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Harper review: break up ACCC, free up IP*, let freedom reign

*Except for movies – what did you expect?

01 Apr 00:44 | 2

AWS flops out massive D to vaporise big data rigs

Cloud titan makes a play for Map Reduce and massively parallel workloads

01 Apr 00:55 | 1

Ethernet Alliance plots 1.6 terabit-per-second future

In 2025 you'll run 100 Gbps on the server, 400 Gbps on the switch and 1 Tbps on the router

01 Apr 01:29 | 7

This one weird trick deletes any YouTube flick in just a few clicks

No Minecraft videos were harmed in the making of this exploit

01 Apr 01:57 | 24

POODLE vuln dogs Australian consumer modems

Freak out! Source tells Vulture South there's 100,000 vulnerable hosts out there

01 Apr 02:14 | 10

Firefox hits prime time as version 37 manifests

New version phones home with feedback more often, squashes parasites

01 Apr 02:58 | 23

Netflix teams with AWS to launch VHS-as-a-service

'Brown edition' delivers TV's equivalent of a vinyl revival

01 Apr 04:01 | 26

OpenDaylight and friends spin up 'CloudRouter Project'

Software-defined buzzword party sees SDN, NFV and DevOps merge to become 'NetOps'

Mozilla project spits out threat modelling tool for sysadmins

Students' SeaSponge explains where you're about to go wrong

01 Apr 05:02 | 4

Virgin Media goes TITSUP, RUINS Tuesday evening

Wired and wireless broadband down for hours

01 Apr 05:33 | 83

It's the FALKLANDS SYNDROME! Fukushima MELTDOWN to cause '10,000 Chernobyls' in South Atlantic

Brits in secret evac cover-up

01 Apr 06:04 | 101

ESA reveals Rosetta's snaps of MARS and EARTH

This was the outward journey of the starship Rosetta ...

01 Apr 06:25 | 7

UK's National Museum of Computing celebrates 10 glorious years

Preserving Britain’s crucial contribution to IT

01 Apr 07:06 | 22

Amazon's clouds are da bomb, say EU data protection watchdogs

AWS meets Europe's privacy requirements, whatever they may be worth

01 Apr 07:27 | 6

Samsung takes Google into third dimension of flashy storage

Flash-flood: Korean 3D flash-furtler melts heart of the Chocolate Factory

01 Apr 07:57 | 2

Facebook 'violates Euro data law' say Belgian data cops' researchers

Social network? 'VAST ADVERTISING NETWORK', you mean

01 Apr 08:26 | 18

The coming of DAB+: Stereo eluded the radio star

Could the end finally be in sight for first-generation DAB?

01 Apr 09:00 | 120

Metadata manipulation by Alation seeks needles in data haystack

Startup's SQL Siri minus the voice

01 Apr 09:26 | 1

So where's all these digital services GDS promised us?

Doubts over whether cost savings will ever become reality

01 Apr 09:37 | 27

IBM: No compulsory redundancies in Systems Middleware

Up to 70 volunteers leave with a cheque and a smile as wide as America

01 Apr 09:58 | 1

Worstall on Wednesday

Nuclear waste spill: How a pro-organic push sparked $240m blunder

The wrong kitty litter led to an almighty clear-up job

01 Apr 09:59 | 104

Dell’s all-flash array receives benchmark boost

SC4020 sparkles significantly on the price/performance stat scale

01 Apr 10:22 | 2

Speaking in Tech: Cloud, Ellen Pao and ... er, Jeremy Clarkson

Indiana — you’ve made a powerful enemy today, my friend

01 Apr 10:39 | 4

Halifax's '24/7' online banking service is down YET AGAIN

Bank: Er, has it? Bugger, we'll, um, 'ring you back'

01 Apr 10:56 | 23

Mystery 'Explosive' cyber-spy campaign traced back to Lebanon

Round up the unusual suspects, you know the drill

01 Apr 11:19 | 4

CSC confirms top exec suspended over Australian bank scandal

Company is investigating kickback allegations

01 Apr 11:57 | 2

Hacked uni's admins hand ID theft prevention reward to data burglars

Bungling Bradley may have botched it

01 Apr 12:31 | 7

Locally Integrated Menus back on Vivid Vervet’s menu

Thanks Linux, Linus

01 Apr 12:57 | 35

Notebooks drag PC sales out the toilet, fondleslabs still falling

Revenue still falling as well. Bad times

01 Apr 13:29 | 9

Chef Software cooks up new Chef Delivery DevOps product

New workflow system covers app deployment as well as server config

01 Apr 14:01 | 3

'Modernise' safe harbour laws for the tech oligarch era – IP czar

Never meant as a get-out-of-jail-free card for tech giants, says report

01 Apr 14:33 | 4

Fake Pirate Bay site pushes banking Trojan to WordPress users

Pirated pirate site springs 'You've been iFramed' drive-by surprise

01 Apr 14:58 | 9

Boris Johnson backs trade union campaign to ungag civil servants

Let them speak as the oracles of Lord GO'D once did

01 Apr 15:28 | 17

Newly merged Chinese taxi-hailing app now valued at $9 BEEELLION

Hedge funds pile in to a (so far) almost Uber-free market

01 Apr 16:03 | 6

Project Spartan: We get our claws on Microsoft's browser for Windows 10

Cortana integration looks good but it's still rough and ready

01 Apr 16:55 | 44

Pumping billions into data centres won't guarantee you an empire

Please take note Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon

01 Apr 16:57 | 15

Go, daddy, go: GoDaddy shares rocket 30% in value at IPO

So why are people warning against buying in?

01 Apr 18:21 | 13

Power, internet access knackered in London after exploding kit burps fire into capital's streets

2,000 people evacuated as electrical blaze rages

01 Apr 18:32 | 69

Oracle gets ZFS filer array spun up to near-AFA speeds

Thor-like ZS4-4 soars, knocks SPC-2 score for four

01 Apr 19:03 | 6

Yes, AT&T, you do have to go to court with the FTC

Judge declines to make throttling charges go away

01 Apr 19:05 | 12

Barry Obama declares national emergency over foreign hackers

New exec order authorizes sanctions for cyber-crime

01 Apr 19:59 | 53

PlayStation Vita owners – Sony owes you $25 cash or $50 credit

FTC approves settlement for false advertising, 3G claims

01 Apr 21:21 | 5

Judge greenlights class-action suit accusing AMD of securities fraud

Plaintiffs claim chipmaker misled investors about supply-chain woes

01 Apr 23:30 | 8

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