You're all TERRORISTS now! WhatsApp turns on chat encryption for 600 million people [Wed Nov 19 2014]

Daily Headlines 19 November 2014

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Business News Netflix tags March 2015 for ANZ launch Oz TV barons: 'Yep, we own that show. And that one. And this one' NSA mass spying reform KILLED by US Senators Democrats needed just TWO more votes to keep alive bill reining in surveillance Uber exec wanted to sic private dicks on critics ... Hey, Emil Michael, COME AT US, bro Exec sorry after dreaming of exposing journos' private lives Fujitsu boss sets CDOs against CIOs at annual do EMEAI chief tells traditionalists: ‘Don’t be a bottleneck’ Keen to get CRITICAL PAYMENT systems up QUICKLY after HACK? Mmm. OK - but you'll never catch the bad guys then UK urged to stop bigging up startups, feed 'growing' firms TechCity? PLEASE. Fast-growing science-based firms all outside London Deloitte builds sofa-and-slippers startup fund ... where's the fun in that? Accountancy firm takes Silicon Valley culture, gives it a nice cup of tea Feds to auction off second tranche of Silk Road Bitcoins worth $19 MEEELLION Civil forfeiture laws could mean big payday for police 'Pirate block' proposal back on Oz agenda Because it works so well everywhere else Channel News Syscap waves £50 million in CASH at UK tech channel Boxes of chocolate not enough to win back its former relationships Data Centre News It'll all end in tiers: HP tosses small biz another 3PAR-flavored bone Data tiering and virtualisation come to MSA array land EMC CEO Joe Tucci tries to win hearts and minds from VC backers Analysis VMware spin-off? Let the shareholders decide Seagate and SGI buddy up to flog HPC bigness to big business Another ClusterStor reseller appears SAN gang at Nimble jump in Fibre Channel pool, but how big will the splash be? Full SAN connectivity, and expanded array capacity HPC bods boogie to 68 new Top500 hits at New Orleans show SC14 Intel, IBM and ARM flex flop-tastic muscles Multi-petabyte open sorcery: Spell-binding storage Not just for academics anymore Nvidia doubles Tesla grunt at SC14 2.9 teraflops, 4,992 cores: here comes the K80 Hardware News ATTACK OF THE DRONES: ‘Nefarious’ private use rising, says top Blighty copper Met big boy admits most info on the subject comes from 'net Nokia's N1 fondleslab's HIDDEN BRILLIANCE: The 'Z Launcher' Sugarcoating Android's Lollipop makes tab easier to swallow PHONDLESLAB-ULOUS: Motorola Moto X Android phablet Review The little big phone YIKES: Combination of LIVING WOMAN and MACHINE sighted in NYC Intel 'Mica'. At least it isn't pink NOKIA - Not FINNished yet! BEHOLD the somewhat DULL MYSTERY DEVICE! N1 mini-'slab to plop into crowded pond next year Intel's LAME DUCK mobile chips gobbled by CASH COW Chipzilla won't have money-losing mobe unit to kick about anymore Mitigating web security risk with SSL certificates Web-based systems are essential tools for running business processes and delivering services to customers. Download here > Networks News Ofcom tackles complaint over Premier League footie TV rights Virgin Media: UK fans pay the most for the fewest matches China BLOCKS Verizon's EdgeCast before internet meeting Content delivery network buried under Great Firewall So you want to introduce a BYOD plan. Where do you start? It's all about control Security News Patch NOW! Microsoft slings emergency bug fix at Windows admins Vulnerability promotes lusers to domain overlords ... oops You're all TERRORISTS now! WhatsApp turns on chat encryption for 600 million people Crypto-on-the-fly by default to keep texts from prying eyes Mozilla, EFF, Cisco back free-as-in-FREE-BEER SSL cert authority Let’s Encrypt to give HTTPS-everywhere a boost in 2015 Anonymous ‪hacks the Ku Klux Klan after Ferguson‬ threats #HoodsOFF Northern Ireland website leaves front door open, spills users' data No theft necessary, just search ... Can’t be TRUSTe-d? Online privacy firm coughs $200k to settle 'deception' charges FTC acts after regulation oopsie Gee THANKS: Cryptoscum offer a free decrypt in latest ransomware racket Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Cries of spies as audit group finds possible 'backdoor' in Bittorrent Sync Updated: BitTorrent responds Hashes gone AWOL: bugged or just buggy? USB coding anarchy: Consider all sticks licked Thumb drive design ruled by almighty buck Software News It's the Ghost of Twitmas Past! Embarrassing tweets BACK FROM THE DEAD to haunt you Engineers open up search to all missives since 2006 Hey coders, TIME to get your CLOCK out: Apple emits Watch dev kit Go on, help make Cook and Co even richer Microsoft: Your Linux Docker containers are now OURS to command New tool lets admins wrangle Linux apps from Windows That dreaded syncing feeling: Will Microsoft EVER fix OneDrive? Microsoft's long history of broken Windows sync Bug fixes! Get your APPLE BUG FIXES! iOS and OS X updates right here! Yosemite fixes Wi-Fi hiccup, older iOS devices get performance boost Science News Boffins train robots to pull apart LCD screens – without breaking them WELCOME, our robot overlords IT'S LIFE, JIM? Rosetta comet probe stumbles on 'organic' stuff That's it for God – if Philae lander on Comet 67P really has found complex molecules Has your STARFISH been DRIBBLING SLIME? Scientists now know WHY Just a ghastly virus, they do say Vulture 2 spaceplane tumbles onto BBC World Service LOHAN team chews the fat with Click Call 007! SECRET RUSSIAN ORBITAL WEAPON being tracked by NORAD Spy-sat, warcraft, alien comms device? Watchers mystified Sealed with a kiss: Er, 80 MILLION BACTERIA Let's hope Angelina Jolie and her brother don't read The Reg NASA launches new climate model at SC14 75 days of supercomputing later ... Mitigating web security risk with SSL certificates Web-based systems are essential tools for running business processes and delivering services to customers. Download here >

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