The Reg: MIGHTY SOLAR FLARES fail to DESTROY CIVILISATION. Yes! [Thu Jun 12 2014]

Daily Headlines 12 June 2014

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Business News Synaptics, longing for Apple's love, gobbles chip outfit Renesas SP Hopes to build next-gen silicon for touchscreens The Force of tax breaks brings Star Wars filming to Blighty Politicians visit set, make cringeworthy film references Debunking Jimbo: Slippery Google tries to evade European privacy Analysis 'It'll be real bad for news sites', when we pay the legal bills. Er, hang on? TalkTalk whips BT with riding crop over sport fibs in telly ad Watchdog agrees that one-time state monopoly misled viewers Evernote taken out by DDoS attack Millions of users unable to sync their notes and web clippings Data Centre News HP cloudy bigwig: the Helion train is steaming ahead Jumping on the enterprise version will cost $1,400 a server per year IBM slashes SoftLayer prices and plugs it into more data centers IBM follows Amazon, Microsoft, in lashing SoftLayer cloud gear to fibre in colocation bit barns US telco titan Verizon floats storage clouds over Himalaya Amplidata sets off on data mountain expedition Speaking in Tech: LIVE from San Francisco's Cloud Foundry Summit Podcast 'Douche canoes', 'bro culture' and - of course - cloud Do you really have to slash and burn to upgrade your storage? Software defining the future Networked mutant flash-disk beast Nimble to smack flashy rivals with 'high-end' boxen Fellow upstarts, behold: It's a Tegile-type effort Snowden's Big Brother isn't as Orwellian as you'd think Snowden Anniversary Secrets & lies: Spies & GCHQ Gung-ho Guangzhou college kids smash LINPACK cluster record HPC blog Oh snap! Don't TELL me you brought K20s to a K40s party Hardware News HP starts a memristor-based space program to launch ... THE MACHINE Plans new OS on custom CPUs and memristor-memory joined by photonics by 2020 Huawei Ascend P7: We review the PANORAMIC SELFIE smartphone Review China's slimmest, smartest mobe yet Frikkin' LASER BEAMS on its head: Formlabs announces Form 1+ Not quite Star Trek replicator yet... but they're paying for it Networks News FCC boss threatens to BRING WRATH DOWN on states that limit broadband competition Commission may overrule laws that restrict public networks IPv4 addresses now EXHAUSTED in Latin America and the Caribbean They could just buy dot-uk domains, right Stephen Fry*? Google calls on carriers to craft IoT plans $40 a month to send a heartbeat too much, says Chocolate Factory Policy News Ireland accused of giving Apple 'selective advantage' EU launches probe to ponder tax naughtiness by Cupertino, Starbucks and Fiat Windows 8 leaker gets three months, booted back to Russia Bulk of jail time already served Microsoft challenges US gov't on international data searches Claims Irish facility should not be subject to US warrants PICS ON GROUND: Cabbies PARALYZE London in Uber rebellion Pics Steelie Neelie 'outraged' as our man reports from amid cross charioteers We're ALL Winston Smith now - and our common enemy is the Big Brother State Worstall on Weds Private firms slurp data too? Meh Apple's Irish tax lair to be probed by European Commission Report says Tim Cook must battle BRUSSELS' BEST BUREAUCRATS! Security News TweetDeck XSSed: TROUBLE IN THE BABBLECHANNEL Updated Log out, revoke permissions, microwave your boxen - you know the drills Feedly DDoSed by ransom-threat crims: 'We refused to give in' RSS bods stand up to cyber creeps BILLIONS of digital dollars go AWOL to cybercrooks, says study Of course, the solution MUST be to buy the sponsor's brand of antivirus ... right? 207 thousand lights-out boxes are STILL hackable A year after being warned, admins persist with 13 year old firmware SLOW DOWN: Insecure-by-design software on road Electronic highway signage has default password, can be p0wned from afar Troubled Truecrypt the ONLY OPTION for S3, but Amazon stays silent No noise from web warehouse as hacking rumours fly. Software News Swiftkey: We just want to be free - Apple didn't bump us Those who feel that someone owes them a new keyboard are plainly right Watch this: The .NET ASync story Video devtastic training session from QA Microsoft poised to take Web server crown from Apache Open sourcery ahead by just 1.5m servers and the lead is narrowing Science News Wedding tackle started out as PROTO-SHARKS' LEGS, boffins say Cut me off at the knees and call me a tripod SPIDER-TROOP, Spider-troop, does whatever a spider troop can Man uses sucker paddles to scale a 25-foot sheer glass wall US tests on MARTIAN FLYING SAUCER above Hawaii: postponed Come on NASA, pull your bloody finger out MIGHTY SOLAR FLARES fail to DESTROY CIVILISATION. Yes! Vid Brace of X2-class sun burp blasts bounce off atmos, again FLYING SAUCER 'designed for Martian atmosphere' in Pacific US military base Mars landing airbag tester may finally launch today, agency teases World first: ANIMATED GIF of Mercurian SUN ZOOM from MARS Rover gives the nod to the history of astronomy Dallas Cowboys to return 'dumbass' Texan's chopper FAA 'looking into' quadcopter stadium roof landing Glacier's hot butt melts ice, boffins say Underground volcanoes make the West Antarctic Ice Shelf hot and bothered Urine a goldmine for fuel-cell materials: boffins Drink beer. Make fuel. Repeat until dependence on fossil fuels ends Bootnotes News DAMN you El Reg, CALL ME A BOFFIN, demands enraged boffin CoTW 'Otherwise I will be forced to make a SARCASTIC comment'

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