UK crime-busters knock hiphop site off the Internet

UK crime-busters knock hiphop site off the Internet


UK crime-busters knock hiphop site off the Internet

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:55 PM PST

SOCA occupies, accuses RnB Xclusive

The UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has moved on a popular hip-hop news and track-exchange site, RnB Xclusive, and is threatening those trying to access the site with criminal investigation.…

Canonical takes the Ubuntu Server pulse

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:31 PM PST

Lovin' those Long Term Support releases

Commercial Linux distributor Canonical has released its third annual survey of the Ubuntu Server installed base to show what is going on out there among the Shuttleworth faithful. The survey comes just as Canonical is getting ready to put its next big server release into the field in April.…

Damn it, where’s our NBN scandal?

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST

Another night in Senate estimates…

In a simmering scandal that's showing every sign of completely failing to fester as a good scandal should, it has emerged that NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley's legal bills associated with the "Alcatel affair" amounted to almost nothing.…

LibreOffice debugs and buffs up to v.3.5

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 01:38 PM PST

Dancing on the grave of OpenOffice

The Document Foundation (TDF) has announced the release of LibreOffice 3.5, which it modestly describes as "the best free office suite ever."…

ACCC pins ADSL wholesale price

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 01:15 PM PST

Seeks input on final declaration

The ACCC has settled another piece of unfinished business in the broadband market, announcing yesterday that it has issued a "service declaration" for Telstra's wholesale ADSL service.…

Chip boffins demo 22-nanometer maskless wafer-baking

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 12:47 PM PST

A possible savior when Moore's Law hits the light wall

An international consortium of chip boffins has demonstrated a maskless wafer-baking technology that they say "meets the industry requirement" for next-generation 14- and 10-nanometer process nodes.…

OCZ out-flashes EMC's Lightning

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 11:08 AM PST

16TB of caching vMotioning flash

OCZ has announced a 16-terrabyte server flash-card whopper that supports vMotion and – spec-wise – tosses EMC's puny 300GB Lightning card out of the pram.…

Cloudy bigshots eclipse open source

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 10:32 AM PST

Cloud computing and mobile hog the limelight

Open... and Shut  Open source seems to have waned in importance over the past few years as cloud computing and mobile have taken centre stage.…

EMC Greenplum Hadoop elephant straddles Cisco iron

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 09:58 AM PST

Cah. Took them long enough

Well, that took long enough. Cisco Systems and the Greenplum big data unit of server partner EMC have finally gotten together and put the Greenplum wares on Cisco's Unified Computing System servers.…

Scroogle: Dear Google, we're not bots, we're HUMAN

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 09:34 AM PST

With every Choc Factory privacy policy season, die die die!

A not-for-profit search engine that serves up a privacy-friendly version of Google has been out of action for much of today.…

Mozilla throws 'freedom' at Microsoft, Google, Apple tanks

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 09:04 AM PST

All the web's a platform, and the lock-down merchants merely players

The Mozilla Foundation is coming to the rescue of Tim Berners-Lee's sanity.…

Nimbula stretches Director to VMware ESXi clouds

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 08:38 AM PST

Hyper-V when enough customers ask

Thus far, Amazon's EC2 compute cloud is the standard for virty server infrastructure running on what amounts to a public utility. But there are two problems with it: you can't run your own EC2, and Amazon doesn't support VMware's ESXi hypervisor, which is the hypervisor of choice for x86 servers in corporate data centers. But that's OK. Nimbula is perfectly happy to clone EC2 for you.…

Shakira attacked by seal who mistook BlackBerry for a 'fish'

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 08:19 AM PST

Shiny mobe tempted sea lion out to lunch

Latin pop singer Shakira was "paralysed with fear" after a seal lunged for her BlackBerry, she recounted on Facebook.…

HELLISH LOVE INFERNO TO SWEEP LONDON

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 08:01 AM PST

Don't leave things lit and unattended while half-lit and, er, well-tended...

The London Fire Brigade have taken it upon themselves to warn the romantically inclined that a Valentine's date could end with death in a burning hell blaze.…

Teen hacker claims smut site hack: 'I didn’t do it for money'

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:29 AM PST

Hardcore group 'fesses up to breach as youth uploads 'members privates'

A teenage hacker claims to have broken into the Brazzers, the hardcore porn portal, before making off with hundreds of thousands of user login details.…

Pope's PR says Vatican in grip of WikiLeaks-style scandal

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:54 AM PST

Leaky cardinals allege assassination plots, banking misdeeds

The Pope's top PR man has declared that the Vatican is in the midst of its own "WikiLeaks" scandal after a flurry of confidential Papal documents were fed to the media by apparently disgruntled cardinals.…

China clamps down on foreign telly on its channels

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:31 AM PST

Just in case The Big Bang Theory sparks revolution

First it blocked the web, now it's going after TV. China has introduced tough new restrictions on channels broadcasting foreign-made telly and warned regulators to step up fines for any companies breaking the rules.…

Lego builds Lord of the Rings collection

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:03 AM PST

Another brick in the Deeping Wall

Lego has confirmed it will bring Frodo and co. to its block party this year, with a Lego Lord of the Rings collection set to launch this summer. A Lego The Hobbit range is also earmarked for late 2012 to coincide with the film's cinema release.…

Hong Kong operators fudge unlimited tariff conundrum

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:02 AM PST

They're unlimited, but not too unlimited...

Hong Kong mobile operators reacted to the introduction of new regulations on data tariffs on Monday by introducing a 5GB cap on fair usage and threatening to de-prioritise users who go over that limit.…

Shuttleworth remixes Ubuntu... for biz users

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:41 AM PST

No offense to RHEL, m'kay?

Inspired by the tweaks of Ubuntu-using IT departments, Canonical has released a Business Desktop Remix of Ubuntu.…

Black Ops has best videogame ending ever

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:25 AM PST

Got your Guinness goggles on?

Guinness World Records has confirmed Call of Duty: Black Ops has the greatest game conclusion of all time, after over 13,000 gamers cast their votes in favour of 2010's best-selling FPS.…

HP gives sysadmins a little mobility

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:23 AM PST

iOS and Android clients on the way

HP is embracing mobility with apps to allow sysadmins to receive alerts, manage systems and even shut down servers, all from the comfort of their booth seats at the pub.…

Twitter finally grabs wheel, drives all twits into HTTPS

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:04 AM PST

Cafe Wi-Fi tweeting protected from sniffing hackers

Twitter has finally bedded down secure browsing on its site for all users after previously offering HTTPS as an optional feature.…

SPRAY-ON antennas waved about at Google's techfest

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:43 AM PST

Turning the world into an aerial

Presenting at the new Google-backed talk fest "Solve for X", ChamTech Operations showed their nano tech-based antenna in a spray can, turning trees into antennas and connecting submarines by radio.…

Samsung boss sued by his brother over stock inheritance

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:34 AM PST

Kun-hee accused of pilfering shares after father's death

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee is being sued by his brother over stocks inherited from their father, the Samsung Group founder Lee Byung-chull.…

MySpace no longer crying a river with 1 MILLION new punters

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:13 AM PST

Facebook love-in, new music player boosts usage post-Murdoch

MySpace may have been dumped by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch but today its star investor - aged pop prince-turned-actor Justin Timberlake - has something to smile about: the site has gained 1 million users since December.…

The <em>El Reg</em> book library - now on ePub

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:01 AM PST

No Kindle? No problem

You asked for it, now you're going to get it.…

<strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> 21st Century Sex: the shape of things to come

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST

Are bits and bytes changing what we do with our bits and bobs?

Cryptome.org hacked to dish out malware

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:47 AM PST

Compromised whistle-blowing HQ begins site rebuild

Cybercrooks have planted malicious scripts on top of whistle-blowing nerve centre Cryptome.org.…

Now Proview seeks ban on ALL iPads coming out of China

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:27 AM PST

No love with Apple after trademark row escalates

Chinese monitor biz Proview, which says it owns the iPad trademark, now hopes to block the import and export of Apple's trendy tablets in the country.…

5,000 Virgin Media workers unchained to slog away remotely

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:14 AM PST

Fingers crossed those net connections stay up

Thousands of Virgin Media employees will soon be able to work from their beds a variety of locations after the telco asked network kit biz Cisco to deploy its Quad, WebEx and Unified Comms products.…

Microsoft mulls touchscreen controller for next-gen Xbox

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:59 AM PST

Tablets turned

Microsoft appears set to follow Nintendo and equip its next-gen games console with a touchscreen-equipped controller, along the lines of the one that will ship with the Wii U.…

Veteran launches storage torpedo among competing startups

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:57 AM PST

LeftHand founder turns right with Starboard Systems

The founder and CEO of the second most successful iSCSI array startup, LeftHand Networks1, is trying to do it again. He's chairing the board of another iSCSI startup: Starboard Storage, which is joining the hybrid SSD-HDD array party today. What's wacky about this is that ex-colleagues of his at LeftHand have also started up NexGen Storage, which is trying to pull off the same same trick. Starboard is aiming at the SME market, claiming it has optimised both for performance and cost per GB.…

iPad spanks Galaxy Tab in its own backyard

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:38 AM PST

South Korean slab fondlers opt for Apple over homegrown Samsung

There was some welcome news for Apple in Asia this week after new figures revealed that the iPad is absolutely trouncing its rivals in the South Korean market, notably local hero Samsung and its Galaxy Tab device.…

Microsoft probes IE8 dll AWOL hell

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:18 AM PST

Windows XP PCs browserless

Microsoft has said it is investigating a niggling problem with an Internet Explorer 8 update that's disabling a number of Windows XP machines.…

<strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> SexInfo 101

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me

Tesco offers broadband for LESS THAN THE PRICE OF A PINT

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 01:46 AM PST

Read the small print

Tesco is offering broadband for a mere £2.50 a month. It sounds like a good deal, but catches abound.…

Trustwave to escape 'death penalty' for SSL skeleton key

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 01:28 AM PST

Moz likely to spare certificate-confession biz same fate as DigiNotar

Analysis  Trustwave's admission that it issued a digital "skeleton key" that allowed an unnamed private biz to spy on SSL-encrypted connections within its corporate network has sparked a fiery debate about trust on the internet.…

Debian, Ubuntu patching up rocky romance

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 01:01 AM PST

Deb supremo speaks as devs link arms in ARM

FOSDEM  The recent FOSDEM was great this year, and Belgium still had beer left before, during and after. Still lots of people, though with an extra building open – it was a little less crowded. There were over 400 sessions on themes from Mozilla, Java, cross-distro and embedded to Ada and law.…

Sepaton plans to crush mid-range boxes

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 12:26 AM PST

'Kill the rabbit...'

Sepaton, the large enterprise deduping storage vendor, reckons its big boxes can replace lots of those pesky, seemingly continuously accumulating Data Domain mid-range boxes with a single system that does the job properly.…

FIVE more councils say soz for exposing people's privates

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 12:06 AM PST

'Disclosing details about someone's social housing status can be upsetting'

The Information Commissioner's Office has found that five local authorities have breached the Data Protection Act by failing to protect personal information about citizens.…

Prada Phone by LG 3.0

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST

Diallers are a girl's best friend?

Review  Why is black and white classier than colour? And should we want our phones, with their increasingly glorious screens, to mute their rainbow hues? It's the arrival of LG's third collaboration with Prada that's raised these questions – a handset that favours an interface dressed mostly in black and white.…

HP previews ProLiant Gen8 servers

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:44 PM PST

Project Voyager launches Xeon E5s

You can look at HP's new ProLiant Gen8 servers, but you can't touch. At the company's Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas this week, HP previewed some of the forthcoming machines' capabilities, but – much to the chagrin of hardware enthusiasts – didn't talk about the processors, system boards, and other "slots and watts" stats of the Gen8 iron.…

Mars, Europe losers in Obama's 2013 NASA budget

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:13 PM PST

Winners: Hubble's successor, high-flying humans

President Obama has revealed his proposed 2013 budget, and buried inside the $3.8-trillion wish list – along with tax credits for students, tax increases for the wealthy, cuts to the military, and other Republican bait – is $17.7bn for NASA that brings good news to some and bad news to others.…

EU, US sign off on Googorola merger

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:09 PM PST

Now the real fun and games begin

As expected, EU competition authorities and the US Department of Justice (DoJ) have cleared Google's proposed $12.5bn merger with Motorola Mobility.…

Broadcom boasts directional antennas for 802.11ac Wi-Fi

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:38 PM PST

Coverage focusing part of new chippery

Broadcom has provided more details on the 802.11ac Wi-Fi chips it will bring to production in the second half of this year.…

Rackspace breaks billion buck barrier in 2011

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:29 PM PST

Cloudy block storage, database, and firewall in the works

It took twelve years, but Rackspace Hosting has chalked up its first billion-dollar year – and it's hoping to get to $2bn in a lot less time, planning some new cloudy services to help make that happen.…

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