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Business News Privacy at the Donmar Warehouse: All your data are belong to THEM Theatre review It's scrappy, but take your teenage kids - and leave your phone on John Chambers sold millions of shares on first day of Cisco Live! Interesting timing for massive share deal Launching a hardware startup? The stars are aligned in your favor Solid There's been no better time to get into hardware biz, says hardware biz analyst Disney plans standalone Star Wars movies to go with the main trilogy Godzilla director gets a crack at the first one, which may or may not be about Boba Fett... Facebook exec: I HATE the INTERNET and I REALLY hate journalism Comment This thing that I use to earn a living every day is full of sh*t! <SHARE> <LIKE> Channel News Veteran vendors are shaping up for a bitter fight to the DEATH Comment Where will partners place their bets? HP, Dell, Cisco or Lenovo? Unions mull appetite for HP strike action over 16k job cull Whitman tells staff: 'If we want to be here in 75 years' we must lower costs Data Centre News HP: You know what's hot right now? Cold storage Analysis Facebook's onto something... Right? Watch this! How to use OS X Server for mobile device management Video QA training session recorded for you How do I escape this damned email blacklist? Readers' corner Help your fellow Reg reader with your recommendations Google brings futuristic Linux software CoreOS onto its cloud A container-based operating system on a virtualized cloud on a container-based distributed system = M.C. Escher's cloud Google: 'EVERYTHING at Google runs in a container' Ad giant lifts curtain on how it uses virtualization's successor TWO BILLION TIMES A WEEK World's first ever Nobel Prize winning integrated circuit to be auctioned Pah, what's the point, it would be rubbish for playing Crysis, etc Reg man pulls out telescope: Thar be magic quadragons... and lo, a new vendor Comment Has a strange flash-array beastie emerged in Gartner's Magic Quadrant? Oof! Brocade posts a loss after taking $81m kick in the profits Exiting a hardware biz costs goodwill. And goodwill costs greenbacks Toshiba pushes out 5TB spinner for cloudy types Are 6TB drives on the way? Look, pal, it’s YOUR password so it’s YOUR fault that it's gone AWOL Something for the Weekend, Sir? Security begins at home... and ends up in someone else’s Watch this: IPv4 must die! So let's beef up on IPv6 Video Online training session - free, ungated and on-demand Webinar: Enterprise mobile management with the Microsoft stack Promo 4 June, 10am - save the date for your diary Learn how to simplify your IT setup with cloud apps Regcast alert Workday joins us in Reg studios 5 June 2014, 11am Big data hitting the fan? Nyquist-Shannon TOOL SAMPLE can save you Big Data's Big 5 Lessons from information theorists brainboxes - in pictures HP's $1bn 'Linux for the cloud' dream: Will Helion float? Analysis Plus: Why it wants to be like IBM, not Sun CERN: Build terabit networks or the Higgs gets it! Particle boffins describe the future they need invented to keep discovering the universe Hardware News Calling Dick Tracy … Samsung's planning a WRISTPHONE Tizen-powered wristmobe coming in June or July says WSJ Intel cutting prices, taking on all comers in fondleslab market grab Even Chinese 'white box' tablet-makers are welcome Google could make two for Tango with 3D tablet plans The fondleslab that sees in 3D Hello Moto... It's the Nokia Lumia 630 Review El Reg cops a feel of boxy 520 follow-up. But like the Moto E, it also has a flaw 'I found the whole idea of an alien very exciting until it demanded all of my weed' Quotw Plus: 'eBay has some work to do...' Xbox One update will allow external storage, portable games TV and OneGuide coming to UK in June with speech recognition remotes Networks News Shark alert systems beams warning to nobody on Google Plus Who's a clever buoy? Not the folks targeting an audience smaller than MySpace Truphone debuts 66-country flat rate roaming deal Still worth paying outrageous hotel rate for wireless if you're a data-gobbler Policy News SKA under budget cloud in the Great Oz Science Brain Drain Commitments? We've heard of them Apple wheels out sueball cannon, again Samsung damages inadequate, claims Cupertino Employees grab Apple and Google's $325 MEEELLION olive branch in hiring suit Companies look to settle complaint over wage-fixing The Internet of Things helps insurance firms reward, punish Solid The more 'quantifiable' you are, the more subject you are to behavior-modification schemes SpaceX billionaire claims Air Force official 'likely' made job-for-spy-sat-contract deal Elon Musk tweets about AF procurement official's lucrative VP position Need reminding how troubled Universal Credit is? MPA puts it in special 'reset' category Mega IT benefits reform system not even worthy of red alert status Former Azzurri project manager who stole £1.3m ordered to pay back £146k Confiscation order: Hand over entire value of assets... or face 6 years' porridge Beijing to Washington: Ratted-out routers not welcome here China announces vendor 'vetting' plan to keep out snoopware-infested kit Security News Congress divorces NIST and NSA Spooks lose their role in developing encryption standards Kiwis unplug supercomputer after intrusion 34 Tflops in hackers' hands Apple blasts 22 WebKit bugs with Safari update Browser gets new patches for vulnerabilities eBay faces MULTIPLE PROBES into mega-breach US attorneys-general and UK ICO probing circumstances around massive security breach Redmond promises IE8 patch is in the pipeline Bug not so bad, Microsoft says, but if you won't upgrade we'll get around to it eventually Privacy International probes GCHQ's mouse fetish Asks Dell, Apple et al why Grauniad's Snowden-sodden peripherals deserved drilling Software News Bing's the thing in Microsoft's push for cheap Windows devices Big OS discounts for OEMs if they stick to Redmond's search engine Google tells indie labels to take its YouTube deal or face OBLIVION Hey little guy, there's just you and me here. And your balls, and this drawer NOT APPY: Black cab drivers enraged by Hailo as taxi tech wars rage on Stick yer dog up yer Aristotle, chum. We only talk to the hand Microsoft boffins: Now even LAWYERS can grok Bing code's privacy compliance Non-techies can get code fixed for privacy laws in real time. So sez Redmond Science News Beautiful balloon burst caught on camera Vid + Pics Replay XD vid shows spectacular LOHAN orb pop NASA stitches 3.2 gigapixel 'Global Selfie' mosaic Video + pics Earth image created from 36,422 self portraits French teen fined for illegal drone flight Video 'Nancy from the air' videographer's wallet €400 lighter Bootnotes News Klingon and Maori roar into 'mutt's nuts' dictionary Ha'DIbaH QujmeH moQ! I'LL BE APP! Apple renews LiquidMetal contract, Terminator rumours flood interwebs Handy alloy only used in SIM ejector tools... so far

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