Feds dig up law from 1789 to demand Apple, Google decrypt smartphones, slabs [Tue Dec 2 2014]

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Business News CommBank throws AU$5 MEELLION at UNSW quantum computer lab Because everyone wants their bank balance stored as a superposition ICANN and co U-turn on permanent seats for 'net 'UN Security Council' NetMundial Initiative tries to save itself Feds dig up law from 1789 to demand Apple, Google decrypt smartphones, slabs We're sure the Founding Fathers would approve Wikipedia won't stop BEGGING for cash - despite sitting on $60m +Comment Are your ads Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful, Jimbo? IBM bags multi-billion dollar outsourcing deal with ABN AMRO Megadeal follows slooooow September sales Juniper whips out knife, slices off security products Remember that, er, 'end-to-end' security play? Yes, forget that one, please Dead Steve Jobs to give iTunes MP3 evidence from beyond the grave Memos from Apple's billionaire biz tyrant to be used in monopoly lawsuit Intel buys Canadian ID-wrangler PasswordBox Lazy aboot passwords, eh? Intel to cash in Kim Dotcom Dotcan remain on bail, despite Fed protests But get out your hankies... he can't fly in his chopper Sony Pictures hires Mandiant, asks FBI for help after MASSIVE cyber attack Four upcoming films leaked – is there a connection? Netflix: Sacre vache! French resistance from the vestibuleurs de consommation Analysis OTT giant plays its blagueur with Maison de Cartes SUPER-SUEBALL heading IBM's way in Australia Billion-dollar blowout for health payroll debacle headed for court despite past settlement Data Centre News Vendors coalesce around 'MGBase-T' 2.5/5 Gbps Ethernet It's hard to keep up with 802.11 ac without wires nobody wants to buy CONTAINER WARS: CoreOS blasts Rocket rival at Docker Claim's Docker's direction is 'fundamentally flawed' WOS that all about? Hightail buddies up with Cleversafe Massive cost hike causes software/hardware switch XML daddy Tim Bray pops his head in the Amazon cloud 'Work looks in­ter­est­ing' says Tim as he slips into the trench Loved-up 'frictionless' EMC bods slide ScaleIO into VMware kernel Who us, competitors? NAND designs: Vendors hustle to get flash closer to compute PUSH that data faster, storage boy What's that rumbling sound? It's HP preparing to deliver truckload of storage products Barcelona launch to StoreServ you right Docker, Part 2: Whoa! Spontaneous industry standard! How did they do THAT? Sysadmin Blog OSS guys acting as one ... it's not natural Hardware News Huawei: 'Nobody made any money in Windows Phone' Chinese firm says no more Microsoft mobes, even if the OS is FREE LA schools math quiz: $500 Chromebooks or $700 iPads for students? District bosses lob Google-powered laptops into formerly exclusive deal with Apple Amazon DROPS next day delivery amid Cyber Monday MADNESS Updated Firm 'fesses up: Last-minute prezzie-hunters could be disappointed APPLE set to Air PLUS-SIZED iPAD – claims mag Now where are those reliable sauces? Bought an iPhone 6 Plus? Odds are you've binned the iPad Fondlers keen on smaller things... except in the bedroom. True story Networks News SEA-ME-WE 3 submarine cable reports outage ISP issues frag susceptibility warning as routes through Asia slow down Yahoo, Bing beg 'right to be forgotten' wipers: Don't FORGET about US Some people do actually use Microsoft's search, apparently Shin avoids boot: Samsung hangs onto mobile chief despite crappy Galaxy S5 sales BK for JK play stayed – WSJ Brits to teach Norks hacks about 'multimedia websites'. 5% of DPRK is in for a TREAT Kim Jong-un, elites, academics only ones with 'net access Get your staff working on the move: Develop that app for mobile Mind the gap between the data centre and the handset ESA and Airbus test LASER data networks IN SPAAACE Satellite-to-satellite link at 0.6 gigabits per second 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 E-cigarettes fingered as source of NASTY VIRUS Not the mouth-hole kind, says IT support bloke Ex-GCHQ boss: Hey, UK.gov, have you heard how crap iPhone biometrics are? Comment Last year in El Reg? Hmmm, OK. Did I mention I now flog mobile biometrics kit? Pay with your credit card at station kiosk? 'Dare Devil' is targeting YOU Please collect your ticket and change (& ta for the card data) EVIL researchers dupe EVERY 32 bit GPG print Keys fall in four seconds Weather Channel forecast: Bleak, with prolonged XSS A billion visitors exposed to scripting storm Site News Mmmmffll-CHOMP: I won? Reg reader to have CHOC-TASTIC YEAR Fortunately he didn't tick the no-publicity box Software News RIP Microsoft Clip Art – now you can fill your slides with web cat pics Need a pointless, daft image? Redmond wants you to Bing it Fate Acompli: Microsoft gobbles Android email upstart 'for $200m' Thanks Redmond for the easy headline. Slotted away nicely Science News By the Rivers of Babylon, where the Antikythera Mechanism laid down Boffins have new theory about origins of 'first computer' ESA finds FOURTH comet touchdown for Philae lander Lander grazed comet between first and second bounces 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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