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Business News Shiny doodad blog Engadget clubbed with Reddit banhammer Sysadmin blog Publishers, the community is on to you Oracle investors get hot under collar over execs' bulging packages 'Lack of performance hurdles' vexes pension funds at stockholders' shindig Bucket? Check. Toilet plunger? Check. El Reg's 50 years of Doctor Who Doctor Who @ 50 One Time Lord, one month, five decades New Bitcoin exchange launches in the UK Get your lovely BTC here... 3 for 380 quid... Oracle makes Halloween-eve request for sysadmin HORROR MOVIES Uncle Fester Larry wants vids of HORRIBLE BUGS he can squash Channel News Former Systemax exec faces second probe by Feds Lawyer for Carl Fiorentino reveals details in latest filing Insight warns of $20 MILLION kick in the teeth from Microsoft Redmond programme overhaul and Blighty's Q3 woes bode ill for enormo reseller Data Centre News HP 100TB Memristor drives by 2018 – if you're lucky, admits tech titan Blocks and Files Universal memory slow in coming CSC straddles clouds with ServiceMesh gobble Prepares to paste policy layers over cloudy infrastructure Amazon unleashes JavaScript SDK so devs can conjure cloud gods Servers? Pah! Just pray Amazon into the browser! For its next trick, Inktank tries to pull golden rabbit from Ceph hat Just how do you make people pay for an open-source filesystem? Salesforce whips out private-public-ish 'iTunes app store' for enterprise IT Don't worry about the NSA. Off-site cloud still the future ... honest, guv We'll build Elon Musk's Hyperloop ... if you lob us ONE-MEELLION dollars Demos set for 2015, apparently Starboard Storage goes titsup: LeftHanders to leave the building Sad end to promising startup revealed Storage memory has a DIMM future... and that's a GOOD thing Blocks and Files Change the phase, spin the transfer talk Toshiba unveils SSD: Claims hard-as-nails kit has the write stuff 30 full drive writes a day for 5 years, apparently Lord of the RING Scality lets NFS and popular pals into the object party From files to objects and back again Spare external hard drives gathering dust? Share your stuff with fellow cloud fear types Connected Data intros Transporter Sync IBM to shutter SmartCloud, move customers to SoftLayer Migrations due by January 31st, 2014, in-territory clouds to stay VMware brings big data to vSphere standard edition Hadoop, reduced Hardware News Our first fondle: iPad Air wants YOU to slide a hand into your pants... ...to get out your wallet, obviously B&N's spooky glowing Nook unzips wand, turns 4GB into 2.5GB of space Take that, Amazon! Android KitKat wrapper finally RIPPED OFF, Nexus 5 EXPOSED by Google At last, the wait is over on leakiest phone in ages SECRET Google store touts pricey accessories to Glasshole shopaholics Fancy a $50 piece of clear plastic? Step right in Nokia wins UK patent spat: Quick, let's boot HTC One out of Blighty Finnish firm seeks injunction AND compensation Ding-dong, Cthulu calling: Infogrames’ 1992 Alone in the Dark Antique Code Show Crawling chaos in the classic classic house of horrors China's Qihoo unveils kids' smart watch for nosy parents Lock down your child's freedom with this handy wrist gadget 'Tablet' no longer means 'iPad': Apple share PLUMMETS below 30% Shipments stalled in Q3 as Samsung and Lenovo surged ioControl - hybrid storage performance leadership Tolly evaluates the performance of ioControl against conventional hybrid storage to find ioControl provided up to 700% better performance in block level access tests. Download here > Networks News Australian confirms Huawei ban Political bedfellows on local board can't sway new government BT's new boss reports flat sales and pre-tax profit tumble But hey, at least sport channel's off to a 'confident start' – Patterson TalkTalk to block nuisance calls with no help AT ALL from Huawei ISP goes it alone on network level filter to ban 'menacing' scammers Policy News MEDIC! Google, Oracle, Red Hat docs race to save crippled Healthcare.gov It's flatlining - charge defibrillator... CLEAR! Bzzt-doofff FIERY DEATH awaits all who stroke mobes mid-flight? Nope, says FAA Sanity breaks out as regulator officially relaxes rules on gadgets Cameron pledges public access to list of who REALLY owns firms Tax-evasion-busting register will be open to world+dog, says prime minister Vietnam jails man for Facebook freedom campaign 'Abuse' of personal liberties leads to 15 months in jail Security News How Dark Mail Alliance hopes to roll out virtually NSA-proof email next year El Reg chats to cofounder Jon Callas Firefox's plugin-blocker slams into beta - but don't jump for joy, Flash haters Malware, you shall not pass (unless it's in a .swf) From Russia with Code: Edward Snowden gets job on website helldesk Bypasses frying pan, leaps straight into fire with legs akimbo Infosec bod reports ONGOING ATTACK at RSA securo-confab RSA Europe 2013 Conference staffer blames device config snafu Facebook tests sinister CURSOR-TRACKING in hunt for more ad bucks Silently stalking your every move ... bitch Give young infosec boffins more cash or BAD THINGS will happen – RSA boff RSA Europe 2013 State-sponsored malware already making crypto 'irrelevant' Win XP box? You're 6 TIMES as likely as Win 8 bods to get the pox ... and that's BEFORE Microsoft ends support - report Mavericks Mail's spam-spewing 'flaw' was scripted by red-faced user FastMail says sorry for crying wolf, is still grumpy Mavericks Mail don't speak no good IMAP Science News Ahhh, SATISFACTION: Watch while we set a NAS on FIRE Watch the flames soar over the plasterboard ... Alien planet is ANOTHER EARTH - except for ONE tiny detail Doomed, scorchio planet is far too close to its sun Bootnotes News Issue of the day: Do dishwashers really blunt knives? Readers' corner El Reg commentards and their Middle Class Problems The Colosseum, Hagia Sophia, Tower of London... and, er, Steve Jobs' GARAGE Hallowed carport on Crist Drive a building of 'historical significance' ioControl - hybrid storage performance leadership Tolly evaluates the performance of ioControl against conventional hybrid storage to find ioControl provided up to 700% better performance in block level access tests. 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