Kepler's STILL GOT IT! Space telescope spots SUPER-EARTH 180 light years away [Mon Dec 22 2014]

Daily Headlines 22 December 2014

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Business News Reg man misses worker riot and Police vs. Army firefight in Indonesia Where your kit gets made Batam is an electronics-making free trade zone in flux Brit thesp Kate Winslet eyes lead female role in Steve Jobs biopic – report Near, far, wherever you are. iBelieve the heart does go on HP's shareholder settlement deal over Autonomy merger DENIED – again Judge: 'a whole universe of potential claims relinquished' FURY erupts on streets of Brussels over greedy USA's data-slurping appetite Leaked doc suggests EU's right to privacy could be ridiculed Europe: Hold my wine glass, I've got an internet govt to build Like ICANN's NetMundial but with an actual goal and without the boycotts Google sues Mississippi Attorney General 'for doing MPAA's dirty work' Turns out Sony's stolen emails weren't all bad news BlackBerry CEO Chen says to expect profits ... in 2016 For now, revenues still spiraling toward drain Hackney council leaked thousands of locals' data in FoI blunder Names, addresses and rental accounts outted in spreadsheet snafu Apple v BBC: Fruity firm hits back over Panorama drama Guess who's off Tim Cook's Christmas card list UK air traffic bods deny they 'skimped' on IT investment after server mega-fail 90s kit isn't 'ancient', indignant chief exec tells Parliament Google Tax part 94: EU's H-dot wavers over copyright levy Here’s a little number about charging the Choc Factory Judge spanks SCO in ancient ownership of Unix lawsuit IBM win means Linux is saved! Again! Microsoft fires legal salvo at phone 'tech support' scammers Sick callers face fingering from Redmond's revenge Johnson & Johnson snatches your .baby for $3m Don't expect to see Wholovesyou.baby anytime soon Channel News Merlot and hot dogs: Atos snaps up Xerox's outsourcing biz for $1.05bn Plan for world domination based on shrugs and '3-year strategic plan’ Daisy Group: so long AIM, it's been emotional, sort of B2B comms and tech outfit to cancel share trading from 22 January Data Centre News One third of servers, storage and switches are sold to clouds $6.5 BEEELLLION of cloud sales per quarter, half to public clouds VMware says anyone - not just EMC - can play with its best bits ScaleIO kernel links are through public API, not an exclusive back door Love the cloud? Be a ‘Cloud Hero’ with Microsoft Promo Take the challenge, win prizes Fujitsu’s customers come big data samba dancing Get down on the analytics dance floor Hardware News If at first you don't succeed ... Fire, FIRE again: Amazon mulls smartphone sequel Mobe software tweak released amid Fire Mark II rumor Super Cali's futuristic Tesla batt swap focus – even though car tech test is an expected bonus Free charge or a fast battery switch – take your pick Reviewed: LittleBigPlanet 3, Lara Croft's latest raid and more Game Theory Festive family video gaming fun How much for a wrist job? A tenner normally, but for this one, over $30k Tosser alert: Diamond-encrusted Apple gold watch out next summer Networks News IsoHunt releases roll-your-own Pirate Bay Open source 'OpenBay' gives YOU the chance to become Cop-bait T-Mobile US to refund $90m for bogus charges: Un-Carrier to Un-Crammer Scram, cram scams, thank you, ma'am Iliad owner coughs €2.3bn for Orange Switzerland Telco shopping trip finally bears fruit for French biz bloke NBN Co reveals product roadmap and Telstra planning deal Hybrid fibre-coax trials to commence in late 2015 Security News Now Obama seeks China's help to halt alleged Nork HACK ATTACKS Sony saga: Kim Jong Un threatens 'cyber warfare' Norks: FBI's Sony Pictures' hacking allegations are 'groundless slander' Kim Jong Un's officials demand joint probe with USA Heads up! If Tor VANISHES over the weekend, this is why Developers warn of swoop plot to cripple privacy network Staples comes clean: 1+ million bank cards at risk after hack Run for the tills! Run for the tills! ICANN: The TRUTH about that hacker attack on our DNS zone file database But vague details raise questions about org's security Sony Pictures hack is Hollywood's 'Snowden moment' say infosec bods Keys to sysadmin accounts nicked, abused, it appears Feds finger Norks in Sony hack, Obama asks: HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE KOREA? Blaming Kim Jong Un is like Saddam's WMDs all over again Welsh council rapped for covert spying on sick leave worker 'Incredibly intrusive' use of powers prompts slap from ICO Linux 'GRINCH' vuln is AWFUL. Except, er, maybe it isn't Securo-bods in bunfight over priv-escalation problem Webcam-snooping spawn of ZeuS hits 150 banks worldwide Chthonic exploits Word bug to hijack browsers, steal passwords Armouring up online: Duncan Campbell's chief techie talks crypto with El Reg Crypto toolbox, Part I Truecrypt, PGP, GPG - but NEVER Skype Git thee behind me, Git crit security bug! Update anything on the desktop that touches GitHub if you want to live Movie industry's evil plan to destroy the internet is going precisely nowhere Yes, it would damage the DNS; no, it's not going to happen Hack hijacks electric skateboards, dumps hipsters in the gutter Automated attacks crash riders on the fly Kiwi hacker 'menace' pops home detention tracker cuffs Kiwicon Hack unit worn by on-parole crim. Blackmail said crim. Profit Site News The Shock of the New: The Register redesign update 4 Some changes for your delectation Software News Windows Server 2003 custom support could cost MILLIONS Got a few million tucked under the mattress for Microsoft? VISC-y business: Can Soft Machines keep the free lunch counter open? It's a multicore world alright, but the ghost of Transmeta lingers Forget Google's robot cars, now it's on to ANDROID cars Next OS to come built into auto dashboards, sources claim Science News Purple glistening plasma, you say? Orion plummets back to Earth Vid *Cough* A 'naut's view. *Cough* Kepler's STILL GOT IT! Space telescope spots SUPER-EARTH 180 light years away Damaged 'scope still producing good science Vulture 2 design hero describes epic 'hobby' project Chris Dodd talks spaceplane with The Engineer India's heavy launch rocket passes flight test Short flight for GSLV Mk-III proves crew-capsule-carrying-chops Bootnotes News Woz moves to Oz Apple founder moving to Tasmania, aka 'The Apple Isle'

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