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Business News Apple's iTunes Radio to launch next month with abundant ads Would you like fries with that song? Judge bins lawsuit alleging AOL patent sale conspiracy theory Court rules that $1bn flogoff to Microsoft wasn't a secret deal Bitcoin blitzkreig as Germans prepare to tax virtual currency Berlin puts its towel on virtual sunlounger Cloud News Amazon legal filing flames IBM's 'materially deficient' CIA cloud Redacted document reveals seething hatred in spook cloud battle Rackspace to fire up VMware hybrid cloud A frenemy for VMware's Hybrid Cloud Service Data Centre News Dell aligns Foglight management tools with VMware stack Ready for the impending ESXi and vSphere 5.5 Nutanix adds memory and flash de-dupe on server-storage halfbloods Pushing into Global 2000 accounts – with a vengeance GreenBytes guts its arrays, turns self into chompable doughnut Plus they've scooped up an ex-IBM dude for the board Taiwanese spill on Zuck's racks: Servers powering Facebook REVEALED 'Remove anything that does not contribute to efficiency' ... kiss goodbye to every post? Imation's $120m baby delivers NST6000 hybrid storage mutant NAND cache and faster controllers Gartner to VMware: Rock out with your socket out VMworld 2013 Wizards like virty giant's old stuff better than its new stuff VLSCI fires up 20 teraflop Barcoo New super is also a Xeon test bed Hardware News US agency declares Tesla Model S safest car EVER 'Sure, 5 is the highest possible NHTSA rating, but we deserve a 5.4' Sony sets the dates for US and European PS4 release amid Xbox jibes 'It's about the gaming, stupid' 100 MEEELION self-driving cars will be sold globally in 2035 – report But only if we decide who'll be liable when they crash iWatch rumours grow as Apple hires Nike fitness guru Jay Blahnik Latest idiot tax device might include keep-fit tech 'BLING BLING, BLING BLING' 'Hello, yes, my iPhone is made of GOLD' Jesus phone to become the Midas Phone – louder mutterings Networks News Essential maintenance website down for, er, essential maintenance Quick Jim, order me an RJ45 crimper. Oh b*gger New BT chief gets keys to copper-encrusted door next month Poised to replaced Lord Livingston Microsoft announces execution date for failed QR code-killer Redmond admits defeat in war that never was LinkedIn lowers age of consent to 13 Hey, kids: can Facebook get you a JOB? Supercharge your infrastructure Fusion­.io has developed a shared storage solution that provides new performance management capabilities required to maximize flash utilization. Download here > Policy News US government nabbed $2.9m in May Bitcoin seizure Mt. Gox's Dwolla account yielded a pretty purse Comcast court docs show Prenda copyright trolls seeded smut then sued Pirate Bay data catches company red-handed Green German gov battles to keep fossil powerplants running No longer profitable, thanks to renewables - but vital to keep the lights on US court rules IP address cloaks may break law 'Published' might not mean 'available to anyone' Security News Palestinian Facebook flaw-finder getting $10,000 payday in online appeal Security industry rallies round when Zuck & Co. refuse to pay up Second time's a charm! Microsoft tries again with Active Directory patch 'The fix actually turned into a bigger problem than the one it was attempting to solve' Bloke leaks '1000s' of Twitter login tokens, says he can hack ANY twit Known vulnerability sat on by Twitter, inevitable happens Guardian lets UK spooks trash 'Snowden files' PCs to make them feel better Editor tells of 'peculiarly pointless piece of symbolism' after hard drive destruction Legal bible Groklaw pulls plug in wake of Lavabit shutdown, NSA firestorm Blogger who tracked epic Linux patent, copyright wars can't rely on email Password-keeper LastPass plugs up IE cache leak vuln Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Software News MongoDB speaks elephantese with Hadoop Connector upgrades 10Gen proves square JSON pegs can be inserted into round HDFS holes Firefox takes top marks in browser stability tests Who's on bottom? Surprisingly, it's not Internet Explorer FoundationDB ACID-lovers price up NoSQL database Unorthodox tech gets free and paid-for versions Microsoft shoehorns Skype into Outlook.com - we quickly kick the tyres Vid Phonecalls-in-webmail plugin unleashed on the web, what could possibly go wrong? Microsoft Exchange: To host or not to host Webcast Cloud, control or both? Windows NT: Remember Microsoft's almost perfect 20-year-old? Feature It all went a bit pear-shaped later... but it DID stop people switching to OS/2 Science News West Australia guarantees SKA funding to 2019 $AU26 million for ICRAR Astroboffins capture stunning starbirth image 66 antennas up to 16km apart capture celestial violence occurring 1400 years ago CLIMATE CHANGE made sea levels FALL in 2010 and 2011 All the water basically got dumped on Australia, say boffins Alien antique show: Egyptians wore JEWELRY FROM SPAAAACE Pic Boffins trace origin of 5,000-year-old cosmic bijoux In case of LOHAN flight emergency, gobble THIS Iridium-Arduino sandwich Pics Space-balloon abort box to feature big red button Boffin blends benevolent beer Hydration hack hinders hangovers by adding sports drink ingredients Mind-reading MRI reads letters in the brain Reading the reader Supercharge your infrastructure Fusion­.io has developed a shared storage solution that provides new performance management capabilities required to maximize flash utilization. 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