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Still not looking like alien signal mirrors, though The pair of bright patches on dwarf planet Ceres have been spotted again.…

Media again asked to ignore the purloined letters Sony Pictures Entertainment's legal representatives appear to again have written to media, entreating them not to write about the documents pinched from the company's servers last year.…

New research sends browser kingpins scurrying for fixes Four Columbia University boffins reckon they can spy on keystrokes and mouse clicks in a web browser tab by snooping on the PC's processor caches.…

Coupon-clipping the customer Netflix has ignited the Internet neutrality debate in Australia, something that was previously not a major issue in the nation.…

PS. Most products don't have a fix yet D-Link's SOHOpeless HNAP vulnerability hasn't been fixed, but readers will be pleased to know that the company is very, very, very sorry that it exists.…

When the crooks struck, freedom was just another word for nothing left to lose WizSec, a Tokyo-based group that's been investigating the Bitcoin thefts that eventually led to the unravelling of Mt Gox, reckons the crypto-currency was going missing from the trading firm long before it collapsed.…

Cell tracker kept secret at expense of criminal complaint Prosecutors in St Louis, Missouri, have dropped a criminal robbery case to avoid revealing details of a controversial mobile phone surveillance program, a defense attorney has claimed.…

NZ and UK tried it, and they're still standing Australia may ditch the .com in .com.au and offer citizens straight .au domain names following increased competition from the explosion of dot-word addresses.…

Redmond reckons it's a regional hub for Asia, which is a pretty weird claim All the fun and excitement of Microsoft's wan clone of Apple Stores will soon be available beyond the United States for the first time, after the company announced it will open its first offshore store in Sydney, Australia.…

The offline and online worlds are so similar now Analysis Last week, the fourth annual global conference on cybersecurity (GCCS) was held in The Hague in the Netherlands.…

Vegas hotel raid broke 4th Amendment, says judge Evidence gathered by FBI agents who posed as broadband repairmen to enter a suspect's villa without a warrant has been thrown out by a US judge.…

Unconventional 57,472-core system is Raijin, but no bull NetApp is supplying ONTAP FAS, E-Series and EF-Series arrays to boost data capacity and access for Australia's NCI Raijin supercomputer.…

Not a wink of sales growth in THREE YEARS IBM weathered a tough first three months of its fiscal 2015, reporting its twelfth successive quarter of year-on-year revenue declines.…

'Lots of great stuff' in the pipeline, allegedly Nokia is gearing up for a bombastic return to the smartphone world in 2016, according to new whispers.…

Step 1. Do nothing. Twitter has tweaked the way it delivers direct messages to tweeters: anyone on the social network – even those you're not following – can now send you private tweets, if you so wish.…

How do you think Netflix gets stuff here? Over the VPNs the government wants to ban Debate about copyright and virtual private networks (VPNs) has reached such a pitch in Australia that at least one voice wants a policy that, taken literally, would have the effect of closing down Netflix in this country.…

Pledge to SSL billboards by summer Google has vowed to serve ads over HTTPS from its massive advertising network.…

Revamped Recovery Tool takes it nice and slow Microsoft has made some changes to the Windows Phone Recovery Tool that should keep it from accidentally disabling users' phones, but Lumia owners whose devices have already been trashed by the tool aren't necessarily out of the woods yet.…

First major sit-down talks over monopoly fears The proposed merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable (TWC) is on the rocks, it appears.…

You will learn to love Hamburger menus. You will A former Windows Phone and Office lead designer has shed some valuable insight into Microsoft’s internal processes, design and strategy. Designer Jon Bell* left Microsoft a year ago but his Reddit AMA is still vastly more informative than anything that emerges from the Redmond politburo.…

But will it be ready in time? AMD's chief exec Lisa Su may have inadvertently narrowed down the shipping date of Microsoft's Windows 10 in a conference call with financial analysts.…

What's wrong with a 'waiver process'? A webserver and database administrator at NASA has penned an epic plea on the White House's GitHub repository to include a waiver process as part of the HTTPS-Only project, which is intended to improve security for citizens visiting federal websites, but may interfere with niche services.…

Code develops into a major weapon Feature Hacktivism has lost its innocence. Once characterised in the early days of Anonymous back in 2008 by assaults against the Church of Scientology, it has now become part and parcel of far darker plans, such as the spread of terrorist propaganda by Islamic militants.…

It is MUCH more common to pull them 'cos they're crap Devilish mediabomination site BuzzFeed has confessed that it removed "content"* because it drew complaints from the site's advertising partners.…

Flagship breathes down Samsung's neck Analysis Networking kit giant Huawei didn’t even make mobile phones four years ago, but its classy new P8 flagship shows what astonishing progress it’s made to come within striking distance of the market leaders.…

SSD based go-faster stripes 'will double write throughput' Microsoft has announced general availability of Premium Storage for its Azure cloud computing platform.…

Father of Three wants to sire more networks Hutchison Whampoa, which owns the Three network in the UK, has launched a global mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) via its mobile wholesale business unit.…

'Systemic problems' with Horizon system firmly denied The Post Office has refuted a report which concluded that its Horizon IT system was responsible for accounting cockups that led to sub-postmasters being prosecuted for stealing from their tills.…

'Lightwave' security layer to bind containers running in lightweight distro VMware has created its very own Linux distribution, dubbed 'Project Photon', as part of an effort to create a stack for what it's calling “Cloud-Native applications”.…

What's the new firm going to be called? Raysense? Webtheon? Defence giant Raytheon has agreed a deal with Vista Equity Partners to form a new company combining Websense with Raytheon Cyber Products. The new joint venture (Raysense? Webtheon?) will combine Raytheon Cyber Products with Websense's TRITON line of web filtering and other enterprise security products.…

Getting a bit tired are we? Need a lie down? Seagate has reported year-on-year declines in third-quarter revenue and profit, as notebook enhancements went unnoticed.…

New PaaS offering combines service orchestration and automation Microsoft has taken another step into the world of modern web app development with a new service aimed at making it easier to compose complex applications out of multiple interconnected components.…

Woodlands to provide ALL of Apple's packaging needs Apple has purchased more than 36,000 acres of forestland to supply timber for its paper and pulp mills, and is describing the venture as part of a “conservationist scheme”.…

Race to the bottom for shrinking ad revs Comment Google has fiddled with its algorithms so that "mobile-friendly" sites will – from tomorrow – be ranked higher on the ad giant's search engine when searched from a mobile device.…

Microsoft offers an immersive transformation Promo Are you happy with your data centre? Let’s face it, wouldn’t you like to redo it and get it right this time? Or perhaps you’d just be interested in slashing your management costs?…

Operation RussianDoll smelled like Russian miscreants, say infosec bods A hacking group probably backed by Russia has been making use of two zero-day exploits to target foreign governments.…

Giant's deal a steal, almost literally, alleges litigant Hewlett-Packard’s proposed $3 billion purchase of wireless mobile specialist Aruba Networks is facing a legal hurdle.…

A chilling tale from the server aisles I started my commercial data centre experience in London in the late 1990s. Even back then, most of the service providers were parroting the same mantra: “Your power provision is limited, and we'll charge you through the nose for anything over the basic consumption figure you've signed up to.”…

CISA and CISPA bills 'undermine the Fourth Amendment' Activist and hacktivist collective Anonymous has launched an online awareness-raising operation opposing pending controversial US information-sharing bills.…

Share your woes at our next Reg Roundtable Reg Events If you’re a tech boss who wants to get yourself into the spotlight, one guaranteed route to notoriety is to preside over a major security breach.…

Total Inability To Support Usual Performance KOs moneymen UPDATE RBS and NatWest customers have been left unable to access their accounts via the banks' mobile apps.…

Budget and planet-saving technology ideas Going Green: Tactics (Part 2) Data centres are big, noisy places that seem to have an emphasis on generating heat and making lots of bright lights flash. The first time you visit one, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the service provider's emphasis was on anything but the green credentials.…

No decision on what to use for two years, though The long-awaited arrival of mobile devices in the Metropolitan Police is still another two years away, interim chief technology officer of the Met Stephen Deakin has told El Reg.…

Godwin's Law makes an appearance during handset launch Under the moniker of “Superphones”, streaming TV company LeTV has launched a trio of high-end mobes with all the subtlety of a hippo with toothache.…

Scale-out big box is a 1,000-node wannabe Isilon-beater Qumulo – the start-up building a better-than-Isilon scale-out NAS and staffed by Isilon vets – has launched a capacity-focused hardware product to complement its fast skinny one.…

Mix of Android, iOS and booze turns nasty in Oklahoma Tulsa, Oklahoma, TV station KTUL is reporting that two men were left with “cuts all over their bodies … covered with blood” after an argument over the merits of Android and iOS “escalated”.…

2,000 open source projects later, Redmond reckons it's ready to imbibe open goodness In what would once have been thought of as an Ominous Sign, Microsoft has decided it's time for the MS Open Technologies “startup subsidiary” to be absorbed back into Redmond proper.…