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Business News Dr. Dre, meet Tim Cook: Apple in talks to buy Beats Electronics $3.2bn deal would be largest in Cupertino's history Copyright minister: Those missing TWO copyright exceptions? We're still on track EU law niggles and other issues push them back beyond 1 June Carphone Warehouse, Dixons embroiled in £3.7bn merger rumour Electronics borg would get unwieldy bodge of a moniker Architect of Apple's total-silence public relations policy leaves Tightest-lipped PR in the world leaves 'to spend more time with family'. Classic Acer fairly sure it made a profit in Q1. Assuming it got the office tea-bag account right 'Numbers speak for themselves' insists spokesbeing. Er, quite Cost-cutting Barclays bank swings axe on 5,600 IT and ops bods Consolidation, automation, sharing to remove 'duplication' King's stocks are candy-crushed as its top toy suffers splurge slump Game-maker admits players are splashing less cash in its flagship distraction Sage's 63-year-old CEO says au revoir: 'Life's all about choices' Guy Berruyer set to scram once newbie found Chucking cash at sport and broadband starts to pay off for BT Wholesale, Openreach, biz and global services still flagging Yeah, suck it, Foxconn. 'Pegatron' 'nabs' '15%' of 'iPhone 6' 'production' What a shock. Stop the world – this Reg hack wants to get off Cameras for hacks: Idiot-proof suggestions invited What's the best simple kit for roving mo-journos? Goodbye, Mr Dong: Samsung Galaxy S5 boss disappears through trapdoor Kill Apple ... NOW Google points big data dollars at cancer Chocolate Factory shopping trip also includes cloud monitor Stackdriver Channel News HM Treasury: Look at our SME-friendly contracts ... that we just gave to a multinational Japanese enormo-corp to swallow 98% of latest tender Data Centre News Did Microsoft just paint TechEd Australia Azure? New format offers two days in the two towns known to house Azure bit barns Pivotal fluffs up *sigh* Cloud Foundry *sigh* cloud for battle in the *sigh* cloud You've all heard of AWS, what about... PWS? No. OK... well, IT'S HERE! Server SAN software upstart Maxta gets Intel's cash inside Analysis Chipzilla's investment arm to ensure X86 lands on top of software defined heap Disks with Ethernet ports? Throw in some flash and you've got yourself a HGST p-a-r-t-y Accepts net-drives are coming, follows Seagate IBM chip boffins mix phase-change-flash cocktail: Voila! SUPER fast memory card PCM-flash PCIe mutant will stay in the lab... for now Migrating to Windows Server 2012 Webcast Make a virtue out of necessity Amazon's desktops-in-the-cloud 'Workspaces' switched on in Europe Virtual PCs without a trans-Atlantic schlep Hardware News ZTE Open C, the Firefox OS mobe you'll almost want, now on eBay First mobe to ship with Firefox OS 1.3 still won't wow you China 'in discussions' about high-speed rail lines to London, Germany – and the US There's thinking big, and then there's thinking bat-shite crazy Want a twenty-buck smartphone? Go to China, says ARM exec Prices diving faster than a peregrine falcon with lunch on its mind Japanese cops arrest man with five 3D printed guns at home Not-so master criminal posts video of stash online Hungry for humbler Pi? Check out kid-friendly LED-laden Pibrella Review Cyntech/Pimoroni GPIO add-on board sets Raspberry Pi alight Networks News UK.gov tweets now NATIONAL TREASURES! – National Archives Video Twitter leavings, YouTube vid droppings collected for posterity Storix Backup Administrator on IBM PowerLinux servers In this whitepaper IBM discusses Storix's simpler and faster disaster-recovery method, which more than 10,000 enterprise clients around the world use. Download here > Policy News US officials vote to allow Bitcoin for political donations Cryptocurrency cleared for campaign payments Amazon granted patent for taking photos against a white background – seriously US Patent Office credibility approaching zero Comcast dragged into muck in Oracle's Solaris fix-it lawsuit Oracle wants to see its Solaris licenses, but Comcast wants nothing to do with it Apple: We'll tell users when the Feds come looking for their data Except in certain cases FTC strikes Snapchat settlement in snapshot-saving security spat Mobile firm pays up over data collection chicanery, accepts 20-year watchdogging Britain'll look like rural Albania without fracking – House of Lords report Blackouts could be on the cards by 2015 unless we make a US-style dash for gas NHS patient data storm: Govt lords SLAP DOWN privacy protections Labour reckons GP records' slurp is a 'dead duck' anyway Security News Net tech bods at IETF mull anti-NSA crypto-key swaps in future SSL 'Perfect example of how Snowden has improved our privacy' says professor Traffic light vulns leave doors wide open to Italian Job-style hacks Never mind blowing the bloody doors off, what about screwing up the rush hour? McAfee accused of McSlurping Open Source Vulnerability Database Lawyers say security giant should have paid before it unleashed slurping scripts Orange France hacked AGAIN, 1.3 million victims seeing red Phishers' delight as names, D.O.Bs and phone numbers pinched Software News Windows XP market share decline stalls, Mac OS X surges Not even a month without support and Heartbleed is speeding migration Cassandra can FINALLY predict the future Via Spark-based real-time analytics, that is Performing an Oracle database health check? We have a little list Workshop Guidelines for the diligent DBA Hadoop Daddy Doug Cutting says there's an elephant in the room The actual Hadoop elephant the project is named after, and a need for better security Science News Boffinary breakthrough: First self-replicating life with 'alien' DNA This time around, it needs to be fed to keep copying; next time? Mebbe so, mebbe not... 'Proper British boffin' Colin Pillinger dies at 70 Beagle 2 professor shuffles off this mortal coil Brit chap weaves silver bullet for wireless health scare bollocks Shortwave-shorting shorts use silver to protect wedding tackle from radio-infested planet Robins' inbuilt navigators pecked to bits by AM radio 'EMR disrupts the natural order' wonks have a case study to misuse Bootnotes News The ULTIMATE space geek accessory: Apollo 15's joystick up for sale Lunar module controller goes under the hammer Storix Backup Administrator on IBM PowerLinux servers In this whitepaper IBM discusses Storix's simpler and faster disaster-recovery method, which more than 10,000 enterprise clients around the world use. Download here >

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