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Business News Australian spookhaus busted for warrantless tap of own phones Stop laughing: it also messed up civilian telecoms intercepts and is about to get more powers AMD-AMMIT! Hundreds face axe at chip maker as PC, graphics crash jmp .restructing_and_layoffs Banksy puts down spray can, goes corporate in banksy.com cybersquat brouhaha Unsolicited city decorator sticks it to The Man, asks for its help Data cops in charge of Facebook, LinkedIn, Google get a new office But HQ remains next to corner store in the middle of Irish nowhere Huawei and Accenture pucker up for enterprise love-in It's all about the cloud, people –cloud, cloud, cloud Auntie hires API firm to manage new online BBC Store Where did I put that Top Gear? Sky's tech bets pay off: Pay TV firm unveils blazing growth for Q1 Oooh... everyone's going to watch on their iPad. NOT Edward Snowden documentary premieres across the UK Citizenfour shows the week of the NSA leaks Cyber-punch-drunk eBay slashes revenue forecasts Chief beanie on 2014: 'series of unanticipated setbacks' Euro Commission drags Belgium to court over telco regulator's independence Ministerial veto must be, er, vetoed, Eurocrats demand CIO of children's charity: Data re-org will change the giving game Centralised, digitised, organised - gee, thanks, IT Batman in the frame to take on Steve Jobs Christian Bale said to be likely star of Jobs biopic Channel News AMD pays new CEO $150K LESS than her male predecessor Not only Nadella that's nuts Deckchairs shifted aboard tech liner HP's services biz Time for that fiscal New Year rejig Data Centre News Enormous advertising giant (Google) keeps wolfing down billions as ad sales swell Another three months, another 16.5 Instagrams' worth of cash Keep a beady eye on your business's cloud service shopping Don't let staff go crazy Ericsson slurps up unified data centre software shop Customer becomes owner 'Urika': Cray unveils new 1,500-core big data crunching monster 6TB of DRAM, 38TB of SSD flash and 120TB of disk storage HP slips on Scality's RING, plans to flog it with ProLiant servers Analysis New logo, new reseller Solaris fix-it firm offers free BASH patch for legacy Oracle kit Sets up camp on moral high ground as lawsuit rages on Cloud skills certification can add zeros to your pay cheque Grab some letters to put after your name AWS pulls desktop-as-a-service from the PC Support for PCoIP protocol means zero clients can run cloudy desktops Oracle ♥s Fibre Channel in virty box refresh Virtual compute appliance adds support for not-dead-yet networking protocol Hardware News iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 3, eye-watering 5K iMac: Apple's all set for Xmas! Pics Crack open those wallets now, fanbois while waiting for OS X 10.10 to install LIVE! Apple iPad launch-gasm: Totally SERIOUS coverage, not for haters Updating Go away fandroids, you wouldn't understand Will.i.am gets CUFFED as he announces his new wristjob, the PULS It's got four KILOWATTS of something, apparently Is living with Dolby Atmos worth the faff? Breaking Fad Subtle, naturalistic ambiance – perfect for Transformers 4 Citrix: Wearables allow conference calls 'while rocking a baby to sleep' Hands up who still wants Android Wear? Not so many of you now, eh? Internet Security Threat Report 2014 An overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity: identify, analyze, and provide commentary on emerging trends in the dynamic threat landscape. Download here > Networks News Don't mess with Texas ('cos it's getting Google Fiber and you're not) A bit late, but company says 1Gbps Austin network almost ready to compete with AT&T City council thinks what we're all thinking: 'Comcast is terrible – and NOT welcome here' Worcester makes bold, entirely pointless stand against deal Another ICANN Board member resigns Olga Madruga-Forti quits domain oversight organization Security News Careless Whisper? Anonymous messaging app accused of stalking users, blabbing to Feds Startup denies outing peeps posting witty gags FBI boss: We don't want a backdoor, we want the front door to phones Claims it's what the Founding Fathers would have wanted – catching killers and pedos Bad news, fandroids: He who controls the IPC tool, controls the DROID Researchers discover Binder blinder Hacker-hunters finger 'Keyser Soze' of Russian underground card sales Report claims user named 'Rescator' is mastermind Drupal SQL injection nasty leaves sites 'wide open' to attack Usual drill - install the patch tout de suite Securobods rage over $600k Kickstarter Tor box components Devs insist: It's NOT just an off-the-shelf circuit board FinFisher spyware used to snoop on Bahraini activists, police told Gamma International on the end of UK criminal complaint Man bites dog: HTTPS-menacing POODLE is 'hard to exploit' – unless you're on public Wi-Fi Analysis Avoid sketchy pub wireless, warn infosec bods Adobe CSO offers Oracle security lesson: Go click-to-play Pots and kettles in heated argument at Oz security confab Software News Disaster roster: OMG, are YOU SAFE? I dunno. Check Facebook Zuck me, I feel a whole lot more secure today NetWare sales revive in China thanks to that man Snowden If it ain't Microsoft, it's in fashion behind the Great Firewall Science News Prehistoric swingbelly KANGAROOS were TOO FAT to jump – scientists Thumpy, thumpy - THUMPY the Bush Kangaroo Scientists skeptical of Lockheed Martin's truck-sized FUSION reactor breakthrough boast Pic Possibly another Perhapsatron in the making Bootnotes News Apple iPAD LAUNCH: Continuously updating SPECULATIVE GUFF ahead of actual event LiveBlurt NEWS: Pre-planned known event set to happen Down-under record: Australian gets $140k for pussy 'Tiffany' closes deal - 'it's more common to offer your wife', says agent Internet Security Threat Report 2014 An overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity: identify, analyze, and provide commentary on emerging trends in the dynamic threat landscape. Download here >

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