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Business News Big Blue to embiggen itself even more on your big data Transmuting torrents of bits into gushers of cash 'Brit Bill Gates' was powerless to stop HP's Autonomy acquisition Lynch suggests HP mega-bucks forced marriage Facebook buys bits of written-off MSFT adware User T&Cs probably re-written already as House of Zuck promises marketers good data Channel News HP to partners: Flog our public clouds ... don't worry, you'll get paid VARs and SIs must wait until summer for billing control Cloud News Amazon, Facebook, Google attempt to cure cancer with Big Data Making game of deadliness this weekend Google signs Rightscale to resell Compute Engine Counters AWS' OpsWorks release Data Centre News HGST: Nano-tech will double hard disk capacity in 10 years Self-assembling molecules to boost drive density VMware execs shake fists at Amazon Web Services cloud 'How can we be losing to a jumped-up bookseller?' Zerto unzips to reveal ROBO replicating factory Automated hypervisor-resident disaster recovery IBM runs OLTP benchmark atop KVM hypervisor To heck with that TPC-VMS server virtualization spec ARM servers: From li'l Acorns big data center disruptions grow Shuttleworth says 'vast tracts' of legacy apps 'just don't matter' One titsup server kills Brit-hosted Donhost websites for THREE DAYS Where was the back up? Hardware News Apple 'insider' explains why vid adapter hides ARM computer Cable might actually be worth $49 price tag Review: Livin' in the cloud with Google's new Chromebook Pixel Nice legs – shame about the concept Canadian cyborg says Google Glass design is cracked Bad choices could 'set the movement back years' Flexy 'iWatch' glass said to be three years away But buck up, fanbois: There are other rumors to lift your spirits Architect pitches builder-bothering 'Print your own house' plan Open source DIY domicile project to 'do for building what Linux did for software' Keyboard, you're not my type Something for the Weekend, Sir? How we tap in text stubbornly resists improvement... still Microsoft Surface Pro will land in UK in WEEKS* Updated That pricing with those channels? Good luck, Redmond Sergey Brin emasculated after HORROR smartphone disaster I was just fondling my slab, minding my own business and... SimCity 2000 Antique Code Show Spline of the times Apple takes aim at accessory makers, files iPad stand patent Just what the world has been clamoring for – now with magnets Texan contends iPod EXPLODED IN HER FACE One moment music, then a life consumed by 'mental anguish' Now even MORE 'interns' make iPhones - Chinese labour watchdog Apple: We're improving... Besides, look at Samsung Networks News Router crash downs CloudFlare services A lesson in disclosure MWC 2013: The Chinese are coming - and you ain't seen nothing yet MWC 2013 Who can possibly stop Huawei's new mobile hardware? Enterprising 'early adapter' tries to hawk Google Glass on eBay Specs get a $15,900 bid before auction is pulled Official: Sky to buy O2 and BE's home broadband product in £200m deal Acquisition plan revealed exclusively by El Reg in January Hey, media barons: The noughties called, they want their mobile tech back Media types with mobes bore Reg hack to tears Truck-maker CAT flogs smartphone spawn to butter-fingered fondlers MWC 2013 Gorilla-glassed monster for people who, er, drop a lot of calls Policy News Health pros: Alcohol is EVIL – raise its price, ban its ads Hooch 'brings forth a whole world of harm' Judge slashes Apple's pile o' cash Samsung judgment 'Hmmm... $1bn? How 'bout, say, $600m, give or take a few bucks?' iPrefs-seeking shareholder Einhorn drops Apple lawsuit 'Silly sideshow' folds its tent, moves on Megaupload extradition bid - Feds WON'T have to hand in their evidence Summary of the data enough for Dotcom decision, says court Security News Evernote joins the notably hackable club Password reset, so sorry, no customer data at risk RSA roundup: Big trouble in not-so little China RSA 2013 Another year over and what have you done? Yet another Java zero-day vuln is being exploited Disable Java, wait for patch, you all know the drill... Bank Muscat hit by $39m ATM cash-out heist Duplicated cards fingered Tech bazaar Aria puts £10K bounty on heads of DDoS varmints Wanted preferably alive Prepare for 'post-crypto world', warns godfather of encryption Shamir: US quadrupling size of cyber-combat unit for a reason Sinkholes reveal more Chinese-hacked biz - and piggybacking crims It's not just state-backed spies using snoop-ware armies Software News Euro watchdog bares teeth at Microsoft over browser gaffe Redmond could feel bite of a painful fine next month - report Google open sources very slow compression algorithm Your server will hate it but your mobe will love it Baidu offers English-speaking devs chance to crack China Fortune and glory await in world's largest smartphone market Science News Storage glitch sends Curiosity into safe mode In space, no-one can find your last known good configuration Tito's Mars mission to use HUMAN WASTE as radiation shield Bags full of urine and feces lining spacecraft walls SpaceX: 'We have control, it's just a glitch' Musk tells world+dog Updated Dragon thrusters back online SpaceX rocket reaches orbit but Dragon fails to spit fire Cargo for ISS 'nauts may be Lost In Spaaace Raspberry Pi-powered Tardis blasts off from 'Blighty's Baikonur' Video LOHAN team members in high-altitude Time Lord geekgasm Spies in the sky: The leaps and bounds from balloons to spook sats Picture special A brief history of aerial surveillance around the globe NASA probes spots temporary third Van Allen radiation belt This'll driver the lunar deniers crazy Mind-melded rats could herald organic BRAIN-COMPUTERS Rodent thoughts transmitted over 4,000 miles Cambridge boffins reveal prehistoric prawn monster Chinese fossil 'Fuxianhuiid' shows earliest nervous system extending beyond the head Japanese boffins produce solar power paper Lightweight, flexible sheets of cellulose nano-fibres Bootnotes News Arise, Lord BONG ¡Bong! My helpful GNOMES will slay these PEERS 'It's common for freelancers to farm out work to cheap coders' Quotw Plus: 'I'm supposed to release an enterprise platform on Azure?'

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