US energy lab's pump-happy petaflopper goes green

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• US energy lab's pump-happy petaflopper goes green
• WinPhone 8 preview SDK limited to established developers
• The world's first Windows Phone 8 hands on – what's it like?
• Consumers getting cagier about mobile app privacy
• Apple weighs in on AntiSec's alleged FBI hack
• IBM's z12 mainframe engine makes each clock count
• Swedes are best at using the internet, says Berners-Lee
• CSC pockets £68m under revamped NHS care database deal
• Nokia tears wraps off new Windows Phone Lumias on steroids
• Android spat loser Oracle ordered to toss Google some change
• SanDisk flogs strap-on to speed up your lazy Windows 7 PC
• Guinness World Records pulls beards off online Secret Santas
• UK's non-x86 server sales dive off cliff, vendors take a hit
• GCHQ spooks give biz chiefs crash course in thwarting hackers
• UK's pay-by-bonk mobile network threesome wins EU approval
• IT distribution titan Tech Data to gobble UK's SDG for $350m
• 'World's first' dog to sniff out pilfered cabling is Brit black lab
• Chick-lit star snubs Menshn.com password flaw alert
• The Register flicks switch on Data Centre channel
• RIM begs devs: Build for BlackBerry 10, we'll bung you $10K
• Famous SAS man trousers £1m as e-publishing startup sold to Tesco
• Finger-free Kinect coming to fondlesome Windows 8
• Zuckerberg WON'T flog his Facebook shares for a year
• Voyager's 35th birthday gift: One-way INTERSTELLAR ticket
• Speaking in Tech: Lawyers are the enemy of the cloud
• Oh no, sysadmins! VMware touts data centre that runs ITSELF
• Third of iPad owners want smaller slabs
• Sceptic becomes UK Environment - but <i>not</i> Climate - Secretary
• Windows Server 2012: Smarter, stronger, frustrating
• Auditor: You know what Scotland needs? Proper IT experts
• You'll be on a list 3 hrs after you start downloading from pirates - study
• LOHAN poses for sexy wide-angle vid
• Game devs beg UK taxman: Can we pay 30% less?
• Crucial v4 256GB budget SSD review
• Apple hoards LTE patents to deflect Samsung attack
• NEC looks to offload Lenovo shares
• Old men who use computers less likely to get dementia
• China's tech giants gang up on short seller
• Bitcoin exchange shuts after heist
• New Zealand's Copyright Tribunal to hear first cases
• Greens promise free WiFi for Sydney
• Qubes OS bakes in virty system-level security
• Gunman takes potshots at Dell HQ, chopper search ensues
• NASA captures mind-bogglingly gorgeous solar video
• Intel teaches Xeon Phi x86 coprocessor snappy new tricks
• Google/Oracle judge loses interest in paid bloggers
• Another trans-Pac fibre mooted
• FBI says Apple ID heist claim is TOTALLY FALSE

US energy lab's pump-happy petaflopper goes green Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:24 PM PDT Shiny new Xeon–Xeon Phi hybrid splashes into water-cooled data center The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has hooked up with HP, Intel, and partners to design a new hybrid supercomputer and an energy-efficient data center wrapper for it that will – among other green gains – use the exhaust heat from the supercomputer to heat adjacent offices.…

WinPhone 8 preview SDK limited to established developers Posted: 05 Sep 2012 01:03 PM PDT Want to join Microsoft's new phone OS dev crew? Cool your jets Developers who expect to get cracking on apps for Windows Phone 8 this summer may be in for a disappointment: not only will the final WP8 SDK not arrive until later this year, but the Preview edition due next week will be available to only a select few.…

The world's first Windows Phone 8 hands on – what's it like? Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT Paws for thought on Nokia's brand-new Lumias It was harder than usual, but not impossible, to get my hands on Nokia's two new Windows 8 phones today. Word has already gone around Twitter that press and analysts were forbidden from handling the devices. This is not true – and on a scale of difficulty it hardly rated alongside reporting from outside Baghdad's Green Zone. So here's my hands-on take.…

Consumers getting cagier about mobile app privacy Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:17 PM PDT Finally, some good news for RIM Mobile users are getting a lot smarter about what they are willing to share with application developers, with over half deciding against downloading an app because of the information it sought to harvest.…

Apple weighs in on AntiSec's alleged FBI hack Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:21 AM PDT 'Don't look at us' If, as they claim, the black hats of AntiSec did indeed hack into an FBI agent's laptop and lift unique device identifier (UDID) codes and some users' personal info from 12,367,232 iPhones and iPads, the feds did not get that user and device data from Cupertino. Or so Apple says.…

IBM's z12 mainframe engine makes each clock count Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:02 AM PDT All 5.5 billion of them – and then some Hot Chips  When you charge hundreds of thousands of dollars per core for an engine that is designed to run full-out all day doing online transaction processing and all night running single-threaded big batch jobs, you have no choice but to believe in higher clock speeds and doing anything and everything to boost that single-thread performance. And that is what IBM's new z12 mainframe engines are all about.…

Swedes are best at using the internet, says Berners-Lee Posted: 05 Sep 2012 10:26 AM PDT Shock: Rich countries top Sir Tim's Web Index Sweden has won the top prize in a new global index of countries getting the best out of the net socially and politically, with the US second and the UK coming third.…

CSC pockets £68m under revamped NHS care database deal Posted: 05 Sep 2012 10:02 AM PDT Waves final goodbye to original £2.9bn contract CSC and the government have reached a truce over a central patient database with both sides agreeing to a more flexible contract until 2016 and to shelve any potential litigation.…

Nokia tears wraps off new Windows Phone Lumias on steroids Posted: 05 Sep 2012 08:56 AM PDT Ball-breaking design packs new features, PureView cam From a distance, Nokia's new Lumia 920 flagship smartphone looks identical to its current flagship handset - but on a diet of performance-enhancing steroids.…

Android spat loser Oracle ordered to toss Google some change Posted: 05 Sep 2012 08:32 AM PDT What's $1m amongst multibillion-dollar friends? Oracle has been ordered to pay part of Google's legal bill in the database giant's failed Android patent infringement lawsuit.…

SanDisk flogs strap-on to speed up your lazy Windows 7 PC Posted: 05 Sep 2012 08:01 AM PDT Retrofit SSD plus caching software SanDisk has brought out a cheapish solution for flash-less Windows 7 PCs. The firm promises a start-up time that is four times faster as well as app-loading that's 12 times faster if you buy its new SanDisk SSD and caching software bundle.…

Guinness World Records pulls beards off online Secret Santas Posted: 05 Sep 2012 07:28 AM PDT Email leak blows cover of gift-giving Reddit record-holders Guiness World Records has owned up to leaking 1,070 email addresses of Redditgifts users who won the record for the Largest Online Secret Santa.…

UK's non-x86 server sales dive off cliff, vendors take a hit Posted: 05 Sep 2012 07:02 AM PDT Everyone out of pocket - except Dell Growth in the UK server market evaporated in Q2 as x86 platform sales dipped and the already dwindling base of non-x86 machines collapsed.…

GCHQ spooks give biz chiefs crash course in thwarting hackers Posted: 05 Sep 2012 06:40 AM PDT Try not to lose your blueprints through the firewall, OK? GCHQ, the UK's nerve-centre for eavesdropping spooks, will advise the nation's business leaders on how best to thwart attacks by hackers.…

UK's pay-by-bonk mobile network threesome wins EU approval Posted: 05 Sep 2012 06:04 AM PDT One wallet to rule them all, nearly The UK operator consortium to create a single electronic wallet will not impede competition, the EU has decided – though Three, Google and PayPal may beg to differ.…

IT distribution titan Tech Data to gobble UK's SDG for $350m Posted: 05 Sep 2012 05:49 AM PDT March of channel consolidation continues Technology products distributor Tech Data (TD) has swallowed Specialist Distribution Group (SDG) for $350m (£220.3m) in a deal that is subject to regulatory approval from the EU's competition authorities.…

'World's first' dog to sniff out pilfered cabling is Brit black lab Posted: 05 Sep 2012 05:34 AM PDT Metal-searching Jazz has nose for crime A dog named Jazz has been trained to sniff out forensic markings on metal to help cops nab crooks who pinch copper cabling from BT's underground telephone network.…

Chick-lit star snubs Menshn.com password flaw alert Posted: 05 Sep 2012 05:17 AM PDT 'Snippy geek' finds fresh holes in ex-MP's web-jabber thing A security researcher has warned of new vulnerabilities in former Tory MP and chick-lit queen Louise Mensch's three-month-old chatroom-cum-microblogging service.…

The Register flicks switch on Data Centre channel Posted: 05 Sep 2012 05:00 AM PDT All your big and virtual iron in one place Our sharper-eyed readers - the sort that care about storage, servers, HPC and the like - will have noticed The Register has launched a Data Centre section.…

RIM begs devs: Build for BlackBerry 10, we'll bung you $10K Posted: 05 Sep 2012 04:39 AM PDT An offer you can't refuse Developers who get BlackBerry 10 apps in quick will get their income bumped up to $10,000 if they make more than $1,000, as RIM gets in the drinks at the last chance salon.…

Famous SAS man trousers £1m as e-publishing startup sold to Tesco Posted: 05 Sep 2012 04:18 AM PDT Andy McNab, VC Famous ex-SAS man "Andy McNab" will pocket almost £1m as Mobcast, an e-book publishing operation he co-founded, is sold to Tesco.…

Finger-free Kinect coming to fondlesome Windows 8 Posted: 05 Sep 2012 04:01 AM PDT Microsoft game controller support for desktop Kinect, Microsoft's hands-free game controller, will run Windows 8 applications from next month.…

Zuckerberg WON'T flog his Facebook shares for a year Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:42 AM PDT But staff can cash out soon if they want... bitch Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed he will not sell any of his shares in his social networking website for one year.…

Voyager's 35th birthday gift: One-way INTERSTELLAR ticket Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:22 AM PDT Veteran space probe bores outward into the deep void As NASA's Voyager probes complete their 35th year of operation, Voyager 1 has sensed a second change in the surrounding expanse of obsidian nothingness - just as scientists predicted would happen before the craft enters interstellar space.…

Speaking in Tech: Lawyers are the enemy of the cloud Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:02 AM PDT Plus: VMware still hard at work on the Death Star Podcast  Enterprise tech guru Greg Knieriemen, cloud and storage expert Ed Saipetch and web2.0 ace Sarah Vela have wrapped it up at VMworld and are back to the grindstone, replete with tales of vOdgeball glory, San Fran's dice dives and more.…

Oh no, sysadmins! VMware touts data centre that runs ITSELF Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:39 AM PDT Storage bods, your time is up Now that vCloud Suite 5.1 has arrived, VMware is pushing a new term: the software-defined data centre (SDD). It's easy at first to dismiss this as merely another marketing buzzword, meaningless PR babble like "cloud" or "synergy". If you poke your head behind the curtain, you'll find there's good reason for this newest bit of jargon.…

Third of iPad owners want smaller slabs Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:32 AM PDT But only one in five of all tablet owners do Market watcher Strategy Analytics has been asking iPad owners about their desires for the platform and found that a third of them want a tablet with a different size screen.…

Sceptic becomes UK Environment - but <i>not</i> Climate - Secretary Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:16 AM PDT New Minister for Nimbys takes up portfolio Comment  Green campaigners are aghast at the news that a fairly blunt climate-change sceptic has been appointed to the post of Environment Secretary in the latest ministerial reshuffle - but they are no doubt also somewhat consoled by the fact that in the British government this post has very little to do with matters of climate change.…

Windows Server 2012: Smarter, stronger, frustrating Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:03 AM PDT Perfect upgrade for punters with a passion for the obscure Review  Microsoft has released Windows Server 2012, based on the same core code as Windows 8. Yes, it has the same Start screen in place of the Start menu, but that is of little importance, particularly since Microsoft is pushing the idea of installing the Server Core edition – which has no Graphical User Interface. If you do install a GUI, Server 2012 even boots into the desktop by default.…

Auditor: You know what Scotland needs? Proper IT experts Posted: 05 Sep 2012 01:37 AM PDT Central resource could help public sector, says watchdog Audit Scotland is calling on the Scottish government to consider providing a central resource of specialised ICT expertise and advice for public bodies.…

You'll be on a list 3 hrs after you start downloading from pirates - study Posted: 05 Sep 2012 01:21 AM PDT Bad news for seeders 'n' feeders... File sharers who download torrents from services such as The Pirate Bay can expect to find their IP address logged by copyright enforcers within three hours, according to a new study by computer scientists.…

LOHAN poses for sexy wide-angle vid Posted: 05 Sep 2012 01:03 AM PDT El Reg fondles news spaceplane mission kit There's always a frisson of excitement when we take delivery of some new kit at the Special Project Bureau's mountaintop headquarters, and last week the bloke with the big white van drew up at the door to drop off the latest piece of Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) kit - a GoPro HD HERO2 camera.…

Game devs beg UK taxman: Can we pay 30% less? Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:53 AM PDT Firms spending to create British cultural product deserve a break – trade body Companies involved in making video games in the UK should receive a tax break worth 30 per cent of what they owe, a trade association has said.…

Crucial v4 256GB budget SSD review Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:52 AM PDT SATA 2 and proud of it The latest addition to Crucial's range of SSD's, the v4 series isn't, as you might expect, the follow up to the company's highly successful m4 series but a different animal entirely. It's so different in fact, it makes you wonder what was Crucial's thinking behind it.…

Apple hoards LTE patents to deflect Samsung attack Posted: 04 Sep 2012 10:44 PM PDT Possible defensive move to stop Samsung marching iPhone 5 to court Apple has been hoarding LTE patents in a bid to head off a possible legal attack from fierce rival Samsung on its forthcoming iPhone 5, according to reports from Korea.…

NEC looks to offload Lenovo shares Posted: 04 Sep 2012 10:24 PM PDT Kitchen sink next for ailing Japanese firm Ailing Japanese electronics giant NEC looks set to sell all of its shares in Lenovo after the Chinese PC maker confirmed to The Reg that it has waived a previous restriction on the sale.…

Old men who use computers less likely to get dementia Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:13 PM PDT 40% lower incidence among men 69+ when they use computers, boffins say Men who use computers as they enter their winter years have a better chance of avoiding dementia than those who don't, according to a new Australian study.…

China's tech giants gang up on short seller Posted: 04 Sep 2012 08:07 PM PDT Microsoft, SAP and others accuse market analyst Citron of fraudulent practices A group of 60 Chinese entrepreneurs, CEOs, investors and regional heads of global tech concerns including Microsoft and SAP has turned their collective fury on short seller Citron Research, arguing the firm is deceiving the market by finding fault in firms where there is none.…

Bitcoin exchange shuts after heist Posted: 04 Sep 2012 07:17 PM PDT Bitfloor says 24,000 BTC pinched through unencrypted backup Bitcoin exchange Bitfloor has suspended its operations while it tries to figure out who pinched 24,000 units of the virtual currency by accessing an unencrypted backup and using information it contained to transfer 24,000 BTC to destinations unknown.…

New Zealand's Copyright Tribunal to hear first cases Posted: 04 Sep 2012 06:47 PM PDT Skynet three strikes laws to be enforced The New Zealand music industry has taken aim at illegal music downloaders threatening to use the controversial 'Skynet' law for the first time before the new Copyright Tribunal.…

Greens promise free WiFi for Sydney Posted: 04 Sep 2012 06:16 PM PDT Dutch leaves touted as ad-supported solar solution New South Wales' local government elections aren't the forum for massive IT&T debates, but the Greens have at least given technologists something to sway their votes with a promise to introduce free WiFi in the City of Sydney and adjoining Marrickville local government area.…

Qubes OS bakes in virty system-level security Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:52 PM PDT Blue Pill creator stacks multiple sandboxed VMs Invisible Things Lab (ITL), a group of security researchers based in Warsaw, Poland, has announced Qubes 1.0, the first production release of a new desktop operating system designed to provide unprecedented security through the pervasive use of virtualization.…

Gunman takes potshots at Dell HQ, chopper search ensues Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:42 PM PDT Everyone's a critic – but some are armed Labor Day ended with a bang at the Dell headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, after an unidentified shooter fired a number of rounds though its windows.…

NASA captures mind-bogglingly gorgeous solar video Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:24 PM PDT Your tax dollars at work – spectacularly Video  Last Friday the Sun put on a magnificent display, ejecting a massive solar filament that was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in all its glory.…

Intel teaches Xeon Phi x86 coprocessor snappy new tricks Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:18 PM PDT The interconnect rings a bell Hot Chips  It took fifteen years for Intel to shrink the computing power of the teraflops-busting ASCI Red massively parallel Pentium II supercomputer down to something that fits inside of a PCI-Express coprocessor card – and the Xeon Phi coprocessor is only the first step in a long journey with coprocessor sidekicks riding posse with CPUs in pursuit of exascale computing.…

Google/Oracle judge loses interest in paid bloggers Posted: 04 Sep 2012 04:59 PM PDT Letter of the law more important In a surprise move, the judge overseeing the court battle between Google and Oracle over Java patents used in Android has pulled his order that the parties provide a list of bloggers or journalists paid to promote their respective wares.…

Another trans-Pac fibre mooted Posted: 04 Sep 2012 04:21 PM PDT South Pacific Island Networks redux With wannabe pacific Pacific Fibre out of cash out of the game, a new group has re-emerged with a proposal to string a cable from from Australia and New Zealand to Hawaii, taking in a group of Pacific Islands along the way, rather than following the direct-to-US route proposed by the defunct Pacific Fibre.…

FBI says Apple ID heist claim is TOTALLY FALSE Posted: 04 Sep 2012 04:03 PM PDT 'Not our data' Popcorn time  Hot on the heels of AntiSec's claim that the purloined Apple device IDs it dumped to Pastebin came from the FBI, the G-men have flatly denied the story.…

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