'Shell Shock' Bash bug blows open Linux, OS X systems to hackers [Thu Sep 25 2014]

Daily Headlines 25 September 2014

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Business News Adobe axes R&D lab in China, insiders blame mandarins and pirates 300 people put Illustrator to good use – designing new CVs Comcast: Help, help, FCC. Netflix and pals are EXTORTIONISTS The others guys are being mean so therefore ... monopoly all good, yeah? SURPRISE: Telstra STILL wants all its promised NBN booty Kingmaker Thodey promises investors 'not a dollar less' than $AU11.2 billion BMC Software flings patent sueball at ServiceNow Private boy squares up Stateside to public kid AW, SNAP, Oracle. You've shrivelled up poor Larry Ellison's package even more Top execs' stock options slashed for next year 4chan outraged by Emma Watson nudie photo leak SCAM In the immortal words of Shaggy, it wasn't me us ... amirite? Yahoo!... Our Alibaba stake's worth BILLIONS. Oh – our shares are in the toilet Worstall on Wednesday Santa Clara? Wall St? WTH? Move over, Apple Pay: Tesco trials PayQwiq phone-flash pay app Mobile payments using QR codes Yahoo! Slurps! Indian! Google! Docs! Lookalike! Devs pack bags to move to Silicon Valley Chipzilla promises $6 billion to upgrade Israeli plant Kiryat Gat to host 10 nm fab Ban? What ban? Lyft buys carpool app maker Hitch Ridesharer splashes on multi-rider transport service Data Centre News Broadcom looks to 25/50/100 G to drive new chip 'Tomahawk' sampling now, expect products 2015 All awash in red ink, but Overland Storage is still swimming Analysis Losses not as bad as they look Texas T Rex Dell: Terabytes shipped. Count 'em and weep... We're king of the storage world Cloud storage bods Nasuni ram BILLION-object volume into filer Ours is bigger than yours Supercapacitors have the power to save you from data loss Learn all about them Cloud? We prefer, er, reselling tech, say tech resellers Canalys Channels Forum 2014 But managed services gets the industry's thumbs-up Brocade's Vyatta gets OpenDaylight controller More open goodness for SDN Google goes Dutch with new €600 MEELLION DC A big fridge in Eemshaven Radisys plants flag in NFV biz Targets mobe operators with switch and software Hardware News Galaxy Note 4 latest: Samsung rushes iPhone 6 Plus rival to China as Apple flails in dark Sadly, no suggestion Sammy's made the phablet bendable Amazon shovels cash into hush-hush Lab126 despite Fire Phone fizzle Plans to up its secret gadget-making staff by 27% Speaking in Tech: I swear I didn't fall for the iPhone 6 microwave charger hoax... Podcast Plus: 'SCREW YOU, respected podcast host!' Good grief, it's BONKERS! BlackBerry's WTF comeback phone First look Weird as hell, but full of great ideas AVOID the Apple Watch. Buy a drone or robot instead, techies told Channels Forum 2014 Who wants a watch that SNIFFS your SWEAT, anyway? Ukrainian separatists threaten surge in *gasp*... dealers, PCs Channels Forum 2014 Don't mention the war, resellers NSFW: Click here, watch iPhone 6 being TORTURED Hammers, blenders, thermite - will Jesus mobe rise again? Fake tape detectors, 'from the stands' footie and UGH! Internet of Things in my set-top box IBC 2014 All these and more at Euro broadcasting conference Range Rover to fit trendy new SUV with FRIKKIN' LASER HUDs Evoque provides holographic help for the school run Networks News Huawei prez: A one-speed internet is bad for everyone Live free or die neutral Security News Feds: Cheeky scammers are impersonating us in criminal capers IC3 warns of email payment fraud push 'Shell Shock' Bash bug blows open Linux, OS X systems to hackers CGI scripts to DHCP clients affected – patch Heartbleed-grade injection vuln NOW Apple is too shallow, must go deeper to beat TouchID fingerprint hack, say securo-bods Yep, Gummi Bears can still defeat bio-reading tech Heatmiser digital thermostat users: For pity's sake, DON'T SWITCH ON the WI-FI A stranger turns up YOUR heat with default password 1234 Bracelet could protect user herds from lurking PREDATORS Trust no one, Intel, uni bods say Kali turns Nexus fondleslabs into hacking weapons Pen test from your tablet Software News iOS 8.0.1 turns iPhones into iPODS: Can't make calls, can't use Touch ID Apple kills 'upgrade' ... Hey, Microsoft. Are you sure you want to be like these guys? Ordnance Survey intern plonks houses, trees, rivers and roads on GB Minecraft map I can see my house from here! Science News Big dinosaur wowed females with its ENORMOUS HOOTER That's right, Doris, I've got biggest snout in the prehistoric world 'Space bubbles' may have helped Taliban down 'copter in bloody Afghanistan battle Atmospheric phenomenon led to downing of Chinook MOM: CHEAP Mars ship got it right first time. Nice one, India MOM pops in to visit the red world

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