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- IBM 'Blue Waters' super node washes ashore in August
- Octocore AMD Bulldozers exposed by Turks
- Hacking Baseball
- Vesta flashes charms to approaching Dawn
- Parmo v poutine: Your cut-out-and-keep pdf guide
- 0day vulnerabilities fall but critical bugs grow
- Segway death blamed on good manners
- Domain name claim teases Sony-MS partnership
- Win! Your chance to bag a free 'PlayStation phone'
- EMC replaces ControlCenter with ProSphere
- Google turning us into forgetful morons, warn boffins
- US forced to redesign secret weapon after cyber breach
- Captain America: Super Soldier
- <i>Atlantis</i> computer goes down: Fixed by 'nauts
- Vote now for the juiciest LOHAN backronym
- The Queen visits Bletchley Park
- Mole says Apple A5 chip runs too hot for iPhone
- One-armed Belarus man monocuffed for clapping
- Romanian NASA hacker fights 'inflated' damage assessment
- Jabra Stone 2 Bluetooth headset
- Amazon discounts current MacBook Air line
- Rebekah Brooks quits - Murdoch accepts this time
- Online map suppressing crime reporting, says survey
- OFT probes dodgy sites that charge for free gov services
- Paul McCartney joins <i>Atlantis</i> love-in
- Hundreds of dot-brand domains predicted
- The cloud and the incredible shrinking office
- Many sites cookie-track users regardless of opt-outs
- Leica X1 APS-C compact camera
- New tumor trial rules mobiles 'not guilty'
- As China rises on the net, website numbers shrink
- Dotcom millionaire causes trouble at mill
- 'Tax' relief for Apple’s Oz customers
- Mozilla outs un-Google site sign-in prototype
- FBI probes claims of Murdoch 9/11 hack
- Sth Korea govt cracks down on blogger blaggers
| IBM 'Blue Waters' super node washes ashore in August Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:42 AM PDT Big, big (blue) flops for big, big (green) bucksBig Blue has been talking about the Power7-based "Blue Waters" supercomputer nodes for so long that you might think they're already available. But although IBM gave us a glimpse of the Power 775 machines way back in November 2009, they actually won't start shipping commercially until next month – August 26, to be exact.… |
| Octocore AMD Bulldozers exposed by Turks Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:12 AM PDT Site reveals 4.2GHz saat hızlarıA Turkish website claims to have inside information about specifications and benchmark results for AMD's upcoming multi-core Bulldozer processors.… |
| Posted: 15 Jul 2011 10:30 AM PDT Sport still boring but making money via analytics is cool |
| Vesta flashes charms to approaching Dawn Posted: 15 Jul 2011 10:28 AM PDT Impressive snap from NASA's asteroid voyeurNASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned an impressive snap of Vesta, as it prepares to enter orbit around the asteroid belt object.… |
| Parmo v poutine: Your cut-out-and-keep pdf guide Posted: 15 Jul 2011 08:09 AM PDT Laminate this, you drunken post-pub scoffersSo popular did our recent parmo versus poutine post-pub nosh deathmatch prove that we received a veritable banquet of emails demanding we make the recipe guides genuinely cut-out-and-keep.… |
| 0day vulnerabilities fall but critical bugs grow Posted: 15 Jul 2011 08:04 AM PDT Enterprises advised to apply security triageAlmost half the security bugs chronicled by Secunia in the last year were not covered by a patch at the time of their publication.… |
| Segway death blamed on good manners Posted: 15 Jul 2011 07:34 AM PDT Typical act of courtesyJim Heselden, the Segway owner who died late last year after toppling from one of the scooters, likely fell from the cliff because he was getting out of the way of a man walking his dog.… |
| Domain name claim teases Sony-MS partnership Posted: 15 Jul 2011 06:43 AM PDT Console rivals set to collaborate? Surely not!Microsoft has allegedly registered "Microsoft-Sony.com" as well as "Sony-Microsoft.com" in a move that could mean the two giants are about to go into business together.… |
| Win! Your chance to bag a free 'PlayStation phone' Posted: 15 Jul 2011 06:31 AM PDT Don't miss the deadline to nab a Sony Ericsson Xperia PlayCompetition Want to own a Sony Ericsson Xperia Play smartphone? We have three boxes each containing one of the Android handset that is are being called the 'PlayStation phone' to give away - and the deadline for entries is getting close.… |
| EMC replaces ControlCenter with ProSphere Posted: 15 Jul 2011 06:19 AM PDT Scale-out block storage resource managerEMC is replacing its VMAX ControlCenter management software, likened in the past to "a royal PITA", with ProSphere, positioned as scale-out block storage resource management.… |
| Google turning us into forgetful morons, warn boffins Posted: 15 Jul 2011 05:36 AM PDT Surely I've seen this before - hold on I'll just ...Search engine abuse use is re-wiring the way our brains store information, boffins have claimed.… |
| US forced to redesign secret weapon after cyber breach Posted: 15 Jul 2011 05:24 AM PDT 'Cyber Pilot' called in following backdoor penetrationThe United States may be forced to redesign an unnamed new weapon system now under development – because tech specs and plans were stolen from a defence contractor's databases.… |
| Captain America: Super Soldier Posted: 15 Jul 2011 05:08 AM PDT A tonic for the troops?Review Games based around movies have a reputation (most would say justly deserved) of seldom living up to their silver screen counterparts, while those timed to debut simultaneously with their movie counterparts have an even worse success to failure ratio.… |
| <i>Atlantis</i> computer goes down: Fixed by 'nauts Posted: 15 Jul 2011 04:29 AM PDT Space pilots turn hands to a bit of zero-G sysadmin workCommander Chris Ferguson and pilot Doug Hurley have fixed space shuttle Atlantis' General Purpose Computer (GPC) 4, which clapped out last night requiring transfer of its duties to another of the shuttle's quintet of GPCs.… |
| Vote now for the juiciest LOHAN backronym Posted: 15 Jul 2011 04:19 AM PDT You have the final say on our spaceplane project nameReader poll The El Reg Special Projects Bureau has wasted quite enough time faffing about with the name of our audacious high altitude, helium-assisted ballocket adventure, so it's time to nail this one once and for all.… |
| The Queen visits Bletchley Park Posted: 15 Jul 2011 04:14 AM PDT Unveils erection honouring wartime boffinsThe Queen will unveil a memorial to wartime codebreakers during a historic visit to Bletchley Park on Friday. The memorial was sculpted by the artist Charles Gurrey.… |
| Mole says Apple A5 chip runs too hot for iPhone Posted: 15 Jul 2011 03:44 AM PDT We say: no, it's just too darn big to fitWill September's iPhone refresh be a true iPhone 5, a souped-up iPhone 4 branded as iPhone 5, or said revamp released as the iPhone 4S?… |
| One-armed Belarus man monocuffed for clapping Posted: 15 Jul 2011 03:38 AM PDT Mute person also fined - for shouting anti-gov slogansIt appears that Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko – faced with growing public demands that he naff off after 17 years at the helm of the former Soviet republic – is determined to go out in comedy gold style.… |
| Romanian NASA hacker fights 'inflated' damage assessment Posted: 15 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT SirVic reluctant to stump $240k for digi-vandalismA Romanian accused of hacking NASA is fighting against an order to pay damages to the space agency.… |
| Jabra Stone 2 Bluetooth headset Posted: 15 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT Handsfree that... ahem... rocks?Accessory of the Week I've never been a fan of Bluetooth headsets, but Jabra's Stone 2 is one of the first I've tried that I'd consider using regularly.… |
| Amazon discounts current MacBook Air line Posted: 15 Jul 2011 02:53 AM PDT Responding to rumours, or in the know?Evidence for Apple's imminent MacBook Air revamp - well, circumstantial evidence - comes from Amazon.com which has begun emailing customers with the offer of discounts on the current models.… |
| Rebekah Brooks quits - Murdoch accepts this time Posted: 15 Jul 2011 02:38 AM PDT 'Stayed on bridge' of News Int'l ship, ran it onto rocksNews International boss Rebekah Brooks, who has been at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal, has resigned from her post and apologised for the "hurt" her company had caused to crime victims and others.… |
| Online map suppressing crime reporting, says survey Posted: 15 Jul 2011 02:28 AM PDT Don't tell the plods, we'll never sell the house!More than 5.2 million people have not reported crimes for fear of deterring home-buyers or renters since the Home Office's online crime map was launched in February 2011, according to research from insurers Direct Line.… |
| OFT probes dodgy sites that charge for free gov services Posted: 15 Jul 2011 02:19 AM PDT You've paid your taxes, Euro healthcare cards are freeThe Office of Fair Trading is investigating dodgy websites that charge punters for government services which are available for free.… |
| Paul McCartney joins <i>Atlantis</i> love-in Posted: 15 Jul 2011 02:12 AM PDT 'Good morning guys!'Sir Paul McCartney joined the impressive roster of celebs greeting the crew of space shuttle Atlantis today, following Elton John and Michael Stipe's musical messages to space earlier this week.… |
| Hundreds of dot-brand domains predicted Posted: 15 Jul 2011 02:00 AM PDT '.com' and '.co.uk' could go the way of 'www.'Domain name registry operators have predicted that "hundreds" of well-known companies will apply to ICANN to create new "dot-brand" top-level internet domains.… |
| The cloud and the incredible shrinking office Posted: 15 Jul 2011 01:50 AM PDT Home is where the heart isThose in the know say that cloud computing will fundamentally change the way we office creatures work.… |
| Many sites cookie-track users regardless of opt-outs Posted: 15 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT Google's clean, though, say researchersMore than 10 per cent of companies that promise not to track internet users' online activity for behavioural advertising purposes still do so, according to new research.… |
| Posted: 14 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT Latest firmware tweaks on testReview The X1 is Leica's first expert digital compact that, along with some top quality optics, lives up to its billing by offering easy access to manual controls akin to its bigger and pricier brother, the M9. It has no rangefinder focusing to match the M9 either, instead the X1 relies on an LCD screen and an optional clip on optical viewfinder. There's no facility for interchangeable lenses, with just a fixed 24mm f/2.8 lens (equivalent to 36mm on a 35mm camera) in front of a 12.2MP, APS-C CMOS sensor with an ISO range between 100 and 3200 and a maximum shutter speed of 1/2000th of a second.… |
| New tumor trial rules mobiles 'not guilty' Posted: 14 Jul 2011 09:36 PM PDT You say 'acoustic neuroma'. I say 'vestibular schwannoma'The verdict from latest "Do mobile phones fry your brain?" study is in, and the answer is a resounding "Nope".… |
| As China rises on the net, website numbers shrink Posted: 14 Jul 2011 07:00 PM PDT Government crackdown blacks out 1.4 million sitesEven as reports put Chinese as the number two language of the Internet, behind only English, strict government control is reducing the number of Websites within China.… |
| Dotcom millionaire causes trouble at mill Posted: 14 Jul 2011 06:30 PM PDT Wotif saves the trees via acquisitionOne of Australia's wealthiest dotcom entrepreneurs Graeme Wood has put some of his hard-earned into preserving native Tasmanian forest.… |
| 'Tax' relief for Apple’s Oz customers Posted: 14 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT Token price cuts on iTunes a startBack in January, when Australian retailers were complaining about Australian shoppers (and the government), and Australian shoppers were fleeing retailers for theiInternet, El Reg looked at the way some products are marked up specifically for this territory, making it cheaper for the shopper to buy from international outlets and pay for their own shipping.… |
| Mozilla outs un-Google site sign-in prototype Posted: 14 Jul 2011 05:26 PM PDT Token-free BrowserIDMozilla has proposed a new method for signing into websites that avoids both site-specific passwords and existing cross-site sign-in services from corporate behemoths such as Google and Facebook.… |
| FBI probes claims of Murdoch 9/11 hack Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:57 PM PDT Did journos hire gumshoe to bag victim records?The FBI is reported to be examining allegations that staff at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp tried to access the mobile phones of 9/11 terrorist-attack victims and their relatives.… |
| Sth Korea govt cracks down on blogger blaggers Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:30 PM PDT No such thing as a free social media plugSouth Korea's high profile bloggers and prolific social media mavens are being targeted by the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) over the practice of receiving 'gifts' from companies in return for favourable reviews or mentions of products.… |
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