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'The NSA set me up,' ex-con Qwest exec claims

Former CEO says refusal to help spies cost him his freedom

Government 01 Oct 20:23

Half-Life 3: CONFIRMED?

Valve files for trademark in Europe

Games 01 Oct 19:43

'I don't trust Microsoft' after NSA disclosures says former privacy chief

Open source is the way to go warns Bowden

Policy 01 Oct 19:31

Splunk plunks seductive AaaS on Amazon cloud

Data analysis firm gins up free cloud offer

Cloud 01 Oct 19:09

Icahn to Cook: 'Buy back $150bn of Apple's stock, or tell me why you won't'

'I'm certainly not threatening anything,' says activist investor – yet

Financial News 01 Oct 19:03

US.gov - including NASA et al - quits the internet. Is the UN running it now?

'Due to a lapse in funding, the US federal government has shut down'

Networks 01 Oct 16:43

Amazon to hire over 85,000 temporary elves for Christmas

Mega etailer to take on 15,000 in UK and 70,000 in US for seasonal rush

Jobs 01 Oct 16:34

Hackers just POURING through unpatched Internet Explorer zero-day hole

Oh, sysadmins. It's so much worse than we feared – report

Security 01 Oct 15:58

Ad giant Google in new 'abuse' case offer to EU antitrust cops

But revised fix yet to be made public

Media 01 Oct 15:15

'Quarter' of TWO-MILLION-strong zombie PC army lured to their deaths

Pied piper Symantec says it led infected computers into sinkhole

Security 01 Oct 15:03

McAfee the man launches 'NSA-thwarting' $100 privacy gizmo

Pretending to be Guatemalan trinket peddler not disguise ENOUGH*

Security 01 Oct 14:36

Scientists to IPCC: YES, solar quiet spells like the one now looming CAN mean ICE AGES

Pesky boffins just refuse to toe the consensus line

Science 01 Oct 13:57

500 MEELLION PCs still run Windows XP. How did we get here?

Just six months to go: what to do if you don't have $200 per PC

Operating Systems 01 Oct 13:39

Profit healthy, sales up, 4,000 staff face axe. Cisco CEO, here's your pay doubled to $21m

Switch giant routes huge packet to biz supremo

Financial News 01 Oct 13:04

Seagate to storage bods: You CAN touch this (at last). Stop, HAMR time

We've talked about it for a while... next month, you'll actually *see* it

Storage 01 Oct 12:32

Ex-Sun journalist charged with handling a stolen mobile phone

Operation Tuleta investigation lands suspect in court

Media 01 Oct 11:57

NASA's search for colonisable planets maps ALIEN CLOUD-WORLD

First step to finding breathable atmosphere

Science 01 Oct 11:44

Google gets closer to EU antitrust deal over search dominance 'abuse'

Likelier than ever to avoid fines, having to admit wrongdoing

Applications 01 Oct 11:16

AT&T takes on Google fiber, fixin' to give Texans GIGABIT GUNS

1Gbps, to a few people, some of the time

Broadband 01 Oct 11:04

LIVE, my beauty, LIVE! Nokia revives dead phone with LIGHTNING powered Frankencharger

Vid Yes, Igor! The Third Switch!

Phones 01 Oct 10:38

TUPPERWARE FOUND ON MOON (Saturn's)

Plastic food boxes boldly go where no plastic food boxes have gone before (Titan)

Science 01 Oct 10:25

Big data: You've got to spend a dollar ... to make fifty-two cents – report

Maybe it's not the gold mine the hype-sters thought it was

CIO 01 Oct 09:58

Facebook allows full personal data ransack with Graph Search

Posts, updates, the lot. Our ad sales will boom. Mwu-ha-haaaa ... bitch

Security 01 Oct 09:24

Ubuntu 13.10: Meet the Linux distro with a bizarre Britney Spears fixation

Review Search me, baby, one more time

Operating Systems 01 Oct 09:04

Flash fettlers Fusion-io scoop IBM as reseller partner

So that's why Big Blue dumped TMS' server flash cards

Storage 01 Oct 08:29

Missing Brit SPACE HEDGEHOG RISES from the GRAVE

Pics Battered CASSiE miraculously found in Nottinghamshire field

SPB 01 Oct 07:58

Samsung: Sod off Apple, we've made gold mobes for way longer than you

'Go back to queuing for a pink iPhone from your favorite frivolous-lawsuits company'

Phones 01 Oct 07:31

GCHQ's CESG CCP 4 UK GOV IT BFFs? LOL RTFA INFOSEC VIPs ASAP

Yet another security certificate fiddled with by Brit spooks

Security 01 Oct 07:02

HP promises software-defined networking 'ecosystem' and app store

Networks that cater to software's every whim, without upsetting Virtzilla

Data Networking 01 Oct 06:17

Multipath TCP: Siri's new toy isn't a game-changer

This experiment is an alpha and carriers could swat it like a bug

Data Networking 01 Oct 05:29

The LSD trick cyclist, the 1980s pop-star and video games to REPROGRAM YOUR BRAIN

Code from psychedelics legend Timothy Leary unearthed

Bootnotes 01 Oct 05:02

Barmy Army to get Wi-Fi to the seat for cricket's Ashes

Sydney Test Match will offer replays to the smartmobe

Data Networking 01 Oct 04:34

Yahoo! Pays! Paltry! $12.50! Bug! Bounty! For! Nasty! Email! Vuln!

And even that had to be spent on Yahoo! tat

Security 01 Oct 03:58

Quantum computing gets recursive

Quis custodiet ipsos quanta?

HPC 01 Oct 02:57

Google adds Large Hadron Collider tunnel to Street View

Images show atom-smashing is a surprisingly dirty business

Networks 01 Oct 02:03

BitTorrent trialling P2P secure messaging

Going where Lavabit and Silent Circle fear to tread

Security 01 Oct 01:05

NASA finds use for 3D printers: Launch them into SPAAACE

Aims to fab spare parts for space station out of squirty plastic

Science 01 Oct 00:36

Microsoft Surface 2 fondleslabs finally get off ground with airline order

Scribblets to replace paper files for pilot flight aids at Delta

Tablets 01 Oct 00:29

Chicago Mercantile Exchange floats Wall Street cloud

Trade IaaS resources just like hogs, sugar, and anything else

Cloud 01 Oct 00:23

NSA's Project Marina stores EVERYONE'S metadata for A YEAR

Latest Snowden leak shows government economical with the truth

Government 30 Sep 23:11

Distributed systems boffins flock to RICON West

Google's guts, Twitter's tweaks, Basho's database details, and more

Cloud 30 Sep 23:05

GreenBytes' chairman and CEO resigns

Sudden goodbye

Business 30 Sep 21:23

Sweet murmuring Siri opens stalker vulnerability hole in iOS 7

'Siri, hand over my contacts and history now…'

Security 30 Sep 20:29

Apple, AT&T settle 'bait and switch' iPad 3G data plan lawsuit

Forty bucks may be waiting for you, aggrieved iPad owner

Law 30 Sep 18:25

Windows Phone market share hits double digits in UK and France

Porcine aviation squad ready for takeoff

Phones 30 Sep 18:21

Sceptical markets snub Violin Memory: Can the flashy biz bounce back?

Comment It ain't getting any easier in the flashy upstart world - where's the dosh, Don?

CIO 30 Sep 18:03

Microsoft follows Amazon in gaining critical US gov certification

Redmond zooms onto FedRAMP, but where's Google?

Cloud 30 Sep 17:58

Hyperscaling gives you power when you need it

How to grow and shrink like Alice

Data Networking 30 Sep 17:03

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