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German hackers successfully used off-the-shelf kit to extract personal data from the federal government's supposedly secure ID cards, but the government has downplayed the significance of the attack.…

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An update for the TomTom app on the iPhone is "coming soon".…

A pathologist at the centre of a row over the death of a man during the G20 protests is suspended from the medical register for three months.

Rory Cellan-Jones tries out 3D video equipment and looks at the latest ultra thin and bright OLED TVs.

The Camerons' baby daughter Florence has made her debut on the steps of 10 Downing Streedt. She was swaddled in a white shawl which was sent to the family by a member of the public, Jane Fraser-Cross.

One in four state primary schools in England has no male teacher, statistics show.

12 months for CD & USB shenanigans

Ex-MI6 worker Daniel Houghton has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for unlawfully disclosing top secret material, in breach of the Official Secrets Act.…

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Going down for the last time

Comment  This is the day that Apple lost the war for Over The Top content, not only in America, but globally. The winner can’t yet be announced, but this was the shot that Apple had to get it right, and to us it’s bungled it.…

Edinburgh Fringe officials defend their decision to count customers of free shows in their box office returns.

Coming soon: Hypobaric chamber - The Revisiting

The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team is preparing to turn down the pressure with a second visit to Qinetiq's hypobaric chamber.…

A British man wanted in Spain on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend is to be extradited.

Also: New vid of unsold P-791 Walrus suck-belly ship

US aero-weapons goliath Lockheed, builder of the famous P-791 airship prototype, was beaten to a half-billion-dollar deal to supply spy ships above Afghanistan earlier this year - but the firm is still marketing its P-791 technology aggressively.…

A County Durham woman who took the lifeless body of her two-year-old to a police station has been charged with his murder

Defence Secretary Liam Fox rules out the UK sharing aircraft carriers with France as part of closer defence co-operation.

IBM looking peaky

IDC's latest quarterly disk storage tracker shows EMC and HP competing for the market lead, with EMC growing faster than HP. NetApp is growing faster still but has a lot of ground to make up.…

A large amount of suspected counterfeit car parts, as well as cash, are seized by police in Cullaville, south Armagh.

El Reg is hiring

Situation Publishing, owner of The Register and Reg Hardware, is looking for a full time developer to primarily work on HTML(5), CSS, JavaScript/jQuery and template engines such as XSLT and Perl’s Template Toolkit.…

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Somerset County Council is to cut as many as 1,500 posts by 2013 n an attempt to plug a £75m deficit in its finances.

Drops unwanted code in open source developer laps

Google has boxed up its unsuccessful Wave project and handed the unwanted code to open source developers.…

Tony Blair's memoirs has become the fastest selling autobiography in Britain. But what are the biggest overall sellers?