Far Cry 4 REVIEW: It's a far cry from Far Cry 3 [Tue Nov 18 2014]

Daily Headlines 18 November 2014

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Business News Big shadowy orgs should stop scooping up everyone's personal info – say Google, Facebook Tech titans want freedom to record your lives on hard drives NBN Co screws lid on FTTP coffin Copper and HFC dominate in new corporate plan Slave wage taxi biz Uber teams up with slave wage music biz Spotify +Comment Uber and Spotify - a symphony made in low pay heaven Cyber security: Do the experts need letters after their name? All roads lead to a job You know where Apple Pay is getting used a LOT? Yes - McDonalds Black rollnecks straining across USA as fanbois bonk-to-supersize Are MPs smarter than 5-year-olds? We'll soon find out at coding school – Berners-Lee Web daddy in near-impossible politician-upgrade challenge Sony SPILLS GUTS on OTT service, so far for PlayStations only Analysis Cloudy streaming media service Shrek-as-a-service: DreamWorks and Infosys team up Outsourcer to build on animator's software Data Centre News Intel declares WAR on InfiniBand Take an optic nerve at this How to keep everything fluffy in your hybrid cloud world Five steps to happiness EMC daddy Tucci: YES, there has been too much internal 'friction' Plus: VMware could be spun off HPC bod SGI racks UV brains, reaches 30 MEEELLION IOPS UK 300 concept gets SSD supercharge NetApp cyclists part from storage firm... go to Bora Bora Go further, faster ... from former sponsor Cray heaves out even mightier, Lustre-ous Sonexion 2000 Met Office and Los Alamos bomb boffins are apparently among its fans LSI driver bug is breaking VSANs, endangering data More VSAN hardware trouble for VMware Hardware News Nice Fitbit you've got there ... Would be a shame if someone were to SUBPOENA it Wearable used as court evidence, can of worms opened Samsung, Apple soap opera drama: Korean giant WILL churn out chips for iPhones, iPads Report suggests TSMC just can't satisfy Cook & Co. 9 Crazy Things Inside Nokia's MYSTERY Black Box That You Literally Shouldn't Believe Finnish firm teases secret product – and we no what it is Far Cry 4 REVIEW: It's a far cry from Far Cry 3 Game Theory Ubisoft gets it right this time Space Commanders rebel as Elite:Dangerous kills offline mode Frontier cops an epic kicking in its own forums ahead of December revival Networks News NYC mulls free 1Gbps Wi-Fi to replace phone booths (a glass box with a landline inside) Pay-phones to be torn up and replaced with hotspots – plan FCC: Gonna need y'all to cough up $1.5bn to put broadband in schools Kids need more fiber, says Wheeler, and you'll pay for it Internet Society slams online 'UN Security Council' plan, snubs permanent seat offer So, this is all going well, isn't it? Holy cow! Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS hack attack AND Windows 2003 vuln Monday, bloody Monday We come bearing internet: Google sends up Project Loon balloons in second test Choc Factory, Telstra test more internet-for-all blimps TalkTalk wants more FOURPLAY, jumps into bed with Telefónica 'Bye Voda. What will Three think of all this Four? Fasthosts goes titsup, blames DNS blunder Monday morning blues for biz customers Broadband floggers in Blighty are UP TO no good, says watchdog ISPs' speedy network claims only apply to 10% of customers Security News Three WireLurker suspects arrested in China – reports Accused of being authors of first non-jailbroken iThing malware State Dept shuts off unclassified email after hack. Classified mail? That's CLASSIFIED Classified systems 'not affected' - but, is this reconnaissance? WinShock PoC clocked: But DON'T PANIC... It's no Heartbleed SChannel exploit opens an easily closed door Attack reveals 81 percent of Tor users but admins call for calm Cisco Netflow a handy tool for cheapskate attackers Meet OneRNG: a fully-open entropy generator for a paranoid age Kiwis to seek random investors for crowd-funded randomiser VXers Shellshocking embedded BusyBox boxen It's 2014 and some people are still using default user names and passwords Site News Join The Reg in Sydney for beers, ideas and Christmas cheer Vulture South, futurist Mark Pesce and OpenStack's Tristan Goode explore the future of technology on December 2nd Software News Soz, web devs: Google snatches its Wallet off the table Killing off web service in 3 months... but app-happy bonkers are fine Facebook at work - on Facebook, at work - on Facebook at Work: report You don't want your cat or drunk nudie pics at the office Science News CSIRO carves out another 75 jobs Digital productivity, manufacturing, agriculture in the firing line It's space WAR: Comet launches fireballs at space-invading EARTH Pic Rock allegedly furious at humans, 'coming over here, invading our land with probes' SEX BEAST SEALS may be egging each other on to ATTACK PENGUINS Boffin: 'I think the behaviour is increasing in frequency' Pics in SPAAAACE!: Hasselblad sells for $275,000 Astronomical amount for Mercury mission snapper THERE you are! Philae comet lander FOUND in EXISTING Rosetta PICS Crumb? Pixel? ALIEN? Better, it's a comet-catcher! Give it up for SecQuest - a rabbit-hunting spaceplane sponsor Boutique security consultants, balloon bods, and more... Simon's says quantum computing will work Boffins blast algorithm with half a dozen qubits Bootnotes News Holy vintage vehicles! Earliest known official Batmobile goes on sale Riddle me this: are you prepared to pay US$180k?

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