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Daily Headlines 29 September 2014

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Business News NBN Co: Melton trial document SMELLS BAD Network builder denounced leak before seeing it Telstra, Vodafone at odds over data retention Brandistan in the antipodes: government eyes your Twitter metadata Ello, 'ello, what's all this then? We take a spin on the new social network driving everyone loopy Pics What the 'ell is this 'serpent-wept-constant' code invite? Super Cali so litigious, Uber is the focus. Even German judges say it's something quite atrocious Lies! It's all lies, says upstart Yahoo! dumps! thing! that! made! it! Yahoo! and! told! to! bed! AOL! Hindenburg, meet Titanic Prez Putin tells Google, Twitter, Facebook: Have a double vodka and censorship on the rocks From Russia with no love – unless you register and obey Turn OFF your phone or WE'LL ALL DI... live? Europe OKs mobes, tabs non-stop on flights Airlines given green light to allow gate-to-gate jibber-jabber BlackBerry slowly pulls out of power dive into toilet Will it manage to clear the rim? <cough> FAA clears SWARM of MOVIE DRONES for take-off US aviation authority hands out 6 licences to vid, photo firms Google hits back at 'Dear Rupert' over search dominance claims Choc Factory sniffs: 'We're not pirate-lovers - also, you publish The Sun' Stanford Uni: Google cash leaves us entirely impartial and unbiased We just coincidentally didn't want to do privacy with it Four caged in UK after cyber-heist swipes €7m in EU carbon credits Why couldn't you be stealing Bitcoin like normal people? 'Trust ASIO': Australia passes spook's charter Part A Metadata retention is all that's left While you queued for an iPhone 6, Apple's Cook sold shares worth $35m Right before the stock took a 3.8% dive amid bent and broken mobe drama Data Centre News Is your data growing too big to handle? Controlling the risks Life after server-side flash: What comes next? Dave Cartright essays six post-NAND competitors BT claims almost-gigabit connections over COPPER WIRE Just need to bring the fibre box within 19m ... Out of stealth, Saisei pitches IP flow controller Scavenging wasted bandwidth HP gets appy over SDN In-house and partner software in SDN app store Hardware News How the FLAC do I tell MP3s from lossless audio? Can you hear the difference? Can anyone? Cut-off North Sea island: Oh crap, ferry's been and gone. Need milk. SUMMON THE DRONE Tiny 7km island gets parcel trial Networks News Internet Transit price falls slowing: Telegeography Brazilians get waxed, Londoners get a steal Security News Cisco splats Bash bug in busy swatting season Shell Shock squished in 31 products Oracle Shellshocked by Bash bug – but Exalogic peeps will have to wait Database kingpin lists 32 products that can't be patched (yet) as GNU fixes second vuln Stunned by Shellshock Bash bug? Patch all you can – or be punished Updated UK data watchdog rolls up its sleeves, polishes truncheon Researchers tell black hats: 'YOU'RE SOOO PREDICTABLE' Want to register that domain? We're way ahead of you. Site News Welcome the world's new Most Phished Country: Australia Sun, sand, surf, and bait-takers Software News What the HEC? Microsoft resurrects its hardware engineering event – in CHINA Shenzhen the new home for Windows device devs Apple nurses HealthKit apps back to life, discharges iOS 8.0.2 If you look closely, that .2 looks an awful lot like a bent .1 #bendgate #bendghazi Unchanging Unicorn: Don't be disappointed with Ubuntu 14.10, be happy Review A calm before the storm Twitter's Mesos brainbox joins data centre OS venture PHDer whose web-scale idea went big in one year Developers: Hands-on course to find out what Azure can do for you Promo Microsoft offers free training 17 October plus weekly demos A Norsified Linux for Windows and OS X wobblers Review Elementary, my dear desktop Science News Alien gimp gag or cosmic golf ball? NASA tackles question everyone's asking Pic Curiosity snaps object on Mars then gets its rocks off Tearful LOHAN Playmonaut bids adiós to Spain Vulture 2 crated and en route to Blighty Boffins' better blues beat battery blues Making displays more efficient Bootnotes News Bruges Booze tubes to pump LOVELY BEER underneath city Belgian booze pumped from underground

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