Super-cookie crumbles: Verizon vows to kill off hated zombie stalkers [Mon Feb 2 2015]

Daily Headlines 2 February 2015

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Business News BURIED: Gov won't reveal telcos' guess at data retention costs PWC report won't be shared with committee, even in secret The Pirate Bay clambers back online after cop raid sunk site for 7 weeks Copyright owners: Arrr-gh! Snapchat jihadist-fearing peers return with LAST GASP Snoopers' Charter demand Counter-Terror and Security Bill hits report stage on Monday Silk Road trial latest: Ulbricht's Gmail addy appeared on ad for 'Amazon.com for drugs' Roundup And then there's the $18m in BTC on a laptop – lawyers US Ambassador: No, net neutrality will NOT allow the UN to seize control of the internet from us Analysis It won't impact foreign policy, please go away QLogic hits all-flash bullseye, doubles profit 10% quarterly revenue rise – take that, market uncertainty Quantum of Suspicion: Despite another $29m, D-Wave doubts remain What exactly is company offering? Fujitsu slapped down in Land of the FALLING YEN Homegrown demand wanes for mobes, PCs and network products Google forced to – wah! – OBEY the LAW with privacy policy tweaks Ad broker agrees to tell you what it does with your privates Mobe-hungry BT's sales slip over Xmas amid EE buyout silence Firm can't ignore £7bn pensions deficit much longer Alibaba's magic cave empties as it misses revenue target Denies claims its stock comes from 40 thieves Reddit: Don't worry, we didn't tell that foreign government about your /r/brony addiction Uncle Sam on the other hand ... Data demands by feds revealed Data Centre News Drunk on Friday night? Then YOU probably DIDN'T spot Facebook's privacy tweak A good time to bury plain English ambiguous policy STUDENT RACK WARS: Science and HPC – all the kids are doing it these days HPC blog New Orleans students grapple brain-crunching apps Emulex ends seven-quarter run of losses +Comment Posts $4.3m profits Oracle is BETTER at cloud than everyone else so NER, shouts Hurd (no Katz) Laser focus on self embiggenment, says co-chief HP: We're gonna book $1bn worth of Server 2003 sales THIS WEEK A month's worth of activity in seven days? Good luck, says analyst EMC grows new 'Enterprise Content Division' Yet another attempt to make Documentum sexy Quantum adds cloud tier to StorNext It’s JAT – Just Another Tier Hardware News Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed: Global geekgasm likely El Reg lays claws on surprise new quad-core chipped fruity titchy-computer Carmakers DEFLATED by AIRBAG FLAW as US watchdog recalls TWO MEELLION vehicles Early Noughties models affected after fix FAILS Intel brings Broadwell to businesses with 5th-gen Core chips with vPro But what will it all mean for Skylake? Apple CEO: Fandroids are BINNING Android in favour of IPHONES Tim Cook puts numbers on his world domination claim Undead nights: Zombie FPS Dying Light shines bright Game Theory Dead Island all grown up and covered in putrefying flesh Synths of the father: Making some noise at NAMM 2015 +Vids You don't know what it was like, man, you weren't there Networks News Dish, AT&T, Verizon's mobile broadband bids slash US debt by 0.13% YES! NOW WE'RE COOKING ON GAS! Three to pleasure bumpkins with 800MHz Broadband boost before O2 craps all over it Smartphones merge into homogeneous mass as 'flagship fatigue' bites Latest handset? Punters say 'meh'. It's all about networks now, prays Three Wheeee! BT preps for FIVE HUNDRED MEGABIT broadband trial If it works it'll go nationwide, says telco's top dog Sky sidles up to O2, whispers: 'Fancy a little FOUR-PLAY?' It's been a long time coming *fnarr fnarr* Security News Pirate Bay data now tugged by IP-address-tracking current` Revived plunder site now rests on Cloudflare's content delivery network Google boffins PROVE security warnings don't ... LOOK! A funny cat! Designing a UI people care about is harder than it looks Google PRECOGS to pay researchers before they find software flaws Bug bounty effort grows a speculative arm after shelling out $1.5m last year Does your mate send smut vids on Facebook? 1. That's a bit weird. 2. It may be malware PwC bod warns of fake Flash upgrades doing the rounds Super-cookie crumbles: Verizon vows to kill off hated zombie stalkers This time opt-out actually means opt-out, we're told Teen whiz exposes WhatsApp profile pic privacy blunder bug That teddy bear icon was for friends' eyes only UK official LOSES Mark Duggan shooting discs IN THE POST Nobody’s found a politically charged package have they? UK watchdog grills big biz: So HOW do you use their 'consumer data'? Slurp it, trade it, sell it, swap it? Privacy alert: Outlook for iOS does security STUPIDLY, says dev Logins stored in cloud, delete button busted A docket, tweet and selfie can reveal your identity, boffins find Spanners thrown at metadata privacy wagon Software News PEAK WINDOWS 7 may well be behind us Love for Windows XP still coming in spurts Google Now now SLURPS data from third party apps so YOU don't have to Search tool consensually ransacks Airbnb, Lyft, et al Microsoft tells big biz: No free Windows 10 for you, crack wallets open Hey, insert credit card, check out our new update system, says Redmond You must have at least 8 inches for Windows 10 to go all the way Comment El Reg decodes Microsoft's size rule Sorry, admins: Microsoft says NO new Windows Server until 2016 Wedging Docker containers into Windows to take a leeeettle longer Tesla bumps up Model S P85D acceleration – with software update Vid OK, grudgingly impressed: Download that upgrade for inverter Wham, bam... premium rate scam: Grindr users hit with fun-killing charges Dating app makers blame rogue ad OH HAPPY DAY! Lawyers replaced by AI Google also outsmarted by friendly machine pals Science News Black Beauty Martian meteorite is 'a SPOT-ON match with Red Planet's DARK PLAINS' Boffins: ancient chunk of crust replicates rocks on surface Earth's soil moisture to be sniffed by DIRTY-MINDED satellite NASA launches bird INTO SPAAACE Grav wave tsunami NOT caused by Big Bang – boffins weep Milky Way's interstellar dust blurs origin of signal

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