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Venerated code is also available for Android The Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide has claimed a world first by blessing an app and the iPad it runs on.…

Okay, Google, so we're too lazy to tap passwords? Google is deploying what it calls Trusted Voice to allow Android users to unlock phones using their voice, according to reports.…

'Transient' perchlorate brine discovered Hard on the heels of news from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that Mars could have extensive sub-surface glaciers, Curiosity Rover has gone a step better and found evidence of “transient” liquid water.…

“Free Facebook traffic” considered OTT Mobile carrier app deals like “Free Facebook with your plan” have controversially entered India's nascent Internet neutrality debate, courtesy of that country's regulator and its IT minister.…

Fifty shades lines of code Don't write code when you can re-use code is a well-known principle in writing software, but using it to replace thousands of lines of code with 50 seems positively parsimonious.…

Doing diagnostics with science instead of snake-oil America's FTC might be chasing after snake-oilers offering “detect cancer” smartphone apps, but that doesn't mean your mobe can't play a genuine diagnostic role.…

Phishing and web app security problems behind most breaches Phishing and web app security problems remain the most common way for hackers to gain access to sensitive information, according to US telco giant Verizon.…

Four others arrested for malware / ransomware attacks Russia's Ministry of the Interior has gone public about the March 24 arrest of a 25-year-old and four others it believes was the leader of a gang of cyber-scum behind the “Svpeng” money-draining malware.…

Hypervisor or none? Which OS? And DNS or cloud for content filters? Things have slowed down a bit in our efforts to build a super network-groomer for the remote Australian community of Willowra, because there's been a changing of the guard at the Wirliyajarrayi Learning Centre.…

Dumb hackers can target WiFi scabs on Nexus slabs Security boffin Brian Wallace has revived an 18 year-old Windows bug affecting at least 31 top vendors to, allowing an attackersteal usernames and passwords from millions of Microsoft boxes.…

Immaturity or radical transparency: you be the judge No-one says running a globe-spanning cloud is easy, but Google's just borked its own cloud for the fourth and fifth time in a few weeks.…

The cool kids are already running the beta Apple has released beta builds of the iOS 8.4 – the latest version available for registered developers.…

Chromium clone enters beta, plus tools to set up sites Pics BitTorrent has released its Maelstrom combo-browser to all as a beta release.…

Someone's been busy in the Chocolate Factory Google has expanded its portfolio of network services, with the aim of ensuring that customers of its cloud infrastructure have responsive, low-latency websites.…

Teaching the treasurer to count to 'one' Where does Joe Hockey, Australia's treasurer, get his data from?…

Stop the clock, no seriously, stop the clock, boffins yell NASA has scrubbed today's launch of a SpaceX Falcon rocket – loaded up with supplies for the International Space Station – after an approaching storm started spitting lightning. The craft was due to liftoff about an hour ago from Cape Canaveral in Florida.…

Don't run bad stuff from the internet, people Blundering cops in Maine, US, have enriched malware masterminds by paying up to decrypt files held hostage by ransomware.…

FTC settles out of court with melanoma-spotting software The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached a final settlement with an app developer accused of misleading people into believing its software could detect skin cancer.…

Today's allegations: Capricious, arbitrary etc etc A US telco lobby group, led by AT&T and Verizon, has refiled its lawsuit against the FCC's net neutrality rules.…

Trips to the bogs spark suspicions during contest A chess grandmaster has been thrown out of an international tournament after he allegedly used an Apple iPod hidden in a toilet cubicle to cheat.…

Password-stealing, malware-spreading Simda nasty found on 770,000 PCs Microsoft and Interpol have teamed up to derail a malware infection that compromised more than 770,000 Windows PCs worldwide.…

Thoughts of exposed customers give Bill Murray sleepness nights State-sponsored cyber armies, lone-wolf attackers, denial-of-service attacks ... which keep Amazon’s Web Services security boffins awake at night?…

Three quarters of a million, random read. Speedy? You bet How does damn near three quarters of a million random read IOPS grab you? HGST is at last shipping its NVMe Ultrastar SN100 PCI flash card, first announced seven months ago.…

High-speed mobes hampered by lo-speed industry Comment More than two decades after the first digital roamed voice calls, 4G has caught up with what GSM was invented for.…

First major party releases list of pre-election promises Election 2015 Labour was the first major party to kick off the round of pre-election pledges this week, releasing its 2015 General Election manifesto. Amid the usual list of vague-sounding promises were a number of familiar platitudes about plans to "build on our strengths as a leader in digital technology".…

Primary task of ISS resupply almost dull in comparison SpaceX will be launching a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station this evening. It will be the seventeeth Falcon 9 launch - and SpaceX are attempting to land the first stage in a controlled vertical descent to a floating platform once again.…

Drag-and-drop QoS simplicity makes latency management a doddle A Tintri OS update has added drag-and-drop storage IOPS maxima and minima per virtual machine (VM) and latency source identification, for visually confirmed granular quality of service. Extra snapshotting and management features have also been added to the mix.…

Accomplices cuffed in fascist mobile zombie menace swoop Alleged members of a gang of "cyber-fascist" Android malware-slingers have been arrested in Russia.…

PE sale instead of float on the cards Symantec is being pressed to sell its Veritas storage unit to private equity instead of floating it as an independent publicly-owned business, according to reports over the weekend.…

Sweating the small stuff, again and again Doing my own 'ting When I wrote my last startup-diary instalment I was still at my desk in the City a few days each week. In the months since then I and my co-conspirator in OpenTRV have both handed back the keys of the courtesy helicopters and Ferraris that all IT folks get there (uh huh…) and gone full-time on our planet-saving mission - halving UK home space-heating costs and footprint by up to £300 per year.…

Chipzilla should hive off profitable patent biz, says chippy stakeholder Activist investors in chip giant Qualcomm are reportedly calling for a break-up of the semiconductor biz in order to boost its stock price.…

Bitdefender has a special offer for Reg Readers worldwide Promo If you’re one of the 33 per cent of folks who don’t use antivirus protection, we’ve got an offer for you. In fact, even if you’re one of the other two thirds, you’re still going to want to sit up and pay attention.…

Apple Watch production bought up for MONTHS ahead An estimated million consumers have flashed the plastic to pre-order an Apple Watch, leaving the fruity firm without stock to meet additional demand for months.…

Nefarious, gov-sponsored, secret-grabbing life begins APT 30 Security researchers have exposed a decade-long cyber-spying campaign that targeted south-east Asia and India since 2004.…

We've been talking about this for years, honest, says Cambridge candidate The Liberal Democrats have announced a new Digital Rights Bill which they want to introduce if they form part of a new coalition government after the general election.…

No time? No budget? No problem – get yourself skilled up There comes a point in most people’s career when they get a bit bored of the day job and start looking to move. but one factor that can prevent upward mobility is a tired CV.…

In and out of the shadows To help readers help each other, we have put together a short, sharp temperature check survey on the topic of cloud security. We're asking a bit about you and your organisation for context and then 5 simple questions that we think nail the key issues and possible solutions. We finish off by getting you to tell us the scariest or most bizarre business use of cloud services you have come across.…

Say hola! to hopeless holey homepage hell Website crypto problems on the Spanish online voting registration website are causing it to generate all manner of security warnings.…

Does it all and does it respectably, unless you want a fat camera Review Back in December 2013, I hailed the first generation Motorola Moto G as the best affordable smartphone on the market. If you want a reasonably compact 4.5-inch device, then, arguably, it still is the best, thanks to a midlife facelift that added a microSD slot and 4G reception.…

Activist investor and board set to throw brown smelly stuff at each other Proxy FUD poo is being thrown around at Imation. Activist investor The Clinton Group has its hooks into Imation and the Imation board is pleading with shareholders to reject Clinton's candidates at the May 20 AGM.…

When it comes to sniffing stolen creds on Tor, they gaufre it in Belgium but the UK lags The US is home to the largest number of data perverts, according to research.…

More an event than a means of power transport The UK's National Grid has planted the first of its new "T-pylons" — an elegant alternative to the traditional steel lattice monsters currently straddling Blighty's green and pleasant land.…

Reinforce that safe, make fire doors one-way, and don't give your courier the keys The world's payment card producers have released the latest guidelines to help interested businesses to protect payment data.…

The real scandal? Who in their right mind used an IDE drive in 2009? Hillary Clinton's announcement that she will run for the presidency of the united states has seen Republican candidate Rand Paul offer her hard drive for sale.…

Spooks in still-don't-like-encryption shock “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning for an iPhone, and we'll give you an encryption master key” seems to be the dream of the National Security Agency (NSA).…

Mountain View offers a fair square of 4G chocolate to the standard The LTE rollout has moved a little closer to avoiding sueball spats that have long plagued the tech biz, with Google tipping a bucket of its IP into Via Licensing.…

Philippine cops arrest man using Microsoft mogul's fake cards at local ATM A Bulgarian carder has been arrested withdrawing money from stolen cards four years after he was accused of plundering the bank account of Microsoft mogul Bill Gates.…

Promises to pipe workloads from anywhere into anything If you've heard the “opex, not capex, software updates done centrally so your people can innovate, not administer, and elastic provisioning instead of licensing-for-peak-load” cloud mantra (and who hasn't), this will be a quick read because Citrix has taken that list of cloudy goodness and signalled that it will soon apply it to its app delivery and desktop as a service tools XenApp and XenDesktop.…

Pair plan salad days for leafy vegetable growers A nearly two-year-old Fujitsu project to apply sensors and cloud computing to growing low-potassium vegetables has attracted the attention of Microsoft.…