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Weekly Digest Headlines 15 August 2014

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Weekly Digest : The Biggest and Best of the Week 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 Who needs hackers? 'Password1' opens a third of all biz doors GPU-powered pen test yields more bad news about defences and passwords New voting rules leave innocent Brits at risk of SPAM TSUNAMI Read the paperwork very carefully - or fall victim to marketing shysters You'll find Yoda at the back of every IT conference Something for the Weekend, Sir? The piss always taking is he. Bastard the. Pop-up ad man: SORRY we made such a 'hated tool', netizens Brands bummed out by SEXY FUNTIMES Hackers' Paradise: The rise of soft options and the demise of hard choices Feature How it all went wrong for computer security Giving your old Tesco Hudl to Auntie June? READ THIS FIRST You can never wipe supermarket slab clean enough Brits' BORKED Samsung kit held up after repair centre slips into administration What ... you don't know where my borked slab's gone? Time to move away from Windows 7 ... whoa, whoa, who said anything about Windows 8? Start migrating now to avoid another XPocalypse – Gartner Vulture 2 spaceplane autopilot brain surgery a total success LOHAN slips into some sexy bespoke mission parameters The internet just BROKE under its own weight – we explain how 512KDay Next time, big biz, listen to your network admin Anonymous threatens to name cop who shot dead unarmed Michael Brown Police close ranks and refuse to reveal officer's identity What's in your toolbox? Why the browser wars are so last decade Feature The new reality of picking a web winner It's time for PGP to die, says ... no, not the NSA – a US crypto prof 'We've come a long way since the 1990s, but PGP mostly hasn't' 'Aaaah FFS, 'amazeballs' has made it into the OXFORD DICTIONARY' Quotw Plus: 'EE, how shocking, ANOTHER problem I face with your service' Totes AMAZEBALLS! Side boob, binge-watch and clickbait added to Oxford Dictionary And tech-savvy too. *Vulture does sick in mouth* 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 NASA spots Rolling Stone on Mars No sign of Ziggy Stardust and his band A-level results: Before you smile at that jump-for-joy snap... Uni-ditching teens are COMING FOR YOUR JOBS Password manager LastPass goes titsup: Users LOCKED OUT Updated Customers can't get into their accounts as service topples

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