3D PRINTED GUNS: THIS time it's for REAL! Oh, wait – no, still crap [Fri Nov 7 2014]

Daily Headlines 7 November 2014

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Business News Murder suspect charged after pics of strangle victim posted on 4chan He turns himself in after high-speed car chase with cops Bloke, 26, accused of running drug souk Silk Road 2.0 cuffed by Feds Meanwhile, someone really needs to take away that prosecutor's CSI boxsets TECH BUBBLE? No, no way, nope, says Silicon Valley investor Web Summit Thiel claims tech firms actually the bubble safety net New Euro digi chief says he WILL consider an EU-wide copyright law But sets ridiculously tight timeframe for it, say sources Bitcoin is GREAT and SAFE, says, er, the Bitcoin Foundation Web Summit Gros fromage: As long as operators aren’t in jail, digital cash is the future Is new EU digi chief H-dot Oettinger starting a war with his boss? Gaffe-prone Gunther calls EC Vice President Ansip a 'leftover' REVEALED: Apple fanbois are 'MENTALLY UNSTABLE' - iShop staff 'My job is to make you happy with your product, not to fix it' PRE-SPLINTERED Symantec's Q2 revenue slips, net profit rises Steady as she goes for information protection company Lenovo still ‘not satisfied’ despite MEGA PROFIT rise PC success set to be replicated across other divisions US reseller titan buys minority stake in Kelway MBO – sources Exclusive CDW comes to Blighty, watch out channelites Million Mask March: Anonymous' London Guy Fawkes protest a damp squib Pics And Vivienne Westwood got refused entry to a pub OpenStack's success depends on IBM and HP's tech queens +Comment Plus: Will NASA return to the fold? Security policy and EU data protection: Don't waste a good crisis Join us live in the Reg Studios today Luxembourg: Engine-room of the tax-break economy Giant auditors fingered for helping globals dodge taxes Channel News SCC: Brit biz are buying again, but as for mainland Europe ... Products sales dip, services come good for Rigby tech dynasty UK.gov launches ONE kit-buying FRAMEWORK to RULE them ALL Public sector lifts shutters on internal Compare The Market-style site 100+ trade buyers and private equity bods eyed up Kelway CDW grabs 35% stake, valuing biz at a cool £200m Data Centre News EMC Federation working on rack scale converged architecture It's not EVO:RAIL or bigger vBlocks, but it might be a DDSD FLASH MONSTER Ericsson boss sticks a pin in Google’s loony Loon bubble Buy Earth-based radio gear instead, says maker of Earth-based radio gear Fujitsu's ETERNUS CD10000: Better Ceph than sorry? Storagebod Is it too soon for mainstream production... Down in the Dell, Compellent and EqualLogic are stirring All-flash arrays now somehting of a minority interest HP gives StoreServ a speed boost with flashy cachey spit'n'polish Hybrid flash/disk StoreServs get dedupe Microsoft improves Azure SQL Server cloud service, simultaneously makes it worse SQL Server compatibility better, reporting as a service chopped Forget Paris: OpenStack is not a cheap alternative to VMware Storagebod Linux-type vibe is great, though Big Blue brandishes Big Brother bundle, bars big biz byte blab blunders For data out of site, not out of sight, nor out of mind CERN: 2015 restart causes IT rethink OpenStack helps LHC boffins cope with predicted 400 PB / year firehose Hardware News 3D PRINTED GUNS: THIS time it's for REAL! Oh, wait – no, still crap It turns out you CAN make a real gun ... from steel and gun parts Poll: Yes, yes, texting while driving is bad but *ping* OH! Hey, GRAB THE WHEEL, will ya? Many text-and-drive despite the dangers – 'because dopamine' Elon Musk hits the brakes on Tesla's e-SUV Model X production While raiding showrooms for any Model Ses he can find to flog Not even 60,000 of you want an ethically-sourced smartphone But FairPhone's going to have another crack anyway Focus on 5 SIEM requirements In order for SIEM to help usher in more effective security and risk management strategies - particularly as they relate to threat mitigation, embracing trends, and aligning with business priorities - these five issues must be solved. Download here > Networks News BYOD: don't let the dream turn into a nightmare Take back control Forget 5G, UK.gov is making 2G fit for the 21st century! Analysis Ministry of Fun gets tough on everything ... except NIMBYs Security News Hackers use DRAFT emails as dead-drops for running malware Python bite opens doors to get into Gmail, Yahoo! accounts Rovnix Trojan infection outbreak infects 130,000 machines in Blighty Email-borne nasty slurps your banking details Hide your Macs, iPhones and iPads: WireLurker nasty 'heralds new era' A new era of pain, apparently NSA director: We share most of the [crap] bugs we find! Crypto, crypto everywhere, 'til all the boards databases did shrink Microsoft releases free anti-malware for Azure VMs Tick a box, zap the baddies, annoy the competition EFF: VPNs will crumble Verizon's creepy supercookie stalkers Now that ad networks are jumping on the privacy vulnerability Software News Apple blats WireLurker OS X, iOS malware – but fanbois aren't safe yet Control servers go dark, crypto-cert revoked ... for now Microsoft Office for tablets goes freemium, arrives on iPhone and Android Office 365 subscription still needed for 'full experience' OpenSUSE 13.2: Have your gecko and eat your rolling distro too Review New development model, new distro, same class Old hat: Fedora 21 beta late than never... and could be best ever Review An alternative to mobile-obsessed Ubuntu Canonical pushes LXD, its new mysterious drug for Linux containers Analysis We take the hype out of Ubuntu maker's non-hypervisor hypervisor Apple strap-on wristjob: You WON'T be able to spend more than $5,000! Golden arm-slab Watch is positively cheap next to real wristcandy, allegedly Languages don't breed bugs, PEOPLE breed bugs, say boffins You say C++, I say Python, you say JavaScript, I say Erlang ... It's the WORST game ever, just pulled from a desert DUMP ... now ET can be yours for $500 Use your best movie voiceover voice to read this Tinder swipes left on CEO Sean Rad, journalists swipe right Comment I hope someone like Eric Schmidt replaces me, dreams ousted cofounder Google gives Microsoft office an awkward hug with new plugin Chocolate Factory retools Drive to drive desktop apps Science News Cheap blow-up baby incubator wins James Dyson award Less cool than last year's robo-arm but still useful AT LAST! London gets BONKERS FLYING PRINTER TEST LAB Piggybacking drones, of course, says boss of new £1.25m lab First space Hasselblad goes under the hammer Mercury mission snapper up for grabs Bootnotes News Article removed Robot deputy blasts possibly explosive Mexican beans with CANNON in 'controlled explosion' Package 'ticking', says Koran Focus on 5 SIEM requirements In order for SIEM to help usher in more effective security and risk management strategies - particularly as they relate to threat mitigation, embracing trends, and aligning with business priorities - these five issues must be solved. Download here >

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