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<h4>£9 a month mumble mumble, terms and conditions apply</h4> <p>The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has put O2 on the naughty step after it deemed two of its print adverts for the iPad and Surface Pro tablets <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.asa.org.uk/ru… Full story >>>

<h4>Keeping up in performance stakes vital as data science sector explodes, says analyst</h4> <p>Exasol, the company behind a distributed in-memory database namesake, has pushed out its latest upgrade, touting support for GPUs and semi-structured data.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>End of milk-based monstrosity... or overpriced harmless fun? You be the judge</h4> <p>The hipster entrepreneur in all of us died a little bit today with confirmation that Cereal Killer Cafe, the best place in London Town for overpriced bowls of breakfast foodstuffs and milk, is… Full story >>>

<h4>Eleven flaws cleaned up including one that may be exploited to sling malware downloads</h4> <p>Citrix has issued patches for 11 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in its various networking products.…</p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.ht… Full story >>>

<h4>Ban, no ban, trade war, 'useful idiots'... it's a big pie and everyone's grabbing a slice</h4> <p>Britain is all a-tizzy about Huawei again as talk swirls over the imminent release of an unofficial report into the Chinese company’s influence over prominent Britons and a ban o… Full story >>>

<h4>Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost</h4> <p><strong>Bork!Bork!Bork!</strong> Welcome to another in <i>The Register</i>'s series of public whoopsies by customer-facing IT. Today it is the turn of perennial favourite, British Airways.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>No, not the Nottingham-born designer of natty suits, the former Proctor &amp; Gamble chap who also spent time in the channel</h4> <p>Salesforce exec veep and UK GM Paul Smith has quit to join cloud platform rival ServiceNow in the same role but for the Europe, Middle East a… Full story >>>

<h4>Neural network trained to spot emigrated suns in our Milky Way uncovers mysterious Nyx collective</h4> <p>Deep-learning software has singled out a group of 250 stars in the Milky Way that appear to have been born outside our galaxy. That's according to a research paper publishe… Full story >>>

<h4>Watch live online this week – and turn that existential threat into a competitive advantage</h4> <p><strong>Webcast</strong> It’s been a challenging decade in the financial services sector to say the least. From the global financial crisis to environmental, soci… Full story >>>

<h4>Peggy Johnson will take over after <em>she</em> approached ailing upstart</h4> <p>Augmented-reality flop Magic Leap has received an unexpected credibility boost: a top Microsoft exec has jumped ship, and will take over as CEO in August.…</p> Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/projects/smokeandmirrors.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Yesterday marked the launch of one of New Internationalist's first multimedia immersive long-form p… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/2017-walkaway.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Doctorow is both an entertaining author and very much on the right (by which I mean left/anarchist) side of… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/twatbegone.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">A while ago, my buddy Oxguin was thinking about the blocking on Twitter, specifically because of Donald Trump.… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="https://static.pexels.com/photos/6969/sunset-summer-hipster-pipe.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Since the world, or at least the UK, seems to have decided to Gastrate all its pubs and the hipsters have ta… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/2017-pirate-utopia.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Bruce Sterling is that other cyberpunk author. He is back to writing counterfactual alternative histor… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/ssh-book.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Here is a quick SSH tip that I only discovered a month or two ago despite years of using SSH on a daily basis. W… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/binary-puzzle.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">I first came across binary puzzles in early 2013 after finding a book of them in a Belgian supermarket, not… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/anglo-saxons.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">This is a pretty comprehensive 'brief' history of the Anglo-Saxons - from the decline of the Roman… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/silas-marner.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">This novel was one of a trove I inherited from my parents, a gift for my mother on her 20th birthday. It tel… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/twitterfeed.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">A few weeks ago, I received an email from Twitterfeed’s founder, a chap called Mario. In unnecessarily jolly p… Full story >>>