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Business News Intel forced to shoot down viral 'Israeli boycott' whopper Phony press release site claims chip titan halted fabs over Gaza conflict BBC man Linwood 'was unfairly sacked' over £100 MILLION DMI omnifail Employment tribunal rules Beeb acted unfairly on dismissal Simian selfie stupidity: Macaque snap sparks Wikipedia copyright row Comment Jimbo Wales versus the little guy Newly spawned Dixons Carphone leaps onto LSE as £12bn sales org Welcome to, er, Dix Warehouse Are you managing your suppliers or are they managing you? Reg Events Register readers pour fuel on the burning issues of the day US giant Avnet plots cost slash fest in EMEA enterprise tech arm Local sales dive in Q4 on flaky component biz as small PC makers miss out of XP refresh Why do Reg readers deserve the big bucks? Here's why... Reg events Top tech managers take control of first Reg Roundtable This is your chance to help Blighty beat off moneymen's spambots #cheaploan? FCA wants input on financiers' social media ads UK.gov eyes up virtual currencies, fingers red tape dispenser 'Bitcoin a headline grabber but there’s ... more going on' Channel News You can put away the microscope – you can see Acer's profit from HERE (for a change) Much better than last quarter's puny $33k pile Data Centre News Violin strings up cheaper instrument: 17.5TB flash box for $100k + change And greater capacities – for small to medium biz with holes burning in their wallets Cloudy startup drops unified storage array into YOUR data centre Wheee... CLUNK: Zadara offers serviced box PAYG option Ain't NAND grand? Samsung unveils next-gen SAS SSD 10nm class enterprise drive Cost-cutting pays off for Symantec as profit lifts +Comment Still waiting for a new CEO EMC boots Egnyte from partner list after SHOCK software claims We never tested 'lowest-level member's' integration with VNX Who is Zadara and what does it mean by a Virtual Private Storage Array? Analysis We reckon it's a bit like a VM for servers Supermicro adorns servers with bright and shiny ULLtraDIMMs Faster flash for speedier servers Networks News Submarine cable operator says storms could hit Pacific traffic Hurricane Julio may drown out all the bits you've loved before Architecting a Big Data platform for analytics Managing analytical workloads associated with some combination of data volume, velocity and variety. Download here > Policy News London cops cuff 20-year-old man for unblocking blocked websites Operation Creative snaps 'Umbrella' site shut Microsoft OneDrive tip-off leads to arrest over child abuse images Suspect cuffed Brit kids match 45-year-old fogies' tech skill level by the age of 6 Ofcom paints a picture of upside-town tech Britain Russia, China could ban western tech if they want to live in the PAST Top apps and hardware don't appear overnight Ecuador follows Bitcoin ban with digi-currency proposal Virtual currency will have state bank backing Security News DON'T PANIC! Satellite comms hacking won't be able to crash an aircraft Black Hat 2014 Cute idea but it just won't fly Network hijacker steals $83,000 in Bitcoin ... and enough Dogecoin for a cup of coffee Wow. Such hack. Very router. So BGP. Wow. Awooga: August Patch Tuesday incoming – with two remote-code exec bugs in IE, Windows Good news for Server admins – no critical fixes planned Microsoft throws old versions of Internet Explorer under the bus Come 2016, if you're not up to date you're on your own – enjoy your security bugs Flying United Airlines? If you could just scan your passport with your phone, that'd be great New trial launch – but pack your paper for the TSA Americans to be guinea pigs in vast chip-and-PIN security experiment Black Hat 2014 PSA: If you really want to steal millions – embarrass the banks enough Hey guys. We've got 1.2 BILLION stolen accounts here. Send us your passwords, 'cos safety Enraged securo-bods bare fangs over new service Snowden is FREE to ESCAPE FROM RUSSIA, say officials But he can stay put for another 3 years if he really wants to Researcher snaps a Zeus hacker's photo through his webcam Shoddy scammer served security smackdown Zero-day hits Symantec endpoint products Soak those connections, download those patches Cracker takes control of 200 rooms in Chinese hotel Black Hat 2014 Blinds go up, blinds go down, hotel manager has no why Software News Amazon 'adware' laden Ubuntu passes ICO's data smell test Linux love for Bezos' goods is not illegal, says UK watchdog HTTP-YES! SSL-encrypted sites to soar in Google search ranks Er, what about latency, bro? Chinese 'linkfarms' propel Microsoft to web server crown Apache has more active sites and is growing faster, but IIS leads on hostnames Science News 16 million-neuron chips: Big Blue's binary bonce 'the scale of a frog brain' Boffins cram 5.4 billion gates, one million neurons in 28nm CMOS processor Vulture 2 strapped to speeding van before delicate brain surgery Spaceplane awaits autopilot tuning atop shed-built test platform True fact: Hubble telescope finds ZOMBIES in SPAAAACE Dwarf stars survive supernovae, a trick we may need in a few billion years Bootnotes News Check your Clungene, Irish women warned Have a quick shufti, you may not be pregnant after all Love in the time of the GPS sees chap propose with Google Map 'Writes' proposal using cycling app … and got a YES! Architecting a Big Data platform for analytics Managing analytical workloads associated with some combination of data volume, velocity and variety. Download here >

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