Microsoft Surface laptop: Is this your MacBook Air replacement? [Wed Aug 2 2017]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 2 August 2017 ***************************************************************** Microsoft Surface laptop: Is this your MacBook Air replacement? Jailbreak it the official way, kids... ***************************************************************** Business * One.Tel to finally die in November, 16 years after collapse Final liquidators' meeting to wrap up billionaire boys fun phone adventure * Fox News fabricated faux news with Donald Trump, lawsuit claims Fake quotes linked DNC staffer to Wikileaks to divert attention from Russia, it is claimed * Maintel snaps up Intrinsic for £5m Networking biz forks out for loss-making outfit * Ofcom lifts sword, eyes up BT's duct and pole rental costs With a knick knack, piggyback, throw broadband folks a bone * Don't mind if I do, says Nokia, taking a €1.7bn chomp out of Apple 'Substantial upfront cash payment' from licensing spat * UK.gov to trial vouchers for 'gigabit-capable' connectivity with SMEs Wants to hand out £40m from £200m full-fibre investment pot * DDN offers help to 'stranded' Seagate ClusterStor customers Heard about this, Cray? Data Centre * Cohesity adds archiving, analytics to Orion's belt v5.0 combines end-to-end data protection and big data storage * WANdisco sticks Fusion into Amazon's Snowballs for mega-petabyte data pelt Replication tech integrated with data truck - yes an actual truck... * Databarracks turns to business continuity as a service. Why? BCaaS Firm now tackles smaller crises alongside disaster recovery * Welcome to the Rise of the Machine-to-Machine. Isn't it time to 'block off' some data ducts? Isolation-based security is getting important * Red Hat acquires Permabit to put the squeeze on RHEL Stallman says ZFS-on-Linux is impossible ... now Red Hat has dedupe without GNU legals * Dirty carbon nanotubes offer telcos chance at secure quantum comms Room-temperature single-photon-emitter boosts conventional networks Emergent Tech * No vulns. No hardwired passwords. Patchable. Congress dreams of IoT: Impossible Online Tech We all want totally secure gear. And flying cars. And $1m. And... * Facebook pulls plug on language-inventing chatbots? THE TRUTH Far be it from us to lecture journos on overreacting but cripes – calm down * Go fork yourself: Bitcoin has split in two – and yes, it's all forked up Bitcoin Cash is the New Coke of cryptocurrency * This surf-and-turf robot swims using ribbon-like fins. And it's floated for US Navy approval Undulating propulsion system makes waves, useful for amphibious missions * UAV maker swipes at sponsor of opaque Qinetiq drone study Don't take our name in vain, DJI veep tells trade union Personal Tech * Apple celebrates soaring iPad sales: Put it on my tab, says CEO Tim Cook Get it? Put the drinks on my tab? Haha, ah. What a wild ride life is * Charter sprints from rinky-dink Sprint hints US comms giant denies buyout rumors, says it prefers Verizon for the time being * Microsoft Surface laptop: Is this your MacBook Air replacement? Jailbreak it the official way, kids... * HP Inc reveals dockable, wearable VR workstation for the office Backpack PC aimed at designers who move between metaphorical mice and VR Security * 'Real' people want govts to spy on them, argues UK Home Secretary Magical thinking meets willful ignorance at closed meeting * It’s 2017 and Hayes AT modem commands can hack luxury cars Telematics torched in BMWs, Infinitis, Nissan Leaf and some Fords * 'App DDoS bombs' that slam into expensive APIs worry Netflix Attackers can look legit while hitting APIs that make the most work for an app * McAfee online scan used plain old HTTP to fetch screen elements 38 lines of code later, you're owned. Good thing the fix is in, eh? Software * How can you kill that which will not die? Windows XP is back (sorta... OK, not really) Usage up 0.08% while Windows 10 continues to win converts * Skype for Business is not Skype – realising that is half the battle Wait, come back. There are some... good bits, promise Science * Ohm-em-gee: US nuke plant project goes dark after money meltdown Toshiba pulls plug on reactor construction, uranium becomes u-ran-out-of-cash Bootnotes * NEWSFLASH Now even science* says moneybags footballers are overpaid Bewilderingly, algo-crafting boffins fail to reference Reg standards * Arcade Fire releases album on USB fidget spinner for £79/$105 Prank prompts 'vinyl sounds so much better than toys' debate * Free whitepaper * Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. 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