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by Simon Sharwood on (#7DAG)
US$16.5 billion spent on public cloud alone in 2014 says IDC Three in ten servers, storage arrays and ethernet switches are now being sold to clouds, either private or public, says abacus-wielder IDC.…
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by Lester Haines on (#7D99)
Florida police try and stop lightning flinger with … electricity. D’oh! A 41-year-old Florida man is facing a pantheon of charges after allegedly getting hammered on bath salts, declaring himself to be Norse storm god Thor, attempting to commit "a sexual act on a tree", shrugging off two taserings, and assaulting a police officer.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#7D7G)
Virtzilla management plug-in uses ancient Netscape plugin format that Google's binned One of the most-derided features of vSphere was its web client. We say “wasâ€, because VMware made a point of improving it in vSphere 6.0.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#7D6H)
'Geppetto' gives verifiable computation a boost Microsoft cloud wonks have developed a tool for developers capable of practical generation of proofs that an outsourced job has been crunched securely.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7D59)
Embiggens RagingWire and plans new build in Mumbai NTT is continuing to expand its global cloud footprint, last week announcing plans for major new data centres in America and India.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#7D3Z)
Major vendors block hackers from testing insecure IoT kit "Real world hacker" Cesar Cerrudo has blasted vendors, saying they're stopping security researchers from testing smart city systems, and as a result they're being sold with dangerous unchecked vulnerabilities.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7D21)
Analogue's reign dear, digital fjorges ahead Norway is claiming a world first: having successfully implemented digital radio, the country has announced the dates for a progressive FM radio shutdown.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#7D1M)
Cloud strategy coming real soon now says telco Australia's second-largest telco, Optus, has hopped aboard Microsoft's cloudwagon by flicking the switch on its own Azure service.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#7D0Y)
Bushies to get 25-50Mbps if their retailers want it NBN Co, the entity charged with building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN) has announced a trial of 25-50Mbps downloads and 5-20Mbps uploads on its fixed wireless network.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7CZQ)
Serve HTTPS without remaking your HTTP content Rejoice, sys admins with big non-encrypted image databases: Google feels your pain and says the next version of Chromium, 43, will provide some relief.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#7CXZ)
Bad validation leads to total pwnage, hacker shows Penetration tester Marcus Murray says attackers can use malicious JPEGs to pop modern Windows servers, to gain expanded privileges over networks.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#7CW4)
ƨbɿɒwʞɔɒᙠwriting jape backfires, opens way to click-jacking attacks and more On April 1st Google had a bit of fun by using the com.google domain to display all content backwards, but the folks at Netcraft think that jape backfired by introducing security vulnerabilities to the search engine.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7CT7)
Missile-maker expands its infosec footprint The biz-wires are abuzz with rumours that enterprise net-filter outfit Websense will be slurped by Raytheon for a cool $US1.9 billion.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#7CS4)
Swiss Post delivery-by drone test will put incoming bills in the air Swiss Post, the neutral nation's postal service, has confirmed it is testing delivery-by-drone.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#7CK6)
Phishy players face feature restrictions Video-gaming kingpin Valve has promised to do a better job of protecting its subscribers from dollops of spam, by applying a $5 limit on user accounts before unlocking a number of key features.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#7C8D)
*Users. We mean users. Obvs The CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp claimed on Friday that the mobile messaging service was now accessed by 800 million chumps worldwide each month.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#7C5H)
'Yup, we've gotta stabalise tall and tippy Falcon' Billionaire biz baron Elon Musk has revealed a few more details about why SpaceX's latest attempt to land a rocket in one piece at sea had failed.…
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Directly be directed in the right direction Theatre Review As I head down to the revived Vaults below London's Waterloo, I figure that the Jabberwocky must be up to some mischief as the performance starts an hour and a half late due to a power outage.…
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by Team Register on (#7BY3)
Plus: Whitman wants 'symbolic connection' from some mashed up letters QuoTW This week, we blew up our smarthomes, warded off a nasty Microsoft bug and talked tough about Google. Here are the choice quotes:…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#7BVN)
From Cambridge to the other Newark, via the valley of bureaucratic hell The eXpat files Welcome again to the eXpat files, our now-occasional visit with readers who've moved to a new land in search of adventure, sunshine and, in the case of this week's chap, bewildering and labyrinthine tax and credit regulations.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#7BS3)
Baby Alfa fails to live up to illustrious forebears' example Vulture at the wheel Harsh, uncompromising and not as much fun as it should be, this Alfa Romeo MiTo needs a special kind of driver: one for whom the Alfa brand is special but who can’t stretch to a 4C.…
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by Tim Worstall on (#7BPV)
And how come the nerds get so much damn money? Worstall @ the Weekend It was Ben Bernanke who pointed out that economics isn't really all that much good at predicting the next recession (and the long-standing joke is that economists have predicted 11 out of the past three), but it is pretty good at working out why the world is the way it is.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#7AWN)
Dawn spacecraft transmits best high-res images yet, enthuse boffins In the build up to NASA's first science orbit of dwarf planet Ceres later this month, the agency's spacecraft Dawn has been capturing stunning images of the extraterrestrial body.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#7AQW)
OTT behaviour to claw back U.S. market share? Surely not! U.S. cable giant Verizon vowed last year that it would offer channels à la carte to its customers simply because the demand was there. From tomorrow (19 April), the telco's fibre network subscribers will be able to pick and choose the pay-TV they want.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#7AK0)
No, you can't pet that dawg in the window Amazon customers can no longer preview apps via the online retail giant's TestDrive service before making a purchase, after the firm quietly killed the function on Wednesday.…
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by Lester Haines on (#7AG9)
The real Spanish omelette – accept no wobbly dining substitute As regular readers know, the Special Projects Bureau's headquarters is a mountaintop redoubt in a sleepy corner of rural Spain, so it was inevitable that we'd eventually turn our wobbly dining attention to the legendary "tortilla de patatas" (potato omelette).…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#7ABE)
And replacing him with former PM's grandson Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton mulled pulling strings to get UK culture minister Ed Vaizey fired to replace him with the grandson of former prime minister Harold MacMillan.…
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by Nigel Whitfield on (#7A89)
Tech for digitising treasured tunes – how easy is it to get into the groove? Feature Today, Saturday 18 April, is Record Store Day. Partly a celebration of vinyl, and partly a keen marketing drive to remind people that there are still places to buy music that don't involve massive offshore companies. No doubt there will be busy queues outside venues like Rough Trade East in London, and, alas, speculators buying every special Record Store Day release they can, to flog on eBay a few hours later.…
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by Simon Travaglia on (#7A60)
You opened Pandora's Box, you shut it again Episode 5 The PFY has crossed the line. Even though he knows better, he's attempted to explain something technical to management.…
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by Mark Diston on (#7A3N)
Plus: Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals Page File El Reg bookworm Mark Diston chews through the latest literary treats with a fascinating autobiography from composer Philip Glass. Jesse Armstrong of Peep Show fame has a debut novel and for comic novel fans we've a curious take on the development of the first computer from Sydney Padua.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#7A1D)
Oh come on! It's ripe for renaming Something for the Weekend, Sir? “Augmented Reality is a terrible expression,†says the AR demonstrator. “It’s a pity it doesn’t have a better name. So we call it XXooming. With two Xs.â€â€¦
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#79MA)
CenturyLink joins queue suing US busybody to kill new rules CenturyLink has become the seventh organization to sue the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to dismantle its radical new net neutrality rules.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#79KA)
Morale hits new low for troubled kitchen-table factory pioneer, Reg source claims 3D printing pioneers Makerbot has culled roughly 80 employees at its Brooklyn headquarters, abolished three divisions, and closed three of its shops.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#79HJ)
Notice anything peppier about your Google searches lately? Google says its homegrown QUIC networking protocol can speed up web browsing – enough so that it's planning to propose it to the IETF standards body to make it part of the next-generation internet.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#79H3)
150MHz may be opened up in 3.5GHz space, telcos can pay to play or just be friends US watchdog the FCC hopes to offer more airwaves to telcos in hope they'll be used to grow mobile broadband coverage in America.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#79E9)
Watch war gun fling itty-bitty flying spying future-droids Vid Drones are going to play a big part in future conflicts, and the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) knows it.…
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by Lester Haines on (#79A8)
Manages four days on subsistence diet before hitting the chicken A not particularly shamefaced Gwyneth Paltrow has admitted she failed to survive for seven days on $29 (20 quid) for food as part of the #FoodBankNYCChallenge, which invites participants "to walk in the shoes of 1.7 million New Yorkers who rely on SNAP (formerly Food Stamps)."…
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by Iain Thomson on (#7998)
What a time to be alive +Vid SpaceX has completed its sixth supply run to the International Space Station: the Dragon capsule, loaded up with cargo and launched on Tuesday, has finally arrived at the orbiting science lab.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#7989)
Big shock: iTunes giant not letting antitrust court monitor into meetings, files, etc A US court-appointed watchdog tasked with ensuring Apple sticks to its e-book price-fixing settlement promises says the iThing giant is not playing ball.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#795W)
When a government wants you gone… Mega.co.nz kingpin Kim Dotcom may soon be booted out of New Zealand – because of a speeding ticket.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#7954)
Er, it's likely to come back soon though EU tech firms are heaving several huge sighs of relief, as China lifts a ban on foreign tech in banking, although it may only be a stay of execution.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#793F)
The 'ultimate solution to get work done on your device', apparently Google has finally published its BYOD app, Android for Work, adding to the already schizophrenic work-life balance environment for the devices.…
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by John Leyden on (#792D)
Quoted The Count of Monte Cristo at trial, despite it being about an innocent man A Colombian hacker has been jailed for 10 years for spying on the local government’s peace talks with Marxist rebels, among other offences, Fox News Latino reports.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#790N)
Income from loopy, star-owned vanity project better than no income at all Interview Jay-Z’s much-mocked Tidal deserves a chance, says veteran British indie boss Martin Goldschmidt. Goldschmidt says the music industry should worry more about free and freemium services and offerings than piracy, and reminded us that digital sales are highly profitable – if you can make one.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#78YV)
Debt Management Office vexed by digital dosh carnage A Debt Management Office auction of short-term Treasury bills, forming part of a bid to raise £3bn, has been postponed, after Bloomberg trading terminals went TITSUP on Friday morning.…
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by Alexander Martin and Lewis Page on (#78WG)
Aviators plan to keep carrier drones on the sidelines A US Navy X-47B unmanned aircraft demonstrator has successfully carried out air-to-air refuelling from a tanker, the last of the feats the X-47B project was intended to accomplish. The two robot jets will now be retired, either to museums or the Pentagon's famous desert aircraft boneyard in Arizona.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#78T5)
More features, less usability. Fair trade? Hands On Last week Microsoft released Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones, build 10051, as part of its Windows Insider preview series.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#78QV)
Gareth Hansford flies into storage world Veritas has inserted industry veteran Gareth Hansford into the top boss slot for EMEA channels, as the organisation continues to disentangle itself from Symantec.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#78PT)
Also out is ReSharper C++ for Visual C++ folk Developer tools company JetBrains has released CLion, a new cross-platform IDE for C and C++.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#78NR)
Encryption in the cloud to become a licence-free service EMC has bought CloudLink – a 20-person Canadian firm specialising in cloud data security software – for an undisclosed price.…
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