Oh, dear! Scientists uncover Afghan VAMPIRE DEER [Mon Nov 3 2014]

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Business News Offshore metadata storage fine by me, says Malcolm Turnbull iiNet says 'your data could land in China' Pitchforks at dawn! UK gov's Verify ID service FAILS to verify ID Enraged farmers rip 'complicated' Experian tech to shreds UN: Fossil fuels should be TERMINATED 86 years from now World must stop feeling the burn by shifting to low carbon sources, claims IPCC Dead pilot named in tragic Virgin Galactic spaceship crash Vid Branson: 'We are determined to find out what went wrong' Curious to know if the UK's Tory-led government is a MEGA SPY? Answer: Yes RIPA requests for comms data balloon under Coalition Pirate Bay co-founder JAILED for three years after massive CSC HACK ATTACK Guilty of illegally accessing government servers in Denmark Forget eyeballs and radar! Brits tackle GPS JAMMERS with WWII technology Claim: 'If you don't have eLoran, you're dead in the water' Branson on Virgin Galactic fatal crash: 'Space is hard – but worth it' Test flight killed one pilot, seriously injured another Yo, Europe. Larry Page wants Google to be EVEN BIGGER 'I'm a fan of the world's SECOND RICHEST MAN,' says ad giant's CEO Virgin Galactic vows to continue space program after 'serious anomaly' New pictures appear to show explosion on SpaceShipTwo Fujitsu Services ordered to reveal size of pay scale for ALL TECHIES Unite union action settled Trolls pop malformed heads above bridge to sling abuse at Tim Cook Apple CEO under Twitter attack after 'I’m proud to be gay' letter Seth Rogen bags Woz role in Sorkin's Steve Jobs biopic Another big name added to starry cast and crew Google’s dot-com forget-me-not bomb: EU court still aiming at giant 'Right to be forgotten' only extends to EU borders Facebook sticks vid ads on faux retro photo app biz Instagram Maybe it'll make some money off users now Hungary PM ditches internet tax plans after mass protests Want cash from internet? Say, $100/hour in your spare time? FIFTEEN whole dollars on offer for cranky Pentium 4 buyers Miracle of US legal system delivers almost-resolution to long-running class action Channel News Insight: Tech market's stabilising, time to start hiring again Q3 sales and profits up - but not enough to hit certain vendor rebate targets More Home Office and MoJ jobs could move abroad, union warns Outsourcing giant Steria scoops two new clients Data Centre News Cisco makes ACI control more programmable Wriggling cave full of pythons - well scripts - awaits the brave Oz gov lets slip: telco metadata might be available to civil courts Comment Quite by accident, truth leaks out PureStorage flies flash arrays into OpenStack clouds Upstart hopes for Purity parity DDN sails into Amazon clouds, adds Wonderful S3 for WOS Object store, meet Jeff Bezos and chums Marc Benioff tethers Salesforce cloud to Blighty First European data centre spotted off west London Hands on: Implementing Azure Active Directory Broadcast Learning with the experts Facebook says vendor secrets forced it to homebrew switches Network Veep spills how switch vendors keep diagnostic tricks to themselves Microsoft gets storage QoS and software-defined storage religion IOPS sniffer and Windows Server technical preview show Redmond's hand Hardware News Samsung says teaming up with mobe-maker Microsoft could violate antitrust law ...and that's why it doesn't have to cough up that $6.9m OFFICIAL: Fondling of Apple's slab declines – iPad sales DOWN in Q3 Pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap' vendors blamed for decline Samsung launches 'perfect pair' of skinny mid-range phones A3 and A5 to paper over cracks in finances Pixel mania: Apple 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina display Review Cupertino computer in value for money shocker One hard ghoulie: 1985's Ghosts 'n Goblins Antique Code Show Take me dancing naked in the… graveyard Multi Jet Fusion: THAT's HP's promised 3D printer, not crazy 'leccy invention Hang on Meg, didn't you tell us you'd have one by mid-2014? Networks News Stubborn UK mobe operators face 'national roaming' shared infrastructure law Gov: Frenchies can't have a better signal than us Brits Sky ponders 200,000-customer MVNO 'trial'. Soft launch, anyone? A decade of 'will they, won't they' rumours reawaken How many telecoms firms left in Europe? Another mega-billion deal slated in France Numericable's acquistion of Vivendi's SFR approved 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 > Security News LastPass releases Open Source command line client Probing, poking and pulling requested Facebook lifts Tor ban, touts encrypted onion access point Anonymized traffic now A-OK Popular Science site shrugs off malicious code infection No warning, no response... at least it killed the code Microsoft patches GroupMe 'full account' hijack hole Researcher rates Redmond after rapid responds to rathole reveal in Group TXTing app Free government-penned crypto can swipe identities Beware of Australians bearing gifts Google heads out the back with rifle, puts down POODLE Next Chrome includes death knell for SSL Software News Disney wins Mickey Mouse patent for torrent-excluding search engine 'Authenticity weight' will mean search results bin out sites with little gravitas Windows XP market share fell off a cliff in October Windows 8.x FINALLY poised to outstrip XP as Windows 7 holds desktop lead Microsoft jolts awake, remembers it still makes Office for Mac It's only been four years since the last version, after all Science News Google hopes to cure its 'flu sneezes Big data needs real data Spooky GHOST LIGHT reveals DEAD GALAXIES torn apart over 6 BEEELLION years Pic Hubble spots ejected, wandering stars Oh, dear! Scientists uncover Afghan VAMPIRE DEER Trick or treat; BAMBI'S GOT BITE! Virgin's SpaceShipTwo crashes in Mojave Desert during test flight Updated One pilot dead, the other seriously injured DR LIPS warns: DON'T KISS that NEWT - it's got FLESH-EATING PLAGUE Deadly fungus EATS AWAY the beasties' SKINS So long, thanks for all the ...er, FISH BRIGHTER than boffins thought Don't let the dolphins keep you in your, er, plaice Plasma-spaffing boffins plan spaceships driven by FRIKKIN' LASERS It's all about how you spread the love if you want bottom-up action 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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