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Weekly Digest Headlines 19 December 2014

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Weekly Digest : The Biggest and Best of the Week 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 Judge spanks SCO in ancient ownership of Unix lawsuit IBM win means Linux is saved! Again! Microsoft begins war against fake phone tech support scams Sick callers face fingering from Redmond's revenge Nork-ribbing flick The Interview AXED: Sony caves under hack terror 'menace' Terrorists win, Kim Jong Un fingered again Google Tax part 94: EU's H-dot wavers over copyright levy Here’s a little number about charging the Choc Factory 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 EU VAT law could kill THOUSANDS of online businesses Selling knick-knacks? Register or face taxman's WRATH Microsoft kills its Euro pane in the a**: The 'would you prefer Chrome?' window Time runs out on mandatory non-IE installation tool 'Turn to nuclear power to save planetary ecology from renewable BLIGHT' +Analysis Boffins plead against 'perceptions of what is green' Untangling .NET Core: Open source for Windows, Mac, Linux Exclusive Interview More changes, but it'll be different this time, honest Forget Google's robot cars, now it's on to ANDROID cars Next OS to come built into auto dashboards, sources claim 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 Fedora 21: Linux fans will LOVE it - after the install woes Review Purrs like a beauty once you get her running American bacon cured with AR-15 assault rifle SPB chief takes up arms against Stateside culinary outrage Pitch Black: New BlackBerry Classic is aimed at the old-school Hands on This mobe is all tool belt and braces India's heavy launch rocket passes flight test Short flight for GSLV Mk-III proves crew-capsule-carrying-chops Deprivation Britain: 1930s all over again? Codswallop! Worstall @ the Weekend Inequality, living standards, poverty: Not all the same thing Webcam-snooping spawn of ZeuS hits 150 banks worldwide Chthonic exploits Word bug to hijack browsers, steal passwords Git thee behind me, Git client bug! Update anything on the desktop that touches GitHub if you want to live

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