Russia poised to unleash 'Son of Satan' ICBM [Wed May 11 2016]

The Register Daily Headlines 11 May 2016 Check out our other feeds and services: Business News * Lending Club CEO booted out for dodgy deals Another unicorn loses its horn * Congress calls for change to NSA spying law Hearing digs into controversial Section 702 * Valley VC Peter Thiel becomes an official Trump delegate Bombastic orange billionaire has at least one vote in California * It should be a crime to install spyware on phones, thunders Plaid Cymru MP But anti-harassment plans will worry photogs and parodies * At the BBC, Agile means 'making it up as we go along' Watchdog slams Auntie's open-ended data slurp * Transfer techies at SWIFT tell Bangladesh Bank: Don't shift blame for $81m cyberheist Calls it out over 'basic password protection' * Lauri Love: 'Britain's FBI' loses court attempt to evade decryption laws Cops slapped down after trying to dodge suspect's legal protections with civil backdoor * Investigatory Powers Bill: As supported by world's most controlling men IPB: Don't Spy on Us coalition launches provocative campaign * Lenovo's European prez quits over 'serious strategic disagreements' New boss drops in, firm shifts some manufacturing to Hungary from China * Spaniard live streams 195km/h burn-up Periscope speed merchant drives straight into cuffing * Firms that make 'questionable use' of your data will pay... with their reputations SIlly us - thought Euro banking authority meant with fines * Ireland's hefty data industry demands equally big industry cop Republic in three-way EU, US, tech-mega-giant sqeeze * PLA sys admin gets six months house arrest for yanking US Army docs 'Have you ever worked for a foreign army?' 'Uhhh no', clicks eager admin * Privacy warriors take legal action over UK gov's right to hack Privacy International challenges the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (again) * NBN satellite rollout suspended in Tasmania for election Locals lobby for fixed-line broadband Channel News * Lenovo's European prez quits over 'serious strategic disagreements' New boss drops in, firm shifts some manufacturing to Hungary from China Data Centre News * Marc Benioff apologizes as Salesforce NA14 instance goes TITSUP Downtime approaches 12 hours and irate customers stop selling online and start satirising online * Cisco suggests network administration is fun and games 'GEEK FACTOR' trademark application mentions 'game software for mobile phones' * Gartner waves for everyone to join its hyper-converged bandwagon Comment: Micro-services are now the latest hype topic * Server upstart Datrium scoops one-time HP marketing veep Above 3PAR for the course, you might say * Cisco should get serious about storage and Chuck some cash about Comment: Do something and stop faffing about in the bush league Hardware News * NVMdurance extends flash life tenfold Irish startup claims NAND longevity edge Networks News * Hitachi sniffs around the Internet of Things market with HIG Sets up new business unit to mine the deep money seams Security News * South Korea fingers North for defence contractor hack Navy builder popped. * IE and Graphics head Microsoft's Patch Tuesday critical list Get updating before the crims catch on * UAE InvestBank 'hack' looks like stale, recycled data from last year Not that that makes mass exposure of folks' financial info any better, natch * Hackers' paradise: Outdated Internet Explorer, Flash installs in enterprises Two in five Flash users DO update. Surprised? * Docker lets security bug sniffer dogs off the leash at container images Libraries and other code scanned for known programming blunders * Prince of pop trash PerezHilton pwned, visitors hit with cryptxxx Some of Hollywood hack's 500k visitors smashed with Angler, ransomware combo * GoDaddy plugs account hijack XSS vulnerability Forgotten payload borks support call Software News * Facebook debuts WhatsApp desktop apps as Slack adds SSO If you'd spent $16 billion, you'd be tired of people Slacking off, too * Siri's makers finally unveils dev-tastic universal AI interface Viv Hops over Apple's garden wall to do it Science News * Kepler space telescope spots 1,284 new planets And nine of them are similar to Earth, says NASA * Russia poised to unleash 'Son of Satan' ICBM Hello RS-28 Sarmat, goodbye Texas * Tabby's Star's twinkle probably the boring business of calibration Sorry, people, there is NO Dyson sphere out there Bootnotes News * French duck-crushing device sells for ¤40k Fancy canard à la presse? It'll cost you Free whitepaper Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. Learn how to to ensure security, regulatory compliance, and business continuity __________________________________________________________________ To change your preferences, including which topics you see in these emails, visit the following URL: Or if you just want to quickly unsubscribe from this newsletter or ALL Reg mailings, use this: