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Business News Getting worried, Assange? WikiLeaks spaffs out 'insurance' info Only to be used in case of emergency arrest, natch Dr Dre's Beats plans to drop HTC, hook up with rich mate – report Hip-hop star's headphones firm tries to ditch Taiwanese mobile maker Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak disses Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs 'A lot of what was wrong with the film came from Ashton...' - Woz Vodafone 'settled SECRET £57m Irish tax wrangle' back in 2009 Look, taxman, here's a few mil, now sod off will you? Building big data? Are you building a security headache too? I didn't mean to isn't good enough Channel News Comet brand yanked from its grave: Tycoon vows to open EIGHTY new stores Entrepreneur: Don't let your savings waste away in a bank, invest in me! Cloud News Amazon's cloud dwarfs all others, Gartner finds It's Bezos' world, say the Magic Quadrant cultists Amazon.com falls offline Updated Last week Google, this week Amazon, next week El Reg? Data Centre News SimpliVity intros swollen and shrunken rip-'n'-replace boxen Server-killing, array-crushing OmniCube gets some new sizes Samsung's cooking 3D NAND flash chips. WHAT did you say the specs were? Oh right... you didn't Sysadmins: Be the hand up the backside at PuppetConf, VMworld Sysadmin blog Foaming tankards are at the ready, so keep a spare liver on standby Hardware News Apple to replace wonky iMac graphics cards Is your 27-incher's display distorted? White? Blue? Black? Your fix is free Apple sucking triple the phone switchers as Samsung – report iPhone buyers also younger, smarter, richer than 'droid drones Intel to put pedal to metal in 14nm Atom upgrade No more leisurely transitions from Core to Atom, says report – the market won't wait ZTE's $80 Firefox OS mobe sells out on eBay Can anybody keep these things in stock? Happy birthday MIDI 1.0: Getting pop stars wired for 30 years Feature Part One: Something to make a song and dance about Networks News IiNet creates cut-price diffusion brand 'Jiva' Eighty bucks a month for all the voice and data bits you can bite Wholesale telco IspONE goes titsup, Kogan mobile going dark Telstra pulls the plug as ispONE calls in the administrators New tool lets single server map entire internet in 45 minutes Zmap could be boon to analysts, doom for security Blighty street has hottest Wi-Fi hotspot hottie in Europe: We reveal where And one-in-four hotspots in UK are free to use Policy News Assange washes hands in election row You don't think I run this party I'm standing for, do you? Probation officer gets TINY fine for spilling domestic violence victim's ADDRESS Coughs £150 for handing out data... to alleged perp Snowden's email provider may face court rap after closing service 'Violation of court order' could lead to contempt charges – report Screw you, Brits! Google says UK privacy law doesn't apply to it Try to sue us in California – if you dare Does the RSPCA have your gun licence or car registration? NOBODY knows When are cops not subject to FOI? When they're animal cops Security News British gave US 'heads-up' before interrogation of Snowden hack's partner Brazilian forced to give up passwords after prison threat British spooks seize tech from Snowden journo's boyfriend at airport Outrage as special police grab mobe, laptop, even game console Fooling the AppStore one code-chunk at a time Jekyll on iOS suggests tests inadequate Software News How much mazuma does it take to not be Oracle? $10m, says Clustrix, as it splits its database from hardware Fanbois taught to use Apple's new killer app: Microsoft Windows Shop staff to spend their days sleeping with the enemy Mozilla's Metro-friendly Firefox for Win 8.1 to arrive in December Touchy browser for x86 PCs that want to be tabs 12 simple rules: How Ted Codd transformed the humble database Anniversary Near misses and lucky escapes for a multi-billion-dollar baby Science News Tiny fireball exoplanet completes one year in 8.5 hours Molten sphere could give clues to planetary mass Portuguese chicken invades Spanish airspace Plucky stratocockerel crash-lands in bewildered old boy's fig tree Flab-fighting LOHAN fettles fantastical flying truss Lightweight Vulture 2 launch platform almost ready for action Kiwi jetpack gets all-clear for manned tests A small step closer to your sci-fi future... 2013 World Solar Challenge racers start the big reveal SPB Intrepid Reg desert trek team previews 2013's sun-powered sedans and street-legals Bootnotes News Fear the JOBZILLA! 150ft STATUE of Steve planned 'lest fanbois forget' Apple biz tyrant to be IMMORTALISED in towering form ... if $50,000 raised

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