Y'know that ridiculously expensive Oculus Rift? Yeah, it just got worse [Fri Oct 7 2016]

The Register Daily Headlines 7 October 2016 Check out our other feeds and services: Business News * Russia government ponders open source purchasing preference Open code with Russian services preferred, unless good excuses can be found * Transcripts: The crunch courtroom showdown to halt ICANN's internet power grab Analysis: We dig into the ongoing legal row over IANA * What does Amazon have in common with Uber and Lyft? Road rage Delivery drivers file their own suit over job classification * Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Spotify serving malware, no escape from reality Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see * 18 seconds that blacked out South Australia Listen to PM Malcolm Turnbull, Australia - if you want your electricity to be like his NBN * Google 'screwed over' its non-millennials - now they can all fight back Chocolate Factory hit with class-action suit over hiring and firing of older Googlers * Bloke gets six years in slammer after fessing up to £4.75m tax scam Step 1: Set up a PO box in Dubai, Step 2: Send empty boxes, Step 3: Reclaim VAT * Hyperledger chain gang man explains Penguins' blockchain play LinuxCon, Berlin: Group cultivating Bitcoin's serious cousin * Police raid India call centre, detain 500 in fraud probe Quick, the taxman is outside, wire us $60k! US victims targeted, possibly UK too * Early indications show UK favouring 'hard Brexit', says expert Not clear which UK goods and service will benefit from prospective new trade deal Channel News * Bloke gets six years in slammer after fessing up to £4.75m tax scam Step 1: Set up a PO box in Dubai, Step 2: Send empty boxes, Step 3: Reclaim VAT * Brainier Salesforce CRM might find customers to be slow learners Einstein AI features could be long-term prospect * Fujitsu in talks to bail from PC market, Lenovo one of the suitors Not so 'super committed' now? * Mobile data is getting slower, faster US cities see major crash in data speeds. But that's not the whole story... * AWS has a lousy hybrid cloud story. VMware may fix that soon Report says VMware and Amazon will announce alliance next week * Windows 10 market share fell in September Not by much and we know mass enterprise adoption is still to come * World spent US$7.7bn on cloud in Q2, and that was during a lull Established enterprise players are coining it, with hardly a white-box vendor in sight Data Centre News * Never explain, never apologize: Microsoft silent on Outlook.com email server grief Connected accounts can't get messages - no big deal, right? * Secure cloud doesn't always mean your stuff in it is secure too IPExpo: Warning from AWS and Unisys folk * Commvault and pals should score when tape-ditching stampede arrives - analyst Plus: Raft of product updates including HyperFlex support * Internet of Things will turn up the compute heat for data centres IPExpo: Says man peddling DC cooling tech - but he has a point * Trust the cloud, we're getting the hang of securing it, says Unisys security chief IPExpo: Tom Patterson talks the white and fluffy stuff * The shoemaker, the array refresh and the VMworld smackdown Case study: Infindat, unsurprisingly, says its shoe fits and you should wear it * Brainier Salesforce CRM might find customers to be slow learners Einstein AI features could be long-term prospect * CMO go through revolving doors at Cloudian and Scality All change in the object storage world * Private equity ownership produces an improved Arcserve, apparently Sales are up, CA. Sure you made the right decision? * AWS has a lousy hybrid cloud story. VMware may fix that soon Report says VMware and Amazon will announce alliance next week * NAS vendor Synology taking on Microsoft, Dell, Slack and AWS Plans own European data centre for cloudy VM failover from new all-flash rack-mount NAS * Google un-clogs Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery downloads In theory this should mean two-day waits for sat snaps are a thing of the past Emergent Tech News * Saleforce touts no-code dev, no-brainer AI Dreamforce: 'Adoption is the new measure of success' - who knew? Hardware News * Reseller offered $$$ for old tech gear - then stiffed thousands with suddenly lower quotes Vintage Apple II? Yeah, we can do a couple of bucks * Y'know that ridiculously expensive Oculus Rift? Yeah, it just got worse $49 headphones. $79 sensor. $199 controller ... Bankrolling Trump trolls costs a lot, yo Networks News * Australian broadband sat launch also tested next Ariane rocket Video: European Space agency's re-usable rocket plan takes a small step forward * Mobile data is getting slower, faster US cities see major crash in data speeds. But that's not the whole story... * Juniper CEO Rami Rahim keynote takes aim at Broadcom White box is putting too much of the market in merchant silicon hands (and not enough in ours) Security News * Google's Chrome cloaks Pirate Bay in red screen of malware death Scam ads abound * ISP GMX attempts the nigh impossible: PGP for the masses Promises end-to-end crypto * Fancy Bears' who-takes-what in sports hack list `manipulated' before leak Anti-doping body WADA says it ain't so * Mac malware lies in wait for YOU to start a vid sesh... Blinkenlights won't save you, user, piggyback is going for broke * Citizens don't trust UK.GOV with their data Pity, as Digital Economy Bill means it's about to get hold of even more.. * 'Flaw' in iOS 10 private browsing... not as bad as it looks At least according to (indie) experts * Securing Office 365? There's always more you can do Don't just accept the defaults and hope for the best Software News * Windows 10 market share fell in September Not by much and we know mass enterprise adoption is still to come Transformation News * How does a hybrid infrastructure fit my accreditations? Oh and the cool parts of the PCI-DSS standard are on pages 117-118... * World spent US$7.7bn on cloud in Q2, and that was during a lull Established enterprise players are coining it, with hardly a white-box vendor in sight Science News * Killer Hurricane Matthew threatens to wreck Kennedy Space Center Launch site shuts down as mega-storm looks set to hit it head on * Stripped of its galaxy, this black hole is wandering naked in the cosmos Chandra spies orphan X-ray source Bootnotes News * Boy, 12, gets ¤100k bill from Google after confusing Adwords with Adsense Kid thought he'd buy mansion with revenue from his YouTube vids Free whitepaper Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. 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