Apple engineers rebel, refuse to work on iOS amid FBI iPhone battle [Mon Mar 21 2016]

The Register Daily Headlines 21 March 2016 Check out our other feeds and services: Business News * Hand in glove: Google and the US State Dept Analysis: Release of more Clinton emails reveals extent of ad giant's cosy relationship * Spotify to cough up royalties, just toss your copyright claims over there ... in the bin Music streamer strikes deal to pay mystery artists * Pornography, violence and JG Ballard: High Rise, the 1970s' internet Start complaining about the lifts, soon you're doxing your own mum and eating the dog * Google tries to run from flailing robotics arm Puts Boston Dynamics up for sale * Microsoft's Linux Inquisitor Grand Master is off to Spotify An IP era really over. No, really. Well, things will be different. Sort of. Perhaps * Apple's largest UK reseller Jigsaw24 is for sale You could buy into a world where dreams are made reality * Labour: We want the Snoopers' Charter because of Snowden IPB: Sir Keir Starmer, KCB, QC, pledges party's qualified support for bill * Web ads are reading my keystrokes and I can't even spel propperlie Something for the Weekend, Sir?: Let's not get paranoid, here, but... * IBM buys CRM SaaS firm - no, not Salesforce Microsoft Dynamics UK Gov gateway * UK.gov's Major Projects Authority ain't saving us any money, say MPs Give us real data and not guff that's six months out of date, thunders Parliament's PAC * Telling your wife why you were fired is the only punishment On-Call: Smut caches move management to find health and safety solution Channel News * Crayon still hasn't found what it's looking for... a UK CEO Search goes on as chosen candidate cocks snook, says no thanks to software licensing biz * Quadsys Five enter 'not guilty' pleas to Crown court charges Five men allegedly involved in hacking rival security reseller stand in the dock Data Centre News * Chambers tells India Cisco's got another US$100 million to spend Students and startups * Flash will send hyper-convergence to hyper-speed More data, faster, is all very well until it hits your network and servers. Which is why convergence matters * Lenovo gets friendly with hyper-converged vendors, and not just one or two... Serves the HCIA software vendors right * Lenovo's enterprise power-up could be powering you down Radical server re-designs needed soon, but for now the focus is on prosaic problems * BIOS upgrades needed for fre.....ezing Cisco switches Too-talkative PCIe bus can leave Nexus 5600 and Nexus 6001 just hanging around Hardware News * Facebook, WhatsApp farewell BlackBerry Social networks decide one per cent market share isn't worthy of native app support * ACCC goes beyond recall, bans 'hoverboards' Ask the French, they'll tell you: Li-ion batteries explode * Swede builds steam-powered Raspberry Pi. Nowhere to plug in micro-USB, then? Video: All you need is a couple of blowtorches, some wire and a desk-sized steam engine * One in five PCs will be a tablet with detachable keyboard by 2020 Windows 10 looks to have hit the goldilocks zone for the hybrid PC/tablet experience says IDC Networks News * nbn special: see the FTTN and HFC cabinets coming to your street Reg Roadtrip: Vulture South ventures into the fibre-to-the-premises Goldilocks Zone Security News * Smartphones help medicos, but security is a problem It's great that doctors can email pictures of you to experts, but not when they use default apps * Microsoft adds OneDrive to bug bounty program Up to $15k on offer * Hackers crack OS X, Windows, web browsers' security to net $460,000 Pwn2Own: Tencent Security Team Sniper crowned Master of Pwn * Feds raid 'extortionist' IT security biz Tiversa, CEO put on leave And whistleblower defamation suit dropped * Biometrics not a magic infosec bullet for web banking, warns GCHQ bloke You can change a password. You can't change fingerprints * FreeBSD crushes system-crashing bug Time to upgrade, Unix-like OS-havers * Cyberthreat: Learning to live with the risk And bring your tools, people and partners together * Buhtrap hacks whack Russian bank chaps; phish bait works great Millions ripped as worms infest bank networks. Software News * Microsoft will rest its jackboot on Windows 7, 8.1's throat on new Intel CPUs in 2018 - not 2017 Some updates for an extra year then just security fixes * New York senator proposes tax credit for open-source developers Allows devs to claw back a few bucks for donating code * Apple engineers rebel, refuse to work on iOS amid FBI iPhone battle You thought Tim Cook was stubborn? Try his coders * Stop! Before you accept that Windows 10 Mobile upgrade, read this Microsoft promises it won't be as aggressive as it is with the desktop version * HERE: We're still, er... HERE 3D and robocars loom * Stevie Graham: Why I hack mobile banking apps QCon: Sidenote: He's a mite better at redacting than the FBI Science News * A Logic Named Joe: The 1946 sci-fi short that nailed modern tech Analysis: 70 years later, Murray Leinster's disaster scenario is the internet you know and love * Astronaut trio blast off to space station with ... er, rearview mirror toy? Vid + pics: Dangling pink furry thing spotted in launch snap * Heads up, rocket fans: Soyuz launch tonight NASA TV to screen live departure to ISS * Ben Nevis embiggened by a metre Now a tad taller, thanks to GPS * How to make the trains run on time? Satellites. That's how India and Europe exploring remote sensing to track trains, rather than terrestrial sensors Bootnotes News * Microsoft's equality and diversity: Skimpy schoolgirls dancing for nerds at an Xbox party Console boss apologizes amid PR disaster * Too Naked for the Nazis streaks to literary glory A Cultural History of the Anus shafted in oddest book title race * Off to Mars this summer? Don't forget your map Ordnance Survey prints limited edition Red Planet guide * Domino's trials trundling four-wheeled pizza delivery bot Waist-high and just begging to be hijacked by hungry hooligans Free whitepaper Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. 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