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See that tiny blue dot? That's our corner of ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, that is NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take a picture of Earthlings' home planet from the viewpoint of aliens on Saturn today, snapping the image from hundreds of millions of miles away.…

Carl Fiorentino bailed for $1m over wire, mail and laundering scams…

Rent more because high home ownership means high unemployment…

Those little labels on the boxes? Pretty important, actually The Wi-Fi Alliance is now formally certifying devices conforming to 802.11ac, the 5GHz wireless standard capable of delivering 1Gb/sec, only a year after manufacturers started shipping kit.…

Wikileaker won't leave London embassy even if Sweden no longer wants him Julian Assange says he'll stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London even if allegations of sexual assault against him in Sweden are dropped.…

Bold move - HPC legend starts standalone storage biz Supercomputer company Cray is starting up a standalone storage company with a Cray Cluster Connect product for rustling up business supplying X86 Lustre clusters.…

Flash-packed Savvio found lurking in Big Blue iron Seagate has quietly built an enterprise-class 600GB hybrid drive: it combines the capacity of spinning platters with a fast flash cache of hot data.…

... or is it just better than MS and pals - EC probes for details of deals…

Upgrade is no 'miracle', sniffs IT analyst An updated Windows 8 from Microsoft will NOT be the "miracle cure" for traditional PC makers in need of a sales and profits injection. And that's according to IT biz analysts Context.…

NSA web snooping 'against mankind' sneers tubby boy-king's pravda Poverty-stricken dictatorship North Korea says the leak of NSA web-snooping project PRISM shows that the US is the “kingpin” of civil-rights abuses.…

Could have been 'natural variability'…

CEO: Public cloud OK for archiving data but not for backup Exagrid, a supplier of deduplicated disk grid systems, clearly isn't worried about its products, but it has added two new execs to help boost the business side of things.…

The current generation of consoles can still thrill…

Without a 'data secure destination' cert India's locked out of $30bn euro-sourcing market…

Coders and their Zimmer frames converge in Canada HP might have nuked OpenVMS, but its parent, PDP-11, is still spry and powering GE nuclear power-plant robots and will do for another 37 years.…

Keep Calm: Bright sparks, not aliens, set this fire…

Cameron and chums to hold confab in empty field, apparently…

Supposed 'CIA list' with you on it actually contains malware…

Websense CSO recommends fake attacks on suits to open their wallets…

Canada, Oz, NZ, Mexico, Switzerland and Israel send 'Dear Larry' letter 36 Privacy Commissioners from around the world have written to Google to ask, in the polite-but-firm language of international diplomacy, for some details about Google Glass.…

'Open minded' about acquisition Growing its smartphone shipments by 94 percent from Q1 2012 to Q1 2013 might not be enough to satisfy Huawei: it's reportedly floated the idea of acquiring Nokia.…

Republican-led committee also swings budget axe at climate science…

All this and faster performance, too…

Confirms he's now Dell's largest private investor – short of Big Mike, that is…

BNZ backs Huawei kit buy Junior New Zealand telco Two Degrees Mobile is getting ready to roll out 4G, with deployment to start in 2014.…

Biggest update yet for Microsoft's JavaScript alternative Microsoft on Tuesday announced TypeScript 0.9.0, the latest version of its JavaScript killer alternative web language, which Redmond describes as the "largest update to TypeScript to date."…

Argues free speech trumps security secrecy…

The Reg has a plan to ensure Australia knows what its billions will buy Australia has, for the past decade, enjoyed a vivid but not-always productive debate on appropriate broadband infrastructure for the nation. The Reg wants to set that to rights.…

'Significantly and substantially increases the probability of violent conflict' The increasing availability of cell phone coverage in Africa is contributing to an increase of violence on that continent, a recent study contends.…

Big trouble in automated clouds Puppet Labs has blasted out a security advisory about a vulnerability in the popular infrastructure management tool Puppet.…