Facebook privacy policy change leaves Dutch stomping feet [Tue Jan 6 2015]

Daily Headlines 6 January 2015

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Business News End well: this won't. European Copyright Society wants one EU law to rule 'em all Not as if members have hugely divergent IP traditions, right? No cellphones in cells, you slag! UK.gov moots prison mobe zap law Best hope you're not a PAYG user outside Pentonville Ladies and trolls: Should we make cyberbullying a crime? – Ireland Legal watchdog wants public help on possible new laws Sales flat for takeover-tastic Brit IT bods Daisy Group Continued losses could bode ill for nearly private biz Facebook privacy policy change leaves Dutch stomping feet Google also giggling from Irish data law haven Data Centre News Mirror, mirror: Seagate shows off 1TB data shiny at HDD beauty contest CES 2015 Glorified desk toys fight for floorspace at tech show VMware: Storage data functions can and WILL migrate to flash media Comment Speed and simplicity Seagate makes CES splash with $99 drive, 'personal' cloud offerings CES 2015 Two 500GB external drives, new brand... and, er, new cloud Software-defined everything: So, WHEN is the 'future'? Claims of invisibility and IT ‘as a service’ need to be tested ‘Get off of my Cloud’ Verizon tells users ahead of 48-hour maintenance outage Still able to upload morphed pics of Douglas Jardine though Hardware News Google casts about for wireless audio Cheap Android phones? Bah! How about a $29 mobe from Microsoft? New Nokia 215 brings mobile internet on a budget Intel touts tardy Broadwell Core CPUs for laptops, PCs CES 2015 Expect first devices on store shelves this month About 4King time: Panasonic finally reveals voice-control Firefox OS TVs CES 2015 Plus full HD camcorders and home spycams Double-digit tablet growth spurt is OVER, say pundits Crystal ball gazers reckon fondleslab sales are set to slow Elite:Dangerous goes TITSUP Rift in space-time crashes servers, freezes cargo bays and relocates players Nvidia flops out TERAFLOP X1 for self-aware cars CES 2015 New Tegra chip boasts 256 GPU cores, 8 CPU cores, and is baked into car kits Networks News TPG unplugs NBN rival fibre to the basement service Requirement to create wholesale service proves too painful Whew, US cellcos... Better find a new revenue stream, QUICK Analysis Value crashes across American mobile companies Security News THREE MILLION Moonpig accounts exposed by flaw Custom tat outfit p0wned, hard, by simple API flaw Finnish bank takes cricket bat to wave after wave of DDoS varmints When they were up, they were up, and when they were down... Snooker WPA secrets with this Wi-Fi tool Jammed and canned Saudi Arabia hires 'ethical hackers' to silence smut slingers The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice strikes again Even China's Academy of Science thinks wearables are privacy problem Multi-boffin study says users need more information before they share data Software News Australia: even more empty than you imagine Stats boffins make squares of us all NoSQL pioneer to inject your database with ACID FoundationDB fires up NoSQL-engine strategy Science News SpaceX: CATS with LASERS to blast off to space station Pic What's inside the Dragon Capsule bound for orbiting lab RMIT boffins fast-track space junk search Got five seconds? That's all you need to spot a flying tin can NASA to launch microwave SPACE LASSO to probe Earth's wet spots Video Water a great idea You're late, Falcon 9: Look what you've done to NASA’s DSCOVR launch! Windy instrument's lift-off held up until after 29 Jan This one shall pass! Not even a flesh wound from ‘Monty Python’ SPACE ROCK Comic asteroid set to return in five years, but with no new material Bootnotes News Finally, some recognition: 'Selfi' snaps Spanish Word of the Year No escape from these egotistical, ubiquitous, self-indulgent self portraits

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