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Weekly Digest Headlines 21 February 2014

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Weekly Digest : The Biggest and Best of the Week BOFH: He... made... you... HE made YOU a DOMAIN ADMIN? Episode 2 Simon, are you breathing? Simon! French youth faces court for illegal drone flight 'Nancy from the air' vid lands lad in hot water Magnets to stick stuff to tablets: Yup, there's an Apple patent application for that Surely there's no 'prior art' for this brilliant innovation, eh? Amazon fuses LoveFilm, subs service, calls it Prime Instant Video Sticking it to Netflix in the UK We nearly MISSED OUT on iOS7 redesign: But someone snatched Jony Ive from the jaws of quit Day-glo culprit unmasked Bosses to be banned from forcing new hires to pull personal records ICO warns employers on subject access requests Toshiba Encore: The Windows 8.1 tablet that might catch on Review Don't be fooled by the fondleslab's feel... Years of AWOL Windows Phone features finally show up in video leaks Long overdue 'quiet hours' function so WinPho fans can catch some shuteye Facebook pays $19bn for WhatsApp. Yep. $45 for YOUR phone book +Analysis And they're not the biggest mugs. We are Reg HPC man relives 0-day rootkit GROUNDHOG DAY HPC blog Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties... VMware hyper-converge means WE don't NEED no STEENKIN' OS... ...in our virtual machines, says Reg man Chris Mellor Retiring greybeards force firms to retrain Java, .NET bods as mainframe sysadmins Desperate CIOs respond to old buggers, er, buggering off Snowden journo boyf grill under anti-terror law was legal, says UK court Media couple: 'Days of the British Empire are over', 'Britain is as bad as EGYPT' Help! Apple has snaffled the WHOLE WORLD'S supply of sapphire glass Ubuntu chief: We wanted it for our mobes and they took it ALL Hot racks and cool customers: Colocating in the capital Feature Where diesel, data and dark fibre meet Mathematicians spark debate with 13 GB proof for Erdős problem Try fitting THAT in the margins, math wonks Seagate's LaCie touts a 25TB (not a typo) box o' disks for your DESK Does this mean Seagate is no longer hiding a 5TB hard drive up its sleeve? Facebook gobbles WhatsApp for SIXTEEN BILLION DOLLARS Oh snap! Chat app chaps slap $3bn in their slacks. Crack open the schnapps TV scraper Aereo pulled off air in six US states after tellyco court injunction victory Weasel words butter no parsnips with Judge Kimball Steelie Neelie 'shocked' that EU tourists turn mobes off when abroad Roaming charges must DIE, vows top Eurocrat

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