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Daily Headlines 18 June 2014

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Business News Oracle's $5 BEEELLION acquisition zeppelin looms over Micros Systems Report: Database giant in 'exclusive talks' with hotel and retail thingummy vendor REALLY? Can 10 per cent of Aussie jobs be threatened by pirates? Village Roadshow boss' anti-Google rant relies on contentious data YouTube will nuke indie music videos in DAYS, says Google exec There's poison in the air. But we don't care Level 3 gobbles rival TW Telecom in $5.7bn deal (that's 5 Instagrams) World's biggest telco: 'We wanna be stronger, more nimble' Unicode ideogram list-site Emojipedia goes titsup. Wow. Did you just give us the finger? How about checking Unicode's site? Just a thought 'Cortana-gate' ruins Satya Nadella's Microsoft honeymoon Analysis NO WAY are you putting it on iOS and Android, screech commentards The rise of the humans: How to outsmart the digital deluge Book review How many times did you check your phone while reading this? HP faces down youthful tech upstarts: Don't judge us by our looks Comment Having a 'Benjamin Button' moment YouView loses YourView trademark fight, may have to pick new name So, this is all going really well WORLD CUP SHOCK: England declared winner in 2-1 defeat to Italy Software challenge to official score line could save Rooney from axe Wikipedia insists paid editors reveal their bits in public New legalese forces explicit disclosure of paid articles and edits Channel News Murphy's law: Avnet brings in EMEA boss to rule UK Already looks after strategic supplier relations across other regions Brit giant Daisy stuffs face with treats, but she ain't piling on pounds Quite the reverse, looking at comms flogger's net loss for the year Brit data centre biz Pulsant sold to private equity house BDC Capital funds all used up, another VC truck rolls into town Data Centre News India throws switch on new 282.6 Tflop super Chemistry department cruncher boasts 15,360 Xeon E5-2760v2 cores Unisys cozies closer to Intel, 'sunsets' proprietary processor Software-defined fabric architectures claim another victim Amazon looks at Google's cheap SSDs, slashes its own prices Bezos's great deflationary tech machine whirrs on Fighting words from Asigra: Yes, backup vendors, we said it... commodity hardware Buy our software package and we'll support your cheaper stack Migrating to Windows Server 2012 Reg Live TV Make a virtue out of necessity Hardware News Google's too-smart-for-own-good Nest Protect alarm is back on sale Go ahead, wave hello ... it won't switch off this time Crucial MX100 256GB SSD: Cut-throat competition in flash land Review Keenly priced sweet-spot storage Networks News Internet of Things fridges? Pfft. So how does my milk carton know when it's empty? Your home will never auto-refill itself with food'n'drink, folks Vodafone buys into Internet of Stuff, sinks fangs into Cobra +Comment Gets vehicle-tracker tech for a cool €145m Virgin Media boss AND ex-Murdoch man: BSkyB broadband is 'lousy' His own firm is a shining example for them to follow - not Huawei WILL make a comeback to US market, policy wonk predicts Back doors? Are we talking about the NSA now? Policy News NSW budget calls for lower GST threshold on imports Parliament axes Lotus Notes, finds cash for mobile tech for case workers and IM for emergency services Democrats pitch long-shot bid for FCC ban on prioritization deals Legislation would force net neutrality by banning paid speed-ups Are Facebook rants about harming your wife protected free speech? US Supremes to decide Man who wrote of 'a thousand ways to kill' wife files appeal NHS slammed for MAJOR data blunders as scale of patient info sell-off is revealed No real idea what the hell we did with a lot of it, basically 'I'm for free speech!' brave Boris bellows, bewildered by 'right to be forgotten' bluster Calm down, dear, it's not a problem Apple settles ebook price-fixing damages lawsuit with US states Won't write cheques until the appeal's done, though ISIS: Iraq KILLS the INTERNET: VPNs, social media and chat apps blocked by government If you can't beat 'em, gag 'em Slippery Google greases up, aims to squirm out of EU privacy grasp Special Report Will the huge advertising firm manage to spin its way free of the law? Missiles-on-rooftops Brit spy Farr: Yes, UK.gov slurps your Facebook, Twitter... What of it? It's all 'external comms'... and we don't need a warrant GCHQ to share threat intel – and declassify SECRET inventions IA14 Inspector Gadget watch? Nope, IP with no 'secret applications', sadly Stopping IT price gouging would risk SOCIALIST DYSTOPIA! Vendor-land tells Australian competition probe to leave it alone with the pricing gun Security News Punters happily run malware if paid ONE CENT Years of infosec education and users still click on anything FTC seeks DEFCON help to finger illegal robocallers Plans cash-money honeypot competition in August FBI arrests claims NullCrew hacker in Tennessee takedown Stool pigeon fooled hackers into self-incrimination Student promises Java key to unlock Simplocker ransomware Scary malware so ... er ... simple even an undergrad can crack it Another RAT crawls out of the malware drain Dyreza/Dyre MITMs SSL sessions Software News Cisco promises Lync link for its UC kit Borg will try to assimilate Microsoft's unified comms Researchers warn of preloaded spyware in Android handsets That off-brand Chinese smartphone you bought on eBay might not be secure Sneak peek: Microsoft's next browser (thanks, IE Developer Channel) Devs asked to give up-and-coming features a good kicking Facebook releases Snapchat-stomping Slingshot chat app Again, that is ... Science News Elon Musk: SpaceX can get mankind 'to Mars in 10 or 12 years' Plans to float the spacefaring firm into market once first interplanetary rockets fly LOHAN seeks X-Plane bod for simulating relationship Handy with Plane-Maker and seeking eternal glory? Click here... POND SCUM shine a path to more efficient solar cells Some algae have a gene that crimps their ability to photosynthesise

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