512KDay: How the internet just BROKE under its own weight [Thu Aug 14 2014]

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Business News Oz telco results season! Telstra booms, Optus slides More than half Australia's mobiles are with Telezilla Cisco revenue dip means 6,000 staff to be de-assimilated Q4 results show emerging markets revenue falling, US flat, competition rising Dead Steve Jobs sued by own shareholders in no-poach pact brouhaha 'His conduct a reminder that businessmen commit unlawful acts in zealous pursuit of profit' Ex-VMware engineers chuck $4.5m and OpenStack at AWS But virty giant's magic code misses the first cloud cut Amazon takes swipe at PayPal, Square with card reader for mobes Etailer plans to undercut rivals with low transaction fee offer CEO of Brit giant Daisy Group in talks to take biz private Riley part of consortium in 'prelim' talks over 190 pence bid One in 12 Tweeps are bots But only 5 per cent of accounts are spammers, says Twitter Data Centre News Spell Sepaton backwards three times ... Puff! It just vanished into HDS Exit at last for high-end deduper's VC backers Meet the Flockers... and please, do try to contain yourself ClusterHQ product released today Golden age of invention or hyped-up age of overblown marketing? Storagebod blog Revolutionary and a massive step forward for the industry Flash to the Max: HGST, NEC ink SQL Server appliance deal Reference architecture for PCIe flash cards Cash-laden backers chuck $35 MEELLLION into the clouds Cloud storage gateway, cloudy backup bods net new funding 512KDay: How the internet just BROKE under its own weight Next time, big biz, listen to your network admin Nimble's latest mutants GORGE themselves on unlucky forerunners Crossing Sandy Bridges without stopping for breath ETSI publishes nine network function virtualisation standards Drafts out now, actual standards planned for release by year's end VMware hangs with the cool kids in the Containers gang We almost invented containers but were too shy to talk about them says CTO AWS adds on-premises Radius MFA to Workspaces DaaS This might need new jargon - 'hybrid cloud authentication' anyone? Hardware News Samsung's new Alpha Galaxy smartmobe looks absolutely like nothing else on the market 'An entirely new appearance' says chaebol bigwig Dolby Atmos is coming home and it sounds amazing Breaking Fad Don’t bin your multichannel home cinema system just yet No Apple fanbois here: Man United BANS iPads from Old Trafford Get your slabs out, get your slabs out, get your slabs out for the lads XBOX One will learn to play media from USB and DLNA sources Hang on? Aren't those file formats you hardly ever see outside torrents? Networks News Click on a Facebook ad on your mobe, then buy a thing on your PC ... Facebook remembers And you thought Messenger was a little bit creepy ROAD TRIP! An FCC road trip ... Leahy demands net neutrality debate across US You crashed watchdog's site, now time to crash its ears EE network whacked by 'PDP authentication failure' blunder Updated Carrier is 'aware' of cockup, working on a fix NOW What's the nature of your emergency, Vodafone? Oh, you've dialled the wrong number for ad fibs, rules ASA UK mobile coverage is BETTER than EVER, networks tell Ofcom Regulator swallows this line and parrots it back out at us. What are they playing at? BYOD's dark side: Data protection An endpoint data protection solution should add value to the user and the organization so it can protect itself from data loss as well as leverage corporate data. Download here > Policy News Marvell: NO WAY should we have to pay jumbo $1.54bn patent judgment Tells appeals court Carnegie Mellon Uni patent ruling was result of 'series of legal errors' Chinese regulator fires antitrust advisor over alleged kickbacks from Qualcomm Claims researcher took money to throw off monopoly probe Govt control? Hah! It's IMPOSSIBLE to have a successful command economy Worstall on Wednesday Even Moore's Law can't help the architects of statism now Naughty NSA was so drunk on data it forgot collection rules Declassified court docs show systematic breaches over [REDACTED] years Security News Brit infosec firm lets hackers think they've stolen something ClearSwift has scored an almost-accidental success with [REDACTED] tech Five Totally Believable Things Car Makers Must Do To Thwart Hackers Read the open letter from security pressure group Snowden: The NSA's MonsterMind machine could trigger cyberwar Plus more claims: Syria's internet going down? That was a US cock-up Snowden leaks show that terrorists are JUST LIKE US ... on infosec, that is. Jihadis' OPSEC rivalled GCHQ's, says Glenn Greenwald Anonymous threatens to name cop who shot dead unarmed Michael Brown Police close ranks and refuse to reveal officer's identity LulzSec supergrass Sabu led attacks against Turkey – report Revelations contained in 'sealed court docs' - news site Just when you thought you were alone in the bath: Hi-res mapping satellite ready for launch Will beam back images of objects as small as 30cm We told you jailbreaking your iThing was dangerous Ad revenue looted from 75,000 infected iOS fondelslabs Software News Speaking in Tech: 'Facebook Chat Heads – what a stupid name' Podcast Siri rival Viv: 'I've used it on my watch to show off sometimes' CoreOS takes Manhattan with Quay container-hosting gobble Docker-friendly Linux to offer private repository storage Science News Stanford boffin is first woman to bag 'math Nobel Prize' Maryam Mirzakhani's work on doughnuts and spheres wins Fields Medal Vulture 2 spaceplane brain surgery begins with remote incision Autopilot wrangling from Australia via OpenVPN CSIRO spells out cash-strapped astronomy future Parkes, Narrabri slimmed down and SKA will have to do without a Chief Scientist Architecting a Big Data platform for analytics Managing analytical workloads associated with some combination of data volume, velocity and variety. 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