The Reg: UK spies on millions of Yahoo! webcams, snaps sexy vid chats – report [Fri Feb 28 2014]

Daily Headlines 28 February 2014

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Business News Google coughs up $6.8m for FREE BUSING for San Francisco youth Not on Google's fancy buses, mind you. On the ordinary kind Microsoft chairman John Thompson: Redmond looks 'like IBM in 1990' Will new CEO Satya Nadella be Microsoft's Lou Gerstner? Europe: Apple. Google. Yes, you. Get in here. It's about these in-app bills Justice watchdog demands 'concrete answers' after parents stung by charges Outsourcing giant Capita gets share boost from confident outlook UK public sector favourite feels good as rival takes battering for criminal tagging scandal Tesla wants $1.6bn to help fund $5bn TOP SECRET Gigafactory What do you mean you want details? MtGox accepted new customers JUST DAYS before collapse Was the Bitcoin exchange taken by surprise? Mega-distie Ingram Micro cops to plans to axe jobs, padlock offices Plans to save $100m a year by 'delayering' biz Lenovo banks on $1 BEELLION Moto turnaround in SIX quarters Moto will be back in black in no time, assures Lenovo boss Your CIO is now a venture capitalist and you work at their startup This just happened without you changing job, by the way Samsung chairman wins £500m legal fight with brother Brothers decide 'familial and fraternal love' trump commercial dispute Data Centre News IBM's megabrain Watson to make mobe, slab apps smarter? Not so fast Analysis We drill into Big Blue's dream to put data-muncher monster in your palm Pork time! £350m in Health Service mail-etcetera cloud deals up for grabs Twenty suppliers is better than one, says government Tough times in the server market, even though more iron moved in '13 Sadly it was teeny-to-medium, not lovely Big Iron Getting REAL about data location in the cloud Live Reg TV Where to put your data, how to decide in the real world Dell gambles solid server sales for NetSuite's riches Shooting SaaS means more dosh, it hopes Apple launch iSpy certification scheme for snooping devs iBeacon branding rolled out to world+dog Toshiba floats enterprise cloud storage-as-a-service Promises single-tenant experience at multi-tenant prices A3CUBE HPC boffins: They've uncloaked. Now what? Comment CEO and chief techie chat to Willem ter Harmsel Hardware News Google Glass: Reg man tests tech specs First Look From humble hack to Glasshole: Feels like a platform, not a product Networks News Mens sana in fibro sano: Virgin Media network-level smut filters are ON What will punters use their new fast connections for? Blink once to turn right: Samsung asks software dev Teleca to talk Tizen Because the world really needs another OS Young, fun and full of comely tech skills? Then BT needs you! One-time national telco punts 1,000 new apprentice and grad jobs Fujitsu says SAYONARA to smartphone chip JV Splits with NEC, NTT on attempt to take on Qualcomm New radio tech could HALVE mobe operators' bandwidth needs MWC 2014 Might contravene today's LTE specs, but Kuma Networks' idea could go far A guide to transactional email With this guide, find out what you might be missing in your transactional emails. Download here > Policy News Australian bureaucrats to journalist: 'Give us back our bits' Data downloaded can be returned, it seems Oz feds kick the metadata retention can, again Please sir, may I have some more? US Senator lobbies feds to BAN BITCOIN West Virginia lawmaker says cryptocurrency mixed up in illegal activity Rip up telco red-tape so they can take on Viber, WhatsApp, says Brazil MWC 2014 Incumbents should be allowed to launch own OTT services Security News RSA rebel conference TrustyCon sells out despite 'dirty tricks' Raises $20,000 for EFF, and support for some in security industry Apple slams shut TEN code execution holes in QuickTime on Windows Plus stability fix for iTunes on Redmond-powered PCs UK spies on millions of Yahoo! webcams, snaps sexy vid chats – report Perfectly legal for us to watch your unencrypted steamy cam sessions, sniffs GCHQ Well done on the privacy lawsuit. Now NSA will keep your phone records INDEFINITELY Unintended consequences Energy firms' security so POOR, insurers REFUSE to take their cash They're turning down MULTI-MILLION pound contracts... YouTube to take down THAT anti-Muslim vid ... over COPYRIGHT issues Actor manages to do what angry hacktivists could not Q&A: Schneier on trust, NSA spying and the end of US internet hegemony RSA 2014 Basically, we're screwed for the next decade or so UK unis, McAfee collude to beat collusion attacks EPSRC splashes cash at security OpenID Foundation launches XML-free ID handler OpenID Connect spec touts simpler messaging Software News Fanbois face Windows XP moment as OS X Snow Leopard left to die Apple pulls support for desktop OS after less than five years Github brews text editor for developers 'Atom' builds on Chromium to offer text editor in a browser that won't browse Mix-and-match mobiles: Google unveils Project Ara dev conference Seeks hardware hackers for Motorola's modular phone Science News Pine trees' smell 'could prevent climate change really being a problem' 'Major' negative feedback identified NASA could have averted near DROWNING TERROR in SPACE ISS 'naut Luca Parmitano's spacesuit had the same fault a week earlier Bootnotes News Passenger jet grounded by two-hour insect attack If wasps can do this to an A330, how are Internet of Things sensors going to fare? Official FACT: Gadgets are giving YOU a wrinkly 'Tech Neck' Quick, fanbois! Put on a turtleneck! Oh wait, you have Steve Jobs statue: Ones and ohs and OH NOES – it's POINTING at us Twitter JEERS at Apple HQ's HIDEOUS 'cocky' memorial What the world really needs: A telescopic SELFIE STICK MWC 2014 No, really. It's a pole for short-armed snappers A guide to transactional email With this guide, find out what you might be missing in your transactional emails. Download here >

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