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Business News Google slips Chromecast stick into SAUCY new partner: HBO Go Hookup latest in slow march of media acceptance for ads goliath Rob 'Flipper' Bearden plans to FLOAT his Hadoop heffalump Hortonworks hears a WHOOO! Star Wars exec: These ARE THE DROIDS I was LOOKING FOR UK crew chosen to build R2-D2 for new film Cisco's reverse mentoring plan helps middle-aged managers grok Gen Y Just what the world needs now: a One Direction router Channel News Cisco seeks custody of biz kids amid Phoenix IT Group divorce Networking giant offers free support as negotiations rumble on Acer kills CEO job before CEO starts: All goes Wong after Wang pull-out Parachutes in former chairman Stan who refuses salary Capita: We WILL be more accountable for our services IT Services unit restructures again in pursuit of higher profits Data Centre News Microsoft Azure, Xbox One website go TITSUP all around the world Updated DNS problems render cloud services AND status page inaccessible Forget terabit Ethernet, the next step is 400 gig – if we can afford the R&D SC13 Don't worry, Asian OEMs will pop for it, as long as they get all the jobs Thick, acrid smog in China, India is MELTING Intel's data center servers Circuit boards ruined by air pollution, population not doing so great either Kaminario in amazeballs all-flash K2 streaming-storage benchmark brag From now on, you'll need solid state to beat this thing Intel pulls up its SoCs, reveals 'integrated' memory on CPUs In future will stack memory atop the cores Ultra-green Europeans scorn Facebook's data centre blueprint Efficiency isn't a dirty word! Crevice is a dirty word, but efficiency isn't... Green supercomputer benchmarks make boffins see red, check blueprints SC13 Top 10 use GPU brawn, but has anyone any bright ideas on better juicy tests? DataDirect Networks beefs up its 1.7 MILLION IOPS monster It's big, it's bad, it's the SFA12KX Boffins ponder wireless 'hetnets' as home backhaul helpers There goes the neighbourhood Hardware News Sony patents laser-fitted Wi-Fi SMARTWIG with sideburn buttons Pic This is no bald-faced lie, the CHROME DOME is real Super-stealth FLYING CAR prototype seen outside GOOGLE HQ Pics Sci-fi aircraft can fit in your garage Forget ANGELINA JOLIE, Xbox One struts red carpet in London's Leicester Square It was deserted when we visited, but don't tell anyone Microsoft: Play hookey on Xbox One day - chug a dose of ZOMBIE FLU Tech giant pens doctor's note for your Friday sickie Doctor Who Episode One: Through a glass. Darkly Doctor Who @ 50 A franchise saved by a lack of anything else on TV BAD ALTITUDE: The highs and lows of Doctor Who Doctor Who @ 50 Data Visualisation: Significant heights and depths reached in the TV series Lumia 1520: Our man screams into ENORMO new Nokia phondleslab Review Quad-core Windows giant packs a top-notch camera Don't PANIC, but these SMARTWATCH-stuffed boxes are going NOWHERE Unstylish, pricey, no apps - Xmas shoppers to stick with slabs HURRI-KANO: Raspberry Pi kit for kids STORMS past funding target Double your money with El Reg’s assistance Dear-ly beloved: Apple’s costly iPad Mini with Retina Display Review Exactly like the iPad Air – only smaller. Well, almost... Who wants a Xeon-powered, 12-core, RAID 10 … LAPTOP? Get out your re-enforced asbestos pants, sysadmins, it weighs in at 5.5 kilograms Qualcomm slips out new Snapdragon hardness to gush 4K vids into palms New 805 system-on-chip is the Google Nexus 5 CPU's big brother Networks News FCC: How we'll RIP 'n' REPLACE OLD phone system for new IP tech Commission fails to mention privacy protections in migration Google rolls out fibre to 3 million Ugandans: Ni marungi*, nyan cat Forget net neutrality, you fools! Here, have some pussy Hate Skype now it's part of Microsoft? How about a Chinese clone, then? China mobile's Jego VoIP service offers free calls and rents Honkers phone numbers Counter stealth attacks McAfee discusses detecting the presence and actions of stealthy cyberattacks, and the best and most cost effective solution for combating them. 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Feature Uncosted system should’ve gone live two months ago UK defamation law reforms take effect from start of 2014 Anything your commenters say can be held against you, unless... Google's Schmidt predicts end to global censorship in a DECADE China, North Korea, Syria ... are you listening? Security News LG: You caught us! Our smart TVs really DO spy on you 'Don't worry, we'll switch that off for you real soon' Meet Stuxnet's stealthier older sister: Super-bug turned Iran's nuke plants into pressure cookers Analysis New report documents Mark I cyber-weapon build Darknet: It's not just for DRUGS. Ninja Banking Trojan uses it too Baddies even offer a 'help desk' with a ticketing system SCADA flaws put world leaders at risk of TERRIBLE TRAFFIC JAM Host city for 2014's G20 meeting pen tests its traffic lights and finds flaws galore Software News Facebook helps coders get their Rocks off with flash-wringing DB lib Open-source persistent key-value store sits in your NAND, chugging data Huge horde of droids whacks code box GitHub in password-guess attack That's an awful lot of angry SVN users, in there Bill Gates orders HITMAN to KILL right-hand man STEVE BALLMER 'If you want to buy a Playstation 4, that's your choice...' Macy's: Now with Apple's Minority Report ads system that TRACKS your iPHONE NYC Department Store set to trial iSpy iBeacons Migrating from Windows XP – Time to move on... ... and prepare yourself From Dept of REALLY? Sueball lobbed at Apple over crap iOS Maps app Landmark stuffups? That's it: I sue in the morn Microsoft zaps self in foot with WinPho/Office remote control app Devices and services strategy means US-only offering won't work with Surface Science News EXTRATERRESTRIAL INVADERS crash into Earth's South Pole Dozens travelled here almost at warp speed to hit our snow slopes MY EYES! Earth engulfed by BRIGHTEST EVER killer gamma-ray burst Planets closer to newborn black hole's cosmic outpouring not so lucky Hello Warsaw: Greenland ice loss will be OK 'even under extreme scenarios' There really 'ISN'T any consensus' on sea levels BAFFLING power cockup halts NASA's nuclear Mars tank Curiosity Rover's voltage wobbles, probe launches probe DNA breakthrough: Native Americans had European ancestry BEFORE Columbus Arrivals were in part invading relatives who went via Siberia ROCK FROM MARS FOUND in Africa, reveals Red Planet's SECRETS Meteorite comes from the early days on the Red Planet Dry, cold and volatile: How to survive Mars, and your fellow crew Feature 35 million miles and no Starbucks Magnetic slurry could deliver heatsink-as-a-service Nanofluid could be attracted to the heat it exists to dissipate Bootnotes News Microsoft touts SCROOGLE merch: Hopes YOU'LL PAY to dump on rival Anti-Google marketing campaign thinks you're a mug Qatar whips covers off giant footballing vagina World Cup stadium design own-goal Counter stealth attacks McAfee discusses detecting the presence and actions of stealthy cyberattacks, and the best and most cost effective solution for combating them. 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