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  • Opera CTO still sour on Google native code plugin

    Google I/O The future is WebGL. And WebM (he hopes)

    Officially, Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie was at Google's developer conference to discuss WebP – Mountain View's open source effort to replace the aging JPEG image compression format – but he'd rather talk about WebM, the video format he calls the last missing piece in the standard web platform. This morning, at Google I/O in …

    Developer 11 May 00:37

  • Sod-all for tech in Australian federal budget

    Mostly millions rather than billions

    Australia’s IT sector is once again disappointed at a federal budget that provides few big-ticket tech items. The IT&T sector remains nostalgic for a bygone era in which every federal budget scattered funds around in the form of industry development grants and subsidies designed to attract big-name high-tech manufacturing to …

    Channel Register 11 May 01:00

  • Apple and Google wriggle on US Senate hot seat

    Hearing on privacy, patents, iPhones, drunks

    When questioned by US senators at a hearing on digital privacy, Apple and Google execs spent most of their time successfully bobbing and weaving, but were thrown off-balance when asked about location-grabbing patents and drunk-driving apps. Tuesday morning's hearing – "Protecting Mobile Privacy: Your Smartphones, Tablets, Cell …

    ID 11 May 01:52

  • Anobit flash can take a pounding for 5 years

    EMC World Great endurance for startup's new SSD

    Israeli startup Anobit has introduced a Genesis SSD which lasts for five years when writing 4TB of data a day. Anobit uses memory signal processing (MSP) technology, based on digital signal processing technology to extract usable signals from multi-level cell (MLC) flash cells that other controllers would consider worn out and …

    Storage 11 May 02:00

  • Pre-NBN, Telstra upgrades to ADSL2+ in Tasmania

    Copper upgrade coincidentally arrives in next-stage fibre towns

    Telstra has upgraded its copper broadband network in Tasmania ahead of the deployment of the National Broadband Network. The northern Tasmanian towns of Dilston and Bridport have now upgraded to ADSL2 + in a deployment the carrier says is part of its normal infrastructure investment. Although the build has been seen as …

    Telecoms 11 May 02:00

  • New graphics engine imperils users of Firefox and Chrome

    Disable WebGL now, researchers warn

    The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team is advising users of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers to disable a recently added graphics engine that can be exploited to steal data or crash end user computers. The web standard known as WebGL opens the browsers to serious attacks, including the theft of images or denial- …

    Security 11 May 03:00

  • Google misses Russian trick with Opera snubs

    Google I/O Mistakes Opera for 'second tier' browser

    Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie believes Google is missing a serious opportunity in failing to support Opera as a "top tier" browser, especially in Russia, where Opera is the leading browser with 30 to 40 per cent of the market. When Mountain View introduced its Google Instant, for instance, the "real time" search service was not …

    Developer 11 May 04:00

  • Panasonic SC-HTB520 soundbar

    Review Sound option for puny panels

    TV manufacturers are keen to push the merits of picture quality on the latest sets, but unfortunately sound quality seems to have been lost somewhere along the way due to the tiny speakers manufacturers cram into their slender frames. It seems as if most expect you to twin their sets with surround sound systems. If you haven’t …

    reghardware 11 May 06:00

  • Trevor Pott's guide to pricing up the cloud

    Does scale equal less cost?

    As a sysadmin for a small-ish business, I lack the resources to keep an in-house expert who is intimately familiar with the intricacies of each technology on my network. There are so many technologies from so many vendors: it is simply overwhelming for two sysadmins to try to know everything between them. So why not outsource …

    Cloud 11 May 07:00

  • Alpha.gov.uk – it's nearly a beta

    Next on the list... identity assurance

    The government has chucked £261,000 at a post-Directgov website that could, if disliked by taxpayers, be ditched before the site hits beta stage. Alpha.gov.uk launched this morning, and like many recent online efforts from the Coalition, it has gone public as an "early draft" to test the reaction of British citizens. If they …

    Government 11 May 07:57

  • NASA restores Pluto to league of planets

    Joins Ronald McDonald to defend extraterrestrial US soil

    NASA has rather cheekily joined the campaign to restore Pluto to the solar system's league of planets, following the distant body's demotion to dwarf status back in 2006. The International Astronomical Union's (IAU) decision to relegate Pluto didn't go down too well in some quarters across the pond, largely due to the fact …

    Space 11 May 08:06

  • Google infringes copyright by displaying and linking to news site content

    Copyright FAIL: Belgian appeals court says 'Non'

    A Belgian appeals court has upheld an earlier ruling that Google infringes on newspapers' copyright when its services display and link to content from newspaper websites, according to press reports. The search engine giant is responsible for infringing the copyrights of the papers when it links to the sites or copies sections …

    Music and Media 11 May 09:22

  • David Cameron wants to push all of Blighty online

    University places might be a bit sticky, but hell, look at the interwebs!

    Reconditioned computers that cost less than £100 a pop have gone on sale today as part of the government's strategy to get more British people online. Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude, meanwhile, said this morning that the government's interwebulator sweetheart Martha Lane Fox had been busily recruiting "digital champions …

    Government 11 May 09:30

  • Canadian kid uses supercomputing to cure cystic fibrosis

    16-year-old cops prize for developing drug cocktail

    A Canadian teenager has scooped a CAN$5,000 prize and deserved glory after successfully wielding the power of a scientific supercomputing network to develop a mix of drugs which could be used to fight cystic fibrosis. Marshall Zhang, a Grade 11 student at Bayview Secondary School in Richmond Hill near Toronto, used Canada's …

    Biology 11 May 09:49

  • IP firm claims ownership of DVD video-menus

    All your clickable vids belong to us

    A Texas-based intellectual property holder is suing a host of major home entertainment companies - think all the big names - for daring to sell DVDs with clickable videos in their menus. Patent Harbor LLC maintains that owns a patent that covers such user interface features, and that the many named content companies alleged …

    reghardware 11 May 09:55

  • Steven Moffat fumes over Doctor Who plot leak

    Decries net spoiler 'vandalism'

    Steven Moffat is none too pleased that "crucial plot lines" of the opening two episodes of the new Doctor Who series were made public before the programmes aired last month. At the launch of the Time Lord's latest outing in early April, Moffat asked those present not to blow the lid on The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the …

    Entertainment 11 May 10:05

  • UK security minister steps down

    So long and thanks for all the extra cybersecurity budget

    UK security and counter-terrorism minister Baroness Neville-Jones steps down after a year in the job. The former chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee is leaving at "her own request" in order to work in the private sector. The peer will retain a role liaising between government and business as special …

    Government 11 May 10:15

  • Linutop feeds mini-PC fans tiny Tux box

    Atom snack

    French firm Linutop has launched its latest micro desktop: the model 4. An evolution of the its predecessor rather than a completely new machine, the 4, like the 3, has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of memory and 2GB of Flash storage for Linutop's own custom version of Ubuntu. Linutop sees the 201 x 182 x 30mm, 936g gadget …

    reghardware 11 May 10:26

  • EMC winds up new file-mover

    EMC World Cloud Tiering Appliance: Rainfinity reinvented

    EMC has announced a Cloud Tiering Appliance to move files from select arrays to VNX and Isilon, and from VNX to Atmos and Data Domain. It is, in effect, Rainfinity reinvented and will develop into a generalised data mover. The Cloud Tiering Appliance (CTA) aids migration and it can do policy-driven file movement from NetApp …

    Cloud 11 May 10:29

  • Google stashes $500m for fines

    Certain that any verdict won't hit profits

    Google has set aside $500m to settle the investigation into its advertising practices by US regulators. The Department of Justice is examining allegations that Google's advertising practices are anti-competitve. The Chocolate Factory made 97 per cent of its revenue from advertising in the first three months of 2011. The …

    Financial News 11 May 10:30

  • Snap shows next-gen iPod Nano to sport camera

    Small player, few megepixels

    The next iPod Nano - Apple's small, square music player line - will get a rear-facing video camera, it seems. Well, a shot of a small, square Apple-branded gadget posted on a Taiwanese blog clearly shows a hole in the top left corner of the device, though the aperture is hexagonal rather than circular. Possibly that's where …

    reghardware 11 May 10:49

  • Cloud connectivity: Five minutes of your time, please

    Reader poll WAN! Bam!

    As business has become more mobile, the ability to connect to business applications and communications has become more critical and is turning applications into services. Meanwhile, as cloud services provided by third parties become a bigger part of the IT service delivery, connectivity becomes one of the cornerstones of the …

    Cloud 11 May 11:01

  • Samsung to plug Five On Demand into IPTVs

    Catch-up channel coming

    Samsung is to add telly channel Five's catch-up service to its new HDTV-hosted IPTV platform, Smart TV. Smart TV, introduced earlier this year and building on last year's Samsung IPTV interface, Internet@TV, already presents catch-up and on-demand services BBC iPlayer, Lovefilm, Blinkbox and PictureBox. It also connects to …

    reghardware 11 May 11:11

  • Use of Weapons declared best sci-fi film never made

    Iain M Banks tops Reg reader poll

    Our poll to name the best sci-fi film never made has returned Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks as the book Reg readers would most like to see projected on the silver screen. The 50 candidates attracted a whopping 27,088 votes, with the winner securing 10,032. Runner-up was Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's The Mote In God's Eye …

    Entertainment 11 May 11:18

  • Mentally ill file-sharer had 'low self-esteem'

    Still guilty, though

    A file-sharer made mitigating pleas of mental illness when she pleaded guilty to copyright infringement in a Scottish Court this week. 54-year-old nurse Anne Muir pleaded guilty to sharing £54,000 worth of songs over P2P after an investigation by the BPI and IFPI. But her defence lawyer argued that – in mitigation – she was …

    Crime 11 May 11:21

  • Swiss jetwing backpack-birdman flies the Grand Canyon

    Vid Strap-on thrust equipment conquers mighty cleft

    Swiss aerial daredevil Yves Rossy, aka "Jetman" has completed his latest feat successfully, leaping from a helicopter to hurtle across the Grand Canyon using his unique strap-on, jet-powered personal aeroplane before descending to land by parachute. Rossy's previous feats have included a flight across the English Channel and …

    Physics 11 May 11:22

  • What Carthage tells us about Amazon, Fukushima and the cloud

    Comment Rubbing salt in the wounds

    Sometimes, the Anglo Saxon parts of our language, rich though they are in epithets, insults and methods of swearing, simply aren't enough to allow one to express the complete and total lunacy of some people out there. In such cases new words are required, say, "McKibben". The need for that particular one is because a certain …

    Cloud 11 May 11:26

  • Plague of US preachers falsely claim to be Navy SEALs

    'They don't understand the internet' says fake-frogman outer

    Yet another curious effect of the modern internet media world became apparent this week: the syndrome – particularly common among American clergymen – of falsely claiming to be a former US Navy SEAL has risen to prominence, as the risk of being exposed as such a liar has risen severely. The badge of the now even-more-famous …

    Bootnotes 11 May 11:27

  • Microsoft to turn your flat into a control pad

    Interact with your wiring

    Microsoft is developing technology that turns wall surfaces in every room of a house into control panels for videogames and appliances. Unlike Xbox 360 accessory Kinect, which tracks movement through a built-in camera, Microsoft's latest tech tunes into electromagnetic fields leaking out of home wiring. Presented this week at …

    reghardware 11 May 11:28

  • What happened when Huawei called in the makeover consultants

    KPMG, IBM, Boston Consulting, Henry Higgins

    Chinese kit supplier Huawei is working hard to gain acceptance in the west, employing the best in the business to give it a western look that's more than skin-deep. Taking a walk around its Shenzen HQ this week, I could, almost, convince myself I was on just another tech campus in California. However, despite its best efforts …

    Data Networking 11 May 11:44

  • ASA upholds a brace of ads gripes against Groupon

    German wing of biz blamed for cockup

    The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has admonished Groupon for misleading web surfers about online sales promotions. In two separate rulings, the ASA upheld complaints brought against the privately-held e-commerce coupons website about various banner and Google-sponsored search ads. The promotions included promises of …

    Music and Media 11 May 11:49

  • Modest Patch Tuesday batch tackles Windows and Office issues

    Includes critical WINS component update

    Microsoft released two patches on Tuesday, one of them critical, as part of its regular Patch Tuesday update cycle. The critical update (MS11-035) affects the WINS component of Windows 2003 and 2008 Server operating systems. WINS resolves names in the NetBIOS namespace in much the same way as DNS resolves names to IP addresses …

    Enterprise Security 11 May 11:53

  • Operation Flashpoint 2: Red River

    Review Strategic manœuvres

    Hightailing it across the vast, open countryside in the middle of the night. Fighting a desperate rearguard action against an indomitable force. Squinting through the claustrophobic green murk of nightvision for enemies hidden among trees and rocky outcrops. Gun runners Fearing the lethality of their bullets and the …

    reghardware 11 May 12:00

  • ICO offers new code of practice

    How to share data without breaking the law

    The Information Commissioner's Office has written a code of practice that offers organisations practical advice on sharing data. The document (PDF) looks at both regular data transfers and one-off events. It covers when data can be shared and how it should be protected. This version includes more case studies from both the …

    CIO 11 May 12:33

  • Munro report: Child protection staff hindered by IT

    Social workers say present ICT systems 'obstacles to good practice'

    A number of social workers interviewed for a government-commissioned review (177-page PDF/2.1MB) of child protection in England said that their locally procured computer systems were "substantial obstacles" to good practice. The workers were participating in an online conversation as part of the report by Professor Eileen Munro …

    Government 11 May 13:06

  • Boy George promises to cut employment rights

    No more Tupe, limits for discrimination cases

    Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is asking employers to get in touch over plans to reform employment law. First in the Coalition sights for reform is discrimination legislation, where the government fears businesses are settling even when faced with weak cases because compensation is theoretically unlimited. Osborne …

    Law 11 May 13:59

  • Comet cuts jobs as sales fall

    More High Street gloom

    Kesa Electrical – the owner of Comet – said today it is shutting distribution centres and laying off 150 staff after a quarter of falling sales. Kesa said the quarter ended 30 April 2011 saw Comet's like-for-like sales fall 15.2 per cent. Excluding a government-sponsored multi-media initiative which started in the fourth …

    Channel Register 11 May 14:30

  • Portal 2 maker punts Portal 2 making pack

    Take puzzles to a new level

    Game developer Valve has launched the Portal 2 Authoring Tools beta, so avid designers can get their hands dirty creating their own custom maps of the game. The kit, which includes the setup that Valve used to make Portal 2, allows users to create singleplayer and co-op maps as well as 3D models, sound effects and music. …

    reghardware 11 May 14:31

  • Northants cops blow up suspicious school play prop

    Kiddie thesps warned to dispose of scenery 'responsibly'

    Northamptonshire Police have advised anyone disposing of school play props to do so "responsibly", after a discarded piece of theatrical material caused a major bomb alert. According to the plods' own report, a "suspicious package" found this morning in Kingsthorpe was later downgraded to unsuspicious status, but not before it …

    Bootnotes 11 May 14:35

  • Reg Hardware revamps YouTube channel

    Site News Silver screen

    Reg Hardware's YouTube channel has been given an overhaul, complete with a swank new look. Reg Hardware TV packs in all our existing content - from classics like the first steps up steps of Honda's Asimo robot and Samsung's cutting-edge see-through OLED screen to our hands-on pre-launch demo of Apple's iPad 2. And there's a …

    reghardware 11 May 14:48

  • Coalition signs up to passenger info slurp

    Ignores ICO and European data watchdogs

    The Coalition government has enthusiastically signed up to a draft European directive on exchange data on airline passengers, even though UK and European data watchdogs have already said the directive goes too far. Minister for Immigration Damian Green told the Commons yesterday that the UK was opting in to the directive on …

    Government 11 May 15:01

  • Newly emerged banking Trojan challenges ZeuS-SpyEye duopoly

    Sunspot blindsides anti-virus protection

    A new banking Trojan with infection rates similar to SpyEye and Zeus in some regions has emerged. The Sunspot Trojan has already been linked to instances of fraudulent losses, according to transaction security firm Trusteer. The Windows-based malware is designed to carry out man-in-the-browser attacks, including web injections …

    Crime 11 May 15:07

  • Shuttle mission: SPAWNING of the SPACE KRAKEN

    Glowing shapeshifter astrobominations to fly on Endeavour

    In a sinister development it has emerged that when Shuttle Endeavour lifts off for her final flight she will be carrying not only her crew and the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station but a contingent of spacegoing squid. It all starts out innocently enough. "The Squid in Space experiment will enable …

    Space 11 May 15:20

  • German finance ministry tags fraudsters’ phishing form

    Achtung

    The German Ministry of Finance has applied some lateral thinking in order to warn potential victims of a new phishing campaign. Fraudulent tax refund emails doing the rounds in Germany seek to con marks into handing over sensitive information in order to claim a tax refund. The scam email uses images pulled from the genuine …

    Crime 11 May 15:41

  • Galleon hedge fund founder convicted on all 14 counts

    Jury throws the book at man that sunk IBM heir apparent

    Loose lips sink ships – and billionaire hedge fund tycoons that engage in insider trading. The eight women and four men sitting on the jury at the trial of Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund which authorities said was at the center of an extensive insider trading network specializing in high tech companies …

    Financial News 11 May 15:53

  • Red Hat's KVM: A better way to virtualize the data center?

    On demand Bare metal hypervisor

    When you virtualize your servers, do you divide them by operating system, or is it practical to use a bare-metal hypervisor to support all your x86 operating systems? That's what Red Hat thinks is the best idea - which is why it thinks you would be better off virtualizing using KVM, included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With …

    Virtualization 11 May 16:00

  • Fags flash butts in nightclubs

    The social networking smoke

    Wireless networking is everywhere these days, from laptops and phones to games consoles and cameras, but perhaps the trend is now getting out of hand. Because eCigarette manufacturer Blu, has made a tab that lets users know when other eSmokers are nearby. As eCiggies only release an odourless water vapour, they can be smoked …

    reghardware 11 May 16:10

  • VMAX is becoming an app engine

    EMC World Hypervisored array controller running apps

    VMAX could become a server resource with a set of X86 engines controlled by ESX and running EMC software assets inside virtual machine containers, connecting to direct-attached VMAX storage resources. This is a logical speculation of El Reg's based on Pat Gelsinger's Monday keynote presentation in which he said apps could run …

    Storage 11 May 16:13

  • Lenovo shows ThinkPad X1 ahead of time

    MacBook Air alternative launches next week

    Lenovo has begun teasing techies ahead of Tuesday, 17 May's ThinkPad X1 launch - or the day after, if you live in the UK. No specs yet - though with modern laptops, it's not hard to guess - but Lenovo has posted a - terrible, terrible YouTube vid showing the MacBook Air rival's backlit keyboard, Gorilla Glass screen cover, …

    reghardware 11 May 16:25

  • MicroSkype: Andreessen settles accounts with Ballmer

    Revenge of the Netscape Kid

    Computer history was turned on its head in Silicon Valley yesterday. Until then, the story of Marc Andreessen, pioneer of Netscape, had been about how Microsoft fought dirty during the 1990s browser wars. Redmond, so the story goes, killed little Netscape by telling PC makers who dared drop Explorer from their machines in …

    Applications 11 May 16:30

  • What’s with WAN optimisation?

    Dealing with latent tendencies

    The data centre is no longer alone. It's not a facility that occasionally releases data sporadically, on special occasions for particular jobs. As IT functions become increasingly centralised within the data centre, it's hammered constantly for both input and output by all parts of the business. This has huge ramifications for …

    Data Centre 11 May 17:00

  • Google opens Chrome Web Store to world+dog

    Google I/O Undercuts Apple with 5% in-app payment fee

    Google has announced that its Chrome Web store is now available globally in over 41 languages. Google opened the Chrome Web Store in the US this past December, bringing the Apple App Store model to web applications. On Wednesday at its annual developer conference in San Francisco, it said that it has now opened the store …

    Applications 11 May 17:21

  • Google floats monthly subscriptions to Chrome OS notebooks

    Google I/O $28 a month for eternal hardware and software updates

    Google will offer Chrome OS notebooks to business and students for a monthly subscription fee beginning June 15. The subscription will include both hardware and software updates. Earlier this year, it was rumored that Google would offer its browser-centric notebooks under a subscription model, and the company made it official …

    Channel Register 11 May 17:54

  • Huawei draws blood in ZTE patent tussle

    Next-generation networking brief successfully aired

    Telecom-equipment maker Huawei Technologies has been awarded an injunction against its Chinese rival, ZTE Technologies, the target of a flurry of patent and trademark lawsuits Huawei filed in Germany, France, and Hungary. "Huawei has received the injunction as part of our legal claim that ZTE is infringing on our trademark," …

    Telecoms 11 May 18:52

  • Sergey Brin mum on $500m DoJ settlement stash

    Google I/O That's Larry's bag

    Google has set aside $500 million to prepare for a possible settlement with the US Department of Justice, according to an SEC filing. But Sergey Brin says he knows nothing about it. Google cofounder Sergey Brin was asked about the filing today at the company's annual developer conference, but he declined to comment, saying …

    Financial News 11 May 19:04

  • Microsoft stops ID-ing phones in jab at Google

    Redmond jettisons unique device identifiers

    Microsoft will stop identifying specific mobile devices that use its location-tracking services, a change that differentiates its Windows Phone 7 from Google's competing Android operating system. Under a new policy, outlined in a letter (PDF) sent to members of Congress on Monday, Microsoft has already stopped storing and using …

    ID 11 May 19:46

  • Sergey Brin: Only 20% of Googlers still on Windows

    Google I/O The march to Chrome OS

    Google co-founder Sergey Brin has said that only about 20 per cent of Google's employees are still using Microsoft Windows, and that all of those users are on Windows 7. He stressed, however, that he is not sure of the exact percentage. Rumors had indicated that within the company, Google had almost entirely banned Windows. …

    Operating Systems 11 May 19:47

  • Intel juices cash dividend (again)

    Take that, Apple shareholders. Or don't

    Intel is rolling in cash, and like all mature companies, it pays a dividend to reward its shareholders and to help boost its share price in a positive feedback loop that, in turn, helps it make more money. Intel has so much cash – even after shelling out a fortune to invest in its future 22-nanometer chip fabs – that on …

    Financial News 11 May 20:13

  • Oracle: Quit messin' and marry Hadoop!

    Open...and Shut Why Larry should pop the question

    Oracle isn't the biggest enterprise software vendor, but in 2010 it grew faster than its big-enterprise peers, including Microsoft and IBM, to claim third place. Being ever so ambitious, it's unlikely that Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison will be content to take the bronze. But it's equally unlikely that relational databases …

    Applications 11 May 20:46

  • Aussie iPad mag developer wins new investors

    Digital publishing platform attracts investor eye

    The iPhone/iPad/Android revolution may or may not be the saviour of big publishers, but it's given an Australian-based publishing platform developer a handy leg-up. Mogeneration, launched in 2008 as an iPhone app developer that switched its focus to digital publishing after winning the contract to create the iPhone version of …

    Financial News 11 May 23:00

  • AT&T spars with rivals over T-Mobile merger

    No love lost at US Senate hearing

    During the $39bn squabble in a US Senate hearing room about whether AT&T's proposed acqusition of T-Mobile should pass antitrust muster, it was no easy feat to sift fact from fiction – although it was easy to discern that the stakes were high and the arguments passionate. "First and foremost, this transaction is about …

    Telecoms 11 May 23:12

  • Yes, the new Android movie rentals use Adobe Flash

    Google I/O Google believes in HTML5. Except when it doesn't

    Google believes online video should be delivered with the HTML5 video tag and open source WebM media format. And yet it just introduced a new movie-rental service that uses Adobe Flash and the royalty-encumbered H.264 codec. It's a contradiction that makes perfect sense. If you're Google. At its annual developer conference in …

    Music and Media 11 May 23:21

  • Cisco dollars pinched by cheap switches, vanishing cameras

    Layoffs, product cuts

    Cisco Systems' third-quarter numbers for its current fiscal year reveal a company that has run its switching business aground and has become too dependent on the public sector for its revenues. When discussing the results, the company's top brass said that Cisco would be lightening its load – in terms of products and people – …

    Financial News 11 May 23:39

  • Don’t leak WikiLeaks: The NDA from hell

    Stopping staffers from debasing the currency

    As Julian Assange™ well knows, a culture of secrecy can be counterproductive, encouraging leaks by the disaffected. Someone has now leaked against WikiLeaks, with the organization’s non-disclosure agreement escaping into the wild. And a doozy of a document it is, indeed, imposing not only a vast penalty (£12 million) for …

    Music and Media 11 May 23:51