US Labor Dept website serving malware to innocent visitors
Blag bears signature of notorious Chinese DeepPanda
The US Department of Labor's website has been hacked and malicious code stuck behind the scenes, security tools firm AlienVault says.
Since yesterday, the DoL site has been serving out malicious code that installs malware on unsuspecting users' computers, AlienVault's labs director Jaime Blasco told The Register.
The DoL said …
Speaking in Tech: Explicit vid reveals hot tech stars in LIVE STRIP SHOW
Podcast Topless VP shows some skin after losing 'humiliating bet'
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It's the first anniversary of El Reg's weekly enterprise podcast and hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela have an incredible all-star lineup this week - plus an EXPLICIT VID of a topless EMC veep.
Their special guests this week are Chad Sakac, senior VP Global …
Speaking in Tech: Your OpenStack plug-in is NOT a meaningful code contribution
Podcast Talking smack about vendors ... Plus: How to unfollow Amy Lewis
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It's another episode of El Reg's weekly enterprise tech podcast, hosted by Ed Saipetch, Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela. Ed's in the driving seat this week as a jetlagged Greg rides shotgun. Cisco's Amy Lewis joins as our special guest this week... and jumps right into a chat …
How long will it take Facebook Home to hit 1bn downloads? 76 years
Android app installed 500,000 times since its release
Facebook Home has been downloaded 500,000 times from Google's Play store since it was released by the free content ad network earlier this month.
If the app was to continue to be downloaded at that pace then it would roughly take 76 Gregorian years for Facebook to have 1 billion Android users running the software, which skins …
Speaking in Tech: Put away the tissues - come have beers in London with us
Podcast Whether they be tears of rage or sorrow, join us for a post-funeral StorageBeer
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It's another recap of the week in tech at El Reg's sole podcast - coming to you live from England's capital this week. Join your host, Greg Knieriemen - Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela remain Stateside - for a wrap-up of all the latest in consumer technology, and specifically …
Speaking in Tech: Facebook's BETTER than Twitter ... for stalking your ex
Podcast Plus: Putting a bounty on keyboards of tweet-happy Cisco bods...
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Facing another tedious commute home with only the dead-eyed grumblings of your fellow passengers - or the blaring radio of other motorists - for entertainment? Download this banter-packed episode of El Reg's one-and-only podcast and you could be catching up on everything …
Kissinger and tell: WikiLeaks scrapes 1.7m US diplomatic reports from the '70s
Six-fingered* Assange republishes America's national archives
WikiLeaker-in-chief Julian Assange, who is languishing in self-imposed confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, has kept himself busy by scraping more than one million documents from the US national archives.
The latest collection of reports to be published on his news leaks website - some of which are labelled "NODIS" ( …
Hate being stalked by Facebook? Why not try Google+ stalking
Offering ad guys that crucial Bieber-Beeber demographic
Google is fattening up its single sign-in feature that was opened up to mobile and web apps in February. This is the feature that allows netizens to use their Google+ usernames and passwords to log into accounts on third-party systems.
The web giant said developers who use "social infrastructure platforms" Janrain and Gigya - …
Speaking in Tech: Forget BYOD, now there's Bring Your Own CODE
Podcast Our panel of IT bods pass judgement on PaaS
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For this latest Speaking in Tech podcast, Ed Saipetch is flying solo: his co-hosts Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela are away this week.
But fear not, Ed has plenty lined up and has recorded today's session live from DeployCon at CloudConnect in Santa Clara, California. The …
Speaking in Tech: In-flight fondling, hands-free servers, what could go wrong?
Podcast And suspect stains - all on this week's sysadmin confab
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Another seven days in tech, and another banter-packed instalment of El Reg's one-and-only podcast. Join your your hosts, Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela for everything you need to know about business-grade IT. This week, the gang is together again, and their …
Branson, Berners-Lee, Google, £2m: LET'S SAVE THE WORLD
Who will defend us from privacy-stealing mega-corps? Oh
Google is waving £2m in front of charities, promising to donate dollops of the dosh if the orgs develop tech that improves people's lives.
The not-for-profit bodies are invited to apply and compete for the cash; four "data-driven" projects that successfully prove their worth will each get a £500,000 cheque from the advertising …
Another MYSTERY evacuation: Google UK empties swanky offices
Picture Gather round kids, no nipping off for a pint
Googlers have been chucked out of their central London office behind Tottenham Court Road station for the second time in about a month. There's no word yet on the reason for the latest evacuation, during which the entire plush building - home to various tech and media companies - was cleared out.
People standing outside St …
Speaking in Tech: Smash that Kickstarter piggy bank and MAKE IT RAIN
Podcast We chat to Google-style storage startup man about how to, er, crowdfund
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It's another recap of the week in tech at El Reg's coolest (and only) podcast. Join your your hosts, Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and - fresh from Austin nerdfest SXSW - Sarah Vela for everything you need to know about the business of tech. This week, the whole gang is …
Email and collaboration checkpoint
Tech Panel How is your office productivity solution working for you?
With all the talk about Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media, it’s all too easy to forget that for the vast majority of businesses, communications and collaboration are built on email. Whatever your personal opinion, the reality out there is that this is mainly Microsoft Office clients talking to an Exchange and …
AdBlock Plus BLOCKED from Google Play
Apps 'for rooted phones only' still on shelf of software shop - for now
Google has zapped the Android app version of AdBlock Plus from its Play store.
The ad giant has also kyboshed other ad-blocking applications from its online shop. Adblock Plus revealed the Chocolate Factory's snub in a blog post:
In a rather surprising move, Google removed Adblock Plus and other ad blocking apps from the …
BAN SMUT, rage MEPs: Purpose of internet must be EXTERMINATED
Euro grumble-flick block bid bashed as attack on freedom
MEPs are being urged to back a non-binding resolution that calls on the European Parliament to, in effect, ban pornography from the internet. A group of Euro politicos hope the web filth block will bring about a "genuine culture of equality" online.
A motion was tabled this week by the EU's committee on women’s rights and gender …
Google AXES another 1,200 employees from Motorola workforce
'In markets where we're not competitive and we're losing money'
Google is cutting loose another 10 per cent of its Motorola Mobility workforce - which means 1,200 employees at the smartphone maker face redundancy.
The move comes after 4,000 jobs in the Motorola wing of Google's biz were axed in August 2012.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Motorola workers were told about …
BRITAIN MUST DECLARE WAR on Cervinaean menace
Doe! Citizenry urged to eat corpses of enemy
Brits need to take up arms and shoot* half of Blighty's deer population in a war to save the countryside from destruction.
There are more Bambi-like creatures in need of shooting than ever before in the UK, we're told, and their numbers have reached heights not scaled since the last Ice Age. With no natural predators, the deer …
Bees use 'electrical SIXTH SENSE' to nail nectar-stuffed flowers
Sparks fly when bumbles see plants for plundering, say Brit bio-boffins
There's electricity in the air when bees meet flowers: according to a new study, the blooms and approaching insects uses electrical signals to find out whether there is nectar and pollen to spare.
A bee covered with pollen on a flower My spidey bumble senses are tingling
As they fly through the air, bumblebees acquire a …
Mobile World Congress: Rise of the machines, er, mobiles
Live Chat Thursday, 1400 GMT: Chat to the El Reg team back from Barcelona
This year's annual Mobile World Congress marks a major departure, with machines battling the usual line-up of handset-makers for control.
From Monday 25 February, there will be cars on show plus an entire street filled with machines talking to each other.
The Reg is descending on Barcelona to parse this talk of machine-to- …
Perfect sex minx calculated from 'deep' probe of X-rated flicks
10,000 web smut stars analysed, vital statistics checked and double-checked
Hardcore data analysis of hardcore web filth has produced a surprise finding: the average female porn star is NOT blonde nor does she sport oversized Bulgarian airbags.
Investigative writer Jon Millward dedicated six months of his life to the task of crunching through vital statistics in the largest database of adult performers …
Speaking in Tech: Tesla's Elon Musk takes on NYT - ballsy move, man
Podcast Plus: Open file systems and the commoditisation of infrastructure
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Want to hear a quick and funny wrap-up of everything - well, everything important - that happened in tech this week? El Reg's enterprise and consumer kit gurus Greg Knieriemen and Ed Saipetch are here to discuss the business of tech, the tech of storage, and the quality of …
Speaking in Tech: VMware plots to build data centre that RUNS ITSELF
Podcast Virty vendor's Virsto slurp, virtualised vomit, Dell and more...
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It's another recap of the week in tech, all ready to download to your phone or tablet to make your commute home that much more informative and funny. Join your hosts, consumer and enterprise tech gurus Greg Knieriemen and Ed Saipetch - guru number three, Sarah Vela, is ill …
New cunning linguist computer has got ancient tongues licked
Boffins build system to reconstruct man's protolanguages
Boffins have put together a new computer system that attempts to translate protolanguages, the ancient "parent" tongues from which modern languages evolved.
The sophisticated Rosetta Stone-like system can quickly reconstruct the languages of yore from today's vocabularies with 85 per cent accuracy, we're told. The system's …
Speaking in Tech: HP's snarky Dell jab 'doesn't seem very Meg-like'
Podcast Plus: 'NetApp's too expensive to be acquired right now'
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It's another episode of El Reg's enterprise tech cast, with your hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, they're guest-free, which means Sarah can consolidate her high score on Temple Run while the crew get really honest about what they think of the …
Speaking in Tech: 'ARM makes enterprise chips? Over my dead body!'
Podcast But we will design 'em for you, explains ARM veep in grilling by Reg panel
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It's another episode of El Reg's enterprise tech cast, with your hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. Our special guest this week is Ian Ferguson, vice-president of Segment Marketing at ARM, who talks about the growth of the chip-design company from 12 people in …
Revealing new pics of galactic princess Andromeda
Really big lens lets astro-paps get nice new snaps
New, nifty pictures have been released by astro-boffins which reveal further glories of "the elegant spiral galaxy Andromeda, named after the mythical Greek princess known for her beauty".
Without further ado:
That's a proper long-distance princess snap
A bit blurry maybe, but this kind of pic often is
We're indebted for the …
Speaking in Tech: 'VCs hate open source because the path to money is longer'
Podcast The big Dell bet, OpenStack, stalk tech on Facebook and more...
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This week's enterprise techcast has Neanderthal babies, bets with vice presidents, arguing about taxes ... and even mixes in the odd bit of tech. It doesn't have any guests either, but it hardly needs those, as we have the full complement of the Speaking In Tech crew this …
Record numbers of you are reading this headline right now
Another year, another 700,000 readers
It's that time of year when we at The Register get our annual letter from the Audit Bureau of Circulation, confirming just how well we did during our regular November audit.
The scores on the doors are these: 7,326,907 unique users visited the site that month, up from 6,657,164 in 2011 - a climb of just over 10 per cent and the …
Nokia axes 300 IT bods, outsources 820 to Tata, HCL
Former mobe king downsizes ahead of financial results
Nokia will outsource 820 IT staff and make 300 more redundant, leaving a skeleton IT operation at the troubled phone maker.
Up to 560 staff will transfer to Tata Consultancy Services and 260 to HCL Technologies, both of which are headquartered in India. Nokia says it has a relationship with the pair.
Only small teams will …
Speaking in Tech: Why EMC is like a club, geek gifts and more
Podcast Chad Sakac: 'There is no API that defines storage services'
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Welcome to our first enterprise and consumer tech cast of the year. Join your hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela along with repeat offender Chad Sakac, senior veep of Global Systems Engineering at EMC, as they discuss the hiring culture at EMC, what they got …
Speaking in Tech: It's not a CLOUD fail, it's a cloud FIRM fail
Podcast C'mon, Netflix, own up...
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Pop on your headphones: Greg Knieriemen and co-host Ed Saipetch are back with another enterprise tech-cast and this week they've bagged a very special guest in the form of George Reese, co-founder and CTO of enStratus. It's fair to say he knows a little bit about cloud …
Steve Bong's 3D printing special Xmas showcase
¡Bong! Join the MAKERS' REVOLUTION with these INCREDIBLE GIFTS
2012 has been the year of 3D printing. It's what happens "when DIY meets Web 2.0", says Chris Anderson - and it's going to be the next industrial revolution - the biggest disruption since the last big disruption, only bigger.
We're as amazed as you are by the quality of today's additive printing technologies. So here's a …
Speaking in Tech: Like Kinect - only a THOUSAND times better
Podcast This year in tech... plus the team grills another American VC
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This week is our year-end podcast spectacular... Your hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela review the year in tech and chuck in some predictions for next year. They also have a chat with very special guests Brad O’Neill, CEO of TechValidate Software, and Peter …
WIN! A Viewsonic Pro9000 HD projector worth £1600
Competition Start 2013 with a big-screen home cinema
WIN! A Viewsonic Pro9000 HD projector featuring the latest LED lamp tech that's cool running, energy saving and outlasts them all.
ViewSonic has given us one of its first to market, state-of-the-art laser hybrid LED projectors for you to win. Simply answer the three questions below, and if you're looking for clues, check out …
Speaking in Tech: The day Dell's server guys said 'Cloud is bulls**t'
Podcast Hunger Games meets IT: 'Not everyone is going to make it through'
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Live from Austin, it's an enterprise and consumer tech cast with some of the biggest brains in the cloudy business. Weirding you out today are humble hosts Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Ed and Sarah take over the podcast live at Dell World 2012 while Greg Knieriemen …
Speaking in Tech: So you've built a data centre - but is it UNDER THE SEA?
Podcast The things you come up with while in Amsterdam
Welcome back - it's another Speaking In Tech hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Ed has taken over the podcast with this special - and shorter - episode from Structure Europe 2012 in Amsterdam.
Our special guests this week are Sam Johnston, director of cloud and IT services at Equinix, and Lane …
The Times offers subsidised Nexus 7s to get subscribers
Or Google offers subsidised Times to sell 'slabs
One day on from the announced closure of The Daily - which was Rupert Murdoch's first attempt at a fondleslab-only newspaper - his British broadsheet the Times is flogging cheap Nexus 7 tablets to those who subscribe to the paper.
The Google tablet normally retails at around £199, but Times and Sunday Times readers who sign-up …
Google buys parcel storage service for Christmas
'We have made rage a thing of the past'. Except at Amazon
Google has acquired Canadian startup Bufferbox for an undisclosed sum.
The self-serve parcel pick-up station outfit, which started life at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, announced it had been scooped up by the advertising giant on Friday.
"As online shopping becomes a bigger part of how you buy products, we look forward …
Speaking in Tech: WTF is Software Defined Networking, anyway?
Podcast Well, it's not Oracle's Xsigo
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It's another episode of El Reg's enterprise techcast with The Dude of Tech Greg Knieriemen, storage meister Ed Saipetch and new media maven Sarah Vela. Their special guest is Greg Ferro of the Packet Pushers Podcast and EtherealMind.com, who gives us the skinny on software …
Google parks panzers on Germany's lawn over 'link tax' plan
Geld spricht, Stier Scheiße Wanderungen
Google is attacking Germany's politicos in an effort to prevent the country's Parliament from passing a copyright law in the country that would force search engines to pay publishers for running links to newspaper stories.
The world's largest ad broker is lobbying hard against the so-called ancillary copyright law by moaning …
Nowhere to hide for Google users as Play is given Plus treatment
Anyone reviewing products now gets name, photo attached
Google is continuing its efforts to make anonymous posts on its services a thing of the past by forcing customers wishing to leave product reviews on its recently overhauled Android Marketplace online shop - now dubbed Play - to do so with their real name.
When punters attempt to leave reviews for individual products on the site …
Gangnam Style beats Bieber Baby, becomes biggest timewaste EVER
6,000 person-years humanity will never get back
Op op op op oppan, sexy lady - Gangnam Style!
Yes, if you're still upset by the four minutes of your life you'll never get back from watching internet sensation PSY bust some horsey moves on YouTube, then fear not - more than 820 million people made the same mistake.
This means that pop2.0 prince Justin Bieber has been knocked …
WANTED: Actual HELPFUL info on price-comparison websites
Watchdog growls at dearth of details, trust
The Office of Fair Trading has had a word with price-comparison websites, suggesting they up their game to improve consumer trust.
The watchdog said it has written to 100 leading price aggregators urging them provide clearer information to would-be punters.
The OFT found that, following a sweep of 55 such sites that operate in …
Google to UN: Internet FREEDOM IS FREE, and must remain so
Fears 'secretive' govs plan to make it pay for stuff
Google has attacked a "closed-door meeting" of United Nations' regulators organised by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) taking place next month. The Chocolate Factory claimed that some of the proposals to overhaul the 1988 comms treaty could be bad news for free speech.
The company also expressed concerns that …
Speaking in Tech: HP skunks Autonomy - Really, Meg... really?
Podcast Plus: Ellison Rage Twinkies, Farley on gorillas
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It's another exciting episode of El Reg's techcast, hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Ed returns from his secret mission while Sarah is on a vision quest in New Mexico. The infamous Marc Farley from Microsoft is the special guest... and gives …
Google hires top US traffic fed for DRIVERLESS CARS project
'Hm, no spaces. Car, drive around 'til I finish drinking'
Google has signed up the deputy director of the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to work on the company's self-driving cars.
Detroit News reported that Ron Medford was moving on from the NHTSA, after working in government roles for more than four decades. He will join the Chocolate Factory as the ad …
Facebook lets admen have a rummage through your shopping bags
Our customers need to see you wiggle ... bitch
Facebook is testing a new tool that will allow e-tailers to track purchases from users of the free-content ad network.
The purpose of the feature is mainly to demonstrate that displaying ads on the site is a profitable move for advertisers, who are understandably nervous about Facebook's staying power.
Reuters reported on …
Speaking in Tech: Saucy emails, Belize bath salts, Sinofsky and more
Podcast Plus, McAfee looks really buff for 67
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It has been a week of unbelievable revelations in tech, with Steve Sinofsky's departure, antivirus pioneer John McAfee's misadventures in Belize, and CIA director David Petraeus's resignation. This week in El Reg's enterprise techcast, Ed Saipetch is out on a secret mission …
Plenty more fish (and other eukaryotes) in the sea, say boffins
Expert on enormous bottom cucumbers lays it out
While scientists have painstakingly documented the existence of 226,000 marine species to date, there remain two to three times as many sea-dwelling creatures yet to be discovered, a new study has suggested.
Researchers at the University of Florida, who worked with more than 100 taxonomists and biologists to reach their …
