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by Richard Chirgwin on (#6Y20)
Taking Putin's piss could result in a take-down order A court case over an insulted singer has led the Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor to issue a big “nyet†on a bunch of nearly-ubiquitous social media habits.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6Y14)
Not hyperconverged, not leading edge and not very exciting for most customers Oracle may make a heap of noise about its engineered stacks-in-a-box, but appears to have decided there's still some cash to be wrung out of the standalone x86 server market … when they're designed to suit the needs of a particular industry.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#6XYR)
Perytons are from Earth, Fast Radio Bursts are from way beyond Venus Boffins' lunches have been fingered as the source of a long-standing mystery: the peryton, which clouded discussions of the origin of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs).…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6XY2)
Torvalds looses neatened number feat. non-disruptive patches, Z13 support and more Linux 4.0 is upon us.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#6XX0)
SOHOpeless: all you need is the MAC and the serial number A researcher who last year turned up weak WPS PIN protection in D-Link broadband modems has found the same problem exists on Belkin devices.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#6XG8)
'Like trying to push your way through a crowded room' Physicists have claimed that soil and sand toughen up when struck with hefty force from meteors and missiles hitting the ground at high speed.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#6X93)
Turn us away, and we will burn you first The first four episodes of the latest series of Game of Thrones has been leaked online – with fans reportedly downloading 550,000 illegal copies of the saucy, bloody fantasy drama in just 12 hours.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#6X6B)
Ever get the feeling you've been here before? Updated UK mobile carrier EE has been struck by yet another "PDP authentication failure" on its network.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#6X45)
Choc Factory is testing solid-state and lithium-ion tech, apparently Google has reportedly been attempting to develop batteries that last longer.…
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by Team Register on (#6X1Y)
Plus: Chef sez 'as soon as you see an asshole, you’ve got to kick them out' QuoTW This week, ICANN passed the buck on .sucks, NASA warned of imminent contact with aliens and Microsoft turned everyone's old PCs into Windows 10 adverts.…
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by Alun Taylor on (#6WZR)
A cracking little wagon and a declaration of intent Vulture at the Wheel I didn’t have high hopes for the Kia Soul EV. I assumed that it was a bit of a lash up; a regular Soul with the engine and gearbox ripped out and a battery pack and electric motor rudely bolted onto it. Wrong.…
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by Tim Worstall on (#6WXN)
That's the Waltons of Walmart, not John-Boy and family Worstall @ the Weekend One of the great statistics being bandied about in the great inequality debate is that the Walton family have more wealth between the four siblings than the bottom 40 per cent of Americans do in total. Apparently this is something most shocking – and, of course, something must be done.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6WW5)
Forgetfulness, cold weather, and security doors don’t mix On-call Welcome again to On-call, our almost-regular look at readers' escapades on client sites at odd times of day or night.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#6VVD)
Well, it's mostly lentils, but there's some crockery mixed in In-the-dark astrophysicists now believe that there's probably less dark energy knocking about than had been previously theorised – which may suggest that the universe is expanding at a slower rate.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#6VQ9)
Time to Gnip third party raw-slurping in the bud Twitter has aggressively taken control of its firehose and severed third party reseller access to it as the microblabbing site moves to grow its analytics biz following the buyout of Gnip last year.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#6VJH)
Mosasaurs DIDN'T give birth near shore, bone boffins claim Scientists now believe that gigantic, flipper-bearing mosasaurs – which lived during the Late Cretaceous period – gave birth to their young in the open ocean.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#6VDQ)
Bunfight over EFF's call for a DMCA exemption Google-sponsored "digital rights" group the Electronic Frontier Foundation has urged the US Copyright Office to allow players to be exempt from DMCA takedowns when they modify and then upload abandoned games online.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#6VA3)
With the led lights out, it's less dangerous Vid Dead Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain must surely be turning in his grave at the latest cover of the band's huge hit song Smells Like Teen Spirit, which the Seattle grunge god had famously loathed.…
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by Phil Strongman on (#6V45)
The enduring comic brilliance of the iconic underdog Feature It’s 100 years to the day since Charlie Chaplin’s film The Tramp was released – the movie that, more than any other, projected silent comedy to new artistic and commercial heights.…
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by Mark Diston on (#6V28)
Royalty and Nazis, invigorating ideas and more Page File El Reg bookworm Mark Diston looks at literature's latest with biographer Andrew Morton's take on our estranged royals' relationship with Adolf and his pals. University lecturer Rod Judkins compiles a book brimming with ideas to boost creativity and Kevin Maher's second novel has an Anglo-Irish, pre-millennium theme combined with some very colourful relationships.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#6V01)
There are many cubicles – this one's mine Something for the Weekend, Sir? “For heaven’s sake, they’ve moved everything.†Sharp observation. Of course they moved everything, it’s an office move. If they hadn’t moved everything, some of your kit wouldn’t be there at all. It would still be 10 metres away where you used to sit.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#6TN4)
Appeal judges rip 'unpatentable' wads out of blueprints for distributing episodes US patent judges have invalidated chunks of a podcasting patent used by troll non-practicing entity Personal Audio LLC to extract money from top podcasters and broadcasters.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#6TKS)
Finnish telecoms giant may put mapping biz on auction block Nokia may not be done selling itself off in pieces, with sources claiming the Finnish firm may be looking to unload its HERE Maps division.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#6TGW)
Rocket boffins have a three-second launch window Vid SpaceX is preparing to send a load of supplies up to the International Space Station – a resupply mission due to launch on Monday at 1633 EDT (2033 UTC, 1333 PDT).…
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by Neil McAllister on (#6TCG)
If you don't mind a few bugs here and there, that is ... Microsoft has issued another build of the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones, around two months since the last build was released.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#6TAD)
You've got censorship – you've all got censorship now China has upgraded the website-blocking systems on its borders, dubbed The Great Firewall, so it can blast foreign businesses and orgs off the internet.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#6T6G)
Whispers of wireless chip biz bid could be pressure tactics Insider sources say Intel won't be buying Altera after all, but the reported collapse of talks between the two companies has already spurred talk that Chipzilla may turn its attention to acquiring someone else – with Broadcom topping the list of candidates.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#6T41)
Xeon, Xeon Phi processors slapped on trade block list The US government has blocked Intel from shipping high-end Xeon processors to China's supercomputer builders – and other American chip giants are banned, too.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#6T3B)
I gouged the law and the law won Sprint has agreed to pay a $15.5m fine after it was accused of overcharging the Feds when carrying out court-ordered wiretaps.…
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That must suck for anyone looking to launch a takeover Blighty billionaire inventor, philanthropist, and land owner Sir James Dyson has snapped his son's energy efficient lights company, Jake Dyson Products, placing Dyson Junior in pole position to take over the family biz.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#6SWP)
Cost-cutting hits GroupWise, Open Enterprise Server and Filr Novell seems to be bearing the brunt of the mammoth restructuring that parent company Micro Focus is currently executing, say our sources close to the situation.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#6STP)
New specs to fatten the purse of the BlackPearl Spectra Logic now has a deeper Deep Storage Gateway for its BlackPearl object-storing archival tape library set-up.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#6SSP)
Canada. CANADA. THE BIG ONE OVER - oh, never mind The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has cut its response time to a measly ten months in approving Amazon's most recent drone flight request.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#6SQP)
Battle with Feds continues as MS refuses to hand over emails stored in Ireland Microsoft's top legal eagle is standing firmly against the US government's attempts to force it to hand over users' data stored outside the US.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#6SMQ)
Imagine a 'Like' button being clicked on your face, forever Facebook has responded to Belgian researchers' claims that the company violates European data law in an exhaustingly pedantic press release.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#6SJR)
Rumblings indicate possible mega-fine on the cards In the midst of the ongoing antitrust negotiations with Google, Europe’s competition chief doesn’t give a fig where the search engine is from — it must simply obey EU laws or else.…
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by John Nicholson on (#6SHX)
Machine hoarders burn cash – it's time to virtualise your legacy IT Legacy IT is toxic. Virtualisation is the default choice for new data centre deployments, but for existing and legacy workloads, justifying hardware refreshes is often difficult. Shedding light on the often poorly-accounted-for costs hiding in your data centre can provide sufficient rationale to move your infrastructure forward.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#6SEM)
Rising income means it looks like a corner has been turned Quantum has announced excellent preliminary results for its fourth fiscal 2015 quarter, confounding expectations of a fourth-quarter revenue drop with a rise. Is its time in the tape trough of despond over? It looks like it could be.…
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by John Leyden on (#6SCR)
#DownWithSSHPsychos Cisco and service provider Level 3 have teamed up take down netblocks linked to brute-force hack kingpins SSHPsychos, severely degrading (but not destroying) the group's potential to hack servers in the process.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#6SBD)
Redmond reveals the value of listening to phablet feedback Microsoft’s latest mass market Lumia goes on sale today, Friday, for under £100, and its big brother — the 640XL — appears at the end of the month.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#6SAJ)
Just give the word if you think gTLD sucks, watchdogs told DNS overlord ICANN – which opened the floodgates to waves of new dot-word domains on the internet – says it needs help in killing one of those dot-words: .sucks.…
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by Enrico Signoretti on (#6S9S)
Smarter, savvier boxes will change the way we look at infrastructure Comment In the last few months I have had several interesting briefings with storage vendors. Now, I need to stop and try to connect the dots, and think about what could come next.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#6S8F)
Raked in £227m. Are you scared yet, Apple? Cult phone maker Xiaomi has demonstrated just how dedicated its fans are, with an Asian flash sale seeing it shift over two million devices ... and 39,000 tellies.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#6S7Q)
We've got lots of market share and revenues to plug the IBM-shaped hole Chinese PC ruler Lenovo has arrived at the cloud and managed services provider party relatively late, with a sales programme tucked under its arm and an expanded x86 server portfolio brochure in hand.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#6S73)
Beebone deboned by the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce A sophisticated botnet has been neutered by a consortium starring the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit and the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce.…
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Architect of India's biggest fraud scandal finally locked up - along with his PwC auditors The former chairman of Indian outsourcing firm Satyam Computer Services has been jailed for seven years for his part in a $1.4bn (£953m) accountancy fraud scandal.…
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by Orestis Bastounis on (#6S2P)
Ideal for a second display or something for the Steam box Product roundup Computer displays have never been better value for money, from the all-singing, all-dancing models with every bell and whistle you can think of, to the less extravagant monitors.…
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Wizard! You shall not pass … on the inside lane Former Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe is reported to be in line to play the co-founder of Rockstar Games, publisher of the violence-fest Grand Theft Auto game series.…
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by John Leyden on (#6S06)
Ransomware coding fail foils fraudsters A newly released crypto-ransomware strain has been broken, thus allowing victims — in over two out of three cases — to get back their data without paying.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#6RXY)
'Phantom' hack sends your iThings into a tailspin of torpor A vulnerability fixed in this week's Apple patch run can easily brick iPhones, researchers say.…
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