YARR! Pirates walk the plank: DMCA magnets sink in Google results [Tue Oct 21 2014]

Daily Headlines 21 October 2014

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Business News Voteware source code seeker found not to be vexatious Hobart lawyer wins next round in EasyCount code battle Senators plot metadata pushback as requests keep expanding ACMA report reveals vast scale of access by agencies Whisper tracks its users. So we tracked down its LA office. This is what happened next Pics Our man outside HQ of anonymous messaging app Australia puts itself back into Beta Our land is girt by CSS borrowed from the motherland YARR! Pirates walk the plank: DMCA magnets sink in Google results Spaffing copyrighted stuff over the web? No search ranking for you ISPs handbagged: BLOCK knock-off sites, rules beak Historic trademark victory, but sunset clause applies to future blocks IBM storage revenues sink: 'We are disappointed,' says CEO Time to put the storage biz up for sale? China gets free pass from EU commish as telco probe dropped I'm scratching your back, Gao, now how about it for our guys? Routine WHAT NOW? Bank of England’s CHAPS payment system goes TITSUP Abandon hope all ye homebuyers who enter The 'fun-nification' of computer education – good idea? Battle of Ideas Compulsory code schools, luvvies love it, but what about Maths and Physics? EU digi tzar: 'I like the nickname STEELIE NEELIE. Yeah, why not' Regrets, I've had a few ... says outgoing commish Hey, iPhone 6 fanbois: Apple's bonk to 'Pay' app is GO Scrump up the sales volume Police stats inflate the number of guns actually stolen in Blighty Analysis Guns, or objects licensed as guns? Big difference between the two Sysadmin with EBOLA? Gartner's issued advice to debug your biz Start hoarding cleaning supplies, analyst firm says, and assume your team will scatter Oz privacy comish says breaches could double this year Åustralian outfits have already 'fessed up to sixty breaches since March 2014 ICT ministers mark out net-regulation patch ahead of ITU plenipot Busan Declaration looks like a statement of intent Data Centre News CAGE MATCH: Microsoft, Dell open co-located bit barns in Oz Whole new species of XaaS spawning in the antipodes AARnet cranks up SDN sandpit for researchers Australian research network wants networkers with buckets, spades, and cool ideas Two-timing HP snubs Scality's RING, organises object threesome Cleversafe smoothly slips into third wheel territory Ex-Microsoft man takes up arms for Red Hat's open-cloud crusade Because enterprise cloud doesn't just happen Violin: Don't weep for Tier 1 storage... it'll soon be flashtastic Comment CEO: Scale-out hyper-converged systems? Pah! QLogic: Healthy fibre boosted our bottom line Grantley servers help drive sales SDI Wars: EMC must FORGET ARRAYS, adapt or disappear Sysadmin blog Can the storage giant overcome a lack of necessary leadership? Hardware News Microsoft to enter the STRUGGLE of the HUMAN WRIST It's not just a thumb war, it's total digit war Ex-US Navy fighter pilot MIT prof: Drones beat humans - I should know 'Missy' Cummings on UAVs, smartcars and dying from boredom Xperia Z3: Crikey, Sony – ANOTHER flagship phondleslab? Review The Fourth Amendment... and it IS better IBM: Please, take our chip unit. We'll give you $1.5 billion Global Foundries fattens up on IP, engineering Doctor Who and the Dalek: 10-year-old tests BBC programming game Young VB warrior commandeers Daleks Networks News US Senate's champion for net neutrality asks Comcast: Tell us how much you hate web fast lanes You do hate them, right? FCC, Google cast eye over millimetre wireless The smaller the wave, the bigger 5G's chances of success Security News Cisco battles POODLE with a listicle and some twaddle Borg lists products on which SSL 3.0 vuln has lifted leg, promises fixes China is already spying on Apple iCloud users, watchdog claims 'Man-in-the-middle attack' harvests users' privates at iPhone 6 launch FYI: OS X Yosemite's Spotlight tells Apple EVERYTHING you're searching for It's on by default – did you not read the small print? Sophos to offshore American support operations Exclusive Blame Canada? Twitter 'news' spreads faster than Ebola #FakeCures #Malware Security watchers warn to brace for scams Visual voicemail hack makes your messages a snack Ruxcon Rate limiter patch is a fun MEELLION-user DoS banhammer Microsoft pulls another dodgy patch Redmond makes a hash of hashing add-on 'LulzSec leader Aush0k' found to be naughty boy not worthy of jail 15 months home detention leaves egg on feds' faces as they grab for more power Software News Redmond top man Satya Nadella: 'Microsoft LOVES Linux' Open-source 'love' fairly runneth over at cloud event Apple slings iOS 8.1 at world+dog: Essential 9-step guide to installing it Let's hope it's not an 8.brick update Science News You can crunch it all you like, but the answer is NOT always in the data Hear that, 'data journalists'? Our analytics prof holds forth Bootnotes News STONER SHEEP get the MUNCHIES after feasting on £4k worth of cannabis plants Baaaaaa! Fanny's Farm's woolly flock is high, maaaaaan

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