Exhibitionist Shamoon virus blows PCs' minds

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• Exhibitionist Shamoon virus blows PCs' minds
• Hipstamatic axes most of staff to focus on art, creativity
• eBay invites mystic wrath over ban on spells, potions and lotions
• Becoming Red Hat: Cloudera and Hortonworks' Big-Data death match
• Apple deal points to NFC iPhone - eventually
• Breaking news, literally: Reuters hacked third time this MONTH
• IEEE admits its MS-DOS history revisionist is in Microsoft's pay
• WikiLeaks haters launch DDoS assault on Russia Today
• GPS trigger will light LOHAN's fire
• Watch out, PC disk drive floggers: Cloud will rust up those spinners
• McIntyre: Climate policy crippled by pointless feel-good gestures
• No way Moto: Chinese workers protest Google job cuts
• Nominet 'sought govt protection from takeover by domain hawkers'
• Acer: Windows 8 'uncertainty' deflates Wang's big growth aim
• Surfing ROBO-shark hunter stalks great whites along US coast
• Beck's open-source challenge to freetards: play it yourself!
• The problem with wireless: all those effin' wires
• Anti-gay Uganda's premier backs pride march in protest hack
• Apple axes loyal store staff in Essex, Milton Keynes
• Apple to bring YouView approach to Apple TV
• Nokia S40 budget blowers bunged Zynga doodle, poker games
• Twitter API outrage: Break our rules and we'll break app kneecaps
• Samsung: 'You want $2.5bn? WRONG, Apple, you OWE us $420m!'
• Brocade CEO Michael Klayko quits - just as his biz perks up
• TalkTalk pitches cut-price mobes to own customers
• 'G-Cloud is nothing more than a suppliers' website'
• Olympics TV HQ future: Catwalk beauties elbowed out by IT bods
• Ofcom shoves video-on-demand regulation onto ATVOD's plate
• Flash slash Skyhawk smells blood, hunts disk array prey
• Ready to patent that 'new' invention? Google is here to dash your hopes
• Human rights group: Nintendo tops conflict minerals baddies list
• Gov splashed £98k through CloudStore in July
• What to do with 110,000 Magstar tapes and 11PB of data
• Fujifilm X-Pro1 16Mp compact system camera review
• Raspberry Pi now comes in Firefox OS flavour
• Scientists find safer way to store hydrogen
• Verizon wins approval for $3.6bn cable spectrum swap
• Boundary punts freebie app monitoring from the clouds
• British boffin builds cool maser after argument with wife
• iiNet’s happy dance
• Chinese man blows off hands, builds new pair
• Tridium patches control systems bug after a year

Exhibitionist Shamoon virus blows PCs' minds Posted: 17 Aug 2012 01:51 PM PDT Malware targets some energy sector While most malware these days tries to work under the radar to avoid detection, a new species has been reported that wipes the drives of the systems it infects.…

Hipstamatic axes most of staff to focus on art, creativity Posted: 17 Aug 2012 01:21 PM PDT Wasn't really into having employees anyway Hipstamatic, the company behind the $1.99 iPhone app that allows jaded scenesters to stylize their digital photos so that they look like snaps recovered from shoeboxes found in their grandmothers' attics, has laid off most of its employees.…

eBay invites mystic wrath over ban on spells, potions and lotions Posted: 17 Aug 2012 11:43 AM PDT Bet the psychics didn't see that coming The ire of the world's witches, warlocks, and other practicers of the psychic arts will be focused on eBay shortly, after the company banned a range of intangible mystic items from its site.…

Becoming Red Hat: Cloudera and Hortonworks' Big-Data death match Posted: 17 Aug 2012 10:00 AM PDT 'In a world of tissue when you're Kleenex, you've won' Open ... and Shut  In the Big Data market, Hadoop is clearly the team to beat. What is less clear is which of the Hadoop vendors will claim the spoils of that victory.…

Apple deal points to NFC iPhone - eventually Posted: 17 Aug 2012 09:29 AM PDT But new pay-by-bonk kit probably won't need fingering first SEC filings from Apple-acquisition AuthenTec state that fingerprint and secure-element technology is coming to Apple devices, and soon, but it still might be too early to call the NFC iPhone, and probably wrong to imagine the pay-by-bonk tech will use digit-scanning for authentication.…

Breaking news, literally: Reuters hacked third time this MONTH Posted: 17 Aug 2012 09:02 AM PDT Buggy blog blamed Reuters websites were hacked for third time in a fortnight when hackers posted a bogus article falsely claiming that Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Saud al-Faisal was dead.…

IEEE admits its MS-DOS history revisionist is in Microsoft's pay Posted: 17 Aug 2012 08:46 AM PDT CP/M, QDOS diff man is Redmond 'expert witness' The IEEE's Spectrum magazine has admitted that a recent contributor, who wrote an eyebrow-raising revisionist history of MS-DOS, is paid by Microsoft.…

WikiLeaks haters launch DDoS assault on Russia Today Posted: 17 Aug 2012 08:20 AM PDT In support of the Pussy Riot 3 An anti-WikiLeaks group has admitted responsibility for a sustained DDoS attack that made the Russia Today website intermittently unavailable on Friday.…

GPS trigger will light LOHAN's fire Posted: 17 Aug 2012 08:02 AM PDT Custom mission control board to fire Vulture 2 rocket motor There's been a veritable jetstream of activity at the SPB's mountaintop headquarters this week as our quest to find a method to fire our Vulture 2 spaceplane's solid rocket motor at altitude nears its end.…

Watch out, PC disk drive floggers: Cloud will rust up those spinners Posted: 17 Aug 2012 07:43 AM PDT Reliable cloudy service could put them out of business Blocks and Files  The cloud is going to impact disk drive manufacturers' bottom line, big time. Think about it: if Dropbox, iCloud and SkyDrive succeed, people won't need disk drives on their PCs. Are you listening Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital?…

McIntyre: Climate policy crippled by pointless feel-good gestures Posted: 17 Aug 2012 07:23 AM PDT CO2 is rising, so let's get busy with cheaper-than-coal low-carbon energy Leading climate blogger Steve McIntyre says policy makers are failing to prepare the public for climate change and have become obsessed with "petty acts of virtuous behaviour" instead. He also told The Register that computer scientists should form "tiger teams" to produce engineering-grade analysis of climate models, to counter skepticism about the mathematical modelling.…

No way Moto: Chinese workers protest Google job cuts Posted: 17 Aug 2012 07:01 AM PDT Employees claim Motorola violated their contracts Motorola employees in Beijing and Nanjing were out this morning protesting the job cuts announced by Google earlier this week.…

Nominet 'sought govt protection from takeover by domain hawkers' Posted: 17 Aug 2012 06:13 AM PDT 'Plan G' revealed at ex-policy chief's tribunal Nominet, the .uk address registry, sought government help to protect its board of directors from a takeover by domain name speculators, according to its former policy chief.…

Acer: Windows 8 'uncertainty' deflates Wang's big growth aim Posted: 17 Aug 2012 05:40 AM PDT After Surface slag-off fest, CEO risks Redmond wrath again Acer Inc reckons the "uncertainty" surrounding the Windows 8 ecosystem will translate into lower-than-expected sales for the second half of 2012.…

Surfing ROBO-shark hunter stalks great whites along US coast Posted: 17 Aug 2012 05:19 AM PDT iOS app will warn fanbois of attacks, fandroids not so lucky A wave-gliding robot has been deployed off the coast of San Francisco to stealthily keep an eye on great white sharks in the Pacific Ocean.…

Beck's open-source challenge to freetards: play it yourself! Posted: 17 Aug 2012 05:01 AM PDT Album as sheet music is a brilliant gambit Fans of the artist Beck must wait until December for his new album - and if they want to hear it, they can play it themselves. As you may have heard, Beck has said he'll issue his next album Song Reader as sheet music, rather than as a performed and produced sound recording.…

The problem with wireless: all those effin' wires Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:55 AM PDT Recharge of the light brigade Something for the Weekend, Sir?  Those of you who choose to pursue the itinerant professional life will be familiar with the need to carry one's tools of the trade everywhere, usually in a heavy bag slung over one shoulder. Like me, you may have found that the number of devices you have to carry around has increased, for a variety of reasons that I have moaned about before.…

Anti-gay Uganda's premier backs pride march in protest hack Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:43 AM PDT Websites defaced by Anonymous chums Gay-rights activists have vandalised the Ugandan prime minister's website in a protest against the African country's discriminatory laws.…

Apple axes loyal store staff in Essex, Milton Keynes Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:28 AM PDT Blueshirts get the blues, Olympic Park shop disappoints Apple is cutting down on UK retail staff at its stores in Milton Keynes and Essex: blueshirted fanbois on short-term contracts will get the heave-ho, sources in the Mac channel claim.…

Apple to bring YouView approach to Apple TV Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:19 AM PDT Set to unify broadcast, catch-up and streaming services? The Wall Street Journal continues to fly a kite - to use an old journalistic expression - for the Apple TV, following up a story on the set-top box's possible integration of cable and digital TV decoders with a second piece, this time suggesting Apple will turn the product into a kind of YouView for the US.…

Nokia S40 budget blowers bunged Zynga doodle, poker games Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:03 AM PDT Draw Something on something more basic Two of Zynga's top titles, Draw Something and Zynga Poker, are coming to Nokia's Asha range of budget blowers, showing that there's life in the old platform yet.…

Twitter API outrage: Break our rules and we'll break app kneecaps Posted: 17 Aug 2012 03:42 AM PDT New limits on tweet software likened to North Korean regime Twitter is tightening the rules for building applications that use its messaging platform, sparking outrage from twits and developers.…

Samsung: 'You want $2.5bn? WRONG, Apple, you OWE us $420m!' Posted: 17 Aug 2012 03:21 AM PDT iFruit biz 'overstated' damages bill in patent trial An accountant on the stand for Samsung in its epic patent trial has said Apple overstated Sammy's mobile gadget margins, effectively inflating a potential payout for the iPhone maker.…

Brocade CEO Michael Klayko quits - just as his biz perks up Posted: 17 Aug 2012 03:02 AM PDT Quarterly results overshadowed by leader about to leg it Brocade has turned in an adequately solid quarter, with better-than-expected sales and profit after a string of weak and flat quarters, so why would CEO Michael Klayko choose to resign now?…

TalkTalk pitches cut-price mobes to own customers Posted: 17 Aug 2012 02:47 AM PDT Are you local? ISP TalkTalk has hopped on the mobile bandwagon pitching a pay monthly package for just a fiver.…

'G-Cloud is nothing more than a suppliers' website' Posted: 17 Aug 2012 02:43 AM PDT Plus: 'It's time for peace, Apple and Samsung' Quotw  This was the week when the US patent trial between Apple and Samsung was still happening and the pair of them were as snide as ever.…

Olympics TV HQ future: Catwalk beauties elbowed out by IT bods Posted: 17 Aug 2012 02:18 AM PDT Web 2.0 hipsters to sashay through new 55MW data centre The building that piped footage of Usain Bolt's double gold to the world will be turned into a data centre with a 55MW power capacity.…

Ofcom shoves video-on-demand regulation onto ATVOD's plate Posted: 17 Aug 2012 02:02 AM PDT Watchdog tosses bone to offspring, stops overseeing every ruling Ofcom has decided ATVOD can keep monitoring video-on-demand services, and with less oversight from the parent regulator, following five months of consultation.…

Flash slash Skyhawk smells blood, hunts disk array prey Posted: 17 Aug 2012 01:38 AM PDT Skyera touts Ferrari speed for banger prices As makers of flash-disk hybrid arrays try to undercut all-flash array vendors, Skyera's Skyhawk scents blood and swoops down on them all with its $2.99-per-GB NAND-tipped talons.…

Ready to patent that 'new' invention? Google is here to dash your hopes Posted: 17 Aug 2012 01:17 AM PDT Prior Art Finder trawls through data in search for replication The technology giant has created a new 'Prior Art Finder' which enables users to search "multiple sources" in order to review whether ideas they hope to patent are in fact novel. The tool, which "instantly pulls together information relevant" to patent applications, will enable inventors to review documents submitted with both the United States Patent & Trademark Office and the European Patent Office, among other sources, Google said.…

Human rights group: Nintendo tops conflict minerals baddies list Posted: 17 Aug 2012 01:02 AM PDT HTC, Sharp, Nikon also not doing enough to dodge use of war-sourced kit A human rights group has said that Nintendo, HTC and Sharp are among companies that don't do enough to ensure conflict minerals do not end up in their products.…

Gov splashed £98k through CloudStore in July Posted: 17 Aug 2012 12:34 AM PDT A third of it on a little-known SME called Microsoft Public sector organisations spent just over £98,000 through the government CloudStore framework in July, mainly on software.…

What to do with 110,000 Magstar tapes and 11PB of data Posted: 17 Aug 2012 12:05 AM PDT Too big for VTL and fading fast amid Indian heat and dust What do you do with 110,000 IBM 3590 cartridges? That's the problem an Indian resources company faced last year. The cartridges, which IBM introduced way back in 1995 under the Magstar name offered a 60 gigabyte capacity that then seemed capacious, and collectively contained around 11 petabytes of geospatial data.…

Fujifilm X-Pro1 16Mp compact system camera review Posted: 17 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT Visual virtuoso For Fujifilm, the fixed-lens retro-styled FinePix X100 camera turned out to be a huge and rather unexpected success. It was only a matter of time to see the company to bank on its popularity and release an interchangeable lens system loosely based on this model. Yet this CSC is no rehash, as it features a new 16Mp sensor design that puts it in a class of its own.…

Raspberry Pi now comes in Firefox OS flavour Posted: 16 Aug 2012 07:52 PM PDT Nokia engineer adapts Pi recipe with HTML-5-infused handset goodness The little computer that can, the Raspberry Pi, has successfully run the imminent Firefox OS, thanks to the efforts of a Nokia employee named Oleg Romashin.…

Scientists find safer way to store hydrogen Posted: 16 Aug 2012 05:53 PM PDT Non-morons defuse potential H-bomb Australian scientists have come up with a clever way of storing hydrogen that they feel could make it a viable portable fuel source.…

Verizon wins approval for $3.6bn cable spectrum swap Posted: 16 Aug 2012 05:10 PM PDT Modified terms allay regulators' objections Verizon looks to have the green light to acquire around 20MHz of wireless spectrum from a consortium of four of the US's largest cable companies, with two government agencies having voiced approval of the deal, albeit in modified form.…

Boundary punts freebie app monitoring from the clouds Posted: 16 Aug 2012 04:43 PM PDT Pockets $15m in VC cash, hooks into Engine Yard Application monitoring tool provider Boundary, which only peddles its wares as a service running on a cloud, is offering potential customers a freebie version of the service to scare up some business.…

British boffin builds cool maser after argument with wife Posted: 16 Aug 2012 04:09 PM PDT Her indoors inspires him upstairs Vid  An obscure Japanese research paper, some second-hand equipment on eBay, and a British scientist's argument with his wife have become the catalysts for creating the world's first room-temperature microwave laser. It's also around 100 million times more powerful than current models.…

iiNet’s happy dance Posted: 16 Aug 2012 04:04 PM PDT What's a quarter-million BoB worth? The high points are easy: iiNet's profit is up by 11 percent, the company is claiming 15 percent of the broadband market in Australia, and its revenue is well over the $AU800 million mark.…

Chinese man blows off hands, builds new pair Posted: 16 Aug 2012 04:00 PM PDT Iron-Man style DIY effort has man grasping again Plucky Chinese gent Sun Jifa showed the world exactly what persistence, and a rudimentary knowledge of welding and prosthetics, can do when it emerged this week that he built his own bionic hands after accidentally blowing the originals off.…

Tridium patches control systems bug after a year Posted: 16 Aug 2012 03:33 PM PDT All your buildings were belong to anyone More than 300,000 automation systems – covering lighting control, building automation and security, heating and air conditioning and more – need patching after a slew of vulnerabilities in the Tridium Niagara AX went public thanks to an ISC-CERT advisory.…

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