has released a report naming the tech companies who make the best (and worst) use of renewable energy.…

Three models aimed at powering the guts of robots, drones, and devices IoT World 2015 Samsung has used the occasion of the Internet of Things World conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to unveil Artik, a new set of "building blocks" optimized for wearables and other connected devices.…

Delay means Italian Trekkie breaks woman in space longevity record The current crew on the International Space Station is going to be spending at least another month in space after the Russian space agency Roscosmos decided to keep them up there a while longer, and at least one resident astronaut is over the moon at the prospect.…

May brings baker's dozen of patches from Redmond Microsoft has put out 13 bulletins to address a total of 48 CVE-listen vulnerabilities in various products.…

Chat to your mates in Klingon Microsoft's Skype Translator, which automatically converts some voice calls and IMs between languages, has been available to beta testers for some time, but Redmond has now opened it up as a Preview to the general public – provided they have the right operating system.…

Seeks repayment of all payments under acquisition agreement Exclusive CSC has initiated legal action against Eric Pulier, formerly head of strategy for the company's Emerging Business group, over his actions as head of service.…

Carriers to join AT&T, T-Mobile in paybacks for bogus billing US mobile operators Sprint and Verizon will pay a combined $158m in fees to settle charges that they allowed advertisers to tack unwanted premium charges onto customers' bills.…

HTML5-based Adobe rights system now in Firefox 38 for Windows Mozilla has released the first version of its Firefox browser to include support for Encrypted Media Extensions, a controversial World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) spec that brings digital rights management (DRM) to HTML5's video tag.…

We talk to August smartlock CEO Jason Johnson IoT World 2015 "In order for any internet of things hardware manufacturer to survive, we can't sell hundreds of thousands of units, we have to sell millions," says Jason Johnson, CEO of smart-lock manufacturer August.…

Listen up - there might be a new hope in this dreary post-OpenStack world Rackspace is growing – just not fast enough for the Wall Street pack. Looks like it’s time to roll out the service troops to support rivals' clouds.…

Billionaire disputes claims made in new biography Elon Musk has come out fighting online to defend his reputation after quotes in a new book about the space and electric car enthusiast made him look like a bit of a git.…

Irish data protection is now for life, not just St Patrick's day Following Twitter’s lead, Dropbox will treat Africans, Asians and Australians as Europeans from June 1.…

Virtualisation from bearded types who liked it before it was cool The origins of the hypervisor can be traced back to IBM’s mainframe systems. Big Blue implemented something approximating a virtualisation platform as an experimental system in the mid-sixties but it wasn’t until 1985 that the idea of the logical partition (or LPAR) on the pSeries and zSeries delivered something recognisable as the hypervisor technologies we see today.…

#SheepNeedTwitter Rural English villages that almost nobody has heard of are set to receive broadband connections that are nearly fifty times faster than the national average.…

Cloud storage jungle shenanigans Life in the cloud storage gateway jungle gets tougher and tougher as cloud file sync 'n' sharers invade the storage gateway space. CTERA is taking on the file sync'ers directly.…

Roll-your-own hyperconverged boxen if you dare As foreshadowed by The Reg's virtualisation desk, Nutanix has announced a “community edition” of the software it uses to power its hyperconverged servers-and-storage-in-a-box rigs.…

Fire off those application letters within 3-5 working days Amazon is looking for 500 new minions in the Dunstable area. The online superstore is to open a new 310,000 sq ft "fulfilment centre".…

Four months of use have made the Scales fall from my eyes Review: Scale Computing makes hyper-converged appliances targeted at small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). When you think of headline names for hyper-convergence – EVO:Rail, Nutanix, SimpliVity – you don't tend to think of "SMB". VMware-based name-brand hyper-convergence tends to be in the $150,000+ range, while Scale starts delivering at $25,500. But what, exactly, is Scale delivering?…

Fancy becoming a Bond? Off to Cheltenham and Scarborough with you GCHQ is openly recruiting computer network operations specialists for the first time.…

Big bucks to be made if you're in one of these particular roles Jobs in the lucrative cyber-security sector can command salaries of $200,000 or more, according to a new salary survey.…

Take your pick, and don't worry about the price tag Review It’s not often you get an SSD manufacturer launching two new families of drives at the same time, but Crucial is back from kicking the sand into the faces of its competitors with its aggressive pricing policy of the MX100 series. This time it's flexing its muscles with the BX100 and MX200 ranges.…

Gripes about operator's landline and broadband services pile up EE was the most moaned-about ISP for the final nine months of 2014, Blighty's communications watchdog Ofcom said this morning.…

Mobile video is what's driving this one, folks Verizon Communications is buying AOL for $4.4bn to strengthen its hand at video advertising. This comes off the back of Verizon’s existing plans to launch a video snacking service for mobes, with descriptions making it sound as though it will be using LTE-broadcast.…

$6m for MP security, gadgets tax cuts, employee shares BUDGET 2015 Australia's treasurer Joe Hockey has outlined several technology-related items in the nation's budget for 2015/16.…

Looking deeper into Facebook's OCP promises Open Compute has generally been a playground for super-large, cloud-scale service providers to play in. Unless you’ve got a data centre the size of a footy field, the general consensus has been that it isn’t for the likes of you.…

Non-Americans can sort themselves out. Sorry US Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has said he will filibuster to prevent any renewal of the controversial Patriot Act, several provisions of which expire on 1 June.…

So long as you're not a defence contractor, anyway The Scottish National Party had an astonishing election night. It previously had six Westminster seats; it now has 56 of Scotland’s 59 MPs, some elected on swings in excess of 30 per cent, with most of its seats gained from Labour. It already runs the Scottish Parliament as well as 11 of Scotland’s 32 councils, although some in coalition with other parties. It overwhelmingly dominates Scottish politics.…

Dedication, that's what you need If you’re talking virtual desktop infrastructure (or VDI) there are a few options – VMware Horizon View, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, even smaller players like 2X Software – but chances are you’re going to plump for the biggest hitter, the company which has been doing it for the longest. You guessed it, I’m talking about Citrix.…

Infra biz flogoff would upset Gavin Patterson's applecart BT's plans to develop improved broadband infrastructure would be put at risk if Ofcom decided to force it to sell off its Openreach division, the company's chief executive has said.…

Loss-making projects from 2012 may have been swept under the carpet Toshiba's shares have dived 22 per cent in a week after the company commenced a probe into accounting irregularities, rescinded previous profit guidance and cancelled a planned dividend payment.…

Leaker-in-chief's arrest warrant stands, for fear of flight Sweden's Supreme Court has decided not to let Julian Assange discontinue his ongoing attempt to extend the world couch-surfing record.…

Faster-than-light is easy if you slow the photons down Sorry sci-fi fans, we're still not travelling even as far as Alpha Centauri. Rather, scientists at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory in Paris have pushed fibre-optic technology along by storing and re-emitting photons in a purely optical system.…

Uncompromising tin cop hurls fleshy fugitive to floor A hefty police robot described by its human colleagues as "heavy equipment" charged into a besieged house through a barrage of stun grenades and choking riot gas at the weekend, before finding and forcefully apprehending a wanted man who had somehow managed to conceal himself inside a television.…

Redmond reveals fleet management tools for Surface 3 Microsoft has issued a new driver to “enhance mass deployments” of its Surface 3 typoslab.…

Power 8 gets some four-socket goodness IBM wants to win the spec-war with Chipzilla: in response to a growing number of x86 vendors pitching four-socket Haswell-EX-based mobos, Big Blue has announced the Power E850.…

Virtzilla puts its end-user computing kit onto EVO:RAILs with Project Enzo On Tuesday, Citrix kicks off its annual Synergy conference. So on Monday, VMware put out an announcement about its own end-user computing goodies.…