The rise, fall, and rise (again) of Microsoft's killer People feature [Mon Jan 23 2017]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 23 January 2017 ***************************************************************** The rise, fall, and rise (again) of Microsoft's killer People feature Here's what's in Build 15014 ***************************************************************** Business * One BEEELLION dollars: Apple sues Qualcomm, one of its chip designers Snapdragon biz's bad week just got worse * Chinese investors gobble up owner of PCWorld, Macworld etc IDG into the hands of the Middle Kingdom – except its HPC bit * CIA boss: Make America (a) great (big database of surveillance on citizens, foreigners) again! New spymaster Pompeo ponders massive metadata collection, death for Snowden * Welcome to the Wipe House: President Trump shreds climate change, privacy, LGBT policies on WhiteHouse.gov We're gonna have the best 404s! The greatest 404s! * Elementary, my dear IBM: When will Watson make money? Big Blue talks 'silver threads' * Lords slam 'untrammelled' data sharing powers in Digital Economy Bill 'Deeply concerned' about possibility of sharing citizen info with companies * Chinese chip shop looks hot to trot as Tsinghua drops $30bn on factory Largest fab in the Middle Kingdom to be surrounded by huge 'international city' * Yet another committee gives UK.gov a lashing for digital strategy delay It's so important they held a 'three-week consultation'... over the Christmas hols * Toshiba scrambles to start chip biz minority stake sale – reports US nuclear power plant fiasco prompts fears of writedown * Apple, Amazon smash audiobook cabal after European pressure EU antitrust bod nods in approval as another market opens up * Fired Ofcom Remainer bod sues UK gov for withholding his payoff Board member claims he was sacked for slamming Trump and Brexit * IT team sent dirt file to Police as they all bailed from abusive workplace Saintly clients fled investment firm after workers revealed hellish smut mountain * Facebook bans Russia's RT ahead of Trump's Inauguration Day (then changes its mind) Breaking news, literally * Avaya files for bankruptcy Decade-old capital structure needs a refresh for cloudier times * On last day as president, Obama's CIO shrouds future .gov websites in secret code New .gov domains will only ever offer HTTPS, says US CIO Data Centre * Happy Monday, Juniper admins: get patching Gin Palace plugs Junos DoS bugs * Boffins ready to demo 1.44 petabit-per-second fibre cables We can either build more submarine cables or more efficient submarine cables * IBM is letting storage hardware revenues slip gently off into the night Benign neglect, managed decline, whatever * XIV goes way of the dinosaurs as IBM nixes fourth-gen storage array Incoming FlashSystem A9000 with 3D TLC makes it obsolete * All the cool kids are doing it – BT hikes broadband and TV bills Move 'unjustified', says analyst * StorageCraft gobbles Exablox to become data management monolith Data protection SW biz buys filer hardware startup * Ain't no party like an 80-customer Cohesity party Oh, bless * What's SimpliVity CEO Doron Kempel and Arnie got in common? They'll both be back From the special forces to, um, HPE Emergent Tech * Chevy Bolt electric car came alive, reversed into my workbench, says stunned bloke Self-driving ride take on a whole new meaning * Sigfox veep: Our gear will be less pricey than kit for NB-IoT customers As for that fabled IPO? May happen 'when market is right' * AWS offers $20 bribe to derps who buy old IoT condom-o-matic dunce dobbers Internet of Things: Make ordering johnnies great again Personal Tech * DirecTV Now plagued with faults, but uptake not slowing AT&T's streaming service only behind HBO's despite user complaints Security * Symantec carpeted over dodgy certificates, again You had one job ... and it wasn't letting test certs escape into the wild and then revoking them * Mozilla wants infosec activism to be the next green movement Chief Mozillan calls for grass roots movement akin to 1960s' environmental awakenings * 350,000 Twitter bot sleeper cell betrayed by love of Star Wars and Windows Phone Computer researchers uncover yuuuge dormant army * Rap for crap WhatsApp trap flap: Yack yack app claptrap slapped Security gurus condemn sensational reporting of encryption backdoor-that-wasn't * General Electrics plays down industrial control plant vulnerabilities Only a local hacker in a facility would be able to run an attack * Trump's 'cyber tsar' Giuliani among creds leaked in mass hacks We've got four more years, people * Unbreakable Locky ransomware is on the march again Necrus botnet wakes up and starts fresh malware-cano * Shocking crime surge – THE TRUTH: England, Wales stats now include hacking and fraud 'More realistic picture' we're told * Viral Chinese selfie app Meitu phones home with personal data Reg man submits self to invasive sparkly-unicorn androgyny transformation * Operator of DDoS protection service named as Mirai author Krebs says he's fingered author of epic IoT web assault code Software * Learn to code site Code.org loses student work due to index bug Cracks limit of 32-bit table size without realising it. Back to the books, guys? * The rise, fall, and rise (again) of Microsoft's killer People feature Here's what's in Build 15014 * Mozillans call for new moz://a logo to actually work in browsers Logo picked to represent internet roots just confuses the internet Bootnotes * Annoyingly precocious teen who ruined Trek is now an asteroid Asteroid 391257 is now Asteroid Will Wheaton * Seven pet h8s: Verity is sorely vexed Where's pocket Bjarne Stroustrup when you need him? * My hole is a private thing – see for yourself I am guilty of too much clouded thinking * Free whitepaper * Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. 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