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Translation: More bad news for Qualcomm Samsung will join Apple and other mobile semiconductor rivals in producing chips powered by homegrown, proprietary application cores in 2016, according to a new report.…

Australia crowned global head-in-sand champion A depressing 76 percent of the top 2000 global organisations have public facing systems still exposed to Heartbleed, researchers say.…

Hosting house agrees to play nice after complaints over 'money back' guarantee The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached a settlement deal with web hosting provider Network Solutions over the latter's handling of customer refunds.…

And breathe The brontosaurus, loved by many but cruelly snubbed by paleontologists for more than a century, is back: British and Portuguese fossil boffins have concluded the dinosaur did exist as a separate genus after all.…

Jason Bourne wouldn't stand for this. Codename leaks for two OS updates on heels of Win10 Windows 10 isn't even fully baked yet, but reports have it that Microsoft is already planning its next OS release, which will arrive after Windows 10 ships later this year.…

YouTube for Kids fingered as 'deceptive' in letter to watchdog Think-of-the-children types are urging US watchdog the FTC to investigate Google's YouTube Kids app – claiming it insidiously influences the minds of precious little snowflakes with advertising.…

Big round of redundancies feared as sales sink NetApp is preparing to layoff employees in the wake of money troubles, The Register has learned. The numbers could run into the thousands.…

Watch out for drive-by browser bombs – for now, at least Behind the bug A bug in the most recent version of the Chrome allows miscreants to crash browser tabs simply by embedding a link with a malformed URL in the HTML of a page.…

'Two-faced' Janus Spectrum charged with ripping off people Americans were duped into buying duff radio frequencies for $12.4m that they had hoped to sell to cellphone networks for double-digit returns, a US financial watchdog has claimed.…

Small changes to fine print could lead to another fine mess IBM software customers should be on their guard following changes to the fine print of the giant’s Passport Advantage program.…

OpenFlow? Check. Vyatta? Check. Buzzwords? Oh yes Brocade has announced a new bunch of campus switches, and with them support for new software defined network (SDN) features and a nifty ability to mix different switches in the stack as if they were all the same kind.…

Activist investor Elliot Management hums the tune, execs dance along Data management software player Informatica is now in the hands of private equity overlords, after an eye-watering $5.3bn buy-out was signed and sealed.…

Mobe makers trounce profit estimates but remain shadow of former selves Cost cutting and better than expected mobe shipments helped Samsung Electronics and HTC trash analysts' profit forecasts, according to unaudited Q1 data.…

Roomba makers' robo-lawnmowers will ruin science, Stargazers tell FCC Updated Radio astronomers have moved to block the roll-out of an army of robotic lawnmowers in a submission to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The boffins claim that iRobot's deployment of the machines will interfere with their federally-funded radio astronomy.…

Rex Mundi blackmailers: Meh, cough up or we'll spaff the lot Hacker collective Rex Mundi’s Twitter account has yet again been suspended after its latest extortion attempts.…

Pet dragon Fluid File System grows teeth for RAM-enhanced version 4 Dell's scale-out NAS Fluid File System filer head software has had a major upgrade for v4.0, with more controller RAM and support for larger files in a bigger namespace.…

The Gallic rooster keeps on strutting Dailymotion, France's YouTube-botherer-in-chief, looks set to be bought by Vivendi after a Gallic government intervention.…

Stop right there. This thing ain’t ready Mozilla has pulled Firefox 37's opportunistic encryption feature after less than a week when it learned that tech designed to enhance security actually broke SSL certificate validation.…

Refusal to remove hostage pics leads to yet another cut-off Twitter and Google's YouTube faced another showdown with the Turkish government on Monday after court officials in the country temporarily blocked access to the micro-blabbing and video-sharing sites.…

No, it’s a completely different type of power expansion Privacy advocates have criticised French plans to expand digital surveillance as badly thought out and rushed.…

Oh yeah, and Amazon's cloud looks good too Proprietary backup software Backup Exec is now in its mid-teens, with v15 eying up VMware and its distinct six appeal, as well as cosying up to Amazon. The hybrid cloud rules, OK!…

The tech may be willing but the mobile signal is too weak Whatever Apple and Google might be doing with smart cars, the UK government wants Britain to be involved in the industry and so announced its support for the emerging industry at a conference last week.…

How to sleep easy Disaster recovery is complicated and usually expensive. It comes in many forms, and many companies mandate a minimum of off-site backups for various reasons, from regulatory compliance to risk aversion.…

User: 'It looks atrocious' Twitter has begun rolling out a new function on the micro-blabbing site which lets users add comments to retweeted messages without hitting the 140-character limit.…

A Reg guide to breaking up and moving on Windows XP is officially gone but its server companions Windows Server 2003 and Server 2003 R2 live – just not for much longer. Mainstream support for the server duo ended on 13 July 2010 but the expiration of extended support is now just three months away: 14 July 2015.…

Barking watchdog? More like a neighbour's yapping poodle Private electronic communications at work should not be monitored under any circumstances says the Council of Europe (not-an-EU-institution™).…

Response to Heartbleed, Shellshock, Poodle really kicks in A revamp in payment card industry regulations due out later this month will penalise e-commerce enterprises that rely on outdated crypto protocols.…

First 128 bytes are scrambled. But after the credits, your sex tape is open to all A programmer has levelled stern criticism at the designers of a super popular encryption app they say fails its core purpose: encryption.…

Bendy, short on volts, long on potential, doesn't explode Vid Researchers at Stanford University have published details of a new kind of aluminum battery that's flexible, cheap, and which has the potential to replace lithium-ion and alkaline batteries.…

When there's no signal in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call? Er, anyone you like EE today said it will be the first UK mobile network to roll out full-blooded next-generation Wi-Fi calling.…

Australian ISP loses case but judge prohibits 'speculative invoices' A few thousand Australians will get a cease-and-desist of some kind from the owners of the film Dallas Buyers Club after local internet service provider (ISP) iiNet and its co-defendants lost a Federal Court case.…

Alpha 'Digital Service Standard' emerges along with website and the social trimmings Earlier today, your correspondent bemoaned the fact that Australia's nascent Digital Transformation Office (DTO) was announced ten weeks ago but appears to have done little in that time other than advertise for a leader.…

Yo ho ho and we'd better stay schtum Crewmates of a replica Canadian pirate ship were rescued last week by US coast guards after the vessel’s engine shut off.…

You don't understand me, says Virtizilla. Nutanix says the world understands lock-in just fine Nutanix and VMware are fighting an ugly online battle about over how to do hyperconvergence right.…

Chipzilla sticks it to Chromebit with Atom-powered Compute Stick Intel has loosed its Chromebit-killer, the Compute Stick, on the market with pre-orders open at NewEgg, Amazon and other outlets.…

Bankers appointed, about US$3bn sought for flashy storage upstart Pure Storage has appointed Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Barclays Plc to ready it for an initial public offering (IPO), says Reuters.…

The Chairman Mao of virtualisation Another piece of ETSI's network function virtualisation (NFV) plans have emerged as code, with Telefonica putting its OpenMANO project up on Github.…

Upgrade now or forget about disruptive mobile cloud innovation, says Redmond Microsoft's sounded the 100-day warning bell for Windows Server 2003, which exits supported status on July 14th.…

Kicked-off-Kickstarter kit has unencrypted WiFi, hard-coded admin password A developer at the Cloak Project is about to re-ignite the Anonabox controversy with an analysis of the device that finds it still runs unencrypted WiFi and has a poorly-secured network-reachable admin interface.…

VP9 successor cuts data in half, turns dog's breakfast into clean stream Users have watched 25 billion hours of YouTube videos encoded with Google's VP9 codec, which the company says brings the net closer to instant high-quality bufferless video.…

First major update to Oracle's desktop hypervisor since 2010 adds paravirtualisation Snoracle has decided the time is right to upgrade its VirtualBox desktop hypervisor.…

Hutchison Whampoa touted as possible wholesale partner Another detail has emerged about Google's plan to resell mobile services under its own brand: the Chocolate Factory hopes it will be able to offer free international roaming with its handsets.…

Linus Torvalds was at hacked event, but organisers say payment details safe The names, phone numbers and street and email addresses of delegates for Linux Australia conferences and PyCon have been exposed in a server breach.…

Or some other time machine if you want continuous testing, Microsoft seems to be saying Microsoft's decision to deliver the next version of Windows Server in 2016 has created an odd problem: the current tech preview of the new OS will expire before it ships the next pre-beta build.…

Ad appears ten weeks after launch, bringing us disruption at the speed of Canberra Australia's Department of Communications has advertised for a chief executive officer of the nascent Digital Transformation Office (DTO).…

New reporting structure hides handheld division's deep losses Intel says that beginning next week it will report its quarterly earnings in a slightly different way than it has previously, in a move that shields the chipmaker's poor-performing Mobile and Communications group from direct scrutiny.…

Because terrorism, apparently Canberra's appetite for security theatre could soon see comms blackouts in Parliament House as a response to terrorist threats.…

Biz ships homegrown rival to skirt India ban Smartphone startup OnePlus has released the first version of OxygenOS, its homebrewed alt-Android smartphone operating system.…

Test that cracked phablet's screen not fair, wails chaebol Vid Samsung is disputing claims that its Galaxy S6 Edge is just as bendy as Apple's iPhone 6 Plus – and has published a video to make its point.…