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Business News Australia plans 'penalties' for social networks that don't think of the children Cyber-bullying plan is missing some important details Verizon bankrolls tech news site, bans tech's biggest stories No agenda here. Just don't ever mention Net neutrality or spying, ok? Big Content outs piracy hotbeds: São Paulo, Beijing ... TORONTO? MPAA calls Canadians a bunch of bootlegging movie thieves 'GCHQ's surveillance data gulp is BULKY and WARRANTLESS', human rights groups moan Is there really no limit for Blighty's spies? Facebook shares flutter as firm reports user growth slowing Third quarter results from social media monster Swedish "Future minister" doesn't do social media Gets remorselessly mocked on Twitter, Facebook EMC wolfs down cloudy upstart Maginatics, swallows 'protection' too Spanning acquisition buys bouncer for its clouds Yelp continues Euro gobble campaign with French Cityvox Lunchtime for Germany, Lunchtime for France ... teatime for Google? Pay up: GOOGLE wants CASH for an AD-FREE YouTube It's too late for Psy, though Peep peep! All aboard the £300m UK education IT procurement express Absolutely no guarantee of £300m or indeed of a single penny, but hey Acer puts fundraising plan on ice as stocks struck by chilly winds Could be 2015 before firm grabs its PC biz transformation funds El Reg spends One Night in Hell with Queen's Brian May Pics Move over Google Glass, check out the Owl Hungary's internet tax cannot be allowed to set a precedent, says EC More protests planned against giga-tariff for Tuesday evening IP Freely? ECJ to rule on privacy rules for dynamic IP addresses German court wants clarification HP crowns one veep to rule ALL server, storage, network sales Centralises powerbase to speed decision-making Amazon hopes FIRE STICK will light up its video service We do streaming video? It seems we do... ICO to fine UNBIDDEN MARKETEERS who cause 'ANXIETY' Inconvenience, annoyance also pass the watchdog's stress test Sorry about that profit, says NetSuite, our costs should be higher 'Slower than expected hiring' makes for pretty numbers Apple, Google versus Big Retail in BONKING-FOR-CASH BATTLE Soz, Tim Cook – you don't have the RiteAid stuff Channel News Arrow ECS UK sales director Johnny Ellis set to exit building Veteran set to call time on life in distribution but not in tech Looking for a job in Europe? Experienced IT staff needed in UK, Italy and Germany New graduates need life skills, says Euro Commish report Data Centre News Cisco and friends chase WiFi's searing speeds with new cable standard Cat 5e and Cat 6 are bottlenecks for WLAN access points EMC goes full Star Trek, flops out Vblock-based Federation SDDC Edition May our bank balances live long and prosper HDS flings cloud-in-a-box at EMC Vblock, NetApp FlexPod Still plenty of room in the converged on-premise game Mind the product overlap gap, cloud ONTAP... make way for FlashRay – NetApp veep El Reg told TLC flash will rule Microsoft has Windows Server running on ARM: report WinARM just doesn't sound as good as Wintel Cray-cray Met Office spaffs £97m on VERY AVERAGE HPC box Only 250th most powerful in the world? Bring back Michael Fish Got $100k to spare? Try this cloudy SDN starter kit Big Switch pitches not-quite-so-big SDN implementation Hardware News Rise of the machines: Silicon Valley hardware store to deploy ROBOTS for customer service Human interaction? Nonsense! OSHbot will help you now Tim Cook: Why the classic iPod HAD to DIE Apple, er, couldn’t get the parts for HDD models Amazon sells Fire Phone in UK ... on CONTRACT Hooks up with O2 Microsoft shows off spanking Win 10 PCs, compute-tastic Azure TechEd Europe Joe Belfiore presents auto-provisioning biz boxes Even a broken watch is right twice a day. But not an uncharged Apple Watch Plus: One million sign up to Apple Pay iPad Air 2: Vulture chews new Apple tablet Review Air to the tablet throne? Security policy and EU data protection regulation The new EU data protection regime: time for the board to wake up and invest. Download here > Networks News FTC sues AT&T for throttling 'unlimited' data plans on the sly We did everything but knock on their doors, carrier says New Nominet CEO: I'll embrace past but look forward to the future Dot-uk registry hires software investor Russell Haworth Arrrr GOSH! Argos website goes titsup to make it EVEN BETTER Who ya gonna call? High Street retailer apologises for blunder I'll cap internet tax, says Hungarian PM as mob attacks his party HQ Angry demonstrators vow not to rest until entire idea is binned Netflix and other OTT giants use 'net neutrality' rules to clobber EU rivals +Comment Report fingers tech titans Faster, Igor! Boffins stuff 255 Tbps down ONE fibre Yet another speed record Security News Security Avengers team up to take down Chinese hacking group Try not to imagine security folk in lycra FBI impersonated newspaper to finger school bomb threat suspect 'Traded on our reputation and put it at peril', complains Seattle Times Feds seek potential 'second Snowden' gov doc leaker – report Hang on, Ed wasn't here when we compiled THIS document EvilToss and Sourface hacker crew 'likely' backed by Kremlin – FireEye US intel firm reports on 'APT28' Intel bods to detail RSA birko crypto man-in-the-middle diddle Researchers go BERserk in Buenos Aires Knock Knock tool makes a joke of Mac AV Yes, we know Macs 'don't get viruses', but when they do this code'll spot 'em Software News Yes, Virginia, there IS a W3C HTML5 standard – as of now, that is You asked for it! You begged for it! Then you gave up! And now it's HERE! Microsoft unwraps new auto data-protection in Office 365 tools 'Heyy, it looks like you're writing down stuff that's best not written down!' 'F*ck off, Clippy' Mozilla: Spidermonkey ATE Apple's JavaScriptCore, THRASHED Google V8 Moz man claims the win on rivals' own benchmarks Get a face-to-face with Microsoft at Future Decoded Promo Big names, training, startup advice – for free Canonical rolls out home-grown Ubuntu OpenStack distro Exclusive OpenStack's winners: 'People like us and Red Hat and HP' Microsoft to bake Skype into IE, without plugins Redmond thinks the Object Real-Time Communications API for WebRTC is ready to roll Science News OK Google, do I have CANCER? Company talks up pill that would spot developing tumors Whoops! Orbital Sciences' Antares ISS resupply mission goes KABOOM after launch Pics and video Firm reports 'vehicle anomaly' to blame Jim Beam me up, Scotty! WHISKY from SPAAACE returns to Earth They're insured for $1m, before you thirsty folks make plans ROGUE SAIL BOAT blocks SPACE STATION PODULE blastoff Er, we think our ISS launch beats your fishing expedition LOHAN avionics survive 27,700m stratospheric ordeal Pics+vid Vulture 2 kit refuses to freeze during Edge Research Lab flight Caption this: CERN needs pic tags. Serious answers only, kids Help the brightest minds in the world sort through their old snaps NTT thinks it's defined the PERFECT AMPERE with a cunning trap Take one electron, a silicon nanowire and pay very close attention Security policy and EU data protection regulation The new EU data protection regime: time for the board to wake up and invest. Download here >

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