Hackers' Paradise: The rise of soft options and the demise of hard choices [Mon Aug 18 2014]

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Business News Cisco prepares to take $700m hit to make 6,000 layoffs Fiscal 2015 pain includes severance pay and benefits Premier League wants to PURGE ALL FOOTIE GIFs from social media Not paying Murdoch? You're gonna get a right LEGALLING - thanks to automated software eBay in talks with Bitcoin firms about payments processing Online bazaar's Braintree subsidiary chatting up Coinbase and others 'Aaaah FFS, 'amazeballs' has made it into the OXFORD DICTIONARY' Quotw Plus: 'EE, how shocking, ANOTHER problem I face with your service' Data Centre News US regulators OK sale of IBM's x86 server biz to Lenovo Now all that remains is for gov't offices to ban the boxes Apple slings fanbois' data at Chinese servers in China Telecom deal Mandarins won't get encryption keys, Cook & Co promises ... scout's honor EMC customer? You can only buy from third-party sales bods now Firm plans to pull direct reps' sales tool El Reg's virtualisation desk pulls out the VMworld crystal ball MARVIN musings and other Gelsinger Gang guessing games Hardware News Top Gun display for your CAR: Heads-up fighter pilot tech Sadly Navdy kit doesn't include Sidewinder missile to blast traffic YES YES YES! Apple patents mousy, pressure-sensing iVibrator Fanbois prepare to experience the great Cupertin-O Samsung slurps Internet of Home Stuff upstart SmartThings Korean chaebol nabs home automation platform for rumoured $200m Intel teams up with rap chap 50 Cent on heartbeat headphones Get rich or die trying? Looks like the former rather than the latter Giving your old Tesco Hudl to Auntie June? READ THIS FIRST You can never wipe supermarket slab clean enough Hackers' Paradise: The rise of soft options and the demise of hard choices Opinion How it all went wrong for computer security Brits' BORKED Samsung kit held up after repair centre slips into administration What ... you don't know where my borked slab's gone? Networks News Ericsson to roll Ciena kit into Telstra Carrier preps core for SDN Google's so smart it's discovered SHARKS HAVE TEETH Congratulations, world media, for rediscovering submarine cable armour New Sprint CEO says he will lower axe on staff – but prices come first 'Very disruptive' new rates to be revealed next week 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 Detroit losing MILLIONS because it buys CHEAP BATTERIES – report Man at hardware store was right: name brands DO last longer Rimini Street promises 'business as usual' after Oracle IP judgment Rimini's wrong on Oracle database licence, says judge New voting rules leave innocent Brits at risk of SPAM TSUNAMI Read the paperwork very carefully - or fall victim to marketing shysters Oracle claims knockout blow in IP lawsuit Judge says Rimini Street pinched Larry's goodies Security News Boffins find hundreds of thousands of woefully insecure IoT devices Eeewww! Thousands of connected contraptions share firmware Remond cries UNINSTALL in the wake of Blue Screens of Death™ Cache crash causes contained choloric calamity Time to ditch HTTP – govt malware injection kit thrust into spotlight Don't touch that cat video, warns Citizen Lab Supervalu supermarket stores stung by sneaky sales system scammers Up to 1,000 stores could have been hacked Revealed ... GCHQ's incredible hacking tool to sweep net for vulnerabilities: Nmap Is that you, 007? Is that you, 007? Don't think you're SAFE from Windows zombies just 'cos you have an iPhone - research Malware can be pushed across the species gap Insert coin to continue: GameOver ZeuS zombie MUTATES, shuffles back to its feet You! Back from the undead again? Who needs hackers? 'Password1' opens a third of all biz doors GPU-powered pen test yields more bad news about defences and passwords Chrome update to raise alarms over deceptive download bundles That browser toolbar your Mum swears she never installed? Chrome'll crimp it Software News BizTalk-as-a-Service dog wags Microsoft's on-premises tail Two-year plan will harmonise middleware's cloudy and on-premises release cycle Microsoft punts FREE Office 365 mail migration, but some are not chuffed with the idea Mmm, drink from our delicious fountain o' cash, partners Pop-up ad man: SORRY we made such a 'hated tool', netizens Brands bummed out by SEXY FUNTIMES You'll find Yoda at the back of every IT conference Something for the Weekend, Sir? The piss always taking is he. Bastard the. Science News Vulture 2 spaceplane autopilot brain surgery a total success LOHAN slips into some sexy bespoke mission parameters NASA's rock'n'roll shock: ROLLING STONE FOUND ON MARS No sign of Ziggy Stardust and his band Bootnotes News Why your mum was WRONG about whiffy tattooed people They're a future source of RENEWABLE ENERGY Architecting a Big Data platform for analytics Managing analytical workloads associated with some combination of data volume, velocity and variety. Download here >

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