The Reg: Come off it, Moon, Earth. We KNOW you're 60 million years OLDER than we thought [Fri Jun 13 2014]

Daily Headlines 13 June 2014

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Business News Tumultuous Twitter torches top talent, topples COO Rowghani out as company plans to eliminate exec role Musk opens up Tesla patents for all to use 'Leccy carmaker won't sue 'good faith' rivals for borrowing ideas Intel prods PC market's corpse, corpse shouts 'I'M NOT DEAD!' Chip giant raises revenue expectations after signs of life flicker in biz boxen EU probe into Apple's taxes: It's NOT to do with double-Dutch-Irish anything sandwiches So WTF is this investigation all about then? ICT globalisation survey: UK's tops - 'cos we don't care who buys our firms National interest? How much does that cost... Amazon Prime Music opens – but where's the streaming music? Small labels lose out... again Vendor mouthpieces promise to stop spamming Wikipedia Astroturf rolled up and stacked out the back Data Centre News Google discovers it must expose itself to compete with AWS Cloud competition forces Page & Co. to open brain and give some of it to developers Nimble is as Nimble does: Mutant runs 'just like flash-only' gear Proin et diam, dicit venditor Nutanix vs VCE: Battle of the converged upstarts rages on Vendor's absolutely-not-skewed test skewered by rival Let cloud apps manage your systems – if you have nothing to hide Balance risks versus rewards Is this storage kit the best? It DEPENDS. Why is your face turning red? Storagebod I know you don't want to hear it, but YMMV, people Watch this: A webinar about System Center Orchestrator Video Microsoft's 'best kept secret' Verizon: Only a CROWD of storage tech firms can hold up our hefty cloud Mega telco hooked up to HDS, Oracle, NetApp ... you name it Intel pleads for €1bn EU fine to be overturned, is DENIED Couldn't, er, chip away at 5-year-old penalty either Panasas: Avoid lengthy RAID re-builds - use our dodgy-file tart-up tech Triple parity and erasure coding Hardware News Women are too expensive to draw and code – Ubisoft Yep, ZERO female characters in Assassin's Creed Unity Wintel pincers to squeeze iPads out of BYOD Typoslabs to be positioned as bigger and better than iThings Networks News Japan's DOCOMO suggests wearable SIM cards One SIM to rule them all, one SIM to bind them ... Cisco: You think the internet is clogged with video now? Just wait until 2018 'We are firmly in the Zettabyte Era,' says networking megafirm exec in new report AT&T promises to be extra good if feds approve DirecTV gobble Telco stops just short of promising free cute li'l kittens to subscribers in FCC filing LEAKED: Redmond not allowed to sell 'Nokia' smartphones after 2015 WP will be even more finished when it's finished - Belfiore Huawei set to spin up Big Data R&D facility in France Parisian brains trust will help Chinese firm extend its grasp on Europe's networking future Missed it? Here's the latest on Microsoft's mobile strategy Video Redmond's post-Nokia slurp master plan Psst. We've got 400Gb/s Ethernet working - but don't tell anyone In the future you'll be able to stream ALL THE FILMS Policy News Greenpeace rejoices after getting huge renewable powerplant CANCELLED There's just no pleasing some hippies* Google: Why should we pay tax when we make 'intangibles'? We don't need to hire people in your country, says ad-slinger's Australian leader Security News Oz refugee data leak a SNAFU, says KPMG report Politically-explosive data accessed 123 times after gov worker ignores intranet rules Sealed with an XSS: I gave TweetDeck a heart attack, says teen comp sci boff Firo I only wanted to post a cute graphic, says innocent lad Tech companies are raising their game (and pants) post-Snowden Snowden anniversary Is everything fatally borked? Not quite, say security godheads Kids hack Canadian ATM during LUNCH HOUR Asked for proof, teenagers change welcome screen to 'This ATM has been hacked' Israel develops wireless-malware-injection-by-smartmobe tool Might this be how Stuxnet crossed Iran's air gap? L337 crackrz use dumb passwords too Haxxors hope 'hack' stops them from being hacked Poison PDF pusher released to public A quick download, a couple of clicks, a naughty URL and you're in the business of crime Software News Dell exec: HP's 'Machine OS' is a 'laughable' idea Skeptical, private rival throws bucket of sick on HP's space program Welcome to Hotel FACEBOOK: Check out any time you like, you NEVER leave Vid Zuck's spell: Look into my eyes, not around the eyes. You're under Science News Chill, Rex: metabolic rate suggests dino blood neither hot nor cold Goldilocks, with HUNDREDS OF REALLY SHARP TEETH Soccer Football in SPAAACE! ISS 'naut nails zero-G bicycle kick Video A leaping-layout goalie save in orbit? Much less painful than Marcelo's 'own goal' Déjà spew: US would accept higher bills for less CO2 by two-to-one Even some who think 'scientists manipulate their findings for political reasons' would pony up Come off it, Moon, Earth. We KNOW you're 60 million years OLDER than we thought 'Might seem a small difference, but it is important,' say boffins Measure for measure: We visit the most applied-physicist-rich building in the UK Geek's Guide to Britain Like an ass whose back with kilograms of Concorde bows... Bootnotes News So, what exactly defines a 'boffin'? Speak your brains... Engineer? Computer scientist? Biologist? You tell us Scott McNealy to caddie for 18-year-old son at US Golf Open Biggest thing since Java launch says former Sun CEO

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