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Daily Headlines 6 August 2013

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Business News Arrr! Comcast working on new tech to nudge PIRATES to go straight 'Are you sure you wouldn't rather BUY that from us?' iiNet to buy Adam Internet Swoops after Telstra's tilt tanks Amazon founder Bezos snaps up Washington Post Citizen Kane 2.0 forks out $250 million for loss-making bauble Chinese Apple suppliers face toxic heavy metal water pollution charges Foxconn denies allegations, Apple reiterates zero-tolerance stance IDC: Sluggish China to pinch global IT spending this year Servers, storage in a worldwide 'cooling phase' Paid-for stuff likely to triumph over free – shock report The future of TV might not be sneezing pandas Microsoft loosens strings on Office 365, drops kimono on upgrade options Family switch plan promised There's a tide of unstructured data coming - start swimming Or you could just work out a plan... Cloud News GenieDB uncorks database-as-a-service Grants admins' wish for planet-spanning cloud-huffing MySQL ProfitBricks budget cloud in SECURITY FAIL Security pro spanks upstart's floppy policies Data Centre News Ex-Cray supercomputer interconnect guru Scott leaves Nvidia for Google Working on new systems at the Chocolate Factory IBM CEO doesn't forget Parris in Power and Mainframe top job lob Rometty appoints GMs after swapping units' heads Pernixdata: Psst, sysadmins – wanna virtualise that server-side flash? VMware-boosting FVP set for general availability from tomorrow Trouble closing the wallet, Joe? EMC boss Tucci's cloudy shares rain $10m Cloudfather still sitting on shares worth $44m Multimillion-dollar sack of Microsoft cash soaks up Quantum's bloodbath Spinning-down disk biz almost stained $148m sales in red ink Psst. Want to stop the data drip of leaky clouds but don't know how? Look here Storagebod Sync'n'share can be all wet. Here's some tools to help stem the flood Hardware News Start-up's non-volatile memory tech packs a terabyte per tiny layer Resistive RAM provides a cornucopia of advantages over NAND flash, Crossbar claims South Korea: We're 'concerned' that Obama saved Apple from ban We're negotiating in good faith, but Apple won't take a licence, moans Samsung Upgraded 3D printed rifle shoots 14 times before breaking Version 2.0 'Grizzly' looks closer to lethal Networks News Sad shop-shelf-clinging BlackBerry Z10 AXED ... in price, contracts Months-old £736 smartphone now absolutely free (ish) Oi, trolls, BEHAVE! Twitter tweaks rules to tackle abusive twits Media crapstorm forces microblogging site into action Mobe networks hacked phones to fix SIM hijack flaw, says bug-finder Bloke keeps schtum after JavaCard weakness exploited to squash it Jimbo Wales: ISP smut blocking systems simply 'ridiculous' Wikipedia man labels filters 'technologically incompetent' You CAN'T be a Silicon Roundabout hipster... you don't have Bluetooth socks Quick, chuck us $80k so we can take care of that bulge The Old Reader drops Google refugee eviction plan 'New corporate entity' takes over, begs users to stay Policy News Lawsuit: Infosys abuses visas to discriminate against US staff Claims 90% of US staff is made up of Asian immigrants Leaked docs: SOD squad feeds NSA intelligence to drug enforcement plods It gets worse: DEA demands that enforcers lie about source of evidence Lawyers seek $16m payday in Apple 'moist iDevice' settlement Denied warranty service for your moistened kit? It's time to get in line for your pittance Gov: Smart TV bods must protect users from smut-riddled badness Who knows what lurks in the darkness of t'interwebs Security News Tor fingers Firefox flaw for FAIL but FBI's also in the frame Malware means 'attacker now has a list of vulnerable Tor users' They don't recognise us as HUMAN: Disability groups want CAPTCHAs killed ACANN goes against W3C advice with alternative verification suggestion Posh potty owners flushed by dodgy Bluetooth password Power behind the throne Child porn hidden in legit hacked websites: 100s redirected to sick images So warns the Internet Watch Foundation Bad timing: New HTML5 trickery lets hackers silently spy on browsers Sub-millisecond precision in your rendering engine. What could possibly go wrong? Earn £8,000 a MONTH with bogus apps from Russian malware factories DIY SMS-scam kits anyone can use - even your grandparents! Lumpy milk and exploding yoghurt? Your fridge could be riddled with MALWARE Security bod predicts future where virus writers steal your lunch Science News Barbie paints Red Planet pink with NASA-approved Mars Explorer doll Stylish take on classic space suit shuns gloves, oxygen Sergey Brin's 'test-tube burger' cooked, eaten, declared meat-like It helps if you ignore the odd color and funny taste World's FIRST TALKING SPACE ROBO-CHUM BLASTS OFF to the ISS Domo arigato, Mr Roboto ... また会う日まで Bootnotes News Transdimensional rift appears above Australian bolt supplier Possible chilling link to giant flying pliers above UK? Watch those skies Davros liable to criticism for huge STRAW DALEK he never built Giant Cheshire edifice actually intended to publicise 'Da Lick' ice cream. Argh!

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