GlobalSign screw-up cancels top websites' HTTPS certificates [Fri Oct 14 2016]

The Register Daily Headlines 14 October 2016 Check out our other feeds and services: Business News * Verizon!'s top! lawyer! ponders! walking! away! from! Yahoo! gobble! Purple Palace buyout might be Ya-screwwww-ew-ew-ed * The exploding Note 7 is no surprise - leaked Samsung doc highlights toxic internal culture Exec-only presentation encourages intimidation of staff * Euro politicians are hyping the terror threat to steal your privacy OX Summit: So says Open Exchange CEO * Barracuda's satisfying cloud meal offsets appliances dip Bet they're glad they switched streams * British jobs for British people: UK tech rejects PM May's nativist hiring agenda Comment: Education, not immigration, is UK's dangerous burden * Tax-swerving IT director disqualified for 8 years Paid himself £40k when biz was insolvent, says UK.gov * Hypernormalisation: Adam Curtis on chatbots, AI and Colonel Gaddafi Interview: It's a techno-utopia on the BBC * Oz gummint's de-anonymisation crime is as mind-bendingly stupid as we feared Disclosure is a lesser crime than research; government agencies are exempt; and don't Google your own key Channel News * Lenovo big cheese walks Dave McQuarrie tipped to join HP Inc * Barracuda's satisfying cloud meal offsets appliances dip Bet they're glad they switched streams * Fresh from 1,800 job cuts, Fujitsu boasts of spinning rust-killing flashy boxen Ready for mainstream enterprise use, firm says * British jobs for British people: UK tech rejects PM May's nativist hiring agenda Comment: Education, not immigration, is UK's dangerous burden * New GCHQ unit: Psst, breached biz bods. We won't rat you out to the ICO National Cyber Security Centre wants you to come in for a reassuring chat * Tax-swerving IT director disqualified for 8 years Paid himself £40k when biz was insolvent, says UK.gov * Lenovo soups up storage for supers servers DDN buddy-up A-OK for HPC * Data-updater CTERA gets IBM reselling approval stamp SoftLayer object storage gets CTERA file services front end Data Centre News * Dell to reveal 'micro data centres' for outdoor use Sometimes you need to compute on the edge, as well as live there * Amazon AWS: 'Hi there!' VMware: 'We submit. Please, save us' vSphere to be rented out on Jeff Bezos' cloud * Something strange stirs in the storage backwater swamps, long ribbons of rust that never forget And Quantum is summoning them * Chat app Telegram's meltdown today was literal - its data center cooling failed Messaging conked out in North and Latin America * GlobalSign screw-up cancels top websites' HTTPS certificates Final update: Revoked certs may linger for days, locking people out of sites * Fresh from 1,800 job cuts, Fujitsu boasts of spinning rust-killing flashy boxen Ready for mainstream enterprise use, firm says * Lenovo soups up storage for supers servers DDN buddy-up A-OK for HPC * Data-updater CTERA gets IBM reselling approval stamp SoftLayer object storage gets CTERA file services front end * Dell EMC World tease: What does 'composable' mean to you, readers? Analysis: People are 'working on something cool' - EMC converged man * Junos OS CLI has a bad bug. So good luck applying its new patches Gin palace has eight bug-killing shots for you to imbibe Emergent Tech News * Wi-Fi baby heart monitor may have the worst IoT security of 2016 Gaping security holes, but a fix may be coming for Owlet * Decade-old SSH vuln exploited by IoT botnet armies to hose servers Internet of Unpatchable Things * Google DeepMind 'learns' the London Underground map to find best route New research combines neural networks with external memory * Pound falling, Marmite off the shelves - what the UK needs right now is ... an AI ethics board Analysis: Call for probe into 'social, ethical and legal implications' * A robot kitchen? Whatever. Are you stupid enough to fall for this? Stump up £30k for a year of grocery deliveries and some sketchy promises Hardware News * Galaxy Note 7 flameout: 2 in 5 Samsung fans say they'll never buy from the Korean giant again Punters will vote with their wallets - before they're roasted * Virtual reality is actually made of smartphones From the HoloLens to the PlayStation VR, all VR kit is descended from the first iPhone Networks News * 3,500 Verizon call center workers can't hear you now Telco plans to board up seven US facilities * Metronet gobbles up hosting firm for £47.5m, instantly doubles in size It's a network-biz-eat-network-biz world. Burrrp * BT will HATE us for this one weird 5G trick Ready to hear our bright cycle safety idea? Security News * Personal info on more than 58 million people spills onto the web from data slurp biz Modern Business Solutions keeping quiet * New GCHQ unit: Psst, breached biz bods. We won't rat you out to the ICO National Cyber Security Centre wants you to come in for a reassuring chat * Time to crack down on sales of dragon's gold - securobods Coin of the gaming realm used for money laundering, malware and more * Email security: We CAN fix the tech, but what about the humans? From Michelangelo to ransomware Software News * Google offers baseball bat and some chains with which to hit open source software Fuzzing tool used to test Chrome lands on GitHub * VMS will be ready to run on x86 in 2019! Or 2018 if you're brave. For now, we have a boot screen! Science News * Student software finds new Minor Planet found way out beyond Pluto '2014 UZ224' has diameter of about 530km and takes 1,100 years to go around the Sun Free whitepaper Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. 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