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Kim Dotcom victim of 'largest data MASSACRE in history' -
Megaupload servers wiped – were Feds to blame?
Mega mogul Kim Dotcom says he's "in tears" after a Dutch hosting company wiped data from servers formerly used by his now-defunct Megaupload business, an act that he claims destroyed "critical evidence" in his long-running legal battle with the US government.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:16:34 GMT)Google preps wave of machine learning apps -
Chocolate Factory engineers automate own jobs out of existence
Google is preparing to unleash a wave of apps that get intelligence from its mammoth machine learning models.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:54:06 GMT)Reg to Australia: Here's your chance to find NBN answers -
Let's crowdfund a proper, pre-election, NBN study
The Register is tired of Australia's broadband debate. As we explained yesterday, we're sick of the tribalism, parochialism and politicking.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:40:08 GMT)Microsoft breaks bug-bounty virginity in $100,000 contest -
Black Hat sets phasers to stun on Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11
Microsoft is breaking its long-standing tradition of not paying for security vulnerabilities by offering a $100,000 cash prize for the first penetration tester to crack Windows 8.1 and a $50,000 bonus to explain how they did it.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:37:01 GMT)Google's JavaScript challenger gains better tools, performance -
Dart enters beta with beefed up editor, compiler
Hot on the heels of Microsoft's latest TypeScript release, Google has shipped the first beta SDK for Dart, its own JavaScript killer alternative web language, including bug fixes, performance enhancements, and an improved editor.…
Google joins Amazon, HP, Rackspace in easing HDD data importing -
'Give us your disks!' bellows Chocolate Factory.
Google has followed in the footsteps of Amazon by making it easier for businesses to load in masses of data to the company's cloud platform.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:48:29 GMT)Adobe CEO admits need to 'tweak' Creative Suite's cloud-only policy -
But way forward for cloud sceptics 'not identified'
Adobe dropped the D-bomb during a Q2 conference call with analysts after admitting some customers are "disappointed" it decided to murder future copies of its boxed Creative Suite.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:26:58 GMT)John McAfee releases NSFW video on how to uninstall security code -
Naturally this requires sex, drugs, and firearms
International fugitive, criminal suspect and self-described eccentric millionaire John McAfee has released a tongue-in-cheek video explaining how to uninstall the security software that still bears his name.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:24:40 GMT)Speaking in Tech: We find someone who hasn't heard of Prof Brian Cox - Podcast Brit physics heartthrob yet to conquer US - plus actual tech views (Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:13:03 GMT)
Dish abandons Sprint sprint, now in mad dash for Clearwire -
Satellite telly firm refuses to make a new offer before Sprint's deadline
Dish has elected to ditch its pursuit of Sprint for the time being and concentrate on its potentially winning bid for Clearwire.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:59:06 GMT)You're still hired: Viglen bosses get to keep jobs for another year -
No need for Lord Sugar to get his finger out
Viglen's financial performance has improved, meaning chief exec Bordan Tkachuk and chairman Claude Littner will avoid Lord Sugar's fearsome finger - which is usually waved about when numbers are down or Apprentice wannabes get the boot.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:45:39 GMT)Nutanix trims down and fattens up server-storage halfbloods -
Going for branch offices and big data in two fell swoops
Still not acquired after bragging two months ago of an 80 per cent sequential revenue bump and an $80m annualized run rate as it exited the first quarter, virtual server-storage appliance maker Nutanix is widening its market appeal with new low-end and high-end configurations.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:18:04 GMT)Stay away from the light, Kodak! Look, here's $406m to keep you alive -
Photo finish for fallen camera giant's race against death
Eastman Kodak's creditors have backed its plan to sell 34 million shares worth $406m as it prepares to exit bankruptcy protection.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:58:10 GMT)Oracle: We WON grey market software and Solaris support case -
Um, HOW much did they pay you in the settlement?
Oracle is claiming victory in a case of alleged grey market trading against a US business that sells network, software and services management support to the enterprise. ServiceKey and its CEO Angela Vines inked a settlement deal with Larry's lot at the end of last month.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:45:02 GMT)Dynamo-spawn Riak spreads to other clouds -
Amazon cloud casts long shadow
Wannabe cloud provider Tier3 has created an object storage service based on the Riak distributed datastore.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:19:08 GMT)Facebook: We now have one million real admen stalking you. Huzzah..? -
That's right, people are still using us ... bitch
Facebook claimed it has – for the first time – surpassed 1 million active advertisers who used the network in the last 28 days.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:57:08 GMT)Virtualisation: Where are my savings? -
Map, compass, boots
Webcast Three years ago you listened to vendors telling you how much we would all save from virtualisation. It seemed so plausible, but for most of us the savings never arrived. Why not? And what can we do about it?…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:25:42 GMT)AXE-WAVING BIKER GANG SMASHES into swanky Apple UK store -
Pair cuffed after helicopter chase sparked by Cupertino idiot-tax-avoiding raid
Pic Cops have arrested two men following a failed “smash and grab” robbery at Apple’s flagship store on Regent Street, London.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:56:08 GMT)Thousands of fingered crims, informants spaffed in web security COCK-UP -
UK privacy watchdog pokes server config gaffe
Exclusive An IT blunder splashed photos of suspected criminals and details of Brits who reported them over the internet, The Register can reveal.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:34:09 GMT)BT boss QUITS telecoms giant for front-bench gov job -
Prime Minister poaches CEO - Gavin Patterson to take his place
Ian Livingston has quit the top job at BT, after being poached by Prime Minister David Cameron to take on a key trade and investment role for the government.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:57:21 GMT)NASA probe eases through Saturn's ring to grab Earth snapshot -
See that tiny blue dot? That's our corner of ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, that is
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take a picture of Earthlings' home planet from the viewpoint of aliens on Saturn today, snapping the image from hundreds of millions of miles away.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:45:04 GMT)Ex-Systemax veep cuffed, charged with $230m fraud -
Carl Fiorentino bailed for $1m over wire, mail and laundering scams
Carl Fiorentino, a former president at reseller Systemax, has been charged with accepting bribes worth millions of dollars in return for directing $230m worth of business to certain components suppliers. He was arrested yesterday and released on a $1m personal surety bond.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:24:45 GMT)Roving IT contractors and private landlords are my heroes - here's why -
Rent more because high home ownership means high unemployment
Comment High rates of home ownership increase the unemployment rate, says a new study. This doesn't, at first, sound very sensible; we'd probably think that anyone with a house is working so damned hard to pay the mortgage that they'd have no time to be unemployed.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:04:44 GMT)Wi-Fi Alliance takes grid place, revs engine in race to 802.11ac -
Those little labels on the boxes? Pretty important, actually
The Wi-Fi Alliance is now formally certifying devices conforming to 802.11ac, the 5GHz wireless standard capable of delivering 1Gb/sec, only a year after manufacturers started shipping kit.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:44:54 GMT)Julian Assange: I'm quite happy to sleep on Ecuador's sofa FOREVER -
Wikileaker won't leave London embassy even if Sweden no longer wants him
Julian Assange says he'll stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London even if allegations of sexual assault against him in Sweden are dropped.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:19:10 GMT)Supercomputer sage Cray musters Lustre cluster storage hustler -
Bold move - HPC legend starts standalone storage biz
Supercomputer company Cray is starting up a standalone storage company with a Cray Cluster Connect product for rustling up business supplying X86 Lustre clusters.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:05:11 GMT)Sneaky Seagate slips 'world's fastest' enterprise disk mutant into the wild -
Flash-packed Savvio found lurking in Big Blue iron
Seagate has quietly built an enterprise-class 600GB hybrid drive: it combines the capacity of spinning platters with a fast flash cache of hot data.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:44:27 GMT)Hey mobile firms: About that Android thing... Did Google add a lockout clause? -
EC probes for details of deals
The European Commission has asked mobile telecoms firms and manufacturers of devices to provide details of any agreements they have with Google regarding the use of the technology giant's Android operating system.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:24:24 GMT)PC makers REALLY need Windows 8.1 to walk on water - but guess what? -
Upgrade is no 'miracle', sniffs IT analyst
An updated Windows 8 from Microsoft will NOT be the "miracle cure" for traditional PC makers in need of a sales and profits injection. And that's according to IT biz analysts Context.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:59:05 GMT)Norks taunt, yank Yanks' crank over PRISM: US is 'rights abuse kingpin' -
NSA web snooping 'against mankind' sneers tubby boy-king's pravda
Poverty-stricken dictatorship North Korea says the leak of NSA web-snooping project PRISM shows that the US is the “kingpin” of civil-rights abuses.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:34:03 GMT)Washout 2012 summer, melty Greenland 'nothing to do with Arctic ice or warm oceans' -
Could have been 'natural variability'
Last summer was a washout for us Brits, and indeed top meteorologists are meeting at the moment to find out just why. Some other odd things happened last year, too: exceptionally large areas of the Greenland ice sheet surface melted, as did record amounts of the Arctic ice cap, and ocean temperatures were high. How were all these things linked? What was the underlying cause?…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:03:50 GMT)Exagrid hires former IBM exec, Hitachi bod to help flog disk grid tech -
CEO: Public cloud OK for archiving data but not for backup
Exagrid, a supplier of deduplicated disk grid systems, clearly isn't worried about its products, but it has added two new execs to help boost the business side of things.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:38:11 GMT)Out with a bang: The Last of Us lets PS3 exit with head held high -
The current generation of consoles can still thrill
Game Theory I’ll soon be offering my thoughts and reflections on this year’s E3, but before all that it seemed worth waxing lyrical about new PS3 exclusive The Last of Us, a game that points the way to what the next generation should really be aspiring to do.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:04:04 GMT)EU Justice Department stalls India's security clearance -
Without a 'data secure destination' cert India's locked out of $30bn euro-sourcing market
India’s outsourcing giants are likely to face more delays in their frustrated bid to tap a potential IT services market worth $30 billion, after a report emerged suggesting the EU still has big data security concerns with the country.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:29:11 GMT)Nuke plants to rely on PDP-11 code UNTIL 2050! -
Programmers and their walking sticks converge in Canada
The venerable PDP-11 minicomputer is still spry to this day, powering GE nuclear power-plant robots - and will do so for another 37 years.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:59:09 GMT)COLD BALLS OF FLAME light up International Space Station -
Keep Calm: Bright sparks, not aliens, set this fire
At first glance, lighting a fire on the International Space Station (ISS) seems like a good way to earn a Darwin Award and the opprobrium of all humanity. Yet boffins have been doing it for some time in an effort to learn more about how flames behave.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:33:07 GMT)Google erases G8 venue from Earth: Microsoft doesn't -
Cameron and chums to hold confab in empty field, apparently
As all the world that cares knows, the leaders of the eight most powerful nations in the world have just been holding a summit meeting at the Lough Erne Resort in Northern Ireland.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:58:05 GMT)Chinese hackers launch PRISM scare campaign -
Supposed 'CIA list' with you on it actually contains malware
The Chinese group behind the recently discovered NetTraveler attacks is now using widespread interest in the infamous National Security Agency (NSA) PRISM surveillance program to encourage users to open malicious email attachments, it has emerged.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:55:22 GMT)Spear phish your boss to win more security cash -
Websense CSO recommends fake attacks on suits to open their wallets
Despite weekly news of successful and nasty online attacks damaging organisations of every stripe, executive types remain blasé about security and don't pay it enough attention, says Jason Clark, chief security officer at Websense, who recommends fighting back by phishing CEOs and board members.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:03:51 GMT)Six nations ask Google for answers on Glass privacy -
Canada, Oz, NZ, Mexico, Switzerland and Israel send 'Dear Larry' letter
36 Privacy Commissioners from around the world have written to Google to ask, in the polite-but-firm language of international diplomacy, for some details about Google Glass.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:17:58 GMT)Huawei muses on Nokia's future -
'Open minded' about acquisition
Growing its smartphone shipments by 94 percent from Q1 2012 to Q1 2013 might not be enough to satisfy Huawei: it's reportedly floated the idea of acquiring Nokia.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:58:08 GMT)House bill: 'Hey NASA, that asteroid retrieval plan? Fuggedaboutit' -
Republican-led committee also swings budget axe at climate science
If the Republican-led House Subcommittee on Space has its way, NASA's proposed asteroid-retrieval mission will be killed, the agency's budget will be capped for the next two years at about 5 per cent less than last year's, and NASA's Earth observation efforts will be cut back.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:14:25 GMT)Foreign keys, JavaScript support on deck for MySQL Cluster update -
All this and faster performance, too
Following more than 12 months of development and preview releases, Oracle has announced general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.3, bringing a number of important new features and enhancements to the open source clustering add-on for the MySQL database.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:09:46 GMT)Icahn doubles down on Dell offer with $14 per share buyback scheme -
Confirms he's now Dell's largest private investor – short of Big Mike, that is
With exactly a month to go before the special meeting of Dell shareholders that could decide the company's fate, investor Carl Icahn has increased the pressure for a better deal for shareholders – chiefly himself.…
(Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:10:44 GMT)Kiwi telco Two Degrees to roll out 4G in 2014 -
BNZ backs Huawei kit buy
Junior New Zealand telco Two Degrees Mobile is getting ready to roll out 4G, with deployment to start in 2014.…
(Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:19:10 GMT)TypeScript 0.9 arrives with new compiler, support for generics -
Biggest update yet for Microsoft's JavaScript alternative
Microsoft on Tuesday announced TypeScript 0.9.0, the latest version of its JavaScript killer alternative web language, which Redmond describes as the "largest update to TypeScript to date."…
Google mounts legal challenge to surveillance gag orders -
Argues free speech trumps security secrecy
Google has filed a legal petition "respectfully requesting" the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) release it from a gag order, and allow the company to tell users how often the NSA comes calling for data.…
(Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:49:10 GMT)It's time to suck the marrow from the NBN debate -
The Reg has a plan to ensure Australia knows what its billions will buy
Australia has, for the past decade, enjoyed a vivid but not-always productive debate on appropriate broadband infrastructure for the nation. The Reg wants to set that to rights.…
(Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:06:06 GMT)Increased cell phone coverage tied to uptick in African violence -
'Significantly and substantially increases the probability of violent conflict'
The increasing availability of cell phone coverage in Africa is contributing to an increase of violence on that continent, a recent study contends.…
(Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:44:28 GMT)Remote code execution vuln appears in Puppet -
Big trouble in automated clouds
Puppet Labs has blasted out a security advisory about a vulnerability in the popular infrastructure management tool Puppet.…
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