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• IBM buys Arsenal...

  ...Digital, another storage vendor

• AMD DisplayPort graphics card spied on web

  Would-be HDMI killer arrives

Hardware News

• Western Digital drive is DRM-crippled for your safety

  Because you are a dirty criminal scumbag

Management News

• Codemasters pledges to stay civil on file-sharing

  What, you mean the police have better things to do?

• UK gov: Feds will get BAE bribe files when hell freezes over

  Six month stonewall 'shows we know how serious this is'

• Met plan moves police to out of town megabases

  Community support handles the 'accessible and friendly' bit

• HMRC still looking for disks - just don't ask Microsoft's Santa

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• Italy calls for anti-counterfeit commissioner

  Real action needed on faked goods

• German Wikipedia attacked over Nazi symbolism

  Updated Politician files charges

• DVLA coughs to data slip

  Details sent to wrong addresses

• CIA erased waterboarding videos

  'It was done in line with the law,' insists top spook

• AdultFriendFinder rapped for X-rated pop-ups

  Foisted explicit material on wide-eyed innocents

Music and Media News

Odds and Sods News

• How to stuff all of Silicon Valley in a stocking

  Exclusive The ultimate geek gift

• Wigan man traps todger in metal ring

  Cue fire brigade bearing handgrinder

• BOFH: Xmas party: Get a wriggle on

  Episode 41 When the chips are waiting...

• Campaign to name US street after Douglas Adams

  42nd Avenue, of course

• 419ers flash big bucks cashcard

  $920k - coming soon to an ATM near you

• How much does El Reg cost the global economy?

  Reader poll Putting a price on Vulture Central

Reg Hardware News

• Eee PC: better with Windows?

  Editors' Blog Eking out the power with XP

• LG launches posh music phone

• US Blu-ray Disc player sales pass 2.7m

  Close to HD DVD total - if you ignore PS3

• Sony exec confirms PS3 will get Blu-ray Profile 1.1 this month

  But only one, German disc uses the spec

• Sony ponders direct-to-PSP downloads

  Taking the PC out of the picture

• Logic3 SoundStation3 PS3 speakers

  Review Three it seems, is the magic number

• Spinning, flashing Linux logo droid comes to UK

  Geek love

• Nokia confused over handset’s features

  Too much Christmas spirit?

• Video watch: plays movies, tells time

Science News

• It's not too late to join the bioterror gold rush

  Analysis Follow the money

• Fuel sensor glitch delays Atlantis launch

  Lift-off now pencilled for Saturday

Security News

• MySpace celebrity hacker downs hacking forum

  Friendly fire

• Police launch hunt for bogus bobbies

  Raiders used roof ruse to dupe data centre staff

• Data centre looted in multimillion pound overnight heist

  Updated Bogus bobbies raid King's Cross site

• Lebanese lottery scam suspect cuffed in Cyprus

  $10m Interpol target awaits possible extradition

Software News

• Novell, Red Hat and Gartner war with Facebook for PR flop award

  Radio Reg Save the fear leader. Save the hurled

• Google's next web toolkit thinks it's better than you

  GWT Conference Fastest fingers in the West

• Microsoft wriggles on Volta concerns

  No Google clone

• MS rejects Web 2.0 moniker for IE

  As you were

• Verizon sued for GPL naughtiness

  Where's the source?

• Teachers: Feel my Truthiness - Jimbo

  Is our children reverting, yet?