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Business News You're outta here! Baseball star strikes out sleazy trolls who targeted teen daughter Life lesson: don't be a web loudmouth unless you want to be banned IRL HGST goes on Himalaya expedition with Amplidata purchase Object storage is no object Optus joins iiNet with free-to-download Netflix offer for Australians Optus' me-too on uncapped movies; might Telstra follow? National Rugby League boots 'metadata' right into Australia's face New phone-snooping code for naughty players illustrates state surveillance The spy who leaked me: Ex-CIA boss Petraeus 'fesses up to blabbing intel to his mistress General will avoid the clink for handing over secrets – unlike Chelsea Manning Belgium will drag Facebook to court if it has to – privacy minister Report claims social network in breach of privacy laws EU: Competition Commissioner met Google chief Schmidt That's it. We're not telling you any more... The BBC wants to slap a POLL TAX on EVERYONE in BLIGHTY Director-General Tony Hall lays out plan for world domination Telefonica seals deal with HP's 'carrier grade' OpenStack phone cloud MWC 2015 Semi-recycled release still 'biggest ever' rollout, we're told Nokia boss smashes net neutrality activists MWC 2015 Slow lanes for all means the ambulance waits too End in sight for Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe wage-fixing lawsuit Judge seems happy with $415m offer EasyGroup continues bizarre, time-travelling domain crusade Yet this time it's slapped by WIPO for 'reverse domain hijacking' IBM sued for talking up semiconductor business it couldn't give away Firm alleges investors didn't realize Big Blue would need to PAY to have its chips hauled off Forget 1,000 lashes for Facebook posts, Saudis now want to behead blogger Raif Badawi Family's fears for outspoken atheist dad Data Centre News Neuralytix report: Cleversafe fumes over classification Issues surround the 'Up and Coming' description Pull on your dancing shoes, the server market's ALLLLIVE Vendors did the server jig and more cash poured from the clouds (oh and hyperscale) HP adds Eucalyptus to Helion cloud, but OpenStack still reigns Support for Amazon-lookalike clouds is back in HP's IaaS To InfiniFlash and beyond: SanDisk wheels out Big Data box And it reckons you'll pay just $2/GB for this one SanDisk launches 200GB microSD card MWC 2015 Little big memory has impressive crown jewels Here comes Vulkan: The next generation of the OpenGL graphics API GDC 2015 OpenGL is 22... it's time for a replacement – Khronos Group How a HPC array helps humanity destroy the Ebola virus Comment Big Iron makes everyone's lives better Here's what keeps VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger awake at night Virtzilla fears deep-pocketed rivals beating it into new and cloudy markets Oracle finds a port in the SDN/NFV storm with two new ethernet switches Hang on, Larry, aren't you all about hyper-engineered stacks-in-a-box? Citrix reveals next-gen Receiver and StoreFront, then buries them But Reg hacks know how to use caches and take screen grabs Hardware News Google Chrome suffers brain freeze on Android Ice Cream Sandwich Ad giant to old OS users: Move on already! Ford to save you from BIKE FITNESS HORROR MWC 2015 No more uphill... literally Samsung Galaxy Note Edge: A side swipe at smartphone design Review Edgy? Well, it has a lot of potential 'Fry-OS 8' iPhone BLEW UP MY PANTS wails roasted Johnson Fella's hot Valentine's Day action ends in clothes ripped off, 3rd-degree burns Huawei preps to drop mobile & wearables lovebombs on U.S. C'mon Americans, pleeeeease love our cuddly Chinese firm Pebble Time Steel ready in May. Plus: Now you can strap on sensors, GPS ... Geiger counter MWC 2015 Cunning smartwatch bloat fix? An expansion slot BlackBerry gets flirty with QWERTY IP, launches $275 Leap MWC 2015 Everything is up for licensing, too Networks News Europe's digital chief wants China's help on standardising 5G MWC 2015 Oetti: Will need rest of world's cooperation too, though Internet of Things? Pah! Biz bods, you're wasting your money Roaming much more important (says roaming service firm) Google's broadband-in-the-sky goes TITAN-ic Real Soon Now: Loon-like radios with wings Security News Sysadmins: Step away from the Big Mac. No more Heartbleed-style 2am patch dashes 6 steps to a saner patching regime Outbreak! Fake Amazon voucher offer seeds mobile malware attack Get your Gaz-on SSL under attack: Apple, Android gear FREAK out, open up to spies OpenSSL, iOS and OS X tricked into using weak 1990s-grade encryption keys He can't give it away FAST ENOUGH: Bill Gates richest man in world again Microsoft founder back on Forbes rich list Apple Pay a haven for 'rampant' credit card fraud, say experts Lax security controls fingered Snowden 'ready to return to US', claims lawyer But only if he’s promised a 'legal and impartial trial' Hillary Clinton draws flak for using personal email at State Dept No news on contact with desperate Nigerian princes Marlinspike brings end-to-end crypto texts to iOS Signal 2.0 melts TextSecure, RedPhone for iMessage haters Software News ARM, Geomerics: Don't go to the dark side. Use the Forge, Luke GDC 2015 Enlighten 3 lobs more lighting effects and new tool at games, movies etc Unity, Mozilla team up to bring PEW! PEW! PEW! to browsers, too GDC 2015 Latest game dev tools feature built-in WebGL exporter Microsoft to Android OEMs: 'Show me the money' Exclusive Redmond carefully considers OIN approach Microsoft opens kimono on Windows 10 Universal App Platform MWC 2015 One app to rule them all. It hopes Sick of Chrome vs Firefox? Check out these 3 NEW browsers Opera for Opera lovers, Microsoft offering and more Science News Curiosity rover left armless by short circuit Mars nuclear space tank parks after trouble strikes while retrieving sample Atomic keyring's eerie blue glow lights SPB lab Vintage tritium-powered glowring survives 13 illuminating years Is light a wave or a particle? Beaming boffins prove it's BOTH And they've got the pics to prove it, thanks to clever nanowire tricks Bootnotes News Reg exec in deluxe roo-skin pen case beernami trauma Vulture South scrambles to source replacement marsupial pouch

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