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Business News Pull up! Pull up! Pull up! Ding ... HP ends eleven-quarter sales nosedive Take that parachute off, Meg. You won't be needing that, eh? Samsung bags second Internet of Home Stuff home firm in a week US electronics division slurps heating and A/C distie Quietside I don't see dead people: Twitter to yank some images of deceased folk Family members can submit takedown requests Video of US journalist 'beheading' pulled from social media Yanked footage featured British-accented attacker and US journo James Foley Wall Street woes: Oh noes, tech titans aren't using bankers Worstall on Wednesday Get out your hankies: Facebook, Google use in-house teams Power of iPhone 6 hype-gasm: Apple a sniff away from record stock high Peak Apple Split share price threatening to reach 2012 apex Uh, Obama? Did you miss a zero or two off Samsung's Chinese supplier 'fib' settlement? No? OK. Tech giant will go ahead and write a $2.3m check Data Centre News Hi-ho EVO: VMware eyes TWO new hardware-flavored trademarks VMworld 2014 'EVO' and 'EVO: RAIL' filed in early August – just in time for... Speedy software upstart PernixData showered in gold by expectant VCs Whippersnapper gulps down initial funding, greedily tucks into second helping WTH? Upstart stuffed with ex-VMware bods grilled on Amazon cloud 'rescue' plan Interview Platform9's co-founder on how they started a new biz Can it be true? A BIG DATA benchmark? Yes, says TPC Vendor-neutral stats for tech's biggest meaningless buzzword Citrix drizzles lightly and briefly on VMware's parade with Xen update Xen App and Desktop get refreshes and native Chrome OS Receiver returns UK.gov sinks another £1.6m into Internet of Stuff spec HyperCat Blighty consortium gets additional funding Speaking in Tech: Meet the man who SURRENDERED to Facebook Podcast Cloud architect tells Regcast: 'It owns my entire life' Creaky PC? SanDisk gives users a NAND with speedy '3-bitter' SSD Tart it up with a TLC retrofit Xennet wants YOUR machines for tradable supercomputer cloud SETI@home, Bitcoin the inspirations Hardware News Storage, chip slingers pledge allegiance to Linux, open source LinuxCon 2014 Linux Foundation swells ranks, coffers Barnes & Noble: Gobble a Samsung Nook tablet, please ... pretty please Novelslab finally on sale with ($199 - $20) price tag Stand clear! Will HTC's One act as a defibrillator for Windows Phone? Analysis Low end success, high end boredom Apple to build WORLD'S BIGGEST iStore in Dubai It's not the size of your shiny-shiny... The agony and ecstasy of SteamOS: WHERE ARE MY GAMES? Game Theory And yes it does need a fat HDD (or SSD, it's cool with either) Kate Bush: Don't make me HAVE CONTACT with your iPHONE Can't face sea of wobbling fondle implements. What happened to lighters, eh? Intel's Haswell-E brain to emerge from the lab at end of August – reports Motherboards spotted in the wild, it seems Networks News Netflix swallows yet another bitter pill, inks peering deal with TWC Net neutrality crusader once again pays up for priority access Policy News Hello, police, El Reg here. Are we a bunch of terrorists now? Do Brits risk arrest for watching beheading video nasty? We asked the fuzz Felony charges? Harsh! Alleged Anon hackers plead guilty to misdemeanours US judge questions harsh sentence sought by prosecutors Security News Did you swipe your card through one of these UPS Store tills? You may have been pwned As many as 100k transactions spied upon by malware Oi! Rip Van Winkle: PATCH, already Stuxnet, Sality, Gauss, Flame still infecting your unpatched boxen Need a green traffic light all the way home? Easy with insecure street signals, say researchers No crypto, default passwords, FTP servers? It's 1998 again Heartbleed implicated in US hospital megahack This time superbug has nothing to do with MRSA Brother, can you spare a DIME for holy grail of secure webmail? Feature Lavabit man's new project: One of security's thorniest problems How to marry malware to software downloads in an undetectable way (Hint: Please use HTTPS) Boffins demo how traffic redirect can endanger code Lazy sysadmins rooted in looming Mozilla cert wipeout CA maintainer warns 'check your infrastructure' Site News The Register to boldly go where no Vulture has gone before: The WEEKEND No more aching 2-day void to wait through each week Software News Linux Foundation says many Linux admins and engineers are certifiable LinuxCon 2014 Floats exam program to help IT employers lock up talent Look, no client! Not quite: the long road to a webbified Vim Programming the Web, Pt. III Building in the browser Science News Boffins build CYBORG-MOTHRAs but not for evil: For search & rescue Video This bio-bot will chew through your clothes then save your life Gigantic toothless 'DRAGONS' dominated Earth's early skies Gummy pterosaurs outlived toothy competitors 'Leccy racer whacks petrols in Oz race ELMOFO rakes in two wins in sanctioned race Astronomers scramble for obs on new comet Amateur gets fifth confirmed discovery

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