The Reg: KILO-MACH SONIC BOOM probed in fireball embers of 1572AD SUPERNOVA [Wed Nov 27 2013]

Daily Headlines 27 November 2013

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Business News Microsoft squeezes '$28' out of each XBox One – if you don't include R&D In your FACE, Sony! That's 10 bucks more (according to new claims) HP emerges from 2013 bloodied but unbowed as earnings beat estimates Revenues keep shrinking, but could an end be in sight? CIOs, IT chiefs: ARRGH! What do you MEAN, HR just bought 400 iPads and didn't tell us According to a survey, tech managers are in the dark about 'unofficial' IT spend Intel puts fledgling internet telly service up for sale Web TV system goes on the block before it has even launched – report Samsung's bid to halt grinding wheels of justice in Apple case denied Eternal patent war rumbles on, all concerned consider sticking pins in eyes Chairman grabs CEO's chair at British Airways' IT and comms supplier Half-year numbers out for provider Kcom - sales and profits slip Schmidt: Social networks will FREE THE PEOPLE of China 'You simply cannot imprison enough Chinese people' We flew our man Jack Clark into Facebook's desert DATA TOMB. This is what he saw Pictures Your personal snaps held in suspended animation Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang joins board of Oracle rival Workday Web scale and Asia market important in consumer ERP push BBC's 3D blunder BLASTED OUR BRAINS – Doctor Who fans Auntie’s DOG bites ‘Day of the Doctor’ catch-up viewers Why Microsoft absolutely DOESN'T need its own Steve Jobs Sysadmin Blog It should differentiate itself by not copying Apple Channel News Cabinet Office: Hey, forget those multi-BILLION pound deals... ...public sector buyers spent £10m on G-Cloud in October City of London cops ARREST 6 suspected to be MICROSOFT COUNTERFEIT RING £100k worth of kit seized by fuzz Data Centre News Infinio CEO: It's VNAS not VSAN. Chuh! CEO interview blog Ever since Oracle bought our little firm for $1bn, I've been a startup guy BIG IRON cluster warriors put pedal to HOT METAL HPC blog We node you like those accelerators Is that you, HAL? No, it's NEIL: Google, US Navy pour money into 'associative' AI brain No sleep. No food. Just 4 months of internet ... poor thing Hey, Microsoft, why don't you grab a beer with us? Opinion It's time for Redmond to get a round in, says Phoummala Schmitt LSI’s less-explosive Nytro: Smaller bangs for hyperscale DCs Cheaper flash and less of it DDN: Parallel file systems hit the wall? Let them eat super-duper-charged cache Infinite Memory Engine Big Data is getting too damn big - and nobody is helping to fix this Storagebod See that nettle? Time to pop your gardening gloves on, chaps Hardware News Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas reloads, empties clip into smartphones Hooker-beating fulfillment reaches iOS, Android, Kindle and Windows Phone 8 Solar vendors GOUGE non-US customers Shining a light on a dark market Microsoft: SORRY for the BORKED Xbox One disc drives, here's a free game Download and play while you wait for fixed gear to show up SCREW IT, says Motorola: Moto G mobe goes on sale two months EARLY Now taking preorders in America for phones to ship in December Microsoft bans XXXXBOX gamers for CURSING in online combat 'Clean, safe and fun' words only for Ghosts in a firefight. It's not very realistic, is it? Valve pal iBuyPower touts cut-price Steam box as powerful as PS4 or Xbox Listen to those penguins scream HP’s ENORMO-SLAB: The Slate 21 MONSTER tablet Review The 21-inch, 1080p Android tablet that thinks it’s an all-in-one desktop PC PC market: ABANDON HOPE all ye who enter here Vendor consolidation 'inevitable': WHO will dash for the exit first? Apple supplier's '11-hours-a-day' toilers have '1 day off a month' Report: Workers making screens for Samsung and pals 'often injured' on job You DON'T need a new MacBook! Reg man fiddles with Fusion, pimps out vintage Pro Feature Old school Unibody upgrading with Mavericks and storage tricks... Samsung and HTC face Android 3D graphics test chart removal SHAME Benchmark monitor sends alleged test cheats to the back of the class ZTE becomes latest to cuff self to smartwatch bandwagon Chinese manufacturer promises cheap, low-end electro-manacle in early 2014 XBOX ONE owners rage as HDMI SNAFU 'judders' Brit and Euro tellies Memo to Microsoft: you do know not every TV uses American standards? US and Japanese chip firms team up on MRAM project Are you ready for DRAM x TEN write speeds? Networks News Verizon, BT, Vodafone, Level 3 'handed Google, Yahoo! fiber links to NSA' Telcos cooperated with g-men in data slurp, claim sources Going bush Down Under? Your fave cat vids can come too! Vulture South distills the World Solar Challenge into a bush communications guide The TWEET got me drunk, Conshtable, I SHWEAR IT Twitter strengthens ID checks to stop underage drinkers seeing boozy Tweets Policy News Juniper bags AARNet fatter pipes and SDN MX routers for 100 Gbps-plus backbones Ditch IP from TPP, says Aust Digital Alliance The whole thing's a mess European Parliament reports HACK ATTACK, turns off public Wi-Fi Just 1 week after exposé about its merde sécurité de l'information Romance is dead: Part-time model slings $1.5bn SUEBALL at Match.com Claims that dating site used pics on fake accounts without consent Google, please DRILL through Great Firewall of China with your HTTPS LANCE Activists argue Chocolate Factory could call Beijing's bluff Sweaty palm time at Qualcomm after Beijing launches probe NDRC to investigate chipmaker under anti-monopoly law Security News These lucky people get paid to play CYBER WAR GAMES NATO cybersecurity bods to fly to Estonia for infosec Cluedo Angela Merkel's phone was being listened in on by FIVE foreign powers If your spooks aren't tapping Merkel, you should fire them really John McAfee punted from Portland party pad Eccentric security pioneer has moved on to Canada 'MacGyver' geezer makes 'SHOTGUN, GRENADE' from airport shop tat Vid Hobby project brings visit from the Feds Software News Docker 0.7 has a lover in every port: Containerizer cozies up to Linux distros New storage drivers let code sandboxes run on stock kernels Google faces fresh privacy gripes for splashing your G+ mug over ads Campaigner says tweaks should be stopped while Euro DPAs investigate Got a NAKED Jelly Bean Samsung S4 or HTC One? Maybe it's time for a KitKat Google squirts out 4.4 to yet more devices Dropbox joins Linux patent protection hit squad Cloud and devices front opening against 'Linux tax' iCan't quite hear you: Apple teams up with Danish firm to make hearing aids Fruity firm wants first shot at hard-of-hearing fanboi segment Supermodel Lily Cole in Impossible partnership with Jimbo Wales, YOU 'Impossible is something that has to happen'? Shurely something that can't ...? Science News Exotic physics takes an arrow to the knee with new ATLAS results Fermion evidence for Higgs boson decay Thanksgiving ROAST in SPAAACE: Comet ISON faces FIERY SUN DEATH Boffin gives it 40 per cent chance of return trip, but it'll be a heck of a show if it dies HIDDEN SHRINE from 500 BC found, may crack Buddha's birthday riddle Daylight highlights Enlightened One's childbed site Gift-laden Russian cargoship blasts off, heads for International Space Station 'Nauts will be happy to note Progress 53 also comes bearing oxygen, air KILO-MACH SONIC BOOM probed in fireball embers of 1572AD SUPERNOVA Vast blast cloud still aglow in X-Ray spectrum Stretchy capacitive sheaths coming to protect your pay-by-bonk mobe The race to weave elastic superconductive fibres has begun Noisy qubits destroy data in order to save it Just when you thought quantum computing couldn't get any weirder ... Cow FLATULENCE, gas emissions MUCH WORSE than thought - boffins Burping bovines, fossil fuel in US may toast planet faster

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