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- Iran lays blame for Stuxnet worm on Siemens
- Bull, SGI tag team on Japanese nuke petaflopper
- Google to close pre-YouTube Video service
- 'Fierce competition' drives Apple's iPhone 6 changes
- Westminster Abbey cashes in on Royal Wedding with ... App
- European Space Agency plays down hack impact
- Blighty's Skylon spaceplane faces key tech test in June
- Tim Berners-Lee: Coalition mustn't be 'lazy' on open data
- Yahoo! Buzz! Given! Mercy! Bullet!
- Semi sales air-kiss $300bn in 2010
- Leaked US cables finger Chinese army hackers for cyber-spying
- <i>El Reg</i> buried under unmade sci-fi movie entries
- EMC Avamar gets jiggy wit Data Domain
- UK net banking website falls flat on its bank
- Police head-cam TV show debuts in US
- Virgin hits 3D screens with fresh range of flicks
- Oracle tests find NFC lags in execution
- Officials scoop up bacteria bubbling away in Playboy hot tub
- EU Data retention directive 'flawed, unlawful'
- City of London takes non-profit to the cloud
- Pope says gravity proves technology can't supplant God
- HP prepping Spotify-like music service for iPad-killer?
- Citroën lifts lid on looming diesel hybrid
- UK is fifth free-est nation on the internet
- Microsoft opens Office 365 beta floodgates to the world
- Love means never having to say where’s the soap
- Asus N73SV Core i7 Sandy Bridge 17.3in laptop
- Five desktop virtualisation tips for IT project managers
- Royal Navy hacker claims to have broken into space agency site
- Dropbox polishes iPad practice with patch
- Yahoo! jacks data retention from 90 days to 18 months
- UAE looks to block BlackBerry mail, again
- SCHEITERN: Scientologists want to friend schoolkids on Facebook
- Redaction FAIL: Dull nuke sub document revealed in full
- Wind turbine farm hack exposed as hoax
- Seagate to buy Samsung's disk drive biz?
- A short note about Microsoft App-V
- Symantec and Huawei snatch storage benchmark crown
- Whitehats pierce giant hole in Microsoft security shield
- Can we 'green up' the hunger for data centre electricity?
| Iran lays blame for Stuxnet worm on Siemens Posted: 18 Apr 2011 12:24 PM PDT SCADA maker 'provided the enemies' with helpA senior Iranian commander has accused the German engineering firm Siemens of helping the US and Israeli to build the Stuxnet computer worm that infiltrated his country's nuclear facilities.… |
| Bull, SGI tag team on Japanese nuke petaflopper Posted: 18 Apr 2011 10:56 AM PDT A whole lot of Sandy Bridge bullxFrench supercomputer maker Bull, working in conjunction with sometime partner and sometime rival Silicon Graphics, has landed a contract to supply Japanese fusion researchers with a supercomputer rated at nearly 1.3 petaflops of number-crunching oomph and based on a future "Sandy Bridge" Xeon processor from Intel.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Google to close pre-YouTube Video service Posted: 18 Apr 2011 10:44 AM PDT Last of the first picture showGoogle is shutting down its YouTube-predecessor Google Video, according to an email sent to users.… |
| 'Fierce competition' drives Apple's iPhone 6 changes Posted: 18 Apr 2011 10:15 AM PDT iPhone 5 in 2011: 'slight modifications"If you're hoping that the iPhone 5 will be a thoroughly redesigned handset, one analyst says to chill: the next iPhone will make only "slight modifications" to the iPhone 4 when it ships in the fourth quarter of this year. For bigger changes, you'll have to wait for 2012's iPhone 6.… |
| Westminster Abbey cashes in on Royal Wedding with ... App Posted: 18 Apr 2011 09:44 AM PDT One for the Reg demographicToday, Prince William and Kate Middleton gave 'royal approval' to Abbey 3D, an app that offers a tour of Westminster Abbey in 3D, even showing users areas that are off-limit on Wedding Day. Bless.… |
| European Space Agency plays down hack impact Posted: 18 Apr 2011 09:00 AM PDT Crucial alien files remain nonexistentThe European Space Agency has confirmed that a hacker breached its network over the weekend, while playing down the significance of the hack.… |
| Blighty's Skylon spaceplane faces key tech test in June Posted: 18 Apr 2011 08:39 AM PDT Helium pre-cooler vital for SABRE airbreather rocketA British firm seeking to build a radical spaceplane – the Skylon – able to fly to orbit from a runway takeoff without any jettisoning of fuel tanks or boosters says that it will test its main technical special sauce this year.… |
| Tim Berners-Lee: Coalition mustn't be 'lazy' on open data Posted: 18 Apr 2011 08:38 AM PDT Cheaper to store data publicly, says GLBThe inventor of the World Wide Web told The Register today that it would be a great disappointment to see open data projects such as the data.gov.uk example, and the seemingly doomed data.gov version over in the US, closed in an effort to cut costs.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Yahoo! Buzz! Given! Mercy! Bullet! Posted: 18 Apr 2011 08:21 AM PDT Digg-alike topples into self-dug grave this weekYahoo! is pulling the plug on its Buzz service, making it the latest service/product/wild goose chase to be shuttered by the company.… |
| Semi sales air-kiss $300bn in 2010 Posted: 18 Apr 2011 07:29 AM PDT Best year in historyThe prognosticators at chip market watcher Gartner have had a tough time trying to predict what the world's appetite for semiconductors would be in 2010, but they knew one thing for sure. People are hungry for the electronic gadgets and gizmos that have lots of chips in them, and the numbers were going to be up from 2009 and would set a new record revenue level for the industry.… |
| Leaked US cables finger Chinese army hackers for cyber-spying Posted: 18 Apr 2011 07:15 AM PDT Byzantine HadesLeaked US diplomatic cables have provided some of the first hard evidence that the US is engaged in a heated cyberespionage battle with China, a conflict diplomats reckon is showing few signs of cooling off.… |
| <i>El Reg</i> buried under unmade sci-fi movie entries Posted: 18 Apr 2011 06:15 AM PDT Thanks for your numerous nominationsWe're closing the nominations for the greatest sci-fi film never made, having received well over 1,000 individual emails and comments suggesting just which written work you'd like to see brought to the silver screen.… |
| EMC Avamar gets jiggy wit Data Domain Posted: 18 Apr 2011 06:01 AM PDT Let's dedupe togetherEMC's 6.0 release of Avamar protects virtual machines faster and can use a boosted central Data Domain data store, as well as Avamar's own Data Store (now doubled in capacity).… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| UK net banking website falls flat on its bank Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:59 AM PDT Nationwide BS site isn't, againNationwide Building Society's online presence has been floored for the second time in two months.… |
| Police head-cam TV show debuts in US Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:45 AM PDT Nice beating, Lance. Hey, is this on? Sh*tReality TV took its next step at the weekend with the inaugural broadcasts in the USA of new show Police POV, featuring video footage from headcams worn by cops on the job.… |
| Virgin hits 3D screens with fresh range of flicks Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:28 AM PDT No need to splash outIt's all very well having a 3D TV and a service to match, but content can be hard to come by. Virgin Media is addressing this, with today's revelation of a new 3D movie line-up available at no extra cost.… |
| Oracle tests find NFC lags in execution Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:25 AM PDT Just wait a sec, or twoOracle has been looking at NFC, and decided that the technology needs to be a good deal faster if it is going to have any hope of going mainstream.… |
| Officials scoop up bacteria bubbling away in Playboy hot tub Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:14 AM PDT Possible cause for Domainfest outbreakAn investigation into an outbreak of respiratory illness amongst techies who'd attended Domainfest has found legionella bacteria bubbling away in a hot tub at the Playboy mansion.… |
| EU Data retention directive 'flawed, unlawful' Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:13 AM PDT Lib Dem and digital rights group have privacy gripesEuropean state powers to retain data about customers' telecommunications are set to come in for a kicking with the release of an offical report from the European Commission.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| City of London takes non-profit to the cloud Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:11 AM PDT Helping handCase study Who is the shadowy City of London Corporation? Actually it is not shadowy at all, it's the City's local government.… |
| Pope says gravity proves technology can't supplant God Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:07 AM PDT Baits physicists, Colombia warmongersThe Pope has warned the faithful of the folly of thinking that technology could replace the almighty.… |
| HP prepping Spotify-like music service for iPad-killer? Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:02 AM PDT Rumours of cloud music and offline storage for new WebOS tablet-touchersHaving acquired the quite lovely WebOS, Hewlett Packard owns potentially the strongest tablet software of them all, and it's all wrapped up in the TouchPad, the most attractive competitor to the iPad. But HP knows this is not enough.… |
| Citroën lifts lid on looming diesel hybrid Posted: 18 Apr 2011 04:40 AM PDT Lax on taxCitroën has stepped its green gears up a level with its first diesel hybrid vehicle, the DS5.… |
| UK is fifth free-est nation on the internet Posted: 18 Apr 2011 04:32 AM PDT At risk of relegation to 'Partly Free' statusThe UK is the fifth free-est place on the internet, according to a thinktank report. Of those countries assessed, only Estonia, the USA, Germany and Australia offered more internet freeness than Britain.… |
| Microsoft opens Office 365 beta floodgates to the world Posted: 18 Apr 2011 04:31 AM PDT Raises roof on marketplaceMicrosoft Office 365 hit public beta yesterday as Redmond uncorked a marketplace to support the long-gestating cloud-based Office suite.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Love means never having to say where’s the soap Posted: 18 Apr 2011 04:25 AM PDT Be nice to your indirect suppliersWorkshop When thinking about supply chains, what usually comes to mind is the manufacturing company that sits mid-chain. Raw materials flow in from suppliers and finished goods flow out to customers.… |
| Asus N73SV Core i7 Sandy Bridge 17.3in laptop Posted: 18 Apr 2011 04:00 AM PDT Desktop replacement with B&O audioReview As a multi-media laptop the Asus NX90 is undoubtedly desirable but it's as big as a barge, weighs a ton and costs an arm and a leg. However, now you can get the same Bang & Olufsen sound system, full HD screen and the latest Sandy Bridge i7 processor in the altogether more practical N73.… |
| Five desktop virtualisation tips for IT project managers Posted: 18 Apr 2011 04:00 AM PDT Learning to work togetherThere's a good reason why the word 'strategic' should drive fear into the heart of the most hardened project manager.… |
| Royal Navy hacker claims to have broken into space agency site Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:52 AM PDT Paris, we may have a problemLogin credentials for database, email and other key systems that a poster claims belong to the European Space Agency were posted on a full disclosure mailing list over the weekend.… |
| Dropbox polishes iPad practice with patch Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:27 AM PDT Put it on the tabFile-share resource Dropbox tweaked its iPhone and iPad app today, to allow bulk uploads and faster folder access.… |
| Yahoo! jacks data retention from 90 days to 18 months Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:24 AM PDT Extra-private! Super-transparent!Yahoo! is jacking up the amount of time it holds onto its log file data by a factor of six to 18 months.… |
| UAE looks to block BlackBerry mail, again Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:20 AM PDT Targeting the little peopleSmall companies in the UAE will no longer be permitted to use BlackBerry email services, according to local reports, and access will be cut off in the next two weeks.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| SCHEITERN: Scientologists want to friend schoolkids on Facebook Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:16 AM PDT German gov says Nein as 'church' tries to reach children with social mediaThe Office for the Protection of the Constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) believes Scientology is recruiting children through Facebook and other social networks.… |
| Redaction FAIL: Dull nuke sub document revealed in full Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:10 AM PDT Full text sat in Google cache for months, nobody noticedThe news media got in a ferment this weekend as it turned out that officials at the UK Ministry of Defence had failed to effectively redact passages in a report on nuclear submarine safety published to the internet. But the revealed text - which had originally been classified only at a low level - is not terribly exciting.… |
| Wind turbine farm hack exposed as hoax Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:04 AM PDT Tilting at windmillsUpdated Claims of a supposed hack against the computers controlling wind turbines run by NextEra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of Florida Power & Light, are increasingly looking like a hoax.… |
| Seagate to buy Samsung's disk drive biz? Posted: 18 Apr 2011 02:04 AM PDT And then there were threeSeagate may buy Samsung's hard disk drive business, according to the Wall Street Journal.… |
| A short note about Microsoft App-V Posted: 18 Apr 2011 02:00 AM PDT Dev-friendlyDesktop The application development lifecycle is less responsive than it could be. IT departments spend too much time maintaining existing software and infrastructure, time that should really be spent delivering tools to make the business run better. It's like trying to run an F1 team out of a small garage: you never have the resources to do the job that's really needed, when all you're doing is changing tyres.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Symantec and Huawei snatch storage benchmark crown Posted: 18 Apr 2011 01:33 AM PDT Spinning rust pops whup-ass can on flashy stacksHuawei Symantec has blown EMC and its nearly all-flash VNX off the SPECsfs2008 benchmark throne with a clustered NAS system without using SSDs. Spinning rust rules, OK?… |
| Whitehats pierce giant hole in Microsoft security shield Posted: 17 Apr 2011 10:05 PM PDT When Redmond closes a door, it opens a windowIn late December, Microsoft researchers responding to publicly posted attack code that exploited a vulnerability in the FTP service of IIS told users it wasn't much of a threat because the worst it probably could do was crash the application.… |
| Can we 'green up' the hunger for data centre electricity? Posted: 17 Apr 2011 03:13 PM PDT El Reg talks to Fujitsu sustainability chief Alison RoweInterview My starting position on the subject of "green" IT is one of extreme skepticism.… |
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