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	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 >

Business News Intel to upgrade chip-test plant in China Another crack at the mobile market Dutch lawyers seek to overturn data retention 'Get your hands off our data' Wheels fall off bid to sue Apple over iTunes anti-piracy shenanigans Turns out you can't file lawsuit on behalf of 'whoever' Cops accessing journo sources with RIPA? Use your powers properly, moan MPs Home Affairs Committee: 'We're astonished but carry on' Taiwan: Top tech giants must stop playing fast and loose with privacy 12 smartphone makers (cough, cough, Apple, Xiaomi, etc) probed by watchdog US govt tells ICANN: No accountability, no keys to the internet We publish the 12 'stress tests' DNS overlord must prove it can handle before it keeps IANA EU justice ministers: This is not the one-stop-shop you're looking for... Single regulator for data protection rules gets oversight board Nothing illegal to see here: Tribunal says TEMPORA spying is OK Rules mass surveillance is legal, in principle at least GOOGLE is COMING FOR YOUR CHILDREN Comment Plug them in, say goodbye Outsourcery wins a £1.1m project present. Well, it is nearly Christmas Down-on-its-luck cloudy biz grabs Lync rollout deal with FTSE100 firm Oi, UK.gov. WHERE'S THE DETAIL on your Google Tax? Beancounters ponder how headline-grabbing idea will work in reality CIOs: Want to get onto the Board? Just 'running' IT isn't enough Reg Events Still bitching about 'the business'? Then you've no business being on the board Whitehall at war: Govt’s webocrats trash vital digital VAT site Special Report 'Not invented here' VCs say Uber is worth $41bn... but don't worry, we're not in a bubble Car service valued higher than two years of space exploration Channel News Industry vet rocks up at Phoenix Software Johnny Ellis takes charge of sales and marketing teams at Microsoft LSP HP or Carbonite? Hmmm. HP or Carbonite? Carbonite! Meg Whitman's chief strategy man scrams to cloudy storage biz Data Centre News Cisco tears off gloves, throws copyright and patent punches at Arista Smaller rival faces court battle over intellectual property infringement claims Vendor lock-in is truly a TERRIBLE idea ... says, er, Microsoft Comment How the cloud taught Redmond to play by a new set of rules Google? Microsoft? What the heck do they do in cloud? AWS: None of the 46 cloudy price cuts a response to rivals. Honest! Oracle refreshes RAM-crammed ZFS array line OS auto-tunes for Larry's Database Overland Storage becomes part of Sphere3D Two reds will make a black, backers hope Hairy situation? Blade servers can reach where others can't You down with OCP? Yeah you know me Oracle bypasses SAS/SATA controllers in flashy new servers NVM Express said to deliver 32 Gb/sec bandwidth to each SSD Analyst calls it: we've got a software-defined networking BUBBLE Stick to your knitting, network vendors, says Forrester Hardware News Drone in NEAR-MISS with passenger jet at Heathrow airport 'Serious risk of collision' during incident in July Furious GTA V gamers seek similar ban on violent, misogynistic title: the Holy Bible Players grouchy after Kmart, Target banishment of game Angry Birds to angry words: Rovio flings 14% of its staff out the door Dev studio axed in games biz shakeup Gaming's driving ambitions: The Crew and Grand Theft Auto V Game Theory Fast, furious, FUN... and banned in Australia Feast your eyes: 10 'fortysomething' smart TVs Product round-up Spoiling telly addicts this Christmas Networks News Virgin Media customers suffer YET MORE YouTube buffering blues Cache-strapped Internet RFC overseer snubs ICANN and co's web power grab offer This is going so well 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 Norks DENY massive Sony hack attack – dubs it a 'righteous deed' Kim Jong-un's dignity hurt by Seth Rogen 'terrorist' movie, apparently Plusnet customers SWAMPED by spam but BT-owned ISP dismisses data breach claims Refuses to notify watchdog despite subscribers' fears 'We're having panic attacks' ... Sony staff and families now threatened in emails Join us or else say messages purportedly from GOP hackers The internet is less free than last year. Thanks a bunch, Snowden Running around, warning everyone the NSA is spying on us all. What is he like? Kaspersky: That 2 years we took to warn you about Regin ? We had GOOD REASON Security community: We only saw fragments... 'Sign in with LinkedIn' spoof allows baddies to penetrate Slashdot, NASDAQ.com and more Public bug reporting works – here's the concrete proof Stupid humans and their EXPENSIVE DATA BREACHES Non-human cockups only account for 7% of leaks VMware warns of vCenter cross-site-scripting bug Six quick fixes flicked to give vAdmins Friday snits Norks: We might be aggressive but we didn't hack Sony! Quiet Mandiant mops blood amid din of spin Software News HP flings big data at cloud, sysadmins' faces Another attempt at 'your log files can tell you what's about to go wrong' Misty-eyed Ray Ozzie celebrates 25th birthday of Lotus Notes by tweeting about it ... 'Legal tussles nearly killed us but we shipped on 7 Dec 1989' Microsoft forks .NET and WHOMP! Here comes .NET Core app dev stack Modular platform will be more agile - but devs fret over porting Use Windows software on Android – Microsoft couldn't be app-ier Run code anywhere, all the time, just in time for Christmas Crack open more champagne, Satya, XP's snowballing to HELL Netmarketshare says operating system has lost 43 per cent of users in 60 days Science News Solar sandwich cooks at 40 per cent efficiency Boffins claim world record with three-tiered PV rig Pluto calling: NASA awakens New Horizons spacecraft from lengthy slumber Mission switches from hibernation to active mode You don't have to be a genius to tap into Albert Einstein's BRAIN Huzzah! A collection of the theoretical physicist's papers are now online Post-pub nosh neckfiller: The fantastical Francesinha Portugal's 'Frenchie' – a croque-monsieur turned up to 11 SPLASHDOWN! Orion lands safely in the Pacific Ocean Planned manned Mars mission craft survives maiden voyage BLAST-OFF! BOAT FREE launch at last. Orion heads for SPAAAAACE Mars hopeful craft safely into its preliminary orbit Orion BELTS UP: Space shuttle wannabe preps again for test flight NASA preps new 'naut-carrier for launch despite rain worries SCIENCE LAB TERROR: MYSTERY of the MISSING BRAINS 'You have to remember that a worm, with very few exceptions, is not a human being' Boffins unearth the ultimate antique art - 500,000 years old Early Homo was about more than being erect 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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