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Daily Headlines 24 November 2014

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Business News 'Snoopers' Charter IS DEAD', Lib Dems claim as party waves through IP address-matching UK government moves to extend spying on YOU online HP boss Meg Whitman shuffles exec pawns just before biz splits CEO aims to 'minimise disruption' of PC and printer break out while rivals sneer Judge OKs $450m deal to end ebook price-hike row. But Apple just won't let it die Who's winning? The lawyers Mozilla remembers 2013. Y'know, back when it still gobbled at the Google money-trough Firefox-maker's annual report shows costs rising, sales flat Europe may ask Herr Google: Would you, er, snap off your search engine? Pretty please Wenn es nicht zu viel Mühe Herr Schmidt Amazon warming up 'cheapo web video' cannon to SINK Netflix Web souk will tout new online telly biz in 2015, claim sources That's all folks! US TV streaming upstart Aereo files for bankrupcy Big Media wins again Google Contributor: Ad-block killer – or proof NO ONE will pay for news? Make those annoying banners go away? Sure. But it'll cost ya Beware Brit cops bearing battering rams. Four nabbed over Trojan claims Rozzers join international Europol operation Former Systemax execs charged over $9m fraud, tax evasion Gilbert Fiorentino in the dock, keeping brother Carl brother company Who is out there waiting to spy on you or steal your data? Know your enemy We're not, er, 'cut-throat' capitalists – VC formerly known as ISIS Equity firm now called 'Living Bridge'. The horror continues 'How a censorious and moralistic blogger ruined my evening' Damn tech press. Reporting and stuff. Jesus Home Office: It's an EMERGENCY! We need proper comms Sets out contractor for modernised network Channel News IBM lifts axe, will trim UK workforce weeks before Chrimbo All about 'rebalancing' don't yer know Computacenter UK boss Muller: Happy New Year, folks... I'm off Internal and external successors line up Data Centre News Worst WordPress hole for five years affects 86% of sites Trio of XSS turns attackers into admins Turnbull: Box-huggers are holding back cloud Dimension Data launches government-only cloud for Australia OIF and ONF to co-operate on standards Take an optic at SDN protocols UK's non-emergency police and NHS Vodafone systems go titsup NATIONWIDE Updated 101 and 111 collapse due to technical gaffe Yahoo! blames! MONSTER! email! OUTAGE! on! CUT! CABLE! bungle! Weekend woe for BT as telco struggles to restore service The cloud that goes puff: Seagate Central home NAS woes 4TB of home storage is great, until you wake up to a dead device Glasgow boffins: We can now do it, Captain. We DO have the molecular storage power Breaking the flash memory limit using, er, POM molecules SolidFire pipes Nitrogen OS 7 into all-flash hardware Incremental software improvements Two driverless cars stuffed with passengers are ABOUT TO CRASH - who should take the hit? Comment Big data ethics doesn't need philosophy – boffin Intel offers ingenious piece of 10TB 3D NAND chippery The race for next generation flash capacity now on HP, Symantec PAIR UP to fight off disaster cloud rivals DRaaS set to appear late next year Hardware News Frisky patent WAR: Samsung seeks to BLOCK Nvidia graphics chips from US market South Korean tech giant files complaint with trade watchdog Dragon Age Inquisition: Our chief weapons are... Game Theory Bioware's fantasy forces in fine fettle The IT Crowd's internet in a box gets $240k of crowdcash for a cause 'Outernet' project proposes satellite-fuelled 'Lantern' WiFi library for remote areas Networks News Everything your users ever need to know about BYOD The essential checklist Culture CLASH: Wuzhen Declaration spurned at World Internet Conference in China Analysis Positive energy zapped, cyberspace shivers First in line to order a Nexus 6? AT&T has a BRICK for you Black Screen of Death plagues early Google-mobe batch It's 2014 and people are willing to blow $6.8m on things like Z.com Hey, has anyone thought about selling books online? Maybe a search engine with ads? Windows Phone will snatch biz No 2 spot from Android – analyst BlackBerry? Who they? In a mall at the weekend? WORSE STILL, are you LOST? Cambridge Silicon Radio intros SIRFusion ... for a knight in BEST EVER broadband? Oh no you DIDN'T, Sky – ad watchdog Rival BT moaned that claim was misleading George.Best walks into a sex.bar, spots a bearded dwarf sysadmin and thinks: Warcraft.cool And other stories of misconfigured DNS tomfoolery Where the HELL is that Comcast technician? Finally – an app for that 'Your time is valuable' says telco. Really. Not making it up. It actually said that. Comcast Security News SandWorm thrived thanks to botched MSFT patch says HP Issues known and understood for at least two years before Shai-Hulud crawled out of the code HACKERS can DELETE SURVEILLANCE DVRS remotely – report Hikvision devices wide open to hacking, claim securobods CIA crypto-king offers new 'clock' clue to crack Kryptos code Big structure in full public view unlikely to contain anything important DoubleDirect hackers snaffle fandroid and iPhone-strokers' secrets Windows and Linux seem immune from redirection assault PayPal takes 18 months to patch critical remote code execution hole Dusty patch paid out GCHQ and Cable and Wireless teamed as Masters of the Internet™ New Snowden docs show telco was a willing partner in global data vaccuum Software News Leaked screenshots show next Windows kernel to be a perfect 10 Not since Vista has this happened Useless 'computer engineer' Barbie FIRED in three-way fsck row Put the pillow down, doll Hunt for Higgs Boson and dark matter now starts ON YOUR SOFA CERN releases large hadron collider data and virtual machine to crunch it Google releases 'Divide' to conquer mobile devices, messaging Chocolate Factory already good at division: review scores for gCal have gone OFF A CLIFF Science News Renewable energy 'simply WON'T WORK': Top Google engineers Comment Windmills, solar, tidal - all a 'false hope', say Stanford PhDs FORGET the CLIMATE: FATTIES are a MUCH BIGGER problem - study Data Journalism* Fat guy? Drink or smoke? You're worse than a TERRORIST Hey, it's ... Gecko man, Gecko man, does almost whatever a GECKO can Vid Stanford student climbs sheet of glass with lizard-tech gloves – Special Forces next?

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