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Business News Tom Hanks NICKED my COPYRIGHTED PIC, claims Brit photog Cornwall landscape snapper says he's out of pocket after celebrity's social media post Move over, John Pilger, let us IT scandal-mongerers stick it to you Something for the Weekend, Sir? Had enough, you fascist, or shall I tweet you some more? Han Solo headed for lengthy stay in bacta tank after Bay Door Control cockup Pulling ears off gundark unrealistic for now CIOs: Are you the governor? Or just one of the governed? Poll Answer these questions to find out if you’re really the business Data Centre News VMware: Amazon's cloud calculator a load of flatulant FUD Battle of the marketing bods as Virtzilla chucks some virtual sanity at Bezos & Co It's tough at the top: Yet another hybrid startup knocks EMC First Nutanix, now Nimble Storage IBM officially biggest all-flash array shipper - analyst Gartner AFA data hits the street Shiny happy people holding DIMMs: Plus Facebook's data centres are going all-flash HP Discover Hey, WD - come join our dating agency IBM releases Software-Defined Storage For Dummies - no joke Plus Big Blue sexes up its boring old GPFS line with new name BOFH: On the contrary, we LOVE rebranding here at the IT dept Episode 5 Which of our branding irons impresses you most? Hardware News Toyota catches up to William Gibson with LED hood Concept car has 7000 pixels on the hood and batteries beneath Yet another reason to skip commercials: Microsoft ad TURNS ON your Xbox One Aaron Paul spot inadvertently triggers Kinect voice commands Apple: REIGN OF FIRE coming to Europe courtesy of old iPhone chargers Fanboi? Living with one? Get the hell out of your house, NOW Live on Tuesday: Speak your brains to game dev legend David Braben Feeling dangerous? S is for SMACKDOWN: Samsung takes Galaxy Tab slab war fruit-side Bigger screens, smaller pixels for would-be iPad buster Waiting gamer slams no-show show: E3 – was that it? Game Theory There's a game that might be good. You can't buy it yet 2013 Cyber Risk Report A comprehensive dive into today's cyber vulnerability and threat landscape. Providing information to effectively plan your cyber security strategy and deploy your defenses. Download here > Networks News FCC launches probe into Verizon/Netflix spat Commission will figure out whether video traffic was deliberately throttled Google in talks to nail Virgin as 'partner' in satellite internet plan Will invest millions in JV and take stake in Galactic – report Chocolate Factory preps health data cloud slurp Google wants to tap into your bloodstream Policy News US allows commercial use of sharper satellite snaps American satellite operators catch up with France Apple, Cisco line up to protect offshore data Tech sector lines up behind Microsoft London commuter hell will soon include 'one card to rule them all' Transport 'catapult' will also fling taxis at you Microsoft promises no snooping in new fine print for web services They've even thought of the children and how to make you responsible for them Australia.gov.au Alpha design revealed to grateful nation Homage to gov.uk and govt.nz built on Drupal Security News AT&T: 'twas conniving contractors who nicked your info Company fesses up to data breach in California Blame WWI, not Bin Laden, for NSA's post-9/11 intel suck Edward Snowden anniversary week War, peace and paranoia in modern US Latest casualties of Iraq fighting: Facebook and Twitter 'Praise be to Allah, who gave Twitter to the mujahideen' CIA rendition jet was waiting in Europe to SNATCH SNOWDEN Unmarked Gulfstream tracked as it passed above UK Entirely new trojan quietly wheeled into black hat forums Pandemiya is 25,000 lines of original password-pinching botnet badassery Hacker claims PayPal loophole generates FREE MONEY Convicted hacker comes good with fraudster flowchart Restaurant chain uses CARBON PAPER to fight credit card hack Ye olde click-clack card imprint machines are back at P.F. Chang's China Bistro US Marshals seek buyer for Silk Road's Bitcoin $US17m of seized crytpocurrency to be auctioned on June 27th Software News Twitter for iOS embraces Bing Translate in time for World Cup 2014 Read tweets by global fans of football, futbol, piłka nożna, Fußball, футбол, pêl-droed ... Angelina Jolie 2.0 NOT an inspiration for Huawei phones, says exec She was 'the most attractive woman in the world ... several years ago' Torvalds on patents: 'Sane people know it's bullsh*t but making real change is difficult' Quotw 'In 1991, Captain Cyborg said we'd have real life Terminators' Science News NASA uses new technique to snap high-res asteroid images Video Read on for 3.5m resolution pics of Asteroid 2014 HQ124 Splash! Three times as much water as ALL of Earth's oceans found TRAPPED underground Can it help relieve a drought-plagued world? Well, don't water that brown lawn just yet Smartphone SEX APPS will give you CUPID'S MEASLES - study You're better off finding partners in, er, meatspace Boffins lay out 'practical requirements' of 'realistic' QUANTUM COMPUTER You need 'contextual' magic states, apparently Eating a fat bacon sarnie? Have a defibrillator handy Heart attack ahoy for processed meat scoffers NASA scrubs FLYING SAUCER over Hawaii ballocket mission Wrong kind of wind grounds Mars lander airbag test Spaceplane design nipper Ariadne gets a promotion Now 'Sub-orbital aesthetics consulting engineer', with a badge to prove it Microsoft in hunt for the practical qubit Looking for a technique that scales Bootnotes News 'Hashtag' added to the OED – but # isn't a hash, pound, nor number sign A hint as to its real name: Know anyone named 'Thorpe'? 2013 Cyber Risk Report A comprehensive dive into today's cyber vulnerability and threat landscape. 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