The Reg: Scottish leader splurged £20k appealing disclosure of EU membership legal bungle [Mon Oct 14 2013]

Daily Headlines 14 October 2013

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Business News Microsoft sells out of MSN Australia Local television station acquires long-running JV Biometrics not so trustworthy: False Samsung stock-pump buy draws Swedish cops Particularly untruthful press release = money Streaming TV Aereo's enemies lob sueball into Supreme Court 'No more shilly-shallying, dilly-dallying – we're going straight to the top' Google: Now your mom will try to sell you toilet paper Custom ads will feature your (unpaid) friends and family ECHR rejects free speech plea over offensive online comments Danger ahead: commentards at work Leveson: My Whingers' Charter™ is PERFECT, you impudent MPs Wikijudge is sorry for nothing, refuses to explain anything Canadian operator EasyDNS stands firm against London cops Comment What's a UK crime unit doing messing around with DNS? Read on... Channel News UK.gov provider frees Microsoft partner TES from administration IT Solutions biz Liberata buys Trinity in pre-pack deal Samsung UK computing chief leaves for HP PC biz Samsung computing GM serving notice before jumping ship Data Centre News Royal Mail FAIL as web brokerage Hargreaves Lansdown struggles with investor demand E-share portal buckles under snail mail speculators Students prep for battle of wits, MIPs and watts: It's student cluster-wrestling time SCC'13 Kids face off against HPC industry professionals Facebook adds Flash to up the tempo of its enormous disk-o-tech 'Anyone wanting to deliver Terabytes to the web might be interested' Hardware News Apple's iWatch to appear in 2014, will RULE your home – new claim More than just a mere extension of your smartphone – are you listening, Sammy? Apple blatantly COPIES Windows: Blue Screen Of Death comes to iPhone 5s Twice as fast as the iPhone 5? Twice as CRASHY claims app bug watcher GTA players get ersatz $0.5m each to make up for delayed hooker-beating fulfilment Quantitative easing comes to Los Santos Computer Chess: Geek, gaming and retro-tech movie of the year Film Review ‘The chessboard is the world, the pieces the phenomena of the Universe’ Best Buy: Bring us your cowering, unwanted Microsoft Surface masses Store giant intros trade-in deals for unloved Windows 8 tablet Swap your old iPhone for a new one, Tim Cook tells British fanbois US mobe exchange scheme coming to Blighty - reports Networks News Wanna be Zuckerberg's neighbor? Tough luck, he bought the block for $30m So THAT'S how much privacy costs Ofcom, it's WAR! Mobe networks fire broadside over 2G spectrum pricing PR offensive doesn't mention they were gifted it for free back in the 80s Rubbish broadband drives Scottish people out of the Highlands More connectivity needed to stop flight of 'digital refugees', MSPs told Policy News Brazil's anti-NSA prez urged to SNATCH keys to the internet from America Nations should be on equal footing with Uncle Sam, say web overseers Scottish leader splurged £20k appealing disclosure of EU membership legal bungle Showdown with Scottish ICO leads to defeat for Alex Salmond Security News Back door found in D-Link routers D-secret is D-logon string allowing access to everything Just the fax, ma'am: How hacktivists went on a mass web joyride spree Web.com DNS hijack latest: Password-reset high jinx fingered Easily picked CD-ROM drive locks let Mexican banditos nick ATM cash Who needs an inside man when you've got a boot disc? Trend Micro buys Taiwanese deep packet sniffing firm Globo security giant to add slurpee's tech to its corporate products NSA tactics no better than a CYBERCRIME GANG, says infosec'er Detailed analysis reveals they're on par with banking scammers Spies launch hack attacks on Mongolia... to see who its friends are – report Like checking up on your kid's Faceboo... well, not really Electronic Frontier Foundation bails from Global Network Initiative PRISM claims a casualty as EFF can't bear to be associated with NSA Software News Kiwi 'ccountancy cloud collects colossal cash casket Xero wins another $NZD180m in funding Scottish gov follows cutting-edge Italian Post Office with Win 8 trial IT bravehearts lay hands on 100 testbed tabs YouTube turns on dormant DRM, permits official downloads Upcoming mobe app update allows 48 hours of cat video joy Double-click? Oh how conventional of you, darling! Something for the Weekend, Sir? Who needs rules when you can use your imagination? Science News SpaceX's Grasshopper rocket jumps past 2,500 feet Musk's stick breaks own record Google peered through Glass during solar race Talent-spotting or augmenting race reality? NASA's Jupiter probe wakes up after unexpected snooze Sphincters unclench audibly at mission control Boffins find MEXICAN WAVE pattern in random climate wobbles Good news for Bob Geldof, bad news for the IPCC Raspberry Picam magic: More snaps from LOHAN's fruity eye in the sky Picture special Spectacular images from the stratosphere for your viewing pleasure Bootnotes News Assange: 'I'm fond of your work, Cumberbatch, but let's leave it at that' Quotw Plus: 'You don't need to bug an entire city to bug one guy's phone calls' Turkish TV presenter canned for flashing too much cleavage 'Unacceptable' amount of jub, thunders killjoy government mouthpiece

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