What a Hancock-up: MP's social network app is a privacy disaster [Fri Feb 2 2018]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 2 February 2018 ***************************************************************** What a Hancock-up: MP's social network app is a privacy disaster Digital secretary ups ante, but users say it's riddled with bugs ***************************************************************** Business * Cox blocked! ISP may not have to cough up $25m for letting punters pirate music online Appeals court says copyright legal battle went copy-wrong * Info Commish offers privacy addicts a 12-step GDPR programme Get clean from your data sins * UK data watchdog whacks £300k fine on biz that made 9 million nuisance calls Scouse firm bought data without checking permissions * Oh dear, Capita: MPs put future UK.gov outsourcing in the spotlight Contingency plans in place at Barnet after £1bn wiped off troubled outsourcer's value * Brit market harshing Vodafone's buzz as sales slump continues Dutch spin-off to Liberty Global also singled out as party pooper * Crim-checker IT system update fail has cost UK taxpayer 'MEEELLIONS' MPs give Disclosure and Barring Service a lashing * Uber saddles up for a new cycle of controversy Enters the dockless bike business, which is – ahem – not without its critics * Facebook users are Zucking off, but that's what Zuck wants More than ever, YOU are Facebook's product as it trashes cat vids * Measure us by subscriptions, says upbeat Citrix Says cloud plan is working better than expected but predicts very modest growth * Fujifilm, Xerox throw each other a US$6.1 billion lifeline We'll buy the J/V from you so you can use the cash to buy us, goddit? Data Centre * Amazon manages to find a mere sliver of profit – just $2bn – out of $61bn in end-of-year sales AWS continues to rake in billions, too * New York lobs $210m at telcos to hook up 120k homes, businesses with bumpkin broadband Funny story – Verizon didn't care until they were told other ISPs might do it * E8 prises software away from its arrays to run on Dell, HPE, Lenovo kit Flash flinger does a Kaminario * Exploring Flash beyond the performance Pricing out the IOPS * Fujitsu in a funk over feeble network sales Storage 'n' servers flat, PCs & tabs OK but mobes, base stations fall * Openreach ups investment plans: Will shoot out full fibre to 3 million premises Beginning of the end for copper? * Qualglumm: Still no royalties from Apple, tax hits, EU fine, flat sales Investors give shares a bumpy ride... and settle on no change in after-hours trading * AT&T's financial figures reveal 19 BEEELLLION reasons why it lobbied hard for US tax cuts Telco gives 5% to staff, 5% for capex, windfall for shareholders Emergent Tech * EU hitches its cart to the blockchain bandwagon Let's set up an observatory, maybe think about governance * Data-by-audio whizzes Chirp palmed £100k to keep working with EDF Power plant sensors to continue squeaking at engineers * Oxford Uni boffins get things rolling at new electric motor factory Department of Business splashing cash for YASA * The blockchain era is here but big biz, like most folk, hasn't a clue what to do with it Now Oracle and others are wading in, like a BaaS Personal Tech * Super Cali's unrealistic net neutrality process – even though the sound of it is something quite... ferocious Why draft law won't be enough to protect state's internet * Crowdfunding refund judgment doesn't quite open the floodgates It's a pointer – not a cast-iron legal precedent * $14bn tax hit, Surface Pro screens keep dying – but it's not all good news at Microsoft Frustrated fondleslab fans forced to stick kit in freezers Security * Nork hackers exploit Flash bug to pwn South Koreans. And Adobe will deal with it next week Maybe it's a good time to just delete the thing * Ignore that FBI. We're the real FBI, says the FBI that's totally the FBI Don't open that malware mail from the Feds that's not from the Feds, Feds warn * Who can save us? It's 2018 and some email is still sent as cleartext Out of the phone booth comes the IETF in lycra - with the power of STANDARDS! Software * Tech bad-boy Uber crafts tool to make staff follow the rules in future (er, coding rules, that is) Kneel before NEAL, devs * What a Hancock-up: MP's social network app is a privacy disaster Digital secretary ups ante, but users say it's riddled with bugs * ServiceNow plans non-devs writing non-code for real enterprise apps Pledges simple workflow creation tools as next act after grand Q4 and FY 2017 Science * Astroboffins spot sneaky signs that the Milky Way devoured smaller galaxies ...and they have also found one of its first stars * Dinosaurs gathered at NASA Goddard site for fatal feeding frenzy Fossil find expands evidence from Cretaceous period * Anti-missile missile misses again, US military mum on meaning of mess Bonus space news: wanna salvage a SpaceX Falcon 9? * Free whitepaper * Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. 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