SpaceX blasted massive plasma hole in Earth's ionosphere [Mon Mar 26 2018]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 26 March 2018 ***************************************************************** SpaceX blasted massive plasma hole in Earth's ionosphere GPS systems thrown out of whack by Elon's rocket ***************************************************************** Business * Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago - total slurpage Zuck takes out full-page ads to apologise as Tim Cook calls for 'well-crafted' privacy laws * Recording Industry Ass. says vinyl and CD sales beat digital downloads Hipsters will have to go to iTunes now * This time, it's personals: Craigslist dumps lonely-hearts section, blames anti-trafficking laws Hookup hangout hangs up * UK's data watchdog seizes suspected Scottish nuisance caller's kit ICO gets search warrant... for firm accused of jamming up railway safety hotline * Cambridge Analytica seeks data protection assistant Jobseeker? You may have heard of it... * YouTube banned many gun vids, so some moved to smut site The Naked Gun was far funnier than this mess * User asked why CTRL-ALT-DEL restarted PC instead of opening apps It turns out that keyboards work best when they’re not under pressure Data Centre * NAND chips are going to stay too pricey for flash to slit disk's throat... For a while at least... spinning rust is going to stick around * DRAM, we've shifted a lot of kit, mumbles profit-munching chip firm Micron Second quarter results up nearly 60% from last year * Fake news is fake data, 'which makes it our problem', info-slurpers told Top Gartner tips: Know what data you hold, be trustworthy * BOFH: Give me a lever long enough and a fool, I mean a fulcrum and .... Simon and PFY gamify the interface * US Congress quietly slips cloud-spying powers into page 2,201 of spending mega-bill House OKs email slurp rules, Senate stalled DevOps * Wanna break that software monolith? Get tooled up with us Meet the people who've been knee-deep in Agile and CD for years... * Just when you thought it was safe to go ahead with microservices... along comes serverless The Dark Souls* of code-wrangling Emergent Tech * Uber's disturbing fatal self-driving car crash, a new common sense challenge for AI, and Facebook's evil algorithms Are we doomed? * Corking story: Idiotic smart wine bottle idea falls over, passes out Kuvee drowns its sorrows, blames Napa fires for demise * DeepMind boffins brain-damage AI to find out what makes it tick All that effort and they still aren't sure how it works Personal Tech * UK watchdog finally gets search warrant for Cambridge Analytica's totally not empty offices After weeks of stalling and delays, ICO wastes no time kicking down the doors * Facebook's inflection point: Now everyone knows this greedy mass surveillance operation for what it is Hark, dear reader, the echoes of Enron * Ex-ZX Spectrum reboot man threatens sueball over unpaid invoices Meanwhile, the company accounts are overdue * Guns, audio and eye-tracking: VR nearly ready for prime time The future is finally getting into gear Security * Guccifer 2.0 outed, Kaspersky slammed, Oz radio hacker in the slammer, and more Top tip: Switch on the VPN when doing naughty hacking, товарищ! * World celebrates, cyber-snoops cry as TLS 1.3 internet crypto approved Forward-secrecy protocol comes with the 28th draft * Nine Iranians accused of cyber-swiping 30TB+ of blueprints from unis, biz on Tehran's orders Gang pilfered files from 320 colleges, 47 companies in 22 nations, Uncle Sam claims * Microsoft to lock out Windows RDP clients if they are not patched against hijack bug No update installed? No connection * Your code is RUBBISH, says GitHub. Good thing we're here to save you Dependency scanner turned up FOUR MEEELLION vulns from October to December 2017 * 'R2D2' stops disk-wipe malware before it executes evil commands 'Reactive Redundancy for Data Destruction Protection' stops the likes of Shamoon and Stonedrill before they hit 'erase' * Mozilla pulls ads from Facebook after spat over privacy controls UK advertisers' society has also fired a warning shot * Reflection of a QR code on PoS scanner used to own mobile payments Chinese researcher also cracked magnetic and sonic payments Software * More ad-versarial tech: Mozilla to pop limited ad blocker into Firefox Deteriorating web prompts browser maker to take a stand * UK Court of Appeal settles reseller's question: Is software a good? The answer may dismay and confuse you * Zucker for history: What I learnt about Facebook 600 years ago Zuckerberg, Gutenberg, let's call the whole thing off Science * Good news: The only thing standing between NASA and $20bn is... Oh. US President Donald Trump's signature. And he's threatening a veto * SpaceX blasted massive plasma hole in Earth's ionosphere GPS systems thrown out of whack by Elon's rocket * Tiangong-1 re-entry window shrinks: Duck from March 30 to April 3 Radar imaging shows Chinese space station is still intact * Free whitepaper * Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. 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