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Business News Lenovo sniffing BlackBerry's laundry, may purchase: report It's getting easier to ask who doesn't want to buy BlackBerry! Google's shares surf ad-destroying mobile tsunami to RECORD HIGH Page wishes he knew how to throw MORE money on fundamental research LG Display: No one buys TVs any more, but mobe screens? KerCHING Q4 won't be as good, as telly display demand plummets NSA reporter leaves paper for eBay billionaire backed media biz Glenn Greenwald leaves Grauniad for Pierre Omidyar project eBay warns investors: Don't expect 'em to stuff stockings with our tat Sales of secondhand How the Grinch Stole Christmas to soar... Channel News Enormo US reseller Insight rejigs top bods across rest of world Top UK and EMEA execs are leaving, and sales 'are down' – sources HP cloud overlord backs UK distie Westcoast as it flogs its fluff to small biz Big biz has the cloud fear, thunders vendor's chief Data Centre News Gasp! Facebook's hardware king joins board of ARM server biz Calxeda Mournful puckering sound squeaks out of Intel HQ Havana see your bare metal: New OpenStack v8 clinches containerization Open-source cloud control freak emerges from shadows on Heat Acronis CEO: Anyone can undercut Amazon. Reg hack: Prove it Blocks and Files Boss puts numbers where his mouth is EC: NSA slurps scare you? Europe's clouds are open for business We're not building 'fortress Europe' for cloud, mind Managing multi-vendor devices with System Centre 2012 Training How InTune and Configuration Manager can help Free Cocaine giveaway from Russian search engine Yandex Naughtily named platform-as-a-service product may get up Google's nose Most 'cloud' traffic never sees the cloud: Cisco Bits are stay at home types and find the wide world a scary place OpenStack adds F5 as member Stacking the upper layer Hardware News Former Nokia boss Ollila: Stephen Elop was second-choice CEO I WANTED to flog high-end smartphones. Operators stopped me – former CEO Ubisoft's Watch Dogs muzzled by delays But defence mega-corp Thales isn't bothered ... and here's why Man+iPhone versus artificial intelligence: Anki robot racer slot cars Ladies and gents (boys and girls), start your engines Networks News Ofcom flogs ex-military 4G spectrum, but ONLY the iPhone 5 can use it Carriers cheer choice, customers cry in confusion BSkyB profit knocked by BT footie struggle and O2 broadband costs 'I totally expected that to happen', says Darroch Do not adjust your set: TV market slows, 'connected TV' grows Opinion Hang on, why didn't market-watchers see this coming? Policy News Labor names Jason Clare shadow comms spokesbloke Little evidence of tech savvy in new appointment's CV A $17.3bn fine, you say? Samsung begs for five-year patent war truce Chaebol furiously waves white flag as EU watchdog mulls peace treaty NSA boss Alexander and deputy to take a hike next year Comment Not related to Snowden disclosures, no sirree, says NSA mouthpiece Apple appoints top Obama legal eagle as antitrust watchdog Ex-offshore drilling monitor will keep Apple honest after ebook price-fixing scandal MPs to review laws on UK spy-snoopery after GCHQ Tempora leaks Intelligence and Security Committee chairman says 'balance to be found' Security News US red-tape will drain boffins' brains into China, says crypto-guru Shamir RSA algo man speaks out after battle for visa blocked him from NSA-backed powwow COFFEE AND DANISH HELL: National ID system cockup forces insecure Java on Danes Enjoy your gaping holes if you wanna bank, email, etc How mystery DDoSers tried to take down Bitcoin exchange with 100Gbps crapflood Exclusive El Reg talks to anti-DDos bods - who UNMASK the target... Send dosh (insecurely) via email, Jack Dorsey's Square tells punters TLS can secure financial transactions ... right? Leaky security could scuttle global ship-tracking system Nuke-carrying Iranian ghost ships could be on the USA's radar right now Indonesia becomes MOST DANGEROUS place on the internet Tops China to claim crown as main source of poison packets in Akamai study Software News So you want to develop for Windows 8.1? Visual Studio 2013 is HERE Microsoft ships trove of tools for desktops, devices, and cloud Ubuntu 13.10 lands on desktops, servers, and (er, some) phones Release hailed as 'milestone in computing history' Windows 8.1: What you must know BEFORE you upgrade Get ready for a long download ... and another ... and another Here comes Windows 8.1! Microsoft grits teeth, pushes upgrade to world Analysis Redmond releases the OS you'll sorta recognise Twitter hires Google ad exec: Microblogging? We've heard of it Former Googler will join firm just ahead of its IPO Science News WE'RE DOOMED (again) as astronomers spot asteroid that could SMASH Earth in 2032 2013 TV135 would blow like 2,500 MEGATONS of TNT METEORITES, not MEN, are FROM MARS: NASA rover's shock discovery That whole women-Venus bit is pretty unlikely too, to be honest Behold, the MONSTER-CLAWED critter and its terrifying SPIDER BRAIN Pic Extinct marine creature had nervous system of a sort Reg reader's nipper takes felt pens to Vulture 2 'My four-year-old can design better than that' Bootnotes News Feline OVERLORDS ditch camera-toting human servants, film selfie vids Forget Drake Hands, it's all about cat collar cams now

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