WannaCry kill-switch hero Marcus Hutchins collared by FBI on way home from DEF CON [Fri Aug 4 2017]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 4 August 2017 ***************************************************************** WannaCry kill-switch hero Marcus Hutchins collared by FBI on way home from DEF CON Chap who stopped malware spread cuffed in Vegas ***************************************************************** Business * VCs to Trump: Don't lock out our meal tickets! Save startup visas! Tech's rich aunts and uncles beg the President to delay end of the Entrepreneur Rule * She's back! Jessica Rosenworcel returns to FCC as America's net neutrality row heats up Comms watchdog back up to full strength * Largest ever losses fail to dent Tesla's bulging order book 450k folk want a Model 3 – and record revenues won't hurt * Data viz biz Tableau's revenues up, plans to boost sales headcount Subscription licensing, yay! 'Inertia' displacing legacy deployments, boo! * Capita's smart meter monopoly is owed £42m by industry 'Deferred revenues' up sharply at the Data Communications Company * Network and IT investment spanks Three's bottom line No decision yet on challenging Ofcom's spectrum cap * Coming soon to a Parliament near you – UK's Data Protection Bill First reading to be squeezed into short September term * Symantec offloads its certs and web security biz to DigiCert Reports solid Q1 and makes spats with Google and Mozilla someone else's problem * Citrix's new CEO says no new vision needed, just new spreadsheets Q2 numbers beat the street, but the transition to SaaS-y cash flows will be tricky * Developing world hits 98.7 per cent mobile phone adoption 200 million more to come online in 2017 as 30 million ditch the landline * Trump-backed RAISE Act decoded: Points-based immigration, green cards slashed Proposals shake up visas, rules for families seeking a better life Data Centre * Internet's backroom boffins' big brainwave: Put people first in future IETF draft hopes to balance netizens' needs and corporate interests in future standards * Toshiba invests $1.76bn in flash fab production line, WD kinda peeved Star-crossed lovers secretly kicking each other to death * Delphix dishes out Dynamic Data Platform with masking Virtualises structured data for copies and cloud migration * Microsoft breaks Office 365 sign-in pages ahead of surprise update Opt-in at your own risk * Gartner mystics name Rubrik Miss Data Centre Backup 2017 That's gotta sting, huh, HPE? * Flash fryers have burger problems: You can't keep adding layers ... and shrinking cells. So, how about a double string-stacked 64-layer 3D with cheese? * Microsoft: We beat Google, AWS to cloudy GPU VMs in Blighty Now you can shave a few milliseconds from real-time apps and, er, batch processing * Another slice of Brocade carved off: Mavenir buys packet core business Only the smile remained Emergent Tech * 3D Robotics open-sources its Solo drone control software Let your children run wild and free * Off-messenger: Chinese chatbot ain't no commie IM app QQ 'adjusting' bots that revealed unpatriotic sentiments Personal Tech * Canadian ISPs do not Canuck around: Bloke accused of piracy grilled in his home for hours And not by the cops – but by pushy company reps Security * Russian admits being Ebury botnet herder, now jailed for 46 months Malware used to take down Linux Foundation and make millions * Hacked Chrome web dev plugin maker: How those phishers tricked me I'm a bloody idiot, says programmer after failing to turn on two-factor authentication * WannaCry-slayer Marcus Hutchins 'built Kronos banking trojan' – FBI Shock as Brit cuffed in Vegas – now he's accused of developing account-draining nasty * WannaCry kill-switch hero Marcus Hutchins collared by FBI on way home from DEF CON Chap who stopped malware spread cuffed in Vegas * WannaCrypt victims paid out over $140k in Bitcoin to get files unscrambled Cash thought to have 'gone through a mixer' * Wait. What? The IBM cloud's APIs use insecure TLS1 crypto? It's got an end-of-life date, though – next Tuesday Software * Linux kernel hardeners Grsecurity sue open source's Bruce Perens Our customer contract doesn't violate GPLv2, biz insists in defamation lawsuit * Programmer's